Obi Won Fights Darth Maul Again
| Darth Maul | |
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| Star Wars graphic symbol | |
 Maul in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) | |
| Get-go appearance | The Phantom Menace (1999) |
| Created past | George Lucas |
| Portrayed by | Ray Park |
| Voiced by |
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| In-universe information | |
| Full proper noun | Maul |
| Species | Dathomirian Zabrak |
| Gender | Male |
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| Affiliation |
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| Principal | Darth Sidious |
| Apprentice |
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| Homeworld | Dathomir[i] |
Darth Maul is a character in the Star Wars franchise. He start appeared in the 1999 moving-picture show Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (portrayed by Ray Park and voiced past Peter Serafinowicz) as a powerful Sith Lord and Darth Sidious' kickoff amateur. Though seemingly killed by Obi-Wan Kenobi at the end of the flick, Maul returned in the 2008 estimator animated television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars (voiced by Sam Witwer). Star Wars creator George Lucas had intended for the revived Maul to serve as the principal antagonist of the sequel film trilogy, but these plans were abandoned when Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012. The graphic symbol nonetheless reappeared in the 2014 animated series Star Wars Rebels and the 2018 film Solo: A Star Wars Story, voiced once again by Witwer; Park physically reprised the role in Solo. Since his initial defeat in The Phantom Menace, Maul has become an independent law-breaking lord and endured as Obi-Wan's archenemy.
Maul is a Zabrak from Dathomir who was abducted by Sidious as a child and trained in the ways of the dark side of the Force. He kills Jedi Principal Qui-Gon Jinn on Naboo only is, in turn, bisected past Jinn's apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi. Maul replaces the lower one-half of his body with cybernetics and spends a decade in isolation, being driven to insanity until his brother, Savage Opress, finds him during the Clone Wars. In one case his listen and body are restored by the Nightsister Mother Talzin, Maul obsessively seeks revenge against Obi-Wan, culminating in an brotherhood of various crime syndicates, a takeover of Mandalore, and the murder of Obi-Wan's lover, Duchess Satine Kryze. Though he is captured by Sidious for becoming a rival, Maul escapes before the fall of the Galactic Republic. During the reign of the Empire, he renounces his Sith title of "Darth" and rebuilds his criminal organization. Maul meets Ezra Bridger on the Sith globe of Malachor years later and uses him to rails Obi-Wan to Tatooine, where they have a terminal confrontation that ends in Maul's death.
In add-on to the films and television series, Maul has appeared in various canon and non-catechism Star Wars media, such as books, comics, and video games. Despite his limited presence in The Phantom Menace, Maul became a widely recognized effigy in pop culture for his intimidating advent and double-bladed lightsaber. The grapheme'southward resurgence in The Clone Wars farther heightened his popularity inside the Star Wars fandom and earned him a cult following.
Characteristics [edit]
Concept and creation [edit]
Later on getting frustrated with a drawing by The Phantom Menace production designer Gavin Bocquet, concept artist Iain McCaig started covering information technology in tape. Both he and director George Lucas liked the result, described as "a kind of Rorschach blueprint". The final cartoon had McCaig'due south ain face up, with the skin removed, and some Rorschach experimentation (dropping ink onto paper, folding it in half then opening).[2] Maul's facial tattoos were inspired by the indigenous peoples of Brazil.[3] Maul is described equally a thing of nightmares when his art design is finished.
Maul'due south head originally had feathers, based on prayer totems, but the Animal Effects coiffure led past Nick Dudman interpreted those feathers every bit horns, modifying his features into those mutual in pop depictions of the devil.[4]
His clothing was too modified, from a tight body suit with a muscle pattern to the Sith robe based on samurai pleats, because the lightsaber battles involved much jumping, spinning, running, and rolling.[five] Another concept had Maul a masked figure, something that could rival Darth Vader, while the senatorial characters would sport painted and tattooed faces. Information technology was later decided to employ the painted and tattooed faces to Maul rather than the senator.[5]
Portrayal [edit]
Maul was physically portrayed by actor and martial creative person Ray Park in The Phantom Menace and Solo: A Star Wars Story.[6] The character was voiced by Peter Serafinowicz in The Phantom Menace and the Lego video game adaptation of the prequel trilogy. Sam Witwer provided Maul's vocalism in The Clone Wars, Rebels, and Solo: A Star Wars Story. Actors Gregg Berger, Jess Harnell, Stephen Stanton, Clint Bajakian, and David W. Collins have voiced him in Legends adaptations and small appearances. A feature-length "director'due south cut" of the quaternary season episodes of The Clone Wars which reintroduced Maul was released every bit a directly-to-video moving-picture show, Darth Maul Returns, on September 27, 2012.[7]
Appearances [edit]
Films [edit]
The Phantom Menace [edit]
In his first appearance, in Star Wars: Episode I РThe Phantom Menace, Darth Maul is ordered by his master Darth Sidious (Ian McDiarmid) to capture Queen Padm̩ Amidala (Natalie Portman) of Naboo in order to force her to sign a treaty that would legitimize the Trade Federation's invasion of the planet, thus making him the fundamental antagonist. Maul manages to rail downwards her starship to Tatooine, where he briefly duels Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson), who has been assigned to protect the Queen, nearly the ship's landing zone, merely Qui-Gon ultimately escapes aboard the transport. He soon concludes that Maul is a Sith Lord and informs the Jedi Quango on Coruscant, thus revealing the return of the Sith, who were thought to be extinct for over a millennium. Later on, Sidious, who is publicly Naboo'due south senator Palpatine, sends Maul to the planet to assist the Trade Federation when they face hostile opposition from the Queen and her men, and in one case once more duels Qui-Gon, along with his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor). Ultimately, Maul is able to mortally wound Qui-Gon and knock Obi-Wan down into a shaft, simply the latter uses the Strength to propel himself out of the pit, and equip himself with Qui-Gon's lightsaber to bifurcate Maul, sending the 2 parts of his body falling downwardly the shaft.[8]
Solo: A Star Wars Story [edit]
Ray Park reprised his role as Maul in Solo: A Star Wars Story, with Sam Witwer providing the phonation,[9] the latter reprising the role from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels.[a] [10] At the stop of the moving picture, Maul is revealed to have become the main of the criminal offense syndicate Scarlet Dawn,[b] [eleven] to which law-breaking lord Dryden Vos (Paul Bettany) answers. Smuggler Qi'ra (Emilia Clarke) tells Maul that Vos and his men were killed past Tobias Beckett (Woody Harrelson) and his accomplices, simply neglects to mention Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich) and Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo). Maul commands her to meet with him on Dathomir and tells her that they will work more than closely from that point forward, igniting his lightsaber.
Scrapped sequel trilogy appearance [edit]
In George Lucas' unused outlines for the Star Wars sequel trilogy, the cybernetic Maul would have been "the godfather of criminal offense in the universe" and the master of Darth Talon; these two would have functioned equally the primary ii villains of the trilogy.[12] [13]
Blithe serial [edit]
The Clone Wars [edit]
Secrets Revealed [edit]
Maul's origins are elaborated upon in the third season of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which takes place between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. Maul is explained to have been a warrior of the Nightbrother clan on the planet Dathomir inhabited by the dominant Nightsister witchcraft society led by Mother Talzin, who is later established to be Maul'south biological female parent.[c] Maul's tattoos are described as the markings of a warrior.[d] The series introduces Maul's brothers, Vicious and Feral Opress, the former of whom is eventually sent by Talzin to detect Maul, revealed to still exist alive afterward the events of The Phantom Menace. George Lucas decided to resurrect Maul for the series after developing Roughshod Opress.[fourteen] Serial co-creator Dave Filoni initially responded to Lucas'south idea as unrealistic, because, "It'south over. He's cut in half. How does that work?" According to Filoni, Lucas replied, "I don't know. Figure information technology out."[15]
Boxing Lines [edit]
In the fourth season, it is revealed that, later his defeat at Obi-Wan's hands, Maul ended upwards on the junkyard planet of Lotho Minor via a dumpster craft, where he has congenital himself a half dozen-legged apparatus to survive. Almost twelve years since Maul was presumed dead, Savage arrives on Lotho Small looking for his brother, whom he finds is suffering from amnesia and dementia. Cruel brings Maul to Dathomir, where Talzin restores his mind and gives him a pair of robotic legs. Maul and Savage then set about a program to verbal revenge on Obi-Wan.[16] Maul proceeds to attack a colonial village to describe Obi-Wan there and brand an attempt on his life, only to exist thwarted due to Asajj Ventress'due south unexpected appearance to collect a bounty on Savage. Maul and Savage overpower Obi-Wan and Ventress, but Maul lets them go, deciding to await another opportunity.[17]
Rise to Power [edit]
In the fifth flavor, Maul takes Brutal as his apprentice, and begins building a criminal empire. Needing followers, they travel to Florrum and manage to persuade Weequay pirate Jiro and his coiffure to join them and beguile their leader Hondo Ohnaka. Maul's pirates attack Hondo's loyal forces, and Maul once again duels Obi-Wan while Savage fights and kills Jedi Master Adi Gallia. Obi-Wan draws the ii brothers abroad from the pirates, and manages to cut off Savage's arm. While Maul and Savage are in the procedure of retreating, Hondo's coiffure open burn down at them, shooting off one of Maul'south robotic legs, and destroying their ship as it takes off, though the brothers manage to escape in an emergency pod. After several days, they are found floating in dead infinite and shut to death by the Mandalorian Death Spotter warriors, led by Pre Vizsla. They are taken dorsum to Vizsla'due south settlement, and Maul'south damaged cybernetic legs are replaced with a new prosthetic that resembles a more than humanoid form, while Vicious is fitted with a mechanical arm. Maul offers Vizsla the chance to reclaim Mandalore past recruiting the Black Dominicus, the Pyke Syndicate, and the Hutt Dare to create the criminal syndicate chosen the Shadow Collective.
From at that place, Maul engineers Vizsla's rise to ability: he orders his henchmen to attack Mandalore and so the Death Lookout man tin arrest them and appear equally heroes to the denizens who have long lived under Duchess Satine Kryze's pacifist dominion. However, Vizsla betrays and imprisons Maul and Savage, though they easily break free, and the former challenges Vizsla to a fight for leadership of Mandalore. Maul overpowers Vizsla, beheading him with his own darksaber, and finer takes over Mandalore, putting disgraced sometime Prime Minister Almec, whom Satine had imprisoned for corruption, in power as a puppet leader. Still, a faction of Death Sentry, led by Bo-Katan Kryze, refuse to accept an outsider as their leader, and escape to program a coup. Maul later masterminds a trap for Obi-Wan, knowing that Satine will contact the Jedi Master for help considering their romantic past. When Obi-Wan arrives on Mandalore, he is chop-chop captured and forced to scout every bit Maul executes Satine. Obi-Wan is later freed past Bo-Katan's Death Watch faction.
Meanwhile, Darth Sidious learns of Maul'due south survival and the power he has accumulated, and, fearing that his quondam apprentice may challenge him, travels to Mandalore to address the affair. After a lightsaber duel confronting Maul and Brutal, Sidious easily kills the latter, enraging Maul, who briefly holds his own against Sidious, but is ultimately defeated. Sidious proceeds to torture Maul with Forcefulness lightning, merely spares his life because he has other uses for him.
Siege of Mandalore [edit]
Maul returns in the 7th flavor, following the events of the comic book Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir. He all the same leads the Shadow Collective, now consisting of the Black Sun, the Pyke Syndicate, and the Crimson Dawn, and rules over Mandalore, until Bo-Katan enlists the Galactic Democracy's aid in deposing him. During the Siege of Mandalore story arc (which is set during Revenge of the Sith), Bo-Katan's Death Picket faction and a branch of the 501st Clone Legion, led by Ahsoka Tano and Commander Male monarch, pb an set on on Maul's Mandalorian forces to draw him out of hiding. Unbeknownst to them, Maul has foreseen the events that are nearly to unfold, and orders his Shadow Collective lieutenants to become into hiding, alert them of the Galactic Empire that is near to exist created. While against Ahsoka, Maul shares his visions with her, revealing that Darth Sidious will destroy both the Republic and the Jedi Guild, and invites her to bring together him so that they may stand a chance to finish him. Withal, when Maul reveals that Ahsoka'due south former master, Anakin Skywalker, will be turned to the dark side by Sidious, and that he had hoped to kill Anakin to prevent this from happening, Ahsoka engages Maul in a lightsaber duel, which ends with the latter'south capture.[e]
Maul is subsequently imprisoned in a Mandalorian device that renders his Forcefulness powers useless, and is set to be taken to Coruscant to stand trial. However, at this point Sidious executes Order 66, which causes clone troopers from all across the galaxy to beguile and attempt to execute their Jedi generals. Maul is almost killed himself, but Ahsoka, who survived her clones' attempt on her life, rescues him, so that he may serve as a distraction while she and Rex attempt to escape. All the same, during his rampage, Maul destroys the send's hyperdrive, causing it to crash on a nearby moon. He then betrays Ahsoka and steals her shuttle to escape, though Ahsoka and Male monarch manage to find another fashion off the ship before it crashes.
Rebels [edit]
Twilight of the Apprentice [edit]
An older Maul appears in the season 2 finale of Star Wars Rebels,[xix] which takes place between Solo and A New Hope. Tracked by an Majestic Inquisitor called the 8th Brother, Maul is stranded on the ancient Sith world of Malachor, where he is discovered among the ruins by series protagonist Ezra Bridger. Introducing himself equally an "old master" and seeking revenge against Sidious, Maul wins Ezra's trust past denouncing the Sith. He encourages the male child to utilise the dark side, and leads him into an ancient Sith temple, where they observe a holocron that Maul claims tin requite them the knowledge needed to defeat the Sith. Subsequently recovering it, the two discover Ezra's master Kanan Jarrus and Ahsoka Tano locked in battle with the Eighth Brother, also as the 5th Brother and the Seventh Sister. Maul—having cast aside the championship of Darth—reveals a new lightsaber disguised every bit a walking stick and joins the Jedi in contesting the Inquisitors.
Later on the Inquisitors retreat, Maul suggests to the Jedi that they team up, telling them that he cannot defeat Darth Vader on his own. Although Kanan and Ahsoka do not trust him, they simply cooperate upon the insistence of Ezra. Once all three Inquisitors are killed, Maul turns on the Jedi, revealing his intention to take Ezra as his amateur and that he tricked him into activating the temple. After blinding Kanan with his lightsaber, Maul briefly duels Ahsoka and then the now-blind Kanan, who knocks him off the temple'due south edge. Still, he survives the autumn and escapes Malachor in the Eighth Brother'south Necktie fighter.
Twin Suns [edit]
In the third season, Maul takes the Ghost 'due south crew earnest and threatens to impale them unless Kanan and Ezra bring both the Sith and Jedi holocrons to him. Maul takes the crew to a remote base in the Outer Rim where he awaits Kanan and Ezra'south arrival. He lures Kanan away from Ezra, and makes an attempt on his life. Afterwards, Maul and Ezra hazardously unite the holocrons, allowing them to encounter visions of their desires: Ezra sees images of a way to destroy the Sith, images including "twin suns", while Maul sees a vision of his ain. Kanan begs Ezra to look away before he sees too much of the night side, while Maul tells him to ignore Kanan and continue looking. Ezra heeds his principal'due south words and breaks off the connection, which causes a great explosion. Maul escapes in the confusion, uttering, "He lives."
Maul returns after finding the rebels' secret base. He tells Ezra that considering the connection was severed, they got bits and pieces of each other's visions. After the holocrons were destroyed, Maul discovered some other way to get the information he needed. He travels to Dathomir with Ezra, and recreates a Nightsister spell to temporarily meld his and Ezra's minds, which leads them to realize that they are both looking for Obi-Wan Kenobi. Nonetheless, in return for the provided answers, the Nightsister spirits demand a cede, and possess Kanan and Sabine Wren when they arrive to rescue Ezra. After escaping from them, Maul makes Ezra 1 final offering to go his amateur, and leaves him behind to try and rescue his friends after he refuses.
Eventually, in the "Twin Suns" episode, Maul tracks down Obi-Wan to Tatooine, but gets lost in the desert, and decides to employ Ezra to lure his former nemesis out of hiding. His plan is ultimately successful every bit he tracks Ezra's motion, who came to find and warn Obi-Wan of Maul, until he is rescued past the Jedi Master. As Ezra is ushered away by Obi-Wan, Maul threatens his old enemy, and rapidly deduces that he is not simply hiding, but is protecting someone. Realizing that he cannot allow Maul to escape with this data, Obi-Wan ignites his lightsaber and prepares to duel Maul, who is swiftly defeated in a few strikes. As he lies dying in Obi-Wan'due south arms, Maul asks if the person he is protecting is the "Chosen One", and Obi-Wan replies that he is. Maul declares that this "Called One" volition avenge them, and so he dies.
Comics [edit]
Darth Maul [edit]
In 2017, Curiosity released Star Wars: Darth Maul, a v-issue prequel series centered on Maul before the events of The Phantom Menace.[20] The comic details upon Maul'due south training under Darth Sidious, and how he was manipulated into antisocial the Jedi for leading the Sith to most-extinction. The master plot follows Maul'southward quest to kill his commencement Jedi, allying himself with several bounty hunters and facing a crime lord along the style.
Age of the Democracy [edit]
Maul had his own one-shot comic book within the 2018–xix Age of the Republic miniseries, which depicts brusque stories of various characters during the Galactic Republic era. In his story, Maul poses as a member of a criminal cartel to kill a Force-sensitive thief for Darth Sidious, and experiences a vision of an alternate life equally a peace-keeping Jedi, which he denies, much to Sidious' content. The story takes place soon before The Phantom Menace.
Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir [edit]
Dark Horse Comics produced Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir based on the scripts and storyboards of an unproduced four-episode story arc intended for the seventh flavor of The Clone Wars. The events of the comic are set some time after Maul's defeat at Darth Sidious' hands in the fifth season of the television series, and before his eventual return in the seventh season.
After defeating Maul and killing his brother Fell Opress, Sidious takes him to a Separatist prison, where Count Dooku tortures him for information nigh the Shadow Commonage. Prime Minister Almec arranges Maul's escape and the latter and so heads back to Zanbar to command the Death Watch army. All the same, he is followed by General Grievous and his droids, who boxing with Maul and the Mandalorians. While they put upward a fierce fight, Maul and his minions are ultimately overwhelmed past the droids. During the battle, Maul tears through the droid ranks and attacks Grievous, but is overpowered and forced to retreat. Afterwards, Maul confers with Mother Talzin and plots to draw out Sidious by capturing Dooku and Grievous. The scheme works, and Talzin is able to restore herself to her physical class, but she sacrifices herself to salve Maul. Although Maul escapes with a company of loyal Mandalorians, the Shadow Collective has disintegrated due to the disharmonize with Sidious, as the Hutts, Pykes, and Blackness Sun take all abandoned Maul.
Novels [edit]
Ahsoka [edit]
In flashbacks during the novel Star Wars: Ahsoka, it is revealed that during the final days of the Clone Wars, Maul and his forces were besieged on Mandalore by an regular army of clone troopers led past Ahsoka Tano and Captain Rex.[f] During the siege, Maul confronts and duels Ahsoka, and though he proves to be the stronger fighter, the former Jedi outwits him and traps him in a ray shield. Yet, before Maul can be taken into official custody, Order 66 is enacted and the clone troopers following Ahsoka plough on her, with the exception of Rex. With Rex'south life in peril, Ahsoka abandons the chance of killing Maul, allowing the erstwhile Sith to escape once once more.
The events of this boxing were later adapted and altered by the final episodes of the seventh season of The Clone Wars,[ citation needed ] as described earlier.
Video games [edit]
Maul has been featured in a number of Star Wars games, every bit a boss or a playable graphic symbol.
- Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)
- Star Wars: Jedi Power Battles (2000)
- Star Wars: Demolition (2000)
- Star Wars: Super Bombad Racing (2001)
- Star Wars: Obi-Wan (2001)
- Star Wars: Galactic Battegrounds (2001)
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 (2001) - Maul appears as a guest character via a licensing deal.
- Star Wars: Racer Revenge (2002)
- Lego Star Wars: The Video Game (2005)
- Star Wars: Battlefront Two (2005)
- Lego Star Wars 2: The Original Trilogy (2006) - Maul can be unlocked as a playable character only if the player has a salvage game of the commencement Lego Star Wars game on their retentivity menu.
- Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (2007)
- Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron (2007)
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (2008) - the shape-shifting droid PROXY takes on the grade of Maul while fighting Starkiller; Maul is also bachelor as an in-game "pare" for Starkiller via downloadable content.
- Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron (2009)
- Clone Wars Adventures (2010)
- Lego Star Wars Iii: The Clone Wars (2011)
- Disney Infinity 3.0 (2015)
- Galaxy of Heroes (2015)
- Force Arena (2017)
- Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2017)
- Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (2022)
Maul would accept been the main character of Boxing of the Sith Lords, an action-adventure title prepare before The Phantom Menace that was cancelled in 2011.[21]
[edit]
With the 2012 acquisition of Lucasfilm by The Walt Disney Company, most of the licensed Star Wars novels and comics produced since the originating 1977 picture Star Wars were rebranded as Star Wars Legends and declared non-canon to the franchise in April 2014.[22] [24]
Comics [edit]
Darth Maul is a 4-outcome comics series published by Night Horse Comics featuring Maul. The series is set in the before long before the Boxing of Naboo in Episode I – The Phantom Menace. The story follows Maul in his mission to destroy the leadership of the well-feared criminal offence syndicate Blackness Sunday. Maul spends his time serving under Darth Sidious, killing countlessly. His main target in the series is the leader of Black Sunday, some time before Prince Xizor takes command of it.
Several sources depict Maul returning from the dead in several different forms. The story "Resurrection" from Star Wars Tales #9 depicts a cult creating a duplicate of Maul as a replacement for Darth Vader, only for Vader to kill him. The story Phantom Menaces in Star Wars Tales #17 (set after Return of the Jedi) depicts Luke Skywalker visiting Maul'southward domicile planet of Iridonia in an ambassadorial capacity, where he faces a "solid land hologram" of Maul projected from Maul'due south salvaged encephalon equally part of a scientist's attempt to recreate Maul equally Iridonia's "champion". Luke recognizes the disruption that Maul's existence is causing in the Force, and shuts down the life-support systems keeping the brain alive.
In 2005, Dark Horse Comics published Star Wars: Visionaries, a compilation of non-approved short comics made by the creators of Revenge of the Sith. Ane story, "Old Wounds", depicts Maul with longer horns on his head, having survived his bisection at Obi-Wan'due south hands, with his missing bottom half replaced with cybernetic legs, like to those of Full general Grievous (and his eventual revival in The Clone Wars). He follows Obi-Wan throughout the galaxy, finally tracking him down on Tatooine a few years later on the events of Revenge of the Sith. Maul taunts Obi-Wan, proverb that later on he kills him, he will take a toddler-aged Luke Skywalker to his master, Emperor Palpatine. Maul plans to impale Vader and resume his rightful place at Palpatine's side. He ignites his new double-bladed lightsaber and engages Obi-Wan in a duel, merely Obi-Wan again bests him in gainsay, cutting off his opponent's horns. Maul is killed by a blaster bolt to the head from Owen Lars. Obi-Wan cheers Owen, and says he volition accept Maul's body into the desert and fire it.
Novels [edit]
In early 2012, a young adult novel entitled Star Wars: The Wrath of Darth Maul was released by Scholastic. Maul is too featured prominently in comic series starting in this period, The Clone Wars: The Sith Hunters and Darth Maul: Death sentence. Set effectually the various episodes of The Clone Wars that featured Maul, the two books item his and Savage Opress' journey across the galaxy as they seek vengeance on the Jedi.
In the 2012 novel Darth Plagueis, the titular Sith lord sends his apprentice, Darth Sidious, to the Force-rich world of Dathomir. A Dathomiri witch, or Nightsister, senses Sidious' power in the Force and approaches him. Assuming he is a Jedi, she begs him to take her Zabrak infant son. She realizes that Sidious is not a Jedi, and explains how she is trying to save her son from a Nightsister named Talzin, who killed Maul's father. Information technology is implied that Maul has a twin brother and that Talzin is simply aware of 1 child. Sidious realizes the baby is stiff in the Force, and would go a threat if found by the Jedi. Concealing the existence of his own master, Sidious raises Maul to believe that he is a Sith apprentice, but he actually intends him to be an expendable minion rather than an heir. Maul himself acknowledges his shortcomings, such as his limited understanding of politics, fifty-fifty as he tries to become a true Sith.
Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter [edit]
Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter is a novel by Michael Reaves released on February 1, 2001. It is a prequel novel occurring about half-dozen months before the events of The Phantom Menace. The cover fine art was past David Stevenson. Del Rey aired a TV commercial for the novel in 1999.[ commendation needed ] As portrayed in the novel, Maul was raised past Sidious for as long every bit he can retrieve. Sidious and then trains Maul every bit a Sith, marking his torso with Sith tattoos. Maul initially goes on several missions of terror for his master, killing politicians, offense bosses, merchants and warlords.
Sidious meets secretly with his Neimoidian contacts in the Trade Federation to finalize details in the plan to blockade Naboo. One fellow member of the delegation is missing; suspecting betrayal, Sidious orders Maul to chase down the traitor. Maul completes this task, just learns that the traitor had recorded proof of the Sith's manipulation of the Naboo blockade on a holocron to sell for profit. A suicidal attack by a Trade Federation-hired compensation hunter interferes with Maul's program and the holocron is purchased by a Corellian con man named Lorn Pavan. Pavan realizes the nature of the information and seeks to take information technology to the Jedi Temple. Maul, for his part, is ordered by Sidious to retrieve the holocron and kill Pavan and anyone else who might have the data. Meanwhile, a Jedi Padawan named Darsha Assant is faced with the Jedi trials to become a full-fledged Jedi Knight, and tries to salvage a member of Black Sun (which Maul had crippled in Saboteur).
Pavan attempts to do business with a Hutt criminal offence lord in one of the lower levels in Coruscant, but Maul arrives and kills the Hutt. Pavan escapes into the caverns where they meet Darsha and her master. The Jedi begin escorting Pavan and his droid to the temple but Maul soon attacks them. Darsha's master is slain while attempting to purchase fourth dimension for the others. Pavan and Darsha escape various dangers of Coruscant'south subterranean levels before finding themselves in some other battle. Darsha, realizing that she cannot defeat Maul, draws out their duel long plenty for Pavan'southward droid to repair a carbonite-freezing unit and seal Pavan and the droid within it. Darsha plunges her lightsaber into a pile of volatile gas canisters, killing her and causing an explosion that Maul barely escapes. Upon surveying the scene, Maul feels no trace of Pavan in the Forcefulness, not realizing that the carbonite hibernation has fabricated his lifeforce undetectable.
An automatic timer frees Pavan from hibernation and he goes afterwards Maul on his own. Pavan follows Maul to a Republic space station and sneaks up on Maul, stunning him momentarily before he awakens, severes Pavan's correct hand, and pursues him through the station'due south service tubes. Pavan barely makes it into a public area where Maul cannot follow, and unwittingly gives the holocron to Senator Palpatine of Naboo, not realizing that Palpatine is Maul's Sith Master. Later recovering, Pavan starts to exit his quarters, merely to be confronted by Maul, who kills him as a worthy opponent.
Darth Maul: Saboteur [edit]
Darth Maul: Saboteur is a short story past James Luceno. Information technology was released in ebook form, with a length equivalent to about 55 printed pages, on February one, 2001. Information technology was also published in the dorsum of the paperback edition of Michael Reaves' Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter.
The story is about Maul and takes identify roughly a year earlier The Phantom Menace. It recounts Maul'southward first solo mission as "Darth Maul" and attempt to destroy two mining companies so the Trade Federation tin accept them over.
Maul: Lockdown [edit]
Maul: Lockdown is a Star Wars novel written by Joe Schreiber, released by Del Rey Books on January 28, 2014.[25] It was the last novel to be released in the Star Wars Legends line of the franchise.[24] Before the events of The Phantom Menace, Sith lords Darth Plagueis and Darth Sidious send their disciple Maul to a galactic prison to recover a powerful weapon. There, an insidious gambling empire pits the galaxy'southward most terrible criminals confronting each other in gladiatorial gainsay, and Maul must face up Jabba the Hutt and various other horrifying obstacles to complete his mission.
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In popular culture [edit]
Since the release of The Phantom Menace, Maul has proven to be a popular grapheme. Whilst the movie received a mixed reaction from fans and critics alike, the character was one of the virtually highly praised parts of the pic. IGN named Maul the 16th greatest Star Wars graphic symbol, noting, "Of the countless characters to walk in and out of the Star Wars saga, none looks or acts more than badass than Maul."[27]
Maul-related trade was popular amidst Hasbro Star Wars toy lines, with plastic recreations of his double bladed lightsaber and various activeness figures in his likeness developed. Maul was the focal point of the toy marketing campaign surrounding the 2012 re-release of The Phantom Menace, being featured on the packaging for the toy line.[28]
Darth Maul fan film [edit]
A Maul fan movie titled Darth Maul: Apprentice was released on YouTube on March 5, 2016.
"Darth Maul kids" viral videos [edit]
At least ii videos of people trying to imitate Darth Maul take gone viral: the 2003 Star Wars Kid, which spawned an cyberspace meme, and another which went viral in December 2017 of an 8-year-former Ontario boy pretending to exist Darth Maul and displaying his martial arts skills.[29]
Notes [edit]
- ^ Peter Serafinowicz had recorded new dialogue for Solo, but his dialogue was over dubbed by Witwer, as the producers wanted to proceed continuity with The Clone Wars.
- ^ Co-ordinate to writer Jon Kasdan, the name was a reference to Maul'south red advent.
- ^ Before sources identified Maul'south female parent as a Nightsister named Kycina.
- ^ Before sources identified his body art as Sith markings given by Darth Sidious.
- ^ Ray Park returned to physically portray Maul through motion-capture for the duel scene.[18]
- ^ Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi were dispatched to Mandalore with Ahsoka, but were immediately chosen dorsum to Coruscant to rescue Chancellor Palpatine, thus leading into the opening sequence of Revenge of the Sith.
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- ^ Moyers, Nib (1999-04-26). "Of Myth And Men". Fourth dimension. Archived from the original on Baronial 23, 2006. Retrieved 2009-04-20 .
- ^ a b Designing a Sith Lord Archived June xi, 2008, at the Wayback Motorcar
- ^ Wetmore, Kevin J., Jr. (x August 2017). The Empire Triumphant: Race, Religion and Rebellion in the Star Wars Films. McFarland & Company. p. 127. ISBN9781476611716.
- ^ Jawa James (September 7, 2012). "Darth Maul Returns to Target-sectional DVD in Managing director's Cut of The Clone Wars". Club Jade . Retrieved September 27, 2012.
- ^ Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
- ^ Simpson, George (24 May 2018). "Solo 2: How two MAJOR Star Wars villains are prepare for the inevitable sequel". Daily Express . Retrieved 24 May 2018.
- ^ "The Solo: A Star Wars Story Ending Explained". GamesRadar. May 17, 2018. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
- ^ Sowa, Alexander (15 April 2020). "The Clone Wars' Reference to Maul'south Solo Cameo Isn't Enough". CBR . Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ Brigden, Charlie (2020-11-10). "Darth Maul's sequel role and 9 other Star Wars tidbits from Taschen'southward new prequel book". Polygon . Retrieved 2020-11-11 .
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- ^ Pursey, Jack (January 14, 2021). "ten Incredibly Ambitious Video Games That Were Cancelled". Game Rant . Retrieved January 17, 2021.
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- ^ "Eight year former karate kid goes viral with Darth Maul skills". CTV News. 7 December 2017. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
Further reading [edit]
- Ward, Jason (January 28, 2014). "MakingStarWars.net Interviews Joe Schreiber, Author of Star Wars: Maul: Lockdown". MakingStarWars.net. Archived from the original on January xxx, 2014. Retrieved July fifteen, 2016.
- "Transcript: Del Rey's Facebook Chat With Maul: Lockdown Author Joe Schreiber". TheForce.Cyberspace. February 12, 2014. Retrieved July 15, 2016.
External links [edit]
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