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{{quote|''"There hasn't been a full scale war since the formation of the Republic."''|'''Governor Sio Bibble'''}}
Although ''[[Star Wars]] Episode 1: [[The Phantom Menace]]'' was a critical and fan disappointment, many were hoping it was just a slump. Those that liked the last film generally liked this one, but the others didn't feel it got any better.▼
Ten years after the last movie, Anakin has grown into a fine, if a little too hot-blooded Padawan, to Obi-Wan's annoyance. Meanwhile, the Republic is stuck into a political crisis thanks to separatists leaded by Count Dooku, a retired Jedi. Chancellor Palpatine wants the Jedi to act as an army for the Republic against the separatists, but Padmé is one of the senators against it, and coincidentally she is a target of two assassination attempts on the same day after she arrives on Coruscant to vote, with Anakin and Obi-Wan thwarting the second one.
The movie then separates in two storylines: while Obi-Wan searches for leads about who one of the assassins is and for who he was working, Anakin is entrusted with protecting Padmé, and despite the Jedi Code forbidding attachments, the two fall in love. Then Anakin begins to have visions, visions of his mother Shmi, that he last saw as still a slave in Tatooine, in pain.
▲Although ''[[Star Wars]] Episode 1: [[The Phantom Menace]]'' was a critical and fan disappointment, many were hoping it was just a slump. Those that liked the last film generally liked this one, but the others didn't feel it got any better.
The biggest point of criticism was the love story, followed by Hayden Christensen's acting. Again, those that like the prequels don't seem to mind this. The points of praise lie in the main story, with Obi-Wan's investigation into the clone army and Separatist uprising and the last 30 minutes are thrilling.
Directed by George Lucas. Produced by Lucasfilm Ltd. Distributed by 20th Century Fox.
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* [[Affably Evil]]: Count Dooku, in this installment.
* [[
* [[
* [[Alas, Poor Yorick]]: Young Boba Fett holds the helmet of his father Jango Fett.
* [[All Women Are Lustful]]: Possibly implied by Captain Typho's comment about being more worried about Senator Padme trying something foolish, than Anakin.
* [[Apologetic Attacker]]: C-3PO while his head is stuck to an autonomous battle droid's body.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: The three Geonosis arena beasts: The Acklay, the Nexu, and the Reek. A giant preying mantis with a lightning fast stab attack, a tree-clinging fanged horror, and...a slow-charging rhino, who quickly ends up the steed of {{spoiler|all three protagonists}}. Ultimately Averted, though, when the in the middle of the battle {{spoiler|the Reek actually gives Mace Windu a run for his money, then proceeds to repeatedly gore Jango Fett until he finally blasts it in the face.}}
* [[Ascended Extra]]: The revelation of Jango and Boba Fett's
* [[Back-to-Back Badasses]]: Obi-Wan and Mace Windu, briefly.▼
* [[Badass Army]]: The Clone Troopers.
* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Yoda and Count Dooku.▼
* [[Badass Normal]]: Jango Fett proves to be exceptionally good at fighting (and killing) Jedi.
▲* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Yoda and Count Dooku.
▲* [[Back-to-Back Badasses]]: Obi-Wan and Mace Windu, briefly.
* [[Bare Your Midriff]] / [[Clothing Damage]]: Amidala gets the former from the latter.
** Bordering on [[Stripperiffic]]. One wonders exactly what sort of "diplomatic" technique she was planning to capitalize on in that white, skin-tight outfit...
** Happens even before that on Tatooine, where she wears a pseudo-Arabian outfit.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Twice in the final act of the film; first time occurs when Mace Windu shows up with over 200 hundred Jedi to rescue Anakin, Obi-Wan and Padme from Dooku. After many of them being killed off in the following battle against the droids and Geonosians, it happens again; with Yoda and the Clone Troopers showing up (this one goes over much better; they actually win).
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* [[Bodyguard Crush]]: Convient for Anakin because he was already in love with Padme.
* [[Call Forward]]: [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Anakin_Skywalker%27s_first_lightsaber Anakin's lightsaber] in this film is a [[Palette Swap]] of [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Darth_Vader%27s_lightsaber the one used by Darth Vader] during the Original Trilogy.
* [[Captain Obvious]]: "I killed them. [[Redundancy Department of Redundancy|I killed them all]]. [[Captain Obvious|They're dead.]] Every single one of them. [[Too Much Information|And not just the men; but the women. And the children too]]." - Anakin Skywalker.
** Another in a deleted scene, where Anakin and Padme are put on "trial" for espionage. Padme tells Archduke Poggle the Lesser that he's committing an act of war, and says that she hopes he's prepared to face the consequences. Poggle responds with "We build weapons, Senator. Of course we're prepared!"
** Yoda: "But for certain, senator. In grave danger you are."
* [[Casual Danger Dialogue]]: Obi-Wan and Anakin are pretty fond of doing this. The most notable instance is while chasing Zam Wessel.
* [[The Cavalry]]: The above example with the Clone Troopers.
* [[Chained to
* [[The Champion]]: When Anakin professes his love for Padme he says that he will do anything she asks.
* [[The Chessmaster]]: Dooku attempts to have Padmé assassinated and instigates a war between the Republic and the Separatists. And escapes at the end.
* [[The City Narrows]]: The lower levels of Coruscant's giant city towers which is stuck in perma-night due to the shadows of the impossibly tall buildings.
* [[Conveyor Belt O' Doom]]: Several that Anakin and Padme survive by the skin of their teeth in the droid factory on Geonosis.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: We all knew Yoda must have been amazing in his prime, but this movie was the first to show it.
** And he wasn't even in his ''prime''. Imagine what he would have been like when he was only 400 years old!
** This is also the first film where we get to see Mace Windu in action. Since he's played by [[Samuel L. Jackson]], we all knew he was going to be a [[Badass]], but we never got to see this side of him in the first movie.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: This film is much [[Darker and Edgier/Film|darker in tone]] than [[The Phantom Menace]] due to the assassination attempts on Padme's life, the growing tensions in the Republic, the [[Start of Darkness]] for Anakin, when he slaughters the Tusken Raiders, after they kidnapped, tortured, and killed his mom, Mace Windu defeats Jango Fett by beheading him with his lightsaber, ONSCREEN, Anakin's arm is chopped off and many of Jedi are killed off in the Battle of Geonosis, which leads to the beginning of the Clone Wars. [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?|And yet it managed to get a PG rating]].
** The novelization is even darker as it goes detail Anakin's massacre of the Sand People when he impales a Sand woman with his lightsaber and uses the force to crush The Sand People with their homes. Also Jango's head falls out off the helmet and the book begins with Shmi kidnapping.
* [[Deceased Fall Guy Gambit]]: The whole deal with [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sifo-Dyas Sifo-Dyas] in the backstory seems like this but isn't; it's all breezed over so quickly that misunderstandings are inevitable.
* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: Just when it looks like Dooku and his cronies are going to execute the heroes and slaughter the Jedi sent to rescue them...a massive army of superhuman clone soldiers descends from the sky to rescue them, at just the right time.
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** R5-D4, who blows his motivator in episode IV, rolls right by R2-D2 in the opening shot of Tatooine.
** "Why do I get the feeling you're going to be the death of me?" - Obi-Wan to Anakin. [[Star Wars a New Hope|Come two episodes later...]]
* [[Found the Killer, Lost
* [[Gambit Roulette]]: Most of the plot. If you can decipher it.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Mace Windu beheading Jango Fett onscreen, despite the film's PG rating
** Many females wear revealing clothing in the nightclub scene
** Padme's [[Bare Your Midriff|bare midriff]]
* [[Gunship Rescue]]: Easily one of the archetypical uses of the trope - Yoda, Jedi Knights and a squad of Clone Troopers land gunships in the arena just in time to rescue Padme and Anakin.
* [[Held Gaze]]: This happens between Anakin and Padme twice: once as a gentle lover's gaze into each other's eyes, and then later as an indicator they are about to [[Big Damn Kiss]].
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* [[Internet Backlash]]: Reportedly, some of the members of NSYNC were offered small roles as background extras as a favor to Lucas' daughters. Cue a massive wave of [[Fan Dumb]] until Lucas cut their scene out of the movie, though some reacted more positively when it was mentioned they were going to get slaughtered by battledroids...
* [[It Has Only Just Begun]]: The last lines of the film.
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Yoda: Victory? Victory you say? Master Obi-Wan, not victory. The shroud of the dark side has fallen. Begun the Clone War has.
** [[Christopher Lee|"This is just the beginning!"]]
* [[It Is Beyond Saving]]: The separatists use this rationalization in a deleted scene.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Anakin slaughtering a village of Tusken Raiders (including the children who never did anything!) just because a few of the people in the tribe killed his mom.
** By extension, the Tusken Raiders kidnapping his mother in the first place. All she was doing was out gathering mushrooms. They kidnap her and torture her to death for no reason.
* [[Legacy Character]]: This was the movie that turned Boba Fett into one; being the clone/son of Jango Fett. It was also the first time a definitive backstory was given for the mysterious bounty hunter.▼
* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]: Anakin's initial approach to fighting Dooku. It doesn't work.
▲* [[Legacy Character]]: This was the movie that turned Boba Fett into one; being the clone/son of Jango Fett. It was also the first time a definitive backstory was given for the mysterious bounty hunter.
* [[Master of the Mixed Message]]: Anakin couldn't be more obvious about his attraction to Padme if he'd tried. She turns him down, saying that they shouldn't be together... But she also takes him to a beautiful secluded lake house retreat with no one around for miles, wearing very revealing outfits.
* [[Master Swordsman]]: Yoda takes on Dooku. [[Rule of Cool|It is awesome.]]
* [[Moment of Weakness]]: Anakin in the Sand People village.
* [[Morally-Bankrupt Banker]]: A [[Planet of Hats]] of them in the Banking Clan.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]:
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Although he admits his hatred of them shortly after, Anakin seems genuinely horrified of his slaughter of the Tusken Raiders.
* [[Mythology Gag]]: Jango Fett bumping his head (with helmet on) on the door to ''Slave-1'', in a manner much like that one Stormtrooper in ''[[A New Hope]]'', and Boba's head-bump on ''Slave-1'''s door in ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]''. Seems head-bumping is genetic amongst the clones.
* [[Nice Hat]]: Watto looks better with his WWI-esque metal hat.
* [[A Nazi
* [[Now or Never Kiss]]: Anakin and Padme when they're about to be executed.
* [[Off
* [[Oh, No, Not Again]]: Anakin dives off a speeder in the middle of aerial traffic and all Obi-Wan can come up with is a mildly disgruntled "I hate it when he does that." Anakin also commented that his lightsaber had been destroyed once before.
* [[One-Dimensional Thinking]]: seen in the Force duel between Dooku and Yoda, where Yoda never thinks to push a falling pillar off to the side instead of keeping it suspended in midair.
* [[One-Wheeled Wonder]]: The WA-7 droid waitresses.
* [[Packed Hero]]: Threepio in the combat droid factory.
* [[The Paragon Always Rebels]]: Count Dooku.
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* [[Red Shirt]]: One of the Geonosians gets eaten by one of the monsters (a Nexu) at the start of the arena scene.
* [[The Reptilians]]: Zam Wesell, the shape-shifting assassin, is one.
* [[Retcon]]: Mace Windu's lightsaber was originally supposed to be blue; his ''[[The Phantom Menace|Phantom Menace]]'' toys came with a blue lightsaber, and he also had a blue blade in the ''Jedi Power Battles'' [[The Problem
* [[Revenge Before Reason]]: Nute Gunray wants revenge against
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Anakin performs one of these on a camp of Tusken Raiders after they kill his mother.
* [[Robotic Assembly Lines]]: A battle actually took place in one of those.
* [[Rule of Sexy]]: There's no way getting scratched on the back would reveal the whole [[Bare Your Midriff|midriff]] all the way around the waist. But who cares?
** Granted, the
* [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: Chapter 18 of the movie novelization actually did specify what Lama Su meant by a "unit". It's underwhelming to say the least.
* [[Sexy Backless Outfit]]: The dress
* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Anakin during his nightmare.
* [[Single-Target Sexuality]]: Anakin is still madly in love with Padme after going ''ten years'' without seeing or talking to her. Particularly [[Egregious]], considering the last time he saw her he was a [[Precocious Crush|prepubescent kid with a crush]].
* [[Skewed Priorities]]: After Anakin's lightsaber is destroyed while he's trapped in the droid factory:
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* [[Soft Glass]]: Obi Wan jumps through one to go after the droid.
* [[Spheroid Dropship]]: The [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lucrehulk-class_Core_Ship Lucrehulk-class Core Ships] are dual purpose ships. They're the central "command" core of the Trade Federation ships, but can also detach to serve as landing craft, or fly independently. This makes total sense since they are supposed to be essentially space tractor-trailer cargo haulers that the Trade Federation quickly slapped some guns on when they needed a war fleet.▼
* [[Stripperiffic]]: Padmé, to an extent. ▼
** Also, although it's a minor detail, most of the woman in the bar that Zam Wessel hides in fit this trope to a T. There's even one who wears nothing but pants and a bikini top. But, you know, it's a nightclub.▼
* [[Solar Sail]]: Count Dooku flees in a ship that is at least partially propelled by a small solar sail.
* [[So Last Season]]: During the Battle of Geonosis, destroying Core Ships proves to do nothing to stop the battle droids; in the novelization the first time this happened the droids would shut down briefly, then reactivate when their built-in processors kicked in.
▲* [[Spheroid Dropship]]: The [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lucrehulk-class_Core_Ship Lucrehulk-class Core Ships] are dual purpose ships. They're the central "command" core of the Trade Federation ships, but can also detach to serve as landing craft, or fly independently. This makes total sense since they are supposed to be essentially space tractor-trailer cargo haulers that the Trade Federation quickly slapped some guns on when they needed a war fleet.
* [[Start of Darkness]]: For Anakin.
* [[Take That]]: Does anyone honestly believe that the line, "Open fire on those [[Star Trek (Franchise)|Federation starships]]", is purely coincidence?▼
▲** Also, although it's a minor detail, most of the woman in the bar that Zam Wessel hides in fit this trope to a T. There's even one who wears nothing but pants and a bikini top. But, you know, it's a nightclub.
▲* [[Take That]]: Does anyone honestly believe that the line, "Open fire on those [[Star Trek
* [[Tantrum Throwing]]: Anakin does this while ranting about how Obi-Wan's "holding him back."
* [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works]]: Subverted in the arena battle. {{spoiler|Obi-Wan throws a spear at the Acklay, only for said creature to rip the spear out with its mouth and snap it into three pieces on jaw strength alone. Then resume stabbing.}}
* [[Took a Level
▲* [[Took a Level In Jerkass]]: Anakin to a very great extent. [[Start of Darkness|Kinda the point]]
* [[Unlimited Wardrobe]]: Amidala's had this trope since the beginning of the saga. Every single scene change necessitates a new [[Pimped-Out Dress]].
* [[Unwitting Instigator of Doom]]: The one thing that [[The Scrappy|Jar Jar]] actually does in the movie other than stand in the background is to make a motion in the senate to grant Palpatine emergency powers. [[Horrible Judge of Character|Good work there]].
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* [[Watching the Sunset]]: As the Clone Army ships lift off near the end of the movie. Visual shorthand for "[[The Empire|dark times]] ahead".
* [[Weapon, Jr.]]: "Training lightsabers" can be seen in use.
* [[Wuxia]]▼
* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: C-3PO in the arena.
▲* [[Wuxia]]
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