10 Most Adult Moments in Star Wars Animated Shows
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I always think of the escape pods in the first few episodes of Clone Wars. When the droids are just ripping open escape pods while clones suffocate in the asteroid field, just giggling the whole time.
Well you're a SICKKO!
You would of thought that would of been the first take his lightsaber and cut the metal legs that were squeezing the pod
The droids saying something like " And their off! " After that, no sympathetic for those little sadists.... 😡
@@johnw391 Have.
@@oddmanout8692 They're.
3:20 in Obi Wan's defense, he didn't tell him to "stop selling death sticks", he told him to "go home and rethink your life".
Whether or not he kept selling them was still *entirely* up to the dealer
That's almost a paradox. He took away his choice to not think about his life, but in doing so, also gave him the ability to choose, which is something you don't really have if you're not thinking.
I think the best interpretation of this is haha funny jedi scene
@@Freelix2000 when you think about the potential consequences of essentially try to sell dope to a federal agent (Obi Wan's relative position here) or what Obi Wan *could* have done, dude should buy a lottery ticket on his way home.
Imagine if it had been Windu or Mundi.
There's no telling what they would've done to him.
Force help him if he'd been selling glitter stim and tried it w either of those two...
In ezra's defense he was using the darkside not the light
@@nicholashodges201
Do you want to buy some death sticks?
*I'm a Jedi and this is an arrest. Stick em' up.*
Kriff
@@mercury13 That's no defense. That's just showing more of his crimes.
7:00
The Geonosians were also using wepons that basically would melt the inside of who ever gets hit by the blaster ring. They would also eat the clones alive. So flame throwers seem kinda justified.
It's still horrible.
@@twistedyogert ehem... Justifiably horrible... lol. fictional bugs go brrrrr.....
One thing that should be noted about Ezra taking control of the AT-DP pilot was that he was using Force Dominance, the Dark Side version of Mind Trick, so that was already gonna be a bit messed up anyway. Of course, it's even more messed up by the fact that the victim of Force Dominance is fully aware of what's happening, but has no power to stop it
like bloodbending 😨😨
Okay, THAT's pretty messed up
Yep that was Ezra flirting with the dark side. Kaanan noticed and directed efforts into trying to stop him going evil. It worked!
Exactly. That episode (ep 1 of season 4 IIRC) was all about Ezra starting to fall to the dark side and w were wondering if Maul would actually get his apprentice.
I really hope they'll pay this bit of in the Ahsoka show.
@@rarewhiteape Flirting? Not even Palpatine did that kind of stuff.
9:30 when Anakin and Windu both quickly agree on doing something you know it's going to be utterly brutal to the enemy. This scene really makes me think if Mace had agreed to take Anakin with him they would have worked together to end Palpatine.
It wouldn't matter. As Anakin lost the moment he didn't arrest him right after he heard the Tragedy of Darth Plageuis. He's a damn General at that point. It was very public but that would have been more poignant. Sidious clearly knew. He chose that super public opera house to finally tell Anakin who he is. And when Anakin didn't do anything right then and there he knew he won. It was over. The vision controlled him after the loss of his mother.
To me Clone Wars is Peak Star Wars. All the cool planets, fights and aliens people wanted out of the OG but the deeper themes, characters...and more exciting fight scenes from the Prequels.
It's perfect
It’s a hot take but I 100% agree. I seriously can’t put my finger on it but there is just a vibe this show gives off when I watch it. Whenever I watch it it feels like it’s 10am on a Saturday when I was like 9 lmao.
I wouldn't say it is perfect. It definitely has its weaker moments, like that baby Hutt. And while having the 2-4 episode arcs is great, the thing that is missing is an overall feel of the war. It is always "things are bad here, send in a big name Jedi!" Basically, feels like a show written with an indefinite run-length, mostly for syndication, where you can watch the various 2-4 episode arcs in any order, rather than one that knew it had a story to tell about a war that lasts X years, and exactly how things went in that war ahead of time. You only really lose this aspect when you get to the end game, as they approach Order 66, but even then, you never get a focus on the overall state of the galaxy.
This is why I prefer Rebels overall. You get a better feel of the overall progress, of how things are changing. But on the flip side, my favorite character from those shows is Ventress. Both are good stuff.
as much as I want to love it, the animation always takes me right out of the show. I wish it was cleaner than it is. the models all look dirty and blocky, and especially the early episodes look really crude. I can't really put my finger on what I want out of it, but the visuals don't really do it for me
@@Axterix13 I’ve always felt that it needs more war in Clone WARS
I love clone wars. One of my fav series ever, animated or non-animated
Star Wars ain't Space Sunshine and Space Rainbows after all
Esp the rainbows! (TF!)
Amen...brother
It is, when you got spice on spice on spice ☀️🏜🥳
I guess that's why it's called Star WARS and not Star Unicorn Farts
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I'm sure there are other worse examples, but one of my favorites was part of the Umbara Arc. Specifically, the whole episode aptly named, "Carnage of Krell" where Pong Krell manipulates the 212th and 501st troopers to shoot each other and later cuts down dozens of clone troopers including breaking the back of one of them with his bare hands.
Agreed!
Have to admit, Krell's war crimes are what first came to mind when I started watching this.
@@JediTocs I was surprised the Umbara arc wasn't on here.
Ahsoka, thanks to help from R2, took out four Mandalorians by cutting their heads off in a split second with her signature spin move. Easily my favorite scene in all of Star Wars.
Oh yeah isn’t that the episode with deathwatch on that frosty planet?
@@sebastiangibson9671 yes
Honourable mention to the death of 99.
A defective clone written off by those that made him and only lived because the Jedi are against needlessly wasting life, but wasn't allowed to be a soldier or go onto civilian life but was made a custodian. Then when his moment arrives to be the soldier he always wanted to be, he is then gunned down in the back going to retireve more grenades for his brothers, while they desperately try to destroy the droids before they can kill him but its too late.
not really tbh. it would’ve been an adult moment if the kaminoans euthanized him for being defective
Surprised you didn't include Maul's escape from order 66, going down the hallway cutting clones apart with chunks of metal platting and holding the one clone in the closing blast door.
The Ezra one definitely took me by surprise. While I can defend most of the jedi war crime, Ezra on the other hand was definitely all his decision with some persuasion included.
It was definitely one of the most dark moments in that show.
The rest of Ezra's friends were also upset with what happened, demonstrating that Ezra was falling more under the influence of the Sith and just how bad that was.
@@jedironin380 they were shocked sure but also very fine with the stormtroopers death and took more offense to him lashing out against them
It's funny because these were some of my favorite parts of the clone wars, I liked the bold and darker themes that made the show seem more realistic. That's kinda what I've always wanted Star Wars to be.
I think the scene that really cements (at least for me) the Clone Wars as not just a show for kids, but something that can absolutely be watched by adults happens in S1E21 (It's the Ryloth arc). Wat Tambor just straight up says: "Target every Twi'lek village in range, the inhabited ones first" as Hyena bombers take off. To which the scene changes to a column of AT-TEs and a clone reporting to his commanding officer that the scouts reported only civilians (mainly women and children) were left in the village ahead of them. Then the sensors start blaring notifying the clones that bombers are in their sector. Then the clone wars animators just immediately show us the village being carpet bombed, completely ignoring the very viable military targets near the village.
Need I say more. (I do). It all happens so quickly and it really doesn't advance the plot much. Yet he Clone Wars crew still created this scene, for what I assume to be their fidelity to convey the reality of war. Even if it is in a galaxy far, far away.
My personal number 1 messed up one was the zygerrian arc. Like several moments from that arc lol.
Yeah, the slave arc was something else but I am glad it was made, also glad it was made prior to the Disney purchase because you know they wouldn't have let that arc go as far as it did.
Agreed, Slavery is definitely one of the darkest moments and part of Star Wars
That one scene from the Obi-Wan series where Vader focre snaps the kids' neck, that's the darkest Star Wars I have ever seen.
Have you ever heard the tragedy of the victims of the sarlacc?
I always thought Slavery was one of the darkest moments in animated Star Wars; The Zygerrian Arc showing my favorite characters being treated as less than a person was eye opening and beyond dark and brutal
Surprised it didn’t make the cut for this list
Slavery has been part of Star Wars since the first few minutes of Episode IV - droids in the SW universe are essentially slaves.
When the clone army was introduced in Episode II, let's face it - they're a mind-controlled slave army. They turned out to be some of the greatest heroes in the SW universe, but they were bred to be mind-controlled, brainwashed slaves from the moment they were decanted. And the Republic, which presumably had laws against slavery, turned a blind eye to it because they needed soldiers to prosecute their war against the Separatists.
also that twi lek lady that jumps, rather than being a slave anymore.
that Cad Bane scene had me shook when I saw it the first time, and I was much older than the CW's target audience. The thought of the people who talked about this and that not being the Jedi way, but then basically doing a mind flay was pretty confusing. But the again Cad did kidnap kids so he kind of deserved it.
7:33 Anakin Skywalker wanting to leave and be with Padme: "Me too Best Buddy. Me too."
Fives and Jesse being sentenced to death by firing squad was pretty dark too
Yes. And adding to it that it's their own brothers who are having to do it.
I’ve always thought that Obi Wan’s negotiation with the separatist general on christophsis was great foreshadowing to how brutal this war was gonna get.
For me, it is Maul's storyline in Rebels. There's just this vibe that he's tired of living. He never quite comes out and says it, but it is there, right from when he shows up at the Sith temple. He's rooted in the ways of the Sith, so turning away from the darkside doesn't even occur to him. He must struggle, he must fight, and therefore, the only peace, or, if you will, the only freedom, he can hope to find is in death. And so there he is, seeking out Obi-won, probably still telling himself he wants vengeance, but what he really wants is for Obi-won to kill him, to finish what was started on Naboo.
A brutal scene that always comes to mind is the death of Riff Tamson. The graphic annihilation of his body is something I will never forget.
I think of that scene as a homage to "Jaws".
What is the very first adult moment in Star Wars? When Darth Vader unknowingly ordered his own daughter to be tortured.
I'm pretty sure they showed Owen and Beru's bodies, killed while trying to escape their burning house, first
@@jarrodbright5231 they were very skinny last time I saw them
bro maul decapitating clone heads with wall panels and pulling someone's arm off through a closing security door post-order66 was by far one of the more metal and brutal moments in the clone wars imo
Worst part is that the clone's arm wasn't cut clean, more like *crushed*
The only question I have is why doesn't echo have a prositic that has the data jack in his arm almost like the hand can split apart and the jack can come out. This would give him his weapon hand back and make him a stronger member of his team
Echo isn’t a standard cyborg with usual parts to keep a person alive but a mad scientist style horror cyborg with extremely expensive Separatist CIA type alterations to access his mind easier.
I also love how the second Clovis storyline goes, as it is a very adult subject about how it is often necessary for a would-be dictator or an actual tyrant being able to get complete control of the banking system and thus the treasures that it provides. Without forcing Clovis, who was trying to be an honorable man, into the moves that compelled the Republic to send an invasion force and then grant complete control of the pecuniary system that is banking to Palpatine, Palpatine would not have been as fiscally strong as he was when he reorganized the Republic into the Galactic Empire. This in turn meant that Palpatine had the currency to grease the palms of select individuals to keep himself in power and to empower his military to crush anyone that resisted his reign.
and the way he treated Padme is kinda adult.
@@nathanchunstudenthbhs8402 yessir
The episode with the Geonosis Brain worms was terrifying.
Had me messed up as a kid staying up
Dont forget almost everything that happens on Umbara. ._.
That friendly fire incident really gets me every time
I always thought it wasn't a coincidence that, in the first Clone Wars episode to not air on regular television, a Clone shoots a Jedi at point-blank
For that death stick dealer, in the comics he seem to end up with a family with a picture showing him with a child, likely his.
George Lucas: “It’s a film for 12 year olds.”
Star Wars EU: “Unfortunately, history will not see it that way.”
Sending children into battle as commanders of troops. Ahsoka messed up a lot to start with and got alotwof clones killed. Sending her into battle as a child with little clothes on was bad enough... 😂
" I Turned out" very relatable
Ezra was using knowledge from sith Holocron at the time - so basically sith knowledge... thus killing with stih knowledge kinda does fits sith use of force...
Doesn't make it less "adult"/dark though. Flat out controlling someone to kill his allies, and then walking him off a cliff...
Or to put it another way, everything Maul does is also Sith way of thinking influenced, yet nobody bothers to bring that up as a "defense" for his actions being on the list ;)
@@Axterix13 Of course not - im just saying that at the time in essence Ezra was doing things out of his character due to yes dark influence from the sith holocron.
Maul was from the get go engulfed and molded by the darksiders - Ezra was not that is what makes them very different. and in this light yes Ezra can be defended and Maul cannot.
Great vid once again. I absolutely adore the idea of exploring Echo dealing with himself perhaps only being a fragment of who he used to be. That's a "TAKE MY MONEY" type of project IMO.
The friendly fire incident during the battle of Umbara.
Not sure which episode of clone wars it was, but when Ventress plunged her light saber into one of the troopers and kissed him while he died I was like… yeah… not really for kids😅
Best. Scene. In Star Wars. Ever!
I always thought Aniken stabbing the senator who was taunting Obiwan and Satine through the heart was pretty cold!
"What? He was about to blow up the ship." (Imperial March theme plays)
I remember Allan’s quote from an old episode
“And yes geonosians pop and crackly when lit on fire”
there was that one scene over anaxes where Anakin tortured Trench for information then killed him once he got what he wanted
Right, there were quite a few of those Anakin moments, and they were important to his story arc (as emphasized by a few bars of the Imperial March playing at such moments).
Not torture actually. He only cut off the spider's robotic arms as they had proven to filled with weapons. Trench then tried to electrocute Anakin who then stabbed Trench.
Man I wish more people remembered when Rex casually executes a wounded Umbaran soldier in the episode “The General”
I was just thinking about that. When I first saw that arc it didn't occur to me until after it was over. That particular soldier was seen with his respirator clearly cracked and the gases inside leaking out. The way he was clawing at it suggests, that without that particular type of headgear the Umbaran race can't survive very well on the home planet.
So the fact that Pong Krell was able to get the 501st and the 212th to start taking each other out with the lie that Umbarans were wearing clone armor didn't make sense.
@@MrBlackatXIII I read somewhere (trying to find the link) that the Umbaran's helmets filtered gases to them that enhanced their performance (basically drugs to keep them fighting longer and stronger). If the planet's gases were poisonous, the Clones and Jedi would not have been able to breathe them and you don't see Senator Meechi wearing a helmet off the world so they can breathe oxygen.
But Yes, the man appeared to be begging for his life, and Rex did shoot him. Considering how upset, stressed and angry Rex was in the episode, I'm not surprised.
As a kid, I always loved animated shows that have a complex plot, nuanced characters and so on. I despised filler based cartoons. Things like the long, story driven, arcs in CW, were my jam.
And I was a 6/8 year old boy. Sure I was a male hyper active kid, but I think that there's objective beauty in the "tougher" plots of the Fillioni shows.
The umbara arc was very dark as well
In Ezra's defense, he's controlling the joystick of the walker instead of the driver. Pretty sure if he's controlling the driver, he'll have to control the gunner as well. Or else, the gunner will kill the rogue driver. And I hardly think Ezra is strong enough to control two people at once.
I thought the same thing.
That is actually very possible as most of the low level dealers are fronted product and expected to bring back x amount of money to their supplier/ lieutenant
It was the Twi’lek slave girl on Zygeria jumping off the balcony to her death when the queen of Zygeria suggested she go back to “processing.” That one was a little rough. The begging, the fear, and then the self-endgame was.. Heavy.
One thing that confounds me about Obi-Wan is the fact that he did not use his relationship with Satine as a point of empathy with Anakin. Oni-Wan could have made a better attempt to connect with Anakin's fear of loss and it may have gotten Anakin to trust him enough to open up to him more about Padme. The two of them could have really bonded over each of their personal attachments with the women in their lives.
Paratrooper parenting? Sounds like Tarkin
Free range, naturally! (sic) I'd do the same! (BUT provide far BETTER weapons! )
I am *VERY* surprised you didn’t mention all of the onscreen chum during the battle of Mon Cala.
I know this isn’t bad as all the torture, but what about the time that Anakin beat Clovis in Padme’s apartment after he became jealous of him? Or the time Ventriss kissed that clone after scewering him, or that entire night sisters arc? Those were all pretty bad too
"Paratrooper Parenting" has to be one of the best lines I've heard all week. Thank you for that.
The scene I thought of first is during the defense of kamino when asajj ventress kills that one clone officer and then kisses him
Not from any of the shows but from JFO- the whole thing with Cere betraying Trilla to the Empire, the scene in which a teenage Trilla (so still a child in the eyes of us older fans) being tortured by the Empire, and the implication of what happened to the children Trilla was looking after and meant to protect. Trilla can't have been any older than 19 (so still a baby in the eyes of someone in their late 20s), and having siblings that are currently the age she would have been, the idea of someone that age being sold out, tortured brutally, and very possibly forced to watch the execution of children she knew and cared for is a pretty hard idea to stomach. I love that game, but the torture cut scene specifically is always really hard to sit through, especially since you can't skip it
that one time asajj ventress impaled commander colt with her lightsaber and gave him a kiss never left my mind. i.. felt things
I don't think it was horror......
@@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl sssshh🤫
Realy missing the CIS venting Escape pods after their ships got stuned/destroied by the Malevolence that moment and Ezra forcing the stormtrooper to kill his comrades and then himself are imho the darkest moments of Star Wars animated if not even Star Wars overall
0:51 So Alan was brought up the same way that Wilhuff Tarkin was raised? Interesting.
On a scale of one to 40K, I'd say these shows put SW in SG-1 territory. Some dark things, but the good guys are on the whole entertainingly heroic. Legends materials push it up the scale, possibly approaching Brigador levels when you start getting into things like Entechment, the Caamas Incident, and the Yuuzhan Vong arc.
The Yuuzhan Von feel like they belong in 40k. They basically are dark Eldar
@@jamescalderon289 Yeah, more or less. I hadn't thought about that specific parallel, but you're definitely not wrong. They are the SW universe's closest equivalent to the Drukhari.
That said, the Dark Eldar are practically off the scale when it comes to evil depravity. As nasty and horrific as the YV are, they start looking sane and well-adjusted in comparison to the denizens of Commorragh.
7:23 Duchess Satine: "H-harder!"
Obi-Wan: "What?!"
Maul: "Whoa!"
Death Watch: "What the frakk?!"
Ohh please let there be a meme made on this scene..
You forgot about the senate
Crosshair and his squad's foray on Onderon is a good one for this.
True
Jedi....war crimes....never....
They're not war crimes if you win
@@Jomama-xz8gn unfortunately never heard anything more right
Yeah cough America cough cough
@@Jomama-xz8gn Cough cough Vladimir...
Good point
One animated moment that stands out to me is from the original Clone Wars cartoon when Anakin, with his severed mechanical hand, Force chokes a Skakonan scientist and is semi-worshipped by the mutated Naaalvan males
Clone wars is the gold mine for adult moments in animated Star Wars and that’s why I love it. They weren’t afraid to show the brutalness of war
The invasion of kamino had some messed up scenes in it, then the flame troopers scene on the bugs the scenes of WW2 combat footage where they’d burn out trenches or pill boxes in a simile manner after that I wouldn’t be surprised if they had a flame tank. Next one would be the false orders by the rebels to basically eliminate the imperial garrison without option of surrender available.
my favorite arc was the umbara arc. idk why, but pong krell and his betrayal, plus the clones being shocked to find out.
Holy crap I forgot the moment where Ezra used the mid trick to make the Walker pilot /himself
Bro the Ezra Bridger one was outta pocket 😭 I was fuckin YELLING at that scene
I can't remember the episode, but there's one where Obi wan has to negotiate something and the regent has a trap door he opens and just lets some Twi'leks drop to their deaths. I think it was "Innocents of Ryloth", but i could be wrong.
That incident was on Kadavo, during the Zygerria arc.
flamethrowers are not just horrific weapons, they are also a prime target for the enemy, see the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan, you do not want to be anywhere near a flamethrower soldier when he gets shot or the tank is shot.
10:22 “Vent Ashoka out into vacuum.”
*AMONG US!*
1:00 think I’m starting to see where his hate of dolphins and strange creatures stemmed from
Ahsoka simultaneously beheading 4 Mandolorians in The Clone Wars - that one sticks out every time the subject of savage SW moments comes up.
Not sure if flame weapons are illegal in star wars. I'll have to check the Anaxes war collage for that
Everytime I hear people say that Flamethrowers are too horrific and indecent I can't help but think. "...bitch this is war not Nerf, decency went out the window the moment bullets started flying."
The clone wars scene when Ahsoka cuts four death watch troopers heads off at once, is truly stuck in my mind.
From what I understand, flamethrower weapons are restricted, but not outright banned.
Also, they have been used for sugarcane harvest during peacetime, according to wikipedia.
I'd love to see a part two
Maul literally means to inflict wounds by scratching and tearing. Darth Maul lives up to his name. Basically, I’m not surprised of the amount of war crimes he’s committed with a name like that.
Yeah Ezrah went dark side in that walker sceme. The moment I thought of was Umbara in the Clone Wars.
That last one with Savage was awesome in its simplicity but you missed the decapitation scenario when Asoka took the heads of I think 7 of the mandalorian death cult. That was a brilliant maneuver! My jaw hit the ground. You’d expect something like that from Maul but not Asoka…
No mention of Fives executing a wounded and helpless Umbaran after they destroy his tank?
"No juice left in him either"
What about a video on Cad Bane and his top kills or top jedi kills. I think that would be a very interesting topic. Also love the content, keep it up 🙆♂️
Cooking the Mandos in their armor comes to mind...
Anyone who thinks the animated Star Wars properties are for kids has not watched any of the animated Star Wars properties.
These things aren't just dark, they're sophisticated. They're layered. They require some investment to fully understand and appreciate.
They're also beautifully crafted pieces of cinematic art. They are the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being. Even though some of the human beings are human only in the metaphorical sense.
One thing I think you might have dodged to keep the video monetized was the likely reality of Satine being raped by the deathwatch at the orders of maul. She is in a really messed up state when kenobi arrives in deathwatch armor to free her, and when she sees the deathwatch armer, she says “here to do your master’s ‘bidding’?” While being uncharacteristically reserved, yet with a fear in her face.
Hadn’t thought of that one. That’s going really dark…
I’d love a part 2
Studio Trigger's short in Visions when the Jedi mast activated his lightsaber right on the heart of the darkside user
What happened to *Echo* was really *messed* up and what happened to his brother, *ARC Trooper 5s* is just got to be SO *Excruciatingly Painful* to watch. He was very *CLOSE* to being able to save everyone, but yet, because of *Fox,* he just didn't have the time. It is small consolation though that *5s* was to *save*his good friend *Captain Rex* and a few other *Clones* from the nightmares which plagued him and Tup!!! *R.I.P 5s*
~ JonseyG 👲💖
The Umbaran campaign was one of the darkest moments I remember watching in StarWars the Clone Wars
Anakin does war crimes all the time.
Surrendering to lure ambush is just one of a long long list.
U only need one name:
Pong Krell
Savage beheading everyone in a single attack made my jaw drop when I watched it.
the silence after the "i turned out"
"they retcon Maul's death" meanwhile Malak, Malgus and Sion are doing a group facepalm
Yeah, most of those examples would have me reaching for a ysalamir *very* quickly.
Alan, I challenge you to do this list with the Nelvana Droids and Ewoks cartoons! Let's see some retro messed up moments!
I thought the Clone Wars-era novel "Shatterpoint" was unusually dark for Star Wars; a psychologically dark dive in a "Hearts of Darkness" kind of way. Vietnam/'Apocalyse Now' meets Star Wars and the Jedi.
Honorable mention for Kalifa's death.
Id include the time where Ahsoka decapitated 4 death watch members and then you could partially see their heads rolling on the floor lmao
Flamethrowers weren't phased out because they were cruel but because the soldier using them is very vulnerable.
Instead they were replaced by bunker buster bombs and incendiary grenades.