History Recap / StarWarsRebelsS2E20TwilightOfTheApprenticePartII

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Darth Maul's cold-blooded murder of the [[SmugSnake Seventh Sister]] and [[StupidEvil Fifth Brother]].

** Maul also toys with this a bit by pointing out to the Inquisitors he has renounced the title of 'Darth'.

* BigEntrance: Vader enters the scene via his TIE Advanced... and standing on top of it, with his lightsaber ignited, no less.

* RuleOfSymbolism: Kanan, recently knighted by a Temple Guardian on Lothal, puts on the mask of a Temple Guardian.

** The Eighth Brother falls off the Temple, but he is one of three to have done that and the other two lived, not to mention that he is [[AllThereInTheManual revealed to be of a race known for their great jumping prowess]]. [[http://www.starwars.com/databank/eighth-brother-inquisitor The official Databank, on the other hand, lists him as having died after falling off the temple]], although the original plan was to have him survive the fall, attempt to flee in his TIE Fighter and be killed when the Temple completed its firing sequence. For all we know, maybe Maul killed him, since they landed in the same general area.

* DownerEnding: Kanan is blinded (permanently), Ahsoka is missing (and presumed dead), Maul is still alive, and, [[SavedByCanon obviously]], [[PlotArmor Vader is still alive]]. The only consolation is that Kanan and Ezra manage to escape with their lives and prevented the Empire from claiming a fatal weapon, but even then, Ezra has opened the Sith Holocron, meaning he's succumbing to the Dark Side.

* WeCanRuleTogether: Vader implies this in his dialogue with Ashoka.
-->'''Darth Vader:''' We need not be adversaries. The Emperor will show you mercy... if you tell me where the remaining Jedi can be found.
** Subverted, since WordOfGod says that this was an [[BlatantLies obvious lie]] anyway. There is no way the Emperor would ''actually'' show her any mercy, and both Vader and Ahsoka know it.

* KilledOffForReal: The Seventh Sister and the Fifth Brother.

* BigEntrance: Vader enters the scene via his TIE Advanced... and standing on top of it, with his lightsaber ignited, no less. While you could HandWave the scene as him using the Force to fly his TIE fighter, [[FridgeLogic why would he feel the need to do that in the first place]]?
** Because, in its own strange way, the scene proves that [[LargeHam Anakin]] is still in there.

** The dialogue between Vader and Ahsoka when Anakin's voice was clearly heard. Either Vader was pulling a HydePlaysJekyll by pretending to be his Anakin persona to bait Ahsoka, or Anakin really did manifest for a brief moment, only for his Darth Vader persona to take over and strike at Ahsoka.
*** [[WordOfGod Word of Filoni]] says it was the latter.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Compared to how he looked in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', the later-produced ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'' and ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', Vader's skin around his right eye looks remarkably well healed after Ahsoka breaks the helmet, even showing off eyebrows that were supposidely burned away, and even edited out of Sebastian Shaw's appearance in the re-releases of Return of the Jedi to better line up with Revenge of the Sith. Behind the scenes information says it was a deliberate choice to make it easier to animate.

-->'''Kanan:''' Where's Ezra?\\

-->'''Darth Vader:''' ''[speaking with the voices of both James Earl Jones and Matt Lanter]'' Ahsoka!

-->'''Ezra:''' I don't fear you!\\

-->'''Vader:''' Anakin Skywalker was weak. I destroyed him.\\

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Compared to how he looked in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' and ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', Vader's skin around his right eye looks remarkably well healed after Ahsoka breaks the helmet, even showing off eyebrows that were supposidely burned away, and even edited out of Sebastian Shaw's appearance in the re-releases of Return of the Jedi to better line up with Revenge of the Sith. Behind the scenes information says it was a deliberate choice to make it easier to animate.

** The cry of pain Vader makes when Ahsoka slashes his face is the same one he does when Luke cuts off his hand in ''Return of the Jedi''. His breathing also turns into the same wheezing sound he makes from ''Return of the Jedi'' after he loses his hand.

* PillarOfLight: The lightning shooting up from the ground in the temple forms one after Ezra and Kanan remove the holocron.

* AllThereInTheManual: [[http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/03/31/star-wars-rebels-dave-filoni-on-ahsokas-fate-mauls-return-and-much-more?page=4 At least according to Filoni]], the Temple was indeed a Sith superweapon, under construction by the holocron's Sith Lord. When the Jedi Knights attacked, the superweapon fired or malfunctioned, which is how everyone turned to stone. In addition, the voice from the Temple belonged to a female Sith Lord who served as the architect.

* RealityEnsues: Kanan does pool all his strength and instinct to defeat Maul while blind, but he needs assistance getting around, namely, he asks Ezra to escort him to the obelisk.

** Another happens at the very end of the episode. Ezra secretly brought the Sith Holocron back with him to the ''Ghost'', but only someone corrupted by the Dark Side can access its information. Blaming himself for [[spoiler: Kanan's blinding by Maul and Ahsoka's apparent death,]] Ezra's in a [[HeroicBSOD broken state]] and has finally reached a [[InnocenceLost point of no return]]. The final scene shows Ezra sitting in his quarters and taking out the Sith Holocron... and then activating it. As he holds the now opened Holocron, he then proceeds to look up in what can only be described as a truly [[KubrickStare menacing glare]]. A certain glare fans... know all too well.

** Ahsoka cuts open Vader's mask, revealing the face of Anakin Skywalker beneath.
** Another happens at the very end of the episode. Ezra brought the Sith Holocron back with him to the ''Ghost'', but only someone corrupted by the Dark Side can access its information. The final scene shows Ezra sitting in his quarters and taking out the Sith Holocron... and then activating it. As he holds the now opened Holocron, he then proceeds to look up in what can only be described as a truly [[KubrickStare menacing glare]].

** Another happens at the very end of the episode. Ezra brought the Sith Holocron back with him to the ''Ghost'', but only someone corrupted by the Dark Side can access its information. The final scene shows Ezra in his quarters, taking out the Sith Holocron and activating it.

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rebels_twilight_of_the_apprentice_part_2.jpg]] [[caption-width-right:350: Even as an evil despot, Anakin Skywalker ''has'' to show off.]]