Characters / Star Wars – Ahsoka Tano

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Ahsoka Tano

Species: Togruta

Homeworld: Shili

Voiced by: Ashley Eckstein (English), Leyla Rangel (Latin-American Spanish, The Clone Wars and Rebels), Marisol Romero (Latin-American Spanish, The Clone Wars), Shizuka Itō (Japanese), Olivia Luccioni and Isabelle Volpe (French), Josephine Schmidt (German)

Portrayed by: Rosario Dawson (The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, Ahsoka), Lauren Mary Kim (Motion Capture, The Clone Wars), Caitlin Dechelle (Body Double, The Mandalorian), Ariana Greenblatt (Young, Ahsoka)

Appearances: Tales of the Jedi | The Clone Wars | Ahsoka (novel) | Rebels | Rebels Magazine | Forces of Destiny | The Mandalorian | The Book of Boba Fett | Ahsoka (series) | The Rise of Skywalker^note voice only

In General

• Action Girl: As an ex-Jedi, even one who never was knighted, she is this. She is a female Togruta who is a very skilled (now-former) Padawan learner and member of the Jedi Order. Ahsoka can handle both the Fifth Brother and the Seventh Sister easily while Ezra isn't a match for either of them. She later manages to give the likes of Darth Vader a difficult duel and briefly pushed back the Force sorcery of Darth Sidious, the most powerful Force user alive before living to tell of it. One wonders if she would have been made a Jedi Master if things were different.
• Alien Hair: Her horns and lekku.
• Ambiguously Bi:
  • In The Clone Wars, she had a male love interest in Lux Bonteri, would've had another in Nyx Okami, and had subtext with Barriss Offee. Behind the scenes, Giancarlo Volpe says he added subtext between her and Barriss Offee: "You have no idea how hard I secretly pushed this agenda in 'Weapons Factory'."
  • In Ahsoka's self-titled book, Kaeden Larte is interested in her and admits her feelings to Ahsoka after being rescued from the Empire. Ahsoka is surprised and flattered by the admission, but as they are in the middle of escaping an Imperial base (and with Ahsoka's Jedi conditioning), there is no time for her to process her feelings, although they are implied throughout the novel (such as intimate moments like them sharing the same bed).
• Big Brother Worship: Although she usually hides it with being snippy and snarky and is not afraid to argue with him if she feels he's wrong about something, she looks up to Anakin since she has the utmost trust in him. In fact, one of her greatest fears is disappointing him.
• Blue Is Heroic: She has blue stripes on her lekku and during the Siege of Mandalore arc, she wears a blue Mandalorian outfit on top of using blue-bladed lightsabers as a result of Anakin customizing them while they were in his possession.
• Breakout Character: Ahsoka was originally created for The Clone Wars, but her immense Character Development has made her one of the most popular characters in the series and the franchise as a whole, leading into further appearances in Rebels, her own self-titled novel, Forces of Destiny, The Mandalorian and, eventually, her own live-action series.
• Broken Pedestal:
  • When she first started out, Ahsoka had nothing but the utmost loyalty towards the Jedi Order and their teachings—teachings of which she slowly starts questioning too often as she gets placed under Anakin's tutelage (though this is more for him being a rule bender than it is anything malicious). Then, when she's wrongfully accused of bombing the Jedi Temple, everyone but Anakin, Plo, Yoda, and Obi-Wan assume she's guilty and throw her out of the Order and to Tarkin's non-existent mercy to be prosecuted in order to save face in the wake of the disaster. After the real culprit is discovered, Ahsoka is cleared and invited back, but she chooses to leave, no longer trusting the Jedi Order after they turned their backs on her when she needed them most. This bites everyone hard when they do not immediately agree to aid her even after she volunteers to ask for their aid in liberating Mandalore, and she refuses to tell them about Maul's suspicions about Sidious and Anakin, playing a part in everyone's downfall. That said, Ahsoka doesn't dislike the Jedi themselves, but how the Order had become corrupted by the war.
  • As for Anakin himself, she had nothing but the utmost respect for him and everything he taught. That all changes when she learns he didn't survive the Jedi Purge, but rather became the monstrous Darth Vader. In her varying guest appearances starting on The Mandalorian, it's implied the revelation scared her enough that she refuses to take Grogu on as an apprentice, fearing he'll turn out like Vader. While she seems to have forgiven him when she visits Luke's Jedi Academy, her self-titled series reveals she blames herself for his downfall and not being there for him when she should have been. Anakin himself visits her to teach her (rather bluntly) that she's not at fault and she should forgive herself.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: To Anakin Skywalker, who's part of a lineage of apprentices starting with Yoda and ending with her. She was raised in the Jedi Order, and rushed out to become a Padawan at age 14, while he was adopted into it at age 9 and became a Padawan right around then, remaining as such for 10 years. He was trained as Obi-Wan's apprentice, she was sent under the false pretense that she was to become Kenobi's next student. Both are equally stubborn, short-tempered, and well-meaning people who genuinely want the best for everyone around them and are struggling with conflicting emotions, but Anakin never resolves his issues and dooms the galaxy at large thanks to Palpatine's machinations, while she is able to find a mostly stable balance at the expense of being put through all manner of hell and fighting those she cared for as a result of everyone being toyed with by Palpatine. He becomes a shell of his former self, left ridden with guilt for his actions, while she uses her guilt to motivate herself to strive for the better. However, as shown in her own series, he forgave himself in death for his actions while acknowledging his mistakes, while she couldn't forgive him or herself for what happened until he helped her to let go in a way he never could.
• Costume Evolution:
  • In the pilot movie and first two-and-a-half seasons of The Clone Wars, she wears a tube top and a skirt with white tights. Later in the second half of the third season of The Clone Wars, she switches to a short red dress with grey tights that evokes more of the conventional Jedi Order outfits while still being unique to her. The seventh season presents her wearing two new outfits, a jumpsuit during the Ahsoka's Journey arc and a blue Mandalorian combat dress during the Siege of Mandalore arc.
  • In Ahsoka (and her intended appearance for the final seasons of The Clone Wars), she wore casual civilian clothing. Now, she's returned to wearing clothes for battle; specifically ancient Jedi armor, showing that while she may have left the Jedi Order and tried to become a civilian, she's still in the fight. She's just becoming what the Jedi originally were.
  • Her Rebels outfit contains traces of Mandalorian armor and a mix of civilian clothing—the former of which isn't noticeable or present by the time of her appearance on, ironically enough, The Mandalorian, where she's dressed in more of a darker ensemble meant to evoke the Ronins of old.
  • In Ahsoka (the series, not the novel), she still wears her old Mandalorian outfit until she is able to let go of the guilt over what happened to Anakin, and changes to a white-ensemble signifying she's at peace with herself.
• Doomed by Canon:
  • Subverted. Her role as Anakin's unseen Padawan carries the strong implication that she'll be dead by the end of the Clone Wars. However, despite all odds, she still lives through both the prequels and the original trilogy. She is rendered incapable of helping the future heroes due to being stranded on Malachor.
  • Played Straight in regards to her role as Anakin's Morality Chain. In spite of everything she did, her leaving the Jedi Order and being away from her old master during Revenge Of The Sith left him at his most vulnerable, and she could not bring him back from the brink even when they reencountered each other some years later—it would take Vader's own son for him to finally turn back to the light.
  • It's implied that she passes away some time after Return of the Jedi, as she is one of voices, alongside several Force Spirits, that encourages Rey during her confrontation with an undead Palpatine during The Rise of Skywalker, although Dave Filoni suggested that that might not be the case, and indicated that her inclusion among the voices was more of an effort by J. J. Abrams to connect Filoni's shows with the movies (as, aside from this, several ships from Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels, Star Wars Resistance, and The Mandalorian are among the Citizen's Fleet above Exegol).
• Down the Rabbit Hole: One of the Topps cards showing what happened to Ahsoka after the events of Malachor shows her walking into a doorway with hieroglyphs of wolves around it. As of 2020, this is the only hint at how she left the planet.
• Dual Wielding:
  • She includes a shoto (which is a short lightsaber) to her arsenal during the Mid-Season Upgrade between "Hunt for Ziro" and "Heroes on Both Sides". It doubles as a bit of Shown Their Work as the offhand weapon is supposed to be shorter in Real Life martial arts.
  • By Rebels, she still heavily prefers to utilize Jar'Kai with a pair of matching lightsabers as a holdover from her days as a Jedi.
• Dude Magnet: Besides a complicated romance with Lux, Ahsoka's attractiveness has been noted several times. Unfortunately, most of them were from slimy men.
• Evil Stole My Faith: Her faith and trust in the Jedi are shattered after the Council leaves her at the mercy of the Senate when she's framed for the bombing of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. It's to the point where Ahsoka decides to leave the Order entirely when they allow her to come back after her acquittal.
• Fatal Flaw:
  • Ahsoka’s difficulty in trusting people played a large part in her expulsion from the Jedi Order. She allowed her emotions to cloud her judgement in her most critical moment which in turn forced the Jedi’s hand when it came to her expulsion.
  • Her unwillingness to forgive herself, or Anakin, for his downfall into Darth Vader, which has turned her into a stoic individual who's too afraid of creating the next Vader to truly be able to train Sabine in the ways of the Jedi Arts. Anakin himself has to drop by and teach Ahsoka to let go, otherwise her guilt will turn her into the monster she feared.
• Gender-Blender Name: Ahsoka's name is taken from Ashoka, a male Maurya dynasty emperor that ruled most of the Indian subcontinent from 268-232 BCE.
• Green-Skinned Space Babe: More like "Orange-Skinned Space Babe". Ahsoka is a very attractive female Togruta, though unlike a lot of other examples, her looks aren't focused on as much.
• Has a Type: Given her romantic interests are Lux, Nix, and Kaeden, it seems Ahsoka has a thing for humans.
• Horned Humanoid: Her horns grant her super effective hearing.
• Kid Hero All Grown-Up: She was the Kid Hero of The Clone Wars. Over a decade, she has later grown into a leader in the early Rebellion, and later wanders the galaxy as a Ronin-like figure.
• Killed Offscreen: Implied. Her voice is heard giving Rey encouragement in the final battle of The Rise of Skywalker alongside other deceased Jedi masters, implying she passed away sometime between the end of Rebels and the events of the film. However, this is far from a confirmation, and her creator, Dave Filoni, indicated that the move was more to connect the shows to the films rather than to confirm her fate.
• Male Gaze: Ahsoka is occasionally subjected to this, most notably in Heroes on Both Sides, where Lux gives an appreciative glance of her body...and booty.
• Meaningful Name:
  • "Ahsoka" means "sorrow-less" in Sanskrit, a reflection of her Plucky Girl status.
  • "Tano" means "five" in Swahili. Ahsoka is the fifth generation of Jedi on the Master-Apprentice Chain that she is the part of (if Dooku is included, she is actually the sixth).
• Morality Chain:
  • To Anakin. She helps keeps his rash nature in check, and it's the moments when she's in danger where he comes the closest to using the Dark Side.
  • Though reduced from how they were back in The Clone Wars, she still serves as one to Darth Vader, given how he was willing to show her mercy and potentially do the same to Ezra and the others if she agreed to give him the information he wanted on the rebels and join him. Compared to how he usually mercilessly slaughters rebel and Jedi alike, it's a glaring moment. Even during their fight, he noticeably stops, calls for her, and looks conflicted when Ahsoka tells him she won't leave him again.
• Ms. Fanservice: In her younger years, she wore an Age-Inappropriate Dress that exposed her midriff, and as she got older, wore a skin-tight, Sexy Backless Outfit that highlighted her maturing figure (not to mention her Go-Go Enslavement outfit from Season 4). Her later outfits in Season 7, Rebels, and The Mandalorian wouldn't be as fanservicey, but they still highlighted her well-developed figure.
• Named After Someone Famous: According to George Lucas she is named after the ancient Indian Emperor Ashoka the Great.
• Nice Girl: Grows into this as her character develops, though she always cared even back when she was brash and arrogant.
• One-Woman Army: Though she starts out somewhat naive and unskilled compared to Anakin and Obi-Wan, by the end of The Clone Wars she's developed enough skill with the blade and the Force that she's able to outfight Maul who, despite his defeat at Palpatine's hands, is still an incredibly potent threat. She is, by herself, one third of the invasion force attacking Mandalore (the other two being Bo-Katan's Night Owls and half of the 501st). As of Rebels, she's able to go toe to toe with Darth Vader.
• Remember the New Guy?: The Clone Wars develops her as an important figure in the Jedi Order and a very close friend of Anakin in addition to being probably the third most important person in his life after his mentor/best friend Obi-Wan and his wife Padmé, but she's not mentioned once in any of the films since she was created three years after the Prequel Trilogy concluded with Revenge of the Sith (which The Clone Wars is set before). It's justified in The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones as she hadn't met Anakin yet during those films; it could also be justified in Revenge of the Sith that she wouldn't be mentioned because her departure is a sore spot for Anakin and he has other things on his mind (not to mention she was fighting on Mandalore, and the circumstances of that battle made it impossible for her to say anything to him). She's not brought up in the original trilogy either, though the fact she wasn't even created yet played a part.
• Reverse Grip: Her fighting style involves this. Even as an ex-Jedi, she still uses this style.
• Rubber-Forehead Aliens: She is a Togruta.
• Sleeves Are for Wimps: All of her main costumes tend to show off her arms.
• Sole Survivor: By the end of Rebels, she is one of four members of the pre-Empire Jedi Order confirmed to have outlived the Empire (the others being Naq Med, a minor character from the junior novel Force Collector, Grogu a.k.a. the Child, a character introduced in The Mandalorian, and Baylan Skoll, The Heavy of Ahsoka).
• Super-Senses:
  • Since Togruta horns work as passive echolocators, she has very sharp hearing, which she uses to find the kidnapped infants in "Children of the Force" and to eavesdrop on a conversation regarding Aurra Sing in a noisy bar in "Lethal Trackdown".
  • She also possesses extremely fine spatial awareness, which she uses when she saves Anakin from a bunch of Separatist droids by bringing down a wall on them while he was standing right under a hole in it in the pilot movie.
• Super-Strength: Due to amplifying her physical attributes with the Force, she's strong enough to knock out armored clone troopers with single punches and send them sprawling with her blows, despite obviously lacking anywhere near the strength or mass to do that otherwise (she has little muscle on her and weighs less than 120 pounds).
• Token Non-Human: The only one of the main Clone Wars trio (her, Obi-Wan, and Anakin) who's not human.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • Ahsoka has taken several over the course of The Clone Wars. Case-in-point: in her first encounter with General Grievous, she dashes in recklessly and Grievous defeated her without even trying. In their second encounter, she was actually able to hold her own and knock Grievous back once, despite still being heavily outmatched by the cyborg general. She also assumes a purely defensive position and retreats as soon as she's able to do so.
  • During the Siege of Mandalore, she duels and prevails against Darth Maul, a fully trained Sith Lord who has killed multiple Jedi more experienced than her.
  • In terms of prominence, she goes from a Padawan to an important leading force in the early fight against the Empire. Specifically, an early founder. She turns Bail Organa's spies into an intelligence network, becoming the Rebellion's spymaster until her confrontation with Vader.
  • In terms of combat ability, she goes from frequently being on the receiving end of The Worf Effect, to the applying end in her first fight on Rebels, when she soundly stomps the Fifth Brother and the Seventh Sister, and holds off Maul rather effectively. Everyone was expecting The Worf Effect to apply in full to her fight against Vader, but she more than holds her own, and in fact seems to be winning before the temple starts collapsing, although it's later on shown that she was seconds away from losing before Ezra pulls her out. After Ezra from the future rescues her, she manages to outrun and briefly hold back the magic spells of Darth Sidious himself, meaning that she fought 6 Dark Side users (3 Inquisitors, 1 former Sith Lord, and 2 current Sith) within the span of a few hours, and survived.
  • By the time of The Mandalorian, she's become an almost Batman-like figure, striking from the shadows and slaughtering goons left and right without being seen.
  • In the World Between Worlds, she's able to fight Darth Vader — and not in his armor, but an Anakin who can channel Vader's power as if he had never gotten burned in the first place — to a standstill (although she comes dangerously close to the Dark Side by doing so).
• Undying Loyalty: Ahsoka will always defend, protect, support, and believe in Anakin, even when she witnesses the man he becomes. Though it's a bit of a Broken Pedestal by the time of The Mandalorian, as she refuses to train Din Djarin's young charge when his emotions prove just as volatile as her master's, and she doesn't want him walking down the same path (though she doesn't speak poorly of him regardless). The Book of Boba Fett has her speak proudly of him to Luke, indicating she's at least forgiven him.
• Vocal Evolution: Her voice audibly matures over time in The Clone Wars, which continues in Rebels and The Mandalorian.
• Wrench Wench:
  • In "Ghosts of Mortis", it appears that she has picked up some of Anakin's skills with machines. This continues in "Gone With a Trace", as she turns down Trace Martez's offer to repair her busted speeder bike, insisting she can fix it herself.
  • In Ahsoka, she survives using the mechanical skills learned from Anakin.

Padawan/Commander Ahsoka Tano

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"You don't have to carry a sword to be powerful. Some leaders' strength is inspiring greatness in others."

Ahsoka Tano is a female Togruta who was assigned as Anakin Skywalker's Padawan learner during the Clone Wars. Though Anakin was initially dismissive towards her, she grew under his mentorship from a headstrong young student into a mature leader. Ahsoka participated in several vital battles over the course of the war, earning the respect of her clone troopers, but after being framed for bombing the Jedi Temple hangar and put on trial by the Republic, she left the Jedi Order.

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Tropes from the Republic era

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• Action Duo: She forms one with Lux in "A Friend in Need", with Lux being the Action Survivor to her Action Girl.
• Adaptational Modesty: During the Zygerria arc, Ahsoka wears a rather fanservice-y slave outfit. However, this outfit is very modest compared to the outfit from the Legends comic book storyline the Zygerria arc was adapted from, which was even more revealing than her default appearance in the first two and a half seasons of The Clone Wars.
• Affectionate Nickname:
  • Anakin occasionally addresses Ahsoka as "Snips".
  • Plo Koon occasionally calls her "Little 'Soka".
• Affirmative Action Girl: The Clone Wars has a lot of Action Girls, but Padmé was the only female character in the Prequel Trilogy with an active role.
• Age-Inappropriate Dress: As The Clone Wars' most prominently featured female character, she is also the primary source of Fanservice, resulting in most of her outfits being quite questionable. She ditches it for something more modest, yet still form-fitting, by Season 3. In Tales of the Jedi, her season 1 outfit has a more modest design, swapping the tube top for a sleeveless shirt and shoulder padding, though still baring a bit of midriff. In her live-action appearance during the Clone Wars, her outfit fully covers her.
• Animal Motifs: Throughout The Clone Wars, Ahsoka is often associated with the Convor bird.
• Animation Anatomy Aging: In the pilot movie and first two-and-a-half seasons, Ahsoka has disproportionately large eyes, a completely round face, horns that are only stubs, and headtails that barely reach beyond her shoulders. After the Mid Season Up Grade during the third season via "Heroes on Both Sides", her eyes noticeably shrink, her face becomes longer and angled, her horns grow larger and curved, and her headtails reach the middle of her chest. Her adult self (briefly shown in "Overlords") has almond-shaped eyes, an oval face, very large horns, and headtails reaching to her thighs. By the seventh season, her horns and lekku have developed even more and are on their way to resembling how they looked in Rebels.
• The Apprentice: Ahsoka is Anakin's Padawan learner during the time of The Clone Wars.
• Audience Surrogate: She has this role in The Clone Wars through being a young Padawan that is thrust into a world of adventure. Much like the audience, her once black-and-white perspective about the war and the galaxy at large is thrown into question as the conflict drags on, and the Dark Side's influence soon strips away her respect for the Jedi she once worshiped. By the end of it, in spite of having survived the ordeal, she isn't the same person she started out as, as both she and the audience have learned what the true cost of The Clone Wars meant for the galaxy.
• Badass Adorable: Ahsoka is this because her large eyes, voice, personality, general appearance, and small frame in comparison to the rest of the main characters make her very adorable. She can be cute yet badass in the course of the same episode. In "Bounty Hunters", Ahsoka even invokes it after she sees Seripas' true form:
  Ahsoka: You don't have to look tough to be tough.
• Badass in Distress: Ahsoka has been this more than a couple of times. It's mostly justified since she's just a Padawan learner and has the misfortune of running into opponents who are a match for even Jedi Masters. This is also justified because while she's badass, she's still in the middle of a galaxy-spanning war. War on any scale tends to be fairly hazardous even if you are a Jedi.
• Bedlah Babe: She briefly becomes one in the Zygerria arc, during which dresses in a blue slave outfit that leaves her belly exposed.
• Big Ego, Hidden Depths: A few scenes in the pilot movie and several episodes focusing on her has shown that her initial brash, snippy, and overconfident attitude is merely a façade to hide how insecure she feels regarding her status as Anakin's apprentice.
• Black-and-White Morality: It becomes particularly clear in "Heroes on Both Sides", where she sums up the Clone Wars as "the Separatists are evil and they (the Republic and the Jedi) must stop them". She can't grasp the idea of why the Senate is wasting time debating bank (de)regulations. After meeting Mina and Lux Bonteri, she realizes and invokes that the war is not as black and white as she thought.
• Blue Is Heroic: She's the main hero of The Clone Wars, and the Siege of Mandalore arc features her in a blue dress. Her lightsabers are also given blue blades after Anakin's modifications; according to Dave Filoni, Anakin's selfishness and ego are starting to corrupt his relationships with his loved ones, and this is shown by having Anakin state he made them a little better right after revealing he changed their colors from Ahsoka's preferred green and greenish yellow to his own favored blue.
• Bratty Half-Pint: Ahsoka is initially this when she was first introduced, granting her the nickname "Snips" from her Master. She has mostly grown out of it by the time of season three.
• Break the Cutie: Despite being an adorable Plucky Girl, the events of the Fugitive arc are just too much for Ahsoka. She gets framed for multiple murders, terrorism, and sedition; the Jedi Council abandons her, however reluctantly, and in light of the evidence makes no effort to conduct their own investigation; the Senate Court (particularly Tarkin) are more than happy to sentence her to death. On top of that, Anakin discovers that one of her friends (Barriss Offee) is the one who framed her. In the face of all this, she understandably refuses Yoda's offer to return to the Order despite their intention to promote her to Jedi Knight for putting up with all this crap. As she leaves the Temple, she sheds a Single Tear.
• Cain and Abel: She has a brother and sister relationship with Anakin. At the end of the Clone Wars, she's with the Rebel Alliance while he's an infamous and cruel Second-In-Command for the leader of the Empire.
• Character Development: Over the course of The Clone Wars, she develops from a cheeky, stubborn, and rash girl into a serious, level-headed, and dependable young woman.
• Child Prodigy: Implied. The headdress Ahsoka wears is the teeth of an akul, a large and destructive creature native to Shili. If you manage to kill one, then you get to wear its teeth as a trophy. Ahsoka has had hers since she was four years old. Either this shows how skilled she was even then or the akul are more harmless than they sound.
• Clear My Name: This is her main goal during the Fugitive arc, though Anakin picks this up after Ahsoka's arrested. In the end, Anakin succeeds, but her trust in the Jedi Council is shattered, which prompts her to leave.
• Cleavage Window: Her second outfit has one. Although, it's a little too high to be a completely straight example.
• Commanding Coolness: When she became a Padawan, she was also given the rank of Jedi Commander.
• Cool Big Sis: She acts as role model to Kalifa, O-Mer, and Jinx to a lesser extent. She also acts like this towards Prince Lee-Char. She eventually serves as this to Rafa and Trace, even inspiring to, if not join the Rebellion, at least ally with it.
• Cool Crown: She almost always wears headgear that covers the border between her forehead and her lekku. During her time as a Padawan, it's a subtle metallic diadem that could be mistaken as part of her natural markings. When she leaves the Order, she exchanges it for a working-class affair with a cloth texture whose color matches her coverall. In Ahsoka, it's somewhere between the two, a more solid diadem, but with a display in brown and silver.
• Cunning Linguist: In "Wookiee Hunt", she is able to understand Shyriiwook, something the younger trainees with her could not do. Oddly, she doesn't understand a Twi'lek in "To Catch a Jedi".
• Damsel out of Distress: During the Trandoshan arc, she's kidnapped by Trandoshans and thrown out into a jungle to be hunted down. She refuses to hide and run, and decides to fight back against the lizards.
• Dating Catwoman: She's attracted to Lux Bonteri, the son of a Separatist leader. Later, he becomes a rogue element.
• David Versus Goliath: During the climax of "Wookiee Hunt", she has to fight Garnac, the Trandoshan leader. The guy is 2 meters tall, weighs 178 kilograms, has a very thick reptilian hide, and is armed with an axe and a knife in addition to his claws, and his species are on the same scale of physical strength as Wookiees. All Ahsoka has is her Waif-Fu and skills with the Force.
• Deadpan Snarker: She seems to have picked this up from Anakin and Obi-Wan, neither of whom she is particularly averse to snarking at.
• Defector from Decadence: As a result of how the Jedi Order abandoned her when she had been framed for murder, Ahsoka decides not to return when given the offer.
• Designated Victim: She has a tendency of getting into real trouble very frequently. She's been captured/kidnapped on six occasions, and the Fugitive arc presents her accused of multiple homicides and terrorism/sedition.
• Deuteragonist: She is one of the secondary main characters of The Clone Wars (the other one is Obi-Wan).
• Disney Death: The Son temporarily kills her after she outlives her usefulness. Anakin and the Daughter bring her back by transferring the latter's remaining life force to Ahsoka.
• Dreaming of Things to Come: She foresees Aurra Sing's attempt to assassinate Padmé in her dreams in "Assassin" and has a vision of her adult self warning her about the darkness in Anakin in "Overlords". In "Wookiee Hunt", she dreams of Chewbacca's capture before the Trandoshans bring him to the planet.
• Easily Condemned: During the Fugitive Arc, the evidence against her being the culprit of the Jedi Temple bombing is circumstantial, but the Jedi Council (aside from Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Plo Koon) gave in to political pressure and throw her to the Senate's mercy. She leaves the Jedi after she's cleared of all charges.
• Effortless Amazonian Lift: In "Sabotage", after Anakin gets knocked out while piloting his starfighter and Artoo has to make a crash landing on a too-short cliff, Ahsoka leaps over to his fighter, hoists him from it, and then jumps back to the cliff moments after the starfighter goes barreling off. This is especially impressive considering that she could barely lift him back in "Jedi Crash".
• Embarrassing Nickname: The Mortis arc reveals that Ahsoka hates it when Anakin calls her "Snips".
• Enemy Mine: Subverted. Ahsoka has little problems with the prospect of working with Maul until he reveals he wants to kill Anakin. After that is made known, she shows great disdain for Maul, refusing to fight with him even during Order 66 despite the stakes. However, many years later, she reluctantly fights off the Inquisitorius with him until he turns on her.
• Ensign Newbie: Lampshaded in the pilot movie by Rex, who's quick to point out that even if she does outrank him, it doesn't make up for her lack of experience.
• Face–Heel Turn: Subverted. Being that Ahsoka is no longer a Jedi by the seventh season, her allegiances are for her to choose. She almost joins Maul, an ex-Sith Lord and great enemy of the Jedi, after he makes a great assessment of the fall of the Jedi and Republic. The one thing that prevents her from siding with Maul is because one of his first steps in stopping Sidious is killing Anakin, adamantly refusing to believe his claims Anakin will become a monster.
• Facial Markings: This is the cool part of her alien physiology that morphs with maturity.
• Faking the Dead: After Order 66 and the end of the Clone Wars, she leaves her Lightsaber behind at the clone graveyard by the Venator crash-site to create the illusion that she was killed in the crash.
• Fanservice Pack: While she was already attractive from the beginning in The Clone Wars, Ahsoka, being a teenager, understandably developed a more voluptuous yet athletic body after the Mid-Season Upgrade. Notably, while this trope is often accompanied by the character getting more Stripperiffic, since Ahsoka's first outfit was already very questionable, the model-change came with a more reserved yet form-fitting dress as her default outfit.
• Fatal Flaw: Her overconfidence and drive to prove herself worthy of being Anakin's Padawan learner get her into situations well beyond her ability to handle a lot of time. She's also somewhat quick to make judgments, and she has the utmost trust towards Anakin, the Jedi Order, and the Republic itself, things that backfire very hard on her during the Fugitive arc.
• Foil: As presented through The Clone Wars and Tales of the Jedi, Ahsoka is one to Dooku. Both were brought into the Jedi Order at a young age (her after being raised by Good Parents who let Plo Koon take her in, him being abandoned by a horrific father to die in the woods), and both wound up as part of a Master-Apprentice chain starting with Yoda. Both also had family-figures (with Ahsoka seeing Anakin as her surrogate brother, while Dooku saw Qui-Gon as his surrogate son), though Ahsoka was very much Anakin's Morality Chain while Qui-Gon was revealed to be Dooku's. Both also witnessed the corruption within the Republic and later the Jedi Order, but Dooku, in spite of attempting to be an Internal Reformist, ultimately felt he'd gone too far in trying to save the galaxy and gave into the Dark Side, becoming far more of a monster than he intended to be and killing Yaddle, a green-skinned alien. Ahsoka, however, remained steadfastly loyal to the Jedi until she was framed for a crime she didn't commit by Barris Offee, a green-skinned alien, and thrown to the wolves by the Council because of political pressure, refusing to come back when cleared, and ultimately accepting that to walk the path of the Jedi was to accept the will of the Force.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: A surrogate example with Anakin Skywalker, her Jedi teacher. While he is definitely reckless and a hypocrite on the lessons he instills in her, Anakin is more experienced and wise in comparison to Ahsoka's initial naïveté and rashness.
• Form-Fitting Wardrobe: Her second outfit looks very form-fitting. This makes one wonder how can she fit her head (which is quite a bit larger than a human's due to her horns and head-tails) through the tight-looking neck of her dress.
• Fragile Speedster: She's quick and agile, but she initially lacks in endurance.
• Friend to All Children: She is shown to be quite good with children through the way she takes care of Rotta (Jabba the Hutt's infant son), rescues the Force-sensitive infants from Mustafar, and repeatedly puts her life in risk to protect the younglings under her care.
• Generation Xerox: To Anakin; she has an attitude similar to his and lost her lightsaber once.
• Genki Girl: She is especially this in the pilot movie and first two and a half seasons. Precocious little thing!
• Genocide Survivor: She survived Order 66, a secret directive given to the clones by Palpatine to wipe out both current and former Jedi.
• Girly Bruiser: She is a kind-hearted and energetic young woman who becomes skilled enough of a Jedi to beat Darth Maul in single combat.
• Go-Go Enslavement: During the Zygerria arc, she is disguised as a slave girl and given a rather questionable Bedlah Babe outfit that was even more revealing than her first one.
• Good Counterpart: To Asajj Ventress. Both of them are former Jedi who left the Jedi Order, both of them were the apprentices of a Sith who used to be a Jedi, both of them use two lightsabers in combat, both of them ended up getting betrayed by their respective masters, both of them fought their former master's next apprentices after them (Ventress fought Savage Opress after he betrayed both her and Dooku, while Ahsoka fought the Inquisitors) who wielded red double-bladed lightsabers, both of them are still affiliated to their respective side of the Force even after leaving the service of their respective organizations (Ahsoka is still on the light side even after leaving the Jedi Order while Ventress still uses the dark side even after the Sith betrayed her), both of them ended up joining the enemies of their former masters (the Nightsisters, the Republic, and the Rebel Alliance), both of them end up training people in the ways of the Force to help them defeat their former masters (Ventress trains Opress for a little bit, while Ahsoka also trains Ezra for a little bit), and both of them ultimately fail to defeat their former masters. However, where they contrast is that while Ahsoka ended up leaving the Order of her own volition and wants to fight Vader to avenge her friends (and try to bring Vader back to the light side too if she can), Ventress wants vengeance solely for herself and ends up hurting and killing a lot of people to make it happen. Ventress' motives and methods against Dooku are more selfish and ruthless, while Ahsoka's motives and methods are more selfless and diplomatic. Also, as said earlier, Ahsoka may not be a Jedi, but she still follows the light side, while Ventress, despite not being Sith, still follows the dark side. Her comment to Ventress when they teamed up many years ago turned out to be more accurate than either of them thought it would be.
  Ahsoka: I've fallen from my path just as you've fallen from yours. We have a lot more in common than you think.
• Helping Would Be Kill Stealing: She takes this role during the Onderon arc. With her assistance, the rebellion would have gone much more smoothly, but it would defeat the purpose of internal rebellion to have obvious outsider aid in the form of the Jedi.
• Hidden Depths: Ahsoka's brief sojourn to the Dark Side in "Altar of Mortis" implies that she is holding back quite a bit of frustration with Anakin's teaching methods as well as her perception that he doesn't trust or believe in her.
• Honorary True Companion: Even though she left them, the Jedi, clone troopers, and Anakin especially still consider her one of them to the point Anakin gave her half his army and her lightsabers on Mandalore to fight Maul.
• Honor Before Reason: In "A Friend in Need", Ahsoka must have been perfectly aware that even if she did have her lightsabers, she would have had a rough time surviving a fight alone against the Death Watch. However, she attacked them with only a makeshift staff and her martial arts skills to protect the villagers.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: A platonic example with Anakin. Justified, as she is a teenager while he is an adult.
• Human Popsicle: More like Togruta Popsicle. She froze herself in carbonite◊ in "The Citadel", even though she wasn't supposed to come along on the mission.
• Hypocrite: Has a few minor examples:
  • In "Escape from Kadavo", Ahsoka tells the Togrutan governor that his people surviving being enslaved will "only strengthen them", saying "what doesn't kill you just makes you stronger." However, in "The Wrong Jedi", Ahsoka is visibly offended when Mace Windu tells her that her traumatic experience of being cast out and nearly sentenced to death has made her a greater Jedi, though understandably being told that by someone who participated in that trauma would be salt in the wound.
  • In “Old Friends Not Forgotten”, Ahsoka accuses Obi-Wan of abandoning Mandalore with the implication she wants him to abandon Coruscant instead when she has personally seen have seen what the Separatists do to the worlds they invade. Debris from orbital combat also caused massive damage and scared the city surface for decades afterward.
  • In "Victory and Death", Ahsoka repeatedly makes a point of not killing clones and insisting Rex similarly refrain, but this comes after releasing Maul explicitly so he would run around murdering clones as a distraction while she accomplished her own goals. In their final encounter as the Venator is crashing thanks to Maul's sabotage, he reminds her that this chaos and destruction is what she asked for.
• Hypocritical Humor: She called Ventress (who apparently chose to be bald) a "hairless harpy" despite being naturally hairless herself.

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• Innocent Blue Eyes: They signify her youth and naïveté.
• Insignia Ripoff Ritual: In "The Wrong Jedi", her Padawan braid is taken from her when she's expelled from the Jedi Order.
• Interspecies Romance: She is a Togruta and has a love interest in the form of Lux Bonteri, who is human.
• In the Hood: While in route to the Teth Monastery, she can be seen wearing a hooded robe over her usual attire, although this is trait she never demonstrates again in the series (except when wearing a bum coat to disguise herself when framed in Coruscant and grey robe to honor the dead clones after escaping from the ship due to Order 66).
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Ahsoka can be brash and arrogant, but she is also extremely compassionate and someone you can definitely rely on. She also starts to tone down the "Jerk" part of her character and becomes more level-headed over time.
• Kid-Appeal Character: Ahsoka is this at the beginning of The Clone Wars, but she grows out of this role as the series progresses. Fittingly, the Young Jedi arc features her leading a group of these types of characters; she's a full-on Team Mom to them, demonstrating how she's matured since her first appearance.
• Knight, Knave, and Squire: She is the Squire to Obi-Wan's Knight and Anakin's Knave. She even invokes it in the pilot movie when she tells Anakin that he's the one with experience from which she looks forward to learning from.
• The Lancer: To Anakin, a role she shares with Rex and occasionally Obi-Wan.
• Laser Blade: In The Clone Wars, she wields a green-bladed lightsaber and later adds a yellow-bladed shoto to her arsenal. In the seventh season, when the lightsabers are returned to her by Anakin before the Siege of Mandalore, their blades are now blue.
• Like Brother and Sister: This is her usual dynamic with Anakin, despite being his Padawan. They also double as Platonic Life-Partners.
• Little Miss Badass: She is very young and inexperienced, but also quick-thinking and tough as nails.
• Lovely Angels: With Padmé whenever they team up in The Clone Wars and Forces of Destiny. Ahsoka is a scrappy Magic Knight, while Padmé is an elegant Badass Normal and Action Politician. They have a sisterly relationship, with teenaged Ahsoka looking up to Padmé.
• Love Triangle: She gets caught in one with Lux and Steela (an Onderon freedom fighter) during the Onderon arc.
• Male Gaze: Occasionally:
  • In "Heroes on Both Sides", Lux (and the camera) looks rather closely at Ahsoka's body from legs to head, not coincidentally serving as a demonstration of Ahsoka's recent age-up. She immediately lampshades it.
  • Throughout the Zygerrian arc, the camera shows Ahsoka's legs and stomach. Most notably, in Escape from Kadavo, the camera gives a very close view of her bare thigh.
  • Throughout season 7, several camera shots linger somewhat on Ahsoka's rear.
• Meaningful Appearance: Her Siege of Mandalore outfit futureshadows her later appearance in Rebels; her headpiece, wrist gauntlets, and skirt look similar to what she will wear in Rebels, and the patterns on her lekku have started to become jagged as well.
• Medal of Dishonor: In "The Wrong Jedi", after she's been cleared of all charges of sedition, terrorism, and murder, she is offered a chance to return to the Order and it's implied that the Jedi Council is willing to knight her for the strength and resilience she had shown throughout the whole ordeal. Since they were the ones who expelled her from the Jedi Order, this comes off as a rather rude attempt to make up for it, and she refuses to even return to the Order.
• Mid-Season Upgrade: In the middle of the series' third season, an unspecified Time Skip updates her appearance alongside most of the cast. Ahsoka also picks up Dual Wielding, pushing it into this trope.
• Mini Dress Of Power: Her first outfit consists of a truly tiny tube-top and a skirt made safe by tights. Her second outfit is also a minidress with tights, but rather more modest.
• Ms. Fanservice: All the examples of Age-Inappropriate Dress should make this abundantly clear.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: Over the course of The Clone Wars, she has displayed feats of physical strength belying her stature numerous times, such as when she defeated Cad Bane and Atai Molec, along with when she pulls up the much larger Obi-Wan while he was hanging from a cliff. It could be justified due to the Force.
• My Significance Sense Is Tingling: After her first dreams about Aurra Sing attempting to kill Padmé, she is also able to sense the danger to the senator while awake. This includes sensing Aurra's location twice, which allows her to save Padmé on both occasions.
• Nice Girl: After maturing, Ahsoka becomes a very kind and compassionate person.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
  • Thanks to her own disillusionment with the Council, she decides to not comment on the very important statements Maul had made that would potentially alert the Jedi to Anakin being manipulated. However, by keeping quiet on the whole thing, it makes her indirectly someone who allowed Order 66 and the downfall of the Jedi to happen.
  • Likewise, when Maul reveals Anakin is the key towards Sidious taking over the galaxy, she refuses to believe her old master is capable of being corrupted, and any potential alliance between her and Maul to stop Sidious falls apart right then and there. The galaxy's only chance at salvation quickly falls apart, and from that decision helps to bring about The Empire.
• The Nicknamer: She initially called Anakin "Skyguy", referred to R2 as "Artooie", and once called Rex "Rexster". She grew out of it fairly quickly.
• Noodle Incident: According to All There in the Manual regarding her headdress, those are the teeth of an akul, a large and destructive creature native to Shili. If you manage to kill one, then you get to wear its teeth as a trophy. While it makes sense for Shaak Ti to have one, one wonders how Ahsoka at the age of fourteen got hers, unless akul aren't as hard to kill as they sound or Ahsoka is that skilled.
• Not Helping Your Case: When accused of bombing the Jedi Temple and fleeing her imprisonment, Anakin pleads with her to come back with him and explain the situation to the Council. Ahsoka refuses to trust that they will handle the charges against her and goes to find out who's framing her herself. Later, when she's been recaptured the Council declines to push for special treatment for her during her trial, largely because her actions while on the run further implicated herself, and Ahsoka acts betrayed that they wouldn't trust that she's innocent. This also comes off the back of the Jedi learning Count Dooku was a Sith and more immediately Pong Krell who fell to the Dark Side without anyone even noticing which has greatly shaken the Councils ability to trust people. Despite that they still tried to keep her trial a Jedi matter before being railroaded by Tarkin who distinctly disliked the Jedi Order.
  • Working with Ventress further hurted her case due to being a known Separatist terrorist and dark side Force user.
• "Not So Different" Remark:
  • Maul compares himself to Ahsoka when the two speak on Mandalore, as the two of them have been cast out by the Jedi and Sith, respectively. Notably, Ahsoka doesn't completely reject the comparison.
  • By proxy, Ventress tells Anakin that she helped Ahsoka because the Jedi Council expelling her from the Order wasn't so different to when Dooku betrayed Ventress. Despite his initial protest, Anakin can't refute the comparison.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: Ahsoka only calls Anakin "Skyguy" twice (the pilot movie and "Downfall of a Droid"), but she rarely does it anymore and generally becomes a lot more respectful towards Anakin by the time of the series' third season. Despite this, Anakin still calls her "Snips" a lot (granted, she did pick up some of his and Obi-Wan's Deadpan Snarker tendencies).
• Platonic Life-Partners: A master/student variant with Anakin. They form a deep, sibling-like bond throughout The Clone Wars, with Ahsoka acting as one of Anakin's Morality Chains and her having a great admiration for him.
• Plucky Girl: Ahsoka has been beaten, tortured, hunted, nearly killed several times, and forced to watch several friends and allies suffer and die over the course of the Clone Wars. Yet, despite all of this, she never complains or gives up. Sadly, being betrayed and framed for sedition and murder by a close friend, abandoned by the Jedi Council, and almost sentenced to death by the Republic Court in "The Wrong Jedi" manages to break her.
• Primary-Color Champion: As Anakin's Padawan, she regularly wore predominantly red outfits which are complimented well by her blue lekku.
• Properly Paranoid: When she's framed for bombing the Jedi Temple, she's convinced no one will believe her, which is why she goes out to prove her own innocence. She's proven right; in that both the Jedi and the Republic are prepared to hang her out to dry, though the Jedi were left with little choice and unhappy about it.
• Proper Tights with a Skirt: This is the only thing that saves the skirt she wears with three of her regular outfits.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: She is the red to Barriss' blue. She even has the skin color to match.
• Rescue Romance: In "A Friend in Need", she saves Lux from being executed on Count Dooku's orders.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In "The Wrong Jedi", she declines to rejoin the Jedi Order in light of her faith in the Jedi Council being shaken by them abandoning her during her trial.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: "The Wrong Jedi" implies that she knows about Anakin and Padmé being together. This was confirmed by Filoni in an interview, although he did not specify how much she knows.
• Sexy Backless Outfit: Her second outfit combines this with a more-modest-than-usual Cleavage Window.
• She Is the King: Occasionally, the Clones will refer to her as "sir".
• Shipper on Deck: Implied. The Forces of Destiny episode "Unexpected Company" has her stating that she likes Padmé, smiles warmly when the former and Anakin share a warm embrace, tells Padmé in her own way that she knows about them by saying they make a good team, and then decides to stay on the ship to give the couple some alone time. It's implied (and later confirmed by Filoni) that she knows about the two of them.
• Shock Collar: Ahsoka is forced to wear one during the Zygerria arc. Queen Scintel uses it to subdue her when she threatens her, and Atai later uses it to torture Ahsoka after she nearly sends him falling to his death. However, after Anakin frees her, Ahsoka quickly and simply removes her Shock Collar with the Force, showing she could've done so whenever she wanted, but chose to wait until the right moment.
• Shorttank: Ahsoka is a snippy, back-sassing, little spitfire with clothes sort of befitting her rebellious attitude, but she tones down a bit by the time of the series' third season.
• Stripperiffic: Ahsoka's outfits tend to show off more skin than any other female Jedi not named Aayla Secura, with the most egregious example being her first one, which has a fourteen-year-old girl wearing a tubetop into warzones. Her slave outfit, though more modest than the comic it originated from, also shows a fair amount of skin. Even her outfit from Season 3 onwards, while covering a lot more than before, still shows off a fair amount of her back and is form-fitting to boot. It isn't until she leaves the Jedi that she dresses far more conservatively.
• Supermodel Strut: Ahsoka sometimes sways her hips as she walks.
• Tareme Eyes: She has big doe eyes with long lashes, which contrasts Bo-katan's Tsurime Eyes.
• Team Dad: Besides being a Team Mom, Ahsoka can also show a disciplinary and protective side to the younglings she escorts during the Young Jedi arc.
• Team Mom: Besides being a Team Dad, Ahsoka can also show a kind, nurturing side to the younglings she protects during the Young Jedi arc.
• Tempting Fate: She has a tendency early on in The Clone Wars to say something like "The hard part's over" when it seems they've won the day. True to formula, things always turn for the worse soon afterwards. Apparently, she has learned her lesson as she stops doing it by the second season.
• Token Non-Human: The cast of The Clone Wars as a whole has quite a few aliens, but Ahsoka is the only one in the main group.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Early episodes show her as being a reckless student and a showoff. As the series goes on, these traits are subdued and she better fits the mold of a member of the Jedi Order.
• Tranquil Fury: Occasionally:
  • After Ahsoka becomes the personal slave of the Zygerrian prime minister, she simply sits cross-legged in the cage he put her in, seemingly meditating. When he taunts her, without even opening up her eyes, she casually flicks her hand and uses the Force to nearly send him over the edge. She gets shocked for it.
  • Ahsoka is clearly furious when Maul claims that Anakin will turn to the Dark Side, and does her best to fight the former Sith.
• Trauma Conga Line: The Fugitive arc is just one emotional blow to Ahsoka after another, leading up to her resignation from the Jedi Order.
• Traumatic Haircut: As a Togruta, she doesn't have hair by default, so she can't grow a Padawan braid. Instead, she wears a braid made of beads to symbolize her status as a Jedi-in-training. Cad Bane took it from her as a trophy when he captured her. She didn't appear to be anything but mildly irritated by it, but she did make a point to take it back after his capture. Then she loses it again when the Jedi cast her out during the Fugitive Arc. This time, when she's cleared and is offered it back, she refuses.
• Uncertain Doom: The original run of The Clone Wars last sees Ahsoka leaving the Jedi Order for good after their disastrous handling of a frame job against her, with her ultimate fate in light of Order 66 left nebulous. The end of Season 1 of Rebels confirms that she did indeed survive the Great Jedi Purge.
• Undercover as Lovers: In "A Friend in Need", Ahsoka needed an excuse for why she was with Lux when he went to make a deal with the Death Watch, and she got involved. She claimed she was his betrothed.
• Unusual Eyebrows: A subversion of the "no eyebrows" category. As usual for a Togruta, the only hair on her head is her eyelashes. However, she does have eyebrow-shaped white stripes above her eyes.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Ahsoka's departure from the Jedi Order was her own personal decision after the events of the Fugitive arc saw her lose trust in herself after the Jedi Council didn’t trust her. Unfortunately, this had serious repercussions for Anakin, as she was a major Morality Chain for him; once she left, he started falling more towards the Dark Side, and we all know how that ends up.
• Vapor Wear: Her tiny tubetop, her Sexy Backless Outfit, and Bedlah Babe slave outfit are "suggesting" this.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Deconstructed in "A Friend in Need". Lux is arrested by the Separatists for accusing Dooku of murder, and Ahsoka asks Padmé for permission to rescue him. Padmé tells Ahsoka to be discreet. Ahsoka is anything but discreet, causing the extremely important diplomatic meeting to fail.
• Waif-Fu: She's a very skilled hand-to-hand combatant.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: She tries to cover it most of the time, but Anakin's acknowledgment means a lot to her, as shown in the pilot movie and when she rants about not getting any while she is corrupted by the Son in "Altar of Mortis". She finally gets it unadulterated in "The Wrong Jedi".
• What You Are in the Dark: During her confrontation with Maul on Mandalore, she considers joining him in an effort to stop Sidious, but refuses when Maul reveals his intention to kill Anakin.
• Wrongful Accusation Insurance: In "The Wrong Jedi", after she's cleared of charges of sedition and murder, no mention is made of her escaping custody, assaulting both military and civilian law enforcement, and consorting with a war criminal.
• You Shall Not Pass!: In "A Necessary Bond", Ahsoka holds up Grievous while the younglings escape onto Slave I, which is commandeered by Hondo.

Evil Ahsoka (Mortis Arc)

Evil Ahsoka

During her, Anakin, and Obi-Wan's stay on Mortis, the Son kidnaps Ahsoka and infects her with the Dark Side, turning her into a psychotically violent version of herself. She's eventually healed by the combined efforts of the Daughter and Anakin.

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• Ax-Crazy: She is disturbingly enthusiastic about the idea of murdering Anakin and Obi-Wan.
• Berserk Button: Being called "Snips" by Anakin sets her off.
• The Berserker: During her duel with Anakin and Obi-Wan, her movements lack most of their usual grace and fluidity, and her bladework is reduced to furiously slashing around.
• Blood Knight: She is very eager to duel both Anakin and Obi-Wan.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: She displays some particularly violent tendencies while under the Son's control.
• Chained by Fashion: Inverted; the Son leaves the wrist cuffs on Ahsoka, even after he had turned her, apparently for no other reason than to emphasize the point that she's under his control.
• Cute and Psycho: She's always been adorable. And adding The Dark Side to the mix, well...
• Dark Action Girl: She takes on Anakin and Obi-Wan simultaneously. Even considering that the two older Jedi were clearly holding back since they didn't want to hurt her, she still did rather well against them.
• Death Is Cheap: The Son kills her once she served her purpose, but she's brought Back from the Dead by the Daughter, who renews her life via a Heroic Sacrifice.
• The Dragon: To the Son, at least until she outlives her usefulness and/or Anakin turns to the Dark Side.
• Dual Wielding: Her fight against Anakin and Obi-Wan is the first time Ahsoka is shown using both of her lightsabers.
• Evil Feels Good: When Anakin tells her that she isn't being herself, she claims, with an ecstatic voice and gesture, that "I feel more like myself than I ever have!"
• Evil Is Hammy: She acts very theatrically when she speaks to Anakin before their duel. She even throws in a bit of The Fake Cutie and Deliberately Cute Child.
• Evil Laugh: She chuckles when she relays the Son's threat to kill her to Anakin.
• Evil Makes You Monstrous: After the Son corrupts her, her eyes turn Sith-yellow and gain creepy shadows around them, her skin gains a grayish undertone, and the blood vessels all over her body become highly visible.
• Face–Monster Turn: The Son turns her to the Dark Side by biting her arm, making the case a mix between Brainwashed and Crazy, The Dark Side Will Make You Forget and Demonic Possession, and it came with a shocking change of personality.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Anakin tries to talk her out from under the Son's influence, but to no avail.
• Psychotic Smirk: Gives a rather devious one after successfully stealing the Dagger of Mortis and preparing to hand it over to the Son.
• Rage Against the Mentor: She calls out Anakin because she feels he doesn't really trust and believe in her.
• Slasher Smile: When Obi-Wan joins Anakin, she grins, claiming that two Jedi will be a more adequate challenge.
• Smug Snake: She is extremely overconfident about her chances against Anakin, who was holding back and still manages to ward her off, and who takes a moment to lampshade it.
  Anakin: Getting a little ahead of yourself, aren't you, Snips?
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: Her irises turning yellow is a sign that she's under the influence of The Dark Side.
• Surpassed the Teacher: Foreshadows the fateful final confrontation between Anakin and Obi-Wan themselves when, after she momentarily knocks Anakin's lightsaber out of his hand, she exclaims that "Now the student will kill the Master!" Anakin easily gets back his lightsaber and blocks her attack, warning her that she's getting carried away, before easily disarming her.
• Tainted Veins: As a result of her corruption, she has prominent black veins, especially noticeable on her lekku.
• Voice of the Legion: When Obi-Wan reveals that he has the Dagger, she demands he hand it over with both her own voice and the Son's.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After she hands over the Dagger of Mortis to him, the Son kills her with a tap on her forehead.

Tropes from the Rebellion & New Republic era

Ahsoka Tano (Fulcrum)

"One chapter has closed for you. This is a new day, a new beginning."

After escaping from Mandalore, Ahsoka wandered the galaxy for a year, staying in hiding from the Empire while attempting to offer some aid to those who stood against it. After killing the Inquisitor known as the Sixth Brother during the Uprising on Raada, Ahsoka joined forces with Senator Bail Organa to help create a rebel network. Taking the codename "Fulcrum", she became the head of the network's intelligence service.

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• Ambiguous Gender: Hera does not use any pronouns to refer to Fulcrum, and the way the voice is modulated disguises her gender. Even the voice actress goes uncredited in her first few appearances. Fulcrum's holo-comm appearance in "Rebel Resolve", though still hidden by a cloak, has less distortion and a definite female tone to her voice. She appears in person in the Season 1 finale, revealing herself to be Ahsoka Tano.
• Ambiguous Situation:
  • In-Universe, she correctly feared that Darth Vader was Anakin, but she had her doubts that it was the case due to the faith she placed in her master. When the two finally meet face-to-face, his own words initially debunk her suspicions that the two are one and the same and she swears to avenge him. But then she cuts his mask, putting all her doubts to rest and subverting this trope.
  • Darth Vader leaves her marooned on Malachor. What happened to her after that is unclear, but Topps cards drawn by Filoni suggested she was in some sort of mental underworld, a limbo. Her fate is finally confirmed in the episode "A World Between Worlds", where it shows that Ezra used the space-time manipulation powers of the ancient Jedi Temple to save her before she was swallowed up by the collapse. In other words, Vader didn't maroon her — he thought that she was dead, and would have killed her had it not been for Ezra's intervention.
  • Her voice-over cameo in The Rise of Skywalker, being among several voices of Jedi that had been confirmed to have died, left some worried about her fate. However, Dave Filoni has implied that just because she was heard by Rey does not mean that she was dead at that point in time.
• Armor-Piercing Question: She dissuades Mando from going to visit Grogu in The Book of Boba Fett by asking if he's doing so for the child's sake or his own.
• Art-Shifted Sequel: Her appearance in Rebels has various changes from her appearance in The Clone Wars, even accounting for age. The blue stripes on her horns and head-tails are thinner and wavy, the markings on her cheeks extend further up to be level with her eyes, her eye markings are extended to just below her eyes, and her forehead markings are wider. This is especially noticeable if you compare her appearance in Rebels with the appearance of a vision Ahsoka had of an older version of herself in "Overlords".
• Back for the Finale:
  • In Rebels. Her survival is explained in "A World Between Worlds", and she subsequently makes a cameo in the series finale.
  • In The Rise of Skywalker, Rey hears her voice during the final battle. Alongside Kanan Jarrus, they make the only two characters that originated in an animated series to "appear" in a Skywalker Saga film.
• Bait-and-Switch: In the last minutes of "Fire Across the Galaxy", it initially appears as though Bail Organa was behind the identity... and then the actual Fulcrum, Ahsoka Tano, shows up as his hologram dissipates.
• Big Good: Serves as this to the Ghost crew before losing to Vader on Malachor. She's a spymaster working with a number of rebel cells and coordinating their efforts.
• Break His Heart to Save Him: A non-romantic example, but in The Book of Boba Fett, she talks Mando out of going to see Grogu. It hurts him to do so, but she insists its better for the boy's training (though she does agree to pass on the gift he had made for him).
• Broken Bird: While she was a proud and accomplished Jedi during the Clone Wars, she has since become disillusioned with their teachings and is more of a Heroic Neutral now, and is somewhat of a loner thanks to most of the people she was close to dying. She also has a lot of hangups over leaving the Jedi and Anakin in particular, which especially haunt her through Darth Vader.
• Broken Pedestal: The revelation that Anakin had become Darth Vader, a man responsible for millions of deaths, whose primary mission is slaughtering the same Jedi they both grew up among really hits her hard. Things only get worse when she is faced with the realization that he holds absolutely no reservations about doing the same to her.
• The Bus Came Back: Ahsoka officially returned in Rebels two whole years after her final appearance in "The Wrong Jedi".^note Not counting a cameo appearance in a vision in "Sacrifice".
• The Call Knows Where You Live: Ahsoka tried keeping out of the way after Order 66, but the Inquisitors kept hunting her.
• The Cameo: Her voice is among the many of Jedi past that call out to Rey before her final battle with Darth Sidious in The Rise of Skywalker.
• The Cavalry: After Chopper calls her for help, she shows up piloting the Ghost with three Corellian Corvettes as backup just in time to cover the Ghost crew's escape.
• Code Name: Fulcrum is a code name intended to keep her identity a secret. While the Imperials know of her, they have no idea who she is.
• Combat Pragmatist: In "Twilight of the Apprentice", while Vader is focused on trying to rip the Sith holocron from Ezra's grip, Ahsoka silently ambushes him from behind, tackling him, and managing to cut off part of his faceplate.
• Cool Sword: Her new lightsabers are designed after katanas, including a slightly curved hilt, to better fit with her new Roninesque design, and their blades are white to reflect her separation from the Jedi Order.
• Connected All Along: The Book of Boba Fett reveals she does know Luke Skywalker personally, and drops by to visit.
• Cunning Linguist: In "Twilight of the Apprentice", she recognizes the script found on Malachor.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • She easily beat the Fifth Brother and the Seventh Sister simultaneously during their first encounter. This doubles as a Big Damn Heroes moment.
  • Later on in The Mandalorian, she wipes out Magistrate Elsbeth's security forces so quickly that it's more like a scene out of a horror movie than a straight-up fight. Her later duel with the Magistrate herself is more even-handed... until Ahsoka recognizes Elsbeth's skill in combat and stops holding back, after which it's over in moments.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Her Mook Horror Show moment in The Mandalorian would lead the audience to believe she's a terrifying figure who stalks the night, and wears a darker uniform than she did in her younger days. That said, she's firmly on the side of the good guys, albeit on her own path.
• David Versus Goliath: She's grown up since her Clone Wars days. So has Vader, so to speak. The featurette on the Rebels Season 2 Blu-ray set has Dave Filoni referencing the irony of Anakin teaching her to fight larger opponents.
• Defector from Decadence: She quit the Jedi Order after being mistreated by the Jedi Council, and the event apparently shook her enough that when she built a pair of new lightsabers during the events of Ahsoka, they had white blades to symbolize her lack of affiliation with the Order.
• Deus Exit Machina:
  • Ahsoka's departure from the group after her duel with Vader ends up as the point where everything gets much grimmer even with Vader no longer hunting the Ghost anymore. Maul is effectively unstoppable in the few times the heroes get to fight him without her until he finally meets and is killed by Obi-Wan once and for all. Thrawn, an excellent veteran general but otherwise normal with no Force powers or any spectacular combat skills, ends up handing the Ghost a quite severe defeat at the end of the third season. Had she still been around, there would have been much less tension with Maul and as a veteran of the Clone Wars, she probably could have handled Thrawn better than the others did, displaying exactly how the loss of their most powerful and experienced member had keenly affected the Ghost's efficiency.
  • She returns in the fourth season only when Palpatine is the enemy, and plays the primary role to holding him from entering the World Between Worlds. Afterwards, she is left stranded on the same planet where she fought Vader, having escaped the World Between Worlds she was taken to after Ezra saved her. This yet again deprives the Ghost of the aid of a fully seasoned, Jedi Master level, fighter, giving the final battle in Lothal the amount of tension it needs for Ezra to perform his Heroic Sacrifice.
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": Inverted. When she makes her first full appearance to the crew of the Ghost, she insists on being called by her real name—Ahsoka Tano—over her codename. Her codename is still used on occasion, however.
• Eccentric Mentor: Downplayed, but her approach to teaching Sabine the Jedi ways isn't entirely conventional, though Huyang notes she's from a line of unorthodox Jedi teachers.
• Exact Words: When Vader claims he destroyed Anakin, Ahsoka vows to avenge his death. Vader retorts that "revenge is not the Jedi way," to which she responds thusly:
  Ahsoka: I am no Jedi.
• Experienced Protagonist: In Ahsoka, she has over three decades of Jedi experience, including three years as an active front-line combatant in the Clone Wars and fifteen years as a Rebel spymaster, and she brings this all to bear in the fight against Thrawn.
• Foil: To Kanan in Rebels.
  • They both fought in the Clone Wars, but she was a veteran of several years and had reached the skill and power to earn the rank of Jedi Knight (though partly motivated by the council's guilt over handing her over to Tarkin for trial), whereas Kanan had only fought briefly before Order 66 and was a Padawan learner when the Republic fell.
  • Further, she spent the intervening 15 years continuing to use the Force and fight the Empire, while he spent the years in hiding, doing everything he could to keep his Force use at the bare minimum.
  • Finally, she still refuses to call herself a Jedi, while Kanan is all too happy to return to the fold.
• Good Counterpart: To Gall Trayvis, who was baiting Rebel cells with false intel. Ahsoka's aid is genuinely helpful, though cryptic.
• Heroic BSoD: Upon making a mental link with Darth Vader, she screams in horror before passing out.
• Hero of Another Story:
  • Her role in the first two seasons of Rebels is meant to compliment the story of the Ghost crew, as opposed to overtaking it.
  • In The Mandalorian, she's still on her own adventure searching for Grand Admiral Thrawn as a result of the end of Rebels, but crosses paths with the Mandalorian when he seeks someone to train the Child in the ways of the Force.
  • She stops by to visit Luke in The Book of Boba Fett, but it's not established why other than she's a friend of the family.
• Honorary Aunt: While she's not in the Ghost crew's primary circle, she and Ezra share a strong bond. She also serves as one to Luke, having served as Anakin's padawan.
  Ahsoka: ... just like your father.
• Ink-Suit Actor: Her Rebels appearance is based on her voice actor, Ashley Eckstein, though The Mandalorian and subsequent live-action entries have overruled this with the casting of Rosario Dawson.
• It's All My Fault:
  • "Shroud of Darkness" suggests that, on some level, Ahsoka blames herself for Anakin becoming Darth Vader. It's the reason she refuses to train Grogu, as she fears his attachment to Din Djarin leaves him vulnerable to the dark side, and won't allow history to repeat itself.
  • "The Jedi The Witch And The Warlord" also reveals that she stopped training Sabine Wren because of this as well. Ahsoka feared that Sabine was training for the wrong reasons, to avenge her fallen family.
• Knowledge Broker: Spymaster. Gives information to various Rebel groups.
• Lady of War: She takes a moment to meditate in the middle of a battle before effortlessly defeating the Seventh Sister. She's even (sarcastically) addressed as "Lady Tano" by Maul in Rebels.
• Laser Blade: Ahsoka's new lightsabers have curved hilts, and emit white light instead of the green and yellow combination she had previously.
• Light Is Good: Wields two white lightsabers and is a firmly heroic character. Also, in her appearance in the Rebels finale, she wears a white cloak and wields a white staff.
• Locked Out of the Loop: There's no indication she knew about Obi-Wan's survival or his and Yoda's plan with Bail to hide the Skywalker twins. She briefly encounters Yoda one final time during the events of Rebels, though they don't say anything outside of exchanging a meaningful look at each other. And in The Book of Boba Fett we see that she and Luke know each other and that she knows Anakin is Luke's father, but how and when she learned that is still unknown.
• Master Swordswoman: Her dueling skills have clearly improved with time, as she easily curb-stomps two Inquisitors sent after Kanan and Ezra. Even though she's mostly on the backfoot against Vader during their duel, she still manages to occupy him for far longer than any other Rebel fighter at the time, given that he was considered a nigh-unstoppable force up to that point. During her eponymous series, set several years after Rebels, she's continued to up her game. Only an Old Master (Baylan) is able to provide her any real challenge.
• Meaningful Name: A fulcrum is something that plays a central role in an activity, event, or situation, but which doesn't itself provide the necessary force. Appropriate for someone who organizes Rebel cells while remaining hidden.
• A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: In "The Siege of Lothal", she joins the Ghost crew in their attempt to stop Vader from destroying the rest of Phoenix Squadron. When she realises that the pilot of the lone TIE is a Force-sensitive, she and Kanan use the Force together to try and probe him. She's so thoroughly horrified when she and Vader mutually recognise each other that she faints.
• Mook Horror Show: Performs this trope in the opening minutes of her Mandalorian appearance. About twenty guards are hunting her in a forest. None survive her, most don't even see her coming and only one or two even get a shot off before falling to her blades.
• Mysterious Employer: Hera is the only member of the Ghost's crew who has met Fulcrum in person, an arrangement insisted upon by the latter. After the events of the Season 1 finale, however, that pretense is abandoned.
• Mythology Gag:
  • Although she's never referred to as such, Ahsoka is the first Force-sensitive character in the new canon who shows characterization of the then-canon "Grey Jedi" from Legends, by virtue of being a former Jedi follower who distances herself from the Jedi Order and operates outside the strictures of the Jedi Code.
  • In current canon she most closely fits a Jedi Wayseeker who were Jedi that operated independently of the Jedi High Council and kept to themselves.
• The Needs of the Many: Ahsoka (at this point, "Fulcrum") tells Hera to abandon Kanan after he gets captured, arguing that the security around him is too tight, and any rescue attempt would most likely cost the rest of their crew. When Hera takes the crew in anyway and Chopper calls for help, she personally intervenes to rescue them.
• Nice Girl: Ahsoka has grown into a truly wise and helpful person in this age.
• Noodle Incident: It's unclear when and under what circumstances she met Luke.
• Older and Wiser: Ahsoka spent a lot of The Clone Wars asking questions; now, as an adult, she is the one answering them. She even provides some guidance to Luke Skywalker himself in regards to training Grogu.
• Older Is Better: Ahsoka wears Jedi armor from the era of the Old Republic that she found in an abandoned Jedi temple.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: Ahsoka is an extremely talented "Non-Jedi", but compared to Sidious, he's so out of her league the only thing she can do when she finds him is run for her life.
• Out of the Frying Pan: This happens to her throughout the course of "Twilight of the Apprentice" and "A World Between Worlds". First, Ahsoka finds herself fighting a couple Inquisitors alongside Kanan and Ezra, but then her path crosses with that of former Sith Lord Maul. After all the Inquisitors present on Malachor are dead, Maul soon betrays the heroes and blinds Kanan, forcing Ahsoka to again fight Maul, after she fought him 16 years ago during the Siege of Mandalore. After withdrawing from the fight against Maul, she then finds herself intervening in a conflict between Ezra and Darth Vader. After saving Ezra from her former master's wrath, Ahsoka fights Vader as the Sith Temple collapses around them, but is saved from certain death when the future Ezra Bridger pulls her into the World Between Worlds. As if it weren't bad enough that Vader almost killed her, her troubles only get worse when Darth Sidious opens a portal behind her and Ezra and promptly begins chasing the two of them across the dimension with blue flames conjured by Sith alchemy. From her perspective, she basically contended with Maul, Vader, and Sidious within the span of a single day.
• Poor Communication Kills: What leads her to becoming Fulcrum is realizing that the reason so many of her friends died on Raada was because of her unwillingness to share information. She also muses that the Jedi may have been saved if Bariss had a better way to voice her concerns about the state of the Republic. At the end of her solo book, she decides that she will personally ensure no more people die because of a lack of information and trust.
• Power Nullifier: She was able to deactivate the Seventh Sister's lightsaber with the Force.
• Pragmatic Adaptation: Her lekku are shorter than expected in her live-action appearance compared to her animated appearance around the same time period. Longer lekku would have been too bulky and cumbersome, especially with all the stunts her actress and doubles perform. They are a bit longer in The Book of Boba Fett.
  • Pre-release screenshots for her own series revealed that the lekku headpiece had received a major redesign, now almost reaching her waist, with darker-colored and more numerous stripes, as well as slightly taller montrals. She still doesn't quite match up with her animated appearance, however, Episode 5 features a young Ahsoka, and the appearance of her lekku has been altered to find a sort of middle ground between animated and live-action, which is especially noticeable during the Siege of Mandalore. Here, her lekku only reach her chest as opposed to her abs and her montrals are much shorter than they were in the respective Clone Wars episode.
• Put on a Bus: She's largely absent from the first half of Season 2 of Rebels due to her search for answers regarding Darth Vader.
• Reconstruction: Of being a Force user. The logical conclusion to a Jedi being conflicted tends to end up with them falling to the Dark Side. Ahsoka is a reconstruction of being a Force user; while she's no longer a Jedi, she's firmly on the Light Side of the Force, and operates on her own code which tends to be a bit more flexible than the Jedi's. In the end, she's ultimately an ally to the Ghost crew and the Rebellion.
• Refusal of the Call: Played with; she refused to train Grogu because of his attachment to Din Djarin. Later, she ultimately reveals that in the end, Grogu simply didn't want her to.
• Retired Badass: Averted. Despite leaving the Jedi Order, she's been active in the Rebellion almost since the start of the Empire. Maul mockingly refers to her as a "part-timer" at one point based on her loose affiliation to the Jedi.
• The Reveal: "Fulcrum" is unveiled as Ahsoka Tano in "Fire Across the Galaxy".
• Rōnin: A sworn warrior, betrayed by her former master, now Walking the Earth, serving justice in the fight against the Empire. Thrawn even explicitly refers to her as one shortly before he jumps to hyperspace and strands her in the other galaxy.
• Run the Gauntlet: She faces one, complete with Sorting Algorithm of Evil, during her stay on Malachor. First she fights the Inquisitors, then Maul, then Vader, and when Ezra saves her, she faces Palpatine. She doesn't win the latter two fights, but survives.
• Samurai: According to Dave Filoni, this was his primary influence in overseeing her redesign. Further evolving this, her appearance in The Mandalorian depicts her very much like a Rōnin.
• Secret-Keeper: As of Season 2 of Rebels, she's one of the few people to know that Darth Vader is actually Anakin Skywalker.
• Shockwave Clap: It's hard to notice, but in her fight against the Seventh Sister, Ahsoka doesn't actually use the standard Force-push to finish off the fight, rather she just claps her hands together.
• Shout-Out: Her place in the story bears a distinct resemblance to Gandalf, as an older mentor figure with her own plotline and personal connections to the Big Bad, supposedly dying holding off an enemy, and is brought back to aid the heroes. Her last outfit in Rebels is as blatant as it gets, being a white hooded cloak with a staff similar to Gandalf the White.
• Sigil Spam: Fulcrum's logo is seen on the cargo that Hera and Sabine pick up in "Out of Darkness". It resembles Ahsoka's forehead markings, and serves as the first big hint at Fulcrum's identity.
• Sparing the Final Mook: While Storming the Castle in The Mandalorian episode "The Jedi", she disarms a mook during the middle of the action. When she turns her attention back to him later, said mook is clearly uneasy that she might kill him on the spot, but she lets him go instead.
• Stable Time Loop: How she survives the battle with Vader, combined with Time Travel Escape. She pushes Ezra to safety while seemingly sacrificing herself. Ezra could be said to knowingly or unknowingly, consciously or unconsciously have an I Owe You My Life or life-debt situation with Ahsoka. Two years in the future, an older Ezra (who has now accessed the World Between Worlds), guided by Morai, manages to rescue her just as Vader is about to kill her and the temple is collapsing (repaying the life-debt). However, after escaping Palpatine, she decides to return back to her time stream, albeit shortly after the temple collapses, hence the shot of her walking into the temple at the end of "Twilight of the Apprentice".
• Statuesque Stunner:
  • As an adult, Ahsoka stands at 1.88 meters tall (6'2), towering over most of the men in the series. This is in contrast to her earlier depiction of usually being the shortest of the group due to her youth.
  • This height takes her montrals (horns), which project beyond her skull, into account. This is why in Rebels she is still shown to be shorter than Rex, who is officially 6'. Removing this additional height would still place her around 5'10 - 5'11, which is quite statuesque.
  • Averted with her live-action incarnation, who is played by the 5'6 Rosario Dawson, with no attempt made to make Dawson look any taller than her real-life height.
• Story-Breaker Power: invokedWord of God clarifies this is why Ahsoka as part of the Ghost crew rarely fights herself: By the time of the Rebellion, her skills have grown so much that she is the only person who is truly capable of threatening the Sith Lords, as displayed by her reaching another stalemate with Maul, who is never fought seriously again afterwards, with the indication she would have won had the fight continued, and then putting up a remarkable fight against Darth Vader. Vader and Palpatine are pretty much the only villains active at the time who can reliably handle her, and among the active heroes she is only matched by Obi-Wan and Yoda. The only other time she fights is when she utterly destroys the Inquisitors, some time having passed since they handed Kanan and Ezra their asses, because having her would mean there was no tension at all, apart from when she has to fight. Ultimately, she is left unavailable to be relied on by the end of the second season, with her fight with Vader having been intended to be the last, in which she does much better than almost anyone else in the entire franchise but Kenobi and Luke, effectively depriving the Ghost of their single greatest warrior, so as to balance the remaining seasons where Vader is not an active enemy anymore. When she does get brought back into the picture, she is reserved specially yet again for people who are way too much for the other heroes, where she and Ezra face the Emperor in the World Between Worlds, being the only one at the time capable of even holding off Palpatine and ultimately the first in leaving. And afterwards, she remains away from the heroes until everything has settled, obviously ensuring that she can't lend any overpowered help for the final battles. It also ultimately explains why such a powerful ally never met with Luke Skywalker when he needed assistance in his Force Training.
• Survivor Guilt: She feels this in Ahsoka in the aftermath of Order 66, and again in Rebels when learning of Anakin's fate. Comes with being the Last of Her Kind.
• Took a Level in Kindness: After her Character Development, Ahsoka is much more wise, humble and gentle then she was at the start of The Clone Wars.
• Uncertain Doom: The end of Season 2 of Rebels leaves her locked in a Duel to the Death with Darth Vader, with her fate remaining nebulous. The middle of Season 4 shows her surviving and escaping with the aid of a time-traveling Ezra, and the series finale shows she ends up outliving Vader in the end.
• Unexpected Character: In-Universe, she shows up in The Book of Boba Fett to visit Luke—coincidentally at the same time Mando had stopped by to visit Grogu. He admits he had no idea she was coming.
• The Voice: Before she was revealed, Ahsoka, using the codename, "Fulcrum", only communicates through audio transmissions using a mechanically distorted voice. A private transmission to Hera using the holo-comm was done using an avatar of a cloaked figure.
• Walking the Earth: After leaving the Jedi behind, she enters the wider galaxy seeking a purpose. She finds it in Rebels as Fulcrum, and in The Mandalorian in her search for Thrawn (and Ezra).
• We Used to Be Friends: Between the end of Rebels and the time period of Ahsoka, she tried mentoring Sabine as a Jedi, which didn't go very well, nor did Ahsoka's taking off. The reunion between the two is decidedly frosty even before the emotional pot-shots start, thanks to Sabine's abandonment issues, and Ahsoka doubling down on the stoicism, making Sabine feel unwanted.
• World's Strongest Woman: As of the end of Return of the Jedi, due to all of her seniors in terms of experience (Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Sidious, Anakin Skywalker) ending the film either dead or incapacitated and two of the only other confirmed survivors of the pre-Empire Jedi Order (Naq Med and Grogu) being Incompletely Trained, Ahsoka is a top contender for the title of most powerful Force-wielder alive and active in the galaxy. Only Luke Skywalker can seriously contest this, and it should be noted she's got approximately fourteen years of experience on him.
• The Worf Effect: She easily curbstomps a pair of Inquisitors that, effectively, curbstomped Kanan and Ezra. She later gives Hero Killer Darth Vader one of the toughest duels he's ever had, even cutting his mask, although it's later revealed that he was moments away from killing her.
• Worthy Opponent: What Darth Vader considers her as.
• You Are Not Alone:
  • She tells Ezra and the others that they aren't the only Rebel cell in the Galaxy — as her escorts demonstrate. She also notes that the people of Lothal did get their message.
  • A more tragic version occurs during her fight with Darth Vader, after she damages his mask and respirator and he calls her by name without the distortion of his voice, so he sounds like Anakin again. Seeing him stand there and look conflicted, she declares that she won't leave him behind again, even when he goes on the attack again.
  • When Ezra is tempted to use the World Between Worlds to save Kanan, Ahsoka tells him she understands what she's asking him to do, as she can't save her master either. This convinces him to let Kanan go.
• "You!" Exclamation: When R2 sees her in The Book of Boba Fett and wakes up a sleeping Din, he exclaims this to her.
• You Shall Not Pass!: Performs one on Darth Vader so Ezra and Kanan can escape. Luckily enough, she's rescued by Ezra pulling her into the World Between Worlds.

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"In my experience, just when you think you understand the Force, you find out how little you actually know."