History Recap / StarWarsTheCloneWarsS7E10ThePhantomApprentice

* DespairEventHorizon: Maul long since crossed it. He can barely hope for the possibility of derailing ''part'' of Sidioius's plans by killing Anakin and depriving him of his new apprentice. He doesn't think he can prevent Sidious from getting nearly everything he wants.

** Maul's vision and how he and Ahsoka react to it is one to Luke's vision that lead to his attempted murder of Ben Solo. Like Luke, Maul tries to kill the people at the center of the vision before they fall to the Dark Side and become an invaluable asset to the Dark Lord; unlike Luke, Ahsoka rejects the vision (and thus Maul's offer) wholesale because she's adamant that at least one aspect of it cannot come to pass.

With Dooku dead, Ahsoka requests for help to capture Maul and learn more about Sidious through him, but Obi-Wan has his hands full with hunting Grievous on Utapau, and Anakin has been ordered by the Jedi Council to spy on the Chancellor. Obi-Wan asks if Ahsoka can speak to her former master, but they're cut short by an attack on the lower levels.

* {{Retcon}}: In the ''[[Literature/StarWarsAhsoka Ahsoka]]'' novel, Ahsoka and Maul trash-talking each other about how the former isn't a real Jedi and the latter is only a "[[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe half]] a Sith"and Maul gets trapped by ray-shields. In this episode, Ahsoka and Maul never trash-talk each other and Maul is instead captured when he is knocked off of a beam by Ahsoka and stunned by Rex. There is also the fact that Ahsoka in this episode fights Maul with blue lightsabers instead of green like in the novel.

* WorfHadTheFlu: It's implied that Maul is under a great deal of stress and it's factoring into why he is going even with Ahsoka in a fight when he impressively clashed blades with [[WorldsStrongestMan Sidious]] a while ago. Ahsoka notes with the kind of performance he's showing, he would have absolutely no chance of besting Anakin.

* LowerDeckEpisode: To the end the first-third of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', taking place sometime in-between the Battle of Coruscant and the Battle of Utapau. Obi-Wan's appearance in the episode indicates it occurs sometime after Anakin is given a seat on the Jedi Council, but before Obi-Wan leaves his ''Venator'' to hunt for General Grievous on Utapau itself.

* JoinOrDie: Maul makes this offer to Ahsoka after cornering her in the rafters of the dome. She refuses, then manages to get the upper hand, allowing the clones to capture and stun him.

** Maul's vision and how he and Ahsoka react to is one to Luke's vision that lead to his attempted murder of Ben Solo. Like Luke, Maul tries to kill the people at the center of the vision before they fall to the Dark Side and become an invaluable asset to the Dark Lord; unlike Luke, Ahsoka rejects the vision (and thus Maul's offer) wholesale because she's adamant that at least one aspect of it cannot come to pass.

** When Maul ignites his lightsaber in the throne room, Palpatine's scream from when the Jedi confront him in his office can be heard. [[https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/g7bc09/i_cut_together_maul_and_ahsokas_fight_side_by/ The episode and film can be synced together at this point]] to a disturbing effect, most notably in that Maul raves about how everyone is going to die as Anakin is christened Darth Vader and Ahsoka looks up at the sky as Anakin accepts his turns into the dark side, as if sensing something was going wrong. However, the next episode establishes that these scenes do not take place at the same time, so it would appear Maul and Ahsoka's confrontation was something of an echo of things to come. Windu is still alive and talking with other members of the Council the next morning (and next episode), just before Kenobi goes to confront Grievous on Utapau, and Anakin has been sent to give the news to Palpatine, so the syncing of the fights, quite likely deliberate, isn't intended to state that they're occurring at the same time.

** When Maul ignites his lightsaber in the throne room, Palpatine's scream from when the Jedi confront him in his office can be heard. [[https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/g7bc09/i_cut_together_maul_and_ahsokas_fight_side_by/ The episode and film can be synced together at this point]] to a disturbing effect, most notably in that Maul raves about how everyone is going to die as Anakin is christened Darth Vader and Ahsoka looks up at the sky as Anakin accepts his turns into the dark side, as if sensing something was going wrong. However, the next episode establishes that these scenes do not take place at the same time, so it would appear Maul and Ahsoka's confrontation was something of an echo of things to come.

* HollywoodTactics: This series does this a lot, but this episode provides a particularly stunning example of soldiers armed with laser rifles storming en masse across an open field against other soldiers also armed with laser rifles also running en masse across the same open field (in the opposite direction) in a manner befitting the bloodiest losses of the goddamn Civil War (the last time that armies met in that fashion).

* CuffsOffRubWrists: Jessie, when Maul returns him to Ahsoka and the clones.