

When Ahsoka Tano was wrongly accused by the Jedi of killing Letta Turmond and on the run in the underworld of Coruscant, she ran into Ventress. Her reason for delivering the kiss is open to interpretation and makes Ventress all the more fascinating.

But the kiss on the cheek after the deed was done? That moment - seen in a deleted scene from the episode - wasn’t anything we’d witnessed before. The brutal intimacy of the act wasn’t either. Given her track record, watching her take out Clone Commander Colt in wasn’t shocking. She was an assassin and most of the time, she went above and beyond - Dooku isn’t the type to hand out a perfect score in a performance review, but he’d have to give her high marks. While in the employ of Count Dooku, Ventress killed clone troopers and Jedi. Impaling and kissing Clone Commander Colt These are five moments when she surprised us. The word I’d use to describe her journey is unexpected. Just when I felt like I could predict her next course of action, Ventress took a different path. We learned about her hardships, her strengths, and her inner conflicts. As we got to know her in The Clone Wars animated series, the shades of gray within her personality became more varied.

But as with most people in Star Wars and in life, she can’t be labeled as bad or good, black or white. She was a Force-sensitive apprentice of Count Dooku, a talented and dangerous fighter, and an enemy of the Jedi - in short, a villain. When Asajj Ventress was first introduced in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars film, her role seemed straightforward.
