History YMMV / StarWarsTheClonewars

* PresumedFlop: The film is the lowest-grossing ''Franchise/StarWars'' movie ever, and [=CostantMusic=].com referred to it as "the first bona fide ''Star Wars'' flop". Except it wasn't. It earned more than seven times its $8.5 million budget, which isn't bad for what was essentially a CompilationMovie of the first few episodes of the subsequent television series.

* PeripheryDemographic: ''The Clone Wars'' was originally created for kids and pre-teens, but has a very large teen and adult fanbase as a result of its characters, wonderful voice acting, well-written episodes, visually appealing art style and designs, brilliant animation, {{CallBack}}s[=/=]{{Futureshadowing}}s to the other works in the franchise, and mature tone and themes.

** The second episode of ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' has Gary Anthony Williams doing a parody of Count Dooku (or "Count Poo-Poo"). One year later, he is voicing Riff Tamson, one of Dooku's subordinates, in ''The Clone Wars''.

* TheScrappy: The Martez sisters were disliked by fans because of their constant idiotic and reckless decisions, the fact they took up an entire arc of the final season with their antics, and a perceived lack of depth. Out of the two of them, Rafa gets the most hate because of her [[{{Jerkass}} unpleasant personality]] and NeverMyFault tendencies.

** They are also quite a few who dislike the shippings with Anakin/Rex/Barriss/[[LauncherOfAThousandShips etc]]. because they ''want'' her paired with Lux. It never ends.

* UnpopularPopularCharacter: Hondo Ohnaka isn't exactly someone that a lot of people in the galaxy like. Both the Sith and Separatists hate him for either capturing their leaders or humiliating them in some way. He's not too popular with the Jedi either and Obi-Wan, the one Jedi whom Hondo considers his friend, sees having to deal with Hondo as an unpleasant chore. He can be popular with his own men but they would willingly backstab him if they saw an opening, since they're all space pirates. With the fans, however, Hondo is wildly popular as a BreakoutCharacter, and is a main character at ''Ride/StarWarsGalaxysEdge''.

** Out of all the retcons that ''The Clone Wars''' has made to the material from ''Legends'', the most highly contested one is its portrayal of the Mandalorians. Is the idea of a ProudWarriorRace culture becoming pacifistic a serious case of BadassDecay for them and an insult to how other writers have developed them? Or is it a much-needed [[ThisIsReality reality check]] for the historical progression of the culture (as well as how the warrior culture would be viewed by outsiders) after [[Creator/KarenTraviss Karen Traviss's]] [[Literature/RepublicCommando depiction]] of it was controversial to some ''Legends'' fans? It's not helped by the fact that what seems to be the only remnants of the warrior culture left are a [[KnightTemplar fanatically bloodthirsty terrorist cult]]. After [[spoiler:the New Mandalorian government comes crumbling down during the Shadow Collective arc]], the depiction of the Mandalorians (which is part of the canon) is still a contested territory and the ''Legends'' decision (which effectively erased almost all aspects of the old Mandalorians from the canon) didn't help this debate very much.

* InformedWrongness: In the Clovis arc, Anakin walks in on Clovis trying to force a kiss on Padmé, and reacts by beating him up. The scene is played as Anakin being a jealous husband who is bringing himself closer to the dark side, rather than a husband justifiably defending his wife from sexual assault. Padmé even tells him to stay away from her, as if it was ''Anakin'' who crossed a line, rather than Clovis.
** It makes the scene worse of anyone read Queen's Shadow where it wasn't the first time Clovis forced a kiss on Padmé.

** ''The Clone Wars'' is praised for being DarkerAndEdgier than most ''Star Wars'' media, sometimes to the point where it is claimed to be either the first or the most mature work in the modern times of the franchise, but ''The Clone Wars'' is actually neither, not even limited to the Clone Wars era. Back during the Prequel Trilogy's very heyday, ''Legends''' media set during the Clone Wars had a tendency to be equally edgy, if not more so and sometimes in ways that ''The Clone Wars'' would not touch due to its channel, format, and target audience. Comics like ''ComicBook/StarWarsRepublic'', video games like ''VideoGame/StarWarsRepublicCommando'' and novels like ''Literature/{{Shatterpoint}}'' and ''Literature/LabyrinthOfEvil'' from ''Legends'' were essentially adult media, being often exceedingly nasty, intense, psychological, and explorative of concepts like the Dark Side and the consequences of the war (and even the animated micro-series ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'' could be included here, given how disturbing it could be at points).

** ''The Clone Wars'' is praised for being DarkerAndEdgier than most ''Star Wars'' media, sometimes to the point where it is claimed to be either the first or the most mature work in the modern times of the franchise, but ''The Clone Wars'' is actually neither, not even limited to the Clone Wars era. Back in the Prequel Trilogy's very heyday, pieces of ''Legends''' media set in the Clone Wars had the tendency to be equally edgy, if not even more and sometimes in ways that ''The Clone Wars'' would not touch due to its channel, format, and target audience. Comics like ''ComicBook/StarWarsRepublic'', video games like ''VideoGame/StarWarsRepublicCommando'' and novels like ''Literature/{{Shatterpoint}}'' and ''Literature/LabyrinthOfEvil'' from ''Legends'' were essentially adult media, being often exceedingly nasty, intense, psychological, and explorative of concepts like the Dark Side and the consequences of the war (and even the animated micro-series ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'' could be included here, given how disturbing it could be at points).

** Issues #7-9--"In Service of the Republic" arc: [[FatBastard Warlord Unger Gout]] is the [[Characters/StarWarsRiseOfTheEmpireEraSeparatists Separatist]] leader on Khorm, who [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil enslaved]] his own people and works them to death in his mines, feeding corpses to the slaves to save money on food. He uses a WeatherControlMachine to keep the Republic forces off of Khorm, even though it devastates the planet's ecosystem and causes many deaths. A [[DirtyCoward coward]] who runs and hides from battle, at Asajj Ventress's suggestion, he plants bombs in the mines to kill the slaves if the Jedi come after him. When Ventress goes to kill the Jedi, Gout attempts to kill them with an ice storm, not caring that Ventress could also die.