History StarWarsTheCloneWarsSeasonOneToSeasonSix / TropesAToF

* CallBack: As a result of ''The Clone Wars''[='=] placement in the franchise and its internal history, it's far more common to see a CallForward (see below). However, there ''are'' a few Call-Backs to not only ''The Phantom Menace'' and ''Attack of the Clones'' but also to earlier parts of ''The Clone Wars'' itself. An excellent example is in "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS5E16TheLawless The Lawless]]" when Obi-Wan has to travel to Mandalore incognito in order to rescue Satine and disguises himself using the clothes taken from Rako Hardeen while impersonating him in the previous season.

* DemotedToExtra: General Grievous started the series as a major character, being the main antagonist of seven episodes in the first half of season one (often in successive story arcs). From "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E10LairOfGrievous Lair of Grievous]]" onward, Grievous would be a major antagonist once or twice a season at most, when he wasn't acting as a {{Dragon}} or [[CoDragons co-dragon]], before disappearing entirely aside from some non-speaking cameos in the opening newsreels in the final two seasons.

** This trope is present in the first two-and-a-half seasons because it was easier to animate Jedi wearing armor over their robes. This has led to situations like an alien medicine woman applying a poultice to an injured Anakin Skywalker over his armor.

** This trope is present in the first two-and-a-half seasons because it was easier to animate Jedi wearing armor over their robes. This has led to situations like the entire Jedi Council in session wearing their armor for some reason.

* CloningBlues:
** In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E16TheHiddenEnemy The Hidden Enemy]]", the question of a problem during the cloning procedure is raised in order to help explain the actions of a rogue clone trooper.
** The blues are revealed to be an expanding issue during the third season. With Jango dead, the Kaminoan doctors do not have fresh genetic stock, so Jango's stored template has been used more than intended. While they seem to be pretty good at keeping problems to a minimum, there are defective clones.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: "Downfall of a Droid" and "Duel of the Droids" were the first set of episodes produced after the pilot movie (despite airing as sixth and seventh episodes). As a result, those episodes contain several unusual elements that are not present in the rest of the series. Aside from the noticeable lack of polish in the animation, the music has several techno and electronica tracks that are wildly out of place in ''Star Wars''. Rex is very stiff and has little personality. Rex calls Ahsoka by her first name even though as a Jedi Padawan she is a superior officer; he would address her as "commander" for the rest of the series. Ahsoka herself is at her snippiest in these episodes, referring to almost every central character by a nickname. She also mostly sides with Obi-Wan regarding R2's expendability, which is strange considering that later episodes would show she has as much affection for the astromech as Anakin does.

* AbortedArc: An extremely odd case with the Zillo Beast. At the end of "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E19TheZilloBeastStrikesBack The Zillo Beast Strikes Back]]", Palpatine gives new orders to Dr. Boll: clone the Zillo Beast. This episode was aired on April 16, 2010, when ''Clone Wars'' was a Cartoon Network property. This plot point never comes up again during the rest of the show, before Disney bought the ''Star Wars'' rights. The Zillo Beast isn't mentionned neither in Disney's Season 7, by 2020. However, its narrative arc suddenly returns in another show, the season 2 of ''The Bad Batch'', in the episode "[[Recap/StarWarsTheBadBatchS2E11Metamorphosis Metamorphosis]]", released on March 1, 2023, with the appearance of one of the clones of the Zillo Beast, 13 years after the last canonical appearance of the Beast.

** Lola Sayu's sky has a deep violet color and it's primary light sources seem to be the giant, sulfuric, yellow-colored lava oceans on it's surface, giving it a bottom lighting. Further more, it's [[AsteroidThicket planetary ring]] is visible from the surface.

** The Onderon arc bears several similarities to the Soviet-Afghan War. Both involve a larger power (the Separtists/the Soviet Union) sending its military to support a local puppet government (King Sanjay Rash/the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan). A local militia fighting them (the Onderon Rebels/the Mujahideen) is supported by another greater power who cannot directly intervene (the Republic/the United States) but sends special forces to train the rebels and smuggles anti-air launchers to combat the enemy's air superiority (droid gunships/Soviet helicopters). The invading power is never outright defeated by the rebels, but eventually decides that the war is not worth their trouble, so they withdraw their forces and the rebels quickly defeat the puppet government. Later, one of the leaders of the rebels (Saw Gerrera/Osama bin Laden) ends up fighting against the power that previously assisted him (the Empire/the United States) and is widely regarded as an extremist terrorist.

* EvilDetectingDog: WordOfGod says that the Zillo Beast knew Palpatine was evil and set out to hunt him down when it escaped the lab, though its unclear whether or not he was serious.

* ForceFieldDoor: They show up sometimes, though not as often as one would expect. Probably the most notable instance of this being used occurrs in "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E18TheCitadel The Citadel]]", when the entry point the Jedi wanted to use to infiltrate the titular prison has been blocked by a ray shield.

* AbortedArc: An extremely odd case with the Zillo Beast. At the end of "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E19TheZilloBeastStrikesBack The Zillo Beast Strikes Back]]", Palpatine gives new orders to Dr. Boll: clone the Zillo Beast. This episode was aired for the first aired on April 16, 2010, when ''Clone Wars'' was a Cartoon Network property. This plot point never comes up again during the rest of the show, before Disney bought the ''Star Wars'' rights. The Zillo Beast isn't mentionned neither in Disney's Season 7, by 2020. However, his narrative arc suddenly returns in another show, the season 2 of ''The Bad Batch'', in the episode "[[Recap/StarWarsTheBadBatchS2E11Metamorphosis Metamorphosis]]", released on March 1, 2023, with the appearance of one of the clones of the Zillo Beast, 13 years after the last canonical appearance of the Beast.

* AbortedArc: At the end of "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E19TheZilloBeastStrikesBack The Zillo Beast Strikes Back]]", Palpatine gives new orders to Dr. Boll: [[spoiler:clone the Zillo Beast]]. This plot point never comes up again.

* BroughtDownToNormal: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E22HostageCrisis Hostage Crisis]]"; Anakin, while not removed of his Force abilities, finds himself trying to offset a HostageSituation without his lightsaber. He is capable of superhuman feats on his own, but things are much more difficult for him without his WeaponOfChoice.

** As a result being confined to the new Disney-era canon system, ''The Clone Wars'' is a full and equal part of the ''Star Wars'' canon. However, since it was made under the previous regime, this comes up occasionally in regards to ''Legends'' material.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E12TheMandalorePlot The Mandalore Plot]]", Pre Vizsla is a political terrorist bent on rebuilding the Mandalorian warrior culture. By the time of the fourth season, he has become a psychotic madman who burns down villages for fun after his time in exile.