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Accounts of this battle have been conflicting and which version is the canonical depicttion is ambiguous. This discrepency is primatily due to the fact that the 2003 Star Wars: Clone Wars cartoon series and the novel Labyrinth of Evil (published two months before the Battle of Coruscant Clone Wars episodes aired) gave differing versions of what happened. In the animated series, Mace Windu and Yoda together destroyed a small army of battle droids, whereas Labyrinth of Evil implied that Yoda did not participate at all and depicted Windu dueling Grievous aboard a maglev train, which was mentioned in the Revenge of the Sith novelization. In Labyrinth of Evil, the Jedi defending Palpatine (Roron Corobb, Foul Moudama and Shaak Ti) were defeated relatively quickly by Grievous, whereas in the animated series they were involved in a long chase before finally being defeated by their quarry. However, the webstrip Reversal of Fortune showed the Jedi discovering the body of Corobb in the bunker—which takes place in Labyrinth of Evil.

Another inconsistency between the two works is where Kenobi and Skywalker were located prior to returning to Coruscant. In the novel, they visit Tythe before Coruscant, but in the series, they visit Nelvaan instead (which Dooku only pauses at in the novel). Initially, Leland Chee retconned this by stating that the Nelvaan events occurred after Tythe, but this was overwritten by The New Essential Chronology, which fixed the events the other way around. Therefore, this article includes information from The New Essential Chronology, which integrates details from both Labyrinth of Evil and Clone Wars.