#Fuckin Krell

[chopper-base]

I love how he has no fear-

He just fuckin stares down Krell

And this, ladies, gentlemen, and my nonbinary folks, is why he's an Arc Trooper

he definitely was thinking about shooting him right then and there-

@same-heart-same-blood

#i love this man with my entire soul #comfort character #tcw fives #fives #umbara arc #battle of umbara #fives friday

[unmarked-credits]

pong krell fuckin' sucks

#pong krell #the bad batch #star wars #clones #clone wars #fives #hardcase #the other ones idk

[honestlywtfisgoingon]

moments i paused clone wars

-when a sex slave literally commits suicide in front of anakin while he flirts w the slave queen

-realizing ziro is a male, then realizing he is an at least partially straight male and in love with a frog mosquito

-when obi wan goes completely bald

-seeing cad bane shoot someone simply bc their hat is bigger than his and then proceeding to take it

-waxer dying on umbara bc FUCKING KRELL I HATE HIM

-seeing one of padme’s headpieces and realizing that they have fake hair in them and that her handmaidens don’t actually mold her hair into super weird shapes

-when a little twi’lek girl tells rex he looks like her daddy to see if i heard that right, and then again when it’s revealed her dad is a clone bc im so interested and hyped over interracial/inter-species couples in star wars (i am a product of an interracial marriage lol)

-basically anytime a twi’lek child comes up bc they make them look so fuckin weird

-one of darth maul’s first scenes where he’s tweaking the fuck out with poetry and i couldn’t stop laughing idk why

-we actually see an angel from the moons of iego that anakin referenced in tpm

-when i noticed they animated ahsoka just a little older i think in s3 bc it was so subtle but that’s what was perfect abt it

-the fucking force gods??

-little pacifist lemur ppl

-little ppl saying “welcome to our disaster” and hugging a clone for coming

-even more little ppl that worship r2 and 3po for accidentally murdering their king

-when a guy hits on ventress by calling her a beautiful bald woman

-every other time r2 screams or yoda giggles bc it gets me every time and i rewind

-many many more times bc that show has a lot of mind fucky moments

#tcw #star wars

[totallycorrectjediorderquotes]

Krell: You'll never take me alive!

Plo, .2 seconds away from blasting him with Electric Judgement: I wasn't planning to!

Krell: That's so dark!

#eat shit krell #GET HIS ASS PLO #Master Pong Krell #Pong Krell #Fuckin Krell #Plo Koon #Incorrect Star Wars Quotes #Star Wars #Star Wars: The Clone Wars #Star Wars: The Expanded Universe #Star Wars: The Prequel Trilogy #Source: Unknown

[exhaustedtech99]

Part 2 electric boogaloo

@sorry-but-no-sorry

#clone trooper error #clone trooper reg #clone oc #star wars clone oc #clone wars oc #fuckin pong Krell

[books-and-cats-26]

Do you think there were other Jedi like Krell, ones that didn't treat their troops with respect, or do you think he was the outlier?

My exhausted ass has been thinking about this all morning

#star wars #star wars clone wars #the clones #pong krell #i feel like i gotta bleep his name #like a curse word #fuckin' krell

[legobiwan]

For the Star Wars Asks: what is the antagonist you absolutely cannot sympathize with?

Oh boy! 

I’m going to say that overall, it has to be Palpatine. Unlike Dooku or Maul or Ventress, Palps is basically a psychotic murderer who has zero moral compass. Even in his backstory in Darth Plagueis, he’s already a troubled adolescent who kills off his whole family with a relatively small nudge from Damask (at least, compared to Anakin, who needed to be groomed his entire life in order to turn. Palps didn’t need all that much encouragement.) I mean, it makes him a great baddie, because he is so devoid of empathy, of any tragic backstory (and I hope the higher-ups at Disney/Star Wars keep it that way. I love my complicated villains as much as the next person, but sometimes you just need a Bad Guy™ for the story. And Palpatine is definitely one of those.) What this means, however, is that I absolutely cannot sympathize with him.

As a close runner-up, there’s this guy:

*shiver*

#Anonymous #honestly it's super hard for me to watch the umbara arc #becuase krell makes MY SKIN FUCKIN CRAWL #yelch #at least sidious is kind of fun in the prequels #in that awful cackling way of his #krell i can't even laugh at he's so horrible #and is definitely not a complicated personality like dooku et al #sheev palpatine #pong krell #hello there #ask legobiwan

[warsamongthestars]

WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT THE UMBARA ARC

Things I have come across, considered, or theorized, regarding Clone Wars the Umbara Arc.

# REGARDING THE 501ST / TORRENT COMPANY - FIVES Dude is the sanest man here. Yes, that includes Rex. Fives is literally the Everyman, the Good Man that goes to war. Everything about Fives is how a Sane but Confident and Good Person is suppose to do and how they would reasonably act, given all they’ve experienced.

And Gods is he brutal. He swipe-kicked an Umbaran, and blasted the fucker point blank.

He talked back to Krell on several occasions, first one resulted in a Lightsaber within Shaving Distance. He went behind the backs of the chain of command, but still respected Rex enough to tell him what he was going to do (and Rex even covered him).

And even in the face of Execution, he’s the Optimist to Jesse’s Cynic. In a final ditch effort, he pulls a speech for all his brothers. He sees people as what they are: Persons, each and everyone. And from the Start, knew Krell was a fuckin Bastard.

Fives is Smart too. Dude learned how to Fly an Umbaran ship, and Umbaran Tech is as alien as it gets (s’like trying to translate a Star Trek consol).

- JESSE Seems to be a Republic Fan considering he literally tattooed the Republic’s Symbol on his face and painted it on his helmet.

Dude is Snarky and Sassy. A dangerous combination. He makes snarky quips, is cynical in the face of execution, and even does the sassy hand on hip thing.

He’s also, apparently, either part Technician or part Hacker. Capable of cracking Umbaran Codes, if Fives’ good natured shoulder punch was any indication.

- KIX The Medic, and gods it could not have been easy to deal with all those causalities.

- HARDCASE Love Hardcase. Dude’s got explosions and fighting on the mind, his answer to a problem with guns is to bring a bigger gun. He’s got a one track mind, and Fives had to reign him in several times.

He’s definitely friendly enough, and takes things as they come, which suggested he had simple expectations and simple desires.

... Gonna miss him.

- TUP For all the “Tup was Innocent” I kept hearing, Tup is pretty much an Anxious New Guy. While being anxious about Krell is the reasonable reaction, if not the understatement, Tup brings anxiety to a new level.

He holds on to dear life while in transport with both hands, he’s fairly hopeless in most situations (brings to mind “We’re DOOMED!”  by C3-P0) [And let’s face it, Tup has good reason to be hopeless about stuff].

Fairly cynical, but in the way that new folk are cynical to the possibility of new outcomes. Kamino must’ve been hard on the kid.

- DOGMA ... I have reason to believe that Dogma’s chip was partially activated.

What starts to be just a young soldier following things to the letter, dives into a route of insanity that cannot be explained away. At least, by my perceptions. (Believe what you want, this is my article of stupidity, go get your own stupid if you don’t like it)

Sure, supporting Krell’s plans in the beginning just indicated that he was being idiotically naive. Sure, a fear of getting into trouble can drive someone to jump the chain if they feel something has gone wrong. He even got Tup in on it. This suggests youth, anxiety, and the unfortunate idea that he would have to learn things the hard way-- we’ve been there.

But Dogma was There when the Clone Transmission came in regarding Umbarans taking Clone Equipment. He was There when the 501st and the 212th attacked each other.

And yet, Dogma takes up a blaster against his own brothers, AFTER THAT ATTACK (FOR WHICH HE WAS PRESENT FOR THE BRIEFING OF AND FOR THE EVEN ITSELF), and screams that they’re all Traitors?

Its not like Dogma isn’t reasonably Smart. After a certain point, this stops being Anxiety and Desperation talking, and starts being something else.

It puts all other actions under a new light. Such as his rather robotic actions when he was first introduced-- they were on a battlefield, why the hell is he showing off a crisp and serious about-face / heel-turn like he’s in a fuckin Uniform Inspection?

And how he shoots Krell. Yes, it does look like a snapping point and you wouldn’t be wrong to take it as such. But by that point, he was using “Traitor” an awful lot.

... It makes sense to theorize that Dogma and Tup were apart of the same Batch. It seems that their entire Batch must’ve had Bad Chips. Wonder if that tumor killed the others...

- REX Man has the patience of a saint, but you’d have to when working with Skywalker.

I can’t blame him for the orders he received from Krell. Rex was in the worst position during the worst circumstances. If he defied orders too much, he ran the risk of court-martial or worse, and then his company and legion would be left to the mercies of Krell. If he tried to lessen the blow, he still would get chewed out by his company for following Krell.

He tried to justify it. Who wouldn’t when you’re between a rock and a hard place? When you know what’s around you is Wrong, but if you don’t do what you’re told, it could get worse. Of course you’d justify it. You’d do to stay sane.

He was the Honorable Man in the worst position.

- PROTOTYPE The thing about Season 7, is that it takes place years after Clone Wars was cancelled. Plenty of time to go back and sift through the old seasons, in order to build new ones when The Clone Wars was brought back to air.

And plenty of stuff in the Umbara Arc shows me that, y’know, Torrent Company was proto-Bad Batch.

You have Hardcase, who was basically Wrecker.

Jesse, who screamed Crosshair with that sass and snark. No wonder they didn’t like each other, they were quite a bit alike.

Rex, playing Hunter in both exhaustion, diplomacy, and nobody every being happy with anything he did.

Not sure who played the Tech here. Seems to have been divided between Fives, Jesse and Hardcase. Possibly Kix.

# KRELL

Let me just get my feelings out of the way.

We fuckin hate this asshole. Ever second he was alive on screen, I desperately wanted him dead. Dealing with him second hand is one of the worst experiences I’ve had with Clone Wars-- and I’m pretty sure he was written that way on purpose. I despise him. Wish he got shot sooner. The death tolls, the disregard, we saw how many new ways a Clone could die and ITS THIS BASTARD’S FAULT.

*ahem*

But that’s not why I’m here.

Krell’s speeches tells us that what he did, he’s be doing for a long time. Umbara took place in the Second Year of the Clone Wars... And this suggests that he may have Started a bastard.

He certainly was Dark Side by the time of Umbara.

Hints of his later speech also suggest that he had, in some way, contact with Darth Tyrannus, or possibly even Sidious himself acting as Tyrannus. Which puts things into a new light.

... I think that Umbara was meant to kill off Torrent Company.

Here’s my logic.

After Umbara, just about everything that goes wrong for Anakain, does. Kenobi betrays Anakin’s trust. Ahsoka is lost repeatedly, and thanks to the trial arc, gets gone for “seemingly” good. Everything was directed through the Jedi Council, and often, via the Chancellor’s hidden hand, was in some way isolating to Anakin Skywalker.

And it starts Here.

Who the fuck requests a General about to head into battle? What could be so fuckin important as to interrupt TAKING A SEPARATIST’S WORLD!?

Nothing. You don’t do that. There was nothing more important at that moment. You can’t claim incidental, because Anakin was never pulled off that way before or since. Take Anaxes as your Example-- his wife was Pregnant, and he was still fighting.

I think, via Krell, someone who is KNOWN to have massive clone casualties, who had possibly started off this civil war having already Fallen, that the Chancellor had started to find ways to Isolate Anakin. To ensure that Anakin’s trust would only be the Chancellor’s.

And he started by trying to ensure the deaths of Captain Rex and the rest of Torrent Company.

... Of course, unlike every other time. It takes a Chip to bring Clones to heel.

Because on their own? Clones don’t fall for the Machinations of Evil Emperors. They don’t get their strings pulled, like Jedi do. It takes a tumor-slave-chip to bring these great men to heel.

So Captain Rex survives. And becomes the worst thorn Palpatine has ever felt, for it.

#star wars #the clone wars #captain rex #arc trooper fives #clone trooper jesse #clone trooper tup #clone trooper dogma #clone trooper hardcase #pong krell #umbara arc #theories and analysis

[propheticfire]

I’ve always liked this image from the Umbara arc. Rex gives the order to arrest General Krell for treason against the Republic, and Tup is super pissed at everything that’s happened. But that trooper in the background is so ready for it; he’s just like “Bring it on, I’ve been waiting for this since the beginning!”

#the clone wars #clones are people too #clone trooper Tup #wish I knew your name soldier #I just really love that guy's expression #he is so excited to fuckin' own Krell #the feral gleam in his eye really sells it

[kiwikipedia]

Jedi Order reality TV series where Plo Koon repeatedly tries to fistfight Pong Krell and Mace, Koth, Saesee, and Shaak have to hold him back.

Not because Pong can beat Plo, oh no, it’s bacsue Plo’s talons are classified as actual weapons.

(Meanwhile Kit is cheering Plo on, Oppo is still trying to figure out how to use the blender, and Obi’s fuckin asleep or something idk)

#Yoda put the high council + some others into a house and said ‘have fun’ and fucked off to who knows where #plo koon #mace windu #eeth koth #saesee tiin #Shaak ti #kit fisto #oppo rancisis #obi wan kenobi #Jedi Coucil Reality TV AU #pong krell

[lumberjackloverboy-moved]

i’m the anon from ages ago who freaked out about ventress’s eyes while rewatching tcw and last night was krell’s episode emil please talk about your clone ocs i need a distraction from his crimes 😩 never cried so damn much during a tcw episode augh

KRELL'S ARC IS THE BEST ARC I LOVE IT SO MUCH AS-FGJASFG

okay so i have my own legion, the 207th, which serve under mirialan jedi knight ensur azulie, and the most fleshed out in the legion is razor squad. it consists of sergeant nite, combat medic pox, and then mir, lopside, and '74!

nite is a trans woman and a big fat lesbian who Totally Does Not have very intense emotions for ensur. she is also the one who shot and killed ensur in order 66 because i love pain. ensur dies not knowing why her sorta girlfriend kills her :))) nite is force sensitive but refuses to acknowledge it

nite did not receive proper training, instead being thrown into the rank of sergeant after a slaughter of a battle left the 207th without needed military leadership. she is Extremely Stressed bc of this and has very very bad imposture syndrome. her and pox are the best of buds

pox is the combat medic, agender, and considers themselves straight-- they had a surprisingly long lasting long distance fling with a clawdite woman (before she ghosted them). they're the eldest in the squad and uses that to their advantage (read: older sibling bullying) and have the world's best rbf.

they were on the first battle of geonosis and still have nightmares about it. they were woefully unprepared for the bloodshed and casualties and refuses to ever be that useless again

mir (short for mir'shebs. he is the only one who thinks the name is funny) is the youngest of the batch and is frankly coddled bc of it. he's a heavy gunner and fuckin BUILT. he'd cheeky and outgoing, and smiles more often than not. he comes off as naïve but has intense depressive episodes that frankly scare him. only pox knows.

very very very protective of his curls and will only use the best products that he can steal get his hands on. he wears it long and dyes it the 207th colors. he loves animals and wouldn't mind working with the CG if it meant he could work in animal handling. got his facial scars when he was mauled trying to hug a stray masstiff while absolutely hammered.

lopside's name used to be spots, bc of his freckles, but when he lost his arm the joking nickname 'lopsided' ended up sticking. he's twins with '74 and they are very Very codependent. they'd choose each other over the republic. if one decided to defect the other would follow without a second thought.

lopside lost his arm the first day he was deployed. He and 74 were in the same squad, quad squad. while behind military lines the medical camp the squad was staying in was bombed, killed everyone in the squad except lopside and 74, who were folded into razor squad. he and 74 share chin tattoos with their lost squadmate's initials and numbers.

lopside is a little timid, a neat freak, and likes to paint in his free time. he's the resident tattoo artist for the 207th and is a wonderful boxer. him and mir's spars are a sport to watch at this point.

74 goes by his number, 9074. he still hadn't chosen a name when he lost his first squad and decided to go by his number as a sign of remembrance. he's the resident cishet. unfortunate. very giggly and snarky, and a horrible influence on mir, they are Besties. chronic disrespecter of authority-- respects nite as a person, not his superior. makes wonderful plans on the fly but they are always dangerous; he's giving nite and pox grey hairs every time he has an idea.

he has friends in the 212th that he keeps in contact with. just an all-around jokester, which hides his deep emotional and trust problems from losing his squad the first time around.

OKAY THATS THEM I LOVE THEM THEY ARE MY ENTIRE HEART

#sw #my ocs

[totallycorrectjediorderquotes]

Krell, on Kamino: Why did you invite me here?!

Mace: We didn’t!

Plo: You invited yourself!

Shaak: NO ONE LIKES YOU!

#Get his ass Shaak #Master Pong Krell #Fuckin Krell #Mace Windu #Plo Koon #Shaak Ti #Incorrect Star Wars Quotes #Star Wars #Star Wars: The Clone Wars #Star Wars: The Expanded Universe #Star Wars: The Prequel Trilogy #Source: Victorious

[phoebehalliwell]

Now I’ve got ColexPaige on the brain and now I’ve got a hypothetical! What if Cole and Phoebe ended things when she “vanquished” him in Sleuthing with the Enemy? Down in the dumps, but not wanting to give into evil, Cole then decides that he’s gonna get some space. He quits his job and takes a job as lawyer (or maybe a social worker bc that would be interesting) at social services! Queue work rivals Paige & Cole! And Paige stealing the book is when Piper and Phoebe rediscover Cole. And there are MANY feelings had by all 😂

omg okay for starters b4 i even received this i was already percolating on a paige/cole edit issue is like. there really aren't any s4 clips from the remaster left on youtube meaning i gotta grab whole ass episode meaning i gotta like. know which moments to grab 😓 so um. if u have any fav paige/cole moments!! send em my way!! but yes. because like. we'll say cole and phoebe blew up in his face. as it turns out, women do not like it when you manipulate and try to murder them. and their sisters. but like who's counting. cole's got that fuckin post breakup vibe he's feeling ugly and stupid and lonely but like. there's also kinda an epiphany happening. because he felt best when he was with phoebe, because she saw him as a good man. he liked being seen that way. and like. he can't really get phoebe to see him that way because of the whole tried-to-kill-her-multiple-times-things and also she swore if she ever saw him again she'd vanquish him on sight (au specifically were instead of faking cole's death phoebe didn't have to make the call after cole saved her from krell the zotar (?? zotar the krell ???? prue is a scorpio ❤) and cole got the hell outta dodge avoiding a vanquish. he shows up in the movie like hi phoebe 😳 and phoebe meets him at the mausoleum punches him again and threatens to throw the potion but she doesn't so cole's thinking he's got a chance so he pushes his luck Then phoebe throws the potion and cole shimmers out just in time to dodge it so um. maybe not!!) But cole's thinking if he just like. Is A Good Man. people will look at him that way. so now all he needs to do is like. be a good man. which is easier said than done.

so we'll say he quits the da job because it was given to him through demonic connections and he like. gets a job doing legal work for social services because like. what's better than helping people?? like he does have an actual law degree he might as well use it. and it keeps kinda going like how it went when he worked in social services for like ten minutes in s4 like. like he's like yes i'm gonna be a good person and help people : ) and then keeps seeing shit like hey!! what the fuck!? this guys fuckin sucks ass oh my god this guy fuckin sucks ass and like. my god does he want to murder them 😐 but like we'll say phoebe had some crucial line like how good people don't murder. so he's like hhrrrrnnnnghhhh. and like. paige is canonically bad with paperwork and deadlines and all that and cole's just like very terse so when paige misses the deadline for getting some important paperwork to him he definitely snaps and paige isn't one to take that shit laying down she's like jesus fuckin christ man anyone ever told you you're a horrible fuckin person? just like god awful? fuckin demon i swear and cole is like 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 because that's not the point of this!!!! aaaaaa!! and so the next day he's up at paige's cubical like hi. i want 2 apologize. for being. rude. yesterday. and paige is like okay... because cole clearly has more to say and cole is like yeah it's just like i'm trying very hard to be a good person and you're kinda fucking ruining it w your lack of organization and it's really making it difficult for me so yeah. and paige is like that's your apology? that's your apology? have you ever apologized to anyone before in your life? and cole kinda makes this face because looking back on it um no. he hasn't. and paige kinda sees that like what the fuck?? for real?? and she's like okay well watch and learn. cole. i'm sorry for missing the deadline with the paperwork. i've been really scattered lately and i know that's not an excuse; i've already called the whoever and filed for an extension, giving us an extra week of wiggle room. the paperwork is currently complete on your desk. it won't happen again. i'm sorry. and cole's like good. and paige is like dude!? and cole is like i mean um. thank you. i accept ur apology. um. thanks. and paige is like yeah. you're welcome. dick. and cole is like 👍.

but from that point on paige is really intrigued with cole because she always just assumed snooty big wig with a big expensive law education who never cared about anyone and was really only doing this as some type of penance someone was forcing him to pay because like. god that's his vibe he really does not seem like. capable of doing any of this right. but the more she looks the more she sees him like really fucking trying he's just unbelievable lost and she's like huh. so you know she throws him a bone like hey you know like this is this and that is that kinda explaining this that cole doesn't get because he's clearly new to this job and sees kinda new to the whole concept of being a good person and paige has been here a while so she can like help. and then bonus is like. at the office christmas party or something and paige and cole are now basically kinda like friends (and paige's gay blonde friend and her also gay boyfriend with the pizza face. they r bi4bi And t4t. and they are paige's besties. and by extension cole is friends with them. they're all like in love you're in love smoochie smoochie ahaha office romance and both paige and cole are like shut up!! and like. again. cole is kinda only doing this because he wants someone to look at him like how phoebe did. look at him like a hero like a genuinely good man. and paige doesn't look at him like that. she sees him as he is, a kinda bad person maybe just mediocre trying really really hard to be good like does he really want someone to see all the milage? someone to know how hard he has to work? no. he just wants to be the white knight the angel. that's what he wants.) the point is maybe they have like that cheap office champagne or something happy holidays and cole offers to get paige a glass and she's like no i don't drink and cole is like oh i didn't know and paige is like haha yeah i mean it's not something i talk about a lot i have kinda a drinking problem in the past did some things i'm really not proud of you know and cole is just kinda like. like the other shoe drops the lightbulb flicks on. because he always assumed paige was just always a good person. but as they get closer and cole finds out more about paige's past he learns that she wasn't always like this like she has done some awful shit too!! she wakes up every morning and chooses to be good. like him. it's not something you're born into. he thought you had to be born good and he could fake it and try to fit in and like put it up as an act but that's all it'd ever be an act to receive love but knowing that it's a choice for everyone. that no matter how you're born, you have to wake up and choose to be good every day. like. that's what he's doing. is he good?

and then we're like teetering on the edge of a paige/cole relationship but they have like a really solid friendship and if they cross that line there's no coming back and they're like coworkers you know so neither of them have the nads to make that jump even tho their friends are like do it do it do it And Then. prue dies. paige becomes a charmed one. what? she steals the book. she's reading it at work. she hits the page phoebe made solely dedicate to cole's human side, with the belthazor page right next to it. what the fuck?? busts her way into cole's office and slams the book down on his desk like this you?? and cole's like you're a charmed one?? and paige is like um hello you're a demon???? that's clearly the bigger reveal here??????? they like. have to like take a solid hour to clear the air because like. cole's gotta come clean paige is like did you try to kill my sister?? and cole's like okay origin story time. and it's funny because it's like. insanely close to like what paige thought was his origin story the only difference is instead of his really rich and pretentious douchebag family being metaphorical demons, they're just literal demons. but she still doesn't know how she feels about that. but um here's piper and phoebe like where's the fucking book!??!?!? paige !!?!?!?!? and spot cole and at like kill kill kill piper freezes the room and them immediately tries to blow him up but paige gets in front of him and orbs him out, dodging piper's blast and like time resumes because piper's powers r still on the fritz and cole just sees his filing cabinet up in flames, his ex girlfriend, and paige's hand still on his chest and is like oh boy.

#charmed #paige matthews #cole turner #paige x cole #margaretsminiessays #💌

[soccialcreature]

my umbara rewatch is just me going “god i fuckin hate u krell” then he ignights his sabers and im like “hm ur lightsabers look cool tho. u can stay.”