Revenge of the Sith: Difference between revisions

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=== Tropes Mostly Particular To This Film: ===

* [[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.

''[[Moral Event Horizon|(ignites lightsaber)]]'' }}

* [[Continuity Lock Out]]: Grievous is never really explained; all of his backstory and reasons to be worried about him are in the [[Clone Wars]] cartoon.

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

** After the climactic duel, Obi-Wan is seen stopping to pick up Anakin's lightsaber, which he gives to Luke in Episode IV.

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

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

* [[The Chessmaster|The Dejarik Master]]: Sidious

* [[Deliberately Triggering the Trap]]:

* [[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>

* [[Doesn't Like Guns]]: Obi-Wan [[Heroes Prefer Swords|since he's a Jedi.]] But it turns out to be the [[Combat Pragmatist|only way he can kill]] {{spoiler|General Grievous.}}

* [[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.

* [[Dramatic Shattering]]: The window in Palpatine's office during his fight with Mace, {{spoiler|[[Destination Defenestration]] whom he later throws out of it.}}

* [[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.}}

* [[Dull Surprise]]: While he doesn't have as much as he does in Attack of the Clones, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwRDUBQA9jE Hayden (Anakin) delivers a few lines like this in this movie.]

** The fight on the bridge of the ''Invisible Hand'' as well; Grievous escapes by shattering the windows, as he can survive being spaced but the Jedi cannot.

* [[Ironic Echo]]: Rather tragically done: Anakin tells Palpatine that he shouldn't have killed Count Dooku, and that he should have stood trial. Palpatine then tells Anakin that Dooku would have been far too dangerous to allow him to live. Later, Anakin then tells Windu when he is trying to deliver the coup de grace that he should have Palpatine stand trial, to which Windu retorts that Palpatine is far too dangerous to be allowed to live.

* [[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.

* [[Kill'Em All]]: Everyone except the characters who showed up in the original trilogy. Also all the Jedi ([[Last of His Kind|except a few]]) and (almost) all the Separatists.

** The novelization, when handling the scene where Vader's just been assembled on a slab, leaves out the [[Big No]] and adds a moment of Never My Fault before he realizes that it ''is'' [[Heel Realization|his fault]]. Then he tries to call on the Force to kill Sidious - but he's lost so much of his power that he can only destroy droids and equipment, he can't even touch Sidious - and in the end he doesn't want to, because now this is all he has left. The same person who caused him to kill his wife, their unborn child, and thoroughly alienate everyone he ever thought of as a friend is now the only person who will understand, and forgive, and care. Anakin - or now, ''Darth Vader'' - will spend the [[Fate Worse Than Death|rest of his life]] burning in self-hatred the way he burned on the shores of the river of lava. All alone, with himself.

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

* [[New Era Speech]]: Palpatine gets an especially [[Large Ham|juicy]] one as he declares the birth of [[This Is Sparta|''The First! GALACTIC!'' '''EMPIRE!!!''']]

* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: Grievous, who was specifically described in this manner in tie-in materials as "an alien cyborg."

* [[One-Woman Wail]]: During a scene when Anakin and Padmé are thinking of one another on Coruscant.

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

* [[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.

* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: The clone troopers, almost to the point of being [[Affably Evil]], though we don't get to know any one of them well enough for that. The friendship between Obi-Wan and Cody, their utter lack of enjoyment from executing Order 66, their sincere-sounding apology when they tell Bail Organa to turn around and walk away from the burning temple...plus their suffering from the [[Cloning Blues]].

* [[The Purge]]: Order 66.

* [[Recursive Translation]]: It's a train wreck, resulting in a sub-meme based on Vader's [[Big No]] being translated to "Do not want".

* [[Reluctant Warrior]]: Obi-Wan says [[Foreshadowing|he will not kill Anakin]], but Yoda sends him to fight anyway, because [[My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours|"strong enough to face this Lord Sidious, you are not."]]

* [[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.

* [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy]]: Anakin, trying to stop Padmé from dying in childbirth, ends up killing her. Sure, the incompetent docbots say she lost her will to live, but she does so ''while'' giving birth, not because of. And in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe|Coruscant Nights Trilogy]] her bodyguard, looking over the autopsy report, concludes that she was strangled in a way that didn't bruise, and ''that'' was how she died - choked with the Force. Prophecies are tricky things...

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

* [[Shout-Out]]: The scene where the [[Elite Mooks|501st Legion]] march up the stairs into the Jedi Temple is a direct allusion to [[The Battleship Potemkin]].

* [[Single Tear]]: Anakin on Mustafar.

* [[Smug Snake]]: General Grievous acts all tough and imposing, but {{spoiler|later ends up getting defeated by Obi-Wan, who doesn't even have a lightsaber. [[Family-Unfriendly Death|Quite messily so]], for that matter.}}

* [[Tyrant Takes the Helm]]: It's in this film that Palpatine crowns himself Emperor of the galaxy.

* [[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.

* [[Uriah Gambit]]: Palpatine does this to Dooku. {{spoiler|It works.}}

** 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.

* [[We Used to Be Friends]]: Anakin and Obi-Wan provide the image and the quote for the trope page.

* [[With Us or Against Us]]: Darth Vader shouts, [[Anvilicious|"If you're not with me, you're my enemy!"]] Also, Obi Wan says right back at him, "[[Hypocrite|Only a Sith deals in absolutes.]]"

** Dooku's death early on the film showed how powerful Anakin had gotten in the meantime, after getting floored by Dooku in the previous installment.

* [[Would Hurt a Child]]: Anakin/Vaders's slaughter of the Jedi younglings.