- "Ahsoka Tano... Hm. I fought by her side from the Battle of Christophsis to the Siege of Mandalore... and a friend of her's is a friend of mine."
- ―Captain Rex in Star Wars Rebels: The Lost Commanders
Captain Rex is a minifigure from the Star Wars The Clone Wars theme, based on the Clone Trooper from the Star Wars universe.
Description[]
Captain Rex with his helmet removed
Phase I Variant[]
Captain Rex has the standard Clone Trooper leg piece- white legs with a black leg joint, and also has the same printing design on the torso piece as most Clone Troopers in The Clone Wars subtheme, however the arms are blue instead of white. Rex's headpiece is unique with five o'clock shadow and a scar under his lower lip in addition to the standard The Clone Wars Clone Trooper face print. Captain Rex wears a white clone trooper helmet, with blue stripes above the visor and one stripe running vertically across the faceplate. Also printed are blue lines near the top of the helmet, resembling jaig eyes, an award earned by Rex in the Star Wars universe, along with grey printing at the bottom of the helmet's crest, yellow dashes above the visor, and the standard clone helmet printing. Rex comes equipped with two grey Commando pistols, a grey pauldron and kama, a grey rangefinder, which can also be switched for a visor or floodlights.
Phase II Variant[]
In 2013, Rex was redesigned, and is based on his Phase II armour. His helmet is a new mould, larger than his old one. It has two large, tube-like breath filters at its base and the crest on top is rounded instead of straight. The visor printing is similar to his old helmet's, with the T-visor lined with blue and Jaig eyes above it. Two brown lines, one on each side, run from his visor to the base of the helmet. Tally marks are present on the sides of his helmet.
Rex's new pauldron is made of cloth. It's black with several large blue printings covering his left shoulder. The top of his torso has printing of the pauldron underneath where the cloth piece lies. It has three ammo cartridges on the dirt-spattered armour as well. The back has a belt with a cylindrical thermal detonator printed on along with a rectangular panel with several dots and lines inside. Grime printing is also present here. Rex has blue arms and black hands. He has the same head as his Phase I minifigure but with some minor changes.
The kama is also cloth, this one black and unprinted. It is identical to the ARC trooper battle pack released in 2012. His hips are black and the legs white with printing of blue kneepads and tally marks.
Age of the Empire variant[]
In 2016, Captain Rex returned into the Star Wars universe in the Star Wars: Rebels T.V. series, and with this, Rex was also given a new design with a new LEGO minifigure showing his older self, with most of his blue 501st markings on his armor faded away. There was also dirt and grime added on his chestplate and had standard grey LEGO legs.
In the Video Games[]
Captain Rex appeared as a playable character in the video game LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars. Rex's appearance in the game is much like his physical minifigure's, and is armed with two commando pistols. Rex has the ability to single jump, throw EMP grenades and plant bombs in specified Clone Trooper areas. Captain Rex can also command squads of Clone Troopers on battlefields, and in some dark areas, he automatically lights up areas with floodlights that he attaches to his helmet.
Background[]
CC-7567, nicknamed Rex, was a Clone Trooper Captain (later Commander) in the Grand Army of the Republic. Throughout the Clone Wars, Rex was in command of Torrent Company, a unit within the 501st Legion. At some point, Rex was awarded the Jaig Eyes, a battle honour given to him by Mandalorians who trained clone officers during the Clone Wars. Rex worked closely with Jedi General Anakin Skywalker and Jedi Commander Ahsoka Tano, both of whom he assisted on several missions including battles on Christophsis, Orto Plutonia, Umbara, Ryloth, Teth, Geonosis and Lola Sayu.
He was also known to work with Clone Marshal Commander Cody on many occasions since Skywalker also commonly worked with High General Obi-Wan Kenobi. He fought with the Republic until late into the war, when clone trooper Tup's inhibitor chip activated prematurely and Tup executed Order 66, killing a Jedi General. Tup was transported to a medical station along with ARC Trooper Fives, who escorted him. Tup died, and Fives found the inhibitor chip in his brain, removing it. Fives was killed by Commander Fox while trying to tell Rex and Anakin Skywalker the truth about Chancellor Palpatine.
Rex, who had been close friends with Fives, became disillusioned with the Republic, removing his inhibitor chip along with Clone Commando Gregor and Commander Wolffe, the three clones subsequently retiring from the Republic and living on the planet Seelos in an AT-TE. He was replaced in the Army by Seargeant Appo. He was later found by Kanan Jarrus' crew with help from Ahsoka, and eventually joined the Rebellion, notably befriending both Kanan and Garazeb Orrelios.
LEGO Star Wars series[]
In the LEGO Star Wars: The Clone Wars online comic series, Rex and a squad of clone troopers are assigned to undertake a mission, but battle droids shoot down their LAAT/i gunship on a desert planet. Just as Rex reports that the mission is proceeding as planned, several B1 battle droids and an OG-9 homing spider droid ambush them. After the spider droid knocks over Rex, he and his troops open fire on the droids. While the other troopers attack the droid menace, Rex finds a clone trooper from Batch 82-4 who is avoiding the battle due to his arachnophobia, a trait specific to his batch. The spider droid charges at Rex and the trooper, and the two take refuge in the remains of the gunship. Rex explains to the scared trooper that it is a droid, not an actual spider, and he watches as the soldier takes up arms and defeats the spider droid single-handed. As Rex congratulates his men on their victory, three more spider droids appear.
Rex joins Skywalker, Tano, Kenobi, and Rotta the Huttlet in a search for Asajj Ventress. Their team's AT-TE walker finds a squad of IG-100 MagnaGuards and their Rogue-class starfighter on a planet, but a B2 super battle droid and several IG-227 Hailfire-class droid tanks arrive and blast the walker off its feet. Emerging from their damaged vehicle, Rex, Tano, and Kenobi fight the new arrivals while Skywalker battles the MagnaGuards at the landing platform. Ventress appears with the Death Brick weapon and throws it at the three Jedi before escaping with the battle droids. Rex jumps into the line of fire and blocks the brick, which simply bounces off his head harmlessly. Commander Cody lands in the vicinity with an LAAT/i gunship and transports Rex, Skywalker, Tano, and Kenobi away from the planet.
Rex is later sent with Kenobi, Cody, and a detachment of clone troopers to rescue Skywalker and Tano in a space battle, but a Separatist tractor beam pulls the group to the surface of a nearby planet. R2-D2 is able to open the door of Rex's gunship—which has been jammed from the crash—in time, and Rex arrives with Plo Koon to save Skywalker, Tano, Kenobi, Cody, and their squad of troops from Ventress and an army of battle droids. The Separatists are repelled, and Rex reports R2-D2's actions to Kenobi. Rex is present when Koon is given an award for his valiant efforts in the battle. Later, aboard Supreme Chancellor Palpatine's Venator-class Star Destroyer, Rex and Cody are present when Palpatine fires a clone scout squad in person for their incompetence and failure to find a missing R2-D2. Rex also accompanies Skywalker to Orto Plutonia when the Separatists stage an attack there. Traveling to the surface with Skywalker and several other clone soldiers in containers carrying Freeco bikes, Rex and his comrades defeat the droid infantry on the planet.
In The Quest for R2-D2 short film, Palpatine personally dispatches Rex and Cody to find R2-D2, who has gone missing in action. On an ice planet, the two clone officers lead a patrol and encounter a squad of B1 and B2 battle droids along with an OG-9 spider droid and an All Terrain Armored Transport. Skidding across the ice, Cody drops a projectile, and Rex swings at the piece with his blaster. The projectile cuts through the droids and hits the AT-AT walker, collapsing it onto the spider droid and overturning a nearby NR-N99 Persuader-class droid enforcer. With their enemies neutralized, the two clones build a Nu-class attack shuttle from the rubble. Rex and Cody then join Skywalker and Tano in raiding a Separatist Lucrehulk-class Droid Control Ship, where they rescue R2-D2 from Grievous, Ventress, and Count Dooku. As Rex and the others prepare to face off against the Separatists, Yoda and Kenobi arrive. Yoda uses the Force to collapse the floor beneath Dooku, Grievous, and Ventress, sending them into space, and also forms a CR90 corvette. Rex and his comrades uses the craft to escape from the Droid Control Ship shortly before it explodes. Following the victory, Rex and Cody accompany the Jedi to the "Skywalker World" theme park. Rex is also featured in the film's tie-in online game, in which he serves as one of the clone trooper enemies for the game's two playable Separatist characters, Dooku and Ventress.
In the "Light Side" campaign of The Yoda Chronicles game, Rex is one of the clone troopers who is made available as an in-game asset to defeat enemies. The only level in which he is offered is the final Coruscant level, in which the player, as Mace Windu, must open the Jedi Archives' Holocron Vault and defeat Grievous within. The player can purchase up to four copies of Rex at one of the level's build points; he is the most expensive clone trooper, with the cheaper ones being a standard trooper and a 501st trooper. However, using him is not required
Video games[]
Rex is featured in numerous levels of the multi-platform game LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars. In addition to his trademark blaster pistols, the game's mechanics give him the use of a grapple gun and shock grenades, as well as the ability to command clone troopers during assault levels.
The game's story-based levels, which humorously adapt a number of first and second-season episodes, are organized into three main campaigns, each of which focuses on Count Dooku, General Grievous, or Asajj Ventress. Rex is a playable character in the level for the first-season episode "Blue Shadow Virus," which is part of Ventress's campaign. In the Grievous storyline, Rex is incorporated into the levels adapting "Duel of the Droids" and "Rookies," while he is also featured in the "Weapons Factory" level within the Dooku campaign. He is unlocked for "Free Play" mode following the completion of the first level in which he appears within each campaign's "Story" mode. In addition, he is one of the playable characters for the epilogue level of "Story" mode, "The Zillo Beast."
In the game's "Republic Assault" mode, four levels feature Rex as one of the two Republic commanders whom the player can control: Saleucami and the Rishi moon, alongside another clone trooper; and the Ruusan moon and the third moon of Vassek, along with Commander Cody. In "Separatist Assault," Rex acts as one of the enemy commanders in five levels: the third moon of Vassek, the Rishi moon, the Ruusan moon, Rugosa, and Christophsis.
LEGO.com Description[]
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Clone Trooper CT-7567, nicknamed “Rex”, was a captain of the Republic’s 501st Legion during the Clone Wars. Afterwards, he retired with several of his fellow clone veterans to fish for giant Joopa sand-worms aboard a customized AT-TE walker on the desert world of Seelos. He may be older than he once was, and his armor may have a slightly snugger fit, but Rex is still willing to lend his great courage and experience to the Rebel Alliance’s cause, especially when the request comes from his old friend and former commander, Ahsoka Tano. |
Notes[]
- The set number that Rex first appeared in: 7675, can be rearranged to his designation number (CT-7567).
- He appears as a "Cube Dude" in the Star Wars Celebration V Cube Dudes set.
- Captain Rex is one of the two Clone Troopers from The Clone Wars to have a non-regular head piece, the other being Commander Wolffe.
- Unlike his Phase I helmet, Captain Rex's Phase II helmet does not have holes in the sides, so a rangefinder (which he has attached to his helmet in the Star Wars universe) is unable to be inserted.
- There are 66 tally marks on his phase II minifigure.
- Dee Bradley Baker plays him, Commander Cody and all Clone Troopers in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and voices Perry the Platypus in Phineas & Ferb, Mr. Fantastic in LEGO Marvel Superheroes and several supporting characters in SpongeBob SquarePants.
Appearances[]
- 7675 AT-TE Walker
- 7869 Battle For Geonosis
- Comic-Con Exclusive Clone Wars Set
- T-22 Armoured Airspeeder (Alternate model)
- 75012 BARC Speeder with Sidecar (Phase II)
- 75157 Captain Rex's AT-TE Walker (old)
- 75367 Venator-Class Republic Attack Cruiser (Phase II Redesign)
- 75391 Captain Rex Y-Wing Microfighter
Key Chain Appearances[]
Video Game Appearances[]
- LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars
- LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
Gallery of Variants[]
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See also[]
