History Characters / StarWarsSeparatistMilitary

->'''Appearances:''' ''[[Literature/StarWarsQueensPeril Queen's Peril]]'' | ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' | ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsQueensHope Queen's Hope]]'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsJediOfTheRepublic Jedi of the Republic]]'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsBrotherhood Brotherhood]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsCatalyst Catalyst]]'' | ''[[ComicBook/DarthMaulSonOfDathomir Son of Dathomir]]'' | ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsKanan Kanan]]'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsInquisitorRiseOfTheRedBlade Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheBadBatch The Bad Batch]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsJediSurvivor Jedi Survivor]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsDarthVader Darth Vader]]'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsCrimsonReign Crimson Reign]]''[[note]]Flashback[[/note]] | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsDarkDroids Dark Droids]]'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsAftermath Aftermath]]''[[labelnote:*]]Through Mr. Bones only[[/labelnote]] | ''[[Literature/AftermathLifeDebt Life Debt]]'' | ''[[Literature/AftermathEmpiresEnd Empire's End]]'' | ''[[Series/TheBookOfBobaFett The Book of Boba Fett]]''[[note]]Flashback[[/note]] | ''Series/TheMandalorian'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance Resistance]]''

->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsJediOfTheRepublic Jedi of the Republic]]'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsBrotherhood Brotherhood]]''[[note]]Mentioned only[[/note]] | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' | ''[[ComicBook/DarthMaulSonOfDathomir Son of Dathomir]]'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsInquisitorRiseOfTheRedBlade Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheBadBatch The Bad Batch]]'' | ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' | ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsJediSurvivor Jedi Survivor]]'' | ''Series/TheMandalorian'' | ''[[Series/TheBookOfBobaFett The Book of Boba Fett]]''[[note]]flashback[[/note]] | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance Resistance]]''

->'''Appearances:''' ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsJediOfTheRepublic Jedi of the Republic]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' | ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''

* DeflectorShield: They are equipped with force shields that deflect blaster fire and lightsabers.

* ColdSniper: Another one of their roles. A pair of BXs operating as a sniping team nearly kill Rex.

* CompositeCharacter: They seem to be inspired by a combination of traits from both the B1 and the B2. Like the B1 they have humanoid bodies and utilize weapons such as the E-5 Blaster rifle and thermal detonators to fight enemies, but they also have the B2's durability and immense physical power to help them perform elaborate acrobatics and throw punches. To highlight this, compare them to B1's who look like skeletons and to B2's who just look like shells of armor. With their plate indents and tannish brown coloration, Commando Droids look like they're built out of the metallic equivalent of muscle.

* ColdSniper: Another one of their roles. A pair of BX's operating as a sniping team nearly kill Rex.

* EliteMooks: Not quite on the same level as the droidekas or the [=MagnaGuards=], but they're still more than a match for clone troopers and able to cause trouble to even Jedi. In short, whatever the B1 and OOM battle droids can do, commando droids can do better. However, their hefty production costs are the main reason they didn't outright replace the [[BoringButPractical B1-series]] (which are much cheaper to produce in large numbers, make a large army with, and use in non-combat roles).

* GoddamnedBats: They’re considered as such InUniverse by the Jedi: they’re not likely to kill or injure one, but they can distract them long enough. Cal even lampshades this when fights them in ''Jedi Survivor''.

->'''Appearances:''' ''[[Literature/StarWarsQueensPeril Queen's Peril]]'' | ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' | ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsQueensHope Queen's Hope]]'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsJediOfTheRepublic Jedi of the Republic]]'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsBrotherhood Brotherhood]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' | ''[[ComicBook/DarthMaulSonOfDathomir Son of Dathomir]]'' | ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsKanan Kanan]]'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsInquisitorRiseOfTheRedBlade Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheBadBatch The Bad Batch]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsJediSurvivor Jedi Survivor]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsDarthVader Darth Vader]]'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsCrimsonReign Crimson Reign]]''[[note]]Flashback[[/note]] | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsDarkDroids Dark Droids]]'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsAftermath Aftermath]]''[[labelnote:*]]Through Mr. Bones only[[/labelnote]] | ''[[Literature/AftermathLifeDebt Life Debt]]'' | ''[[Literature/AftermathEmpiresEnd Empire's End]]'' | ''[[Series/TheBookOfBobaFett The Book of Boba Fett]]''[[note]]Flashback[[/note]] | ''Series/TheMandalorian'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance Resistance]]''

* SlaveMooks: Droids in Starwars are a subservient class to most organics, but battle droids really do seem to evoke this trope the most. Unlike other Separatist droids, they show the most self-awareness, and a lot of their characteristics (lack of individual skill and fighting prowess, poor equipment, weak leadership and tendency to panic, and dependency on line formations / force of numbers) all seem to bring to mind mass-conscripted soldiers, especially when contrasted to the clones.

* BodyguardingABadass: Both Grievous and Dooku use them as their personal bodyguards, even though both of them are far more competent duelists than these guys.

->'''Appearances:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheBadBatch The Bad Batch]]'' |''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]''

* CombatPragmatist: By programming and when pushed, tactical droids will use any method they can to achieve their desired objectives. This has ranged from using innocent civilian populations as a living shield against bombing runs, to starving native predators to use them as attack animals, to destroying their own troops in UnfriendlyFire, to abandoning their own superiors, nothing is off limits.

* CripplingOverspecialization: Tactical droids are operated by using statistics and simulations to out predict opponents, similar to how a computer works in a game of chess. As such, they are completely blind to more creative (some call it suicidal) tactics and outcomes.

* GlowingMechanicalEyes: They all have them in white or red.

* SmugSnake: Aside from their bossiness and inflated pride in their tactical prowess, one of their biggest weaknesses is that they don't have a realistic assessment of their chances (and they sometimes fail to factor in variables such as their own protection, the Jedi being able to use the Force or captives rebelling), and this is one of the reasons the super tactical droids were made.
* TheStarscream: Some tactical droids, such as Emir Wat Tambor's droid TA-175, are willing to turn on their immediate superiors if they feel they are too incompetent. When Tambor was getting too greedy and trying to get every treasure on Ryloth before leaving Lessu to get bombed, both Count Dooku and TA-175 insisted that Tambor get as much as he realistically can. Once he was ready to leave, TA-175 evacuated without him, calling him a fool and leaving him to be captured by the Republic forces. However, they never betrayed Dooku himself
* StraightForTheCommander: Most battles involving tactical droids have the Republic mark them as high priority targets and even devise complicated plans to take them out, largely due to how a coordinated swarm of battle droids is far more dangerous than an uncoordinated horde of idling droids.

* TooDumbToLive: While they are definitely smarter than the basic battle droids and can be effective strategists, some of them seem to lack a sense of self-preservation programming, as Poggle the Lesser's tactical droid TX-21 demonstrated. When Ahsoka Tano stuck an explosive charge to a nigh-invincible super tank, all he did was gloat about the tank's superior armor when he was right next to the charge. Sure enough, the [[ExactWords tank was completely unharmed by the bomb — but TX-21 was blown to pieces]].

* {{Expy}}: They're a droid version of the TIE fighters, right down to being considered expendible and serving as the mainstay fighter of the antagonists' fleets.

* ZergRush: They aren't quite as intelligent as droid starfighters introduced during the Clone Wars such as the Hyena bomber and the droid tri-fighter, so they rely on their speed and swarming tactics to get the upper hand.

->'''Appearances:''' ''[[Literature/StarWarsQueensPeril Queen's Peril]]'' | ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' | ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsQueensHope Queen's Hope]]'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsJediOfTheRepublic Jedi of the Republic]]'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsBrotherhood Brotherhood]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' | ''[[ComicBook/DarthMaulSonOfDathomir Son of Dathomir]]'' | ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsKanan Kanan]]'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsInquisitorRiseOfTheRedBlade Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheBadBatch The Bad Batch]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsJediSurvivor Jedi Survivor]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsDarthVader Darth Vader]]'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsCrimsonReign Crimson Reign]]''[[note]]Flashback[[/note]] | ''[[Literature/StarWarsAftermath Aftermath]]''[[labelnote:*]]Through Mr. Bones only[[/labelnote]] | ''[[Literature/AftermathLifeDebt Life Debt]]'' | ''[[Literature/AftermathEmpiresEnd Empire's End]]'' | ''[[Series/TheBookOfBobaFett The Book of Boba Fett]]''[[note]]Flashback[[/note]] | ''Series/TheMandalorian'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance Resistance]]''

* KeystoneArmy: The Separtists installed a remote shutdown command in all of their droids, presumably as insurance if they ever went rogue. After executing the Separatist Council on Mustafar, the newly-minted Darth Vader sent the signal to the entire droid army, turning them all off at once and ending the Clone Wars for good (except for a few isolated units).

->'''Appearances:''' ''[[Literature/StarWarsQueensPeril Queen's Peril]] | ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' | ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsQueensHope Queen's Hope]]'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsJediOfTheRepublic Jedi of the Republic]]'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsBrotherhood Brotherhood]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' | ''[[ComicBook/DarthMaulSonOfDathomir Son of Dathomir]]'' | ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsKanan Kanan]]'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsInquisitorRiseOfTheRedBlade Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheBadBatch The Bad Batch]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsJediSurvivor Jedi Survivor]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsDarthVader Darth Vader]]'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsCrimsonReign Crimson Reign]]''[[note]]Flashback[[/note]] | ''[[Literature/StarWarsAftermath Aftermath]]''[[labelnote:*]]Through Mr. Bones only[[/labelnote]] | ''[[Literature/AftermathLifeDebt Life Debt]]'' | ''[[Literature/AftermathEmpiresEnd Empire's End]]'' | ''[[Series/TheBookOfBobaFett The Book of Boba Fett]]''[[note]]Flashback[[/note]] | ''Series/TheMandalorian'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance Resistance]]''

->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsJediOfTheRepublic Jedi of the Republic]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' | ''[[ComicBook/DarthMaulSonOfDathomir Son of Dathomir]]'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsInquisitorRiseOfTheRedBlade Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheBadBatch The Bad Batch]]'' | ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' | ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsJediSurvivor Jedi Survivor]]'' | ''Series/TheMandalorian'' | ''[[Series/TheBookOfBobaFett The Book of Boba Fett]]''[[note]]flashback[[/note]] | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance Resistance]]''

* AnimalMotifs: Similarily to their Geonosian creators, Battle Droids draw many parallels to real life social insects such as ants due to their massive numbers, ability to collaborate harmoniously, and dependency on a central command signal and leadership hierarchy. B1’s and B2’s in particular seem to invoke the worker/soldier caste differences of many wasp and ant species.
** Other droid models seem to take inspiration from various arthropods and mollusks, such as spiders for the various heavy walkers, rolling pillbugs for destroyer droids / buzz droids, snails for the Corporate Alliance Tank Droid, and even giant squids for Trident Assault Craft.
* BadBoss: Separatist droids in a position of command tend to have little regard for their fellow droids' lives. One tactical droid engaged in a naval battle, after having deployed a ton of units to board the enemy ship, gets impatient and commands all his guns to shoot down the enemy before the droids on board even complete their siege.

** Most Separatist vehicles and star ships were painted navy blue and logoed with the hexagon shaped logo of the Confederacy. These ranged from their frigates and capital ships, to the Vulture droid starfighters deployed from the carriers, to the AAT tanks and Flipknot Speeder bikes on the ground. Later on, even [=MTTs=] and Trade Federation landing craft were repainted to be blue with white triangular patterns.

* AchillesHeel: In large groups, battle droids can be pretty deadly in their own right due to force of numbers and their combined firepower. As such, the heroes normally have to either outmaneuver them in well planned ambushes or be particularly creative with the environment and lots of explosives to even the odds.

* BewareTheSillyOnes: A few lone battle droids are often set up to be the brunt of jokes from the protagonists, but their humorous traits are made less present when they finally line up and form a wall of blaster fire. They are also ''mostly'' devoid of humorous traits when they're set to raiding civilians or fighting against factions that have inferior technology and numbers.

* HollywoodTactics: Justified, as [=B1s=] are too simplistic to perform more elaborate maneuvers, so the Separatists just line them up into linear formation and have them [[ZergRush charge the enemy]] ''[[ZergRush en masse]]''. All but the very least competent commanders will usually have specialist units getting into position while the enemy is focused on them.

* ShooOutTheClowns: Due to their role as comic relief, Battle Droids tend to make their final appearances right before the plot gets serious. In ''Revenge of the Sith'', their last appearance for the big screen movies is during when Anakin kills off the Separatist Council prior to his climatic duel with Obi-Wan. In ''The Clone Wars'', where they were the most common antagonist faced throughout the series, their final appearance is in a battle over a bridge in Yerbana at the beginning of the [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsSiegeOfMandaloreArc Siege of Manadlore arc]]. Likewise, ''The Bad Batch'' has them facing off against Kanan, Depa, and Grey before the titular squad makes mincemeat out of them right before Order 66 goes live.
* ShootingSuperman: Their usual response to seeing Jedi or even giant commandeered vehicles such as starships and armored tanks is to shoot at them with their handheld blasters. Intelligence was never the battle droids strongest selling point.

* ThrowTheDogABone: B1-series on Plazir-15 are reprogrammed to be helpful workers for the populace rather than being sent to the scrapyard due to New Republic regulations. Considering what [[UndignifiedDeath usually happens to them]], this is perhaps the best retirement plan they could ever get. They even have a dedicated Droid Bar after a long day of hard work.

* UndignifiedDeath: Because of their role as comic relief, general incompetence, and simple bad luck, [=B1s=] tend to get dismantled in the most horrible and/or humiliating of ways en masse. Getting thrown off a cliff by your superior while screaming? Check. Crushed by a bomb they were trying to transport? Check. Sat on by a giant space creature? Check. Beaten to death by the fists of a pit droid? Check. Having a fruit jammed onto your head, slipping, and then dying? [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Getting stomped by one of the Empire's AT-ATs]] even long after the Clone Wars have officially ended just because Stormtroopers want to amuse themselves?? Check check and check.

->'''Appearances:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' | ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''

** Most Separatist vehicles and star ships were painted navy blue and logoed with the hexagon shaped logo of the Confederacy. These ranged from their frigates and capital ships, to the Vulture droid starfighters deployed from the carriers, to the AAT tanks and speeder bikes on the ground. Later on, even MTT's and Trade Federation landing craft were repainted to be blue with white triangular patterns.

** B2 super battle droids could overpower clones in open combat due to their superior armor and wrist mounted cannons, but their heavy arsenal and build made them even more sluggish than B1's and comparatively immobile against more spry combatants. The durasteel armor that protects them, while effective against typical blasters and small arms, could not stop the high capacity blasters preferred by the Clonetroopers, piercing bolts, [=EMPs=], or lightsabers, which made them all the more helpless against these threats.

** T-Series Tactical Droids were capable at both organizing the logistics of their armies and predicting enemy tactics when provided good intelligence, but were frequently outsmarted by their organic opponents due to their limitations in assessing all factors of the war. Many times Tactical Droids were defeated by neglecting their own personal protection, having inflated confidence in their elite units being able to defeat enemies, and forgetting about environmental / contextual factors that would blindside their entire battle strategy with lethal consequences.
** Vulture Droids were numerous and perfect for swarming manuvers in space battles, but their dependency on their flight formations made them predictable fighters that were frequently shot down by republic aces. Their inability to defeat veteran pilots in one on one dog fights meant that the Separatists always had to concentrate their aerial forces to gain supremacy in the sky, which could be a tipping factor in many of their fights.

** Examples include their fights against local planetary militias such as that of Naboo, Christophsis, and Ryloth, their species wiping genocide of the Nightsisters, their one sided battle against Maul's shadow collective, and a few scattered incidents of holdouts continuing to fight against new Imperial forces and police droids following the Clone Wars' conclusion.
* TheDreaded: A few Separatist droids would become this for Republic ombatants, namely Destroyer Droids and [=MagnaGuards=] on the ground, and Droid Tri-Fighters in the air.

->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' | ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsQueensHope Queen's Hope]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' | ''[[ComicBook/DarthMaulSonOfDathomir Son of Dathomir]]'' | ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsKanan Kanan]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheBadBatch The Bad Batch]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsJediSurvivor Jedi Survivor]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsDarthVader Darth Vader]]'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsCrimsonReign Crimson Reign]]''[[note]]Flashback[[/note]] | ''[[Literature/StarWarsAftermath Aftermath]]''[[labelnote:*]]Through Mr. Bones only[[/labelnote]] | ''[[Literature/AftermathLifeDebt Life Debt]]'' | ''[[Literature/AftermathEmpiresEnd Empire's End]]'' | ''[[Series/TheBookOfBobaFett The Book of Boba Fett]]''[[note]]Flashback[[/note]] | ''Series/TheMandalorian'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance Resistance]]''

* UndignifiedDeath: Because of their role as comic relief, general incompetence, and simple bad luck, [=B1s=] tend to get dismantled in the most horrible and/or humiliating of ways en masse. Getting thrown off a cliff by your superior while screaming? Check. Crushed by a bomb they were trying to transport? Check. Sat on by a giant space creature? Check. Beaten to death by the fists of a pit droid? Check. Having a fruit jammed onto your head, slipping, and then dying? [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Getting stomped by one of the Empire's AT-ATs]] even long after their war has officially ended just because Storm Troopers want to amuse themselves?? Check check and check.

->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' | ''[[ComicBook/DarthMaulSonOfDathomir Son of Dathomir]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheBadBatch The Bad Batch]]'' | ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' | ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsJediSurvivor Jedi Survivor]]'' | ''Series/TheMandalorian'' | ''[[Series/TheBookOfBobaFett The Book of Boba Fett]]''[[note]]flashback[[/note]] | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance Resistance]]''

* CanonImmigrant: Not super battle droids in general, but the grapple variant that appeared in ''Legends''' ''Revenge of the Sith'' video game adaptation became canon thanks to one appearing in the second issue of ''Son of Dathomir''.

->'''Appearances:''' ''ComicBook/DarthMaul'' | ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' | ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsQueensHope Queen's Hope]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' | ''[[ComicBook/DarthMaulSonOfDathomir Son of Dathomir]]'' | ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheBadBatch The Bad Batch]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsJediSurvivor Jedi Survivor]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]''

->'''Appearances:''' ''ComicBook/DarthMaul'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' | ''[[ComicBook/DarthMaulSonOfDathomir Son of Dathomir]]'' | ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' | ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsJediSurvivor Jedi: Survivor]]'' | ''ComicBook/StarWarsMarvel2015''

* BoringButPractical: A large reason why the Separatists continue to mass produce B1 battle droids as the war drags on, despite their universally combat poor performance. Of all the droids at the Separatists' disposal, the B1 model is the cheapest, easiest to field in large numbers, and most cost-efficient. Alongside their use as CannonFodder, they can fill a variety of non-combat roles, such as operating computer terminals, utilizing non-military equipment, and maintaining order with ordinary citizens. As such, even though its pretty obvious that other Separatist droid models are far more dangerous than the B1, most of them are either too overspecialized and/or expensive to outright replace them.

** During a weapons test for the defoliator, two battle droids who were acting as 'voluntary' test subjects watched the defoliator shell streak towards them. One of them asks if they should run, while the other points out how it wasn't even going to hit them. The latter was right, although the shockwave of napalm was the real point of the weapon.

* KillerRabbit: Despite their usual incompetency at fighting, B1 Battle Droids still get a surprising amount of kills in the animated series, most of the time by gunning down enemies in the back. Nightsister Luce, Clone 99, and Heavy were all taken out this way, and another downed but still functional unit nearly killed Tup.

* MechaMooks: They're cheap, disposable, and not particularly effective [[ZergRush except in numbers]]. And sometimes, [[ConservationOfNinjitsu not even then]].

* ZergRush: Their only real tactic is to march toward the enemy and fire their blaster until they or the targets are destroyed, which is offset by their sheer abundance and cheap production cost. Getting encircled by Battle Droids would often end badly, even if you're a Jedi.

* AchillesHeel: In large groups, battle droids are actually pretty deadly in their own right due to their numbers and combined firepower. The solution is normally outmaneuvering them in well planned ambushes, or just lots of artillery and explosives.

* AffablyEvil: They’re polite and ditzy enough to knock on the doors of rooms they’re about to storm, give enemies directions in the middle of a battle, and accept pleas for surrender after a devestating battle, but are also ruthless enough to shoot unarmed civilians and abuse lower class droids such as protocol and astromechs when they’re ordered to.

* BewareTheSillyOnes: A few lone battle droids are often set up to be the brunt of jokes from the protagonists, but their humorous traits are hardly present when they do actually line up and form a wall of blaster fire. They are also ''mostly'' devoid of humorous traits when they're set to raiding civilians or fighting against armies with inferior technology and numbers.
* BoringButPractical: A large reason why the Separatists continue to mass produce B1 battle droids as the war drags on, despite their universally combat poor performance. Of all the droids at the Separatists' disposal, the B1 model is the cheapest, easiest to field in large numbers, and simply most cost-efficient. Alongside their use as CannonFodder, they can fill a variety of non-combat roles, such as operating computer terminals, utilizing equipment, and maintaining order with ordinary citizens. While other Separatist droid models are more dangerous than the B1, most of them are either too overspecialized and/or expensive to outright replace them. Also worth considering is that the B1 is incredibly cost-effective against the clones they were made to fight. Clone troopers, on average, took ten years to grow and train before they were combat ready. B1s can be constructed within minutes and given a blaster before being sent to the field. To offset the sheer numbers, a single clone would have to down a considerable number of these guys, and should the clone be killed, it's almost always a good tradeoff in the droids' favor.

* CharacterExaggeration: While certainly not without comedic traits, ''The Clone Wars'' and ''Revenge of the Sith'' largely pushed up their incompetence and commentary.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The OOM battle droids have different colored markings which determine their class. Yellow are command droids, red are security, and blue are pilots. Later on in ''The Clone Wars'', dark green marked models are AAT tank pilots, dark blue marked units with jet packs, and yellow and grey models were designated to extinguish fires (to a certain degree of success).
** Later models in the series had even more color schemes, such as the gray painted heavy B1 battle droid, camouflage green battle droids that were meant to be deployed in jungles and forests, and sand colored variants when deployed on Geonosis.
* DeadpanSnarker: Their tendency to make comedic small talk and surprising awareness of situations, have them becoming this for various scenes, often behind the backs of their superiors or when they're teasing imprisoned enemies.
* DoomedDefeatist: [=B1s=] tend to be painfully aware of how terrible their odds are against the enemy, when they're not stoic, and are destroyed more often than not. In ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' episode "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E2CargoOfDoom Cargo of Doom]]":

* EvilMinions: Aside from combat, the OOM variants of the battle droids also serve other utilities such as being pilots, cleaners, and as a labor force. Their competence at this is only modestly better than their role as Mooks.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Despite being rather polite for the most part, and being seen as harmless due to their bumbling and quirky personas, if you are marked as an enemy by the Separatists they will go hostile on the dime.

** One unnamed OOM commander on Ryloth displayed using tried and true ambush tactics, ordering its tanks to pin down a Republic AT-TE convoy by focus firing the walkers in the front and back. Since the convoy was advancing on narrow cliff, this actually succeeds in trapping the entire unit, and the clone troopers would have been decimated if Mace Windu didn't Force-push the wreckage off the cliff and lead a counterattack.
** A trio of battle droids on Cad Bane's frigate figured that guarding a prison cell would be a much safer task than actually participating in the big firefight going on in the hanger. They only had the slight misfortune of bumping into a [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge very angry Anakin later on]].
** As shown in an example below, a battle droid correctly advises Cad Bane to decrease the amount of [[ColdBloodedTorture voltage he's using in an interrogation]] before he kills the Jedi that they had managed to successfully capture. Bane doesn't, which results in the Jedi Bolla Ropal dying, and forcing them to acquire more Jedi for information.

* PunchClockVillain: Like all Separatist Droids, his expressed purpose for fighting on behalf of the Separatists is to achieve “freedom from the tyranny of the Republic”. Its just unfortunate that his programming makes him rather unfettered toward everything else.

* MundaneUtility: They're highly armored KillerRobots sure, but all that SuperStrength means that B2's can also work just as well power lifting heavy cargo boxes and acting as a peaceful labor force. The Mandalorian shows an entire pipeline of B2's working efficiently to keep an entire shipping lane running under the lead of a lone B1.

* SuperStrength: Their hydraulic systems and movement actuators are far more jacked up than any B1 battle droid. Examples include lifting an entire Clone off the ground with one arm and being able to rip a lamp post out of the ground to throw it across the street. During the battle of Dathomir, a small group of B2's even managed to physically hold back a hijacked AAT tank with nothing but their brawn.

* TheMusketeer: They use both blasters and vibroswords, but never at once until their appearance in Jedi Survivor.

->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' | ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsQueensHope Queen's Hope]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' | ''[[ComicBook/DarthMaulSonOfDathomir Son of Dathomir]]'' | ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheBadBatch The Bad Batch]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsJediSurvivor Jedi Survivor]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]''

->'''Appearances:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' | ''[[ComicBook/DarthMaulSonOfDathomir Son of Dathomir]]'' | ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' | ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsJediSurvivor Jedi: Survivor]]'' | ''ComicBook/StarWarsMarvel2015''

* PraetorianGuard: To General Grievous. In ''The Clone Wars'', they're shown protecting Count Dooku along with other Separatist leaders.

* ShockStick: They are equipped with electrostaffs that could be used against Jedi lightsabers, and are among the first in the Starwars to do so (with Purge Troopers and ISB later following their example).

* TheMusketeer: They use both blasters and vibroswords, but never at once.

* AchillesHeel: The battle droids, all being autonomous mechanical soldiers, were extremely weak to {{EMP}} attacks. Republic clone troopers developed many different kinds of weaponry of various sizes to abuse this weakness.
* AnimalMotifs: Likely based off of their Geonosian creators, Battle Droids draw many parallels to real life social insects such as ants due to their massive numbers, great ability to cooperate over tasks, and dependency on a central command signal and leadership hierarchy. B1’s and B2’s in particular seem to invoke the worker/soldier caste differences of many wasps and ant species, with further specialization being seen in other droid models. Other droid models take inspiration from various arthropods and mollusks, such as spiders for the heavy walkers, rolling pillbugs for destroyer droids / buzz droids, along with the snail inspired Corporate Alliance Tank Droid and the giant squid like Trident Assault Craft.

* CurbStompBattle: While on the receiving end most of the time when fighting against concentrated clone armies and Jedi, there were a few incidents where Separatist Battle Droids were the ones dishing these out.
** Primary examples include their fights against local planetary militias such as that of Naboo, Christophsis, and Ryloth, their species wiping genocide of the Nightsisters, their one sided battle against Maul's shadow collective, and a few scattered incidents of holdouts continuing to fight against new Imperial forces and police droids following the Clone Wars' conclusion.
* TheDreaded: A few Separatist droids would become this for Republic Combatants, namely Destroyer Droids and [=MagnaGuards=] on the ground, and Droid Tri-Fighters in the air.

* HumongousMecha: Several, ranging from the cabin-sized Corporate Alliance tank droids to the starship-sized Vulture droids. The largest example would the Octuptarra magna tri-droid.

* RobotSoldier: Goes without saying. While there are other droids that were designed for combat utility in the Imperial age and after, most were designed strictly for small-scale peacekeeping or security operations. Only Separatist Battle Droids were repurposed from a trade / commerce protection directly into war operations, and given that they fought the Repulic's Clone army and Jedi generals to a stalemate, they were quite efficient at it.

* JetPack: Another sub-type (known as the B2-RP or rocket propulsion droid) comes with built-in ones. They receive an upgrade in the later stages of the war that grant them far more manuverability.

* MechanicalInsects: The droideka, who serve as the Confederacy's [[EliteMooks elite heavy infantry]], look like mechanical scorpions, with a pair of twin blaster cannons instead of claws and a curved, forward-facing back plate with a sensor head that resembles a stinger tail. They were modeled after their creators, a carnivorous InsectoidAlien species called the Colicoids.

* TheDreaded: They are considered the destroyer droids of space battles.

* BodyguardingABadass: Both Grievous and Dooku use them as their personal bodyguards, even though both of them are far more competent warriors than these guys.

* CloseRangeCombatant: While Magnaguards have been depicted using blasters in other media (and there was a [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E10LairOfGrievous time where a Magnaguard blew up a Nu-class attack/transport shuttle using a RPS-6 rocket launcher]]), most of the time they only carry electrostaffs to fight Jedi. As such, in most large battlescenes involving ranged weapons they tend to just stand back and watch, at least until they are directly challenged.
* CombatPragmatist: They have no qualms in ganging up on a foe and using just about every dirty trick in the book.

* KillerRobot: They're better at it than most battle droids, considering they were designed to take down Jedi.

* ShockStick: They are equipped with electrostaffs that could be used against Jedi lightsabers.
* StrongAndSkilled: They are probably the best example of this in the droid army, they are significantly tough and skilled enough to give even a Jedi Master level foe a noticeable amount of difficulty.
* TrainingFromHell: Grievous's "training" for the droids sometimes resulted in them getting destroyed. Those that survived weren't allowed to repair themselves just to make them more hardened killers and intimidating.

* TheRemnant: ''Rebels'' reveals that Kalani ignored the shutdown order and held on to his remaining droid troops, maintaining a small Seperatist holdout well into the Imperial era. By the time the ''Ghost'''s crew meets him, he seems to have lost most of his war material to time and lack of resources -- He has no super battle droids, commando droids, or combat-worthy vehicles, his droideka have faulty shielding, and artillery shells sit idle in his armoury because the cannons that use them broke down. Despite this, he still tries to score a petty, symbolic "victory" against the Republic by apprehending the aging clone and fugitive Jedi of the ''Ghost'' crew, and needs to be convinced to turn his guns towards the Empire instead.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After three appearances in Season Six, he disappears, presumably due to the series' inital cancellation.

* MythologyGag: He is based off of concept art of Neimodians for ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''.

* AssInAmbassador: Even though he was officially merely an "observer" during the king's election, he had the nerves to talk down to Prince Lee-Char, the rightful heir to the throne, telling him that he didn't earn the right to speak at the gathering. {{Justified}} in that he was intentionally trying to aggravate the situation and many Quarrens agreed with him, as did even the Prince himself (undermining his confidence).

* TinmanTypist: They are often seen at the control panels of ships, tanks, heavy weapons and other devices. You get the feeling that there would be a lot less "enemy hijacking of important vehicles" if they used some sort of direct interface rather then a hero-friendly terminal.[[note]]In universe, this is handwaved by treaties regulating battle droids, understandably, the Separatists being formed out unstandardized private armies. The Separatists do field entirely droid vehicles, it's just that a lot of their earlier designs were meant to be compatible with living crew. [[/note]]
* TooDumbToLive: To put it simply, ever since they lost their ability to function as a HiveMind, the battle droids are not very bright most of the time. They were designed to [[ZergRush overwhelm]] and relied on a central computer to think for them. When the Trade Federation joined the Separatists and the battle droids stopped depending on [[KeystoneArmy droid control ships]] to operate in favor of organic battlefield commanders and tactical droids, their poor capacity for independent thought started to show. Namely, they are entirely willing to continue pouring on blaster fire toward Jedi ''who are just deflecting their shots back into them'', though [[ZergRush their obscene numbers]] can still make [[MoreDakka this tactic]] viable for bringing these Jedi down...but a lot less cleanly and self-destructively than it might be.

* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: The [=B1=] units are so incompetent you almost feel bad for them. They are this InUniverse too, as post-Clone Wars citizens and soldiers typically laugh at [=B1s=] when they show up.

* JetPack: B1-series rocket battle droids (or "pod hunters" as they were called) could utilize their propulsion in space to search and destroy any escape pods they could find, giving them a certain level of notoriety.

* MechaMooks: They're cheap, disposable, and not particularly effective [[ZergRush except in numbers]].

* MookHorrorShow: The fate of any battle droid battalion against a Jedi, who can cut them down with no moral repercussions. ''The Clone Wars'' episode "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E1Ambush Ambush]]" features Yoda terrorizing a large amount of battle droids, who could do little against his rampage even though they possessed greater numbers and tanks.

* MoreDakka: Certain B1's manned machine gun emplacements to be used against clone troopers. Most of the time however, B1's manage to pull this trope off by being so numerous that they're able to take down armored tanks with nothing but sheer rifle fire.
* NothingIsScarier: They can actually be quite intimidating when they're silent. The effect is something like an unending tide of robotic zombies with guns.

* OhCrap: They have this reaction ALL THE TIME. Usually when they're about to be destroyed. Such is the lot of these [[NoRespectGuy unrespected]] MechaMooks.

* OhCrap: They have this reaction ALL THE TIME. Usually when they're about to be destroyed.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: While physically unlike a human (mostly due to their skeletal limbs and head), battle droids act like this more than any other droid in the series. They will complain, ask convincing questions that can parallel the audience's line of thought, laugh in smug fashion when things do go their way, and scream pitifully when they're about to be destroyed. Some will talk in a conversational manner to their fellow units and argue with other droids, though most of this is PlayedForLaughs.

* TooDumbToLive: To put it simply, ever since they lost their ability to function as a HiveMind, the battle droids are not very bright most of the time. They were designed to [[ZergRush overwhelm]] and relied on a central computer to think for them. When the Trade Federation joined the Separatists and the battle droids stopped depending on [[KeystoneArmy droid control ships]] to operate in favor of organic battlefield commanders and tactical droids, their poor capacity for independent thought started to show.

* WhatMeasureIsAMook: A question that most of the protagonists [[note]]or ''anyone'' for that matter,[[/note]] don't seem to address, despite the B1's being them most conscious and sentient of all Battle Droids, sometimes even displaying more realism than the protagonists.[[note]]The bit under their KickTheDog entry about how one battle droid mentioned it's easier to hit targets that aren't shooting back? That is an entirely true statement for humans as understood by military science - whatever a shooter's feelings may be on attacking defenseless targets, their accuracy will almost inevitably decline when under fire due to the inherent anxiety induced from being attacked[[/note]] Mace Windu is the only character to ever really avert this, openly giving them a chance to surrender peacefully to be reprogrammed. Unsurprisingly, and perhaps because of their PunchClockVillain statuses and SuicidalOverconfidence, they just open fire on him instead.

* WhatMeasureIsAMook: A question that most of the protagonists [[note]]or ''anyone'' for that matter,[[/note]] don't seem to address, despite the B1's being them most conscious and sentient of all Battle Droids, sometimes even displaying more realism than the protagonists. Mace Windu is the only character to ever really avert this, openly giving them a chance to surrender peacefully to be reprogrammed. Unsurprisingly, and perhaps because of their PunchClockVillain statuses and SuicidalOverconfidence, they just open fire on him instead.

* YouRebelScum!: Says the phrase ''Jedi Scum!'' to Anakin while 2 Commando Droids jump in to protect him and his Super Tatical Droid.

* StarterVillain: Trench is chronologically the first Separatist admiral that the protagonists fight in ''The Clone Wars''. This is subverted in that not only did he first appear in "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E16CatAndMouse Cat and Mouse]]", which aired as the sixteenth episode in the second season of ''The Clone Wars''. He's shown to be more threatening (and higher rank) than most of the Separatist commanders that chronologically came after him (at least in the early seasons), and [[NotQuiteDead he comes back later]].
* StarterVillainStays: Despite his "death" in Cat and Mouse, he returns to active service from the Order 66 arc onwards, being the one who notices Tup's trance-like state from the [[spoiler: faulty inhibitor chip]] and reports it to Count Dooku, while ordering Kraken to have Tup delivered to Dooku alive. Later, he serves as the main villain of the Bad Batch arc, using a [[spoiler: [[NotQuiteDead still-living Echo]] as the algorithm]] to give the Separatists the edge at Anaxes, even warning Wat Tambor to not let him fall into enemy hands. Even after being tricked by [[spoiler: Echo]], he moves on to Plan B, [[EarthShatteringKaboom which is blow up the planet]], though that is stopped by Anakin, who interrogates him into giving the final number to stopping the detonation and later [[KilledOffForReal kills him for good]].

* AssholeVictim: He is exposed to Anakin's darker side before being killed by him. However, Trench was also planning to [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroy Anaxes]] to guarantee a Separatist victory, leaving little sympathy towards his death.It also helps that Anakin's kill was in self-defense of being electrocuted by him.

* BoringButPractical: A large reason as to why the Separatists continue to mass produce B1 battle droids as the war drags on, despite their universally combat poor performance. Of all the droids at the Separatists' disposal, the B1 model is the cheapest, easiest to field in large numbers, and simply most cost-efficient. Alongside their use as CannonFodder, they can fill a variety of non-combat roles, such as operating computer terminals, utilizing equipment, and maintaining order with ordinary citizens. While other Separatist droid models are more dangerous than the B1, most of them are either too overspecialized and/or expensive to outright replace them. Also worth considering is that the B1 is incredibly cost-effective against the clones they were made to fight. Clone troopers, on average, took ten years to grow and train before they were combat ready. B1s can be constructed within minutes and given a blaster before being sent to the field. To offset the sheer numbers, a single clone would have to down a considerable number of these guys, and should the clone be killed, it's almost always a good tradeoff in the droids' favor.