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* AllOfThem: Grievous orders "everything we have" launched against Anakin Skywalker, re-iterating the first part when a battle droid points out the overkill of sending all their fighters against one that can't escape them.
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* IronicEcho: General Grievous


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* ShoutOut: Grevious angrily shouts "[[Film/TheProfessional Everything!]]" to a Battle Droid lackey when ordering it to send Vulture Droids against Anakin. [[note]]Since Gary Oldman was originally going to play Grevious before Matthew Wood got the part, it's likely a tribute.[[/note]]
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* OffModel: During the briefing at the beginning, when Anakin plays a hologram of an AT-TE, Rex's [[ManInAKilt kama]] is missing. It happens again when it's revealed he's with the [=AT-TEs=] on the asteroids.
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It's not that strange, even for an otherwise nice guy like Obi-Wan.


* InnocentlyInsensitive: ''Very'' oddly for a Jedi, Obi-Wan fails to realize how important R2 is to Anakin and says, "Well, astromech droids are a dime a dozen".

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* InnocentlyInsensitive: ''Very'' oddly Oddly for a Jedi, Obi-Wan fails to realize how important R2 is to Anakin and says, "Well, astromech droids are a dime a dozen".
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* RightForTheWrongReason: Anakin spends the episode hating R2's replacement, but he hates it because it's trying to replace R2, not because, well, it's a Separatist spy trying to kill him.

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* RightForTheWrongReason: RightForTheWrongReasons: Anakin spends the episode hating R2's replacement, but he hates it because it's trying to replace R2, not because, well, it's a Separatist spy trying to kill him.
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: ''Very'' oddly for a Jedi, Obi-Wan fails to realize how important R2 is to Anakin and says, "Well, astromech droids are a dime a dozen".


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* RightForTheWrongReason: Anakin spends the episode hating R2's replacement, but he hates it because it's trying to replace R2, not because, well, it's a Separatist spy trying to kill him.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: At one point during R3 and Anakin's shenanigans in space, Anakin complains that the astromech droid is trying to kill him. As the next episode shows, he's entirely right.



* TheMillstone: R3 nearly gets Anakin killed repeatedly, to Anakin's considerable annoyance.

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* TheMillstone: R3 nearly gets Anakin killed repeatedly, to Anakin's considerable annoyance. Though considering that it's later revealed that R3 was actually a spy for General Grievous, it retroactively reveals this to be a case of ObfuscatingStupidity.

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