Star Wars Rebels

Star Wars Rebels is an American 3D CGI animated television series produced by Lucasfilm Animation. With its story beginning fourteen years after Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith and five years before Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, Rebels takes place during an era when the Galactic Empire is securing its grip on the galaxy. Imperial forces are hunting down the last of the Jedi Knights while a fledgling rebellion against the Empire is taking form. The visual style of Star Wars Rebels is inspired by the original Star Wars trilogy concept art by Ralph McQuarrie.

Fourteen years after the fall of the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order in Revenge of the Sith and the rise of the Galactic Empire, a motley group of rebels unite aboard a freighter starship called the Ghost and conduct covert operations against the Imperial garrison on and around the planet Lothal and on other planets in the galaxy.


 * All CGI Cartoon: Just like its predecessor.
 * Badass Grandpa: Captain Rex, Commander Wolfe, and Gregor are incredibly old men thanks to the rapid aging that Clone Troopers go through, but they're still Clone Troopers and are every bit as lethal in a fight as they were in their youth.
 * Big Bad: Each Season has one of its own.
 * The Grand Inquisitor is this for the first season, along with Tarkin. Tarkin's arrival at Lothal leads to the Empire cracking down hard on the Ghost crew's activity on the planet, while the Grand Inquisitor himself is the active threat hunting them down and clashing sabers with Kanan and Ezra.
 * Season 2's Big Bad is, who chases the rebels off of Lothal and proves to be much more of a threat than the already-dangerous Grand Inquisitor ever was.
 * Grand Admiral Thrawn makes the leap into Star Wars canon proper come Season 3, and proves to be the crew's most dangerous and intelligent foe yet. That is, until a certain threat takes the stage during the final season's finale...
 * Brats with Slingshots: Before he upgrades to a lightsaber/blaster hybrid, the teenage Ezra Bridger's weapon of choice is an energy slingshot that instantly stuns people with its electric ammo. It's fittingly annoying, given his mischievous street urchin lifestyle.
 * Cute Machines R2-D2 as usual, but this show gives us a new one in the form of Chopper, who's basically a cranky, yet lovable old man in the form of an adorable astromech droid.
 * Darth Vader Clone: The Grand Inquisitor plays a similar role to Darth Vader, what with him being a stone-cold, serious servant of the emperor decked out in black armor and wielding a red lightsaber. His baldness and deathly pale palor even bring Vader's appearance under the helm to mind, though in his case he wasn't horribly burnt beyond recognition: it's just how the Pau'an race looks.
 * It also turns out that
 * Dirty Coward: While her reaction to the Grand Inquisitor and Tarkin's cruelty does seem to be at least partially rooted in genuine horror towards their brutal methods, Minister Tua is still a smug bureaucrat happily assisting a tyrannical government in oppressing a planet's population and.
 * Last of His Kind: While Zeb is never said to be the last Lasat, he still goes through plenty of angst over being one of the few members of his species left and we never see any.
 * Off With His Head: Grand Moff Tarkin makes his debut by ordering the Grand Inquisitor to decapitate as punishment for failing to capture the rebels. While we don't see their heads leave their bodies, we do see the moment his lightsaber pierces their throats... as well as Agent Kallus and Minister Tua's horrified reactions.
 * Pig Man: Azmorigan, a repulsive Manchild slaver who looks like a grotesquely fat, red-skinned humanoid pig. His disgusting eating habits and constant slobbering also make him a Messy Pig.
 * Smug Snake: The Empire as a whole tends to skew towards this: there are plenty of cocky Stormtroopers, sneering officers, and overconfident government officials to go around, and their collective idiocy is what leads to them being outwitted by the Ghost Crew time and time again. Even the more competent officials such as Agent Kallus and the Grand Inquisitor tend to underestimate their enemies and very rarely learn from their mistakes.