Two small starfighters, one yellow and one red, dive past a huge warship into a vast space battle over a glowing city-planet.

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Anakin

This is where the fun begins.

— Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith · 2005

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What it means

Our interpretation.

It is the thrill-seeker Anakin at his happiest, grinning into danger with his best friend beside him, and the film spends the next two hours taking that joy apart. Fans now say it before any plan that is certain to go wrong, and it is a familiar quote of the prequel-meme era.

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Revenge of the Sith (2005) opens in the middle of the Battle of Coruscant, a vast space fight above the capital. Separatist forces have kidnapped Chancellor Palpatine, and Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi streak through the fleets in their Jedi starfighters, clone pilots flying cover, to board the flagship Invisible Hand and bring him back. Anakin says the line as the rescue begins and the pair dive into the fight. The mission is the first step of the film's slide toward Anakin's fall.

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