History Characters / StarWarsAhsokaTano

* ActionGirl: As an ex-Jedi, even one who never was knighted, she is this. She is a female Togruta who is a very skilled (now-former) Padawan learner and member of the Jedi Order. Ahsoka can handle both the Fifth Brother and the Seventh Sister easily while Ezra isn't a match for either of them. She later manages to give the likes of Darth Vader a difficult duel and briefly pushed back the Force sorcery of Darth Sidious, the most powerful Force user alive before living to tell of it. One wonders if she would have been made a Jedi Master if things were different.

** When she first started out, Ahsoka had nothing but the utmost loyalty towards the Jedi Order and their teachings--teachings of which she slowly starts questioning too often as she gets placed under Anakin's tutelage (though this is more for him being a rule bender than it is anything malicious). Then, when she's wrongfully accused of bombing the Jedi Temple, everyone but Anakin, Plo, Yoda, and Obi-Wan assume she's guilty and throw her out of the Order and to Tarkin's non-existent mercy to be prosecuted in order to save face in the wake of the disaster. After the real culprit is discovered, Ahsoka is cleared and invited back, but she chooses to leave, no longer trusting the Jedi Order after they turned their backs on her when she needed them most. This bites everyone hard when they do not immediately agree to aid her even after she volunteers to ask for their aid in liberating Mandalore, and she refuses to tell them about Maul's suspicions about Sidious and Anakin, playing a part in [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith everyone's downfall]]. That said, Ahsoka doesn't dislike the Jedi themselves, but how the Order had become corrupted by the war.
** As for Anakin himself, she had nothing but the utmost respect for him and everything he taught. That all changes when she learns he didn't survive the Jedi Purge, but rather became the monstrous Darth Vader. In her varying guest appearances starting on ''The Mandalorian'', it's implied the revelation scared her enough that [[spoiler:she refuses to take Grogu on as an apprentice, fearing he'll turn out like Vader.]] While she seems to have forgiven him when [[spoiler:she visits Luke's Jedi Academy]], her self-titled series reveals [[spoiler:she blames herself for his downfall and not being there for him when she should have been. Anakin himself visits her to teach her ([[ToughLove rather bluntly]]) that she's not at fault and she should forgive herself.]]

** [[spoiler:Her unwillingness to forgive herself, or Anakin, for his downfall into Darth Vader, which has turned her into a stoic individual who's too afraid of creating the next Vader to truly be able to train Sabine in the ways of the Jedi Arts. Anakin himself has to drop by and teach Ahsoka to let go, otherwise her guilt will turn her into the monster she feared.]]

** In terms of combat ability, she goes from frequently being on the receiving end of TheWorfEffect, to the applying end in her first fight on ''Rebels'', when she soundly stomps the Fifth Brother and the Seventh Sister, and holds off Maul rather effectively. Everyone was expecting TheWorfEffect to apply in full to her fight against Vader, but she more than holds her own, and in fact seems to be winning before the temple starts collapsing, although it's later on shown that she was seconds away from losing before Ezra pulls her out. After Ezra from the future rescues her, she manages to outrun and briefly hold back the magic spells of [[BigBad Darth Sidious]] himself, meaning that she fought ''6 Dark Side users'' (3 Inquisitors, 1 former Sith Lord, and 2 current Sith) within the span of a few hours, and ''survived''.

** [[spoiler:In the World Between Worlds, she's able to fight Darth Vader -- and not in his armor, but an Anakin who can channel Vader's power as if he had never gotten burned in the first place -- to a standstill (although she comes dangerously close to the Dark Side by doing so).]]
* UndyingLoyalty: Ahsoka will always defend, protect, support, and believe in Anakin, even when she witnesses the man he becomes. Though it's a bit of a BrokenPedestal by the time of ''The Mandalorian'', as she refuses to train Din Djarin's young charge when his emotions prove just as volatile as her master's, and she doesn't want him walking down the same path (though she doesn't speak poorly of him regardless). [[spoiler:''The Book of Boba Fett'' has her speak proudly of him to Luke, indicating she's at least forgiven him.]]

* EmbarrassingNickname: The Mortis arc reveals that Ahsoka hates it when Anakin calls her "Snips".

* LikeBrotherAndSister: This is her usual dynamic with Anakin, despite being his Padawan. They also double as PlatonicLifePartners.

* MedalOfDishonor: In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS5E20TheWrongJedi The Wrong Jedi]]", after she's been cleared of all charges of sedition, terrorism, and murder, she is offered a chance to return to the Order and it's implied that the Jedi Council is willing to knight her for the strength and resilience she had shown throughout the whole ordeal. Since they were the ones who expelled her from the Jedi Order, this comes off as a rather rude attempt to make up for it, and she refuses to even return to the Order.

** Likewise, when Maul reveals Anakin is the key towards Sidious taking over the galaxy, she refuses to believe her old master is capable of being corrupted, and any potential alliance between her and Maul to stop Sidious falls apart right then and there. The galaxy's only chance at salvation quickly falls apart, and from that decision helps to bring about TheEmpire.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Ahsoka's departure from the Jedi Order was her own personal decision after the events of the Fugitive arc saw her lose trust in herself after the Jedi Council didn't trust her. Unfortunately, this had serious repercussions for Anakin, as she was a major MoralityChain for him; once she left, he started falling more towards the Dark Side, and we all know how that ends up.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: During her confrontation with Maul on Mandalore, she considers joining him in an effort to stop Sidious, but refuses when Maul reveals his intention to kill Anakin.

* BrokenPedestal: The revelation that Anakin had become Darth Vader, a man responsible for millions of deaths, whose primary mission is slaughtering the same Jedi they both grew up among really hits her hard. Things only get worse when she is faced with the realization that he holds absolutely no reservations about doing the same to her.

* HonoraryAunt: While she's not in the ''Ghost'' crew's primary circle, she and Ezra share a strong bond. She also serves as one to Luke, having served as Anakin's padawan.

* MasterSwordswoman: Her dueling skills have clearly improved with time, as she easily curb-stomps two Inquisitors sent after Kanan and Ezra. Even though she's mostly on the backfoot against Vader during their duel, she still manages to occupy him for far longer than any other Rebel fighter at the time, given that he was considered a nigh-unstoppable force up to that point. During her eponymous series, set several years after ''Rebels'', she's continued to up her game. Only an OldMaster (Baylan) is able to provide her any real challenge.

* OlderAndWiser: Ahsoka spent a lot of ''The Clone Wars'' asking questions; now, as an adult, she is the one answering them. She even provides some guidance to [[spoiler:Luke Skywalker himself in regards to training Grogu.]]

** Averted with her live-action incarnation, who is played by the 5'6 Creator/RosarioDawson, with no attempt made to make Dawson look any taller than her real-life height.
* StoryBreakerPower: [[invoked]]WordOfGod clarifies this is why Ahsoka as part of the ''Ghost'' crew rarely fights herself: By the time of the Rebellion, her skills have grown so much that she is the only person who is truly capable of threatening the Sith Lords, as displayed by her reaching another stalemate with Maul, who is never fought seriously again afterwards, with the indication she would have won had the fight continued, and then putting up a remarkable fight against Darth Vader. Vader and Palpatine are pretty much the only villains active at the time who can reliably handle her, and among the active heroes she is only matched by Obi-Wan and Yoda. The only other time she fights is when she utterly destroys the Inquisitors, some time having passed since they handed Kanan and Ezra their asses, because having her would mean there was no tension at all, apart from when she ''has'' to fight. Ultimately, she is left unavailable to be relied on by the end of the second season, with her fight with Vader having been intended to be the last, in which she does much better than almost anyone else in the ''entire franchise'' but Kenobi and Luke, effectively depriving the ''Ghost'' of their single greatest warrior, so as to balance the remaining seasons where Vader is not an active enemy anymore. When she does get brought back into the picture, she is reserved specially yet again for people who are way too much for the other heroes, where she and Ezra face the Emperor in the World Between Worlds, being the only one at the time capable of even holding off Palpatine and ultimately the first in leaving. And afterwards, she remains away from the heroes until everything has settled, obviously ensuring that she can't lend any overpowered help for the final battles. It also ultimately explains why such a powerful ally never met with Luke Skywalker [[Film/ANewHope when he]] [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack needed assistance]] [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi in his Force Training]].

* WorldsStrongestWoman: As of the end of ''Return of the Jedi'', due to all of her seniors in terms of experience (Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Sidious, Anakin Skywalker) ending the film either dead or incapacitated and two of the only other confirmed survivors of the pre-Empire Jedi Order (Naq Med and [[spoiler:Grogu]]) being IncompletelyTrained, Ahsoka is a top contender for the title of most powerful Force-wielder alive and active in the galaxy. Only Luke Skywalker can seriously contest this, and it should be noted she's got approximately fourteen years of experience on him.