Review: Star Wars Black Series Night Trooper from Ahsoka, Galaxy Collection Wave 22
- Mephitsu
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"The blessing of the Great Mothers shall protect you in battle against the Jedi. Go, now. Let none pass"
Death Troopers have been part of the Star Wars Universe since their introduction in 2016 in Rogue One. Since then, we’ve seen them crop up as elite bodyguards in Star Wars Rebels, as well as making an appearance in Andor and in the Battlefront II video game. The Death Troopers’ most recent outing was during the events of Ahsoka, Season 1, where they were part of the stranded force under the command of Grand Admiral Thrawn. These Death Troopers, like much of Thrawn’s force, were damaged and patched together using Nightsisters' Magic.
The Night Trooper, as seen in Ahsoka Season 1, was an August 2025 release in the Star Wars Black Series. It is part of Wave 22 alongside Ezra Bridger, also from Ahsoka, Merrin from Jedi: Survivor, and the new A New Hope Versions of Han and Chewie. The Night Trooper uses the darker blue/green colouring assigned to Ahsoka and is number 17 in the Ahsoka collection. While the numbering has got a little mixed up ahead of the Night Trooper, the side artwork connects directly to Anakin Skywalker’s artwork. Anakin was also labelled as number 17, but should have been number 16. The Night Trooper artwork continues onward to connect to Ezra from the same wave.
The figure card back, still in the same accent colour, also features illustrations of a backdrop of Thrawn’s base on Peridea, the area in which the Night Troopers faced down Ezra and Sabine as they tried to reach The Chimaera.
The Night Trooper is a fully new figure built in a similar construction to other armoured figures like Clones and Stormtroopers. Everything is cast in black, with a glossier black on the outer armour, and a duller black that makes up the joints and connections of the undersuit. Each armoured panel has the Kintsugi repairs in a gold finish; these are sculpted rather than simply being painted on. Most panels also feature sculpted wrappings, painted in red to reflect the armour being held together and bonded with Nightsister magic.
The new Night Trooper shares no parts with the older 2016 figure from Rogue One and is quite different in terms of stature and proportions, with a much more natural shape and gait to the newer figure. The older Death Trooper always felt too skinny, unless it was wearing the tactical gear included in one of the multi-packs.
The head is a Death Trooper helmet also treated with the gold line repairs, although here this is painted only and not part of the physical sculpt. The helmet is hollow and cracked to the left hand side beneath the visor, exposing the nose and mouth of the Trooper within. This reflects the damage inflicted by Sabine’s blaster during their fight. These Troopers are then revealed to be essentially undead and animated by the Great Mothers and the exposed head reflects this with a dark brown, mummified head sculpt complete with exposed skeletal teeth and overlaid with a black wash to bring out this detailing.
The Night Troopers are armed only with the E-11D blaster carbine. This appears identical to the original 2016 release, but our review version is certainly much crisper and detailed than the older weapon. This may mean a new cast was used or a crisper cast achieve with what does feel a harder plastic. The older weapon did carry more colouring, with the new version a base black with a touch of gun metal around the barrel. The red indicator lights seen on the 2016 version are not carried forward. The gun fits in the right hand, gripped by the left. Like most Black Series releases, there is no alternative hand options and an opportunity therefore is lost to include some clawing hands for the full on undead look.
There are 17 points of articulation to work with, all now pin-less, which is another enhancement over the original Death Trooper release. There are no butterfly joint,s which is marginally disappointing as the Night Trooper cannot quite get into some of the firing poses that you see with other Imperial and Clone Troopers. There is also a restriction by way of the shoulder pauldrons, which lack any flexibility or the ability to withdraw under the armour, keeping the arms limited to how far they can be raised. I do like the torso joint movement and that of the twin joint neck; this allows some ‘zombified’ posing with the Night Trooper lurching forward with head angled.
These sort of poses are supported further by the legs, which retain a thigh swivel as well as the newer knee swivel. This does mean the legs can easily be twisted out of line, and perhaps this is not a bad thing for more extreme poses of an undead Trooper. The Night Trooper can kneel if needed and holds stable when positioned with no obvious weakness in the ankle joints, although it is worth calling out that these do not pivot forward by any degree due to the leg armour.
The Star Wars Black Series Night Trooper is a fun figure, replicating one of the Night Troopers seen on screen during the final act of Ahsoka Season 1. While not quite an army builder due to the unique armour repairs, you will get away with multiple Night Troopers if you want to build Thrawn a large army. An extra head or hands would have helped with those wanting multiples. Zombie claw hands would also have been a nice inclusion.
The proportions and articulation are improved on the original 2016 figure, and there will be potential here to create a clean version at some point in the future, although that will require much of the armour parts to be recreated without damage. A well-executed figure in what promises to be one of the strongest Black Series waves to date, looking at the other figures in the case.
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