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Due to the sheer volume of spoilers, all spoilers are unmarked. You Have Been Warned!Turmoil has engulfed theGalactic Republic. The taxationof trade routes to outlying starsystems is in dispute.Hoping to resolve the matterwith a blockade of deadlybattleships, the greedy TradeFederation has stopped allshipping to the small planetof Naboo.While the congress of theRepublic endlessly debatesthis alarming chain of events,the Supreme Chancellor hassecretly dispatched two JediKnights, the guardians ofpeace and justice in thegalaxy, to settle the conflict....Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, or simply known as The Phantom Menace, is a 1999 Space Opera film, the first film of the Star Wars prequel trilogy and the earliest-set live-action installment of the Star Wars canon. It was written and directed by franchise creator George Lucas, who took the director's chair for the first time since A New Hope. It was released on May 19th, 1999.Thirty-two years before the destruction of the Death Star, a corrupt corporate conglomerate known as the Trade Federation blockades the small, peaceful planet of Naboo in protest of rising taxations. Hoping to resolve things peacefully, the Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic sends the Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson) and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) to serve as negotiators.Under pressure from their ominous backer, the Trade Federation's ambassadors attack the Jedi and invade Naboo, forcing the Jedi to escape the planet with its young leader, Queen Amidala (Natalie Portman). Hoping to petition the Galactic Senate for aid, they set out on a journey to the Republic's capital — in the process discovering a young boy named Anakin Skywalker (Jake Lloyd), who is unnaturally strong in the Force...The film also stars Ian McDiarmid as Senator Palpatine, Pernilla August as Shmi Skywalker, Anthony Daniels as C-3PO, Kenny Baker as R2-D2, Frank Oz as Yoda, and Ahmed Best as Jar Jar Binks.The film is followed chronologically by Attack of the Clones, The Clone Wars, and Revenge of the Sith. | |
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Beneath Notice | |
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Beneath Notice: Queen Amidala constantly dressed in regal royal attire behind face-concealing makeup. She is always assisted with and surrounded by handmaidens with face obscuring cloaks. One of her key handmaidens in the film is Padmé, who assists Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn while on Tatooine. In truth, Padmé is actually Queen Amidala dressed down and in disguise. No one, except possibly Qui-Gon, even noticed the Queen ever switch places with her handmaidens. Not only do all the handmaidens look alike, but no one pays attention to them because they are always in the background assisting others. | |
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Limited Advancement Opportunities | |
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Limited Advancement Opportunities: Obi-wan tells his master Qui-gon Jinn that he would already be on the Jedi High Council if he would just stop arguing with them. Qui-Gon doesn't mind since he prefers following his own interpretation of the will of the Force. | |
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Aliens Speaking English: Zig-Zagged. Most alien characters speak Basic (the In-Universe equivalent of English), but others, like the Boonta Eve podracers, the Hutts and Wald (a slave Rodian child on Tatooine) are heard conversing in Huttese. | |
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Parrying Bullets | |
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This is the explanation for the Jedi Knights' superior combat skills and ability to block lasers with their lightsabers — they've got the ability to predict the future in a limited way, so they bring their lightsabers into position to parry a shot before it's actually fired. This is brought up when Qui-Gon Jinn pegs Anakin as a potential Jedi due to his ability to participate in podracing — a sport that human reflexes simply aren't fast enough to keep up with. Jedi can also look further into the future, but this generally requires a lot more effort and is less reliable. | |
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Snowy Screen of Death | |
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Snowy Screen of Death: "A communications disruption could mean only one thing: invasion." - Governor Sio Bibble. | |
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Off-the-Shelf FX | |
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Off-the-Shelf FX: Qui-Gon's communicator is a re-decoed woman's razor. The pod race crowd contains several Micro Machine action figures, with Prince Xizor being clearly visible in a behind-the-scenes photo. | |
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Can't Kill You, Still Need You | |
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Can't Kill You, Still Need You: The Naboo Royal Guard doesn’t believe that the Trade Federation will kill Queen Amidala, as they need her to sign an invasion legalization treaty. Qui-Gon Jinn doesn’t believe as such and convinces Amidala to leave the planet. | |
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Creator Cameo | |
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Creator Cameo: Visual effect supervisor John Knoll appears as Rya Kirsch, a pilot who participates in the Battle of Naboo. Supervising sound editor Matthew Wood plays Bib Fortuna and Ody Mandrell at the Boonta Eve Classic. Ben Burtt and Rick McCallum appear as Naboo dignitaries at the end of the film. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Lucas told Terence Stamp that Chancellor Valorum was like Bill Clinton - "He's a good man, but beleaguered". | |
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The Artifact | |
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The Artifact: The design of the Battle Droids was based on an early conceptual design for the Neimoidians, which was scrapped because it was difficult to create. In-universe the droids are made to look like Neimoidian skeletons (since their skulls elongate after death), though this was latter retconned as a rumor spread by the Neimoidians. Attack of the Clones reveals they're actually based on Geonosian skulls, who actually manufacture the Battle Droids. | |
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Trailers Always Spoil | |
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Trailers Always Spoil: The theatrical trailer spoils a climactic death. Obi-Wan screams "NO!" in the trailer, and there's a shot of Qui-Gon in pain during the Big "NO!". | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: Qui-Gon confidently declaring that "the negotiations [with the Neimoidians] will be short". In this case, "short" means that the Neimoidians blow up their transport and send battle droids to assassinate them. Anakin claims that nobody can kill a Jedi, with Qui-Gon reply he wish that were so. At the film's climax, Qui-Gon himself is killed by Darth Maul and his death left a huge emotional hole for Anakin since Qui-Gon was the closest thing he had to a father. And said emotional hole would be filled by a seemingly friendly Chancellor who is secretly plotting to kill all the Jedi in the galaxy. | |
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Eye on a Stalk | |
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Eye on a Stalk: The movie introduces the podracer Mawhonic, a member of the Gran, a species of stocky goat-like aliens with three eyes on stalks arranged in a pyramidal fashion. Several other members of the species have been seen throughout the expanded universe. Gungans, including Jar Jar Binks, have eyes on short stalks. | |
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Slave Liberation | |
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Slave Liberation: Qui-Gon Jinn secures slave boy Anakin Skywalker's freedom in a podrace so he can be trained as a Jedi. | |
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Inexplicably Identical Individuals | |
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Inexplicably Identical Individuals: Queen Amidala's handmaidens all look identical. This, of course, is intentional, and part of the "decoy trick", where one of them, Sabé, posed as the Queen while the Queen dressed as one of the handmaidens in her identity as Padmé. (They have similar names too, at least in public; in addition to Sabé, the others were named Eirtaé, Rabé, Saché, Yané, Fé, and Dané); Padmé's name mentioned often make members of the royal court assume that the Queen has eight handmaidens. This Trope is lampshaded in the Star Wars: Clone Wars comic book In Triplicate with this exchange: | |
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Make Sure He's Dead | |
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Make Sure He's Dead: Even after pumping the meeting room with a load of poison gas, Viceroy Gunray still sends a squad of battle droids to make sure the Jedi are taken care of. Naturally, the droids weren't enough. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: Exactly what the Trade Federation is and the nature of the original trade dispute are never explained in the movie itself, but the tie-in materials went into greater detail about it. The novelization also explains some plot points in the film—for example, Qui-Gon cheated with Watto's chance cube game because he knew that Watto was playing with a loaded die. | |
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You Are Already Dead | |
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You Are Already Dead: Darth Maul takes a second to realize he's been cut in half at the end of the climactic fight scene in The Phantom Menace. Subverted when subsequent canon materials reveal that he actually survives through sheer hatred of Obi-Wan, even having a cameo in Solo. | |
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Nested Ownership | |
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Nested Ownership: The young slave Anakin Skywalker builds a servant robot (C3PO) to help his mother. | |
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Parallel Conflict Sequence | |
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Parallel Conflict Sequence: There are four separate events happening during The Climax, each with its own plot relevance: The Gungans vs the Separatists Droid Army, Anakin helping against the Separatist Blockade, Padmé and her group against some ground forces and Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan vs Darth Maul. | |
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Artistic License – Geology | |
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Artistic License – Geology: Yeah, it's Star Wars, so this is to be expected, but given what we directly see of Naboo's geology, there's no way that the surface could be as verdant, full of life, and most importantly Earth-like as it is. Basically, Naboo is a porous planet with canals filled with water running through the planet's core from one side to the other. The problem is, without a hot, liquid metal core like Earth has, the planet would most likely have no magnetic field, meaning that everything on the surface should be fried by radiation. Furthermore, no hot core means no volcanic activity, which raises the question of how the atmosphere developed. | |
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Death by Origin Story | |
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Death by Origin Story: The film is an Origins Episode for both Anakin and Obi-Wan. Qui-Gon is a significant figure in both of their lives, and is dead by the end of the film. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Warwick Davis (who played the main Ewok in Return of the Jedi) had a couple of minor (but visible) background roles. Nathan Hamill (Mark Hamill's son) has an uncredited cameo role as a Naboo royal guard. | |
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Forgotten Phlebotinum | |
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Forgotten Phlebotinum: Deflector Shields are ubiquitous in Star Wars generally, but especially notable here in that the Gungans, alone out of all the races we have seen, have refined the technology for battlefield usage. They have portable shield generators that can provide an army with protection from artillery fire, as well as personal tower shields to allow front line troops to withstand blaster fire at close range. This would have been hugely useful in numerous battles during the Clone Wars, as well as to the Rebels on Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back. But these technologies are never seen again. | |
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The Heavy | |
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The Heavy: Darth Maul serves as the main physical threat to the heroes, since Darth Sidious still has to maintain his Villain with Good Publicity status, and Nute Gunray is a Dirty Coward trying to stay out of harm's way as much as possible. After the heroes escape Naboo, it is Maul who is sent to hunt them down, since they are beyond Gunray's ability to locate. When the heroes return to Naboo, Maul is sent to back up Gunray, and at the film's climax, Maul personally duels the two main Jedi protagonists, preventing them from assisting Queen Amidala in Gunray's capture. | |
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Necessary Drawback | |
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Necessary Drawback: Qui-Gon Jinn was also a master of Ataru. He met his end when the fight against Darth Maul led him into a confined space which didn't leave much room for maneuverability. | |
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The Stoic | |
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The Stoic: No matter the situation, Qui-Gon remains calm and collected. | |
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Locked Out of the Fight | |
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Locked Out of the Fight: The force-field gates that the Jedi fight Darth Maul through serve to separate Obi-Wan from Qui-Gon; Obi-Wan can only watch as Qui-Gon, fighting alone, falls to Darth Maul. | |
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Actually a Doombot | |
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Actually a Doombot: Padmé does this all the time as Queen of Naboo, disguising herself as one of the Queen's handmaidens while a bodyguard (Sabé) disguises herself as the Queen. And she's not the first Queen of Naboo to do this. Her head of security Captain Panaka designed the strategy, and it was used by her predecessor (and presumably, her successor). | |
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Gas Chamber | |
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Gas Chamber: The film features at the beginning the Nemoidan Trade Federation trying to gas the ambassador Jedi. | |
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Papa Wolf | |
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Papa Wolf: She's not their daughter, but Sio Babble and Panaka react this way whenever the queen is threatened. When Qui-Gon mentions that if the queen stays on Naboo then she'll be killed, Sio Babble says, "They wouldn't dare!" vehemently. Then Panaka logically tries to point out the Trade Federation can't freaking kill the leader of the planet they're invading and stay on good terms with Coruscant; the men only acquiesce when Qui-Gon counters the Trade Federation may elect a pawn in Amidala's place to sign a treaty. Panaka agrees to go off-planet with the queen to protect her, and is ready to draw fire on anyone who dares attack, as Sio Babble tries to reason with the Trade Federation to withdraw. | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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Despite being forced to learn how to pilot a Naboo fighter pilot on the fly, Anakin ends up destroying the Trade Federation ship in space by accidentally firing two torpedos at the main reactor while trying to destroy some battle droids. | |
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Watch Out for That Tree! | |
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Watch Out for That Tree!: The pod race has a few collisions with rocks. | |
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Androcles' Lion | |
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Androcles' Lion: Qui-Gon Jinn saves Jar Jar Binks (albeit inadvertently) from a Trade Federation battalion, prompting Jar Jar to offer himself as a servant in a life debt. Later, it is thanks to Jar Jar that they persuade Jar Jar's people, the Gungans, to help the people of Naboo fight and defeat the Trade Federation. | |
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Ambiguous Situation | |
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Ambiguous Situation: In-universe example with Yoda and Mace in the penultimate scene. They now have to accept that Qui-Gon was right: the Sith did survive their ancient conflict with the Jedi, they've been in hiding all this time, and now they're back and ready to come out into the open. Yoda also correctly surmises there are two active Sith — a Master and an Apprentice. But it's also unclear to the Order whether the Sith that Obi-Wan killed was the Master or the Apprentice. The audience, of course, knows Maul was merely the apprentice — and the senior and much more dangerous Sith Lord's still out there (let alone standing mere feet away from the Masters). | |
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Obstructive Bureaucrat | |
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Obstructive Bureaucrat: Palpatine suggests apathetic politicians rule the Republic with Chancellor Valorum as their puppet, and they are the reason that rather than doing anything about the Naboo situation, the Senate has merely had meetings. This is then put on full display when the Trade Federation Senator objects to Queen Amidala's accusations at the Senate hearing, is backed by the Senator of Malastare, and Valorum is quickly swayed to their side, at which point the Queen reluctantly agrees to Palpatine's suggestion to call a vote of no confidence for Valorum. Of course, what she doesn't realize is that Palpatine is responsible for much of the red tape in the first place, and that this is all part of his evil plan to seize power for himself. | |
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Deal with the Devil | |
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Deal with the Devil: In their greed, Nute Gunray and his associates cut one with Darth Sidious prior to the events of the film. The Trade Federation Blockade of Naboo is the price for the Sith Lord's pledges to use his shadowy and nebulous influence and abilities to overturn the Senate's taxation of the trade routes. By the time Darth Maul is introduced, Gunray and Rune Haako are clearly having buyer's remorse — but it's too late to back out now. | |
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Ominous Latin Chanting | |
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Ominous Latin Chanting: "Duel of the Fates" is a frantic piece with Sanskrit chanting that punctuates the film's climatic Laser Blade duel. | |
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Big Shadow, Little Creature | |
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Big Shadow, Little Creature: A promotional image shows the shadow of Darth Vader belonging to a young Anakin Skywalker, though of course it's just symbolic imagery foreshadowing his eventual turn to the dark side. | |
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Homemade Inventions | |
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Homemade Inventions: Anakin Skywalker built a functioning humanoid robot with full human-like AI, and what must have been a super-sonic racer, all on a son-of-a-slave's budget before his voice broke. | |
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Praetorian Guard | |
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Praetorian Guard: Two heroic examples: The Senate Guard (aka the Blue Guard) serve as these for the Galactic Senate. The Naboo Palace Guard are said to form the backbone of the Royal Naboo Security Forces and are later seen guarding Padmé when she is a senator in Attack of the Clones. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: Tatooine. For one thing, it's stated in the movie that it's ruled by the Hutts (whom according to Panaka are gangsters) and it's clear from the movie that slavery is considered acceptable there, including the use of children as slaves. There's also the podracing, which people also bet various things (including the fate of slaves) on. Even putting aside the nature of its society, there's also the weather; dangerous sandstorms can come up on short notice, which the Tatooine residents apparently predict through aching bones, and that doesn't give them much time to find shelter. Tatooine is a Crapsack World in other installments too, but it's taken further here than it is in the other ones. Scavenging Jawas and murderous, marauding Tusken Raiders can't be helping real estate values, either. | |
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All There in the Script | |
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All There in the Script: Anakin's mother is only identified as "Shmi Skywalker" in the end credits. Anakin just calls her, "Mom," naturally enough, and no one else ever addresses her by name. It's not until Attack of the Clones that the name "Shmi" is actually spoken onscreen. | |
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Midair Repair | |
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Midair Repair: R2-D2 (with several others, which were all destroyed) fixes Padme Amidala's escape ship midflight while she's trying to run the Naboo blockade. | |
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Fire-Forged Friends | |
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Fire-Forged Friends; Rugor Nass and Queen Amidala become this by the end of the film, as fellow political leaders. He was impressed by how she begged for his help and humbled herself while coming up with a sound plan to win back their planet. Meanwhile, Amidala commends him for distracting the Trade Federation Armies with his fellow Gungans, showing courage and bravery. The movie ends with a parade as they declare peace between the two governments. | |
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Arcadia | |
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Arcadia: This seems to be the overall theme of the planet Naboo. It is a very peaceful place, and the majority of the planetary surface seems to consist of lovely cities, beautiful meadows full of alien livestock, rivers and waterfalls, and lush wetland areas teeming with diverse wildlife. | |
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Go Through Me | |
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Go Through Me: Whenever the queen is threatened, Panaka is the first to defend her. When her small squadron encountered Maul, Panaka was the only one who draws his weapon and prepares to fight. | |
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Persona Non Grata | |
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Persona Non Grata: Jar Jar Binks tells Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan that he was kicked out of Otoh Gunga for his "clumsiness". | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing | |
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Anakin claims that nobody can kill a Jedi, with Qui-Gon reply he wish that were so. At the film's climax, Qui-Gon himself is killed by Darth Maul and his death left a huge emotional hole for Anakin since Qui-Gon was the closest thing he had to a father. And said emotional hole would be filled by a seemingly friendly Chancellor who is secretly plotting to kill all the Jedi in the galaxy. | |
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Blood Sport | |
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Blood Sport: The podrace is a three lap hovercraft race around the desert where murder, sabotage, and aggression are all permitted. The racers contend with snipers at one turn. And don't think that you'll be safe up in the stands, either. It ends up looking like Mario Kart on Steroids. | |
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Sink or Swim Fatherhood | |
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Sink or Swim Fatherhood: The movie ends with Obi-Wan Kenobi taking Anakin Skywalker as his Padawan, despite having been knighted less than two minutes earlier. He does this mostly to honor his own Master's dying wish. | |
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Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil | |
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Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: One of the ways that Tatooine is marked as an outlaw planet is the fact that slavery is legal there. And its de facto rulers are the Hutts, a race of notorious criminal overlords. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: While Anakin is piloting his starfighter to join the fight at the Droid Control Ship, Artoo beeps at him. Deciphered into our alphabet, the Aurabesh letters on his console read out as "ANAKIN TURN THE SHIP AROUND AND GO BACK HOMIE RIGHT AWAY" (in block lettering without punctuation, as indicated). If "HOMIE" isn't a typo, then Artoo is apparently being "cutesy" and talking down to Anakin; something not entirely out of character for him. | |
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Easter Egg | |
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Easter Egg: Aliens from E.T.'s species make a brief, split-second appearance in the Galactic Summit scene. | |
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Background Halo | |
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Background Halo: Most of Amidala's outfits. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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Lampshade Hanging: After pricing out the parts needed Watto straight-out tells Qui-Gon that it would be cheaper and easier to just buy a new ship. This goes completely ignored. | |
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V8 Engine Noises | |
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V8 Engine Noises: While a majority of the pod racers sound more akin to piston engines under wide-open throttle, Anakin's pod uses the unedited engine note from a V12 Formula One car, complete with upshifts! And Sebulba's sounds almost like a 2-stroke moped engine idling! | |
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Diagonal Cut | |
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Diagonal Cut: When Obi-Wan cuts Darth Maul through the middle with his lightsaber, the Sith falls into a bottomless shaft with his body seemingly intact, and tumbles once or twice before he separates into top and bottom halves on his way down. His all-black clothing probably did something to obscure the wound. | |
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Readings Are Off the Scale | |
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Readings Are Off the Scale: Qui-Gon sends a sample of Anakin's blood for a midichlorian count. Obi-Wan remarks that the readings are off the chart, even higher than Yoda's. | |
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False Flag Operation | |
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False Flag Operation: To the rest of the galaxy, the entire occupation of Naboo was an attempt by the Trade Federation to pressure the Republic senate into dropping taxation of a series of trade routes that the Federation heavily exploited in the past. In reality, the entire thing is an elaborate plot by Senator Palpatine, a.k.a. Darth Sidious, to discredit the current supreme chancellor so he can take his place. | |
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The Bad Guy Wins | |
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The Bad Guy Wins: This marks the first of Palpatine's victories throughout the prequel trilogy, and the ending of this film may look cheery on the surface, Palpatine ended up succeeding at getting himself elected as the new Supreme Chancellor. | |
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Older Than They Look | |
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Older Than They Look: Originally, Qui-Gon was sixty years old at the time of the film's events, yet Liam Neeson was only in his mid-forties around the time of filming. Perhaps realizing that Neeson looked too young to pass as a sixty-year-old man (even a well-aged one), the Disney canon novel Star Wars: Master and Apprentice retconned his age to his late forties in the film. | |
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Theme Music Power-Up | |
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Theme Music Power-Up: Near the climax, just as the heroes are ready to flee the scene, a door opens, a cloaked figure appears (Darth Maul), and the first few notes of the "Duel of the Fates" theme are heard. | |
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Resigned in Disgrace | |
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Resigned in Disgrace: When Amidala's pleas for help at the Galactic Senate are met with truculence and protocol, she calls for a vote of No Confidence in Chancellor Valorum. Though not an outright ouster, the Chancellor is left a laughingstock with a fancy chair; as per the nature of successful No Confidence motions, Valorum soon resigns, allowing Senator Palpatine to replace him. | |
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Logic Bomb | |
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Logic Bomb: Subverted. Qui-Gon attempts to use one on a small battalion of droids. The head droids appears briefly confused, complete with a "DOES NOT COMPUTE", but after a few seconds it manages to break the loop and (again) tries to put them under arrest. Then it's blasters and sabers time. | |
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Impeded Communication | |
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Impeded Communication: The Trade Federation jams the HoloNet prior to launching a ground invasion of the planet Naboo to prevent them from calling for help or warning anybody that the conflict has escalated. Queen Amidala and her court are in the middle of talking to Senator Palpatine when their connection to his office on Coruscant goes out; royal guard Captain Panaka assumes it's a glitch, but Governor Sio Bibble correctly guesses that the Trade Federation is preparing to attack. | |
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Overlaid Societies | |
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Overlaid Societies: On the planet Naboo, the Gungans and the Naboo live in separate but linked societies. In the movie, Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn tried to enlist the help of the Gungans as the Trade Federation's takeover of the Naboo would affect the Gungans eventually. Jar Jar and Queen Amidala get their help for the final battle. | |
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Power Levels | |
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Power Levels: The film introduces "midichlorian count" for measuring Force potential, which contextualizes how massive Anakin's power is. | |
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Thememobile | |
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Thememobile: Pod racing on Tatooine approaches Wacky Racing levels of diversity, as there's little commonality among the podcraft. One outstanding case is Ben Quadinaros, a four-armed alien whose pod is powered by four engines rather than the usual two. Presumably, these engines can be individually controlled, as Ben has four arms: one for each engine. This hardly matters, as at the start of the race, his power couplings fail, sending the four engines careening wildly while Ben sits in his pod immobile. | |
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Malevolent Mutilation | |
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Malevolent Mutilation: Darth Maul has every inch of his skin tattooed in a jagged black and red pattern to present an imposing appearance. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: During the podrace some Tusken Raiders shoot down one of the racers (and try to shoot down Anakin as well), apparently just For the Evulz. They even have the audacity to start wildly cheering afterwards. Although it should be noted that expanded material explains Tusken behavior in that they see everyone else as trespassers on their planet. So, to them, shooting at the podracers is justified. | |
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Plummet Perspective | |
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Plummet Perspective: When Darth Maul kicks Obi-Wan's lightsaber down a long shaft as Obi-Wan is clinging to the edge, the camera follows the lightsaber all the way down, roughly from Obi-Wan's perspective. Later, a similar shot is used for Darth Maul's torso as he plummets down the same pit. | |
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Geo Effects | |
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Geo Effects: Darth Maul stands over Obi-Wan, as the latter dangles above a bottomless pit. Maul fails to exploit the terrain, and Obi-Wan leaps over his head and bisects him upon landing. | |
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Legalized Evil | |
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Legalized Evil: Much of the film's plot is driven by the Trade Federation desperately trying to keep the Invasion of Naboo a Closed Circle from the Galactic Republic, as it's very much not legalized and would get them thrashed if word got out. Instead, they're trying to force the Queen to sign a document legalizing the invasion, bogging down any retaliation in so much diplomatic red tape. | |
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Silly Reason for War | |
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Silly Reason for War: The film starts with a dispute over tariffs that make the Trade Federation upset enough to blockade Naboo as a means of protest. It could possibly have been resolved peacefully (the blockade itself is perfectly legal) had Darth Sidious (a.k.a. Senator Palpatine) not been a Treacherous Advisor to them who convinced them to take their grievance much further into unethical and immoral actions, which eventually triggered the Clone Wars, Order 66, and Palpatine's rise to power. | |
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This Cannot Be! | |
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This Cannot Be!: Nute Gunray when Qui-Gon continues to cut through the blast doors despite more coming down to block his way. | |
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Out of Character | |
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Out of Character: Qui-Gon Jinn notes that, despite the Trade Federation’s demands during their invasion of Naboo, there is no real logic behind it. He also deduces there is something else behind it all. | |
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Big Badass Battle Sequence | |
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Big Badass Battle Sequence: The space-ground battle of Naboo, interchanging between the Trade Federation's clash against the Gungans; Padme's attack on the palace; the lightsaber fight between Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan and Darth Maul; and the attack on the Trade Federation command ship. | |
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The Hero Dies | |
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The Hero Dies: Qui-Gon Jinn is the main character of the film and dies near the end, with eight more Skywalker Saga films to go. | |
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Failed State | |
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Failed State: Downplayed with the Galactic Republic in the prequel trilogy. It's still marginally functional, but so comically corrupt and inept that, in this movie, the Senate's response to a private corporation attempting to extort a member state with a military blockade is to scratch their collective butts and idly wonder if maybe that's possibly their problem. The Supreme Chancellor (equivalent to a prime minister) is forced to go behind the Senate's back to get the Jedi Order involved, and then — due to Sheev "Darth Sidious" Palpatine exploiting the Republic's failure to provide basic governance in order to overthrow it altogether — is fired by the Senate for his trouble. | |
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Sequel Escalation | |
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Sequel Escalation: Played with. The film has lower stakes than A New Hope, its counterpart in the original trilogy. A planet is invaded rather than being outright destroyed, and the climax involves the destruction of the ship that controls the droid army rather than a planet-destroying superweapon. Thus, the trope is inverted if you watch the films in release order, but it's played straight if you watch the series chronologically. | |
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Deadly Gas | |
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Deadly Gas: The Jedi are trapped by the Trade Federation in a room being filled with nerve gas. Fortunately, one of the Jedi's powers are to hold their breath for a very long time. They're also shown later in the movie to have been carrying breathing apparatuses the entire time. | |
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Reverse Relationship Reveal | |
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Reverse Relationship Reveal: Queen Amidala is revealed to be a handmaiden decoy; the actual queen had been posing as the handmaiden for much of the film. | |
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Properly Paranoid | |
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Properly Paranoid: The novelization of Amidala's diary reveals that Panaka wanted to create an army to protect Queen Amidala; they compromised over him creating bodyguard doubles like Sabe and having a handful of weapons in the throne room. It turns out he was completely right because when the Trade Federation invades, the Queen is virtually defenseless with only her inner circle and Panaka for protection. The Jedi advise the Naboo guard to not respond to the distress signals because whether or not they are fake, the queen getting captured won't help anyone. It's implied the message is fake when the governor who was delivering them is revealed to remain defiant towards the Trade Federation. | |
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Magical Gesture | |
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Magical Gesture: The famous "mind control hand wave" gesture is lampshaded and mocked when Qui-Gon tries it on an alien and it fails to work. ("What, you think you're some kind of Jedi, waving your hand around like that?") | |
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Floating Platforms | |
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Floating Platforms: When Queen Amidala's starship arrives on Coruscant, it docks at a floating landing platform — one with no apparent handrails. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: The specific reasons for Jar Jar's exile, besides his obvious clumsiness, are never detailed. We only get to hear the last bit of the story, which apparently involves blowing something up and crashing Boss Nass' heyblibber. | |
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Force-Field Door | |
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Force-Field Door: The two-on-one duel in the finale leads the three combatants into a hallway where force fields turn off and on periodically. This separates the two heroes in the duel, allowing Darth Maul to kill the older hero while the latter's apprentice helplessly watches behind a force field. | |
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Schizo Tech | |
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Schizo Tech: Naboo in general: In all respects the human population has technology on par with what is standard for the Republic. But their (non-industrial) architecture looks straight out of the Italian Renaissance. The Gungans are even more glaring. They live in spectacular underwater cities composed of transparent bubbles, use deflector shield technology even in place of transparent material on the canopies of their submarines, as well as on the battlefield, and their preferred weapons are spheres filled with ionized plasma. But they use dinosaur-like kaadus and fambaas as mounts and beasts of burden and their only means of "firing" their plasma spheres is through the use of slings or by hand! Tatooine also falls under this, for example by showing a semi-broken down landspeeder being pulled by an Eeopie. | |
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Interesting Situation Duel | |
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Interesting Situation Duel: The three-way duel in the power station of the palace on Naboo. The two Jedi chase Darth Maul on the catwalks spanning several levels of the building, get momentarily trapped in a Laser Hallway, they are separated before they can resume. Obi-Wan is Forced to Watch as his master fights Maul alone and is killed by him, leaving Obi-Wan to fight Maul alone. | |
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Three Successful Generations | |
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Three Successful Generations: Anakin Skywalker has always dreamed of having the freedom to become a Jedi Knight, Obi-Wan Kenobi is obedient to the Jedi council and makes a stable father figure to Anakin, and Qui-Gon Jinn is insistent that Anakin become a Jedi Knight and fulfill his destiny. | |
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Cowboy Cop | |
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Cowboy Cop: Qui-Gon is the Jedi version of this. He goes with his gut feelings, rather than established procedure. He bends the rules to see justice done. He's been passed over for promotion by the suits on the Jedi Council for his actions, and he's willing to challenge their authority. Oddly, by the time we reach Return of the Jedi, Luke Skywalker seems more like Qui-Gon (who he's never met) than Kenobi or Yoda (who trained him). Later explained in that Obi-Wan and Yoda received training from Qui-Gon's Force ghost and presumably passed his teachings on to Luke. (More precisely, Obi-Wan and Yoda realized that they were too caught up with Jedi dogma until Qui-Gon brought them back to the spirit of the Force.) | |
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Keystone Army | |
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Keystone Army: Every unit in the droid army malfunctions as soon as the control ship explodes. Explained by later media as the Nemoidians not trusting the droids and wanting a way to disable them if something goes wrong. Later media also show the Separatists learned from this mistake and made the droids more independent. The Gungan army turns and runs as soon as their shield generator is knocked out. Justified, because while the shield was up the only thing that could get through was the Trade Federation's infantry. After the shield is down their heavy firepower could move in. | |
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Fighter-Launching Sequence | |
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Fighter-Launching Sequence: The Naboo fighter pilots who the heroes rescued during their escape from the planet earlier in the film make off in their fighters during the film's climax. One of them is shot down on takeoff and crashes in a valley below. | |
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Running the Blockade | |
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Running the Blockade: The Jedi and the Queen escape Naboo through the Trade Federation blockade aboard the Queen's royal cruiser. | |
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Wacky Racing | |
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Wacky Racing: Podracers collide into each other, Tusken Raiders fire at the racers, and the track is filled with obstacles, so Qui-Gon is right when he says that racers need to have Jedi-like reflexes to race. | |
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Parental Substitute | |
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Parental Substitute: Qui-Gon serves as one to Obi-Wan for as long as they've been training together. He also acts as one to Anakin, who grew up (and was actually born) without a father. | |
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Point Defenseless | |
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Point Defenseless: The space battle at the end of the film shows the guns of the droid control ship are ineffective against the Naboo fighters and, most importantly, can't stop Anakin from landing in their hangar. Justified as it's actually a giant merchant ship that was originally unarmed (the powerful shields and the sheer size being its best defense against attacks from under-equipped pirates) and has been hastily refitted with some weapons before the invasion of Naboo (as a planetary government would have access to better weapons than pirates). They weren't even expecting any resistance, given that Naboo technically has no military at all. | |
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Offstage Villainy | |
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Offstage Villainy: After the Trade Federation invades Naboo, we keep being told that the people are suffering under the occupation and that the death toll is rising. The thing is, we never actually see any of the Nabooan citizens suffer, which makes the whole thing look more like Gunboat Diplomacy (albeit by a megacorp wilfully manipulated by a Sith lord) than a whole planet being "subjected to slavery and death". Qui-Gon says outright that he thinks it's a lie to draw them out, and we never really get confirmation either way. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: The Trade Federation has been defeated, Naboo regains freedom, but Qui-Gon is dead and Palpatine/Darth Sidious becomes Chancellor. | |
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Mystical Pregnancy | |
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Mystical Pregnancy: Shmi Skywalker says that Anakin has no father and she doesn't remember having ever slept with a man in the right period to have become pregnant by him, which Qui-Gon assumes to mean that he was conceived by the will of the Force. | |
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On Second Thought | |
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On Second Thought: Jar Jar tells Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan about the Gungans' underwater city being a safe place, but when asked to take them there, he responds "On second thought, no. Not really, no." citing that he was banished from the place, and the Bosses would do terrible things to him if he showed his face there again. He changes his mind again after the two Jedi convince him that what the Trade Federation army would do to him would be much worse. After Anakin wins the Boonta Eve, Watto tries to back out of his deal with Qui-Gon to let the boy go, insisting that it wasn't a fair bet and that Qui-Gon somehow knew the outcome beforehand. He quickly clams up when Qui-Gon suggests taking it to the Hutts. | |
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Mecha-Mooks | |
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Mecha-Mooks: This movie marks the debut of the droids, which are thin, tin humanoid robots which aren't particularly strong iindividually, but can become destructive when grouped. | |
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Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! | |
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Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Qui-Gon's tendency to do this has brought him at odds with the other Jedi, respected as he is. The most notable example is when he decides to have Anakin trained as a Jedi despite the Council explicitly telling him no, even attempting to train Anakin himself despite already having Obi-Wan as an apprentice and no Master being allowed to have more than one appreciate at a time. | |
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Tranquil Fury | |
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Tranquil Fury: Padmé never raises her voice, even when you can tell she is seething in rage. Sabe, her bodyguard, will raise her voice in the heat of battle. | |
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Pretty in Mink | |
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Pretty in Mink: Amidala's red dress is trimmed with brown fur. | |
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Honor Before Reason | |
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Honor Before Reason: Despite the Jedi Council's very clear and valid apprehensions towards making Anakin a Jedi, Qui-Gon is as determined as any to see the boy be trained. | |
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"I Can't Look!" Gesture | |
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"I Can't Look!" Gesture: As Anakin is preparing to start the podrace, Jar Jar says it's going to be nasty and that he's not watching before covering his eyes. | |
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Allowed Internal War | |
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Allowed Internal War: In the Backstory of this film, the Galactic Republic has become so mired in political corruption (plus, they abolished their regular military after the end of the last Sith Wars, leaving the Judicial Forces to basically bring Space Police cars to a Battlestar fight) that megacorporations like the Trade Federation and Intergalactic Banking Clan are able to control vast armies of droids and mercenaries, which they wield in Corporate Warfare against planetary governments that displease them. The plot of the film is set off when Senator Sheev "Darth Sidious" Palpatine covertly pushes the Trade Federation to escalate this to using its droid army to extort policy changes from the Republic Senate itself, in order to create a political crisis he can exploit to get himself elected Supreme Chancellor. | |
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Villain Takes an Interest | |
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Villain Takes an Interest: Impressed by Anakin's role in the liberation of Naboo, the newly-elected Chancellor Palpatine promises that he will watch Anakin's career with great interest. Only the audience, of course, knows this is a bad thing for Anakin, the Jedi Order, and the entire Galaxy. | |
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Intimidation Demonstration | |
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Intimidation Demonstration: Darth Maul turns towards Obi-Wan after killing Qui-Gon Jinn and swings his lightsaber around to taunt him. | |
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Important Haircut | |
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Important Haircut: A somewhat downplayed example. At the victory parade on Naboo at the end of the film, Anakin has cut his bowl cut hair short with a braid behind his right ear, signifying that he is now Obi-Wan's padawan, but it isn’t brought up specifically. | |
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Million Mook March | |
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Million Mook March: Where battle droids are marching in formation on the Trade Federation Control Ship shortly after the movie begins, and later as they march into battle outside the city on the planet near the film's climax. | |
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Mission Briefing | |
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Mission Briefing: Queen Amidala describes the plan for freeing Naboo while R2D2 displays a hologram outlining the palace raid. | |
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You Are a Credit to Your Race | |
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You Are a Credit to Your Race: Watto says this of Anakin after the latter wins the pod race. | |
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Faceless Masses | |
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Faceless Masses: In the scale model shots of the pod race, the crowd is played by rows of Q-tips with the heads painted various colors. | |
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The Stinger | |
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The Stinger: The iconic Vader Breath, which recalls what Anakin will become, is played towards the end of the credits. | |
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Capital Offensive | |
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Capital Offensive: The movie begins with the Trade Federation invading the planet Naboo. When the droid army arrives in the planet's capital of Theed and captures Queen Amidala, Viceroy Gunray declares "victory". However, the Queen escapes and later returns to lead La Résistance in a Capital Offensive of her own by storming the Royal Palace and capturing Gunray. | |
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Stock Sound Effects | |
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Stock Sound Effects: Aside from the more classic lightsaber sounds, good ol' Wilhelm scream and blaster shots, a few, more generic sounds can be distinctly heard in a few scenes, which can be rather glaring in comparison to the other more decent sound effects of the film: When Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, and Amidala rescue a group of hostages and destroy a few B1 battle droids in order to travel to Tatooine, we're briefly treated to the severed half of a droid which makes a very common electric spark sound. (Heard at the beginning of this video.) When Anakin is showing his podracer to his friends on Tatooine, this children laughter sound is heard. When Jar Jar is seen exploring Anakin's house on Tatooine, he briefly hits some pieces of junk and a droid and a very familiar cartoon hit can be heard. | |
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Body Double | |
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Queen Amidala being revealed as Padme using Body Doubles is hinted at multiple times. When the Jedi rescue the Queen and their entourage, the Queen expresses concern about the danger of leaving the planet before looking at Padme who affirms it as the right course of action. When at Mos Espa Padme tells Qui-Gon that the Queen would not approve of betting their ship on a pod race and he responds the Queen won't have to know about it, which Padme replies "Well, I don't approve." Anakin then visits the Naboo residence on Coruscant hoping to say goodbye to Padme and only finds the Queen, who says she is certain Padme would be grateful he stopped by. | |
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Scenery Porn | |
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Scenery Porn: The forests of Naboo and the skyscrapers of Coruscant are absolutely beautiful. | |
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Combat Pragmatist | |
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Combat Pragmatist: When separated from Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon manages to hold his own against Darth Maul's lightsaber strikes. So what does Maul do to get the better of him? He butts Qui-Gon in the face with the hilt of his lightsaber to catch him off guard and then impales him through the chest. | |
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Big "WHAT?!" | |
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Big "WHAT?!": Anakin's reaction to Qui-Gon telling him he's been freed. | |
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Advertised Extra | |
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Advertised Extra: A costume example rather than a character, but Queen Amidala's iconic red gown and gold hair piece, that were slathered all over the marketing, only appear in three brief scenes at the beginning before vanishing from the film altogether. Darth Maul, whose only scene of significance is his duel with the Jedi at the end. He has only three lines and only briefly appears up to that point. Nonetheless, he was featured all over the film's advertising campaign. | |
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Lost Him in a Card Game | |
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Lost Him in a Card Game: Anakin and his mother Shmi were slaves whose prior owner, Gardulla the Hutt, lost them betting on podraces to Watto, and Anakin wins his freedom after another podrace. And whether it was Anakin or his mother was decided by a chance cube throw. The Jedi didn't exactly leave it to chance, though. Anakin and his mother were originally owned by a Hutt named Gardulla who won them by cheating in this game (and Gardulla tended to cheat at sabacc a lot). Watto won them from her by betting on another pod race, and he was known to cheat too; the dice cube he used in that previous example was loaded, according to some sources. (Still, at least he wasn't as cruel as the Hutts tended to be.) | |
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Hammer Hilt | |
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Hammer Hilt: Darth Maul wins his duel against Qui-Gon by hitting him in the face with the hilt of his double-bladed lightsaber, stunning him long enough for Maul to impale him. | |
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War Comes Home | |
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War Comes Home: Played straight with the Naboo and the Gungans who are subject to an invasion by the droid armies of the Trade Federation. Queen Amidala is forced to leave her home planet before leading a battle against the droid armies to liberate her homeworld after the Senate fails to act. | |
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Deadly Dust Storm | |
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Deadly Dust Storm: One forces Qui-Gon's party to take shelter in Anakin's house on Tatooine. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: Qui-Gon tries to make sense of why Anakin Skywalker is so powerful at the age of ten, and asks Shmi Skywalker about Anakin's father. She answers, "There was no father." | |
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Wham Shot | |
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Wham Shot: A downplayed variation with Sidious and Maul's sole scene together on Coruscant. Every other shot of Sidious throughout the film is him as a hologram. So, it definitively confirms that the eponymous "phantom menace" is indeed flesh and blood. Lucas even acknowledges this was his intent here on the DVD Commentary. | |
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Insert Grenade Here | |
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Insert Grenade Here: Jar Jar Binks does a variation with one of the energy balls the Gungans use. As a result of Lethal Klutz antics of his, no so much out of battle awareness. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: See the Star Wars page. | |
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Passed-Over Promotion | |
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Passed-Over Promotion: Qui-Gon's Cowboy Jedi antics prevent him from getting a seat on the Jedi Council. | |
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Unorthodox Sheathing | |
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Unorthodox Sheathing: While not having an actual sheath, Qui-Gon Jinn ignites his Lightsaber before it's fully left his belt, making it look like he's "drawing" the energy blade. He does the same thing when "sheathing" it. | |
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Luke, I Might Be Your Father | |
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Luke, I Might Be Your Father: Shmi Skywalker insists that there was no biological father she knows of, with George Lucas later stating that Anakin was directly conceived by the Force. | |
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Technology Porn | |
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Technology Porn: The movie shows the sequence of the Droid Army being deployed against the Gungan army. | |
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Dramatic Sit-Down | |
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When Amidala calls for a no-confidence vote against Valorum, he collapses into his chair, fully realizing that his career is over. | |
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Sinister Geometry | |
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Sinister Geometry: The movie adheres to the Sinister Geometry-coded villains with the Trade Federation's droid army squaring off against the organic Gungans and the elegant, shapely yellow/silver Naboo starfighters. Darth Maul's Scimitar also looks like a fusion between a TIE Advanced x1 and a Star Destroyer, in contrast to the heroes' Royal Starship. | |
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Age-Gap Romance | |
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Age-Gap Romance: Anakin and Padmé have a slight one in the prequel trilogy, with a 5-year age gap between nine-year-old Anakin and 14-year-old Padmé in this movie. | |
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Falling into the Cockpit | |
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Falling into the Cockpit: Anakin Skywalker, ironically in a manner of following Qui-Gon's orders: | |
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Elective Monarchy | |
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Elective Monarchy: Naboo's monarchy even has term limits, making it essentially just a presidential republic that calls itself a monarchy. Supplementary materials state that the planet started as a monarchy and transitioned to a democratic republic without bothering to alter the titles and regalia. | |
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Bookends | |
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Bookends: In the Original Trilogy, Palpatine made his first appearance in a holographic transmission. He does the same here for his first appearance in the Prequel Trilogy. On the DVD Commentary, Lucas stated this was intentional. | |
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Ending Memorial Service | |
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Ending Memorial Service: The Jedi hold a funeral for Qui-Gon Jinn at the end of the movie. | |
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Flash Step | |
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When Obi-Wan is running into the hallway with shields to rejoin the fight duel with Qui-Gon and Darth Maul, he runs at a normal speed instead of using the Force-enhanced super speed he displayed at the beginning of the movie. Had Obi-Wan used this power, there's a chance that Qui-Gon would have survived the duel. | |
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Iconic Sequel Song | |
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Iconic Sequel Song: "Duel of the Fates" is one of the most signature themes from the films, which didn't appear until this film (which is the fourth overall and first prequel). | |
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Combat Clairvoyance | |
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Combat Clairvoyance: This is the explanation for the Jedi Knights' superior combat skills and ability to block lasers with their lightsabers — they've got the ability to predict the future in a limited way, so they bring their lightsabers into position to parry a shot before it's actually fired. This is brought up when Qui-Gon Jinn pegs Anakin as a potential Jedi due to his ability to participate in podracing — a sport that human reflexes simply aren't fast enough to keep up with. Jedi can also look further into the future, but this generally requires a lot more effort and is less reliable. We also see Obi-Wan's horrified reaction to a glimpse into the near-future, a few seconds before Qui-Gon is killed by Darth Maul. He wasn't actively fighting, but he could see where the fight was going. Sadly, he was physically separated from the fighting by a force field and unable to intervene until it as too late. | |
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City Planet | |
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City Planet: Ric Olié describes Coruscant in this fashion. It is a planet-wide city. | |
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Bat Deduction | |
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Bat Deduction: Governor Sio Bibble declares that "A communications disruption can only mean one thing: Invasion. We've lost all communications!" This before they have even confirmed that the problem is planetwide, or even that the communications disruption is the result of hostile action. While it is logical to conclude that the Trade Federation, which is already blockading the planet, would jam Naboo's communications with the rest of the galaxy (and thus their means of calling for help) prior to invading, this is hardly the only reason for a communications failure. | |
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Achievements in Ignorance | |
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Achievements in Ignorance: Jar Jar Binks ends up destroying much of the Trade Federation's battle droids during the Battle of Naboo by pure chance and coincidence. Examples include him opening up a crate of ammunition that rolls out and hits the droids, and shooting a bunch of them while trying to get unstuck to a destroyed droid. Despite being forced to learn how to pilot a Naboo fighter pilot on the fly, Anakin ends up destroying the Trade Federation ship in space by accidentally firing two torpedos at the main reactor while trying to destroy some battle droids. | |
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Fantastic Racism | |
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Fantastic Racism: The Gungans and the Naboo appear to not like each other very much and live segregated from each other in underwater and aboveground cities, respectively. Later on they form an alliance to end the Trade Federation's occupation of their planet. | |
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Chromatic Arrangement | |
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Chromatic Arrangement: The battle droids of the Trade Federation (seen most prominently in this movie and related materials) loosely follow this pattern; while standard infantry droids are all white, pilot droids display blue accents, security droids red, and command officer droids yellow. | |
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Recycled IN SPACE! | |
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The podrace is a space-age Chariot Race, complete with giant engines in place of horses, and the whole sequence is a huge reference to Ben-Hur (1959). | |
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Air-Vent Passageway | |
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Air-Vent Passageway: After escaping from two droideka robots inside the Trade Federation ship, Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon use a ventilation shaft to move to the area where preparations for the invasion of Naboo are going on. | |
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BottomlessPit | |
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Darth Maul's opponent has fallen thirty feet down a Bottomless Pit and is barely holding onto an indent in the pit, giving Darth Maul the perfect opportunity to use his Force powers to throw his enemy to his death. Instead, Maul opts for a different strategy, one where he throws harmless sparks at his enemy until the latter gets enough resolve to jump out of the pit, stop to grab his saber, and cut a shocked Maul in half. | |
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Meaningful Background Event | |
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Meaningful Background Event: In a couple scenes while characters are going about their business on Tatooine, you might catch an inconspicuous floating droid hover past in the background - or catch a listen to their signature sound effect - which have a striking resemblance to those we saw belonging to Darth Maul... | |
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Disney Villain Death | |
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Disney Villain Death: Darth Maul falls down a deep shaft after getting sliced in half by Obi-Wan. Though as The Clone Wars would reveal, he actually survived. | |
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Eldritch Ocean Abyss | |
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Eldritch Ocean Abyss: The core of the planet Naboo holds vast subterranean oceans, which are inhabited by titanic dinosaur- and eel-like creatures. Jar Jar believes a trip through the Core would be a Suicide Mission, but the main characters survive with only minor incident. | |
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Oh, No... Not Again! | |
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Oh, No... Not Again!: "Yousa in big dudu this time!" Also, Obi-Wan's scene with Qui-Gon at the Jedi Temple. ("Do not defy the Council, Master, not again.") | |
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The Last DJ | |
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The Last DJ: Obi-Wan believes Qui-Gon would've been on the Jedi Council long ago if not for his tendency to do things his own way rather than by the Jedi Code; needless to say, Qui-Gon doesn't seem to mind. | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The Sith apprentice is Darth Maul. Guess what he does to his enemies... | |
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Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat | |
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Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: Played with in the Podrace; while Podracing is a Blood Sport done at breakneck speeds, Sebulba is more than willing to take time to handicap other racers (i.e. smashing Mawhonic's pod into a cliff wall, incinerating Clegg Holdfast's pod with a flamethrower, throwing a piece of junk into Mars Guo's engine to cause it to jam and explode). Unlike most examples, it doesn't particularly slow him down or cost him a lead; until he tries to pull it on Anakin, which, thanks to their pods becoming intertwined when Sebulba tries to ram him, gives Anakin a chance to boost ahead, thus tearing apart Sebulba's engine cables, triggering a humiliating chain-reaction destruction of his racer. | |
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The Rest Shall Pass | |
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The Rest Shall Pass: When they run into Darth Maul in the palace, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan step forward to fight him while the others continue. | |
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Almost Dead Guy | |
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Almost Dead Guy: Qui-Gon lasts long enough to beg Obi-Wan to train Anakin. | |
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Sacrificial Lion | |
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Sacrificial Lion: Qui-Gon's death at Darth Maul's hands shocks the Jedi into realizing the Sith have returned and dark days are on the horizon. | |
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Improbable Piloting Skills | |
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Improbable Piloting Skills: Anakin somehow manages to land the remaining section of a breaking-apart capital ship on a landing strip on Coruscant, plus blowing up the Droid Control ship, despite having never flown before. | |
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It's a Small World, After All | |
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It's a Small World, After All: Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi arrive in the Naboo capital city at the same time and place that the Queen and her entourage are being moved by their combat droid guards, allowing the two Jedi to rescue them. | |
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Plot Hole | |
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Plot Hole: The entire Tatooine storyline exists for little more reason than to justify the addition of Anakin Skywalker to the cast, triggered by Watto refusing to accept Republic currency for hyperdrive parts. Realistically, intrinsic value or not, the Republic is still by far the biggest power in the Galaxy Far, Far Away at this time, so finding some freighter captain who could get them to Coruscant and would need Republic currency when he got there ought to have been significantly easier and faster than going through all the rigmarole with the podrace. Shmi does get a throwaway line stating that they're very unlikely to find someone in Mos Espa who actually cares about the Republic in any way (and with their ship's engine dead they're not going anywhere fast, not even to another spaceport), though. | |
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Prohibited Hero Saves the Day | |
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Prohibited Hero Saves the Day: Anakin is told to stay put in the cockpit of a Naboo fighter in order to keep him out of the line of fire and safely away from battle. Technically he obeys, but that doesn't stop him taking the fighter into battle, destroying the Battle Droid control ship and preventing the imminent surrender of the good guys on the ground. | |
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Destroy the Villain's Weapon | |
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Destroy the Villain's Weapon: During the climax of the movie, Obi-Wan Kenobi slices Darth Maul's double-bladed lightsaber in half, leaving him to continue fighting with the half that's still functioning. Downplayed Trope, as Maul is no less dangerous with just a single blade. | |
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Spit Take | |
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Spit Take: Jar Jar does this in regards to how much a Gorgnote The amphibian-like animal that Gragra (the merchant) was selling at her booth cost (7 wupiupi). This actually got him into even more trouble as he ended up spitting it into Sebulba's soup, and likewise resulted in Sebulba beating the crap out of Jar Jar in revenge before Anakin broke it up. | |
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Forgot About His Powers | |
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Forgot About His Powers: Both the heroes and the villains provide an example. When Obi-Wan is running into the hallway with shields to rejoin the fight duel with Qui-Gon and Darth Maul, he runs at a normal speed instead of using the Force-enhanced super speed he displayed at the beginning of the movie. Had Obi-Wan used this power, there's a chance that Qui-Gon would have survived the duel. Darth Maul's opponent has fallen thirty feet down a Bottomless Pit and is barely holding onto an indent in the pit, giving Darth Maul the perfect opportunity to use his Force powers to throw his enemy to his death. Instead, Maul opts for a different strategy, one where he throws harmless sparks at his enemy until the latter gets enough resolve to jump out of the pit, stop to grab his saber, and cut a shocked Maul in half. | |
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Hauled Before a Senate Subcommittee | |
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Hauled Before A Senate Subcommittee: As Queen Amidala points out, Nute Gunray will have to explain his invasion of her peaceful kingdom to the Galaxy's Senate. | |
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Invisibility Cloak | |
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Invisibility Cloak: Darth Maul's ship has a cloaking device. | |
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Refused by the Call | |
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Refused by the Call: Qui-Gon Jinn finds and brings in Anakin Skywalker when he realizes that he has a majorly high Midichlorian count, meaning he is most likely The Chosen One. He's brought before the Jedi Council... and is told that he can't be trained - he's too old, thus he has emotions that would ruin it all as it would lead to The Dark Side. He's made a Padawan nonetheless when Qui-Gon is killed by Darth Maul, as Qui-Gon specifically asked for Anakin to be trained as a last wish. | |
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Secret Secret-Keeper | |
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Secret Secret-Keeper: Qui-Gon knows handmaiden Padmé is actually Queen Amidala; he's unsurprised and gives a knowing look to Obi-Wan when she publicly reveals her identity — presumably, he keeps the secret for her own protection. He also takes the opportunity to rile her up a bit when she complains about his riskier plans, saying that he's sure the Queen will approve of his decisions. | |
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Fictional Political Party | |
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Fictional Political Party: Before the Clone Wars, the Republic had two factions in the Senate. The Core Faction was liberal, supportive of trade tariffs, and made mostly of humans. The Rim Faction was conservative, anti-tariff, and made up of non-humans. During the election alluded to in this film, Bail Antilles represented the Core Faction, Ainlee Teem represented the Rim Faction, Palpatine was independent, and Valorum was just fighting for his career; every faction had abandoned him. | |
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Bizarrchitecture | |
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Bizarrchitecture: The Trade Federation flagships have a decidedly unorthodox design scheme for a spaceship, having a shape that can basically be described as a half eaten donut with a donut hole in the middle. Attack of the Clones revealed that the center sphere is detachable and can function as a spaceship in and of itself, with the outer ring serving as the cargo holds for their droid army and supplies, complete with two parallel hangar bays on the open ends of the ring. | |
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Militaries Are Useless | |
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Militaries Are Useless: When the Trade Federation invades Naboo with their robot army in The Phantom Menace, the galactic authorities are completely impotent to stop them until Queen Amidala calls for a Vote of No Confidence in Chanceller Valorum's leadership. | |
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Mook Horror Show | |
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Mook Horror Show: Invoked by the creators with the Trade Federation members hiding from the Jedi which nothing could stop. The DVD commentary specifically states this was an inversion of the typical "humans cowering in fear of the unstoppable alien" dynamic from old horror movies. | |
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Born into Slavery | |
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Born into Slavery: Anakin Skywalker is a child slave when we first meet him, though it's ambiguous whether he was born into it or if he and his mother were enslaved when he was a child: he remembers their sale to Gardulla the Hutt, who then lost them to their current owner Watto betting on the podraces, but doesn't speak of anything prior to that. | |
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Be the Ball | |
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Be the Ball: The droidekas introduced in this film curl themselves into a ball and roll into battle before emerging in a tripod stance and deploying their Deflector Shields. | |
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Naval Blockade | |
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Naval Blockade: By the Trade Federation around Naboo, which kicks off the action. | |
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Overdrive | |
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Overdrive: The podrace. Sometimes Anakin passes other racers with ease, and other times he keeps pace with Sebulba over long straightaways. It also genuinely makes zero sense that he wasn't going as fast as he could to begin with, considering how he started the race in last place due to engine failure and his freedom was on the line. Explained in the spin-off videogame: The engines can't run at full power for very long before they begin to overheat, and once their temperature passes the redline they will very quickly seize up, catch fire or otherwise fail catastrophically. | |
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The Reveal | |
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The only time Padmé actually appears as Queen on Naboo before The Reveal is during her meeting with Senator Palpatine (and a single scene after when she is watching the invasion), her plea before the Galactic Senate, and when Anakin asks her to say goodbye to Padmé for him when he thinks they'll never see each other again. If you carefully watch these scenes again, it's pretty clear the Queen's face is Natalie Portman, not Keira Knightley (her Body Double's actress). You can also tell something is up when the Queen is in red and gold when the Federation invades, but has changed completely different dark blue costume shortly after when the Federation captures her. The double is also taking cues from Padmé about what to do next; when she mentions the journey to Coruscant will be dangerous, she specifically addresses her "handmaiden", and Padmé's reply, "We are brave, your highness," gives her the go-ahead to agree to accompany the Jedi. | |
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Mentor Occupational Hazard | |
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Mentor Occupational Hazard: Qui-Gon, as the mentor in the Student–Master Team against Darth Maul, does not survive the fight. | |
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Punny Name | |
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Punny Name: One of the podracer pilots Anakin competes against is named Boles Roor, an obvious play on "Bull's roar". | |
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Disc-One Final Boss | |
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Disc-One Final Boss: The movie ends with Yoda and Mace Windu wondering whether the Sith that Obi-Wan slew was the Big Bad or just a Disc One Final Boss. (The audience, having seen him taking orders from a man he calls "master" earlier in the film, knows the answer...and those that hadn't probably could've puzzled it out from the "Episode I" aspect.) However, the in-universe possibility they consider is that they had killed the Big Bad, meaning that the former Disc One Final Boss was now the new Big Bad. | |
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Let's Split Up, Gang! | |
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Let's Split Up, Gang!: When Padmé's party encounters Darth Maul, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan step forward to battle him so Padmé and the others can continue. | |
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Understatement | |
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Understatement: Jar Jar warns Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan to not expect a warm welcome from the Gungans. Little did he know that before they had to deal with Trade Federation droids in the swamps of Naboo, they also had to deal with, among other things, attempted murder by ship explosion, poison gas, and armies of battle droids and droidekas. | |
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Honest John's Dealership | |
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Honest John's Dealership: Watto is similar to the Jawas from A New Hope, except that he stays in one town with a permanent storefront. (A few Expanded Universe sources go so far as to say he learned most of the tricks of the Trope from them.) | |
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Cheaters Never Prosper | |
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Cheaters Never Prosper: The ruffian known as Sebulba tries to bump the child protagonist's car as soon as the kid takes second place, only for the kid to attach his car to Sebulba's, build up speeding using Sebulba's car, and then rip apart Sebulba's car in the process of breaking off from it, leaving Sebulba miles from the finish line with a third of his car intact. | |
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Radio Silence | |
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Radio Silence: It's vital that the Queen's shuttle not respond to the distress signals from Naboo to prevent giving away their location. But Darth Maul is somehow able to track them down anyway. The fact that Senator Palpatine is Darth Sidious, and that Maul is himself force-sensitive implies that he found them not by tracking the Queen, but her Jedi escorts. | |
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Named in the Sequel | |
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Named in the Sequel: The Emperor went unnamed in the original trilogy. Here his [sur]name is revealed to be Palpatine (the first name is Sheev, but that's not revealed within the films proper). | |
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Knee Fold Fall of Defeat | |
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Knee Fold Fall of Defeat: Qui Gon Jinn falls to his knees after he is impaled by Darth Maul. | |
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Out-of-Genre Experience | |
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Out-of-Genre Experience: The brief Story Arc to have Qui-Gon free Anakin from slavery eschews space opera and political intrigue in favor of a half-hour diversion into a sports film, which is only tangentially connected to what came before. | |
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Pimped-Out Cape | |
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Pimped-Out Cape: About every other queen outfit Amidala wore had one. | |
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George Lucas Altered Version | |
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George Lucas Altered Version: Both the DVD and Blu-Ray releases made some changes to the film. The puppet Yoda is replaced with a CGI Yoda in the Blu-ray release. Lucas claimed he always intended Yoda to be fully CGI in the film, but early attempts at it were unsatisfactory, forcing them to use the puppet. The DVD and Blu-ray extends the podrace sequence with new footage, while also removing a shot of Watto cheering "Sebulba!" An effects error causing Fode and Beed's hand to pass through their vest was fixed. And right after Jabba the Hutt's introduction before the podrace, a new voice is heard from a spectator when the camera is focused on the crowd. A new air taxi scene is added to the arrival on Coruscant. The Blu-ray alters the Vote of No Confidence scene to remove the "Vote now!" chants from the crowd, leaving a general uproar in its place. Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan's Force speed effect in the opening (when they escape the Droidekas) was redone to look more realistic. A close-up shot of Nute Gunray and Rune Haako watching a viewscreen showing the Jedi escaping was replaced for a wide shot with a new effect for the screen itself. | |
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Action Prologue | |
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Action Prologue: The beginning of the movie has a fight aboard the Trade Federation battleship after the negotiations never take place. | |
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My Significance Sense Is Tingling | |
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My Significance Sense Is Tingling: Obi-Wan senses there's something darker about what's going on, not with the mission itself (which the Nemoidians intend as a single negotiation for a better deal with Naboo), but with something larger (beginning to sense the rising Sith Menace). Likewise, Qui-Gon senses Maul moments before he attacks on Tatooine. | |
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Screw the Rules, I Make Them! | |
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Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: When Sidious orders Nute Gunray to land his troops on Naboo, Gunray wonders if that's actually legal. Sidious, who in his civilian identity is an influential politician, snaps that he will make it legal. On hearing that the Jedi Council won't let Anakin become a Padawan, Qui-Gon says that he will take on the boy as his apprentice and that Obi-Wan is ready to face the trials to become a Knight. This is against Jedi protocol. | |
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Balkanize Me | |
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The federal government of the Republic is shown to be so comically corrupt and ineffective in this film that it frankly defies willing suspension of disbelief that the nation-state hasn't utterly disintegrated already. The setup for the film is approximately equivalent to Microsoft deciding to address the 1990s antitrust cases by using a mercenary army to take the entire state of Washington hostage, and the US federal government responding by idly wondering if maybe it was possibly their problem that a private corporation had engaged in an open act of insurrection. | |
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Actually, I Am Him | |
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Actually, I Am Him: Queen Amidala traveled with a host of decoys for security purposes, it seems. What makes her an example of the trope is that she's always disguised as one of her own attendants, as opposed to moving completely behind the scenes. Qui-Gon knows handmaiden Padmé is the queen, and takes every opportunity to rile her up when mentioning how the queen will approve of his choices. | |
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Rock Beats Laser | |
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Rock Beats Laser: There's a technologically superior army dealing with an inferior group, it's notably averted: although the Gungans did manage to do in some numbers of the Droid Army in the climactic battlenote It helps that the Gungans aren't truly primitive; they just use very different technology based on a unique form of plasma extracted from Naboo's core. While they have beasts of burden rather than vehicles and catapults rather than laser cannons, they also have laser-reflecting plasma shields and those catapults are used to throw plasma orbs that go through tank armor like a hot knife through butter., they overall lost badly. In fact, literally the only reason they managed to live to tell the day was through sheer dumb luck from Anakin managing to blow up the Droid Control Ship, causing the droid units to shut down. | |
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Government-Exploited Crisis | |
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Government-Exploited Crisis: In the backstory of the film series, after their last defeat, the Sith spent centuries working in secret to manufacture crises and exploit naturally occurring ones to degrade the Galactic Republic. They begin to execute the final stage of the plan in The Phantom Menace: Darth Sidious, publicly Senator Sheev Palpatine of Naboo, gets the Trade Federation to take his home planet hostage to extort the Senate, and has enough other senators and bureaucrats in his pocket to stymie any response. He uses this to manipulate the planetary governor, Queen Amidala of Naboo, into calling a vote of no confidence against Chancellor Valorum and get himself voted in. From here he continues to degrade democracy and the rule of law until he's able to trick the Senate into voting him absolute power. From there it's only a matter of time before he has an opportunity to declare himself Emperor. | |
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Violence is the Only Option | |
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Violence is the Only Option: Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon are sent to Naboo for negotiations. The Trade Federation floods the negotiation room with poison gas and sends a half dozen battle droids. Padme Amidala tries to go before the Senate to stop an invasion/genocide taking place on her planet. When they want to put it off for a committee to examine, she votes the Chancellor out of office and returns to take Naboo back by force. | |
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Stumbling Upon the Lost Wizard | |
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Stumbling Upon the Lost Wizard: Qui-Gonn stumbles upon the Chosen One and son of a virgin mother, Anakin Skywalker, because they randomly decided to look for ship parts in the one neighborhood on the one planet where anyone like Anakin existed. | |
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Motile Vehicular Components | |
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Motile Vehicular Components: Darth Maul's ship is built around a spherical cockpit, and its control surfaces rotate out of the way to open the door. | |
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Comic-Book Adaptation | |
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Comic-Book Adaptation: The film received a four-issue comic book miniseries by Dark Horse Comics that adapts the films events very closely, save for invokedsome minor dialogue differences held over from earlier drafts of the script. | |
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Disproportionate Reward | |
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Disproportionate Reward: Jar Jar declares himself the "humble servant" of Qui-Gon for pushing him out of the way of a Trade Federation vehicle. Qui-Gon is less than thrilled. | |
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Explosive Instrumentation | |
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Explosive Instrumentation: The destruction of the control ship's main reactor by Anakin causes the droid control computer to malfunction and explode. The captain and ship staff are in front of the computer when it explodes, killing them all just as the bridge is incinerated. | |
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An Offer You Can't Refuse | |
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An Offer You Can't Refuse: Yeah... forcing a ruler to sign a document during war and with a gun pointed to her head. It doesn't matter which galaxy you're in, or how far far away it is, that's not binding because it's clearly under duress. (And why do invasions need to be legal?) Mind that Panaka says they wouldn't dare kill the queen until she signs, but Qui-Gon retorts the Trade Federation could hire a pawn that would sign the document. | |
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Impossibly Cool Clothes | |
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Impossibly Cool Clothes: Amidala's wardrobe. Also a plot point, her makeup and clothing was designed specifically to make it impossible to see who was Amidala and who was her decoy. Keira Knightley played her decoy, who does somewhat resemble Natalie Portman. note It worked; when in makeup and costume, Keira's mother couldn't tell them apart. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Aside from the trouble Jar Jar causes in this theatrical film, there is also the time when Qui-Gon made it his dying wish for Obi-Wan to train Anakin. Those familiar enough with the Canon's overall story would know that this didn't exactly work out all that well. Padmé, following Palpatine's recommendation to call for a vote of no confidence, allowing the villain-in-sheep's clothing to become Chancellor. Knowing what led to Anakin turning to the dark side, the Jedi not accepting him earlier before Obi-Wan essentially threatened to go against the Order to train him himself also qualifies somewhat. More to the point, the Jedi Council knew that Anakin's mother was still a slave and if they'd just taken half an hour to go and rescue her after the events of the movie, it would have prevented her death and Anakin's first step to the dark side. | |
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Airstrike Impossible | |
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Airstrike Impossible: Bravo Squadron's assault on the Battle Droid Control Ship. It quickly becomes clear that they have the deck stacked against them—the ship's deflector shield is too strong for their starfighters to penetrate, and the ship is heavily armed and has an endless supply of Droid Starfighters to launch against the tiny squadron of royal fighters. It takes Anakin's flight into the ship's hangar and sabotage of the ship's reactor to turn the tide. | |
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Small Role, Big Impact | |
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Small Role, Big Impact: Darth Maul, technically, only has about 10 minutes of screen time and even fewer lines of dialogue. But the sheer importance of his role can be seen in the posters, as one possible interpretation of "The Phantom Menace" is that it is referring to him (the other options are Palpatine/Sidious and Anakin). After all, he did kill Qui-Gon Jinn, which forced Anakin unto Obi-Wan Kenobi, who was said to train him in the Original Trilogy. | |
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Separated by the Wall | |
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Separated by the Wall: Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan are separated by a Force-Field Door which prevents Obi-Wan from saving Qui-Gon from being killed by Darth Maul. | |
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Don't Think, Feel | |
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Don't Think, Feel: Said almost verbatim by Qui-Gon to Anakin before the podrace. | |
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The Chooser of the One | |
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The Chooser of the One: When he meets Anakin and sees what he's capable of, Qui-Gon is convinced he's found The Chosen One of Jedi prophecy. | |
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Star Wars (Franchise) | |
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A Star Wars staple, which probably reaches its highest point in the area beneath the palace where Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan fight Maul - a series of catwalks with no railings over a bottomless pit. Plus a corridor lined with energy fields that seemingly activate and deactivate according to some computer-controlled pattern and lack any apparent means of detecting whether or not there are people in the corridor. It makes Cloud City look like a model of industrial safety in comparison! | |
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Identity Impersonator | |
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Identity Impersonator: The Queen's handmaidens are chosen in part to act as decoys when the need arises. For portions of the movie, Queen Amidala disguises herself as the simple handmaiden Padmé, while another handmaiden (Sabé) wears the white makeup. (Sabé was one of Keira Knightley's first roles, playing off her facial similarity to Natalie Portman.) | |
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Down in the Dumps | |
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Down in the Dumps: Watto's junkyard on Tatooine is pivotal to the plot as it is where Qui-Gon goes to find a replacement part for the disabled starship and this leads him and Padme to meet Anakin, who works there. | |
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Final Battle | |
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Final Battle: There are 4 of them (a 3-way lightsaber duel, a massive ground battle, a big space battle and a smaller ground assault). It's been pointed out that the Star Wars theatrical films had an increasing number of final battles per movie. At an early screening for execs and higher-ups the editor pointed out that because there was so much going on the audience's mood was being pulled from comedy to drama to excitement to sadness so much that it was losing its power. Lucas realized that he had gone overboard and that he couldn't fix it in the editing because all four battles are intertwined, and in the latter two movies he backed down on it significantly. | |
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Inevitable Tournament | |
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Inevitable Tournament: The pod-racing. The prize money is needed to advance the plot, since Republic credits are no good on Tatooine. | |
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EMP | |
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The Jawas are known to be experts in scavenging and re-purposing even derelict junk, turning it into workable technology without having any real understanding of the mechanical processes involved. They don't comprehend how the EMP discharge from an ion blaster creates a power surge through a droid's circuits. They just figure out that if you attach a restraining bolt to a stripped-down blaster and fire it at a droid, that droid gets paralyzed. | |
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The Cassandra | |
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The Cassandra: Qui-Gon's belief that the Sith have returned and that Anakin is The Chosen One are initially dismissed by the Jedi Council, but turn out to be true. | |
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Grappling-Hook Pistol | |
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Grappling-Hook Pistol: The "ascension guns", which seem to be an attachment to the security forces' blaster pistols. The size of the rope, at least, is hand waved by its being "liquid cable". They are used during the assault to retake the Naboo palace by Queen Amidala and her retinue to circumvent the battle droids and reach the upper floor. | |
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Doing In the Wizard | |
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Doing In the Wizard: Downplayed Trope. Midichlorians provide a bit of scientific explanation to why some people are more receptive to the Force than others, and why it can be passed down in a family, but they do not explain what the Force is. In fact, when Qui-Gon explains them to Anakin, he specifically states, that the midichlorians only communicate the will of the Force, making it clear that the Force is higher consciousness, and not the midichlorians themselves, nor is it generated by them. | |
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Show, Don't Tell | |
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Show, Don't Tell: Padmé says "My people are suffering," and Sio Bibble says "The death toll is catastrophic," but we don't really see the impact that the Trade Federation invasion had on Naboo. As all communications are blacked out, that conspicuously clear message must be a fake made by the Trade Federation to induce Amidala to reveal her position and there is actually nothing to see. | |
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Refusal of the Call | |
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Refusal of the Call: Both Padmé and Anakin. The former is initially hesitant to leave her suffering people on Naboo for Coruscant and the latter has trepidation of leaving his enslaved mother behind in order to become a Jedi. | |
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Always a Bigger Fish | |
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Always a Bigger Fish: Trope Namer. Qui-Gon says this as he goes along with Obi-Wan and Jar Jar to travel in a bongo sub through the watery core of Naboo, and are saved from a predator by another bigger predator twice in a row. | |
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Extra Eyes | |
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The movie introduces the podracer Mawhonic, a member of the Gran, a species of stocky goat-like aliens with three eyes on stalks arranged in a pyramidal fashion. Several other members of the species have been seen throughout the expanded universe. | |
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Meaningful Funeral | |
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Meaningful Funeral: After being killed by Darth Maul in a lightsaber duel in The Phantom Menace, Qui-Gon Jinn is cremated in a funeral ceremony attended by Queen Amidala, Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Chancellor Palpatine, members of the Jedi Council, and various Naboo officials. During the funeral Yoda and Mace Windu discuss the fact there is likely a second Sith Lord active, without realizing that he (Palpatine) only stood a few feet away. | |
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Non-Dubbed Grunts | |
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Non-Dubbed Grunts: Obi-Wan's Big "NO!" when Qui-Gon gets stabbed is left undubbed in the European French, European Spanish, and Italian dubs of the movie. | |
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Secret-Identity Identity | |
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Secret-Identity Identity: Two prominent Naboo figures, Padmé and Palpatine, have cultivated two identities to deal public and private matters separately. In both cases, the public identity is the mask while the undercover identity is their true self. Padmé's is out of actual need, Palpatine's is... well... Queen Amidala is the emotionless, pampered queen who sits within the comfort of her guards and commands with a regal voice. Padmé Naberrie is the sweet, kind handmaiden who befriends the lowly slaves and outcasts and speaks with a natural voice. Notably, Padmé Naberrie is her birth name and Amidala is merely a given name that sticks with her long after her tenure as Queen of Naboo. Sheev Palpatine is the wise, humble senator who has been jaded by political corruption in the Senate, but believes things will get better if a stronger Chancellor is elected. Darth Sidious is the evil, manipulative Sith Lord responsible for the invasion of Naboo and much of corruption within the Republic. Tellingly, Darth Sidious appears first and feels more real than Senator Palpatine. | |
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Multiple Head Case | |
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Multiple Head Case: Fode and Beed, the two-headed Troig announcer , though the only clue to the differing personalities is that each head speaks a different language. There are two main languages on Tatooine: Galactic Basic and Huttese. Some people can't understand Basic but do understand Huttese, and vice versa. That particular announcer was chosen because he could easily and fluently speak both at the same time. | |
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Half the Man He Used to Be | |
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Half the Man He Used to Be: Darth Maul gets (non-fatally) bisected by Obi-Wan. | |
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Rule of Symbolism | |
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Rule of Symbolism: The virgin birth of Anakin Skywalker, who according to an ancient prophecy is said to bring balance to the Force. He also likes to build things and lived in the desert. The image of Darth Maul resembles the Christian Devil as well. | |
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game | |
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game: A dice game is used to decide whether Anakin Skywalker or his mother will go free. Qui-Gon Jinn cheats and uses the Force to flip the dice such that Anakin gets to go free. Qui-Gon also wagers the ship the main cast came to Tatooine on, which would leave them stranded with no way to stop the Trade Federation if they lost. | |
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Robot Antennae | |
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Robot Antennae: B1 battle droids have antennae of this type on their backpacks. They're controlled by a large space station in orbit, so they need it to receive signals. | |
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Subtle Superpowering | |
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Subtle Superpowering: After discovering that Anakin is immensely strong in The Force, the Jedi Qui-Gon Jinn attempts to barter with the slaveowner Watto for the enslaved Anakin and his mother. Since what Qui-Gon is offering is only worth one slave and Watto is big into gambling, he rolls a die to determine which slave Qui-Gon will get. Qui-Gon subtly uses Force manipulation to make the die land on a side that will get him Anakin. Notably, before this exchange, Qui-Gon attempted a less-subtle Jedi Mind Trick but Watto, being a Toydarian, was too greedy to fall for it. | |
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Rite of Passage | |
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Rite of Passage: Amidala has to prove her capability as queen and even wears a debutante ball-gown like dress for the parade scene. | |
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Contrasting Sequel Setting | |
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Contrasting Sequel Setting: The movie introduces the lush Naboo and the mass metropolis of Coruscant, which are colorul, thriving locations that contrast the less lively settings often seen in the original trilogy. | |
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Mid-Battle Tea Break | |
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Mid-Battle Tea Break: Justified in the final battle between Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, and Darth Maul when the three combatants are temporarily separated by some force fields. Qui-Gon takes a moment to meditate and compose himself, Maul takes an experimental slash at the field before pacing around and giving Qui-Gon a Death Glare, and Obi-Wan just stands around nervously. | |
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It's Personal with the Dragon | |
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It's Personal with the Dragon: Obi-Wan and Maul only fulfill this trope during the last ten minutes of their fight thanks to Maul murdering Obi-Wan's mentor Qui-Gon Jinn. | |
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Theme Song Reveal | |
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Theme Song Reveal: Anakin's theme including chords from The Imperial March. A more subtle one is the joyful parade tune played during the film's post-climax celebration. It's Emperor Palpatine's theme from Return of the Jedi, in a major key instead of a minor key, with a children's choir backing it. | |
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Big Bad Duumvirate | |
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Big Bad Duumvirate: Palpatine is the one behind the Trade Federation's invasion, but doesn't get personally involved. The main threats instead are Nute Gunray, the cowardly leader of the Federation, and Darth Maul, Palpatine's apprentice who serves as The Heavy. | |
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Rewatch Bonus | |
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Rewatch Bonus: The only time Padmé actually appears as Queen on Naboo before The Reveal is during her meeting with Senator Palpatine (and a single scene after when she is watching the invasion), her plea before the Galactic Senate, and when Anakin asks her to say goodbye to Padmé for him when he thinks they'll never see each other again. If you carefully watch these scenes again, it's pretty clear the Queen's face is Natalie Portman, not Keira Knightley (her Body Double's actress). You can also tell something is up when the Queen is in red and gold when the Federation invades, but has changed completely different dark blue costume shortly after when the Federation captures her. The double is also taking cues from Padmé about what to do next; when she mentions the journey to Coruscant will be dangerous, she specifically addresses her "handmaiden", and Padmé's reply, "We are brave, your highness," gives her the go-ahead to agree to accompany the Jedi. Panaka looks annoyed when he instructs the Jedi to take the queen's handmaiden Padmé on Amidala's orders to scout the planet. He's actually worried for the queen's safety, since she is Padmé and wants to explore the planet to get the parts they need, but will carry out her orders against his wishes. Qui-Gon doesn't seem too surprised to learn that Padmé is actually the queen, hinting that he'd worked it out some time before. It lends some extra hilarity to rewatching their interactions on Tatooine, when it can look like Qui-Gon is gently trolling her when they discuss whether Queen Amidala would approve of what he's doing. | |
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As You Know | |
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As You Know: "Our blockade is perfectly legal, and we would be happy to receive ambassadors..." | |
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Decoy Leader | |
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Decoy Leader: The Queen is stuck in a tough firefight with a group of murderous robots, only for the Queen's Body Double to walk through the doorway in the full royal regalia, proudly announce that she's the real queen, and duck into the hallway to the left with the robots in pursuit. | |
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Take Up My Sword | |
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Take Up My Sword: Qui-Gon dies before he has a chance to properly train Anakin and tells Obi-Wan to take his place. | |
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom | |
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Qui-Gon's determination to have Anakin trained as a Jedi spells doom for the Jedi Order and decades of conflict for the rest of the galaxy. It's not entirely his fault, though; if he'd lived to train Anakin on his own, it would have been more difficult for Palpatine to subtly manipulate Anakin towards the dark side, as Anakin would have been mentored by the master who was the closest thing to a father he had ever known and also knew what he was doing rather than a grieving and inexperienced Obi-Wan. | |
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All-Loving Hero | |
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All-Loving Hero: Qui-Gon shows no contempt for any living creature, not even for the ever irritating Jar Jar Binksnote aside from minor annoyance, the scummy slave-trader and gambler Watto, or the ruthless Sith Lord Darth Maul. | |
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Arms and Armor Theme Naming | |
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Arms and Armor Theme Naming: Darth Maul is The Brute, so it's hardly surprising he named himself after a bludgeoning melee weapon. Ironically though, he wields a double-bladed lightsaber that's very complex to wield. | |
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Death by Cameo | |
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Death by Cameo: Visual effects supervisor John Knoll's character, Rya Kirsch, is killed by the droid control ship's blasters towards the end of the film. | |
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Slow-Motion Fall | |
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Slow-Motion Fall: Qui-Gon Jinn, after Darth Maul finishes him. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Anakin's theme includes chords from The Imperial March. | |
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Official Presidential Transport | |
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Official Presidential Transport: The unnamed royal cruiser that Queen Amidala uses to escape past the Trade Federation's blockade, which comes complete with a throne room for her. | |
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Reality Has No Subtitles | |
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Reality Has No Subtitles: Whatever young Anakin says to the Hutts is untranslated. | |
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This Is Gonna Suck | |
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This Is Gonna Suck: When Amidala calls for a no-confidence vote against Valorum, he collapses into his chair, fully realizing that his career is over. Captain Tarpals says "Ouch time" when the battle droids unfold and start marching. Qui-Gon can only give an awkward smile before leaving after he tries and fails to Mind Trick Watto into taking Republic credits for the parts he needs, clearly having expected that to work and not having a plan B just yet. | |
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Elite Mooks | |
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Elite Mooks: The destroyer droids (droidekas), which aren't humanoid like the regular mooks but spider-like bots equipped with shields. As proof of their effectiveness, they are the only droids to not only survive an encounter with the Jedi, but send them running in their first appearance. | |
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Corporate Warfare | |
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Corporate Warfare: The antagonist faction is the corporate army of the Trade Federation, secretly controlled by Darth Sidious. | |
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Leitmotif | |
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Leitmotif: It wouldn't be Star Wars otherwise. Anakin's theme includes chords from The Imperial March. When Jabba the Hutt appears at the Mos Espa podracing arena, part of his theme from Return of the Jedi plays. | |
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Depending Upon the Undependable | |
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Depending Upon the Undependable: After the native Gungans and the humans of Theed ally themselves to retake Naboo from the Trade Federation, Boss Nass makes Jar Jar Binks a Bombad General, despite being ostracized and driven away from his home for being such a clumsy, clueless klutz. While he seems to take to the role fairly well at first*"Steady... steady!", when the battle is loose he doesn't command the Gungan Army at all, and frequently gets himself into accidents that would be considered disasters were it not for the fact that they conveniently kill droids with no Gungan casualties. | |
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Stunned Silence | |
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Padmé gets a look of wordless panic when she learns that Anakin has never even finished a podrace, let alone won one, right before the Boonta Eve race... and Qui-Gon bet their only chance of escape on him winning it. | |
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More Expendable Than You | |
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More Expendable Than You: Between the two slaves Shmi and Anakin, the mother knows she's less valuable than her son is to Watto. So does Watto; he refuses to outright bet on Anakin's freedom with Qui-Gon at the pod race. When Qui-Gon talks with her about giving Anakin a better life, she agrees to it with only mild hesitation. What's more, when Anakin protests having to leave her behind and even wants to use his winnings to buy her, Shmi tells her she's fine with the decision as long as he has a better future. | |
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Final Speech | |
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Final Speech: Qui-Gon Jinn pleads with Obi-Wan to train Anakin, no matter what the Jedi Council says, as he is certain Anakin is the prophesied Chosen One will bring balance. | |
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Early Personality Signs | |
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Early Personality Signs: There are some eerie hints of what's to come for young Anakin Skywalker in this movie, like his near-total inability to accept being permanently separated from his mother, or impulsively refusing to heed Qui-Gon's commands to stay out of danger. | |
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Doomed by Canon | |
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Doomed by Canon: No, Qui-Gon. You are not going to train Anakin, since Obi-Wan called Anakin his pupil in A New Hope. | |
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Killed Mid-Sentence | |
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The pilot and co-pilot of the Republic cruiser in the docking bay of the Trade Federation Battleship. They don't even get a chance to finish saying Oh, Crap!. | |
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Reunion Vow | |
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Reunion Vow: Shmi Skywalker promises her son Anakin that they will meet again before he leaves for Jedi training. They do meet again ten years later in Attack of the Clones. Unfortunately, it's during Shmi's dying moments. | |
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Space Is Cold | |
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Space Is Cold: Mentioned word-for-word by Padmé to Anakin. | |
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Evil Chancellor | |
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Evil Chancellor: Senator Palpatine may seem to be a helpful adviser to Queen Amidala regarding to the Senate. But in truth, he's been sabotaging their efforts to stop the Trade Federation and then convinces Amidala to issue a vote of no confidence against the Supreme Chancellor. This creates a power vacuum for Palpatine to seize the position himself, which ironically transitions him from this trope to President Evil. | |
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One-Hit Kill | |
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One-Hit Kill: Despite how badass and unique Darth Maul is in this film, many forget he is the only major film antagonist to be taken out (sliced in half) in one slash by Obi-Wan. | |
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No Poverty | |
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No Poverty: Naboo. It makes The Federation look like the Eastern Bloc during the 1980's in comparison! | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: The transition from Qui-Gon’s funeral to the parade isn’t exactly smooth, to put it mildly. | |
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Amazing Technicolor World | |
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Amazing Technicolor World: Naboo is the most Earth-like planet in the franchise, with dense forests, wide plains, and wide oceans. | |
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Happiness in Slavery | |
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Happiness in Slavery: Subverted; while Watto is kinder compared to other slave masters and values the Skywalker boy's skills, Anakin objects to the idea of being a slave. He says that he would want to be a Jedi Knight and free all the slaves on Tatooine. Shmi is calmer and resigned about being trapped with Watto forever, but she gives her blessing for Qui-Gon to free her son when the opportunity arises. | |
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Graceful in Their Element | |
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Graceful in Their Element: Jar Jar Binks, being an amphibious alien, while a Lethal Klutz on land, is a fine swimmer in water. | |
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Paradise Planet | |
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Paradise Planet: Naboo is portrayed as a paragon of natural beauty and an ideal place to live, especially given the sheer amount of Scenery Porn in both Theed and Otoh Gunga. | |
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Rule of Funny | |
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A Pit Droid is sucked into what looks a lot like a jet engine when one pod comes in for a pit stop, which utterly destroys the engine and puts the pilot out of contention. Not only does the sucked-in pit droid ruin the engine, but it also gets spat out the other end, with no apparent damage at all. | |
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Character as Himself | |
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Character as Himself: Jabba the Hutt is credited as Himself in the end credits. | |
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Due to the Dead | |
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Due to the Dead: The Jedi and the Naboo hold a funeral for Qui-Gon after his death, cremating him as is traditional for Jedi. In Queen's Shadow, it's also mentioned that Padmé Amidala lights incense for him every year on the memorial day for those killed during the Trade Federation's invasion. | |
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Hollywood Tactics | |
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Hollywood Tactics: The Trade Federation lands its mechanized invasion force in the middle of a swamp, at least a day away from the capital of Naboo, Theed. Theed is surrounded by large open fields - in other words, perfect terrain for an army composed mainly of droids and heavy tanks. | |
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Died in Your Arms Tonight | |
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Died in Your Arms Tonight: After being mortally wounded by Darth Maul, Qui-Gon lives long enough to die in Obi-Wan's arms. | |
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Beneath the Earth | |
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Beneath the Earth: Of the flooded variety. The hidden Gungan city is actually fairly close to the surface. Below, the planet is a strangely porous tangle of caverns inhabited by gigantic fish and Kaiju-style monsters. Those living on the paradisiacal surface apparently never even see these things, as they happily build their cities and homes along the shorelines of bodies of water that lead into this monster-filled underworld. | |
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"Hell, Yes!" Moment | |
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"Hell, Yes!" Moment: All the pilots in the climactic space battle cheer when Anakin blows up the main Mother ship. | |
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Hidden Elf Village | |
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Hidden Elf Village: The Gungan city meets all the requirements easily. Hidden apart from the rest of the world (underwater), main character (Jar Jar) comes from there, and later they return to get the Gungans to fight alongside them in the final battle. | |
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Posthumous Villain Victory | |
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Posthumous Villain Victory: Zig-Zagged by Darth Maul, whose actions cause the entire saga to unfold thanks to killing Qui-Gon Jinn, thus forcing Anakin Skywalker to be trained by the well-meaning, but ultimately flawed Obi-Wan Kenobi. Without Qui-Gon's teachings to help the emotionally troubled boy, Anakin winds up a troubled young man distrusted by the Order who trained him, and easily manipulated by Palpatine into becoming the man who would destroy the Jedi and allow the Sith to have their revenge as Maul was aiming for: Darth Vader. | |
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Same Language Dub | |
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Same Language Dub: Darth Maul's voice is dubbed by Peter Serafinowicz (Ray Park's real, fairly higher voice can be heard as Toad in X-Men — not scary at all). | |
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Boy Meets Girl | |
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Boy Meets Girl: Anakin meets Padmé, who is actually the Queen of Naboo, and his future wife, for the first time. | |
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Dramatic Irony | |
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Anakin Skywalker assumes that because Qui-Gon Jinn has a lightsaber, he must be a Jedi. When Qui-Gon jokingly retorts that he could have alternatively killed a Jedi and snatched the lightsaber, Anakin claims that no one would ever be able to kill a Jedi. | |
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Aggressive Negotiations | |
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Aggressive Negotiations: Qui-Gon assures Obi-Wan that the negotiations with the Trade Federation regarding their blockade will be short because they're cowards. Sure enough, Viceroy Gunray opts to "negotiate" with poison gas and Battle Droids in lieu of setting foot in the room with two Jedi. | |
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No-Sell | |
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No-Sell: Watto is thoroughly unimpressed by Qui-Gon's Jedi Mind Trick. | |
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Near-Villain Victory | |
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Near-Villain Victory: Moments before Darth Maul's unlikely demise, Obi-Wan Kenobi was dangling from a wall fixture inside a bottomless pit, with Maul about to make a killing stroke. | |
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Ridiculously Difficult Route | |
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Ridiculously Difficult Route: Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, and Jar Jar Binks have to take a submarine through the planet Naboo's core (which is made of water for some reason), in order to get to Naboo's capitol in time. While this may not be as dangerous as traveling through a core of molten rock, they still almost get eaten by many giant sea monsters on the way. | |
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Chekhov's Skill | |
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Chekhov's Skill: Many of the tricks Anakin employs during the podrace become useful later when he's flying a Naboo starfighter: The high speed and tight maneuvering through Beggar's Canyon mirrors the high speed and tight maneuvering in the dogfight above Naboo. Anakin is able to cross through a claustrophobic tunnel in Beggar's Canyon, even as a pod ahead of him explodes. This helps him when he has to fly out of a docking bay that explodes around him in the final battle. Anakin contends with Tusken Raiders sniping his pod, just as he has to do with droid starfighters in the final fight. Anakin is able to stop his pod from spinning out of control, and later gets the engines to start again after they stall mid-flight. He later has to level out his starfighter when he gets hit during the space battle, and restart its engines when they overheat and shut down while he's stranded inside of the main hold of the droid control ship. During the trip back to Naboo, Anakin probes the pilot for information on how the queen's starship works. A few scenes later, he's able to fly one of the royal starfighters after some trial and error. | |
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Defeating the Cheating Opponent | |
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Defeating the Cheating Opponent: Qui-Gon has Anakin enter into a podrace in a bet to get a new part for their damaged ship. His main rival on the track is a alien named Sebula who won against him in the last race and smugly rubs it in his face. Anakin suspected sabotage since his pod had a malfunction that cost him but couldn't prove it. Sure enough, Sebula breaks off a vital part on Anakin's pod when no one is looking before their next race so that when the race begins, Anakin's pod initially doesn't start. He manages get the engine going and quickly catches up to the competitors until it's only Sebula and him once more. Despite Sebula trying to ram him off the track, Anakin overcomes him and causes him to crash, allowing Anakin to win. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: The pilot and co-pilot of the Republic cruiser in the docking bay of the Trade Federation Battleship. They don't even get a chance to finish saying Oh, Crap!. The Neimoidians when they seal off the bridge and realize the Jedi are still getting through. Padmé gets a look of wordless panic when she learns that Anakin has never even finished a podrace, let alone won one, right before the Boonta Eve race... and Qui-Gon bet their only chance of escape on him winning it. Ratts Tyrell, the pod racer who realizes far too late that his pod is too big to fly through the Laguna caves. Sebulba, when he realizes that one of his pods's engines is no longer tethered and he's about to crash when Anakin untangles their pods in the final lap of the race. A Gungan captain's reaction to seeing a huge deployment of battle droids walk right through his army's force-field. Panaka and his troops as a whole get one of these moments when they meet Darth Maul. A minor one with Anakin. After he fires the proton torpedoes at the control ship's reactor, he delivers a meek "Oops!" before speeding out of the ship as fast as he can. | |
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Standard Sci-Fi Army | |
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Standard Sci-Fi Army: The Droid Army of the Trade Federation is a heavily mechanized force consisting of tanks, armored transports, and speeders for scouting and air support. The Gungan Grand Army utilizes organic cavalry, catapults, and a deflector shield for protection. | |
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Pragmatic Hero | |
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Pragmatic Hero: Being a Jedi doesn't stop Qui-Gon from manipulating Boss Nass into providing a transport to the capital of Naboo, trying to swindle Watto out of a hyperdrive generator, cheating at gambling to free a slave, or subverting the authority of the Jedi Council to ensure that Anakin is trained as a Jedi. | |
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Digital Destruction | |
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Digital Destruction: The Blu-ray release suffers heavily from DVNR, destroying much of the picture and resulting in a more pink-tinged presentation. The 4K release on Disney+ doesn't fix much of these issues, though HDR-enabled displays can remove most of the pink tint. | |
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"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word | |
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"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: The Trade Federation blockades planet Naboo and threatens to invade it. Viceroy Gunray calls it "occupying" and "perfectly legal". | |
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Sea Monster | |
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Sea Monster: There's Always a Bigger Fish in the Abyss, the watery core of Naboo. First, there's the Opee Sea Killer, a bizarre fish-crab hybrid that catches prey with a long, sticky tongue. Then, there's the larger Colo Claw Fish, a giant sea serpent with clawlike appendages used to capture smaller creatures (including baby Sea Killers, which can however chew out of a Claw Fish's stomach to escape). And finally, there's the Sando Aqua Monster, resembling a cross between an otter and a newt, but far bigger than the largest whales and the biggest predator on Naboo, who can and will eat almost anything (including the aforementioned Colo and Opee) that stands in its way. | |
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Loophole Abuse | |
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Loophole Abuse: Anakin is told by Qui-Gon to stay in the cockpit of a Naboo fighter jet at all costs so that he can keep himself safe. Anakin then promptly uses the jet to destroy some Droidekas attacking Queen Amidala's battle force and subsequently flies into space and participate in the battle against the Trade Federation ship up above. Anakin himself invokes this when R2-D2 tries to tell him to turn around, noting that he's going to stay in the cockpit like Qui-Gon requested. | |
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Coming of Age Story | |
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Coming of Age Story: For Anakin and Padmé. Anakin Skywalker leaves his home and family to begin his training as a Jedi Knight while Padmé Amidala has to prove herself as a successful leader. Done as a mirror of their children Luke and Leia from the original trilogy. | |
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Rank Up | |
The Phantom Menace / int_b1ed0e0c | comment |
Rank Up: Following the Battle of Naboo, Obi-Wan is elevated from Jedi Padawan to Jedi Knight. | |
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Men Act, Women Are | |
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Men Act, Women Are: Inverted. Queen Padmé's planet is under attack so she pleads her people's case to Chancellor Valorum and the Galactic Senate, goes home, and leads the charge to take back her planet while Anakin merely follows and then accidentally saves the Gungans. | |
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Toilet Humour | |
The Phantom Menace / int_b41c411e | comment |
Toilet Humour: Mostly courtesy of Jar Jar, and perhaps the first instances of such in Star Wars. Fans were not amused. | |
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Gut Feeling | |
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Gut Feeling: When Anakin leaves his mother behind on Tatooine, she tries to convince him that they will meet again. They do, a film later, but only when she's dying. | |
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No OSHA Compliance | |
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No OSHA Compliance: A Star Wars staple, which probably reaches its highest point in the area beneath the palace where Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan fight Maul - a series of catwalks with no railings over a bottomless pit. Plus a corridor lined with energy fields that seemingly activate and deactivate according to some computer-controlled pattern and lack any apparent means of detecting whether or not there are people in the corridor. It makes Cloud City look like a model of industrial safety in comparison! The Trade Federation's ships are little better, judging by how the designers apparently decided that putting the main reactor right next door to the hangar was a good idea. | |
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Don't Look Back | |
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Don't Look Back: Said word for word, Anakin's mother gives him the strength to leave Tatooine by telling him not to look back at her. | |
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Gilded Cage | |
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Gilded Cage: Relatively speaking, Watto gives Shmi and Anakin spacious quarters that are enough to host several people, along with a yard large enough to hold a racing pod. They both know they're slaves, however, and that if they tried to escape then they would be blown up immediately with their transmitter chips. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: One of the early ads for the film spoofed the infamous "Size Does Matter" tagline of the 1998 Godzilla film with the phrase "Plot Does Matter." | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: The captain of the droid control ship should have taken that report of the reactor having a problem seriously. | |
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Title 1 | |
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Title 1: The film was widely promoted as Star Wars: Episode I. However, it was the fourth film produced in the series. The odd numbering stems from a broad storyline for the series outlined by George Lucas after the success of 1977's Star Wars. The original movie was retroactively titled Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, due to Lucas' desire to flesh out the backstory alluded to in the film. | |
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Artificial Gill | |
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Artificial Gill: The rebreathers used by Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan to swim down to the Gungan city. | |
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Unintentional Backup Plan | |
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Unintentional Backup Plan: Qui-Gon's original plan is for Anakin to be trained as a Jedi and bring balance to the Force. This seems to fail when Anakin falls to the dark side. In Return of the Jedi, however, Anakin does bring balance to the Force by destroying the last of the Sith (including himself). | |
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Civilians Are Irrelevant | |
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Civilians Are Irrelevant: We're told about the Trade Federation's blockade of Naboo, and that "people are dying", but never see any of it. | |
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Tonight, Someone Dies | |
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Tonight, Someone Dies: The movie teases a major death in the trailer, showing a shot from Qui-Gon's funeral depicting some of the characters near a blazing fire and Jar Jar looking uncharacteristically somber. | |
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Not-So-Innocent Whistle | |
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Not-So-Innocent Whistle: Jar Jar adopts this attitude when he accidentally spits a gorg into Sebulba's soup, angering him. Needless to say, it doesn't work. | |
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Corridor Cubbyhole Run | |
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Corridor Cubbyhole Run: While fighting Darth Maul, Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon have to navigate a gauntlet of force fields that periodically turn on and off. | |
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Turbine Blender | |
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Turbine Blender: A Pit Droid is sucked into what looks a lot like a jet engine when one pod comes in for a pit stop, which utterly destroys the engine and puts the pilot out of contention. Not only does the sucked-in pit droid ruin the engine, but it also gets spat out the other end, with no apparent damage at all. Sebulba, being the dirty cheater he is, pulls out a hydrospanner or somesuch tool from his pod's glovebox and throws it behind him. It hits the engine of one of his pursuers and is promptly sucked in, tearing the craft apart. | |
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Everyone Meets Everyone | |
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Everyone Meets Everyone: A couple of notable introductions are Anakin Skywalker to Obi-Wan Kenobi, and R2-D2 to C-3P0. | |
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Storming the Castle | |
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Storming the Castle: In the climax, the Naboo starfighter fleet attacks The Trade Federation battleship and the rest of the heroes take back Naboo Palace. | |
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You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me! | |
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You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: The look on Padmé's face when she learns that Anakin has never actually won a podrace, let alone finished one. | |
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Ignored Expert | |
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Ignored Expert: When the pilot of the droid control ship reports the main reactor's destruction, the captain insists nothing could've penetrated the shields and dismisses it. Bad idea. | |
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Sadistic Choice | |
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Sadistic Choice: One for Watto; he can't resist a bet when Qui-Gon gambles for Shmi and Anakin. When Watto tells him the racing pod is only worth one slave, Qui-Gon chooses Anakin. Watto is about to accept this, only to do some mental calculations and realize Anakin is the more valuable of the two. He then tries to throw weighted die to keep the boy out of the bet; Qui-Gon maneuvers the dice so it lands on blue, choosing Anakin. Of course, Watto could have avoided the bet completely and avoided the chase clearly. | |
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Cool Bike | |
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Cool Bike: Darth Maul's Bloodfin speeder bike | |
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Heroism Equals Job Qualification | |
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Heroism Equals Job Qualification: Jar Jar Binks goes straight from being banished to being a general after helping the Nabooan humans and the Gungans get along. And then soon after the droid threat is gone he becomes a senator. Obi-Wan is promoted from Padawan to Jedi Knight following Darth Maul's demise. | |
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So Proud of You | |
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So Proud of You: Before their farewell, Shmi tells Anakin how proud she is of him: | |
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Accidental Hero | |
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Accidental Hero: In the climax, Anakin joins up with Bravo Squadron in a Naboo starfighter, then cripples the Droid Control Ship's deflector shields...by complete accident. He only joined the battle after being flown to the ship by the fighter's autopilot, and after crash-landing inside the ship, fired two stray torpedoes at its main reactor while trying to fire on a battalion of Battle Droids. | |
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Fiendish Fish | |
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Fiendish Fish: Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, and Jar Jar run into a series of huge aquatic predators on the oceans of Naboo, including a crab-fish hybrid known as an Opee See Killer, and a cave-dwellling Colo Claw Fish, both of which have More Teeth than the Osmond Family. However, they're food for the even larger Sando Aqua Monster. | |
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Last Note Nightmare | |
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Last Note Nightmare: Anakin's Theme is sweet, soft, and innocent except in the last part which we hear the notes of the Imperial March. Punctuated when played over the end credits of The Phantom Menace; after the final fadeout, the last sound in the movie is Vader's breathing. | |
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Melee Disarming | |
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Melee Disarming: Darth Maul kicks Obi-Wan off a walkway, making him drop his lightsaber briefly. Later in their duel Obi-Wan cuts Maul's lightsaber hilt in half, but since the weapon is double-ended it still has one working blade and Maul keeps fighting. Maul also disarms Obi-Wan again by shoving him into a pit and Obi-Wan drops his lightsaber, which Maul then kicks into the pit. | |
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Faint in Shock | |
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Faint in Shock: After the Gungans agree to join the fight against the Federation droids invading Naboo, Boss Nass announces to Jar Jar Binks that he's going to make him a general and he'll lead the assault. Jar Jar promptly swoons and faints in shock. | |
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Anadiplosis | |
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Anadiplosis: When Yoda first meets with young Anakin, he asks Anakin what he is feeling, and has words of wisdom when Anakin feels fear. | |
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Outrun the Fireball | |
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Outrun the Fireball: Anakin flies into the main droid control ship, then fires two proton torpedoes straight into the main reactor. The ship starts to blow up from the inside, and Anakin flies as fast as he can toward the exit with flames shooting all over the place, feeling it necessary to quip "now this is podracing!" as he does so. There is an additional shot of a squad of battle droids failing at this. | |
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Dull Surprise | |
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Dull Surprise: Since the most prominent characters in the film are monks and composed politicians, much of the dialogue is delivered in a dry, informative monotone. | |
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Win Your Freedom | |
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Win Your Freedom: Qui-Gon Jinn makes a bet with Watto that if Anakin wins the podrace, then Watto must give Anakin to Qui-Gon. When Anakin wins, Qui-Gon immediately frees him and takes him to the Jedi Academy. | |
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A Nazi by Any Other Name | |
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A Nazi by Any Other Name: The manner in which the Trade Federation marched into Theed mirrors the Nazis march under the Arc de Triomphe. In addition, the Trade Federation, after occupying Naboo, also held the various indigenous peoples (Naboo humans and Gungans) in camps that were implied to be death camps/concentration camps. In addition, it is implied that Palpatine orchestrated the Naboo blockade invasion to gain more power, similar to how Adolf Hitler had some of his army pose as Polish people and attack their own key buildings so he'd have the excuse to invade Poland. It might also reference Hitler invading his native land of Austria, seeing how Palpatine was the senator of the same planet that he orchestrated the Trade Federation's invasion of. note There's more, here. | |
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Accents Aren't Hereditary | |
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Accents Aren't Hereditary: Anakin Skywalker has an American accent. His mother, Shmi, has a Swedish accent, or whatever the space equivalent is. | |
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New Powers as the Plot Demands | |
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New Powers as the Plot Demands: Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon both dash at super speed to escape two Droidekas near the start of the film. What makes this power an example in this case is that it's never used again, not for the rest of the movie and not for the rest of the Prequel Trilogy. To be more specific, Obi-Wan doesn't use the power again even if when it would have been useful to rejoin the fight with Darth Maul after getting thrown so far away. | |
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Big "NO!" | |
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Big "NO!": Obi-Wan yells "No!" after witnessing Darth Maul land a killing strike on Qui-Gon. | |
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Xanatos Gambit | |
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Xanatos Gambit: By convincing the Trade Federation to blockade Naboo and coerce Queen Amidala to sign a treaty legitimizing the Federation occupation, Palpatine has already won the day and now must keep up appearances with the Trade Federation so they don't rat him out. By having Darth Maul reveal himself, he even removes that potential loose end. Should Queen Amidala sign the treaty, Palpatine can lobby against this action in the Senate for Valorum's removal due to allowing this to take place. Should Queen Amidala escape into exile or be killed, Palpatine has himself a martyr to use for this same lobby. Should the Jedi be killed, the Republic would be forced to acknowledge the under-the-table actions Valorum had taken to try and avert this without taking a stand. With Queen Amidala's successful escape, she fell right into his lap for him to demonstrate the corruption of the Republic firsthand, manipulating her into calling for Valorum's removal, with public support on her side due to their plight. | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: Anakin says that "no one can kill a Jedi". He will eventually do this himself. | |
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Re-Cut | |
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Re-Cut: The DVD release included a few additional moments, mostly ideas they had for the podrace. But a fan made recut of this film inspired a slew of fan made cuts of various films, largely toning down Jar Jar's antics. The Blu-Ray also makes changes - most notably trading a much contested puppet Yoda for a digital one similar to the one seen for the rest of the Prequel Trilogy. | |
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Hope Spot | |
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Hope Spot: Queen Amidala is told she needs to be escorted to Coruscant so the Senate can save her people. It turns out the Senate would rather bicker and assign commissions to investigate the invasion. She's so mad that she decides to return to Naboo to stop the invasion herself. The Knights advise the Naboo guard to not respond to distress signals so they won't be traced. Maul finds them anyway and nearly takes down Qui-Gon as he's leading Anakin to the ship. Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon both put up a formidable fight against Maul, even cornering him at once point. He takes advantage of force fields separating the Knights and kills Qui-Gon. Obi-Wan barely defeats him but doesn't reach his master in time to save him. | |
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Wuxia | |
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Wuxia: While the Original Trilogy is heavily inspired by Jidaigeki samurai films, the Prequel Trilogy takes more inspiration from the wuxia genre. | |
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And Starring | |
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And Starring: The main cast roll here ends with "and Frank Oz as Yoda", while the "Co-Starring" category ends "with Terence Stamp as Chancellor Valorum". | |
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Opposing Sports Team | |
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Opposing Sports Team: Sebulba "always wins" the pod-race. His pod is very fast and he uses dirty tactics like tossing wrenches into the other racers' engines. | |
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Fixing the Game | |
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Fixing the Game: Qui-Gon, a religious monk, doesn't hesitate to cheat at dice using the Force if it serves the greater good. The film's Novelization justifies it; Watto was using a weighted die and Qui-Gon knew it. No wonder he didn't mind cheating a cheater. | |
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Musical Spoiler | |
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Musical Spoiler: A really clever example in the final scene. The parade music — "Augie's Great Municipal Band " — is a cheery, upbeat celebratory anthem befitting Naboo's defeat of the Trade Federation. But if you listen carefully, you'll realize it's actually a remix of the Emperor's Theme being played in a major register. This musically symbolizes that the eponymous "Phantom Menace" is the true victor of the Naboo Crisis. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The podrace is a space-age Chariot Race, complete with giant engines in place of horses, and the whole sequence is a huge reference to Ben-Hur (1959). The podrace scene does also owe a lot to the racing car sequence from Pinchcliffe Grand Prix (a fact that made all Norwegian viewers go "huh", as every Norwegian alive have seen that move at least five times). Some of Jar Jar's antics are taken almost directly from the films of Buster Keaton. Also as a likely Take That!, the leader of the Trade Federation is Nute Gunray after former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich as well as a reversal of Ronald Reagan, to get back at Project Star Wars (and possibly the public media funding cuts that forced a lengthy delay of the radio adaptation of Return of the Jedi), and the Neimoidian senator is named Lott Dodd after U.S. Senators Trent Lott and Chris Dodd. The Neimoidians are named after Leonard Nimoy. Even more amusingly, they were called Shatnerians in the earliest drafts of the script. The title itself is a reference to the Universal serial "The Phantom Creeps" and its first episode, "The Menacing Power". One of the Discovery's EVA pods from 2001: A Space Odyssey can be seen in Watto's junkyard. The reference book Star Wars: Complete Locations identifies it as "a repair and maintenance pod of unknown origin." One of the members of Captain Panaka's squad is named Cid. This was done in response to Square Enix having recurring characters named Biggs and Wedge. The design of the Trade Federation's troop-landing ships are nearly identical to the Torumekian armored corvettes in the Manga of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. | |
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Cow Tools | |
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Cow Tools: Several implements hanging on the wall of Anakin and his mother's home on Tatooine are actually NERF scoops spraypainted to resemble alien tools of some kind. | |
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Possession Implies Mastery | |
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Possession Implies Mastery: Anakin Skywalker assumes that because Qui-Gon Jinn has a lightsaber, he must be a Jedi. When Qui-Gon jokingly retorts that he could have alternatively killed a Jedi and snatched the lightsaber, Anakin claims that no one would ever be able to kill a Jedi. The Jawas are known to be experts in scavenging and re-purposing even derelict junk, turning it into workable technology without having any real understanding of the mechanical processes involved. They don't comprehend how the EMP discharge from an ion blaster creates a power surge through a droid's circuits. They just figure out that if you attach a restraining bolt to a stripped-down blaster and fire it at a droid, that droid gets paralyzed. | |
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Retirony | |
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Retirony: In a variation, towards the end of the film, Qui-Gon Jinn intends to train Anakin Skywalker, believing Obi-Wan Kenobi is ready to graduate to Jedi Knight status. Qui-Gon doesn't make it to the end of the movie, and Obi-Wan ends up being Anakin's trainer instead. | |
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice | |
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The long, gruelling duel with Darth Maul takes its toll on Qui-Gon, allowing Maul to catch him off guard and mortally stab him in the gut. | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
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Crippling the Competition: Champion podracer Sebulba "accidentally" bumps another podracer, messing it up and making it unable to race. | |
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Jedi Mind Trick | |
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Jedi Mind Trick: Qui-Gon uses this on Boss Nass to save Jar Jar's life and get them a transport to Theed. He later tries, and fails, to do the same on Watto to haggle over a needed starship hyperdrive. | |
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Paranormal Gambling Advantage | |
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Paranormal Gambling Advantage: In a bet with Watto, Qui-Gon Jinn uses the Force to make a die roll the result he wants. The game was already rigged in Watto's favor. | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive: The Trade Federation, which is willing to sell itself out to the Sith in return for profit. | |
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Outside-Context Problem | |
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Outside-Context Problem: Darth Maul. It's clear that no Jedi has crossed blades with a Sith for a millennium, and Maul's double-bladed saber is the first of its kind shown in the franchise. No wonder he gives two Jedi the fight of their lives. | |
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Kraken and Leviathan | |
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Kraken and Leviathan: The Naboo ocean seems to be filled with monsters each getting bigger and bigger as you go deeper and considering the fact that the planet is meant to be hollow and full of ocean that gets you some pretty big fish. The biggest — the Sando Aqua Monsters — are in a class of their own: their official description puts them at between 160 and 200 meters long, meaning their maximum size is over six times a blue whale's thirty meters. | |
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Combat and Support | |
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Combat and Support: The Trade Federation has a number of support droids. After the Droid Army routs the Gungans, they can be seen collecting the pieces of fallen battle droids. | |
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Antagonist Title | |
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Antagonist Title: One is led to think "The Phantom Menace" refers to Darth Maul's secretive actions when really of course, it refers to the subversive undermining of Senator Sheev Palpatine a.k.a. Darth Sidious. In an interesting case, this appears to be played straight and subverted at the same time. Due to the ambiguity of the title, it could theoretically be applied to Darth Maul and Darth Sidious (playing the trope straight), or it could be applied to Anakin (subverting the trope since Anakin is decidedly not the antagonist of the film). The meaning of the title has only ever been met with Shrug of God, leaving it entirely open-ended. This has led some to theorize that Jar Jar Binks was/is meant to be a secret Sith Lord or dark side force user as a plot twist, given he is there from the beginning, but was retconned or cut for one reason or another. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
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Lighter and Softer: Despite the page quote up top there, children and funny-talking aliens play a large part in the plot. More obviously, the Used Future aesthetic of the Original Trilogy was done away with in order to help demonstrate that this is the "more civilized age" that Obi-Wan mentioned in A New Hope. | |
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Coming in Hot | |
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Coming in Hot: Anakin accidentally crash-lands in the docking bay of the Droid Control Battleship. During his attempts to take off again and escape, he accidentally launches a pair of torpedos into something important which causes the entire ship to go up in flames as Anakin narrowly outruns the destruction he caused. | |
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Thermal Dissident | |
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Thermal Dissident: Anakin makes it known he feels rather cold while leaving Tatooine on the spaceship, even using a blanket. Padme tells him it is because he is used to living on the desert planet. | |
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Used Future | |
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Used Future: Averted on Naboo and Coruscant, showing that this is a different era, the era of the Galactic Republic. Obi-Wan's and Qui-Gon's are also immaculate in this film, quite unlike Obi-Wan's and Yoda's threadbare and tatty robes, showing the Jedi at the height of their power. However, the trope is played straight on Tatooine, representing the darkness eating at the Republic. | |
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Planet Baron | |
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Planet Baron: The rulers of Naboo are elected monarchs who change office every few years (though that only concerns the surface dwellers, the aquatic Gungans have a chief of their own, Boss Nass). | |
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Connected All Along | |
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Connected All Along: In this installment, Anakin Skywalker proudly points to his robotic creation, C-3PO. This seems rather insignificant, except that the first three Star Wars theatrical films never indicated that C-3PO had any connection to Anakin, who had grown into an evil dark sider bent on ruling the galaxy. | |
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Short-Lived Aerial Escape | |
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Short-Lived Aerial Escape: During the scene where the Naboo pilots hijack their fighters away from Trade Federation droids that had secured the hangar, a turret outside the hanger manages to hit one shortly after take off, causing it to spiral in. | |
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Character Catchphrase | |
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Character Catchphrase: The word "realistic" is one for Palpatine in this film. | |
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Spin Attack | |
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Spin Attack: Qui-Gon Jinn does one while fighting Darth Maul, and Maul himself does a spectacular and flashy leaping spin move while fighting Obi-Wan. | |
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Prevent the War | |
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Prevent the War: The theatrical film opens with the two heroes, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, arriving on a space station to negotiate a peace between the spaceship's owner and the planet it orbits. As soon as gas starts pumping into the waiting room, the heroes grab their weapons and leave diplomacy behind for the rest of the movie. | |
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Precocious Crush | |
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Precocious Crush: Anakin towards Padme. The feeling isn't reciprocated until near the climax of the following film. | |
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Planetville | |
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Planetville: All that's needed to conquer Naboo is simply taking the capital city, and "blockading" the whole planet from surrounding space with a handful of ships. A small or medium-sized country on Earth probably couldn't keep fighting once the capital was lost, but large nations typically have military districts that are able to operate independently of the capital. Unless the enemy fleet deployed millions of ships, they couldn't possibly cover all of the sky above Naboo, so the protagonists trying to flee the planet could select to go through an open area to leave the gravity well and jump to hyperspace rather than aiming their ship straight at the enemy fleet to "break through the blockage". Justified at one point. When Darth Maul traces Queen Amidala's ship to Tatooine, he points out that the planet is very sparsely populated, with only three major cities across the entire thing, which simplifies his search greatly. He is then shown dispatching groups of scout droids to each of the cities rather than trying to search them personally. | |
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Refuge in Audacity | |
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Refuge in Audacity: Qui-Gon Jinn attempts to walk up to several battle droids without any stealth, asks permission to go to Coruscant with several POWs, and then cuts him down when the droid, after briefly acting confused, realizes that he should arrest him. This is how Padmé makes an alliance with the Gungans; she reveals herself during the negotiations while in her handmaiden guise, and gets on her knees to beg for their help. Her whole retinue follows suit. Rugor Nass previously held contempt for the Naboo humans, since other leaders believed they were better than the Gungans. When he realizes that Padmé made herself vulnerable and blew her cover, complete with bowing to him, he agrees to ally with her to win their freedom. Sabe distracts Nute Gunray from the captured Padmé by appearing in full regalia, firing at him, and declaring, "I'll sign no treaty!" Nute doesn't consider this a distraction at all, instead seeing it as the "real" queen coming to protect her decoy and orders the robots after Sabe. | |
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Unlimited Wardrobe | |
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Unlimited Wardrobe: Amidala has a new, elaborate outfit for nearly every scene, despite having fled her home planet after a sudden invasion. This is one of the most famous aspects of the movie. Even subtly lampshaded by Obi-Wan, who says they have nothing to barter with apart from the Queen's wardrobe. | |
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Skyscraper City | |
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Skyscraper City: Large swaths of the planet Coruscant are encrusted with giant skyscrapers... built on top of older skyscrapers... built on top of even older skyscrapers. It's uncertain if the planet even has actual ground anymore. It's said to host one trillion inhabitants. A few of the skyscrapers are the construction droids that build more skyscrapers. | |
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Last Request | |
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Last Request: As he's dying, Qui-Gon makes Obi-Wan promise to train Anakin. | |
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Help, I'm Stuck! | |
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Help, I'm Stuck!: Jar Jar gets his hand stuck in Anakin's pod racer. | |
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Fictional Sport | |
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Fictional Sport: Podracing is a sport where contestants race in hovercrafts at breakneck speeds with no restrictions on violence, which becomes a problem when the nine-year-old Anakin has to enter the race to get money for a ride off Tatooine. | |
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The Unfettered | |
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The Unfettered: A rare heroic example of an unfettered character; when Obi-Wan tries to call Qui-Gon out on his more questionable actions, he simply says, "I will do what I must," without hesitation. | |
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Invincible Incompetent | |
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Invincible Incompetent: Jar Jar Binks almost singlehandedly wins the Battle of Naboo for the Gungans due to his bumbling antics accidentally dealing serious damage to the droid army over and over again. He clearly has no idea what he's doing for the entire battle, but he is somehow alive, unscathed, and victorious in the end despite it. | |
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Meditation Powerup | |
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Meditation Powerup: When Qui-Gon fights Maul on Naboo, he uses a break in the fight to meditate. It helps, but not enough to survive. | |
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Post-Defeat Explosion Chain | |
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Post-Defeat Explosion Chain: After Anakin puts two proton torpedoes into one of the reactors, the Trade Federation ship explodes at random points all over its hull before splitting in half. | |
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Step into the Blinding Fight | |
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Step into the Blinding Fight: Jedi train The Younglings to fight blind/using only the Force by using the special darkness helmets. | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Qui-Gon opts to jump on the Queen's ship and run from the fight on Tatooine rather than stick around and finish it. Justified, as he recognizes Maul as a Sith and needs to report it to the Council as quickly as possible. | |
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Spin-Off | |
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Spin-Off: Notable for being the movie with the most spin-off video games of any of the prequels: The Phantom Menace, Episode 1 Racer, Super Bombad Racing, Jedi Power Battles, Obi-Wan, and Battle for Naboo. | |
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Recruited from the Gutter | |
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Recruited from the Gutter: This is how Anakin Skywalker became a Jedi; the second act is basically devoted to freeing him from slavery so he can be trained as one. | |
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I'm Standing Right Here | |
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I'm Standing Right Here: There's a scene where Obi-Wan is trying to dissuade Qui-Gon from training the young Anakin Skywalker, repeating the Jedi Council's premonition that "the boy is dangerous". It's a shame that they're walking right past Anakin as he's arguing this. | |
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Leave No Survivors | |
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Leave No Survivors: Or, as Darth Sidious puts it when giving the Viceroy instructions on what to do with the Gungan army: | |
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Action Girl | |
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Action Girl: Padmé definitely counts, participating in the effort to storm the palace during the film's climax. Her handmaidens also definitely count, with several of them participating in the battle alongside their Queen. | |
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Reflecting Laser | |
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Reflecting Laser: In the big battle between the Gungans and the droids, you can see the occasional bolt bouncing off the ground. | |
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Field Promotion | |
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Field Promotion: At the end of the film, Obi-Wan Kenobi is promoted from Padawan to Jedi Knight without facing the trials after defeating Darth Maul single-handedly. | |
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Contrived Coincidence | |
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Contrived Coincidence: The entire Tatooine sequence. To wit, the characters, in need of hyperspace parts, just happen to land near a settlement where the first guy they talk to just happens to be the only person with the right parts for miles, and also just happens to own the probable Chosen One as a slave, who just happens to be good in a podrace (and just happens to be in the process of building C-3PO), of which there just happens to be one tomorrow. And despite having never even finished a pod race and suffering from sabotage, he happens to win. Also just happening to be there is said Chosen One's future wife. Lampshaded by Qui-Gon, who wholeheartedly believes all this was the will of the Force. | |
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Chariot Race | |
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Chariot Race: Pod racing is more than just a futuristic version of chariot racing: the sequence of the pod race and plot developments during it is straight out of Ben-Hur. | |
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Heroic Second Wind | |
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Heroic Second Wind: Obi-Wan gets one of these moments in his fight against Darth Maul, coupled with Heroic Resolve, after his Unstoppable Rage doesn't work too well. | |
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Innocuously Important Episode | |
The Phantom Menace / int_dee56696 | comment |
Innocuously Important Episode: The movie at first feels a lot smaller in scope compared to previous films, which deal with a galaxy spanning conflict against The Empire while this film is concerned with an invasion of a single planet. But this film involves the discovery of Anakin Skywalker and his induction into the Jedi Order while also showing a political shift in The Republic that allows Senator Palpatine to ascend to become Chancellor of the Galactic Senate, both of which are known to fans as being Darth Vader and the Emperor of the original trilogy. Attack of the Clones reveals that the MegaCorp villains of the first film became the financial backer of the Separatist movement, instigating The Clone Wars which was previously a Cryptic Background Reference. | |
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Decoy Protagonist | |
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Decoy Protagonist: Qui-Gon gets top billing, takes up a sizable amount of space on the poster, and has the most influence and screentime out of the heroes in the movie, but it's all to set up Anakin and Obi-Wan as the true protagonists of the prequel trilogy. | |
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Pendulum War | |
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Pendulum War: The battle of Naboo is completely a One Sided Battle. The good guys are getting creamed, and then Anakin blows up the Trade Federation mothership, disabling all the droid soldiers, wiping out the army in one swoop. | |
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Ambadassador | |
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Ambadassador: The Jedi are sent to negotiate with the Trade Federation. They luckily have their lightsabers with them when the Federation prove themselves in no mood for negotiations. | |
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Drone Deployer | |
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Drone Deployer: The Trade Federation's capital ships, seen in this film, are transports and control hubs for legions of droid soldiers, vehicles and starfighters. | |
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Underwater City | |
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Underwater City: The Gungans live in a massive city within the oceans of Naboo. This protects them from the land armies the villains send to Naboo, and since the oceans run through Naboo's core, makes the underwater city the first destination for heroes who need to travel across the planet fast. | |
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Please Put Some Clothes On | |
The Phantom Menace / int_e0d0fb13 | comment |
Please Put Some Clothes On: This is R2-D2's reaction when he first meets the unfinished C-3PO at the Skywalker residence on Tatooine. | |
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Red and Black and Evil All Over | |
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Red and Black and Evil All Over: Darth Maul made full-body, red-and-black Sith tattoos popular in the franchise. | |
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Pretext for War | |
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Pretext for War: The Trade Federation uses something about taxation and trade negotiations as an excuse to occupy Naboo. | |
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Artistic License – Politics | |
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Artistic License – Politics: The federal government of the Republic is shown to be so comically corrupt and ineffective in this film that it frankly defies willing suspension of disbelief that the nation-state hasn't utterly disintegrated already. The setup for the film is approximately equivalent to Microsoft deciding to address the 1990s antitrust cases by using a mercenary army to take the entire state of Washington hostage, and the US federal government responding by idly wondering if maybe it was possibly their problem that a private corporation had engaged in an open act of insurrection. Queen Amidala goes to the Senate to plead for help for her planet, calls for a vote of no confidence in Chancellor Valorum when he appears to delay, then Valorum is removed later and Palpatine voted into his place. All this happens in the span of a day, when the process of removing and replacing a government leader typically takes much longer, spanning months to even years. And given that the Galactic Senate is made up of literally thousands of representatives, it should take even longer. | |
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Call-Forward | |
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Call-Forward: Has its own page. | |
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Hanging by the Fingers | |
The Phantom Menace / int_e3d1c07b | comment |
Hanging by the Fingers: A young Obi Wan is left hanging over a reactor shaft before using the force to draw Qui-Gonn's lightsaber towards him, somersaulting over Darth Maul then slicing him in half at the waist, leaving both halves of him to fall down the shaft. | |
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Art Evolution | |
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Art Evolution: The visual design of this film and the rest of the prequels is a very sharp contrast to the look of the original trilogy. By necessity the earlier films relied a lot on physical environments, elaborate costumes and matte paintings, while this film ran headfirst into using modern techniques including digital compositing, Green Screen and CGI creatures to craft their environments. This made the city vistas infinitely more complex than anything the original trilogy could have imagined and various things like chrome spaceships and Jar Jar's duck-like head would have been near impossible. This in turn made the environments feel a lot cleaner than the Used Future the original films pioneered, though the rest of the prequel films demonstrated this as intentional to show that the Clone Wars marked the end of a golden age before the rise of the Empire led to more rustic aesthetics. | |
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Pimped-Out Dress | |
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Pimped-Out Dress: Every one of Amidala's queen outfits. | |
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Destruction Equals Off-Switch | |
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Destruction Equals Off-Switch: Happens when the destruction of the droid control ship causes the entire army of battle droids to shut off, and even fall apart. Anciliary material explains the droids are built on the cheap and don't even have individual processing units, thus can't properly function without the ship feeding them orders. | |
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Strategy, Schmategy | |
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Strategy, Schmategy: Jar Jar Binks found himself assigned a generalship in the Gungan military thanks to a political appointment. He proceeds to take out a surprising number of the enemy himself by being a Lethal Klutz, and the badly outclassed Gungan army manages to last long enough in their stated purpose—being a distraction—to see the opposing droid army decommissioned. | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial: The Trade Federation at the start of the film, relating to the blockade of Naboo. | |
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Let's Get Out of Here | |
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A minor one with Anakin. After he fires the proton torpedoes at the control ship's reactor, he delivers a meek "Oops!" before speeding out of the ship as fast as he can. | |
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Old Master | |
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Old Master: Qui-Gon is the first maverick master seen on-screen (chronologically), at odds with the Jedi Council but respected nonetheless. He trained Obi-Wan and was the person most accountable for introducing Anakin Skywalker to the way of the Jedi, all things considered. | |
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Backstory | |
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Backstory: This theatrical film really only exists to set up all the back story for the following six theatrical films. | |
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Four Lines, All Waiting | |
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Four Lines, All Waiting: The climax cuts back and forth between the lightsaber duel between Darth Maul and the two Jedi, Jar Jar Binks's clumsy antics with the Battle Droids, the Queen's attempt to retake her palace, and Anakin's accidental space battle where he destroys the Trade Federation blockade through sheer luck. This ends up creating some Mood Whiplash considering all four of these battles have different tones and stakes. | |
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Flaunting Your Fleets | |
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Flaunting Your Fleets: Happens as the Trade Federation lands on Naboo (combined with droids in a Million Mook March). | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: "Stay in that cockpit!" from Qui-Gon to Anakin. R2 brings this up when Anakin turns the ship on and they end up in combat, and Anakin refuses to turn around. Nevermind that Anakin accidentally activates the Naboo fighter craft in question, subsequently blasts a few Destroyer droids and ultimately takes out the reactor core of the orbiting Trade Federation control ship... Yoda informs Obi-Wan that, while the Council agrees to give Obi-Wan the rank of Jedi Knight, he does not agree to let Obi-Wan train Anakin as his Padawan. After Obi-Wan adamantly insists to train Anakin, without the Council's approval if necessary, Yoda admits that though he personally still thinks it's dangerous (and rightly so), the Jedi Council as a whole have agreed to let him. | |
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Traitor Shot | |
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Traitor Shot: Done rather subtly. While Mace and Yoda are talking about their discovery that Maul was a Sith and wondering (in view of what they know about the Sith "Rule of Two") whether he was the master or the apprentice, the camera casually pans across all the mourners at Qui-Gon Jinn's funeral, coming to rest only when it reaches the new Chancellor-elect Palpatine. | |
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Helpless Window Death | |
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Helpless Window Death: A variation; Obi-Wan is temporarily separated from the duel between Qui-Gon and Darth Maul by a series of transparent forcefield doors, leaving him to watch helplessly as Maul runs Qui-Gon through. | |
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Pinball Protagonist | |
The Phantom Menace / int_eadc018f | comment |
Pinball Protagonist: Anakin is obviously a crucial character in the film due to his impossibly high midichlorian count (and thus incredible force wielding potential), but aside from racing and winning the pod race, he has no real control over what's going on around him, due to him being a Tagalong Kid. He ultimately thwarts the Trade Federations' invasion by blowing up their control ship, but even that was a lucky accident. Obi-Wan, meanwhile, despite having the most screen time of any character is just along for the ride- aside from cleaving droids to death he usually just sits on the sidelines while Qui-Gon drives the plot. | |
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Groin Attack | |
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Groin Attack: When Jar Jar is fighting with the pit droid in Watto's shop, it kicks him in the crotch. Jar Jar doesn't seem to notice. During the climactic battle, Jar Jar gets launched through the air and lands on an AAT's main gun crotch-first. This one he does notice. | |
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Dub Pronunciation Change | |
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Dub Pronunciation Change: The Italian dub has Palpatine's name pronounced "palpa-tine" instead of "palpa-teen" (which is used in the dub of every other appearance of the character before and after it). | |
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Super Fly Reflexes | |
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Super Fly Reflexes: Qui-Gon Jinn shows off his Jedi reflexes by catching Jar Jar Binks' tongue with his fingers, as Jar Jar tries to steal the Skywalkers' last apple frog-style. | |
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Decapitated Army | |
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Decapitated Army: Happens when the droid control ship is destroyed, causing their droid forces to deactivate on the spot. The Trade Federation did learn from this one, as when in Attack of the Clones, set ten years later, one of their droid control ships over Geonosis is destroyed by the Republic's new army of clones, nothing happens. (The novelization has the droids slaved to that ship deactivate for only a second before onboard processors kick in and they start fighting again.) | |
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Martial Pacifist | |
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Martial Pacifist: Qui-Gon is the epitome of this, especially when his mid-battle meditation contrasts against Darth Maul's animalistic, restless pacing and Obi-Wan's poorly-contained anxiety while the three are separated by forcefields. | |
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Worthless Currency | |
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Worthless Currency: While on Tatooine, Qui-Gon tries to buy the parts he needs from Watto with Republic credits. Because Tatooine is outside of the Republic and moreover in the ass-end of space, Watto tells him to get him some real money. | |
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Oh, My Gods! | |
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Oh, My Gods!: Jar Jar invokes the gods at one point ("Ye gods! What is mesa sayin'"). | |
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Early-Bird Cameo | |
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Early-Bird Cameo: Anakin owns a statue that looks like Maz Kanata. Star Wars: Complete Locations confirms it is indeed a statue of her. | |
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Enormous Engine | |
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Enormous Engine: The podracers are little more than a basic cockpit tethered to two or more giant engines. | |
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Chase Fight | |
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Chase Fight: Shortly before departing from Tattooine, Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon have a high-speed confrontation against Darth Maul. It gives them the realization that the thought-to-be-extinct Sith are back. | |
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Boss Remix | |
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Boss Remix: Inverted. A happy, fun bouncy version of the Emperor's theme plays over the parade in the last scene of the film. | |
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Dark Reprise | |
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Dark Reprise: Inverted at the end of the movie, where the celebration music is a childrens' choir doing a "light" version of the Emperor's exceptionally dark Leitmotif (far grimmer than, if not as immediately imposing as, the Imperial March), foreshadowing the coming darkness. Anakin's Theme from Episode I repeatedly utilizes six notes from the Imperial March in a soft, light piece. | |
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Foreboding Fleeing Flock | |
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Foreboding Fleeing Flock: The Trade Federation's invasion panics the animals of Naboo, who all race to get away, heedless of the Jedi trying to keep from getting trampled, or the Gungan who just stands there like an idiot. | |
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Tableau | |
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Tableau: Much like A New Hope, the movie ends with the main characters standing on a raised platform in front of an audience, during a victory celebration. | |
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All Your Base Are Belong to Us | |
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All Your Base Are Belong to Us: The movie starts with the Trade Federation invading Naboo and taking over Amidala's palace as well. | |
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Kneel Before Frodo | |
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Kneel Before Frodo: Queen Amidala reveals herself and kneels before Boss Nass to ask for his support. Everyone in her party follows suit. Nass being who he is, he first laughs and then agrees to help her. | |
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Extraordinary World, Ordinary Problems | |
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Extraordinary World, Ordinary Problems: The invasion of Naboo is sparked by some rather dry and prosaic disputes over interplanetary tariffs and trade. Also, there's a lot of attention focused on how the corrupt and ineffectual bureaucracy of the Republic helped to enable the crisis. The presence of these elements are rather odd given the Space Opera nature of the Star Wars Canon. | |
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Fictional Holiday | |
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Fictional Holiday: The film shows that Tatooine has Boonta Eve, which is known for its podraces. | |
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Right in Front of Me | |
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Right in Front of Me: Queen Padmé Amidala ends up talking about herself with Qui-Gon Jinn while she's disguised as her own handmaiden. It's complicated by ambiguity over when Qui-Gon figured out Padmé's the queen; it may be a straight example or he may be messing with her. | |
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Complexity Addiction | |
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Complexity Addiction: Heroic example. Qui-Gon's ridiculously complicated plan to get the hyperdrive replacement needed to repair Amidala's ship from Watto. Watto is apparently the only vendor in Mos Espa who has the part they need, but he won't take Qui-Gon's Republic credits because they're worthless on Tatooine, and Watto is immune to the Jedi Mind Trick. So Qui-Gon hatches an elaborate plan involving tricking Watto into gambling the part in an upcoming Pod Race and then entering Watto's nine-year-old slave Anakin into the race and having him win it for him. Even though the movie makes it pretty clear Qui-Gon's Force powers meant he knew Anakin would win, you'd think there might have been an easier (and less dangerous) way. Like finding someone willing to exchange credits for a local currency, or trading their current ship for a less valuable but functional one. Or just book passage on a transport, or with a smuggler or something. Give them all the money he has now (a trader or a smuggler would have use for Republic credits, unlike a planet-bound merchant like Watto), and promise them a reward from the Jedi council when they arrive at Coruscant. Or seeing if the Republic has something similar to Western Union and asking the Council to wire them money in a form cashable in local currency. | |
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Love Makes You Evil | |
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Knowing what led to Anakin turning to the dark side, the Jedi not accepting him earlier before Obi-Wan essentially threatened to go against the Order to train him himself also qualifies somewhat. | |
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That's Gotta Hurt | |
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That's Gotta Hurt: A particularly nasty crash during the pod racing prompts Fode to exclaim, "Oh! I don't care what universe you're from, that's gotta hurt!"note That line was an actor allusion for the commentator's voice actor, Greg Proops, who's known for employing that shtick on Whose Line Is It Anyway?. | |
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Downer Beginning | |
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Downer Beginning: The greedy Trade Federation is behind a blockade of Naboo, but as few know, there's a far-more sinister motive in the works. | |
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Darkest Hour | |
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Darkest Hour: Qui-Gon dies. The Gungans are defeated. Anakin is stranded inside an enemy ship. Padmé is caught by the federation. All at the same time. | |
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Victory by Endurance | |
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Victory by Endurance: This is how Qui-Gon is beaten by Maul. Even without Kenobi to assist him, they seem more or less evenly matched, as Maul and Qui-Gon knock eachother down once each in the final battle, and Qui-Gon does fine (albeit he quickly tires due to having hiked a long way while Maul took a speeder). However, while both use exhaustive and aggressive fighting styles called Ataru and Juyo for Jinn and Maul respectively and were very fit individuals, Maul was 22 years old while Qui-Gon was 48 in Canon and 60 years old in Legends. Thus, after an initially even exchange, Qui-Gon runs out of gas much faster than Maul does. | |
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Ungovernable Galaxy | |
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Ungovernable Galaxy: Lampshaded by Shmi when Padmé realizes how rampant slavery is in Tattooine: | |
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Three Stooges Shout-Out | |
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Three Stooges Shout-Out: Ody Mandrell's pit droid crew has a brief moment of slapstick reminiscent of Moe, Larry, and Curly. | |
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Explosive Leash | |
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Explosive Leash: Anakin tells us that explosive implants helped keep the slaves from running away. | |
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Road Apples | |
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Road Apples: Jar Jar Binks steps in poop and says "icky-icky goo". | |
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"Friends" Rent Control | |
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"Friends" Rent Control: Shmi and Anakin live in a clean, multi-room house with robot servants while working as slaves, on a desert planet, run by slug mobs. And what's that area where Anakin was building his podracer? Was that, like, a backyard? Possibly justified by their value to Watto as slaves, since he later refused to sell Shmi to anyone, at any price, unless he was certain she would be treated well by her new owner. Sure enough, the guy who eventually was allowed to buy her didn't waste any time in freeing her and marrying her. | |
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Do a Barrel Roll | |
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Do a Barrel Roll: Anakin tries this during the Battle Droid Control Ship battle. "I'll try spinning, that's a good trick!" Given that he ends up spinning into the control ship hangar, which in turn allowed him to (accidentally) torpedo the main reactor, it probably was a good trick. | |
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Canon Immigrant | |
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Canon Immigrant: This film canonized "Coruscant" as the name of the galactic capital. The name had been invented by Timothy Zahn for The Thrawn Trilogy. | |
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Artistic License – Economics | |
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Artistic License – Economics: The plot point of Watto refusing to accept Qui-Gon Jinn's offered payment in Republic credits for repair parts. Aside from the obvious solution of Qui-Gon just hiring another ship captain who flies routes into the Republic and would therefore need Republic currency, the currencies of large, stable economies tend to be more valuable than local currencies in developing and fringe economies (c.f. the dominance of the US dollar in black markets). Though given the demonstrable corruption of the Republic in the film, it's possible that the Republic credit has become severely devalued compared to the currencies favored by Tatooine's Hutt rulers. | |
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The Mothership | |
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The Mothership: The Federation command ship which Anakin destroys. | |
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Real Name as an Alias | |
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Real Name as an Alias: When pretending to be her own handmaiden, Queen Amidala uses her lesser-known non-royal name, Padmé Naberrie. | |
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Talking Is a Free Action | |
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Talking Is a Free Action: This movie is notable because of the absence of this trope. There is no dialogue whatsoever during the lengthy duel between Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, and Darth Maul. This wound up with the opposite problem, as it gets hard to remember why they're fighting to begin with. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: The Naboo is one of few examples of Space Jews to also fall under this, between the architecture and the references to Hindu culture and the depiction of Qui-Gon's funeral. | |
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Obi-Wan Moment | |
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Obi-Wan Moment: Qui-Gon Jinn calmly meditates before his final, brief duel with Darth Maul when their fight is briefly interrupted by the shifting of some laser doors. This is a case where he didn't necessarily know that he'd be dying, but likely considered the possibility. | |
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