Darth Maul’s Redemption - How he Went From Nameless Villain to Complex Anti-Hero

[@Sartricis]

One thing I love about Maul's arc is that he was humanised. Most Sith don't have any empathy, and feel nothing but hate, fear, anger, etc. Yet in Maul's case they decided to make his character more three dimensional, by giving Maul people he did care about: his mother, his brother, his fellow Nightbrothers, etc.

[@chill-lady-brook]

It makes his role as a metaphor for Vader’s violence and emotions much stronger.

[@vikingsword3485]

He was naturally gifted in the physical arts of combat, however the Jedi way of detachment of the Jedi would never suit him. He really needed a third option outside of Jedi and Sith

[@timgersh6787]

Sith is all about feelings mostly about protecting what you have which Maul did, but you have to end it at some point that said I did like his death. Really the only bland Sith Sidous and Tyranus though I did not real Plagus

[@etazeta674]

And he was capable of forming attachments to varying degrees, like he did with Ezra, and, to a lesser extent, Ashoka

[@WilliamAGould]

It spending time with his brother that started Maul on a better path, as twisted as that path was. Even after he was defeated and his brother killed, when the opportunity presented itself, Maul sincerely sought help from others. Something no Sith Lord would really do.

[@_The_Archive_]

Fun Fact: Before the look of Darth Maul was set, it went through a number of designs. Initially, George Lucas asked concept designer Iain McCaig to draw his worst nightmare. McCaig recalled one where a dead yet alive figure was pressing its face against a window during a thunderstorm, staring at him. He used that as a basis, and the result was a portrait of a black dressed demonic character with light blue skin, dark eyes and with long red strands falling from its head. Lucas found the picture too disturbing and said to McCaig "Okay. Now draw me your second worst nightmare..."

[@Amplifymagic]

I’ve seen the concept art in the bonus content in the DVDs, it truly was hellish.

[@Swagonslayuh]

That design is metal af

[@congresswallah]

How many more nightmares do you need man?

[@venomdragon7853]

Ll

[@MommyMinty]

Sounds pretty spooky. I've worn out the Episode I VHS though.

[@Iryon_the_Spider]

Maul is one of those villains that you can feel sorry for, and I love him for that. He deserved better.

[@crocowithaglocko5876]

Maul had an awful life He was giving to the Sith when he was a kid, trained as an assassin, tossed aside after his first big assignment, lost his mind in a garage dump, lost his brother, tortured by sidious, and lived for decades alone in a Sith temple. That being said, I like how he was finally happy in his finals seconds of life, when Obi-Wan told him that the chosen was was coming. Some nice closure for a man who led a miserable life.

[@MaryAnneRosato]

He will avenge us...

[@fightingfalcon777]

Agreed. Unlike Anakin, who had every chance to pick the light and still chose the dark, Maul was raised in a way where the dark was all he had

[@unsenorllamadoukko5795]

@@fightingfalcon777 I think that Anakin and Maul's tragedies are different One could have chose the light path with the right therapy Thr other is trapped in darkness

[@timurjack8773]

He was controlling Crimson Dawn after Clone Wars so he wasn't there in Sith Temple for decades.

[@Art1sticWorm]

@@MaryAnneRosatohe did

[@jameskent5347]

I know Maul did terrible things but I couldn’t help shedding a tear for him in the episode in which he died. I think it’s because his death was the one moment in which he accepted his hurt and sought compassion. Something he had hardly if ever experienced.

[@kadegetslaid634]

Agreed

[@marshalllatta2073]

I love Darth maul so much he definitely deserves his own star wars series

[@Sartricis]

Eh, I feel like his story is already complete. The most I'd like to see are maybe a few comics or a novel on his time with Crimson Dawn.

[@LebenLBone]

Disney would fuck it up..

[@darthpaul490]

Same here

[@gojira278]

I don't know if a full series dedicated to Maul would work but I do see them making a couple of episodes about different points in his life (childhood, sith training, Son of Dathomir arc, his time on Malachor) on Tales of the Jedi.

[@dgenerate707]

Not a series but that cancelled game and maybe a sequel.

[@ethangiesbrecht4865]

As a die hard Maul fan, this video did him justice. Good job

[@Alex-sv7vt]

Thank you! We love him, too :)

[@Thunder-Ghost]

​@@Alex-sv7vt Did you make the video or Maul?

[@tristynbishop6158]

Maul in episode: minor character Maul voiced by Sam Witwer: most complex anti-hero in the entire franchise

[@Forsworcen]

One of my favorite books of pre-Disney era was one that was from the perspective of a young padawan, a smuggler? and Darth Maul. Basically, if I remember correctly, the smuggler? figures out about the Sith plan right before the attack on Naboo and goes on a long quest to let the Senator of Naboo know, along the way he tells this young padawan, it ends with him personally telling Palpatine only to find Maul in his rest chamber and his last thought being that at least he succeeded. Maul is presented very well within the novel and you get quite a lot of inner dialogue.

[@ghostnappa2012]

That's Shadow Hunter, and you got the gist of it, but the guy was more of an information broker than smuggler. The events of the book also influenced the Darth Plagueis novel too, which is pretty neat. If you haven't read either, I highly recommend reading Shadow Hunter before you read/listen to Star Wars: Darth Plagueis.

[@ilovejettrooper5922]

What's the one book where Maul fights that one padawan that - in the end - was only able to hold him back (delay him, really) by giving herself fully to the Force the way she had seen Yoda do vs three Council Masters?? Maul even honored her death because she fought so well, IIRC.

[@Forsworcen]

@@ghostnappa2012 thanks for that. I’ve read so many books that trying to remember titles is… pretty much impossible

[@wladynoszhighlights5989]

I absolutely started to love Maul at season 7 of clone wars - he was very cool before as well, but truely emotionally his character evolved later

[@ahsokaventriss3268]

I love Darth Maul so much. I have had a lot of trauma and death in my life, and have found much solace in Maul and Anakin/Vader’s storylines.

[@BlackMarvel25]

One the best things that clone wars did with maul is show that aside from other sith users or masters he truly cared about the people around him. He wanted to be apart of something with someone. That's why he was so hurt about being alone after obi wan cut him in half. He cared about his brother, Palpatine, definitely Ezra, and he was trying to get with ahsoka too. He just didn't want to be alone. All other sith masters wanted their apprentice and would move on whenever they felt the next best thing was around.

[@xXboingXx]

What a touching synopsis of the tragic and lonely life of Darth Maul.

[@occam7382]

"Have you ever heard the tragedy of Darth Maul the Vengeful?" "No." "I thought not. It's not a story the Sith would tell you."

[@TheMightyCookieShow]

Maul is easily one of my fav characters. I found myself, rooting for him and redemption for his entire arc. Wow, what a powerful alley to Luke Skywalker, Maul would have been. I see a Maul overcome with guilt and a feeling of seeking forgiveness from obiwan, and himself to find a way to forgive obiwan. I could see them becoming brothers. I can see maul mourning savage, I see a Maul whose new purpose is to eternally protect and makeup to the world around him for the wrongs he inflicted upon these people. I could see maul giving his life to protect his new friends, or his new family, if you will. It would have been joyous to witness all this infold.

[@MaryAnneRosato]

Maul is my favorite. ❤ "Revenge. I must have revenge."

[@jamiewalsh3349]

The Clone Wars and Rebels really did justice for Maul

[@umad42]

I think Maul's constant seeking of attachments that he's incapable of forming or maintaining is probably the biggest tragedy in his life. Savage could have been his brother, but his focus on building and maintaining a power based hierarchy between them robbed him of that, and while I haven't seen Rebels, I am sure it's much the same between him and Ezra. As someone who has suffered abuse, the worst part of it is the feeling of isolation. When you're really having one of the bad days where your trauma is there you feel alone, even if you're surrounded by friends and family, you feel alone. Desperately alone in the worst possible ways, and the teachings of the Sith would undermine any attempts to try to process and overcome trauma because your power literally feeds off of those emotions, and incentivizes you to languish in your trauma. So he's constantly reaching out, with Savage, and Ezra, and even with Obi Wan (a negative connection is still a connection) to try to fill in that feeling of isolation, but his teachings as a Sith constantly block him from connecting any further than a teacher/student relationship with the people he DOES have surrounding him, the constant need to prove that he has no equals completely precludes his having any friends, because a friendship is built on equality between two people who enjoy each others company. Its just such a sad piece of his tragic story, with the only bright side being that in the end, when he finally makes the last choice he feels he can, and self destructs, his rival understands him. He finishes the fight quickly and comforts him on his way out, and assures him that his abuser will meet justice, and that he will be avenged so he can rest easy.

[@occam7382]

It really makes me curious about what George planned to do with Maul in the Sequels, namely, his relationship with Darth Talon, who would've been his apprentice there. I don't know about you, but I would've really liked to see what that was like.

[@brandywinebridget]

In recognizing Obi-Wan as a rival, it was also the only truly non-hierarchical relationship he ever had. His most hated enemy, his only friend, was the only person he ever saw as an equal. i’m not crying, you’re crying

[@milaahrens9171]

starts with explanation of Maul, middle part suddenly a Life lesson for if you are having bad times, back to Maul lol

[@glasses685]

I'm not really sure I'd call Maul an anti-hero. Maybe an anti-villain, but he's never really had any heroic motives. He got more character development but I'm not sure he really got any less evil.

[@Vigriff]

Agreed.

[@gregoryvallejo9332]

Anti-villains are usually good hearted people that do bad things. A good example of this would be Ozymandias from the Watchmen as he is someone who did something morally wrong for a greater purpose. An anti-hero is pretty accurate as it is someone who is usually morally bad but performs good actions (only to their benefit or to some goal they have).

[@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45]

@gregoryvallejo9332 Or Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad

[@Furonanator139]

I've been waiting for a character breakdown of Maul from this channel since I first saw the Anakin one. Outside of vader and palpatine he has one of the longest spanning arc of the main cannon media and seeing clone wars and rebels slowly build him up was awesome

[@auroraofclanborealis]

"Several fries short of a happy meal" is a phrase that I will be using from now on.

[@edwardbell5138]

You actually made me weep for Darth Maul. Well done, Sir. That is some effective storytelling right there.

[@Fangirl222]

I always knew that Maul was complex but I never analyzed him this way. I very much enjoyed this.

[@rodgill9376]

"The Sith... The Sith took everything from me. Ripped me from my mother's arms, murdered my brother, used me as a weapon... and then cast me aside. Abandoned me! Once, I had power... now I have nothing. Nothing.”

[@marcwhitlock5002]

Him telling the straight up truth to Ahsoka hurt as a Star Wars fan knowing she wouldn't believe it especially when Anakin was mentioned. What makes Sidious an all time entertaining villain is how many times he should've lost/his plans fail but they never do when it seems extremely close to doing so. Maul literally word for word saying what is truly going on/why the clone wars even happened. A few clones becoming aware of order 66 at what was going to happen but nobody believed them. Anakin doing what he did and turning when Mace pretty much had him.

[@fumarc4501]

When we saw Maul again in Rebels, you can just hear how desperate he is for someone to understand and trust him. He abused that trust in Ezra selfishly, but Ezra could sense the pain in Maul and genuinely wanted to help and to trust him. What Maul could have done if he could take his own advice and bury his old hatred… after all, in the end he was looking for a New Hope.

[@Vigriff]

I wouldn't call Maul an Anti-hero considering he still wanted to kill Kenobi, I find him to be more Anti-Villain.

[@brokenbridge6316]

This video was a great look into an exceedingly complex character.

[@RedXlV]

While Maul's survival was an asspull, everything that *resulted* from that plot twist has been the best stories to come out of the Disney canon. It turned what had been a throw-away villain with little more going for him than a badass appearance and fighting style into one of the most compelling characters in Star Wars.

[@timurjack8773]

Maul's survival was before that there was 2 comic books about him surviving after Naboo, Resurrection Tales 9 comic book and Visionaries Old Wounds comic book, these 2 comic books was written before Maul surviving in Clone Wars TV show.

[@TheBlckMandalorian]

It seems he & Kira got close during his Crimson Dawn days, she even saw herself as some what of an apprentice who really cared about him.

[@ryantarpy1408]

“Once Darth, now just Maul.”

[@georgecrowcroft9260]

Full of great quotes. "Revenge. We shall start with revenge"

[@codename618]

Apparently during Season 2 of Rebels, there's a deleted scene where Ahsoka asks Maul who Vader is, and he responds with "Who I should have been."

[@isaacbeard129]

Another reason I love Obi-wan, "do good to them who hate you", part of Luke 6:27. Giving a long time foe undeserving peace is very much in Obi-wans character in my opinion.

[@Doryzitter]

Not me unironically thinking there was a Luke Skywalker bible lmaooooo

[@Synthetic_Soul_CH]

I would like to think that Maul joined with the force instead of going to Chaos.

[@BioShrog]

I obsoletely love the fight on Tattooine. The whole encounter was great.

[@markmathisen3908]

I always saw a lot of similarities between Maul and Anakin, and always wondered how things would have happened if Maul was found and raised Jedi and Anakin was found by Sidious or Plaguise and raised Sith. 🤔

[@Doryzitter]

If Anakin had been raised a Sith, the Sith would've ended the Republic a lot sooner I think. Since he's the Chosen One, being raised as a Sith would've put him in a position where he would eliminate all the Jedi, then eliminate all the Sith soon after. After that, I dunno. He might start the cycle all over again, except no one would ever be able to challenge him and the only thing that could potentially stop him is old age and health problems. Knowing the Sequels though, even physically dying wouldn't be enough to stop a fully dark side Anakin

[@mistahnovikov8313]

Ngl, I hadn't ever given Maul much thought aside from the fight on Naboo and what little I knew of his ascent on Mandalore. I have a new appreciation for his character, now.

[@gamerboy6787]

I can't truly "hate" Maul, like I can't truly "hate" Kellogg from Fallout 4. Both are incredibly tragic figures. Does that justify all the carnage and evil and chaos they sowed? Not in a million years. But the revelations of their backstories definitely humanize the heck out of them. Thank you for this video. Very interesting, and thoroughly-researched.

[@robrice7246]

31:38 Until Sidious decided to create a doppelganger of him to test on Vader.

[@MrTvfan1]

Felt like having him back on screen doing whatever was a villain(only because we don't know his plan), but looking into his background on what made him this way and to realize that he plays a small role in a grand scheme of a lot that's going on. Makes him to be a very conflicted character, could of choose to be good, but didn't. choose to establish power(that I guess in away, is they only thing that made him choose to keep living) and he would consider himself lucky if he had to never deal with the empire or even jedi as long as he lived. It just very interesting to see what keeps driving himself forward on whatever he does its like 50/50 is he being good?, or what is he trying to do?

[@vikingsword3485]

I really hate that they did a fake death but I love they brought him back

[@DrJay-iy8rv]

Ironic enough Maul seemed his most savage when he wasn’t focused on Obi Wan

[@OverTheTop85]

Trauma can only bring you down if you let it. Playing the victim does nothing but make you a useless person! Don't blame anyone else for your decisions, they're yours alone. Nothing can hold you back but yourself! Period.

[@mrprincipal5636]

Brilliant job

[@macwade2755]

This is Canon for me! Please do videos like this for Dooku and Grievous!

[@masteroftheassassins]

Honestly, I wouldn’t mind having Darth Maul as my Sith master

[@vikingsword3485]

He had a more Darth Bane way of teaching. I really hated Sid and Dooku's approach of creating pain to force someone to rise above it

[@kadegetslaid634]

Probably the best pick if you're gonna become a sith tbh

[@joesalyers]

Your microphone has a broken capsule or a bad cable, the distortion is called slew distortion which happens when a capsule on a microphone can't withstand the actual voltage being feed to it. If is a condenser microphone its the capsule if its a dynamic its the cable. Dynamic mics can have the same distortion but it would most likely be from a cable that is shorting out. 9:33 when you say "most" and "troupe" 9:39 both sound to my ears like a condenser mic with a bad capsule, but I would change my cable first just to be sure. Cheers!!

[@cancercentral9997]

Yeah, it's been a bit distracting

[@groverbrown5152]

Great video of Darth Maul!

[@Hello_182]

This video was awesome and such good timing. I just finished reading darth plagueis and plan on reading maul lockdown next. I love how they expanded on his character past the first movie. It’s so badass when he teams up with savage opress

[@ghostnappa2012]

Maul Lockdown is a great read. I have a feeling you'll definitely enjoy it if you enjoyed Darth Plagueis

[@Hello_182]

@@ghostnappa2012 yeah, darth plagueis was really good! Looking forward to maul lockdown. I got hooked on expanded universe novels after reading darth bane path of destruction

[@Methus3lah]

I never expected to relate so heavily to Maul. Throughout his childhood, he was told he had a great destiny and was pushed beyond his limits. Only to go into the real world and get eviscerated. Yet despite the trauma of that paradigm shift, he keeps going. He crawls in the gutters when he was always told he’d have the stars. Darth Maul is basically the manifestation of gifted kid burnout

[@rinokumera5907]

True he is an amazing character

[@zexalbrony4799]

In the end, Maul, like pretty much everyone else both during and right before the Clone Wars, was a victim of Palpatine. Be they Jedi, Clone, Droid, lesser Sith like Maul, Savage, and Ventress, Separatist, Republic, neutral parties, all of them suffered in some way, shape, or form because of Palpatine. Because unlike Maul, who does have some capacity for caring as seen with how he did genuinely care for Savage and Mother Talzin, Palpatine cares for nothing but himself, and thus everyone else is just a tool to be used and thrown away with. Even Dooku and Vader aren't exempt from this, just like Maul, Palpatine only sees them as useful tools, and when a tool breaks he'll just replace it, sometimes even preparing the replacement or replacements even before the old tool breaks. But at least Maul died in peace, knowing that Luke would avenge him, Savage, Mother Talzin, his people, Obi-Wan, and pretty much everyone else Palpatine had wronged. It's kind of funny or great character growth, as Maul told Ahsoka justice didn't really exist, yet he dies believing he and everyone else will get the justice they deserve because Palpatine will get what's coming to him. All this context makes Luke turning Anakin back to the Light so he can kill Palpatine even more powerful, because in that moment the pair of Skywalkers avenged and helped so many people, whether they were still living or dead, everyone could now finally rest in peace and be happy knowing justice was finally served to Palpatine. Maul, Savage, Talzin, Ventress, Obi-Wan, Yoda, Ahsoka, Windu, Kanen, Ezra, Cal all the Jedi, Rex, Fives, Cody, Echo, Hunter, all the Clones, Dooku, Grevious, Trench, all the CIS, Bo-Katan, Sabine, Padme, Bail, Mon Mothma, Leia, Han, Lando, Chewbacca, Tarrful, Ackbar, Hera, Zeb, Chopper, R2, C-3PO, all the other Droids, pretty much everyone in the galaxy was avenged and given justice in that moment. Then the Sequels happen and spit in the face of all that, but let's just pretend that doesn't happen for a minute and enjoy the moment.

[@timurjack8773]

Palpatine was the victim of Plagueis as well or Sith Order as well by using this logic, thats how Sith train each other.

[@schurerest7661]

I love these character breakdown videos!!! Looking forward to more in the future!!!

[@Ardi337]

15:48 Maul v Aliens?! Omg, two of my fave franchises, smooshed together. I love it! 😊

[@osrishunter]

He went from the first apprentice of darth sidious to shadow ruler of mandalore to serect leader of crimson dawn maul will always be my favorite sith assassin however my favorite sith lord will always be darth vader

[@theblackcaesar1685]

Me: ( hearing about Mauls emotional and psychological trauma) Emotional damage!!!

[@MarvinHartmann452]

He was supposed to be the main vilain of the sequels trilogy would it have been produced by Georges Lucas. Imagine that instead of what ee got.

[@timurjack8773]

Sequels would be better if Maul was the main villain.

[@natraan]

Maul had a crazy uncle dynamic going on with his interactions with Ahsoka and Ezra.

[@edzomuljo]

How he went from just a character to a Lord Vader lifter

[@dillonroberts9945]

Youve heard of Darth Plagueis the Wise, but have you heard of Darth Maul the Tragic?

[@riftshredder5438]

According to Tales of the Jedi, Count Dooku already was Sidious's apprentice even before the events of The Phantom Menace

[@merafirewing6591]

Maul really had it rough.

[@justincooper1342]

As much as I love Maul (and this video), I'd hesitate to call him an "Anti-Hero". Shadow the Hedgehog is an Anti-Hero. Vegeta is an Anti-Hero. Spawn is an Anti-Hero. The Punisher is an Anti-Hero. Even Batman could qualify as an Anti-Hero. But Darth Maul? Complex, Tragic, Sympathetic...but I wouldn't go as far as to say "Anti-Hero":/

[@robrice7246]

2:48/2:49 Especially for someone like me who wants to reconcile his two vastly different childhood origins (one from Legends, one from Canon) and find some way to retroactively merge them so it makes sense (how would that work?).

[@Vhailor619]

I think there is one point that should have been touched on about the rivalry with Obiwan. I think Maul took him as a rival on the thinking that if he could beat Obiwan, it would teach himt hat he could become strong enough to beat Sidious one day. Think of it like a measuring stick for his own power.

[@greatazuredragon]

Great work.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

I still think his more silent, foreboding Legends lore is more unique to him (heck, would even say that making him a Dathomirian by birth is one of the Darth Plagueis novel's unnecessary failings), but I should admit, his final death in Rebels should have been his true death in Legends (though some elements of "Old Wounds" should still have happened, like Uncle Owen Lars being involved).

[@romancapulus5577]

Fun fact: Apparently after Kenobi killed Maul, he gave him a Jedi funeral

[@missnanunana01]

I like that

[@The-Black-Death]

I always wondered how a fight between Darth Maul and Jango Fett would go, both fought Obi Wan, but Jango Fett managed to not lose to him, and both villains "died" in their first film appearances.

[@Scray1]

Victim and pawn, sad ending for one of the most interesting people in the Star Wars universe 😢

[@Ol_bub]

I think the creation of maul; starting with the plagueis novel, then lockdown, back to the plagueis novel, and ending with shadow hunter, is equally important and also fits into his screen time story nicely.

[@michaelscott6022]

I remember people talking about how cool Maul was, his dialogue and backstory and the stuff he did, and I thought, "That guy from the first prequel with the double-bladed lightsaber? When did he say anything, the heck are they talking about? Him surviving getting sliced in half and falling into a bottomless hole, that's crazy enough, but then he develops into an actual character?!"

[@18pablo88]

Maul is a great character somewhat misguided by papls the ultimate villain . Got to say obi-wan is the most pure goodie in movies, up there with superman and William Wallace

[@gregfam6250]

I like how you link this as a story we can apply as a lesson to real life. You are an erudite person!

[@cliffwoodbury5319]

such an amazing character

[@christophergraham5531]

Now all is left is Count Dooku.

[@flyer3154]

I wouldn't call Maul an anti-hero

[@vikingsword3485]

He wasn't, the best you could say is he could be more like the hutts willing to work with the Jedi but wants his own space

[@Ardi337]

Amazing video. One of your best. Thank you.

[@kasperkingen5924]

Great video 💪👊

[@agroed]

Therapists: Neimoidians without headwear don't exist, they can't hurt you. 11:14

[@amonke4u]

We all have a little Darth Maul in us. I was in an extremely abusive ( mentally, emotional, physical) relationship. She used held my sons hostage and would pick them up and leave since she has custody I was powerless, went to the police, courts, fought for 8 years and every step everything I did wasn't good enough. She always won. And like Sidious she was vindictive and manipulative. And just when we found equilibrium and show a little bit of happiness she ripped them from my arms. And like Maul I used my hatred for her and anger to build up my fortune just to have her come in an take it knocking me down to start again. And when I heard that line " every choice has led you to this moment..." It clicked. And I had to let go of the fight with my ex which ment letting go of my kids. My chain would be broken because that was the only thing holding me down. Now I am a nomad. No home, traveling the world. I seen the corruption of the US and left it. But yea we all have Maul traits in us.

[@josephraffurty9293]

Second video where I’ve heard a microphone issue. Sounds like either a bad cable or over compression (think the first is more likely). Recommend you check that. Great content! Best wishes!

[@RommulusRemus]

This video deserves more views.

[@HarkonusVile]

Indeed! Perfectly articulated and superbly surmised. Tragedy as well as success cuts and shapes the paths taken throughout our lives in some of the strangest ways.

[@yoannbelleville7763]

I will have to corect you on one thing: Sidious did expect Maul to be his right hand as they rule the galaxy. Dooku was nothing more than a place holder from the start as Sidious was now grouming Anakin to become his aprentice. And when Maul returned, took an aprentice of his own and started building his own empire, Sidious rightfully saw him as a rival trying to suplant him (that, and as previousely stated, he had long switched toward Anakin). The thing is, Sidious never wanted a politician like Dooku as his aprentice. He wanted a cold blooded killer to destroy his enemies, a task that both Maul and Vader were uniquely suited for.

[@jakevelasco4072]

In some ways I think Dooku had it more easy than Maul, because at least with Dooku, under Sidious, the guy had high hopes and a future, and when he knew he was gonna die, Dooku had about less than a minute to see those dreams die before he died. With Maul, the guys life was screwed up by his master (who also killed his brother btw), tried and failed to run a faction, screwed of companionships, and was wired for so long to follow a messed up abuse-hurt system.

[@Pub2k4]

1:02 Maul was in more than one movie.

[@Skeletongentleman7808]

Hurt people hurt people

[@deweyham6535]

😅this is one of your best ! Thank you 😢

[@gambitsheild9814]

Everyone deals with trauma. What separates a hero, a victim, and a villan is how you act when faced with such. The darkside notes that pain can bring power. The jedi failed to understand that power can be used for good.

[@V.B.Squire]

THAT WAS DEEP

[@chillyphilly_]

My. Favorite character

[@drown_n]

I remember pretending to be maul before I was old enough to know his name. 1999, the SECOND we walk out of the theatre I’m doing my damndest to do the flips “Red Guy” did. I Love Maul

[@tfox1231]

I wouldn't call him an antihero but an anti-villain. Like he's still a villain but a lot of the times is a villain's villain

[@Whoami691]

Fun Fact: Ray park, while playing maul, was told to imagine he had been sliced in half in the scene obi wan beats him in. But he was like '....I have no idea how that looks...' So he just imagined taking a really REALLY big dump. And thats what we see in the scene. Mauls face if he were to take a huge dump.

[@aebersoldbjj]

Once again gonna complain like an asshole but it seems it’s always the super interesting/long videos that are covered by this second voice actor with all the microphone issues.

[@jellyface401]

I still remember when people hated him an tought he was an edgy overkill villan with a single note that he didn't play that well.

[@darthresch952]

Darth Maul was a Darth. Like many of the Bane Line Sith, Sidious went against the Rule of 2 when it suited him. Plagueis’s Bith Master did as well. In Legends, Sidious trained Maul as his apprentice. He told his own master that Maul was an assassin, but when Plagueis has 41D spy on a pre-mission conversation between Sidious and Maul, he hears Sidious call Maul Darth and speak of the Sith and their plans. He was not supposed to do either when Plagueis agreed to allow Maul’s training. Around the time of Maul’s Death Sidious found out about Anakin as well, and his plans changed. This is in the Plagueis Novel. In Canon it is hinted that Sidious created Anakin, however Sidious himself states in the 2015 Darth Vader comics that Darth Maul was a great loss as an apprentice, where as Darth Tyrannus was a place holder. When Maul returned, Sidious had altered his plans. Maul was then thrown away. I believe that had Maul lived, Anakin would at the very least been developed still, and when the time was right… Anakin would have been put against Maul, the stronger being the Apprentice. This was done by Darth Tenebrous with Darth Venamis.

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Fun fact. Sidious did care for Maul. Not in the way of feeling sad, more so his weapon is gone. Anakin was only picked after he realized Maul had been killed. Just so happens Anakin had more potential.