Awesome / Star Wars: Clone Wars

None shall pass.

• The intro to the first episode. Various scenes of the Republic winning battles.
• The Battle of Dantooine is one for Mace Windu. He loses his lightsaber while in the middle of a battle surrounded by Super Battle Droids. He then proceeds to Force the SBD army to death, while also punching and kicking them hard enough to shatter their bodies. After that, he recovers his lightsaber, jumps kilometers into the air onto a kilometer-tall flying droid seismic tank, destroys its control center, and then leaps off of it, jumps another few kilometers through the air to a nearby hilltop, takes a kid's offered canteen and drinks from it, and then jumps right back into the fray.
• Anakin's duel with Asajj Ventress, from start to finish. Two skilled Force-wielders dueling each other through a jungle forest, into the ruins of an ancient temple, and all the way up to its summit, demonstrating both swordsmanship and feats of subtle Force mastery the whole way.
  • A subtle one for Ventress is the choice of battlefield: the Great Temple on Yavin IV, built by the Sith. With that one move she immediately gained the home field advantage.
  • And as a consequence of the above one, Anakin keeping up and even overpowering her is one for him. She tosses a pillar at him and he Force-Pushes it back at her. She Forces-pushes him and he charges through it, forcing her back again through a wall with another Force-Push.
• General Grievous' debut episode, where he slaughters a Republic army, then dispatches five Jedi single-handedly. Or rather, two-handedly and one-footedly, since that's how he wields three sabers at once.
  • Reaches new levels in the final two episodes, where he essentially proves himself to be the Star Wars equivalent of the Terminator, the Crowning Moment being when his two sabers are locked with those of the two Jedi he's fighting, and he simply reveals his second pair of arms, draws two more sabers, and kills them in seconds.
  • Props to the Shaggy expy - he's scared out of his wits, and convinced they're all going to die. But unlike his inspiration, he doesn't cower and run - he charges, saber ignited and yelling a desperate battle cry. Sadly, Grievous crushes him.
  • Ki-Adi-Mundi, the last Jedi standing, gets his Moment of Awesome in the next episode, when an ARC Trooper team comes to the scene, and find him still holding Grievous to a standstill after dueling for who knows how long.
  • Word of God states that Fordo and the Muunilinst 10 were The Cavalry on that incident.
  • The large, hulking Whipid Jedi? His name is K'kruhk, and he survived the battle by entering a sort of Force-induced stasis. He later survived order 66, the Great Jedi Purge, the Dark Times and finally became grand master of the new Jedi Order and Galactic Triumvir in the Legacy comics. This minor character who's first appearance had him beaten by Grievous managed to outlive Grievous, the Republic and even the Empire!
  • That sequence on Coruscant was basically Grievous pulling a Darth Vader before Darth Vader, only he did it with Jedi.
  • The Expanded Universe (now Legends) expands on Grievous' initial battle-and describes just how good Grievous is as a general. Having discovered the existence of massive droid factories on Hypori, the Republic dispatched a strike team including multiple Clone Trooper legions and seven Jedi. They launch the attack, daringly coming out of hyperspace just in orbit... And are all shot down the moment they come out of hyperspace, as Grievous had been expecting an assault and filled the orbit with disguised mines. Then Grievous comes out with a massive force of battle droids, wipes out what Clones had survived the crash landings, kills the leading Jedi General, and finally offers the remaining six Jedi his mercy-a warrior's death.
• Shaak Ti evading Grievous by using the Force to tie his cloak to a passing train.
  • Making this even better... This is not the first time she meets Grievous in combat, that was the Battle of Hypori. And yet after barely surviving that encounter, she's not only willing to face him again, she gives him a run for his money and nearly beats him.
  • Shaak Ti pulling a You Shall Not Pass! on a bunch of MagnaGuards so the other Jedi can escort Chancellor Palpatine to safety. When one of them shocks her lightsaber out of her hands, she takes one of their electrostaffs and continues going to town. By the time they fall back, she's dual wielding the staff and her saber and has hardly broken a sweat.
  • Eventually Grievous defeats her easily when she tries to stop him from leaving with Palpatine... But between arriving tired and all she had done to try and stop him he spares her to face her properly another day.
• The series also gives us Asajj Ventress killing an arena full of gladiators, and only killing the last one with her own lightsabers
  • This is followed by Count Dooku showing her what a true Sith looks like and outclassing her twice. Knocking her unconscious with a single blast of Sith lightning, and then defeating her in a lightsaber duel. By casually yanking her lightsabers out of her hands with the Force and destroying them.
• Durge leading a squad of IG-series droids on a Sci-Fi Motorcycle Jousting, swatting aside dozens of clone troopers and tearing through their tanks.
  • Obi-Wan launching a counterattack decked out in full Clone Trooper armor. Helmet included.
  • During the first duel between Obi-Wan and Durge, the Jedi Master destroys the speeder bike the bounty hunter was using as a club and then delivers the finishing blow, impaling him with his lightsaber. Durge... laughs at this, and starts beating Obi-Wan with his fists, while the lightsaber is still stuck inside him.
    • Fordo has one as well. Durge envelops Obi-Wan inside him, so how does Fordo respond? Casually tasers Durge.
  • Obi-Wan exploding a monster-sized Durge from the inside.
• The Invasion of Muunilinst. The breathtaking visuals of the swarms of starfighters engaging each other in battle, to the hordes of gunships descending to the planet's surface to deploy troops, all accompanied by awesome music.
• Yoda using the Force to elevate hundreds of droids right into the path of oncoming fighters, followed by causing two massive ships carrying thousands of droids to collide.
• Anakin demonstrating his legendary piloting skills by destroying a weapons platform and hundreds of fighters by himself.
• Roron Corobb stopping Grievous in his tracks using only his voice.
  Shaak Ti: Ithorians. Four throats. Quite powerful.
• Mace Windu gets yet another crowning moment just as Grievous returns victoriously to his ship after ripping through Jedi like a monster from a horror flick. He turns to face Windu, who simply crushes his ribcage with the Force. Grievous then turns back around and retreats into his ship. This results in him spending most of Revenge of the Sith wheezing and coughing.
  • Let's unpack this for a moment. Throughout this series Grievous has torn through Jedi with ease, up to and including high ranking Jedi Council masters. Obi-Wan would later defeat Grievous in Revenge of the Sith albeit with considerable difficulty. Imagine Mace's power for him to instantly cripple Grievous in seconds.
• Jedi Master Saesee Tiin, during the opening moves of the Battle of Coruscant. An enemy cruiser came out of hyperspace right above his, causing irreparable damage. His solution? Open his cruiser's large hangar, jump through space with his troops towards the nearest enemy ship, and steal it.
  Saesee Tiin: PREPARE TO BOARD!
  Clone Troopers: Hooah!!
  • Just before this, Tiin and his squadron take off to join the space battle. As they climb into orbit, what at first appear to be stars in the sky are revealed to be hundreds, if not thousands of ships duking it out over the capital!
• A few from the ARC troopers. Walking out of their crashed gunship like they've rehearsed it, taking down droid snipers with an X-ray scope and a rocket launcher, massacring droids by the dozen, one taking down an AAT by himself while carrying nothing but a rifle, planting bombs all over a massive artillery cannon and destroying it, blowing Durge's armor right off his body with a hail of fire, revealing two rifles that can only be described as More Dakka, driving off General Grievous himself in a gunship that has the best. Paint job. ever. Oh, and remember that one clone holding a point almost by himself before Yoda arrives during the battle of Coruscant? That's their leader Fordo, a few years later. Even their uniforms were badass.
• Season 3 begins with the ceremony of Anakin becoming a Jedi Knight.
• Count Dooku demonstrates Rank Scales with Asskicking in a sparring match with General Grievous, utterly schooling the general and even calling some of his attacks predictable.
• The very first shot of the Battle of Coruscant. Yoda is meditating, then he rises startled and watches out of the window... And there's hundreds of Separatist landing ships. And we're later informed that those are the ones who got through, the Separatists had brought a lot more.
  • How the Separatists managed to land ships on Coruscant: they got out of hyperspace directly in orbit, close enough to the defensive fleet that many of their ships crashed on Jedi cruisers as they came out.
  • The first and last shot of the space part of the battle, giving a good idea of the sheer scale of the conflict.
• Back on the ground of Coruscant, the Separatists were clearly pushing the Clone army back but Fordo, the red Arc Trooper of Muunilinst and Hypori tries his damndest to stand up against them. His forces are being overrun and reinforcements might not be coming soon and yet, he pulls out everything he had to take as many down as he can. He fires at the enemy, loses ammo and throws the rifle away and pulls out his pistol and then, he grabs a rifle from one of his dead soldiers and fires all the droids that were in front or went passed him. This guy should deserve a medal or two.
  • He did. He just refused it in honor of the sole casualty in the Muunilinst 10.

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