Thanks to some uncertainty regarding a character's original death, Clone Wars resurrected a Jedi from the Battle of Geonosis in season 2. Lucasfilm and Dave Filoni managed to tell an expansive story with the Clone Wars animated series, not only bridging the gap between Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith but also introducing heaps of elements into canon. In some cases, Clone Wars was used to retool the continuity.

Perhaps the most famous case of this happening is Clone Wars bringing back Darth Maul from the dead, and giving him an entirely different story that continued up until the very end and then was later revived in Star Wars Rebels. Since little was known about what happened during the Clone Wars, given that the last two prequel movies take place at the start and end of the three-year-long conflict, Lucasfilm had a lot of room to play with. But there were so many more characters, worlds, and stories that Clone Wars popularized other than Maul, such as Eeth Koth.

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Played by Hassani Shapi in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace and Tux Akindoyeni in Attack of the Clones, Jedi Master Eeth Koth served on the Council and fought in the Battle of Geonosis along with hundreds of Jedi. Unfortunately, he was killed in that same battle when the Separatists' droid army shot down his gunship. Curiously, he returned in Clone Wars season 2, episode 9, "Grievous Intrigue". Because there was so much confusion over whether or not Koth actually died in Attack of the Clones, Filoni used the loophole to bring him back.

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In 2011, Filoni said in a featurette for the "Grievous Intrigue" episode (via StarWars.com) that since no one actually saw Koth die in the movie, he got permission from George Lucas to resurrect the Jedi for Clone Wars. Interestingly, Filoni and the Clone Wars team originally planned on killing Eeth Koth in that same episode, but they later decided against that, ultimately giving him a proper story arc that continued throughout the Clone Wars and into the era of the Galactic Empire. The reason for the story change was because Filoni felt they would too often introduce a cool new character only to kill them off right away, which was unfair to their fans.

In the end, Eeth Koth's death in Attack of the Clones was hand-waved away, and he instead went on to serve a few more years on the Jedi Council before retiring from the Jedi Order and living a life of seclusion with his wife, Mira, and their daughter. Unfortunately, it all ended in death once again when Darth Vader fought and killed Eeth Koth during the Jedi Purge.

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