10 Star Wars Characters SAVED By The Expanded Universe
8. General Grievous
One of the biggest criticisms of the Prequel Trilogy has to be the sudden jump from the beginning of the Clone Wars on Geonosis at the conclusion of Episode II to the latter stages of the epic war at the beginning of Episode III. Without the animated Clone Wars series, fans were just expected to accept that suddenly a primary threat to the Republic was an asthmatic cyborg with a fetish for collecting lightsabers.
Not only was Grievous thrown into the mix without any introduction at all, but he was gone just as quickly as he arrived at the hands of Obi-Wan Kenobi midway through Revenge of the Sith. So where was the threat that the Separatist general posed exactly?
Thank the Force for The Clone Wars series giving General Grievous the development he so desperately needed, as viewers were treated to a completely different kind of Star Wars villain.
Instead of the lightning blasting mastermind and his menacing apprentice, we were shown a conniving and almost cowardly leader of the droid armies who more often than not escaped by the skin of his rebreather unit.