100 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.

Who is Anakin Skywalker's Padawan in the series?

Ahsoka Tano is assigned to Anakin by Yoda in the 2008 theatrical film, much to his surprise; she serves as his Padawan until she walks away from the Jedi Order late in season five.

Which channel first aired the series when it premiered on October 3, 2008?

Cartoon Network premiered the series on October 3, 2008, two months after the theatrical film opened in August, and carried it through the end of season five in March 2013.

On which streaming service was the seventh and final season released in 2020?

The season was announced at a 2018 Comic-Con panel under the hashtag #CloneWarsSaved.

Season six, subtitled 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 was cancelled following Disney's purchase of Lucasfilm.

How many episodes does the series span in total?

The series totals 133 episodes: 22 in each of the first four seasons, 20 in season five, 13 in The Lost Missions and 12 in the 2020 revival season.

George Lucas hired supervising director Dave Filoni after seeing his work on which show?

Dave Filoni had directed first-season episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender, including its pilot, before Lucasfilm brought him in as supervising director of the new series.

How many chapters did the 2003 Tartakovsky micro-series run in total?

The micro-series ran 25 chapters: twenty short ones in Volume One across 2003 and 2004, then five longer chapters in Volume Two in 2005 that end as Revenge of the Sith begins.

How long were the episodes in the first two seasons of the 2003 Tartakovsky micro-series?

About 3 minutes: that was the length of each chapter in the micro-series' first two seasons, whereas the 2005 Volume Two chapters stretched to roughly twelve to fifteen minutes each.

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 Tartakovsky's Clone Wars win?

Both volumes took the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program: the 2003–2004 chapters won at the 2004 ceremony and the 2005 Volume Two chapters won again in 2005.

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 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 actors from the prequel films reprised their roles in the 2008 animated film?

Samuel L. Jackson and Christopher Lee reprised their prequel roles in the film, with Anthony Daniels also returning as C-3PO; Corey Burton voiced Dooku once the weekly series began.

Where does Anakin first meet Ahsoka in the 2008 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.

How old is Ahsoka when she is introduced?

Ahsoka is 14 when she arrives as Anakin's Padawan in the 2008 film, set in 22 BBY; she is around 17 by the Siege of Mandalore at the war's end.

What species is Ahsoka?

Ahsoka is a Togruta, a species with head-tails and hollow montrals that keep growing, which is how the show visibly aged her across its seasons.

Who voices Ahsoka in The Clone Wars?

Ashley Eckstein voiced Ahsoka from the 2008 film through the 2020 finale and again in Rebels and Tales of the Jedi; Rosario Dawson plays her in live action.

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 show's main clone protagonist?

Rex, designation CT-7567, is captain of the 501st Legion under Anakin; his arcs run from the 2008 film to the Siege of Mandalore, and he later returns in Rebels.

Who voices all of the clone troopers in the series?

Dee Bradley Baker voices every clone trooper in the series, from the 2008 film onward, giving each a distinct delivery; Temuera Morrison had voiced them in the live-action prequels.

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.

Fives discovers that the 'tumour' in his friend Tup's head is really what?

An inhibitor chip is what Fives finds: an implant in every clone that will later enforce Order 66; Palpatine frames him as an assassin and he is shot dead by Commander Fox.

Fives' name comes from what?

His designation number CT-27-5555 ends in four fives, hence the nickname; he later wears a stylised five tattooed on his temple and insists clones be called by 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 leads the Wolfpack and sports a cybernetic eye?

Wolffe, CC-3636, commands the 104th Battalion's Wolfpack and lost his right eye to Asajj Ventress; he turns up again in Rebels, living in retirement on Seelos with two other old clones.

Clone Force 99, the Bad Batch, is named in honour of whom?

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 season seven, Echo is revealed to have survived as what, courtesy of the Techno Union?

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 in the season four episode Brothers; Maul had survived 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 syndicates does Maul unite into the Shadow Collective in season five?

Black Sun, Pyke Syndicate and Hutt Clan are the three underworld powers Maul and Savage bring under the Shadow Collective in season five, with Death Watch supplying the soldiers for the takeover of Mandalore.

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

Duchess Satine Kryze is run through with the darksaber in season five's The Lawless, killed in Obi-Wan's arms 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.

During the Siege of Mandalore, what does Maul reveal to Ahsoka about Anakin?

Sidious plans to turn him to the dark side, Maul tells Ahsoka in The Phantom Apprentice, offering an alliance to kill Anakin first; she refuses, beats him in a duel 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 Rex after Order 66 is issued?

She frees Maul as a distraction; he wrecks the ship's hyperdrive and steals her shuttle.

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 Company was carved out of the 501st for the Siege of Mandalore, its troopers repainting their helmets orange with Ahsoka's 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?

Filoni and Gilroy wanted to adapt Durge from the 2003 series; Lucas suggested a new hunter instead.

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

Ziro the Hutt, jailed on Coruscant since the 2008 film, is freed when Bane's gang seizes the Senate building and trades the hostages for a pardon signed by Chancellor Palpatine.

Corey Burton voices Count Dooku in the series and which bounty hunter?

Cad Bane is also voiced by Corey Burton, who gave the gunslinger a dry Western drawl, and Burton reprised the voice when Bane appeared in live action in The Book of Boba Fett.

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 prequel actor returned as a Force ghost in the Mortis arc?

Liam Neeson returned to voice a vision of his Phantom Menace character across the three Mortis episodes of season three, and Pernilla August likewise reprised Shmi Skywalker for one scene.

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 series?

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 series?

Jocasta Nu keeps the Jedi Archives on Coruscant, a role Alethea McGrath played in the prequels; in the series she appears in the season two premiere when a shape-shifting thief impersonates her to raid the Archives.

Ahsoka was originally going to be named what in early development?

Ashla was the working name George Lucas gave the character before Ahsoka was settled on; the discarded name was later reused as an alias she adopts in the 2016 Ahsoka novel.

What is the title of the series' 2008 premiere episode?

Ambush, in which Yoda and three clones outwit Ventress's droid army on Rugosa, aired on October 3, 2008 as a double bill with the second episode, Rising Malevolence.

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.

What was the season five finale, in which Ahsoka walks away from the Order, called?

The Wrong Jedi aired on March 2, 2013 as the last new episode before the cancellation; Ahsoka is cleared at her trial, then turns down Anakin's plea to come back.

Season four's premiere was a two-parter set on which watery world?

Mon Cala, home of the Mon Calamari and the Quarren, is where the episodes Water War and Gungan Attack open season four in 2011, with Ahsoka and Kit Fisto defending Prince Lee-Char.

On what date did the seventh and final season premiere?

February 21, 2020 saw the season seven premiere, The Bad Batch, nearly six years after the previous new episode; twelve weekly episodes followed, ending with Victory and Death on May 4, 2020.

Dave Filoni voices which bounty hunter in the series?

Embo, the Kyuzo tracker in the wide conical hat, is voiced by Dave Filoni himself; the character debuted in season two and reappeared in later seasons as a recurring gun for hire.

Which Jedi Master is Dave Filoni's well-documented personal favourite?

Plo Koon is the Kel Dor Jedi Filoni has long championed: the show made him the Jedi who found Ahsoka as a child and gave him the Wolfpack clone unit and an expanded role.

Anakin is promoted to Jedi Knight in which Clone Wars project?

Anakin is knighted early in The 2003 micro-series Volume Two, whose five chapters jump to the war's closing days and end with Palpatine's abduction, leading straight into Revenge of the Sith.

Which unfinished four-episode arc was released instead as a 2014 Dark Horse comic?

Maul tortured by Dooku after his capture is the plot of the four-issue Dark Horse miniseries adapted from the unproduced scripts; it ends with Mother Talzin's death and Maul's escape.

Which author wrote the 2016 novel Ahsoka, set just after Order 66?

E. K. Johnston wrote Ahsoka, published in October 2016, following her a year after Order 66 as she hides on the farming moon Raada; its Siege of Mandalore flashbacks were later dramatised in season seven.

What is the name of Anakin's Venator-class flagship in the series?

The Resolute is Anakin's Venator-class Star Destroyer and the 501st's mobile base in the early seasons, while Obi-Wan's counterpart flagship is the Negotiator.

Which Taipei-based studio did Lucasfilm Animation partner with to animate The Clone Wars?

CGCG, a Taipei animation house, handled much of the character and effects animation alongside Lucasfilm Animation's Singapore studio, with Filoni's team in California directing the episodes.

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.

Roughly how many viewers watched the series' television premiere in October 2008?

4 million viewers — about 3.99 million — tuned in to the October 3, 2008 premiere, a record at the time for an original-series debut on the network that carried it.

Who voices Anakin Skywalker in the series?

Matt Lanter voiced Anakin from the 2008 film to the 2020 finale and again in Tales of the Jedi, whereas the 2003 micro-series had used Mat Lucas in the role.

Which Jedi Master oversees clone training on Kamino in the series?

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 series?

James Arnold Taylor voiced Obi-Wan in the 2003 micro-series and then for the 2008 film and every season of the series, from the premiere in 2008 to the finale in 2020.

Besides narrating 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 decades later as an Imperial colonel at the Death Star conference table in A New Hope.

Who voiced Chancellor Palpatine from 2008 until his death in 2012?

Ian Abercrombie voiced Palpatine from the 2008 film until his death in January 2012, after which the role was recast; Seinfeld viewers knew him as Elaine's exacting boss Mr. Pitt.

Which Rocky Horror star voiced Palpatine in the series from 2012 to 2014?

Tim Curry took over Palpatine in season five after the original voice actor's death in 2012 and carried the role through The Lost Missions in 2014, including the Sifo-Dyas arc.

Who voices Padmé in the series?

Catherine Taber voices Padmé across the 2008 film and all seven seasons, having earlier played the Twi'lek Mission Vao in the 2003 game Knights of the Old Republic.

Who voices Hondo Ohnaka, the Weequay pirate?

Jim Cummings, the longtime voice of Winnie the Pooh and Tigger, gives Hondo his rolling accent; the pirate debuted in season one's Dooku Captured and went on to Rebels.

Who voices Asajj Ventress in the 2008 film and series?

Nika Futterman voiced Ventress from the 2008 film through the series and returned to the role in The Bad Batch in 2024 and Tales of the Underworld in 2025.

Who voiced Ventress in the 2003 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?

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.

Which stranded Jedi trained the young Ventress in the Force on Rattatak?

Ky Narec, a Jedi stranded on Rattatak, took the enslaved girl as his Padawan; his killing by local warlords, with no help sent by the Jedi Order, turned her toward 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.

Who voices Saw Gerrera in The Clone Wars?

Andrew Kishino voiced the young Saw across his season five arc, while Forest Whitaker played the character in live action in Rogue One and voiced him in Rebels and The Bad Batch.

In season two, Boba Fett sneaks aboard a flagship 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?

Aurra Sing, the pale sniper glimpsed at The Phantom Menace's podrace in 1999, leads Boba's gang and shoots the captured clone Commander Ponds in the season two arc that closes with Lethal Trackdown.

Who voices the young Boba Fett, reprising his Attack of the Clones role?

Daniel Logan, the boy Boba of Attack of the Clones, voiced the character in the season two revenge arc and again in season four's prison episodes.

Which original-trilogy hero does Ahsoka free from Trandoshan hunters in the 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 series?

Stephen Stanton voices the young Tarkin from his season three debut onward, a Peter Cushing impression pitched younger; he went on to voice both Tarkin and the older Obi-Wan 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.

Which fellow Padawan framed Ahsoka for the attack that led her to leave the Order?

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.

At Lucas's wish, the series composer slipped in elements of his score for which crime drama?

CSI: Miami was the crime drama the composer had been scoring, and Lucas, a fan of that work, asked for some of its flavour in the series alongside the John Williams motifs.

What colour is Ahsoka's lightsaber blade in the 2008 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, head of the Trade Federation, recurs as a villain in the series?

Nute Gunray, Viceroy of the Trade Federation, is captured by Padmé and Jar Jar on Rodia in season one's Bombad Jedi and later freed from Jedi custody by Ventress.

The 501st's clone captain has a chin scar honouring which actor?

Harrison Ford's chin scar, from a 1960s car crash, is echoed on the captain's face, a deliberate nod to Han Solo's actor; blond hair further set the character apart from his brothers.

Which member of Clone Force 99 leads the squad with his enhanced senses?

Hunter, the sergeant with the bandana and half-face tattoo, leads the squad thanks to heightened senses that let him track targets; Wrecker, Crosshair and Tech each carry a different enhancement.

Which studio released the 2008 theatrical film?

Warner Bros. Pictures distributed the film, the first theatrical Star Wars film not distributed by 20th Century Fox; it opened third at the box office in August 2008, 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 kidnapped Huttlet in the 2008 film?

Rotta, the sickly infant Ahsoka dubs Stinky, is smuggled off Teth in a backpack and returned to his father on Tatooine at the film's end; sound designer David Acord supplied his gurgles.

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

Princess Mononoke, Hayao Miyazaki's 1997 film, gave Filoni the model for Ahsoka in its wolf-raised heroine San, whose face paint and fierce poise informed the Padawan's original design.