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| “ | Perhaps you didn’t hear me. He is expendable, as are you. And if you speak to me again with such disrespect, I'll see to it you meet a similar fate, clone. Now leave him and get back to work, while you're still useful. | „ |
| ~ Nolan to Crosshair, revealing his irredeemable nature - also his last words. |
Lieutenant Nolan is a minor yet pivotal antagonist in Star Wars: The Bad Batch, serving as the main antagonist of "The Outpost", the twelfth episode of Season 2.
A lieutenant in the Imperial military, he was assigned to oversee failing operations on the ice planet Barton-4 and repeatedly demonstrated xenophobic disgust and hatred towards the clone troopers. His wrathful contempt towards the clones would ultimately cost him his life, since after blatantly letting Commander Mayday die right in front of Crosshair, the latter would finally snap and immediately kill him in retribution.
He was voiced by Crispin Freeman.
What Makes Him Despisable?[]
- After introducing himself as Crosshair's commanding officer for his mission—upon hearing some clones chatting, he immediately rolled his eyes before telling Crosshair his antipathy for "used equipment" when the clone questioned him.
- After one of the three clones accompanying him saved him from slipping, he angrily ordered him to guard the ship, leaving him standing in the freezing winds. This directly caused the clone’s death when the base was attacked by locals.
- He refused to report to Mayday 36 rotations earlier and only did so because it was part of the Empire's schedule.
- He disrespectfully addressed Commander Mayday as a trooper instead of his proper rank, then demanded Mayday speak to him with respect when he already distrusted clones himself, making him a hypocrite.
- He accused Mayday of letting his entire squad get killed, despite not providing the proper equipment for Mayday and his men to survive in the frigid, hostile environment.
- He gets shocked when Mayday asked him how many missions he commanded, proving that he wasn't a part of the military in the Clone Wars and revealing his self-centered and hypocritical side.
- He doesn't respect Mayday at all, telling him that he can't decide what is valuable or get anymore reinforcements.
- After the base was attacked by raiders, which resulted in the deaths of Mayday's men, Hexx and Veetch, Nolan belittled him and Crosshair for mourning their loss before sending the two clones out into the cold wilderness to recover a shipment containing stormtrooper armor that was stolen by the raiders without any backup nor adequate gear.
- He rudely asks the stormtroopers with him on the planet to step aside as he prepares to meet Mayday and Crosshair, showing that he also doesn't care about them, even though they are conscripted humans instead of clones.
- When Crosshair asks Nolan to get a medic for Mayday, who was fatally injured from an avalanche while trying to protect Crosshair, Nolan refused to help him—callously dismissing it as a "waste of resources"—while continuing to call Mayday "expendable" before he died, showing how irredeemable he is.
- He then called Crosshair "expendable" just like Mayday and threatened to kill him if he refuses to respect him, which caused a furious Crosshair to kill him in retribution, giving him the "respect" he deserved in the end.
- Besides his loyalty to the Empire (which also hates clones), he has absolutely no redeeming qualities. It’s heavily implied that by placing him in charge of clones and on a mission in a frozen wasteland (both of which he despises), his higher ups hold him in contempt for his incompetence and arrogance.
- His prejudice against the clones far exceeds that of typical Imperials; unlike most, his hatred of clones is borderline homicidal.
- Despite only appearing in a single episode, he was singlehandedly responsible for Crosshair's redemption, as he would finally prove to the latter that the Empire never cared about him at all.
- After Crosshair gets detained on Mount Tantiss, where instead of being punished, Dr. Royce Hemlock admired the clone's initiative of killing Nolan, which ironically solidified that the Empire even considered its loyalists disposable, clone or otherwise, meaning no one cared for Nolan as well.
Trivia[]
- His point of view towards clones is vastly similar to Pong Krell's. However, Nolan only abused 7 clones and indirectly killed 1 of them in comparison to Krell, who actively fought them and killed 8 times the amount Nolan did.
- In fact, regardless of whether this is redeeming or just pragmatic, his treatment is not even that bad when compared to Krell's since he didn't kill that much and he gave the remaining clones a chance to complete the mission, only resorting to neglecting them once they failed just because they solidified his antipathic view over clones.
- While Krell is much worse and has far more resources than Nolan, both of them are amongst one of the most hated villains in the galaxy far far away due to their antipathy towards the clones, and—to the delight of many fans—they both ended up getting killed by the very individuals they despised as comeuppance/karma (Krell gets killed by Dogma; Nolan gets killed by Crosshair).
External Links[]
- Lieutenant Nolan on the Villains Wiki
- Lieutenant Nolan on the Star Wars Wiki
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