Attack of the Clones/YMMV
- Accidental Innuendo: My goodness, you've grown!
- Alternate Character Interpretation: A lot of the romance subplot actually begins to make sense if you interpret Anakin as (un)intentionally using the Force to manipulate her emotions, causing her to fall in love with him. This isn't actually too far out there because its not like we haven't seen Jedi casually Mind Rape people to get what they want.
- Not to mention, why she seems to somehow forget what Anakin did to the Sand People, including killing their women and children, between him telling her this and when he murders the Jedi Younglings in Revenge of the Sith.
- The idea was effectively lampshaded, but we only have Anakin's word that he couldn't do it:
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Padme: You gonna use one of your Jedi mind tricks on me? |
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- And the Fandom Rejoiced: What's that? The second movie includes a major character who's Boba Fett in all but name, but actually kicks ass, has more than three lines, and gets a spectacular death at the end? Sign us up!
- Author's Saving Throw: George Lucas made Jar Jar a more minor character this time around.
- Crowning Moment of Awesome: Yoda with a lightsaber. There was a disturbance in The Force, as if millions of fans were silent in awe... and then suddenly cheered.
- Ensemble Darkhorse: Lucas apparently finally recognized Boba Fett's massive popularity with fans, so he retroactively gave the character a much more important role in the story and gave us Jango Fett, his father/clone who looks and dresses just like him but actually gets several awesome action scenes.
- Fountain of Memes: As with the other prequels, the film is quite quotable.
- Narm Charm: Many found this to be the case, often due to crossing over into So Bad It's Good, especially Anakin's "I don’t like sand" speech.
- Plot Hole: The Distressed Watcher produces a long list of these in this video.
- Romantic Plot Tumor: At least to some degree between Anakin and Padmé. Probably made more glaring by some of their scenes being really toe-crunchingly awkward. While by no means the worst tumor in film history, being a Star Wars film is the reason that the trope was originally called "George Lucas Love Story".
- So Bad It's Good: Hayden Christensen's acting, especially when he has to be romantic.
- Take That, Scrappy!: Lucas finally admitted that Jar Jar was a horrible character, and in making him responsible for enabling Palpatine's rise to totalitarian power, just wanted to give viewers one last reason to hate him. He later had a statue put up in his studio of Jar Jar frozen in carbonite, so at least he can laugh at himself.
- Tear Jerker: The end where a ten-year-old Boba Fett is seen picking up his father's helmet.
- Shmi Skywalker's death. You could totally understand why Anakin would do what he did next (even though it was horrible itself) after having his mother die in his arms like that.
- Uncanny Valley: Seen Temuera Morrison? Cool. Seen a million Temuera Morrisons in CGI? Yeah.
- Considering the nature and purpose of the clone army, one could make a case for it being an Intended Audience Reaction - a million-strong Temuera Morrison army is never going to not be Uncanny Valley, and considering the dubious origins of the army and their eventual hand in eliminating the Jedi, taking advantage of the Uncanny Valley to highlight that there's something off about all of this seems to be a feasible thing to do.
- Unfortunate Implications: Padmé's lack of concern for her boyfriend's violent tendencies shown in Episode II seems to imply that, for this supposedly ethical politician, mass murder isn't too bad when it involves the deaths of women and children of a tribe of primitive desert nomads.
- Well... he seemed sorry when he told her. She probably thought he was going to become The Atoner. Besides, Love Makes You Dumb.
- A holy knight riding out into the desert to do battle with some desert people. Oh hell...
- Vindicated by History: The fandom's general opinion of the prequel trilogy (including, of course, this film) improved over time, and especially so after comparison with the final trilogy.