Captain Rex — Star Wars The Black Series #59
The Black Series Captain Rex — Red Line #59, 2018. Clone Wars Phase II blue-white painted armour with removable helmet and twin DC-17 blasters. 23 points of articulation. Collector guide covering all three Rex releases.
Overview
Red Line #59 is Captain Rex — CT-7567, Clone Captain of Torrent Company, 501st Legion, under the command of Anakin Skywalker during the Clone Wars, and one of the most beloved characters in the Star Wars animated series canon. Rex is the defining Clone Wars clone trooper: not anonymous despite sharing a face with millions of identical soldiers, because the specific accumulation of experience, decision, and loyalty across the series makes him irreducibly individual regardless of his origin.
At 23 joints and 3 accessories including a removable helmet, this is one of the most articulated and accessory-complete clone trooper figures in the Red Line. The Phase II blue-and-white painted armour with Rex’s specific facial identification markings is rendered accurately at Red Line production quality. Three total releases: this 2018 Red Line, a 2021 Bad Batch configuration, and a 2025 Ahsoka series version. MSRP $19.99.
The Character
Captain Rex’s specific significance across the Clone Wars animated series is the question of identity and choice under a biological mandate. Every clone was engineered to be a soldier; Rex became a specific person through the accumulation of choices, relationships, and experiences that the identical starting point didn’t determine. His friendship with Anakin and Ahsoka, his specific code of honour about protecting soldiers rather than completing missions at the cost of soldiers, and the specific crisis of Order 66 — where the inhibitor chip in every clone’s brain activated the command to kill Jedi, and Rex had his removed in advance — all converge to make him the Clone Wars’ most complete character arc.
His survival of Order 66, his retirement on Seelos, and his return to fight with the Rebellion in Rebels give the character a complete story across animated media that few Star Wars characters match.
Accessories
Removable helmet — revealing the Temuera Morrison face beneath, the specific Rex identification markings (the blue and white facial paint visible in the figure’s portrait), and the particular expression of a soldier who has been through everything the Clone Wars required of him. Twin DC-17 blaster pistols — Rex’s signature paired weapons, the handguns that he dual-wields throughout the series with the specific fighting style developed across years of Clone Wars combat.
23-joint articulation scheme: dual neck, ball-jointed shoulders, swivel biceps, above and below elbow swivels, ball-jointed wrists, ball-jointed upper body, ball-jointed hips, swivel thighs, above and below knee swivels, ball-jointed ankles. The bicep swivels and multiple elbow joints enable the dual-wield pistol poses that define Rex’s combat style.
The Phase II Armour Design
Rex’s Phase II armour — the updated clone trooper armour that replaced the Phase I configuration in the later Clone Wars — carries his specific identification markings: the blue and white geometric patterns that make his armour visually distinguishable from generic Phase II clones. The markings are his; no other clone wears them. This is the visual expression of individuality within the clone template — the way the clones distinguished themselves from each other through their armour’s personal decoration while the armour itself remained standardised.
All Three Black Series Captain Rex Releases
Captain Rex (2018) — this figure: The original Red Line Clone Wars Phase II configuration. Captain Rex (The Bad Batch) (2021): The older Rex configuration from the Bad Batch animated series. Captain Rex (Ahsoka) (2025): The live-action Ahsoka series version. The three releases across the character’s canonical appearances make Rex one of the best-represented Clone Wars characters in the line.
Display Recommendations
Rex alongside the Blue Wave Clone Trooper figures creates the 501st Legion display — the Captain among his soldiers. Alongside Ahsoka Tano (#20) for the Clone Wars command pair, or alongside Kanan Jarrus (#19) for the clone-wars-survivor-meets-early-Rebellion context.
Secondary Market
The Red Line Rex holds above-retail secondary market prices, maintained by consistent Clone Wars fan demand and the sustained quality of the figure. No production variants documented.
Verdict
Buy for the Clone Wars Phase II Rex display, the twin DC-17 dual-wield configuration, or Red Line sequence completion. The 23-joint articulation and removable helmet make this one of the Red Line’s better-engineered armoured figures. The bicep swivels and multiple elbow joints specifically enable the dual-wield pistol stance that is Rex’s combat signature — both arms extended, one blaster per hand, the specific confidence of a clone captain who has fought in more battles than most Jedi.
CT-7567 and Clone Identity
The clone trooper programme’s engineering produced soldiers who are genetically identical but who diverge through experience — the accumulated choices, relationships, and scars that make each clone’s life their own regardless of origin. Rex’s CT-7567 designation is the system’s name for him; Rex is the name his brothers gave him, the name he chose to carry, the name that appears on his armour in the specific blue-and-white font of his own design.
This dynamic — a person becoming themselves despite a system designed to make them interchangeable — is the emotional engine of The Clone Wars’ best character work, and Rex is its clearest expression. The removable helmet creates the display option that communicates it most directly: the identical clone armour on one side of the decision, the specific face that lived in it on the other. Helmet on, he’s a Phase II Clone Captain. Helmet off, he’s Rex.
The 501st Legacy
The 501st Legion — Rex’s unit — became the template for Vader’s personal stormtrooper battalion after Order 66. The same soldiers who fought alongside Anakin Skywalker became the unit that executed the Jedi Temple massacre at their inhibitor-chip-compelled commander’s order. Rex, who had his chip removed, was not among them. The 501st’s transformation from the Clone Wars’ most distinctive unit to the Empire’s most feared one is part of what Rex carries — the knowledge of what his brothers became.
Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Red Line. Related: Ahsoka Tano P3-20 | Clone Army faction | The Clone Wars.