148 Fun Facts About Star Wars: the Clone Wars

The series is set between which two Star Wars episodes?

It sits between Episodes II and III: the three-year Clone Wars begin at the end of Attack of the Clones and end during Revenge of the Sith, which the final Siege of Mandalore arc runs alongside.

Nearly every episode of The Clone Wars opens with a narrator's recap and what on-screen text?

A short moral stands where the films put their opening crawl: the premiere's read 'Great leaders inspire greatness in others', and only the closing Siege of Mandalore episodes drop the custom.

Which channel first aired The Clone Wars when it premiered on October 3, 2008?

Cartoon Network was unsure about the series at first; its opening episodes reached cinemas as a film in August 2008, and the weekly show followed that October and stayed until March 2013.

On which streaming service was the seventh and final season of The Clone Wars released in 2020?

Disney+ carried the revival, announced at a 2018 Comic-Con panel where Dave Filoni screened a trailer under the hashtag #CloneWarsSaved, five years after the show's cancellation.

The Clone Wars' sixth season, The Lost Missions, was released in 2014 on which service?

Netflix released all thirteen Lost Missions episodes at once on March 7, 2014, a year after the show's cancellation.

In The Clone Wars season two, which giant creature woken by a bomb test on Malastare later rampages across Coruscant?

The Zillo Beast is shipped to Coruscant so Palpatine can study its lightsaber-proof armour; it breaks loose, is killed with poison gas, and he quietly orders it cloned.

Dave Filoni was directing episodes of which animated show when Lucasfilm recruited him for The Clone Wars?

Avatar: The Last Airbender's first season was Dave Filoni's job when Lucasfilm rang in 2005; he took the call for a prank and almost hung up before being hired as supervising director.

Which animator directed the 2003 Clone Wars micro-series?

Genndy Tartakovsky, creator of Samurai Jack, directed the hand-drawn micro-series, and its success led Lucasfilm to launch the computer-animated The Clone Wars in 2008.

Which Revenge of the Sith villain made his first appearance in the 2003 micro-series?

General Grievous debuted at the close of Chapter 20 in 2004, ambushing a stranded Jedi team on Hypori more than a year before Revenge of the Sith reached cinemas in May 2005.

Which award did both volumes of the 2003 Clone Wars micro-series win?

Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program went to both volumes, in 2004 and 2005; each was entered whole and won the category for programmes of an hour or more.

The 2008 theatrical release Star Wars: The Clone Wars was the first what in the franchise?

Fully animated: the 2008 film, stitched together from early episodes of the series, was the franchise's first theatrical feature made entirely with computer animation rather than live action.

In the 2008 Clone Wars film, Anakin and Ahsoka must return whose kidnapped infant son?

Jabba the Hutt's infant son is abducted, and the Republic agrees to rescue him to win passage through Hutt space; the film ends with the child returned to Tatooine.

Which two Star Wars prequel actors reprised their roles in the 2008 Clone Wars film?

Samuel L. Jackson and Christopher Lee reprised their prequel roles in the film, as did Anthony Daniels as C-3PO; other voice actors took over both of their characters once the weekly series began.

Where does Anakin first meet Ahsoka in the 2008 Clone Wars film?

Christophsis is the crystalline world where Anakin and Obi-Wan are besieged early in the film; the Padawan Yoda has assigned arrives there by shuttle in the middle of the battle.

Roughly how much did the 2008 theatrical film gross worldwide?

The film grossed $68M worldwide against a budget of about $8 million, a fraction of the hundreds of millions each live-action Star Wars film had earned.

What nickname does Anakin give Ahsoka?

Snips is Anakin's jab at her snippy attitude in the 2008 film; she answers by calling him Skyguy, and the pair keep the nicknames through the series.

In season seven of The Clone Wars, Ahsoka falls in with which pair of sisters in Coruscant's underworld?

Trace and Rafa Martez take Ahsoka in after she crashes her speeder on Coruscant's lower levels; a spice run lands all three in a Pyke prison, where the sisters blame the Jedi for their parents' deaths.

What species is Ahsoka?

Ahsoka is a Togruta, a species whose head-tails and horn-like montrals grow until adulthood, which is why hers are visibly longer when she returns as an adult in Rebels.

Who voices Ahsoka in The Clone Wars?

Ashley Eckstein voiced Ahsoka from the 2008 film to the 2020 finale, and in 2010 founded Her Universe, a fashion label making Star Wars and science-fiction clothing for girls and women.

Ahsoka walks away from the Order at the end of season five after being framed for what?

A bombing at the Jedi Temple hangar opens season five's four-part finale arc; Ahsoka is charged before a military tribunal, exonerated when the true bomber confesses, then declines to rejoin the Order.

Which clone leads the 501st Legion and becomes The Clone Wars' main clone protagonist?

Rex, designation CT-7567, is the 501st Legion's captain under Anakin; on Umbara he leads his men in arresting their own Jedi general, and he outlives the war to fight again in Rebels.

Which actor voices nearly every clone trooper in The Clone Wars?

Dee Bradley Baker voices the clone troopers from the 2008 film onward, though another actor plays some of the child cadets; he went on to voice all five troopers of The Bad Batch's squad.

Which clone commander leads the 212th Attack Battalion under Obi-Wan?

Cody, CC-2224, commands the 212th Attack Battalion beside Obi-Wan; in Revenge of the Sith he is the first clone shown receiving Order 66 and orders the shot at Obi-Wan on Utapau.

Fives and Echo first appear as rookies at a listening outpost on which moon?

Rishi, a moon hosting a Republic listening post, is where commando droids wipe out the rookies' squad in season one's Rookies; Fives and Echo survive and are transferred to the 501st.

What was the name of Fives and Echo's cadet unit on Kamino?

Domino Squad was the five-man cadet unit of Fives, Echo, Hevy, Cutup and Droidbait, shown failing and then passing its final test in the season three episode Clone Cadets.

Which Coruscant Guard commander shoots Fives dead in season six of The Clone Wars?

Fox, commander of the Coruscant Guard, opens fire when the hunted Fives raises a pistol in a warehouse standoff; Fives dies while trying to tell Anakin and his captain what he has uncovered.

Where does the clone trooper Fives get his nickname?

His clone designation number, CT-27-5555, gave Fives his nickname; even as a cadet he bristles when squadmates use the digits instead of the name.

Which Jedi general's reckless disregard for clone lives triggers a mutiny during the Umbara campaign?

Pong Krell, a four-armed Besalisk Jedi, takes command of the 501st on Umbara and sends clones to fight one another; he is exposed as a would-be Sith apprentice and executed by Dogma.

Which clone commander of the 104th Battalion sports a cybernetic eye?

Wolffe, CC-3636, commands the 104th Battalion's Wolfpack and wears a cybernetic right eye; he turns up again in Rebels, living out his retirement in a converted walker on Seelos with two other old clones.

Clone Force 99, the Bad Batch, takes its number from what?

A defective trooper who died defending Kamino — the maintenance clone 99, killed in season three's ARC Troopers — gives Clone Force 99 its number; the squad itself debuted in season seven.

In The Clone Wars' final season, the Bad Batch find the long-lost Echo alive in what state?

A cyborg wired to computers is how the Bad Batch find Echo on Skako Minor in season seven: presumed dead since season three, he had been kept alive by the Techno Union to feed Republic tactics to the Separatists.

Darth Maul is found in season four on which junkyard planet, having built himself spider-like legs?

Lotho Minor, a refuse world, is where Savage Opress tracks down the half-mad Maul at the end of season four; Maul had survived his defeat on Naboo for a dozen years on hatred and scavenged droid legs.

Who is Savage Opress to Maul?

His brother: Savage Opress and Maul are blood siblings born among the Nightbrothers, and it is Savage who carries the broken Maul home to Mother Talzin, who restores his mind and legs.

Maul seizes control of Mandalore by beheading Pre Vizsla of Death Watch with what?

His opponent's own darksaber does the deed: in Shades of Reason Maul disarms Vizsla, catches the black blade and beheads him, claiming both the weapon and leadership of Death Watch.

Which crime syndicate joins the Pykes and the Hutts in the Shadow Collective Maul builds in season five?

Black Sun is the first syndicate Maul and Savage Opress bully into line; with the Pykes and the Hutts added, the Shadow Collective gives him the muscle and money to seize Mandalore.

Whom does Maul execute in front of Obi-Wan on Mandalore?

Duchess Satine Kryze dies in Obi-Wan's arms in season five's The Lawless, killed by Maul purely to make him suffer; her sister Bo-Katan then helps him escape.

Who kills Savage Opress?

Darth Sidious comes to Mandalore in person in The Lawless, runs Savage through in a two-on-one duel, and leaves him to die before defeating and sparing Maul.

In the Siege of Mandalore, what does Maul tell Ahsoka about Anakin?

Sidious wants him as an apprentice, Maul tells Ahsoka in The Phantom Apprentice, saying Anakin has long been groomed for the role; she calls him a liar, duels him and takes him prisoner.

Who voices Maul in The Clone Wars and in Star Wars Rebels?

Sam Witwer has voiced Maul since the character's season four return, continuing in Rebels and supplying the voice over Ray Park's performance in Solo: A Star Wars Story.

What does Ahsoka do to the clone commander at her side after Order 66 is issued?

Removes his inhibitor chip: Ahsoka stuns him, and three astromech droids help her find and cut out the implant that made him fire on her; she had freed Maul as a distraction.

What does Darth Vader find on the crashed Star Destroyer's moon in the final scene of the series?

Ahsoka's discarded lightsaber lies in the snow beside the wreck; Vader ignites it briefly, then carries it away, having seen the helmet-marked graves the two survivors left for the clones.

Which unit is Anakin's clone captain promoted to command for the Siege of Mandalore?

The 332nd was split off from the 501st to follow Ahsoka to Mandalore, its troopers repainting their helmets orange with her facial markings in her honour.

Asajj Ventress hails from which planet's Nightsister clan?

Dathomir, the Nightsisters' home world, is where Ventress was born; given away as an infant and later trained as a Padawan on Rattatak, she returns to her clan in season three.

Why does Dooku try to kill Ventress in season three?

Sidious orders it, seeing her as a liability: in the episode Nightsisters he fears Ventress is growing too strong and commands Dooku to eliminate her; she survives to plot revenge with Mother Talzin.

Cad Bane, the blue-skinned bounty hunter in a wide-brimmed hat, belongs to which species?

Duros like Cad Bane are blue-skinned and red-eyed; he exists because George Lucas turned down a plan to reuse the hunter Durge from the 2003 series and asked for a new Western-style gunslinger.

Cad Bane debuts by holding senators hostage to force the release of whom?

Ziro the Hutt, jailed on Coruscant since the 2008 film, walks free when Bane's gang seizes the Senate building and Chancellor Palpatine, after first refusing, gives him up in exchange for the hostages.

Which voice actor plays both Count Dooku and Cad Bane in The Clone Wars?

Corey Burton voices both villains, and kept the part when Cad Bane reached live action in The Book of Boba Fett, speaking for the gunslinger while stuntman Dorian Kingi wore the hat.

Which Doctor Who star voices Huyang, the ancient droid who helps younglings build lightsabers?

David Tennant, the Tenth Doctor, voices Huyang in the season five Young Jedi arc, winning a 2013 Daytime Emmy for it, and reprised the droid in the 2023 live-action Ahsoka series.

Which original-trilogy actor voices the ancient Sith Lord Darth Bane in season six?

Mark Hamill voiced Darth Bane, founder of the Sith Rule of Two, when Yoda meets the Sith Lord's spirit on Moraband in the season six finale Sacrifice.

Which original Star Trek cast member voices the Separatist general Lok Durd in season one of The Clone Wars?

George Takei, Star Trek's Sulu, voices the Neimoidian general Lok Durd in Defenders of Peace, where Durd arrives to test a devastating new weapon on a village of pacifists.

Who voices Bo-Katan Kryze, first in animation and later in live action?

Katee Sackhoff voiced Bo-Katan from her season four debut through the Siege of Mandalore, then played her on screen in The Mandalorian's second season in 2020.

Which director of The Mandalorian voices Death Watch leader Pre Vizsla?

Jon Favreau, creator of The Mandalorian, voiced Pre Vizsla in seasons two, four and five, years before he brought Dave Filoni aboard his live-action series.

Who composed the score for every episode of The Clone Wars?

Kevin Kiner scored every episode from the 2008 film through the 2020 finale, blending John Williams's themes with electronic and world-music textures; he later scored Rebels and The Bad Batch.

Who is the chief librarian of the Jedi Archives in The Clone Wars?

Jocasta Nu, played by Alethea McGrath in Attack of the Clones, guards the Jedi Archives; in the season two premiere a shape-shifting thief knocks her out and takes her form to help raid the holocron vault.

What was Ahsoka called in The Clone Wars' development before George Lucas renamed her?

Ashla was her name until George Lucas changed it to Ashoka, after the Indian emperor, and writer Henry Gilroy respelled it; the old name returned as the alias she hides under in the 2016 novel Ahsoka.

Which premiere episode of The Clone Wars pits Yoda against a droid army?

Ambush sends Yoda to the neutral moon Rugosa to win the Toydarian king's alliance, staked on a challenge: he must get past Ventress's best troops to prove the Jedi can protect Toydaria; it aired on October 3, 2008.

What was the title of the season one finale, first broadcast March 20, 2009?

It introduced Cad Bane, whom the episode's director compared to Boba Fett.

Which season five finale of The Clone Wars ends with Ahsoka walking away from the Order?

The Wrong Jedi, aired on March 2, 2013, was the last new episode before the show's cancellation; cleared at her trial, Ahsoka is invited back by the Council and refuses.

Season four of The Clone Wars opens with an underwater civil war on which planet?

Mon Cala's Quarren, backed by the Separatists, reject the young prince Lee-Char after his father's murder; the Republic's defence is overwhelmed, and a Gungan army is called in from Naboo to help.

The Clone Wars finale was released early in 2020 to mark which occasion?

May the Fourth, Star Wars Day, fell on a Monday in 2020, so the finale, Victory and Death, was moved up from the following Friday; the season had begun on February 21, nearly six years after the last new episode.

Dave Filoni voices which hat-wearing bounty hunter in The Clone Wars?

Embo, whose wide metal hat doubles as a shield, is voiced by Dave Filoni himself; he debuts in season two's Bounty Hunters, a tribute to Akira Kurosawa in which hired guns defend farmers from pirates.

Which Jedi Master in The Clone Wars is supervising director Dave Filoni's personal favourite?

Plo Koon is the Jedi Dave Filoni dressed as for the opening of Revenge of the Sith, a costume he kept on display in his office; the series made him the Master who found Ahsoka as a child.

When Anakin is knighted in the 2003 Clone Wars micro-series, what does he send to Padmé as a keepsake?

His Padawan braid, cut off by Yoda at the knighting, is delivered by C-3PO to Padmé, who tucks it away with the japor snippet he gave her as a boy; in return she gives him R2-D2.

Which unmade four-episode Clone Wars arc became a 2014 Dark Horse comic instead?

Maul's escape from a Separatist prison opens the four-issue comic adapted from the unproduced scripts: Mandalorian loyalists break him out, and he rebuilds his army for a war on Count Dooku's forces.

At the end of the 2016 novel Ahsoka, which codename does she take to run Bail Organa's rebel informants?

Fulcrum is the name Ahsoka picks when she joins Bail Organa, reasoning that someone must help the balance of power shift; E. K. Johnston's novel finds her hiding as a mechanic a year after Order 66.

What is the name of Anakin's Venator-class flagship in The Clone Wars?

Resolute is Anakin's Star Destroyer, while Obi-Wan commands the Negotiator; in season one it joins the cruisers pounding the crippled Malevolence before the sabotaged Separatist warship crashes into a moon.

In which Asian city did Lucasfilm open an animation studio in 2005 that worked on The Clone Wars?

Singapore became home to a Lucasfilm animation studio in October 2005, set up to tap the region's talent; its artists shared The Clone Wars with Taipei's CGCG, and the studio's closure was announced in 2023.

The Clone Wars characters were said to resemble painted wooden puppets, evoking which 1960s marionette series?

Thunderbirds, Gerry Anderson's 1965 Supermarionation series, was the look George Lucas asked for: stylised, painterly figures with a puppet-like feel rather than photorealism, in the tradition of Ralph McQuarrie's concept art.

What scornful nickname do the clone troopers of The Clone Wars give Separatist battle droids?

Clankers, named for the clanking of the droids' metal joints, came from the 2005 game Republic Commando; in 2025 the word broke out of fandom as an internet insult for AI and robots.

Who voices Anakin Skywalker in The Clone Wars?

Matt Lanter voiced Anakin from the 2008 film to the 2020 finale, then turned up in person in The Mandalorian as a New Republic soldier named Lant Davan; the 2003 micro-series had used Mat Lucas.

Which Jedi Master oversees clone training on Kamino in The Clone Wars?

Shaak Ti is the Jedi Council member posted to Kamino, supervising cadet training in Clone Cadets and defending the cloning facility during the season three Separatist assault.

Who voices Obi-Wan Kenobi in The Clone Wars?

James Arnold Taylor first voiced Obi-Wan in the 2003 micro-series and stayed through the 2020 finale; when Obi-Wan fakes his death and goes undercover as Rako Hardeen, Taylor voices the disguise too.

Besides narrating The Clone Wars and voicing Yoda, Tom Kane plays which Republic admiral?

Wullf Yularen is the admiral attached to Anakin's fleet from the 2008 film onward; the same character appears some twenty years later as an Imperial colonel at the Death Star conference table in A New Hope.

Who voiced Palpatine in The Clone Wars until his death in 2012?

Ian Abercrombie had recorded most of season five before he died in January 2012, so his Palpatine was still being heard a year later; the 2013 episode The Lawless opens with a dedication to him.

Which Rocky Horror star voiced Palpatine in The Clone Wars from 2012 to 2014?

Tim Curry took over Palpatine in season five after the original voice actor's death in 2012, finishing his unrecorded lines, and carried the role through The Lost Missions in 2014.

Who voices Padmé in The Clone Wars?

Catherine Taber voices Padmé in the 2008 film and all seven seasons, and has also played Padmé's daughter: she was Princess Leia in the game The Force Unleashed, after Mission Vao in Knights of the Old Republic.

Who voices the pirate Hondo Ohnaka in The Clone Wars?

Jim Cummings has voiced Hondo since the pirate's debut in season one's Dooku Captured, where his gang seizes the Separatist leader and holds him for ransom; he returned to the part in Star Wars Rebels.

Who voices Asajj Ventress in The Clone Wars?

Nika Futterman has voiced Ventress since the 2008 film, and came back to the role in The Bad Batch even though the character had died in the 2015 novel Dark Disciple.

Who voiced Asajj Ventress in the 2003 Clone Wars micro-series, before the role was recast?

Grey DeLisle voiced Ventress throughout the 2003 micro-series and doubled as Padmé there; both parts went to other actresses when the 2008 series began.

Which Separatist senator, an old friend of Padmé, hosts her on Raxus in The Clone Wars?

Mina Bonteri, Padmé's former mentor and a Separatist senator on Raxus, brokers a peace motion in season three's Heroes on Both Sides; her son Lux later joins Ahsoka's adventures.

In The Clone Wars, which stranded Jedi trained the young Ventress in the Force on Rattatak?

Ky Narec, a Jedi stranded on Rattatak, rescued the enslaved girl and trained her as his Padawan; his violent death before her training was complete set her on the path to the dark side.

Saw Gerrera and his sister fight to free which planet in season five?

Onderon's Separatist-backed king is overthrown in a four-episode season five arc where Anakin, Obi-Wan and Ahsoka secretly train Saw and Steela Gerrera's rebels; Saw reappears decades later in Rogue One.

Saw Gerrera debuted in The Clone Wars before which actor played him in Rogue One?

Forest Whitaker played the older Saw in Rogue One, by then estranged from the Rebel Alliance over his extreme methods; Andrew Kishino voiced the young fighter in The Clone Wars and again in The Bad Batch.

In season two of The Clone Wars, Boba Fett sneaks aboard a cruiser disguised as a cadet to kill which Jedi?

Mace Windu, who beheaded Jango on Geonosis, is the target when Boba, posing as cadet Lucky, plants a bomb aboard the Endurance in season two's Death Trap; the ship crashes on Vanqor.

Which mercenary mentors the young Boba Fett and executes a clone hostage in season two of The Clone Wars?

Aurra Sing, the pale sniper glimpsed at The Phantom Menace's podrace, leads Boba's gang and shoots the captured Commander Ponds; when the Jedi close in she flees in Slave I, abandoning the boy to arrest.

Who voices the young Boba Fett in The Clone Wars, reprising his Attack of the Clones role?

Daniel Logan was a child when he played Boba in Attack of the Clones; in his twenties he came back to voice the same boy, still a child on screen, in season two's revenge arc.

Which original-trilogy hero does Ahsoka free from Trandoshan hunters in The Clone Wars' season three finale?

Chewbacca is among the captives Ahsoka meets on the Trandoshan preserve in Wookiee Hunt; he builds a transmitter from scavenged parts, and Tarfful arrives with Wookiee warriors to finish the fight.

Who voices the young Tarkin in The Clone Wars?

Stephen Stanton, a voice double for Peter Cushing and Alec Guinness, plays the young Tarkin from season three onward; the same gift later let him voice both Tarkin and the aged Ben Kenobi in Rebels.

Tarkin and Jedi Master Even Piell are held in which Separatist prison in season three?

The Citadel, on the planet Lola Sayu, is the fortress where Osi Sobeck holds Tarkin and Even Piell in the three-episode season three arc; Piell dies during the escape and Echo is presumed killed.

Who framed Ahsoka for the attack that led her to leave the Jedi Order in The Clone Wars?

Barriss Offee, Luminara Unduli's Padawan and Ahsoka's friend since the Geonosis arc, confesses in the tribunal chamber after Anakin defeats her; she had come to see the Jedi as warmongers.

In The Clone Wars' season three, on which mysterious Force realm do the Father, the Son and the Daughter live?

Mortis strands Anakin, Obi-Wan and Ahsoka among three beings who embody the Force; when the Son kills Ahsoka, the dying Daughter gives up the last of her life to bring her back.

What colour is Ahsoka's lightsaber blade in the 2008 Clone Wars film?

Green is the colour of Ahsoka's original single blade; she adds a shorter yellow-green shoto in season three, and in season seven Anakin returns her sabers modified to glow blue.

Which Separatist leader do Padmé and Jar Jar capture on Rodia in season one of The Clone Wars?

Nute Gunray, Viceroy of the Trade Federation, is seized on Rodia in Bombad Jedi after Jar Jar is mistaken for a Jedi; Ventress then frees him from a Republic cruiser on the way to trial.

Which member of Clone Force 99 leads the squad?

Hunter's enhanced senses make him the squad's master tracker; George Lucas devised Clone Force 99 because he wanted clones with distinct special skills.

Which studio released the 2008 Clone Wars theatrical film?

Warner Bros. had tracked the series from the start and got a film when George Lucas, watching early episodes on a big screen, decided to launch it in cinemas; it opened third, behind Tropic Thunder and The Dark Knight.

In season six, Yoda travels to Dagobah after hearing the voice of which dead Jedi?

Qui-Gon Jinn, who had learned from the Force Priestesses how to persist after death, calls Yoda to Dagobah in Voices; the arc ends with Yoda beginning that same training.

What is the name of the infant Ahsoka nicknames Stinky in the 2008 Clone Wars film?

Rotta, the sickly infant Ahsoka dubs Stinky, rides through the film in a clone backpack; grown up, he returns as an arena gladiator in 2026's The Mandalorian and Grogu, voiced by Jeremy Allen White.

Ahsoka's look was inspired by San, the heroine of which Studio Ghibli film?

Princess Mononoke, Hayao Miyazaki's 1997 film, shaped Ahsoka's final look through its wolf-riding heroine San; Dave Filoni's team had tried other costumes and facial markings for her over three years.

In The Clone Wars, which prequel-trilogy character disguises himself as a Jedi to rescue Padmé on the planet Rodia?

Jar Jar Binks sensed that his fellow senator was in trouble and fought his way in to free her from Onaconda Farr, an old friend who had agreed to hand her to the Separatists.

Which droid is lost in a fierce space battle in The Clone Wars with Jedi military secrets locked in his memory?

R2-D2 turned up as a prisoner at a secret enemy listening post called Skytop Station, and his replacement, R3-S6, joined the rescue mission.

Which Jedi fakes his own death and goes undercover in a Republic prison as Rako Hardeen in The Clone Wars?

Obi-Wan Kenobi kept the ruse so secret that a grieving Anakin, believing his former master dead, set out for vengeance.

Which Sith Lord do Hondo Ohnaka's pirates capture and hold for ransom on Florrum in The Clone Wars?

Count Dooku was already in the pirates' hands when Anakin and Obi-Wan arrived to kidnap him themselves, and the two Jedi soon ended up held for ransom beside him.

Which senator do the Jedi recruit to spy on her old flame Rush Clovis in The Clone Wars?

Padmé Amidala took the job because Clovis was suspected of working for the Separatists, and the information stolen from him led the Republic to a droid factory on Geonosis.

Which former Sith assassin turns bounty hunter and strikes a deal with the fugitive Ahsoka in The Clone Wars?

Asajj Ventress had survived Dooku's attempt to kill her and was hunting bounties in the capital's underworld when she agreed to help find the real culprit.

Which species sends its Grand Army to aid Republic forces in an underwater battle in The Clone Wars?

Gungans arrived after the Separatists had beaten most of the Republic's forces on the planet, but the army and the Jedi were soon taken prisoner too.

In The Clone Wars, survivors of a deadly obstacle course called The Box earn a part in kidnapping which Republic leader?

Palpatine was the prize: Dooku invited some of the galaxy's best bounty hunters, and only five survived the course to join the kidnap plot on Naboo.

Which senator from Alderaan helps Padmé unmask the poisoner of Senator Onaconda Farr in The Clone Wars?

Bail Organa and Padmé traced the poison to a fellow senator; all three had stood together against a bill to buy more clone troopers.

Which Jedi Master enters a Separatist general's trap-laden lair with former Padawan Nahdar Vebb in The Clone Wars?

Kit Fisto had walked into a setup: Dooku lured the Jedi there to punish the general for his recent failures.

In The Clone Wars, which Jedi is captured while hunting Poggle the Lesser and found among Geonosian zombies?

Luminara Unduli had to be tracked into a colony of the undead; soon after, mind-controlling Geonosian worms infected clone troopers on a supply run.

Which Nightsister leader gives Dooku a new apprentice who is secretly under her clan's control in The Clone Wars?

Mother Talzin offered him only after an attack on Dooku by Ventress and her kinswomen had failed, and the witches kept their hold on the new apprentice.

Which Separatist officer does Anakin execute on Anaxes after extracting a bomb's deactivation code in The Clone Wars?

Admiral Trench had threatened the main Republic shipyard, and his run of victories puzzled the Jedi until a squad of clone commandos went behind enemy lines.

In The Clone Wars, whose crashed ship and lightsaber reopen the mystery of the Jedi Master who ordered the clone army?

Sifo-Dyas had been shot down by the Pyke Syndicate for a man they knew as Tyranus, and the trail finally showed the Jedi that Tyranus was Count Dooku.

The novel Dark Disciple, based on unfinished Clone Wars episodes, sends which undercover Jedi Master to kill Dooku?

Quinlan Vos forms an alliance and then a romance with a former Sith assassin, who dies saving him from Dooku.

Which freedom fighter, father of the rebel pilot Hera, helps the Jedi liberate Ryloth's capital in The Clone Wars?

Cham Syndulla distrusted the Republic and hesitated to help, but came to trust the Jedi and joined the final battle for the city.

Which Techno Union foreman leads the droid army occupying Ryloth in The Clone Wars?

Wat Tambor's occupation sat behind a blockade of Trade Federation battleships, which the Republic had to destroy before its ground campaign could begin.

On Mortis in The Clone Wars, which Force-wielder gives up a last spark of life to restore the stricken Ahsoka?

The Daughter had sacrificed herself to save the Father from the Son, and spent the life she had left on the Padawan he had corrupted.

Which senator from Pantora joins the Jedi on the ice world Orto Plutonia, home of the Talz, in The Clone Wars?

Riyo Chuchi watched her own chairman wreck a peace the Jedi had negotiated, by insisting the planet and the Talz were under his power.

Which original-trilogy bounty hunter is voiced by Simon Pegg in Star Wars: The Clone Wars?

Dengar is reintroduced in the series as a ruthless mercenary, working in a team with other hired guns rather than hunting alone.

Every clone trooper in Star Wars is grown from the DNA of which bounty hunter, hired as the army's template?

Jango Fett's copies were grown in secret on Kamino and trained for war from birth, running combat simulations from a young age.

Which actor voiced the armored clone troopers of the Star Wars prequels after playing their genetic template?

Temuera Morrison also appeared as the bare-headed Commander Cody, wearing a blue bodysuit so that only his head would end up in the shot.

After the Clone Wars, the Empire phases out its clone troopers in favor of which natural-born human recruits?

Stormtroopers were less effective but more numerous, and the aging clones were not purged, just cast aside over time.

In Leigh Brackett's first draft of The Empire Strikes Back, which character was a clone from a planet of clones?

Lando Calrissian was written as a survivor of a people nearly wiped out by the war, an idea dropped from the final film.

In The Force Awakens, which villain taunts General Hux that Supreme Leader Snoke should consider a clone army?

Kylo Ren makes the jab while chiding Hux over the betrayal of the rogue trooper FN-2187.

In Revenge of the Sith, the 501st Legion storms the Jedi Temple behind which newly named Sith Lord?

Darth Vader had been the legion's own Jedi general; its troopers burned the Temple and killed the vast majority of the Jedi inside.

The cloners of Kamino alter every Star Wars clone trooper's genes so that he does what at twice the normal rate?

Ages: a trooper grows up in half the time so he can be deployed sooner, which leaves the veterans seen in Star Wars Rebels looking like much older men.

Which Star Wars video game introduced Delta Squad, four elite clone troopers led by a sergeant called Boss?

Republic Commando won a cult following, and its squad later made a brief appearance in The Clone Wars television series.

Which elite Star Wars clone unit, led by Commander Fox, serves as peacekeepers around the Chancellor and the Senate?

Coruscant Guard troopers once had to stand down inside the Senate itself, when a bounty hunter rigged the chamber and his captives with explosives.

The blue handprint on Echo's chest plate in The Clone Wars was left by Rex's hand covered in what?

Eel blood left the mark during Echo's very first mission, and the handprint stayed on his armor from then on.

Which clone commando is found with amnesia, working as a dishwasher in a diner on Abafar, in The Clone Wars?

Gregor had lost his memory in a shuttle crash, and his employer hid his true identity to stop him from leaving.

Which 501st clone trooper shoots a treacherous Jedi general on Umbara when his captain hesitates in The Clone Wars?

Dogma had defended the general's every order and called his brothers traitors for doubting them, so the betrayal left him devastated.

Which 501st clone trooper has the Republic's symbol tattooed across most of his shaved head in The Clone Wars?

Jesse rose to lieutenant by the Siege of Mandalore, where he was captured and interrogated by Maul.

Which clone trooper dies destroying a Separatist supply ship during a rogue mission over Umbara in The Clone Wars?

Hardcase flew captured enemy starfighters into the fight with two comrades, and his sacrifice won a victory that their general punished as treason.

In Star Wars Rebels, Rex and two fellow clone veterans are found living on which wasteland planet?

Seelos is where the three hunt worm-like joopa, until a rebel crew arrives to ask for their help.

The hash marks on one Clone Wars commando's helmet copy the stitch-covered mask of which NHL goaltender?

Gerry Cheevers had a stitch mark drawn on his mask wherever a puck struck it, starting a tradition of decorated goalie masks.

What is the kilt-like garment worn by Star Wars clone officers and elite troopers such as Echo and Fives called?

Kama is the kilt's name; Echo's was painted in a lopsided white and blue design, while Fives's carried blue stripes.

Which 501st Legion medic is frozen in stasis and woken fifty years later, in the era of the First Order, by pirates?

Kix had helped a fugitive brother and uncovered a conspiracy himself, so Dooku had him seized; the ship carrying him crashed after a blind hyperspace jump.

In a flashback in the Star Wars series Andor, clone troopers put down protesters on which planet?

Ferrix's protesters were demanding that the Imperials leave and the former Republic return.

In the 2008 film The Clone Wars, Anakin is intercepted and duels Dooku on which desert planet?

Tatooine is where their ship crash-lands far from the palace, so the Padawan carries the child the rest of the way while her master fights.

Which fast-food chain ran its first-ever kids' meal promotion for a Star Wars film with 2008's The Clone Wars?

McDonald's packed 18 exclusive toys into specially designed Happy Meal boxes; older partners such as Burger King had no time to sign on after the film's sudden announcement.

Which actor voices C-3PO in the 2008 film The Clone Wars, reprising his role from the live-action Star Wars films?

Anthony Daniels was among the few film actors to return; Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman were considered for their old roles, but both parts were recast.

Which critic gave 2008's The Clone Wars one and a half stars and likened the characters' hair to modeling clay?

Roger Ebert also complained of stiff bodies and half-frozen faces, signs to him that shortcuts had been taken in the animation.

In the 2008 film The Clone Wars, returning the kidnapped Huttlet safely wins the Republic what prize?

Passage through Hutt territory mattered because the Separatists held so many hyperspace lanes that Republic forces were stranded across the Outer Rim.

In the 2008 film The Clone Wars, the kidnapped Huttlet is held inside a monastery on which planet?

Teth turned out to be a trap: Dooku had staged the kidnapping himself, hoping to turn the Hutts against the Jedi.

The 2008 film The Clone Wars lost the Golden Raspberry for worst prequel, remake or sequel to which blockbuster?

Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the fourth Indiana Jones adventure, took the prize, so the award stayed with a Lucasfilm production either way.

Which author wrote the novelization of the 2008 film Star Wars: The Clone Wars, released by Del Rey that July?

Karen Traviss added Anakin's memories of his childhood as a Hutt slave and Dooku's recollections of battling the Mandalorians.

The kidnapped-Hutt story of the 2008 film The Clone Wars was inspired by which samurai film?

Shogun's Shadow is a Sonny Chiba picture; the Star Wars film itself was woven together from the first television episodes after Lucas saw them on a big screen.

Which elderly Jedi helps Ahsoka track down the pickpocket who stole her lightsaber in The Clone Wars?

Tera Sinube seems feeble at first, but the old Jedi stays at her side until the thief is tracked down.

Which diminutive colonel leads a team of Republic droids to steal a Separatist encryption module in The Clone Wars?

Meebur Gascon and his droids, known as D-Squad, later crash on a desolate planet and must find their own way home.