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!Separatist Leadership
[[folder: Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus]]
!!Count Dooku[=/=]Darth Tyranus
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->'''Played by:''' ChristopherLee (Ep.II-III)
A former Jedi who left the order due to philosophical differences, Count Dooku became Darth Sidious' second apprentice, taking on the name Darth Tyranus. Bringing together the Trade Federation, the Intergalactic Banking Clan, the Corporate Alliance, the weaponeers of Genosis and sundry others, Dooku forged the Confederacy of Independent Systems, with himself as their public face. Determined to build a new order on the remnants of the Republic, Dooku is the one thing that keeps the Separatists together.
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* AristocratsAreEvil
* AwesomeMcCoolName: "Darth Tyranus". All Sith Lords come with this.
* BadassBaritone
* BadassCape: Always wears his armourweave cape.
* BadassGrandpa: ChristopherLee was well into his 80s when he filmed the role.
* BastardUnderstudy: To Darth Sidious.
* BeardOfEvil
* BigBad: Subverted. Similar to Vader, he's the most prominent villain in Episode II, but is subservient to Darth Sidious.
** BigBadWannabe: Intended to kill Sidious at some point in the future and take over the Sith Order- [[DoomedByCanon he fails]].
* BrokenPedestal: To the Jedi Order as a whole.
* CassandraTruth: He actually tells Obi-Wan the truth about Darth Sidious, but Obi-Wan refuses to buy it (as do the Jedi Council).
* CastingGag: It's probably not an accident that he's played by Christopher Lee, who was previously best known as one of HammerHorror's two leading men; Hammer's ''other'' leading man was Creator/PeterCushing, who played Grand Moff Tarkin in [[Film/ANewHope the 1977 original]].
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Betrayed the Jedi Order for the Sith, and proceeded to wage a campaign of murder and assassination against them all, despite many of them being his close friends. In the EU, regardless of the version, he ultimately betrays his apprentice Asajj Ventress, and as per Sith tradition is conspiring against his master Sidious (which doesn't work out). The Separatist movement itself is one giant con too.
* CombatAestheticist: He chose his fighting style for it's grace and beauty, mixed with deadly effectiveness.
* CoolBike: His hoverbike from ''Attack of the Clones''.
* CoolOldGuy: Yes, he is. Awesomeness, thy name is ChristopherLee
* CoolStarship: His solar sailer.
* CoolSword: The curved-hilt lightsaber allows for a more fencing-like fighting style and is designed to have an advantage in saberfights (due to the unique angles) at the expense of being harder to use to block blaster bolts.
* TheDarkSide
* DarthVaderClone: The "fallen hero betrayed by the Emperor" aspect - and unlike the actual Vader, the Emperor gets away with it.
* DeathByIrony: Gets killed by his successor, the same man Dooku completely disregarded as an unworthy Jedi. The real kicker is despite his disrespect towards Anakin, Dooku's master was conditioning Anakin to take his place the entire time.
** The novelization has him planning to betray the the Separatists and thinking "Deceit is the way of the Sith". Those became his last thoughts once he realized what Sidious really had planned.
* DependingOnTheWriter: His death. In ''ROTS'', although he does have some fear when he learns of Palpatine's betrayal, he nonetheless remained DefiantToTheEnd right up until Anakin beheads him. In the novelization, however, he panics on realizing [[TheUriahGambit Sidious is going to let him die]] and starts pleading for mercy.
** According to [[WordOfGod Christopher Lee]], the novelization's take was actually originally going to be in the film, but he had convinced Lucas to change it, as he felt that Dooku would not have begged for his life like a coward.
* DespotismJustifiesTheMeans: Seeks to create a galactic empire that will bring order to the universe and power to himself. Doesn't care what methods he has to use to do it.
* TheDragon: To Darth Sidious.
** TheHeavy: In Episode II.
* EvilBrit: Well, he's played by a Brit.
* EvilGloating: This backfires on him spectacularly during his last duel with Anakin, where it only serves to make him madder and more aggressive.
* EvilOldFolks: Eighty-three at the time of his death.
* EvilSoundsDeep: It's ChristopherLee, what did you expect?
* FallenHero
* FauxAffablyEvil
* HeroKiller: As shown by the CurbstompBattle he dishes out in the second film.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The red lightsaber he's using is turned against him by Anakin, who uses both his own and Dooku's to kill him.
* InterimVillain: Mostly as part of Sidious' EvilPlan. Details can be found on the page itself.
* LetsFightLikeGentlemen: Has some aspects of this, as indicated by his insistence in both films on confronting Anakin and Obi-Wan by himself, and the fencing salute he gives Yoda before their duel.
* MasterApprenticeChain: As stated in his introduction, Obi-Wan and Anakin are directly down the chain from him. He also seems to take some pride from this, too; he is still very proud of Qui-Gonn, genuinely likes Obi-Wan (though won't hesitate to kill him), but views Anakin as a [[DramaticIrony completely unworthy successor]]. He doesn't seem to have an opinion of [[StarWarsTheCloneWars Ahsoka]] one way or the other, though.
* MasterSwordsman: Is able to take down both Obi-Wan and Anakin, and holds his own against Yoda. Plus being able to train General Grievous into such a powerful swordsman that he was able to slay Jedi in single combat [[BadassNormal without the Force.]]
* MeaningfulName: ChristopherLee points out in an interview with the StarWars monthly magazine that "Dooku" is a homonym for the Japanese word ''doku'', which means "venom."
** DubNameChange: In Brazil, he is known as Count Dookan, because "du Cu" means "out of the ass" in Portuguese.
* ModestRoyalty: He's a Count, but his dress is quite simple, in comparison with other royals in StarWars setting.
* MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours: Says this to Yoda during their confrontation.
-->I have become more powerful than any Jedi. Even ''you''.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Never trust a man named "Tyranus".
* OffWithHisHead: After defeating him, Anakin decapitates him scissors-style at Palpatine's urging.
* OminousOperaCape
* TheParagonAlwaysRebels: Used to be one of the Order's finest Knights. Yoda says Count Dooku was his finest student and one of the greatest Jedi, but then he turned to the Dark Side. There is also the fact that his negotiations caused several THOUSAND star systems to break off from the Republic, meaning that he plays this trope straight, taking a good number of the systems in the Republic for the Confederacy and causing many systems who would otherwise just be part of the Republic to break off. They were convinced by the Count that the Republic is too corrupt to be repaired, and the Count even tries to persuade Padme that they have to start over.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The novelization has him happy that the Separtists are largely alien in membership, for it was his (and he thought Sidious') plan to be 'captured' by the Republic, then be reformed and turn against the 'alien menace'. He fully expected a human dominated Empire to rise from it.
* PragmaticVillainy: He retreats from the Battle of Geonosis once he realizes he can't win (having accomplished his goals anyway, since it's a FalseFlagOperation) and also flees rather than try to defeat Yoda after their duel becomes a stalemate.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: He's a Count of his home planet Serenno. [[WellIntentionedExtremist And he's trying to purge the galaxy of corrupt politicians]]. [[AristocratsAreEvil Or not]]. [[DependingOnTheWriter Opinions differ]]. But the former is much more possible than the latter.
* ShadowArchetype: Of Anakin/Vader. A former Jedi who left the Order due to disagreements in philosophies.
* ShockAndAwe
* UnwittingPawn: To Palpatine.
* UriahGambit: Falls hard for one in the early part of ''Revenge of the Sith'.
* VillainousBreakdown: Has a brief one after Anakin chops off his hands and he realizes that Sidious wants him dead. [[spoiler: Then he gets beheaded.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: In the EU at least, and for the first part of ''Attack of the Clone'' as far as his former fellow Jedi are concerned; in the eyes of many, on both sides of the conflict, Dooku is a charismatic idealist crusading against the very real corruption endemic in the Republic, and all the more overtly villainous characters in the Separatist movement are simply the allies he's stuck with, and the atrocities they commit are done without his approval. Neither is true; although its implied he is against the corruption his idea to weed it out is to set up a sprawling galactic dictatorship, and far from disapproving of those atrocities he usually ''instigates'' them, and is more than happy to blame them on the Republic.
* WeaponOfChoice: A curved-hilt red lightsaber.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Made clearer in the EU. In AOTC, none of this is actually shown, as he spends his choice few scenes plotting how to best extort the Republic for...something, presiding over a flashy execution, and fighting Jedi. His political beliefs, his ultimate goals, etc. are given zero elaboration. Even his reasons for joining the Sith are never actually explained within the films themselves.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In ''RevengeOfTheSith''.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: General Grievous]]
!!General Grievous
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->'''Voiced by:''' Matthew Wood (Ep. III)
Once a Kaleeshi general, Grievous was rebuilt as a cyborg following an a shuttle "accident" suffered while in service to the Intergalactic Banking Clan. Presented to Dooku as a gift by San Hill and Poggle the Lesser, Grievous was granted the title of Supreme Commander of the Droid Armies, and launched a galaxy wide reign of terror that would make him one of the most infamous war criminals in recorded history. Trained in lightsabre combat by Dooku himself, and far stronger and faster than any human, Grievous would also become one of the war's most prolific and effective Jedi hunters, outstripping even the likes of Asajj Ventress and Durge in number of kills.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Grievous was interpreted as an extremely lethal HeroKiller in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'', which was released well before ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' was even released in theatres.
* AlliterativeName
* {{Badass}}: He's usually this or getting [[TheWorfEffect Worfed]]. [[DependingOnTheWriter Depends on who's writing, really.]]
** FourStarBadass
* BattleTrophy: How he got his lightsabers.
* BerserkButton: In the ExpandedUniverse, he goes nuts whenever someone mistakes him for [[MechaMooks another mindless droid]].
* BlackKnight
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Somewhat. Grievous was never a nice guy, but the Genosians tampered with his brain chemistry in order to make him into the sociopathic killer we all know and love.
* CanonImmigrant
* CombatPragmatist: During the first animated series he appeared in, Dooku explicitly trains Grievous to fight like this: he's supposed to use surprise, fear, intimidation, and power to overwhelm his opponents, and to flee when that doesn't work.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: A deliberate version. The computers slaved to Grievous' brain stripped what little empathy he had away.
* {{Cyborg}}
* DarthVaderClone: The cyborg with breathing problems, undone by his reliance on machines.
* TheDragon: To Dooku, following Jango and [[VideoGame/StarWarsGalacticBattlegrounds Sev'Rance Tann's]] deaths, Durge's defeat, and Ventress' exit.
* DragonAscendant: Subverted. When Count Dooku is killed, the Jedi ''think'' Grievous has become this when in reality he has just become Sidious's Dragon instead.
* DualWielding: Always uses at least two lightsabres and, by splitting his hands, can use up to four.
* EvilCripple: All that's left of Grievous are his internal organs, his brain, and some of his face. That's about as crippled as you can get.
* [[FakeUltimateHero Fake Ultimate Villain]]: In the eyes of the Republic at large, upon Dooku's death, Grievous took over as the BigBad; the Senate even voted to continue the Clone War, as long as Grievous lived. However, Palpatine is clearly the one pulling the strings, using both Dooku ''and'' Grievous as scapegoats to keep his involvement a secret.
* FallenHero: Grievous was a hero on his homeworld, at least, prior to the accident that ruined him.
* EvilSoundsDeep
* TheGeneralissimo: In fact if not name. He's the Confederacy's real second-in-command, and takes over as head of state after Dooku is killed.
* GutturalGrowler
* HeroKiller: He even provides the trope picture! In the novelization Anakin calls him "the most prolific slaughterer of Jedi since Durge" which nicely sums it up.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: This was mostly due to both the result of his cybernetics, as well as Mace Windu Force Gripping his chest. However, this was {{Retcon}}ned in ''StarWarsTheCloneWars'' to always have it.
* InsaneAdmiral: A mad ruin of an officer, trapped inside his cybernetics who takes out his anger on any populace he can get his hands on.
* KillItWithFire: When he's shot by Obi-Wan, his organic tissue burns up.
* LargeHam
* LooksLikeOrlok: Quite impressive for a cyborg.
* MalevolentMaskedMan[=/=]WhiteMaskOfDoom
* ManInTheMachine: There's almost nothing left of the original Grievous' body. He's not so much ''in'' the machine as he ''is'' the machine.
* MeaningfulName: "Grievous" means "causing grief or great sorrow," somewhat fitting for the slaughterer of millions. A case of NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
** Interesting it has a double meaning, he renamed himself after [[BattleCouple his wife was killed in battle]].
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: His arms can divide in half, giving him four limbs.
* OminousOperaCape
* OneManArmy
* {{Revenge}}: Is getting back at the Jedi for siding with his race's invaders/mortal enemy, the Huk.
* RuleOfCool
* ShadowArchetype: Of Anakin/Vader. A twisted mixture of machine and man which causes problems in breathing and combat.
* TragicVillain: In a sense. The Expanded Universe reveals Grievous was an honorable warrior fighting to save his people until an accident left him crippled. He sold himself to Dooku to save his planet. Dooku had no use for an honorable, noble warrior and had his brain tampered with, replacing the honor and nobility with sadism and savagery.
* TheWorfEffect: DependingOnTheWriter. In ''The Clone Wars'' this happens constantly. In the original ''Clone Wars'' and various books, it ''never'' happens.
* VillainDecay: Sort of a time-reversed case. ''Revenge'' has him failing at everything he tries to do, and running away from the good guys, which makes his fearsome reputation look like an InformedAttribute. The various TV series managed to do him justice as a real threat.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Viceroy Nute Gunray]]
!!Viceroy Nute Gunray
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->'''Played by:''' Silas Carson (Ep.I-III)
The CorruptCorporateExecutive Neimoidian leader of the Trade Federation and an IneffectualSympatheticVillain during the prequel trilogy. Most prominently featured in Episode I, in which he makes a DealWithTheDevil only to unsurprisingly be used and betrayed by [[ManipulativeBastard Darth Sidious]]. Gunray joins the Separatists in Episode II, by which time he seems to have developed a grudge against Padmé. [[SarcasmMode How dare she liberate her planet from his illegal invasion!]] In Episode III, Darth Vader kills him in cold blood as he begs for mercy.
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* AristocratsAreEvil: Kind of. "Viceroy" is apparently just the title given to the leader of the Trade Federation. However, [[MegaCorp said organization apparently controls whole planets]]. So, whatever.
* AssholeVictim: Him and the Separatists on Mustafar.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* DirtyCoward: Qui-Gon notes that "these Federation types are cowards".
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Sort of. When Sidious tells them to prepare their invasion of Naboo, Gunray implies that he's not willing to invade Naboo if such an invasion is illegal, resulting in Sidious telling them that he'll make the invasion legal. Though it may be more PragmaticVillainy due to not wanting the inevitable backlash and sanctions for illegal actions.
* EvilGenius
* TheFundamentalist
* {{Greed}}: His apparent motivation. EU material (and his attempt to have Padme assassinated in Episode 2) gives it as {{Revenge}} instead.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Mostly due to being generally bullied around by the ''real'' bad guys. He's not actually a very pleasant individual, but all we see is a man out of his depth, and fully aware of it.
* ItsPersonal: How he feels about Padmé after ''The Phantom Menace'' (and how he felt about then-Senator Palpatine in EU materials explaining why he blockaded Naboo). You'd think she'd be the one entitled to feel that way, but nope.
* KilledMidSentence
* LizardFolk: Along with apparently everyone who works for the Trade Federation.
** That's because the Neimodians were the only ones who were spared (unsurprisingly due to Palpatine's influence) in an assassination against the other leader races of the Trade Federation.
* RubberForeheadAliens
* UnwittingPawn: Twice: First time was the aftermath of the invasion of Naboo, second time was during the Separatist wars, and at least until the near end of the conflict, he didn't even know that Darth Sidious was the true leader, or that it was even a Sith orchestrated group.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: His final fate in ''RevengeOfTheSith''.
[[/folder]]
!Mercenaries
[[folder: Jango Fett]]
!!Jango Fett
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->'''Played by:''' Temuera Morrison
-->"I'm just a simple man trying to make my way in the universe.''
A top-notch bounty hunter who was hired by the Republic to be the template for an army of clones, from which the Clone Wars took their name. Secretly working for the Separatists as an assassin and mercenary soldier, Jango makes several attempts on the life of Padme Amidala, bringing him into direct conflict with Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker. He is the genetic father of Boba Fett, whose creation was one of the conditions of his deal with the Kaminoan cloners.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Downplayed. Jango in the film is a highly capable soldier and contract murderer, but nowhere near the unstoppable Jedi-killing machine that the EU makes him out to be. Possibly justified as the film has him facing down Obi-Wan Kenobi and Mace Windu, two of the best fighters the Jedi Order has to offer, while his EU reputation as "the galaxy's most dangerous man" was earned facing down lesser foes.
* AffablyEvil: Sidematerials paint him as a relatively pleasant guy if you aren't a target or in his way.
* ArmourIsUseless: Averted. Jango's armour is the only reason why he's able to take as much punishment as he is. Whether it's a beating from Obi-Wan, damage from a jetpack malfunction, or a blow from the Reek, Jango's armour can take it.
* AsteroidThicket: Chases Obi-Wan through one in a ContinuityNod to ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.
* {{Badass}}: A much more legitimate example than Boba, given his better track record.
** BadassNormal: Takes on Obi-Wan Kenobi on an even footing, kills a Jedi Master who was attacking the stands, takes out the Reek in a single shot, and manages to twice get the drop on Mace Windu, despite his lack of Force powers, cybernetics, or alien abilities.
* BattleInTheRain: With Obi-Wan.
* BodyguardingABadass: Serves as Dooku's bodyguard during the initial phase of the Jedi assault on the arena. Dooku needs protecting the way Jabba needs more food.
* BountyHunter: Though we never actually see him pursue any bounties in the film, and in the EU he's just as likely to work for criminals as he is to pursue them (in particular, he and Boba both have a longstanding relationship with Jabba The Hutt).
* ConsummateProfessional
* CoolHelmet: The same one that Boba would later wear.
* CoolStarship: The ''Slave I''.
* DotingParent: One of his [[PetTheDog redeeming qualities]].
* TheDragon: Dooku's first one, acting as the Sith Lord's assassin, bodyguard, and enforcer.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He reserved an unaltered clone to raise as his son (Boba).
* EvilMentor: To his [[BastardUnderstudy son]], whom he raises to be as ruthless and greedy as he himself.
* {{Expy}}: Of his son, Boba Fett, with his personality being largely modeled on Boba's in the Expanded Universe.
* FamedInStory: Among the galaxy's criminal element, anyway.
* {{Greed}}: Jango's main motivation is money, and he never seems to get enough. Despite being paid handsomely for his role in creating the clone army, he continues to take jobs, eventually taking on a permanent position with Count Dooku.
* GunsAkimbo: With his twin blaster pistols.
* TheGunslinger
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Kills his friend and subcontractor Zam Wessel when she is captured, on the chance that she might talk.
* HeroKiller: Downplayed when compared to Grievous or Durge, but still in effect. Jango comes with an earthshaking reputation and largely lives up to it, fighting Obi-Wan to a draw, killing Jedi Master and Council member Coleman Trebor during the arena battle, and actually getting off a few shots at Mace Windu before being slain. The various comics, video games, and novels have played up this status, adding additional Jedi kills to his bodycount.
* HiredGuns: Jango's not adverse to mercenary work, and takes paychecks from the Republic and the Separatists alike (though both jobs he does in the film were paid for by the same man--Count Dooku/Darth Tyrannus).
* IGaveMyWord: Always honors his deals.
* JetPack
* MentorOccupationalHazard: A villainous example, to his son.
* NobleDemon: The EU tries to go this route with him. It's not really present in the film, where he's a hired gun who kills one of his subcontractors and has no qualms about helping to trigger a galaxy-wide civil war.
* OffWithHisHead: Courtesy of Mace Windu.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Jango doesn't care about politics or ideology. All that matters to him is getting paid.
* QuickDraw: As evidenced by his speedy takedown of Coleman Trebor.
* PoisonedWeapon: His saberdarts.
* PredecessorVillain: To Boba Fett, who gains his armor, methodology, and title of "best bounty hunter in the galaxy."
* PragmaticVillainy
* ProfessionalKiller: While his official title may be "bounty hunter", his role in ''AttackOfTheClones'' is to act as Dooku's personal bagman.
* SpannerInTheWorks: According to ''Shatterpoint'' it was Jango's presence in Dooku's box that prevented Mace Windu from killing the ex-Jedi on the spot, as he had originally been intending to. Instead Mace ended up battling Jango and Dooku got away, allowing the Clone Wars to kick off.
* TrulySingleParent
* VillainousFriendship: With Zam, who got closer to him than anyone except his son. When he was forced to kill her, Jango was left visibly shaken and upset.
* VillainousValour: Trying to take on Mace Windu, the second most powerful Jedi in the Order, might not have been Jango's smartest move, but it was certainly his bravest.
* WalkingArmoury: He's got a missile on his JetPack, a pair of dart-throwers in his knees, a flamethrower in his arm, a grappling hook in the other one, a blade that can deploy from his forearm, and his two blaster pistols. And that's just the weapons we see him use in the film.
* WeaponOfChoice: Two ''WESTAR-34'' blaster pistols.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Zam Wesell]]
!!Zam Wesell
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->'''Played by:''' Leanna Walsman (Ep. II)
A Clawdite bounty hunter and killer-for-hire, and frequent associate of Jango Fett, Zam was brought in as a subcontractor when Jango was hired to assassinate Senator Amidala. Failing in the attempt, she was captured by Obi-Wan Kenobi, and killed by Jango.
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* AffablyEvil: Not really demonstrated in the film, but sidematerials establish her as such.
* BountyHunter: Though as with Jango and Boba she's just as liable to work for gangsters as she is to hunt them down.
* ColdSniper
* DarkActionGirl
* DeadpanSnarker
* {{Greed}}: Was actually run off of her homeworld for being too avaricious.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Murdered by Jango to stop her from talking.
* HiredGuns: Has worked for the Black Sun vigos, The Hutts, various other crime lords, Jango, and indirectly, the Separatists. So long as she gets paid, Zam doesn't give a damn where the money is coming from.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Zam doesn't care who she's working for, so long as the money is good.
* ParentalSubstitute: The closest thing that the young Boba Fett had to a mother figure.
* PunchClockVillain: Zam was not a sadist, and did not especially enjoy violence. Off the job she, not unlike Jango, was relatively harmless.
* ProfessionalKiller: Like Jango, Zam often hired herself out as an assassin.
* {{Shapeshifting}}
** ShapeshifterDefaultForm: A lizard-like female alien.
** VoluntaryShapeshifting
* VillainousFriendship: With Jango, which is why he brought her in to subcontract on the Amidala job.
[[/folder]]
!Droid Army
[[folder:[=B1=] Battle Droids]]
!!B1 Battle Droids
->Appear in Ep. I-II-III
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The primary soldiers of the CIS, battle droids number in the millions and are used as cannon fodder by the Separatists. Designed to be cheap and disposable, battle droids rely solely on force of numbers to achieve victory and lack any real situational awareness, making them an easy target for an ambush.
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* CatchPhrase: "Roger, roger!" for the B1's and their predecessors the [=OOMs=].
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Which they [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] sometimes.
* {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}s: The [=B1=] units are so incompetent you almost feel bad for them.
* KillerRobot
* MadeOfPlasticine: A battle droid can be disassembled by an angry human, they are so poorly made.
* MechaMooks: Cheap, disposable, and not particularly effective.
* WeHaveReserves: The CIS possessed quintillions of B1s, meaning they could be used up without concern.
* ZergRush: Their only real tactic.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:[=B2=] Super Battle Droids]]
!!B2 Super Battle Droids
->Appear in Ep. II-III
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Following the Trade Federation's defeat on Naboo, it was decided that a newer, tougher model of battle droid needed to be manufactured. The result was the B2, a larger, more heavily armoured droid with slightly higher intelligence and more effective, built-in weaponry. They served throughout the Clone Wars, and after the B1s were the most numerous droids in the Separatist army.
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* ArmCannon: Had laser cannons built into their wrists.
* EliteMook: Equipped with heavier armour, and capable of surviving multiple hits, super battle droids were an upgrade from the B1 in every way.
* KillerRobot
* MechaMooks: Tougher mooks, but mooks nonetheless.
* WeHaveReserves: Billions of B2s served with the Separatist army and Grievous and Dooku were both happy to throw them away.
* ZergRush: Like their predecessors they were dependent on these sorts of tactics.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Droidekas]]
!!Droidekas
->Appear in Ep.I-II-III
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Also known as destroyer droids, the droideka was the elite of the Trade Federation's security forces and went onto serve as the elite heavy infantry units of the CIS. Huge, heavily armoured, and equipped with force shields, the droidekas were more than a match for any enemy unit.
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* ArmCannon: Possess heavy blasters for hands.
* DeflectorShield: Their trademark.
* EliteMooks: Even moreso than the B2s. A single droideka could usually cut through dozens of clone troopers and give a Jedi a fair fight.
* FatalFlaw: If knocked onto the floor or against the wall, the droideka's shield will try to disintegrate said floor or wall, mistaking it for an attacker. This can cause the shields to short out if continued for too long.
* HeavilyArmoredMook: Both armoured and possessed of shields.
* KillerRobot
* MechaMooks
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Destroyer droids" anybody?
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[[folder:[=IG-100 MagnaGuard=]]]s
!!IG-100 [=MagnaGuard=]]]s
->Appear in Ep. III
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Produced at horrendous expense, the [=MagnaGuard=]s were self-motivated, learning droids, as functional and intelligent as any living being. Built for the sole purpose of fighting Jedi, [=MagnaGuard=]s were specialized close-combat units who could take almost all comers.
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* BadassCape: All of them had one.
* BladeOnAStick: Favoured a force-pike built from a material that dampened the effects of a lightsabre blade.
* BodyguardingABadass: Several were always detailed to act as Grievous' personal guard.
* EliteMooks: UpToEleven. The [=MagnaGuard=]s were designed to kill Jedi and did so, being more than a match for any Padawan or Knight, and could even give a Master a run for their money.
* KillerRobot
* MechanicalMonster: Very few [=MagnaGuard=]s were produced due to the prohibitive costs. Those that did see service, however, soon built a frightening reputation for themselves.
* MookLieutenant: Give orders to the other droids.
* PraetorianGuard: To General Grievous.
* RoboticPsychopath: Unlike almost all other battle droids, [=MagnaGuard=]s were intelligent and were wired with personalities. Those personalities were uniformly psychopathic as it was the only way the droids could do what they were supposed to do.
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!Separatist Leadership
[[folder: Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus]]
!!Count Dooku[=/=]Darth Tyranus
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->'''Played by:''' ChristopherLee (Ep.II-III)
A former Jedi who left the order due to philosophical differences, Count Dooku became Darth Sidious' second apprentice, taking on the name Darth Tyranus. Bringing together the Trade Federation, the Intergalactic Banking Clan, the Corporate Alliance, the weaponeers of Genosis and sundry others, Dooku forged the Confederacy of Independent Systems, with himself as their public face. Determined to build a new order on the remnants of the Republic, Dooku is the one thing that keeps the Separatists together.
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* AristocratsAreEvil
* AwesomeMcCoolName: "Darth Tyranus". All Sith Lords come with this.
* BadassBaritone
* BadassCape: Always wears his armourweave cape.
* BadassGrandpa: ChristopherLee was well into his 80s when he filmed the role.
* BastardUnderstudy: To Darth Sidious.
* BeardOfEvil
* BigBad: Subverted. Similar to Vader, he's the most prominent villain in Episode II, but is subservient to Darth Sidious.
** BigBadWannabe: Intended to kill Sidious at some point in the future and take over the Sith Order- [[DoomedByCanon he fails]].
* BrokenPedestal: To the Jedi Order as a whole.
* CassandraTruth: He actually tells Obi-Wan the truth about Darth Sidious, but Obi-Wan refuses to buy it (as do the Jedi Council).
* CastingGag: It's probably not an accident that he's played by Christopher Lee, who was previously best known as one of HammerHorror's two leading men; Hammer's ''other'' leading man was Creator/PeterCushing, who played Grand Moff Tarkin in [[Film/ANewHope the 1977 original]].
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Betrayed the Jedi Order for the Sith, and proceeded to wage a campaign of murder and assassination against them all, despite many of them being his close friends. In the EU, regardless of the version, he ultimately betrays his apprentice Asajj Ventress, and as per Sith tradition is conspiring against his master Sidious (which doesn't work out). The Separatist movement itself is one giant con too.
* CombatAestheticist: He chose his fighting style for it's grace and beauty, mixed with deadly effectiveness.
* CoolBike: His hoverbike from ''Attack of the Clones''.
* CoolOldGuy: Yes, he is. Awesomeness, thy name is ChristopherLee
* CoolStarship: His solar sailer.
* CoolSword: The curved-hilt lightsaber allows for a more fencing-like fighting style and is designed to have an advantage in saberfights (due to the unique angles) at the expense of being harder to use to block blaster bolts.
* TheDarkSide
* DarthVaderClone: The "fallen hero betrayed by the Emperor" aspect - and unlike the actual Vader, the Emperor gets away with it.
* DeathByIrony: Gets killed by his successor, the same man Dooku completely disregarded as an unworthy Jedi. The real kicker is despite his disrespect towards Anakin, Dooku's master was conditioning Anakin to take his place the entire time.
** The novelization has him planning to betray the the Separatists and thinking "Deceit is the way of the Sith". Those became his last thoughts once he realized what Sidious really had planned.
* DependingOnTheWriter: His death. In ''ROTS'', although he does have some fear when he learns of Palpatine's betrayal, he nonetheless remained DefiantToTheEnd right up until Anakin beheads him. In the novelization, however, he panics on realizing [[TheUriahGambit Sidious is going to let him die]] and starts pleading for mercy.
** According to [[WordOfGod Christopher Lee]], the novelization's take was actually originally going to be in the film, but he had convinced Lucas to change it, as he felt that Dooku would not have begged for his life like a coward.
* DespotismJustifiesTheMeans: Seeks to create a galactic empire that will bring order to the universe and power to himself. Doesn't care what methods he has to use to do it.
* TheDragon: To Darth Sidious.
** TheHeavy: In Episode II.
* EvilBrit: Well, he's played by a Brit.
* EvilGloating: This backfires on him spectacularly during his last duel with Anakin, where it only serves to make him madder and more aggressive.
* EvilOldFolks: Eighty-three at the time of his death.
* EvilSoundsDeep: It's ChristopherLee, what did you expect?
* FallenHero
* FauxAffablyEvil
* HeroKiller: As shown by the CurbstompBattle he dishes out in the second film.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The red lightsaber he's using is turned against him by Anakin, who uses both his own and Dooku's to kill him.
* InterimVillain: Mostly as part of Sidious' EvilPlan. Details can be found on the page itself.
* LetsFightLikeGentlemen: Has some aspects of this, as indicated by his insistence in both films on confronting Anakin and Obi-Wan by himself, and the fencing salute he gives Yoda before their duel.
* MasterApprenticeChain: As stated in his introduction, Obi-Wan and Anakin are directly down the chain from him. He also seems to take some pride from this, too; he is still very proud of Qui-Gonn, genuinely likes Obi-Wan (though won't hesitate to kill him), but views Anakin as a [[DramaticIrony completely unworthy successor]]. He doesn't seem to have an opinion of [[StarWarsTheCloneWars Ahsoka]] one way or the other, though.
* MasterSwordsman: Is able to take down both Obi-Wan and Anakin, and holds his own against Yoda. Plus being able to train General Grievous into such a powerful swordsman that he was able to slay Jedi in single combat [[BadassNormal without the Force.]]
* MeaningfulName: ChristopherLee points out in an interview with the StarWars monthly magazine that "Dooku" is a homonym for the Japanese word ''doku'', which means "venom."
** DubNameChange: In Brazil, he is known as Count Dookan, because "du Cu" means "out of the ass" in Portuguese.
* ModestRoyalty: He's a Count, but his dress is quite simple, in comparison with other royals in StarWars setting.
* MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours: Says this to Yoda during their confrontation.
-->I have become more powerful than any Jedi. Even ''you''.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Never trust a man named "Tyranus".
* OffWithHisHead: After defeating him, Anakin decapitates him scissors-style at Palpatine's urging.
* OminousOperaCape
* TheParagonAlwaysRebels: Used to be one of the Order's finest Knights. Yoda says Count Dooku was his finest student and one of the greatest Jedi, but then he turned to the Dark Side. There is also the fact that his negotiations caused several THOUSAND star systems to break off from the Republic, meaning that he plays this trope straight, taking a good number of the systems in the Republic for the Confederacy and causing many systems who would otherwise just be part of the Republic to break off. They were convinced by the Count that the Republic is too corrupt to be repaired, and the Count even tries to persuade Padme that they have to start over.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The novelization has him happy that the Separtists are largely alien in membership, for it was his (and he thought Sidious') plan to be 'captured' by the Republic, then be reformed and turn against the 'alien menace'. He fully expected a human dominated Empire to rise from it.
* PragmaticVillainy: He retreats from the Battle of Geonosis once he realizes he can't win (having accomplished his goals anyway, since it's a FalseFlagOperation) and also flees rather than try to defeat Yoda after their duel becomes a stalemate.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: He's a Count of his home planet Serenno. [[WellIntentionedExtremist And he's trying to purge the galaxy of corrupt politicians]]. [[AristocratsAreEvil Or not]]. [[DependingOnTheWriter Opinions differ]]. But the former is much more possible than the latter.
* ShadowArchetype: Of Anakin/Vader. A former Jedi who left the Order due to disagreements in philosophies.
* ShockAndAwe
* UnwittingPawn: To Palpatine.
* UriahGambit: Falls hard for one in the early part of ''Revenge of the Sith'.
* VillainousBreakdown: Has a brief one after Anakin chops off his hands and he realizes that Sidious wants him dead. [[spoiler: Then he gets beheaded.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: In the EU at least, and for the first part of ''Attack of the Clone'' as far as his former fellow Jedi are concerned; in the eyes of many, on both sides of the conflict, Dooku is a charismatic idealist crusading against the very real corruption endemic in the Republic, and all the more overtly villainous characters in the Separatist movement are simply the allies he's stuck with, and the atrocities they commit are done without his approval. Neither is true; although its implied he is against the corruption his idea to weed it out is to set up a sprawling galactic dictatorship, and far from disapproving of those atrocities he usually ''instigates'' them, and is more than happy to blame them on the Republic.
* WeaponOfChoice: A curved-hilt red lightsaber.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Made clearer in the EU. In AOTC, none of this is actually shown, as he spends his choice few scenes plotting how to best extort the Republic for...something, presiding over a flashy execution, and fighting Jedi. His political beliefs, his ultimate goals, etc. are given zero elaboration. Even his reasons for joining the Sith are never actually explained within the films themselves.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In ''RevengeOfTheSith''.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: General Grievous]]
!!General Grievous
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->'''Voiced by:''' Matthew Wood (Ep. III)
Once a Kaleeshi general, Grievous was rebuilt as a cyborg following an a shuttle "accident" suffered while in service to the Intergalactic Banking Clan. Presented to Dooku as a gift by San Hill and Poggle the Lesser, Grievous was granted the title of Supreme Commander of the Droid Armies, and launched a galaxy wide reign of terror that would make him one of the most infamous war criminals in recorded history. Trained in lightsabre combat by Dooku himself, and far stronger and faster than any human, Grievous would also become one of the war's most prolific and effective Jedi hunters, outstripping even the likes of Asajj Ventress and Durge in number of kills.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Grievous was interpreted as an extremely lethal HeroKiller in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'', which was released well before ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' was even released in theatres.
* AlliterativeName
* {{Badass}}: He's usually this or getting [[TheWorfEffect Worfed]]. [[DependingOnTheWriter Depends on who's writing, really.]]
** FourStarBadass
* BattleTrophy: How he got his lightsabers.
* BerserkButton: In the ExpandedUniverse, he goes nuts whenever someone mistakes him for [[MechaMooks another mindless droid]].
* BlackKnight
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Somewhat. Grievous was never a nice guy, but the Genosians tampered with his brain chemistry in order to make him into the sociopathic killer we all know and love.
* CanonImmigrant
* CombatPragmatist: During the first animated series he appeared in, Dooku explicitly trains Grievous to fight like this: he's supposed to use surprise, fear, intimidation, and power to overwhelm his opponents, and to flee when that doesn't work.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: A deliberate version. The computers slaved to Grievous' brain stripped what little empathy he had away.
* {{Cyborg}}
* DarthVaderClone: The cyborg with breathing problems, undone by his reliance on machines.
* TheDragon: To Dooku, following Jango and [[VideoGame/StarWarsGalacticBattlegrounds Sev'Rance Tann's]] deaths, Durge's defeat, and Ventress' exit.
* DragonAscendant: Subverted. When Count Dooku is killed, the Jedi ''think'' Grievous has become this when in reality he has just become Sidious's Dragon instead.
* DualWielding: Always uses at least two lightsabres and, by splitting his hands, can use up to four.
* EvilCripple: All that's left of Grievous are his internal organs, his brain, and some of his face. That's about as crippled as you can get.
* [[FakeUltimateHero Fake Ultimate Villain]]: In the eyes of the Republic at large, upon Dooku's death, Grievous took over as the BigBad; the Senate even voted to continue the Clone War, as long as Grievous lived. However, Palpatine is clearly the one pulling the strings, using both Dooku ''and'' Grievous as scapegoats to keep his involvement a secret.
* FallenHero: Grievous was a hero on his homeworld, at least, prior to the accident that ruined him.
* EvilSoundsDeep
* TheGeneralissimo: In fact if not name. He's the Confederacy's real second-in-command, and takes over as head of state after Dooku is killed.
* GutturalGrowler
* HeroKiller: He even provides the trope picture! In the novelization Anakin calls him "the most prolific slaughterer of Jedi since Durge" which nicely sums it up.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: This was mostly due to both the result of his cybernetics, as well as Mace Windu Force Gripping his chest. However, this was {{Retcon}}ned in ''StarWarsTheCloneWars'' to always have it.
* InsaneAdmiral: A mad ruin of an officer, trapped inside his cybernetics who takes out his anger on any populace he can get his hands on.
* KillItWithFire: When he's shot by Obi-Wan, his organic tissue burns up.
* LargeHam
* LooksLikeOrlok: Quite impressive for a cyborg.
* MalevolentMaskedMan[=/=]WhiteMaskOfDoom
* ManInTheMachine: There's almost nothing left of the original Grievous' body. He's not so much ''in'' the machine as he ''is'' the machine.
* MeaningfulName: "Grievous" means "causing grief or great sorrow," somewhat fitting for the slaughterer of millions. A case of NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
** Interesting it has a double meaning, he renamed himself after [[BattleCouple his wife was killed in battle]].
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: His arms can divide in half, giving him four limbs.
* OminousOperaCape
* OneManArmy
* {{Revenge}}: Is getting back at the Jedi for siding with his race's invaders/mortal enemy, the Huk.
* RuleOfCool
* ShadowArchetype: Of Anakin/Vader. A twisted mixture of machine and man which causes problems in breathing and combat.
* TragicVillain: In a sense. The Expanded Universe reveals Grievous was an honorable warrior fighting to save his people until an accident left him crippled. He sold himself to Dooku to save his planet. Dooku had no use for an honorable, noble warrior and had his brain tampered with, replacing the honor and nobility with sadism and savagery.
* TheWorfEffect: DependingOnTheWriter. In ''The Clone Wars'' this happens constantly. In the original ''Clone Wars'' and various books, it ''never'' happens.
* VillainDecay: Sort of a time-reversed case. ''Revenge'' has him failing at everything he tries to do, and running away from the good guys, which makes his fearsome reputation look like an InformedAttribute. The various TV series managed to do him justice as a real threat.
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[[folder: Viceroy Nute Gunray]]
!!Viceroy Nute Gunray
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->'''Played by:''' Silas Carson (Ep.I-III)
The CorruptCorporateExecutive Neimoidian leader of the Trade Federation and an IneffectualSympatheticVillain during the prequel trilogy. Most prominently featured in Episode I, in which he makes a DealWithTheDevil only to unsurprisingly be used and betrayed by [[ManipulativeBastard Darth Sidious]]. Gunray joins the Separatists in Episode II, by which time he seems to have developed a grudge against Padmé. [[SarcasmMode How dare she liberate her planet from his illegal invasion!]] In Episode III, Darth Vader kills him in cold blood as he begs for mercy.
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* AristocratsAreEvil: Kind of. "Viceroy" is apparently just the title given to the leader of the Trade Federation. However, [[MegaCorp said organization apparently controls whole planets]]. So, whatever.
* AssholeVictim: Him and the Separatists on Mustafar.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* DirtyCoward: Qui-Gon notes that "these Federation types are cowards".
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Sort of. When Sidious tells them to prepare their invasion of Naboo, Gunray implies that he's not willing to invade Naboo if such an invasion is illegal, resulting in Sidious telling them that he'll make the invasion legal. Though it may be more PragmaticVillainy due to not wanting the inevitable backlash and sanctions for illegal actions.
* EvilGenius
* TheFundamentalist
* {{Greed}}: His apparent motivation. EU material (and his attempt to have Padme assassinated in Episode 2) gives it as {{Revenge}} instead.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Mostly due to being generally bullied around by the ''real'' bad guys. He's not actually a very pleasant individual, but all we see is a man out of his depth, and fully aware of it.
* ItsPersonal: How he feels about Padmé after ''The Phantom Menace'' (and how he felt about then-Senator Palpatine in EU materials explaining why he blockaded Naboo). You'd think she'd be the one entitled to feel that way, but nope.
* KilledMidSentence
* LizardFolk: Along with apparently everyone who works for the Trade Federation.
** That's because the Neimodians were the only ones who were spared (unsurprisingly due to Palpatine's influence) in an assassination against the other leader races of the Trade Federation.
* RubberForeheadAliens
* UnwittingPawn: Twice: First time was the aftermath of the invasion of Naboo, second time was during the Separatist wars, and at least until the near end of the conflict, he didn't even know that Darth Sidious was the true leader, or that it was even a Sith orchestrated group.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: His final fate in ''RevengeOfTheSith''.
[[/folder]]
!Mercenaries
[[folder: Jango Fett]]
!!Jango Fett
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->'''Played by:''' Temuera Morrison
-->"I'm just a simple man trying to make my way in the universe.''
A top-notch bounty hunter who was hired by the Republic to be the template for an army of clones, from which the Clone Wars took their name. Secretly working for the Separatists as an assassin and mercenary soldier, Jango makes several attempts on the life of Padme Amidala, bringing him into direct conflict with Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker. He is the genetic father of Boba Fett, whose creation was one of the conditions of his deal with the Kaminoan cloners.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Downplayed. Jango in the film is a highly capable soldier and contract murderer, but nowhere near the unstoppable Jedi-killing machine that the EU makes him out to be. Possibly justified as the film has him facing down Obi-Wan Kenobi and Mace Windu, two of the best fighters the Jedi Order has to offer, while his EU reputation as "the galaxy's most dangerous man" was earned facing down lesser foes.
* AffablyEvil: Sidematerials paint him as a relatively pleasant guy if you aren't a target or in his way.
* ArmourIsUseless: Averted. Jango's armour is the only reason why he's able to take as much punishment as he is. Whether it's a beating from Obi-Wan, damage from a jetpack malfunction, or a blow from the Reek, Jango's armour can take it.
* AsteroidThicket: Chases Obi-Wan through one in a ContinuityNod to ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.
* {{Badass}}: A much more legitimate example than Boba, given his better track record.
** BadassNormal: Takes on Obi-Wan Kenobi on an even footing, kills a Jedi Master who was attacking the stands, takes out the Reek in a single shot, and manages to twice get the drop on Mace Windu, despite his lack of Force powers, cybernetics, or alien abilities.
* BattleInTheRain: With Obi-Wan.
* BodyguardingABadass: Serves as Dooku's bodyguard during the initial phase of the Jedi assault on the arena. Dooku needs protecting the way Jabba needs more food.
* BountyHunter: Though we never actually see him pursue any bounties in the film, and in the EU he's just as likely to work for criminals as he is to pursue them (in particular, he and Boba both have a longstanding relationship with Jabba The Hutt).
* ConsummateProfessional
* CoolHelmet: The same one that Boba would later wear.
* CoolStarship: The ''Slave I''.
* DotingParent: One of his [[PetTheDog redeeming qualities]].
* TheDragon: Dooku's first one, acting as the Sith Lord's assassin, bodyguard, and enforcer.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He reserved an unaltered clone to raise as his son (Boba).
* EvilMentor: To his [[BastardUnderstudy son]], whom he raises to be as ruthless and greedy as he himself.
* {{Expy}}: Of his son, Boba Fett, with his personality being largely modeled on Boba's in the Expanded Universe.
* FamedInStory: Among the galaxy's criminal element, anyway.
* {{Greed}}: Jango's main motivation is money, and he never seems to get enough. Despite being paid handsomely for his role in creating the clone army, he continues to take jobs, eventually taking on a permanent position with Count Dooku.
* GunsAkimbo: With his twin blaster pistols.
* TheGunslinger
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Kills his friend and subcontractor Zam Wessel when she is captured, on the chance that she might talk.
* HeroKiller: Downplayed when compared to Grievous or Durge, but still in effect. Jango comes with an earthshaking reputation and largely lives up to it, fighting Obi-Wan to a draw, killing Jedi Master and Council member Coleman Trebor during the arena battle, and actually getting off a few shots at Mace Windu before being slain. The various comics, video games, and novels have played up this status, adding additional Jedi kills to his bodycount.
* HiredGuns: Jango's not adverse to mercenary work, and takes paychecks from the Republic and the Separatists alike (though both jobs he does in the film were paid for by the same man--Count Dooku/Darth Tyrannus).
* IGaveMyWord: Always honors his deals.
* JetPack
* MentorOccupationalHazard: A villainous example, to his son.
* NobleDemon: The EU tries to go this route with him. It's not really present in the film, where he's a hired gun who kills one of his subcontractors and has no qualms about helping to trigger a galaxy-wide civil war.
* OffWithHisHead: Courtesy of Mace Windu.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Jango doesn't care about politics or ideology. All that matters to him is getting paid.
* QuickDraw: As evidenced by his speedy takedown of Coleman Trebor.
* PoisonedWeapon: His saberdarts.
* PredecessorVillain: To Boba Fett, who gains his armor, methodology, and title of "best bounty hunter in the galaxy."
* PragmaticVillainy
* ProfessionalKiller: While his official title may be "bounty hunter", his role in ''AttackOfTheClones'' is to act as Dooku's personal bagman.
* SpannerInTheWorks: According to ''Shatterpoint'' it was Jango's presence in Dooku's box that prevented Mace Windu from killing the ex-Jedi on the spot, as he had originally been intending to. Instead Mace ended up battling Jango and Dooku got away, allowing the Clone Wars to kick off.
* TrulySingleParent
* VillainousFriendship: With Zam, who got closer to him than anyone except his son. When he was forced to kill her, Jango was left visibly shaken and upset.
* VillainousValour: Trying to take on Mace Windu, the second most powerful Jedi in the Order, might not have been Jango's smartest move, but it was certainly his bravest.
* WalkingArmoury: He's got a missile on his JetPack, a pair of dart-throwers in his knees, a flamethrower in his arm, a grappling hook in the other one, a blade that can deploy from his forearm, and his two blaster pistols. And that's just the weapons we see him use in the film.
* WeaponOfChoice: Two ''WESTAR-34'' blaster pistols.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Zam Wesell]]
!!Zam Wesell
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->'''Played by:''' Leanna Walsman (Ep. II)
A Clawdite bounty hunter and killer-for-hire, and frequent associate of Jango Fett, Zam was brought in as a subcontractor when Jango was hired to assassinate Senator Amidala. Failing in the attempt, she was captured by Obi-Wan Kenobi, and killed by Jango.
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* AffablyEvil: Not really demonstrated in the film, but sidematerials establish her as such.
* BountyHunter: Though as with Jango and Boba she's just as liable to work for gangsters as she is to hunt them down.
* ColdSniper
* DarkActionGirl
* DeadpanSnarker
* {{Greed}}: Was actually run off of her homeworld for being too avaricious.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Murdered by Jango to stop her from talking.
* HiredGuns: Has worked for the Black Sun vigos, The Hutts, various other crime lords, Jango, and indirectly, the Separatists. So long as she gets paid, Zam doesn't give a damn where the money is coming from.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Zam doesn't care who she's working for, so long as the money is good.
* ParentalSubstitute: The closest thing that the young Boba Fett had to a mother figure.
* PunchClockVillain: Zam was not a sadist, and did not especially enjoy violence. Off the job she, not unlike Jango, was relatively harmless.
* ProfessionalKiller: Like Jango, Zam often hired herself out as an assassin.
* {{Shapeshifting}}
** ShapeshifterDefaultForm: A lizard-like female alien.
** VoluntaryShapeshifting
* VillainousFriendship: With Jango, which is why he brought her in to subcontract on the Amidala job.
[[/folder]]
!Droid Army
[[folder:[=B1=] Battle Droids]]
!!B1 Battle Droids
->Appear in Ep. I-II-III
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The primary soldiers of the CIS, battle droids number in the millions and are used as cannon fodder by the Separatists. Designed to be cheap and disposable, battle droids rely solely on force of numbers to achieve victory and lack any real situational awareness, making them an easy target for an ambush.
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* CatchPhrase: "Roger, roger!" for the B1's and their predecessors the [=OOMs=].
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Which they [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] sometimes.
* {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}s: The [=B1=] units are so incompetent you almost feel bad for them.
* KillerRobot
* MadeOfPlasticine: A battle droid can be disassembled by an angry human, they are so poorly made.
* MechaMooks: Cheap, disposable, and not particularly effective.
* WeHaveReserves: The CIS possessed quintillions of B1s, meaning they could be used up without concern.
* ZergRush: Their only real tactic.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:[=B2=] Super Battle Droids]]
!!B2 Super Battle Droids
->Appear in Ep. II-III
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Following the Trade Federation's defeat on Naboo, it was decided that a newer, tougher model of battle droid needed to be manufactured. The result was the B2, a larger, more heavily armoured droid with slightly higher intelligence and more effective, built-in weaponry. They served throughout the Clone Wars, and after the B1s were the most numerous droids in the Separatist army.
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* ArmCannon: Had laser cannons built into their wrists.
* EliteMook: Equipped with heavier armour, and capable of surviving multiple hits, super battle droids were an upgrade from the B1 in every way.
* KillerRobot
* MechaMooks: Tougher mooks, but mooks nonetheless.
* WeHaveReserves: Billions of B2s served with the Separatist army and Grievous and Dooku were both happy to throw them away.
* ZergRush: Like their predecessors they were dependent on these sorts of tactics.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Droidekas]]
!!Droidekas
->Appear in Ep.I-II-III
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Also known as destroyer droids, the droideka was the elite of the Trade Federation's security forces and went onto serve as the elite heavy infantry units of the CIS. Huge, heavily armoured, and equipped with force shields, the droidekas were more than a match for any enemy unit.
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* ArmCannon: Possess heavy blasters for hands.
* DeflectorShield: Their trademark.
* EliteMooks: Even moreso than the B2s. A single droideka could usually cut through dozens of clone troopers and give a Jedi a fair fight.
* FatalFlaw: If knocked onto the floor or against the wall, the droideka's shield will try to disintegrate said floor or wall, mistaking it for an attacker. This can cause the shields to short out if continued for too long.
* HeavilyArmoredMook: Both armoured and possessed of shields.
* KillerRobot
* MechaMooks
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Destroyer droids" anybody?
[[/folder]]
[[folder:[=IG-100 MagnaGuard=]]]s
!!IG-100 [=MagnaGuard=]]]s
->Appear in Ep. III
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Produced at horrendous expense, the [=MagnaGuard=]s were self-motivated, learning droids, as functional and intelligent as any living being. Built for the sole purpose of fighting Jedi, [=MagnaGuard=]s were specialized close-combat units who could take almost all comers.
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* BadassCape: All of them had one.
* BladeOnAStick: Favoured a force-pike built from a material that dampened the effects of a lightsabre blade.
* BodyguardingABadass: Several were always detailed to act as Grievous' personal guard.
* EliteMooks: UpToEleven. The [=MagnaGuard=]s were designed to kill Jedi and did so, being more than a match for any Padawan or Knight, and could even give a Master a run for their money.
* KillerRobot
* MechanicalMonster: Very few [=MagnaGuard=]s were produced due to the prohibitive costs. Those that did see service, however, soon built a frightening reputation for themselves.
* MookLieutenant: Give orders to the other droids.
* PraetorianGuard: To General Grievous.
* RoboticPsychopath: Unlike almost all other battle droids, [=MagnaGuard=]s were intelligent and were wired with personalities. Those personalities were uniformly psychopathic as it was the only way the droids could do what they were supposed to do.
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!Separatist Leadership
[[folder: Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus]]
!!Count Dooku[=/=]Darth Tyranus
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->'''Played by:''' ChristopherLee (Ep.II-III)
A former Jedi who left the order due to philosophical differences, Count Dooku became Darth Sidious' second apprentice, taking on the name Darth Tyranus. Bringing together the Trade Federation, the Intergalactic Banking Clan, the Corporate Alliance, the weaponeers of Genosis and sundry others, Dooku forged the Confederacy of Independent Systems, with himself as their public face. Determined to build a new order on the remnants of the Republic, Dooku is the one thing that keeps the Separatists together.
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* AristocratsAreEvil
* AwesomeMcCoolName: "Darth Tyranus". All Sith Lords come with this.
* BadassBaritone
* BadassCape: Always wears his armourweave cape.
* BadassGrandpa: ChristopherLee was well into his 80s when he filmed the role.
* BastardUnderstudy: To Darth Sidious.
* BeardOfEvil
* BigBad: Subverted. Similar to Vader, he's the most prominent villain in Episode II, but is subservient to Darth Sidious.
** BigBadWannabe: Intended to kill Sidious at some point in the future and take over the Sith Order- [[DoomedByCanon he fails]].
* BrokenPedestal: To the Jedi Order as a whole.
* CassandraTruth: He actually tells Obi-Wan the truth about Darth Sidious, but Obi-Wan refuses to buy it (as do the Jedi Council).
* CastingGag: It's probably not an accident that he's played by Christopher Lee, who was previously best known as one of HammerHorror's two leading men; Hammer's ''other'' leading man was Creator/PeterCushing, who played Grand Moff Tarkin in [[Film/ANewHope the 1977 original]].
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Betrayed the Jedi Order for the Sith, and proceeded to wage a campaign of murder and assassination against them all, despite many of them being his close friends. In the EU, regardless of the version, he ultimately betrays his apprentice Asajj Ventress, and as per Sith tradition is conspiring against his master Sidious (which doesn't work out). The Separatist movement itself is one giant con too.
* CombatAestheticist: He chose his fighting style for it's grace and beauty, mixed with deadly effectiveness.
* CoolBike: His hoverbike from ''Attack of the Clones''.
* CoolOldGuy: Yes, he is. Awesomeness, thy name is ChristopherLee
* CoolStarship: His solar sailer.
* CoolSword: The curved-hilt lightsaber allows for a more fencing-like fighting style and is designed to have an advantage in saberfights (due to the unique angles) at the expense of being harder to use to block blaster bolts.
* TheDarkSide
* DarthVaderClone: The "fallen hero betrayed by the Emperor" aspect - and unlike the actual Vader, the Emperor gets away with it.
* DeathByIrony: Gets killed by his successor, the same man Dooku completely disregarded as an unworthy Jedi. The real kicker is despite his disrespect towards Anakin, Dooku's master was conditioning Anakin to take his place the entire time.
** The novelization has him planning to betray the the Separatists and thinking "Deceit is the way of the Sith". Those became his last thoughts once he realized what Sidious really had planned.
* DependingOnTheWriter: His death. In ''ROTS'', although he does have some fear when he learns of Palpatine's betrayal, he nonetheless remained DefiantToTheEnd right up until Anakin beheads him. In the novelization, however, he panics on realizing [[TheUriahGambit Sidious is going to let him die]] and starts pleading for mercy.
** According to [[WordOfGod Christopher Lee]], the novelization's take was actually originally going to be in the film, but he had convinced Lucas to change it, as he felt that Dooku would not have begged for his life like a coward.
* DespotismJustifiesTheMeans: Seeks to create a galactic empire that will bring order to the universe and power to himself. Doesn't care what methods he has to use to do it.
* TheDragon: To Darth Sidious.
** TheHeavy: In Episode II.
* EvilBrit: Well, he's played by a Brit.
* EvilGloating: This backfires on him spectacularly during his last duel with Anakin, where it only serves to make him madder and more aggressive.
* EvilOldFolks: Eighty-three at the time of his death.
* EvilSoundsDeep: It's ChristopherLee, what did you expect?
* FallenHero
* FauxAffablyEvil
* HeroKiller: As shown by the CurbstompBattle he dishes out in the second film.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The red lightsaber he's using is turned against him by Anakin, who uses both his own and Dooku's to kill him.
* InterimVillain: Mostly as part of Sidious' EvilPlan. Details can be found on the page itself.
* LetsFightLikeGentlemen: Has some aspects of this, as indicated by his insistence in both films on confronting Anakin and Obi-Wan by himself, and the fencing salute he gives Yoda before their duel.
* MasterApprenticeChain: As stated in his introduction, Obi-Wan and Anakin are directly down the chain from him. He also seems to take some pride from this, too; he is still very proud of Qui-Gonn, genuinely likes Obi-Wan (though won't hesitate to kill him), but views Anakin as a [[DramaticIrony completely unworthy successor]]. He doesn't seem to have an opinion of [[StarWarsTheCloneWars Ahsoka]] one way or the other, though.
* MasterSwordsman: Is able to take down both Obi-Wan and Anakin, and holds his own against Yoda. Plus being able to train General Grievous into such a powerful swordsman that he was able to slay Jedi in single combat [[BadassNormal without the Force.]]
* MeaningfulName: ChristopherLee points out in an interview with the StarWars monthly magazine that "Dooku" is a homonym for the Japanese word ''doku'', which means "venom."
** DubNameChange: In Brazil, he is known as Count Dookan, because "du Cu" means "out of the ass" in Portuguese.
* ModestRoyalty: He's a Count, but his dress is quite simple, in comparison with other royals in StarWars setting.
* MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours: Says this to Yoda during their confrontation.
-->I have become more powerful than any Jedi. Even ''you''.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Never trust a man named "Tyranus".
* OffWithHisHead: After defeating him, Anakin decapitates him scissors-style at Palpatine's urging.
* OminousOperaCape
* TheParagonAlwaysRebels: Used to be one of the Order's finest Knights. Yoda says Count Dooku was his finest student and one of the greatest Jedi, but then he turned to the Dark Side. There is also the fact that his negotiations caused several THOUSAND star systems to break off from the Republic, meaning that he plays this trope straight, taking a good number of the systems in the Republic for the Confederacy and causing many systems who would otherwise just be part of the Republic to break off. They were convinced by the Count that the Republic is too corrupt to be repaired, and the Count even tries to persuade Padme that they have to start over.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The novelization has him happy that the Separtists are largely alien in membership, for it was his (and he thought Sidious') plan to be 'captured' by the Republic, then be reformed and turn against the 'alien menace'. He fully expected a human dominated Empire to rise from it.
* PragmaticVillainy: He retreats from the Battle of Geonosis once he realizes he can't win (having accomplished his goals anyway, since it's a FalseFlagOperation) and also flees rather than try to defeat Yoda after their duel becomes a stalemate.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: He's a Count of his home planet Serenno. [[WellIntentionedExtremist And he's trying to purge the galaxy of corrupt politicians]]. [[AristocratsAreEvil Or not]]. [[DependingOnTheWriter Opinions differ]]. But the former is much more possible than the latter.
* ShadowArchetype: Of Anakin/Vader. A former Jedi who left the Order due to disagreements in philosophies.
* ShockAndAwe
* UnwittingPawn: To Palpatine.
* UriahGambit: Falls hard for one in the early part of ''Revenge of the Sith'.
* VillainousBreakdown: Has a brief one after Anakin chops off his hands and he realizes that Sidious wants him dead. [[spoiler: Then he gets beheaded.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: In the EU at least, and for the first part of ''Attack of the Clone'' as far as his former fellow Jedi are concerned; in the eyes of many, on both sides of the conflict, Dooku is a charismatic idealist crusading against the very real corruption endemic in the Republic, and all the more overtly villainous characters in the Separatist movement are simply the allies he's stuck with, and the atrocities they commit are done without his approval. Neither is true; although its implied he is against the corruption his idea to weed it out is to set up a sprawling galactic dictatorship, and far from disapproving of those atrocities he usually ''instigates'' them, and is more than happy to blame them on the Republic.
* WeaponOfChoice: A curved-hilt red lightsaber.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Made clearer in the EU. In AOTC, none of this is actually shown, as he spends his choice few scenes plotting how to best extort the Republic for...something, presiding over a flashy execution, and fighting Jedi. His political beliefs, his ultimate goals, etc. are given zero elaboration. Even his reasons for joining the Sith are never actually explained within the films themselves.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In ''RevengeOfTheSith''.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: General Grievous]]
!!General Grievous
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->'''Voiced by:''' Matthew Wood (Ep. III)
Once a Kaleeshi general, Grievous was rebuilt as a cyborg following an a shuttle "accident" suffered while in service to the Intergalactic Banking Clan. Presented to Dooku as a gift by San Hill and Poggle the Lesser, Grievous was granted the title of Supreme Commander of the Droid Armies, and launched a galaxy wide reign of terror that would make him one of the most infamous war criminals in recorded history. Trained in lightsabre combat by Dooku himself, and far stronger and faster than any human, Grievous would also become one of the war's most prolific and effective Jedi hunters, outstripping even the likes of Asajj Ventress and Durge in number of kills.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Grievous was interpreted as an extremely lethal HeroKiller in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'', which was released well before ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' was even released in theatres.
* AlliterativeName
* {{Badass}}: He's usually this or getting [[TheWorfEffect Worfed]]. [[DependingOnTheWriter Depends on who's writing, really.]]
** FourStarBadass
* BattleTrophy: How he got his lightsabers.
* BerserkButton: In the ExpandedUniverse, he goes nuts whenever someone mistakes him for [[MechaMooks another mindless droid]].
* BlackKnight
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Somewhat. Grievous was never a nice guy, but the Genosians tampered with his brain chemistry in order to make him into the sociopathic killer we all know and love.
* CanonImmigrant
* CombatPragmatist: During the first animated series he appeared in, Dooku explicitly trains Grievous to fight like this: he's supposed to use surprise, fear, intimidation, and power to overwhelm his opponents, and to flee when that doesn't work.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: A deliberate version. The computers slaved to Grievous' brain stripped what little empathy he had away.
* {{Cyborg}}
* DarthVaderClone: The cyborg with breathing problems, undone by his reliance on machines.
* TheDragon: To Dooku, following Jango and [[VideoGame/StarWarsGalacticBattlegrounds Sev'Rance Tann's]] deaths, Durge's defeat, and Ventress' exit.
* DragonAscendant: Subverted. When Count Dooku is killed, the Jedi ''think'' Grievous has become this when in reality he has just become Sidious's Dragon instead.
* DualWielding: Always uses at least two lightsabres and, by splitting his hands, can use up to four.
* EvilCripple: All that's left of Grievous are his internal organs, his brain, and some of his face. That's about as crippled as you can get.
* [[FakeUltimateHero Fake Ultimate Villain]]: In the eyes of the Republic at large, upon Dooku's death, Grievous took over as the BigBad; the Senate even voted to continue the Clone War, as long as Grievous lived. However, Palpatine is clearly the one pulling the strings, using both Dooku ''and'' Grievous as scapegoats to keep his involvement a secret.
* FallenHero: Grievous was a hero on his homeworld, at least, prior to the accident that ruined him.
* EvilSoundsDeep
* TheGeneralissimo: In fact if not name. He's the Confederacy's real second-in-command, and takes over as head of state after Dooku is killed.
* GutturalGrowler
* HeroKiller: He even provides the trope picture! In the novelization Anakin calls him "the most prolific slaughterer of Jedi since Durge" which nicely sums it up.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: This was mostly due to both the result of his cybernetics, as well as Mace Windu Force Gripping his chest. However, this was {{Retcon}}ned in ''StarWarsTheCloneWars'' to always have it.
* InsaneAdmiral: A mad ruin of an officer, trapped inside his cybernetics who takes out his anger on any populace he can get his hands on.
* KillItWithFire: When he's shot by Obi-Wan, his organic tissue burns up.
* LargeHam
* LooksLikeOrlok: Quite impressive for a cyborg.
* MalevolentMaskedMan[=/=]WhiteMaskOfDoom
* ManInTheMachine: There's almost nothing left of the original Grievous' body. He's not so much ''in'' the machine as he ''is'' the machine.
* MeaningfulName: "Grievous" means "causing grief or great sorrow," somewhat fitting for the slaughterer of millions. A case of NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
** Interesting it has a double meaning, he renamed himself after [[BattleCouple his wife was killed in battle]].
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: His arms can divide in half, giving him four limbs.
* OminousOperaCape
* OneManArmy
* {{Revenge}}: Is getting back at the Jedi for siding with his race's invaders/mortal enemy, the Huk.
* RuleOfCool
* ShadowArchetype: Of Anakin/Vader. A twisted mixture of machine and man which causes problems in breathing and combat.
* TragicVillain: In a sense. The Expanded Universe reveals Grievous was an honorable warrior fighting to save his people until an accident left him crippled. He sold himself to Dooku to save his planet. Dooku had no use for an honorable, noble warrior and had his brain tampered with, replacing the honor and nobility with sadism and savagery.
* TheWorfEffect: DependingOnTheWriter. In ''The Clone Wars'' this happens constantly. In the original ''Clone Wars'' and various books, it ''never'' happens.
* VillainDecay: Sort of a time-reversed case. ''Revenge'' has him failing at everything he tries to do, and running away from the good guys, which makes his fearsome reputation look like an InformedAttribute. The various TV series managed to do him justice as a real threat.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Viceroy Nute Gunray]]
!!Viceroy Nute Gunray
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->'''Played by:''' Silas Carson (Ep.I-III)
The CorruptCorporateExecutive Neimoidian leader of the Trade Federation and an IneffectualSympatheticVillain during the prequel trilogy. Most prominently featured in Episode I, in which he makes a DealWithTheDevil only to unsurprisingly be used and betrayed by [[ManipulativeBastard Darth Sidious]]. Gunray joins the Separatists in Episode II, by which time he seems to have developed a grudge against Padmé. [[SarcasmMode How dare she liberate her planet from his illegal invasion!]] In Episode III, Darth Vader kills him in cold blood as he begs for mercy.
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* AristocratsAreEvil: Kind of. "Viceroy" is apparently just the title given to the leader of the Trade Federation. However, [[MegaCorp said organization apparently controls whole planets]]. So, whatever.
* AssholeVictim: Him and the Separatists on Mustafar.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* DirtyCoward: Qui-Gon notes that "these Federation types are cowards".
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Sort of. When Sidious tells them to prepare their invasion of Naboo, Gunray implies that he's not willing to invade Naboo if such an invasion is illegal, resulting in Sidious telling them that he'll make the invasion legal. Though it may be more PragmaticVillainy due to not wanting the inevitable backlash and sanctions for illegal actions.
* EvilGenius
* TheFundamentalist
* {{Greed}}: His apparent motivation. EU material (and his attempt to have Padme assassinated in Episode 2) gives it as {{Revenge}} instead.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Mostly due to being generally bullied around by the ''real'' bad guys. He's not actually a very pleasant individual, but all we see is a man out of his depth, and fully aware of it.
* ItsPersonal: How he feels about Padmé after ''The Phantom Menace'' (and how he felt about then-Senator Palpatine in EU materials explaining why he blockaded Naboo). You'd think she'd be the one entitled to feel that way, but nope.
* KilledMidSentence
* LizardFolk: Along with apparently everyone who works for the Trade Federation.
** That's because the Neimodians were the only ones who were spared (unsurprisingly due to Palpatine's influence) in an assassination against the other leader races of the Trade Federation.
* RubberForeheadAliens
* UnwittingPawn: Twice: First time was the aftermath of the invasion of Naboo, second time was during the Separatist wars, and at least until the near end of the conflict, he didn't even know that Darth Sidious was the true leader, or that it was even a Sith orchestrated group.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: His final fate in ''RevengeOfTheSith''.
[[/folder]]
!Mercenaries
[[folder: Jango Fett]]
!!Jango Fett
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->'''Played by:''' Temuera Morrison
-->"I'm just a simple man trying to make my way in the universe.''
A top-notch bounty hunter who was hired by the Republic to be the template for an army of clones, from which the Clone Wars took their name. Secretly working for the Separatists as an assassin and mercenary soldier, Jango makes several attempts on the life of Padme Amidala, bringing him into direct conflict with Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker. He is the genetic father of Boba Fett, whose creation was one of the conditions of his deal with the Kaminoan cloners.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Downplayed. Jango in the film is a highly capable soldier and contract murderer, but nowhere near the unstoppable Jedi-killing machine that the EU makes him out to be. Possibly justified as the film has him facing down Obi-Wan Kenobi and Mace Windu, two of the best fighters the Jedi Order has to offer, while his EU reputation as "the galaxy's most dangerous man" was earned facing down lesser foes.
* AffablyEvil: Sidematerials paint him as a relatively pleasant guy if you aren't a target or in his way.
* ArmourIsUseless: Averted. Jango's armour is the only reason why he's able to take as much punishment as he is. Whether it's a beating from Obi-Wan, damage from a jetpack malfunction, or a blow from the Reek, Jango's armour can take it.
* AsteroidThicket: Chases Obi-Wan through one in a ContinuityNod to ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.
* {{Badass}}: A much more legitimate example than Boba, given his better track record.
** BadassNormal: Takes on Obi-Wan Kenobi on an even footing, kills a Jedi Master who was attacking the stands, takes out the Reek in a single shot, and manages to twice get the drop on Mace Windu, despite his lack of Force powers, cybernetics, or alien abilities.
* BattleInTheRain: With Obi-Wan.
* BodyguardingABadass: Serves as Dooku's bodyguard during the initial phase of the Jedi assault on the arena. Dooku needs protecting the way Jabba needs more food.
* BountyHunter: Though we never actually see him pursue any bounties in the film, and in the EU he's just as likely to work for criminals as he is to pursue them (in particular, he and Boba both have a longstanding relationship with Jabba The Hutt).
* ConsummateProfessional
* CoolHelmet: The same one that Boba would later wear.
* CoolStarship: The ''Slave I''.
* DotingParent: One of his [[PetTheDog redeeming qualities]].
* TheDragon: Dooku's first one, acting as the Sith Lord's assassin, bodyguard, and enforcer.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He reserved an unaltered clone to raise as his son (Boba).
* EvilMentor: To his [[BastardUnderstudy son]], whom he raises to be as ruthless and greedy as he himself.
* {{Expy}}: Of his son, Boba Fett, with his personality being largely modeled on Boba's in the Expanded Universe.
* FamedInStory: Among the galaxy's criminal element, anyway.
* {{Greed}}: Jango's main motivation is money, and he never seems to get enough. Despite being paid handsomely for his role in creating the clone army, he continues to take jobs, eventually taking on a permanent position with Count Dooku.
* GunsAkimbo: With his twin blaster pistols.
* TheGunslinger
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Kills his friend and subcontractor Zam Wessel when she is captured, on the chance that she might talk.
* HeroKiller: Downplayed when compared to Grievous or Durge, but still in effect. Jango comes with an earthshaking reputation and largely lives up to it, fighting Obi-Wan to a draw, killing Jedi Master and Council member Coleman Trebor during the arena battle, and actually getting off a few shots at Mace Windu before being slain. The various comics, video games, and novels have played up this status, adding additional Jedi kills to his bodycount.
* HiredGuns: Jango's not adverse to mercenary work, and takes paychecks from the Republic and the Separatists alike (though both jobs he does in the film were paid for by the same man--Count Dooku/Darth Tyrannus).
* IGaveMyWord: Always honors his deals.
* JetPack
* MentorOccupationalHazard: A villainous example, to his son.
* NobleDemon: The EU tries to go this route with him. It's not really present in the film, where he's a hired gun who kills one of his subcontractors and has no qualms about helping to trigger a galaxy-wide civil war.
* OffWithHisHead: Courtesy of Mace Windu.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Jango doesn't care about politics or ideology. All that matters to him is getting paid.
* QuickDraw: As evidenced by his speedy takedown of Coleman Trebor.
* PoisonedWeapon: His saberdarts.
* PredecessorVillain: To Boba Fett, who gains his armor, methodology, and title of "best bounty hunter in the galaxy."
* PragmaticVillainy
* ProfessionalKiller: While his official title may be "bounty hunter", his role in ''AttackOfTheClones'' is to act as Dooku's personal bagman.
* SpannerInTheWorks: According to ''Shatterpoint'' it was Jango's presence in Dooku's box that prevented Mace Windu from killing the ex-Jedi on the spot, as he had originally been intending to. Instead Mace ended up battling Jango and Dooku got away, allowing the Clone Wars to kick off.
* TrulySingleParent
* VillainousFriendship: With Zam, who got closer to him than anyone except his son. When he was forced to kill her, Jango was left visibly shaken and upset.
* VillainousValour: Trying to take on Mace Windu, the second most powerful Jedi in the Order, might not have been Jango's smartest move, but it was certainly his bravest.
* WalkingArmoury: He's got a missile on his JetPack, a pair of dart-throwers in his knees, a flamethrower in his arm, a grappling hook in the other one, a blade that can deploy from his forearm, and his two blaster pistols. And that's just the weapons we see him use in the film.
* WeaponOfChoice: Two ''WESTAR-34'' blaster pistols.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Zam Wesell]]
!!Zam Wesell
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->'''Played by:''' Leanna Walsman (Ep. II)
A Clawdite bounty hunter and killer-for-hire, and frequent associate of Jango Fett, Zam was brought in as a subcontractor when Jango was hired to assassinate Senator Amidala. Failing in the attempt, she was captured by Obi-Wan Kenobi, and killed by Jango.
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* AffablyEvil: Not really demonstrated in the film, but sidematerials establish her as such.
* BountyHunter: Though as with Jango and Boba she's just as liable to work for gangsters as she is to hunt them down.
* ColdSniper
* DarkActionGirl
* DeadpanSnarker
* {{Greed}}: Was actually run off of her homeworld for being too avaricious.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Murdered by Jango to stop her from talking.
* HiredGuns: Has worked for the Black Sun vigos, The Hutts, various other crime lords, Jango, and indirectly, the Separatists. So long as she gets paid, Zam doesn't give a damn where the money is coming from.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Zam doesn't care who she's working for, so long as the money is good.
* ParentalSubstitute: The closest thing that the young Boba Fett had to a mother figure.
* PunchClockVillain: Zam was not a sadist, and did not especially enjoy violence. Off the job she, not unlike Jango, was relatively harmless.
* ProfessionalKiller: Like Jango, Zam often hired herself out as an assassin.
* {{Shapeshifting}}
** ShapeshifterDefaultForm: A lizard-like female alien.
** VoluntaryShapeshifting
* VillainousFriendship: With Jango, which is why he brought her in to subcontract on the Amidala job.
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!!B1 Battle Droids
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The primary soldiers of the CIS, battle droids number in the millions and are used as cannon fodder by the Separatists. Designed to be cheap and disposable, battle droids rely solely on force of numbers to achieve victory and lack any real situational awareness, making them an easy target for an ambush.
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* CatchPhrase: "Roger, roger!" for the B1's and their predecessors the [=OOMs=].
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Which they [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] sometimes.
* {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}s: The [=B1=] units are so incompetent you almost feel bad for them.
* KillerRobot
* MadeOfPlasticine: A battle droid can be disassembled by an angry human, they are so poorly made.
* MechaMooks: Cheap, disposable, and not particularly effective.
* WeHaveReserves: The CIS possessed quintillions of B1s, meaning they could be used up without concern.
* ZergRush: Their only real tactic.
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[[folder:[=B2=] Super Battle Droids]]
!!B2 Super Battle Droids
->Appear in Ep. II-III
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Following the Trade Federation's defeat on Naboo, it was decided that a newer, tougher model of battle droid needed to be manufactured. The result was the B2, a larger, more heavily armoured droid with slightly higher intelligence and more effective, built-in weaponry. They served throughout the Clone Wars, and after the B1s were the most numerous droids in the Separatist army.
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* ArmCannon: Had laser cannons built into their wrists.
* EliteMook: Equipped with heavier armour, and capable of surviving multiple hits, super battle droids were an upgrade from the B1 in every way.
* KillerRobot
* MechaMooks: Tougher mooks, but mooks nonetheless.
* WeHaveReserves: Billions of B2s served with the Separatist army and Grievous and Dooku were both happy to throw them away.
* ZergRush: Like their predecessors they were dependent on these sorts of tactics.
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!!Droidekas
->Appear in Ep.I-II-III
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Also known as destroyer droids, the droideka was the elite of the Trade Federation's security forces and went onto serve as the elite heavy infantry units of the CIS. Huge, heavily armoured, and equipped with force shields, the droidekas were more than a match for any enemy unit.
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* ArmCannon: Possess heavy blasters for hands.
* DeflectorShield: Their trademark.
* EliteMooks: Even moreso than the B2s. A single droideka could usually cut through dozens of clone troopers and give a Jedi a fair fight.
* FatalFlaw: If knocked onto the floor or against the wall, the droideka's shield will try to disintegrate said floor or wall, mistaking it for an attacker. This can cause the shields to short out if continued for too long.
* HeavilyArmoredMook: Both armoured and possessed of shields.
* KillerRobot
* MechaMooks
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Destroyer droids" anybody?
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!!IG-100 [=MagnaGuard=]]]s
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Produced at horrendous expense, the [=MagnaGuard=]s were self-motivated, learning droids, as functional and intelligent as any living being. Built for the sole purpose of fighting Jedi, [=MagnaGuard=]s were specialized close-combat units who could take almost all comers.
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* BadassCape: All of them had one.
* BladeOnAStick: Favoured a force-pike built from a material that dampened the effects of a lightsabre blade.
* BodyguardingABadass: Several were always detailed to act as Grievous' personal guard.
* EliteMooks: UpToEleven. The [=MagnaGuard=]s were designed to kill Jedi and did so, being more than a match for any Padawan or Knight, and could even give a Master a run for their money.
* KillerRobot
* MechanicalMonster: Very few [=MagnaGuard=]s were produced due to the prohibitive costs. Those that did see service, however, soon built a frightening reputation for themselves.
* MookLieutenant: Give orders to the other droids.
* PraetorianGuard: To General Grievous.
* RoboticPsychopath: Unlike almost all other battle droids, [=MagnaGuard=]s were intelligent and were wired with personalities. Those personalities were uniformly psychopathic as it was the only way the droids could do what they were supposed to do.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The novelization has him happy that the Separtists are largely alien in membership, for it was his (and he thought Sidious') plan to be 'captured' by the Republic, then be reformed and turn against the 'alien menance'. He fully expected a human dominated Empire to rise from it.
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Produced at horrendous expense, the [MagnaGuard]s [=MagnaGuard=]s were self-motivated, learning droids, as functional and intelligent as any living being. Built for the sole purpose of fighting Jedi, [MagnaGuard]s [=MagnaGuard=]s were specialized close-combat units who could take almost all comers.
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* EliteMooks: UpToEleven. The [MagnaGuard]s were designed to kill Jedi and did so, being more than a match for any Padawan or Knight, and could even give a Master a run for their money.
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* MechanicalMonster: Very few [MagnaGuard]s were produced due to the prohibitive costs. Those that did see service, however, soon built a frightening reputation for themselves.
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* RoboticPsychopath: Unlike almost all other battle droids, [MagnaGuard]s were intelligent and were wired with personalities. Those personalities were, of course, uniformly psychopathic as it was the only way the droids could do what they were supposed to do.
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* RoboticPsychopath: Unlike almost all other battle droids, [MagnaGuard]s [=MagnaGuard=]s were intelligent and were wired with personalities. Those personalities were, of course, were uniformly psychopathic as it was the only way the droids could do what they were supposed to do.
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* NobleDemon: The EU tries to go this route with him. It's not really present in the film, where he's a hired gun who kills one of his subcontractors and has no qualms about helping to trigger a galaxy-wide civil war.
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* LetsFightLikeGentlemen: Has some aspects of this, as indicated by his insistence in both films on confronting Anakin and Obi-Wan by himself, and the fencing salute he gives Yoda before their duel.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Downplayed. Jango in the film is a highly capable soldier and contract murderer, but nowhere near the unstoppable Jedi-killing machine that the EU makes him out to be. Possibly justified as the film has him facing down Obi-Wan Kenobi and Mace Windu, two of the best fighters the Jedi Order has to offer, while his EU reputation as "the galaxy's most dangerous man" was earned facing down lesser foes.
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* CastingGag: It's probably not an accident that he's played by Christopher Lee, who was previously best known as one of HammerHorror's two leading men; Hammer's ''other'' leading man was Creator/PeterCushing, who played Grand Moff Tarkin in [[Film/ANewHope the 1977 original]].
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* SpannerInTheWorks: According to ''Shatterpoint'' it was Jango's presence in Dooku's box that prevented Mace Windu from killing the ex-Jedi on the spot, as he had originally been intending to. Instead Mace ended up battling Jango and Dooku got away, allowing the Clone Wars to kick off.
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A fallen Jedi who left the Order over philosophical issues, Dooku turned up on the side of the Separatists. What nobody knew, at least for a while, was that he was also the other member of the Sith, apprenticed to Darth Sidious. Played by ChristopherLee.
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A fallen former Jedi who left the Order over order due to philosophical issues, differences, Count Dooku turned up became Darth Sidious' second apprentice, taking on the side name Darth Tyranus. Bringing together the Trade Federation, the Intergalactic Banking Clan, the Corporate Alliance, the weaponeers of Genosis and sundry others, Dooku forged the Confederacy of Independent Systems, with himself as their public face. Determined to build a new order on the remnants of the Separatists. What nobody knew, at least for a while, was Republic, Dooku is the one thing that he was also keeps the other member of the Sith, apprenticed to Darth Sidious. Played by ChristopherLee.Separatists together.
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Don't call him a droid: he's still got biological components. He just happens to live in a mechanical body. Essentially a cyborg, Grievous received lightsaber training from Count Dooku and is able to hold his own against Jedi. Like Boba Fett, he was first introduced in a cartoon, though this was actually deliberate (whereas Fett was carried into {{Canon}} more by PopularityPower than anything else). Voiced by Skywalker Sound editor Matthew Wood, who submitted his audition under a pseudonym to guarantee he'd get a fair hearing.
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* ActorAllusion: What do you think [[{{Dracula}} "Count"]] stands for?
** According to the EU, he's also a trained fencer, just like Christopher Lee, and his fighting style in the films was based on fencing.
** His character (TheDragon and BigBadWannabe who is also a case of TheParagonAlwaysRebels) is quite similar to his role in [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings another famous movie]] that came out at roughly the same time as the prequel trilogy.
** According to the EU, he's also a trained fencer, just like Christopher Lee, and his fighting style in the films was based on fencing.
** His character (TheDragon and BigBadWannabe who is also a case of TheParagonAlwaysRebels) is quite similar to his role in [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings another famous movie]] that came out at roughly the same time as the prequel trilogy.
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Somewhat. Grievous was never a nice guy, but the Genosians tampered with his brain chemistry in order to make him into the sociopathic killer we all know and love.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: A deliberate version. The computers slaved to Grievous' brain stripped what little empathy he had away.
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* FakeRussian: His accent.DualWielding: Always uses at least two lightsabres and, by splitting his hands, can use up to four.
* EvilCripple: All that's left of Grievous are his internal organs, his brain, and some of his face. That's about as crippled as you can get.
* EvilCripple: All that's left of Grievous are his internal organs, his brain, and some of his face. That's about as crippled as you can get.
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* FallenHeroFallenHero: Grievous was a hero on his homeworld, at least, prior to the accident that ruined him.
* TheGeneralissimo: In fact if not name. He's the Confederacy's real second-in-command, and takes over as head of state after Dooku is killed.
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* HeroKiller: He even provides the trope picture!
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* IncurableCoughOfDeath: This was mostly due to both the result of his cybernetics, as well as Mace Windu Force Gripping his chest. However, this was {{Retcon}}ned in StarWarsTheCloneWars to always have it.
* [[ManInTheMachine Kaleesh In The Machine]]
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* IncurableCoughOfDeath: This was mostly due to both the result of his cybernetics, as well as Mace Windu Force Gripping his chest. However, this was {{Retcon}}ned in StarWarsTheCloneWars to always have it.
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*[[ManInTheMachine Kaleesh In The Machine]]InsaneAdmiral: A mad ruin of an officer, trapped inside his cybernetics who takes out his anger on any populace he can get his hands on.
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* TheWorfEffectTheWorfEffect: DependingOnTheWriter. In ''The Clone Wars'' this happens constantly. In the original ''Clone Wars'' and various books, it ''never'' happens.
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* ArmourIsUseless: Averted. Jango's armour is the only reason why he's able to take as much punishment as he is. Whether it's a beating from Obi-Wan, damage from a jetpack malfunction, or a blow from the Reek, Jango's armour can take it.
* BodyguardingABadass: Serves as Dooku's bodyguard during the initial phase of the Jedi assault on the arena. Dooku, of course, needs protecting the way Jabba needs more food.
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* EliteMooks: Even moreso than theB2s.
B2s. A single droideka could usually cut through dozens of clone troopers and give a Jedi a fair fight.
* FatalFlaw: If knocked onto the floor or against the wall, the droideka's shield will try to disintegrate said floor or wall, mistaking it for an attacker. This can cause the shields to short out if continued for too long.
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* FatalFlaw: If knocked onto the floor or against the wall, the droideka's shield will try to disintegrate said floor or wall, mistaking it for an attacker. This can cause the shields to short out if continued for too long.
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->Appear in Ep. III
Produced at horrendous expense, the [MagnaGuard]s were self-motivated, learning droids, as functional and intelligent as any living being. Built for the sole purpose of fighting Jedi, [MagnaGuard]s were specialized close-combat units who could take almost all comers.
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* BadassCape: All of them had one.
* BladeOnAStick: Favoured a force-pike built from a material that dampened the effects of a lightsabre blade.
* BodyguardingABadass: Several were always detailed to act as Grievous' personal guard.
* EliteMooks: UpToEleven. The [MagnaGuard]s were designed to kill Jedi and did so, being more than a match for any Padawan or Knight, and could even give a Master a run for their money.
* KillerRobot
* MechanicalMonster: Very few [MagnaGuard]s were produced due to the prohibitive costs. Those that did see service, however, soon built a frightening reputation for themselves.
* MookLieutenant: Give orders to the other droids.
* PraetorianGuard: To General Grievous.
* RoboticPsychopath: Unlike almost all other battle droids, [MagnaGuard]s were intelligent and were wired with personalities. Those personalities were, of course, uniformly psychopathic as it was the only way the droids could do what they were supposed to do.
Produced at horrendous expense, the [MagnaGuard]s were self-motivated, learning droids, as functional and intelligent as any living being. Built for the sole purpose of fighting Jedi, [MagnaGuard]s were specialized close-combat units who could take almost all comers.
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* BadassCape: All of them had one.
* BladeOnAStick: Favoured a force-pike built from a material that dampened the effects of a lightsabre blade.
* BodyguardingABadass: Several were always detailed to act as Grievous' personal guard.
* EliteMooks: UpToEleven. The [MagnaGuard]s were designed to kill Jedi and did so, being more than a match for any Padawan or Knight, and could even give a Master a run for their money.
* KillerRobot
* MechanicalMonster: Very few [MagnaGuard]s were produced due to the prohibitive costs. Those that did see service, however, soon built a frightening reputation for themselves.
* MookLieutenant: Give orders to the other droids.
* PraetorianGuard: To General Grievous.
* RoboticPsychopath: Unlike almost all other battle droids, [MagnaGuard]s were intelligent and were wired with personalities. Those personalities were, of course, uniformly psychopathic as it was the only way the droids could do what they were supposed to do.
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The primary soilders of the CIS, battle droids number in the millions and are used as cannon fodder by the separatists. The Trade Federation is the primary contractor of the standard B1, but other members of the confederacy have contributed their own battle droid designs like the Hailfire droid and the spider droid. Designed to be cheap and disposable, Battle droids rely solely on force of numbers to achieve victory and lack any real situational awareness, making them an easy target for an ambush.
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The primary soilders soldiers of the CIS, battle droids number in the millions and are used as cannon fodder by the separatists. The Trade Federation is the primary contractor of the standard B1, but other members of the confederacy have contributed their own battle droid designs like the Hailfire droid and the spider droid. Separatists. Designed to be cheap and disposable, Battle battle droids rely solely on force of numbers to achieve victory and lack any real situational awareness, making them an easy target for an ambush. ambush.
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* EliteMooks: The B2 super battle droids and the Droidekas. Even the Jedi had problems defeating them.
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* PraetorianGuard: The Magna Guards, to General Grievous.
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!!B2 Super Battle Droid
->Appear in Ep. II-III
Following the Trade Federation's defeat on Naboo, it was decided that a newer, tougher model of battle droid needed to be manufactured. The result was the B2, a larger, more heavily armoured droid with slightly higher intelligence and more effective, built-in weaponry. They served throughout the Clone Wars, and after the B1s were the most numerous droids in the Separatist army.
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* ArmCannon: Had laser cannons built into their wrists.
* EliteMook: Equipped with heavier armour, and capable of surviving multiple hits, super battle droids were an upgrade from the B1 in every way.
* MechaMooks: Tougher mooks, but mooks nonetheless.
* WeHaveReserves: Billions of B2s served with the Separatist army and Grievous and Dooku were both happy to throw them away.
* ZergRush: Like their predecessors they were dependent on these sorts of tactics.
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[[folder:Droideka]]
!!Droideka
->Appear in Ep.I-II-III
Also known as destroyer droids, the droideka was the elite of the Trade Federation's security forces and went onto serve as the elite heavy infantry units of the CIS. Huge, heavily armoured, and equipped with force shields, the droidekas were more than a match for any enemy unit.
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* EliteMooks: Even moreso than the B2s.
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!!IG-100 [=MagnaGuard=]]]
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!!B2 Super Battle Droid
->Appear in Ep. II-III
Following the Trade Federation's defeat on Naboo, it was decided that a newer, tougher model of battle droid needed to be manufactured. The result was the B2, a larger, more heavily armoured droid with slightly higher intelligence and more effective, built-in weaponry. They served throughout the Clone Wars, and after the B1s were the most numerous droids in the Separatist army.
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* ArmCannon: Had laser cannons built into their wrists.
* EliteMook: Equipped with heavier armour, and capable of surviving multiple hits, super battle droids were an upgrade from the B1 in every way.
* MechaMooks: Tougher mooks, but mooks nonetheless.
* WeHaveReserves: Billions of B2s served with the Separatist army and Grievous and Dooku were both happy to throw them away.
* ZergRush: Like their predecessors they were dependent on these sorts of tactics.
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[[folder:Droideka]]
!!Droideka
->Appear in Ep.I-II-III
Also known as destroyer droids, the droideka was the elite of the Trade Federation's security forces and went onto serve as the elite heavy infantry units of the CIS. Huge, heavily armoured, and equipped with force shields, the droidekas were more than a match for any enemy unit.
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* EliteMooks: Even moreso than the B2s.
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!!IG-100 [=MagnaGuard=]]]
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[[folder: Jango Fett]]
!!Jango Fett
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->'''Played by:''' Temuera Morrison
-->"I'm just a simple man trying to make my way in the universe.''
A top-notch bounty hunter who was hired by the Republic to be the template for an army of clones, from which the Clone Wars took their name. Secretly working for the Separatists as an assassin and mercenary soldier, Jango makes several attempts on the life of Padme Amidala, bringing him into direct conflict with Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker. He is the genetic father of Boba Fett, whose creation was one of the conditions of his deal with the Kaminoan cloners.
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* AffablyEvil: Sidematerials paint him as a relatively pleasant guy if you aren't a target or in his way.
* AsteroidThicket: Chases Obi-Wan through one in a ContinuityNod to ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.
* {{Badass}}: A much more legitimate example than Boba, given his better track record.
** BadassNormal: Takes on Obi-Wan Kenobi on an even footing, kills a Jedi Master who was attacking the stands, takes out the Reek in a single shot, and manages to twice get the drop on Mace Windu, despite his lack of Force powers, cybernetics, or alien abilities.
* BattleInTheRain: With Obi-Wan.
* BountyHunter: Though we never actually see him pursue any bounties in the film, and in the EU he's just as likely to work for criminals as he is to pursue them (in particular, he and Boba both have a longstanding relationship with Jabba The Hutt).
* ConsummateProfessional
* CoolHelmet
* CoolStarship: The ''Slave I''.
* DotingParent: One of his [[PetTheDog redeeming qualities]].
* TheDragon: Dooku's first one, acting as the latter's assassin, bodyguard, and enforcer.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He reserved an unaltered clone to raise as his son (Boba).
* EvilMentor: To his [[BastardUnderstudy son]], whom he raises to be as ruthless and greedy as he himself.
* {{Expy}}: Of his son, Boba Fett, with his personality being largely modeled on Boba's in the Expanded Universe.
* {{Greed}}: Jango's main motivation is money, and he never seems to get enough. Despite being paid handsomely for his role in creating the clone army, he continues to take jobs, eventually taking on a permanent position with Count Dooku.
* GunsAkimbo: With his twin blaster pistols.
* TheGunslinger
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Kills his friend and subcontractor Zam Wessel when she is captured, on the chance that she might talk.
* HeroKiller: Downplayed when compared to Grievous or Durge, but still in effect. Jango comes with an earthshaking reputation and largely lives up to it, fighting Obi-Wan to a draw, killing Jedi Master and Council member Coleman Trebor during the arena battle, and actually getting off a few shots at Mace Windu before being slain. The various comics, video games, and novels have played up this status, adding additional Jedi kills to his bodycount.
* HiredGuns: Jango's not adverse to mercenary work, and takes paychecks from the Republic and the Separatists alike (though both jobs he does in the film were paid for by the same man--Count Dooku/Darth Tyrannus).
* IGaveMyWord: Always honors his deals.
* JetPack
* MentorOccupationalHazard: A villainous example, to his son.
* OffWithHisHead: Courtesy of Mace Windu.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Jango doesn't care about politics or ideology. All that matters to him is getting paid.
* QuickDraw: As evidenced by his speedy takedown of Coleman Trebor.
* PoisonedWeapon: His saberdarts.
* PredecessorVillain: To Boba Fett, who gains his armor, methodology, and title of "best bounty hunter in the galaxy."
* PragmaticVillainy
* ProfessionalKiller: While his official title may be "bounty hunter", his role in ''AttackOfTheClones'' is to act as Dooku's personal bagman.
* TrulySingleParent
* VillainousFriendship: With Zam, who got closer to him than anyone except his son. When he was forced to kill her, Jango was left visibly shaken and upset.
* VillainousValour: Trying to take on Mace Windu, the second most powerful Jedi in the Order, might not have been Jango's smartest move, but it was certainly his bravest.
* WalkingArmoury: He's got a missile on his JetPack, a pair of dart-throwers in his knees, a flamethrower in his arm, a grappling hook in the other one, a blade that can deploy from his forearm, and his two blaster pistols. And that's just the weapons we see him use in the film.
* WeaponOfChoice: Two ''WESTAR-34'' blaster pistols.
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[[folder: Zam Wesell]]
!!Zam Wesell
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->'''Played by:''' Leanna Walsman (Ep. II)
A Clawdite bounty hunter and killer-for-hire, and frequent associate of Jango Fett, Zam was brought in as a subcontractor when Jango was hired to assassinate Senator Amidala. Failing in the attempt, she was captured by Obi-Wan Kenobi, and killed by Jango.
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* AffablyEvil: Not really demonstrated in the film, but sidematerials establish her as such.
* BountyHunter: Though as with Jango and Boba she's just as liable to work for gangsters as she is to hunt them down.
* ColdSniper
* DarkActionGirl
* DeadpanSnarker
* {{Greed}}: Was actually run off of her homeworld for being too avaricious.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Murdered by Jango to stop her from talking.
* HiredGuns: Has worked for the Black Sun vigos, The Hutts, various other crime lords, Jango, and indirectly, the Separatists. So long as she gets paid, Zam doesn't give a damn where the money is coming from.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Zam doesn't care who she's working for, so long as the money is good.
* ParentalSubstitute: The closest thing that the young Boba Fett had to a mother figure.
* PunchClockVillain: Zam was not a sadist, and did not especially enjoy violence. Off the job she, not unlike Jango, was relatively harmless.
* ProfessionalKiller: Like Jango, Zam often hired herself out as an assassin.
* {{Shapeshifting}}
** ShapeshifterDefaultForm: A lizard-like female alien.
** VoluntaryShapeshifting
* VillainousFriendship: With Jango, which is why he brought her in to subcontract on the Amidala job.
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!Droid Army
[[folder: The Battle Droids]]
!!The Battle Droids
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->Appear in Ep. I-II-III
The primary soilders of the CIS, battle droids number in the millions and are used as cannon fodder by the separatists. The Trade Federation is the primary contractor of the standard B1, but other members of the confederacy have contributed their own battle droid designs like the Hailfire droid and the spider droid. Designed to be cheap and disposable, Battle droids rely solely on force of numbers to achieve victory and lack any real situational awareness, making them an easy target for an ambush.
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* BodyguardingABadass: The Magna Guards, to General Grievous.
* CatchPhrase: "Roger, roger!" for the B1's and their predecessors the [=OOMs=].
* EliteMooks: The B2 super battle droids and the Droidekas. Even the Jedi had problems defeating them.
* GiantMook: The B3 super battle droid and the spider droid.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Which they [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] sometimes.
* {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}s: The [=B1=] units.
* MechaMooks
* MechanicalMonster: The droideka. Even the Jedi were incapable of defeating them because of their DeflectorShields.
* PraetorianGuard: The Magna Guards, to General Grievous.
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[[folder: Jango Fett]]
!!Jango Fett
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->'''Played by:''' Temuera Morrison
-->"I'm just a simple man trying to make my way in the universe.''
A top-notch bounty hunter who was hired by the Republic to be the template for an army of clones, from which the Clone Wars took their name. Secretly working for the Separatists as an assassin and mercenary soldier, Jango makes several attempts on the life of Padme Amidala, bringing him into direct conflict with Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker. He is the genetic father of Boba Fett, whose creation was one of the conditions of his deal with the Kaminoan cloners.
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* AffablyEvil: Sidematerials paint him as a relatively pleasant guy if you aren't a target or in his way.
* AsteroidThicket: Chases Obi-Wan through one in a ContinuityNod to ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.
* {{Badass}}: A much more legitimate example than Boba, given his better track record.
** BadassNormal: Takes on Obi-Wan Kenobi on an even footing, kills a Jedi Master who was attacking the stands, takes out the Reek in a single shot, and manages to twice get the drop on Mace Windu, despite his lack of Force powers, cybernetics, or alien abilities.
* BattleInTheRain: With Obi-Wan.
* BountyHunter: Though we never actually see him pursue any bounties in the film, and in the EU he's just as likely to work for criminals as he is to pursue them (in particular, he and Boba both have a longstanding relationship with Jabba The Hutt).
* ConsummateProfessional
* CoolHelmet
* CoolStarship: The ''Slave I''.
* DotingParent: One of his [[PetTheDog redeeming qualities]].
* TheDragon: Dooku's first one, acting as the latter's assassin, bodyguard, and enforcer.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He reserved an unaltered clone to raise as his son (Boba).
* EvilMentor: To his [[BastardUnderstudy son]], whom he raises to be as ruthless and greedy as he himself.
* {{Expy}}: Of his son, Boba Fett, with his personality being largely modeled on Boba's in the Expanded Universe.
* {{Greed}}: Jango's main motivation is money, and he never seems to get enough. Despite being paid handsomely for his role in creating the clone army, he continues to take jobs, eventually taking on a permanent position with Count Dooku.
* GunsAkimbo: With his twin blaster pistols.
* TheGunslinger
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Kills his friend and subcontractor Zam Wessel when she is captured, on the chance that she might talk.
* HeroKiller: Downplayed when compared to Grievous or Durge, but still in effect. Jango comes with an earthshaking reputation and largely lives up to it, fighting Obi-Wan to a draw, killing Jedi Master and Council member Coleman Trebor during the arena battle, and actually getting off a few shots at Mace Windu before being slain. The various comics, video games, and novels have played up this status, adding additional Jedi kills to his bodycount.
* HiredGuns: Jango's not adverse to mercenary work, and takes paychecks from the Republic and the Separatists alike (though both jobs he does in the film were paid for by the same man--Count Dooku/Darth Tyrannus).
* IGaveMyWord: Always honors his deals.
* JetPack
* MentorOccupationalHazard: A villainous example, to his son.
* OffWithHisHead: Courtesy of Mace Windu.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Jango doesn't care about politics or ideology. All that matters to him is getting paid.
* QuickDraw: As evidenced by his speedy takedown of Coleman Trebor.
* PoisonedWeapon: His saberdarts.
* PredecessorVillain: To Boba Fett, who gains his armor, methodology, and title of "best bounty hunter in the galaxy."
* PragmaticVillainy
* ProfessionalKiller: While his official title may be "bounty hunter", his role in ''AttackOfTheClones'' is to act as Dooku's personal bagman.
* TrulySingleParent
* VillainousFriendship: With Zam, who got closer to him than anyone except his son. When he was forced to kill her, Jango was left visibly shaken and upset.
* VillainousValour: Trying to take on Mace Windu, the second most powerful Jedi in the Order, might not have been Jango's smartest move, but it was certainly his bravest.
* WalkingArmoury: He's got a missile on his JetPack, a pair of dart-throwers in his knees, a flamethrower in his arm, a grappling hook in the other one, a blade that can deploy from his forearm, and his two blaster pistols. And that's just the weapons we see him use in the film.
* WeaponOfChoice: Two ''WESTAR-34'' blaster pistols.
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[[folder: Zam Wesell]]
!!Zam Wesell
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->'''Played by:''' Leanna Walsman (Ep. II)
A Clawdite bounty hunter and killer-for-hire, and frequent associate of Jango Fett, Zam was brought in as a subcontractor when Jango was hired to assassinate Senator Amidala. Failing in the attempt, she was captured by Obi-Wan Kenobi, and killed by Jango.
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* AffablyEvil: Not really demonstrated in the film, but sidematerials establish her as such.
* BountyHunter: Though as with Jango and Boba she's just as liable to work for gangsters as she is to hunt them down.
* ColdSniper
* DarkActionGirl
* DeadpanSnarker
* {{Greed}}: Was actually run off of her homeworld for being too avaricious.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Murdered by Jango to stop her from talking.
* HiredGuns: Has worked for the Black Sun vigos, The Hutts, various other crime lords, Jango, and indirectly, the Separatists. So long as she gets paid, Zam doesn't give a damn where the money is coming from.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Zam doesn't care who she's working for, so long as the money is good.
* ParentalSubstitute: The closest thing that the young Boba Fett had to a mother figure.
* PunchClockVillain: Zam was not a sadist, and did not especially enjoy violence. Off the job she, not unlike Jango, was relatively harmless.
* ProfessionalKiller: Like Jango, Zam often hired herself out as an assassin.
* {{Shapeshifting}}
** ShapeshifterDefaultForm: A lizard-like female alien.
** VoluntaryShapeshifting
* VillainousFriendship: With Jango, which is why he brought her in to subcontract on the Amidala job.
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!Droid Army
[[folder: The Battle Droids]]
!!The Battle Droids
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->Appear in Ep. I-II-III
The primary soilders of the CIS, battle droids number in the millions and are used as cannon fodder by the separatists. The Trade Federation is the primary contractor of the standard B1, but other members of the confederacy have contributed their own battle droid designs like the Hailfire droid and the spider droid. Designed to be cheap and disposable, Battle droids rely solely on force of numbers to achieve victory and lack any real situational awareness, making them an easy target for an ambush.
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* BodyguardingABadass: The Magna Guards, to General Grievous.
* CatchPhrase: "Roger, roger!" for the B1's and their predecessors the [=OOMs=].
* EliteMooks: The B2 super battle droids and the Droidekas. Even the Jedi had problems defeating them.
* GiantMook: The B3 super battle droid and the spider droid.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Which they [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] sometimes.
* {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}s: The [=B1=] units.
* MechaMooks
* MechanicalMonster: The droideka. Even the Jedi were incapable of defeating them because of their DeflectorShields.
* PraetorianGuard: The Magna Guards, to General Grievous.
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!!General Grievous
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->'''Voiced by:''' Matthew Wood (Ep. III)
Don't call him a droid: he's still got biological components. He just happens to live in a mechanical body. Essentially a cyborg, Grievous received lightsaber training from Count Dooku and is able to hold his own against Jedi. Like Boba Fett, he was first introduced in a cartoon, though this was actually deliberate (whereas Fett was carried into {{Canon}} more by PopularityPower than anything else). Voiced by Skywalker Sound editor Matthew Wood, who submitted his audition under a pseudonym to guarantee he'd get a fair hearing.
!!General Grievous
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->'''Voiced by:''' Matthew Wood (Ep. III)
Don't call him a droid: he's still got biological components. He just happens to live in a mechanical body. Essentially a cyborg, Grievous received lightsaber training from Count Dooku and is able to hold his own against Jedi. Like Boba Fett, he was first introduced in a cartoon, though this was actually deliberate (whereas Fett was carried into {{Canon}} more by PopularityPower than anything else). Voiced by Skywalker Sound editor Matthew Wood, who submitted his audition under a pseudonym to guarantee he'd get a fair hearing.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Grievous was interpreted as an extremely lethal HeroKiller in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'', which was released well before ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' was even released in theatres.
* AlliterativeName
* {{Badass}}: He's usually this or getting [[TheWorfEffect Worfed]]. [[DependingOnTheWriter Depends on who's writing, really.]]
** FourStarBadass
* BattleTrophy: How he got his lightsabers.
* BerserkButton: In the ExpandedUniverse, he goes nuts whenever someone mistakes him for [[MechaMooks another mindless droid]].
* BlackKnight
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Somewhat.
* CanonImmigrant
* CombatPragmatist: During the first animated series he appeared in, Dooku explicitly trains Grievous to fight like this: he's supposed to use surprise, fear, intimidation, and power to overwhelm his opponents, and to flee when that doesn't work.
* {{Cyborg}}
* DarthVaderClone: The cyborg with breathing problems, undone by his reliance on machines.
* TheDragon: To Dooku, following Jango and [[VideoGame/StarWarsGalacticBattlegrounds Sev'Rance Tann's]] deaths, Durge's defeat, and Ventress' exit.
* DragonAscendant: Subverted. When Count Dooku is killed, the Jedi ''think'' Grievous has become this when in reality he has just become Sidious's Dragon instead.
* FakeRussian: His accent.
* [[FakeUltimateHero Fake Ultimate Villain]]: In the eyes of the Republic at large, upon Dooku's death, Grievous took over as the BigBad; the Senate even voted to continue the Clone War, as long as Grievous lived. However, Palpatine is clearly the one pulling the strings, using both Dooku ''and'' Grievous as scapegoats to keep his involvement a secret.
* FallenHero
* EvilSoundsDeep
* GutturalGrowler
* HeroKiller: He even provides the trope picture!
* HollywoodCyborg
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: This was mostly due to both the result of his cybernetics, as well as Mace Windu Force Gripping his chest. However, this was {{Retcon}}ned in StarWarsTheCloneWars to always have it.
* [[ManInTheMachine Kaleesh In The Machine]]
* KillItWithFire: When he's shot by Obi-Wan, his organic tissue burns up.
* LargeHam
* LooksLikeOrlok: Quite impressive for a cyborg.
* MalevolentMaskedMan[=/=]WhiteMaskOfDoom
* MeaningfulName: "Grievous" means "causing grief or great sorrow," somewhat fitting for the slaughterer of millions. A case of NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
** Interesting it has a double meaning, he renamed himself after [[BattleCouple his wife was killed in battle]].
* MultiArmedAndDangerous
* OminousOperaCape
* [[OneManArmy One Kaleesh Army]]
* [[DualWielding Quad Wielding]]
* {{Revenge}}: Is getting back at the Jedi for siding with his race's invaders/mortal enemy, the Huk.
* RuleOfCool
* ShadowArchetype: Of Anakin/Vader. A twisted mixture of machine and man which causes problems in breathing and combat.
* TragicVillain: In a sense. The Expanded Universe reveals Grievous was an honorable warrior fighting to save his people until an accident left him crippled. He sold himself to Dooku to save his planet. Dooku had no use for an honorable, noble warrior and had his brain tampered with, replacing the honor and nobility with sadism and savagery.
* TheWorfEffect
* VillainDecay: Sort of a time-reversed case. ''Revenge'' has him failing at everything he tries to do, and running away from the good guys, which makes his fearsome reputation look like an InformedAttribute. The various TV series managed to do him justice as a real threat.
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[[folder: Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus]]
!!Count Dooku[=/=]Darth Tyranus
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->'''Played by:''' ChristopherLee (Ep.II-III)
A fallen Jedi who left the Order over philosophical issues, Dooku turned up on the side of the Separatists. What nobody knew, at least for a while, was that he was also the other member of the Sith, apprenticed to Darth Sidious. Played by ChristopherLee.
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* BigBad: Subverted. Similar to Vader, he's the most prominent villain in Episode II, but is subservient to Darth Sidious. Inverted in that he is generally perceived to be this by the Jedi and the galaxy at large, and on a smaller scale he does occasionally act without consulting Sidious, sometimes in plots to betray him.
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!!Viceroy Nute Gunray
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->'''Played by:''' Silas Carson (Ep.I-III)
The CorruptCorporateExecutive Neimoidian leader of the Trade Federation and an IneffectualSympatheticVillain during the prequel trilogy. Most prominently featured in Episode I, in which he makes a DealWithTheDevil only to unsurprisingly be used and betrayed by [[ManipulativeBastard Darth Sidious]]. Gunray joins the Separatists in Episode II, by which time he seems to have developed a grudge against Padmé. [[SarcasmMode How dare she liberate her planet from his illegal invasion!]] In Episode III, Darth Vader kills him in cold blood as he begs for mercy.
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Don't call him a droid: he's still got biological components. He just happens to live in a mechanical body. Essentially a cyborg, Grievous received lightsaber training from Count Dooku andan IneffectualSympatheticVillain during the prequel trilogy. Most prominently featured in Episode I, in which he makes a DealWithTheDevil only is able to unsurprisingly be used and betrayed by [[ManipulativeBastard Darth Sidious]]. Gunray joins the Separatists in Episode II, by which time he seems to have developed a grudge hold his own against Padmé. [[SarcasmMode How dare she liberate her planet from Jedi. Like Boba Fett, he was first introduced in a cartoon, though this was actually deliberate (whereas Fett was carried into {{Canon}} more by PopularityPower than anything else). Voiced by Skywalker Sound editor Matthew Wood, who submitted his illegal invasion!]] In Episode III, Darth Vader kills him in cold blood as he begs for mercy.audition under a pseudonym to guarantee he'd get a fair hearing.
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* AlliterativeName
* {{Badass}}: He's usually this or getting [[TheWorfEffect Worfed]]. [[DependingOnTheWriter Depends on who's writing, really.]]
** FourStarBadass
* BattleTrophy: How he got his lightsabers.
* BerserkButton: In the ExpandedUniverse, he goes nuts whenever someone mistakes him for [[MechaMooks another mindless droid]].
* BlackKnight
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Somewhat.
* CanonImmigrant
* CombatPragmatist: During the first animated series he appeared in, Dooku explicitly trains Grievous to fight like this: he's supposed to use surprise, fear, intimidation, and power to overwhelm his opponents, and to flee when that doesn't work.
* {{Cyborg}}
* DarthVaderClone: The cyborg with breathing problems, undone by his reliance on machines.
* TheDragon: To Dooku, following Jango and [[VideoGame/StarWarsGalacticBattlegrounds Sev'Rance Tann's]] deaths, Durge's defeat, and Ventress' exit.
* DragonAscendant: Subverted. When Count Dooku is killed, the Jedi ''think'' Grievous has become this when in reality he has just become Sidious's Dragon instead.
* FakeRussian: His accent.
* [[FakeUltimateHero Fake Ultimate Villain]]: In the eyes of the Republic at large, upon Dooku's death, Grievous took over as the BigBad; the Senate even voted to continue the Clone War, as long as Grievous lived. However, Palpatine is clearly the one pulling the strings, using both Dooku ''and'' Grievous as scapegoats to keep his involvement a secret.
* FallenHero
* EvilSoundsDeep
* GutturalGrowler
* HeroKiller: He even provides the trope picture!
* HollywoodCyborg
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: This was mostly due to both the result of his cybernetics, as well as Mace Windu Force Gripping his chest. However, this was {{Retcon}}ned in StarWarsTheCloneWars to always have it.
* [[ManInTheMachine Kaleesh In The Machine]]
* KillItWithFire: When he's shot by Obi-Wan, his organic tissue burns up.
* LargeHam
* LooksLikeOrlok: Quite impressive for a cyborg.
* MalevolentMaskedMan[=/=]WhiteMaskOfDoom
* MeaningfulName: "Grievous" means "causing grief or great sorrow," somewhat fitting for the slaughterer of millions. A case of NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
** Interesting it has a double meaning, he renamed himself after [[BattleCouple his wife was killed in battle]].
* MultiArmedAndDangerous
* OminousOperaCape
* [[OneManArmy One Kaleesh Army]]
* [[DualWielding Quad Wielding]]
* {{Revenge}}: Is getting back at the Jedi for siding with his race's invaders/mortal enemy, the Huk.
* RuleOfCool
* ShadowArchetype: Of Anakin/Vader. A twisted mixture of machine and man which causes problems in breathing and combat.
* TragicVillain: In a sense. The Expanded Universe reveals Grievous was an honorable warrior fighting to save his people until an accident left him crippled. He sold himself to Dooku to save his planet. Dooku had no use for an honorable, noble warrior and had his brain tampered with, replacing the honor and nobility with sadism and savagery.
* TheWorfEffect
* VillainDecay: Sort of a time-reversed case. ''Revenge'' has him failing at everything he tries to do, and running away from the good guys, which makes his fearsome reputation look like an InformedAttribute. The various TV series managed to do him justice as a real threat.
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!!Viceroy Nute Gunray
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->'''Played by:''' Silas Carson (Ep.I-III)
The CorruptCorporateExecutive Neimoidian leader of the Trade Federation and an IneffectualSympatheticVillain during the prequel trilogy. Most prominently featured in Episode I, in which he makes a DealWithTheDevil only to unsurprisingly be used and betrayed by [[ManipulativeBastard Darth Sidious]]. Gunray joins the Separatists in Episode II, by which time he seems to have developed a grudge against Padmé. [[SarcasmMode How dare she liberate her planet from his illegal invasion!]] In Episode III, Darth Vader kills him in cold blood as he begs for mercy.
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->Voiced by: Matthew Wood (Ep. III)
Don't call him a droid: he's still got biological components. He just happens to live in a mechanical body. Essentially a cyborg, Grievous received lightsaber training from Count Dooku and is able to hold his own against Jedi. Like Boba Fett, he was first introduced in a cartoon, though this was actually deliberate (whereas Fett was carried into {{Canon}} more by PopularityPower than anything else). Voiced by Skywalker Sound editor Matthew Wood, who submitted his audition under a pseudonym to guarantee he'd get a fair hearing.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Grievous was interpreted as an extremely lethal HeroKiller in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'', which was released well before ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' was even released in theatres.
* AlliterativeName
* {{Badass}}: He's usually this or getting [[TheWorfEffect Worfed]]. [[DependingOnTheWriter Depends on who's writing, really.]]
** FourStarBadass
* BattleTrophy: How he got his lightsabers.
* BerserkButton: In the ExpandedUniverse, he goes nuts whenever someone mistakes him for [[MechaMooks another mindless droid]].
* BlackKnight
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Somewhat.
* CanonImmigrant
* CombatPragmatist: During the first animated series he appeared in, Dooku explicitly trains Grievous to fight like this: he's supposed to use surprise, fear, intimidation, and power to overwhelm his opponents, and to flee when that doesn't work.
* {{Cyborg}}
* DarthVaderClone: The cyborg with breathing problems, undone by his reliance on machines.
* TheDragon: To Dooku, following Jango and [[VideoGame/StarWarsGalacticBattlegrounds Sev'Rance Tann's]] deaths, Durge's defeat, and Ventress' exit.
* DragonAscendant: Subverted. When Count Dooku is killed, the Jedi ''think'' Grievous has become this when in reality he has just become Sidious's Dragon instead.
* FakeRussian: His accent.
* [[FakeUltimateHero Fake Ultimate Villain]]: In the eyes of the Republic at large, upon Dooku's death, Grievous took over as the BigBad; the Senate even voted to continue the Clone War, as long as Grievous lived. However, Palpatine is clearly the one pulling the strings, using both Dooku ''and'' Grievous as scapegoats to keep his involvement a secret.
* FallenHero
* EvilSoundsDeep
* GutturalGrowler
* HeroKiller: He even provides the trope picture!
* HollywoodCyborg
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: This was mostly due to both the result of his cybernetics, as well as Mace Windu Force Gripping his chest. However, this was {{Retcon}}ned in StarWarsTheCloneWars to always have it.
* [[ManInTheMachine Kaleesh In The Machine]]
* KillItWithFire: When he's shot by Obi-Wan, his organic tissue burns up.
* LargeHam
* LooksLikeOrlok: Quite impressive for a cyborg.
* MalevolentMaskedMan[=/=]WhiteMaskOfDoom
* MeaningfulName: "Grievous" means "causing grief or great sorrow," somewhat fitting for the slaughterer of millions. A case of NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
** Interesting it has a double meaning, he renamed himself after [[BattleCouple his wife was killed in battle]].
* MultiArmedAndDangerous
* OminousOperaCape
* [[OneManArmy One Kaleesh Army]]
* [[DualWielding Quad Wielding]]
* {{Revenge}}: Is getting back at the Jedi for siding with his race's invaders/mortal enemy, the Huk.
* RuleOfCool
* ShadowArchetype: Of Anakin/Vader. A twisted mixture of machine and man which causes problems in breathing and combat.
* TragicVillain: In a sense. The Expanded Universe reveals Grievous was an honorable warrior fighting to save his people until an accident left him crippled. He sold himself to Dooku to save his planet. Dooku had no use for an honorable, noble warrior and had his brain tampered with, replacing the honor and nobility with sadism and savagery.
* TheWorfEffect
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!!Count Dooku[=/=]Darth Tyranus
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->Played by: ChristopherLee (Ep.II-III)
A fallen Jedi who left the Order over philosophical issues, Dooku turned up on the side of the Separatists. What nobody knew, at least for a while, was that he was also the other member of the Sith, apprenticed to Darth Sidious. Played by ChristopherLee.
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* ActorAllusion: What do you think [[{{Dracula}} "Count"]] stands for?
** According to the EU, he's also a trained fencer, just like Christopher Lee, and his fighting style in the films was based on fencing.
** His character (TheDragon and BigBadWannabe who is also a case of TheParagonAlwaysRebels) is quite similar to his role in [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings another famous movie]] that came out at roughly the same time as the prequel trilogy.
* AristocratsAreEvil
* AwesomeMcCoolName: "Darth Tyranus". All Sith Lords come with this.
* BadassBaritone
* BadassGrandpa: ChristopherLee was well into his 80s when he filmed the role.
* BastardUnderstudy: To Darth Sidious.
* BeardOfEvil
* BigBad: Subverted. Similar to Vader, he's the most prominent villain in Episode II, but is subservient to Darth Sidious. Inverted in that he is generally perceived to be this by the Jedi and the galaxy at large, and on a smaller scale he does occasionally act without consulting Sidious, sometimes in plots to betray him.
** BigBadWannabe: Intended to kill Sidious at some point in the future and take over the Sith Order- [[DoomedByCanon he fails]].
* BrokenPedestal: To the Jedi Order as a whole.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Betrayed the Jedi Order for the Sith, and proceeded to wage a campaign of murder and assassination against them all, despite many of them being his close friends. In the EU, regardless of the version, he ultimately betrays his apprentice Asajj Ventress, and as per Sith tradition is conspiring against his master Sidious (which doesn't work out). The Separatist movement itself is one giant con too.
* CombatAestheticist: He chose his fighting style for it's grace and beauty, mixed with deadly effectiveness.
* CoolBike: His hoverbike from ''Attack of the Clones''.
* CoolOldGuy: Yes, he is. Awesomeness, thy name is ChristopherLee
* CoolStarship: His solar sailer.
* CoolSword: The curved-hilt lightsaber allows for a more fencing-like fighting style and is designed to have an advantage in saberfights (due to the unique angles) at the expense of being harder to use to block blaster bolts.
* TheDarkSide
* DarthVaderClone: The "fallen hero betrayed by the Emperor" aspect - and unlike the actual Vader, the Emperor gets away with it.
* DependingOnTheWriter: His death. In ''ROTS'', although he does have some fear when he learns of Palpatine's betrayal, he nonetheless remained DefiantToTheEnd right up until Anakin beheads him. In the novelization, however, he panics on realizing [[TheUriahGambit Sidious is going to let him die]] and starts pleading for mercy.
** According to [[WordOfGod Christopher Lee]], the novelization's take was actually originally going to be in the film, but he had convinced Lucas to change it, as he felt that Dooku would not have begged for his life like a coward.
* DespotismJustifiesTheMeans: Seeks to create a galactic empire that will bring order to the universe and power to himself. Doesn't care what methods he has to use to do it.
* TheDragon: To Darth Sidious.
** TheHeavy: In Episode II.
* EvilBrit: Well, he's played by a Brit.
* EvilGloating: This backfires on him spectacularly during his last duel with Anakin, where it only serves to make him madder and more aggressive.
* EvilOldFolks: Eighty-three at the time of his death.
* EvilSoundsDeep: It's ChristopherLee, what did you expect?
* FallenHero
* FauxAffablyEvil
* HeroKiller: As shown by the CurbstompBattle he dishes out in the second film.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The red lightsaber he's using is turned against him by Anakin, who uses both his own and Dooku's to kill him.
* InterimVillain: Mostly as part of Sidious' EvilPlan. Details can be found on the page itself.
* MasterApprenticeChain: As stated in his introduction, Obi-Wan and Anakin are directly down the chain from him. He also seems to take some pride from this, too; he is still very proud of Qui-Gonn, genuinely likes Obi-Wan (though won't hesitate to kill him), but views Anakin as a [[DramaticIrony completely unworthy successor]]. He doesn't seem to have an opinion of [[StarWarsTheCloneWars Ahsoka]] one way or the other, though.
* MasterSwordsman: Is able to take down both Obi-Wan and Anakin, and holds his own against Yoda. Plus being able to train General Grievous into such a powerful swordsman that he was able to slay Jedi in single combat [[BadassNormal without the Force.]]
* MeaningfulName: ChristopherLee points out in an interview with the StarWars monthly magazine that "Dooku" is a homonym for the Japanese word ''doku'', which means "venom."
** DubNameChange: In Brazil, he is known as Count Dookan, because "du Cu" means "out of the ass" in Portuguese.
* ModestRoyalty: He's a Count, but his dress is quite simple, in comparison with other royals in StarWars setting.
* MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours: Says this to Yoda during their confrontation.
-->I have become more powerful than any Jedi. Even ''you''.
* OffWithHisHead: After defeating him, Anakin decapitates him scissors-style at Palpatine's urging.
* OminousOperaCape
* TheParagonAlwaysRebels: Used to be one of the Order's finest Knights. Yoda says Count Dooku was his finest student and one of the greatest Jedi, but then he turned to the Dark Side. There is also the fact that his negotiations caused several THOUSAND star systems to break off from the Republic, meaning that he plays this trope straight, taking a good number of the systems in the Republic for the Confederacy and causing many systems who would otherwise just be part of the Republic to break off. They were convinced by the Count that the Republic is too corrupt to be repaired, and the Count even tries to persuade Padme that they have to start over. Supplemented in the Clone Wars CGI show, where we have [[DeconstructedTrope sympathetic senators like Mina Bonteri who joined the Separatists for honest reasons.]]
* PragmaticVillainy: He retreats from the Battle of Geonosis once he realizes he can't win (having accomplished his goals anyway, since it's a FalseFlagOperation) and also flees rather than try to defeat Yoda after their duel becomes a stalemate.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: He's a Count of his home planet Serenno. [[WellIntentionedExtremist And he's trying to purge the galaxy of corrupt politicians]]. [[AristocratsAreEvil Or not]]. [[DependingOnTheWriter Opinions differ]]. But the former is much more possible than the latter.
* ShadowArchtype: Of Anakin/Vader. A former Jedi who left the Order due to disagreements in philosophies.
* ShockAndAwe
* UnwittingPawn: To Palpatine.
* UriahGambit: Falls hard for one in the early part of ''Revenge of the Sith'.
* VillainousBreakdown: Has a brief one after Anakin chops off his hands and he realizes that Sidious wants him dead. [[spoiler: Then he gets beheaded.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: In the EU at least, and for the first part of ''Attack of the Clone'' as far as his former fellow Jedi are concerned; in the eyes of many, on both sides of the conflict, Dooku is a charismatic idealist crusading against the very real corruption endemic in the Republic, and all the more overtly villainous characters in the Separatist movement are simply the allies he's stuck with, and the atrocities they commit are done without his approval. Neither is true; although its implied he is against the corruption his idea to weed it out is to set up a sprawling galactic dictatorship, and far from disapproving of those atrocities he usually ''instigates'' them, and is more than happy to blame them on the Republic.
* WeaponOfChoice: A curved-hilt red lightsaber.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Made clearer in the EU. In AOTC, none of this is actually shown, as he spends his choice few scenes plotting how to best extort the Republic for...something, presiding over a flashy execution, and fighting Jedi. His political beliefs, his ultimate goals, etc. are given zero elaboration. Even his reasons for joining the Sith are never actually explained within the films themselves.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In ''RevengeOfTheSith''.
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!!Viceroy Nute Gunray
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->Played by: Silas Carson (Ep.I-III)
The CorruptCorporateExecutive Neimoidian leader of the Trade Federation and an IneffectualSympatheticVillain during the prequel trilogy. Most prominently featured in Episode I, in which he makes a DealWithTheDevil only to unsurprisingly be used and betrayed by [[ManipulativeBastard Darth Sidious]]. Gunray joins the Separatists in Episode II, by which time he seems to have developed a grudge against Padmé. [[SarcasmMode How dare she liberate her planet from his illegal invasion!]] In Episode III, Darth Vader kills him in cold blood as he begs for mercy.
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* AristocratsAreEvil: Kind of. "Viceroy" is apparently just the title given to the leader of the Trade Federation. However, [[MegaCorp said organization apparently controls whole planets]]. So, whatever.
* AssholeVictim: Him and the Separatists on Mustafar.
* CoDragons: To Darth Sidious in Episode I. While Darth Maul tries to assassinate Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, the Viceroy leads the invasion of Naboo, .
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* DirtyCoward: Qui-Gon notes that "these Federation types are cowards".
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Sort of. When Sidious tells them to prepare their invasion of Naboo, Gunray implies that he's not willing to invade Naboo if such an invasion is illegal, resulting in Sidious telling them that he'll make the invasion legal. Though it may be more PragmaticVillainy due to not wanting the inevitable backlash and sanctions for illegal actions.
* EvilGenius
* TheFundamentalist
* {{Greed}}: His apparent motivation. EU material (and his attempt to have Padme assassinated in Episode 2) gives it as {{Revenge}} instead.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Mostly due to being generally bullied around by the ''real'' bad guys. He's not actually a very pleasant individual, but all we see is a man out of his depth, and fully aware of it.
* ItsPersonal: How he feels about Padmé after ''The Phantom Menace'' (and how he felt about then-Senator Palpatine in EU materials explaining why he blockaded Naboo). You'd think she'd be the one entitled to feel that way, but nope.
* KilledMidSentence
* LizardFolk: Along with apparently everyone who works for the Trade Federation.
** That's because the Neimodians were the only ones who were spared (unsurprisingly due to Palpatine's influence) in an assassination against the other leader races of the Trade Federation.
* RubberForeheadAliens
* UnwittingPawn: Twice: First time was the aftermath of the invasion of Naboo, second time was during the Separatist wars, and at least until the near end of the conflict, he didn't even know that Darth Sidious was the true leader, or that it was even a Sith orchestrated group.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: His final fate in ''RevengeOfTheSith''.
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