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Stylised original portrait plate for Commander Cody

DossierHuman cloneReign of the Empire

Commander Cody

Executed Order 66 on his own general, served the Empire anyway, and eventually walked out of it in the night.

Full name
CC-2224
Species
Human clone
Homeworld
Kamino
Affiliation
Galactic Republic, then the Galactic Empire
Rank
Clone Marshal Commander
First appearance
Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith (2005)

CC-2224, called Cody, is a clone marshal commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, first appearing in Revenge of the Sith (2005) and voiced by Dee Bradley Baker throughout The Clone Wars and The Bad Batch. He commanded the 212th Attack Battalion under Jedi General Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Utapau

He is the clone the audience most associates with Order 66, because his is the version we see happen to a character we care about. On Utapau, minutes after handing Kenobi back his lightsaber, Cody receives the encrypted transmission that activates his inhibitor chip and orders an AT-TE to fire on the general he has fought beside for three years. He believes for some time afterwards that he killed him.

Imperial service

Cody stayed on. He served the Empire as a stormtrooper, including in the pacification of Kashyyyk — the clone commanders were the transitional generation, the men who made the Republic's army into the Empire's without a break in the roster.

Desix

The Bad Batch gives him the ending. On a mission to Desix he watches an Imperial officer execute a surrendering governor, asks his squadmate whether the clones are actually improving anything, and goes absent without leave overnight. No speech, no confrontation. He simply stops, which for a soldier engineered from birth to obey is the most radical act available.

The two continuities

Cody exists in both. The Legends version, developed in the Republic comics and the 2003 Clone Wars microseries, has no inhibitor chip — the clones' obedience to Order 66 was straightforward loyalty rather than implanted compulsion. Canon's chip is a considerable softening, and which version you prefer says a lot about how you read the clones.

On the record

Appearances

Where this figure actually appears, with the medium and the year. Nothing inferred.

Appearances of Commander Cody
WorkYearMediumNote
Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith2005FilmFirst appearance. Voiced by Temuera Morrison.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars2008TelevisionRecurring. Voiced by Dee Bradley Baker.
Star Wars: The Bad Batch2022TelevisionGoes AWOL from Imperial service after Desix.

From the library

Appears in

Books in this log where the character is central rather than incidental.