History Characters / StarWarsSeparatistAlliance

* HeelFaceMole: In order to get out of prison, he agrees to Orson Krennic's proposal to have the Geonosians switch sides and begin construction of the Death Star for the Republic. After several months of playing along, he has the construction crew go nuts aboard the construction site and uses the chaos to escape in a shuttle, which is implied to be taking him to Utapau.

* WidowWoman: Her husband was killed in self-defense during the Clone Wars, exactly one year prior to her introduction in the installment and her own subsequent death.

* TheSociopath: He has a callous disregard for the lives of others and is solely driven by profit for himself and his company even if it undermines the Separatists in the long run. The closest he's shown to any emotion is anger over his laboratory and "years of research" getting destroyed, as well as brirf sadness over officially losing Echo to the Republic.

* RewardAsATraitorDeserves: As a spy for the CIS, R3's loyalty is rewarded by being smashed to smithereens by falling debris from a secret listening post and left behind while it plummets to its doom.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Inverted; among the Separatist leadership, only Count Dooku is aware of the Separatists' role in Darth Sidious' plan and the ''true'' purpose of the Clone Wars.[[note]]except, of course, the part where Sidious is planning to [[KillAndReplace replace him with Anakin]][[/note]] Just how in the dark the others are varies. Some, such as Grievous and the corporate backers who make up the Separatist Council, are aware that Sidious exists and that he's the one pulling Dooku's strings, but they don't know that he's really Palpatine or that his endgame is actually for the CIS to ''lose'' the Clone Wars. Others, such as the Separatist Senate, are completely in the dark about Dooku's true nature and have no knowledge of Sidious.

* MegaCorp: The founding and leading members of the Separatists included the Trade Federation, the Techno Union, the Corporate Alliance, the [=InterGalactic=] Banking Clan, and the Commerce Guild. Most of the corporations in the CIS were nationalized when the Empire took over.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: A common tactic of the Confederacy was to show up on neutral or unaligned worlds with an army of droids, offering them "protection" from the Republic - whether they want it or not. Examples include Kiros and Onderon.

* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: The Separatists had no problem using terrorist attacks, bombings, coup d'etats, biological warfare, and various super weapons against the Republic.

* EvilCounterpart: To R2-D2.

* SchrodingersCanon: In ''Legends'', he was stolen from Industial Automaton's factories and reprogrammed to serve as a mole by other Separatist spies at a Republic facility.

* TheSociopath: He has a callous disregard for the lives of others and is solely driven by profit for himself and his company even if it undermines the Separatists in the long run. The closest he's shown to any emotion is anger over his laboratory and "years of research" getting destroyed, as well as breif sadness over officialy losing Echo to the Republic.

* JerkassHasaPoint: Even though he is a mole for the Separatists and wants more profits for the Techno Union, he's not enitrely wrong on the fact that the Republic needs more clones, otherwise the Separatists would gain more ground.

* NiceHat: A rather natty red and gold affair, as seen in the above image. Comes complete with what appears to be a built-in ''[[HighClassGlass holographic monocle]]''.

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!!R3-S6
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!!!'''Model:''' R3-series astromech droid

R3-S6 was an astromech droid sent by the Separatists to spy on Anakin Skywalker by serving as a replacement astromech after R2-D2 goes missing during the Battle of Bothawui.

* ArcVillain: Grievous' spy during the "Search for R2-D2" two-parter, although the general himself remains the bigger threat.
* AssholeVictim: Nobody mourns for this droid's death and Grievous doesn't bother to rescue him from the collapsing listening post.
* BrightIsNotGood: He is a golden astromech trying to get his "master" and "allies" killed.
* EvilCounterpart: To R2-D2.
* InSeriesNickname: Ahsoka dubs him "Goldie". Anakin derogatorily calls him "Stubby".
* TheMole: For the Separatists. Albeit not a very good one, since his faked incompetence and sometimes outright refusal to follow orders makes Anakin and Rex not like or trust him with vital tasks.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: He acts incompetent so he can mask his attempts to kill the main characters as "accidents". As noted above, however, it proves detrimental to his spying mission, because it quickly earns him the dislike of Anakin and Rex.
* RasputinianDeath: R2-D2 sets R3 on fire. R3 then falls to his death and then gets smashed to pieces by a stray piece of debris.
* SchrodingersCanon: In ''Legends'', he was stolen from Industial Automaton's factories and reprogrammed to serve as a mole by other Separatist spies at a Republic facility.

[[folder:Nuvo Vindi]]
!!Dr. Nuvo Vindi
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!!!'''Species:''' Faust
!!!'''Homeworld:''' Adana

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MichaelYork

-->''"I suppose one can never have too many lab rats."''

Nuvo Vindi was an insane yet brilliant Faust scientist in the employ of the Separatists who resurrected the Blue Shadow Virus.

* KillEmAll: The entire Separatist Council is slaughtered by Darth Vader on Mustafar, decapitating the Separatist movement in a single blow.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: While he is dangerously smart enough to resurrect a lethal virus, he thinks said virus is a unique lifeform. But again, he's just crazy.

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Though he claims to be passing judgement on a galaxy that "murdered" a disease, this does nothing to hide his blatant sadism and unhinged curiosity at seeing the virus in action. There's also the fact that viruses ''are not alive''.

* TheDragon: To Grievous during the "Search for R2-D2" two-parter.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Downplayed. ''Legends'' works set in the Clone Wars had the tendency to emphasize the CIS' most sinister and villainous traits, often giving the impression that the Separatist cause was a theoretically idealistic goal which was nonetheless only supported by psychos and douchebags. In contrast, while the villainy remains, ''The Clone Wars'' (and by extension the canon) gave a more visibly optimistic portrayal of the CIS by making Dooku more sympathetic, excising the worst villains and introducing the Bonteri family.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Though it can't be said for what's seen of them in the films (or all of them), many of the Separatist systems seceded from the Republic because they disliked how corrupt the system had become and genuinely wanted to improve it, as radical as their methods may have been. The ones who seceeded because of Republic taxation are somewhat less justified (depending on how you view taxes), but still a valid reason.

* SkunkStripe: She has a graying streak in her brown hair.

Tropes specifically applying to the characters based on their appearances in ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' can be found '''[[Characters/Characters/StarWarsRiseOfTheEmpireEraSeparatists here]]'''.

Tropes specifically applying to the characters based on their appearances in ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' can be found '''[[Characters/StarWarsTheatricalLegends here]]'''.

[[header:Confederacy of Independent Systems]]

* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: A common tactic of the Confederacy was to show up on neutral or unaligned worlds with an army of droids, offering them "protection" from the Republic - whether they want it or not. Examples include Kiros and Onderon.

* ManBehindTheMan: To the galaxy at large, Count Dooku was the founder and leader of the Separatist Alliance. But in fact, Darth Sidious AKA Chancellor Palpatine was pulling the strings and RunningBothSides for the entire war.

* BeautyMark: She has one on the left side of her face, not unlike Padmé in fact.

* AssholeVictim: Just like the other Separatist leaders, he was killed by Darth Vader in ''Revenge of the Sith''. Aside from being an immoral arms dealer, his atrocities include trying to have Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Padmé publicly executed by monsters at the start of the war, collaborating with Queen Karina to have the Jedi infected with parasitic brain worms, and putting the Death Star's early infancy in jeopardy by ordering his drones to rebel, ruining 3 months of hard work and dealing a blow to Krennic's reputation.

* LeanAndMean: He's a Muun, after all.

* BaldOfEvil: It comes with being a Muun.

* BaldWoman: She doesn't have hair: instead, her species has two rows of spikes coming out of their head.

* NotSoDifferent:
** In ''Queen's Shadow'', Padmé views her and Mon Mothma as this, despite their rivalry over her gaining Padmé as an ally. While Mothma may have faith in the Republic, Mina does not and views them as becoming increasingly incompetent and heartless. But if there's one thing they both have in common, it's that they're both idealists that want to do good things.
** On a large scale instead of a personal one, Mina explains to Ahsoka in "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E10HeroesOnBothSides Heroes on Both Sides]]" that both warring sides want the same thing.

* TheRival: She was this to Mon Mothma when she was still aligned with the Republic Senate, particularly when it came to trying to sway Padmé over to their respective groups. Padmé thinks they're actually NotSoDifferent when it comes down to it, but Mina has a much more cynical view of the Republic and is fast losing hope things will ever improve.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Accussing the Republic of being corrupt, when they themselves are corrupt and run by the very same corporations that caused the corruption in the first place. Still, [[AssholeVictim no one loyal to the Republic turned Empire feels sorry for them when they lose the Clone Wars and their corporations are nationalized by the Empire, thus destryoing the corruption that caused the Clone Wars.]]
* InformedAttribute: We're told in ''Revenge of the Sith'' that "there are heroes on both sides", but the Separatists rarely show this off. The closest thing to a heroic character who stayed with the Separatists would probably be Mina Bonteri, who is pretty deep into TokenGoodTeammate territory (to the point of being assassinated by other Separatists). The Separatist leaders we see are corporate directors, war profiteers, and [[ArmyOfThievesAndWhores any criminals they could convince to side with them]], and their armies are almost entirely comprised of {{Killer Robot}}s. ''The Bad Batch'' later shows another heroic senator, Avi Singh, during Common Ground, so it looks like it's not all talk.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Inverted; among the Separatist leadership, only Count Dooku is aware of the Separatists' role in Sidious' plan and the ''true'' purpose of the Clone Wars [[note]]except, of course, the part where Sidious is planning to [[KillAndReplace replace him with Anakin]] [[/note]] Just how in the dark the others are varies. Some, such as Grievous and the corporate backers who make up the Separatist Council, are aware that Sidious exists and that he's the one pulling Dooku's strings, but they don't know that he's really Palpatine or that his endgame is actually for the CIS to ''lose'' the Clone Wars. Others, such as the Separatist Senate, are completely in the dark about Dooku's true nature and have no knowledge of Sidious.
* ManBehindTheMan: To the galaxy at large, Count Dooku was the founder and leader of the Separatist Alliance. But in fact, Darth Sidious AKA Palpatine was pulling the strings and PlayingBothSides for the entire war.