ARC Trooper Fives — Star Wars The Black Series #TCW 16
The Black Series ARC Trooper Fives — Phase 4 Clone Wars Collection #16, 2023. The 501st ARC Trooper who discovered the inhibitor chip conspiracy with dual blaster pistols. 19 joints. Walmart exclusive $27.97.
Overview
ARC Trooper Fives at #TCW 16 is the TCW Collection’s most significant individual clone figure — the 501st ARC Trooper who came closer than anyone to exposing the inhibitor chip conspiracy before Order 66 was executed, who died trying to warn the Republic of what was coming, and who carried the specific helmet markings and dual blaster pistols of the Advanced Recon Commando designation. Dual blaster pistols. 19 joints. Walmart exclusive. $27.97. 2023.
Fives is the clone who almost changed everything.
The Inhibitor Chip Discovery
Fives’s arc in The Clone Wars is the collection’s most consequential single clone story. During the Umbara campaign and its aftermath, Fives discovered that clone troopers had been implanted with inhibitor chips at the Kaminoan facility — chips whose purpose was not the aggression suppression the Kaminoans claimed, but the specific triggering mechanism for Order 66. He was the only clone to connect the chips to a larger conspiracy that extended to the Chancellor’s office.
He was killed before he could be believed. The specific tragedy of Fives is not that he failed to expose the truth — it’s that the truth was completely accurate, the conspiracy was exactly what he said it was, and the Republic wasn’t capable of receiving that information in time to matter. He died knowing what was coming. Nobody listened.
The figure at #TCW 16 is Fives before that moment — the ARC Trooper in full combat configuration, dual pistols ready, still alive, still fighting. The history behind the figure is present for every collector who watched his arc.
Dual Blaster Pistols and the ARC Trooper Configuration
ARC Troopers carry dual blaster pistols as their signature loadout — the advanced training and increased operational autonomy of the ARC designation expressed in the ability to operate effectively with two sidearms rather than the standard single blaster rifle. Both pistols must be verified on secondary market purchases. The dual-pistol raised combat pose the 19-joint scheme enables is the specific Fives display we recommend.
The 501st ARC Trooper Distinction
Fives’s 501st ARC Trooper designation places him above the standard 501st clone troopers in both training and operational independence. The ARC designation is earned, not assigned — it represents additional training, specific combat excellence, and the specific trust the Republic places in clones who operate in situations standard troopers aren’t equipped for. The helmet markings communicate that distinction alongside the 501st unit colours.
Fives and Jesse: The 501st Pair
Fives (#TCW 16) alongside Clone Commander Jesse (#TCW 12) creates the TCW Collection’s complete 501st command display — the ARC Trooper who discovered the conspiracy and the Commander whose tattooed face witnessed Order 66’s execution. Both are 2023 Walmart exclusives. Both carry the weight of the Clone Wars’ most personal tragedy. Display them together and the 501st’s specific history is visible in two figures.
Secondary Market
Above-retail secondary market prices. Walmart exclusive 2023. Verify both blaster pistols. No production variants documented.
Our Verdict
ARC Trooper Fives at #TCW 16 is the TCW Collection’s most emotionally weighted clone figure — the soldier who found the truth and died before anyone would listen. Dual blaster pistols, 19 joints, Walmart exclusive at $27.97. Buy him. The TCW Collection’s most important individual clone story is this figure.
The ARC Trooper Programme and Fives’s Distinction
ARC Troopers represent the Republic’s investment in clone individualism — the recognition that the highest-performing clones operate better with more autonomy, more training, and more distinctive equipment. Fives embodies that paradox: the clone programme produced him to be interchangeable, and the ARC designation acknowledged that he wasn’t. The dual blaster pistols communicate that distinction. Standard clones carry single rifles; Fives carries two pistols, the equipment of a warrior trusted to operate independently.
The Republic created Fives to be its best soldier. Fives used what the Republic gave him to discover what the Republic was hiding. The tragedy is not a failure of the system; it’s the system working exactly as intended, unable to process information that would have dismantled it.
Fives in the Context of the Clone Wars
Fives’s arc is the Clone Wars series’ most sustained examination of the clone condition — the question of what identity and loyalty mean for beings who were made rather than born, who were given names and personalities that were never supposed to be theirs, who discovered that their loyalty to the Republic had been pre-programmed as a kill switch. The dual pistols in hand are the equipment of someone who earned more than the system intended to give him. Buy the figure that represents what he did with it.
Fives at $27.97 Walmart exclusive is the TCW Collection’s most emotionally charged purchase after Jesse at #TCW 12. Together the two 501st Walmart exclusives — Jesse with his loyalty tattoo and Fives with his dual pistols — represent the 501st’s specific tragedy: the commander who executed Order 66 and the trooper who tried to prevent it, in plastic, side by side. Buy both.
ARC Trooper Fives. Dual blaster pistols. Walmart exclusive. The clone who found the truth. The figure that represents the Clone Wars’ most important individual clone story. Buy him.
The TCW Collection’s most important individual clone story in Phase 4 plastic. Nineteen joints, dual blaster pistols, Walmart exclusive, the trooper who almost changed everything. Fives. Buy him.
The Clone Wars gave Fives one of the most complete individual clone arcs in the series — the progression from standard 501st trooper to ARC designation to the specific horror of discovering what the Republic had built into every clone. The figure at #TCW 16 is that arc’s operational peak: the ARC Trooper with the dual pistols, still fighting, still believing in the Republic’s people even as he doubted its institutions. That’s a complicated figure. It’s worth having.
The clone who almost changed everything. Buy Fives. Place him in the display beside Jesse. Two 501st Walmart exclusives, two sides of the same tragedy.
Fives died before anyone would listen. The figure outlasts the silence.
The 501st ARC Trooper who discovered the inhibitor chip conspiracy. Nineteen joints and dual blaster pistols and the specific history of the clone who was right about everything and heard too late. Buy him. Place him beside Jesse. The 501st’s tragedy in two Walmart exclusives.
Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Phase 4 Clone Wars Collection. Related: Clone Commander Jesse P4-TCW-12 | Ahsoka Tano Padawan P4-TCW-13 | The Clone Wars.