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'''Obi-Wan Kenobi:''' "If only that were true." }}

 

* [[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".

* [[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-Foot Whatever]]: The Zillo Beast in its titular episodes, which directly homage the ''[[Godzilla]]'' movies with a little bit of ''[[King Kong]]'' as well.

* [[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.

** Count Dooku is a villainous version.

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Cad Bane.

** 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.

'''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".

* [[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.

** 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.

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]:

** Used a few times.

'''Anakin:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|Isn't it always?]] }}

** The point of Chewbacca's arrival in "Wookiee Hunt" is pretty much to set up one.

* [[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.

'''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''.

* [[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".

* [[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.

* [[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.

** 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]]:

** General Krell dual-wields ''double-bladed lightsabers''!

* [[Dying Moment of Awesome]]:

'''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.

** {{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".

'''Savage Opress''': *no answer* }}

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]:

** 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...

** 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.

* [[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.

{{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.

** {{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.]]

{{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.

** 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''.

* [[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.

* [[Kid Hero]]: Ahsoka, who canon places at 14 years of age. Lucas originally intended her to be 11.

* [[Killed Mid-Sentence]]: {{spoiler|General Krell}}

* [[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.

* [[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 [[Hitler Cam]].

'''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.

* [[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.

* [[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."

* [[Tempting Fate]]:

** This exchange in the pilot movie:

'''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...

'''Wat Tambor:''' You had better be right!<br />

'''TX-20:''' I am a droid. [[Smug Snake|I am always right.]] }}

* [[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]].}}

{{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?]]:

* [[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]]:

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]].

*** 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]].

* [[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.