History Recap / AhsokaS1E5Chapter5ShadowWarrior

* AChildShallLeadThem: Jacen starts to exhibit his father's powers with the Force, sensing Ahsoka's training in the World Between Worlds. His mother and Carsen both accept this and follow his lead in recovering Ahsoka.

'''Anakin:''' Incorrect.

** When Ahsoka senses Sabine through the broken map, the Force Echo chime from ''VideoGame/StarWarsJediFallenOrder'' can be heard.

* FriendToAllLivingThings: Ahsoka and Hera trust their fate to the Purrgil to get them to the other galaxy and find Ezra/Thrawn.

** For that matter, Anakin's willingness to appear both as himself and as Vader within the Force has been seen before in ''Legends'', during an apparition to his descendant Cade Skywalker in ''ComicBook/StarWarsLegacy''. Likewise, he appeared to be trying to teach Cade a valuable lesson by evoking his harsher persona as Vader, but with less success then he does here.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Hera basically went AWOL when she took Carson's squadron with her to Seatos, an unauthorized action using official New Republic military and hardware. As a result, the Senate Committee who denied her the use of the fleet decided to send the fleet instead to bring Hera to Coruscant so she could face an inquiry where she could face permanent suspension. Mon Mothma even stresses that without any hard evidence, such as Morgan Elsbeth back in custody or any trace of Imperial Remnant activity, or Ahsoka testifying on her behalf, Hera stands next-to-no chance of coming out on top against the inquiry.

** We see Ahsoka's old costumes from the ''Clone Wars'' cartoons. Her outfits and her head-dresses show up.

* TemptingFate: After getting the better of Anakin in their initial duel, Ahsoka smugly remarks that Anakin doesn't have much left to teach her. He responds by shattering the floor beneath her, sending Ahsoka into her first flashback vision.

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: When Ahsoka laments that her legacy seems to be nothing but war and violence, Anakin tries to reassure her that she is more than that, just as he is (a sign that, in death, he has at least partly forgiven himself for what he did as Vader). Ahsoka responds with a reminder that Anakin was far more dangerous than she or anyone realized, and it's only after a duel with Anakin-as-Vader that Ahsoka accepts her master's wisdom and chooses to live, internalizing that she is defined by more than just the Clone Wars.

* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: Sabine's helmet is just visible as an object in the Nightsister Temple at the end of the episode. It finally gets significant focus after Ahsoka uses the Macgufffin to sense where Sabine has gone.

* SpaceWhale: The Purgill appear in great numbers, and after Ahsoka is rescued by Hera and the Republic pilots, Ahsoka and Huyang travel into hyperspace inside the mouth of a gigantic Purgill seeking Ezra, Sabine, and Thrawn.
** They're not just space whales, they're ''baleen'' space whales.

* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: Sabine's helmet is just visible as an object in the Nightsister Temple at the end of the episode.

* SwallowedWhole: Ahsoka locates a purgill large enough to comfortably fit her ship in its mouth, then convinces it to give them a lift, to which it obliges.

* WarriorTherapist: Anakin is this to Ahsoka, confronting her with her paralyzing grief and guilt which is preventing her from fully connecting with those she loves, and with the Force itself. Now fully trained, she can't quit the fight, the consequences for her and for the galaxy at large would be catastrophic. But she doesn't have to be defined by war and violence, she is more than that. By casting her back into violent battles in the Clone Wars, and striking at her as Vader, he forces her to find her power and balance and reconnect to the Force. When she returns from her apparent [[ToHellAndBack trip]] through the [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS4E11AWorldBetweenWorlds World Between Worlds]], out of the water, she is serene and smiling. Ahsoka robes herself in white rather than dark grey and trusts the [[SpaceWhale Purgill]], and implicitly, the Force, to take her and Huyang where they need to go.

* SwordPlant: Anakin slashes at the walkway beneath Ahsoka's feet, shattering it and causing her to fall into a flashback, her first mission in the Clone Wars.

* WarIsHell: Ahsoka and Anakin make it plain just how awful the Clone Wars were for them.

* SwallowedWhole: Ahsoka locates a purgill large enough to comfortably fit her ship in its mouth, then convinces it to give them a lift, to which it obliges.
* SwordPlant: Anakin slashes at the walkway beneath Ahsoka's feet, shattering it and causing her to fall into a flashback, her first mission in the Clone Wars.

* WarriorTherapist: Anakin is this to Ahsoka, confronting her with her paralyzing grief and guilt which is preventing her from fully connecting with those she loves, and with the Force itself. Now fully trained, she can't quit the fight, the consequences for her and for the galaxy at large would be catastrophic. But she doesn't have to be defined by war and violence, she is more than that. By casting her back into violent battles in the Clone Wars, and striking at her as Vader, he forces her to find her power and balance and reconnect to the force. When she returns from her apparent [[ToHellAndBack trip]] through the [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS4E11AWorldBetweenWorlds World Between Worlds]], out of the water, she is serene and smiling. Ahsoka robes herself in white rather than dark grey and trusts the [[SpaceWhale Purgill]], and implicitly, the Force, to take her and Huyang where they need to go.

* WarriorTherapist: Anakin is this to Ahsoka, confronting her with her paralyzing grief and guilt which is preventing her from fully connecting with those she loves, and with the Force itself. Now fully trained, she can't quit the fight, the consequences for her and for the galaxy at large would be catastrophic. But she doesn't have to be defined by war and violence, she is more than that. By casting her back into violent battles in the clone wars, and striking at her as Vader, he forces her to find her power and balance and reconnect to the force. When she returns from her apparent [[ToHellAndBack trip]] through the [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS4E11AWorldBetweenWorlds World Between Worlds]], out of the water, she is serene and smiling. Ahsoka robes herself in white rather than dark grey and trusts the [[SpaceWhale Purgill]], and implicitly, the Force, to take her and Huyang where they need to go.

* WarriorTherapist: Anakin is this to Ahsoka, confronting her with her paralyzing grief and guilt which is preventing her from fully connecting with those she loves, and with the Force itself. Now fully trained, she can't quit the fight, the consequences for her and for the galaxy at large would be catastrophic. But she doesn't have to be defined by war and violence, she is more than that. By casting her back into violent battles in the clone wars, and striking at her as Vader, he forces her to find her power and balance and reconnect to the force. When she returns from her apparent [[ToHellAndBack trip]] through the [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS4E11AWorldBetweenWorlds World Between Worlds]], out of the water, she is serene and smiling. Ahsoka robes herself in white rather than dark grey and trusts the Purgill, and implicitly, the Force, to take her and Huyang where they need to go.

* WarriorTherapist: Anakin is this to Ahsoka, confronting her with her paralyzing grief and guilt which is preventing her from connecting with those she loves, and with the Force itself. Now fully trained, she can't quit the fight, the consequences for her and for the galaxy at large would be catastrophic. But she doesn't have to be defined by war and violence, she is more than that. By casting her back into violent battles in the clone wars, and striking at her as Vader, he forces her to find her power and balance and reconnect to the force. When she returns from her apparent [[ToHellAndBack trip]] through the [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS4E11AWorldBetweenWorlds World Between Worlds]], out of the water, she is serene and smiling. Ahsoka robes herself in white rather than dark grey and trusts the Purgill, and implicitly, the Force, to take her and Huyang where they need to go.

* WarriorTherapist: Anakin is this to Ahsoka, confronting her with her paralyzing grief and guilt which is preventing her from connecting with those she loves, and with the Force itself. Now fully trained, she can't quit the fight, the consequences for her and for the galaxy at large would be catastrophic. But she doesn't have to be defined by war and violence, she is more than that. By casting her back into violent battles in the clone wars, and striking at her as Vader, he forces her to find her power and balance and reconnect to the force. When she returns from her apparent [[ToHellAndBack trip]] through the [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS4E11AWorldBetweenWorlds World Between Worlds]], out of the water and her she is serene and smiling. Ahsoka robes herself in white rather than dark grey and trusts the Purgill, and implicitly, the Force, to take her and Huyang where they need to go.

* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: During Ahsoka's visions of the Clone Wars, she sees Anakin leading Republic Clones into battle flickering into Darth Vader leading Imperial Stormtroopers in the same pose. The visual similarity of the shoulder guards of Anakin's Clone Wars armor to that of Vader's armor is thus easily juxtaposed. This visually summarizes not only her traumas with Anakin and her being a ChildSoldier, but was the central thesis of ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' to the very end.

** Ahsoka says to Anakin that she won't fight him, which the latter noted that is something he's heard before, referring both to his final duel against Luke in ''Return of the Jedi'' as well as his previous confrontation with Ahsoka in the ''Rebels'' episode "Twilight of the Apprentice, Part II".

* DeadHatShot: While she isn't dead, there is plenty of focus put on Sabine's helmet to everyone’s growing concern of being unable to find her.

* DramaticIrony: Hera asks Huyang what Ahsoka's master (Anakin) was like, presumably not realizing that she and the rest of the ''Ghost'' crew [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsTheSiegeOfLothal encountered him during the Rebllion era]]. Huyang, who is seemingly aware of the full story, diplomatically refers to him as "intense".

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Going to help Ahsoka but having no evidence to show for the Imperial Remnant or Thrawn’s return convinces the Senate committee to consider firing Hera from her rank as general.

* ShoutOut: Ahsoka's initial confidence after hitting Anakin was undercut by Anakin slashing the ground between them, throwing Ahsoka down into her first flashback to the Clone Wars. A similar maneuver was used by Creator/LiamNeeson (Qui-Gon Jinn) as Henri Ducard/Ra's al Ghul as he was training Bruce Wayne in ''Film/BatmanBegins''--cracking the frozen water they were fighting in just as Bruce has seemingly cornered him.

* SwordPlant: Anakin slashes at the walkway beneath Ahsoka's feet, shattering it and causing her to fall into her a flashback, her first mission in the Clone Wars.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes:

* VaderBreath: Heard throughout several points as Anakin's appearance flashes to that of Vader's.