History Recap / StarWarsTheCloneWarsS7E11Shattered

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Downplayed, but an Inversion with Obi-Wan being unable to reinforce Ahsoka during the Siege of Mandalore. While it's not explicitly pointed out, this arguably and ironically is part of what saves Ahsoka here and in the final episode. Thanks to the Siege, her complement of Clone Troopers are all depleted, injured and tired. Had Obi-Wan been able to reinforce her with more Troopers, Ahsoka would've been overwhelmed by superior numbers and lwould have died here and instantly.

* FacelessGoons: Once Order 66 goes down, all the clone troopers wear their helmets full time to create a dehumanizing effect. The sole exception is Captain Rex, whose face serves to represent the inner turmoil with the chip in his head.

-->'''Rex:''' Find him... find him... Fives... FIND HIM! ''FIVES!''

*** And the for the cherry on this Dark Side sundae? The Force Unleashed ''was originally set to feature Darth Maul as its protagonist.''

-->'''Rex:''' We clones have mixed feelings about the war. Some wish it had never happened, but without it, we clones wouldn't even exist.\\

* ForWantOfANail: Fives becomes one in spite of his death. His investigation in the inhibitor chips and letting Rex know about it before being killed helps give Rex suspicion of it. It ultimately allows him to resist the chip's influence as best as he can and tell Ahsoka to look into Fives before it takes complete control over him. If it weren't for Fives, Ahsoka could've been done for.

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Maul makes effective use of bulkheads to decapitate and partition clone troopers.

Ahsoka and Rex eventually depart from Mandalore with Maul in tow and head to Courscant. As they travel, Ahsoka notes that despite the Jedi being taught to be peacekeepers and not soldiers, Ahsoka's been a soldier her entire life as a Padawan. Rex similarly notes that while many people wish the war never happened, he and all the other clones wouldn't have existed in the first place without it.

* HalfTheManIUsedToBe: Maul makes effective use of bulkheads to decapitate and partition clone troopers.

* EndOfSeriesAwareness: On the bridge, Ahsoka and Rex reflect on their roles in the war.

* GodzillaThreshold: Trapped on the ship, outnumbered, and relentlessly pursued by her former comrades, Ahsoka resorts to freeing Maul out of his specialized cell to serve as a chaotic diversion, knowing full well that unpredictable Sith will likely murder any clone that stands in his way to freedom.

* FightingFromTheInside: Rex momentarily resists his control chip, long enough to tell Ahsoka about Fives.

** The Jedi Council in their meeting notes that Grievous is eventually going to be killed. Although, there is no mention made of his death, he is obviously dead by the time Ahsoka and Maul are hearing about it, with Windu's duel with Palpatine occurring almost immediately after he hears Kenobi's report.
** Played with when it comes to Mace Windu. He appears early on in the episode and Ahsoka and Maul both sense his death at the hands of Palpatine. But while they hear it, it does still technically happen off-screen. This also extends to Saesee Tiin, Kit Fisto, and Agen Kolar.

** Before everything goes down, Rex notes that clones have mixed feelings about the Clone Wars, because without it, the galaxy would be a more safer and peaceful place, but clones wouldn't exist because they've only ever existed to fight and die in it. And as our heroes will soon learn, [[ThePurge there's another]] [[KillEmAll horrific reason why]] [[HeroKiller they exist]].

* KillThemAll: Order 66 once again, but this time it goes further to show that the Clones were programmed to kill ''any'' force-sensitive, as seen with Ahsoka and Maul.

-->'''Rex:''' Under this directive, any and all Jedi leadership must be executed for treason against the Republic. Any soldier that does not comply with the order will also be executed for treason. Understood?

* CerebusRetcon: In ''Rebels'', Rex claimed not to have betrayed "his Jedi" and that he, Wolffe, and Gregor all removed their control chips. In this episode, Rex's statement [[MetaphoricallyTrue is true in a broad sense]]. He didn't personally remove his chip before Order 66 was enacted, but did whatever he could to resist it before taking over and being forced to kill Ahsoka. Ahsoka is ultimately the one that removes the chip from his head. Or, if he was speaking in a more literal sense, Rex either a) never betrayed and tried to kill Anakin, the Jedi he worked with the most during the war, or b) Ahsoka was not a Jedi when he was forced to betray her.

* AsYouKnow: For viewers unfamiliar with ''Revenge of the Sith'' or need a catch-up, Rex describes the mission parameters of Order 66 to the other clones after Ahsoka escapes from the bridge.

** The entire first half of the episode is built around this, since the audience knows that Order 66 will soon be enacted.

* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Saul is kept in a very heavily fortified crate, designed by the Mandalorians back when they were opponents of the Jedi. Satine had outlawed them; Maul's is the last one.