Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Difference between revisions

The film began development as a [[Pilot Movie|three-part pilot]] episode arc for the series, but was converted into a [[Compilation Movie]] after Lucas screened the episodes himself. The movie was generally panned by critics, and subject to fan backlash, but being a ''[[Star Wars]]'' production, was still financially successful.

 

 

The series was designed in an anthology format, with [[Anachronic Order]] as a very intentional stylistic choice. Each season there is a [[Half Arc Season|loosely connected]] [[Story Arc]] (most two or three part episodes) while the "[[Filler]]" tends to jump around to any point in the timeline. This has resulted in some [[Story Arc|Story Arcs]] being told almost in reverse.

** "Holocron Heist" to "Children of the Force" (2:1-2:3) take place before "Evil Plans" (3:8), "Hostage Crisis" (1:22) and "Hunt for Ziro" (3:9), which form their own arc in that order.

** "Heroes On Both Sides"(3:10) and "Pursuit of Peace"(3.11) take place before "Senate Murders"(2:15).

* [[Amazon Brigade]]: The Nightsisters.

* [[Animorphism]]: The Daughter and Son can turn, respectively, into a griffin and a gargoyle at will.

* [[Army of the Dead]]: The Nightsisters are able to revive the corpses of their fallen to battle on their behalf. Though effective against droids, Grievous treated them like a nuisance.

* [[Art Evolution]]: The show started off fairly high quality, especially for an [[All CGI Cartoon]], but the art style lend itself to making the characters look like mannequins and outside of action scenes they would be rather stiff. Later episodes improved upon the facial expressions as well as the character movement, in addition to a Jedi costume switch from ([[No Flow in CGI|easily animated]]) body armor and gauntlets to the tunics they are seen wearing in the movies.

* [[As You Know]]: Dooku in "Citadel Rescue".

{{quote| '''Count Dooku:''' I don't need to remind you...}}

** Count Dooku is a villainous version.

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Cad Bane.

** Just look at the poster.

** 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.

* [[Bond Villain Stupidity]]:

** In "Hostage Crisis", the bounty hunters manage to disable and capture Anakin after [[Die Hard On an X|he tries to stop their invasion of the senate building]]. However, instead of just killing him, like they did with ''every other soldier who tried to stop them'', they tie him up and leave him with the senators, planning to kill him with a bomb later. Not even Cad Bane gives an explanation for why they are keeping him alive.

** In "Nightsisters", {{spoiler|Asajj Ventress}} decides to get revenge on Count Dooku after he betrays her, and is given a poison dart that will impair his sight and reflexes so she can defeat him in the ensuing fight. Just making it a ''lethal'' poison is never even considered.

*** In hindsight, it seems that Talzin needed Dooku alive to teach Savage Opress, so to use a more subdued poison and give Dooku a fighting chance might have been the point. Ventress probably didn't have any real reason to believe that Mother Talzin wouldn't use her best preparations to help assassinate Dooku.

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

* [[Call Back]]: Remember that Defoliator gun the Separatists were testing in "Defenders Of Peace"? Grievous uses one against the Nightsisters in "Massacre".

* [[Chair Reveal]]: In "Lair of Grievous".

* [[Character Development]]:

* [[Characterization Marches On]]: In Pre Viszla's first appearences, he was a political terrorist bent on rebuilding the Mandalorian warrior culture. When we see him again in Season 4, he has become a psychotic madman who burns down villages for fun.

* [[The Chessmaster]]: Palpatine's manipulating almost everybody to make sure the war lasts as long and becomes as intense as possible. "Duchess of Mandalore" is perhaps the only episode where he suffers a real defeat.

** 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.

* [[Cloning Blues]]:

** In seasone one's "The Hidden Enemy," the question of a problem during the cloning procedure is raised in order to help explain the actions of a rogue trooper.

** 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.]]}}

* [[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]].

* [[Continuity Cameo]]:

** "Witches of the Mist" starts with a short appearance by [[Republic Commando|Delta Squad]]. They may get more action at some point, as the director admits to being a big fan of them.

* [[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''.

* [[Convection Schmonvection]]: "Citadel Rescue" takes place almost entirely in arms reach of a massive lava flow. It's not even internally consistent, either. Characters hang mere meters over the lava with no problem in one scene, yet the burial cloak for a Jedi burns before it even touches it. Animals die instantly, yet said Jedi's wrapped corpse somehow ''floats downstream'' and the worst that happens is it is still on fire.

* [[Cool Bike]]: Speeder-bikes, the ''Star Wars'' equivalent, make frequent appearances. They come in non-armed "swoop" configurations, blaster-wielding military models, and even with gunnery-mounted sidecars on occasion.

* [[Cool Old Guy]]:

* [[Die Hard On an X]]: Anakin channels [[Die Hard (Film)|John McClane]] when Cad Bane takes some hostages in the Senate Building. Though because of a complicated set-back he finds himself without his lightsaber, limiting his [[Aggressive Negotiations|normal strategy]] and leads to an interesting situation that forces him to fight an assassin droid bare-handed.

* [[Disaster Democracy]]: In "Nomad Droids", after R2-D2 and C-3PO accidentally kill the leader of a group of [[Lilliputians]], they want to put the droids in charge, and C-3PO holds an impromptu election. The three candidates proceed to beat eachother up afterwards while the droids leave the system.

** According to the official site, one-time villain Chi Cho's behavior, accent, and dialogue were supposed to bring to mind apartheid-era South African dictators. The battle itself is similar to the Battle of Isandlwana in the Zulu Wars. In Isandlwana you have a clear tech advantage in the hands of the British that is wasted due to an arrogant commander stretching his forces too thinly for their superior firepower to overcome the enemies' superior numbers and arguably superior tactics, which is exactly what happens.

** The New Mandalorians, who are a race of tall, mostly blond, blue-eyed humans with long, angular facial features desperately trying to distance themselves from their ancestors' reputation as [[Nazi Germany|brutal conquerors]]. Opposing them are the Death Watch, who want to return to traditional Mandalorian ways, and whose über-Aryan-looking leader wears his [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100130031116/starwars/images/3/3c/Kenobi_vs_Vizsla.jpg hair] in a slight variation of the stereotypical Wehrmacht cut.

** ''Averted'' with his Arcona counterpart El-Les, who is rather caring for a drill instructor.

* [[Driven to Suicide]]: A Twi'lek slave, after a failed assassination attempt on her master, throws herself off a balcony rather than continue being a slave.

** Kit Fisto picked it up on the fly and it was awesome.

** Asajj Ventress does this ''as her schtick''.

* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: The slave pen warden in the episode adaption of ''Slaves of the Republic'' has one when he {{spoiler|drops a band of slaves down into an inactive volcano, killing them through the sheer drop, ''[[Kick the Dog|just to make a point]]'' to Obi-Wan of how he intended to break his will.}}

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Cad Bane saves Rako Hardeen when Moralo Eval tries to kill him. Not because he cared for Hardeen, but because Eval purposefully cheated Hardeen out of victory then caused the floor to fall out beneath him. Bane felt that Eval should at least give him a fair fight.

* [[Evil Chancellor]]: Besides Palpatine, there is also {{spoiler|the prime minister of Mandalore}}.

* [[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.

* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: There are several episodes dedicated to capturing Grievous, which never work. Obi-Wan notices and lampshades this trope at the end of "The Deserter", and you can see how much it disgusts him.

* [[Faking the Dead]]: The Jedi hire a sniper to shoot Obi-Wan, who takes a drug to make it look like the shot killed him. Then they use [[Magic Plastic Surgery]] to make him look like the sniper and have him sent to prison, so he can infiltrate a plot to assassinate the Chancellor.

** During the series even the technically identical clone troopers will be given a moment or two in order to establish a unique personality and general likability, and then will be killed in way that both uses or subverts the [[Discretion Shot]].

** Grievous graphically killed an alien mechanic / hacker with the lightsaber blade visibly tearing through his chest!

* [[Fantastic Slurs]]: Tinnies for droids, while Boyle calls the Twileks "Tail Heads" rather disparagingly in ''Innocents of Ryloth.''

* [[Fauxshadow]]: The episode "The Deserter" gives an almost assured impression that Cut Lawquane would be killed by the episode's end in a sort of [[Heroic Sacrifice]] / [[Last Stand]]. He deserted the clone army on Geonosis, something that he feels greatly ashamed by, and that he thinks Rex would view him as a coward for doing so, but he mentions that if it came down to it, he would die to protect his adopted children, and when they are later attacked by droids Cut elects to hold them off himself, leaving Rex as the last line of defence between them and his family. He lives to the end, and Rex leaves him in peace with his family.

** [[Big Bad]]: Cad Bane

** [[The Dragon]]: Moralo Eval

** [[Sixth Ranger]] / [[Sixth Ranger Traitor]]: Rako Hardeen(Obi-Wan in disguise)

* [[Flying Saucer]] The ship of Hondo Ohnaka and his pirate gang.

* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: None of the heroes are going to realize that Chancellor Palpatine is playing both sides for suckers until it is too late.

* [[Foreshadowing]]: Also [[Call Forward|Call Forwards]].

** Chairman Papanoida of Pantora pulls it off briefly.

** Every single Mandalorian soldier. [[Word of God]] states it's meant to reflect the symmetry that their culture favours.

* [[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.

* [[If You're So Evil Eat This Kitten]]: Queen Miraj Scintel orders Anakin to whip Obi-Wan Kenobi in order to prove that he really is a slaver.

* [[I'm a Doctor Not A Placeholder]]: The droid [http://www.starwars.com/clonewars/comic/?book=season1#/?page=159 here.]

* [[Impaled With Extreme Prejudice]]: The Kadavo slave master meets his end at the business end of a shock staff.

* [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]]: The droids. "Rookies" has one trooper evade droid fire for a few seconds by ''walking sideways''. Their effectiveness varies, such as in "The Hidden Enemy", with zero droid humor and an obscenely large clone body count.

* [[Ironic Echo]]: In "Rookies": "Roger, roger."

* [[Iron Woobie]]: Savage Opress. He's part of a [[Proud Warrior Race]] who have been subjugated by the Nightsisters, gets the crap beaten out of him by Ventress, is turned into a hulking hate-filled monster under her control, is made to kill his own brother, gets handed over to Dooku in a plot to assassinate him, is trained in the Force by Dooku by getting the bejeezus zapped out of him with Force lightning, then fails both his mission and his secret assignment, which was doomed from the start anyway. Finally, he gets rejected by Ventress and beaten by both the good guys and the bad guys within an inch of his life. Without even waiting for his wounds to heal, he goes on another quest to become more powerful, not realising that he's still just a pawn in Mother Talzin's game. Oh, and everyone treats him like an inferior knockoff of Darth Maul even in-universe.

** Obi-Wan and Anakin both pull the ploy.

** Kit Fisto pulls a similar trick on Grievous, but substitutes an escape for the trope's dictated attack. Greivous' look when his surrender demand is (seemingly) accepted? Priceless.

* [[It Has Been an Honor]]: The reprogrammed Battle Droids in "Citadel Rescue".

* [[It Only Works Once]]: In "Plan of Dissent", Fives and a couple other troopers, unwilling to risk their lives under Krell's reckless command, plot a mission against a resupply ship which they liken to Anakin's destruction of the droid command ship in ''Episode I''. They manage to get up to the ship and fire on its reactor, but the droids activate a ray shield to block them. One of the troopers has to physically disconnect a damaged cannon, walk it around the shield, then smash it into the reactor to detonate it.

* [[Jerkass Has a Point]]: When Bric sabotages Domino squad, he's not doing it with their interests at heart, but Shaak Ti points out to El-Les that battlefield conditions will be even less forgiving and they need to figure this out (which ultimately derives from why living beings are considered superior to droids on the battlefield, because droids can't improvise).

* [[Jet Pack]]:

* [[Kid Appeal Character]]: Ahsoka.

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

{{quote| "Eventually you'll have to do the right thing and--*blam*}}

* [[Kill It With Fire]]: Those Geonosians [[Incredibly Lame Pun|got burned]].

** Ahsoka and Rex share the role for Anakin.

* [[Large Ham]]:

{{quote| '''Jar-Jar:''' Yousa not creatin' life! Yousa ''takin'' life! <br />

'''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.

* [[Lava Adds Awesome]]

* [[Useful Notes/The Laws and Customs of War|The Laws and Customs of War]]: The series presents the first explicit mention of a codified set of laws governing the rules of warfare within the ''Star Wars'' universe: the Convention of Civilized Systems, named in "Trespass". The exact nature and details of these laws, however, have yet to be revealed.

* [[Make It Look Like an Accident]]:

** In the pilot movie, when Ziro explains to Count Dooku that Padme has been snooping around, Dooku suggests that he "have her meet with an accident with extreme prejudice" if she continues to be a problem.

* [[Male Gaze]]: Ahsoka is the subject of one in "Heroes on Both Sides". She immediately lampshades it. Incidentally, there was a time skip between the previous episode and this one, since Ahsoka has visibly grown up since the last time we saw her.

* [[Mama Bear]]: Satine may be a pacifist, but she is willing to threaten someone with violence at the hands of her guards when the lives of children are at stake due to poison. She is also clearly outraged/devastated at everyone else's apparent indifference to the situation. It is actually quite fitting for her since, in the EU, Mandalorians are traditionally protective of children, whether their own or not.

*** Justified in that the clones obviously don't have birth names, so the names the get are often connected to their personality.

* [[Mecha Mooks]]: Battle droids.

* [[Mind Rape]]: Three Jedi pull this on {{spoiler|Cad Bane}} at one point.

* [[Mistreatment Induced Betrayal]]: Throughout the Mon Calamari arc, Tamson never misses an opportunity to belittle, threaten, and bully Nossor Ri and the Quarren. Eventually, they decide that enough is enough.

* [[Multiple Choice Past]]: A new backstory was written for General Grievous, in which his inability to become a Jedi Knight motivates him to procure robotic upgrades to improve his fighting ability, as well as instilling a hatred and resentment of the Jedi. This contradicts the existing backstory, in which he was mortally injured in a shuttle crash arranged by Count Dooku and agreed to help the Separatist cause in exchange for a robotic body. The new backstory is not explicitly shown in "Lair of Grievous", but is implied by a series of statues that exhibit him in various stages of his transformation and a comment from Grievous that he chose the modifications himself. The creators have explicitly stated that they prefer to let the viewer decide which backstory to follow.

* [[Musical Spoiler]]: The "Imperial March" pops ups ''everywhere,'' from behind ominous conversations to meaningful handshakes. Also counts as a [[Musical Nod]]. When Anakin kills {{spoiler|Merrick}} and when Poggle the Lesser becomes the first canonical victim of Vader's trademark Force choke.

** In "Brothers", {{spoiler|Darth Maul}} recites part of the Sith Code while ranting deliriously.

{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Darth Maul'''}}: Through power I gain victory; through victory my chains are broken...}}

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

** Embo - he essentially wears [[Captain America]]'s shield on his head. It is both nice AND practical!

** 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.

** Noir ''act'', really. At the end of the pilot movie Padme goes to meet with Ziro the Hutt. His lair, a [[Den of Iniquity|den of crime and vice]], is in a dingy nightclub playing classic jazz straight out of a 1940's [[Film Noir]].

** "Senate Murders", a [[Who Dunnit]] on Coruscant.

* [[Non Lethal Warfare]]: Averted. ''Greatly''.

* [[Not Quite Dead]]: {{spoiler|Darth Maul.}}

* [[Not Screened for Critics]]: The theatrical film had a rating embargo until release, and ended up with a [http://www.metacritic.com/movie/star-wars-the-clone-wars 35% rating] on Metacritic.

* [[Nonuniform Uniform]]: Most clones somehow customize their armor or hairstyle / color in the show.

* [[Old Master]]: Besides Yoda, the season 2 episode "Lightsaber Lost" introduces Tera Sinube, a seemingly-feeble old Jedi who shows considerable wisdom, approaches any problem with a calm, methodical approach to great success, disarms a thief who stole Ahsoka's lightsaber using his own lightsaber which is built into his walking stick, and is supposedly one of the foremost experts on Coruscant's criminal underworld.

** The Jedi in general, but Yoda was explicitly described as such in the first episode of the series, "Ambush," where King Katuunko decreed that Yoda was worth a thousand battle droids.

** The nameless Death Watch commando from the beginning of the Mandalorian arc certainly counts, single-handedly attempting to take an entire [[The Battlestar|Republic cruiser]] out of commission. He does not ''quite'' succeed, but kills himself rather than be captured and interrogated, and it is implied he came within a hair's breadth of completing his mission.

* [[Pirates]]: The antagonists in "Dooku Captured" "The Gungan General".

* [[Physical God]]: The Force wielders. Their power is so great they have to be confined and kept secret from the rest of the galaxy.

* [[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 for Emphasis]]:

** In a similar vein, clone trooer Appo's helmet stripe was redesigned from its ROTS design to include an [[Avatar: The Last Airbender]] styel arrow.

* [[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.}}

* [[Single Tear]]: {{spoiler|Waxer}} dies shedding one.

* [[Smug Snake]]:

* [[Spanner in The Works]]: The only thing Jar Jar Binks is useful for.

* [[Speaks Fluent Animal]]: Animals seem willing to do whatever Jar Jar asks of them for some reason.

* [[Spirit Advisor]]: {{spoiler|Qui-Gon}} appears as one to Obi-Wan in "Overlords". Later in the same episode it looks like {{spoiler|Shimi Skywalker has appeared in front of Anakin, [[Subverted|but it turns out in was just The Son in disguise]]}}. {{spoiler|Qui-Gon}} appears to Anakin later in the episode arc, as well.

* [[The Starscream]]: Falso was this to Hondo in "Gungan General".

* [[Touch of Death]]: The Son apparently has such a strong connection to the Dark Side that he can kill with a single finger.

* [[Traitor Shot]]: Palpatine at the end of "Duchess of Mandalore", when the evidence that undoes the Separatist plot is revealed.

* [[Transforming Mecha]]: The suicide-bomber infiltration droids from "Heroes on Both Sides" can not only disguise themselves as cleaning droids, but [[Combining Mecha|combine into bombs]] so they can fulfill their function.

* [[Trojan Horse]]: The aforementioned sabotage droids.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Chairman Cho declares his intentions to exterminate a race that was willing to make peace with him, but had shown themselves to be a tad kill-happy in the past, and does it to their face. He then personally leads an attack against a numerically superior force that is lying in wait on their own territory without any military support of his own. It seems like he is actively attempting to earn the trope.

* [[Tyrant Takes the Helm]]: The Umbara arc opens with Anakin being recalled to Coruscant and General Krell being given command of his clones. He immediately begins to denigrate the troopers, insulting their laboratory origin and [[You Are Number Six|exclusively referring to them by their identification numbers]], [[General Failure|and giving them horrible tactical orders]]. {{spoiler|Turns out that was all intentional: he is planning to defect to the Separatists and wants to degrade the Republic war effort before he does as a gift to Dooku.}}

* [[Ungrateful Bastard]]: Captain Tarkin never misses an opportunity to [[Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like|berate his saviors' rescue plan]], question their competence as military leaders (Anakin actually [[Jerkass Has a Point|agreed with him on this]]), and only gives the barest of compliments when rescued seconds before a firey death.

* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Obi-Wan and Duchess Satine, complete with [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]] teasing from Anakin.

* [[The Uriah Gambit]]: {{spoiler|General Krell's [[General Failure|horrendous battle tactics]] were revealed to be part of his plan to sabotage the Republic advance in preparation for his defection to the Separatists. By giving his troops impossible assignments they would be easily defeated, and ultimately wiped out, by the Separatist forces}}.

* [[Use Your Head]]: Captain Ackbar takes out an aquadroid this way in the climatic final battle on Mon Calamari.

* Vibroweapon: BX-series droid commandos often use vibroswords.

* [[Villain Episode]]: Some toe the line with a greater focus on the villains rather than the heroes, but the "Nightsisters" arc is almost exclusively on Asajj Ventress and her vendetta against Dooku.

* [[Villain Exit Stage Left]]: Oh so many with General Grevious. They must have used that same animation of Grevious escaping in his own personnal ship a dozen times.

{{quote| '''Rex''': Tell me who gave you orders to attack us.<br />

{{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...]]}} }}

** Ahsoka lampshades the trope in the pilot movie. After [[Obviously Evil|the helpful droid thanks the Jedi for freeing him from battle droids and points out where the baby Hutt is being held]] he disappears from the narrative. When he reappears a few scenes later, his role now revealed, Ahsoka actually comments that she had been wondering where the droid had gone to.

** In a straight example of the trope, early in the movie Mace Windu requests three Republic cruisers to help with the current situation and is never seen again, with no reference made to what the ships were for or where he is during this critical point in the war.

** Averted. Obi-Wan wants to protect the rights of the Talz, which are less human-looking and more technologically primitive than the Pantorans who want them eliminated for their land.

** Played straight and averted with the droids. R2-D2 and C-3PO are still afforded a moderate amount of sentience, however, Seperatist droids are sliced through with no regret.