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'''Anakin Skywalker:''' "Everything I learned, I learned from you."
'''Obi-Wan Kenobi:''' "If only that were true." }}
A [[All CGI Cartoon|CG-animated film]] and [[Animated Series|television series]] set in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' universe, covering the period [[Interquel|between]] ''[[Attack of the Clones|Episode II]]'' and ''[[Revenge of the Sith|III]]''. The film was released in the United States in August 2008.
It is easy to confuse this series with ''[[Star Wars: Clone Wars]]'', Genndy Tartakovsky's 2003 mini-episodic [[Animated Series]], which also aired on Cartoon Network, and covers the same time period. ''The Clone Wars'', while having no writers in common, [[Adaptation Expansion|borrows many design and plot elements from its predecessor]]. [[George Lucas]] is a producer, while Dave Filoni (known for his work on ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'') is director and head writer.
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The Jedi serve as the generals of the war, with their own legion and loyal clone commanders. Anakin Skywalker is forcibly given a Padawan, Ahsoka Tano, and they deal with the various battles and adventures fought during this epic war. If you've seen ''Episode III: [[Revenge of the Sith]]'' (which is set three years after ''Attack of the Clones''), [[It Was His Sled|you know]] [[Foregone Conclusion|how this war ends]].
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* [[Absolute Cleavage]]: The Daughter's outfit.
** Also, Suu Lawquane's outfit.
* [[Action Girl]]:
** Ahsoka, who just as often rescues her Jedi instructor as he rescues her.
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** There is also a character named "[[Moulin Rouge|Satine]]" with whom Obi-Wan, originally played in the prequels by [[Moulin Rouge|Ewan McGregor]], has an affair.
* [[Actual Pacifist]]:
** Satine is this, being bound and determined to keep her people out of the war. This is somewhat ironic as she happens to be the Duchess of [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Mandalore]], whose people were once some of the most feared warriors in the galaxy. The local rebel group "Death Watch" violently disagrees with her, and hopes to return their planet to its past ways.
** The Lurmen, a race of [[Perfect Pacifist People]], although they take pacifism [[Suicidal Pacifism|a little too far]], since their philosophy does not even allow ''running away from danger''.
* [[Aesop Amnesia]]: In the first-season episode "Storm over Ryloth", Ahsoka disobeys orders to pull back and gets most of her fighter squadron killed, which naturally makes her feel like mud. In the season two premier, Ahsoka is in the ''exact same situation'' and given just about the same orders, the only difference being that she is commanding troops on the ground rather than starfighters. Obi-Wan tells her that she is putting her troops' lives in danger. You would think this would make her stop and think, rather than continuing to do the same thing that she did in the previous episode, but instead, Obi-Wan and Anakin practically have to drag her off of the battlefield.
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* [[Artistic License Military]]: Naturally, the military in ''Star Wars'' greatly differs from pretty much anything here on Earth, but it's generally accepted that faking a surrender (which is done at least twice throughout the series - by the Republic) is a pretty significant war crime. Of course, it's only considered wrong when the [[Protagonist-Centered Morality|Separatists do it.]]
* [[As You Know]]: Dooku in "Citadel Rescue".
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* [[Ascended Extra]]: Par for the course in a ''[[Star Wars]]'' production. One particularly interesting case is an episode highlighting Baron Papanoida, who was played by [[George Lucas]] in a [[Creator Cameo]] in ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]''. The particular episode has him going [[Papa Wolf]] when his family is in danger, which [[Reality Subtext|reflects his efforts to integrate his family with cameos in his movies]].
* [[Attack of the 50
* [[Badass]]: Chances are that anyone who is not a civilian has Badass coursing through their veins.
* [[Badass Army]]: The clone troopers.
* [[Badass Family]]: Chairman N. Papanoida's family. Him, his son, and his daughter take on an entire bar full of bloodthirsty outlaws and bounty hunters and ''win''.
* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Yoda.
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** Count Dooku is a villainous version.
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Cad Bane.
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** Satine and Obi-Wan have one of these moments in the episode, "Voyage of Temptation", when upon being attacked by numerous tiny droids, Satine whips out a droid deactivator and begins firing whilst Obi-Wan defends with his lightsaber.
** Jedi General Ima-Gun Di and his clone officer Captain Keeli perform this feat during their last stand on Ryloth.
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'''Keeli:''' I'm not finished yet, Sir... we can do this, General!
'''Ima-Gun Di:''' Then let's make the end memorable! }}
** Obi-Wan and {{spoiler|Ventress}}, of all people, have a moment of this in "Revenge".
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* [[Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work]]: [[Playing with a Trope|After a fashion]]. The show frequently has characters who are not villains perform actions which are not evil, but which are nonetheless morally grey and provide an ethical dilemma for the other characters.
** Anakin in "Voyage of Temptation", right after the villain asks, "[[Foreshadowing|Who will strike first, and be branded the cold blooded killer?]]" Made all the more poignant by The Imperial March, Vader's theme song, playing in the background.
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** Once Captain Rex captured {{spoiler|General Krell}} he was going to execute him [[Shoot the Dog|to prevent him from being freed by the Separatists]]. Dogma ultimately pulled the trigger for him.
* [[Bald of Evil]]: As of Season Four, [[A Nazi by Any Other Name|Pre Viszla]] has shaved his head, and received a nasty scar from a fight with Count Dooku.
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* [[Big Damn Heroes]]:
** Used a few times.
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'''Anakin:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|Isn't it always?]] }}
** The point of Chewbacca's arrival in "Wookiee Hunt" is pretty much to set up one.
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** In "A Friend In Need", the village being held hostage by the Death Watch.
* [[But for Me It Was Tuesday]]: Dooku acts like this when discussing the death of Mina Bonteri with Lux. He acts like he can't recall her death since it was so meaningless on a grand scale. It's clear he's just doing it to be a jerk, though.
* [[Bring It Back Alive]]: The Zillo Beast. It doesn't end well.
* [[By-The-Book Cop]]: Inspector Tan Divo.
* [[By Wall That Is Holey]]: Happens to Anakin in [[The Movie]].
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** Ahsoka. Some characters have called attention to it, but nobody really sees a problem with sending a fourteen-year-old into fatal situations when, by the very definition of being a Padawan, she has not yet even completed her training. This is especially evident in the early episodes, when Ahsoka would become depressed and self-critical after a defeat, showing that she is unable to cope with the emotional toll of warfare. After the short timeskip, the older Ahsoka instead seems to be more annoyed that Anakin has apparently realized this himself, and is holding her back from the more dangerous missions.
** In "Arc Troopers," during a Separatist invasion of Kamino several troopers wind up in the barracks for the still-children clones undergoing basic training. The cadets are armed and brought into the fight as part of a trap set for the droids sent to kill them and the other clones still being trained.
* [[Click. "Hello."]]: "Roger, Roger." BLAM.
* [[Clones Are People, Too]]: The series has several episodes which highlight [[We Have Reserves|the casual way that clones are discarded]], but it comes to a head in the Umbara arc. The clones begin to resist after they [[General Failure|continuosly receive horrible and incompetent orders]], demanding that their lives not just be ''wasted''. They ultimately [[Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal|turn on their leader]] claiming that they ae not [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|droids]], but ''men.''
* [[Cloning Blues]]:
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** Aurra Sing in "Hostage Crisis".
** An unnamed Mandalorian warrior in "Duchess of Mandalore".
* [[
** The clones' uniforms tell who they serve under. Blue for members of the 501st, which can usually be seen along side Anakin, and orange for the 212th attack battalion which is under Obi-Wan's command. [[Law of Chromatic Superiority|Red is for those stationed on Coruscant.]]
** In ''The Carnage of Krell'', the Clone Troopers are members of the 501st and thus wear blue, and the enemy Umbarans wearing stolen uniforms wear yellow. {{spoiler|Except the "enemies" are clone troopers as well, and ''both'' sides have been told the other were impersonators [[The Uriah Gambit|so they would wipe each other out.]]}}
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** Cad Bane lives this trope, since he's a non-Force user who often finds himself fighting Jedi.
* [[Comic Book Fantasy Casting]]: Cad Bane is explicitly modeled on Lee Van Cleef, star of many westerns in [[The Sixties]].
* [[Compilation Movie]]: An [[Pilot Movie|ascended pilot]], as it were, the pilot episodes earned a theatrical release after being praised by [[George Lucas]].
* [[Conservation of Ninjitsu]]: Carries over elements from the films. The droid army outnumbers the clone army, but the clones can be creative. And of course, there's the [[One-Man Army|Jedi]].
* [[Continuity Cameo]]:
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* [[Continuity Porn]]: The series loves to showcase familiar locations and characters from, and make general [[Shout-Out|ShoutOuts]] to the original trilogy (and, to a lesser extent, the prequel trilogy and other parts of the Expanded Universe).
* [[Continuity Snarl]]: The [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] is not a single hard-and-fast canon. If George Lucas gives his consent for a production to be canon, then that production can supersede different portions of the EU, which is separated into separate levels. This series is "T-canon," which is one level higher than the Expanded Universe, but one level below the films. The original microseries was "C-canon," which is the same level as comics, books, etc. All works are canon, but some take precedence if there is a conflict. See [http://www.starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Canon here] for more information. This means that even characters, planets, etc. that originated in the EU, like Asajj Ventress and Ryloth, can have their backstories changed for the purposes of an episode or two. [[Word of God]] has [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.05/illusion_pr.html said] the novels are the canonical sequels to the Original Trilogy, as most of the recent productions which directly spring from Lucas are placed within the era of the prequel films and earlier.
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'''GEORGE LUCAS:''' The sequels were never really going to get made anyway, unlike 1, 2, and 3, where the stories have existed for 20 years. The idea of 7, 8, and 9 actually came from people asking me about sequels, and I said, "I don't know. Maybe someday." Then when the licensing people came and asked, "Can we do novels?" I said do sequels, because I'll probably never do sequels. }}
* [[Contractual Immortality]]: No matter how dire the situation, we already know Anakin and Obi-Wan are going to live, as well as everyone who was in ''Revenge Of The Sith''.
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** Savage Opress single-handedly demolishes a batallion of clones and slaughters two Jedi in "Monster".
** {{spoiler|Darth Maul}} and Savage curb-stomp Obi-Wan in "Revenge", with {{spoiler|Maul}} distracting him, then Savage getting the drop on him, brutally overpowering Obi-Wan, and ending with both of them beating Obi-Wan unconscious.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: around Seasons 3 and 4, [[Doomed by Canon|which is evitable]], considering [[Revenge of the Sith]] takes place after the series
* [[Day in The Limelight]]: Many episodes will be dedicated to minor characters. "Bombad Jedi" and "Shadow Warrior" has Jar Jar, "Lair of Grievous" has Kit Fisto, etc.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Obi-Wan sure loves dispensing sarcastic quips, even in the middle of a battle.
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* [[Deliberate Injury Gambit]]: {{spoiler|Captain Tarpals [[Heroic Sacrifice|allows General Grievous to run him through with a spear]] in order to get close enough to disable Grievous in turn}}.
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: In "Bounty Hunters".
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* [[Depending on the Writer]]:
** In "Hostage Crisis" (written by Eoghan Mahony), Anakin makes a large speech about how Padme is the single most important thing in his life, whereas she seems preoccupied by the duties and responsibilities of her office and their obligations to the Republic. However, in "Senate Spy" (written by Melinda Hsu), their positions are diametrically reversed, and Padme becomes upset when Anakin lectures her on the nature of responsibility and the duties they have that supersede their personal desires.
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* [[Dramatic Irony]]:
** It is impossible to ignore the fact that Anakin will turn into Darth Vader and end up killing all of the people he helps.
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** Same with the clone troopers being merged into the storm trooper army. "Rookies" even ends with the surviving troops joining the 501st, later known by the nickname '''Vader's Fist'''.
* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]:
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** General Krell dual-wields ''double-bladed lightsabers''!
* [[Dying Moment of Awesome]]:
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'''Hevy:''' [[Stuff Blowing Up|I don't.]] }}
* [[Dynamic Entry]]: One of the droid commando squads enter a fight by ''throwing'' the basic battle droid at the clones.
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* [[Evil Laugh]]:
** When Anakin takes off on Dooku's speeder bike to save Ahsoka in the movie, Dooku is said to be "(LAUGHING MALICIOUSLY)" according to the subtitles.
** Riff Tamson seems determined to laugh evilly once for every 5-10 lines of actual dialogue he has.
** Once {{spoiler|General Krell}} admits that he is a traitor, he laughs deeply in ''every following conversation''.
* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: Savage Opress gets a deeper voice after the Nightsisters take control of him with their magic. Being voiced by [[Clancy Brown]] helps too.
* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: Count Dooku has to betray Asajj Ventress at Sidious' request, nearly resulting in her death. Asajj seeks shelter with the Nightsisters of Dathomir and begins plotting her revenge against Dooku. To this end she and the other Nightsisters [[Training
* [[Exactly What I Aimed At]]: In a fight with Pre Viszla, Ahsoka slashes his jetpack. He commends her on the close call, only for her to explain that she didn't miss. He quickly realizes that his jetpack is about to explode and ditches it.
* [[Executive Meddling]]:
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** It is not just the villains carving people up with lightsabers, but the good guys, too. When Ahsoka is being attacked [[Brainwashed and Crazy|by a mind-controlled clone]] she takes out her lightsaber and ''guts him'', with a close-up of the sword impacting the clone.
** They really turned it up to eleven with flamethrowers being used on Geonosians. They burn and scream the whole scene and some of them got especially lucky with being sliced in vertical halves by the Jedi.
** The season three "Nightsisters" arc is rife with this. Most notable are the many ways in which Asajj dismisses unsatisfactory Nightbrothers when she is selecting her future minion from among them, and said minion's test of loyalty.
** During an escape scene in "Counter Attack", a clone dies in a rather horrible way: {{spoiler|being cut in half by a vent's security doors}}, thankfully blocked out by a convenient door closing just prior.
** {{spoiler|Even Piell}} in the same trilogy gets mauled by an alien tiger. Though they skipped on showing the wounds he should have had, it's quite clear that it nearly ''tore out his throat''.
** {{spoiler|Riff Tamson}} got blown to bits, with his severed head shown on screen.
** In his first appearance in the show, Cad Bane snaps a guard's neck.
** In "Bounty", Dengar kills two Kage Warriors by sticking remote explosives to their chests and detonating them; only the camera angle saves the viewers from the [[Ludicrous Gibs]] that could have been. And later, {{spoiler|Krismo Sodi}} takes out Major Rigosso with an electrified sword through the gut.
* [[Fan Service]]:
** [[Ms. Fanservice|Aayla Secura]]. Commander Bly is one lucky clone and Yoda is one lucky... whatever he is. After Windu, Aayla seems to be his most frequent companion.
** Keelyvine Reus from the tie-in web comic.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Chairman Cho and his hatred of the "savage" Talz.
* [[Fantastic Slurs]]: Tinnies for droids, while Boyle calls the Twileks "Tail Heads" rather disparagingly in ''Innocents of Ryloth.''
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** [[Big Bad]]: Cad Bane
** [[The Dragon]]: Moralo Eval
** [[Evil Genius]]: Derrown
** [[The Brute]]: Embo
** [[Dark Chick]]: Twazzi
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*** Also in the same episode, Anakin is shown by the son in a vision what he will become and in his efforts to prevent that harm, he {{spoiler|turns to the dark side just like he is later convinced to do over preventing Padme's death.}}
** In "Clone Cadets", Shaak Ti comments on how one of the clones, Echo, fails to adapt to the simulation known as The Citadel. Evan Piel says in "The Citadel" is "Adaptation is the key to survival". Guess who doesn't survive the episode after that?
** In "Citadel Rescue", as [[A New Hope|Tarkin]] and Anakin shook hands before parting, a short section of "The Imperial March" was used as the background music.
* [[Forgot About His Powers]]: Quite often, the Jedi need to gain hold of something just out of reach and, instead of grabbing it telekinetically like they did ''thirty seconds ago'', they will instead try to grab it manually.
** In "Children of the Force", Mace Windu literally steps into a painfully obvious trap to get the Holocron, while he could just as easily have used the force to grab it and not sprung the trap.
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* [[General Failure]]: Pong Krell. It is better to have rested soldiers than tired soldiers, better to have high morale than low morale, and better to attack from cover than to attack without any cover. Krell sent tired soldiers to attack a city out in the open where they could be easily gunned down like fish in a barrel, and all this after letting them all know that as far as he was concerned, they were expendable pieces of crap. He's no [[Sun Tzu]], that's for sure. {{spoiler|As it turns out, he was intentionally sabotaging the Republic's efforts on Umbara so he'd have a good accomplishment to present to Dooku when he defected to the Separatists. Suffice to say, this comes back to bite him.}}
* [[Genre Savvy]]:
** After several episodes of villains being [[Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves|paid for their services with a sword through the back]], the pirates who capture Count Dooku in "Dooku Captured" know better than to try and ransom him back to the Separatists. The Separatists will offer large amounts of cash, but then they will simply land an army and kill the lot of them. Better to deal with the Republic, who will probably actually front the cash. Of course, they then subvert it by capturing the Jedi that came to make sure the claim was legit.
** {{spoiler|Prime Minister Almec}} is very savvy. He knows that he may very well have to contend with Jedi considering that Obi-Wan Kenobi is a... friend of Duchess Satine, so he trains his co-conspirators to ''resist'' Jedi mind tricks and even trained them to ''play along'' if neccesary. However, they stop short of being [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] by not using anything stronger to contain Ahsoka besides handcuffs, not even placing anybody in the ''already open cell'' right behind them.
** The unnamed freighter pilot from "Brothers".
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'''Savage Opress''': *no answer* }}
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]:
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** In "Lethal Trackdown", Aurra Sing arrives at Ohnaka's hideout and kisses him. {{spoiler|He then looks at young Boba next to her and goes "Not one of mine, I hope."}}
** After kissing a dying clone on the cheek (cut from syndication), Asajj informs the cyborg General Grievous in a ''very'' sexy tone that...
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** In one episode, Anakin is "always thinking with his lightsaber".
** In "Senate Spies," Padme and the Jedi Council refer to the fact that she used to have a romantic relationship with a senator currently suspected of treason. Throughout the entire episode no characters even once use the term date, dating, romance, girlfriend/boyfriend or any other explicit relationship term. Instead they use the terms "friendship" and "''close'' friendship", with ''extreme'' emphasis on the "close", and occasionally with a significant pause before and after.
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** Every single Mandalorian soldier. [[Word of God]] states it's meant to reflect the symmetry that their culture favours.
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: According to [[All There in the Manual|other sources]], the children of a Twi'lek mother, Suu Lawquane, were fathered by a human male before she married Cut (also a human, but a cloned one).
* [[Hand Cannon]]: Even though the DC-15S Blaster is categorized as a carbine, it's small enough, and very much light enough to handle as a pistol. More experienced soldiers like Captain Rex, or other troopers akin to him, seem to invoke this trope.
* [[Hartman Hips]]: Aayla Secura.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]:
** In "Rookies", when a remote detonator malfunctions, {{spoiler|[[You Shall Not Pass|Hevy stays behind to blow up the charge manually]]}}, ensuring both his squad's safety and that the Republic will know something is amiss.
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{{spoiler|'''Hevy:'''}} [[Dying Moment of Awesome|I don't]]. }}
** Subverted in "Weapons Factory", when Ahsoka and Barriss Offee assume that using their hijacked battle tank to destroy a power reactor will take them with it, and are prepared for a triumphant death in a blaze of glory. However, they find themselves trapped in the rubble afterward and the prospect of dying of either starvation or asphyxiation is much less appealing than death in combat.
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** {{spoiler|The Daughter}} does this twice in a row to save {{spoiler|The Father and Ahsoka}}.
** In "Shadow Warrior" {{spoiler|Captain Tarpals}} allows himself to be run-through by General Grievous [[Deliberate Injury Gambit|in order to put himself in the proper position to disable Grievous in turn.]]
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{{spoiler|'''Captain Tarpals:'''}} Not dying. ''Sacrifice''! }}
** Clone trooper {{spoiler|Hardcase}} leaves his ship to get past the ray shields that are protecting the generators he and two other clones are there to destroy. He tells the other two troopers to fly away and escape the explosion, telling them to live to fight another day.
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** Played straight when he said "There's more than one way to skin a womp rat."
** Days get referred to both as days and as "planetary rotations".
** Obi-Wan plays this trope straight again in another episode when he says "out of the quicksand and into the sarlacc pit."
* [[Hollywood Tactics]]: Apparently, standard tactic for Clone Troopers is "stand out in the open, ignore cover, and shoot at the enemy."
* [[Holy Halo]]: The Daughter is visibly glowing in both her humanoid and griffin form. Not surprising considering she is {{spoiler|the physical embodiment of the Light Side}}.
* [[Hope Spot]]: During the Battle of Kamino, General Grievous and his droids are charging the chamber in which Jango Fett's DNA is being kept, which is guarded by ARC commander Colt and two regular troopers. We see them gun down droid after droid, then first one trooper is killed, then the other. Commander Colt takes cover behind a wall, reloads, breaks cover and starts firing away. Now, he's a badass ARC trooper, we know he's gonna -- oh, wait, Asajj Ventress comes out of nowhere and force chokes him.
* [[Hostage Situation]]: Defied by Anakin in the Zygerrian arc. When they threaten to kill the Tortugan colonists if he doesn't surrender, he dismissively states that he's done listening to slavers. It also helps that he brought a Republic fleet for backup.
* [[
* [[Huge Holographic Head]]: A teamn of maintenace droids rule a primtive society by generating a giant hologram to rule the people.
* [[Hunting the Most Dangerous Game]]: Arguably even more dangerous than usual, since some of them are former Padawans who can Force Choke them.
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** Cad Bane has jet ''boots''.
* [[Just a Machine]]: Ironically, the Jedi and clones view the battle droids this way despite said droids exhibiting a whole lot more personality and emotion than they did in the prequel trilogy. Obi-Wan even feels this way about ''Artoo''.
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* [[Just a Stupid Accent]]:
** The clone troopers have become Australian, due to Dee Bradley Baker [[The Other Darrin|replicating]] Temuera Morrison's ''New Zealand'' accent. They all have slight variations, making each clone distinct.
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* [[Kid Hero]]: Ahsoka, who canon places at 14 years of age. Lucas originally intended her to be 11.
* [[Killed Mid-Sentence]]: {{spoiler|General Krell}}
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* [[Kill It with Fire]]: Those Geonosians [[Incredibly Lame Pun|got burned]].
* [[Kill It with Ice]]: Geonosian parasites, although it is just cold in general, not necessarily ice.
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** Ahsoka and Rex share the role for Anakin.
* [[Large Ham]]:
** Doc Vindi, played by Michael York. He is pretty much a [[Card-Carrying Villain|card-carrying]] [[Hammer Horror|Hammer]] villain, complete with dramatic underlighting, thick German accent and exclusive use of his own personal [[
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'''Vindi:''' Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yes yeah yeah yeah ''yes!'' }}
** General Grevious is quite the ham as well. His lines are all exaggerated as well as tearing off a droid's head when things go wrong.
* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: The Father erases Anakin's memories of future, which includes the knowledge of his [[Face Heel Turn]] and progression to Sith Lord Darth Vader, to keep him from siding with the Son.
* [[Lava Adds Awesome]]
* [[
* [[Leave Him to Me]]: Pre Viszla does this twice, once with Obi-Wan and again with Ahsoka. He eventually had to call for backup with Obi-Wan, and Ahsoka abandoned the fight after taking out his jetpack.
* [[Let's Fight Like Gentlemen]]:
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* [[Lilliputians]]: Featured in the episode "Nomad Droids".
* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: Everybody except for Padme due to the expense and effort it would take to render separate models. It is a little strange when Obi-Wan is ''constantly'' wearing his battle armor even while in the Council Chamber, and Ahsoka and Barriss Offee sleep in their bed without blankets and still in their normal clothes, complete with boots for Ahsoka and long robe for Barriss. They all have new outfits as of "Heroes on Both Sides", but you can pretty much count on these outfits staying for the rest of the series barring episodes set before that point.
** It got a lot better by Season 4, as Ahsoka alone had three different outfits in addition to her usual.
* [[Lower Deck Episode]]: Several episodes features almost nothing but clone troopers, although a Jedi or two may make a [[Mandatory Line|token appearance]].
* [[Ludicrous Gibs]]: This happens when Artoo accidentally kills the leader of some [[Lilliputians]] on a world he and C-3PO are visiting. R2 spends the rest of ''Nomad Droids'' with alien blood spattered all over him.
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* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Dooku and [[Man Behind the Man|Darth Sidious]].
* [[Mass "Oh Crap"|Mass Oh Sithspit]]: The pirates have one when reminded that Dooku knows where they live.
* [[Master Apprentice Chain]]: Typical Star Wars fare, although it gets a bit long here:
** Yoda > Count Dooku > Qui-Gon Jinn > Obi-Wan Kenobi > Anakin Skywalker > Ahsoka Tano.
* [[Mauve Shirt]]:
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** Clone trooper Sergeant Denal showed up in two episodes and, despite receiving only a few lines, was memorable due to his distinctive armor design. In his second appearance {{spoiler|Cad Bane shoots the trooper to fake his own death, then takes Denal's armor.}} The outcry on [[The Force]].net's message boards was amazing.
** Captain Rex [[The Lancer|serves the same role]] to Anakin as Commander Cody does to Obi-Wan, except he was not seen in ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]''. It gives his [[A Day in the Limelight|story]] in "The Deserter" where he gets injured a bit more unease because he can die.
** ARC Trooper Echo was wearing one of these shirts during "The Citadel" arc.
** Waxer, who was given a lot of focus and likability in "Innocents of Ryloth" {{spoiler|dies in "Carnage of Krell".}}
* [[Meaningful Name]]:
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* [[Mythology Gag]]: Ahsoka, an apprentice of Anakin Skywalker, starts off in the series wielding a single lightsaber with a reverse grip. When she reappears with her new look for the third season, she has taken up [[Dual-Wielding]]. [[The Force Unleashed|Huh... why does that sound familiar]]?
** In "Brothers", {{spoiler|Darth Maul}} recites part of the Sith Code while ranting deliriously.
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* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]:
** The Mandalorian homeworld is threatened by an extremist group which wants to return to the old Mandalorian ways of combat. They are named "Death Watch."
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* [[Nice Hat]]:
** The broad-brimmed fedora worn by Cad Bane is rather awesome.
** Embo - he essentially wears [[Captain America (comics)]]'s shield on his head. It is both nice AND practical!
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Ahsoka accidentally triggers a droid trap that nearly overwhelms Anakin, and even when her actions ended up saving his life, he was quick to tell her that he should not have been in that situation in the first place.
** Ahsoka again, much later, in Season 3 {{spoiler|saved Captain Tarkin's life. Yes, [[Complete Monster|that]] Tarkin.}}
* [[The Nicknamer]]: Ahsoka had a tendency to use these for people in the early seasons.
* [[Ninja]] : The Kage species who act as perfect ninjas : black bodysuit, stealth, great agility. If not clear enough, Kage is also the Japanese word for shadow, the realm of ninjas.
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* [[Papa Wolf]]:
** Anyone who gets between Anakin and Ahsoka is going to figure this out the hard way. Unsurprising, considering his previous record. See [[Berserk Button]].
** Chairman N. Papanoida is a prime example, being willing to break into Jabba's Palace and gun down waves of outlaws in order to save his missing daughters.
* [[Percussive Maintenance]]:
** The faulty beacon in "Trespass".
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* [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]]: Inverted and played with in "Bounty". When Ventress killed a man in a bar, the patrons all look at her strangely. When she delivers a one-liner, they all go back to what they were doing.
* [["Previously On..."]]: Every episode starts with a newsreel-style recap of previous episodes. Sometimes they reveal the backstory of a new story arc as though it was a previous episode, fitting with the ''[[Star Wars]]'' aggressive sense of history.
* [[Punctuated!
** Here. They. COOOOMMMMMEEE!
** THIS EFFORT! IS NO LONGER! PROFITABLE!
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** "Bounty Hunters" is ''[[The Seven Samurai]]'' <small>IN SPACE</small>, indicated by the memory card at the beginning. [[Toshiro Mifune]], who played one of the samurais in the film, was first intented to play the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi before Alec Guinness was chosen.
** "Lightsaber Lost" is ''Stray Dog'' <small>IN SPACE</small>.
** "R2 Come Home" features [[Timmy in a Well|Anakin and Mace trapped in a crashed ship]] and his faithful companion R2-D2 has to go and get help. R2 plays the role of 'Lassie' <small>IN SPACE</small>.
* [[Red Shirt]]: Many clone troopers, but several do get actual facetime to elevate into a [[Mauve Shirt]].
* [[Red Wire Blue Wire]]: Asajj ends up just slicing through the control panel.
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* [[Reverse Grip]]: Ahsoka's standard lightsaber posture, although there are some times where the switches to a traditional hold during actual combat. In the season two episode "Brain Invaders" [[Continuity Nod|she holds her fork in the same fashion]] when she and Bariss are eating in the messhall.
* [[Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves]]: Apparently, despite being backed primarily by wealthy merchant conglomerates, the Separatists as a whole are cheap as hell, since their preferred method of payment is a lightsaber through the back. Then again, when you are dealing with a crazy dark Jedi or a crazy cyborg and start making demands, [[Tempting Fate|you are really just asking for it]].
* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]] The [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Convor Convoree] from the Season3 finale, and their [https://web.archive.org/web/20111203052035/http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Unidentified_Kiros_bird recycled version] from Season4.
* [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]]: The separatist battle droids are full of humorous charm and personality.
** Taken up a notch in "A Friend In Need". Death Watch has a bunch of harmless battle droids they use for target practice. They beg for mercy and scream "Why?" (albeit in monotone), then beg to be repaired by R2 as they ''crawl'' to him for help. It is very satisfying when R2 gives them the chance to get some retribution.
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* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: For all their [[Character Development|character developments]], [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|crowning moments of awesome]], [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|crowning moments of heartwarming]] and [[Big Damn Heroes]] moments... these clone troopers are still going to end up executing Order 66, slaughter all the Jedi and [[Doomed by Canon|become evil stormtroopers]].
* [[Shoot Your Mate]]: Darth Sidious orders Count Dooku to kill {{spoiler|Asajj Ventress}} in order to test his loyalty, claiming that refusing to comply would indicate his plan to eventually overthrow Sidious with {{spoiler|Ventress's}} help.
* [["Shut Up" Kiss]]: A somewhat more literal example than most. {{spoiler|Ahsoka is chewing out Lux for trusting Deathwatch while they're waiting for Pre Viszla. Noticing that Pre Viszla's headed for the tent, Lux kisses her to shut her up. She had passed herself off as his betrothed to avoid suspicion, hence it was the only way to do it believably. It's very awkward and not meant to be romantic.}}
* [[Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids]]: {{spoiler|General Krell claims that is no longer naive enough to believe in the ways of the Jedi, which is why he is planning to betray the Republic and defect to the Separatists}}.
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* [[Tempting Fate]]:
** This exchange in the pilot movie:
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'''Anakin:''' I wish you wouldn't say that... }}
** "This is the lowest job in the droid army! I can't imagine anything worse than this." *{{spoiler|Obi-Wan closes the door of the cell he's cleaning.}}* "Oh. Oh."
** A clone in a gunship flying through flak during the Second battle of Geonosis: "Good thing those bugs can't aim!"
** TX-20 may want to run those figures again...
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'''Wat Tambor:''' You had better be right!
'''TX-20:''' I am a droid. [[Smug Snake|I am always right.]] }}
* [[Terrifying Rescuer]]: Obi-wan scares the crap out of an alien he's trying to rescue from slave traders, because he's disguised as one of them.
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* [[Wham! Line]]: At the end of "The Zillo Beast Strikes Back", {{spoiler|"You want me to ''clone'' the beast?"}} [[Magnificent Bastard|Then the camera follows Palpatine as he leaves, smirking]].
** A dying {{spoiler|Waxer}} delivers one, revealing that {{spoiler|General Krell set two battalions of clones against each other, [[Moral Event Horizon|planning for them to all be killed]].}}
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{{spoiler|'''Waxer'''}}: It... it was {{spoiler|General Krell. He sent us to these coordinates to stop the enemy. We thought they were wearing our armor. [[Tear Jerker|But... it was... you...]]}} }}
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]:
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* [[Why Am I Ticking?]]: Todo has no idea Cad Bane's installed a bomb in him until moments before it goes off.
* [[With Due Respect]]:
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Sir, with all due respect, we're only here to protect you. }}
* [[With My Hands Tied]]: Ahsoka does this to a round-dozen {{spoiler|corrupt Mandalorian Police}} after being captured in "The Academy" while blocking stun blasts from mounted turrets, even managing to capture their leader in the process, [[Redundant Department of Redundancy|all with her hands bound]].
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* [[Wrench Wench]]: Ahsoka apparently has become a skilled mechanic during the series; in the [[Physical God|Mortis]] [[God's Hands Are Tied|trilogy]], she is shown repairing a badly wrecked shuttle by herself and even modifying the repairs at Obi-Wan's request.
* [[Wrestler in All of Us]]: While fighting Obi-Wan in "Kidnapped", Darts D'Nar at one point hoists Obi-Wan high over his head and then slams him down onto the floor.
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: Palpatine is the [[Big Good]] chancellor of the Republic and he's also the [[Big Bad]] on the Seperatist side. He'll be in power no matter which side wins.
* [[You Are Number Six]]: General Krell makes a deliberate point of referring to every clone trooper by their identification number instead of by the nicknames that they have been given by fellow clones. He does refer to Sergeant Appo by his nickname, and even uses Rex's name at one point, so it seems that using the identification numbers is something he only does [[Full Name Ultimatum|when he is mad at the clone in question]] or [[Tyrant Takes the Helm|when he is proving a point]]. Which is most of the time.
* [[You Fool!]]: At the conclusion of Umbara arc, {{spoiler|General Krell}} decrees that Dogma was "the biggest fool of all."
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]:
** Grievous, frequently, but it helps that he does this to droids. One episode had a droid continually irritating him, [[Trailers Always Spoil|and any viewer who saw the trailer]] was wondering when he would get his head smacked off.
** In a more brutal example, the leader of Death Watch casually kills one of his men for failing to kill Obi-Wan.
*** Death Watch themselves get hit with this by Dooku for failing to get rid of Satine. They survived, but now they're independent.
** Count Dooku quotes the complete line when {{spoiler|he disavows Asajj Ventress as his apprentice and orders her death}}. Particularly painful since she had not actually failed him, but Darth Sidious [[Shoot Your Mate|wanted to test Dooku's loyalty]].
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* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]:
** After delivering a captured R2-D2 to the Separatists, Trandoshan scavenger Gha Nachkt demands a higher fee from General Grievous, who promptly gives him a "bonus" in the form of a lightsaber through his gut.
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** Boba Fett's quest for revenge against Mace Windu for killing his father/genetic template Jango in ''[[Attack of the Clones]]''.
** "Padawan Lost" features a father determined to avenge the death of his son.
* [[Young and
* [[You Remind Me of X]]:
** At the conclusion of "Arc Troopers," Commander Cody and Captain Rex congratulate Echo and Fives on their performance during the battle. Rex explains that they showed valor and real courage, and then says that they reminded him of himself.
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