Line #19 Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E2CargoOfDoom


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3	->''Overconfidence is the most dangerous form of carelessness.''
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5	Anakin, Ahsoka, and their clone troopers are sent in pursuit of Cad Bane after he broke into the Jedi Temple and stole a holocron. Bane's next target is Jedi Master Bolla Ropal, the keeper of a crystal containing the names and locations of every Force-sensitive child known to the Jedi Order. But they arrive just a ''bit'' too late: the battle droids placed under Bane's command have already captured Master Ropal and the crystal.
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7	Bane tries to get Ropal to open the holocron so it can read the crystal, but he dies under torture rather than submit. When he finds out that other Republic forces have arrived in the system, Bane hatches a backup plan.
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9	Anakin, Ahsoka, Rex, and the clone troopers board Bane's ship. During the fighting, Bane manages to capture Ahsoka and stick her in an airlock. He threatens to space her if Anakin doesn't open the holocron. Anakin complies, and Bane manages to escape while Anakin is saving Ahsoka from the airlock. Bane arrives at the hangar and begins to plan his escape before he is accosted by two clone troopers who order him to surrender.
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11	When Anakin and Ahsoka arrive at the hangar, while running for the shuttle, they witness Bane being shot and falling over the railing of the upper level by one of the clone troopers, Denal, who eventually boards the shuttle last and says that he wasn't able to get the holocron — but his voice doesn't sound quite right. As the ship begins to blow up due to a fire in the artillery magazine setting off the proton bombs, the Republic forces return to their own cruiser.
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14	!!Tropes:
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16	* ArtificialGravity: Separatist cruisers apparently extend their artificial gravity to their hull for the convenience of troops. Bane turns it off during the big fight in the hangar; though it doesn't do much against trained troopers and Jedi.
17	* BadassBoast: Cad Bane responds to Gunray who is reliant on Bane surviving in order to get his money back for the Munificent-class star frigates and furious he's about to take on two Jedi.
18	-->'''Nute Gunray:''' You'd better live through this! I want my money, Bane!\
19	'''Cad Bane:''' [[NervesOfSteel You can count on it.]]
20	* ColdBloodedTorture: This is what Bane and the battle droids he's been given command of inflict on Master Ropal, delivering increasingly-strong electrical shocks to him. A throwaway line by a B1 droid implies that some kind of TruthSerum or pain-boosting drug was also used beforehand.
21	* CrazyEnoughToWork: Anakin's idea to use the [=AT-TEs=] as makeshift boarding vessels. Even Ahsoka and Rex, normally used to Anakin's crazy plans, are initially skeptical.
22	* DefiantCaptive: Bolla Ropal was already badly injured before he was strung up to be tortured, but he still informs Bane that he will never unlock the holocron for him and keeps to that [[DefiantToTheEnd until his death]].
23	* DestroyTheEvidence: Bane orders the Battle Droids to wipe his Munificent-class star frigate's computers after its hyperdrive is shot out.
24	* DisconnectedByDeath: A transmission from a clone trooper on the surface of Devaron that informs Anakin that Ropal and his crystal have been captured gets cut off by the transmitter being destroyed at the source. Since the clone stated there was no possibility for evacuation, and the last sight of him has a battle droid seemingly preparing to deliver a NeckSnap from behind, he was almost certainly killed as well.
25	* DualWielding: Anakin uses his and Ahsoka's lightsabers in unison to slice apart the two Super Battle Droids protecting Bane.
26	* DumbassHasAPoint: While the battle droids aren't known for being very bright nor are they designated medical droids, the one torturing Bolla Ropal rightly points out that turning up the voltage might kill him. This is proven correct when Cad Bane shuts his advice down and ends up killing Ropal.
27	* ElectricTorture: Bolla Ropal is subjected to this, and it ends up being fatal.
28	* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Bolla Ropal gets electrocuted to death on screen, screaming in pain throughout until he finally flatlines.
29	* {{Foreshadowing}}: At the end, as clone trooper Denal boards the Sheathipede-class transport shuttle after killing Bane and says he couldn't find the holocron, his voice doesn't sound quite right...
30	* ForgotAboutHisPowers: During the fight on the ancillary deck, Anakin forgets about using the Force while attempting to retrieve the holocron.
31	* InSpaceEveryoneCanSeeYourFace: Anakin and Ahsoka sport clear fishbowl helmets in space. Averted with the clone troopers, who are of course wearing their normal armour.
32	* InternalHomage: At one point while on board Bane's Munificent-class star frigate, Rex bumps into a protruding pipe in the dark, which is an intentional homage to the stormtrooper who will bump his head on the door in ''Film/ANewHope''.
33	* LatexSpaceSuit: Ahsoka is wearing a pressurized bodysuit and a fishbowl helmet.
34	* MacGuffin: The holocron and the kyber crystal with the list of Force-sensitive children.
35	* MythologyGag: A Clone Trooper walks into a pipe, just like a Stormtrooper will later walk into a door.
36	* NightVisionGoggles: After walking into a pipe, Rex orders his men to switch on infrared vision on their helmets.
37	* NoGravityForYou: During a firefight on the artillery deck of Bane's Munificent-class star frigate, he turns the gravity off, giving him an advantage because of his RocketBoots. The clone troopers can partially compensate by magnetizing their boots to the floor, with one trooper choosing to walk on the room's ''ceiling''.
38	* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: As the Jedi and the surviving clones flee the Munificent-class star frigate, Anakin notes that Bane ''must'' have been killed, yet he can still feel his presence.
39	* OhCrap: The battle droid commander panics and tries telling Anakin's forces that the battle droid standing next to him is in charge when the Jedi and clone troopers take the bridge. The Clone complies and shoots that battle droid first, despite it being clear which battle droid is the commander. He then blasts the actual battle droid commander when he admits he's now in charge right after.
40	* OnlySaneMan: Yularen clearly thinks that Anakin is being even more reckless than usual.
41	-->'''Yularen:''' Of all the Jedi, why did I have to end up with ''Skywalker''?
42	* PapaWolf: Jedi Master variant. Once Ahsoka gets captured, Anakin goes on a droid-destroying rampage to save her from Bane.
43	-->'''B1-Battledroid:''' (''Over comms to Bane'') Sir, a-a Jedi is coming! He looks ''verrry'' unhappy! (''Anakin's lightsaber is heard cutting the droids down'') No! Aaaahh!!
44	* RailingKill: Bane is apparently shot dead, and falls over the railing.
45	* TheScapegoat: A PlayedForLaughs example, when the Battle Droid Commander tells the 501st that he's not the commander and the Battle Droid next to him is the commander, which the Clone shoots. Then he admits that he's the commander and gets shot as well.
46	* StuffBlowingUp: The main firefight takes place in a room with gun emplacements and artillery charges all over, with Rex reminding his men to be careful about where they shoot when artillery charges are launched into the air while the gravity is turned off. Then, later on, fuel starts leaking into the room... and, eventually, with the room on fire and everything, the explosion that destroys the frigate originates in that room.
47	* SupernormalBindings: Bane sticks Ahsoka in a pair of binders specially designed for holding Jedi by shocking them if they try to break free.
48	* SuperWristGadget: Bane orders one of the battle droids on the bridge of the Munificent-class star frigate he's been given to slave the ship's functions to one of his wrist computers.
49	* XanatosSpeedChess: Anakin and Bane are shown to be quite proficient at this as they battle in this episode.
50	** From Anakin's end, he was prepared to lead a ground assault against Bane, but Bane's taking off into space. So how does he mount a boarding of the Munificent-class star frigate? ''Land Republic walkers onto Bane's ship.''
51	** Bane, however, proves to be much more effective at this. After accidentally killing Bolla Ropal, Bane needs another Jedi to unlock the Holocron and expose the Kyber crystal data. At that moment, Bane's ship is attacked by the Republic, including two Jedi: Anakin and Ahsoka. Having his Munificent-class star frigate's functions transferred to his wrist-com, Bane then turns it into a death-trap for the Jedi. He then separates Ahsoka from Anakin, taking her hostage to force Anakin to unlock the Holocron and crystal.
52	* ThisIsGonnaSuck: The battle droids are quite realistic about their chances against the Jedi, and realize they are not going to survive the fight when Cad Bane ditches them.
53	* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Bane threatens to do this to Ahsoka in order to get Anakin to open the holocron. He then deactivates the airlock forcefield in order to distract Anakin enough to escape.
54	* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Admiral Yularen is incredulous about Anakin's plan to board Bane's Munificent-class star frigate using [=AT-TEs=].
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