The most underrated Star Wars bounty hunter returns to shake up the saga

Come on Star Wars, give a girl something to do

If you ask a thousand Star Wars fans about their favorite bounty hunter, you'll likely get a thousand different answers. Cad Bane, a fan favorite, returned in Tales of the Underworld, while Fennec Shand delighted fans with appearances in The Mandalorian, The Bad Batch, and The Book of Boba Fett. Not to mention Star Wars GOAT Boba Fett or the current face of the franchise, Din Djarin.

But what about Aurra Sing? The Palliduvan baddie has appeared several times throughout Star Wars history, most heavily in the animated series The Clone Wars. Her latest appearance puts her in the crosshairs of the Bad Batch in Marvel’s latest comic issue of Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories —The Bad Batch: Rogue Agents. But this surprise reveal raises a bigger question: Will Star Wars ever do right by this underrated villain?

Rogue Agents #2, written by Michael Moreci, with art by Reese Hannigan and Elisabetta D’Amico, colorist Michael Atiyeh, and cover artist Valeria Favoccia, follows the Bad Batch as they hunt for a missing Separatist scientist and his doomsday device. With rogue clones as their adversaries on this time-sensitive mission, the Batch have no choice but to turn to an old friend who has them rubbing shoulders with the galaxy’s criminal underbelly. The issue concludes with the rogue clone force receiving orders from a bounty hunter known for holding a grudge: the bloodthirsty Aurra Sing.

Aurra featured heavily in the 2025 comic Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories —The Bad Batch: Ghost Agents. There, she went up against the Batch during their quest to restore stolen intel to the Republic. Unfortunately for the bounty hunter, she was ultimately foiled by the Batch’s quick thinking in allying with the fearsome villain Asajj Ventress, and Aurra was forced to retreat.

But you can’t keep a ferocious bounty hunter down. Aurra is back for yet another round in Rogue Agents. It's fun, but it does make us wonder what the plan is for her character, given how many times the bounty hunter has reappeared recently.

Aurra’s background is shrouded in mystery, though fans of the Star Wars Expanded Universe (before Disney wiped the slate clean of everything except the original and prequel Star Wars movies in 2012, with the EU being rebranded as Legends in 2014) will recall that she was introduced as a Force-sensitive young girl who was recruited by the Jedi. Despite being trained in the Jedi arts, Aurra was eventually captured by pirates while on a mission with her master. Convinced she had been abandoned, Aurra was sold from place to place until her talents were honed by the Hutt Cartel, and she became one of the greatest bounty hunters in the galaxy.

Canon-verse Aurra Sing’s background is mostly based on vibes and aura (forgive me, Gen Z). We know from the 2022 canon reference book The Secrets of the Bounty Hunters by Marc Sumerak that Aurra is still considered Force-sensitive, with Aurra having told others about her past as a Jedi. However, the book also establishes that Hondo Ohnaka, her former lover, did not take these claims at face value, which puts Aurra’s background in rather murky waters.

This allows various Star Wars creators to include Aurra as a minor villain without worrying about her Jedi background. However, it also turns her into just another cackling, antenna-twirling outlaw for our plucky heroes to fight and defeat. Instead of a serious threat, Aurra’s been reduced to a Team Rocket member who keeps coming back for more. It feels particularly egregious with her reappearance in the latest issue of Rogue Agents — the Bad Batch just dealt with her. What more could she possibly add?

As a lover of Star Wars’ many Glup Shittos, it’s always nice to see Aurra Sing. But I don’t want nice. I want something that actually fills in the blanks about the character, giving her a compelling edge and making her more than a cool design used to sell toys. Perhaps that’s a lot to ask for a comic tie-in, but there have been incredible comics, video games, and novels that added a richness to the Star Wars franchise and its underdeveloped characters, like Hondo Ohnaka in Star Wars: Outlaws, and Quinlan Vos and Asajj Ventress in Dark Disciple. Even Bail Organa gets his time to shine in Mask of Fear. I hope Rogue Agents — or anything else that includes her in the future — will be brave enough to do the same for one of the series' most underrated bounty hunters.