Every Single Clone Trooper Type + Variant Explained (All Known 36+ Types) [2022 UPDATED] [CANON]

The Clone Troopers of the Republic were the backbone of the Chancellor Palpatine’s military force to fight the separatists during the Clone Wars. Despite being commissioned under very suspicious circumstances by a long dead Jedi named Sifo-Dyas, the Jedi Council felt they had no choice but to accept these new Clones and serve as their General in the upcoming conflict… Over the years, many different types and variants of Clone troopers were created to fill different use cases, including everything from Clone Intelligence officers to Clones who hunt their brothers who have deserted…

**Number 1. Regular Clone Troopers**

The Clone Army of the Republic was commissioned by Jedi Master and Council member Sifo-Dyas after he foresaw a coming would which would ravage the Galaxy. The other Jedi on the council refused to believe his insane ramblings, and as a result kicked him off of the council. Despite this, he put in an order with the Kaminoans, who were known for their high quality cloning and thus the Clone Army was born… Although there was a huge problem. While placing this order, Palpatine found out about the deal and ordered the Kaminoans to implant inhibitor chips into each of their heads, compelling them to follow any of the 150 Clone Contigency orders when activated…

**Number 2. Special Operations Troopers**

Special ops troopers or stealth ops clones were a group of Clones that specialized in low profile, undetected stealth missions deep into enemy territory. They were trained to be able to move quickly and quietly, and detect enemies at a distance, without much trouble… They were also given advanced sensory gear by the Kaminoans which enhanced their senses, including their hearing and sight… They often operated experimental Republic technologies like the Stealth corvette in their campaign against General Grievous and the Malevolence.

**Number 3. Clone Shadow Troopers.**

Clone Shadow troopers were a highly secretive unit of Clones who were equpped with an extremely experiemental and rare type of armor. The armor was coated in deep black paint, with white stripes and a red visor, and contained a group of strageically placed magseals. These seals allowed the Clones to attach cosmetic plates to the armor, which could alter any clone’s appearance to impersonate almost any type of human shaped species or profession. For example, these clones could impersonate a Hutt Cartel Mercenary or a member of the black Sun Crime Syndicate if they needed to go undercover within those crime families. This unit eventually evolved into Imperial Shadow Troopers later on.

**Number 4. Clone Lava Troopers**

Now these guys aren’t confirmed to be Clone Troopers in Canon, but based on the time they served, it’s pretty likely that they are. Now they wore deep black armor, with thick red breathing tubes, allowing them to serve near the sulphur-rich lava rivers of Mustafar, under Darth Vader. They followed him loyally into battle on Mustafar, especially against the Native Mustafarians, who often caused trouble and rebellion near his castle.

**Number 5. Covert Operations Troopers**

Now these Clones are probably the most dark and ominous variant on the list. Cover Ops trooeprs were assigned to perform the “dirty work” of the Republic, that most clones would find repulsive, unethical or just plain wrong… This primarily included hunting down Clone Deserters like Cut Lawquane and executing them on the spot.
**Number 6. Clone Medics**

Clone medics were troopers specifically bred and trained on Kamino to be able to treat their injured brothers on the battlefield. Because knowledge of the Clone Body was implanted into the Medic’s brains from before their birth, their treatment was extremely effective in even the worst of situations. The most famous Clone Medic is Clone Trooper Kix, and he is actually the last surviving Clone Trooper in the Galaxy, making it all the way to the time of the Force Awakens. During the dying days of the Clone Wars, Kix became extremely suspscious of the so-called virus that caused his brother Tup to kill Master Tiplar.To do this, Dooku froze Kix in cryostasis aboard a transport ship, but on the way to serenno is was ambushed by Republic forces who didn’t know Kix was on oboard, causing signficiant damage. As a result, the B-1 Battle droid on board decided the ship was far too damaged to go to Serenno, so he activated the hyper drives and sent the ship hurling in a random direction, eventually crash landing on the sandly world of Ponemah… 50 years after the Clone Wars, Kix was discovered by the Red Pirate Sidon Ithano and was horrified to learn that everyone he knew wasa now dead…

**Number 7. Clone Purge Troopers.**

Clone Purge troopers were group of elite clones who were considered “expendable death squads” by the empire, meant to hunt down any surviving Jedi from Order 66.

[orainefoster]

Its just so astonishing how Dave and George built upon the clones and made them such lovable, sympathetic, and tragic characters man. The clones are among my favorite characters in all of Star Wars, and I hope that in future live-action shows, we get more of Big Tem playing clone troopers post ROTS!

[rexlumontad]

4:20 Kix also joined Sidon Ithano's space pirate crew and grew a beard, not wanting to see his face on the mirror that remind him of all of his lost brothers.

[BrennySpain]

You cannot beat the clone troopers! Some of the most unique creations in all of Star Wars ever! Their armour and different variants is just incredible I think!

[Reohz]

I remember being a kid and wondering about the reference to the 'Clone Wars' and what they may have been like. They turned out to be nothing like I'd imagined and also better in every way.

[KrispyBroccoli]

Clone troopers are my favourite part of star wars. Truly the galaxy’s finest soldiers

[BrennySpain]

I still can’t believe the clone wars only took place over 3 years. It honestly felt like it should’ve been longer in some aspects. You know what I mean?

[bostonrailfan]

Galactic Marines sound like a Star Wars version of real world Marines so likely were used for ship boardings and ship protection, hence the ability to work in the vacuum of space…they’re probably trained in combat in zero gravity alongside using magnetic boots and jet thrusters. they also likely learned the layouts of separatist ships alongside every republic ship type in use in case of assignment to the ships and needing to board the separatist ships

[DarkRavenWolf]

I never understood Syfo Dias being kicked off the council. The jedi are constantly reminding people and themselves that they adhere to the will of the force and wait for it to give them answers....and yet when one of their own council members recieves a vision of conflict, they don't believe him? Excuse me??

[mrtoxictnd]

Thank you for this nobody else makes videos that cover this much information

[bradymiller]

So the Covert Ops Troopers were just a bunch of clones that fit into the “quiet kid” stereotype

[notstazzmann]

Literally just finished rewatching Landing at Point Rain, perfect timing.

[roguerangerproductions]

You forgot ARF troopers! Those are my fav😢 nice video btw, wow thanks for the likes most I’ve ever gotten on a comment

[mees.cequre]

i always thought sifo dias wanted to do something like that and was trying to, but before he could, he got intercepted by dooku and palpatine. They decided and planned the whole clone army with the kaminoans. and because the council found sifo dias' stuff weird and banished him, dooku and palpy found it a great idea to keep that as a way of keeping it a secret that they planned everything.

[rexlumontad]

0:55 EU Legends had the Clones being indoctrinated from birth to always follow Orders and act on it when one of said Orders are executed. Which of course, not all Clones obeyed Order 66 and chose to defy it and protect the Jedi from their own brothers.

[timderoche]

The clone Arc troopers explanation still works with both, the original Arcs were created by the kaminoans and they didn't modify much, after the Arcs they modified the genome quite a bit more towards obeying and what not, NEW Arcs were chosen to fill the ranks of lost Arcs as Jango was dead and Boba was lost to the Kaminoans(you know they'd have used the unaltered Jango genome without regard for Bobas wishes, from their perspective he is a product they made, after all)

[celestialspartan]

About the ARC Troopers, I like to think that they have a mix of the types seen in both Legends and Canon. Like, maybe the first class of ARCs were comprised of Clones trained by Jango himself, and then they passed down his teachings to those who were proven worthy to stand alongside them and carry that mantle, like Fives and Echo.

[walterbryan]

I always liked the clones, and seeing them in such detail and action in the Clone Wars TV series was great. So much variety and cool stuff.

[LaraA]

@StarForceOne Wow, just wow...this blew my mind...I had no idea there were so many types of clones with varying skills and abilities. I enjoyed hearing about the Clone Medics and I had no idea that kix survived for such a long time.

[rexlumontad]

0:12 Twi'lek Jedi: "Alright, boys! Let's do this! LEEROY JENKINS!"

Clone Captain: "Oh my God! The general ran in!"

[marshalllatta]

Clone troopers are so freaking cool I love you a video so much you are the best