History Film / AttackOfTheClones

* HollywoodTactics: The Jedi battle in the Geonosis arena features an army of supposedly invincible Jedi getting torn apart by Battle Droids because they decided to abandon sound battle tactics for a ZergRush. The subsequent clone trooper assault is much more effective because it uses proper combined arms tactics. Justified in that the clone army, being an actual army, is trained specifically in such things, while the Jedi are not.

** Many fans have [[EpilepticTrees suggested that Jango is speaking in Mando'a]], as Obi-Wan is less likely to know the language of a people that has long fought against the Jedi, coupled with the fact the written Mandalorian language is visible on the displays inside the ''Slave I'' during their dogfight in the asteroid belt over Geonosis. Neither have stopped Creator/GeorgeLucas and Creator/DaveFiloni from throwing Jango's canonical status as a Mandalorian into question during ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', however.

** An exasperated Obi-Wan to Anakin: [[Film/ANewHope "Why do I get the feeling you'll be the death of me?]]"

** 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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* AdultFear: Anakin finds his mother in the Sand People camp, only to helplessly watch her die. Her last words are telling him "I love you."

* AimForTheHorn: In the final arena battle, Mace narrowly avoids getting trampled by the rampaging, rhino-like Reek, until Mace slices one of its front tusks using his lightsabre.

* ComplexityAddiction: Palpatine sends Dooku who sends Jango who sends Zam who sends a droid who sends worms to kill Padmé, all so that Jango can kill Zam with a Kaminoan dart and Obi-Wan can trace it to Kamino and find the clone army, after which Palpatine manipulates the Republic into making the clones their official army.

* ComplexityAddiction: Palpatine sends Dooku who sends Jango who sends Zam who sends a droid who sends worms to kill Padm&eacute, all so that Jango can kill Zam with a Kaminoan dart and Obi-Wan can trace it to Kamino and find the clone army, after which Palpatine manipulates the Republic into making the clones their official army.

* MohsScaleOfViolenceHardness: It gets a very hard 4, thanks to several Tusken Raiders and Jango Fett being bloodlessly beheaded and Anakin Skywalker losing part of his arm in a lightsaber duel with Count Dooku.

* JerkassHasAPoint: During the fight in the arena, Dooku points out to Windu that the Jedi are "impossibly outnumbered". [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome And indeed, most of them are killed]].

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Has enough for [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome/StarWars its own page]].

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Has enough for [[RealityEnsues/StarWars its own page]].

* WhamLine: "Welcome home, Lord Tyranus." This tells the audience Count Dooku was the one who recruited Jango Fett for the clone army.
* WhamShot: As things go badly for the Separatists on Geonosis Poggle the Lesser hands Count Dooku the schematics for an "ultimate weapon" to use against the Republic. What are the schematics of this proposed weapon meant to create, you may ask? '''[[PlanetDestroyer The Death Star.]]'''
-->'''Poggle the Lesser:'''(in Geonosian) If they find out what we are planning to build, we're doomed.
-->(hands the "weapon schematic" holocron to Dooku)
-->'''Count Dooku:''' I will take the designs with me to Coruscant. They will be much safer there... with[[TheManBehindTheMan my Master]]

* SarcasticWellWishing: This is [[DeadpanSnarker Obi-Wan Kenobi]]'s reaction to Anakin and Padmé getting caught:

* WhamShot: As things go badly for the Separatists on Geonosis Poggle the Lesser hands Count Dooku the schematics for an "ultimate weapon" to use against the Republic. What are the schematics of this proposed weapon meant to create, you may ask? '''The Death Star.'''

-->'''Owen:''' ''(to Anakin)'' Where are you going?

-->'''Obi-Wan:''' I have to admit that without the clones, it would have not been a victory.\\

A decade after the Battle of Naboo, contention within the Galactic Republic leads to the creation of a government group known as the Separatists led by former Jedi Master Count Dooku (Creator/ChristopherLee), with tension between the two sides putting them on the cusp of a full scale war. When Senator Padmé Amidala (Creator/NataliePortman), one of the biggest proponents to avoid a war, is the target of an attempted [[ReverseWhoDunnit assassination]], Obi-Wan Kenobi (Creator/EwanMcGregor) leads an investigation on the assassination, while his apprentice Anakin Skywalker (Creator/HaydenChristensen) is tasked with protecting Padmé, where [[BodyguardCrush they struggle with their growing attraction to each other]] and Anakin deals with personal demons and the lure of the Dark Side.