Revenge of the Sith: Difference between revisions

* [[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.

* [[Catapult Nightmare]]: Anakin has one in his and Padme's apartment on Coruscant when he's [[Dreaming of Things to Come]].

* [[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.

''[[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.

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

'''Palpatine''': I '''am''' the Senate!}}

* [[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.

* [[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.}}

* [[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 Padme 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]]''.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: Palpatine to everyone: Dooku, Grievous, the Separatists, the Jedi...{{spoiler|almost did it to Anakin as well, and wasn't quite sure if saving him was worth the effort}}.

* [[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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