History Characters / StarWarsAhsokaTano

* NotHelpingYourCase: When accused of bombing the Jedi Temple and fleeing her imprisonment, Anakin pleads with her to come back with him and explain the situation to the Council. Ahsoka refuses to trust that they will handle the charges against her and goes to find out who's framing her herself. Later, when she's been recaptured the Council declines to push for special treatment for her during her trial, largely because her actions while on the run further implicated herself, and Ahsoka acts betrayed that they wouldn't trust that she's innocent. This also comes off the back of the Jedi learning Pong Krell fell to the Dark Side without anyone even noticing which has greatly shaken the Councils faith

* ProperlyParanoid: When she's framed for bombing the Jedi Temple, she's convinced no one will believe her, which is why she goes out to prove her own innocence. She's proven right; in spite of the flimsy evidence against her, both the Jedi and the Republic are prepared to hang her out to dry.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Ahsoka's departure from the Jedi Order was her own personal decision after the events of the Fugitive arc saw her lose trust in the Jedi Order. Unfortunately, this had serious repercussions for Anakin, as she was a major MoralityChain for him; once she left, he started falling more towards the Dark Side, and we all know how that ends up.

* OvershadowedByAwesome: Ahsoka is an extremely talented "Non-Jedi", but compared to Sidious, she's so out of his league that the only thing she can do when she finds him is run for her life.
* PoorCommunicationKills: What leads her to becoming Fulcrum is realizing that the reason so many of her friends died on Raada was because of her unwillingness to share information. She also muses that the Jedi may have been saved if Bariss had had a better way to voice her concerns about the state of the Republic, and if the Jedi had listened. At the end of her solo book, she decides that she will personally ensure no more people die because of a lack of information and trust.

* WorldsStrongestWoman: As of the end of ''Return of the Jedi'', due to all of her seniors in terms of experience (Yoda, Darth Sidious, Anakin Skywalker) ending the film either dead or incapacitated and the only other two confirmed survivors of the pre-Empire Jedi Order (Naq Med and [[spoiler:Grogu]]) being IncompletelyTrained, Ahsoka is a top contender for the title of most powerful Force-wielder alive and active in the galaxy. Only Luke Skywalker can seriously contest this, and it should be noted she's got approximately fourteen years of experience on him.

** In “Old Friends Not Forgotten”, Ahsoka accuses Obi-Wan of abandoning Mandalore with the implication she wants him to abandon Coruscant instead when we have seen what the Separatists do to the worlds they capture. She may have accused Obi-Wan of playing politics but the people of Coruscant were suffering and it was Anakin who asked after the Chancellor first.

* NotHelpingYourCase: When accused of bombing the Jedi Temple and fleeing her imprisonment, Anakin pleads with her to come back with him and explain the situation to the Council. Ahsoka refuses to trust that they will handle the charges against her and goes to find out who's framing her herself. Later, when she's been recaptured the Council declines to push for special treatment for her during her trial, largely because her actions while on the run further implicated herself, and Ahsoka acts betrayed that they wouldn't trust that she's innocent. Even so, given how quickly they were willing to throw her under the bus, she wasn't entirely wrong to try and prove her innocence.

* BrokenPedestal: When she first started out, Ahsoka had nothing but the utmost loyalty towards the Jedi Order and their teachings--teachings of which she slowly starts questioning too often as she gets placed under Anakin's tutelage (though this is more for him being a rule bender than it is anything malicious). Then, when she's wrongfully accused of bombing the Jedi Temple, everyone but Anakin, Plo, Yoda, and Obi-Wan assume she's guilty and throw her out of the Order and to Tarkin's non-existent mercy to be prosecuted in order to save face in the wake of the disaster. After the real culprit is discovered, Ahsoka is cleared and invited back, but she chooses to leave, no longer trusting the Jedi Order after they turned their backs on her when she needed them most. This bites everyone hard when they continue to dismiss her even after she volunteers to ask for their aid in liberating Mandalore, and she refuses to tell them about Maul's suspicions about Sidious and Anakin, playing a part in [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith everyone's downfall]]. That said, Ahsoka doesn't dislike the Jedi themselves, but the dogmatic Order that had lost sight of the Jedi's teachings and their unwillingness to see the galaxy from a perspective that isn't their own.

* BreakTheCutie: Despite being an adorable PluckyGirl, the events of the Fugitive arc are just too much for Ahsoka. She gets framed for multiple murders, terrorism, and sedition; the Jedi Council abandons her and makes no effort to conduct their own investigation; the Senate Court (particularly [[InspectorJavert Tarkin]]) are more than happy to sentence her to death. On top of that, Anakin discovers that one of her friends (Barriss Offee) is the one who framed her. In the face of all this, she understandably refuses Yoda's offer to return to the Order despite their intention to promote her to Jedi Knight for putting up with all this crap. As she leaves the Temple, she sheds a SingleTear.

* EasilyCondemned: During the Fugitive Arc, the evidence against her being the culprit of the Jedi Temple bombing is flimsy ''at best'', but the Jedi Council (aside from Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Plo Koon) throw her to the Senate's mercy to save face. She leaves the Jedi after she's cleared of all charges.

* {{Foil}}: As presented through ''The Clone Wars'' and ''Tales of the Jedi'', Ahsoka is one to Dooku. Both were brought into the Jedi Order at a young age (her after being raised by GoodParents who let Plo Koon take her in, him being abandoned by [[AbusiveParents a horrific father]] to die in the woods), and both wound up as part of a Master-Apprentice chain starting with Yoda. Both also had family-figures (with Ahsoka seeing Anakin as her surrogate brother, while Dooku saw Qui-Gon as his surrogate son), though Ahsoka was very much Anakin's MoralityChain while Qui-Gon was revealed to be Dooku's. Both also witnessed the corruption within the Republic and the Jedi Order, but Dooku, in spite of attempting to be an InternalReformist, ultimately felt [[IveComeTooFar he'd gone too far]] in trying to save the galaxy and gave into the Dark Side, [[TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget becoming far more of a monster than he intended to be]] and [[spoiler:killing Yaddle, a green-skinned alien]]. Ahsoka, however, remained steadfastly loyal to the Jedi until she was [[FrameUp framed for a crime she didn't commit]] by Barris Offee, a green-skinned alien, and thrown to the wolves by the Council so they could save face, refusing to come back when cleared, and ultimately accepting that to walk the path of the Jedi was to accept the will of the Force, not the dogmatic thinking of the Council.

** Likewise, when Maul reveals Anakin is the key towards Sideous taking over the galaxy, she refuses to believe her old master is capable of being corrupted, and any potential alliance between her and Maul to stop Sideous falls apart right then and there. Quickly the galaxy's only chance at salvation falls apart, and from that decision helps to bring about TheEmpire.

* MookHorrorShow: Performs this trope in the opening minutes of her Mandalorian appearence. About twenty guards are hunting her in a forest. None survive her, most don't even see her coming and only one or two even get a shot off before falling to her blades.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: [[spoiler: She dissuades Mando from going to visit Grogu on ''The Book of Boba Fett'' by asking if he's doing so for the child's sake or his own.]]

* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: A non-romantic example, but [[spoiler: on ''The Book of Boba Fett'', she talks Mando out of going to see Grogu. It hurts him to do so, but she insists its better for the boy's training (though she does agree to pass on the gift he had made for him.)]]

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Ahsoka grew up during the Clone Wars, during which she experienced, many, ''many'' hardships that eventually led her to walk away from the Jedi Order.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Her MookHorrorShow moment on ''The Mandalorian'' would lead the audience to believe she's a terrifying figure who stalks the night, and wears a darker uniform than she did in her younger days. That said, she's firmly on the side of the good guys, albeit on her own path.

** Ahsoka's departure from the group after her duel with Vader ends up as the point where everything gets much grimmer ''even'' with Vader no longer hunting the Ghost anymore. Maul is effectively unstoppable in the few times the heroes get to fight him without her until he finally meets and is killed by Obi-Wan once and for all. Thrawn, an excellent veteran general but otherwise normal with no Force powers or any spectacular combat skills, ends up handing the Ghost a quite severe defeat at the end of the third season. Had she still been around, there would have been much less tension with Maul and as a veteran of the Clone Wars, she probably could have handled Thrawn better than the others did, displaying exactly how the loss of their most powerful and experienced member had keenly affected the Ghost's efficiency.

** [[spoiler: She's stops by to visit Luke on ''The Book of Boba Fett'', but it's not established why other than she's a friend of the family.]]

* {{Irony}}: Because she is neither present nor mentioned in ''Revenge of the Sith'', the obvious assumption is that she's DoomedByCanon and that she'll die before the end of ''The Clone Wars''. The ending of ''Rebels'' shows she's outlived pretty much every other major character from the prequel era.

* MookHorrorShow: Preforms this trope in the opening minutes of her Mandalorian appearence. About twenty guards are hunting her in a forest. None survive her, most don't even see her coming and only one or two even get a shot off before falling to her blades.

* NoodleIncident: [[spoiler: Its unclear when and under what circumstances she met Luke.]]

* PragmaticAdaptation: Her lekku are shorter than expected in her live-action appearance compared to her animated appearance around the same time period. Longer lekku would have been too bulky and cumbersome, especially with all the stunts her actress and doubles perform. [[spoiler: It's a bit longer on ''The Book of Boba Fett''.]]

* {{Samurai}}: According to Dave Filoni, this was his primary influence in overseeing her redesign. Further evolving this, her appearance on ''The Mandalorian'' depicts her very much like a {{Ronin}}.

* YouExclamation: [[spoiler: When R2 sees her on ''The Book of Boba Fett'' and wakes up a sleeping Din, he exclaims this to her.]]

->'''Appearances:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTalesOfTheJedi Tales of the Jedi]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsAhsoka Ahsoka]]'' (novel) | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]'' | ''[[Magazine/StarWarsRebelsMagazine Rebels Magazine]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsForcesOfDestiny Forces of Destiny]]'' | ''Series/TheMandalorian'' | ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' | ''Ahsoka'' (series) | ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker''[[note]]voice only[[/note]]

* GirlyBruiser: She is very much this trope.

[[caption-width-right:300:Click [[labelnote:here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ahsoka_the_white_sw.jpg[[/labelnote]] to see her after the Battle of Endor.]]
[[caption-width-right:300:Click [[labelnote:here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ahsoka_liveaction.png[[/labelnote]] to see her in ''The Mandalorian''.]]

** Averted, because, despite all odds, she still lives through both the prequels and the original trilogy. Technically, she says she's not a Jedi, and she's been stranded on Malachor for who knows how long that it prevented her from helping the future heroes.
** PlayedStraight in regards to her role as Anakin's MoralityChain. In spite of everything she did, her leaving the Jedi Order and being away from her old master during ''Revenge Of The Sith'' left him at his most vulnerable, and she could not bring him back from the brink even when they reencountered each other some years later--it would take Vader's own son for him to finally turn back to the light.

* DramaticIrony: Because she was not seen with Anakin and Obi-Wan in ''Revenge of the Sith'', many assumed she'd die before the end of ''The Clone Wars''. As of ''Return of The Jedi'', she's outlived both of them.

* MsFanservice: In her younger years, she wore an AgeInappropriateDress that [[BareYourMidriff exposed her midriff]], and as she got older, wore a skin-tight, SexyBacklessOutfit that highlighted her maturing figure (not to mention her ''incredibly hot'' GoGoEnslavement outfit from Season 4). Her later outfits in Season 7, ''Rebels'', and ''The Mandalorian'' wouldn't be as fanservicey, but they still highlighted her well-developed figure.

* BareYourMidriff: When she was introduced at the age of [[AgeInappropriateDress 14 years old]], all she wore on her upper body was a truly ''tiny'' tubetop. Her slave disguise during the Zygerria arc was also a midriff-baring one.

* CurbStompBattle: She easily beat the Fifth Brother ''and'' the Seventh Sister ''simultaneously'' during their first encounter. This doubles as a BigDamnHeroes moment.

* SexyWalk: Ahsoka sometimes sways her hips as she walks.

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* StoryBreakerPower: WordofGod clarifies this is why Ahsoka as part of the Ghost Crew rarely fights herself: By the time of the Rebellion, her skills have grown so much that she is the only person who is truly capable of threatening the Sith Lords, as displayed by her reaching another stalemate with Maul, who is never fought seriously again afterwards, with the indication she would have won had the fight continued, and then putting up a remarkable fight against Darth Vader, that is still active, Vader and Palpatine being the only villains at the time as well according to Filoni who can reliably handle her, apart from Kenobi and Yoda, who are the only people at the time who is stronger than not just her but Vader as well. The only other time she fights is when she utterly destroys the Inquisitors, a few time having passed since they handed Kanan and Ezra their asses, because having her would mean there was no tension at all, apart from when she ''has'' to fight, which . Ultimately, she is left unavailable to be relied on by the end of the second season, with her fight with Vader having been intended to be the last, in which she does much better than almost anyone else in the ''entire franchise'' but Kenobi and Luke, effectively depriving the Ghost of their single greatest warrior, so as to balance the remaining seasons where Vader is not an active enemy anymore. When she does get brought back into the picture, she is reserved specially yet again for people who are way too much for the other heroes, where she and Ezra face the Emperor in the World Between Worlds, being the only one at the time capable of even holding off Palpatine and ultimately the first in leaving. And afterwards, she remains away from the heroes until everything has settled, obviously ensuring that she can't lend any overpowered help for the final battles.

* ShesGotLegs: She tends to wear outfits that highlight her very nice legs.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Her outfits tend to show off more skin than any other female Jedi not named Aayla Secura, with the most egregious example being her first one, which has a fourteen-year-old girl wearing a tubetop into warzones. Her slave outfit, though more modest that the comic it originated from, also shows a fair amount of skin. Even her outfit from Season 3 onwards, while covering a lot more than before, still shows off a fair amount of her back and is form-fitting to boot. It isn't until she leaves the Jedi that she dresses far more conservatively.

* VaporWear: Her tiny tubetop, the SexyBacklessOutfit, and BedlahBabe slave outfit are "suggesting" this.

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->'''Appearances:''' ''Tales of the Jedi'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsAhsoka Ahsoka]]'' (novel) | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]'' | ''[[Magazine/StarWarsRebelsMagazine Rebels Magazine]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsForcesOfDestiny Forces of Destiny]]'' | ''Series/TheMandalorian'' | ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' | ''Ahsoka'' (series) | ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker''[[note]]voice only[[/note]]

* AgeInappropriateDress: As ''The Clone Wars''[='=] most prominently featured female character, she is also the primary [[MsFanservice source of]] {{Fanservice}}, resulting in most of her outfits being quite questionable. She ditches it for something more modest, yet still form-fitting, by Season 3.

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* AgeInappropriateDress: As ''The Clone Wars''[='=] most prominently featured female character, she is also the primary [[MsFanservice source of]] {{Fanservice}}, resulting in most of her outfits being quite questionable.

* AudienceSurrogate: She has this role in ''The Clone Wars'' through being a young Padawan that is thrust into a world of adventure.

* NotHelpingYourCase: When accused of bombing the Jedi Temple and fleeing her imprisonment, Anakin pleads with her to come back with him and explain the situation to the Council. Ahsoka refuses to trust that they will handle the charges against her and goes to find out who's framing her herself. Later, when she's been recaptured the Council declines to push for special treatment for her during her trial, largely because her actions while on the run further implicated herself, and Ahsoka acts betrayed that they wouldn't trust that she's innocent.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Her outfits tend to show off more skin than any other female Jedi not named Aayla Secura, with the most egregious example being her first one, which has a fourteen-year-old girl wearing a tubetop into warzones.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Thanks to her own disillusionment with the Council, she decides to not comment on the ''very'' important statements Maul had made that would potentially alert the Jedi to Anakin being manipulated. However, she keeps quiet on the whole thing, which makes her indirectly someone who allowed Order 66 and the downfall of the Jedi to happen.