History Recap / StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E3ChildrenOfTheForce

* RevealingInjury: Bane was wounded by Denal, and thus winds up bleeding a bit of green blood onto the floor of the escape shuttle while in disguise. Given as how no one who was ''supposed'' to be on the shuttle has green blood, it's a dead giveaway.

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

** Sidious' experiment is to take place on Mustafar. Anakin dismisses it as a little-known mining world. On top of that, the secret base where the children were taken looks very much like the Separatist Council's hideout.

* 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.

* ForcedIntoEvil: Sidious plans to turn the force sensitive children into his brainwashed dark sider slaves, or at least experiment with a potential way to do so and see if they survive it before grabbing more kids to experiment on and find a way to enslave the way he wants.

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

* MuggedForDisguise: Bane killed clone trooper Denal and stole his armour in order to get onboard the escape shuttle.
* {{Newsreel}}: Like all ''The Clone Wars'' episodes "Children of the Force" opens with a bombastic bit framed like a Republic propaganda newsreel;
''[[center:[[AC:"A thief hunted! \\
In a daring assault Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan\\
Ahsoka boarded the warship of cunning bounty hunter \\
Cad Bane to recover a stolen holocron containing\\
a list of the galaxy's Force-sensitive children \\
and future Jedi Knights.\\
After a desperate chase and duel with the villain, \\
Anakin and his troops defeated Bane, \\
but were forced to evacuate his doomed vessel \\
without the holocron…"]]]]''

* 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 informs them he has nothing to lose if the experiment fails.

* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Sidious' plan to make lifelong mind washed slaves of the children he paid Bane to nab is treated as quite depraved even compared to his other actions, and the Jedi are willing to use methods and actions they normally avoid in order to try and rescue them.

* SuperhumanTrafficking: Sidious is paying Cad Bane to kidnap and deliver force sensitive children.

* IndyHatRoll: Mace Windu does one with his lightsaber at Black Stall Station.

* 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.

Cad Bane is recruited by Sidious to kidnap a few Force-sensitive children for an experiment.

* AlienBlood: Duros like Cad Bane have green blood. Because he was injured by Denal (the Clone Trooper that Bane killed), he bleeds a little onto the floor of the shuttle. One of the Clone Troopers notices it.

** Sidious' experiment is to take place on Mustafar. Anakin dismisses it as a little-known mining world.
*** On top of that, the secret base where the children were taken looks very much like the Separatist Council's hideout.

* ContinuitySnarl: When the Holocron is seen again at Black Stall Station, it's fully closed, when only a Jedi should have been able to do that.

* DeadPersonImpersonation: Bane killed the Clone Trooper Denal and stole his armour in order to get on board the escape shuttle.

* 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.

* {{Pun}}: "You've certainly stepped in it this time!" -- Obi-Wan says this to Mace after he steps off the platform they were standing on and sets off Bane's security system.

* RefugeInAudacity: Bane kidnaps the Rodian baby by disguising himself as a Jedi and informing the baby's mother that he had to take the baby because ''impostors posing as Jedi'' have been abducting babies.
* RevealingInjury: Bane was wounded by Denal and thus winds up bleeding a bit of green blood onto the floor of the escape shuttle while in disguise. Given as how no one who was ''supposed'' to be on the shuttle had green blood, it's a dead giveaway.
* SpottingTheThread: Bane erased the navicomputer of his starfighter to hide that he'd travelled to Mustafar -- but he didn't think to do the same to the fuel computer, ''and'' he forgot to clean off the volcanic ash that had accumulated on his ship.

* 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.

* AlienBlood: Duros like Cad Bane have green blood. Because he was injured by Denal (the clone trooper that Bane killed), he bleeds a little onto the floor of the shuttle. One of the clone troopers notices it.

* DeadPersonImpersonation: Bane killed the clone trooper Denal and stole his armour in order to get on board the escape shuttle.

* 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, disguising himself as a Jedi and warning the mother of kidnappers dressed as Jedi to get her to release her son to him.
* AlienBlood: Duros like Cad Bane have green blood, and because he was injured by the clone he killed, he bleeds a little onto the floor of the shuttle. One of the clone troopers notices it.

* ContinuitySnarl: When the holocron is seen again at Black Stall Station, it's fully closed, when only a Jedi should have been able to do that.

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

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

* {{Pun}}: "You've certainly stepped in it this time!" -- Obi-Wan, after Mace steps off the platform they were standing on and sets off Bane's security system.

* RevealingInjury: Bane was wounded by Denal, and thus winds up bleeding a bit of green blood onto the floor of the escape shuttle while in disguise. Given as how no one who was ''supposed'' to be on the shuttle had green blood, it's a dead giveaway.

* 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.

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The three Force-sensitive infants that are featured in this episode are very adorable.

Cad Bane is recruited by Sidious to kidnap four Force-sensitive children for an experiment.

* DeadPersonImpersonation: Bane kills the clone trooper Denal and steals his armour in order to get on board the escape shuttle.

* SpottingTheThread: Bane erased the navicomputer of his starfighter to hide that he'd travelled to Mustafar -- but he forgot to do the same to the fuel computer, ''and'' he forgot to clean off the volcanic ash that had accumulated on his ship.

* 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 have just been taken by Bane.

-->''The first step to correcting a mistake is patience.''

* 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 have just been taken by Bane.

* VoiceOfTheLegion: The Jedi sound like this when they join forces to employ a mind trick on Cad Bane.

** Sidious instructs Bane to "[[film/RevengeOfTheSith take care]]" of the children.

** Anakin reports that he and Ahsoka "[[Film/ANewHope tore the ship apart]]" when they searched for Bane, but he escaped.