History YMMV / StarWarsCloneWars

** Many fans prefer this series' [[AdaptationalBadass version of]] [[HeroKiller General Grievous]] over the [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith Canon]] [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars one]].

* FanNickname: The series is given one by fans: "Clone Wars 2003" or alternatively "Clone Wars Micro-series", due to [[IAmNotShazam people mislabeling this series]] as ''The Clone Wars'' when there's no "the" in the title. The name "Genndy Wars" has seen some usage as of late as well.

** Captain Fordo, the leader of the ARC troopers. Also one of the first of the most badass and beloved clones in the franchise.

* SpecialEffectFailure: In Chapter 20, Sha'a Gi's body very noticeably just vanishes when Grievous lands on and crushes him.

*** Mace Windu is a Jedi that cannot be scared, and they actually had a previous encounter shortly before during the Battle of Coruscant. Grievous had none of the advantages Dooku told him he needed, and barely survived the second encounter.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: While still considered pretty good, part of what made the show attractive to ''Star Wars'' fans at the time was being the first TV show set during the events of the movies and having an overall storyline (''WesternAnimation/{{Droids}} '' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Ewoks}} '' were first but aside from some minor arcs they were just normal cartoons set in the same universe with very little connection to the movies) but after shows like ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]'', ''Series/TheMandalorian'' and ESPECIALLY ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]] (2008)'' which also expands in the events between the movies but with the duration of a regular TV show, the shorts can be not as attractive to newer viewers as they were when they were released. You could even argue that since the newer CW show expands so much in the same time-period, the shorts no longer feel like their own thing and more like a expanded arc of the latter show with a different animation style (it doesn't help that the entire series was moved to the Franchise/StarWarsLegends continuity meaning the show [[CanonDiscontinuity is no longer canonical with the series]] unlike the newer Clone Wars show).

* BadassDecay: Ventress is first seen to eliminate her competition without even really trying, but in a manner that made her seem efficient and terrifying in combat. However, against Dooku and Anakin herself, she is first handily beaten and then ended up soundly losing in her only other duel, making her seem far from the threat she presented herself as.

* CompleteMonster: [[AristocratsAreEvil Countess Rajine]], from ''Clone Wars Adventures'''s "No Way Out", is a vain [[OurVampiresAreDifferent energy vampire]], desiring to [[ImmortalityImmorality maintain her youth]] and expand her power at the cost of innumerable lives. Capable of [[LifeDrinker draining the life force]] from those around her and reducing them to [[NightOfTheLivingMooks zombies in her sway]], Rajine subjected hundreds of innocents to this fate before being trapped on an isolated planet by a Jedi Knight. Enslaving, abusing, and eventually executing the Jedi's old droid out of petty spite, Rajine continues to lure in people from across the galaxy to kill them and create evermore members of her horrific army, planning to eventually escape her confinement and feed on the life of all beings she can.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In Chapter 21, [=C-3PO=] shows off his [[GoldMakesEverythingShiny new gold plating]] while [[{{Saxophone}} sultry saxophone music plays]]. ''No more'' of this kind of risqué humour appears at any point in the series.

* WoobieSpecies: The Nelvaanians, Woobie-esque beast-men. Their men were captured by Separatists and used as test subjects, being mutated into grotesque obese mind-controlled creatures. Their reveal and their appearance are part-NightmareFuel part-TearJerker.