History Recap / StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E2RisingMalevolence

* AFatherToHisMen: Plo Koon serves the role as the compassionate general for the clone troopers.

%%* TheCynic: Sergeant Sinker is very much so this trope. His name suits him.%%ZCE

* AFatherToHisMen: Plo Koon serves the role as this for the clone troopers.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: One of the battle droids hums the Imperial March as they close in on Plo's escape pod.

* UnnecessarilyCreepyRobot: The battle droids, who are usually depicted in a comical or bungling way, are very efficient at tearing open the life pods containing the living beings. Their high-pitched, almost child-like voices plotting the killing of the survivors just makes it even more creepier.

* AsteroidThicket: The debris field from Plo Koon's three wrecked cruisers.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: This is referenced by Plo Koon.

* TheCynic: Sergeant Sinker is very much so this trope. His name suits him.

-->'''Obi-Wan Kenobi:''' She is learning from Anakin.

* DramaticSpaceDrifting: The first escape pod that Plo and company encounter in the debris field is turned around to discover that it's been attacked and cut open, with a dead clone floating in the hole in the viewport. With the second pod, the one they witness being attacked by the podhunter, they see the clone officers inside being sucked out into space.
* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Commander Wolffe is shown in the series not in clone armor, but dressed in a standard Republic Naval Officer's uniform, and has both eyes attached. Later appearances saw him with only one eye, and wearing a custom set of clone armor designating himself as part of the "Wolf Pack".

-->'''Anakin Skywalker:''' Doing what the council says? That's one thing. How we go about doing it? That's another.
* ExpendableClone: This trope is lampshaded by the clones themselves. Plo Koon tries to argue against it, but the only reason they are saved is because Ahsoka refused to give up searching for ''him''.
* ExplosiveDecompression: {{Averted|Trope}} and {{lampshaded}} by Plo Koon. Before leaving the escape pod, he orders his men to put on their helmets and follow him. He doesn't need any protection because he can survive in space long enough to deal with a few battle droids.

* ForegoneConclusion: Plo Koon appears in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', so his survival in this episode is inevitable.

* OutrunTheFireball: In this case, get out of the debris field from Master Plo's ships so the ''Twilight'' can jump to hyperspace safely before the ion cannon's giant ship-paralyzing [[BuffySpeak wheel thingy]] reaches them.

* SomethingWeForgot: {{Subverted}}. When they try to hide from the ''Malevolence'''s sensors, Plo has every system aboard the ''Twilight'' shut down, including R2. However, they forgot about the medical droid treating the clones at the back of the ship.
* SpaceIsNoisy: This is a universal ''Star Wars'' trope anyway, but Plo, Sinker, and Boost being able to easily converse while outside of the escape pod bears mention. However, it's possible that since they were all clinging to the pod, it carried the sound.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The entire purpose of the ''Malevolence'' is to wipe out entire enemy forces, so they've installed thousands of turbolasers on the massive vessel to unload enough firepower into crippled enemy vessels, rendering them into space-dust.

* WaveMotionGun: The ''Malevolence'''s ion cannon.

** Admittedly, the Hunter’s intended purpose is likely taking prisoners rather than destroying the pods.

* SinkTheLifeboats: The purpose of the podhunter is to destroy any escape pods that survived, as Count Dooku doesn't want any witnesses.

* ExpendableClone: Lampshaded by the clones themselves. Plo Koon tries to argue against it, but the only reason they are saved is because Ahsoka refused to give up searching for ''him''.

* CloningBlues[=/=]ExpendableClone: Lampshaded by the clones themselves. Plo Koon tries to argue against it, but the only reason they're saved is because Ahsoka refused to give up searching for ''him''.

* ActivationSequence: During the first time that the ''Malevolence'' fires its fleet-disabling weapon, the order is given, battle droids activate the system as an electronic hum begins building up, and the emitter near the front of the ship begins to glow before firing a disk of electromagnetic energy that leaves its targets helpless.

* SomethingWeForgot: {{Subverted}}. When they try to hide from the ''Malevolence''[='s=] sensors, Plo has every system aboard the ''Twilight'' shut down, including R2. However, they forgot about the medical droid treating the clones at the back of the ship.

* ActivationSequence: During the first time the ''Malevolence'' fires its fleet-disabling weapon, the order is given, battle droids activate the system as an electronic hum begins building up, and the emitter near the front of the ship begins to glow before firing a disk of electromagnetic energy that leaves its targets helpless.

* DramaticSpaceDrifting: The first escape pod Plo and company encounter in the debris field is turned around to discover that it's been attacked and cut open, with a dead clone floating in the hole in the viewport. With the second pod, the one they witness being attacked by the podhunter, they see the clone officers inside being sucked out into space.

* InternalHomage: When the ion cannon of the ''Malevolence'' is charging, battle droids are shown ducking away from the energy coursing through the tube, as the Death Star officers do when the superlaser fires on Alderaan in ''Film/ANewHope''.

* CloningBlues[=/=]ExpendableClone: Lampshaded by the clone troopers themselves. Plo Koon tries to argue against it, but the only reason they're saved is because Ahsoka refused to give up searching for ''him''.