General Grievous Became Jedi Killer

George Lucas created General Grievous as a "Saturday Morning Cartoon" style villain for "Star Wars." But he did not clearly communicate that tone to animator Genndy Tartakovsky, who was working on "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" in 2003. Tartakovsky instead followed Lucas’s earlier description of Grievous as a ruthless "Jedi Killer," turning him into a far more terrifying villain than the lighter version Lucas had in mind.

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