Star Wars: 20 Things You Somehow Missed In Ahsoka (Season 1)

20. Death Troopers Rise

Before Rogue One's Death Troopers wandered onto screens in 2018, there was actually another batch of stormtroopers who boasted that very title. And they looked an awful lot like the particularly creepy soldiers seen during the final episode of Ahsoka season one.

After volunteering to assist their leader Grand Admiral Thrawn in his mission to flee Peridea, a set of Night Troopers find themselves being resurrected by the Great Mothers as Ahsoka Tano, Ezra Bridger, and Sabine Wren attempt to reach the blue-skinned menace.

In other words, zombie stormtroopers finally arrived in live-action Star Wars, baby!

And said unsettling Night Troopers actually felt like a pretty direct nod to Joe Schreiber's 2009 Death Trooper novel, with that book focusing on a bunch of zombie stormtroopers coming back from the dead due to an awful disease to cause chaos.

This isn't the first time Dave Filoni and co. have found a way to infuse Legends stories into the current canon, but it's certainly one of the freakiest.