| “ | The Techno Union army is at your disposal, Count. | „ |
| ~ Wat Tambor to Count Dooku. |
Wat Tambor is a minor antagonist in the Star Wars prequel trilogy and a recurring antagonist in the animated TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
He is a male Skakoan from the planet Skako Minor. He was the Foreman of the Techno Union, an executive and leader of the Baktoid Armor Workshop, and held the title of Emir of Ryloth. Leading up to the Clone Wars, he joins other known business leaders and corporate heads who had all joined up with Count Dooku and became members of the newly formed Confederacy of Independent Systems, and he becomes a member of the Separatist Council. Over the course of the Clone Wars, Tambor leads the Confederacy throughout the galaxy and supplies their armies with weapons and droids.
He was voiced by Matthew Wood, who also voiced General Grievous in the same franchise.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He joined the Separatists out of greed rather than any loyalty to them, best shown when he doesn't tell Admiral Trench about the Bad Batch just to keep his own profits up and doesn't seem to care that his inaction would lead to the loss of the Battle of Anaxes (which also led to Trench's death). He also showed no real loyalty to the Separatist cause.
- He is the one who supplies the Separatists with all their weapons, including their droid army, making him largely responsible for all the deaths that occurred during the Clone Wars.
- As shown in canon material such as Rise of the Separatists, Tambor supplies both sides of the conflict with weaponry in order to prolong the war so he can profit from it.
- He occupied the planet Ryloth, ruling with an iron fist and forcing most of the planet into starvation and slave labor during his rule there.
- He had the tactical droid TX-20, and the forces he commanded used Twi'leks as living shields against the Republic to prevent them from launching reprisal strikes.
- When it became clear that he and Count Dooku were going to lose a victory over Ryloth, he ordered the bombing of every village on the planet in the hopes of showing the galaxy the cost of a victory. While Dooku ordered it, Tambor goes further than that by explicitly stating "the inhabited ones first," fully intending on wiping out all life on the planet.
- He conducted experiments on the local population of Skako Minor.
- After capturing Echo, he did horrendous experiments on him, turning him into a living computer against his will and making him relive his last moments at the Citadel for months on end.
- He ordered his droids to execute the Bad Batch while mockingly thanking the clones for doing their part and coldly telling Rex that Echo is "dead".
- When regaining consciousness, a D-Wing Droid asks Wat Tambor for orders. Tambor responds by punching that droid in the head, proving that he does not care about his own minions.
- Although he had a son, it's unknown if he really cared for him or not. The fact that he named his son after himself makes it more likely that he just saw his offspring as an extension of himself.
- Before his well-deserved death in the Legends continuity, he tried to bribe Darth Vader into sparing his life by telling him he could give him what he wanted, showing that in the end, he is truly a coward who cares about nobody but himself. Even in the canon, where he seems more accepting of his death, it is still just as well deserved as in Legends.
Trivia[]
- Wat Tambor doesn't do anything too heinous in either Attack of the Clones or Revenge of the Sith, where he has little to no personality or character. It's in Star Wars: The Clone Wars when Tambor finally shows his monstrosity and how cruel, murderous, and ruthless he can be, qualifying him as Pure Evil.
- In the unfinished version of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode "On the Wings of Keeradaks," Wat Tambor tested the Decimator with a Poletec test subject, vaporizing him and then describing his death, which was likely cut due to being too graphic for a kids' cartoon. In the finished version of the episode, Tambor never tests the Decimator on anyone, only sending it right out to kill the heroes, which failed. Had this concept been kept in the final version, this would have made Tambor even more heinous.
External Links[]
- Wat Tambor on the Villains Wiki.
- Wat Tambor on the Hate Sink Wiki.
- Wat Tambor on the Star Wars Wiki.
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