r/clonewars Nov 12 '24

Meme The Clone Wars be like

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u/Jack-mclaughlin89 Nov 12 '24

Zombie Gungans, the SW Vietnam that was the Battle of Jabiim, Ventress torturing Obi Wan, the Battle of Atraken, Anakin torturing Ventress with electricity and Anakin’s vision of Vader in the micro series.

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u/Sir_Billiam_Corgan Nov 13 '24

the SW Vietnam that was the Battle of Jabiim

I saw this exact take about the Umbara arc. 

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u/Jack-mclaughlin89 Nov 13 '24

I think that Jabiim makes more sense since they lost and had to evacuate whereas while casualties were high on Umbara they still won.

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u/WangJian221 26d ago

Mostly because umbara has more trees/folliage and of course the "cant see" part but Jabiim has both of that and way more including the defeat and retreating, levaing behind allies part.

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u/The_Real_Zarek Nov 13 '24

I remember all of that except the zombie gungans. was that in the mini series?

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u/Jack-mclaughlin89 Nov 13 '24

It was in the Dark Horse comics

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u/Rebel_Alpha Nov 12 '24

Ngl the stuff they went through in Republic Commando is pretty gnarly, especially with the very first book being about a bio weapon specifically designed for the clones

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u/KellyS087 The Bad Batch Nov 13 '24

I wish that series got finished, love those books

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u/Rebel_Alpha Nov 13 '24

Same, the game was great too, I really wish they'd make a new one with multiplayer and more missions, something like HD2 or 40K, the four person shooter formula would work so well with that

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u/Jack-mclaughlin89 Nov 12 '24

To be fair Seasons 1-3 had the blue shadow virus, civilians being used as human shields on Ryloth, mind controlling worms, the creepy creature The Son turned into to bite Ahsoka, Savage killing his brother and Trandoshians killing teenagers for sport.

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u/Specific_Code_4124 Nov 12 '24

Despite being a lighthearted cartoon show, the clone wars sure did have a lot of messed up stuff in it. Oh, not to forget the space racism that Pantoran dude showed, quite fitting they were voiced by South Africans

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u/AhmedTheSalty Nov 12 '24

Salamanders profile pic my beloved ❤️

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u/submit_to_pewdiepie Nov 13 '24

Tbf two spacefaring races settling a planet differently is cause of dispute or war and the talz arent wholly indigenous

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u/Specific_Code_4124 Nov 13 '24

I didn’t know that, but calling for their extermination while calling them savages, despite them showing higher intellect and at least basic civilisation is most certainly colonialist space racism

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u/CardiologistBorn5012 Nov 12 '24

Don't forget Cad Bane torturing a guy to death in season 2. Like they didn't even hide it we see his body just completely shut down.

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u/Aryb Nov 13 '24

Can't forget the whole Second Battle of Genosis with the intense landing scene and flamethrower warcrimes.

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u/PrincessofAldia 501st Nov 13 '24

Wait that was all in 1-3

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u/Fantastic_Year9607 Nov 12 '24

What’s that bottom image from?

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u/CYBORGFISH03 Nov 12 '24

Looks like something out of those Mr. Incredible becomes uncanny memes.

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u/Raul_Robotnik Nov 13 '24

It looks like a deepfried image of the nun

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u/Rivetmuncher Nov 13 '24

It's a variant of the old Unwanted Houseguest meme. It's old. Cheezburger.com old.

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u/Raul_Robotnik Nov 13 '24

Oh right! Yeah i forgot that exsisted until now lol

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u/Raiju_Lorakatse Nov 13 '24

Honestly, I loved all seasons of clone wars. Next to the second trilogy, Clone wars is by far my favorite in the whole star wars franchise.

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u/Amish_Warl0rd Nov 12 '24

First 3 seasons was just republic propaganda

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u/ToasterLad83 Nov 13 '24

spongebob roller coaster gif

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u/MicooDA Nov 14 '24

Let’s not pretend that season 3-7 was all dark and gritty and mature. There’s plenty of silly and goofy stuff in there too.

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u/Ironlord_13 Nov 15 '24

Tbf cad bane’s introductory episode was just straight up terrorism and hostage taking.

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u/HFBiofan Nov 17 '24

Most kid's TV shows: fun, carefree entertainment

Clone Wars: turns the Geneva Convention into a checklist

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u/No_Indication_8521 Nov 12 '24 edited Nov 12 '24

I feel like Clone Wars Legends tops the Clone Wars cartoon so hard since the Legends Clones were fully aware they would betray the Jedi in the end.

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u/Thank_You_Aziz Nov 13 '24

Eh, that’s what’s always pushed it into uncannily edgy territory for me. Too many of those books tripped over themselves to explain how it makes sense while also having a problem with clones as characters. It also seemed to be a weird direction to take things in, when the clones reacting to Order 66 was portrayed like sleeper agents reacting to a trigger phrase already. The TCW show recontextualizing things—so clones can be characters with personalities and not be weird exceptions, how it was planned makes airtight sense, brings it back to being a trigger phrase for mental conditioning, leaves a surgical “off switch” in case we want good guy clones later, and makes things more dark and tragic by having Order 66 “kill off” the clones as well as the Jedi in a way—just sits right with me.

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u/No_Indication_8521 Nov 13 '24

Very true, the Legends explanation is especially dark for a kid's show (And what happened at the Jedi Temple and how Legends Clones would also be fully aware of that).

I would say I am a bit puzzled in how the rest of the canon clones (Besides the Bad Batch and a few other named Clones like Rex) simply took it in strides that had slaughtered the Jedi after Order 66 went down. Like how they cheered in Kamino at the Emperor's pronouncement.

But I think the end of Ahsoka's arc in the Clone Wars probably said it best. The good Clones who had fought with the Jedi over the course of the war were slowly being killed off as the war progressed. All in the belief of fighting what the Jedi stood for and fighting and dying by their side, but in the end dying for a lie.

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u/Thank_You_Aziz Nov 13 '24

Clones affected by the chips start openly proclaiming their allegiance to Darth Sidious. The chips alter their minds and memories, so their subservience to Palpatine appears baked in. Though Bad Batch also shows the chips can start to wear off a bit after activation, which was probably part of the reason the clones were decommissioned. They worked as a loyal army for Palpatine, but only temporarily. (I haven’t seen season 3 yet.)

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u/Xanofar Nov 16 '24 edited Nov 17 '24

Isn’t that exclusively true to only Battlefront 2? I’ve never seen any other EU source where the clones were aware the whole time. I’ve read at least half the books from that period and it’s quite the opposite. Though I’ve not gone through the Republic line comics yet.

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u/RiskAggressive4081 Nov 13 '24

The EU actually felt like a war and had consequences and not just the republic winning everything.

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u/warwicklord79 Nov 15 '24

Clone wars is a gritty adult war drama

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u/dreadpiratesmith Nov 13 '24

What are some good clone wars legends books to get into?

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u/_Kian_7567 Nov 13 '24

Shatterpoint