History ComicBook / CloneWarsAdventures

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Several stories develop the B-1 Battle Droids sympathetically. One of them tries to run away from the war after being damaged, and another is carried around by Aayla Secura on a mission (while getting some good snarky dialogue) for information after she cuts off his arms and legs.

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** Plo Koon seems to only communicate in his native language in "One Battle", as opposed to other works having him speak Basic with no issue (including a later story in the same series ''Means & Ends'' where he teams up with Kit Fisto). He's able to get his point across with body language instead.

** Plo Koon seems to only communicate in his native language in "One Battle", as opposed to other works having him speak Basic with no issue. He's able to get his point across with body language instead.

* KillEmAll: "The Package" ends with all but one of the Commando team dead trying to receive the eponymous package. Not that it matters when it's [[spoiler:a small trinket that Chancellor Palpatine barely cares about]].

* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: ''Heroes on Both Sides'' ends with both the last surviving clone commander and last surviving Viidaav warrior aiming their blasters at each other with a bomb about to go off. They both open fire. The next page shows the clone trooper alive, revealing that while he killed the Viidaav, the Viidaav in turn wasn't aiming for the clone at all, but the bomb control device behind him.

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''Clone Wars Adventures'' is a ''Franchise/StarWars'' comic series with art modeled after ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars.'' The series consists of ten paperback novellas published between 2004 and 2007, each containing either three or four standalone stories. The series features both returning and original characters and covers a wide emotional spectrum of genres (more than one CosmicHorrorStory, Jedi on spy missions, slapstick ArmedFarces tales, WarIsHell stories, etc.).

** During ''Blind Force'', Obi-Wan decides that, since being able to see hasn't helped them fight off the Nivek Shadowmen, he and Anakin will just have to don makeshift blindfolds, [[Film/ANewHope let go their conscious selves and act on instinct.]] This would be the same lesson he'd teach Anakin's son Luke in the future.
** Is it any coincidence in ''Spy Girls'' that Padme's hairstyle happens to be [[Film/ANewHope the side buns made famous by her daughter Leia?]]
* CasualDangerDialogue: Mace Windu and Saesee Tiin spend a lot of ''Heavy Metal Jedi'' debating the sufficiency of Windu's precision against Tiin's raw power and vice versa...while in the midst of fighting off the droid invasion on Iktotch.

** Barriss Offee is as loyal to the Jedi Order as she was in the original series compared to the path she ultimately took in [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars the other Clone Wars show.]]
** Plo Koon seems to only communicate in his native language in ''One Battle'', as opposed to other works having him speak Basic with no issue. He's able to get his point across with body language instead.
** In his one appearance in this comic, Quinlan Vos is basically his Legends self, a serious and focused Jedi Knight, quite a ways away from his canon near-goofball self seen in the later ''Clone Wars'' series.
* ConstructionVehicleRampage: In the story "Graduation Day," droids attack a farm operated by failed candidates for Jedi Knighthood, one of whom plows through them with a farming machine.

** ''The Brink'' features Serra Keto, last seen in the ''VideoGame/RevengeOfTheSith'' video game adaptation. Just like in the game, she's rather mouthy and dual wields lightsabers with aplomb.
* DamnedByFaintPraise: As shown in ''Appetite for Adventure'', Obi-Wan once claimed a plate of Dractuvian Cave Slugs to be delicious, only to then gleefully declare them disgusting the next time he had such a plate. Apparently every other dish from Dractu is plain horrible, and the Cave Slugs are merely delicious by comparison.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: One of the few times Plo Koon appears before the other ''Clone Wars'' series is in ''One Battle'' and shows him [[TheUnintelligible only speaking (or only capable of speaking) his native Kel Dor language]]. The lead clone in charge seems to have trouble understanding him at first. Later works, including the next issue of ''Clone Wars Adventures'' that he appears in, have him speaking plain Basic just fine.
* EnemyMine: In ''Order of the Outcasts,'' Jedi Padawan Joc Sah is attacked by a group of rugged individualists who don't want either the Republic or the Separatists on their (strategically important) planet. The settler militia goes from trying to kill Joc to saving his life when Palpatine issues Order 66. They then join forces to fight off the next waves of arriving clones.
* ForeignQueasine: Dractuvian Cave Slugs, as Obi-Wan states in ''Appetite for Adventure.'' As he states to poor Dex (who put himeslf through hell getting those slugs) the only reason Obi claimed them to be the best thing he ate on Dractu was because the food ther eoverall was disgusting.
* HeroicSacrifice: In ''[[spoiler:To the Vanishing Point]],'' a wounded Jedi uses telekinesis to keep a damaged Star Destroyer from crashing into a battlefield as her allies evacuate. However, she is forced to stay behind and is crushed once she can no longer hold back the starship.
* HiddenInPlainSight: Done in a chapter fittingly titled ''Hide In Plain Sight'', and promptly foiled by Luminara in said chapter. After warning the refugees fleeing Nadiem that they'll have to leave all items or pets that will take up too much space on the transports, she notices one seemingly overweight refugee. She proceeds to slice his poncho open, revealing he's of perfectly normal weight, trying to smuggle dozens of luxuries onboard that would take up valuable room. The conversation between Luminara and Barriss Offee afterward discusses the flaw in such a plan.

* IntelligibleUnintelligible: ''One Battle'' has the clone commander present being the only one who can understand Plo Koon's Kel Dor speech, though it's presented at first as if he can't understand the Jedi Master at all.
* KillEmAll: ''The Package'' ends with all but one of the Commando team dead trying to receive the eponymous package. Not that it matters when it's [[spoiler:A small trinket that Chancellor Palpatine barely cares about.]]
* MeaningfulEcho: Sarge, the lead Commando clone in ''Orders'', frequently tells Evan "These are our orders." The first time, it's when his squad to convince Evan to leave his home to flee to a refugee camp, despite Evan now having nothing there. The second time it's in regard to their mission to save the women and children caught up in the war, and is presented as a gentle, heartwarming moment. The final time Sarge states this...is just as Order 66 comes down and they've gunned down their Jedi general [[HarmfulToMinors right before Evan's eyes.]]
* MenOfSherwood: The local settler militia in "The Order of The Outcasts" start out as antagonists but quickly form an EnemyMine alliance with Joc Sah [[spoiler:during Order 66]] and prove just as capable of killing [[spoiler:clone troopers]] as Joc does.
* TheMobBossIsScarier: In "Life Below," the leader of a Separatist spy ring commits suicide rather than surrender to Quinlan Vos and risk the wealth of Darth Sidious.

** Yoda goes through all of ''A Stranger In Town'' without speaking a single word to the villagers, or to the Separatist army leader. They have a lot to say about the little guy of course, however.
** While she's capable of speaking as shown in later works, Bultar Swan goes through the entirety of ''Impregnable'' not uttering a single word. The bulk of it's dialogue instead goes to it's villain.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: We all know Yoda can lift a starfighter out of a murky swamp with the Force, sure. ''Stranger In Town'' decides to match that with showing Yoda physically carrying a box twenty times his size. It happens to contain a massive turret gun that he uses to rout an entire Separatist invasion force.

* RunOrDie: When Anakin Skywalker is summoned to a space station in "The Brink," he finds the corpses of a fellow Jedi and several clones. The SoleSurvivor who summoned him (another Jedi) says that the only rational strategy is leave immediately and blow up the station behind them. Anakin is unwilling to consider this strategy until his first run-in with the BlobMonster that killed everyone.

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: One comic, "Salvaged," has a clone pilot decide not to help execute Order 66 and lie to some other clones that a ship is devoid of Jedi passengers, both because said Jedi are children and because the ship's pilot saved his life.
* SideBet: Part of the plot of ''Versus'' is a mysterious (and seemingly very lucky) coliseum-goer betting great amounts of money on Luminara winning three matches in a row without Force powers, which happens to be a part of a deal Luminara worked out with Mondo-Mod the Hutt, that chapter's antagonist. Said coliseum-goer lucks out each and every single time owing to Luminara's combat skills. The very end of the chapter reveals this mysterious masked winner to be Barriss, gleefully betting on her master knowing full well Luminara would win. While more of a sideplot to the main one, Barriss' successful bets lead to Mondo-Mod going utterly bankrupt from the losses.
* SpannerInTheWorks: The story "Waiting" has an elite clone trooper planning to blow up a bridge as a droid army crosses over it, only for some local scavengers to steal his weapons, forcing him to chase after them to retrieve the explosives and carry out his mission on time.
* TrojanPrisoner: ''Bailed Out'' is about Bail Organa, seemingly about to ally Alderaan with the Confederacy, inspecting Wat Tambor's Techno Union facilities on Metalorn. His real goal is to break a captive Shaak Ti out of imprisonment, achieved by smuggling in her lightsaber in a small box and claiming it contains the official Alderaan seal. She very quickly breaks herself out once her saber's in Force reach and makes it off planet with Bail and his retinue in tow.

** ''Old Scores'' focuses on bounty hunter Aurra Sing escaping from and killing a Hutt who tries to lure her into a bounty hunt with her as the target.
* WhamLine: ''Orders'' sees a contingent of Commando troopers rescue a kid named Evan who lost his parents. While they do sternly say they have their orders even if they don't like them, they still try to befriend him, even removing their helmets and detailing their cloning history to him. Eventually they get Evan to General Traavis, a nearby Jedi Master...who says this line, cluing the reader into exactly [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith when this story takes place]] and [[ThePurge what is going to happen on the very next page.]]
--->'''Traavis:''' I've received some good news: [[HopeSpot General Grievous is dead]]. This war will soon be ended.

* WholeEpisodeFlashback: ''Skywalkers'' is one such episode. The FramingDevice is the [[Film/ANewHope setting of Tatooine]] some 19 years after the Clone Wars, with old Ben Kenobi relating a story of Anakin Skywalker to his curious young son Luke, about how the two Jedi took down a Separatist air force in the skies of Terra Sool. After Anakin's successfully completed the mission, the very next, and thus last page is of Darth Vader in silent contemplation having just slain Ben in battle aboard the Death Star.
* WholePlotReference: ''A Stranger in Town'' is based on [[spoiler:''Film/{{Django}}'']]. In both stories, the protagonist arrives in an isolated settlement [[spoiler:with a large and mysterious box that turns out to contain a BFG, and then uses that weapon against an army of invaders.]]
* TheWormThatWalks: Kit Fisto comes across one such organism in ''Fierce Currents.'' The Moappa seem like harmless little critters living on the Mon Calamari seabed at first, but can combine into a being capable of matching wits with a Jedi master. The best Fisto can do is disperse them with the Force for a few hours, while advising the Calamari to start getting along with both the Quarren and the Moappa.

* ADayInTheLimelight: quite a number of stories focus on a variety of side characters, not just Obi-Wan or Anakin. This can include secondary Jedi masters like Quinlan Vos or Plo Koon, non-Jedi heroes like the Commando clones or Padme, or full on non-combatants such as Bail Organa or even Dexter Dettster.

* TheQuietOne: While she's capable of speaking as shown in later works, Bultar Swan goes through the entirety of ''Impregnable'' not uttering a single word. The bulk of it's dialogue instead goes to it's villain.

* TrojanPrisoner: ''Bailed Out'' is about Bail Organa, under the pretense of inspecting Wat Tambor's facilities on Metalorn, breaking Shaak-Ti out of imprisonment by smuggling in her lightsaber. She very quickly breaks herself out and makes it off planet with Bail and his retinue in tow.

* BloodierAndGorier: While the series had some high impact violence of it's own, the comic was a lot more liberal with depicting not just blood flowing from certain wounds, but vast amounts of brutal, on-page deaths to boot.

* HiddenInPlainSight: Done in a chapter fittingly titled ''Hide In Plain Sight'', and promptly foiled by Luminara in said chapter. After warning the refugees fleeing Nadiem that they'll have to leave whatever items or pets will take up too much space on the transports, she notices one seemingly overweight refugee. She proceeds to slice his poncho open, revealing he's of perfectly normal weight, trying to smuggle dozens of luxuries onboard that would take up valuable room. The conversation between Luminara and Barriss Offee afterward discusses the flaw in such a plan.

* MeaningfulEcho: Sarge, the lead Commando clone in ''Orders'' frequently tells Evan "These are our orders." The first time it's when they have to convince Evan to leave his home to flee to a refugee camp, despite Evan now having nothing there. The second time it's in regards to their mission to save the women and children caught up in the war, and is presented as a gentle, heartwarming moment. The final time Sarge states this...is just as Order 66 comes down and they've gunned down their Jedi general [[HarmfulToMinors right before Evan's eyes.]]

* CallForward: During ''Blind Force'', Obi-Wan decides that, since being able to see hasn't helped them fight off the Nivek Shadowmen, he and Anakin will just have to don makeshift blindfolds, [[Film/ANewHope let go their conscious selves and act on instinct,]] a lesson he'd teach Anakin's son in the future.

** Plo Koon seems to only communicate in his native language here, as opposed to other works having him speak Basic with no issue.

** ''The Brink'' features Serra Keto, last seen in the ''VideoGame/RevengeOfTheSith'' video game adaptation. Just like int eh game, she's rather mouthy and dual wields lightsabers with aplomb.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: One of the few times Plo Koon appears before the other ''Clone Wars'' series is in ''One Battle'' and shows him [[TheUnintelligible only speaking (or only capable of speaking) his native Kel Dor language]]. The lead clone in charge seems to have trouble understanding him at first. Later works have him speaking plain Basic just fine.

* BloodierAndgorier: While the series had some high impact violence of it's own, the comic was a lot more liberable with depicting not just blood flowing from certain wounds, but vast amounts of brutal, on-page deaths to boot.

* FlashbackEpisode: ''Skywalkers'' is one such episode. The FramingDevice is the [[Film/ANewHope setting of Tatooine]] some 19 years after the Clone Wars, with old Ben Kenobi relating a story of Anakin Skyalker to his curious young son Luke, about how the two Jedi took down a Separatist air force in the skies of Terra Sool. Naturally, it ends on a page showing Darth Vader in silent contemplation having just slain Ben in battle aboard the Death Star.

* ShaggyDogStory: "The Package" follows eight clone troopers being ambushed while delivering a diplomatic package to Palpatine, with seven of them dying to protect the package. The final page reveals that the package contains a simple trinket, and a disinterested Palpatine has it tucked away in a closet with other unwanted gifts.

* HeroicSacrifice: In "[[spoiler:To the Vanishing Point]],'' a wounded Jedi uses telekinesis to keep a damaged Star Destroyer from crashing into a battlefield as her allies evacuate. However, she is forced to stay behind and is crushed once she can no longer hold back the starship.
* HiddenInPlainSight: Done and foiled by Luminara in ''Hide In Plain Sight.'' After warning the refugees fleeing Nadiem that they'll have to leave whatever items or pets will take up too much space on the transports, she notices one seemingly overweight refugee...and proceeds to slice his poncho open, revealing he's of perfectly normal weight, trying to smuggle dozens of luxuries onboard that would take up valuable room. The conversation between Luminara and Barriss Offee afterward discusses the potential flaw in such a plan.

--> '''Anakin:''' Do these things have any weaknesses?
--> '''Serra Keto:''' If I knew that, [[AskAStupidQuestion I wouldn't have sent that distress call, now would I?]]

* HeroicSacrifice: In "[[spoiler:To the Vanishing Point]],'' a wounded Jedi uses telekinesis to keep a damaged Star Destroyer from crashing into a battlefield as her allies evacuate. However, she is forced to stay behind and is crushed once she can no longer hold back the starship.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Several stories develop the B-1 Battle Droids sympathetically. One of them tries to run away from the war after being damaged, and another is carried around by Aayla Secura on a mission (while getting some good snarky dialogue) for information after she cuts off his arms and legs.