"The Gungan General" is the twelfth episode in Season One of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series. It is the twelfth episode of the series overall and concluded a two-part storyline started with the previous episode, "Dooku Captured."

Official description[]

While negotiating Count Dooku's ransom, Anakin and Obi-Wan are taken prisoner. The Jedi and Sith form an unlikely alliance in a bid to escape, with Jar Jar Binks as their only hope.

Plot summary[]

Dooku held for ransom! After
escaping capture by Jedi Knights
Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan
Kenobi, the villainous Count
Dooku fell into the clutches of
pirates led by the brigand Hondo
Ohnaka. Eager to get custody of
Dooku, the Republic agreed to
pay Hondo a hefty sum in exchange
for the Sith Lord.

But Anakin and Obi-Wan had not counted on the
treacherous cunning of Ohnaka and
his band....

Anakin and Obi-Wan wake up in the pirates' prison cell, having been drugged the night before despite their precautions in the previous episode. They also discover that not only is their cellmate Count Dooku, but the three of them are chained together, making escape far more difficult due to mutual and unpleasant antipathy.

Meanwhile, Jar Jar Binks and Senator Kharrus fly to the Weequay pirates' lair with a bounty of spice on board as a ransom for Dooku. They are accompanied by Commander Stone and five additional clones.

Turk Falso questions Hondo's decision to offer Dooku to the Republic, since he thinks dealing with the Separatists would have been more profitable. Hondo responds by saying that he sometimes wonders why he [Hondo] even bother to keep him [Turk] around; if they tried ransoming Dooku of to the Separatist, they would simply have sent a droid army there to wipe them out instead of sending the desired ransom. Unfortunately, Turk disagrees, and chooses to go behind Hondo's back and have his men shoot down the shuttle to sack the ransom for himself. The two pilots and Kharrus die in the resulting crash, and Jar Jar subsequently gets unintentional command of the surviving clone crew.

With no choice but to work together, the two Jedi and the Sith try to escape to the hangar, but are caught and re-incarcerated after being spotted by Pilf. Obi-Wan then uses a mind trick to compel the guard to let them out for a second escape attempt. Unfortunately, while trying to pole-vault over the base's outer wall, Dooku's chain is shot; Obi-Wan grabs him, and Anakin is forced to lift up all three men much to his frustration; they are re-captured by Hondo while still hanging from the wall.

Turk leads his band to hunt the survivors of the Republic delegation near the acid geysers. After a brief skirmish, Jar Jar has the clones jump into a geyser, making the Weequays decide to let the acid kill them. Jar Jar is extremely confident, as the local fauna's behavior determines when a geyser is about to erupt, which ultimately saves the group's lives. Returning to the wreckage of the shuttle, they find that the spice ransom is gone. Though the clones recommend waiting for reinforcements, an impatient Jar Jar plans to go after the pirates, riding the skalders to catch up. They intercept and defeat the pirates, and with the spice back in hand, they follow a series of power supply lines straight to the pirate base.

Upon his return to the base, Turk lies to Hondo, saying that the Republic brought an army to free the Jedi, and suggests dispatches tanks to counterattack. Hondo reluctantly agrees, saying that he will deal with the Jedi himself. The tanks depart and are quickly spotted by Jar Jar, who allerts the clones. Commander Stone sends Jar Jar to "negotiate," knowing that the Gungan's ineptitude will be useful.

Hondo becomes increasingly annoyed with the Jedi, particularly Anakin's brash comments. Believing that negotiation has already failed, he and tortures Anakin and Obi-Wan with electrical currents, while Dooku remains locked in his cell.

As the pirates take him hostage, Jar Jar accidentally rams one tank into another, causing both tanks to collide with the power supply lines and subsequently shutting down the power grid. The Weequays attempt to kill him, only for the clones to hold them at gunpoint.

When the power outage hits the base, the Jedi and Dooku separately take the opportunity to escape: Dooku kills Turk and takes off in a ship; Anakin and Obi-Wan retrieve their lightsabers and take Hondo hostage before meeting Jar Jar outside. Obi-Wan tells Anakin to let Hondo go, as they don't have any quarrel with him since Dooku had escaped. Hondo commends the Jedi on their honor, but Obi-Wan reminds him that Dooku is likely to seek revenge on him, before the Twilight takes off.

Continuity[]

Senator Kharrus's staff was designed off of the Staff of Ra from Raiders of the Lost Ark.

One of the swoop bikes has nose art depicting the mudflap girl.

At the beginning of the episode, Obi-Wan and Anakin wake up after being drugged with their drinks. However, at the end of the previous episode, they had switched out the spiked drinks. The show originally had webcomics posted on the official Star Wars website which tied in to the various episodes. This was the story that required you to read the comic to understand how Anakin and Obi-Wan were captured by the pirates: Pilf Mukmuk gassed the entire room.

In one shot, when Jar Jar is burying Kharrus, a skalder is walking by him. However, when it switches shots, the skalder is nowhere in sight.

In one shot where Jar Jar and the Clones run back to the shuttle, only two Coruscant Guard troopers are seen, despite there being three Guards that survived the crash. The third Guard reappears a few seconds later.

Obi-Wan and Anakin arrived without their lightsabers, while the pirates had the lightsabers they took from Dooku—his own and Anakin's. When Obi-Wan and Anakin recover the lightsabers, both are distinctive blue Jedi lightsabers, and Dooku's curved-hilt lightsaber is nowhere to be seen.

In a shot, when the shuttle is flying over Florrum, the clone troopers accompanying Jar Jar and Kharrus are shown as troopers with blank armor. When the shuttle crashes, they are shown as Coruscant Guard.

Credits[]

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Appearances[]

By type

Characters	Organisms	Droid models	Events	Locations
Organizations and titles	Sentient species	Vehicles and vessels	Weapons and technology	Miscellanea

Characters

Canon characters

Padmé Amidala Jar Jar Binks Dooku Turk Falso Obi-Wan Kenobi Kharrus Plo Koon Mack (First appearance) Barb Mentir (First appearance) Pilf Mukmuk Hondo Ohnaka Hondo Ohnaka's mother (First mentioned) Palpatine Piit R5-P8 (First appearance) Anakin Skywalker Stone (First appearance) Unidentified Clone Sergeant (First appearance) Unidentified Coruscant Guard (First appearance) Mace Windu Yoda

Legends characters

Padmé Amidala Cad Bane (Mentioned only in Decoded episode) Jar Jar Binks Dooku Turk Falso Dagu Flask Obi-Wan Kenobi Kharrus Plo Koon Mack (First appearance) Barb Mentir (First appearance) Pilf Mukmuk Hondo Ohnaka Hondo Ohnaka's mother (First mentioned) Palpatine Piit R5-P8 (First appearance) Stone (First appearance) Anakin Skywalker Finn Tegotash Unidentified clone trooper pilot (Florrum) (First appearance) Unidentified Coruscant Guard 1 (Florrum) (First appearance) Unidentified Coruscant Guard 2 (Florrum) (First appearance) Unidentified Coruscant Guard sergeant (First appearance) Unidentified OOM command battle droid (Dooku's frigate) (In flashback(s)) Mace Windu Yoda

Organisms

Canon organisms

Kowakian monkey-lizard Nuna (Mentioned only) Skalder (First appearance)

Legends organisms

Nuna (Mentioned only) Skalder (First appearance)

Droid models

Canon droids

Astromech droid R-series R5 unit Battle droid (In flashback(s)) B-series battle droid (In flashback(s)) B1-series battle droid (In flashback(s)) OOM-series battle droid (In flashback(s)) OOM command battle droid (In flashback(s))

Legends droids

Astromech droid R-series R4-series agromech droid R5-series astromech droid Battle droid (In flashback(s)) B-series battle droid (In flashback(s)) B1-Series battle droid (In flashback(s)) OOM-series battle droid (In flashback(s)) OOM command battle droid (In flashback(s))

Events

Canon events

Republic Era Clone Wars Mission to Florrum (First appearance) Skirmish at Vanqor (In flashback(s))

Legends events

Clone Wars Skirmish at Vanqor (In flashback(s)) Mission to Florrum (First appearance)

Locations

Canon locations

Core Worlds Corusca sector Coruscant subsector Coruscant Galactic City Federal District Senate Office Building Chancellor's office Outer Rim Territories Sertar sector Florrum system Florrum Doshar fields (First appearance) Hondo's complex Vanqor system (In flashback(s)) Vanqor (In flashback(s))

Legends locations

Core Worlds Coruscant sector Coruscant system Coruscant Republic Executive Building Chancellor's Suite Florrum Doshar fields (First appearance) Hondo Ohnaka's pirate outpost Outer Rim Territories (In flashback(s)) Sertar sector (In flashback(s)) Uziel system (In flashback(s)) Vanqor (In flashback(s))

Organizations and titles

Canon organizations and titles

Aide (Appears on poster only) Bodyguard (Appears on poster only) Confederacy of Independent Systems Separatist Droid Army (Mentioned only) Army infantry corps (In flashback(s)) Head of State Galactic Republic Galactic Senate (Mentioned only) Junior Representative Senator Office of the Chancellor Supreme Chancellor Republic Military Grand Army of the Republic Clone trooper Clone Commander Clone Sergeant Coruscant Guard Clone shock trooper Jedi General Galactic Republic Navy Clone trooper pilot Handmaiden (Appears on poster only) House Serenno Count Count of Serenno Jedi Jedi Order Grand Master Jedi Knight Jedi Master Master of the Order Naboo Royal Handmaidens (Appears on poster only) Ohnaka Gang Captain Pirate king Palpatine family Sith Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sith apprentice Sith Lord Skywalker family

Legends organizations and titles

Confederacy of Independent Systems Separatist Droid Army (Mentioned only) Count Count of Serenno Galactic Republic Coruscant Guard Diplomatic Escort Group Clone trooper Clone shock trooper Clone trooper commander Clone trooper sergeant Galactic Senate Representative Senator Supreme Chancellor Grand Army of the Republic Clone trooper pilot Ohnaka Gang Jedi Order Grand Master Jedi Knight Jedi Master Order of the Sith Lords Sith Lord

Sentient species

Canon species

Gran Gungan Otolla Human Clone Naboo Serennian Kel Dor Nikto (In flashback(s)) Kajain'sa'Nikto (In flashback(s)) Twi'lek (Picture only) Weequay Yoda's species

Legends species

Gran Gungan Otolla Gungan Human Clone Korun Naboo Kel Dor Kowakian monkey-lizard Nikto (In flashback(s)) Kajain'sa'Nikto (In flashback(s)) Twi'lek (Picture only) Weequay Yoda's species

Vehicles and vessels

Canon vehicles

Repulsorcraft Speeder Speeder bike Starhawk speeder bike WLO-5 battle tank (First appearance) Starship Freighter G9 Rigger-class light freighter Twilight Frigate Corona-class armed frigate Acushnet Munificent-class star frigate (In flashback(s)) Dooku's Munificent-class star frigate (In flashback(s)) Shuttle Flarestar-class attack shuttle Unidentified Flarestar-class attack shuttle (Barb Mentir) (First appearance) Unidentified Flarestar-class attack shuttle (Ohnaka Gang) Nu-class attack/transport shuttle Unidentified Nu-class attack/transport shuttle (First appearance) Sheathipede-class transport shuttle (In flashback(s))

Legends vehicles

Confederacy of Independent Systems Munificent-class star frigate (In flashback(s)) Count Dooku's frigate (In flashback(s)) Sheathipede-class transport shuttle (In flashback(s)) Grand Army of the Republic G9 Rigger freighter Twilight Nu-class attack shuttle Kharrus's Nu-class attack shuttle (First appearance) Ohnaka Gang Flarestar-class attack shuttle Unidentified Flarestar-class attack shuttle (Barb Mentir) (First appearance) Unidentified Flarestar-class attack shuttle (Ohnaka Gang) Corona-class armed frigate Acushnet Swoopbike Starhawk speeder bike (First appearance) WLO-5 speeder tank (First appearance)

Weapons and technology

Canon technology

Antenna (In flashback(s)) Integrated Comms Antenna (In flashback(s)) Armor Clone trooper armor Phase I clone trooper armor Blaster Blaster pistol DC-17 hand blaster Weequay blaster pistol Blaster rifle DC-15A blaster carbine Long-barreled blaster rifle Breath mask Antiox breath mask Comlink Comlink booster pack (In flashback(s)) Containment field (In flashback(s)) Cybernetics Mechno-arm Electrobinoculars Energy coupler (First appearance) Hologram Holoprojector Homing beacon (Mentioned only) Imagecaster Lightsaber Mace Windu's lightsaber Obi-Wan Kenobi's lightsaber Sith lightsaber (Appears in flashback as hologram) Curved-hilt lightsaber (Appears in flashback as hologram) Dooku's lightsaber (Appears in flashback as hologram) Skywalker's lightsaber Laser Missile Power generator Stuncuffs Thermal detonator

Legends technology

Armor Phase I clone trooper armor Blaster Blaster pistol DC-17 hand blaster LL-30 blaster pistol (Indirect mention only in Decoded episode) Weequay blaster pistol Blaster rifle Weequay blaster lance DC-15S Cybernetics Mechno-arm Energy binder Energy coupler (First appearance) Hologram Holoprojector Lightsaber Anakin Skywalker's second lightsaber Curved-hilt lightsaber Dooku's lightsaber Laser Photoreceptor

Miscellanea

Canon miscellanea

Alcohol Pirate brew (In flashback(s)) (First identified as pirate brew) Binary Black market (Mentioned only) Burial Death Foodstuff Fruit Jogan fruit The Force Dark side of the Force Force power Force choke Force lightning (In flashback(s)) Mind trick Telekinesis Geyser (First appearance) God (Mentioned only) Goggles Knife Lekku (Picture only) Poster Handmaiden pin-up (First appearance) Twi'lek pin-up Ransom (First identified as ransom) Republic crest Skylane Spice Staff Kharrus's staff (First appearance) Tattoo Torture Writing Aurebesh High Galactic Trade Federation Script

Legends miscellanea

Basic Binary Burial Death Desevrar Infantry helmet Eye patch The Force Dark side of the Force Force Choke Force lightning (In flashback(s)) Mind trick Telekinesis Geyser Gungan Basic Jedi apparel Jogan fruit Phase I clone trooper armor Spice Staff of Ra (First appearance) Tattoo Torture Twi'lek pin-up Weequay pirate brew Writing Aurebesh High Galactic alphabet Trade Federation Basic

Sources[]

• Anakin, Obi-Wan and Dooku Strike an Uneasy Alliance on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
• The Clone Wars Episode Guide: The Gungan General on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
• "Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season One Episode Guide, Part Two" — Star Wars Insider 110
• "The Gungan General" Episode Guide – The Clone Wars on StarWars.com (backup link)
• The Clone Wars Rewatch: Honor Among Jedi and "The Gungan General" on StarWars.com (backup link)

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• "The Gungan General" on the Aurebesh Wiki

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