Cad Bane — Star Wars The Black Series #TCW 06
The Black Series Cad Bane — Phase 4 Clone Wars Collection #06, 2020. The Duros bounty hunter with two blasters and the wide-brimmed hat. 19 joints. Standard retail $19.99. The TCW Collection's most dangerous villain.
Overview
Cad Bane at #TCW 06 is the TCW Collection’s most dangerous figure — the Duros bounty hunter who operated throughout the Clone Wars as the galaxy’s premier professional, the person Palpatine hired when he needed something done that couldn’t be traced back to the Sith, the villain who consistently outmanoeuvred Jedi Masters and Republic intelligence alike. Two blasters. 19 joints. Standard retail. $19.99. 2020. The TCW Collection shifts from its Siege of Mandalore opening wave to its bounty hunter tier at #06, and it opens that tier with exactly the right figure.
Two blasters. Wide-brimmed hat. 19 joints. The galaxy’s most capable mercenary in Phase 4 plastic.
Cad Bane and What Makes Him the Clone Wars’ Best Villain
The Clone Wars animated series has a strong villain roster — Maul, Ventress, Grievous, Dooku — but Cad Bane occupies a specific position none of the others do. He is not connected to the Force. He has no political ideology. He works for whoever pays the highest rate and delivers results at a standard that Force-sensitive opponents consistently underestimate. He broke into the Jedi Temple. He stole from the Republic Senate. He kidnapped Force-sensitive children. He did all of it professionally, efficiently, and without the theatrical villainy of the Sith lords.
The figure at #TCW 06 captures the visual language of that character immediately: the wide-brimmed hat, the long coat, the twin holstered blasters, the Duros alien physiology. Cad Bane is one of the Clone Wars’ most visually specific characters — the Space Western bounty hunter aesthetic applied to a blue alien in a galaxy far, far away — and the figure delivers that visual at 2020 Phase 4 standards.
The Wide-Brimmed Hat as Character Identity
The hat is Cad Bane’s most immediately iconic accessory — the piece of equipment that signals his specific aesthetic before anything else. A wide-brimmed hat on a Duros bounty hunter communicates the Western gunslinger archetype that Bane’s character design deliberately invoked, and the figure renders that hat correctly. The hat and the twin blasters together are the complete Cad Bane visual signature.
Two Blasters and 19 Joints
Two blasters communicate Bane’s dual-draw fighting style — the fast-draw gunfighter who carries two weapons because one is never enough when you’re making your living fighting the kinds of opponents bounty hunting generates. The 19-joint scheme enables the specific gunfighter poses: the wide-legged stance, the dual-draw raised position, the holstered patrol configuration.
The Bounty Hunter Display
Cad Bane (#TCW 06), Asajj Ventress (#TCW 07), and Aurra Sing (#TCW 08) form the TCW Collection’s bounty hunter trio — three consecutive figures covering three of the Clone Wars series’ most prominent mercenary and dark-side operatives. The TCW Collection’s transition from the Siege of Mandalore wave to this trio communicates the series’ breadth: the collection isn’t just one arc, it’s the full Clone Wars.
The Book of Boba Fett Connection
Cad Bane’s live-action appearance in The Book of Boba Fett — voiced and designed by the same team who created the animated version — gave the character a definitive canonical endpoint and expanded his screen presence beyond the animated series. The TCW 06 figure covers the animated Clone Wars configuration that made him famous before the live-action version appeared.
Secondary Market
Above-retail secondary market prices. Standard retail 2020. Well-received at release. Verify both blasters and hat. No production variants documented.
Our Verdict
Cad Bane at #TCW 06 is the TCW Collection’s best individual villain figure — the bounty hunter who consistently outperformed every Jedi the Republic sent after him, in Phase 4 plastic with the hat and dual blasters that define his visual identity. $19.99. 19 joints. Standard retail. Buy him.
Cad Bane and the Clone Wars’ Western Genre Debt
The Clone Wars animated series drew on multiple genre traditions — war film, heist thriller, political drama — but the Western is the one most visibly present in Cad Bane. His design is a direct invocation of the classic Western villain: the wide brim, the long coat, the fast draw, the professional distance from moral judgment. He doesn’t hate his targets. He just gets paid to find them.
What makes Bane work specifically in a Star Wars context is that the Western villain aesthetic operates differently against Jedi than it does against sheriffs. The Jedi have Force reflexes, lightsabers, precognitive ability — and Bane consistently beats them anyway, because he plans for what they can do rather than assuming they can’t do it. He is the galaxy’s most prepared mercenary, operating by the Western code of professional pride applied to an entirely different genre.
Cad Bane in The Book of Boba Fett
Cad Bane’s live-action appearance in The Book of Boba Fett was one of the Disney+ era’s most satisfying character realisations — the animated design translated faithfully to practical effects, the voice and character retained exactly, the canonical endpoint of his story finally shown. The TCW 06 figure covers his animated configuration; collectors who want the live-action version will find it in the separate Book of Boba Fett release. Both are worth having.
Cad Bane at $19.99 standard retail is the TCW Collection’s single best villain-to-value figure. Nineteen joints, two blasters, the hat, the professional menace of the galaxy’s most capable mercenary — all at the standard $19.99 price point that the first-wave figures established. Buy him. The TCW Collection’s bounty hunter tier begins here and it begins strongly.
The TCW Collection at #06 transitions from the Siege of Mandalore arc to its individual character tier — Cad Bane, then Ventress, then Aurra Sing. Three figures, three of the series’ most distinctive non-Jedi characters, all at $19.99 standard retail. The collection’s tone shifts here and Cad Bane sets that tone exactly right: professional, dangerous, impossible to intimidate.
Cad Bane is the TCW Collection’s argument that the most dangerous person in the room doesn’t have to be Force-sensitive. Nineteen joints and two blasters and the hat. Buy the figure.
The Western gunslinger of the Clone Wars. The wide brim, the twin blasters, the professional code that makes him more dangerous than any Sith lord the Republic sent Jedi to fight. Buy Cad Bane.
19 joints. Two blasters. One hat. The most prepared mercenary in the galaxy, in Phase 4 plastic.
Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Phase 4 Clone Wars Collection. Related: Asajj Ventress P4-TCW-07 | Aurra Sing P4-TCW-08 | The Clone Wars.