Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Difference between revisions

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* [[Absolute Cleavage]]: The Daughter's outfit.

* [[Action Girl]]:

** Ahsoka, who just as often rescues her Jedi instructor as he rescues her.

** 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]]:

** 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.

** 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.

* [[By-The-Book Cop]]: Inspector Tan Divo.

* [[By Wall That Is Holey]]: Happens to Anakin in [[The Movie]].

** 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]].

* [[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]]:

* [[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.

** 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.

** 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.

** 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.

* [[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.

* [[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.''

** [[Big Bad]]: Cad Bane

** [[The Dragon]]: Moralo Eval

** [[The Brute]]: Embo

** [[Dark Chick]]: Twazzi

*** 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?

* [[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.

* [[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]]:

** {{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".

** 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).

* [[Hartman Hips]]: Aayla Secura.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]:

** 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".

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

** Yoda > Count Dooku > Qui-Gon Jinn > Obi-Wan Kenobi > Anakin Skywalker > Ahsoka Tano.

* [[Mauve Shirt]]:

** 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.

** Waxer, who was given a lot of focus and likability in "Innocents of Ryloth" {{spoiler|dies in "Carnage of Krell".}}

* [[Meaningful Name]]:

* [[Nice Hat]]:

** The broad-brimmed fedora worn by Cad Bane is rather awesome.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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]].

* [[Percussive Maintenance]]:

** The faulty beacon in "Trespass".

* [[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.

** Here. They. COOOOMMMMMEEE!

** THIS EFFORT! IS NO LONGER! PROFITABLE!

** "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>.

* [[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.

** The relationship between Morley and {{spoiler|Darth Maul}} in "Brothers" resembles the one between [[Lord of the Rings|Gollum and Shelob]].

** Upcoming character Commander Thorn was designed as an official congradulations to Joss Whedan and Marvel on the success of The Avengers.

* [["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}}.

* [[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.

* [[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."