History Recap / StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E5LandingAtPointRain

* CasualDangerDialogue: Plenty of characters have semi-casual conversations while in the middle of battle, though Waxer and Boil complaining about always being given the "interesting" jobs while they cross an empty battlefield to reach Kenobi's downed ship, and how the "fun" part is going to be trying to bring the wounded ''back'' over the same stretch of unprotected ground takes the cake.

* ManOnFire: The Geonosians set alight by flamethrowers do not die instantly and are shown fleeing and dying before Ki-Adi and the group exit the caves. The horrific spectacle of the burning Geonosians falling out of the sky and crawling from the caves it what alerts Anakin to Ki-Adi's position right before the Republic forces exit.

* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: Throughout the episode, scores of clone troopers die when they're shot down alongside their transports during the landing, killed during the fighting itself or kidnapped by Geonosians to unknown fates, while the Geonosians themselves die left and right to clone trooper fire, are carved up by Jedi lightsabers and are burned alive by flamethrowers. This episode quite possibly has the highest body count in the entirety of ''The Clone Wars''. "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E7DarknessOnUmbara Darkness on Umbara]]", "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E8TheGeneral The General]]", "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E10CarnageOfKrell Carnage of Krell]]" and "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E19Massacre Massacre]]" are its only competition.

* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: This episode quite possibly has the highest body count in the entirety of ''The Clone Wars''. "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E7DarknessOnUmbara Darkness on Umbara]]", "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E8TheGeneral The General]]", "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E10CarnageOfKrell Carnage of Krell]]" and "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E19Massacre Massacre]]" are its only competition.

* HoldingYourShoulderMeansInjury: Characters don't hold their shoulders in this episode, but all injured characters — Obi-Wan, Trapper and Ki-Adi — reach across their torsos to hold their sides, in all cases implied to be due to internal injuries from bad landings.

* ManOnFire: The Geonosians set alight by flamethrowers do not die instantly and are shown fleeing and dying before Ki-Adi as the group exits the caves. The horrific spectacle of the on fire Geonosians falling out of the sky and crawling from the caves it what alerts Anakin to Ki-Adi's position right before the Republic forces exit.

* DeadpanSnarker: Anakin and Ahsoka of course, though Luminara also gets some in at their expense.
-->'''Anakin:''' That's alot of droids.\\
'''Luminara:''' Well it is a droid ''factory''.

-->'''Anakin:''' That's alot of droids.

* NotSoAboveItAll: Ki-Adi Mundi, usually seen as one of the more staid members of the Jedi Council, jokes that ''he'' had more kills than either Anakin or Ahsoka and their competition.

* CasualDangerDialogue: Plenty of characters have semi-casual conversations while in the middle of battle, though Waxer and Boil complaining about always being given the "interesting" jobs while they cross empty battlefield to reach Kenobi's downed ship, and how the "fun" part is going to be trying to bring the wounded ''back'' over the same stretch of unprotected ground takes the cake.

* BulletproofFashionPlate: One of the few times in the series when this is completely averted. All four of the Jedi are at least covered in dirt. Obi-Wan even has a few wounds on his face and limps heavily.

* ComingInHot: Several gunships crash land after being badly shot, most notably the one carrying Obi-Wan, which crashes more than lands and kills nearly everyone onboard and injures the two survivors. The one carrying Anakin and Ahsoka impacts at a lower speed with everyone on board surviving the sliding landing.

* ShoutOut:
** The invasion is largely based on the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII D-Day invasion of Normandy]], with visual cues taken from ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' and ''Film/TheLongestDay''.
** Using flamethrowers against bugs? [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} It's super effective!]]

* ShoutOut: The invasion is largely based on the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII D-Day invasion of Normandy]], with visual cues taken from ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' and ''Film/TheLongestDay''.

* BodyCountCompetition: Anakin and Ahsoka apparently had [[OffScreenMomentOfAwesome one just prior to the episode]], in which Anakin won. They also have one during the episode, which Ahsoka wins, but Anakin argues it was a tie, since he called the airstrike. As it turns out, Ki-Adi had more kills than either of them.

* OutrunTheFireball: Anakin, Ahsoka and Rex jump (in the latter's case, gets thrown) off the wall in order to avoid being blown up with it.

* PinnedDown: Anakin's detachment of the 501[-[[superscript:st]]-] gets pinned down and unable to move from cover when they try to pass the fortress wall. Anakin, Ahsoka and to their surprise Rex have to ascend the cliff wall from a hidden spot and take out the wall before the 501[-[[superscript:st]]-] can move.

* VerticalKidnapping: When Ki-Adi's group starts making their way through the cave, Geonosians dive in and grab a couple of his troopers and then fly off to carry them to their presumed deaths away from the rest of the group so that they cannot be rescued. At least one of Anakin's troopers in the final assault is also nabbed and flown away by a Geonosian.

* ContinuityNod: Waxer has [[HeartwarmingOrphan Numa's]] (the little Twi'lek girl he meets in "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E20InnocentsOfRyloth Innocents of Ryloth]]") face painted on his helmet.
* DarkestHour: At the end of the episode's second act, Anakin and Ahsoka are being overwhelmed by the Separatist droids on the top of the wall, Ki-Adi-Mundi's troops are being slowed by the Geonosians in the tunnel that's supposed to be a shortcut to the landing zone, and Obi-Wan and Commander Cody's forces are being overrun by the Geonosians at the landing zone.

* ContinuityNod: Waxer has [[HeartwarmingOrphan Numa's]] (the little Twi'lek girl he met in [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E20InnocentsOfRyloth "Innocents of Ryloth"]]) face painted on his helmet.

* ParryingBullets: Ki-Adi, Anakin and Ahsoka deflect blaster fire in front of their men to protect themselves and give cover to their troops. Obi-Wan is too injured and his men's position too wide to do the same, though he does get up to do so when their position is about to be overrun.

* StuffBlowingUp: Anakin and Ahsoka toss a couple of backpacks full of explosives into the fortress wall, and then shove it further in with the Force before setting it off. This results in the almost complete destruction of the wall, and the utter destruction of its defenses, in a large explosion.

But this time, the Geonosians are ready for them, and the Jedi are soon separated across the battlefront. The three parties must fight their way back to each other to complete their mission.

* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: This episode quite possibly has the highest body count in the entirety of ''The Clone Wars''. [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E7DarknessOnUmbara "Darkness on Umbara"]], [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E8TheGeneral "The General"]], [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E10CarnageOfKrell "Carnage of Krell"]] and [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E19Massacre "Massacre"]] from season four are its only competition.

Utilizing the opportunity granted by the clone army being stretched too thin, Geonosis rebels, and under the leadership of Poggle the Lesser, the planets' inhabitants restart the mass production of battle droids in their factories. Jedi Generals Ki-Adi Mundi, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan Ahsoka lead the attack to capture the main factory, and catch Poggle, in order to prevent Geonosis from rebelling again.

* DarkestHour: At the end of the episode's second act, Anakin and Ahsoka are being overwhelmed by the Separatist droids on the top of the wall, Ki-Adi Mundi's troops are being slowed by the Geonosians in the tunnel that's supposed to be a shortcut to the landing zone, and Obi-Wan and Commander Cody's forces are being overrun by the Geonosians at the landing zone.

* WorstAid: Obi-Wan gets moved around by having his arm slung over someone's shoulders and then being helped to walk by being almost dragged, which is not a good way to get someone with a probable spinal injury around. The first time is excusable as he was being pulled from a dangerous position on the battlefield, but there's less excuse for him being moved this way when being evacuated for medical care.

* NoseArt: Several of the gunships are customized with logos and figures, including one with a stylized [[PantheraAwesome Nexu]] riding a bomb that says "Badkitty" in Aurebesh and one with a red outlined clone trooper's helmet stylized to bring a skull to mind with the words "Separatist Nightmare" (amusingly, given the clones' genetic template was a self-professed Mandalorian, the first and most clear letters of which look like "vod" using the English alphabet, meaning sibling/comrade in Mando'a).

* BackToBackBadasses: Anakin and Ahsoka stand back-to-back to fend off the blasterfire from a pair of Droideka atop the fortress wall.

* CasualDangerDialog: Plenty of characters have semi-casual conversations while in the middle of battle, though Waxer and Boil complaining about always being given the "interesting" jobs while they cross empty battlefield to reach Kenobi's downed ship, and how the "fun" part is going to be trying to bring the wounded ''back'' over the same stretch of unprotected ground takes the cake.

* ChameleonCamouflage: The members of the 212[[superscript:th]] on this mission have added dots and geometric shapes in the dusty tans and oranges of the Geonosis desert they are to be fighting in to their armor.
* ComingInHot: Several gunships crash land after being badly shot, most notably the one carrying Obi-Wan which crashes more than lands and kills nearly everyone onboard and injures the two survivors, and the one carrying Anakin and Ahsoka which impacts at a lower speed with everyone on board surviving the sliding landing.

** Anakin and Rex each take down a Droideka by getting their arm through the droids' personal ray shield before activating their weapon.

* GameBreakingInjury: Obi-Wan's gunship gets shot down, with only he and Trapper surviving long enough to be pulled from the wreckage. He spends the rest of the episode sitting against some crates while trying to help his men with strategy and communications. The only time he gets up on his own after being injured is when the landing zone is about to be overrun, and he does so with visible difficulty and pain with the implication he's tapping into the force to allow himself to fight alongside his men, and he lowers himself back down as soon as reinforcements arrive.
* GrinOfAudacity: Obi-Wan's group is the only one to reach the landing zone ''mostly'' as intended, though with far higher casualties. As they're holding the LZ against superior numbers, outgunned and surrounded and Cody finally has a minute to talk to his general after Waxer and Boil were able to pull Obi-Wan from the remains of his gunship Obi-Wan assures Cody that Generals Skywalker and Mundi will make it there and they just need to try to still be alive when they arrive with a little lopsided grin.
* HighAltitudeBattle: The three generals on the ground the episode follows are not the only ones involved in the planetary scale invasion, and Admiral Yularen is shown to be holding his own fight to protect his flagship from fighters high in the atmosphere, explaining why air support is mostly unavailable.
* HoldingYourShoulderMeansInjury: Characters don't hold their shoulders in this episode, but every injured character—Obi-Wan, Trapper & Ki-Adi—reaches across their torso to hold their side, in all cased implied to be due to internal injuries from bad landings.

* {{Newsreel}}: Like all ''The Clone Wars'' episodes "Landing at Point Rain" opens with a bombastic bit framed like a Republic propaganda newsreel;
''[[center:[[AC:"Counterattack! \\
With the clone army stretched \\
in desperate attempt to engage General Grievous' Starfleet, \\
Separatist planets that were once thought secure are\\
now rising up against the Republic.\\
On Geonosis, Separatist leader Poggle the Lesser, \\
safe in his newly ray-shielded factories, \\
creates thousands of terrible new weapons \\
which march off the assembly line \\
against the outnumbered clone army.\\
\\
The Jedi, resolute in the effort to restore order to the Republic,\\
mount a massive invasion to retake Geonosis \\
and shut down Poggle's factories once and for all…."]]]]''
* NoseArt: Several of the gunships are customized with logos and figures, including one with a stylized [[PantheraAwesome Nexu]] riding a bomb that says "Badkitty" in Aurebesh and one with a red outlined clone trooper's helmet stylized to bring a skull to mind with the words "Separatist Nightmare" (amusingly, given the clones' genetic template was a self professed Mandalorian, the first and most clear letters of which look like "vod" using the English alphabet, meaning sibling/comrade in Mando'a).
* OhNoNotAgain: Ahsoka says ''"This is another fine mess you've gotten us into."'' when Anakin leads their group right to the formidable wall fortress he's previously assured her they wouldn't be going anywhere near, though in his defense they were shot down far from where they were meant to land and lost all of their tanks which he did not anticipate.
* OutrunTheFireball: Anakin, Ahsoka and Rex jump (or in the latter's case are thrown) off the wall in order to avoid being blown up with it.
* ParryingBullets: Ki-Adi, Anakin and Ahsoka deflect blaster fire in front of their men to protect themselves and give cover to their troops. Obi-Wan is too injured and his men's position to wide to do the same, though he does get up to do so when their position is about to be overrun.
* PinnedDown: Anakin's detachment of the 501[[superscript:st]] gets pinned down and unable to move from cover when they try to pass the fortress wall. Anakin, Ahsoka and to their surprise Rex have to rapell up the cliff wall from a hidden spot and take out the wall before the 501[[superscript:st]] can move.
* SelfDeprecation: When Cody hesitantly says that the Geonosians trying to kill Obi-Wan with monsters must have been entertaining Obi-Wan replies that it was, for them.

* SoleSurvivor: Obi-Wan and Trapper are ultimately the only two survivors of their gunship being shot down, though Obi-Wan's line when rescued from the wreck by Waxer and Boil makes it clear there were others to survive the initial crash, only to expire of their injuries before the 212th could send anyone to pull survivors out.
* StandYourGround: As Obi-Wan's 212th is the only group to actually arrive at the landing zone on time and has no good way to retreat anyway their mission is to simply hold their ground against the overwhelming forces they find waiting for them there, with the hopes that the other two generals will arrive and turn the tide before they're wiped out.
* StuffBlowingUp: Anakin and Ahsoka toss a couple of backpacks full of explosives into the fortress wall, and then shove it further in with the force before setting it off resulting in the almost complete destruction of the wall, and the utter destruction of its defenses, in a large explosion.

* VerticalKidnapping: When Ki-Adi's group starts making their way through the cave Geonosians dive in and grab a couple of his troopers and then fly off to carry them to their presumed deaths away from the rest of the group so that they cannot be rescued. At least one of Anakin's troopers in the final assault is also nabbed and flown away by a Geonosian
* WarIsHell: While multiple characters crack jokes to stave off the tragedy surrounding them everyone in this episode is beaten down by the war and many are killed or wounded.