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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]].
* [[Agony Beam]]: Force Lightning, which Palpatine uses to kill
* [[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.}}
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* [[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.
* [[And I Must Scream]]: Definitely played with. Vader in the mechanical suit only has a small triangle-shaped vent where a mouth would be. Also driven home when for the first time in any of the six films,
* [[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.
* [[An Arm and a Leg]]: [[Bloodless Carnage|Numerous people lose limbs.]] It is ''Star Wars'', after all.
* [[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.
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** 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]].
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: Palpatine rules supreme as Emperor, Anakin has long ago been corrupted into Darth Vader, Padme is dead and the Jedi have been systematically exterminated apart from Obi-Wan and Yoda. Yet, the Skywalker children are safe and we know that years later they [[There Is Another|both]] will become ''[[A New Hope]]'' to put the Galaxy right.
* [[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.]]
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* [[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?]]
* [[Catapult Nightmare]]: Anakin has one in his and
* [[Chickification]]: Padme, an [[Action Girl]] for parts of ''Episodes I'' and ''II'', spends most of this film pining for Anakin and displaying some [[Badass Decay]], although her pregnancy partially explains this.
* [[Children Are Innocent]]:
{{quote|[[Tear Jerker|"Master Skywalker, there are too many of them. What are we going to do?"]]<br />
''[[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.
* [[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.
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* [[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.
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: In a deleted scene and the novelization, as well as subtly implied in the movie itself, the Clone Troops, after {{spoiler|betraying Obi-Wan on Sidious' command
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Easily the darkest of the prequel trilogy, or even the entire saga of ''[[Star Wars]]'', and the novel is even darker. It has the highest age certificate rating out of all the films.
* [[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.
* [[The Chessmaster|The Dejarik Master]]: Sidious.
* [[Deliberately Triggering the Trap]]:
{{quote|'''Anakin:''' I sense Count Dooku.
'''Obi-Wan:''' I sense a trap.
'''Anakin:''' Next move?
'''Obi-Wan:''' ''(grins)'' Spring 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]]
* [[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.
* [[Dramatic Shattering]]: The window in Palpatine's office during his fight with Mace,
* [[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.}}
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* [[Et Tu, Brute?|Et Tu, Anakin?]]
* [[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.
** Anakin also puts his hood up a lot more after being christened Darth Vader, and in the ultimate evil costume switch, he ''[[Becoming the Mask|becomes]]'' the biomechanical suit of
** 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.
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* [[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."
'''Darth Sidious:''' "You have done well, Viceroy. When my new apprentice, Darth Vader, arrives, he will take care of you."
** 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.
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* [[False Reassurance]]: Palpatine to Nute Gunray. "When my new apprentice, Darth Vader, arrives, he will...[[Deadly Euphemism|take care of you.]]"
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Count Dooku doesn't like cyborgs or aliens. Low-class, filthy creatures that they both are. Anakin starts picking up on this too, finding a Chagrian to be hideously repulsive. Both of these are [[All There in the Manual|exclusive to the novelization]].
* [[Fearful Symmetry]]: In the climatic final battle, there are a fair number of moments where [[Student and Master Team|Obi-Wan and Anakin]] mirror each
* [[Final Solution]]:
{{quote|'''Palpatine/Darth Sidious:''' Execute Order 66.}}
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* [[Hope Springs Eternal]]: Even in a galaxy torn be death and sadness, ''[[A New Hope]]'' shall one day rise.
* [[I Am the Noun]]
{{quote|'''Windu''': The Senate will decide your fate.
'''Palpatine''': I '''am''' the Senate!
* [[In Medias Res]]: Similar to ''[[A New Hope]]'', this film starts off with a
* [[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.
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* [[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".
* [[Last-Minute Baby-Naming]]:
* [[Lava Adds Awesome]]: The final showdown between Anakin and Obi-Wan, naturally.
* [[Lethal Lava Land]]: Mustafar. In fact, it's so lethal (and so lava) that it even manages to (partially) avert the [[Convection, Schmonvection]] rule!
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* [[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.
* [[Love Triangle]]: Anakin ''[[Imaginary Love Triangle|thought]]'' he,
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Palpatine, to the entire galaxy.
* [[Mini-Mecha]]: Some of the walkers.
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* [[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.
* [[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
* [[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]].
* [[No One Could Survive That]]: When Obi-Wan is almost killed by the clone troopers on Utapau, [[Never Found the Body|they don't bother to check for his body]], assuming [[Not the Fall That Kills You|the long drop must have killed him
** In the novelization and a deleted scene, though, they do send probes to check for his body, but Obi-Wan tricks a nearby monster into eating them. The final film also implies that they sent a drone to locate them, as a drone was seen in the background when Obi-Wan hides out in a cave shortly before the scene transitions.
* [[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.
* [[Oh Crap]]: Bail Organa when he sees the youngling Zett being gunned down by the clone troops. See "Big No" above.
* [[One-Woman Wail]]: During a scene when Anakin and
* [[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.]]
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{{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.
Love can ignite the stars.
* [[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.]]
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* [[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.
* [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy]]: Anakin, trying to stop
* [[Separated at Birth]]: The twins.
* [[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]]''.
** 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.
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* [[They Died Because of You]]:
{{quote|'''Darth Vader''': Where is Padme? Is she safe? Is she alright?
'''Darth Sidious''': It would [[Exact Words|appear that]] in your anger, you killed her.
* [[They Were Holding You Back]]: Obi-Wan and Padme for Anakin. Sidious manipulates Anakin into killing/driving them away ''himself
* [[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.
* [[Tragic Mistake]]: Anakin breaks with the Jedi by
** [[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.
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* [[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.
* [[Uriah Gambit]]: Palpatine does this to Dooku.
** 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.
* [[Vader Breath]]: Not only do we hear it for the first time in-universe, if you watch the smoke hovering around Vader's head, you get to ''see it
* [[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.
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* [[You Could Have Used Your Powers for Good]]: Obi Wan to Anakin.
* [[You Have Failed Me]]: Subverted. See [[Pet the Dog]].
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: Palpatine to everyone: Dooku, Grievous, the Separatists, the Jedi...
* [[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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