Update: Clone Wars Reboots Star Wars’ Peripheral Players

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Kit Fisto may have been felled too easily by Palpatine in Revenge of the Sith, after chewing up about as much screen time as Greedo in A New Hope.

But like other intriguing characters from the Star Wars multiverse, he’s getting his own episode in The Clone Wars, which has served as a suitable afterlife for peripheral figures just like him.

On Friday, Fisto stars in the self-explanatory episode “Lair of Grievous” (trailer embedded), where he must fight his way out of a Separatist trap — and the cyborg Sith apprentice’s nasty enclave. It’s a clever way to show off Fisto’s back story and skills, and showcase the house of horrors that Grievous calls home.

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Episode writer Henry Gilroy used the installment to show off a setting built equally for Jedi nightmares and fast-paced action.

“It was fun to explore the home of the bad guy, to create a place so terrible that even the hero doesn’t want to be in there,” he explained in a press release.

“Lair of Grievous” also offers Fisto a chance to do what characters from other Clone Wars episodes have done: Live a new life after being killed off all to quickly in a feature film.

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