Hey how you doing guys and welcome to another video.
So With the book of Boba Fett chapter 7, the finale recently released, we finally got a
look at Cad Bane facing off with one of his oldest Rivals Boba Fett in live action.
Although us very dedicated fans of the Clone Wars have probably already seen the obscure
unfinished episode of that series where Cad and Boba face off, many people certainly haven’t.
So for many this was the pair’s first encounter on screen and they were shocked at Bane’s
death.
But there was one very tiny detail that many people missed which points to Bane remaining
alive, albeit in very bad shape.
Even I missed this tiny detail the first time around.
So before we start, tell me in the comments if you think he should be alive in the first
place, because although there is evidence that is, is it the right decision?
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After facing down with the man who gave him his infamous helmet dent all those years ago,
Boba Fett managed to get the better of Cad Bane and topple him to the ground.
At that point, Boba utilized all of the training and channeled all of the suffering he felt
from the death of the tuskens.
Using that, he impaled Cad Bane right through the chest with his Gaffi stick, seemingly
putting an end to his long and illustrious bounty hunting career.
If you look carefully though, there was one massive detail which even I missed on my first
go around.
As Cad Bane breathes his final on-screen breath, a tiny little cyberntic unit activates and
begins flashing with an ominous red light.
On top of that, the unit begins beeping in a tone consistent with the heartbeat of a
Duros.
Now they even linger on this shot for a pretty long period of time, obviously meaning its
intentional to show us that there is still life within him.
Very interestingly though, the monitor only switches on once he stops breathing.
This pretty much confirms that it is connected to his vital signs in some way, he clearly
didn’t activate it manually.
On top of that, it makes it pretty clear that this system is intended to keep him alive
in the event that his lungs can no longer intake air, possibly through his breathing
tubes seen on the neck.
I really don’t think the Gaffi stick penetrated the heart considering Duros have their hearts
much higher up and are pretty small.
We know Cad Bane is no stranger to augmenting his body, and you can even see the major example
of this through the patch on his head in this very scene.
This patch was first seen in Star Wars The Bad Batch and is currently assumed to have
come as a result of him being blasted in the head by Boba fett at the end of the Clone
wars.
For those of you who don’t know, in the very final days of the war, Boba Fett staged
a mutiny against Cad Bane because of the way he was treating their hostages and bounty
targets.
Boba wanted to treat them with more dignity, but Cad Bane scoffed at this weakness.
This as you can imagine led them into a western standoff, where they were both as quick as
eachother.
Cad and Boba both fired their blasters with one putting a dent in Boba fett’s helmet
and the other hitting Bane in the head.
This is where the cybernetic patch on his head comes from and is presumably what is
keeping him alive in the first place, along with the other life support system seen beeping.
Cad bane is one of the most pragmatic bounty hunters to ever live.
He doesn’t take unnecessary risks and he always plans for the future.
As an example, he was very fond of taking bountys on Jedi and force using targets.
So he didn’t just go forth and attack, he planned carefully, loading out his equipment
pretty much exclusively for anti force user gear.
Things like his reinforced breathing tubes to prevent force chokes, his jet boots to
counter and mimic force jumps, his electro stunner to mimic force lightning and even
his stolen mandalorian vambraces.
Cad Bane was not one to bring a knife to gunfight if you get what I mean.
So now that Cad Bane is no stranger to cybernetics, its very likely that he had this other life
support system installed into his body as part of his breathing tubes, to keep blood
pumping after he takes a hit.
In fact, his original death and rebirth at the hands of Boba Fett in the unfinished Clone
Wars episode may be what pushed him to install such a system.
He was pretty much dead after that fight and only survived with the cybernetic patch on
his head, so maybe it scared him so badly that he decided to install secondary life
support systems.
Although we don’t see him wearing the same one in the Bad Batch, which is set after that
fight, so its possible he installed it afterwards, or it might just be hidden under his jacket…
But I do have a big theory about that which ill get into later in the video.
Unfortunately for Cad Bane, the dreaded day he had planned for finally cameand the system
kicked into action.
Originally he got his reinforced breathing tubes in order to stop force chokes, but its
possible he modified them to fit this new purpose, especially as he is getting older.
He’s certainly not as agile as he used to be, although he’s still in top shape as
a bounty hunter.
They say bounty hunting is a profession without a lot of veterans.
Now this cybernetic life support system obviously can’t keep him alive forever.
So because of this, it is likely also sending out an emergency alert beacon to someone very
close to him, one who can get him to bacta immediately and get the medical droids on
him…
Who is this mysterious contact you might ask?
Well its none other than his loyal techno service droid, Todo 360.
Todo was a very glaring omission from the Book of Boba Fett finale so that has to leave
us with the question, where is he?
Since we didn’t see Cad Bane’s ship at all in the series, he may have been waiting
inside it ready to hear back from Cad at any moment.
This would put him within range and in the perfect time window to Save Bane, get him
back to the ship and into the care of medical droids as soon as possible.
Lets be honest here, Cad Bane is over 71 years old at the time of his supposed death, so
its pretty likely that he has a Bacta tank on board his ship to rest and replenish after
every mission.
As we went over before, he is one of the most practical and pragmatic bounty hunters.
He doesn’t take unnecessary risks and he knows what will keep him going in the long
run.
Now the big theory that I have for Cad Bane’s life support system could be that we get it
revealed in the Bad Batch season 2, which we know is coming out in just a few months.
In that series, they may show Cad Bane installing the life support system that he uses in the
Book of Boba and then put it into action.
It could be a situation where he takes a stab wound to the chest and the life support system
kicks in to save him, in the exact same way it does in the show.
That would be the very tight Dave Filloni connective tissue that we’re used to, and
will generate a lot of fan hype.
It will renew the speculation that he is in fact still alive after Boba stabbed him.
To be really honest with you guys, when the post credit scene began I thought they were
going to give us a plot twist, with Boba taking Cad hostage after healing him.
Sorta like forcing Cad Bane to serve under the new Fett crime family because he was fairly
defeated.
Its actually also very possible that we’ll get this storyline expanded on and continued
in the Mandalorian season 3, because we pretty much know Boba fett is going to be part of
that storyline.
Him and Din Djarin are on fantastic terms and they’ve sworn an oath to eachother,
so it makes sense that they will work together to recapture Mandalore or take it back from
the Imperial Remnants.
Boba is also a Mandalorian himself, with Jango being a foundling, so that’s added motivation
for him to join in the fight.
Although we did hear him say “that place is cursed” when asked about Mandalore in
the Mando season 2.
So maybe he’s too afraid to go there after hearing the stories of what happened.
I wouldn’t blame him at all.
Now the last point I want to make is more of a thematic one relating to Cad Bane’s
character, which gives more credence to the theory.
In pretty much everything he does, everything he equips himself with and all of his strategies,
he is one thing.
A realist.
He is prepared for every encounter and he always gets back up.
The reason Cad Bane fits into this series is because he does what Luke skywalker said
in Episode 6, always get back up.
IN an indirect way, that was foreshadowing for Cad Bane’s character, albeit on the
darker side of things.
Cad got up after taking a blaster bolt to the head at the end of the Clone Wars, he
got back up after being sent into prison during the war and he will get back up one last time…
Now I don’t think we’ll get a redemption arc for Cad, but there have recently been
hints that he may get some family backstory in the time of the High Republic.
We may just find out why his family have such beef with Jedi and force users…
So tell me down in the comments what you think about this theory and how you think it could
play out.
The biggest question I want to ask you guys though is should he even be kept alive at
all.
We know that recently characters pretty much don’t die anymore in Star Wars which can
sometimes take away the stakes of a story.
Personally I don’t mind it at all as long as it fits well into the story, but what do
you think.
Tell me in the comments below.
So that is my full theory on Cad Bane possibly remaining alive and appearing in some future
series.
Maybe even the Mandalorian Season 3.
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