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2->''"In the Franchise/StarWars galaxy, every day can be an adventure."''
3-->-- '''Narrator'''
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5''Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures'' is a Creator/{{Lucasfilm}} animated web series with shorts revisiting key scenes from the films, introducing characters, and explaining the ''Franchise/StarWars'' universe to a younger audience. Unlike ''WebAnimation/StarWarsForcesOfDestiny'', this series recycles dialogue from the original films, reediting them and presenting them as animated shorts.
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7The series debuted on the Creator/{{Disney}} Website/YouTube channel in November 2018. The preview can be seen [[https://youtu.be/_wsHRyLWgWg here]]. The whole series to date can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXsbMnnbPpLUYMYgMQ703Tlr8R3OZ5vEa here.]]
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10!!Tropes in this series include:
11* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: All the characters are traditionally animated, but most of the space dogfights and flight scenes are done with cel-shaded CGI spaceships, similar to the art style for ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance Resistance]]''.
12* ActionGirl: Princess Leia's confrontation with Darth Vader from ''Film/ANewHope'' is shown intercut with scenes of her leading Alderaanian soldiers in the defense of the ''Tantine IV'' as Leia goes so far as to go hand-to-hand with an unfortunate Storm Trooper, further highlighting the BlatantLies of her claim that Vader had attacked and captured a consular ship on a diplomatic mission.
13* ActorAllusion: Yoda's duel with Count Dooku has the latter looking even more vampiric than the actual film (complete with CreepyShadowedUndereyes) as a reference to Sir Creator/ChristopherLee's long and illustrious career playing Dracula.
14* AdaptationalBadass: Luke in the "Join Me" short puts up a ''much'' better fight against Vader compared to ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' where Luke could only dish out a CurbStompCushion before ultimately being disarmed and defeated. Here, he skillfully evades most of Vader's attacks and actually manages to match him blow-for-blow despite still being outmatched.
15* AdaptedOut:
16** Luke's doomed copilot Dak Ralter doesn't appear in "Luke vs. Imperial Walkers", presumably to [[{{Bowdlerize}} avoid showing]] his corpse getting stepped on by an AT-AT.
17** The ''Ghost'' and her crew aren't in "Darth Vader vs. the Rebel Fleet". Consequently, the resulting "battle" is ''even more'' lopsided than it was in the source material, ending in a complete massacre of the Rebel forces without Vader getting so much as a scratch.
18* AmusingInjuries: Chewie, Leia, and Threepio being violently thrown around the cabin of the ''Falcon'' by [[DrivesLikeCrazy Han's piloting]] during the asteroid chase from ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.
19* {{Animesque}}: Some of the shorts, especially the staging of the lightsaber duels, are very deliberately heightened and exaggerated for effect in a way that closely resembles many anime fight scenes. Luke's [[{{Bishonen}} character design]] in particular is very anime-styled. Han, by contrast, is draw with a languid smirk that heavily resembles Anime/LupinIII or [[Anime/CowboyBebop Spike Spiegel.]]
20* BattleCouple: Briefly shown when Han Solo and Princess Leia stand shoulder-to-shoulder, firing at Stormtroopers at the Battle of Endor.
21* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: One of the shorts features Luke's encounter with the Wampa on Hoth.
22* BlatantLies: Princess Leia's insistence that the ''Tantine IV'' is a consular ship on a diplomatic mission is intercut with scenes of her leading Rebel soldiers in combat against the Imperial Storm Troopers and handing the Death Star plans off to R2-D2. Darth Vader, of course, doesn't buy it, but also doesn't realize that he's been outsmarted.
23* BodyguardingABadass: The Alderaanian soldiers are presumably there to protect the Princess. She makes it clear in her short that she is quite capable in a fight, leading from the front.
24* {{Bowdlerize}}: [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence But not by much!]] The franchise's more violent moments and constant [[AnArmAndALeg limb removal]] are usually kept [[GoryDiscretionShot offscreen]]. Vader slaughtering the Rebel soldiers in ''Film/RogueOne'' doesn't include the poor bastard who gets [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe sliced in half on the ceiling]], but is otherwise basically the same.
25** In a non-violence related example, "[[PrecisionFStrike the hell]]" has been removed from Han and Leia's famous "What the hell are you ''doing''?"/"Somebody has to save our skins!" exchange in ''A New Hope''.
26* BroadStrokes: How the series keeps itself fresh while reenacting scenes from the movies. Rather than going for shot-for-shot accuracy, the sequences use the original scenes as a guide while re-presenting them in it's own style. For example, Vader does entirely new tricks in the ''Rogue One'' rampage scene, such as boomeranging his lightsaber and telekinetically slamming rebels around until it comes back. It also seems to take place on the ''Tantive IV'' rather than the ''Profundity''.
27** "Darth Vader vs. the Rebel Fleet" does this for the second season premiere of ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]'', the primary difference being that in the retelling, Vader leaves no survivors.
28** “Rey and Friends vs. The First Order” goes even further by depicting an original scene that never occurred in canon, that being her, Poe, Finn, Chewie, and BB stealing a data tape from Starkiller Base. Portions of it loosely adapt the chase on Pasaana in Episode IX and BB-8’s encounter with BB-9E in Episode VIII.
29* TheCameo: [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars Captain]] [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rex]] appears in "Han Solo - Smuggler to General" at the Battle of Endor, finally confirming the long-running fan theory that he was the old soldier in Han Solo's strike team in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''.
30* CanonWelding:
31** Several of the shorts blend together elements of the new and old movies, with Palpatine's speech to Luke on ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' flashing back to his actions in the prequel trilogy, and Han Solo's introduction to Luke and Obi-Wan includes the Kessel Run from ''Film/{{Solo}}'' while he's telling the others about it. Visually speaking, Obi-Wan in ''A New Hope'' is drawn with a mixture of facial features from both Sir Alec Guiness ''and'' Ewan [=McGregor=], rather than just the former.
32** "Darth Vader vs the Rebel Fleet" is the first short to use voice clips from a non-movie source, taking lines from ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels''.
33** Rex appears in his rebel garb as a part of Han's team at the Battle of Endor, finally confirming that this is the case, as WordOfGod played coy as to whether or not Rex was at Endor until it was confirmed at the end of ''Rebels'' and if he participated in the main assault.
34* TheChessmaster: In a very clever twist, Palpatine's confrontation with Luke Skywalker in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' also includes flashbacks to his machinations in the prequel trilogy, an effective reminder of just how ''long'' Palpatine's been playing the game.
35* ADayInTheLimelight: In the first short that doesn't focus on one of the major characters from the movies, "Stormtroopers vs. Rebels" is, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin naturally]], shown from the perspective of Stormtroopers across the galaxy.
36* EvilChancellor: In the Emperor's short, we see a flashback of him filling this role with [[Film/ThePhantomMenace Queen Amidala]], using her as an UnwittingPawn in his plans for galactic domination, and manipulating the Jedi Order and the Galactic Senate so that he is given the reigns voluntarily.
37* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Why yes, we ''do'' get the infamous hallway massacre from ''Film/RogueOne'', complete with Rebel troopers screaming in agony as Vader carves them up like a cake!
38** "Darth Vader vs. the Rebel Fleet" is actually even ''[[DarkerAndEdgier darker]]'' than the scene it's adapting. While Vader slaughtered the Rebel starfighters with just as much impunity in the original, he was temporarily distracted long enough for the remaining Rebel fleet to limp away with their tails tucked between their legs. The short adaptation is shot in nightmarish black-and-orange lighting like the fires of Hell as Vader destroys the rebels one by one, and he flies away victorious with the Rebel flagship a smoldering ruin and apparently [[TakeNoPrisoners not a single Rebel survivor.]]
39** "Boba Fett - Bounty Hunter" shows Boba disintegrating someone on screen.
40** "Kylo Ren vs. Resistance Rebels" is, if anything, even ''more'' brutal than Vader's videos, with at least once clear scene of a Resistance trooper impaled on Ren's Lightsaber.
41* GoGoEnslavement: The scene of Princess Leia strangling Jabba in her slave outfit is depicted, which is interesting if only because the show is meant to appeal to kids above all else, and the fact the episode was otherwise highlighting her ActionGirl tendencies.
42* InfoDump: Some of the segments simply explain various aspects of the universe, as opposed to others which are dramatic shorts.
43* LateArrivalSpoiler: PlayedWith: While Palpatine being the Emperor is given away in his short, the shorts are very careful not to reveal the relationship between Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader, even in the InfoDump segment explaining Darth Vader and his history or the segment recreating Luke and Vader's duel from ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', the scene where the [[LukeIAmYourFather revelation originally took place.]]
44* MatchCut: Frequently used to shift between different periods of galactic history. "Jedi vs. Sith" does this to jaw-dropping, chillingly good effect, transitioning from [[BashBrothers Obi-Wan and Anakin]] fighting Count Dooku to [[WeUsedToBeFriends fighting each other]], and Luke Skywalker dueling his father on the Second Death Star to [[AgeCut him meeting Rey at the temple on Ahch-To.]]
45* MoodDissonance: Creator/DanteBasco's cheerful narration can be a rather jarring contrast to the [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence violence onscreen]], like the opening of "Luke vs. Imperial Walkers", where the voiceover describes a "galaxy of adventures" at the exact moment a rebel gunner is blown to smithereens by AT-[=ATs=].
46* OhCrap:
47** Luke gets a glorious one when fighting Darth Vader on Bespin. All the more noteworthy for how confident he was at the start of the fight until Darth Vader began levitating and smacking Luke around with a torrent of telekinetically-launched debris. He goes from WideEyedIdealist to just wide-eyed with terror shortly before being launched through a window.
48** During his fight with Yoda, Dooku reacts appropriately to the diminutive Jedi master ending up perched on his shoulders during their duel. Good thing for Dooku that Yoda wasn't in a beheading mood.
49* TheOner: "Stormtrooper vs. Rebels" is animated as an uninterrupted shot following the path of a stormtrooper through battle, with a MatchCut each time the field of battle changes along with the trooper, going from stormtroopers on [[Film/RogueOne Scarif]], to snowtroopers on [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Hoth]], to sandtroopers on Jedha, and so on.
50* RankScalesWithAsskicking: Princess Leia leads Alderaanian soldiers in battle against the Imperial Storm Troopers. Darth Vader, meanwhile, is a OneManArmy capable of taking down a dozen enemies as easily as walking down the hallway.
51* ScoobyDoobyDoors: When Han and Chewie are trying to repair the hyperdrive, we can see the both of them popping in and out of different access panels.
52* SoundtrackDissonance: Jabba the Hutt's episode features a raucous cover of "Lapti Nek" - while Jabba is crushing and eating small animals and dropping some poor bastard into the Rancor pit.

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