History Fridge / StarWarsRebels

*** Ketsu Onyo: Ignoring what "Ketsu" by itself means in Japanese, "ketsueki" means "blood" in the same language. Onyo means "warning" in Swahili. Ketsu debuted in "Blood Sisters" and is considered Sabine's [[BloodBrothers surrogate sister]]. "Warning" could be referring to events to come or how her role changed Sabine's life.

** The feud between the Protectors and Death Watch dates back to many years in the past, so it wouldn't be a case of EasilyForgiven by the Protectors. ''Twilight Company'', a couple of years down the road after ''Rebels'', mentions that Death Watch is mercenary group in the bounty hunter kind of way, seemingly not like a space patrol like the Protectors, so that shows Death Watch [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome didn't just have a change of heart after the Siege either]].

* Fridge Sadness: The [[Magazine/StarWarsRebelsMagazine magazine comics]] reveal that Kallus was initially ''failing'' as an Imperial cadet and admitted that he only got better with the help of a [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter more successful classmate]], thus eventually allowing him to graduate as [[TheAce the top of his class]]. In the show itself, [[ThePerfectionist Kallus likes doing his job right]] (ex. in the novelization for "Call to Action", it is revealed he was an early bird to the meeting) and can be [[SmugSnake arrogant]]. Later on, starting with his HeelFaceTurn, he's given chances to leave the Empire but refuses all of them until it is too late. In addition, as Zeb allowed Kallus to know his name, Kallus didn't do the same, suggesting that he still didn't see himself as separate from the Empire after working together to survive. It would seem that Kallus feels that he is dependent on the Empire [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome because it's all that he's had and worked in for a majority of his life, and whether or not he knows it, he's too attached to it to suddenly be willing to leave it all behind at a moment's notice]].

* Regarding Kanan's death, it is less of a victory for the Empire than it seems; Apart from halting the [=TIE=] production, which Thrawn pointed out, a larger implication from the circumstances of Kanan's death is that ''[[DontCreateAMartyr Pryce just made a martyr out of him]]''. Keep in mind, it's not just any rebel leader who made a HeroicSacrifice, but rather a Jedi, and Thrawn is ''definitely'' takes issue with what a [Jedi's sacrifice will bring.

* Sure, Thrawn had no idea what the Bendu was capable of, but after witnessing the creature's power with his own eyes, and not even being impressed, ''he's still alive''. Think about that: ''Thrawn knows about the power of the Force''(as later Thrawn novels reveal, the Chiss use Force-Sensitive youths to help travel). Given how he's able to make new plans based on what he knows, it means that even mighty supernatural entities might not even be enough to save the Rebels next time. And given [[HatesEveryoneEqually how the Bendu killed Rebels and Imperials alike]]...

* Ezra at his worst is passionate, angry, devoted to his family, vengeful, and a survivor. In other words, he's not so different from Darth Maul.

* Remember the T-7 Ion Disruptors from waaaaaay back in Season 1? Remember how their horrifyingness came from the fact that they were so bad that the Empire banned them, and that in the Legends continuity they killed by superheating the target until they were just charred skeleton or ash? Sabine's weapon, the Duchess, does exactly that, except on a massive scale. Furthermore, the on-screen effect is a ''neutered'' version due to Tiber Saxon not knowing how it works. No wonder Sabine feels such shame over the thing; her creation ''dwarfs'' some of the most atrocious weapons the Empire itself has created up to this point, and she designed it specifically to use against her own people. Added to the fact that someone who knows about its inner workings can tweak the effect to affect ''any'' material, and you have a weapon far more effective at subjugating populations than the Death Star could ever hope to be. It's a good thing they ended up destroying all records of the thing.

* It sorta makes sense that when the clones show up again, Gregor's the one that's gone slightly senile. Per WordOfGod, the stitch-marks on his helmet in ''The Clone Wars'' indicated the headwounds it saved him from. Maybe he finally took one too many hits to the head.

** Season 1's theme is fear. Ezra had to overcome his fear of abandonment and not being good enough to train or protect others (noticeable in the pilot and "Rise of the Old Masters"; closed in "Path of the Jedi"), while Kanan had to overcome his fear of not being good enough as well (trying to skip out on his teaching like in "Droids in Distres" and "Rise of the Old Masters"; closed in "Fire Across the Galaxy"; "I have nothing left to fear."). The Grand Inquisitor's main psychological weapon also seemed to be invoking fear. Once Kanan overcomes fear, the Grand Inquisitor starts panicking and eventually loses due to [[{{Irony}} fearing Kanan]].

** Also of note: Maul consistently fought people less powerful than him. Mandalorians, criminals, Ezra/the Ghost crew, he never tried to challenge himself, only oppressing others with superior force. Obi-Wan by contrast, spent his life protecting the weak from strongmen, and as such, has spent his whole life in uphill battles, from hordes of Seperatist droids, to Sith Masters, to his own padawan. Because of that, every time Maul has faced an enemy even moderately above his skill level, he is forced to flee, gets maimed, or just loses (See: His various fights with Obi Wan and Palpatine). Obi-Wan, meanwhile, has ate a ton of shit in his time, but he keeps learning, adapting, and coming back for more. Maul just ''runs,'' and finds someone new to manipulate or hurt who's less powerful than him. But Maul finally picked a fight with the wrong person. Obi-Wan is stronger in the force, and definitely more skilled than him. Hell, this is ''fourth'' time Obi-Wan has tussled with Maul, and the last time, despite Maul having his brother to back him up, Kenobi ''still'' kicked their asses. It really makes one wonder if, after all the defeats, and all the suffering, Maul was just looking for someone to end his pain, and Kenobi was the only one left he knew could deliver.

*** [[NamesTheSame Besides sharing her clan name with the]] [[Film/TheForceAwakens Knights of Ren]], "Ren" in Japanese can mean "lotus" or "love". In Welsh, it can also mean "ruler". She is House Vizsla, and thus related to Death Watch leader Pre Vizsla. Wrens being a type of songbird is also a reference to the bird motif in Mandalorian culture (Nite Owls, ''Rook'' Kast, shriek-hawks being the Vizsla emblem, etc.).

* The Inquisitor's lightsaber: it is a saberstaff which has the emitters in a ring rather than in a straight hilt. This means the emitters can spin independantly of the hilt to be used as a thrown weapon or spun quickly for defense. Of course its weakness is the hilt itself - if it is separated from the emitters, or destroyed, the saberstaff falls apart.
* Kanan using Ezra's lightsaber and rapidly switching between modes makes more sense when you look at his moniker - the Cowboy Jedi. Hell, look at when he uses both his and Ezra's sabers against the Inquistor...

** Since they use the words "academy" and "cadet" its more likely they're meant to eventually become officers rather than regular stormtroopers, especially if it's supposed to last for years before the Empire actually gets some use out of them.

** Did not kill Zeb, but had the parrot droids do it. If the droids failed, then because they're Seven's property, it's her fault for not having competently programmed droids.

* "How Jedi choose to win," first said by Yoda to Ezra with regards to winning strategically rather than winning by itself takes on a whole new level of meaning when you realize he is referring to the Jedi as a whole, and the only way for them to win, i.e. his choice, was to sacrifice the many so that the few could succeed. The brilliance? In order to secure victory, you may need to pay any cost, which is what Yoda ultimately does by ''Return of the Jedi''.

*** The origin of "Canaan" may have came from the Hebrew word "kana"; to synchronize. One interpretation could be that as he is a main character for a show that is the first new major entry in a rewritten canon, his story is effectively re-syncing ideas (be it new, ''Legends'', or always established) together to create a brand new story.

*** The Sabines also contributed in the very foundation of Rome: according to legend, Romulus and the initial founding fathers kidnapped a number of Sabine women (though Livy claims they talked the women into joining), and when their families came to rescue them the women instead negotiated peace and had a group of Sabines to join the Latins of Rome. In Legends the wars against the Mandalorians shaped the Republic military, and in both Legends and Canon the Mandalorians contributed indirectly to the creation of the Empire through Jango Fett (a Mandalorian in Legends, a pretender wearing Mandalorian armor in Canon) and the Clonetroopers (who wear Mandalorian-inspired armor).

*** Seventh Sister: In the Biblical sense, 7 is the number of the basic principle of God's word, and the number of perfection, completion. From what is seen so far, the Seventh Sister seems to be the most qualified and [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious]] to be the next Grand Inquisitor.
*** Eighth Brother: In the Biblical sense, 8 is the number of rebirth, a new beginning. He is a LastEpisodeNewCharacter, debuting in the [[WhamEpisode Season 2 finale]], where NothingIsTheSameAnymore.
* People somehow not knowing about Kanan and Ezra being Jedi despite being depicted in the [=HoloNet=] News wielding lightsabers can be justified as the news likely only being local, meaning Lothal and planets very close to it are the only ones that probably know. This applies to Leia and Azadi in "A Princess on Lothal", as the former comes from the distant world of Alderaan and the latter had been in prison during that time.

** Cham's ghost is Hera, because he got so absorbed in the Twi'lek Resistance that he forgot to take care of the original reasons why he fought; Hera and her mother.

* There sure are a ''ton'' of things that relate to fire (mostly in regards to "burning", sometimes shooting), loss, and rebellion.

*** Phoenix Squadron is split after Season 3, but reorganized into the other flight squadrons.

* Someone on Tumblr noticed that there was ''a lot more'' to the Grand Inquisitor's defeat to Kanan back in "Fire Across the Galaxy". The camera wasn't going slo-mo because ViewersAreGoldfish, it wasn't just Kanan noticing a fatal flaw in the lightsaber's design; we are viewing Kanan's perspective, because he found a [[Literature/{{Shatterpoint}} shatterpoint]]. In ''Legends'', Mace Windu and Depa Billaba, both predecessors of Kanan's line of apprenticeship, were masters of the shatterpoint technique, a technique where a user has deep focus with the Force and taps into it to find the weak point of an object, allowing said object to break with a single touch at a certain interval. Must be technique naturally carried in their line. Shatterpoints can also have a huge significance on events, such as a victory that would otherwise have to be conceived through some sort of miracle; which is exactly what happens in "Fire Across the Galaxy". Kanan cutting the Grand Inquisitor's lightsaber in half led to the pieces falling into Tarkin's Star Destroyer, which in turn led to Imperial forces being stalled long enough for [[TheCavalry the blockade runners]] [[BigDamnHeroes to arrive]], which became a huge enough victory that in stirred up whispers from Mustafar; sympathy for the Rebellion and doubt of the Empire's impregnability.
* Some fans have complained that the lightsaber fights in ''Rebels'' aren't as good as the fights in ''The Clone Wars''. While it's true that lightsaber battles aren't as intricate as the ones in the previous series, the one Jedi protagonist in this series, Kanan, was still a padawan when he lost his master and thus, never fully completed his training. And naturally, he won't be passing on any advanced lightsaber techniques off to Ezra. And with regards to the Inquisitors, the Rule of Two is still very much in place so they definitely won't be taught any advanced lightsaber or Dark Side techniques but instead, only get taught the bare minimum to be just good enough that they can take down most people, except for the Sith themselves. So in retrospect, it actually makes sense that the lightsaber battles in the show aren't as advanced or as flashy because most of the Force users in ''Rebels'' are barely above padawan level.

** 2: Ataru is specialized against single, lightsaber-wielding foes, and is vulnerable to both being outnumbered, and blasters. Anakin's modified techiques are explicitly meant to counter this weakness. What this shows us, is that [[MasterSwordsman Anakin]] has mastered lightsaber combat to the point where he not only understands multiple styles, but where he can teach, not only the original styles, but his own modifications of them. This gives him ''some'' reasoning for why he should be considered a Master, namely that he's teaching new techiques and modifying them, something generally considered to be the actions of a Master, not a Knight, rather than the petulant "I'm the chosen one" that seemed to be his only basis for such an action in the prequel trilogy. The use of Ataru in particular, and the emphasis on deflecting blasters, is also quite brilliant. Anakin's Padawan, Ahsoka Tano, originally was trained largely in Ataru, and as such, wouldn't have been well suited to the battlefield of the Clone Wars. Anakin's using his experience teaching Ahsoka in Form V techiques, to create a training course to ready new Jedi for the battlefield of the Clone Wars.
* In the novelization for "Spark of Rebellion", Sabine mentions at one point when Ezra [[InnocentlyInsensitive accidentally insults her]] that if he hadn't been a kid she might have hurt him. The Mandalorian warrior code in ''[[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Legends]]'' holds that [[WouldNotHurtAChild children are sacred]] to Mandalorians, showing that Sabine is a far different Mandalorian from the pacifists and terrorists seen in [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]], even if her family was the latter.

* Why did Thrawn stick around and let the rebels leave in "Hera's Heroes"? Hera told him earlier on that she would have destroyed her family heirloom rather than let him and the Empire take it. She then proves her point by destroying her Imperial-occupied house so that she and company could escape. [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Now Thrawn knows that Hera will sacrifice things at any cost to keep them from getting in the hands of the Empire]]. [[IronicEcho Hera Syndulla]] ''[[IronicEcho is]]'' [[IronicEcho serious indeed]]. (Thrawn even gets a look of mild surprise when he learns Hera would be willing to destroy the heirloom, and from that point is clearly planning to learn even more about what she's willing to give up in order to succeed.) Thrawn also plays the long game and isn't concerned about immediate victories, and one of his main strategies is understanding the enemy. Killing Hera and her crew would be an important victory but they would be replaced by someone new he would have to learn about and understand. By letting them go he gives them a meaningless "victory" and learns more about the people he's planning to eventually defeat.
* In the ''Aftermath'' trilogy, Wedge forms a new starfighter squadron; Phantom Squadron. Not only is it a reference to the similarly named Wraith Squadron from ''Legends'' in the ''Literature/XWingSeries'' (as well as possibly referencing the Phantom Squadron from the ''Legacy'' era roleplay, which was in-universe inspired by Wraith Squadron), but it makes sense that Wedge named it so in tribute to his friends, the ''Ghost'' crew, who also had at least two shuttles called the ''Phantom'' as well.

* In "The Last Battle", Kalani explaining that the Lasat we're not involved in the Clone War may have a reasonable explanation. During the war their was a group that wanted to stay neutral. The Council of Neutral Systems, a group of fifteen hundred systems led by Duchess Satine. Lasan could have been one of those systems.

* Thrawn apparently not caring about Kallus' loyalty in "Warhead" is easily explained by the situation: it doesn't matter if Kallus/Fulcrum alerts the Rebels about the infiltrator droids or not. If he doesn't, the program continues on without issue. If he does, the Rebels face the MortonsFork situation on how to deal with the droids: destroy one that finds them, the Empire will go to that system and close in on them, don't destroy it and it passes on their location, attempt to subvert its programming and it blows them all up ''and'' alerts the Empire to their location. Even the best case scenario for the Rebels, that they're alerted in time and either move to avoid the droids or after their base is identified, disrupts their operations and essentially forces them to always be on the run. And even Zeb's TakeAThirdOption ends up helping Thrawn, even if Thrawn least expected it. There's no particular reason for Thrawn to make a show about Kallus because, in the end, there's utterly nothing he can do to prevent Thrawn from getting something out of the situation.
** Also, it's important to note Thrawn really didn't know the identity of Fulcrum up until "Through Imperial Eyes". In this episode, Thrawn feels Fulcrum wasn't an issue at this point and didn't have to worry about who to trust for a few reasons: 1) Thrawn is concerned about ''sensitive'' information being leaked, and there was nothing sensitive about the use of Infiltrator Droids. 2). ''Anyone'' could've warned the rebels, and he couldn't really care less who does, because the result would end with the rebels either compromised or dead, or having led him closer to finding them, showing how foolproof his use of the droids are.

* In "Trials of the Darksaber", Kanan mentions that Sabine's hotheaded nature keeps her closed off from the Force. The implication being that while not everyone can be a Jedi, anyone with the proper mindset can sense the Force. Back in the ''Clone Wars'' episode "Ambush". Yoda told his clone troopers that because they are all living beings they were connected to the Force. So in a sense, Kanan was making the same observation as Yoda.

* ''Aftermath'' says that Wedge ended up being a SixthRanger to a rebel freighter ship as a navigator and gunner after be broke his legs during his career as an A-Wing pilot. "Double Agent Droid" shows that he's pretty much an honorary member of the ''Ghost'' crew, and "Warhead" showed that he became an A-Wing pilot in Phoenix Squadron, but he has yet to break his legs. Huh. Also, [[OhCrap uh oh]].

* In "Twin Suns", Obi-Wan is completely civil and amiable to Maul... right up until Maul figures out he's trying to protect someone, with an implied threat. At that moment, Kenobi ignites his saber, his face hardness into a grimace, and all attempts at dialogue go out the window. Apparently, threatening someone he cares about is the closest thing Old Ben has to a BerserkButton. Flash forward to ''Return of the Jedi''; what did Vader say to Luke to make him go ballistic?
* Of course Obi-Wan's rematch with Maul would be concluded so swiftly and cleanly; Obi-Wan has a subtle contempt for the "random" and "clumsy" contemporary fighting techniques; he prefers a more elegant approach, from a more civilized age.
** It gets better when you realize exactly what happened. When he takes the moment to survey his opponent and figure a strategy, Obi-Wan switches to none other than Qui-Gon's stance. Darth Maul promptly launches himself in and attempts to do the exact same CombatPragmatist slam of the his hilt to the face to stun Obi-Wan, who sees it coming and slices clean through the hilt, and Maul by consequence, all in a mere three strikes. With his skilled and samurai-like precision, Obi-Wan exploited Darth Maul's anger and pragmatism by intentionally creating a CallBack to trick Maul into repeating the same actions, something Obi-Wan's probably been studying to ''prevent'' since the day Qui-Gon died due to witnessing it firsthand. Maul also never really evolved his combat style, while Obi-Wan had many years to reflect and develop, turning him into throwing the flashiness out for brutal yet elegant efficiency as a cold, hard counter for combatants like Maul.

* Near the beginning of "Zero Hour", Kallus and Thrawn get into a fight which Kallus seems to lose a little too easily. However, as we saw back in "The Honorable Ones", Kallus lost his fight with Zeb surprisingly easily as well. The thing both situations have in common? Kallus is forced to fight in a confined area. If you look closely during the series, you'll notice Kallus does better in a fight when he has a lot more room to maneuver.
* What ultimately did in Kallus at the end of his fight against Thrawn is that Thrawn's finishing move on him was hitting the same leg (and upper portions of it like the hip) that got injured in "The Honorable Ones". Considering this is Thrawn we're talking about, he probably read up on Kallus' report about how the agent crashed on Bahryn and broke his leg, but was found by a passing trader.

** The power source is likely absent for two reasons: One, the information that led to the ''Ghost'' being sent to Geonosis in "The Honourable Ones" turned out to be a trap set by Agent Kallus. Klik-Klak probably has passive scanners to detect ships coming out of hyperspace. Upon detecting the arrival of an Imperial ship, he would have immediately shut everything down, due to rightly fearing the Empire because they massacred his people. The other possible reason is that, due to the Empire leaving the construction modules and debris field from the work on the Death Star in orbit until sometime between "The Honourable Ones" and "Ghosts of Geonosis", Klik-Klak didn't actually have anything actively running at the time, and only reactivated the shield and battle droids after the Empire cleaned up the orbital facilities, convincing him that they wouldn't be returning.

*** In addition, went push came to shove, Janus went back for Kanan went he got captured, whereas, Ketsu left Sabine for dead.

** Both use Ezra's lightsaber to fight their BigBad, then end the duel with the BigBad at their neck by setting up their dual lightsabers in a scissor position. Both Big Bads wish to commit suicide to avoid a FateWorseThanDeath after being humiliated by their loss and were willing to FaceDeathWithDignity (the Grand Inquisitor didn't want Vader getting at him for failing; Saxon wanted to die an honorable death to get it over with, though Saxon ends up dying unhonorably by attempting something unhonorable last second), but neither Kanan or Sabine were directly responsible for their deaths.

* Dume mentions that Ezra must "restore past, redeem future" when instructing him about the temple. We later learn that "restore past" meant rescuing Ahsoka Tano, but "redeem future" is unclear. At least until the finale when it's revealed that Ahsoka is searching out Ezra, and is probably the only Force-user left alive who could find him. In rescuing Ahsoka, Dume didn't just save her, he also made sure Ezra wouldn't be exiled forever and eventually die alone away from his family, thus "redeeming" what would have been a DownerEnding for his padawan.

* In "Rise of the Old Masters", a throwaway line mentions "another successful planetary liberation through the Base-Delta-Zero initiative". That means everyone on that planet is dead and it's now a strategically useless, bombed-out, dead wasteland, possibly going so far as to make it a sea of molten slag depending on the source and how literally one is supposed to take those sources. At best, because the term "initiative" was never used to describe the operation before, we're looking at a proto-Tarkin Doctrine scenario, where the planet capitulated under the very real threat of becoming a bombed out wasteland. The key word there is "another", '''so this has happened more than once'''. According to the EU, it only takes one Star Destroyer to carry out a Base-Delta-Zero attack. As of "Rebel Resolve", there are ''six'' orbiting the planet...

** What broke Luminara Unduli so much that she went to her execution so meekly? Between her own apprentice falling to the Dark Side, the destruction of the Jedi Order, and living through the rise of the Empire, it seems that after she was captured she just gave up. Not even getting into the likelihood that she was [[ColdBloodedTorture "interrogated".]]
** Add in the possibility that she was alive for the first few Jedi lured in to 'save' her, and may have been overcome with grief at being used as bait.

* In "Vision of Hope", Ezra has a vision and passes out, only to wake up and find out that he deflected every shot into the target while he was in a trance. The Force took control of his body while his mind was elsewhere and did something extraordinary he doesn't remember? It's a low-key, light side version of what happened on Fort Anaxes.

* In "Rebel Resolve", Mustafar is described as a place "where Jedi go to die". If one remembers "Children of the Force" in ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'', Darth Sidious was performing potentially-lethal experiments on Force-sensitive babies to convert them into spies, and he mentioned that he had more than one facility for these experiments. Sidious may be continuing these experiments and he's now willing to use people of all ages as test subjects. These experiments could also be how other Inquisitors are created if they don't kill the Jedi (so if it doesn't kill Jedi literally, it kills them metaphorically). Mustafar also makes for a pretty genius ContinuityNod when you learn it's a place "where Jedi go to die". Remember who, from a certain point of view, died on Mustafar? He shows up at the end. ''Darth Vader''. And now, with the release of Film/RogueOne, this line takes on even ''more'' meaning. Guess who has a castle on Mustafar?

* It seems kind of odd that Thrawn just coincidentally decided to personally inspect the factory line at Lothal on exactly the day Ezra and Kanan infiltrated it. Sure, he was visiting in response to the unusually large malfunction rate from the factory, but there may be more to it. However if he was already aware that Kallus was the mole, it's likely because he was tracking Kallus's transmissions and deduced that the rebels would be infiltrating the factory soon. Given that he also knows the Ghost comes from the Lothal Cell, it was easy to put two and two together and he was probably expecting the Ghost Crew right from the get go. He probably intentionally killed Sumar just to rile up the Ghost crew.

* Remember the T-7 Ion Disruptors from waaaaaay back in Season 1? Remember how their horrifyingness came from the fact that they were so bad that the Empire banned them, and that in the Legends continuity they killed by superheating the target until they were just charred skeleton or ash? Sabine's weapon, the Duchess, does exactly that, except on a massive scale. Furthermore, the on-screen effect is a ''neutered'' version due to Tiber Saxon not knowing how it works. No wonder Sabine feels such shame over the thing; her creation ''dwarfs'' some of the most atrocious weapons the Empire itself has created up to this point, and she designed it specifically to use against her own people. Added to the fact that someone who knows about it's inner workings can tweak the effect to affect ''any'' material, and you have a weapon far more effective at subjugating populations than the Death Star could ever hope to be. It's a good thing they ended up destroying all records of the thing.
* The liberation of Lothal should have had dire consequences, but as Sabine says, the Empire never attacked. While at first it seems weird, you realize that, with the TIE Defender project dead in the water(and the temple to the World Between Worlds destroyed), their main focus now is the Death Star. As such, if not for the Rebel victories at Scarif and Yavin, Lothal would have likely been turned into space dust.
* Jacen Syndulla, the son of Kanan and Hera, is almost certainly Force sensitive, and obviously has connections to the rebellion. It's plausible that he might've gone to train to be a Jedi under Luke Skywalker. [[ForegoneConclusion Meaning that he was either killed by Ben Solo, or became a Knight of Ren himself.]] And that's not even considering the fate of his namesake...

** A more tear jerker side of this fact is that once Rex is gone, Ahsoka will literally be the sole survivor of her friends from the Clone Wars. Soon, Ahsoka's last friend will be dead, leaving her all alone, memories and all. ''Ouch.''

* While Kanan has always been a ContrastingSequelMainCharacter for Anakin Skywalker, compare the ending of their respective stories. While they both have premonitions of the future, Anakin furiously tries to fight fate and save Padme and their child, helping to destroy the Jedi Order and aid the rise of the Empire and ultimately contributing to his wife's death by choking her with the Force. By contrast Kanan calmly accepts his fate, and by doing so is able to not only save his family (including Hera, whom he ''protected'' by using the Force, and his unborn son) but start a chain reaction that helps to liberate Lothal and, since it derails the project that ''isn't'' an unambiguously evil, hubristic resource sink, eventually lead to the downfall of the Empire.

* While Kanan has always been a ContrastingSequelMainCharacter for Anakin Skywalker, compare the ending of their respective stories. While they both have premonitions of the future, Anakin furiously tries to fight fate and save Padme and their child, helping to destroy the Jedi Order and aid the rise of the Empire and ultimately contributing to his wife's death by choking her with the Force. By contrast Kanan calmly accepts his fate, and by doing so is able to not only save his family (including Hera, whom he ''protected'' by using the Force, and his unborn son) but start a chain reaction that helps to liberate Lothal and eventually lead to the downfall of the Empire.

* Obi-Wan only had a single lightsaber power cell after the fall of the Republic, so he was likely using it exceedingly sparingly because if he wasted it all, that would be it. When Maul forced his hand, Obi-Wan used some of its energy to parry his lightsabers and then cut through the hilt and Maul, likely expending a deal of its remaining power... now remember how in ''A New Hope'', Obi-Wan decides to surrender and become one with the Force after his Lightsaber blips out? If not for Maul, he might have had enough energy left in his saber to fend off Vader long enough to join the heroes in escape, or even land a telling blow on Vader to ease the Heroes' burdens. In a way, Maul got his revenge after all - he contributed to the death of Obi-Wan Kenobi.

*** Ketsu Onyo: Ignoring what [[UnfortunateNames "Ketsu" by itself means in Japanese]], "ketsueki" means "blood" in the same language. Onyo means "warning" in Swahili. Ketsu debuted in "Blood Sisters" and is considered Sabine's [[BloodBrothers surrogate sister]]. "Warning" could be referring to events to come or how her role changed Sabine's life.

** On the other, Luke himself did not destroy the Sith, ''Anakin'' did by returning to the light -thus killing Darth Vader- and throwing the Emperor down the second Death Star's generator.

* It's a common theme in the show about characters overcoming their DarkAndTroubledPast in order to progress in the future. But it's worth noting that in these cases, it's other ''people'' that make those characters confront their past, because those other people have some sort of [[CommonalityConnection relation]] to them, like being NotSoDifferent, WeUsedToBeFriends, [[ArchEnemy Archenemies]], et cetera. They serve as reminders of the characters' pasts; thus, the characters are '''haunted''' by their pasts. The people they confront are basically their '''[[MeaningfulName ghosts]]'''. [[YouAreNotAlone And those ghosts are being haunted by their own pasts as well]], also fitting in with the unity and family theme.

** In addition, him refusing to leave when he believes that his FrameUp of Lyste has no flaws in it and seemingly gives him another chance without suspicion to continue his cover as well as being someone who prefers fighting on the frontlines, claiming that he can do more in these roles might point to Kallus possibly having [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex self-inadequacy issues]], because [[HeroicSacrifice he wants to ensure that he can achieve the best results possible in spite of his life being in danger]] and he believes that not doing enough means that he isn't good enough for the causes he fights for. This actually makes him NotSoDifferent than the other rebels, like Ezra, Sabine, Hera, Rex, Zeb, and so forth.

* The Bendu's defeat in the season 3 finale actually has a lot of deep meaning behind it. Mostly, it reinforces what his early tantrum against Kanan showed: that he is both NotSoAboveItAll and also NotSoDifferent to the "petty" Jedi & Sith he talks down about. Just like the Jedi, he had allowed himself to grow lazy and arrogant, willfully ignoring the galaxy until the galaxy came back to bite him: he presumed that his powers in the Force would allow him to get his way, but because he had been isolated for so long, the denizens of the galaxy no longer recognize or fear him in the way they once did, resulting in them instead attacking him and forcibly reminding him that he's not a PhysicalGod. It also serves as a rather sharp-tongued ActorAllusion; after all, [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor was often reminded that he was neither infallible nor entirely as smart as he thought himself to be...]]

* Ezra at his worst is passionate, angry, devoted to his family, vengeful, and a survivor. In other words, NotSoDifferent from Darth Maul.

* Fridge Sadness: The [[Magazine/StarWarsRebelsMagazine magazine comics]] reveal that Kallus was initially ''failing'' as an Imperial cadet and admitted that he only got better with the help of a [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter more successful classmate]], thus eventually allowing him to graduate as [[TheAce the top of his class]]. In the show itself, [[ThePerfectionist Kallus likes doing his job right]] (ex. in the novelization for "Call to Action", it is revealed he was an early bird to the meeting) and can be [[SmugSnake arrogant]]. Later on, starting with his HeelFaceTurn, he's given chances to leave the Empire but refuses all of them until it is too late. In addition, as Zeb allowed Kallus to know his name, Kallus didn't do the same, suggesting that he still didn't see himself as separate from the Empire after working together to survive. It would seem that Kallus feels that he is dependent on the Empire [[RealityEnsues because it's all that he's had and worked in for a majority of his life, and whether or not he knows it, he's too attached to it to suddenly be willing to leave it all behind at a moment's notice]].

** The feud between the Protectors and Death Watch dates back to many years in the past, so it wouldn't be a case of EasilyForgiven by the Protectors. ''Twilight Company'', a couple of years down the road after ''Rebels'', mentions that Death Watch is mercenary group in the bounty hunter kind of way, seemingly not like a space patrol like the Protectors, so that shows Death Watch [[RealityEnsues didn't just have a change of heart after the Siege either]].

* IT-O droids monitor prisoner vitals. They're equipped with sensors to detect heartrate, hormonal levels, and stress levels put on the body. Chances are ''very'' good it could detect that Hera was pregnant. Which means Thrawn and Pryce might ''knowingly have tortured a pregnant woman''.

* IT-O droids monitor prisoner vitals. They're equipped with sensors to detect heartrate, hormonal levels, and stress levels put on the body. Chances are '"very'' good it could detect that Hera was pregnant. Which means Thrawn and Pryce might ''knowingly have tortured a pregnant woman''.

* IT-O droids monitor prisoner vitals. They're equipped with sensors to detect heartrate, hormonal levels, and stress levels put on the body. Chances are *very* good it could detect that Hera was pregnant. Which means Thrawn and Pryce might *knowingly have tortured a pregnant woman*.