History Recap / StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E5Rookies

* NoodleIncident: After abseiling off the landing platform, Cody and Rex discuss something that happened on Tibrin that apparently had some similarities to the current situation, only with Jedi present.

** Rex says this to the commando droid that opened the door: "Roger, ''Roger''." ''[headshots it]''

* GunsAkimbo: Fives with two DC-17 blasters during the defence of the base from the Separatist droid reinforcements.

* AnachronicOrder: This episode takes place between the first two episodes of season three, [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E1CloneCadets "Clone Cadets"]] and "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E2ARCTroopers ARC Troopers]]".

* [[CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough Commander Smooth and Captain Rough]]: Cody and Rex are the smooth commander and rough captain respectively.

* NoodleIncident: After abseiling off the landing platform, Cody and Rex discuss something that happened on Tybrin that apparently had some similarities to the current situation, only with Jedi present.
-->"No different than that time on Tybrin."\\
"We had Jedi with us on Tybrin. They helped."

* HeroicSacrifice: Hevy detonates the bomb manually, when the remote has a malfunction.

* BreakoutCharacter: Hevy, Fives, and Echo. Cutup and Droidbait are this to a lesser extent.

* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: The Separatist droids try to convince Rex and Cody to leave by disguising their faces with clone helmets. Near the end of the episode, Rex fools them into opening the door by using the torn-off head of one of the commando droids.

'''Rex:''' That's right. Your armor. It's shiny and new ...\\

'''Rex:''' ... just like you.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: During the defence of the base from the Separatist reinforcements, Fives wields two blasters. He later became an ARC trooper, who carry two blaster pistols as part of their standard equipment.

** The commando droids are designed to be able to impersonate people. When Cody and Rex initially call up the Rishi Moon outpost to announce they're coming in, one of the commandos puts on a clone helmet and tries to impersonate a clone trooper. It is not convincing at ''all'', and signs off with [[CatchPhrase "Roger Roger"]], succeeding only in making Cody and Rex extremely suspicious.

* AlienBlood: The Rishi eels have dark blue blood, which Rex uses to mark Echo's armour with.

The Republic outpost on the remote Rishi moon, one of many stations that form a line of defence for the planet Kamino, is largely manned by rookie clones who, for the most part, are bored by the fact that nothing ever seems to happen — except for Echo, who likes that he has time to catch up on the reg manuals, something that makes his squadmate Hevy wonder what's wrong with him. The sergeant in command of the outpost, O'Niner, ''is'' a combat veteran and reminds his men that the station is a vital outpost, so they need to take the job seriously. He informs the troopers that there are some officers on their way to the base for an inspection, so they had better have everything squared away for inspection. The officers in question are Commander Cody and Captain Rex, the former of whom reports the status of the inspection tour to Jedi Generals Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker before heading for the Rishi moon.

* GunsAkimbo: Fives with two DC-15 blasters during the defence of the base from the Separatist droid reinforcements.

An important outpost scanning the space surrounding Kamino, protected by a squad of rookie clones, is attacked by the Separatist army.

* BoomHeadshot: Rex takes out three commando droids this way — the disguised one, the one that opens the door, and the first one he shoots when they storm the control room.

** Rex says this to the Commando Droid that opened the door: "Roger, ''Roger''." ''[headshots it]''

''[Base door opens, revealing Hevy]''\\

* EliteMooks: The Commando Droids are first introduced in this episode.

* AnachronicOrder: This episode takes place between the first two episodes of season 3, [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E1CloneCadets "Clone Cadets"]] and "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E2ARCTroopers ARC Troopers]]".

* AnachronicOrder: This episode takes place between the season three episodes "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E1CloneCadets Clone Cadets]]" and "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E2ARCTroopers ARC Troopers]]".

An important outpost scanning the space surrounding Kamino, protected by a squad of rookie Clone Troopers, is attacked by the Separatist army.

* AirVentPassageway: Hevy, Fives, Echo, and Cutup escape from the base this way during the initial attack. The same vent is again used as an exit near the end of the episode when the Clone Troopers are planning to blow the base up.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: At the beginning of the episode, Hevy says he'd rather be fighting on the front lines. He ends up dying while fighting Battle Droids.
* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: The Separatist droids try to convince Rex and Cody to leave by disguising their faces with clone helmets. Near the end of the episode, Rex fools them into opening the door by using the torn-off head of one of the Commando Droids.
* BittersweetEnding: The invasion attempt is thwarted and the Separatist fleet retreats. Sadly, three members of Domino Squad are now dead, including Hevy. But hey, Echo and Fives are inducted into the 501[[superscript:st]].

* BoomHeadshot: Rex takes out three Commando Droids this way — the disguised one, the one that opens the door, and the first one he shoots when they storm the control room.

* [[CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough Commander Smooth and Captain Rough:]] Cody and Rex are the smooth commander and rough captain respectively.

* GoryDiscretionShot: The death of the clone sergeant during the initial attack on the base is concealed like this.

** The Commando Droids are designed to be able to impersonate people. When Cody and Rex initially call up the Rishi Moon outpost to announce they're coming in, one of the Commando Droid puts on a clone helmet and tries to impersonate a Clone Trooper. It is not convincing at ''all'', and signs off with [[CatchPhrase "Roger Roger"]], succeeding only in making Cody and Rex extremely suspicious.
** Later on, Rex inverts it by impersonating a Commando Droid to get the Commando Droids to open the door. The Commando Droids on guard duty don't take notice of his customized armour.

* SecondPersonAttack: Sergeant O'Niner's death is seen from his POV as the Commando Droids who knocked him down aim their blasters at his face.
* UnplannedManualDetonation: The remote handset won't link up with the detonator on the explosives and there's no time to fix it so Hevy stays behind to set it off himself.
* VerbalTic: The Battle Droids' CatchPhrase of "Roger, roger" gives away the one that tries to impersonate a Clone Trooper over the communications to Cody and Rex.

An important outpost scanning the space surrounding Kamino, protected by a squad of rookie clone troopers, is attacked by the Separatist army.

* AirVentPassageway: Hevy, Fives, Echo, and Cutup escape from the base this way during the initial attack. The same vent is again used as an exit near the end of the episode when the clone troopers are planning to blow the base up.

* [[CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough Commander Smooth and Captain Rough]]: Cody and Rex are the smooth commander and rough captain respectively.
* DwindlingParty: Domino Squad. In order of death, Droidbait is the first to be killed by the invading droids, Cutup is eaten alive by a Rishi eel, and Hevy is forced to pull a HeroicSacrifice when the bomb's remote has a malfunction. Only Echo and Fives survive.

** The Commando Droids are designed to be able to impersonate people. When Cody and Rex initially call up the Rishi Moon outpost to announce they're coming in, one of the Commando Droid puts on a clone helmet and tries to impersonate a clone trooper. It is not convincing at ''all'', and signs off with [[CatchPhrase "Roger Roger"]], succeeding only in making Cody and Rex extremely suspicious.

* VerbalTic: The Battle Droids' CatchPhrase of "Roger, roger" gives away the one that tries to impersonate a clone trooper over the communications to Cody and Rex.

* BreakoutCharacter: Hevy, Fives, and Echo. Cutup and Droidbait to a lesser extent.

* [[CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough Commander Smooth and Captain Rough]]: Cody and Rex are smooth and rough respectively.

* AirVentPassageway: Hevy, Fives, Echo and Cutup escape from the base this way during the initial attack. The same vent is again used as an exit near the end of the episode when the clones are planning to blow the base up.
* AnachronicOrder: This episode takes place between the season three episodes, “[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E1CloneCadets Clone Cadets]]” and “[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E2ARCTroopers ARC Troopers]]”.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: At the beginning of the episode, Hevy says he'd rather be fighting on the front lines. He ends up dying.
* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: The droids try to convince Rex and Cody to leave by disguising their faces with clone helmets. Near the end of the episode, Rex fools them into opening the door by using the torn-off head of one of the droids.

* BleakBorderBase: The Rishi moon is very barren, with nothing but the Republic outpost and the eels.

* BoomHeadshot: Rex takes out three commando droids this way — the disguised one, the one that opens the door and the first one he shoots when they storm the control room.

* [[CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough Commander Smooth and Captain Rough]]: Cody and Rex, respectively.
* DwindlingParty: Domino Squad. In order of death: Droidbait is the first to be killed by the invading droids; Cutup is eaten alive by a Rishi eel; and Hevy is forced to pull a HeroicSacrifice when the bomb's remote has a malfunction. Only Echo and Fives survive.
* EliteMooks: The Commando Droids, first introduced in this episode.
* {{Facepalm}}: Cody, on Rex's plan to get the door opened by impersonating a commando droid:

* GatlingGood: Hevy's favourite weapon is a Z-6 rotary cannon.

* GunsAkimbo: Fives with two DC-15 blasters during the defence of the base from the droid reinforcements.

** The commando droids are designed to be able to impersonate people. When Cody and Rex initially call up the Rishi Moon outpost to announce they're coming in, the head droid puts on a clone helmet and tries to impersonate a clone trooper. It is not convincing at ''all'', and signs off with [[CatchPhrase "Roger Roger"]], succeeding only in making Cody and Rex extremely suspicious.
** Later on, Rex inverts it by impersonating a commando droid to get the droids to open the door. The droids on guard duty don't take notice of his customized armour.

* NewMeat: Provides the current page quote.

* PrecisionFStrike: Contains two of them, in the form of the lines "What the hell was that?!" and "Like ''hell'' you did!"

** Rex, to the droid that opened the door: "Roger, ''Roger''." ''[headshots it]''

* SecondPersonAttack: Sergeant O'Niner's death is seen from his POV as the commando droids who knocked him down aim their blasters at his face.
* UnplannedManualDetonation: The remote handset won't link up with the detonator on the explosives, and there's no time to fix it, so Hevy stays behind to set it off himself.
* VerbalTic: The battle droids' CatchPhrase of "Roger roger" gives away the one that tries to impersonate a clone trooper over the communications to Cody and Rex.