History WesternAnimation / StarWarsTalesOfTheJedi

* OneDialogueTwoConversations: Bail speaks to both an out-of-sight Ahsoka and two Clone Troopers questioning him by making friendly conversation about how teamwork and how they can always count on him. The Clones just think he's being weird, possibly drunk, but Ahsoka gets the real message that she can always count on Bail to help her out if she decides to fight the Empire.

** In "The Sith Lord", which overlaps with the events of ''The Phantom Menace'', most of the Jedi dismiss Qui-gon Jinn's encounter with a Sith Lord on Tatooine. Even Yaddle, who is more sympathetic to Qui-gon and Dooku, would prefer to wait for more information before acting on Qui-gon's warning.

* CanonForeigner: In the first episode, Pav-ti hunts some kybuck, which are animals from the ''Legends'' continuity, particularly ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'' where one acted as Yoda’s personal steed.

* SuperPersistentPredator: The sabertooth cat-like predator in Episode 1 only seems to want to eat Pav-ti and Ahsoka, despite the freshly killed and much larger kybuck right there for the taking.

* CorruptPolitician: Both of the Republic senators seen are scumbags of the highest order, symbolizing the Republic's larger decay. Senator Dagonet is a selfish, cruel man who lets his people starve and suffer in the name of his political ambitions, only to crackdown with brutal force when they retaliate by kidnapping his son (who is so shocked by how his father's subjects are faring that he ''agrees with and supports his kidnappers''). Senator Larik is a greedy coward who tries to sell off and exploit Raxus and its people for his own gain, which eventually provokes his PraetorianGuard into trying to stage a coup.

** Even after his fall from grace, Dooku clearly loves Qui-Gon as a son, and is heartbroken and filled with rage when he dies dueling Maul on Naboo. At the same time, it's darkly subverted with Palpatine, who tries to act as if he's equally affected by Maul's own apparent death ("you lost an apprentice and so did I!") to get sympathy from Dooku, but clearly doesn't care that much.

''Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi'' is a Creator/DisneyPlus animated anthology series set in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' universe, and serves as a prequel/interquel/sequel to ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', with much of the cast and crew returning from that series. Set in intervening periods before, during, and after the Clone Wars, the show focuses on Ahsoka Tano (Creator/AshleyEckstein), Count Dooku (Creator/CoreyBurton), and Qui-Gon Jinn (Creator/LiamNeeson and his son Micheál Richardson) at various points in their lives, showing how they came to be the characters the audiences first meet them as. In addition, Anakin Skywalker (Creator/MattLanter), Mace Windu (Creator/TerrenceCCarson), Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Bail Organa, Tera Sinube, Yaddle, Ponda Baba, and the Clone Army put in an appearance. Creator/JaninaGavankar, who played Iden Verso in ''VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefrontII2017'', appears in the series as Pav-ti, Ahsoka's mother.

Not to be confused with ''ComicBook/TalesOfTheJedi'', another series from the ''Legends'' continuity.

* SuperPersistentPredator: The BigCat-like predator in Episode 1 only seems to want to eat Pav-ti and Ahsoka, despite the freshly killed and much larger kybuck right there for the taking.

''Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi'' is a Creator/DisneyPlus animated anthology series set in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' universe, and serves as a prequel/interquel/sequel to ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', with much of the cast and crew returning from that series. Set in intervening periods before, during, and after the Clone Wars, the show focuses on Ahsoka Tano (Creator/AshleyEckstein), Count Dooku (Creator/CoreyBurton) and Qui-Gon Jinn (Creator/LiamNeeson and his son Micheál Richardson) at various points in their lives, showing how they came to be the characters the audiences first meet them as. In addition, Anakin Skywalker (Creator/MattLanter), Mace Windu (Creator/TerrenceCCarson), Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Bail Organa, Tera Sinube, Yaddle, Ponda Baba, and the Clone Army put in an appearance. Creator/JaninaGavankar, who played Iden Verso in ''VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefrontII2017'', appears in the series as Pav-ti, Ahsoka's mother.

* AmbiguousInnocence: Mace Windu reports Dooku's CowboyCop methods on Raxus to the Council, which leads to Dooku being passed over for a seat on the Council (which he had hoped to get into order to enact reforms) that goes to Windu instead. Dooku clearly suspects that Windu's actions were a politically motivated power-grab, while Windu insists he was just following protocol and was just as surprised as anyone when he was offered the seat. It's not clear which is true, as to Mace’s credit he has always been duty-bound, but Dooku's justifiable suspicion worsens his disillusionment with the Order.
* ArtEvolution: The series does have the same art style as ''The Clone Wars'', but advances in technology have given it a much more realistic look in terms of lighting and presentation. There's also some subtle tweaks to the character models; look closely and Obi-Wan, though wearing his Clone armor over his robes, has his mullet from ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''.
* AscendedExtra: Big time for Yaddle. She goes from being a background character in ''The Phantom Menace'' before [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome suddenly disappearing afterwards and never brought up again]] to becoming a big part of Count Dooku's backstory.
* BackForTheDead: "The Sith Lord" marks [[spoiler:Yaddle's first canon appearance since ''The Phantom Menace''. She is killed by Dooku at the end, explaining why she never appeared again.]]
* BenevolentConspiracy: Dooku ''thinks'' that Palpatine's big conspiracy is this, bending the rules and manipulating the system to restore the Republic to it's former glory. Naturally, it's actually just about [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans giving the power-hungry Palpatine's control of the galaxy]], but Palpatine is more then happy to play into and encourage Dooku's misguided belief that everything they're doing is for the greater good.
* BlackShirt: A young man on the farm Ahsoka retires to is an avid supporter of the Empire, believing the propaganda that Palpatine has brought peace and order to the galaxy by ending the war and that the Jedi were traitors. He learns his lesson the hard way when he learns of Ahsoka being a Jedi, calls the Inquisitorius to report her, and an Inquisitor promptly shows up and burns his village down while killing most of his friends and coworkers in search of Ahsoka.

* CorruptPolitician: Both of the Republic senators seen are scumbags of the highest order, symbolizing the Republic's larger decay. Senator Dagonet is a selfish, cruel man who lets his people starve and suffer in the name of his political ambitions, only to crackdown with brutal force when they retaliate by kidnapping his son (who is so shocked by how his father's subjects are faring that he ''agrees with and supports his kidnappers''). Senator Larik is a greedy coward who tries to sell off and exploit Raxus and it's people for his own gain, which eventually provokes his PraetorianGuard into trying to stage a coup.
* CurbStompBattle: The Inquisitor who hunts down Ahsoka in the final episode underestimates just how powerful and skilled she is, assuming her to be just another Padawan rather than apprentice to one of the strongest Jedi Knights by the end of the war. He pays the price for it when Ahsoka effortlessly evades, disarms, and beheads him despite not even having a lightsaber on her.

** Even after his fall from grace, Dooku clearly loves Qui-Gon as a son, and is heartbroken and filled with rage when he dies dueling Maul on Naboo. At the same time, it's darkly subverted with Palpatine, who tries to act as if he's equally affected by Maul's own apparent death ("you lost an apprentice and so did I!") to get sympathy from Dooku, but clearly doesn't actually care that much.

* FluffyTamer: Ahsoka's first use of the Force is calming an angry and hungry wildcat that stole her for food while her mother was hunting, even compelling it to carry her back home. This confirms to her village that she is Force sensitive.

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Lampshaded and discussed in regards to the Separatist Battle Droids, which are mostly lousy shots due to their simplistic programming that mostly amounts to "hold gun, shoot gun" and make up for it through [[WeHaveReserves numbers]]. Ahsoka complains about Anakin's test involving clone troopers shooting at her for this reason, pointing out that her clone allies are better shots then the droids she'll actually be fighting. Anakin agrees and says it's the point; if she can learn to dodge and deflect clone blasterfire, the less dangerous droid blasterfire will be even easier to deal with, and she'll also have valuable experience with fighting living creatures that are inherently less predictable then droids with weak AI. Sure enough, the training pays off during Order 66.
* InherentInTheSystem: Dooku and Qui-Gon initially see the growing corruption in the Republic and Jedi Council as a minor problem, something that is rare and can be easily dealt with. Several decades of trying and failing to be an InternalReformist ends up convincing Dooku that the system itself is fundamentally broken and there needs to be radical change to get the Republic back to health. Palpatine is all too happy to exploit that disillusionment to prod Dooku into more and more "moral compromises" in the name of social change until eventually Dooku is deep into Sithism and sees no way out.
* InstantDeathBullet: Averted. Ahsoka's mother shoots a kybuck while hunting, then has to MercyKill it with her hunting knife when it ends up being merely wounded.

** Dagonet's declaration that he intends to utterly destroy the town that kidnapped his son, even though [[NeverMyFault they only did so because of his mistreatment of him]] and even his son agrees with them, simply to make an example of people who act against him is what angers Dooku enough to nearly Force Choke the man.

** The sequences of Ahsoka training with numerous clones surrounding her bears a striking resemblance to a similar scene in a trailer featuring another of [[VideoGame/StarWarsTheForceUnleashed Anakin's apprentices]]...

** PlayedWith as the final episode of this series basically follows the key plot points from the ''[[Literature/StarWarsAhsoka Ahsoka]]'' novel, while cutting out a lot in order to fit a 15 minute run time. The only things to remain are; Ahsoka hiding as a regular worker, accidentally outing herself as a Jedi by saving someone, befriending a local girl, the Empire going scorched earth to find her after someone reports to them about a Jedi, Ahsoka killing a masked inquisitor, contacting Bail in order to find refuge for the survivors, and finally Bail being the one she contacts in order to return to the fight.

* RiteOfPassage: The first episodes shows Ahsoka as a one year old, being taken on a traditional hunt by her mother Pav-ti, despite her father Nak-il's protest that it's old-fashioned. Things go awry when a predator intrudes and ends up grabbing Ahsoka as the other villagers try to drive it off.

* SuperPersistentPredator: The Big Cat like predator in Episode 1 only seems to want to eat Pav-ti and Ahsoka, despite the freshly killed and much larger kybuck right there for the taking.
* TimePassageBeard: The passage of time and Dooku's character arc is symbolized by his BeardOfEvil. At the start, when he's a Jedi serving the people, he's clean-shaven. In the middle, when he's growing increasingly disillusioned, he has a BeardOfSorrow but it's clean and well-groomed. At the end, when he makes his final steps into Sithism and political violence, he has his trademark scraggly, sinister full beard.
* TrainingFromHell: Anakin's idea of training for Ahsoka is decidedly more harsh and pragmatic then typical for Jedi; having her stand in a circle and be shot at (with stun on, obviously) by her own clone trooper comrades, to improve her reflexes, ability to think outside the box, [[CrazyPrepared preparation for any scenario]], and ability to take a hit (since getting stunned repeatedly helps her develop resistance to it).
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Immediately after the war, the general public — unaware of his true nature — still views Palpatine as a noble and strong wartime leader who led the galaxy to peace in a turbulent time and was the victim of a betrayal and assassination attempt by the Jedi. The tide of opinion is already turning, however, as shown by the overseer of the farm Ahsoka works on, who is contemptuous of his son's fervent support of the Empire and points out how the "peace" they're under was created through persecution of Jedi and former Separatists, raising the question of who is safe (nobody is, as it turns out).
* VocalEvolution: Corey Burton's voice for Dooku in his early days sounds higher-pitched than before, reminiscent of his voice for Cad Bane or [[WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays V.V. Argost.]] It's likely deliberate to make Dooku sound younger.
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: One of the biggest moments in Dooku's radicalization comes when his willingness to bend the rules allows him to solve the murder of a fellow Jedi and uncover a plot by a senator's guards to seize control of Raxus… and his reward is Mace Windu ratting him out to the Council, ostensibly because Mace was following protocol, but it just so happens to conveniently result in Dooku being passed over for a seat on the Council in favor of Mace.

* AmbiguousInnocence: Mace Windu rats out Dooku's CowboyCop methods on Raxus to the Council, which leads to Dooku being passed over for a seat on the Council (which he had hoped to get into order to enact reforms) that goes to Windu instead. Dooku clearly suspects that Windu's actions were a politically motivated power-grab, while Windu insists he was just following protocol and was just as surprised as anyone when he was offered the seat. It's not clear which is true, but Dooku's justifiable suspicion worsens his disillusionment with the Order.

* AHeroIsBorn: The first episode begins with Ahsoka Tano's birth.

* PuppetKing: Senator Larik's PraetorianGuard try to stage a quiet coup on Raxus by turning Larik into one, threatening him into undoing his corrupt policies and instituting new ones more beneficial to Raxus, while also killing anybody who learns of the truth behind Larik's "change of heart". Dooku and Mace Windu's investigation of Master Canti's death throws a wrench into that scheme, ending with Larik dead and the guards either dead themselves or arrested for treason.

* TrainingFromHell: Anakin's idea of training for Ahsoka is decidedly more harsh and pragmatic then typical for Jedi; having her stand in a circle and be shot at (with stun on, obviously) by her own clone trooper comrades, to improve her reflexes, ability to think outside the box, [[CrazyPrepared preparation for any scenario]], and ability to take a hit (since getting stunned repeated helps her develop resistance to it).

* VocalEvolution: Corey Burton's voice for Dooku sounds higher-pitched than before, reminiscent of his voice for Cad Bane or [[WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays V.V. Argost.]] It's likely deliberate to make Dooku sound younger.

-->-- '''Pav-Ti'''

* BackForTheDead: "The Sith Lord" marks [[spoiler:Yaddle's]] first canon appearance since ''The Phantom Menace''. She is killed by Dooku at the end, explaining why she never appeared again.

* BackForTheDead: "The Sith Lord" marks [[Yaddle's]] first canon appearance since ''The Phantom Menace''. She is killed by Dooku at the end, explaining why she never appeared again.

* InherentInTheSystem: Dooku and Qui-Gon initially see the growing corruption in the Republic and Jedi Council as a minor problem, something that is rare and can be easily dealt with. Several decades of trying and failing to be an InternalReformist ends up convincing Dooku that the system itself is fundamentally broken and there needs to be radical change to get the Republic back to health. Palpatine is all to happy to exploit that disillusionment to prod Dooku into more and more "moral compromises" in the name of social change until eventually Dooku is deep into Sithism and sees no way out.

* . BenevolentConspiracy: Dooku ''thinks'' that Palpatine's big conspiracy is this, bending the rules and manipulating the system to restore the Republic to it's former glory. Naturally, it's actually just about [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans giving the power-hungry Palpatine's control of the galaxy]], but Palpatine is more then happy to play into and encourage Dooku's misguided belief that everything they're doing is for the greater good.

** Count Dooku takes a more aggressive stance against enemy combatants, which frightens his young apprentice Qui-Gon and forces Mace Windu to intervene. He also mentions that he tried to warn the Jedi about the fate rising against them, both cleverly hinting at his eventual fall to the dark side.

* ContinuityNod: Padmé's funeral, as seen in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', is shown in the final episode -- and it's revealed that Ahsoka was in attendance.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Even after his fall from grace, Dooku clearly loves Qui-Gon as a son, and is heartbroken and filled with rage when he dies dueling Maul on Naboo. At the same time, it's darkly subverted with Palpatine, who tries to act as if he's equally affected by Maul's own apparent death ("you lost an apprentice and so did I!") to get sympathy from Dooku, but clearly doesn't actually care that much.

* MythologyGag: The scenes in the trailer of Ahsoka training with numerous clones surrounding her bears a striking resemblance to a similar scene in another trailer featuring another of [[VideoGame/StarWarsTheForceUnleashed Anakin's apprentices]]...

** In ''Attack Of The Clones'' Dooku said that despite being his former master, he very much valued the aid and wisdom of Qui-Gon. After the events with Senator Dagonet, Dooku confides in Qui-Gon that he considers him the wiser of the two.

** PlayedWith as the final episode of this series basically follows the key plot points from the [[Literature/StarWarsAhsoka Ahsoka Novel]], while cutting out a lot in order to fit a 15 minute run time. The only things to remain are; Ahsoka hiding as a regular worker, accidentally outing herself as a Jedi by saving someone, befriending a local girl, the empire going scorched earth to find her after someone reports to them about a Jedi, Ahsoka killing a masked inquisitor, contacting Bail in order to find refuge for the survivors, and finally Bail being the one she contacts in order to return to the fight.