25 best duos in Star Wars history

12. Asajj Ventress and Quinlan Vos

Asajj Ventress was a cold-blooded assassin when we first met her in The Clone Wars animated series. A servant of Count Dooku, Asajj was consumed by the dark side of the Force and wanted nothing more than to please her master. Unfortunately, Count Dooku is a cold merciless taskmaster with no sense of duty to Asajj. He betrays and rejects her, and she’s forced to live on the run, becoming a bounty hunter for a brief time. She comes into contact with Jedi Master Quinlan Vos when Vos is tasked by the Jedi Council to assassinate Count Dooku to end the Clone Wars. He is to find Asajj Ventress, disguised, and use her knowledge to help gain access to Dooku. The two grow close, falling in love, even though Asajj carries a secret: she killed Vos’s master.

Vos reveals his identity to her, but she tells him she already guessed that he was a Jedi. Asajj takes Vos back to Dathomir where she trains him in the ways of the dark side to better prepare to defeat Count Dooku. When the two finally confront Dooku, Dooku inadvertently reveals the truth about Asajj’s role in Vos’s master’s death, and Vos turns fully to the dark side, becoming Dooku’s new apprentice. Asajj is devastated and eventually gives her life to save Vos from Dooku. This was an interesting duo because it was unexpected. It revealed so much about Asajj Ventress, as well as the desperation of the Jedi during the Clone Wars. Read more about their story in the novel Dark Disciple, which was based on unused episode arcs of The Clone Wars.