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* [[Actionized Sequel]]: The film has many more battle sequences and one-on-one duels than ''[[Attack of the Clones]]'', including a lengthy [[Action Prologue]].

* [[All There in the Manual]]:

** {{spoiler|Padme's death seemingly centered on a Force-choke from Darth Vader, which she clearly survived. It is explained in supplementary material that the Polis Massa, the aliens that Obi Wan and Yoda meet with in the epilogue, are supposedly not good doctors and do not know what the reason behind her dwindling health is. It's explained in said supplementary materials that it was trachea damage they couldn't detect.}}

* [[Always Save the Girl]]: [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Anakin, you well-intentioned idiot!]]

* [[Amplified Animal Aptitude]]: You could say it's Obi-Wan guiding her through the Force, but Boga is very good at knowing where he wants her to take him, in three dimensions no less. Made more blatant in the novelization; he sees an almost Jedi-like calm dedication to service in her eyes, she follows spoken orders to go home and then comes back to be there when he needs another lift, and obeys more spoken orders to destroy a specific part of a parked ship with her tail. For his part, Obi-Wan banters as playfully with her as with Anakin or Commander Cody, and acts like she's an intelligent being who can understand him and his reasoning.

* [[Arc Words]]: In the novelization, variations on ''All things die'' and ''Even stars die'', though it's not said by any of the actual characters.

* [[Artificial Limbs]]: Anakin has one. [[Foregone Conclusion|Later, he gains more.]]

* [[Ascended Extra]]: Well it's [[Star Wars]], but a notable one is that of Zett Jukassa (played by [[George Lucas]]' son). In ''[[Attack of the Clones]]'' he was the youngling who answered Yoda's question on what happened to the information on Kamino. In this movie he is the young Jedi who fought off a few troopers only to get shot down in front of Bail Organa, in one of the more memorable and shocking single moments of the movie.

* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]: Several male Jedi, including Ki Adi Mundi and an unknown in the Jedi temple, are shot dead by blaster fire. Their clothes--and bodies--show clear burn marks. However, when [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|teal-skinned temptress]] Aayla Secura is shot at point-blank range by a squad of clones, her clothes and exposed skin do not show a single mark, even as they pour searing hot plasma into her prone, dead body.

* [[Being Evil Sucks]]: Anakin learns this the hard way.

* [[Big No]]:

** Darth Vader after hearing of his wife's death.

** Bail Organa when a youngling is gunned down right in front of him.

* [[Birth-Death Juxtaposition]]: Padme dies on the table while giving birth to Luke and Leia - while on another operating table, Darth Vader takes his first [[Vader Breath|breath]].

* [[Black Cloak]]: Palpatine wears one as Darth Sidious. [[Foreshadowing|Anakin also dresses in black for much of the movie.]]

* [[Body Horror]]: Anakin's [[Emergency Transformation|transformation into Vader]]. [[Word of God]] says he wasn't given any anesthetic for it [[Strapped to An Operating Table|and was awake the entire time.]]

* [[Call Back]]/[[Call Forward]]: The final shot is of Owen and Beru standing on a sand dune holding an infant Luke as Tatooine's suns set in front of them. This recalls the famous shot of Luke doing the same thing in ''[[A New Hope]]''. It even plays the same music.

* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Come on, [[Meaningful Name|General Grievous?]]

* [[Continuity Nod]]: The novelization nods often to the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]], and not just to Stover's Mace Windu book ''[[Shatterpoint]]''. The [[The Corellian Trilogy|worlds of Corellia, called the Five Brothers]]. Various EU adventures Anakin and Obi-Wan have been on get mentioned. He never appears in person, but the powerful Corellian senator [[The Thrawn Trilogy|Garm Bel Iblis]] is part of the proto-Rebellion.

** Asajj Ventress is also mentioned once or twice; she's a major EU character.

* [[Critical Failure]]: Near the end of his battle with Grievous, Obi-Wan attempted to knock the cyborg off his feet by kicking his leg. The result: Obi-Wan ends up ''injuring himself'' and giving Grievous the opportunity to throw him off the platform they were on.

* [[Cuffs Off, Rub Wrists]]: Palpatine does this immediately after Anakin frees him from the chair on the command ship.

* [[Dark Reprise]]: The Force Theme towards the end of the movie.

* [[The Dark Side Will Make You Forget]]

* [[Death by Childbirth]]: Anakin dreams this will happen to Padme. He immediately begins working to figure out a way to prevent it from happening. {{spoiler|She does die in childbirth, but it's more accurately...}}

* [[Death by Despair]]: {{spoiler|Padme.}} Inspired the page quote.

* [[Deliberately Triggering the Trap]]:

{{quote|'''Anakin:''' I sense Count Dooku.

'''Obi-Wan:''' I sense a trap.

'''Anakin:''' Next move?

* [[Disney Villain Death]]: Several battle droids were seen falling down to Coruscant when the ''Invisible Hand'' was losing stabilization and sinking to Coruscant in the beginning of the battle. Inverted with {{spoiler|Boga}}, who was a hero, and yet was shot down into a ravine alongside Obi-Wan during {{spoiler|Order 66}}.<ref>The Obsessed With Star Wars Trivia Game implies that she underwent a [[Disney Death]].</ref>

* [[Doomed by Canon]]: Order 66 dooms a lot of people.

* [[Downer Ending]]: Well, at least we [[Foregone Conclusion|knew it was coming]].

* [[The Dragon]]: Grievous turns out to be a considerably weaker one than expected, seeing how the movie set him up as a significant threat.

* [[Drunk on the Dark Side]]: Palpatine. [[Large Ham|POWAAAAHH!!! UNLIMITED POWAAAAHHHHH!!!!]]''

* [[Dual-Wielding]]: General Grievous takes this to the extreme with [[Up to Eleven|quad wielding.]] {{spoiler|Anakin also takes Dooku's lightsaber after defeating him and uses it to kill him.}}

* [[Epic Tracking Shot]]: The opening battle follows two lowly Jedi Starfighters as they swoop in to join a massive battle above Coruscant.

* [[Ethereal Choir]]: When Anakin's rebirth as Vader is complete, a mournful choral theme is heard.

* [[Evil Costume Switch]]: After Palpatine reveals himself to be a Sith Lord, he puts on his [[Black Cloak]]. After he officially [[The Empire|becomes emperor]], he openly wears a traditional red Sith robe.

** To a degree, this also applies to the Republic clones, whose outfits and arsenal more closely resemble the later Imperial Stormtroopers that they would ultimately become.

* [[Evil Is Hammy]]: Once Darth Sidious drops his act as the [[Glorious Leader]] Palpatine, it's time to chew apart the scenery.

** Grievous is pretty hammy too, spouting movie-villain cliches in a ridiculous ''Transylvanian'' accent.

* [[Exact Words]]: Palpatine, to the Separatist High Command, before Vader arrives on their hideout towards Mustafar to ultimately slaughter them (and he did mean it, just not in the way they thought he meant).

{{quote|'''Nute Gunray:''' "The plan has gone as you had promised, my Lord."

** Similarly, this is how Palpatine managed to get the audience to believe that the Jedi turned traitor. Technically, they were going renegade and trying to throw a coup against Palpatine. He just left out the little detail that he is a ''Sith Lord''.

* [[Expecting Someone Taller]]: Grievious and Anakin do this back and forth.

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: [[Captain Obvious|Anakin.]]

* [[Fallen Hero]]: The point of the movie.

* [[False Reassurance]]: Palpatine to Nute Gunray. "When my new apprentice, Darth Vader, arrives, he will...[[Deadly Euphemism|take care of you.]]"

* [[Final Solution]]:

{{quote|'''Palpatine/Darth Sidious:''' Execute Order 66.}}

* [[Finish Him!]]: Palpatine gets Anakin to execute Dooku this way.

* [[The Force]]: Stover's known for somewhat [[Purple Prose|flowery philosophical prose]], and this comes into play full force whenever Obi-Wan fights. By letting go of his ''self'', he loses his sense of identity and allows the Force to move through him, allowing him to get through impossible odds. By contrast, The Dark Side requires users to make [[The Force]] to do their bidding.

* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: Anakin turning to the Dark Side and becoming Darth Vader.

* [[Fungus Humongous]]: The low-gravity planet Felucia, where Aayla Secura was killed during Order 66.

* [[Groin Attack]]: Obi Wan knees Anakin in the groin in order to release himself from Anakin's stranglehold (both physically and telekinetically). Given the endurance of Force Users, he recovered from it pretty quickly.

* [[Hero Antagonist]]: Obi-Wan becomes this after Anakin's [[Face Heel Turn]].

* [[I Am the Noun]]

{{quote|'''Windu''': The Senate will decide your fate.

* [[Interesting Situation Duel]]: Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin's duel at the lava streams.

** Yoda and the Emperor's duel in the middle of the Senate chamber.

* [[Is That a Threat?]]: Palpatine to Windu. Leads into [[I Am the Noun]].

* [[Joker Jury]] / [[Kangaroo Court]]: Windu implies that Palpatine will use his control over the courts to get himself off scot-free if they attempt to simply have him stand trial and not kill him.

* [[Killed Mid-Sentence]]: Nute Gunray pleads for mercy, only to be quickly cut down by Anakin mid sentence.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Padme: "Women on Coruscant don't die in childbirth!"

* [[La Résistance]]: The Rebellion, but unfortunately most of the scenes depicting its formation were cut. Then again, it's far too early for the Rebellion to be formed, since the movie ends shortly after the first "Empire Day".

* [[Lethal Lava Land]]: Mustafar. In fact, it's so lethal (and so lava) that it even manages to (partially) avert the [[Convection, Schmonvection]] rule!

* [[Let's Split Up, Gang!]]: Yoda and Obi-Wan decide to tackle the two Sith Lords separately.

* [[Love Hungry]]: Anakin regarding Padme, to the point that keeping her love (and her alive) is all he wants, and when she gets scared of him...

* [[Love Makes You Evil]]: Anakin.

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Palpatine, to the entire galaxy.

* [[Mini-Mecha]]: Some of the walkers.

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: General Grievous, any of the Darths.

* [[A Nazi by Any Other Name]]: Palpatine, when declaring the new order, vows to make a Galactic Empire that will reign for ten thousand years (and as evidenced by the Original Trilogy, fell far short of that goal), similar to Hitler's vow of a Thousand Year Reich. In addition, some of the Clone Troopers in a deleted scene and supplementary materials, during the attack on the Jedi Temple, disguised themselves as Jedi presumably to sell the act of a Jedi uprising, similar to how Hitler orchestrated a "Polish" (actually Germans disguised as Polish people) attack on key German bases to have the excuse for him to invade Poland. In addition, Order 66 and Operation Knightfall was similar to Krystallnacht (the night of broken glass) and the Final Solution.

* [[Noodle Incident]]: "Nine times... that business on Cato Neimoidia doesn't... doesn't count..."

** Said incident occurs in the EU novel ''Labyrinth of Evil''. Obi-Wan loses his rebreather and gets high when a box of hallucinogenic spores cracks and Anakin saves him from disaster. [[It Makes Sense in Context|Obi later saves Anakin from a very nasty chair]].

* [[Offhand Backhand]]: Anakin does this with a lightsaber blaster deflection when a lowly battle droid tries to shoot him in the back. Yoda does this to two [[Mook|Mooks]] with the Force.

* [[Paradise Lost]]: Anakin, the Jedi's Morning Star, standing against the fire-and-brimstone backdrop of Mustafar.

** Obi-Wan is St. Michael, then, [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You|sent to defeat him]] and [[Kill It with Fire|cast him into the fiery pit.]]

* [[The Paragon Always Rebels]]: Duh.

* [[Pay Evil Unto Evil]]: Subverted big-time. Although Nute Gunray and his minions invaded Naboo earlier on, {{spoiler|Anakin's eagerness to kill them}} is portrayed as alarming nonetheless. Though there does seem to be SOME trace of this trope present; {{spoiler|Anakin's killing of Nute and his minions}} is shown on screen, whereas {{spoiler|his massacre of the innocent children in the Jedi temple}} is not.

* [[Pet the Dog]]: Near the end of the movie, when Palpatine finds Anakin on Mustafar, for a brief moment he acts like he genuinely cares for Anakin, and is saddened by what has happened. The EU establishes that all Palpatine feels is disappointment and anger, and that he actual considers leaving Anakin to die as punishment. Its only the fact that Palpatine has waited 20 years for Anakin's turn that motivates him to save his life and its why he eventually tries to have Luke replace him.

* [[Plot Parallel]]: {{spoiler|Grievous is partly removed from a mechanical suit and set on fire; Anakin is set on fire and put ''into'' a mechanical suit.}}

{{quote|The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins - but in the heart of its strength lies weakness: one lone candle is enough to hold it back.

Love is more than a candle.

* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: The [[Novelization]] was a departure from the other movie novelizations in that it wasn't just a prettied-up transcript of the movie. This was written by [[Matt Stover]], who changed parts of the script given to him and expanded on some points while minimizing others, although George Lucas approved of all of the changes he made. People who have read it tend to call it superior to the movie - more time was spent on Anakin's fall and Padme's thoughts, and it's much darker than the movie was, though like all of Stover's works it's not devoid of hope.

* [[Proud Warrior Race]]: The Wookiees, who help the Republic fight off the Separatists on [[Ghibli Hills|Kashyyyk.]]

* [[Scenery Gorn]]: The burnt-out Jedi Temple, as well as Mustafar.

* [[Scenery Porn]]: And ''how''. Made heartbreaking towards the end as we are given a glimpse of all that is to fall under the rule of the Empire.

* [[Shirtless Scene]]: [[Estrogen Brigade Bait|Anakin]], [[Troubled but Cute|again in bed after having a nightmare.]]

** The scene of Palpatine declaring the formation of the Galactic Empire in the name of peace and security interspersed with scenes of his apprentice Anakin killing the Separatist leaders is very similar to [[The Godfather|Michael Corleone]] attending the baptism of his nephew whilst his allies eliminate rival Mafia dons ([[My Friends and Zoidberg|and Moe Greene]]) on his command.

** Yoda's departure from Kashyyyk looks much like [[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|E.T.]]'s departure from Earth.

* [[They Died Because of You]]:

{{quote|'''Darth Vader''': Where is Padme? Is she safe? Is she alright?

* [[Three-Month-Old Newborn]]: Newborn Luke and Leia are quite robust, especially since they're a) twins (multiple births, due to space limitations, tend to be smaller than average) and b) almost certainly delivered prematurely.

** Possibly [[The Coconut Effect]], since at the birth the twins were CGI.

** [[Word of God]] suggests that the ''real'' tragic mistake was Mace Windu taking that dramatic killing swing at Palpatine, instead of just finishing him off instantly. It gave Anakin time to intervene.

** [[Word of God]] also suggests that while Palpatine knew Anakin would intervene, Mace had no idea it would happen, leaving him deceived by the old man.

* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: Anakin defeats Dooku this way. However, being furious only works against him when fighting Obi-Wan, who's glacially calm during most of their fight.

* [[Unto Us a Son and Daughter Are Born]]: Luke and Leia.

** And more subtly to Grievous, [[Let's You and Him Fight|in a way that would have been win-win regardless of who survived the duel with Obi-Wan.]] [[The Chessmaster]], indeed.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Dooku in the novelization. It starts when he realizes he underestimated Obi-Wan and Anakin and culminates in him pathetically begging for his life when Palpatine's [[Uriah Gambit]] becomes all too clear to him.

* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Anakin.

* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: The novelization's chapter ''The Jedi Trap'' lovingly details the things that must be part of such a trap before Obi-Wan goes to confront Grievous. After he wins, the narration explains how it was still a perfect trap, since the bait and [[Uriah Gambit|the killer]] - Grievous - was going to need disposing of soon and the true purpose of this trap, the one that made the Jedi lose the moment he stepped in, [[Batman Gambit|was having him not be on Coruscant at a pivotal moment.]]

* [[You Could Have Used Your Powers for Good]]: Obi Wan to Anakin.

* [[Zeerust]]: In terms of aesthetics...it was inevitable in this film, considering it had to find a way to tie itself in with [[A New Hope]]. You'll be watching sleeker looking droids and spaceships gradually getting clunkier and more dated looking in design as the movie progresses. Especially by the end.

 

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