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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 while the TV series debuted on [[Cartoon Network]] in fall 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.
 
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 itself has been better received, likely because it is shown in the medium for which it was intended. A major advantage of the television format and [[Adored Byby the Network|choice timeslot]] is the inclusion of PG-13 level content. [[Anyone Can Die|Characters are killed]] [[Family-Unfriendly Death|in unsettling and dramatic fashion]], and some adult language and mild sexual content have [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|slipped in under the radar]]. Like ''Clone Wars'', episodes feature [[Ascended Extra|more obscure Jedi]], [[A Day in Thethe Limelight|stories centered entirely]] [[Lower Deck Episode|around Clone Troopers]] and sometimes even the Politicians. There is also a set of [[Clone Wars Gambit|novels]] set during the events of the series.
 
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.
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* [[Amazon Brigade]]: The Nightsisters.
* [[Animorphism]]: The Daughter and Son can turn, respectively, into a griffin and a gargoyle at will.
* [[Armed Withwith Canon]]: George Lucas' approach to many elements of the show, which he sometimes outlines in precise details for the writers to use.
* [[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.
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{{quote| '''Count Dooku:''' I don't need to remind you...}}
* [[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 Fifty50 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]]: Chances are that anyone who is not a civilian has Badass coursing through their veins.
* [[Badass Army]]: The clone troopers.
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** Grievous, in spades.
** The commander of the Citadel executes droids not just for failure, but even for ''discovering somebody else's failure''.
* [[Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work]]: [[Playing Withwith 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.
{{quote| "What? He was going to blow up the ship."}}
** 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 Byby Any Other Name|Pre Viszla]] has shaved his head, and received a nasty scar from a fight with Count Dooku.
* [[Bash Brothers]]
* [[Batman Gambit]]: Dooku and Ziro's treachery. They create conflict for episodes and even multi-episodes by exploiting how their betrayee will react.
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** {{spoiler|Darth Maul's condition in "Brothers". His missing lower body has been replaced with a crude, spider-like apparatus, his horns have tripled in length, and there are veins visible all over his body.}}
* [[Bond Villain Stupidity]]:
** In "Hostage Crisis", the bounty hunters manage to disable and capture Anakin after [[Die Hard Onon 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.
** The Death Watch in "The Mandalore Plot" manage to knock Obi-Wan unconscious, then put him on the ever-so cliche [[Conveyor Belt O' Doom]] with a rock grinder at the end. Their justification for this is so it [[Make It Look Like an Accident|looks like an accident]]. [[Sarcasm Mode|Because surely the coroner would be able to spot a blaster wound in mulch]]. Later, when he is on the run and disarmed, Pre Viszla shows up with several mooks and he proceeds to return Obi-Wan's lightsaber [[Let's Fight Like Gentlemen|so they may duel fairly]] (Viszla had his own lightsaber-esque weapon).
** 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.
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* [[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.
* [[Death Byby Materialism]]: Gha Nachkt, most notably.
* [[Decapitation Presentation]]:
** In the film, the heads of the bounty hunters Jabba hired to rescue his son are brought back to him to show their obvious failure at the rescue attempt.
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* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: In "Bounty Hunters".
{{quote| "No landing is permitted without permission!"}}
* [[Depending Onon 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.
** The Nightsisters, introduced in the EU novel ''The Courtship of Princess Leia'', were regarded as "witches" because their planet had lost the knowledge of the Force and could only explain their power through magic and witchcraft. With the exception of using verbal "spells" (which worked [[Magic Feather|because they thought that was the only way to get their magic to work]]), they had none of the trappings of stereotypical witchcraft. In ''The Clone Wars'', they have all the trappings of Hollywood Witches - they refer to their groupings as "covens", use potions and cast spells upon weapons.
* [[Determinator]]: Savage Opress is a nice break from the proud ''Clone Wars'' villainous tradition of running away as soon as they encounter someone who can match them in battle. Not only does he continue to fight multiple enemies, all of who outclass him, in rapid succession, he also shrugs off repeated blaster shots, Force lightning and slamming against walls, which would have instantly killed or at least incapacitated most other people. By the time he did retreat he was half dead from all the abuse he took.
* [[Die Hard Onon 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.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]:
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** Count Dooku, despite having the traditional high regard for loyalty that all Sith have, never made any move to usurp the authority of Darth Sidious {{spoiler|until Sidious ordered him to kill Asajj Ventress, his apprentice and number one assassin, [[Shoot Your Mate|in order to test his loyalty]]. Though Dooku did betray Ventress as ordered, as soon as he gained a new apprentice he [[We Can Rule Together|explained that the two of them would grow in power and overthrow Sidious]]. Meanwhile, Ventress vows to kill Count Dooku for what he tried to do.}}
** {{spoiler|Savage Opress}} also predictably turns on Ventress, who treated him even worse than Dooku did either of them.
* [[Doomed Byby Canon]] / [[Restricted Expanded Universe]]: All the material set chronologically after this show has pretty much guaranteed that most of the main cast and supporting cast will either die/be [[Put Onon a Bus]] or survive anything that comes their way. Examples include: General Grievous and Anakin being unable to meet face to face, due to ''Revenge of the Sith'' being their first actual meeting; any so-called "decisive blow against the Republic/Separatists" being doomed to failure; and all of Padme's attempts at a diplomatic solution being sabotaged or ineffective.
** Its almost as bad for Latts from "Bounty", whose species has been established as being almost entirely exinct by the time of ROTJ.
* [[Doomy Dooms of Doom]]: Not just ''any'' droid factory, but a droid factory... of DOOM! And Cargo... of Doom!
* [[Double-Speak]]: Averted - a bill being considered by the Senate to take certain measures that would invade people's privacy is called [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|the "Enhanced Privacy Invasion Bill"]].
* [[The Dragon]]: There is so much [[Man Behind the Man]] stuff on the Separatists' side that the only person who really resembles the role is Asajj Ventress, who is sent out specifically to make the heroes' job harder in Dooku's name. Grievous clearly thinks he has this role, but whenever they're in the same scene it's very clear who's really Dooku's top subordinate.
* [[Dramatic Irony]]:
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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]]:
** In the episode "Clone Cadets", the troopers of Domino Squad are under the charge of Master Chief Petty Officer Bric, a Siniteen bounty hunter with [[My Brain Is Big|an oversized brain]] and a scholarship to the [[R. Lee Ermey]] school of drill instruction. He does not seem to actually have his troops best interests at heart, but his tough style seems to work and get the troopers motivated to pass their exams.
** ''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.
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* [[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.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Princesses|Everything's Better With Duchesses]]
* [[Everything's Deader Withwith Zombies]]: The "Legacy of Terror" episode had alien insect warrior zombies, followed by clone trooper and Jedi zombies (well, just one Jedi zombie) in the next episode. Nightsister zombies make an appearance two seasons later.
* [[Evil Chancellor]]: Besides Palpatine, there is also {{spoiler|the prime minister of Mandalore}}.
* [[Evil-Detecting Dog|Evil Detecting Giant Monster]]: [[Word of God]] says that the Zillo Beast knew Palpatine was evil and set out to hunt him down when it escaped the lab.
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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 Asas 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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{{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.
* [[Hijacked Byby Ganon]]: Who hired Aurra Sing to kill Padmé? Hint: {{spoiler|Fat, purple and a [[Creepy Crossdresser]]}}.
* [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]:
** The BXs in "Rookies" gain access to the base by pretending to be clone troopers. The surviving troopers gain entrance to the base by pretending to be BXs.
** In "Prisoners," Riff Tamson stabs a few enemies with small [[Time Bomb|time bombs]] that blow them into a bloody mess. {{spoiler|Lee-Char manages to fight Tamson and kills him taking and stabbing Tamson with one of his own bombs}}.
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** Ahsoka's behavior in the season 3 finale has a minor amount of Idiot Ball to it. Kaleefa tries to Force Choke one of the hunters, but Ahsoka convinces her not to. Part of the reason is that Kaleefa is obviously doing it out of anger, a path to the Dark Side if ever there was one, but it doesn't seem to occur to Ahsoka that he'll give away their position if not killed, which he does mere seconds later. To be fair, Ahsoka has no problem killing in self-defense for the rest of the finale, so one could chalk it up to a minor lapse in judgement.
* [[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 Aa Placeholder]]: The droid [http://www.starwars.com/clonewars/comic/?book=season1#/?page=159 here.]
* [[I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin]]: Master Even Piell does this to Ahsoka in order to make sure the hyperspace route he's carrying gets to the Republic.
* [[Impaled Withwith 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.
* [[Impossibly Cool Weapon]]: Lightsabers, naturally, but "The Mandalore Plot" manages to up the cool factor by introducing an old-school lightsaber with a black blade.
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** The Pantorans are South African - a nod to Apartheid-era dictators.
** The Felucians sound vaguely Japanese - a nod to ''Seven Samurai''.
** Kit Fisto has a slight Jamaican accent. Coming from [[Phil La MarrLaMarr]], he sometimes sounds like Hermes Conrad from ''[[Futurama]]''.
* [[Just Hit Him]]: Both played straight and averted during Darts D'nar's fight with Obi-Wan in "Kidnapped". Darts throws Obi-Wan across the room a number of times when it probably would've been more effective to just start beating the hell out of him right where they were. But at other times during the fight Darts ''does'' beat on him, and choke him, and [[Wrestler in All of Us|pick him up only to slam him onto the floor]]. As much as he wanted to win, he also wanted revenge; Obi-Wan made a good outlet for those frustrations.
* [[Just in Time]]:
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* [[Killed Mid-Sentence]]: {{spoiler|General Krell}}
{{quote| "Eventually you'll have to do the right thing and--*blam*}}
* [[Kill It Withwith Fire]]: Those Geonosians [[Incredibly Lame Pun|got burned]].
* [[Kill It Withwith Ice]]: Geonosian parasites, although it is just cold in general, not necessarily ice.
* [[Kiss of Death]]: This [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE11a9BXe54 little bit of Ventress killing a clone trooper] from "ARC Troopers" that Cartoon Network insisted be cut before the episode's airing.
* [[The Lancer]]: Anakin usually fulfills this role to Obi-Wan when they are on a mission together.
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** Poor, poor Nahdar Vebb, who was apparently created just to get shot full of holes by Grievous. Rather humorously, the clone troopers who accompanied him all wore [[Lampshade Hanging|red armor]] and also died horrible deaths.
** 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 Thethe 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".}}
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** Clone trooper "Dogma," who is almost fanatical about obeying orders and the official chain of command.
*** 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.
* [[Merchandise-Driven]]: And how! The movie's DVD case even has advertisements for all the assorted ''Star Wars'' stuff you can buy.
* [[Mind Rape]]: Three Jedi pull this on {{spoiler|Cad Bane}} at one point.
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** 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."
** The Darth Maul-esque warrior called ''Savage Opress''.
** Bounty Hunter Moralo Eval. [[Don't Explain the Joke|"Moral Evil," get it?]] Also ''Cad Bane'', [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|for that matter]].
* [[Never Say "Die"]]: Averted pretty well, as people openly talk about killing others and being killed.
* [[New Meat]]: When Ahsoka first meets Captain Rex in the pilot movie she wonders if, as a Jedi, she is automatically his ranking superior. Rex explains that, in his book, experience outranks everything. Throughout the series there are frequent introductions of clones who have not previously served on the front lines, and they try to deal with gaining real-world experience on top of their training.
* [[Nice Hat]]:
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** 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.
* [[No MacGuffin, No Winner]] Osi Sobeck [[Subverted Trope|attempted]] this in "Citadel Rescue". {{spoiler|He [[Doomed Byby Canon|didn't]] [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|suceed]].}}
* [[Non-Lethal Warfare]]: Averted. ''Greatly''.
* [[Non-Mammal Mammaries]]: most glaring on the Gungan, Rodian and Mon Cala females. 'Tho slightly subverted in that even "nursing" mothers have a much smaller size, than an average humanoid. Can be justified as [[Bizarre Alien Biology]].
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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 Aa 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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* [[Retcon]]: Previously established continuity from the [[Expanded Universe]] is accepted [[Broad Strokes|in general fashion]], but many parts have been re-written at the behest of [[George Lucas]] to suit the needs of the show, both in the setting of episodes and character / species history.
* [[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 Asas 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 [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.
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** In "Pursuit of Peace", the Senate debates whether or not to buy five million new clones for the war, which is being fought on numerous planets across an entire galaxy. For reference, the Allies had five million troops on the Western Front in World War II and it was still a close battle.
** In "Plan of Dissent" the clones mention that one of the obstacles to taking a capitol is missiles with a "100 megaton yield". We later see some strikes with the weapons that produce standard explosions, affecting an area no more than a couple hundred feet each. For comparison, not even the biggest, most powerful nuclear weapons ever made had a 100 megaton yield, and would cause miles of devastation.
* [[Send in Thethe Clones]]: [[Captain Obvious|Sort of expected.]]
* [[Sergeant Rock]]:
** Captain Rex, even though he is not an NCO.
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** Captain Rex is going to execute {{spoiler|General Krell}} once he learns of his planned desertion to the Separatists, since he will be able to give them enough information to cripple the Republic war effort. {{spoiler|Dogma does it for him.}}
** The Kadavo slave master knows that Jedi don't kill unarmed prisoners, but he fails to consider the presence of [[Badass Normal|Rex]].
* [[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 Byby 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.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** In "Clone Cadets" the training program variant that Bravo squad runs is [[THX 1138 (Film)|Version THX Variable 1138]].
** A couple of first-season episodes have snuck in artifacts from ''[[Indiana Jones (Franchise)|Indiana Jones]]''. A senator had a cane styled after the Staff of Ra (which later served as a sort of [[Weapon Tombstone]]) and one of the treasures Wat Tambor tried to loot from Ryloth was the Ark of the Covenant. Much later at the end of the third season, a crystal skull is in the Trandoshans' trophy room. In the Season 4 episode, Friends and Enemies, even Indy's hat appear, as a possible replacement for Cad Bane's old hat. After little hesitation he chose another.
** Mace Windu losses his light saber on one side of a closing door and gets it back in last moment, similar to the ''[[Indiana Jones (Franchise)|Indiana Jones]]'' scene with the hat.
** One of the Trandoshans in the Season 3 finale is modeled after and named for [[The Big Lebowski|Walter Sobchak]].
** Obi-Wan Kenobi is close to a woman named [[Moulin Rouge|Satine.]]
** The "Mercy Mission"/"Nomad Droids" arc is one long [[Shout-Out]], most extensively to ''[[The Wizard of Oz]],'' but also to ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'', ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', and ''[[GulliversGulliver's Travels]].'' If that isn't enough, there are also callbacks to the original ''[[Star Wars]]'' and ''[[Return of the Jedi]].''
*** It is also highly reminiscent of the 80's Droids cartoon.
** In the climax of "Prisoners", Prince Lee-Char {{spoiler|kills Riff Tamson by shooting an explosive attached to Riff's body while he charges at the prince. Riff Tamson [[Jaws (Filmfilm)|is a shark]].}}
** In the pawnshop scene of "Friends and Enemies", Cad Bane checks out Indy's fedora before settling on his own trademark hat.
** The relationship between Morley and {{spoiler|Darth Maul}} in "Brothers" resembles the one between [[Lord of the Rings|Gollum and Shelob]].
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* [[Space Is an Ocean]]: After the "Malevolence" gets its primary weapons destroyed, the ongoing fires around the damaged areas are accompanied by plumes of smoke billowing "upwards" as it cruises along. Not to mention the Republic ship that gets damaged and goes "down" later. It is particularly notable because the only planet in sight, and thus the only gravity well, is ''behind'' the ship.
* [[Space Whale]]: The nebray mantas.
* [[Spanner in Thethe 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.
* [[Spell My Name Withwith a "The"]]: How do you know the difference between this and the the previous Star Wars animated series at a glance? This one has a "the".
* [[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".
** The Nightsisters trilogy reveals that Count Dooku has ambitions of overthrowing Darth Sidious.
* [[Status Quo Is God]]: As part of being [[Doomed Byby Canon]], the series can't show any real progress in the war because the whole ordeal was basically a stalemate until ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]''. There will be setbacks in a battle, peace negotiations will not succeed, and so on.
* [[Stealth in Space]]: In "Cat and Mouse" Anakin is given a special new Republic ship with a stealth shield that renders it invisible from eyes and scanners to fly past a planetary blockade.
* [[Stock Scream]]: Inevitable, this being ''Star Wars'' we are talking about. A clone trooper lets out a Wilhelm scream on the third of the Citadel episodes.
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* [[Suicidal Pacifism]]: An entire planet of them.
* [[Summon Bigger Fish]]: "Bombad Jedi". It may be a native creature, so it is not exactly summoned, but otherwise this trope is played ''completely'' straight. Fish and all.
* [[Surrounded Byby Idiots]]: Many of General Grievous' failures can be at least partially attributed to the hopelessly incompetent Battle Droids serving under him. One gets the impression he would be a very capable opponent if he could only convince the Trade Federation to build some more intelligent droids.
* [[Technicolor Eyes]]: In an interesting variation the Father has [[Black Eyes]] but with green irises like his Daughter. This reflects his role as [[True Neutral|the balancer]] between the Light and the Dark.
* [[Tempting Fate]]:
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{{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...]]}} }}
* [[What Happened to Thethe Mouse?]]:
** 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.
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* [[What's an X Like You Doing In a Y Like This?]]
* [[Whip It Good]]: The Zygerian slave arc features many laser-whips used to keep slaves in line.
* [[Who Dares?]]: When attacked, General Krell decrees "You ''dare'' attack a Jedi?!"
* [[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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* [[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.