During the Clone Wars, Captain Rex’s helmet slowly accumulates more and more tally marks
on his modified Phase 2 Clone helmet, making it very clear that he is a verteran of the
war.
But what did the tally markings on Rex’s helmet mean?
Were they droid kill marks, memories of his fallen brothers or something completely different?
I’m going to break down some incredible theories about what these marks on Rex’s
helmet could mean.
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As the Clone Wars dragged on, Rex’s armour began to become more worn and the tally markings
on helmet and platelegs began to increase.
There are a few theories on what exactly these tallies could mean, including some very heartbreaking
ones.
I’ll go through each theory and determine which one is the most likely based on what
we know so far.
The first and most widespread theory is that the tally markings on Rex’s helmet represent
the amount of total droids that he has killed during the war.
Right away, we know this is false for a few reasons.
The first is that there are simply not enough markings on his armour to represent battle
droid kills.
Rex has killed thousands, or probably even tens of thousands of droids during his time
in the war, he even kills hundreds in one battle, so there simply would not be enough
room to track this number.
The other reason which solidly confirms that this is not a total droid kill count is Rex’s
statement on Agamar in Star Wars: Rebels, where he says he “never kept count like
some of the boys”:
Make sure you let me know down below what you think the markings on Rex’s helmet mean,
to see if your theory matches up!
Moving straight onto the next theory, it's very possible that these markings represent
Captain Rex’s fallen brothers during the war.
He may have made a marking in his helmet and armour for every clone brother that was close
to him, who died during the events of the war.
At the beginning of the Clone Wars, Rex only had very few markings on his armour, so as
the war went on and he lost more close friends, the markings would have slowly increased.
Rex is definitely the type of leader to take responsibility for any loss of life under
his command, so whenever he loses a man during battle, he may put a marking on his armour
to forever remember their sacrifice.
Following that, the markings could indicate successful battles won in the Clone Wars.
This one would also make a lot of sense, as Rex would want to honour each of the successful
battles that he led with his General, Anakin Skywalker, and honour his very important victories
for the Republic.
The only point against this theory is that the amount of battles that Rex fought in was
probably not enough to cover the many markings on his armour, and that’s not even including
the ones that the Republic actually won.
While this is my personal favourite theory, I don’t think it’s very likely considering
the huge tally.
After that, there is another amazing theory that says Rex’s tally marks represent the
amount of times that his Clone Armour or helmet saved him during combat.
This would again make a lot of sense, as we’ve seen just how effective Clone Armour can be,
especially compared to Stormtroopers armour.
Rex would probably inscribe his armour every time it saved his life so that he could remember
just how lucky he was to still be walking.
Following that is the final and most likely theory behind the true meaning of Captain
Rex’s helmet markings.
The theory states that they represent kills on separatist droids that are meaningful or
impactful.
This would primarily count kills on droids like the B2 battle droid, the magna tri droid,
the magna guard droids or even the separatist commando droids.
These kills would be relatively rare for captain rex to obtain, and would be very meaningful
to the battles that he is fighting in.
The rare nature of these kills, on top of the extreme significance of them make this
theory the most likely to be correct.
To further back this up, Dave Filloni also confirmed that the markings did represent
kills of some kind, although he did not specify what type.
He stated: “He's like this veteran now and he's got little kill marks all over his armor.
I think Rex is becoming something of a little legend.”
Dave Filloni’s statement, combined with Rex telling Ezra that he didn’t keep count
of B1 battle droid kills makes this theory the most likely and the most simple to track.
But make sure you let me know which theory you think is the most likely, and the one
you believe is correct.
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