History Recap / StarWarsTheCloneWarsS5E11ASunnyDayInTheVoid

* DaylightHorror: The combination of a flat, featureless desert and a brightly-lit sky with no visible sun make for a ''very'' creepy environment.

* ArmlessBiped: The alien birds Gascon and Whack encounter only possess a single pair of long running legs.

* AsteroidThicket: At the start of the episode, Gascon and the droids run into a dense swarm of comets, none much larger than their shuttle and all moving in the same direction and very close to another, which damage their ship and force them to crash-land.

* HollywoodMirage: Gascon is fooled by one of a town at one point. The droids, being incapable of being fooled by mirages, think he's gone crazy.

* SanitySlippage: Gascon becomes increasingly desperate the longer the group remains in the desert; he starts out as short-tempered and snappish, descends into melodramatic pleas for mercy after the group finds another wrecked ships, descends into a fit of broken laughter after he realizes they'd been going in circles, and eventually slumps into despondent philosophizing after deciding he's doomed. He recovers after finding a way out.

* AlienSky: Due to its atmosphere refracting the sun's light, Abfar's sky has no visible sun and consists of a uniform field of orange light.

* SanitySlippage: Gascon goes through this while lost in the desert. He recovers after finding a way out.

* ItKnowsAWayOut: When Gascon and Whack, lost in the desert, run into a large flock of flightless birds, Gascon realizes that, in order to be able to survive in the desert, the animals must know how to find water and shelter -- and thus that their best change of survival is to hitch a ride on a pair and follow them to their destination.

* AsteroidThicket: The comet swarm plays this role.

* ConvenientlyClosePlanet: ''The Clone Wars'' does this a lot. In this episode, it's Abafar's turn to provide somewhere close for the heroes to conveniently crash on.
* DeathWorld: Abafar, thanks to the atmosphere refracting the sunlight in such a way as to make it impossible to actually see the sun, and the ground not being able to hold tracks. It's ''very'' easy to get impossibly lost in this desert.

* SingleBiomePlanet: Abafar seems to be nothing but the endless void.

* NotSoDifferent: The droids argue that Gascon's training isn't so different from their programming. Gascon ends up somewhat agreeing later on.

* SelfDeprecation: The alien skeleton D-Squad comes across (which wears a red flight suit and has rabbit-like incisors) has an uncanny resemblance to [[ComicBook/MarvelStarWars Jaxxon]], a character who has been widely cited as one of the most ridiculous things to come out of ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends''.

The surface of Abafar has no landmarks, the sky refracts the sunlight in such a way that the sun can't be seen, and tracks can't be left in the ground. It's a directionless void. They can't stay at the crash site, though, so R2 and the other astromechs roll off. He gets Gascon and [=WAC-47=] to follow by revealing he has the encryption module, which Gascon dropped during the crash.

Gascon gives in to despair during the trek across the seemingly endless void, and matters do not improve after the squad comes across another shipwreck that's been there for quite some time. Eventually, R2 and the other astromechs just up and take off on their own, having had enough of Gascon and [=WAC's=] behaviour.

After some time wandering aimlessly around the void, Gascon and [=WAC=] run into a herd of flightless birds, and decide to tag along in the realization that the birds will know where to go. They arrive at a water source just outside the town of Pons Ora -- to discover that R2 and the other astromechs are already there.

* DespairEventHorizon: Gascon hits it before he and [=WAC=] encounter the birds.

* NotSoDifferent: The droids end up arguing that Gascon's training isn't so different from their programming. Gascon ends up somewhat agreeing later on.

* CallBack: R2 and his fellow astromechs are sent out to repair the shuttle, just like he had to do in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''.
* ConvenientlyClosePlanet: ''The Clone Wars'' does this a lot, and in this episode it's Abafar's turn to provide somewhere close for the heroes to conveniently crash on.

* ContinuityNod: R2 and his fellow astromechs are sent out to repair the shuttle, just like he had to do in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''.

* SelfDeprecation: The alien skeleton D-Squad comes across (which wears a flight suit and has rabbit-like teeth) has an uncanny resemblance to [[ComicBook/MarvelStarWars Jaxxon]], a character who has been widely cited as one of the most ridiculous things to come out of ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends''.

-->''When all seems hopeless, a true hero gives hope.''

* {{Mirage}}: Gascon is fooled by one of a town at one point. The droids, being incapable of being fooled by mirages, think he's gone crazy.