History Recap / StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E12Nightsisters

* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: Ventress' history (traded away for the survival of her tribe, rescued and trained by a Jedi, fell to the Dark Side and found by Dooku after he was killed) is summarized while she is unconscious and her injuries are treated by the Nightsisters' magick.

* AnachronicOrder: This episode takes place after ([[SimultaneousArcs or possibly during]]) "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E15SenateMurders Senate Murders]]" (2:15).

* SuddenlyShouting: When Dooku attempts to protest Sidious order to kill Ventress.

* LaserBlade: Ventress had a green blade in her youth as a Padawan and after her master, Ky Narec, died she later used her to kill the pirate who killed him. She obtains a blue-bladed lightsaber while Karis and Naa'leth receive a green-bladed lightsaber.

* FalseFlagOperation: The Nightsisters provide their agents with Jedi lightsabers (blue for Ventress and green for her lackeys), so that Dooku will blame the assassination attempt on the Jedi if he survives.

* OffModel: The long skirt Ventress is initially wearing has vanished when the salvagers take her out of the remains of her fighter. This was deliberate as they found it too difficult to animate.

* WitchSpecies: The Nightsisters are all Force-sensitive and explicitly called "witches".

* CastingGag: Ky Narec is voiced by Creator/CoreyBurton, who also voices Count Dooku. Also doubles as a MythologyGag, since Anakin went from a [[Film/ThePhantomMenace CGI character based on Alec Guinness]] to a character played by Guinness as an old man as his master.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Dooku is repulsed by Sidious' order to eliminate Ventress, and goes through with at Sidious' insistence.

* InformedAbility: Ventress is said to be growing so powerful in her abilities that even ''Darth Sidious'' is beginning to feel threatened by her. But in almost every episode, she [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption fails at her goals]], mostly because of the ForegoneConclusion of events that have already happened in ''Revenge of the Sith'', and even in throughout the three-part story arc is shown to be vastly inferior to Dooku's own powers.

** After Dooku, with protest, seemingly succeeds in killing Ventress, Sidious chuckles and mockingly praises his apprentice's loyalty.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: After Dooku disowns Ventress as his apprentice, she becomes so enraged by the betrayal during her fight with Obi Wan and Anakin she grabs both of them in a force choke. And likely would have killed them both had Dooku not ordered the rest of the Separatist fleet to fire on them.

* {{Shoutout}}: To the original ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|1978}}'', when the tactical droid says "By Your Command" in her monotone.

--->'''Dooku''' (''Shocked'') She's my most trust-

--->'''Dooku''' ....As you wish, my lord.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: After seemingly succeeding in killing Vetress, Dooku is shown brooding in anger and possible regret before contacting Sidious to report Ventress' "death", showing that his claims of Ventress being important to him were genuine.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: The plan to kill Dooku hinges on hitting him with a dart filled with poison to dull his senses so that he won't be able to see the assassins... no explanation as to why that poison couldn't just be something that would kill him is given.
* WitchSpecies: The Nightsisters are all Force-sensitive and explicitly called "witches".
* YouHaveFailedMe: Dooku's stated reason for abandoning Ventress to die, though the truth is quite the opposite: she has become too powerful and effective to be compatible with Sidious' paranoia.

* InformedAbility: Ventress is said to be growing so powerful in her abilities that even ''Darth Sidious'' is beginning to feel threatened by her. But in almost every episode, she [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption fails at her goals]], mostly because of the ForegoneConclusion of events that have already happened in Revenge of the Sith, and even in throughout the three-part story arc is shown to be vastly inferior to Dooku's own powers.

* RealityEnsues: Ventress has been built up in previous episodes as utterly loyal to Dooku, but all of that goes out the window in this episode. She once killed an ally just for downplaying her abilities, so she's going to go berserk when someone she saw as a ParentalSubstitute tries to murder her. It doesn't help that she has no way of knowing that Sidious ordered Dooku to do it. As soon as she's recovered, she's not conflicted at all — the only thing she wants is his death.

'''Darth Sidious''': Eliminate her.\\
'''Dooku''' (''Shocked'') She's my most trusted-!\\
'''Darth Sidious''': I SAID. Eliminate her!\\
'''Dooku''' ....As you wish, my lord.

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: The plan to kill Dooku hinges on on hitting him with a dart filled with poison to dull his senses so that he won't be able to see the assassins... no explanation as to why that poison couldn't just be something that would kill him is given.

* TheWorfEffect: Dooku is poisoned, blinded, and outmatched 3 to 1... and he still handily defeats Ventress and her fellow Nightsisters in the end.

* ProperlyParanoid: Sidious' suspects that Dooku is training Ventress as his own apprentice with [[TheStarscream the aim of eventually overthrowing him.]] He's completely correct.

* ProperlyParanoid: Sidious' suspicion that Dooku is training Ventress as his own apprentice with the aim of eventually overthrowing him is completely correct.

%%* AmazonBrigade: The Nightsisters.

* KickTheDog: Count Dooku doesn't even tell Ventress the real reason for his betrayal, coldly telling her that she's failed him.

* ParentalSubstitute: Jedi Master Ky Narec was this for Ventress. It appears she considered Dooku as such, too.

* TheWorfEffect: Dooku gets poisoned, blinded and is outmatched 3 to 1... and he still handily defeats Ventress and her sistren in the end.

* ProperlyParanoid: Sidious’ suspicion that Dooku is training Ventress as his own apprentice with the aim of eventually overthrowing him is completely correct.
* RealityEnsues: Ventress had been built up in previous episodes as utterly loyal to Dooku, but all of that goes out the window in this episode. She once killed an ally just for downplaying her abilities, so she's going to go berserk when someone she saw as a ParentalSubstitute tries to murder her. It doesn't help that she has no way of knowing that Sidious ordered Dooku to do it. As soon as she's recovered, she's not conflicted at all — the only thing she wants is his death.

* ShameIfSomethingHappened: Darth Sidious senses the growing powers of Dooku's assassin, Asajj Ventress' growing powers. He almost says the trope, hinting that he will kill Dooku if he's breaking the Rule of Two.

* WitchSpecies: The Nightsisters are all Force-sensitive, and are explicitly called "witches".

* CanonImmigrant: Apart from the AdaptationSpeciesChange, Ventress' backstory of having grown up on Rattatak and trained by Jedi Master Ky Narec comes straight from the Legends comics that introduced her.

* HotWitch: None of the Nightsisters are ugly, not even Mother Talzin.

* TheWorfEffect: Dooku gets poisoned, blinded and is outmatched 3 to 1....and he still handily defeats Ventress and her sistren in the end.