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  • Acting for Two:
  • Actor-Inspired Element:
    • Some of Kazuda's mannerisms are based on Christopher Sean while he records the lines.
    • Filoni has noted that Donald Faison's character, Hype Fazon, is the first character Filoni has ever made that was based around the actor.
  • Approval of God:
  • Casting Gag: Major Vonreg is voiced by Lex Lang, who is The Other Darrin for two other Ace Pilots: Han Solo in some of the games, and Poe in Star Wars Battlefront (2015).
  • Channel Hop: Season 1 first premiered episodes on Disney Channel while Disney XD would air them the next day. In season 2, it's reversed, with Disney XD premiering the episodes first before airing on Disney Channel 4 hours later.
  • Completely Different Title: In Japan, "No Escape" is titled "Escape", so "The Escape" is retitled as "Team Colossus".
  • Creator Backlash: The cast laments that the show never received more figures, particularly the lack of Tam and Neeku figures.
  • Cross-Dressing Voices: Greg Proops as the elderly female Arcona, Garma.
  • Early-Bird Release:
    • "The Recruit", "The Triple Dark" and "Fuel for the Fire" were all released online on October 7, 2018, the same day the series premiered with "The Recruit" airing on TV.
    • All episodes after that have been released online and on-demand at the beginning of the day, prior to the television broadcast at night.
  • God Never Said That: During Season 1, it was widely mistaken that there would be a season-long mystery of the identity of a First Order spy on the Colossus, presumably due to interpreting Poe warning Kaz not to trust anyone before sending him off to the Colossus as this.
  • Inspired by…:
    • Ōban Star-Racers was a major inspiration for the show's racing aspect, as well as aliens. Torra also seems to be based on the main character.
    • Robotech was also a major inspiration for the show's focus on pilots. Most notably, Captain Doza resembles Captain Gloval.
    • The Golden Girls, apparently, according to writer Steven Melching.
    • The Right Stuff was an inspiration for the show's early concept.
  • Missing Episode: Rather mysteriously, episodes 218 and 219 (between "No Place Safe" and "Rebuilding the Resistance") are missing from the official production order.
  • The Other Darrin:
    • Leia is voiced by Carolyn Hennesy, who takes over the role from the sadly departed Carrie Fisher, as well as Misty Lee, who most recently voiced Leia in Battlefront II. Hennesy reprises her role as old Leia from LEGO Star Wars: All-Stars.
    • Keeping it in the family, Kylo Ren is voiced by franchise mainstay Matthew Wood, standing in for Adam Driver.
    • In Season 2, Ellen Dubin takes over as Captain Phasma from Gwendoline Christie.
    • Also in season 2, Ben Prendergast takes over the role of General Hux, whose first appearance on the show in the season 1 finale was voiced by Domhnall Gleeson using recycled audio from The Force Awakens.
  • The Other Marty: As noted below under Role-Ending Misdemeanor, Rachel Butera was originally cast as Leia Organa, but after mocking Dr. Christine Blasey Ford online, she was replaced by Carolyn Hennesy before Leia's first speaking appearance, "Station Theta-Black".
  • Playing Against Type:
    • It'll feel pretty weird having Myrna Velasco voice Torra Doza, considering her previous roles were villainous characters such as Carla Delgado.
    • Cherami Leigh, a prolific voice actor who is more known for her roles in the anime industry than anything else, plays Mia Gabon, one of Kazuda's squadmates at the beginning of "The Recruit". On top of that, the two shows she's done for Disney skew much younger than this series.
    • Liam McIntyre plays the funny, animal-like pirate Snarl.
  • Post-Script Season: According to the executive producers, the show was always meant to be two seasons, ending just as the Sequel Trilogy films ended; they felt that if the show outlasted the movies, it would've been anticlimactic. However, co-executive producer Auman later stated in his interview with Future of the Force's podcast that if the show had been successful, there would've been a Season 3, which would've built up to the Battle of Exegol and showed it in Resistance.
  • Production Lead Time:
    • The design for Captain Phasma's turret droid in Star Wars Battlefront II (2017) was first created for Resistance, but debuted in the game first about a year before it appeared in the show.
    • In the comic Poe Dameron #26 (released April 2018), Poe mentions he had to pick up BB-8 from somewhere else before their mission to Jakku. "The Core Problem" shows this, as BB-8 spent the last six months before The Force Awakens with Kaz. Animation model sheets for the episode list they were produced in late August and early September 2017.
    • The design for the First Order TIE bomber was created for Season 2, but debuted in the comic Allegiance #1 three months before it appeared on-screen.
    • According to co-executive producer Brandon Auman, the show being produced alongside the Sequel Trilogy films became a regular problem, as they couldn't explore subjects (such as Endor) that the films could've decided to do differently.
  • Production Posse: Many people who worked with Brandon Auman on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) and Ultimate Spider-Man (2012) joined him again here.
  • Promoted Fanboy:
    • Donald Faison states that he's a huge Star Wars fan. Not to mention he's the voice of Gary the Stormtrooper...
    • Suzie McGrath grew up with Star Wars. After landing the role, she did more research into it and has decided that her favorite character is Ahsoka Tano.
    • Josh Brener, a self-proclaimed geek, squeed when he got the role of Erskin Semaj in the previous series (thanks to his friendship with Tiya Sircar, the voice of Sabine, having met in The Internship), and even more so now that he's landed the main role of Neeku. He names Obi-Wan as his favorite character while growing up, and now considers Sabine his favorite character.
    • Christopher Sean grew up with Star Wars as well.
    • The cast and crew fanboyed over getting to work with Elijah Wood, with the voice actors recalling when they got to meet him in Skywalker Ranch's cafeteria (due to Wood usually not recording with other voice actors) and having to reign in their glee.
    • Myrna Velasco dragged her family with her to see The Phantom Menace.
  • Queer Character, Queer Actor: Flix, who was confirmed to be gay, is voiced by queer actor Jim Rash.
  • Recast as a Regular:
    • Josh Brener voiced Mon Mothma's attaché Erskin Semaj on Rebels before playing Neeku Vozo.
    • Gary Anthony Williams voiced One Shot Characters General Riff Tamson on The Clone Wars and Gron on Rebels before playing Kragan Gorr.
  • Refitted for Sequel:
    • Flix's species is based off of concept art for the Ewoks.
    • Rucklin seems to be based on concept art for Kanan and Sabine, who were both considered as dark-skinned blondes in grey and brown clothes at points during production.
  • Role-Ending Misdemeanor: Leia was originally voiced by actress Rachel Butera. However, less than two weeks before the series premiered, she posted a video online mocking the voice of alleged sexual assault survivor Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. When "Station Theta-Black", the first episode with Leia in a speaking role, aired in December 2018, the credits revealed that Carolyn Hennesy had been quietly brought in to replace Butera.
  • Role Reprise:
    • Oscar Isaacs, Gwendoline Christie, and Anthony Daniels reprise their respective roles as Poe Dameron, Captain Phasma, and C-3PO.
    • Carolyn Hennessy voices Leia just like in LEGO Star Wars: All-Stars.
    • Matthew Wood voices Ello Asty. He also voiced masked Kylo Ren in The Force Awakens and Battlefront II before playing him unmasked in season 2.
    • Ellen Dubin takes over as Captain Phasma in Season 2 after voicing her in LEGO Star Wars: The Resistance Rises.
  • Screwed by the Network:
    • During the production of Season 2, Disney also began work on The Clone Wars revival, resulting in most of the animation department getting diverted to work on that show instead (which unlike Resistance already had an established fanbase). The Clone Wars revival was also used to encourage subscription to Disney's new streaming service, while Resistance was still airing on cable TV.
    • The show's new episodes aired on Disney Channel on Sunday nights at 10pm (which made little sense given Resistance's primary demographic is children) while all of its encores are on its premium channel, Disney XD. Even Disney XD treated the show poorly, with reruns of the show taken out and replaced with reruns of Phineas and Ferb and Big Hero 6: The Series.
  • Similarly Named Works:
  • Spoiled by the Merchandise: Both Women of the Galaxy (released during the first half of Season 1) and the Ultimate Star Wars re-release revealed that Torra's mother was a rebel pilot, a fact that was hinted to be a spoiler by Myrna Velasco and is treated as a surprise upon being revealed in "Rendezvous Point".
  • Those Two Actors: Bobby Moynihan (Orka) and Taran Kiliam (a Stormtrooper in one episode) are both members of Saturday Night Live.
  • Throw It In!:
    • The name of Captain Doza's voice actor is Jason Hightower, which is presumably where the writers got the name for the tower on the Colossus.
    • In a character sheet of twenty character designs by Amy Beth Christenson, it was by coincidence that she drew Flix and Orka's designs next to each other. Dave Filoni saw this and picked them as the character designs for their acquisition guys.
    • A variation. Josh Brener wrote a letter to J. J. Abrams, asking for a Neeku cameo in The Rise of Skywalker, but evidently, it wasn't to be.
  • Trolling Creator: At the press conference for the private Q&A screening of the Rebels finale, Donald Faison (35:45) asked "How soon can we expect to see the Sabine & Ahsoka show?" Two months later, Resistance was announced with Donald Faison as a cast member, meaning that he knew that the next show wouldn't be about Sabine & Ahsoka.
  • Troubled Production:
    • According to co-executive producer Brandon Auman, the show suffered from this regularly due to the Sequel Trilogy's own Troubled Production brought upon by the films' method of Writing by the Seat of Your Pants. One example he cites is an episode he proposed featuring Ewoks and Endor as he was fond of Return of the Jedi, but Dave Filoni was hesitant as they didn't know what Episode IX was going to be about.
    • Lucasfilm Story Group Pablo Hidalgo expands on this, as the writing for Season 2 and The Rise of Skywalker both began in September 2017, and because Bad Robot refused to communicate with Lucasfilm about the film's writing, Resistance couldn't tie into The Rise of Skywalker and ended up moving away from the movies. Not only that, but in 2017, the decision to revive Star Wars: The Clone Wars for Disney+ had also been made, leading to Resistance being dumped by Disney to focus on transitioning to streaming and by Lucasfilm to shift their animation team to a more popular entry.
  • Voices in One Room:
    • According to Donald Faison, this is usually the case, but scenes where their characters are in the cockpit are done alone. And in his case, he does multiple takes because he hams it up.
    • Throughout Season 1, the crew gradually had Suzie McGrath record alone without the other cast members to invoke a sense of isolation in her performance as Tam.
    • Sumalee Montano and Liam McIntyre recorded separately with the exception of the series finale. They met for the first time at a wrap-up party for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, where they were also cast members. She recalls how while recording the Kylo Ren scene, the cast was in a semicircle while she and McIntyre were placed at opposite ends and everyone freaked out about the scene afterwards.
    • None of the main cast recorded with Elijah Wood, though they've told how they met him once in the Skywalker Ranch cafeteria on a day of recording and had to keep from geeking out.
  • What Could Have Been: Enough for its own page.
  • Word of Gay: Just under a year after the series' premiere, Jim Rash confirmed that, as had been subtly hinted in-show, Flix and Orka are a couple.
  • Word of God:
    • According to the show's creators, the show ended with Season 2 because of The Rise of Skywalker; the show was meant to fill in the gaps between the Sequel Trilogy films and they thought a Season 3 wouldn't fit with that, although it could've worked if the show had been made after the movies were released versus the show being made while the Sequel Trilogy being made and released. The release of the final Sequel Trilogy film also meant the end of the franchise's focus on that era for the foreseeable future.
    • Brandon Auman confirmed that Havina Vonreg is the mother of Major Vonreg.
    • Auman states that Doza had been with the Empire since at least The Empire Strikes Back.
  • Word of Saint Paul:
    • According to Christopher Sean, the show was cancelled, though the show's crew claim that the show having two seasons was always the plan. He also believes there would've been at least another wave of figures had the show continued.
    • According to Sumalee Montano, Agent Tierny is a darker-skinned Asian.
    • Tierny might have an official first name, or her voice actress at least has a headcanon for it.
    • Judging by this, Liam McIntyre is of the opinion that Commander Pyre resembles him.
    • According to Liam McIntyre, Pyre wouldn't betray his men like Phasma would ("No, he [Pyre] is pretty solid.") although "Pyre wants what Phasma has."
  • Working Title: The show's production name is Zero.
  • Write Who You Know:
    • Christopher Sean takes inspiration for his role as Kaz from his Navy veteran father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, as well as his three stepchildren.
    • Suzie McGrath relates the marketplace on the Colossus to her family's former linen shop in England.
    • Venisa's name and character are based on Athena Portillo's sister.
  • You Sound Familiar:

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