History Recap / StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E15Trespass

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Obi-Wan and Anakin's expressions reflect this trope once Cho derails negotiations by belittling and antagonizing the Talz, who are easily provoked by his confrontational attitude.

* TactfulTranslation: Averted -- Chairman Cho orders C-3PO to translate what he says ''exactly'' as he says it. The Talz are ''not'' amused.

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: The moment Cho derails negotiations by belittling and antagonizing the Talz, who have been established to be easily provoked to violence, Obi-Wan and Anakin's expressions reflect this trope.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Thi-Sen is an affable figure who is open to diplomacy, although he's in no way a fool or a pushover. Despite Chairman Cho's aggression, Thi-Sen gives him ''two'' chances to leave Orto Plutonia in peace and allows the group to leave the negotiations unmolested despite the declaration of war. He also sends his warriors only after the Chairman and immediately agrees to peace after the Chairman's death.

* TooDumbToLive: Chairman Cho initiates hostilities with the Talz despite being outnumbered, being on ''their'' territory, and knowing that they've already wiped out two better equipped outposts before this.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Thi-Sen is an affable figure who is open to diplomacy, although he's in no way a fool or a pushover. Despite Chairman Cho's aggression, Thi-Sen gives him ''two'' chances to leave Orto Plutonia in peace, and allows the group to leave the negotiations unmolested despite the declaration of war. He also sends his warriors only after the Chairman, and immediately agrees to peace after the Chairman's death.

* SherlockScan: Senator Chuchi quickly notices the absence of blasterfire or dead droids at the Republic outpost, realizing that the Separatists weren't responsible for the attack, even before the Talz are revealed.

* SuicidalOverconfidence: Chairman Cho believes that, despite the Talz overrunning both Republic and Separatist forces with ease, he can easily handle them with a small battalion of Clones. He is aghast at the idea of retreating from a fight that Rex's men are clearly losing, and has to be carried away after receiving a fatal spear in the back.

* FrontlineGeneral: Chairman Cho takes to the frontlines himself upon declaring war on the Talz. He's quickly proven to be out of his depth and gets himself, along with the majority of his men, killed.

* CarFu: Cho is injured and being threatened by a Talz when Rex drives a speeder into it sideways... before unceremoniously dumping the swiftly-unconscious Chairman over the front of the vehicle and driving off again.

* EmpathicEnvironment: There's a snowstorm going on for most of the episode, which ends the ''instant'' Senator Chuchi negotiates peace with Thi-Sen.

* FallenHero: It's implied in the dialogue and further discussed in the Episode Featurette that Chairman Cho was a respected long-time leader of the Pantorans, whose ruthless tactics and fervent nationalism may have been effective in a different age. But Pantora is also shown to have begun to move on, and the chairman's attitudes no longer are keeping up with the times. The featurette notes that it's time for a change in Pantora, from using violence towards a peaceful outlook. By the end, Pantora has chosen to go take a high road and Cho's ways die with him.
* FictionalGenevaConventions: Chairman Cho believes that the Talz aren't protected by the "Convention of Civilized Systems". Details about these conventions aren't provided, but it's implied that at minimum, it covers the protection of sentient beings and that both the Galactic Senate and the Jedi Council abide by it.
* FantasticRacism: Cho, upon learning of the presence of the Talz, demeans them as "savages" and states they have no claim to the planet despite it being pointed out that if they are sentient, then the Galactic Senate has jurisdiction.

* LeeroyJenkins: Cho is an almost suicidally aggressive WarHawk; his attempts at fighting the numerically superior Talz on their own turf end up getting eleven Clone troopers and Cho himself killed.

* SingleBiomePlanet: Orto Plutonia is an ice planet in the tradition of Hoth, being almost wholly covered in snow, glaciers, and snow-covered glaciers.

* WarHawk: Upon hearing the base has gone silent, Chairman Cho's first assumption is that it's Separatists who need to be fought. When he finds out it's the Talz, he immediately demands that they go to war with them and overrules any effort to make peace with them, before taking to the front lines himself.

* HiddenDepths: Apparently, C-3PO knowns how to pilot a speeder, as he's shown piloting one to the meeting with the Talz.

* FallenHero: It's implied in the dialogue and further discussed in the Episode Featurette that Chairman Cho was a respected long-time leader of the Pantorans, whose ruthless tactics and fervent nationalism may have been effective in a different age. But Pantora is also shown to have begun to move on, and the chairman's attitudes no longer are keeping up with the times. The featurette notes that it's time for a change in Pantora, from using violence towards an peaceful outlook. By the end, Pantora has chosen to go take a high road and Cho's ways dies with him.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Thi-Sen is an affable figure who is open to diplomacy, although he's in no way a fool or a pushover. Despite Chairman Cho's aggression, Thi-Sen gives him ''two'' chances to leave Orto Plutona in peace, and allows the group to leave the negotiations unmolested despite the declaration of war. He also sends his warriors only after the Chairman, and immediately agrees to peace after the Chairman's death.

* FallenHero: It's implied in the dialogue and further discussed in the Episode Featurette that Chairman Cho was a respected long-time leader of the Pantorans, whoss ruthless tactics and fervent nationalism may have been effective in a different age. But Pantora is also shown to have begun to move on, and the chairman's attitudes no longer are keeping up with the times. The featurette notes that it's time for a change in Pantora, from using violence towards an peaceful outlook. By the end, Pantora has chosen to go take a high road and Cho's ways dies with him.

* DespairEventHorizon: Chairman Cho crosses it moments before his death, being informed that the Assembly have declared his actions out of order, his authority has been revoked, and they will make peace with the Talz. He is horrified to realise that rather than dying a matyr of his people like he believed, he will be unavenged and his legacy will be viewed with disdain.

* EvilColonialist: Chairman Cho has shades of this, as a racist warhawk that insists on Pantora's rule over Orto Plutonia.
* FallenHero: It’s implied in the dialogue and further discussed in the Episode Featurette that Chairman Cho was a respected long-time leader of the Pantorans, who’s ruthless tactics and fervent nationalism may have been effective in a different age. But Pantora is also shown to have begun to move on, and the chairman’s attitudes no longer are keeping up with the times. The featurette notes that it’s time for a change in Pantora, from using violence towards an peaceful outlook. By the end, Pantora has chosen to go take a high road and Cho's ways dies with him.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Pantorans have vaguely [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra South African]] accents whose field leader [[FantasticRacism demeans the natives as "savages"]] and [[EvilColonalist demands that Pantora rule over Ordo Plutonia]], threatening violence if they disagree.

* BloodKnight: Chairman Cho is a war hawk.

* ChangingOfTheGuard: Senator Chuchi's arc in this episode is learning to stand up for herself and for the values of a presumably changed Pantora. While Chairman Cho is shown to be respected (or at least feared) by the Senator, she and the rest of the Pantoran government choose to leave behind his xenophobic, violent ways in favor of pursuing a peaceful resolution to the conflict. Symbolically, the young and inexperienced Senator replaces the seasoned older Chairman as the representative of Pantora with the Talz

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Pantorans have vaguely [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra South African]] accents.

* RockBeatsLaser: The Talz, despite their primitive weaponry, managed to wipe out the personnel of both the Republic and Separatist bases and inflict heavy losses on the clone troopers guarding Chairman Cho. However, they take losses of their own.

* SingleBiomePlanet: Orto Plutonia is an ice planet in the tradition of Hoth.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Despite Cho's assumptions, Rex and his men don't answer to him. They disregard his orders to initiate violence against the Talz, and only open fire in self-defense. Cho is in a position of authority, but he's not in the Clones' chain of command, so they're under no obligation to follow his orders. Additionally, despite being the overall ruler of Pantora, the chairman is implied to be an elected position with checks and balances in the form of the Pantoran Assembly, thus Cho does not have the authority to declare war on a random race out of misplaced patriotism without consulting his board. Once the Assembly is informed of his antics, they declare his actions out of order and remove him from power, not that it matters in the end as his bull-headed decisions lead to his death anyway.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Thi-Sen is an affable figure who is open to diplomacy, although he's in no way a fool or a pushover. Despite Chairman Cho's aggression, Thi-Sen gives him ''two'' chances to leave Orto Plutona in peace, and allows the group to leave the negotiations unmolested despite the declaration of war.