History Recap / StarWarsTheCloneWarsMovie

* FriendToAllChildren: Ahsoka is shown to be quite good with children, such as the way she takes care of Rotta.

* BaitAndSwitch: When Padme is rescued from Ziro the Hutt's clutches, it initially looks like it's just C-3P0 and he's taken up slinging grenades. Then a moment later after he reveals himself, the much more plausible squad of Clone Troopers kicks in Ziro's front door.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Clone pilot Matchstick is visible among the group of clones listening to Ahsoka brag about her saving Anakin on Christophsis. He's formally introduced in "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E3ShadowOfMalevolence Shadow Of Malevolence]]".

* ForceChoke: Ventress gives one to Rex when he comes around after the Separatist droid army overwhelm the clone troopers defending the B'omarr Order Monastery and begins shooting at her.

* GreenAroundTheGills: Ahsoka notes that Rotta was so sick he turned every shade of green except the one he's supposed to be.

* HollywoodTactics: The Battle of Christophsis features the clone troopers running out of their hiding spaces into the beam spam. In fact, one of the clone troopers actually runs up to a battle droid and tries to punch it out with his fist, which results in him injuring his hand and getting killed.[[note]]This itself is a bit of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, since later episodes would present knocking their heads off barehanded as an effective tactic; In fact, it's Saw Gerrera's signature move.[[/note]] This is as part of a battle with the droids (as per usual) marching slowly in formation.

-->'''Ahsoka:''' Does this ''always'' happen to you?
-->'''Anakin:''' Everywhere I go.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Ahsoka accidentally triggers a droid trap that nearly overwhelms Anakin. Even when her actions ended up saving his life, he's quick to tell her that he could have gotten killed along with the fact that he had everything under control.
* NoirEpisode: Noir ''act'', really. At the end, Padmé goes to meet with Ziro the Hutt. His lair, a den of crime and vice, is in a dingy nightclub playing classic jazz straight out of a 1940's FilmNoir.
* NobleDemon: Loathsom is surprisingly amenable to simply sitting down with Obi-Wan and having a ''long'' chat to hammer out all the details of the latter's surrender. The fact that Obi-Wan spends about half his dialogue buttering Loathsome up with complements of how he's so powerful and unstoppable probably helped.
* OffWithHisHead: A helmet-based variation. During the opening battle, a clone trooper stands up to rally his fellows...and gets shot dead, with the blast throwing his body back offscreen and causing his helmet to topple in a completely different direction.

* PapaWolf: Jabba is ready to align with whoever rescued Rotta. When it seems like Anakin had killed him, Jabba's ready to have him executed at the spot. Also, there's his retaliation against Ziro for the kidnapping.

* PlotArmor: Despite telling Ziro to execute Padme if she keeps snooping, as soon as Ziro catches her doing just that, Dooku interrupts to say that she can be profitably exchanged with the Republic.

* TheStinger: After the credits, Jawas are seen playing with a Lucas logo. When the camera pans up, they freak out, and then drop the object and run away.

-->'''Dooku''': I assure you my web is strong enough to catch your insignificant little Padawan.

** Anakin and Ahsoka sneak under Separatist lines on Christophsis by hiding [[Franchise/MetalGear under a box]].

The film marks the first appearance of Ahsoka Tano, the young Jedi Padawan learner of Anakin Skywalker. By order of production, the film also features the first appearance of Captain Rex, a clone captain serving under Anakin, and Asajj Ventress, a Sith apprentice of Count Dooku[[note]]Her first appearance in the canon only; in ''Legends'', Ventress had first appeared much earlier in comic books.[[/note]].

** Mace Windu appears in the film and its marketing, but disappears about halfway through the film in addition to having a small amount of lines and scenes.

** Asajj Ventress is a Sith apprentice of Darth Tyranus/Count Dooku.

* BaldOfEvil: Asajj Ventress, Count Dooku's Sith apprentice, is hairless and one of the antagonists in the film.

* BigBadWannabe: Ziro the Hutt joins with Dooku in order to overthrow Jabba. However, he's nowhere near as big of a threat as the Sith Lord, and is easily captured after he's exposed.

* UngratefulBastard: Averted. Jabba ordering the execution of the Jedi who just returned his kidnapped son may ''seem'' like this, but at that point, Jabba still believes that the Jedi were responsible for kidnapping him in the first place. When Padmé reveals who was ''really'' responsible, Jabba immediately changes his mind.

* HollywoodTactics: The Battle of Christophsis features the clone troopers running out of their hiding spaces into the beam spam. In fact, one of the clone troopers actually runs up to a battle droid and tries to punch it out with his fist, which results in him injuring his hand and getting killed.[[note]]This itself is a bit of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, since later episodes would present knocking their heads off barehanded as an effective tactic; In fact, it's Saw Gerrera's signature move.[[/note]]

* OffModel: The film has a few moments of this. A couple of examples of this include the fact that Cody is missing his helmet visor when Obi-Wan orders him to launch the gunships on Teth and, not that long later, Rex is missing his kama when Obi-Wan asks him where Anakin has got to.

* BaitAndSwitch: When Padme is rescued from Rotta the Hutt's clutches, it initially looks like it's just C-3P0 and he's taken up slinging grenades. Then a moment later after he reveals himself, the much more plausible squad of Clone Troopers kicks in Rotta's front door.

** The pilot movie's overall tone is noticeably LighterAndSofter than the rest of the series, with the only characters that actually die on-screen -- with the possible exception of some unnamed hangar techs when a Republican cruiser is on the receiving end of a kamikaze attack by a droid fighter -- being clone troopers, and even that's [[NeverSayDie not actually made very explicit]].

* BadBoss: Ziro executes his best assassin droid after their first-ever failure, despite years and years of faithful service.

* EvilLaugh: When Anakin takes off on Count Dooku's speeder bike to save Ahsoka, Dooku is said to be "laughing maliciously" according to the subtitles.

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** InUniverse example: After the helpful protocol droid thanks the Jedi for freeing him from battle droids and points out where the baby Hutt is being held, he disappears from the narrative. When he reappears a few scenes later, his role is revealed, and Ahsoka actually comments that she had been wondering where the droid had gone to. The ''Legends'' novelization goes into more detail about this droid; he's actually a spy droid for Ventress, who was editing the footage of Anakin saying "I Hate Hutts," to make it look more inflammatory.