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* LastRequest: As he's dying, Qui-Gon makes Obi-Wan promise to train Anakin.
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* NamedInTheSequel: The Emperor went unnamed in the original trilogy. Here his [sur]name is revealed to be Palpatine (the first name is Shev, but that's not revealed within the films proper).
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* NamedInTheSequel: The Emperor went unnamed in the original trilogy. Here his [sur]name is revealed to be Palpatine (the first name is Shev, Sheev, but that's not revealed within the films proper).
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The manner in which the Trade Federation marched into Theed mirrored the Nazis march under the Arc de Triomphe. In addition, the Trade Federation, after occupying Naboo, also held the various indigenous peoples (Naboo humans and Gungans) in camps that were implied to be death camps/concentration camps. In addition, it is implied that Palpatine orchestrated the Naboo blockade invasion to gain more power, similar to how Adolf Hitler had some of his army pose as Polish people and attack their own key buildings so he'd have the excuse to invade Poland. It might also reference Hitler invading his native land of Austria, seeing how Palpatine was the senator of the same planet that he orchestrated the Trade Federation's invasion of. [[note]]There's more, [[http://thatonewhojustis.wordpress.com/2013/03/09/palpatine-is-still-hitler/ here]].[[/note]]
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The manner in which the Trade Federation marched into Theed mirrored mirrors the Nazis march under the Arc de Triomphe. In addition, the Trade Federation, after occupying Naboo, also held the various indigenous peoples (Naboo humans and Gungans) in camps that were implied to be death camps/concentration camps. In addition, it is implied that Palpatine orchestrated the Naboo blockade invasion to gain more power, similar to how Adolf Hitler had some of his army pose as Polish people and attack their own key buildings so he'd have the excuse to invade Poland. It might also reference Hitler invading his native land of Austria, seeing how Palpatine was the senator of the same planet that he orchestrated the Trade Federation's invasion of. [[note]]There's more, [[http://thatonewhojustis.wordpress.com/2013/03/09/palpatine-is-still-hitler/ here]].[[/note]]
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* BigBadassActionSequence: The space-ground battle of Naboo, interchanging between the Trade Federation's clash against the Gungans; Padme's attack on the palace; the lightsaber fight between Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan and Darth Maul; and the attack on the Trade Federation command ship.
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* BigBadassActionSequence: BigBadassBattleSequence: The space-ground battle of Naboo, interchanging between the Trade Federation's clash against the Gungans; Padme's attack on the palace; the lightsaber fight between Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan and Darth Maul; and the attack on the Trade Federation command ship.
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* AndStarring: The main cast roll here ends with "and Creator/FrankOz as Yoda", while the "Co-Starring" category ends with "with Creator/TerenceStamp as Chancellor Valorum" in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'',
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* AndStarring: The main cast roll here ends with "and Creator/FrankOz as Yoda", while the "Co-Starring" category ends with "with Creator/TerenceStamp as Chancellor Valorum" in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'',Valorum".
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* AccentsArentHerediitary: Anakin Skywalker has an American accent. His mother, Shmi, has a Swedish accent, or whatever the space equivalent is.
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* AccentsArentHerediitary: AccentsArentHereditary: Anakin Skywalker has an American accent. His mother, Shmi, has a Swedish accent, or whatever the space equivalent is.
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* AccentsArentHederitary: Anakin Skywalker has an American accent. His mother, Shmi, has a Swedish accent, or whatever the space equivalent is.
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* AccentsArentHederitary: AccentsArentHerediitary: Anakin Skywalker has an American accent. His mother, Shmi, has a Swedish accent, or whatever the space equivalent is.
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* CapitalOffensive: The movie begins with the Trade Federation invading the planet Naboo. When the droid army arrives in the planet's capital of Theed and captures Queen Amidala, Viceroy Gunray declares "victory". However, the Queen escapes and later returns to lead LaResistance in a Capital Offensive of her own bystorming the Royal Palace and capturing Gunray.
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* CapitalOffensive: The movie begins with the Trade Federation invading the planet Naboo. When the droid army arrives in the planet's capital of Theed and captures Queen Amidala, Viceroy Gunray declares "victory". However, the Queen escapes and later returns to lead LaResistance in a Capital Offensive of her own bystorming by storming the Royal Palace and capturing Gunray.
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! This page contains unmarked spoilers.Due to the sheer volume of spoilers, [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff all spoilers are unmarked]]. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
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* CapitalOffensive: The movie begins with the Trade Federation invading the planet Naboo. When the droid army arrives in the planet's capital of Theed and captures Queen Amidala, Viceroy Gunray declares "victory". However, the Queen escapes and later returns to lead LaResistance in a Capital Offensive of her own by [[spoiler:storming the Royal Palace and capturing Gunray]].
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* CapitalOffensive: The movie begins with the Trade Federation invading the planet Naboo. When the droid army arrives in the planet's capital of Theed and captures Queen Amidala, Viceroy Gunray declares "victory". However, the Queen escapes and later returns to lead LaResistance in a Capital Offensive of her own by [[spoiler:storming bystorming the Royal Palace and capturing Gunray]].Gunray.
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** We also see Obi-Wan's horrified reaction to a glimpse into the near-future, a few seconds before [[spoiler:Qui-Gon is killed by Darth Maul]]. He wasn't actively fighting, but he could see where the fight was going. Sadly, he was physically separated from the fighting by a force field and unable to intervene until it as too late.
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** We also see Obi-Wan's horrified reaction to a glimpse into the near-future, a few seconds before [[spoiler:Qui-Gon Qui-Gon is killed by Darth Maul]].Maul. He wasn't actively fighting, but he could see where the fight was going. Sadly, he was physically separated from the fighting by a force field and unable to intervene until it as too late.
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* ComingInHot: Anakin accidentally crash-lands in the docking bay of the Droid Control Battleship. During his attempts to take off again and escape, he [[spoiler: [[AccidentalHero accidentally launches a pair of torpedos into something important which causes the entire ship to go up in flames as Anakin narrowly]] [[OutrunTheFireball outruns the destruction he caused.]]]]
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* ComingInHot: Anakin accidentally crash-lands in the docking bay of the Droid Control Battleship. During his attempts to take off again and escape, he [[spoiler: [[AccidentalHero accidentally launches a pair of torpedos into something important which causes the entire ship to go up in flames as Anakin narrowly]] [[OutrunTheFireball outruns the destruction he caused.]]]]]]
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* EndingMemorialService: Occurs at the end of the movie [[spoiler:for Qui-Gon Jinn]].
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* EndingMemorialService: Occurs The Jedi hold a funeral for Qui-Gon Jinn at the end of the movie [[spoiler:for Qui-Gon Jinn]].movie.
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* InterestingSituationDuel: The three-way duel in the power station of the palace on Naboo. The two Jedi chase Darth Maul on the catwalks spanning several levels of the building, get momentarily trapped in a LaserHallway, they are separated before they can resume. Obi-Wan is ForcedToWatch as his master fights Maul alone [[spoiler: and is killed by him, leaving Obi-Wan to fight Maul alone]].
* IntimidationDemonstration: Darth Maul turns towards Obi-Wan after [[spoiler: killing Qui-Gon Jinn]] and swings his lightsaber around to taunt him.
* IntimidationDemonstration: Darth Maul turns towards Obi-Wan after [[spoiler: killing Qui-Gon Jinn]] and swings his lightsaber around to taunt him.
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* InterestingSituationDuel: The three-way duel in the power station of the palace on Naboo. The two Jedi chase Darth Maul on the catwalks spanning several levels of the building, get momentarily trapped in a LaserHallway, they are separated before they can resume. Obi-Wan is ForcedToWatch as his master fights Maul alone [[spoiler: and is killed by him, leaving Obi-Wan to fight Maul alone]].
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* IntimidationDemonstration: Darth Maul turns towards Obi-Wan after[[spoiler: killing Qui-Gon Jinn]] Jinn and swings his lightsaber around to taunt him.
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* KneeFoldFallOfDefeat: Qui Gon Jinn falls to his knees after [[spoiler:he is impaled by Darth Maul]].
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* KneeFoldFallOfDefeat: Qui Gon Jinn falls to his knees after [[spoiler:he he is impaled by Darth Maul]].Maul.
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* ObiWanMoment: Qui-Gon Jinn calmly meditates before his final, brief duel with [[spoiler:Darth Maul]] when their fight is [[MidBattleTeaBreak briefly interrupted]] by the shifting of some laser doors. This is a case where he didn't necessarily know that he'd be dying, but likely considered the possibility.
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* ObiWanMoment: Qui-Gon Jinn calmly meditates before his final, brief duel with [[spoiler:Darth Maul]] Darth Maul when their fight is [[MidBattleTeaBreak briefly interrupted]] by the shifting of some laser doors. This is a case where he didn't necessarily know that he'd be dying, but likely considered the possibility.
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* PendulumWar: The battle of Naboo is completely a One Sided Battle. The good guys are getting creamed, and then [[spoiler: Anakin blows up the Trade Federation mothership, [[KeystoneArmy disabling all the droid soldiers]], [[InstantWinCondition wiping out the army in one swoop.]]]]
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* PendulumWar: The battle of Naboo is completely a One Sided Battle. The good guys are getting creamed, and then [[spoiler: Anakin blows up the Trade Federation mothership, [[KeystoneArmy disabling all the droid soldiers]], [[InstantWinCondition wiping out the army in one swoop.]]]]]]
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* PosthumousVillainVictory: ZigZagged by Darth Maul, whose actions cause the entire saga to unfold thanks to [[spoiler:killing Qui-Gon Jinn]], thus forcing Anakin Skywalker to be trained by the well-meaning, but ultimately flawed Obi-Wan Kenobi. Without [[spoiler:Qui-Gon's]] teachings to help the emotionally troubled boy, Anakin winds up a troubled young man distrusted by the Order who trained him, and easily manipulated by Palpatine into becoming the man who would destroy the Jedi and allow the Sith to have their revenge as Maul was aiming for: Darth Vader.
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* PosthumousVillainVictory: ZigZagged by Darth Maul, whose actions cause the entire saga to unfold thanks to [[spoiler:killing killing Qui-Gon Jinn]], Jinn, thus forcing Anakin Skywalker to be trained by the well-meaning, but ultimately flawed Obi-Wan Kenobi. Without [[spoiler:Qui-Gon's]] Qui-Gon's teachings to help the emotionally troubled boy, Anakin winds up a troubled young man distrusted by the Order who trained him, and easily manipulated by Palpatine into becoming the man who would destroy the Jedi and allow the Sith to have their revenge as Maul was aiming for: Darth Vader.
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* SeparatedByTheWall: [[StudentAndMasterTeam Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan]] are separated by a ForceFieldDoor which prevents Obi-Wan from [[spoiler:saving Qui-Gon from being killed by Darth Maul]].
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* SeparatedByTheWall: [[StudentAndMasterTeam Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan]] are separated by a ForceFieldDoor which prevents Obi-Wan from [[spoiler:saving saving Qui-Gon from being killed by Darth Maul]].Maul.
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* SillyReasonForWar: The film starts with a dispute over tariffs that make the Trade Federation upset enough to blockade Naboo as a means of protest. It could possibly have been resolved peacefully (the blockade itself is perfectly legal) had Darth Sidious (a.k.a. Senator Palpatine) not been a TreacherousAdvisor to them who convinced them to take their grievance much further into unethical and immoral actions, which eventually [[spoiler:triggered the Clone Wars, [[ThePurge Order 66]], and Palpatine's rise to power.]]
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* SillyReasonForWar: The film starts with a dispute over tariffs that make the Trade Federation upset enough to blockade Naboo as a means of protest. It could possibly have been resolved peacefully (the blockade itself is perfectly legal) had Darth Sidious (a.k.a. Senator Palpatine) not been a TreacherousAdvisor to them who convinced them to take their grievance much further into unethical and immoral actions, which eventually [[spoiler:triggered triggered the Clone Wars, [[ThePurge Order 66]], and Palpatine's rise to power.]]
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* SlowMotionFall: [[spoiler:Qui-Gon Jinn]], after Darth Maul finishes him.
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* TonightSomeoneDies: The movie teases a major death in the trailer, showing a shot from [[spoiler:Qui-Gon's funeral]] depicting some of the characters near a blazing fire and Jar-Jar looking uncharacteristically somber.
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* TonightSomeoneDies: The movie teases a major death in the trailer, showing a shot from [[spoiler:Qui-Gon's funeral]] Qui-Gon's funeral depicting some of the characters near a blazing fire and Jar-Jar looking uncharacteristically somber.
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* {{Anadiplosis}}: When Yoda first meets with young Anakin, he asks Anakin what he is feeling, and has words of wisdom when Anakin feels fear.
-->'''Yoda:''' Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
-->'''Yoda:''' Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
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* PrecrimeArrest: While she immediately recognises that she can't go after Palpatine as she has no evidence of his existing crimes, she finds herself frustrated that she knows what Dooku will do in the future but has no legitimate reason to go after him in the present when he's still a Jedi who is merely curious about the Dark Side but hasn't actually turned yet. Mace Windu sums up the problem in particular:
-->"Thinking about the Dark Side is not a crime. If it was, we would have to immediately arrest several hundred of the Order’s archivists. Along with every Padawan who’s ever wondered if there was an easier, stronger way."
-->"Thinking about the Dark Side is not a crime. If it was, we would have to immediately arrest several hundred of the Order’s archivists. Along with every Padawan who’s ever wondered if there was an easier, stronger way."
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* SillyReasonForWar: The film starts with a dispute over tariffs that make the Trade Federation upset enough to blockade Naboo as a means of protest. It could possibly have been resolved peacefully (the blockade itself is perfectly legal) had Darth Sidious (aka Senator Palpatine) not been a TreacherousAdvisor to them who convinced them to take their grievance much further into unethical and immoral actions, which eventually triggered the Clone Wars, [[ThePurge Order 66]], and Palpatine's rise to power.
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* SillyReasonForWar: The film starts with a dispute over tariffs that make the Trade Federation upset enough to blockade Naboo as a means of protest. It could possibly have been resolved peacefully (the blockade itself is perfectly legal) had Darth Sidious (aka (a.k.a. Senator Palpatine) not been a TreacherousAdvisor to them who convinced them to take their grievance much further into unethical and immoral actions, which eventually triggered [[spoiler:triggered the Clone Wars, [[ThePurge Order 66]], and Palpatine's rise to power.]]
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* AllowedInternalWar: In the {{backstory}} of this film, the Galactic Republic has become so mired in political corruption (not to mention the fact they abolished their regular military after the end of the last Sith Wars, leaving the Judicial Forces to basically bring SpacePolice cars to a {{Battlestar}} fight) that {{megacorp}}orations like the Trade Federation and Intergalactic Banking Clan are able to control vast armies of droids and mercenaries, which they wield in CorporateWarfare against planetary governments that displease them. The plot of the film is set off when [[BigBad Senator Sheev "Darth Sidious" Palpatine]] covertly pushes the Trade Federation to escalate this to using its droid army to extort policy changes from the Republic Senate itself, in order to create a political crisis he can exploit to get himself elected Supreme Chancellor.
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* AllowedInternalWar: In the {{backstory}} of this film, the Galactic Republic has become so mired in political corruption (not to mention the fact (plus, they abolished their regular military after the end of the last Sith Wars, leaving the Judicial Forces to basically bring SpacePolice cars to a {{Battlestar}} fight) that {{megacorp}}orations like the Trade Federation and Intergalactic Banking Clan are able to control vast armies of droids and mercenaries, which they wield in CorporateWarfare against planetary governments that displease them. The plot of the film is set off when [[BigBad Senator Sheev "Darth Sidious" Palpatine]] covertly pushes the Trade Federation to escalate this to using its droid army to extort policy changes from the Republic Senate itself, in order to create a political crisis he can exploit to get himself elected Supreme Chancellor.
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* ImprobablePilotingSkills: Anakin somehow manages to land the remaining section of a breaking-apart capital ship on a landing strip on Coruscant, not to mention blowing up the Droid Control ship, despite having ''never flown before.''
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* ImprobablePilotingSkills: Anakin somehow manages to land the remaining section of a breaking-apart capital ship on a landing strip on Coruscant, not to mention plus blowing up the Droid Control ship, despite having ''never flown before.''
* ObiWanMoment: Qui-Gon Jinn calmly meditates before his final, brief duel with [[spoiler:Darth Maul]] when their fight is [[MidBattleTeaBreak briefly interrupted]] by the shifting of some laser doors. This is a case where he didn't necessarily know that he'd be dying, but likely considered the possibility.
* OfficialPresidentialTransport: The unnamed royal cruiser that Queen Amidala uses to escape [[RunningTheBlockade past the Trade Federation's blockade]], which comes complete with a throne room for her.
* OhMyGods: Jar Jar invokes the gods at one point ("Ye gods! What is mesa sayin'").
* OneHitKill: Despite how badass and unique Darth Maul is in this film, many forget he is the ''only'' major film antagonist to be taken out ([[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe sliced in half]]) in one slash by Obi-Wan.
* OpposingSportsTeam: Sebulba "always wins" the pod-race. His pod is very fast and he uses dirty tactics like tossing wrenches into the other racers' engines.
* OutOfGenreExperience: The brief StoryArc to have Qui-Gon free Anakin from slavery eschews space opera and political intrigue in favor of a half-hour diversion into a sports film, which is only tangentially connected to what came before.
* OutrunTheFireball: Anakin flies into the main droid control ship, then fires two proton torpedoes straight into the main reactor. The ship starts to blow up from the inside, and Anakin flies as fast as he can toward the exit with flames shooting all over the place, feeling it necessary to quip "now ''this'' is podracing!" as he does so. There is an additional shot of a squad of battle droids failing at this.
* OutrunTheFireball: Anakin flies into the main droid control ship, then fires two proton torpedoes straight into the main reactor. The ship starts to blow up from the inside, and Anakin flies as fast as he can toward the exit with flames shooting all over the place, feeling it necessary to quip "now ''this'' is podracing!" as he does so. There is an additional shot of a squad of battle droids failing at this.
* {{Overdrive}}: The podrace. Sometimes Anakin passes other racers with ease, and other times he keeps pace with Sebulba over long straightaways. It also genuinely makes zero sense that he wasn't going as fast as he could to begin with, considering how he started the race in last place due to engine failure and his freedom was on the line. Explained in the spin-off videogame: The engines can't run at full power for very long before they begin to overheat, and once their temperature passes the redline they will ''very'' quickly seize up, catch fire or otherwise fail catastrophically.
* PapaWolf: She's not their daughter, but Sio Babble and Panaka react this way whenever the queen is threatened. When Qui-Gon mentions that if the queen stays on Naboo then she'll be killed, Sio Babble says, "They wouldn't dare!" vehemently. Then Panaka logically tries to point out the Trade Federation can't freaking kill the leader of the planet they're invading and stay on good terms with Coruscant; the men only acquiesce when Qui-Gon counters the Trade Federation may elect a pawn in Amidala's place to sign a treaty. Panaka agrees to go off-planet with the queen to protect her, and is ready to draw fire on anyone who dares attack, as Sio Babble tries to reason with the Trade Federation to withdraw.
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* PapaWolf: She's not their daughter, but Sio Babble and Panaka react this way whenever the queen is threatened. When Qui-Gon mentions that if the queen stays on Naboo then she'll be killed, Sio Babble says, "They wouldn't dare!" vehemently. Then Panaka logically tries to point out the Trade Federation can't freaking kill the leader of the planet they're invading and stay on good terms with Coruscant; the men only acquiesce when Qui-Gon counters the Trade Federation may elect a pawn in Amidala's place to sign a treaty. Panaka agrees to go off-planet with the queen to protect her, and is ready to draw fire on anyone who dares attack, as Sio Babble tries to reason with the Trade Federation to withdraw.
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* PapaWolf: She's not their daughter, but Sio Babble ParallelConflictSequence: There are four separate events happening during TheClimax, each with its own plot relevance: The Gungans vs the Separatists Droid Army, Anakin helping against the Separatist Blockade, Padmé and Panaka react this way whenever the queen is threatened. When her group against some ground forces and Qui-Gon mentions that if the queen stays on Naboo then she'll be killed, Sio Babble says, "They wouldn't dare!" vehemently. Then Panaka logically tries to point out the Trade Federation can't freaking kill the leader of the planet they're invading and stay on good terms Obi-Wan vs Darth Maul.
* ParanormalGamblingAdvantage: In a bet withCoruscant; the men only acquiesce when Watto, Qui-Gon counters Jinn uses the Trade Federation may elect a pawn in Amidala's place Force to sign make a treaty. Panaka agrees to go off-planet with die roll the queen to protect her, and is ready to draw fire on anyone who dares attack, as Sio Babble tries to reason with the Trade Federation to withdraw. result he wants. The game was already rigged in Watto's favor.
* ParanormalGamblingAdvantage: In a bet with
* PendulumWar: The battle of Naboo is completely a One Sided Battle. The good guys are getting creamed, and then [[spoiler: Anakin blows up the Trade Federation mothership, [[KeystoneArmy disabling all the droid soldiers]], [[InstantWinCondition wiping out the army in one swoop.]]]]
* PersonaNonGrata: Jar Jar Binks tells Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan that he was kicked out of Otoh Gunga for his "clumsiness".
* PersonaNonGrata: Jar Jar Binks tells Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan that he was kicked out of Otoh Gunga for his "clumsiness".
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* PinballProtagonist: Anakin is obviously a crucial character in the film due to his impossibly high midichlorian count (and thus incredible force wielding potential), but aside from racing and winning the pod race, he has no real control over what's going on around him, due to him being a TagalongKid. He ultimately thwarts the Trade Federations' invasion by blowing up their control ship, but even that was a lucky accident. Obi-Wan, meanwhile, despite having the most screen time of any character is pretty much just along for the ride- aside from cleaving droids to death he usually just sits on the sidelines while Qui-Gon drives the plot.
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* PinballProtagonist: Anakin is obviously a crucial character in the film due to his impossibly high midichlorian count (and thus incredible force wielding potential), but aside from racing and winning the pod race, he has no real control over what's going on around him, due to him being a TagalongKid. He ultimately thwarts the Trade Federations' invasion by blowing up their control ship, but even that was a lucky accident. Obi-Wan, meanwhile, despite having the most screen time of any character is pretty much just along for the ride- aside from cleaving droids to death he usually just sits on the sidelines while Qui-Gon drives the plot.plot.
* PlanetBaron: The rulers of Naboo are elected monarchs who change office every few years (though that only concerns the surface dwellers, the aquatic Gungans have a chief of their own, Boss Nass).
* {{Planetville}}:
** All that's needed to conquer Naboo is simply taking the capital city, and "blockading" the whole planet from surrounding space with a handful of ships. A small or medium-sized country on Earth probably couldn't keep fighting once the capital was lost, but large nations typically have military districts that are able to operate independently of the capital. Unless the enemy fleet deployed millions of ships, they couldn't possibly cover all of the sky above Naboo, so the protagonists trying to flee the planet could select to go through an open area to leave the gravity well and jump to hyperspace rather than aiming their ship straight at the enemy fleet to "break through the blockage".
** Justified at one point. When Darth Maul traces Queen Amidala's ship to Tatooine, he points out that the planet is very sparsely populated, with only three major cities across the entire thing, which simplifies his search greatly. He is then shown dispatching groups of scout droids to each of the cities rather than trying to search them personally.
* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: This is R2-D2's reaction when he first meets the unfinished C-3PO at the Skywalker residence on Tatooine.
--->'''C-3PO:''' I beg your pardon? What do you mean "naked"?\\
''[R2 points out what he means]''\\
'''C-3PO:''' My parts are showing!? My goodness, OH!
* PlanetBaron: The rulers of Naboo are elected monarchs who change office every few years (though that only concerns the surface dwellers, the aquatic Gungans have a chief of their own, Boss Nass).
* {{Planetville}}:
** All that's needed to conquer Naboo is simply taking the capital city, and "blockading" the whole planet from surrounding space with a handful of ships. A small or medium-sized country on Earth probably couldn't keep fighting once the capital was lost, but large nations typically have military districts that are able to operate independently of the capital. Unless the enemy fleet deployed millions of ships, they couldn't possibly cover all of the sky above Naboo, so the protagonists trying to flee the planet could select to go through an open area to leave the gravity well and jump to hyperspace rather than aiming their ship straight at the enemy fleet to "break through the blockage".
** Justified at one point. When Darth Maul traces Queen Amidala's ship to Tatooine, he points out that the planet is very sparsely populated, with only three major cities across the entire thing, which simplifies his search greatly. He is then shown dispatching groups of scout droids to each of the cities rather than trying to search them personally.
* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: This is R2-D2's reaction when he first meets the unfinished C-3PO at the Skywalker residence on Tatooine.
--->'''C-3PO:''' I beg your pardon? What do you mean "naked"?\\
''[R2 points out what he means]''\\
'''C-3PO:''' My parts are showing!? My goodness, OH!
* PointDefenseless: The space battle at the end of the film shows the guns of the droid control ship are ineffective against the Naboo fighters and, most importantly, can't stop Anakin from ''landing in their hangar''. {{Justified|Trope}} as [[TechnicallyATransport it's actually a giant merchant ship that was originally unarmed (the powerful shields and the sheer size being its best defense against attacks from under-equipped pirates) and has been hastily refitted with some weapons]] before the invasion of Naboo (as a planetary government would have access to better weapons than pirates). They weren't even expecting any resistance, given that Naboo technically has no military at all.
* PossessionImpliesMastery:
** Anakin Skywalker assumes that because Qui-Gon Jinn has a lightsaber, he must be a Jedi. When Qui-Gon jokingly retorts that he could have alternatively killed a Jedi and snatched the lightsaber, Anakin claims that no one would ever be able to kill a Jedi.
** The Jawas are known to be experts in scavenging and re-purposing even derelict junk, turning it into workable technology without having any real understanding of the mechanical processes involved. They don't comprehend how the {{EMP}} discharge from an ion blaster creates a power surge through a droid's circuits. They just figure out that if you attach a restraining bolt to a stripped-down blaster and fire it at a droid, that droid gets paralyzed.
* PossessionImpliesMastery:
** Anakin Skywalker assumes that because Qui-Gon Jinn has a lightsaber, he must be a Jedi. When Qui-Gon jokingly retorts that he could have alternatively killed a Jedi and snatched the lightsaber, Anakin claims that no one would ever be able to kill a Jedi.
** The Jawas are known to be experts in scavenging and re-purposing even derelict junk, turning it into workable technology without having any real understanding of the mechanical processes involved. They don't comprehend how the {{EMP}} discharge from an ion blaster creates a power surge through a droid's circuits. They just figure out that if you attach a restraining bolt to a stripped-down blaster and fire it at a droid, that droid gets paralyzed.
* PosthumousVillainVictory: ZigZagged by Darth Maul, whose actions cause the entire saga to unfold thanks to [[spoiler:killing Qui-Gon Jinn]], thus forcing Anakin Skywalker to be trained by the well-meaning, but ultimately flawed Obi-Wan Kenobi. Without [[spoiler:Qui-Gon's]] teachings to help the emotionally troubled boy, Anakin winds up a troubled young man distrusted by the Order who trained him, and easily manipulated by Palpatine into becoming the man who would destroy the Jedi and allow the Sith to have their revenge as Maul was aiming for: Darth Vader.
* PraetorianGuard: Two heroic examples:
** The Senate Guard (aka the Blue Guard) serve as these for the Galactic Senate.
** The Naboo Palace Guard are said to form the backbone of the Royal Naboo Security Forces and are later seen guarding Padmé when she is a senator in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''.
** The Senate Guard (aka the Blue Guard) serve as these for the Galactic Senate.
** The Naboo Palace Guard are said to form the backbone of the Royal Naboo Security Forces and are later seen guarding Padmé when she is a senator in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''.
* PrecociousCrush: Anakin towards Padme. The feeling isn't reciprocated until near the climax of the following film.
* PrecrimeArrest: While she immediately recognises that she can't go after Palpatine as she has no evidence of his existing crimes, she finds herself frustrated that she knows what Dooku will do in the future but has no legitimate reason to go after him in the present when he's still a Jedi who is merely curious about the Dark Side but hasn't actually turned yet. Mace Windu sums up the problem in particular:
-->"Thinking about the Dark Side is not a crime. If it was, we would have to immediately arrest several hundred of the Order’s archivists. Along with every Padawan who’s ever wondered if there was an easier, stronger way."
* PrecrimeArrest: While she immediately recognises that she can't go after Palpatine as she has no evidence of his existing crimes, she finds herself frustrated that she knows what Dooku will do in the future but has no legitimate reason to go after him in the present when he's still a Jedi who is merely curious about the Dark Side but hasn't actually turned yet. Mace Windu sums up the problem in particular:
-->"Thinking about the Dark Side is not a crime. If it was, we would have to immediately arrest several hundred of the Order’s archivists. Along with every Padawan who’s ever wondered if there was an easier, stronger way."
* PreventTheWar: The theatrical film opens with the two heroes, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, arriving on a space station to negotiate a peace between the spaceship's owner and the planet it orbits. As soon as gas start pumping into the waiting room, the heroes grab their weapons and leave diplomacy behind for the rest of the movie.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Darth Maul made full-body, red-and-black Sith tattoos popular in the franchise.
* ReflectingLaser: In the big battle between the Gungans and the droids, you can see the occasional bolt bouncing off the ''ground''.
* ReflectingLaser: In the big battle between the Gungans and the droids, you can see the occasional bolt bouncing off the ''ground''.
* RefusedByTheCall: Qui-Gon Jinn finds and brings in Anakin Skywalker when he realizes that he has a majorly high Midichlorian count, meaning he is most likely TheChosenOne. He's brought before the Jedi Council... and is told that he can't be trained - he's too old, thus he has emotions that would ruin it all as it would lead to The Dark Side. He's made a Padawan nonetheless when Qui-Gon is killed by Darth Maul, as Qui-Gon specifically asked for Anakin to be trained as a last wish.
* {{Retirony}}: In a variation, towards the end of the film, Qui-Gon Jinn intends to train Anakin Skywalker, believing Obi-Wan Kenobi is ready to graduate to Jedi Knight status. Qui-Gon doesn't make it to the end of the movie, and Obi-Wan ends up being Anakin's trainer instead.
* ReunionVow: Shmi Skywalker promises her son Anakin that they will meet again before he leaves for Jedi training. They do meet again ten years later in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''. Unfortunately, it's during Shmi's dying moments.
* ReverseRelationshipReveal: Queen Amidala is revealed to be a handmaiden decoy; the actual queen had been posing as the handmaiden for much of the film.
* ReunionVow: Shmi Skywalker promises her son Anakin that they will meet again before he leaves for Jedi training. They do meet again ten years later in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''. Unfortunately, it's during Shmi's dying moments.
* ReverseRelationshipReveal: Queen Amidala is revealed to be a handmaiden decoy; the actual queen had been posing as the handmaiden for much of the film.
* RidiculouslyDifficultRoute: Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, and Jar Jar Binks have to take a submarine through the planet Naboo's core (which is [[ArtisticLicenseGeology made of water for some reason]]), in order to get to Naboo's capitol in time. While this may not be as dangerous as traveling through a core of molten rock, they still almost get eaten by many giant sea monsters on the way.
* RiteOfPassage: Amidala has to prove her capability as queen and even wears a debutante ball-gown like dress for the parade scene.
* RockBeatsLaser: There's a technologically superior army dealing with an inferior group, it's notably averted: although the Gungans did manage to do in some numbers of the Droid Army in the climactic battle[[note]]It helps that the Gungans aren't truly primitive; they just use very ''different'' technology based on a unique form of plasma extracted from Naboo's core. While they have beasts of burden rather than vehicles and catapults rather than laser cannons, they also have [[DeflectorShields laser-reflecting plasma shields]] and those catapults are used to throw [[PlasmaCannon plasma orbs]] that go through tank armor like a hot knife through butter.[[/note]], they overall ''lost'' badly. In fact, literally the only reason they managed to live to tell the day was through sheer dumb luck from Anakin [[KeystoneArmy managing to blow up the Droid Control Ship, causing the droid units to shut down]].
* SeaMonster: There's AlwaysABiggerFish in the Abyss, the watery core of Naboo. First, there's the Opee Sea Killer, a bizarre fish-crab hybrid that catches prey with a long, sticky tongue. Then, there's the larger Colo Claw Fish, a giant sea serpent with clawlike appendages used to capture smaller creatures (including baby Sea Killers, which can however chew out of a Claw Fish's stomach to escape). And finally, there's the Sando Aqua Monster, resembling a cross between an otter and a newt, but ''far bigger'' than the largest whales and the [[RentAZilla biggest predator]] on Naboo, who can and will eat almost anything (including the aforementioned Colo and Opee) that stands in its way.
* SeparatedByTheWall: [[StudentAndMasterTeam Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan]] are separated by a ForceFieldDoor which prevents Obi-Wan from [[spoiler:saving Qui-Gon from being killed by Darth Maul]].
* ShortLivedAerialEscape: During the scene where the Naboo pilots hijack their fighters away from Trade Federation droids that had secured the hangar, a turret outside the hanger manages to hit one shortly after take off, causing it to spiral in.
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* ShowDontTell: Padmé says "My people are suffering," and Sio Bibble says "The death toll is catastrophic," but we don't really ''see'' the impact that the Trade Federation invasion had on Naboo. FridgeBrilliance kicks in when you realize that, as all communications are blacked out, that conspicuously clear message must be a fake made by the Trade Federation to induce Amidala to reveal her position and there is actually nothing to ''see''.
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* ShowDontTell: Padmé says "My people are suffering," and Sio Bibble says "The death toll is catastrophic," but we don't really ''see'' the impact that the Trade Federation invasion had on Naboo. FridgeBrilliance kicks in when you realize that, as As all communications are blacked out, that conspicuously clear message must be a fake made by the Trade Federation to induce Amidala to reveal her position and there is actually nothing to ''see''.
* SillyReasonForWar: The film starts with a dispute over tariffs that make the Trade Federation upset enough to blockade Naboo as a means of protest. It could possibly have been resolved peacefully (the blockade itself is perfectly legal) had Darth Sidious (aka Senator Palpatine) not been a TreacherousAdvisor to them who convinced them to take their grievance much further into unethical and immoral actions, which eventually triggered the Clone Wars, [[ThePurge Order 66]], and Palpatine's rise to power.
* SinisterGeometry: The movie adheres to the Sinister Geometry-coded villains with the Trade Federation's droid army squaring off against the organic Gungans and the elegant, shapely yellow/silver Naboo starfighters. Darth Maul's ''Scimitar'' also looks like a fusion between a TIE Advanced x1 and a Star Destroyer, in contrast to the heroes' [[ShinyLookingSpaceships Royal Starship]].
* SinkOrSwimFatherhood: The movie ends with Obi-Wan Kenobi taking Anakin Skywalker as his Padawan, despite having been knighted less than two minutes earlier. He does this mostly to honor his own Master's dying wish.
* SinisterGeometry: The movie adheres to the Sinister Geometry-coded villains with the Trade Federation's droid army squaring off against the organic Gungans and the elegant, shapely yellow/silver Naboo starfighters. Darth Maul's ''Scimitar'' also looks like a fusion between a TIE Advanced x1 and a Star Destroyer, in contrast to the heroes' [[ShinyLookingSpaceships Royal Starship]].
* SinkOrSwimFatherhood: The movie ends with Obi-Wan Kenobi taking Anakin Skywalker as his Padawan, despite having been knighted less than two minutes earlier. He does this mostly to honor his own Master's dying wish.
* SlaveLiberation: Qui-Gon Jinn secures slave boy Anakin Skywalker's freedom in a podrace so he can be trained as a Jedi.
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: One of the ways that Tatooine is marked as an outlaw planet is the fact that slavery is legal there. ''And'' its ''de facto'' rulers are the Hutts, a race of notorious criminal overlords.
* SlowMotionFall: [[spoiler:Qui-Gon Jinn]], after Darth Maul finishes him.
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: One of the ways that Tatooine is marked as an outlaw planet is the fact that slavery is legal there. ''And'' its ''de facto'' rulers are the Hutts, a race of notorious criminal overlords.
* SlowMotionFall: [[spoiler:Qui-Gon Jinn]], after Darth Maul finishes him.
* SnowyScreenOfDeath: "A communications disruption could mean only one thing: invasion." - Governor Sio Bibble.
* SpinAttack: Qui-Gon Jinn does one while fighting Darth Maul, and Maul himself does a spectacular and flashy leaping spin move while fighting Obi-Wan.
* StepIntoTheBlindingFight: Jedi train The Younglings to fight blind/using only the Force by using the special darkness helmets.
* StormingTheCastle: In the climax, the Naboo starfighter fleet attacks The Trade Federation battleship and the rest of the heroes take back Naboo Palace.
* StrategySchmategy: Jar Jar Binks found himself assigned a generalship in the Gungan military thanks to a political appointment. He proceeds to take out a surprising number of the enemy himself by being a LethalKlutz, and the badly outclassed Gungan army manages to last long enough in their stated purpose--being a distraction--to see the opposing droid army decommissioned.
* StumblingUponTheLostWizard: Qui-Gonn stumbles upon the Chosen One and son of a virgin mother, Anakin Skywalker, because they randomly decided to look for ship parts in the one neighborhood on the one planet where anyone like Anakin existed.
* SubtleSuperpowering: After discovering that Anakin is immensely strong in The Force, the Jedi Qui-Gon Jinn attempts to barter with the slaveowner Watto for the enslaved Anakin and his mother. Since what Qui-Gon is offering is only worth one slave and Watto is big into gambling, he rolls a die to determine which slave Qui-Gon will get. Qui-Gon subtly uses [[MindOverMatter Force manipulation]] to make the die land on a side that will get him Anakin. Notably, before this exchange, Qui-Gon attempted a less-subtle JediMindTrick but Watto, being a [[SpaceJews Toydarian]], was [[{{Greed}} too greedy]] to fall for it.
* SuperFlyReflexes: Qui-Gon Jinn shows off his Jedi reflexes by catching Jar-Jar Binks' ''tongue'' with his fingers, as Jar-Jar tries to steal the Skywalkers' last apple [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projectile_use_by_living_systems#Tethered_projectiles frog-style.]]
* StrategySchmategy: Jar Jar Binks found himself assigned a generalship in the Gungan military thanks to a political appointment. He proceeds to take out a surprising number of the enemy himself by being a LethalKlutz, and the badly outclassed Gungan army manages to last long enough in their stated purpose--being a distraction--to see the opposing droid army decommissioned.
* StumblingUponTheLostWizard: Qui-Gonn stumbles upon the Chosen One and son of a virgin mother, Anakin Skywalker, because they randomly decided to look for ship parts in the one neighborhood on the one planet where anyone like Anakin existed.
* SubtleSuperpowering: After discovering that Anakin is immensely strong in The Force, the Jedi Qui-Gon Jinn attempts to barter with the slaveowner Watto for the enslaved Anakin and his mother. Since what Qui-Gon is offering is only worth one slave and Watto is big into gambling, he rolls a die to determine which slave Qui-Gon will get. Qui-Gon subtly uses [[MindOverMatter Force manipulation]] to make the die land on a side that will get him Anakin. Notably, before this exchange, Qui-Gon attempted a less-subtle JediMindTrick but Watto, being a [[SpaceJews Toydarian]], was [[{{Greed}} too greedy]] to fall for it.
* SuperFlyReflexes: Qui-Gon Jinn shows off his Jedi reflexes by catching Jar-Jar Binks' ''tongue'' with his fingers, as Jar-Jar tries to steal the Skywalkers' last apple [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projectile_use_by_living_systems#Tethered_projectiles frog-style.]]
* {{Tableau}: Much like ''A New Hope'', the movie ends with the main characters standing on a raised platform in front of an audience, during a victory celebration.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: This movie is notable because of the ''absence'' of this trope. There is no dialogue whatsoever during the lengthy duel between Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, and Darth Maul. This wound up with the opposite problem, as it gets hard to remember why they're fighting to begin with.
* TechnologyPorn: The movie shows the sequence of the Droid Army being deployed against the Gungan army.
* TechnologyPorn: The movie shows the sequence of the Droid Army being deployed against the Gungan army.
* ThatsGottaHurt: A particularly nasty crash during the pod racing prompts Fode to exclaim, "Oh! I don't care what universe you're from, that's gotta hurt!"[[note]]That line was an {{actor allusion}} for the commentator's voice actor, Creator/GregProops, who's known for employing that shtick on ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway.''[[/note]]
* ThemeMusicPowerUp: Near the climax, just as the heroes are ready to flee the scene, a door opens, a cloaked figure appears (Darth Maul), and the first few notes of the "Duel of the Fates" theme [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W57UTi3pHTc are heard]].
* Title1: The film was widely promoted as ''Star Wars: Episode I''. [[SubvertedTrope However]], it was the fourth film produced in the series. The odd numbering stems from a broad storyline for the series outlined by Creator/GeorgeLucas after the success of 1977's ''Star Wars''. The original movie was retroactively titled ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope]]'', due to Lucas' desire to flesh out the backstory alluded to in the film.
* TonightSomeoneDies: The movie teases a major death in the trailer, showing a shot from [[spoiler:Qui-Gon's funeral]] depicting some of the characters near a blazing fire and Jar-Jar looking uncharacteristically somber.
* TurbineBlender:
** A Pit Droid is sucked into what looks a lot like a jet engine when one pod comes in for a pit stop, which utterly destroys the engine and puts the pilot out of contention. Not only does the sucked-in pit droid ruin the engine, but it also gets spat out the other end, [[RuleOfFunny with no apparent damage at all]].
** Sebulba, being the dirty cheater he is, pulls out a hydrospanner or somesuch tool from his pod's glovebox and throws it behind him. It hits the engine of one of his pursuers and is promptly sucked in, tearing the craft apart.
* {{Understatement}}: Jar-Jar warns Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan to not expect a warm welcome from the Gungans. [[LittleDidIKnow Little did he know]] that ''before'' they had to deal with Trade Federation droids in the swamps of Naboo, they also had to deal with, among other things, attempted murder by ship explosion, poison gas, and armies of battle droids and droidekas.
-->'''Obi-Wan:''' Oh, don't worry, this hasn't been our day for warm welcomes.
** A Pit Droid is sucked into what looks a lot like a jet engine when one pod comes in for a pit stop, which utterly destroys the engine and puts the pilot out of contention. Not only does the sucked-in pit droid ruin the engine, but it also gets spat out the other end, [[RuleOfFunny with no apparent damage at all]].
** Sebulba, being the dirty cheater he is, pulls out a hydrospanner or somesuch tool from his pod's glovebox and throws it behind him. It hits the engine of one of his pursuers and is promptly sucked in, tearing the craft apart.
* {{Understatement}}: Jar-Jar warns Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan to not expect a warm welcome from the Gungans. [[LittleDidIKnow Little did he know]] that ''before'' they had to deal with Trade Federation droids in the swamps of Naboo, they also had to deal with, among other things, attempted murder by ship explosion, poison gas, and armies of battle droids and droidekas.
-->'''Obi-Wan:''' Oh, don't worry, this hasn't been our day for warm welcomes.
* UngovernableGalaxy: Lampshaded by Shmi when Padmé realizes how rampant slavery is in Tattooine:
-->'''Padme:''' I can't believe there is still slavery in the galaxy. The Republic's anti-slavery laws—\\
'''Shmi:''' The Republic doesn't exist out here. We must survive on our own.
-->'''Padme:''' I can't believe there is still slavery in the galaxy. The Republic's anti-slavery laws—\\
'''Shmi:''' The Republic doesn't exist out here. We must survive on our own.
* UnorthodoxSheathing: While not having an actual sheath, Qui-Gon Jinn ignites his Lightsaber before it's fully left his belt, making it look like he's "drawing" the energy blade. He does the same thing when "sheathing" it.
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* V8EngineNoises: While a majority of the pod racers sound more akin to piston engines under wide-open throttle, Anakin's pod uses the unedited engine note from a V12 Formula One car, complete with upshifts!
** And Sebulba's sounds almost like a 2-stroke moped engine idling!
** And Sebulba's sounds almost like a 2-stroke moped engine idling!
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* V8EngineNoises: While a majority of the pod racers sound more akin to piston engines under wide-open throttle, Anakin's pod uses the unedited engine note from a V12 Formula One car, complete with upshifts!
**upshifts! And Sebulba's sounds almost like a 2-stroke moped engine idling!idling!
* VictoryByEndurance: This is how Qui-Gon is beaten by Maul. Even without Kenobi to assist him, they seem more or less evenly matched, as Maul and Qui-Gon knock eachother down once each in the final battle, and Qui-Gon does fine (albeit he quickly tires due to having hiked a long way while Maul took a speeder). However, while both use exhaustive and aggressive fighting styles [[AllThereInTheManual called Ataru and Juyo for Jinn and Maul respectively]] and were very fit individuals, Maul was 22 years old while Qui-Gon was 48 in Canon and [[OldMaster 60 years old]] in Legends. Thus, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome after an initially even exchange, Qui-Gon runs out of gas much faster than Maul does.]]
* ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption:
** Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon are sent to Naboo for negotiations. The Trade Federation floods the negotiation room with poison gas and sends a half dozen battle droids.
** Padme Amidala tries to go before the Senate to stop an invasion/genocide taking place on her planet. When they want to put it off for a committee to examine, she votes the Chancellor out of office and returns to take Naboo back by force.
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* VictoryByEndurance: This is how Qui-Gon is beaten by Maul. Even without Kenobi to assist him, they seem more or less evenly matched, as Maul and Qui-Gon knock eachother down once each in the final battle, and Qui-Gon does fine (albeit he quickly tires due to having hiked a long way while Maul took a speeder). However, while both use exhaustive and aggressive fighting styles [[AllThereInTheManual called Ataru and Juyo for Jinn and Maul respectively]] and were very fit individuals, Maul was 22 years old while Qui-Gon was 48 in Canon and [[OldMaster 60 years old]] in Legends. Thus, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome after an initially even exchange, Qui-Gon runs out of gas much faster than Maul does.]]
* ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption:
** Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon are sent to Naboo for negotiations. The Trade Federation floods the negotiation room with poison gas and sends a half dozen battle droids.
** Padme Amidala tries to go before the Senate to stop an invasion/genocide taking place on her planet. When they want to put it off for a committee to examine, she votes the Chancellor out of office and returns to take Naboo back by force.
* WatchOutForThatTree: The pod race has a few collisions with rocks.
* WinYourFreedom: Qui-Gon Jinn makes a bet with Watto that if Anakin wins the podrace, then Watto must give Anakin to Qui-Gon. When Anakin wins, Qui-Gon immediately frees him and takes him to the Jedi Academy.
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* YouAreACreditToYourRace: Watto says this of Anakin.
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* YouAreACreditToYourRace: Watto says this of Anakin.Anakin after the latter wins the pod race.
* YouAreAlreadyDead: Darth Maul takes a second to realize he's been cut in half at the end of the climactic fight scene in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when subsequent canon materials reveal that he actually survives through sheer hatred of Obi-Wan, even having a cameo in ''Film/{{Solo}}''.
* YouAreAlreadyDead: Darth Maul takes a second to realize he's been cut in half at the end of the climactic fight scene in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when subsequent canon materials reveal that he actually survives through sheer hatred of Obi-Wan, even having a cameo in ''Film/{{Solo}}''.
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Supermassive example crosswicking. I had planned to save an edit adding examples from the first folder and part of the second, but I derped and accidentally turned off the laptop, losing a LOT of progress X_x But hey, here it is alongside my planned edit for today! ^_^
* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: A dice game is used to decide whether Anakin Skywalker or his mother will go free. Qui-Gon Jinn cheats and uses the Force to flip the dice such that Anakin gets to go free. Qui-Gon also wagers the ship the main cast came to Tatooine on, which would leave them stranded with no way to stop the Trade Federation if they lost.
* AccentsArentHederitary: Anakin Skywalker has an American accent. His mother, Shmi, has a Swedish accent, or whatever the space equivalent is.
* AccentsArentHederitary: Anakin Skywalker has an American accent. His mother, Shmi, has a Swedish accent, or whatever the space equivalent is.
* ActionPrologue: The beginning of the movie has a fight aboard the [[MegaCorp Trade Federation]] battleship after the negotiations never take place.
* ActuallyADoombot: Padmé does this all the time as Queen of Naboo, disguising herself as one of the Queen's handmaidens while a bodyguard (Sabé) disguises herself as the Queen. And she's ''not'' the first Queen of Naboo to do this. Her head of security Captain Panaka designed the strategy, and it was used by her predecessor (and presumably, her successor).
* ActuallyIAmHim: Queen Amidala traveled with a host of decoys for security purposes, it seems. What makes her an example of the trope is that she's always disguised as one of her own attendants, as opposed to moving completely behind the scenes. Qui-Gon knows handmaiden Padmé is the queen, and takes every opportunity to rile her up when mentioning how the queen will approve of his choices.
-->'''Padmé:''' You assume too much.
* ActuallyADoombot: Padmé does this all the time as Queen of Naboo, disguising herself as one of the Queen's handmaidens while a bodyguard (Sabé) disguises herself as the Queen. And she's ''not'' the first Queen of Naboo to do this. Her head of security Captain Panaka designed the strategy, and it was used by her predecessor (and presumably, her successor).
* ActuallyIAmHim: Queen Amidala traveled with a host of decoys for security purposes, it seems. What makes her an example of the trope is that she's always disguised as one of her own attendants, as opposed to moving completely behind the scenes. Qui-Gon knows handmaiden Padmé is the queen, and takes every opportunity to rile her up when mentioning how the queen will approve of his choices.
-->'''Padmé:''' You assume too much.
* AgeGapRomance: Anakin and Padmé have a slight one in the prequel trilogy, with a 5-year age gap between nine-year-old Anakin and 14-year-old Padmé in this movie.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: The movie starts with the Trade Federation invading Naboo and taking over Amidala's palace as well.
* AmazingTechnicolorWorld: Naboo is the most Earth-like planet in the franchise, with dense forests, wide plains, and wide oceans.
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* AndroclesLion: Qui-Gon Jinn saves Jar-Jar Binks (albeit inadvertently) from a Trade Federation battalion, prompting Jar-Jar to offer himself as a servant in a life debt. Later, it is thanks to Jar-Jar that they persuade Jar-Jar's people, the Gungans, to help the people of Naboo fight and defeat the Trade Federation.
* AndStarring: The main cast roll here ends with "and Creator/FrankOz asYoda".Yoda", while the "Co-Starring" category ends with "with Creator/TerenceStamp as Chancellor Valorum" in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'',
* AndStarring: The main cast roll here ends with "and Creator/FrankOz as
* {{Arcadia}}: This seems to be the overall theme of the planet Naboo. It is a very peaceful place, and the majority of the planetary surface seems to consist of lovely cities, beautiful meadows full of alien livestock, rivers and waterfalls, and lush wetland areas teeming with diverse wildlife.
* ArmsAndArmorThemeNaming: Darth Maul is TheBrute, so it's hardly surprising he named himself after a bludgeoning melee weapon. Ironically though, he wields a double-bladed lightsaber that's very complex to wield.
* ArmsAndArmorThemeNaming: Darth Maul is TheBrute, so it's hardly surprising he named himself after a bludgeoning melee weapon. Ironically though, he wields a double-bladed lightsaber that's very complex to wield.
* BatDeduction: Governor Sio Bibble declares that "A communications disruption can only mean one thing: Invasion. We've lost all communications!" This ''before'' they have even confirmed that the problem is planetwide, or even that the communications disruption is the result of hostile action. While it ''is'' logical to conclude that the Trade Federation, which is already blockading the planet, would jam Naboo's communications with the rest of the galaxy (and thus their means of calling for help) prior to invading, this is hardly the ''only'' reason for a communications failure.
* BeneathNotice: Queen Amidala constantly dressed in regal royal attire behind face-concealing makeup. She is always assisted with and surrounded by handmaidens with face obscuring cloaks. One of her key handmaidens in the film is Padmé, who assists Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn while on Tatooine. In truth, Padmé is actually Queen Amidala dressed down and in disguise. No one, except possibly Qui-Gon, even noticed the Queen ever switch places with her handmaidens. Not only do all the handmaidens look alike, but no one pays attention to them because they are always in the background assisting others.
* BeneathNotice: Queen Amidala constantly dressed in regal royal attire behind face-concealing makeup. She is always assisted with and surrounded by handmaidens with face obscuring cloaks. One of her key handmaidens in the film is Padmé, who assists Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn while on Tatooine. In truth, Padmé is actually Queen Amidala dressed down and in disguise. No one, except possibly Qui-Gon, even noticed the Queen ever switch places with her handmaidens. Not only do all the handmaidens look alike, but no one pays attention to them because they are always in the background assisting others.
* BeTheBall: The droidekas introduced in this film curl themselves into a ball and roll into battle before emerging in a tripod stance and deploying their DeflectorShields.
* BigBadassActionSequence: The space-ground battle of Naboo, interchanging between the Trade Federation's clash against the Gungans; Padme's attack on the palace; the lightsaber fight between Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan and Darth Maul; and the attack on the Trade Federation command ship.
* BigBadassActionSequence: The space-ground battle of Naboo, interchanging between the Trade Federation's clash against the Gungans; Padme's attack on the palace; the lightsaber fight between Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan and Darth Maul; and the attack on the Trade Federation command ship.
* BigShadowLittleCreature: A promotional image shows the shadow of Darth Vader belonging to a young Anakin Skywalker, though of course it's just symbolic imagery foreshadowing his eventual turn to the dark side.
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: The Trade Federation blockades planet Naboo and threatens to invade it. Viceroy Gunray calls it "occupying" and "perfectly legal".
* BornIntoSlavery: Anakin Skywalker is a child slave when we first meet him, though it's ambiguous whether he was ''born'' into it or if he and his mother were enslaved when he was a child: he remembers their sale to Gardulla the Hutt, who then lost them to their current owner Watto betting on the podraces, but doesn't speak of anything prior to that.
* BossRemix: Inverted. A happy, fun bouncy version of the Emperor's theme plays over the parade in the last scene of the film.
* BossRemix: Inverted. A happy, fun bouncy version of the Emperor's theme plays over the parade in the last scene of the film.
* CapitalOffensive: The movie begins with the Trade Federation invading the planet Naboo. When the droid army arrives in the planet's capital of Theed and captures Queen Amidala, Viceroy Gunray declares "victory". However, the Queen escapes and later returns to lead LaResistance in a Capital Offensive of her own by [[spoiler:storming the Royal Palace and capturing Gunray]].
* ChariotRace: Pod racing is more than just a futuristic version of chariot racing: the sequence of the pod race and plot developments during it is straight out of ''Ben-Hur''.
* ChaseFight: Shortly before departing from Tattooine, Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon have a high-speed confrontation against Darth Maul. It gives them the realization that the thought-to-be-extinct Sith are back.
* ChaseFight: Shortly before departing from Tattooine, Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon have a high-speed confrontation against Darth Maul. It gives them the realization that the thought-to-be-extinct Sith are back.
* ChromaticArrangement: The battle droids of the Trade Federation (seen most prominently in this movie and related materials) loosely follow this pattern; while standard infantry droids are all white, pilot droids display blue accents, security droids red, and command officer droids yellow.
* CityPlanet: Ric Olié describes Coruscant in this fashion. It is a planet-wide city.
* CiviliansAreIrrelevant: We're told about the Trade Federation's blockade of Naboo, and that "people are dying", but never see any of it.
* CombatClairvoyance:
** This is the explanation for the Jedi Knights' superior combat skills and ability to [[ParryingBullets block lasers with their lightsabers]] -- they've got the ability to predict the future in a limited way, so they bring their lightsabers into position to parry a shot ''before'' it's actually fired. This is brought up when Qui-Gon Jinn pegs Anakin as a potential Jedi due to his ability to participate in podracing -- a sport that human reflexes simply aren't fast enough to keep up with. Jedi can also look further into the future, but this generally requires a lot more effort and is less reliable.
--->'''Yoda:''' Always in motion, the future is.
** We also see Obi-Wan's horrified reaction to a glimpse into the near-future, a few seconds before [[spoiler:Qui-Gon is killed by Darth Maul]]. He wasn't actively fighting, but he could see where the fight was going. Sadly, he was physically separated from the fighting by a force field and unable to intervene until it as too late.
* CombatAndSupport: The Trade Federation has a number of support droids. After the Droid Army routs the Gungans, they can be seen collecting the pieces of fallen battle droids.
* CityPlanet: Ric Olié describes Coruscant in this fashion. It is a planet-wide city.
* CiviliansAreIrrelevant: We're told about the Trade Federation's blockade of Naboo, and that "people are dying", but never see any of it.
* CombatClairvoyance:
** This is the explanation for the Jedi Knights' superior combat skills and ability to [[ParryingBullets block lasers with their lightsabers]] -- they've got the ability to predict the future in a limited way, so they bring their lightsabers into position to parry a shot ''before'' it's actually fired. This is brought up when Qui-Gon Jinn pegs Anakin as a potential Jedi due to his ability to participate in podracing -- a sport that human reflexes simply aren't fast enough to keep up with. Jedi can also look further into the future, but this generally requires a lot more effort and is less reliable.
--->'''Yoda:''' Always in motion, the future is.
** We also see Obi-Wan's horrified reaction to a glimpse into the near-future, a few seconds before [[spoiler:Qui-Gon is killed by Darth Maul]]. He wasn't actively fighting, but he could see where the fight was going. Sadly, he was physically separated from the fighting by a force field and unable to intervene until it as too late.
* CombatAndSupport: The Trade Federation has a number of support droids. After the Droid Army routs the Gungans, they can be seen collecting the pieces of fallen battle droids.
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* ComingInHot: Anakin accidentally crash-lands in the docking bay of the Droid Control Battleship. During his attempts to take off again and escape, he [[spoiler: [[AccidentalHero accidentally launches a pair of torpedos into something important which causes the entire ship to go up in flames as Anakin narrowly]] [[OutrunTheFireball outruns the destruction he caused.]]]]
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* ComplexityAddiction: Heroic example. Qui-Gon's ridiculously complicated plan to get the hyperdrive replacement needed to repair Amidala's ship from Watto. Watto is apparently the only vendor in Mos Espa who has the part they need, but he won't take Qui-Gon's Republic credits because they're worthless on Tatooine, and Watto is immune to the JediMindTrick. So Qui-Gon hatches an elaborate plan involving tricking Watto into gambling the part in an upcoming Pod Race and then entering Watto's nine-year-old slave Anakin into the race and having him win it for him. Even though the movie makes it pretty clear Qui-Gon's Force powers meant he knew Anakin would win, you'd think there might have been an easier (and less dangerous) way. Like finding someone willing to exchange credits for a local currency, or trading their current ship for a less valuable but functional one. Or just book passage on a transport, or [[Film/ANewHope with a smuggler]] or something. Give them all the money he has now (a trader or a smuggler would have use for Republic credits, unlike a planet-bound merchant like Watto), and promise them a reward from the Jedi council when they arrive at Coruscant. Or seeing if the Republic has something similar to Western Union and asking the Council to wire them money in a form cashable in local currency.
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* ContrastingSequelSetting: The movie introduces the lush Naboo and the mass metropolis of Coruscant, which are colorul, thriving locations that contrast the less lively settings often seen in the original trilogy.
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* CorporateWarfare: The antagonist faction is the corporate army of the Trade Federation, secretly controlled by [[BigBad Darth Sidious]].
* CorridorCubbyholeRun: While fighting Darth Maul, Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon have to navigate a gauntlet of force fields that periodically turn on and off.
* CorridorCubbyholeRun: While fighting Darth Maul, Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon have to navigate a gauntlet of force fields that periodically turn on and off.
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* CowTools: Several implements hanging on the wall of Anakin and his mother's home on Tatooine are actually NERF scoops spraypainted to resemble alien tools of some kind.
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* DarkReprise:
** Inverted at the end of the movie, where the celebration music is a '' childrens' choir'' doing a "light" version of the Emperor's exceptionally dark {{Leitmotif}} (far grimmer than, if not as immediately imposing as, the Imperial March), foreshadowing the coming darkness.
** Anakin's Theme from Episode I repeatedly utilizes six notes from the Imperial March in a soft, light piece.
** Inverted at the end of the movie, where the celebration music is a '' childrens' choir'' doing a "light" version of the Emperor's exceptionally dark {{Leitmotif}} (far grimmer than, if not as immediately imposing as, the Imperial March), foreshadowing the coming darkness.
** Anakin's Theme from Episode I repeatedly utilizes six notes from the Imperial March in a soft, light piece.
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* DeadlyGas: The Jedi are trapped by the Trade Federation in a room being filled with nerve gas. Fortunately, one of the Jedi's powers are to hold their breath for a very long time. They're also shown later in the movie to have been carrying [[ArtificialGill breathing apparatuses]] the entire time.
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* DecapitatedArmy: Happens when the droid control ship is destroyed, causing their droid forces to deactivate on the spot. The Trade Federation [[TaughtByExperience did learn from this one]], as when in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', set ten years later, one of their droid control ships over Geonosis is destroyed by the Republic's new army of clones, [[SoLastSeason nothing happens]]. (The novelization has the droids slaved to that ship deactivate for only a second before onboard processors kick in and they start fighting again.)
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* DestroyTheVillainsWeapon: During the climax of the movie, Obi-Wan Kenobi slices Darth Maul's double-bladed lightsaber in half, leaving him to continue fighting with the half that's still functioning. DownplayedTrope, as Maul is no less dangerous with just a single blade.
* DestructionEqualsOffSwitch: Happens when the destruction of the droid control ship causes the entire army of battle droids to shut off, and even fall apart. Anciliary material explains the droids are built on the cheap and don't even have individual processing units, thus can't properly function without the ship feeding them orders.
* DiagonalCut: When Obi-Wan cuts Darth Maul through the middle with his lightsaber, the Sith falls into a bottomless shaft with his body seemingly intact, and tumbles once or twice before he separates into top and bottom halves on his way down. His all-black clothing probably did something to obscure the wound.
* DestructionEqualsOffSwitch: Happens when the destruction of the droid control ship causes the entire army of battle droids to shut off, and even fall apart. Anciliary material explains the droids are built on the cheap and don't even have individual processing units, thus can't properly function without the ship feeding them orders.
* DiagonalCut: When Obi-Wan cuts Darth Maul through the middle with his lightsaber, the Sith falls into a bottomless shaft with his body seemingly intact, and tumbles once or twice before he separates into top and bottom halves on his way down. His all-black clothing probably did something to obscure the wound.
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* DiscOneFinalBoss: The movie ends with Yoda and Mace Windu wondering whether the Sith that Obi-Wan slew was the BigBad or just a Disc One Final Boss. (The audience, having seen him taking orders from a man he calls "master" earlier in the film, [[ForegoneConclusion knows the answer]]...and those that hadn't probably could've puzzled it out from the "Episode I" aspect.) However, the in-universe possibility they consider is that they had killed the Big Bad, meaning that the former Disc One Final Boss [[DragonAscendant was now the]] ''new'' Big Bad.
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* DisproportionateReward: Jar Jar declares himself the "humble servant" of Qui-Gon for pushing him out of the way of a Trade Federation vehicle. Qui-Gon is less than thrilled.
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* DownerBeginning: The greedy Trade Federation is behind a blockade of Naboo, but as few know, there's a far-more sinister motive in the works.
* DownInTheDumps: Watto's junkyard on Tatooine is pivotal to the plot as it is where Qui-Gon goes to find a replacement part for the disabled starship and this leads him and Padme to meet Anakin, who works there.
* DownInTheDumps: Watto's junkyard on Tatooine is pivotal to the plot as it is where Qui-Gon goes to find a replacement part for the disabled starship and this leads him and Padme to meet Anakin, who works there.
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* DroneDeployer: The Trade Federation's capital ships, seen in this film, are transports and control hubs for legions of droid soldiers, vehicles and starfighters.
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* EarlyPersonalitySigns: There are some eerie hints of what's to come for young Anakin Skywalker in this movie, like his near-total inability to accept being permanently separated from his mother, or impulsively refusing to heed Qui-Gon's commands to stay out of danger.
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* EliteMooks: The destroyer droids (droidekas), which aren't humanoid like the regular mooks but spider-like bots equipped with shields. As proof of their effectiveness, they are the only droids to not only survive an encounter with the Jedi, but send ''them running'' in their first appearance.
* EndingMemorialService: Occurs at the end of the movie [[spoiler:for Qui-Gon Jinn]].
* EnormousEngine: The podracers are little more than a basic cockpit tethered to two or more giant engines.
* EndingMemorialService: Occurs at the end of the movie [[spoiler:for Qui-Gon Jinn]].
* EnormousEngine: The podracers are little more than a basic cockpit tethered to two or more giant engines.
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* ExplosiveLeash: Anakin tells us that explosive implants helped keep the slaves from running away.
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* EyeOnAStalk:
** The movie introduces the podracer Mawhonic, a member of the Gran, a species of stocky goat-like aliens with [[ExtraEyes three eyes]] on stalks arranged in a pyramidal fashion. Several other members of the species have been seen throughout the [[{{Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse}} expanded universe.]]
** Gungans, including Jar Jar Binks, have eyes on short stalks.
** The movie introduces the podracer Mawhonic, a member of the Gran, a species of stocky goat-like aliens with [[ExtraEyes three eyes]] on stalks arranged in a pyramidal fashion. Several other members of the species have been seen throughout the [[{{Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse}} expanded universe.]]
** Gungans, including Jar Jar Binks, have eyes on short stalks.
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* FailedState: {{Downplayed}} with the Galactic Republic in the prequel trilogy. It's still marginally functional, but so comically corrupt and inept that, in this movie, the Senate's response to a private corporation attempting to [[CorporateWarfare extort a member state with a military blockade]] is to scratch their collective butts and idly wonder if maybe that's possibly their problem. The Supreme Chancellor (equivalent to a prime minister) is forced to go behind the Senate's back to get the Jedi Order involved, and then -- due to [[BigBad Sheev "Darth Sidious" Palpatine]] exploiting the Republic's failure to provide basic governance in order to overthrow it altogether -- is fired by the Senate for his trouble.
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* FallingIntoTheCockpit: Anakin Skywalker, ironically in a manner of following Qui-Gon's orders:
--->'''Anakin:''' Qui-Gon told me to [[ExactWords stay in this cockpit]], so that's what I'm gonna do!
--->'''Anakin:''' Qui-Gon told me to [[ExactWords stay in this cockpit]], so that's what I'm gonna do!
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* FictionalHoliday: The film shows that Tatooine has Boonta Eve, which is known for its podraces.
* FictionalPoliticalParty: Before the Clone Wars, the Republic had two factions in the Senate. The Core Faction was liberal, supportive of trade tariffs, and made mostly of humans. The Rim Faction was conservative, anti-tariff, and made up of non-humans. During the election alluded to in this film, Bail Antilles represented the Core Faction, Ainlee Teem represented the Rim Faction, Palpatine was independent, and Valorum was just fighting for his career; every faction had abandoned him.
* FictionalPoliticalParty: Before the Clone Wars, the Republic had two factions in the Senate. The Core Faction was liberal, supportive of trade tariffs, and made mostly of humans. The Rim Faction was conservative, anti-tariff, and made up of non-humans. During the election alluded to in this film, Bail Antilles represented the Core Faction, Ainlee Teem represented the Rim Faction, Palpatine was independent, and Valorum was just fighting for his career; every faction had abandoned him.
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* FieldPromotion: At the end of the film, Obi-Wan Kenobi is promoted from Padawan to Jedi Knight without facing the trials after defeating Darth Maul single-handedly.
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* FinalSpeech: Qui-Gon Jinn pleads with Obi-Wan to train Anakin, no matter what the Jedi Council says, as he is certain Anakin is the prophesied Chosen One will bring balance.
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* FlauntingYourFleets: Happens as the Trade Federation lands on Naboo (combined with droids in a MillionMookMarch).
* FloatingPlatforms: When Queen Amidala's starship arrives on Coruscant, it docks at a floating landing platform -- [[NoOSHACompliance one with no apparent handrails]].
* FloatingPlatforms: When Queen Amidala's starship arrives on Coruscant, it docks at a floating landing platform -- [[NoOSHACompliance one with no apparent handrails]].
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* GasChamber: The film features at the beginning the Nemoidan Trade Federation trying to gas the ambassador Jedi.
* GeoEffects: Darth Maul stands over Obi-Wan, as the latter dangles above a bottomless pit. Maul fails to exploit the terrain, and Obi-Wan leaps over his head and bisects him upon landing.
* GeoEffects: Darth Maul stands over Obi-Wan, as the latter dangles above a bottomless pit. Maul fails to exploit the terrain, and Obi-Wan leaps over his head and bisects him upon landing.
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* GovernmentExploitedCrisis: In the backstory of the film series, after their last defeat, the Sith spent centuries working in secret to manufacture crises and exploit naturally occurring ones to degrade the Galactic Republic. They begin to execute the final stage of the plan in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'': Darth Sidious, publicly Senator Sheev Palpatine of Naboo, gets the Trade Federation to take his home planet hostage to extort the Senate, and has enough other senators and bureaucrats in his pocket to stymie any response. He uses this to manipulate the planetary governor, Queen Amidala of Naboo, into calling a vote of no confidence against Chancellor Valorum and get himself voted in. From here he continues to degrade democracy and the rule of law until he's able to trick the Senate into [[EmergencyAuthority voting him absolute power]]. From there it's only a matter of time before he has an opportunity to declare himself Emperor.
* GracefulInTheirElement: Jar Jar Binks, being an amphibious alien, while a LethalKlutz on land, is a fine swimmer in water.
* GracefulInTheirElement: Jar Jar Binks, being an amphibious alien, while a LethalKlutz on land, is a fine swimmer in water.
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* GutFeeling: When Anakin leaves his mother behind on Tatooine, she tries to convince him that they will meet again. They do, a film later, but only when she's dying.
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* HangingByTheFingers: A young Obi Wan is left hanging over a reactor shaft before using the force to draw Qui-Gonn's lightsaber towards him, somersaulting over Darth Maul then [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe slicing him in half at the waist]], leaving both halves of him to fall down the shaft.
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* HelpImStuck: Jar Jar gets his hand stuck in Anakin's pod racer.
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* HeroicSecondWind: Obi-Wan gets one of these moments in his fight against Darth Maul, coupled with HeroicResolve, after his UnstoppableRage doesn't work too well.
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* HiddenElfVillage: The Gungan city meets all the requirements easily. Hidden apart from the rest of the world (underwater), main character (Jar-Jar) comes from there, and later they return to get the Gungans to fight alongside them in the final battle.
* HollywoodTactics: The Trade Federation lands its mechanized invasion force in the middle of a swamp, at least a day away from the capital of Naboo, Theed. Theed is surrounded by large open fields - in other words, perfect terrain for an army composed mainly of droids and heavy tanks.
* HomemadeInventions: Anakin Skywalker built a functioning humanoid robot with full human-like AI, and what must have been a super-sonic racer, all on a son-of-a-slave's budget before his voice broke.
* HonestJohnsDealership: Watto is similar to the Jawas from ''A New Hope'', except that he stays in one town with a permanent storefront. (A few ExpandedUniverse sources go so far as to say he learned most of the tricks of the Trope from them.)
* HollywoodTactics: The Trade Federation lands its mechanized invasion force in the middle of a swamp, at least a day away from the capital of Naboo, Theed. Theed is surrounded by large open fields - in other words, perfect terrain for an army composed mainly of droids and heavy tanks.
* HomemadeInventions: Anakin Skywalker built a functioning humanoid robot with full human-like AI, and what must have been a super-sonic racer, all on a son-of-a-slave's budget before his voice broke.
* HonestJohnsDealership: Watto is similar to the Jawas from ''A New Hope'', except that he stays in one town with a permanent storefront. (A few ExpandedUniverse sources go so far as to say he learned most of the tricks of the Trope from them.)
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* IconicSequelSong: "Duel of the Fates" is one of the most signature themes from the films, which didn't appear until this film (which is the fourth overall and first prequel).
* IdentityImpersonator: The Queen's handmaidens are chosen in part to act as decoys when the need arises. For portions of the movie, Queen Amidala disguises herself as the simple handmaiden Padmé, while another handmaiden (Sabé) wears the white makeup. (Sabé was one of Creator/KeiraKnightley's first roles, playing off her facial similarity to Creator/NataliePortman.)
* IdentityImpersonator: The Queen's handmaidens are chosen in part to act as decoys when the need arises. For portions of the movie, Queen Amidala disguises herself as the simple handmaiden Padmé, while another handmaiden (Sabé) wears the white makeup. (Sabé was one of Creator/KeiraKnightley's first roles, playing off her facial similarity to Creator/NataliePortman.)
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* ImpededCommunication: The Trade Federation jams the [=HoloNet=] prior to launching a ground invasion of the planet Naboo to prevent them from calling for help or warning anybody that the conflict has escalated. Queen Amidala and her court are in the middle of talking to Senator Palpatine when their connection to his office on Coruscant goes out; royal guard Captain Panaka assumes it's a glitch, but Governor Sio Bibble correctly guesses that the Trade Federation is preparing to attack.
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* ImprobablePilotingSkills: Anakin somehow manages to land the remaining section of a breaking-apart capital ship on a landing strip on Coruscant, not to mention blowing up the Droid Control ship, despite having ''never flown before.''
* ImStandingRightHere: There's a scene where Obi-Wan is trying to dissuade Qui-Gon from training the young Anakin Skywalker, repeating the Jedi Council's premonition that "the boy is dangerous". It's a shame that they're walking ''right past Anakin'' as he's arguing this.
* InevitableTournament: The pod-racing. The prize money is needed to advance the plot, since Republic credits are [[YourMoneyIsNoGoodHere no good on Tatooine]].
* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: Queen Amidala's handmaidens all look identical. This, of course, is intentional, and part of the [[BodyDouble "decoy trick"]], where one of them, Sabé, posed as the Queen while the Queen dressed as one of the handmaidens in her identity as Padmé. (They have similar names too, at least in public; in addition to Sabé, the others were named Eirtaé, Rabé, Saché, Yané, Fé, and Dané); Padmé's name mentioned often make members of the royal court assume that the Queen has ''eight'' handmaidens. This Trope is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in the ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'' comic book ''In Triplicate'' with this exchange:
-->'''Anakin:''' In fact, I'm pretty sure it's... Amidala's decoys Sabé and Eritaé.\\
'''Eirtaé:''' Actually, I'm Eritaé!\\
'''Sabé:''' [[MindScrew And I'm Sabé!]]
* InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: The movie at first feels a lot smaller in scope compared to previous films, which deal with a galaxy spanning conflict against TheEmpire while this film is concerned with an invasion of a single planet. But this film involves the discovery of Anakin Skywalker and his induction into the Jedi Order while also showing a political shift in TheRepublic that allows Senator Palpatine to ascend to become Chancellor of the Galactic Senate, both of which are [[ForegoneConclusion known to fans as being Darth Vader and the Emperor]] of the original trilogy. ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' reveals that the MegaCorp villains of the first film became the financial backer of the Separatist movement, instigating The Clone Wars which was previously a CrypticBackgroundReference.
* InsertGrenadeHere: Jar-Jar Binks does a variation with one of the {{energy ball}}s the Gungans use. As a result of LethalKlutz antics of his, no so much out of battle awareness.
* ImStandingRightHere: There's a scene where Obi-Wan is trying to dissuade Qui-Gon from training the young Anakin Skywalker, repeating the Jedi Council's premonition that "the boy is dangerous". It's a shame that they're walking ''right past Anakin'' as he's arguing this.
* InevitableTournament: The pod-racing. The prize money is needed to advance the plot, since Republic credits are [[YourMoneyIsNoGoodHere no good on Tatooine]].
* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: Queen Amidala's handmaidens all look identical. This, of course, is intentional, and part of the [[BodyDouble "decoy trick"]], where one of them, Sabé, posed as the Queen while the Queen dressed as one of the handmaidens in her identity as Padmé. (They have similar names too, at least in public; in addition to Sabé, the others were named Eirtaé, Rabé, Saché, Yané, Fé, and Dané); Padmé's name mentioned often make members of the royal court assume that the Queen has ''eight'' handmaidens. This Trope is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in the ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'' comic book ''In Triplicate'' with this exchange:
-->'''Anakin:''' In fact, I'm pretty sure it's... Amidala's decoys Sabé and Eritaé.\\
'''Eirtaé:''' Actually, I'm Eritaé!\\
'''Sabé:''' [[MindScrew And I'm Sabé!]]
* InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: The movie at first feels a lot smaller in scope compared to previous films, which deal with a galaxy spanning conflict against TheEmpire while this film is concerned with an invasion of a single planet. But this film involves the discovery of Anakin Skywalker and his induction into the Jedi Order while also showing a political shift in TheRepublic that allows Senator Palpatine to ascend to become Chancellor of the Galactic Senate, both of which are [[ForegoneConclusion known to fans as being Darth Vader and the Emperor]] of the original trilogy. ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' reveals that the MegaCorp villains of the first film became the financial backer of the Separatist movement, instigating The Clone Wars which was previously a CrypticBackgroundReference.
* InsertGrenadeHere: Jar-Jar Binks does a variation with one of the {{energy ball}}s the Gungans use. As a result of LethalKlutz antics of his, no so much out of battle awareness.
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* IntimidationDemonstration: Darth Maul turns towards Obi-Wan after [[spoiler: killing Qui-Gon Jinn]] and swings his lightsaber around to taunt him.
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* InvisibilityCloak: Darth Maul's ship has a cloaking device.
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* ItsASmallWorldAfterAll: Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi arrive in the Naboo capital city at the same time and place that the Queen and her entourage are being moved by their combat droid guards, allowing the two Jedi to rescue them.
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* KneeFoldFallOfDefeat: Qui Gon Jinn falls to his knees after [[spoiler:he is impaled by Darth Maul]].
* KneelBeforeFrodo: Queen Amidala reveals herself and kneels before Boss Nass to ask for his support. Everyone in her party follows suit. Nass being [[BoisterousBruiser who he is]], he first laughs and then agrees to help her.
* KneelBeforeFrodo: Queen Amidala reveals herself and kneels before Boss Nass to ask for his support. Everyone in her party follows suit. Nass being [[BoisterousBruiser who he is]], he first laughs and then agrees to help her.
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* KrakenAndLeviathan: The Naboo ocean seems to be filled with monsters each getting bigger and bigger as you go deeper and considering the fact that the planet is meant to be hollow and full of ocean that gets you some pretty big fish. The biggest -- the Sando Aqua Monsters -- are in a class of their own: their official description puts them at between 160 and 200 meters long, meaning their maximum size is over ''six times'' a blue whale's thirty meters.
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* LastNoteNightmare: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cdi_bKjg1U Anakin's Theme]] is sweet, soft, and innocent except in the last part which [[{{Foreshadowing}} we hear the notes of the Imperial March]]. Punctuated when played over the end credits of ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''; after the final fadeout, the last sound in the movie is [[FromNobodyToNightmare Vader's breathing]].
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* LimitedAdvancementOpportunities: Obi-wan tells his master Qui-gon Jinn that he would already be on the Jedi High Council if he would just stop arguing with them. Qui-Gon doesn't mind since he prefers following his own interpretation of the will of the Force.
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* LogicBomb: Subverted. Qui-Gon attempts to use one on a small battalion of droids. The head droids appears briefly confused, complete with a "DOES NOT COMPUTE", but after a few seconds it manages to break the loop and (again) tries to put them under arrest. Then it's blasters and sabers time.
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* LostHimInACardGame: Anakin and his mother Shmi were slaves whose prior owner, Gardulla the Hutt, lost them betting on podraces to Watto, and Anakin wins his freedom after another podrace. And whether it was Anakin or his mother was decided by a [[CallARabbitASmeerp chance cube]] throw. The Jedi didn't exactly leave it to chance, though. Anakin and his mother were originally owned by a Hutt named Gardulla who won them by ''cheating'' in this game (and Gardulla tended to cheat at sabacc ''a lot''). Watto won them from her by betting on another pod race, and he was known to cheat too; the dice cube he used in that previous example was ''loaded'', according to some sources. (Still, [[EvenEvilHasStandards at least he wasn't as cruel as the Hutts tended to be.]])
* LukeIMightBeYourFather: Shmi Skywalker insists that there was no biological father she knows of, with Creator/GeorgeLucas later stating that [[MysticalPregnancy Anakin was directly conceived by the Force]].
* MagicalGesture: The famous "mind control hand wave" gesture is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] and mocked when Qui-Gon tries it on an alien and it [[NoSell fails to work]]. ("What, you think you're some kind of Jedi, waving your hand around like that?")
* LukeIMightBeYourFather: Shmi Skywalker insists that there was no biological father she knows of, with Creator/GeorgeLucas later stating that [[MysticalPregnancy Anakin was directly conceived by the Force]].
* MagicalGesture: The famous "mind control hand wave" gesture is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] and mocked when Qui-Gon tries it on an alien and it [[NoSell fails to work]]. ("What, you think you're some kind of Jedi, waving your hand around like that?")
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* MalevolentMutilation: [[TheDragon Darth Maul]] has every inch of his skin tattooed in a jagged black and red pattern to present an imposing appearance.
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* MeaningfulFuneral: After being killed by Darth Maul in a lightsaber duel in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', Qui-Gon Jinn is cremated in a funeral ceremony attended by Queen Amidala, Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Chancellor Palpatine, members of the Jedi Council, and various Naboo officials. During the funeral Yoda and Mace Windu discuss the fact there is likely a second Sith Lord active, without realizing that he (Palpatine) only stood a few feet away.
* MechaMooks: This movie marks the debut of the droids, which are thin, tin humanoid robots which aren't particularly strong iindividually, but can become destructive when grouped.
* MechaMooks: This movie marks the debut of the droids, which are thin, tin humanoid robots which aren't particularly strong iindividually, but can become destructive when grouped.
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* MeleeDisarming: Darth Maul kicks Obi-Wan off a walkway, making him drop his lightsaber briefly. Later in their duel Obi-Wan cuts Maul's lightsaber hilt in half, but since the weapon is double-ended it still has one working blade and Maul keeps fighting. Maul also disarms Obi-Wan again by shoving him into a pit and Obi-Wan drops his lightsaber, which Maul then kicks into the pit.
* MenActWomenAre: Inverted. Queen Padmé's planet is under attack so she pleads her people's case to Chancellor Valorum and the Galactic Senate, goes home, and leads the charge to take back her planet while Anakin merely follows and then accidentally saves the Gungans.
* MenActWomenAre: Inverted. Queen Padmé's planet is under attack so she pleads her people's case to Chancellor Valorum and the Galactic Senate, goes home, and leads the charge to take back her planet while Anakin merely follows and then accidentally saves the Gungans.
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* MidairRepair: R2-D2 (with several others, which were all destroyed) fixes Padme Amidala's escape ship midflight while she's trying to run the Naboo blockade.
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* MilitariesAreUseless: When the Trade Federation invades Naboo with their robot army in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', the galactic authorities are completely impotent to stop them until Queen Amidala calls for a Vote of No Confidence in Chanceller Valorum's leadership.
* MillionMookMarch: Where battle droids are marching in formation on the Trade Federation Control Ship shortly after the movie begins, and later as they march into battle outside the city on the planet near the film's climax.
* MissionBriefing: Queen Amidala describes the plan for freeing Naboo while [=R2D2=] displays a hologram outlining the palace raid.
* MillionMookMarch: Where battle droids are marching in formation on the Trade Federation Control Ship shortly after the movie begins, and later as they march into battle outside the city on the planet near the film's climax.
* MissionBriefing: Queen Amidala describes the plan for freeing Naboo while [=R2D2=] displays a hologram outlining the palace raid.
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* MultipleHeadCase: Fode and Beed, the two-headed Troig announcer , though the only clue to the differing personalities is that each head speaks a different language. There are two main languages on Tatooine: Galactic Basic and Huttese. Some people can't understand Basic but do understand Huttese, and vice versa. That particular announcer was chosen because he could easily and fluently speak both at the same time.
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* MysticalPregnancy: Shmi Skywalker says that Anakin has no father and she doesn't remember having ever slept with a man in the right period to have become pregnant by him, which Qui-Gon assumes to mean that he was conceived by the will of the Force.
* NamedInTheSequel: The Emperor went unnamed in the original trilogy. Here his [sur]name is revealed to be Palpatine (the first name is Shev, but that's not revealed within the films proper).
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Sith apprentice is Darth ''Maul''. Guess what he does to his enemies...
* NamedInTheSequel: The Emperor went unnamed in the original trilogy. Here his [sur]name is revealed to be Palpatine (the first name is Shev, but that's not revealed within the films proper).
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Sith apprentice is Darth ''Maul''. Guess what he does to his enemies...
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* NearVillainVictory: Moments before Darth Maul's unlikely demise, Obi-Wan Kenobi was dangling from a wall fixture inside a bottomless pit, with Maul about to make a killing stroke.
* NecessaryDrawback: Qui-Gon Jinn was also a master of Ataru. He met his end when the fight against Darth Maul led him into a confined space which didn't leave much room for maneuverability.
* NestedOwnership: The young slave Anakin Skywalker builds a servant robot ([=C3PO=]) to help his mother.
* NecessaryDrawback: Qui-Gon Jinn was also a master of Ataru. He met his end when the fight against Darth Maul led him into a confined space which didn't leave much room for maneuverability.
* NestedOwnership: The young slave Anakin Skywalker builds a servant robot ([=C3PO=]) to help his mother.
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-->'''Watto''': "What you think you are, some kind of Jedi, waving your hand around like that? I'm a [[SpaceJews Toydarian]]! Mind tricks don't work on me, only money."
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* InterestingSituationDuel: The three-way duel in the power station of the palace on Naboo. The two Jedi chase Darth Maul on the catwalks spanning several levels of the building, get momentarily trapped in a LaserHallway, they are separated before they can resume. Obi-Wan is ForcedToWatch as his master fights Maul alone [[spoiler: and is killed by him, leaving Obi-Wan to fight Maul alone]].
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* AllowedInternalWar: In the {{backstory}} of this film, the Galactic Republic has become so mired in political corruption (not to mention the fact they abolished their regular military after the end of the last Sith Wars, leaving the Judicial Forces to basically bring SpacePolice cars to a {{Battlestar}} fight) that {{megacorp}}orations like the Trade Federation and Intergalactic Banking Clan are able to control vast armies of droids and mercenaries, which they wield in CorporateWarfare against planetary governments that displease them. The plot of the film is set off when [[BigBad Senator Sheev "Darth Sidious" Palpatine]] covertly pushes the Trade Federation to escalate this to using its droid army to extort policy changes from the Republic Senate itself, in order to create a political crisis he can exploit to get himself elected Supreme Chancellor.
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* ReadingsAreOffTheScale: Qui-Gon sends a sample of Anakin's blood for a midichlorian count. Obi-Wan remarks that the readings are off the chart, even higher than Yoda's.
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''Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace'', or simply known as ''The Phantom Menace'', is a 1999 SpaceOpera film, the first film of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' prequel trilogy and the earliest-set canon live-action installment of the ''Star Wars'' canon. It was written and directed by franchise creator Creator/GeorgeLucas, who took the director's chair for the first time since ''Film/ANewHope''. It was released on May 19[[superscript:th]], 1999.
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''Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace'', or simply known as ''The Phantom Menace'', is a 1999 SpaceOpera film, the first film of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' prequel trilogy and the earliest-set canon live-action installment of the ''Star Wars'' canon. It was written and directed by franchise creator Creator/GeorgeLucas, who took the director's chair for the first time since ''Film/ANewHope''. It was released on May 19[[superscript:th]], 1999.
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''Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace'', or simply known as ''The Phantom Menace'', is a 1999 SpaceOpera film and the first film of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' prequel trilogy. It was written and directed by franchise creator Creator/GeorgeLucas, who took the director's chair for the first time since ''Film/ANewHope''. It was released on May 19[[superscript:th]], 1999.
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''Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace'', or simply known as ''The Phantom Menace'', is a 1999 SpaceOpera film and film, the first film of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' prequel trilogy.trilogy and the earliest-set canon live-action installment of the ''Star Wars'' canon. It was written and directed by franchise creator Creator/GeorgeLucas, who took the director's chair for the first time since ''Film/ANewHope''. It was released on May 19[[superscript:th]], 1999.
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* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: The [[https://i0.wp.com/img.screencaps.us/199/4k-swphantom/full/4k-swphantom-starwarsscreencaps.com-9563.jpg?ssl=1 look]] on Padmé's face when she learns that Anakin has never actually finished a podrace, let alone ''won'' one.
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* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: The [[https://i0.wp.com/img.screencaps.us/199/4k-swphantom/full/4k-swphantom-starwarsscreencaps.com-9563.jpg?ssl=1 look]] on Padmé's face when she learns that Anakin has never actually finished won a podrace, let alone ''won'' ''finished'' one.
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* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: The [[http://m.screencaps.us.objects-us-west-1.dream.io/199/9-starwars1/full/starwars1-movie-screencaps.com-6360.jpg look]] on Padmé's face when she learns that Anakin has never actually finished a podrace, let alone ''won'' one.
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* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: The [[http://m.[[https://i0.wp.com/img.screencaps.us.objects-us-west-1.dream.io/199/9-starwars1/full/starwars1-movie-screencaps.com-6360.jpg us/199/4k-swphantom/full/4k-swphantom-starwarsscreencaps.com-9563.jpg?ssl=1 look]] on Padmé's face when she learns that Anakin has never actually finished a podrace, let alone ''won'' one.
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* {{Revision}}: In ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' Obi-Wan instructed Luke to search for Yoda, calling him "The Jedi master who instructed me." This film introduces Qui-Gon Jinn as Obi-Wan's master, which caused some fans to believe it to be a {{retcon}}. But further {{worldbuilding}} of the organization of the Jedi Order indicated that all children were trained at the temple until an older Jedi would take them as a padawan, so there is a distinction between an instructor and the master/apprentice relationship. Later works would mention that given his age nearly all current Jedi consider themselves to be a student to Yoda in some form.
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* {{Revision}}: In ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', Obi-Wan instructed Luke to search for Yoda, calling him "The Jedi master who instructed me." This film introduces Qui-Gon Jinn as Obi-Wan's master, which caused some fans to believe it to be a {{retcon}}. But further {{worldbuilding}} of on the organization of the Jedi Order indicated that all children were trained at the temple until an older Jedi would take them as a padawan, so there is a distinction between an instructor and the master/apprentice relationship. Later works would mention that given his age age, nearly all current Jedi consider themselves to be a student to Yoda in some form.
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** The only time Padmé actually appears as Queen on Naboo before TheReveal is during her meeting with Senator Palpatine (and a single scene after when she is watching the invasion), her plea before the Galactic Senate, and when Anakin asks her to say goodbye to Padmé for him when he thinks they'll never see each other again. If you carefully watch these scenes again, it's pretty clear the Queen's face is Creator/NataliePortman, not Creator/KeiraKnightley (her BodyDouble's actress). You can also tell something is up when the Queen is in red and gold when the Federation invades, but has changed completely different dark blue costume shortly after when the Federation captures her. The double is also taking cues from Padmé about what to do next; when she mentions the journey to Coruscant will be dangerous, she specifically addresses her 'handmaiden', and Padmé's reply "We are brave, your highness" gives her the go-ahead to agree to accompany the Jedi.
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** The only time Padmé actually appears as Queen on Naboo before TheReveal is during her meeting with Senator Palpatine (and a single scene after when she is watching the invasion), her plea before the Galactic Senate, and when Anakin asks her to say goodbye to Padmé for him when he thinks they'll never see each other again. If you carefully watch these scenes again, it's pretty clear the Queen's face is Creator/NataliePortman, not Creator/KeiraKnightley (her BodyDouble's actress). You can also tell something is up when the Queen is in red and gold when the Federation invades, but has changed completely different dark blue costume shortly after when the Federation captures her. The double is also taking cues from Padmé about what to do next; when she mentions the journey to Coruscant will be dangerous, she specifically addresses her 'handmaiden', "handmaiden", and Padmé's reply reply, "We are brave, your highness" highness," gives her the go-ahead to agree to accompany the Jedi.
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* {{Retcon}}: In the original ''Star Wars'' movies, Obi-Wan said that Yoda was his Jedi master. This movie, however, gives him a different, previously unmentioned master in Qui-Gon.
** Although in later films we do see Yoda teaching a class of young Jedi, so it's not inconceivable that Obi-Wan was Yoda's pupil before Qui-Gon took him as apprentice. And, as the Really700YearsOld most powerful Jedi around, Yoda could be said to be ''every'' Jedi's Master.
** Although in later films we do see Yoda teaching a class of young Jedi, so it's not inconceivable that Obi-Wan was Yoda's pupil before Qui-Gon took him as apprentice. And, as the Really700YearsOld most powerful Jedi around, Yoda could be said to be ''every'' Jedi's Master.
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* {{Retcon}}: {{Revision}}: In the original ''Star Wars'' movies, ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' Obi-Wan said that Yoda was his instructed Luke to search for Yoda, calling him "The Jedi master. This movie, however, gives him a different, previously unmentioned master in Qui-Gon.
** Although in later films we do see Yoda teaching a class of young Jedi, so it's not inconceivable that Obi-Wan was Yoda's pupil beforewho instructed me." This film introduces Qui-Gon took him Jinn as apprentice. And, as the Really700YearsOld most powerful Jedi around, Yoda could be said Obi-Wan's master, which caused some fans to believe it to be ''every'' Jedi's Master.a {{retcon}}. But further {{worldbuilding}} of the organization of the Jedi Order indicated that all children were trained at the temple until an older Jedi would take them as a padawan, so there is a distinction between an instructor and the master/apprentice relationship. Later works would mention that given his age nearly all current Jedi consider themselves to be a student to Yoda in some form.
** Although in later films we do see Yoda teaching a class of young Jedi, so it's not inconceivable that Obi-Wan was Yoda's pupil before
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* USedFuture: Averted on Naboo and Coruscant, showing that this is a different era, the era of the Galactic Republic. Obi-Wan's and Qui-Gon's are also immaculate in this film, quite unlike Obi-Wan's and Yoda's threadbare and tatty robes, showing the Jedi at the height of their power. However, the trope is played straight on Tatooine, representing the darkness eating at the Republic.
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* ThermalDissident: Anakin makes it known he feels rather cold while leaving Tatooine on the spaceship, even using a blanket. Padme tells him it is because he is used to living on the desert planet.
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* FaintInShock: After the Gungans agree to join the fight against the Federation droids invading Naboo, Boss Nass announces to Jar Jar Binks that he's going to make him a general and he'll lead the assault. Jar Jar promptly swoons and faints in shock.
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* AdvertisedExtra: A costume example rather than a character, but Queen Amidala's iconic red gown and gold hair piece, that were slathered all over the marketing, only appear in three brief scenes at the beginning before vanishing from the film altogether.
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** A costume example rather than a character, but Queen Amidala's iconic red gown and gold hair piece, that were slathered all over the marketing, only appear in three brief scenes at the beginning before vanishing from the filmaltogether.altogether.
** Darth Maul, whose only scene of significance is his duel with the Jedi at the end. He has only three lines and only briefly appears up to that point. Nonetheless, he was featured all over the film's advertising campaign.
** A costume example rather than a character, but Queen Amidala's iconic red gown and gold hair piece, that were slathered all over the marketing, only appear in three brief scenes at the beginning before vanishing from the film
** Darth Maul, whose only scene of significance is his duel with the Jedi at the end. He has only three lines and only briefly appears up to that point. Nonetheless, he was featured all over the film's advertising campaign.
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* WhamShot: A downplayed variation with Sidious and Maul's sole scene together on Coruscant. Every other shot of Sidious throughout the film is him as a hologram. So, it definitively confirms that the eponymous 'phantom menace' is indeed flesh and blood. Lucas even acknowledges this was his intent here on the DVD Commentary.
* WorthlessCurrency: While on Tatooine, Qui-Gonn tries to buy the parts he needs from Watto with Republic credits. Because Tatooine is outside of the Republic and moreover in the ass-end of space, Watto tells him to get him some real money.
* WorthlessCurrency: While on Tatooine, Qui-Gonn tries to buy the parts he needs from Watto with Republic credits. Because Tatooine is outside of the Republic and moreover in the ass-end of space, Watto tells him to get him some real money.
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* WorthlessCurrency: While on Tatooine,Qui-Gonn Qui-Gon tries to buy the parts he needs from Watto with Republic credits. Because Tatooine is outside of the Republic and moreover in the ass-end of space, Watto tells him to get him some real money.
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* AndStarring: The main cast roll here ends with "and Creator/FrankOz as Yoda".
