Captain Rex and Ahsoka Tano may be the most beloved Clone Wars characters around, but they aren't quite as formidable as Asajj Ventress.
First introduced in Genndy Tartakovsky's criminally overlooked Clone Wars TV series, Ventress starts out as the secret apprentice of Count Dooku before being betrayed by her master in a show of loyalty to Sidious. This eventually leads Ventress to become a bounty hunter in Coruscant's underworld, where she takes contracts for the right price.
There were plenty of reasons why Ventress resonated the way she did, among the most principle being her flirtatious back-and-forth with Obi-Wan Kenobi, but there's no underestimating just how brilliantly designed the character was. Add to that one fantastic performance from Nika Futterman, an epic end in the must-read Star Wars: Dark Disciple, and you have just about the best EU character introduced this side of 2000.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
