Plo Koon — Star Wars The Black Series #109
The Black Series Plo Koon — Red Line #109, 2020. Kel Dor Jedi Master with green lightsaber. 21 joints including butterfly shoulders. The Jedi who discovered Ahsoka Tano. The only Black Series Plo Koon. Collector guide.
Overview
Red Line #109 is Plo Koon — Plo Koon, Kel Dor Jedi Master and member of the Jedi High Council, one of the prequel trilogy’s most consistently beloved Jedi designs, and the specific Council member who discovered Ahsoka Tano as a Force-sensitive infant and brought her to the Jedi Temple to begin her training. His death in ROTS — shot down by his own clone escort during Order 66 while flying over Cato Neimoidia — is one of the sequence’s most affecting losses precisely because he had been characterised as genuinely good rather than merely competent.
21 joints including butterfly shoulders. Green lightsaber. The only Black Series Plo Koon. MSRP $19.99.
The Character
Plo Koon’s specific reputation in the Clone Wars animated series — and in collector consciousness — is as the warmest, most genuinely caring member of the Jedi Council. Where the Council as an institution is often characterised as cold and political, Plo Koon’s specific scenes communicate genuine warmth: his relationship with the clone troopers of the Wolfpack, his connection to Ahsoka that precedes even her training, his specific quality as a Jedi who remembered that care for individual lives is not separate from commitment to the Force.
The discovery of Ahsoka Tano is his most significant specific canonical act: he found her on Shili as a toddler, brought her to the Temple, and thereby set in motion the entire Ahsoka arc that extends from The Clone Wars through Rebels through the live-action Ahsoka series. His death in ROTS cuts short the relationship between Ahsoka’s finder and Ahsoka’s teacher without giving either of them a proper farewell.
The Kel Dor Design
Plo Koon’s species-specific appearance — the orange skin, the black goggles, the breathing apparatus that covers the lower face — creates one of the prequel Jedi Council’s most alien designs. Unlike the human-template Jedi who dominate the Council, Plo Koon reads as genuinely not-human in a way that communicates the Order’s galactic diversity. The breathing apparatus means there is no portrait quality concern in the conventional sense — his face is always partially covered.
21 Joints and Butterfly Shoulders
The butterfly shoulder joints enable the two-handed lightsaber stances appropriate to Plo Koon’s combat style — the extended forward grip of his specific Form V adapted approach. Combined with the 21-joint total, this is one of the Red Line’s more completely articulated prequel Jedi figures.
The Only Black Series Plo Koon
One release. No Galaxy Collection update. For any prequel Jedi Council display including Plo Koon — alongside Mace Windu (#82), Qui-Gon (#40), and Obi-Wan TPM (#85) — this is the sole option. Verify the lightsaber accessory on secondary market purchases.
Secondary Market
Above-retail secondary market prices — fan-favourite prequel Jedi, the only Black Series Plo Koon, sustained Clone Wars fan base. No production variants documented.
Verdict
The only Black Series Plo Koon. Buy for the Jedi Council display, the Ahsoka Tano connection, or Red Line sequence completion.
Plo Koon and the Wolfpack
In The Clone Wars, Plo Koon commands the 104th Battalion — known as the Wolfpack — a clone unit with a specific tight bond with their Jedi General unusual even by Clone Wars standards. The Wolfpack arc’s specific quality: Plo Koon’s genuine regard for the clones as individuals, and the clones’ genuine regard for him in return. When the Wolfpack is nearly wiped out early in the series, Plo Koon’s grief for the lost soldiers is not performative. He names them. He mourns them specifically.
This characterisation — the Jedi who does not treat clone soldiers as expendable — makes his Order 66 death specifically painful: the troopers of the 104th who had reason to love and respect him had no choice but to kill him, and the one who shot him down over Cato Neimoidia did it because of a chip in his brain rather than any deficiency of loyalty.
Plo Koon’s Kel Dor Design in the Red Line
Plo Koon at #109 is the Red Line’s most alien-appearing Jedi Council member — more physically alien than Yoda (P2-06) despite Yoda’s species being more recognisable, because the goggles and breathing apparatus create a specific quality of otherness. The design’s combination of the robes-and-lightsaber Jedi template with genuinely non-human features is one of the prequel Jedi Council’s best visual achievements, and the figure renders it accurately.
His placement at #109 in the 2020 wave’s prequel concentration gives the Jedi Council its deepest representation in the numbered sequence — alongside Qui-Gon (#40), Mace Windu (#82), and Obi-Wan TPM (#85), Plo Koon completes a four-figure Council display of prequel-era Jedi at consistent production quality.
Plo Koon at #109 is the only Black Series Plo Koon — a single release carrying the full weight of the character’s fan affection and the Clone Wars’ careful characterisation. His discovery of Ahsoka Tano connects this figure directly to Ahsoka (#20) sixty-nine numbered slots earlier in the sequence. Two figures, one formative relationship, sixty-nine numbers apart. Verify the lightsaber on secondary market purchases.
Plo Koon’s butterfly shoulder joints are the articulation feature that most rewards display investment — the two-handed lightsaber raised-guard pose that is his canonical combat signature requires both the butterfly range and the standard ball-joint range working together. The figure enables that pose. No production variants documented.
Plo Koon at #109 is three figures from the end of the numbered Red Line sequence. Three more figures — Anakin Padawan (#110), Obi-Wan Jedi Knight (#111), Kit Fisto (#112) — complete the 112-figure run. The four-figure 2020 Jedi wave closes the numbered sequence with the prequel Council’s deepest representation: Plo Koon here, then the prequel trilogy’s two defining Jedi and one of its most beloved Council members.
Plo Koon is among the most requested prequel Jedi in the collector community across the Red Line’s entire run. His arrival at #109 — three figures from the sequence’s end — reflects both the sustained demand and the 2020 wave’s commitment to the prequel Council’s representation.
Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Red Line. Related: Ahsoka Tano P3-20 | Mace Windu P3-82 | Jedi Order faction | Revenge of the Sith.