Never noticed before that the lady in the vision is the only one not consumed but rather strangled. The attention to detail in this series was fantastic.

Not gonna lie, this SCARED me when I was younger.... ....it still does.

When it turns into Vaders face and Padme screams Anakin, it gives me chills every time.

Most accurate depiction of the darkside ever. It is not a benign thing, that just comes down to the individual. You only think you can wield it, and as it easily grows with each use, you begin to realize, you can no longer wield it, it now wields you.

The first little mouse villager to die symbolizes Anakin's mother. That's when Anakin first used his dark side to destroy the sand people and it gave him strength trough the dark side of the force. Eventually his use of the dark side and fear over came him and destroyed all he loved. Which in the end was the last mouse villager which looked like a woman that symbolizes Padme.

Anakin came from a small village. 0:35 The two most important women in his life were his mother and Padme. 0:38 His mother died first, whilst out farming. 0:44 Anakin was first recognized as the Chosen One to fight the Dark Side: 0:50 The Dark Side (Dooku) cut off Anakin's arm: 0:55 Anakin became a cunning warrior in the Clone Wars, facing all manner of enemies. On land: 1:02 ...in the air (and Space): 1:07 ...and against insurmountable odds: 1:12 Each time more aggressive and angrier. Yet each time more loved by those around him (Clones, Padme, certain Jedi, freed Slaves, etc), driving him prouder and prouder. Order 66: 1:25 Padme getting strangled on Mustafar: 1:30 Birth of Darth Vader: 1:35 This ONE minute had more depth than 9 hrs of the sequels. God knows I love this version!

The first time I saw this, Vader's cameo came completely out of left field. It was beautiful.

Great power was given to the warrior after suffering a great loss and he used that power to defend the people he cared about. But as that power grew and grew with every battle, he was eventually consumed by it. This great power destroyed all of the people he tried to protect and it transformed him into a monster.

So basically: The villagers are attacked by a darkness. A lone warrior attacks the darkness but loses his arm to it but the darkness also becomes his new arm. He uses it to fight other monsters since it is so powerful and it becomes more and more powerful in each battle. In the end it becomes too much so it consumes him and destroys everything he ever loved.

The virgin Mortis vision vs the chad cave painting prophecy

The best parts of this show were the moments that foreshadowed Anikan's transformation. For the most part, they were all done with little to no dialogue and told the story of his conversion to the Dark Side through his emotions and his impressive fighting techniques.

The metaphor for Anakin is silently screaming, motionless, and unable to stop the darkness now controlling him before it completely overtakes him - that implies that's how Anakin felt as he turned into Darth Vader. Powerless to change his path, from the moment he allowed Sideous to kill Master Windu, silently screaming as he did more and more evil things until he was destroyed and put in the suit of Vader, sealing his fate. Fantastic scene.

This... gave me the chills the first time I saw this

I love how this was released BEFORE Revenge of the Sith came out, so at the time, we were not 100% on what it meant aside from, "He's going to turn evil".

I just noticed that as the man in the vision uses the newfound power to take down bigger and bigger threats the darkside grows, and the people cheer him on, more and more, they praise him. So he continues to use the power to win with ease, certain that everything is okay until it finally spirals out of control as it always intended. Because of the cheers and encouragement he started to believe that the results were more important than the means

It's not about the arm at all, the arm is just a metaphor for power he gains from hatred, that generated from the pain of loss. It's great power, and great power corrupts greatly, as it was shown here: first he is in control, and things go his way, but then he slips, and the "dark arm" begins to grow, and slowly take everything away, until he is all alone. Alone and lost, his consciousness melts into the overwhelming darkness.

For one frame of animation at 1:37, you can see the Darth Vader outline on Anakin before he tears them off his face. All of it takes place in one second at 1:37, you'd have to go frame by frame in order to see it. That's the beauty of animation.

if you lose sight of who you are this power will consume you

it's crazy how in both 2003 clone wars and 2008 clone wars, Anakin sees his own future, just by different means. This one is way more ambiguous and in a way more frightening than the Mortis vision.

This scene is absolutely horrifying. The music.... the scream at the end.... all of it was masterfully well done.

Who new cave paintings could tell you so much.

this fucked me up as a kid

This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. A much better version of Anakin's vision from the Mortis arc, and I love the Filoni Clone Wars. A peaceful people are attacked by an evil entity, and a warrior beats it back. But in the process, he absorbs some of that entity's power, and in the pursuit of fighting greater and greater evil, he himself must use more and more of that power, until eventually, it consumes him, destroying everything and everyone he loved. Such an incredible and poetic scene.

This is one of the most beautifully executed scenes in Star Wars media. The story telling and symbolism just makes this scene an absolute masterpiece.

The power that has been granted for that warrior, corrupted and consumed him. In the end it turned him into the evil creature he was fighting against. A perfect forseeing of Darth Vaders future.

I think this is my favorite moment in the original Clone Wars. It's so chilling for so many obvious reasons.

Do you see this? Do you f***ing see this? THIS is how you establish mood. THIS is how you foreshadow future events. THIS is how you make the Star Wars Lore WORK.

This always creeps me out but as always as our power grows so do our shadows

The Dark Side feeds on your fears, it gives you the power to save those you love. Only so you can destroy everything instead.

At the end, it looks as though he rips off the helmet of Vader. Can't help but feel foreshadowing of the end of ROTJ, "Help me take this mask off"

1st woman killed = Shmi Severing the hero's arm = Fight with Count Dooku 1st monster = Ventress 2 friends who got carried away = Obi-Wan and perhaps another Jedi. Maybe Ahsoka? (even though she doesn't exist in this timeline) Last monster = Dooku himself. (Notice the hero was more brutal than he should be, referring to Dooku's beheading) People in the village = Other Jedi Last woman killed = Padme

That power will only consume him, and those he swore to protect

This is way better than clone wars animated foreshadowing imo

I love how perfectly this foreshadows exactly what will happen to Anakin; the images aren't that hard to interpret. The brief glimpse of that unmistakable face is merely the icing on the cake.

The Story of the Ghost Hand also draws very heavily on the story of Ashitaka from Princess Mononoke. His character arc is very similar: He fights a demon but the fight gives him a cursed arm with incredible power. Each time he uses it, the curse grows, threatening to devour him and all he cares about. (And indirectly, it very nearly does).

This show was so underrated and didn't get the love it deserves. They did shoot themselves in the foot by making the episodes in the first season three minutes each

They gave this character more of an arc and a better story in 1 minute and 30 secs than Disney did for its protagonist in 3 movies...

This is brilliant.

Man seems the poor guy just couldn't escape becoming evil

Love when the Vader mask comes into frame...simply beautiful

I wouldn't mind betting that this was inspired by Ice Age...

One of the best parts of Gendy's animated series! This and the light Saber construction with Luminara and Barris!

“What’s in there?” “Only what you take with you…”

Power Corrupts Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

I love the old clone wars volumes.

It wasn't a prophesy. It was a vision quest. Anakin was trying to learn something about what was happening to the males on the planet. Instead the powers that be showed him this warning.

this messed me up bad, its spooky how this symbolizes Vader's transformation so well, like... wow...

Ice Age vibes. Which also gave me crazy chills.

I still prefer this vision than the one from the computer animated series. Especially Padme screaming "ANAKIN!!" right before it shoots to reality.

"Long ago in a distant land, I, the Dark Side of the Force, unleashed an unspeakable evil."

What I love is the fact it shows Anakin used his power to help people. It was his greatest strength but also his downfall. He depended on the power so much to save as many as he could.....until it consumed him....

Film Brain: SYMBOLISM!!!!!!!!!!

This scene absolutely terrified me as a kid but it’s so well done

Also keep in mind that this was before Revenge of the Sith was even released. If you were lucky enough to be one of the few to have watched this before hand and to pick up on what exactly was going on in this scene, that would’ve be been some epic foreshadowing for what was to come.

This one scene is infinitely better than the entire 3D clone wars show

So, let me see if I can interpret this correctly. There once was a village which lived in peace, when two maidens went out to gather food, a great and evil attacked and ate one, the other survived and ran home to warn her husband, a great warrior. He fought off the evil and pushed it back to the abyss from which it came, but not before it took his hand off in spite. The maiden repaired him and give him a new arm, with this new power he fought many threats to the village and killed them. He was hailed as a hero, in his hubris he didn't know that his power spawned from the very evil that he defeated. The power took over and ate everyone in the village, except for his maiden, the evil choked her, with his own hand. With this, the warrior was driven mad from sadness, anger and grief and become a monster. Is that right?

this was done so much more artfully here than in the other cartoon.

Holy cow that was intense

You know this is brilliant storytelling when even I as a young child understood exactly what was being told here. And I rarely every use the term brilliant

It has the atmosphere and quiet moments and of Samurai Jack as well :)

I’m guessing that little lady who stood by that Warrior represents Padme!

This series was a masterpiece

What a great fucking analogy for the dark side Like how the more he uses the darkness the more powerful it becomes and the less control he has until it consumes everything and everyone around him until he has nothing left And the fact that the last woman was strangled, just like Padmé, was just the icing on the cake 🤌🤌 Even at the beginning it shows how he destroys the darkness/ dark side and he’s like the only one that really can (like the chosen one is prophesied to do so) but then he gets corrupted by it…it’s just soo..ahehesjajahfjfhfjssnsns Soo good. Genndy Tartakovsky is just a master at visual storytelling

All these people saying "OMG, this came out before RotS! Foreshadowing!" Literally everyone already knew Anakin would become Darth Vader. It's not a surprise, it was never supposed to be a surprise.

Every bit of this was so awesome and how many references are in it. The story tells not just of what happened to the people, but what would happen to him as well. All this in 2003. Meanwhile disney over here breaking the continuity of Star Wars for money

The foreshadowing of order 66 vader and palpatine's rise are my favorite things about the prequel era

I love how it shows the guy (Anakin) using the Dark Side for good, but obviously it corrupts him to the point he destroys everything he wanted to save and cared about, and at the end, he kills the very person he cares about the most, and we all know what happens next.

They summed up Anakin/Darth Vader's character and downfall in under 2 minutes more effectively than 3 movies did. That's insane.

My interpretation: The natural Dark Side of the force one day attacks a peaceful village, a village in harmony with it's environment. The absolute Dark Side, which seeks power over the natural balance over the force, attacks the village. It's vessel is a machination, a beast of unrelenting proportion. A beast that can engulf its nature, corrupting the balance by killing nature. A fearless and strong warrior from the village weakens the beast, wasting no time in defeating the Dark Side foe. But as he sought to destroy it, attempting to take the life of the dark side beast, it sought to take a piece of him too. It took his arm, and nurtured back to health, what he lost soon became his downfall. He began to wield his newfound health and power to have control over the balance his village was in. He aided his family, his home, by exploiting his nature to dominate the land for food and prosperity. And like the beast before, he too became hungry for more; destroying everything in sight for just a bit more at any cost. He became the beast he sought to dominate before. Metaphorically, this is Anakin's journery from childhood. The concept of circumstance, nature, nurture, and the Force come into play. Naturally, the Force, in a balanced state, will have a mix of chaos and order. Clearly something just like the Ying and Yang ☯️. In all the light, there can still be darkness, and vice versa. Some tragedy will come, as the dark seed is within all living things, but good comes as well. A perfect balance. Anakin, born on Tattooine, was born into maturally balanced circumstance in the Force. The nature of things around him, his village, was his mother and his life as both son and later Padawan/Jedi. He wielded great power, but the seperation between his mother and himself was far too great, and it influenced how he used his natural force gift to dominate the Dark Side at all costs, rather than coexist with his suffering. The warrior losing his arm is Anakin consistently suffering tragedy and letting the dark side take root into him. He used his great power to control everything, rather than to coexist with the natural harmony of the Force. The woman who nurses his arm into health, metapohorically, isn't just Padmé but the Jedi Order. His environment cured him, but their nurture fostered something within the warrior, within Anakin. Both the nature of Anakin and the nurture of his environment created the idea that Power meant everything. It's in essence why he becomes the beast he's always sought to dominate. He sought to dominate the Sith, but never fully understood how they became Sith. Rather than coexist with the Balance, his arrogance took root and he wanted the control through his power, the perfect definition for the Dark Side.

Rey's Flashback would have been more Symbolic, if it's told in Cave Painting.

Scared me shitless watching this for the first time as a kid.

bro that would be so scary to have seen a prophecy about such a dark future only to in fact live it later.

all the giant creatures and people that he's killed in his vision were like younglings that later on he killed during order 66

OH MY GOD!!! I read about this on wookiepedia but I've never watched the vid.I think it's one of the most epic events of SW!!!

As far as I'm aware this is not just a prophesy, but a Trial of Spirit, or "Facing the mirror" for Anakin as it were.Padawans were facing these trials prior to becoming a knight, along with other trials, such as Skill, Flesh and Insight. Facing the mirror often made them traumatized, as it showed them the darkness within them.

I always thought this was symbolization of Darth Vader

Star Wars movie fan here. Never actually seen one episode of this show but I admit this actually gave me chills, nice touch to what Anikan foresaw.

Holy crap that gave me goosebumps

When you gaze into the abyss

The fact that this and primal are made by The same animator is just great

Notice how the warrior gets bit when he holds up his spear in triumpf? When he acts arrogantly the darkness can touch him. Fucking genius.

In ROTJ it didn't mention why Anakin turned to dark side or even explaining why he has to wear a mask. This has me think were they're ever other ideas why he turned evil before Lucas did ROTS?

One could say the show did a good job of foreshadowing earth Vader, but THIS I personally find the most eerie between the two. I love how vague it is on how power consumes him and then the mask appearance at the end 😳

Out of the whole prequel trilogy and this Clone Wars series, this foretelling was the only "prophecy" that I preferred. I never liked Lucas' idea of Anakin being "the Chosen One." I always just preferred this fortelling of Anakin's fall to the dark side as his emotions and power corrupted and belinded him, destroying everything he loved and almost destroying himself. I always preferred Vader as just simply a fallen Jedi, instead of a kind of "Christ messiah who turned evil"

Watched this some time back when they still showed this about 7 years ago. Watched it again today... still awesome.

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche.

One of my favorite scenes in any Star Wars content, period

The symbolism is that the power, that once felt great, eventually consumed everyone he knew and love. It was the people around him that payed the price for his need for more power.

Certainly more terrifying than the Mortis gods scene

that is mostly about his vison the robot arm destoryes everything such as the jedi and becomes the man in the picture as in darth vader.

Ultimate power and losing yourself to it, can be a curse in itself. You must be aware, and careful what you do with it.

Crazy it revealed how Padmé was going to be choked to death before the third movie even came out!

this is one of the best Star Wars scenes all time

I consider this Melvaan story canon before the Battle of Yerbana/Siege of Mandalore

1:37 , ZOMG THIS IS AWESOME.

This show is Genndy at his peak man. His visual storytelling is unrivaled

Anyone else start thinking of "Padme's Destiny/Birth of the Twins" from Revenge of the Sith after watching this?

G. tartakovsky is a master of animation if u ask me

This guy gets two visions of Darth Vader in both the Clone Wars and he still doesn't get the hint.

Power, strength, and violence while at first may seem necessary, and may bring about joy for those you love, can and will consume you if left unchecked. That need for more power will grow until you can no longer control it, and it is then when it will take over, and that very power that protected your loved ones will turn around and be their downfall.