In The Clone Wars Season 7 Episode 2 (A Distant Echo) we saw Rex, Anakin and The Bad Batch find Echo who was being held captive by the Techno Union. Echo was both physically and mentally damaged from all their experiments and data gathering from him, leaving him with permanently paler skin, a missing forearm and other cybernetic implants. Despite proving itself useful in later episodes, it seems odd to me that Echo opted for a metal socket arm to replace his missing arm and hand as it seems like it would be difficult to use for most essential tasks in his daily life (eating, typing, fighting, etc).

If I were in his position, I would have gone for a new robot hand like Anakin’s or Luke’s, however the Republic was low on credits at that point in time so I can imagine that it may have cost too much. If that’s the case, then I don’t know why he wouldn’t replace it once he joined The Bad Batch. I think the most likely explanation is that the writers wanted to have a clone who the audience knows to join The Bad Batch but they needed to give him a set of unique features so he would fit in with the rest of the squad (as being different to most Clones).

Anyway, I found a Reddit post about some alternate mechanical arms he could switch his out for… Which is your favourite?

Thoughts?