History Recap / StarWarsRebelsS3E04TheLastBattle

* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Prequel Trilogy / Clone Wars era Battle Droids against Original Trilogy Stormtroopers and AT-AT Walkers. [[spoiler: Unfortunately the Droids have seen far better days and are severely lacking in equipment, having only a handful of Droidekas as their heavy support with no tanks or artillery. They also lack their characteristic numbers this time around.]]

--> '''Kalani''': I would never have tried such a desperate strategy.
--> '''Rex''': That's why ''we'' always won.
--> '''[[TheComicallySerious Kalani]]''': ''[[ComicallyMissingThePoint Not]]'' [[StrawVulcan always]].

* NotSoDifferent: As Ezra points out, even though they're enemies, Rex and Kalani are both still trying to fight a war neither side won. This also applies to the result of the war: neither side were ''meant'' to win, so why were they fighting?

* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Prequel Trilogy / Clone Wars era Battle Droids against Original Trilogy Stormtroopers and AT-AT Walkers.

* DeathSeeker: Easy to miss, but Kalani has accepted the possibility of defeat and acknowledges his meager, short-circuiting army, and doesn't even flinch much when Rex fires his blaster, thus implying he was only stretching out a war game just to live out his programming on his own terms.

* GoneHorriblyRight: Super tactical droids were designed to be highly logical and competent tacticians, able to predict enemy actions and plan accordingly. When the shutdown command was triggered, Kalani assumed it to be a Republic trick and disregarded it, as that was the most logical explanation for why someone would trigger it at that point in the war.

* RagnarokProofing: Averted. Stuck on a planet with no way to resupply, the Separatist battle droids have fallen into disrepair. They're functional, but not nearly as effective as they once were.

* ShellShockedVeteran: We get to see this side of Rex, from him awakening to being held captive by battle droids surrounding him and believing that he's gone back to the days of the Clone Wars and [[FreudianSlip calling out for]] [[PlatonicLifePartners Cody]] when he hears Kanan's voice, to snapping at Ezra for treating the ordeal like a game instead of life and death (which arguably, the rebels treat their situations as a balance between).

On a salvage mission led by Captain Rex, the ''Ghost'' crew is captured by a battalion of old battle droids led by super tactical droid, General Kalani, determined to fight "[[TitleDrop one last battle]]" to end the Clone Wars.

** Rex mentions there were a few "exceptions" of clones that manage to live outside of the structure and occupation of their programming as soldiers. He's possibly referring to Cut Lawquane in ''The Deserter.''

* CreativeClosingCredits: The ending shows the Star Wars Rebels logo in the ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' style and blends the themes.

* FullyAbsorbedFinale: To ''StarWarsTheCloneWars''. Rex even lampshades this by declaring Ezra the man who ended the Clone Wars for good.

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: The Separatist holdout of battle droids, who are still trying to win the war.

--> '''Ezra:''' "I never really thought about it, I never really asked. I know the Jedi were wiped out; the clones were decommissioned and the droid army was just shut down. The Clone War ended, but ''why''? If none of ''you'' won, who did?"
--> '''Zeb:''' "The Empire."

** The ''Phantom'' was destroyed in "[[Recap/StarWarsRebelsStepsIntoShadow Steps Into Shadow]]". A Separatist ''Sheathipede''-class transport shuttle is used to replace it, also named the ''Phantom''.

* NotSoDifferent: As Ezra points out, even though they're enemies, Rex and Kalani are both still trying to fight a war neither side won.

* TitleDrop: As Rex puts it, this is practically ''the last battle'' of the Grand Army of the Republic. Once everyone works together, it's recognized as the last battle of the Clone Wars.

--> '''Ezra''': I make a pretty good soldier, huh?
--> '''Rex''': No. [[TriggerPhrase A good soldier follows]] ''[[TriggerPhrase orders]]''!

* TitleDrop: As Rex puts it, this is practically ''the last battle'' of the Grand Army of the Republic.

* WhatTheHellHero: Rex snaps at Ezra for treating the scenario like a game when Zeb's life is on the line.

--> '''Ezra''': I make a pretty good soldier, right?
--> '''Rex''': No [[TriggerPhrase A good soldier follows]] ''[[TriggerPhrase orders]]''!

--> '''Rex''': [[TriggerPhrase Good soldiers follow]] ''[[TriggerPhrase orders]]''!