The headline is incredibly on-the-nose; just in time for SDCC, Entertainment Weekly unveils exclusive pix of two new characters for Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
As EW tells it . . .
One of the characters may look familiar to hard core Star Wars fans — she’s Aurra Sing (pictured above), voiced by Jamie King. First glimpsed in Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, Aurra is described by Cartoon Network and Lucasfilm as a companion to cruel mercenary Cad Bane, “though she harbors her own sinister ambitions.”
The other new face sounds equally ominous. Her name is Sugi (pictured after the jump), a “ruthless, knife-wielding bounty hunter [who] poses a new threat to the Jedi Knights and the heroes of the Republic.” Poor Annie. As if he needed more scum and villainy to contend with.
Something about Sugi’s head strikes us as more than a little familiar. Darth Maul, anyone?
SDCC attendees can check the images out up close at the Cartoon Network booth this weekend.
So what do you think? Excited by the new characters? Watch Clone Wars? Don’t watch Clone Wars? Discuss it all here.
As for more Star Wars SDCC action, anyone think that we’ll finally hear word of the long-rumbling live-action series, or has that finally fallen off of fan radar?
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:22 pm
Aurra Sing isn’t a new character at all. She was already in last season!
And of course the new girl’s head is similar to Darth Maul’s, they’re the same race. Them and a dozen other characters.
July 22nd, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Really, Jamie King? That’s pretty cool. And yeah, she was in the last episode of last season, haha. This show really grew on me, and I’m pretty excited for next season!
July 22nd, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Hey! It’s Spider Jerusalem!
Or, Schwa comes to Kentucky…
July 22nd, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Yeah, they are not “new” Aura was already in the previous season, and well it look like the article is aimed at people who don’t know anything about star wars other than the movies. Because star wars fans know about the Zabrak Species, even Jedi master and council member Eath Koth is a Zabrak.
July 22nd, 2009 at 7:05 pm
its like darth maul’s cranium on padme’s face
July 23rd, 2009 at 10:43 am
Technically, the Cad Bane episode was yanked from the second season’s episodes and shown at the end of the first season. This was done, because the movie was made from 3 episodes of the first season and they came up a bit short. So even though we have already seen her in the first season, she was originally a “second season” character.
Everybody wins..lol
I’d really like to see Quinlan Vos show up in the season. His existence was mentioned in Episode III and he was hinted at by Aayla Secura in the first season. He’s be a great addition. I’df like to see more regular characters…
December 27th, 2010 at 2:33 am
Hats off for the amazing post, I’ll visit your blog more often. You just know how to entertain someone.
January 17th, 2011 at 6:35 pm
Seriously now though, I have been deleting those types of comments from day one on my blogs. I can’t stand them, to me it just adds useless junk and filler to my page for no real reason. Nobody gains anything from reading a sentence like that so there is no point of it being there. It does not add any value or any other view points to the discussion.