History Recap / StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E3ChildrenOfTheForce

** There's also Obi-Wan, Anakin and Windu basically [[Mind Rape Mind Raping]] Bane with three Jedi Mind Tricks at once, an act that is just a hairs breadth away from being full on torture.

As Anakin and Ahsoka's strike team returns to the ''Resolute'' empty-handed, one clone trooper notices something suspicious and points it out to Rex, who promptly calls Anakin over: drops of green blood on the floor of the shuttle, a colour that humans and Togruta ''don't'' bleed. Ahsoka, meanwhile, grows concerned about Denal, who's acting odd... for a reason: it's Cad Bane in disguise, but as Anakin leaps to stop him, the bounty hunter is able to steal a starfighter and hyperspace ring and escape. Trying to find the bounty hunter and his stolen data, several Jedi meditate through the Force to see what he's going to do next. As it turns out, Sidious has hired Bane to kidnap four children from the list to be brought to his facility on Mustafar for a vile purpose. Although the Nautolan child Mace Windu saw on Glee Anselm has already been kidnapped, Anakin and Ahsoka rush to Naboo, where he saw a Gungan child in danger, and Obi-Wan rushes to Rodia. However, the Jedi Master is just slightly too late to prevent Bane from escaping the jungle planet with another baby. Anakin and Ahsoka's ambush of Bane on Naboo goes flawlessly as they capture the bounty hunter. However, the two kidnapped children are still unaccounted for, and it's a race against time for the Jedi to rescue them and retrieve the stolen holocron and data crystal, especially since they don't know who the mastermind is...

* AlienBlood: Duros like Cad Bane have green blood. As getting injured by Denal before killing him, he bleeds a little onto the floor of the shuttle. This actually gets him caught out, as one of the clones notices it and Bane's wounded arm gives him away to Ahsoka.

* FakingTheDead: Bane was revealed to have done this in the previous episode. At the end of that episode, he was cornered by 2 clone troopers and seemingly killed. As it turns out, Bane killed both troopers. He then stole the armor of one of them (Denal) and placed the other in ''Bane's'' clothes before shooting him, making it look like Bane had been killed. After being shuttled aboard the ''Resolute'' along with the other clones, Bane stole a starfighter and escaped.

* FalseReassurance: Sidious coos that the babies' cries won't last much longer, by which he means they'll be experimented on and either dead or implanted with a mind control device that will allow him to silence them.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Sidious cooing at the babies would be adorable, were he not planning to turn them into slave super-soldiers.

** When future Jedi are at risk of being kidnapped and turned to the Dark Side, Obi-Wan doesn't have time to be polite and soft-spoken, even with the mother of one of the children who has just been taken by Bane.

* RefugeInAudacity: Bane kidnaps the Rodian baby by disguising himself as a Jedi and informing the baby's mother that he has to take the baby because ''impostors posing as Jedi'' have been abducting babies.

* SpottingTheThread: Bane erases the navicomputer of his starfighter to hide that he'd travelled to Mustafar -- but he doesn't think to do the same to the fuel computer, ''and'' he forgets to clean off the volcanic ash that had accumulated on his ship.

* WouldHurtAChild: Sidious has Bane kidnap Force-sensitive children for brainwashing experiments, all of them barely toddlers. Bane even exploits this to get the child from Rodia via disguising himself as a Jedi and warning the mother of kidnappers dressed as Jedi to get her to release her son to him. Bane doesn't care what happens to the babies so long as he gets paid and Sidious is planning to do some ''nasty'' things to them.

* CostumeSwap: Bane performed this using 2 dead clone troopers (whom he killed in the previous episode). He put on the armor of one of the dead clones and then put his own outfit on the body of the other.

* FakingTheDead: Bane was revealed to have done this in the previous episode. At the end of that episode, he was cornered by 2 clone troopers and seemingly killed. As it turns out, Bane killed both troopers. He then stole the armor of one of them (Denal) and placed the other in ''Bane's'' clothes before shooting him, making it look like Bane had been killed.

* MuggedForDisguise: Bane is revealed to have killed clone trooper Denal and stolen his armour in order to get onboard the escape shuttle.

* DramaticIrony:
** Anakin's conversation with Palpatine where they talk about whoever might be behind the plot to destroy the Jedi is absolutely ''dripping'' with this trope, considering that the audience knows full well that Sidious is behind the plot. This is taken up a notch with the fate of the Younglings in ''Revenge of the Sith''.

* InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: Sidious' plan to turn Force-sensitive children into Dark Side soldiers through torture appears to be an odd one-off idea that doesn't get revisited; come WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels, in retrospect, this appears to be the beginnings of the Inquisitorius.

** There's also Obi-Wan, Anakin and Windu basically {{Mind Rape}}ing Bane with three Jedi Mind Tricks at once, an act that is just a hairs breadth away from being full on torture.

* CollapsingLair: Sidious has the droids manning the Mustafar base turn off the gravity supports so the facility, and all the evidence, will fall into the lava. It works perfectly, leaving the Jedi with nothing to go upon.

* GoombaSpringboard: Anakin lets himself fall towards one of Sidious' nanny bots as the facility falls into the lava in order to jump off of it towards the door, saving himself and the baby he's carrying while shoving the droid into the lava.

* RestrainingBolt: Sidious orders his nanny droids to implant the children with slave drives, which will allow him to control their emotions and harm them/blow them up from afar if they disobey. The droids inform him that such young subjects will not likely survive the procedure and Sidious responds that he has nothing to lose if the experiment fails.

* HarsherInHindsight: The whole episode when you consider the next few years of Star Wars history. All those adorable Force-sensitive children the heroes are working so hard to save? In just a few years they'll be growing up in Palpatine's Empire, where Force-sensitives are hunted, abducted, and forced into service or killed.
** It’s possible that Anakin killed these children at the Jedi Temple during Order 66, making him rescuing them years before even harsher.
** Assuming they were not killed during the ride of the Empire, the children would either spend the rest of their lives hiding or become Inquisitors.
* HumanShield: The evil nanny droids at the Mustafar base use the kidnapped babies as this while fighting Anakin and Ahsoka, although the two Jedi are eventually able to get the upper hand and retrieve the children safely.

* AlienBlood: Duros like Cad Bane have green blood. As getting injured by Denal before killing him, he bleeds a little onto the floor of the shuttle. One of the clone troopers notices it.

* DramaticIrony: Anakin's conversation with Palpatine where they talk about whoever might be behind the plot to destroy the Jedi is absolutely ''dripping'' with this trope.
** Take it up a notch with the fate of the Younglings in ''Revenge of the Sith''.

* ForgotAboutHisPowers: At Black Stall Station, Obi-Wan and Mace Windu don't think of using the Force in order to retrieve the holocron and thus preventing Bane's escape.

* ShaggyDogStory: Anakin saves the Younglings...

* SpottingTheThread: Bane erases the navicomputer of his starfighter to hide that he'd traveled to Mustafar — but he doesn't think to do the same to the fuel computer, ''and'' he forgets to clean off the volcanic ash that had accumulated on his ship.

* AdultFear: Sidious has Bane kidnap Force-sensitive children for brainwashing experiments, all of them barely toddlers. Bane even exploits this to get the child from Rodia via disguising himself as a Jedi and warning the mother of kidnappers dressed as Jedi to get her to release her son to him.

* WouldHurtAChild: Bane doesn't care what happens to the babies so long as he gets paid and Sidious is planning to do some ''nasty'' things to them.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When future Jedi are at risk of being kidnapped and turned to the Dark Side, Obi-Wan doesn't have time to be polite and soft-spoken, even with the mother of one of the children who has just been taken by Bane.

* GoombaSpringboard; Anakin lets himself fall towards one of Sidious' nanny bots as the facility falls into the lava in order to jump off of it towards the door, saving himself and the baby he's carrying while shoving the droid into the lava.

As Anakin and Ahsoka's strike team returns to the ''Resolute'' empty-handed, one clone trooper notices something suspicious and points it out to Rex, who promptly calls Anakin over: drops of green blood on the floor of the shuttle, a colour that humans and Togruta ''don't'' bleed. Ahsoka, meanwhile, grows concerned about Denal, who's acting odd... for a reason: it's Cad Bane in disguise, but as Anakin leaps to stop him, the bounty hunter is able to steal a starfighter and hyperspace ring and escape. Trying to find the bounty hunter and his stolen data, several Jedi meditate through the Force to see what he's going to do next. As it turns out, Sidious has hired Bane to kidnap four children from the list to be brought to his facility on Mustafar for a vile purpose. Although the Nautolan child Mace Windu saw on Glee Anselm has already been kidnapped, Anakin and Ahsoka rush to Naboo, where he saw a Gungan child in danger, and Obi-Wan rushes to Rodia. However, the Jedi Master is just slightly too late to prevent Bane from escaping the jungle planet with another baby. But Anakin and Ahsoka's ambush of Bane on Naboo goes flawlessly as they capture the bounty hunter. However, the two kidnapped children are still unaccounted for, and it's a race against time for the Jedi to rescue them and retrieve the stolen holocron and data crystal, especially since they don't know who the mastermind is...