Hunter — Star Wars The Black Series #TBB 01

Overview

The Phase 4 Bad Batch Collection opens at #TBB 01 with Hunter — Clone Force 99’s squad leader, the enhanced clone whose mutation amplifies his electromagnetic sensitivity to the point where he can track targets across vast distances and read battlefields the way no standard trooper can. Five accessories including a removable helmet. 17 joints. Standard retail. $19.99. 2021. The TBB Collection begins with the right figure: the leader, the tracker, the person whose choices define Clone Force 99’s arc through three seasons of television.

5 accessories: vibroblade, blaster, removable helmet, backpack, knife.

Hunter and Clone Force 99

The Bad Batch is built around a specific premise: five clones whose genetic mutations gave them abilities no standard trooper has, who operated as a specialised squad throughout the Clone Wars, and who have to figure out who they are and what they stand for when the Republic becomes the Empire overnight. Hunter is the person who has to hold that question together across the series.

His electromagnetic sensitivity mutation gives him the tracker’s advantage — the ability to read environments and targets that other operatives would miss. His leadership role means every decision the squad makes runs through him. The series’ central dynamic is Hunter trying to protect Omega, the young enhanced clone who becomes part of their group, while also keeping his squad functioning in a galaxy that has changed under all of them.

The Removable Helmet

The removable helmet is the TBB Collection’s first significant display detail — the ability to display Hunter with his distinctive tactical helmet in place (the combat-ready configuration) or removed (the face visible, the character more present). The knife, vibroblade, and blaster together communicate the ranged-and-close-quarters loadout of a squad leader prepared for multiple scenarios.

All five accessories should be verified on secondary market purchases. The helmet and smaller accessories like the knife are the most likely to be separated from loose figures.

The TBB Collection Opening

The Bad Batch Collection opening on Hunter at #TBB 01 mirrors the TCW Collection’s structural logic: begin with the leader who drives the squad’s decisions. Hunter’s choices — to protect Omega, to operate outside the Empire’s reach, to hold Clone Force 99 together as the world they knew disappears — are what the series is about. The figure at #TBB 01 is the starting point for the collection that follows.

The 18-Figure TBB Collection

The TBB Collection runs 18 figures covering Clone Force 99’s complete roster, their antagonists, supporting characters, and the clone variants the series deploys. Hunter at #TBB 01 opens a collection that spans the full Bad Batch era — Order 66’s aftermath, the Empire’s early formation, and the specific question of what enhanced clones do when the Republic they served is gone.

Secondary Market

Above-retail secondary market prices. Standard retail 2021. Verify all five accessories. No production variants documented.

Our Verdict

Hunter at #TBB 01 opens the TBB Collection on its right figure — the squad leader with five accessories, the tracker with the removable helmet, the person whose choices drive every season of The Bad Batch. $19.99, 17 joints, standard retail. Buy him. The TBB Collection begins here.

The Five-Accessory Loadout in Context

Hunter’s five accessories at $19.99 are the TBB Collection’s opening statement about what the collection values: the leader figure at the standard price point with the loadout of someone who operates in varied terrain with varied threats. The vibroblade is the close-quarters backup — Hunter’s mutation makes him better at reading approach vectors than fighting at distance, so the knife is the last resort of a tracker who prefers to know where you are before you know where he is. The blaster is the ranged option. The backpack is the specialist’s field kit. The removable helmet is the display flexibility that the collection’s character-focused figures benefit from most.

Hunter’s Mutation and Its Display Communication

The electromagnetic sensitivity mutation isn’t visually communicated through the figure the way Wrecker’s physical scale communicates his mutation or Tech’s equipment communicates his. Hunter’s advantage is invisible — the ability to read a battlefield through senses nobody else has. The display argument for Hunter is command posture rather than mutation evidence: the squad leader with the full loadout, the tracker who knows what’s coming before it arrives. The figure communicates the role even when the specific ability remains invisible.

The TBB Collection as Transition Story

The Bad Batch is the franchise’s most sustained engagement with the specific period between the Clone Wars ending and the Empire consolidating — the weeks and months after Order 66 where everything is still in flux. Hunter’s squad exists in that gap: too enhanced to be useful standard troopers, too independent to accept the Empire’s terms, too good at surviving to be easily caught. The figure at #TBB 01 is the leader of that gap’s most interesting characters.

Hunter at #TBB 01 with five accessories and 17 joints is exactly what the TBB Collection’s opening slot requires. The leader with the full loadout, the removable helmet that creates the character-or-operator display choice, the vibroblade that communicates the close-quarters tracker. $19.99 standard retail. The squad begins here. Buy him.

The Bad Batch gave Hunter one of the animated era’s most quietly affecting leadership arcs — the squad leader who held Clone Force 99 together through the Empire’s formation, the clone who made Omega part of his family because she needed one and so did he. The figure at #TBB 01 is the starting point for everything that arc becomes.

Five accessories. Removable helmet. $19.99. The tracker who held Clone Force 99 together through the Empire’s formation. Buy Hunter.

The TBB Collection is an 18-figure run about the Empire’s formation and the people who survived it on their own terms. Hunter leads that run. The figure at #TBB 01 with its five accessories and its removable helmet is the correct starting point. Buy it and build the collection outward from Clone Force 99’s leader.

Clone Force 99 begins here.

The tracker. The leader. Five accessories. The TBB Collection begins here and everything in Clone Force 99’s 18-figure run grows from this figure.

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Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Phase 4 Bad Batch Collection. Related: Crosshair P4-TBB-02 | Tech P4-TBB-04 | The Bad Batch.