#tbb Scorch

[melymigo]

[amandamadeathing]

A meme many of us can agree upon.

[wings-and-beskargam]

These two di’kute. What were they up to this time? 💙

[deoxd]

Team Tantiss.

If I don't get these guys backstories I'm gonna implode (Even Scorch. I want to know how he ended up all serious and loyal to the Empire). PLEASE Disney/Lucasfilm, tell me who I have to kill for you to do it, because I will 🗡️

Aaaaand unhelmeted Scorch version because I love to draw his angry scowl.

[lonewolflupe]

Scorches of the Mist

Blorbo of the day is Scorch, with yet another super badass pose (used for reference)! This one was requested by @wings-and-beskargam ! And this is yet another reminder that I NEED TO PLAY REPUBLIC COMMANDO (I even have the game laying around, for karking out loud). I do love what I've seen from Delta Squad tho!

Cody | Fives | Fox | Vaughn | Hunter | Gregor | Echo | Wolffe | Mayday | Rex | Hound | Hardcase | Keeli | Tech | Appo | Crosshair | Kix | Howzer | Boba | Fordo | Colt | Monnk | Scorch | Jesse | Wrecker | Dogma

[viscanpikamine]

Anyone else feels like tbb Scorch feels like early Repcomm Vau? Especially Vau thru Kal’s eyes? No? Just me?

Posted on TikTok originally but there’s no repcomm fandom there so posting it here too lol

[clonebrainrot]

[wetsocksinbed]

Scorch going from “mad that Sev is seen as just another number” to “blindly follows all orders like a droid” is the most heartbreaking thing the delta squad has given us since 2005

[gars-weaponeer]

Today in: Clones that deserved better!

Issue #1

-SCORCH-

Scorch belonged to the clone commando Delta Squad from the beloved videogame "Republic Commando", which came before the Clone wars series aired.

Along with his companions: Sev, Fixer and Boss. Scorch was the demolition expert of the Squad and the one with the most heart and sense of humor, arguably the one with the most personality. You could easily compare him to Hardcase or Wrecker, having a similar archetype. He, along with Sev, became a fan favorite thanks to his charismatic writing.

If you have NOT played Republic commando, I totally recommend it. You can currently find it on steam or switch and it's a very fun game to play if you are a Clone wars fan.

Delta squad appears in the Clone wars series only for a short cameo and only Boss got a short speaking line. So it was more than obvious that RC fans would want to see more representation of the beloved characters.

Then we got the Bad Batch...

I don't know who this guy is... but this is not Scorch.

I do understand they needed a face for the commando leader of Tantiss and they did not want to miss the opportunity to gain some nostalgia points with a beloved Republic Commando character. (I could rant hours about how The Bad Batch did all commando clones dirty by reducing them to novelty storm troopers, but that's a rant for another day.) But did it HAVE to be Scorch? Considering the "personality" this TBB-Scorch has, I think Fixer or even Boss could have been an arguably better pick. But since Scorch was a fan favorite he was the one chosen, and he was also the one BUTCHERED for it.

TBB-Scorch has little to no personality and what little we manage to see it drastically different from the Scorch in the video game and that's very disheartening to see for a fan of the character.

Having a model with the painted armor is not enough to give fans the representation they deserve. Specially when it comes to a character with a recognizable personality.

It would be like having Fives suddenly be a cold and loyal trooper that will do anything Pon Krell did without questioning. Or have Wrecker suddenly be the background character that had no speaking lines and was only there to guard the door.

Or have Echo disappear for an amount of episodes when he could-- oh wait....

This "character" could easily be replaced by any other commando with a cool looking armor and it wouldn't change a thing other that fans pointing and saying "OMG I KNOW THAT GUY!"

(I'm not even sure his name is even mentioned... but take that with a grain of salt, I might be wrong. I need to re-watch the third season of The Bad Batch for the third time. )

Sure, we could argue that there is a reason to why Scorch is the way he is in TBB. Maybe he was brainwashed like the CX Clones or Maybe the trauma of loosing his companions, his brothers he was born and raised with since a pod and with whom he experienced a lot of things together, made him a cold, empty husk... but if that was the case, SHOW US THAT!

Scorch could have easily been a good counterpart to Crosshair. They are both Commandos (in a sense) and they both lost their brothers in traumatic ways (allegedly). But while Scorch gave up and became a mindless follower of the Empire, Cross woke up and refused to be brainwashed like the rest.

I know I'm being too harsh.

After all, it's somehow noticiable that TBB was left unfinished. My theory is that Disney decided to pull the plug and was "nice" enough to give the project one last season. But all the ideas and all the stories they clearly wanted to tell were not going to fit on one last season, so a lot of it was cut and rushed.

It is sad, and I would have loved to see what plans they originally had. Maybe they had more plans for the commandos, maybe Scorch had a bigger role or an explanation to his loyalty towards Hemlock and the empire.

Or Maybe he was just painted in to get Republic commando fans to watch The Bad Batch.

We might never know...

Overall...

It's kind of sad that was all the representation we got of these beloved characters.

I know their stories are in "Legends" and many Legends characters have been changed for the sake of canon.

But there is Changing, and then there is Butchering.

And I think Scorch, and the Delta Squad, deserved way better.

[twinsunstars]

life on mount tantiss with omega, emerie, eva, jax, sami, baryn, scorch, hemlock, and scalder but it's all set up like the office

[clu-ven]

begging and praying this man gets his shit together and slam dunks Hemlock into the Zillo Beast’s tank

[melymigo]

[solsilverpine]

Rule 39: Never say no to Bacta!

[wings-and-beskargam]

Wishing a happy and peaceful holiday season to all those who participate, especially my chaos vode! @eobe @lonewolflupe @ghostymarni Here’s to a fresh year with new chaotic shenanigans.

Scorch’s one-liner from Republic Commando was too perfect to pass up this occasion!

[deoxd]

POV: You're a Tantiss prisonser and Scorch is quick to anger.

[third-generation-female-warrior]

Also known as: the most dysfunctional family dynamic this side of the Galaxy!