Barriss Offee was sent to a Republic military prison after her attack on the Jedi Temple
near the end of the Clone Wars.
We know that Dave Filloni wanted to continue her story in both the Clone Wars Season 7
and Star Wars Rebels, but was unable to.
So could Barriss Offee make an appearance in Star Wars: The Bad Batch TV show, which
was just announced.
I’m going to break down some awesome theories on how Barriss Offee could make an appearance
in the Bad Batch animated series on Disney+
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So the first and most popular theory ever since Barriss was put in prison after framing
Ahsoka Tano for a major attack on the Jedi temple, is that she became an inquisitor after
the events of Order 66.
This makes sense because we know that Barriss was most likely inside of her prison cell
at the time of Order 66.
It’s very possible that when Order 66 was called, Palpatine may have sent one of the
other fallen Jedi to retrieve her and recruit her for the new order of inquisitors.
From that point, Barriss Offee could become one of the main villains of the show, attempting
to hunt down and kill the members of the Bad Batch.
Although inquisitors are usually only sent to hunt down force users, Palpatine may see
the Bad Batch as a major threat to his power because of their unique abilities and enhancements.
During her attack on the temple and the trial by Tarkin after, Barriss had completely fallen
to the Dark Side of the force and exposed the flaws of the Jedi, so it makes a lot of
sense that she would want to hunt down the surviving Jedi and end up becoming a loyal
servant to Vader, another man who saw the flaws of the Order.
The only points against this theory is that Darth Vader, who led the inquisitors for Darth
Sidious, would very likely want to slaughter Barriss Offee in the same way he killed Dooku,
because of what she did to his former apprentice.
Although Darth Vader is a completely separate man at this point and destroys Anakin inside
of his mine, we can see in Clone Wars Season 7 Episode 12 Victory and Death that he still
has some connection to his apprentice.
On top of this, he is also extremely sad when Ahsoka eventually confronts him on Malachor,
in Rebels.
So for this reason, Darth Vader would probably not take Barriss on as an inquisitor.
Another incredibly interesting theory is that Barris might have been able to escape from
her prison cell during the chaos of Order 66, and go into hiding like Kanan Jarrus did.
If she did escape from her cell after Order 66, she would likely have had to kill the
Clone Trooper guarding her and steal his armour in order to evade the others.
Barriss probably wouldn’t join the Rebellion after this, because of their Close Affiliation
with the Jedi order.
We could see her appear as a bounty hunter during some of the Bad Batches mercenary missions,
but I don’t think bounty hunting would really be something that she is interested in.
More likely, Barriss would try to find another way to rebel against the Empire . The reason
she turned away from the Jedi Order is because they were blinded by their arrogance and were
using violence as part of a galactic war, so she probably wouldn’t be able to support
the Empire if they didn’t convert her to an inquisitor.
The final, incredibly interesting theory, is that Barris could make a return to lead
the Bad Batch as their Jedi general, because of course, they never had their own General
during the war.
This suggestion is obviously pretty unlikely because Barriss hated the war, but its possible
that she sees no other way to defeat the Empire than to join up with the crew of the Bad Batch.
It’s possible that the group even meet with Ahsoka Tano, who is obviously still around
during the time period that the show is set in which is very shortly after the rise of
the empire and order 66.
It would be the perfect opportunity for Barris and Ahsoka to have a reunion, and either make
up for their past, or fight to the death, like Kenobi and Maul did on Tatooine.
Either way, let me know if you think we will see Barriss Offee in the Star Wars: The Bad
Batch animated series.
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