History Literature / RevengeOfTheSith

* ActorAllusion[=/=]MythologyGag: The novelisation says the Jedi [[SdrawkcabName Cin Drallig]] (played by Nick Gillard, the guy who instructed the actors in the original trilogy on sword fighting) is the Jedi order's main [[MasterSwordsman lightsaber instructor.]] He's also in the video game adaptation as a boss for Anakin during the Jedi Temple massacre.

* HumbleHero: Stover goes out of his way to describe Obi-Wan as this. It seems that he's the only being who doesn't understand how great a Jedi he is.

* XanatosGambit: The chapter ''The Jedi Trap'' lovingly details the things that must be part of such a trap before Obi-Wan goes to confront Grievous. [[spoiler:After he wins, the narration explains how it was still a perfect trap, since the bait and [[UriahGambit the killer]] - Grievous - was going to need disposing of soon and the true purpose of this trap, the one that made the Jedi lose the moment he stepped in, [[BatmanGambit was having him not be on Coruscant at a pivotal moment]].]]

* CallForward: In the opening battle, [[Film/ANewHope Anakin and Obi-Wan lead the tri-fighters pursuing them through a trench in a larger enemy ship]].

->''It is the dark that seeds cruelty into justice, that drips contempt into compassion, that poisons love with gains of doubt.''

* BondOneLiner: While the execution of the Separatist leaders is actually one of the better scenes of the entire movie and played entirely seriously, in the novelization it would appear that Stover couldn't resist Bonding it up. Almost every time that Anakin killed one of the leaders, he spouted off a corny one-liner.

* ContinuityNod: The novelization nods often to the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse, and not just to Stover's Mace Windu book ''Shatterpoint''. The [[Literature/TheCorellianTrilogy worlds of Corellia, called the Five Brothers]]. Various EU adventures Anakin and Obi-Wan have been on get mentioned. He never appears in person, but the powerful Corellian senator [[Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy Garm Bel Iblis]] is part of the proto-Rebellion. Asajj Ventress is also mentioned once or twice; she's a major EU character.

* HarsherInHindsight: the novel introduces a young Lorth Needa, doing his best to save Palpatine an Anakin's lives during the battle of Coruscant, using quick thinking and snark against Grievious as much as his ship's firepower. We all know how well it will end for him [[TheEmpireStrikesBack twenty years later]].
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Anakin and Obi-Wan fear this of Mace Windu, due to his heavy distrust of Palpatine and advocating for more direct action against him. Towards the end, once the Council starts planning for a possible Sith attack, Windu himself realizes how far he's gone.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When handling the scene where Vader's just been assembled on a slab, leaves out the BigNo and adds a moment of NeverMyFault before he realizes that it ''is'' [[HeelRealization his fault]]. Then he tries to call on the Force to kill Sidious - but he's lost so much of his power that he can only destroy droids and equipment, he can't even touch Sidious - and in the end he doesn't want to, because now this is all he has left. The same person who caused him to kill his wife, their unborn child, and thoroughly alienate everyone he ever thought of as a friend is now the only person who will understand, and forgive, and care. Anakin - or now, ''Darth Vader'' - will spend the [[FateWorseThanDeath rest of his life]] burning in self-hatred the way he burned on the shores of the river of lava. All alone, with himself.

** Obi-Wan can say nothing more than "Oh" when Mace Windu tells him they've tracked the Sith Lord to 500 Republica, the most exclusive address on Coruscant, meaning it might actually be true that the Sith Lord may be someone within the Senate.
** Mace Windu pauses for quite a while when inspecting Anakin through the Force and finding he's become the "shatterpoint" to '''everything'''. Moments later, Anakin reveals why: [[spoiler:he's just found out that Palpatine is the Sith Lord.]]
* PragmaticAdaptation: The {{Novelization}} was a departure from the other movie novelizations in that it wasn't just a prettied-up transcript of the movie. This was written by Matt Stover, who changed parts of the script given to him and expanded on some points while minimizing others, although George Lucas approved of all of the changes he made. People who have read it tend to call it superior to the movie - more time was spent on Anakin's fall and Padme's thoughts, and it's much darker than the movie was, though like all of Stover's works it's not devoid of hope.
** And the {{Narm}}-filled dialogue of the movie is pretty much "repaired", to boot.

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Obi-Wan thinks to himself "Oh, oh this is bad" when Anakin [[spoiler:grabs both his arms and starts to crush them, in their duel against each other.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: Dooku's starts when he realizes he underestimated Obi-Wan and Anakin and culminates in him pathetically begging for his life when Palpatine's UriahGambit becomes all too clear to him. This part was removed for the movie, since Christopher Lee thought it was out of character, so Anakin just executes him without Dooku saying a word.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Obi Wan fears this of Mace Windu, due to his heavy distrust of Palpatine and advocating for more direct action against him. Towards the end, once the Council starts planning for a possible Sith attack, Windu himself realizes how far he's gone.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Anakin fears this of Mace Windu, due to his heavy distrust of Palpatine and advocating for more direct action against him. Towards the end, once the Council starts planning for a possible Sith attack, Windu himself realizes how far he's gone.

* JurisdictionFriction: {{Discussed|Trope}}in an argument between Anakin Skywalker and the Jedi Council over who commands the Grand Army of the Republic after Palpatine is given oversight of the Jedi Council. When argument breaks out after Anakin clarifies that with his new powers, Palpatine is now Commander in Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, Yoda states "Pointless it is, to squabble over jurisdiction."

* CallForward: in the opening battle, [[Film/ANewHope Anakin and Obi-Wan lead the tri-fighters pursuing them through a trench in a larger enemy ship]].
* ContinuityNod: The novelization nods often to the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse, and not just to Stover's Mace Windu book ''{{Literature/Shatterpoint}}''. The [[Literature/TheCorellianTrilogy worlds of Corellia, called the Five Brothers]]. Various EU adventures Anakin and Obi-Wan have been on get mentioned. He never appears in person, but the powerful Corellian senator [[Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy Garm Bel Iblis]] is part of the proto-Rebellion. Asajj Ventress is also mentioned once or twice; she's a major EU character.

->[[AC:The dark is generous, and it is patient.]]
->[[AC:It is the dark that seeds cruelty into justice, that drips contempt into compassion, that poisons love with gains of doubt.]]
->[[AC:The dark can be patient, because the slightest drop of rain will cause those seeds to sprout.]]
->[[AC:The rain will come, and the seeds will sprout, for the dark is soil in which they grow, and it is the clouds above them, and it waits behind the star that gives them light.]]
->[[AC:The dark's patience is infinite.]]
->[[AC:Eventually, even stars burn out.]]

** [[spoiler:Obi-Wan admits to Padme halfway through the story that he can tell they both have feelings for each other, and are pretty bad at hiding it. The only reason why he didn't know about their secret marriage and her pregnancy until later is simply because he's too polite to pry further.]]

* DespairEventHorizon: When Sidious abandons him to be killed, Dooku realizes that all his accomplishments, victories, and plans amount to nothing because he was being bred for one sole purpose: [[spoiler:Anakin's first murder.]]

** [[spoiler:Obi-Wan admits to Padme halfway through the story that he can tell they both have feelings for each other, and are pretty bad at hiding it. The only reason why he didn't know about their secret marriage and her pregnancy until later is simply because he doesn't care to pry.]]

* OhCrap: Mace Windu pauses for quite a while when inspecting Anakin through the Force and finding he's become the "shatterpoint" to '''everything'''. Moments later, Anakin reveals why: [[spoiler:he's just found out that Palpatine is the Sith Lord.]]

* VillainousBreakdown:Dooku's starts when he realizes he underestimated Obi-Wan and Anakin and culminates in him pathetically begging for his life when Palpatine's UriahGambit becomes all too clear to him. This part was removed for the movie, since Christopher Lee thought it was out of character, so Anakin just executes him without Dooku saying a word.

* AlasPoorVillain: The novelization provides this for Count Dooku. Seconds from death, he realizes everything he has done or accomplished, all his talent and power and intellect, has been used by Sidious to fulfill his plans with no regard for Dooku's wishes. Even worse, he realizes Sidious had always planned to kill and replace him. "Treachery is the way of the Sith."

* ContinuityNod: The novelization nods often to the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse, and not just to Stover's Mace Windu book ''{{Literature/Shatterpoint}}''. The [[Literature/TheCorellianTrilogy worlds of Corellia, called the Five Brothers]]. Various EU adventures Anakin and Obi-Wan have been on get mentioned. He never appears in person, but the powerful Corellian senator [[Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy Garm Bel Iblis]] is part of the proto-Rebellion.
** Asajj Ventress is also mentioned once or twice; she's a major EU character.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: In a deleted scene and the novelization, as well as subtly implied in the movie itself, [[spoiler:the Clone Troops, after betraying Obi-Wan on Sidious' command, sent some drones down to search for Obi-Wan's body just to make absolutely sure he had in fact died in the fall. Obi-Wan uses the Force to cause a nearby creature to eat them.]]
* FantasticRacism: Count Dooku doesn't like cyborgs or aliens. Low-class, filthy creatures that they both are. Anakin starts picking up on this too, finding a Chagrian to be hideously repulsive. Both of these are [[AllThereInTheManual exclusive to the novelization]].
* TheInsomniac: After he had his nightmare of Padme dying in childbirth, Anakin Skywalker swore off sleep and was using the Force to sustain himself. "The force could keep him upright, keep him moving, keep him thinking, but it couldn't give him rest. Not that he wanted rest. Rest might bring sleep. What sleep might bring, he could not bear to know. He could remember Obi-wan telling him about some poet he'd once read--he couldn't remember the name, or the exact quote, but it was something about how there is no greater misery than to remember, with bitter regret, a time when you were happy." No wonder the guy's about to go Sith.
* JurisdictionFriction: {{Discussed|Trope}} in Creator/MattStover's novelization, which goes into more detail in describing an argument between Anakin Skywalker and the Jedi Council over who commands the Grand Army of the Republic after Palpatine is given oversight of the Jedi Council. When argument breaks out after Anakin clarifies that with his new powers, Palpatine is now Commander in Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, Yoda states "Pointless it is, to squabble over jurisdiction."

* PragmaticAdaptation: The {{Novelization}} was a departure from the other movie novelizations in that it wasn't just a prettied-up transcript of the movie. This was written by Creator/MattStover, who changed parts of the script given to him and expanded on some points while minimizing others, although George Lucas approved of all of the changes he made. People who have read it tend to call it superior to the movie - more time was spent on Anakin's fall and Padme's thoughts, and it's much darker than the movie was, though like all of Stover's works it's not devoid of hope.

Continuing the tradition of pre-released ''Franchise/StarWars'' novelizations, Creator/MattStover, author of other Expanded Universe books such as ''{{Literature/Shatterpoint}}'' and ''The NewJediOrder: Traitor'', was commissioned to write the final book of the prequel films. ''Revenge of the Sith'' thus covers the events of Anakin's last days as a Jedi, but does more than merely recap them. Stover's book is often told from the second-person perspective, and makes both the action and non-action events highly psychological. Unusually for a novelization, it frequently references other EU books, such as the events of ''Literature/LabyrinthOfEvil'', ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'', and Stover's own ''Shatterpoint''. The book also introduces new subplots as part of actions seen in the film, and restores deleted scenes. As such, fans often consider it just as good, if not better, than the film that it is based off of.

Continuing the tradition of expansive ''Franchise/StarWars'' novelizations, Creator/MattStover, author of other Expanded Universe books such as ''{{Literature/Shatterpoint}}'' and ''The NewJediOrder: Traitor'', was commissioned to write the final book of the prequel films. ''Revenge of the Sith'' thus covers the events of Anakin's last days as a Jedi, but does more than merely recap them. Stover's book is often told from the second-person perspective, and makes both the action and non-action events highly psychological. Unusually for a novelization, it frequently references other EU books, such as the events of ''Literature/LabyrinthOfEvil'', ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'', and Stover's own ''Shatterpoint''. The book also introduces new subplots as part of actions seen in the film, and restores deleted scenes. As such, fans often consider it just as good, if not better, than the film that it is based off of.