History Awesome / RevengeOfTheSith

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* During the Grievous confrontation, special credit should be given to Grievous' [[EliteMooks Magnaguards]] for briefly holding their own against Anakin and Obi-Wan. In a universe where droids are semi-comical CannonFodder, it's impressive to see some that can actually give two of the Order's strongest Jedi a decent fight. It isn't until [[Film/StarWarsTheLastJedi Snoke's Praetorian Guard]] that was see a non Force-user fight against a Jedi so well again.

* Vader and Palpatine observe the first death star being constructed. Vader crosses his arms, and the emperor just stands watching. What an awesome image depicting the evil the galaxy will have to deal with for the next 22 years.

* As the Jedi fly through the engagement, most of capital ships are engaged in a StandardStarshipScuffle. Then, out of nowhere, one of the Star Destroyers [[WaveMotionGun fires a turbolaser beam from its ventral hangar bay]], [[CurbStompBattle obliterating]] one of the Separatist cruisers.

* Meanwhile, Yoda decides to do what he does best; kick ass, unleash all of the shit, and personally put a stop to Palpatine's reign of terror, starting off with a Force push so powerful that it ''[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere scares]]'' the Sith Lord, but Yoda won't have any of it.

** Upon entering the Chancellor's Senate office, Yoda effortlessly disables the two door guards by telekinetically dashing them against the wall without even seeming to notice them, they are so insignificant to him.

** The best part? Yoda actually ''wins'' the fight. He first makes Palpatine run for his life, later beats him in swordfighting and disarms him with much less struggle than even Windu, and when Palpatine unloads all of his admittedly impressive Force powers, Yoda still stops them and deflects them back to him. If it is Yoda and not Sidious the one forced to retreat (although that was precisely what Sidious had been trying to do through all the fight) is due to the fortuitous factor that Sidious, with his bigger weight and longer arms, could avoid being blasted off their pod and injured by the fall.
** Sadly, the instance in which Yoda disarms Palpatine is not shown in the film (thought it is in the script and novelization), which makes it an OffscreenMomentOfAwesome. However, what we see onscreen actually makes Yoda even more badass: if Sidious still had his lightsaber on him by the point he stopped using it, it implies the whole reason he only resorts to trolling Yoda by throwing stuff at him from there is because Palpatine has realized he cannot win at swordfighting and that, unlike Windu, Yoda is ''not'' going to engage in silliness before butchering him.

** The best part? Yoda actually wins the fight. He overpowers Palpatine's lightning and proves he's stronger. So strong, unfortunately, that the explosion ends up knocking him away and giving Palpatine time to recoup and get back up while Yoda is injured. Yoda was literally undone because he was ''too'' powerful with the Force, which is both really sad and really awesome all things considered.
** Notice that the whole reason Palpatine resorts to trolling Yoda by throwing stuff at him is that he doesn't have his lightsaber. The script says that Yoda disarmed him of it, in what unfortunately must have been an OffscreenMomentOfAwesome.

** When informed of Padmé's death, Vader uses telekinesis to destroy everything in the room (including the medical droids) and break out of the restraints of the operating table, like some Force-attuned Frankenstein. BigNo or not, that was an impressive showing of the Force from a man who is barely alive.

** When informed of Padmé's death, Vader uses telekinesis to destroy everything in the room (including the medical droids) and break of the operating table, like some Force attuned Frankenstein. BigNo or not, that was an impressive showing of the Force from a man who is barely alive.

* At one point, a lone clone trooper takes out two spider droids by jumping on their backs and [[MoreDakka unloading on them from above.]] It's easily missed, since it happens while Order 66 is being carried out, but it's a great one.

** Meta: That's actually Ewan [=MacGregor=] and Hayden Christensen throughout most of the fight, not their stunt doubles, with both having trained in the choreography until they could do it together ''at full speed''.

** And the starfighters fly straight into a massive space battle, with thousands of ships engaged in battle, [[MoreDakka lasers flying everywhere,]] and [[StuffBlowingUp explosions at every corner.]] Easily the biggest space battle in ''Star Wars'' since the Battle of Endor.

** And then Anakin manages to crash-land the wreckage of the ''Invisible Hand'' on a Coruscant runway. To reiterate: he landed a 3570-foot long dreadnought that was never designed for safe landing!

->'''Novelization'''
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[[caption-width-right:350:The fall of the Jedi order begins..]]

** Equally satisfying is the fantastic contempt in Palpatine's voice when he commands Anakin, newly-minted as Darth Vader to "[[NoIndoorVoice WIPE OUT. VICEROY. GUNRAY.]] And the other separatist leaders." [[KarmaHoudiniWarrenty Finally, Gunray and his ilk are paying for their crimes]]

** To quote the novelization: ''"Though this is the end of the age of heroes, it has saved its best for last."''

* Let's face it, the culmination of Palpatine's plan. Once the war was won, he would have had to resign or show himself as a Sith... And yet he manipulated the Jedi into giving him an excuse to become TheEmperor and have them exterminated. What's more awesome, according to the ExpandedUniverse ''the Jedi knew of Order 66'': it was one of at least 150 [[CrazyPrepared contingency orders to the Grand Army issued for a number of specific circumstances]], with Order 66 being basically "I, the Supreme Commander (Chancellor), have proof the Jedi Order has mutinied, KillEmAll" and Order 65 being "The Supreme Commander (Chancellor) is unfit to issue orders, ''[[RefugeInAudacity arrest him and shoot him if he runs"]]''. And yet, they were caught flat-footed when Palpatine, using official channels (because he had to identify himself as the Chancellor and Supreme Commander), ordered their own soldiers to assassinate them.
** Some for the clone troopers themselves due to sheer {{Genre Savvy}}ness: they shoot them InTheBack with all the necessary firepower and then some (Cody had Obi-Wan shot with an ''anti-tank weapon''); once they kill their commanders, they continue shooting, check the body, and if they can't find it, they conclude it's most likely still alive and start searching.

** Equally satisfying is the fantastic contempt in Palpatine's voice when he commands Anakin, newly-minted as Darth Vader to "[[NoIndoorVoice WIPE OUT. VICEROY. GUNRAY.]] And the other separatist leaders." It's a great reminder to the audience that these sniveling characters are still hanging around and [[KarmaHoudini haven't paid for any of their crimes yet]]. Admit it, you were rooting for Anakin in that scene.
* And now, the duel we've all been waiting for: [[TheChosenOne Anakin]] [[FallenHero Skywalker]] vs. [[IncorruptiblePurePureness Obi-]][[BigBrotherMentor Wan]] [[BigGood Kenobi]], ending with Obi-Wan [[AnArmAndALeg hacking off Anakin's remaining limbs.]] Even better: that's actually Ewan [=MacGregor=] and Hayden Christensen throughout most of the fight, not their stunt doubles, with both having trained in the choreography until they could do it together ''at full speed''. On the commentary, Lucas gushes over how amazing it was to watch them during filming. The fact that Obi-Wan ''wins'' this fight is a huge moment of awesome for him, despite [[WeUsedToBeFriends what it means for the two of them.]] Obi-Wan fights the Chosen One, the most powerful Force user in the galaxy, and someone he's said before is stronger than he'll ever be, and ''wins''. It's true that Anakin probably [[SanitySlippage isn't in the best state of mind]] to be fighting at full force, but it's still damn impressive.

** Them fighting on the Chancellor's Podium as it rises and brings them to the Galactic Senate Chamber alone is breathtaking. We've seen this place many times throughout the trilogy and now the BigGood and BigBad are fighting in it. Even though no one is in the room, it gives the sense that everyone is watching whether good or evil triumph.
** Even better when viewed as part of the series. Those who know Palpatine know that he is a man who is absolutely in control of everything around him. He never panics, always thinks about a dozen steps ahead and never acts intimidated or worried. And he is running scared for his life from someone he had taunted only moments ago. For the first time in the series, he has met someone he cannot intimidate or bully, someone who will never be swayed by his words or fall under his spell. He has encountered someone who can destroy him and is damn sure going to try.

** Yoda, like all Jedi, is a pacifist. He'd rather talk than fight. In his encounter with Sidious, it's quite possibly the first time he's wanted a fight like this, and it's a good indicator of how far Sidious has pushed him.

* At the end, all it took was Vader taking one deep mechanical breath and every hair on your body stood on end, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6bEs3dxjPg followed by a heart-wrenching]] BigNo.

* Meanwhile, [[BadassGrandpa Yoda]] decides to do what he does best; kick ass, unleash all of the shit, and personally put a stop to Palpatine's reign of terror, starting off with a Force push so powerful that it ''[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere scares]]'' the Sith Lord, but Yoda won't have any of it.

* At long last, a Wookie army appeared on screen.

** And the starfighters fly straight into a massive space battle, with thousands of ships engaged in battle, [[MoreDakka lasers flying everywhere,]] and[[StuffBlowingUp explosions at every corner.]] Easily the biggest space battle in ''Star Wars'' since the Battle of Endor.

-->'''Anakin''': "I think we lost something."
--> '''Obi-Wan''': [[DangerDeadpan "Not to worry, we are still flying half a ship."]]
-->''[[Literature/RevengeOfTheSith This is, put simply, impossible.]]'' ''It can't be done.'' ''[[BeyondTheImpossible He's going to do it anyway.]]'' ''[...] This is Anakin Skywalker's masterpiece.''

-->'''Mace:''' In the name of the Galactic Senate of the Republic, you are under arrest.
-->'''Palpatine:''' Are you ''threatening'' me, Master Jedi?
-->'''Mace:''' The Senate will decide your fate.
-->'''Palpatine:''' I ''[[IAmTheNoun am]]'' the Senate!
-->'''Mace:''' Not yet!

* First things first: the entire movie is Palpatine/[[BigBad Darth Sidious]]'s moment of glory, being the final stage in his plan to exterminate the Jedi Order and place the galaxy under true Sith rule.
* The quiet opening, a single Star Destroyer rolling across the screen to the sound of lone drumbeats. Two small fighters race across the screen, and the most bombastic and cheer-inducing take on the Force Theme ''ever'' blares across the screen. We know ''exactly'' who these two Jedi Knights are, we know ''exactly'' what they're about to do, and we know in the space of a single scene that this is the ''movie we've been waiting twenty years for''.

** The 2 starships roll over the edge of the capital ship, and right underneath, you see....WAR! Tens of ships engaged in battle, lasers flying everywhere, explosions, destruction, fighters flying around randomly! Easily the biggest space battle we'd seen in Star Wars since the battle of Endor, and my is it grand.
** Artoo destroying the buzz droid that landed on Anakin's fighter, with some advice from Obi-Wan. Even better in the novelization where Artoo busts out every tool on his person and leaves the buzz droid in ''pieces.''
* The Battle of Coruscant was one big Moment of Awesome for Anakin. He tricks two high-quality homing missiles tailing him into blowing each other up. He is able to pilot his interceptor with such precision that he crushes one of those tiny little buzz droids between his fighter and Obi-Wan's, causing no damage to either vehicle and utterly destroying the droid. And he does this at the risk of getting a buzz droid on his own fighter. When told the hangar shields are still up on the ''Invisible Hand'', he isn't worried at all. He just blasts the generator like nobody's business.
** Obi-Wan leaps from his starfighter while it skids across the hangar deck and takes out several droids with his lightsaber, as he lands among them, with effortless grace.
** At one point in the ''Invisible Hand'', R2 is cornered by two [[EliteMooks super battle droids]] and probably about to get shot. So what does he do? He squirts them with oil, engages his booster jets, and ''[[KillItWithFire sets them on fire]]''. And then [[UnflinchingWalk (st)rolls away while they explode]].
* Later, Anakin kills Dooku in what quickly becomes [[CombatByChampion single combat]]. After that, he carries the unconscious Obi-Wan on his back like he's as light as a rag doll, and finally, he safely crash-lands half a cruiser that was never designed to be able to land safely.
** The duel with Dooku is made even better in the novelization. It's told from Dooku's perspective, and it shows him going from a complete SmugSnake through his OhCrap moment when he realizes that Obi-Wan and Anakin [[IAmNotLeftHanded aren't fighting like he expected]] to his final realization of his betrayal by Sidious.
** And his realization, after taunting Anakin, why Sidious wants him as an apprentice: ''the boy is half-Sith already.'' Immediately following, he taunts Anakin again, this time to deprive him of Dark Side power, only to have Palpatine encourage him. Dooku immediately wonders "Whose side is he ''on?''" Well, Count, you're about to find out...
* When Anakin and Obi-Wan confront Grievous, he escapes by smashing a window and exposing the entire room to the vacuum of space. As smug as he may be, that takes balls. (Or in his case, complete lack thereof.)

** As the novelization states: ''"This is, put simply, impossible. It can't be done. He's going to do it anyway."'' And finally, ''"This is Anakin Skywalker's masterpiece."''
* [[ActionFilmQuietDramaScene Palpatine and Anakin at the opera]]. Sheer creepy, slightly {{Squick}}y win. Bonus points here for Ian [=McDiarmid's acting=]. The intensity of the scene is already set by the music, but he only adds to it with his "Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise". Perfect storytelling, and the subtle, evil smirk he gives as he recalls his master's demise at his own hands shows Palpatine to be every bit as creepy ''before'' his face gets fried.
* Palpatine's "Jedi trap" at Utapau is his Crowning Moment of MagnificentBastard, which the novelization sums up.
** First, he picks a planet way out in the Outer Rim that he couldn't care less about, but has geography that helps funnel the action into certain areas, making it easier to predict.
** Second, he baits the trap with something that will guarantee the Jedi will rush in. This bait is General Grievous, whose death or capture would end the war and Palpatine's emergency powers, two things the Jedi desperately want.
** Third, he makes the trap's Jedi-killer the same as the bait, guaranteeing that even should the Jedi spot the trap they will continue to put themselves in its teeth of their own volition.
** Fourth, the bait/Jedi-killer is a pawn that has [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived its usefulness,]] ensuring that [[XanatosGambit whatever happens, Palpatine benefits.]]
** And lastly, none of it really matters because the real purpose of the trap is to ensure the Jedi - Obi-Wan Kenobi - isn't around to keep Anakin Skywalker from falling to the dark side.
* Which doesn't make what happens any less awesome: Obi-Wan Kenobi, alone, nearly unarmed and without backup, facing up to a room full of bad guys including one with four lightsabers. Han Solo would be proud.
** His entrance in that scene: "Hello there." Best entrance ever. Then dropping that huge thing on Grievous' guards. Then strolling on, twirling his lightsabre like a walking stick.
** Grievous: "I've been trained in your Jedi arts by Count Dooku." Obi-Wan might have been thinking: "Good, because I trained the Jedi who killed Count Dooku." (In the movie, he ''might'' be thinking it. In the novelisation, he ''says'' it in his own inimitable DeadpanSnarker way.)
** More: he wasn't trapped, ambushed, or backed into this situation. Obi-Wan Kenobi saw a huge hangar filled with droids, and with General Grievous, went "Hmm", and ''jumped down into the middle''.
** Though Grievous having four arms was slightly spoiled by the cartoon miniseries that bridged Episode II and Episode III, you have to admit that the way he advances towards Obi-Wan on Utapau, four lightsabers in his hands, all four of them spinning like saws as they carve up the floor, is a hell of a way to start a duel.
** To cap off the battle, Obi-Wan kills Grievous with a blaster and then delivers a hell of a BondOneLiner-cum-CallForward:
--->'''Obi-Wan''' (after killing Grievous): "So uncivilized."
** The novelization makes it even more awesome by explaining ''why'' the Jedi sent [[MartialPacifist Obi-Wan]], and not [[OneManArmy Mace Windu]] or [[BadassGrandpa Yoda]], to take down the [[HeroKiller slayer of Jedi]]: Grievous has [[PowerCopying copied all the lightsaber combat styles of the Jedi he has fought]] and is just as skilled as Mace and Yoda while being faster, but Obi-Wan is the master of the form focused on ''[[StoneWall blocking]]''. The end result: in less than a minute from the start of their brief duel, Grievous had lost two of his four blades to Obi-Wan's ''parries'', and [[OhCrap Grievous has stopped being smug and is now desperately fighting for his life]]. Even so, Grievous regroups and eventually Obi-Wan is disarmed. But Grievous, like most people, believes that Jedi will use nothing but their lightsabers and TheForce to fight. What finally does in Grievous is that Obi-Wan, when push comes to shove, is willing to go CombatPragmatist and finish him off ''with a blaster''. His BondOneLiner was for the fact he had to resort to such "uncivilized" weapons to win, but it still meant he won.
** Obi-Wan fends off Grievous' electrostaff attacks with his bare hand while they're racing through the tunnel.

** Then when Anakin disarms Mace, the now "scarred and deformed" Palpatine kills Mace with another glorious torrent of lightning. While some find this moment extremely narmy, others defend it as one of the best, if not ''the best'', Palpatine moment when he starts devouring, and we mean ''devouring'', the scenery with such aplomb that it's hard not to let loose and root for him. All together now:
---> '''Palpatine:''' '''POOOWEER! UUNLIIIMIITEEED POOWWEEEER!!'''

* Say what you will about Anakin, but [[OdessaSteps marching up the steps]] of the Jedi Temple at the head of the entire 501st is pure win.
* A small moment, and one easily missed as it occurs between scenes of Order 66 being carried out, but an example of why clone troopers aren't just cannon fodder: a single clone trooper takes out two spider droids, where previously they had been annihilating entire squads in seconds, by jumping on their backs and shooting them at full auto from above.