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* AbortedArc: Downplayed with the Jedi's hunt for Darth Sidious in the interim since the last film. While it's not explicitly stated, the Jedi Council clearly isn't actively hunting for the surviving Sith Lord. They ''know'' their quarry's still out there and still active despite the failed Naboo Blockade; indeed, Yoda tells Mace that the Dark Lord ''is'' aware the Order's ability to use the Force has diminished. But knowing the Sith Lord's out there is one thing; actually ''finding'' their enemy in the larger Galaxy is another (especially as the Jedi know absolutely nothing about their quarry beyond their very existence). This is part of why Obi-Wan refuses to believe Dooku's claims that Sidious is influencing the Senate, feeling that at least the Jedi ''would'' know if their ancient enemy was right there in the heart of the Republic's domain (let alone in the shadow of their own Temple).
** It's also not hard to imagine that the Order ''hasn't'' been able to hunt Sidious because all their resources have been tied up trying to hold the splintering Republic together during the Seperartist Crisis (which, considering this ''is'' Palpatine, may very well have been an intentional component/benefit of his post-Naboo plans).

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* AbortedArc: Downplayed with the Jedi's hunt for Darth Sidious in the interim since the last film. While it's not explicitly stated, the Jedi Council clearly isn't actively hunting for the surviving Sith Lord. They ''know'' their quarry's still out there and still active despite the failed Naboo Blockade; indeed, Yoda tells Mace that the Dark Lord ''is'' aware the Order's ability to use the Force has diminished. But knowing the Sith Lord's out there is one thing; actually ''finding'' their enemy in the larger Galaxy is another (especially as the Jedi know absolutely nothing about their quarry beyond their very existence). This is part of why Obi-Wan refuses to believe Dooku's claims that Sidious is influencing the Senate, feeling that at least the Jedi ''would'' know if their ancient enemy was right there in the heart of the Republic's domain (let alone in the shadow of their own Temple).
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* AbortedArc: Downplayed with the Jedi's hunt for Darth Sidious. While it's not explicitly stated, the Jedi Council clearly isn't actively hunting for the sole surviving Sith Lord. They ''know'' their quarry's still out there and still active despite what happened at Naboo in the last film; indeed, Yoda tells Mace that the Dark Lord is aware the Order's ability to use the Force has diminished. But knowing the Sith Lord's out there is one thing; actually ''finding'' their enemy in the larger Galaxy is another (especially as the Jedi know absolutely nothing about their quarry beyond their very existence). This is part of why Obi-Wan refuses to believe Dooku's claims that Sidious is influencing the Senate, feeling that at least the Jedi ''would'' know if their ancient enemy was right there in the heart of the Republic's domain (let alone in the shadow of their Temple).
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* AbortedArc: Downplayed with the Jedi's hunt for Darth Sidious. Sidious in the interim since the last film. While it's not explicitly stated, the Jedi Council clearly isn't actively hunting for the sole surviving Sith Lord. They ''know'' their quarry's still out there and still active despite what happened at the failed Naboo in the last film; Blockade; indeed, Yoda tells Mace that the Dark Lord is ''is'' aware the Order's ability to use the Force has diminished. But knowing the Sith Lord's out there is one thing; actually ''finding'' their enemy in the larger Galaxy is another (especially as the Jedi know absolutely nothing about their quarry beyond their very existence). This is part of why Obi-Wan refuses to believe Dooku's claims that Sidious is influencing the Senate, feeling that at least the Jedi ''would'' know if their ancient enemy was right there in the heart of the Republic's domain (let alone in the shadow of their own Temple).
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* AbortedArc: Downplayed with the Jedi's hunt for Darth Sidious. While it's not explictly stated, the Jedi Council clearly isn't actively hunting for the sole surviving Sith Lord. They ''know'' their quarry is still out there and still active; indeed, Yoda tells Mace that the Dark Lord is aware the Order's ability to use the Force has diminished. But knowing the Sith Lord's out there is one thing; actually ''finding'' their enemey somewhere out in the vastness of an entire Galaxy is another (especially given the Jedi know absolutely nothing about their quarry beyond their existence). This is part of why Obi-Wan refuses to believe Dooku's claims that Sidious is influencing the Senate, feeling that at least the Jedi would know if their ancient enemy was right there in the heart of the Republica's domain (let alone in the shadow of their Temple). It's also not hard ot imagine that all the Order ''hasn't'' been able to hunt him because their resources have been tied up trying to hold the splintering Republic together (which, considering this ''is'' Palpatine, may very well have been an intentional component/benefit of his plan).

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* AbortedArc: Downplayed with the Jedi's hunt for Darth Sidious. While it's not explictly explicitly stated, the Jedi Council clearly isn't actively hunting for the sole surviving Sith Lord. They ''know'' their quarry is quarry's still out there and still active; active despite what happened at Naboo in the last film; indeed, Yoda tells Mace that the Dark Lord is aware the Order's ability to use the Force has diminished. But knowing the Sith Lord's out there is one thing; actually ''finding'' their enemey somewhere out enemy in the vastness of an entire larger Galaxy is another (especially given as the Jedi know absolutely nothing about their quarry beyond their very existence). This is part of why Obi-Wan refuses to believe Dooku's claims that Sidious is influencing the Senate, feeling that at least the Jedi would ''would'' know if their ancient enemy was right there in the heart of the Republica's Republic's domain (let alone in the shadow of their Temple). Temple).
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* AbortedArc: Downplayed with the Jedi's hunt for Darth Sidious. While it's not explictly stated, the Jedi Council clearly isn't actively hunting for the sole surviving Sith Lord. They ''know'' their quarry is still out there and still active; indeed, Yoda tells Mace that the Dark Lord is aware the Order's ability to use the Force has diminished. But knowing the Sith Lord's out there is one thing; actually ''finding'' their enemey somewhere out in the vastness of an entire Galaxy is another (especially given the Jedi know absolutely nothing about their quarry beyond their existence). This is part of why Obi-Wan refuses to believe Dooku's claims that Sidious is influencing the Senate, feeling that at least the Jedi would know if their ancient enemy was right there in the heart of the Republica's domain (let alone in the shadow of their Temple). It's also not hard ot imagine that all the Order ''hasn't'' been able to hunt him because their resources have been tied up trying to hold the splintering Republic together (which, considering this ''is'' Palpatine, may very well have been an intentional component/benefit of his plan).

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* SamusIsAGirl: In the opening scene, when the Republic cruiser is destroyed, one of the starfighter pilots takes off their helmet to reveal their identity as Padmé.
** Also during the chase scene over Coruscant, Anakin and Obi-Wan initially assume that Zam Wesell is a male until Anakin points out that "'he' is a 'she'" and is a changeling.

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* SeenItAll: Given Obi-Wan's comments on Anakin's reckless stunts during the ChaseScene, from flying through power couplings to Anakin skydiving off his speeder, it's ''heavily'' implied that Anakin has done these at least once before and Obi-Wan was the witness to such.

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Trope name is Sci Fi Writers Have No Sense Of Scale, not any of its subpages. Discussion here.


* SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfUnits: Lama Su says "200,000 units are ready, with a million more well on the way". The novelization establishes that a "unit" is a "unit of product" and referred to an individual clone, and later works even after the Disney acquisition including the Complete Locations book would continue this trend. The cumulative total implied is absurdly low for an army comprising almost the entire fighting force of a Republic that, according to the same novelization and the [[Film/ThePhantomMenace previous one]], is made up of a hundred thousand worlds, tens of thousands of civilized star systems and has a population which includes trillions of commonfolk (assuming not single-digit trillions, or there'd be even more issues). The junior novelization even goes so far as to have Obi-Wan darkly muse that a million-strong clone army could take over the Republic.


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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Lama Su says "200,000 units are ready, with a million more well on the way". The novelization establishes that a "unit" is a "unit of product" and referred to an individual clone, and later works even after the Disney acquisition including the Complete Locations book would continue this trend. The cumulative total implied is absurdly low for an army comprising almost the entire fighting force of a Republic that, according to the same novelization and the [[Film/ThePhantomMenace previous one]], is made up of a hundred thousand worlds, tens of thousands of civilized star systems and has a population which includes trillions of commonfolk (assuming not single-digit trillions, or there'd be even more issues). The junior novelization even goes so far as to have Obi-Wan darkly muse that a million-strong clone army could take over the Republic.
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* DownerBeginning: As the scrolling text says, ''"There is unrest in the Galactic Senate. Several thousand solar systems have declared their intentions to leave the Republic"'' Most of this due to Palpatine's underhanded work. The film itself the opens by Padmé's ship being blown up.

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* DownerBeginning: As the scrolling text says, ''"There ''There is unrest in the Galactic Senate. Several thousand solar systems have declared their intentions to leave the Republic"'' Republic''. Most of this due to Palpatine's underhanded work. The film itself the opens by Padmé's ship being blown up.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Given how quickly the Kamino arc shifts its focus back to the hunt for Jango, it's left unclear how, why and by whom the clone army was requisitioned. Jango's unfamiliarity with the name "Sifo-Dyas" suggests it was just a plot by the Sith, with them attributing it to Sifo-Dyas as a DeceasedFallGuyGambit. Later media clarifies that Sifo-Dyas indeed contacted the cloners on his own initiative after learning the Sith had returned, but the plan was co-opted by the Sith who assassinated him and separately hired Jango to serve as the genetic template. In the earliest drafts of the script it actually was entirely a Sith plot: the Jedi was called "Sido-Dyas" and was just an alias for Sidious, but Lucas later decided to make him a separate character and a real Jedi Master, complicating the plot but without expanding the explanation proportionally.

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* AmbiguousSituation: Given how quickly the Kamino arc shifts its focus back to the hunt for Jango, it's left unclear how, why and by whom the clone army was requisitioned. Jango's unfamiliarity with the name "Sifo-Dyas" suggests it was just a plot by the Sith, with them attributing it to Sifo-Dyas as a DeceasedFallGuyGambit. Later media clarifies that Sifo-Dyas indeed contacted the cloners on his own initiative after learning the Sith had returned, but the plan was co-opted by the Sith who assassinated him and separately hired Jango to serve as the genetic template. In the earliest drafts of the script it actually was entirely a Sith plot: the Jedi was called "Sido-Dyas" and was just an alias for Sidious, but Lucas later decided to make him a separate character and a real Jedi Master, complicating the plot but without expanding the explanation proportionally.accordingly.

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* SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfUnits: Lama Su says "200,000 units are ready, with a million more well on the way". The novelization establishes that a "unit" is a "unit of product" and referred to an individual clone, and later works even after the Disney acquisition including the Complete Locations book would continue this trend. The cumulative total implied is absurdly low for an army comprising almost the entire fighting force of a Republic that, according to the same novelization and the [[Film/ThePhantomMenace previous one]], is made up of a hundred thousand worlds, tens of thousands of civilized star systems and has a population which includes trillions of commonfolk (assuming not single-digit trillions, or there'd be even more issues). The junior novelization even goes so far as to have Obi-Wan darkly muse that a million-strong clone army could take over the Republic.



* SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfUnits: Lama Su says "200,000 units are ready, with a million more well on the way". The novelization establishes that a "unit" is a "unit of product" and referred to an individual clone, and later works even after the Disney acquisition including the Complete Locations book would continue this trend. The cumulative total implied is absurdly low for an army comprising almost the entire fighting force of a Republic that, according to the same novelization and the [[Film/ThePhantomMenace previous one]], is made up of a hundred thousand worlds, tens of thousands of civilized star systems and has a population which includes trillions of commonfolk (assuming not single-digit trillions, or there'd be even more issues). The junior novelization even goes so far as to have Obi-Wan darkly muse that a million-strong clone army could take over the Republic.
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* VillainExitStageleft: Count Dooku departs after the clone army attacks, fleeing to his personal spacecraft, and though Anakin and Obi-Wan (and then Yoda) pursue him they aren't that effective, leaving him alive for the next film.

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* PstandardPsychicStance: when Yoda was holding up a pillar to prevent some other Jedi from being crushed by it, he was using both hands and shaking besides.

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Massive example crosswicking, Day 2. Also the last part, since I managed to reach the end. I admit I had a lot of trouble completing this edit, due to many repeated Internet logoffs from my laptop (yes, they're back yet again -_-). At least I managed to remember to add the tilde to Padmé's name this time, haha


* MillionMookMarch: Two such scenes. Once on Kamino when the clones provide a display for Obi-Wan, and again at the end when the clone army marches in formation on Coruscant as they depart for war. The trope's name is averted at this point, however, as the clones are not actually evil yet.



* MusicalisInterruptus: Occurs when Anakin and Padmé are about to kiss and then she decides not to.



* NearVillainVictory: Count Dooku has the surviving Jedi on Geonosis trapped before [[GunshipRescue the Republican gunships arrive.]]



* SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfUnits: Lama Su says "200,000 units are ready, with a million more well on the way". The novelization establishes that a "unit" is a "unit of product" and referred to an individual clone, and later works even after the Disney acquisition including the Complete Locations book would continue this trend. The cumulative total implied is absurdly low for an army comprising almost the entire fighting force of a Republic that, according to the same novelization and the [[Film/ThePhantomMenace previous one]], is made up of a hundred thousand worlds, tens of thousands of civilized star systems and has a population which includes trillions of commonfolk (assuming not single-digit trillions, or there'd be even more issues). The junior novelization even goes so far as to have Obi-Wan darkly muse that a million-strong clone army could take over the Republic.

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* SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfUnits: Lama Su says "200,000 units are ready, with a million more well on the way". The novelization establishes that a "unit" is a "unit of product" NotSoFinalConfession: Anakin and referred to an individual clone, and later works even after the Disney acquisition including the Complete Locations book would continue this trend. The cumulative total implied is absurdly low Padmé have been keeping their feelings for an army comprising almost the entire fighting force each other under wraps because of a Republic that, according their duties to the same novelization Jedi Order and their government, respectively. However, when they're set to die in the [[Film/ThePhantomMenace previous one]], is made up of a hundred thousand worlds, tens of thousands of civilized star systems GladiatorGames, they confess their feelings for each other and has share [[TheBigDamnKiss a population kiss]]...and then eventually escape the arena. They later end up in a SecretRelationship, which includes trillions of commonfolk (assuming not single-digit trillions, or there'd be even more issues). The junior novelization even goes so far as to have Obi-Wan darkly muse that plays a million-strong clone army could take over role in [[FaceHeelTurn Anakin's descent into the Republic.dark side of the Force]].



* OutsideRide: Anakin hangs on to the outside of BountyHunter Zam Wessell's enclosed speeder during part of the Coruscant chase sequence, after jumping out of his and Obi-Wan's speeder.



* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Obi-Wan's brief meeting with Jango Fett, to the point that Boba Fett's origin story contains a comparison between that conversation and a swordfight.
* PerpetualStorm: Kamino is an ocean planet, and has a perpetually stormy surface.
* PlanarShockwave: The shock bombs dropped from Jango Fett's ship: The resulting explosion is focused into a thin disk shape that seems to simply cut through the surrounding asteroids. Which given that space is three-dimensional makes them extremely ineffective weapons that only work because Obi-Wan seems not to be aware of that fact.
* {{Planetville}}: Inverted when seemingly the entire Republic except for Palpatine is unaware that Count Dooku is on Coruscant, the Republic's capital, at the end of the film.



* PleaseDontLeaveMe:
** Padmé begs her bodyguard (who has been posing as her) not to die on her in the opening scene.
** Anakin finding his mother, who was captured and tortured by the Tusken Raiders, and cries for her to stay with him. She's only able to smile in happiness at getting to see him one last time before dying as he cradles her.
* PlotSensitiveButton: Padmé Amidala pressed a red button on her ship control panel to transmit Obi-Wan's message to the Jedi Council, and later pressed the same button to show Anakin the holographic map of Geonosis.



* PreExplosionBuildup: Jango Fett uses "seismic charges" against Obi-Wan. Before they explode, there is a second of complete silence. Even the [[SpaceIsNoisy audible silence of space]] stops for a moment.
* PstandardPsychicStance: when Yoda was holding up a pillar to prevent some other Jedi from being crushed by it, he was using both hands and shaking besides.



* RadarIsUseless: Exaggerated. Not only is Mace Windu able to infiltrate Geonosis with approximately a hundred Jedi and take the Separatist leaders completely off-guard despite them having a whole droid army stationed there (which would presumably merit some defences), but Yoda is able to follow shortly after with an entire invasion force of clone troopers, complete with air support, armor, and artillery.
* RailingKill: Coleman Trebor attempts to assassinate Count Dooku in the balcony overseeing the Petranaki Battle Arena, but is shot by Jango Fett and falls backward over the balcony railing, about 50 feet or so down to his death.



* RealMenWearPink: Mace Windu's purple lightsaber, the result of ExecutiveMeddling by Samuel L. Jackson.

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* ReversePsychology: Count Dooku uses reverse psychology on the Jedi by telling them in a SarcasticConfession exactly what's going on with the Sith conspiracy. It backfires: they take the wise course of action and decide not to flat out believe it, but keep their eyes peeled.



** In the commentary, WordOfGod is that each theatrical film has its own running gag, in this one it's Jedi losing their lightsabers. The film-specific running gags are interestingly most obvious in both "part two" films, with disarmed Jedi in ''Attack of the Clones'' and the malfunctioning hyperdrive in ''The Empire Strikes Back.''

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** In the commentary, WordOfGod is Lucas says that each theatrical film has its own running gag, in this one it's Jedi losing their lightsabers. The film-specific running gags are interestingly most obvious in both "part two" films, with disarmed Jedi in ''Attack of the Clones'' and the malfunctioning hyperdrive in ''The Empire Strikes Back.''



* ScaredOfWhatsBehindYou: Happens during the battle in the Geonosian arena when two battle droids suddenly run away from Obi-Wan after seeing the acklay behind him. His response is to slice the thing to pieces.
* SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfUnits: Lama Su says "200,000 units are ready, with a million more well on the way". The novelization establishes that a "unit" is a "unit of product" and referred to an individual clone, and later works even after the Disney acquisition including the Complete Locations book would continue this trend. The cumulative total implied is absurdly low for an army comprising almost the entire fighting force of a Republic that, according to the same novelization and the [[Film/ThePhantomMenace previous one]], is made up of a hundred thousand worlds, tens of thousands of civilized star systems and has a population which includes trillions of commonfolk (assuming not single-digit trillions, or there'd be even more issues). The junior novelization even goes so far as to have Obi-Wan darkly muse that a million-strong clone army could take over the Republic.
* SdrawkcabSpeech: When Obi-Wan first meets Jango Fett, the latter says to his clone son, Boba, "Rood eht so-heeck," instructing Boba to close a door and hide his Mandalorian armor. Some sources identify this as a "coded language", but the first two words spoken are "the door" backwards. The rest is gibberish.



* ShortLivedAerialEscape: When the Separatists retreat from the battle on Geonosis, the Republic forces are able to stop one of the transports from escaping by concentrating fire on it, bringing it crashing back down shortly after launch. Also averted because several other ships do manage to escape.



* SmashingHallwayTrapsOfDoom: The stamping presses on the conveyor belt of the droid factory qualifies. It also has the bladed kind later on. Also, one wonders how a machine designed to stamp metal plates into flat shapes actually molds said metal around his squishy squishy non-robotic arm.



* SpinAttack: Anakin tries DualWielding against Count Dooku with a lot of spinning (he did say it was a good trick, after all) but it's rather ineffective. Yoda, on the other hand, uses a ton of spinning attacks against Dooku and fares much better.



* SquareCubeLaw: The Jedi Starfighter seen in this film is very fast and maneuverable, able to evade a homing missile through an asteroid ring.



* StormingTheCastle: The Jedi Knights storm the Geonosian arena in order to rescue Anakin, Padmé and Obi-Wan.



* SuperPersistentMissile: The seeker torpedo that Jango Fett fires at Obi-Wan actually chases Obi-Wan's starfighter ''through an asteroid field''. Obi-Wan barely managed to escape from said missile, with the assistance of his protocol droid R4 dislodging debris to finally take out said missile.
* SuperWindowJump: Obi-Wan jumps through the window to grab the killer-bug carrying droid.



* [[SwitchToEnglish Switch to Basic]]: The conversation between Watto and Anakin (originally in Huttese) takes this turn when Anakin brings up his mother.

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* {{Tableau}}: The film closes with Padmé and Anakin (along with R2-D2 and C-3PO) on a Naboo balcony being married.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Dooku tries to intimidate Obi-Wan with threats and Force lightning, but Obi-Wan disregards it. He also tries to intimidate Yoda with his Force powers, but Yoda just responds by blocking all of his attacks.



* ThatWasNotADream: After C-3PO wakes up in the Geonosis arena after having his head attached to a battle droid's body (and vice versa), he looks to R2-D2 and says 'I've had the most peculiar dream...'
* ThemeSongReveal: At the end of the credits music, the "Across The Stars" piece turns into the Imperial March.



* ThwartedCoupDeGrace: Dooku brings down Obi-Wan, but before he can deliver the final blow, a previously electrocuted Anakin gets better and jumps across the room to block it.



* TwoLinesNoWaiting: The movie focuses on Obi Wan in his search for the bounty hunter that hired an assassin to kill Amidala, as well as Anakin's mission to keep Amidala safe



* UnseenNoMore: Boba Fett was never seen without his helmet on in the Original Trilogy. This movie shows Boba's face as a child, as well as that of his "father" Jango, giving us some idea as to what Boba looked like unmasked in the OT (since Boba is an unaltered clone of Jango).
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Count Dooku was so tired of what he felt was a corrupt Republic and an ineffective Jedi Order that he defected and joined the Sith. He is convinced that the best way to save the galaxy is to destroy the Republic and the Jedi by any means necessary, and then simply start over. That Dooku was willing to ally himself with Palpatine, fully aware that he was responsible for a lot of what he hated about the Republic (and that he trained the man that killed Dooku's beloved apprentice), is testament not only to Dooku's dedication but to Palpatine's persuasive abilities.
* VillainExitStageleft: Count Dooku departs after the clone army attacks, fleeing to his personal spacecraft, and though Anakin and Obi-Wan (and then Yoda) pursue him they aren't that effective, leaving him alive for the next film.
* VillainousValor: Trying to take on Mace Windu, the second most powerful Jedi in the Order, might not have been Jango's smartest move, but it was certainly his bravest.



* VillainousValor: Trying to take on Mace Windu, the second most powerful Jedi in the Order, might not have been Jango's smartest move, but it was certainly his bravest.



* VillainyDiscretionShot: Anakin's massacre of the Sand People ("not just the men, but the women and the children too") in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones is disturbingly rarely reflected upon (Palpatine briefly mentions it near the beginning of Revenge of the Sith, but that's all). This is particularly troubling as this behavior would seem much more indicative of ties to the Dark Side than the petulant behavior on which the film spends more time. None of the Jedi know, and it turns out not to be very relevant at all. Even Padmé, to whom he confesses the act, doesn't seem too distressed by it.



* WalkingTank: This movie ntroduces the clone army's AT-TE, a low-slung six-legged SpiderTank that probably wouldn't be susceptible to the old tripwire trick, and apparently the predecessor to the AT-AT.



* WhamLine:
** "Welcome home, Lord Tyrannus." The line, almost casually revealed, confirms Dooku is the man who recruited Jango to be the Clone template, meaning the Clone Army was actually created by the Sith and ''not'' Sifo-Dyas. The line (and the preceding "The Force is with us, Master Sidious") also confirms Dooku has replaced Maul as Sidious' apprentice and the Sith are controlling the CIS.
** A wordless one: the military parade at the end reveals that the fans have been literally RootingForTheEmpire by scoring it with the Imperial March.
* WhamShot: Palpatine's close ups as the Imperial March plays are how fans that only watched the movies learn that the kind Chancellor is in fact [[BigBad the Emperor]].

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WellSeeAboutThat: Count Dooku says this when Mace Windu's Jedi strike team (and few minutes later a massive clone army) appear to rescue Obi Wan and Anakin.
-->'''Dooku:''' Brave, but foolish, my old Jedi friend: You're [[ZergRush impossibly outnumbered]].\\
'''Mace:''' *scoffs* I don't think so.\\
'''Dooku:''' We'll see. *cue the heavy footsteps of the [[EliteMooks super-battle droids]]*
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"Welcome home, Lord Tyrannus." The line, almost casually revealed, confirms Dooku is the man who recruited Jango to be the Clone template, meaning the Clone Army was actually created by the Sith and ''not'' Sifo-Dyas. The line (and the preceding "The Force is with us, Master Sidious") also confirms Dooku has replaced Maul as Sidious' apprentice and the Sith are controlling the CIS.
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* WizardDuel: Yoda and Dooku have a telekinesis-and-Force-Lightning wizard's duel, before fighting it out with lightsabers.
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* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: Anakin and Padme confess their love to each other and [[NowOrNeverKiss kiss for the first time]] before being led to their execution by the Geonosians ... which doesn't exactly go as planned.

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* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: Anakin and Padme Padmé confess their love to each other and [[NowOrNeverKiss kiss for the first time]] before being led to their execution by the Geonosians ... which doesn't exactly go as planned.



* ConvenientlyClosePlanet: Dexter Jettster notes that the planet Kamino is 12 parsecs from the Rishi Maze. 12 parsecs is under 40 light-years, utterly tiny in galactic terms (the Milky Way is 170,000 light-years in diameter). It gets worse later when Obi Wan specifies the locations of Kamino and the Rishi Maze on a map; scaling from this map renders the entire ''Star Wars'' galaxy as about 300 light-years in diameter.

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* ConvenientlyClosePlanet: Dexter Jettster notes that the planet Kamino is 12 parsecs from the Rishi Maze. 12 parsecs is under 40 light-years, utterly tiny in galactic terms (the Milky Way is 170,000 light-years in diameter). It gets worse later when Obi Wan Obi-Wan specifies the locations of Kamino and the Rishi Maze on a map; scaling from this map renders the entire ''Star Wars'' galaxy as about 300 light-years in diameter.



* ConveyorBeltODoom: Anakin and Padme find themselves inside the battle droid-producing foundries/factories on Geonosis and fall on a conveyor belt. Anakin battles Geonosians, and in the process has his lightsaber destroyed and his arm stamped on a metal plate. Padme falls in a giant crucible and is only saved from being incinerated by molten metal by [=R2D2=], who deactivates the machinery just in time.

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* ConveyorBeltODoom: Anakin and Padme Padmé find themselves inside the battle droid-producing foundries/factories on Geonosis and fall on a conveyor belt. Anakin battles Geonosians, and in the process has his lightsaber destroyed and his arm stamped on a metal plate. Padme Padmé falls in a giant crucible and is only saved from being incinerated by molten metal by [=R2D2=], who deactivates the machinery just in time.



** When Padme faces execution alongside Anakin and Obi-Wan, she gets out of her handcuffs ''before'' the two Jedi and begins fighting back! Later, she uses her chains to beat the monster to near death, something neither guy ever did.
** Padme balks at the thought of going into hiding, refusing to hide in the face of two assassination attempts. Her justification for getting captured in the first place was, while her protector was told to stay out of the matter, he was also told to stay with her... and she's going.

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** When Padme Padmé faces execution alongside Anakin and Obi-Wan, she gets out of her handcuffs ''before'' the two Jedi and begins fighting back! Later, she uses her chains to beat the monster to near death, something neither guy ever did.
** Padme Padmé balks at the thought of going into hiding, refusing to hide in the face of two assassination attempts. Her justification for getting captured in the first place was, while her protector was told to stay out of the matter, he was also told to stay with her... and she's going.



* DeathCourse: In the later half of the movie, Anakin and Padme have to survive through what amounts to the unsafe Factory version.

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* DeathCourse: In the later half of the movie, Anakin and Padme Padmé have to survive through what amounts to the unsafe Factory version.



* DownerBeginning: As the scrolling text says, ''"There is unrest in the Galactic Senate. Several thousand solar systems have declared their intentions to leave the Republic"'' Most of this due to Palpatine's underhanded work. The film itself the opens by Padme's ship being blown up.

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* DownerBeginning: As the scrolling text says, ''"There is unrest in the Galactic Senate. Several thousand solar systems have declared their intentions to leave the Republic"'' Most of this due to Palpatine's underhanded work. The film itself the opens by Padme's Padmé's ship being blown up.



* FalseFriend: Palpatine to Padme, the Jedi Order, and Anakin in particular (albeit retroactively after the revelations of the next film).

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* FalseFriend: Palpatine to Padme, Padmé, the Jedi Order, and Anakin in particular (albeit retroactively after the revelations of the next film).



* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: During the battle of Geonosis, Anakin wields a lightsaber and Padme uses a blaster. However, there are female lightsaber-wielding Jedi in supporting roles during that battle.

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* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: During the battle of Geonosis, Anakin wields a lightsaber and Padme Padmé uses a blaster. However, there are female lightsaber-wielding Jedi in supporting roles during that battle.



* IronicName: Early in the movie, Obi Wan is trying to locate Kamino, the whereabouts of the mastermind behind the failed assassination of Padme. The name Kamino comes from the Spanish word ''camino'', which means "path". However, this planet was erased from the official map of the galaxy, so Obi Wan is unable to locate it and thus cannot devise a path to reach it until he consults Yoda about it.

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* IronicName: Early in the movie, Obi Wan Obi-Wan is trying to locate Kamino, the whereabouts of the mastermind behind the failed assassination of Padme.Padmé. The name Kamino comes from the Spanish word ''camino'', which means "path". However, this planet was erased from the official map of the galaxy, so Obi Wan Obi-Wan is unable to locate it and thus cannot devise a path to reach it until he consults Yoda about it.



* KarmaHoudini: During Anakin and Padme's meeting with Queen Apailana, an embittered Sio Bibble remarks that Nute Gunray has been tried 4 times by the Republic Supreme Court in the decade since the Blockade of Naboo. Not only has Gunray managed to avoid being held accountable for the invasion each time, but he's still the Viceroy of the Trade Federation in spite of all this. Considering [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith the next film]] will reveal his Sith patron is the current Supreme Chancellor, the retroactive implication is Sidious protected Gunray both because he needs him and the Trade Federation for the Separatists and because he can't risk Gunray revealing too much to his enemies.

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* KarmaHoudini: During Anakin and Padme's Padmé's meeting with Queen Apailana, an embittered Sio Bibble remarks that Nute Gunray has been tried 4 times by the Republic Supreme Court in the decade since the Blockade of Naboo. Not only has Gunray managed to avoid being held accountable for the invasion each time, but he's still the Viceroy of the Trade Federation in spite of all this. Considering [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith the next film]] will reveal his Sith patron is the current Supreme Chancellor, the retroactive implication is Sidious protected Gunray both because he needs him and the Trade Federation for the Separatists and because he can't risk Gunray revealing too much to his enemies.



* SeeNoEvilHearNoEvil: Padmè and the Jedi rescue squad are backed into a ring in the centre of an arena. Though surrounded only by the relative quiet of droids making clicking noises, it still takes Padmè to shout "Look!" and a shot of the sky to trigger the BRRRRRRZZZZZ of the descending clone gunships. This is doubly surprising when one considers the arena is the shape of a giant ear.

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* SeeNoEvilHearNoEvil: Padmè Padmé and the Jedi rescue squad are backed into a ring in the centre of an arena. Though surrounded only by the relative quiet of droids making clicking noises, it still takes Padmè Padmé to shout "Look!" and a shot of the sky to trigger the BRRRRRRZZZZZ of the descending clone gunships. This is doubly surprising when one considers the arena is the shape of a giant ear.



** He has Dooku send Jango Fett to kill Padme Amidala, a vocal advocate for diplomacy to resolve the escalating tension. Regardless of whether or not Amidala dies, Sidious' aims benefit. Either one of the most prominent anti-war members of the Senate is killed and becomes a martyr used to galvanize the Republic against the Separatists, or he fails and the investigation leads to the discovery of the Clone Army and then to Fett's link to the Separatists which leads to war as transpired in the film. It ultimately worked out even better than expected, as Fett delegated the job to Zam Wesell, whose failure led to the Jedi getting personally involved and Sidious used the opportunity to put Anakin in a position to let himself get attached to Amidala.

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** He has Dooku send Jango Fett to kill Padme Padmé Amidala, a vocal advocate for diplomacy to resolve the escalating tension. Regardless of whether or not Amidala dies, Sidious' aims benefit. Either one of the most prominent anti-war members of the Senate is killed and becomes a martyr used to galvanize the Republic against the Separatists, or he fails and the investigation leads to the discovery of the Clone Army and then to Fett's link to the Separatists which leads to war as transpired in the film. It ultimately worked out even better than expected, as Fett delegated the job to Zam Wesell, whose failure led to the Jedi getting personally involved and Sidious used the opportunity to put Anakin in a position to let himself get attached to Amidala.
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He didn't think Kamino was a myth. He just couldn't find it or any information on it, and considering it was an semi-isolationist planet outside of the Republic whose existence had been scrubbed from the Jedi Archives by Dooku, it makes sense he wouldn't know about it.


* ConvenientlyClosePlanet: Dexter Jettster notes that the planet Kamino is 12 parsecs from the Rishi Maze. 12 parsecs is under 40 light-years, utterly tiny in galactic terms (the Milky Way is 170,000 light-years in diameter). It defies belief that Obi Wan could know about the Rishi Maze yet ''still'' think Kamino was a myth, considering he lives in a setting where a good chunk of the galaxy has been colonized and 40 light-years is at most a day-long voyage. It gets worse later when Obi Wan specifies the locations of Kamino and the Rishi Maze on a map; scaling from this map renders the entire ''Star Wars'' galaxy as about 300 light-years in diameter.

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* ConvenientlyClosePlanet: Dexter Jettster notes that the planet Kamino is 12 parsecs from the Rishi Maze. 12 parsecs is under 40 light-years, utterly tiny in galactic terms (the Milky Way is 170,000 light-years in diameter). It defies belief that Obi Wan could know about the Rishi Maze yet ''still'' think Kamino was a myth, considering he lives in a setting where a good chunk of the galaxy has been colonized and 40 light-years is at most a day-long voyage. It gets worse later when Obi Wan specifies the locations of Kamino and the Rishi Maze on a map; scaling from this map renders the entire ''Star Wars'' galaxy as about 300 light-years in diameter.

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Massive example crosswicking, Day 1. Hopefully I'll be able to continue tomorrow


* AbandonedWarehouse: The movie ends with Count Dooku reporting to [[BigBad his master]] in a vacant factory complex.
* AccentsArentHereditary: An inversion appears among the clones. They all speak with Creator/TemueraMorrison's New Zealand accent even though most of them likely haven't seen Jango Fett in person much, if at all, and the Kaminoans don't speak in said accent.
* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: Anakin and Padme confess their love to each other and [[NowOrNeverKiss kiss for the first time]] before being led to their execution by the Geonosians ... which doesn't exactly go as planned.
* ActionPrologue: The movie has a huge explosion right after the first line.



* AirborneMook: Geonosian soldiers are winged members of their race, who can fly and are armed with shock sticks or sonic blasters.



* AsteroidThicket: Justified. The dense rock field that Obi-Wan chases Jango Fett through is Geonosis' ring, planetary rings actually being that dense in RealLife.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: Anakin demonstrates his tech savvy by ordering the gunship he's on to target the Techno Union Hardcell-class ships (the ones that look like and take off like real-life rocketships) right above their fuel cells.
* AutobotsRockOut: An electric guitar is played in the OST version of "Zam the Assassin and the Chase Through Coruscant" that was meant to be played as Anakin and Obi-Wan get shocked in the power couplings, but it went unused.



* AwesomePersonnelCarrier: The [[SpiderTank AT-TE]]. Although not specifically referred to as a transport, it is one, and also mounts enough fire to be a respectable threat in their own right.



* BadGuyBar: Obi-Wan and Anakin enter a seedy bar in the lower levels of Coruscant. A "Death Sticks" dealer tries selling his drug to Obi-Wan, only to end up [[JediMindTrick Jedi Mind Tricked]] by Obi-Wan into abandoning his ways.



* BigBadassBattleSequence: The Battle of Geonosis, with the freshly-revealed army of Republic Clone Troopers slugging it out against the fleeing fleets of the Confederacy of Independant Systems.



* BladeLock: Count Dooku exploits this, pushing Obi-Wan's blade downward to give him an angle, and then sliding his blade up to incapacitate Obi-Wan with a couple of precise taps of the blade on Obi's arm and thigh while Obi-Wan's blade is unable to be re-angled in time. In the old ''Legends'' continuity, it was noted that Dooku was able to adjust the length of his saber to catch opponents off-guard in the midst of blade locks like these.



* BodyguardCrush: Anakin re-encounters Padmé Amidala, his childhood crush now having become a full-fledged infatuation. Tasked with being Padmé's bodyguard following several attempts on her life by Jango Fett and Zam Wesell, he accompanies her back to Naboo, where they become closer by the day, quickly falling in love, which is against the laws of the Jedi Order.



* BringIt: Count Dooku [[LetsFightLikeGentlemen challenges Yoda with a lightsaber salute]] after [[CurbStompBattle wiping the floor with]] Obi-Wan and Anakin. Yoda responds by [[LetsGetDangerous igniting his own weapon]].
* BusesAreForFreaks: After two close attempts to kill Senator Amidala on Coruscant she decides to retreat to her home world of Naboo. However, instead of a gleaming royal yacht, she and Jedi Skywalker take the Star Wars equivalent of a Greyhound shuttle, arriving on Naboo with other morose plebes.



* CassandraGambit: Count Dooku tells Obi-Wan Kenobi that much of the Galactic Senate was under Sith control, which Obi-Wan and the other Jedi interpret as a lie intended to sow division and distrust in the forces of the Republic.



* CatchAFallingStar: The Coruscant ChaseScene. Although it's shown that Anakin flies under Obi-Wan with his FlyingCar and starts dropping at a rate ''just'' slower than Obi-Wan, allowing Obi-Wan to fall in at a relatively small speed.



* ClimaxBoss: Anakin's and Obi-Wan's first bout against Count Dooku is eerily similar to Luke Skywalker against Vader, as it marks a critical point in the trilogy where the Clone Wars kicks off. To make this even more jarring, Anakin ''loses'' a hand just like what he would do to his son many years later!



* ContrastingSequelSetting: While still featuring the thriving metropolis of Coruscant, the movie downplays the lush, pristine scenery seen in the previous film in favor of harsher worlds like the watery Kamino and the desert planet Geonosis (which is even more hostile than Tattooine).



* ConvenientlyClosePlanet: Dexter Jettster notes that the planet Kamino is 12 parsecs from the Rishi Maze. 12 parsecs is under 40 light-years, utterly tiny in galactic terms (the Milky Way is 170,000 light-years in diameter). It defies belief that Obi Wan could know about the Rishi Maze yet ''still'' think Kamino was a myth, considering he lives in a setting where a good chunk of the galaxy has been colonized and 40 light-years is at most a day-long voyage. It gets worse later when Obi Wan specifies the locations of Kamino and the Rishi Maze on a map; scaling from this map renders the entire ''Star Wars'' galaxy as about 300 light-years in diameter.



* ConveyorBeltODoom: Several that Anakin and Padmé survive by the skin of their teeth in the droid factory on Geonosis.

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* ConveyorBeltODoom: Several that Anakin and Padmé survive by Padme find themselves inside the skin of their teeth battle droid-producing foundries/factories on Geonosis and fall on a conveyor belt. Anakin battles Geonosians, and in the droid factory process has his lightsaber destroyed and his arm stamped on Geonosis.a metal plate. Padme falls in a giant crucible and is only saved from being incinerated by molten metal by [=R2D2=], who deactivates the machinery just in time.



* CradleOfLoneliness: Boba Fett is seen cradling the helmet of his dead "father" Jango.
* CranialProcessingUnit: C-3PO's and a battle droid get their heads switched. They both remain quite functional. There may be some secondary processing going on in the body though, as C-3PO doesn't seem to be in control of the body's actions and even seems to temporarily take on aspects of a military droid -- for instance, shooting at people while apologizing profusely, or screaming things like "Die, Jedi!" then wondering why he would say such a thing.



* CreepyCentipedes: After the failed assassination attempt with explosives, Zam tries to assassinate Amidala with two centipede-like bugs.



* CynicismCatalyst: The death of Anakin's mother, whom he promised to save in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', marks his StartOfDarkness.



* DamselOutOfDistress:
** When Padme faces execution alongside Anakin and Obi-Wan, she gets out of her handcuffs ''before'' the two Jedi and begins fighting back! Later, she uses her chains to beat the monster to near death, something neither guy ever did.
** Padme balks at the thought of going into hiding, refusing to hide in the face of two assassination attempts. Her justification for getting captured in the first place was, while her protector was told to stay out of the matter, he was also told to stay with her... and she's going.



* DeathCourse: In the later half of the movie, Anakin and Padme have to survive through what amounts to the unsafe Factory version.



* DefenselessTransports: The Techno Union Transports are completely unarmed but do have shields and hyperdrives. The Trade Federation Core Ships and Commerce Guild Cruisers from the same film were armed but the weapons negligible at best for any sort of prolonged combat.
* DelayedExplosion: A realistic delay (light before sound) occurs with the explosion of the meteorites impacted by the missiles shot by Jango's ship while chasing Obi-Wan.



* DiscOneFinalBoss: Jango Fett faces off against Obi-Wan several times, but ultimately turns out to be just one of Count Dooku's minions, and gets unceremoniously killed off early in the climax.
* DismembermentIsCheap: Anakin loses his hand, but has a prosthetic by the end. It has an obviously mechanical appearance, leading him to protect it with a glove.



* DownerBeginning: As the scrolling text says, ''"There is unrest in the Galactic Senate. Several thousand solar systems have declared their intentions to leave the Republic"'' Most of this due to Palpatine's underhanded work. The film itself the opens by Padme's ship being blown up.



-->'''Anakin''': I thought we swore to keep it secret, that it would destroy our lives.\\
'''Padmé''': I think our lives are about to be destroyed anyway.



* EliteMooks: The Super Battle Droids are more heavily armored and aggressive than the regular droids.



* EnergyAbsorption: Yoda counters the Sith's Force Lightning by "catching" it with his hands, holding it for a moment, and sending it back towards its caster. It seems, however, that he can only absorb so much of it before it all explodes outward.



* FairytaleWeddingDress: Padmé's outfit during her and Anakin's wedding picnic is nothing short of this.



* FairytaleWeddingDress: Padmé's outfit during her and Anakin's wedding picnic is nothing short of this.



* FantasticFirearms: The Geonosians are shown using large guns that fire an explosive green energy orb of some kind. These are explained to be a form of sonic weapon in [[AllThereInTheManual supplemental material]], and very much ''not'' of the SonicStunner variety: one shot depicts one the size of a field artillery piece that blows a cluster of Jedi off their feet.
* FantasticFruitsAndVegetables: The shuura fruit appears in this film. It is more an example of CallARabbitASmeerp, since it's basically a pear.
* FinalSpeech:
** After Zam Wesell is hit by a saber dart loaded with an exceptionally virulent poison that will kill her in seconds, she isn't even able to intelligibly finish her sentence which would have informed the heroes who TheDragon of the man in front of [[TheManBehindTheMan the man ]]''[[TheManBehindTheMan behind ]]''[[TheManBehindTheMan the man]] was... though, to her credit, she tries.
** Shmi does manage to say a few things to Anakin, but she eventually [[KilledMidSentence dies mid-phrase]] as she's saying "Anakin, I lo--"
* FireBreathingWeapon: Jango Fett attacks Mace Windu with a miniature flamethrower in his left gauntlet. Windu jumps away quick enough that the only damage is to his outer layer of robes, which he quickly shucks.



* FlauntingYourFleets: During the [[MillionMookMarch display of Clones]] at the end, we see a bunch of star destroyers ready to take off in the background.
* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: The [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Aiwha Aiwha]] are whale-like creatures capable of leaping out of the sea and flying through immense, wing-like fins. Their name is itself a contraction of "air whale".



* FoundTheKillerLostTheMurderer: An assassin tries twice to kill Senator Amidala. When the Jedi capture the assassin, Jango Fett enacts this trope with great prejudice.



* GladYouThoughtOfIt: Palpatine pulls this gambit on Jar-Jar in order to force a declaration of emergency powers that will ultimately lead to his rise as Emperor. Interestingly, he does this by having ''his chief of staff'' drop the hint rather than doing so himself, leaving him free and clear of any accusations despite the hinting being obvious and heavy-handed.
* GPSEvidence: A perfectly sensible example, as pinpointing which planet a rare weapon came from is quite a lot easier than it seems.
* GreatBigLibraryOfEverything: The Jedi library is an enormous data collection belonging to a former smuggler; a whole planet is devoted to being a galactic library. Gravitational calculations prove that a planet MUST exist at a certain location, yet there is no record of such a planet, the librarian believes the library's records over the laws of physics. Just to drive home the point of how [[VestigialEmpire complacent]] the Old Republic had become.



* GunTwirling: Jango Fett does this before holstering his blaster. He even mimes [[SmokingBarrelBlowout blowing smoke]] away from the barrel. Given that he was wearing a (face-obscuring) helmet at the time, he probably did just to look [[RuleOfCool cool]].
* GutFeeling: When Anakin left his mother behind on Tatooine in the previous film, she tries to convince him that they will meet again. They do in this movie, but only when she's dying.



* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: During the battle of Geonosis, Anakin wields a lightsaber and Padme uses a blaster. However, there are female lightsaber-wielding Jedi in supporting roles during that battle.



* HornAttack: The [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Reek Reek]], during the arena sequence, uses its horns (all three of them) to gore through targets.
* HoverBike: Anakin Skywalker goes on a search for his kidnapped mother on his native planet of Tatooine using a swoop speeder bike. Count Dooku uses a Flitknot speeder bike to flee the Separatist headquarters on Geonosis as they are losing the battle that starts the Clone Wars.
* HumongousMecha: The AT-TE seen in this film, despite being "older" technology, has a much more sensible beetle-like design, with six legs and a low profile for stability. The AT-TE was far too vulnerable to mines, being only a few feet off the ground.



* INeedAFreakingDrink: Who could blame Obi-Wan? You'd need one too after jumping out a window, getting shot at and then falling dozens of feet, only to land in a stolen speeder driven by a reckless, fearless Padawan.
* InstantThunder: Averted on Kamino, and lampshaded in the DVDCommentary.

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* IconicSequelCharacter: This movie marked the debut of Count Dooku, who would become a recurring villain for the franchise's Clone Wars mythos.
* IfItSwimsItFlies: The flying/swimming steed on Kamino.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Who could blame Obi-Wan? You'd need one too after jumping out a window, getting shot at and then falling dozens of feet, only to land in a stolen speeder driven by a reckless, fearless Padawan.
Padawan.
* ImposedHandicapTraining: The Jedi learn to block blaster bolts with their vision blocked so they use the Force rather than trying to react to what they're seeing. This was seen with Luke in ''Film/ANewHope'', but here it's shown that the children who are training to become Jedi undertake this kind of training as well.
* InstantThunder: Averted on Kamino, and lampshaded in the DVDCommentary.DVD commentary.
* InterestingSituationDuel: The BattleInTheRain between Obi-Wan and Jango Fett on Kamino, where the two of them fight on a landing platform above the ocean at night.
* IntimidationDemonstration: Dooku tries to intimidate Yoda by throwing machinery and rocks at him with the Force. Yoda isn't amused, however, and assumes an AssKickingPose, whereupon Dooku gives up and draws his lightsaber.
* IronicName: Early in the movie, Obi Wan is trying to locate Kamino, the whereabouts of the mastermind behind the failed assassination of Padme. The name Kamino comes from the Spanish word ''camino'', which means "path". However, this planet was erased from the official map of the galaxy, so Obi Wan is unable to locate it and thus cannot devise a path to reach it until he consults Yoda about it.
* IShouldHaveBeenBetter: Anakin Skywalker feels this way after failing to save his mother in time. His desperation to become so powerful that such a thing never happens again [[FaceHeelTurn makes a monster out of him]] as he pledges himself to [[BigBad Darth Sidious]], immerses himself in the Dark Side of the Force, and becomes TheDreaded Darth Vader.



** When Dooku escapes Geonosis, he says this to Yoda:
--->'''Dooku:''' This is just the beginning!



** When Dooku escapes Geonosis, he says this to Yoda:
--->'''Dooku:''' This is just the beginning!



* JetPack: As shown in this movie, R2-D2 is equipped with leg rockets.



* JustInTime:
** Having subdued Anakin (via force lightning) and Obi-Wan (via asskickery), Count Dooku is preparing to deliver the fatal blow to Obi-Wan when... Anakin makes a miracle recovery and blocks Dooku's lightsaber just in time. When Anakin is defeated once again (and losing a hand in the process), Dooku prepares once again to seal his victory, but then Yoda comes to the rescue.
** Yoda arrives on Geonosis with the clone army right when the few surviving Jedi are all surrounded by the droid army.
** The moment when Anakin and Obi-Wan save Padmé from the poison millipedes.



* KnowledgeBroker: Dex, the owner and chef of Dex's Diner. Since his place is popular with merchants, smugglers, and other frequent travelers, and as he's traveled all over and done more jobs than can be counted on his four hands, he often overhears things that no one else does and is willing to sell the info. In the movie, Obi-Wan goes to him to find information on the Kamino cloning project; he identifies the reclusive race whose world is so obscure that nobody noticed it being missing from the Jedi archives from a simple metal dart.



* LiteralDisarming: Anakin's duel against Dooku ends when Dooku cuts off his lightsaber hand and Force-throws him aside, earning him the first of his artificial limbs.

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** Obi-Wan slices off the forearm of bounty hunter Zam Wesell as she tries to pull a blaster on him, in an InternalHomage to the barfight scene in ''Film/ANewHope''.
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Anakin's duel against Dooku ends when Dooku cuts off his lightsaber hand and Force-throws him aside, earning him the first of his artificial limbs.



* LosingAShoeInTheStruggle: Padmé Amidala's handmaiden Cordé is blown out of her shoes when the Naboo Star Cruiser carrying her is bombed by Zam Wessell in an assassination attempt.
* LosingYourHead: Mace Windu cuts off Jango Fett's right hand in combat, and since Jango is known for DualWielding pistols and has a flamethrower and who knows how many other weapons on his person, beheads him too.



* LyingByOmission: Count Dooku unsuccessfully attempts to persuade Obi-Wan Kenobi to switch sides to the Separatists by expounding on the corruption of the Republic Senate and that the Republic is now under the control of the Dark Lord of the Sith. This is, in fact, literally true, but for obvious reasons, he omits the part where Darth Sidious is also ''his own'' master and is [[PlayingBothSides simultaneously puppeteering the Separatists]].



* OnlyInItForTheMoney: One cause for fan confusion about who created the clone army, why, and for whom, is that Jango Fett works for them ''and'' the Separatists, leading fans to speculate the Sith created it with Sifo Dyas thrown in as a DeceasedFallGuyGambit. Not helping the confusion that originally his name was "Sido-Dyas", and was in fact Darth Sidious, and that Jango was contacted by a man named Tyranus, which is Dooku's Sith name. This was changed and expanded on in other media: he was always with the Council and created the army for the Republic, believing a great conflict was coming. This means Sidious wasn't behind the army's creation, and that Jango was working for the Kaminoans and the Separatists because he's a bounty hunter in it for the money.

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* OnlyInItForTheMoney: One cause reason for fan confusion about who created the clone army, why, and for whom, is that because Jango Fett works for them ''and'' the Separatists, leading fans to speculate the Sith created it with Sifo Dyas thrown in as a DeceasedFallGuyGambit. Not helping the confusion that originally his name was "Sido-Dyas", and was in fact Darth Sidious, and that Jango was contacted by a man named Tyranus, which is Dooku's Sith name. This was changed and expanded on in other media: he was always with the Council and created the army for the Republic, believing a great conflict was coming. This means Sidious wasn't behind the army's creation, and that Jango was working for the Kaminoans and the Separatists because he's a bounty hunter in it for the money.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Thanks to changes to the story after this movie was written and how quickly the Kamino arc shifts its focus back to the hunt for Jango, who Sifo-Dyas is, how and why he created the army, and what happened to him after are left unclear, with many thinking he was working for Sidious (because originally he was named Sido-Dyas... he ''was'' Sidious). Later media clarified the situation, but that doesn't help here.

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* AmbiguousSituation: Thanks to changes to the story after this movie was written and Given how quickly the Kamino arc shifts its focus back to the hunt for Jango, who it's left unclear how, why and by whom the clone army was requisitioned. Jango's unfamiliarity with the name "Sifo-Dyas" suggests it was just a plot by the Sith, with them attributing it to Sifo-Dyas is, how and why he created the army, and what happened to him after are left unclear, with many thinking he was working for Sidious (because originally he was named Sido-Dyas... he ''was'' Sidious). as a DeceasedFallGuyGambit. Later media clarified the situation, but clarifies that doesn't help here.Sifo-Dyas indeed contacted the cloners on his own initiative after learning the Sith had returned, but the plan was co-opted by the Sith who assassinated him and separately hired Jango to serve as the genetic template. In the earliest drafts of the script it actually was entirely a Sith plot: the Jedi was called "Sido-Dyas" and was just an alias for Sidious, but Lucas later decided to make him a separate character and a real Jedi Master, complicating the plot but without expanding the explanation proportionally.
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* OnlyInItForTheMoney: One cause for fan confusion about who created the clone army, why, and for whom, is due the fact that Jango Fett works for them ''and'' the Separatists, leading fans to speculate the Sith created it with Sifo Dyas thrown in as a DeceasedFallGuyGambit. Not helping the confusion that originally his name was "Sido-Dyas", and was in fact Darth Sidious, and that Jango was contacted by a man named Tyranus, which is Dooku's Sith name. This was changed and expanded on in other media: he was always with the Council and created the army for the Republic, believing a great conflict was coming. This means Sidious wasn't behind the army's creation, and that Jango was working for the Kaminoans and the Separatists because he's a bounty hunter in it for the money.

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* OnlyInItForTheMoney: One cause for fan confusion about who created the clone army, why, and for whom, is due the fact that Jango Fett works for them ''and'' the Separatists, leading fans to speculate the Sith created it with Sifo Dyas thrown in as a DeceasedFallGuyGambit. Not helping the confusion that originally his name was "Sido-Dyas", and was in fact Darth Sidious, and that Jango was contacted by a man named Tyranus, which is Dooku's Sith name. This was changed and expanded on in other media: he was always with the Council and created the army for the Republic, believing a great conflict was coming. This means Sidious wasn't behind the army's creation, and that Jango was working for the Kaminoans and the Separatists because he's a bounty hunter in it for the money.
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* CrimeOfPassion: Anakin Skywalker takes his first step on the path to the Dark Side when, after witnessing his mother die from her injuries following her capture by Sand People, he flies into a rage and slaughters the entire tribe, including the women and children.

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