Summary

• The Bad Batch is a crack team of mutant clones with abilities beyond normal troopers, making them as formidable as Jedi.
• Each member of Clone Force 99 has unique skills: Hunter is a master tracker, Wrecker is incredibly strong, Crosshair is a skilled marksman, Tech is a genius, and Echo is part machine with exceptional cybernetic abilities.
• Omega, the newest recruit and the first female clone, has remarkable insight and may possess Force sensitivity, making her a valuable asset to the Empire's plans.

The members of Clone Force 99 in take the spotlight in Star Wars: The Bad Batch, bringing an assortment of new powers and abilities with them. The cloners of Kamino are the best in the galaxy, creators of the Grand Army of the Republic - and unwitting pawns of Darth Sidious, as he wove the Clone Wars as the ultimate Jedi Trap, and Bad Batch shows just what they're capable of when they aren't making perfect clones of Jango Fett.

However good the cloners may be, sometimes there are mutations. The Kaminoans gradually came to understand these mutations could actually be beneficial, because sometimes their clones developed skills and abilities that proved desirable. As a result, they developed the Bad Batch, a crack team of mutants who essentially serve as the superheroes of the Grand Army. Each member of Clone Force 99 possesses abilities that are beyond those of normal clone troopers, making them as much a force to be reckoned with as any Jedi. Here's everything you need to know about the mutant clones who were part of Clone Force 99.

Hunter

Hunter is the undisputed leader of the Bad Batch, a smart strategist who understands the powers and abilities of his brothers and figures out the best way for them to work together to achieve their missions. Although Hunter is decidedly unorthodox, he has never failed to complete an assignment. Hunter has been described as a master tracker, and there's evidence all his normal senses have been enhanced.

In addition, though, he also possesses other senses; he appears able to sense electromagnetic fluctuations, for example, a skill that proved immensely valuable in locating major Separatist bases during the Clone Wars. Ironically, Hunter may find the Dark Times much more challenging now that he's being pursued by the Empire rather than by battle droids, because flesh and blood enemies won't disrupt the electromagnetic field of an area in the way a droid would. Still, this skill makes Hunter invaluable to Clone Force 99, as it allows them to follow trails and have their six covered at all times.

Wrecker

Next is Wrecker, who's essentially Clone Force 99's "tank." Large and imposing, Wrecker possesses genetically enhanced musculature and a reinforced skeletal structure, meaning he's phenomenally strong; on a mission with Anakin Skywalker, he demonstrated his prodigious strength by almost effortlessly picking up a damaged gunship and tossing it aside. Wrecker was programmed for combat, and loves nothing more than wreaking havoc; he approaches every problem head-on, plowing through droids with joy as he tears them apart.

It's important to note that, while Wrecker may be a physical powerhouse, there's no evidence he has enhanced resistance to injury. A blaster wound can still bring him down just as easily as it can anyone else. Fortunately, in combat, he depends on the confusion he generates by rushing forward, with his enemies forced to rethink their strategies because they're not used to anyone waging war quite like him.

Crosshair

Crosshair is the team's marksman, a skilled sharpshooter who appears to possess a heightened sense of spatial awareness. In one battle in Star Wars: The Clone Wars season 7, he planted reflective mirrors across a corridor, and then bounced a single shot down the length and breadth of the corridor. He used the mirrors to keep it going, with the blaster shot destroying every droid it hit.

Unfortunately, The Bad Batch's series premiere revealed Crosshair is the closest to base normal for a clone trooper. This means Crosshair's conditioning kicked in and, unlike the other members of Clone Force 99, he was taken over by Order 66. The conditioning has since been enhanced at Tarkin's orders, meaning he will now do whatever the Empire wants him to.

Tech

Tech is the smartest member of the Bad Batch, a genius whose technical expertise has made him invaluable in the field. Like all Clone Force 99, Tech seems proud of his mutation, and he can't resist showing off his intelligence; as brilliant as he may be, though, he appears to lack social awareness, and consequently isn't entirely aware when he's talking down to his teammates. Curiously, where normal clone troopers are in peak physical condition and other members of the Bad Batch are even enhanced, Tech seems weaker than normal; his intelligence seems to have come at the cost of his physical abilities.

Echo

Most of the Bad Batch are mutant clones, but Echo was a regular member of the Grand Army of the Republic - albeit one who served with distinction, even becoming a member of the 501st. He's loyal, confident, and strategically brilliant. Unfortunately, Echo was captured while on a mission working with Anakin Skywalker, and he was subjected to horrific experiments by the Techno-Union before being rescued by the Bad Batch months later.

Now, he's as much machine as man, a fact that saved him from his inhibitor chip when Palpatine called Order 66. Echo's cybernetic abilities haven't really been explored in detail, but he has been shown to interface with computer systems like a droid, with his mind now able to navigate complex data systems at tremendous speed. It's reasonable to assume his entire thought processing has been accelerated, meaning he may well be the most dangerous member of Clone Force 99.

Omega

The final recruit to the Bad Batch is Omega, the last clone to be created on Kamino - and, curiously, the first female clone. Omega is confident and inquisitive, and she seems gifted with remarkable insight into others. She was even able to recognize that Crosshair would betray Clone Force 99 even before his programming had been amplified by Tarkin, and she attempted to reassure her big brother that what he was going to do next was not his fault.

Omega is one of the few unaltered clones made from Jango Fett's pure DNA, making her the long-lost sister of Boba Fett himself.

There's something very unusual about Omega, as many of her traits are common with Force sensitivity. If that is the case, Palpatine would no doubt consider Omega the single most important clone, because she could help him figure out how to create a new clone body for himself. Omega, then, continues to be a target of the Empire in The Bad Batch, as her abilities no doubt make her desirable to keep around as Palpatine sets his contingency plan into place.