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Love that the second Cody is paired up with Crosshair he becomes so miserable he immediately starts to question the Empire and defect

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to clarify, the possibility we’ll never find out what happened to cody is only my second biggest fear for future star wars content. my biggest fear is that we’ll find out what happened to cody

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What’s your favorite headcanon about the 212th? Or any clone battalion take your pick:)

Okay so I’ve never made a post about this because it’s never been a solid enough idea but like-

I really want to see more content about how working under certain Jedi effected clones.

Like the 212th started training as some of the strongest and wildest troopers, but then they started working under Obi Wan and

Everyone thinks they’re so boring now.

Rex especially. He can’t help but tease Cody about being the wildest trooper during training and now all he does is “respectable things” and file paperwork.

However like Obi-Wan, the strength and power is still there, just hidden under a guise of politeness.

The 212th, always get the job done as quickly and as efficiently as possible. (But sometimes they get side tracked, they can’t help it, being an unwilling dad is in their nature)

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Saw this on Twitter and had a moment of full blown horror and sadness when entertaining thought

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General Grievous, running down a hallway and screaming: AHHHHHHAAHHHHHHHHHH

Cody, running after him and ready to attack: Why are you running? WHY ARE YOU RUNNING?

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What I love about this fandom is that we're all collectively desperate to see Cody again

Yet not a single one of us is ready to see Cody again. Or to face the idea that we may never see Cody again, only CC-2224

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FILONI STOP PLAYING WHERE THE FUCK IS CODY

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Watching a compilation of Cody’s lines on youtube to get a better feel for his character and realized he nicknames EVERYONE.

Rex is ‘ol boy and any Clone he talks to isn’t just ‘brother’ but also ‘son’ and ‘kid’ and shit like that because, I’m just guessing– he sees every lower ranked Clone as a ‘little brother’ and Rex is the closest to him in ‘age/maturity’ aside from the other Commanders who he probably doesn’t get to work with as much as he does Rex.

This supports my Clone Culture headcanon that the highest ranking brothers are the ‘eldest’ and everyone below them is “younger”. I know it’s funnier if it’s just a quirk of Codys’ that he likes to nickname everyone and just happens to use words for his brothers like ‘son’ because he appointed himself oldest like some siblings do but-

I’m going with my headcanon for clone culture instead.

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High General Obi-wan Kenobi: This is a very delicate mission, we will have to-

Marshall Commander Cody: what if, and hear me out, you just throw me at them?

High General Obi-wan Kenobi: Cody

Marshall Commander Cody: General

Bonus:

General Anakin Skywalker: Brilliant, showstopping, I can't believe we haven't considered this before. Why am I always the one getting thrown? The men would love it

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Pssst! Your artwork is amazing! Seriously, your clones are awesome and you are just so talented! I am in awe!

Thank you so much! 🧡 That means a lot to me and I'm grinning like an idiot right now.

Please have some more clones as a token of my appreciation.

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Headcanon that at the start of the war the Jedi never used their force abilities on the men and then exactly one clone saw their General throw another General at the enemy and suddenly all of them wanted in on it.

Why wait for the enemy to come to you when you can simply convince your Jedi General to throw you at them?

It contributed to the slow evolution of jumping on droids, the moment the clones get a taste they suddenly understand why every single Jedi does this

It's Cody, Cody's the clone that witnesses Obi-wan just flinging Anakin at something and immediately even knowing he had a jetpack says "this is my chance" and starts begging

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me vs thinking we’ll get to see imperial cody this episode

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just watched spiderverse again so here’s another hot concept: now that the multiverse is all blendy, portals start popping up everywhere in new york. it’s usually only for a few seconds, just long enough for a Villain of the Week to fly through and a spiderperson to swing in and punch them back into their dimension, sometimes with an assist from their new spiderman. nyc quickly settles into its new normal and starts debating which spidey team up is the coolest. meanwhile officer jefferson davis is starting to get real annoyed with the homeless-looking guy who keeps wandering through portals to “check up on” spiderman

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while i could watch the bad batch, i expressly choose not to because i'm in this part of the sw swamp for cody and that's it. no cody, no me. clean living, y'all, clean living. *wipes swamp goo off my brow* The End. (lol, i really am just here for cody, though. where is he??)

disney: hey look at this cool ass group of clones being cool and different

me, who is in the same sw swamp as anon:

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TurnKote Au, or how Obi-Wan will continue to promote Cody 20 years after.

PLEASE CONSIDER

sidious basically never leaves his galactic evil chair and barely sees any sunlight so people sometimes forget that he exists

so purge trooper cody and his men have a mission and along the way they stumble into obi-wan, who knows that purge trooper cody would run the empire way more efficient and says something like,, you would have done better as the emperor

conveniently the stormtroopers only hear him say you as the emperor

so our stormtroopers are like ??? we thought the emperor is an ugly raisin ?? but maybe we wrong maybe he a sexy grape

and since cody is highly competent the stormtroopers firmly believe he's the emperor and when someone tells them that the emperor chills on coruscant or something they are like no, that's just his cover so he can fight on the front without anyone knowing

this also means that whenever there's a disagreement between purge trooper cody and vader everyone ignores vader's orders because is he the emperor? no

vader doesn't know what's going on but he now has to ask cody for permission on various occasions and he hates it

anyways, i think it would be funny for obi-wan to accidentally promote cody one last time while also making sidious unemployed

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Cody should include his brothers in the bucket hat trend

He picked up a family pack at the Mos Espa space outlets. He got a coupon discount.

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Alpha & Cody and how they addressed or talked about Anakin in Legends sources (2002-2005/6)

Back in the old days (2002-2005/6), the books and comics did not focus that much on clone troopers. Of the few named that interacted with Generals Kenobi and Skywalker,

ARC trooper Alpha was introduced in Star Wars: Republic comics series (#50-52, 55, 60, 62, 2003-2004) and later showed up in Obsession (2004-2005)

Cody was introduced in Labyrinth of the Evil (January, 2005) and included in Revenge of the Sith (April, 2005).

The source material was limited, and so direct interaction between Cody or Alpha and Anakin. In the case of Alpha, he and Anakin knew each other almost from the start of war and worked on various occasions, from Defense of Kamino (2 months after Battle of Geonosis) to Battle of Boz Pity (5 months before RotS). Cody took part in campaigns such as “Aargonar, Praesitlyn, Paracelus Minor, Antar 4, Tibrin, Skor II, and dozens of other worlds from Core to Outer Rim”. The Battle of Aargonar (Republic #59: Enemy Lines) and Praesitlyn (Jedi Trial) were two battles that Anakin took part in without Obi-Wan Kenobi. Which means both Alpha and Cody have ties to Anakin when he was still a padawan (commander). 

One of the funny things from Legends is how in the limited source material Cody and Alpha addressed / talked about Anakin Skywalker - a Jedi General, their superior - in-between battles.

During a mission on the enemy territory (LotE), Cody did follow the standard protocol and used military ranks and a polite “sirs” to both Kenobi and Skywalker. Similarly, Obi-Wan addressed him back as commander, while Anakin seemed to not bother using rank whatsoever: either addressed the soldiers as “you” (which I suspect may sounds now rude, maybe even impersonally since beside Cody no clone was named in the text) or calling Cody just by name (“Where did you say Obi-Wan and Cody are?”)

But then there is RotS and this moment:

“I can keep them distracted for quite some time,” Obi-Wan had told Cody on the flight deck of Vigilance. “Just don’t take too long.”

“Come on, boss,” Cody had said, smiling out of Jango Fett’s face, “have I ever let you down?”

“Well-” Obi-Wan had said with a slim answering smile, “Cato Neimoidia, for starters …”

“That was Anakin’s fault; he was the one who was late …”

“Oh? And who will you blame it on this time?” Obi-Wan had chuckled as he climbed into his starfighter’s cockpit and strapped himself in. “Very well, then. I’ll try not to destroy all the droids before you get there.”

“I’m counting on you, boss. Don’t let me down.”

“Have I ever?”

“Well,” Cody had said with a broad grin, “there was Cato Neimoidia …”

In which Kenobi is called the “boss” while Anakin is referred to by name by Cody. No general, no master, not even Skywalker. Just Anakin. And the fact that Cody doesn’t use any military rank to address both Jedi shows the informal aspect of their relationship. Which is even more interesting considering how the scene played in the movie.

In the film, to my despair, the mention of Anakin and Cato Neimoidia was cut off from full dialogue but Cody talked with Obi-Wan about General Skywalker with a few other clones around, like he was talking about their mutual friend rather than the most famous Jedi General who saved Chancellor and killed Dooku not so ago.

Then, we have Alpha. 

Frankly, Alpha from the start had a more informal relationship with Anakin which was influenced by several factors - including the fact that when they met they were more or less on equal ground and most likely because of that ARC trooper nor Anakin addressed each other by rank even in later stage of war (in contrast, Alpha usually referred Obi-Wan as General Kenobi). Which is fine, because despite a rocky start, a mutual respect developed between them so it makes sense they allowed themselves to act less informal in their own (and Kenobi) company. 

But then we have Star Wars: Obsession #4, and room full of Jedi Masters - the generals

talking between each other about the mission

with Alpha adding his own input

and calling Anakin Skywalker - Jedi Knight and higher rank - the kid in front of dozens of other generals / Jedi Masters.

(In all fairness, Alpha called Anakin the kid on a few occasions which in itself is hilarious considering the fact Skywalker was older than him by 10 years).

The source material related to Clone Wars released around Prequels gave little examples of direct interaction between Anakin and those two named clones. Yet, even with so limited materials to work with and different types of media (books and comics), old canon at least imply that Anakin were on good terms with both Alpha and Cody, to the point both could and did address or talk about him in less formal (no military rank) way and were called by him in similar fashion, by their names.

Which is a true shame the relationship between Anakin and Cody or Alpha is so often underrated or worse, not acknowledged.