You have been well trained, my young apprentice

The meeting between Darth Maul and Darth Sidious doesn't quite go the way Palpatine had foreseen after Maul's recent obession with mental health.
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The voices are AI generated, heavily edited by me to make them sound how I envision them.
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[@purplephantom2441]

Palpatine always trying to follow the script and the others not letting him XD

[@jakell4711]

I feel kinda bad for being the 67th like.

[@spondooly7572]

I really hope there's an episode dedicated to Palpatine loosing his shit at the others for breaking the script

[@MikehMike01]

the scripts are so bad that even the characters in the prequels don’t want to follow them!

[@CassD-ym9qc]

Of course Palpatine is trying to follow the script! He wrote it, after all.

[@Blacklla]

I actually like it. If only Yoda wasnt said to be a drug addict we couldve had both Sidious and Yoda trying to be serious and everyone else derailing

[@gunnarc3055]

maul needs to embrace his own theories on dichotomy

[@ericdierolf8929]

YES it is because of YOUR muthafuckin THESIS! 😮

[@slaterstimson]

He’s about to be a dichotomy

[@GAarcher]

@@slaterstimson *the thesis of the schödinger sith, if feel of, does he dead or alive? people die when they are killed but he is not show as dead so he maybe come back*

[@PotatoPrem]

@@GAarcher Somehpw Darth Maul is back!!

[@pkmntrainermark8881]

Dichotomies such as, for instance, a being who is half organic and half mechanical.

[@howsad2397]

Maul needing constant validation should be made canon

[@ArcCaravan]

Is it really needing constant validation when he just asks Palpatine for one compliment that isn't really praising himself?

[@ultramagnus1859]

He spent his entire life fruitlessly chasing Kenobi trying to get a rise out of him before killing him, if that isn't needing constant validation I don't know what is.

[@horvathbenedek3596]

*Hangar door opens* Maul: *ignites one side of lightsaber* *ignites other side as well* Jedi: *prepare to fight* Maul: "That was cool, right?" Jedi: "What?" "The double sided lightsaber. Cool, right?" "...why are you asking us?" "...JUST TELL ME IT WAS COOL!" "...but why?" "Oh never mind... I'll totally kill you guys..."

[@carpinchoemma2512]

He gets someone who respects him for five minutes before dying and spends the other half of his life looking for another apprentice/younger brother to remember that same feeling one more time.

[@elcalabozodelandroide2]

*i will make it canon*

[@IceBen4444]

Only jedi deal in compliments.

[@jeffbenton6183]

Underrated compliment

[@JoshAllenberg]

The dark side of the force leads to many alternative methods of psychological reinforcement some may consider to be...unfeminine

[@MirrorOfEmotions]

​@@JoshAllenberg Get "'All women are queens.' 'If she breaths, she's a THOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!" flashbacks. xD Sorry, couldn't resist to make this joke .

[@lucasbentley5651]

What if it’s a absolute compliment?

[@TheHellyeahmen]

"with all due respect which is none" is such a simple yet effective line

[@JangoFettuccini]

Stolen from @stardustandflames126

[@TheHellyeahmen]

@@JangoFettuccini oh no! Someone on the internet used a joke somebody else told! the whole meme community is built on reusing jokes.

[@JangoFettuccini]

@@TheHellyeahmen and that’s fine and I normally wouldn’t have pointed it out, but I just didn’t want people to see your comment and then give this video’s creator the credit for Community’s joke.

[@TheHellyeahmen]

@@JangoFettuccini sure. It's fine that's why you used the word "stolen"

[@JangoFettuccini]

@@TheHellyeahmen now you’re just being pedantic. Or is that another word choice you have a problem with?

[@Xandranxanda]

To be fair, teaching Maul to run over every kid he sees is a very Palpatine thing to do considering vehicular manslaughter is what propelled him to his own apprenticeship lol

[@Arualiaa]

Someone else who knows Palps’ backstory??? Well I’ll be damned!

[@briangarner3761]

whot?

[@Arualiaa]

@@briangarner3761 The first time Palpatine killed someone, it was a speeder crash accident when he was a teenager. It messed him up and soured his relationship with his abusive family of aristocrats even further (they covered up the whole ordeal and then kinda held it over his head), and that’s when Darth Plagueis swooped in. He convinced Palpatine to kill his whole family (since “he was a monster either way, so he might as well embrace it”), and things spiraled from there. A similar thing happened to Plagueis himself, and of course we all know what Anakin went through. Darth Bane’s whole Sith lineage is just a study in cyclical abuse and generational trauma.

[@MiguelMedV]

​@@Arualiaa Thank you for your short summarization 😁💪🏼💯...

[@yawgmoth6568]

@@Arualiaa I don't recall Plaqueis being traumatized by it, he seemed to enjoy suggesting that child should jump out the window. Given that's exactly what what the kid did he probably would've grown up to become a Jedi anyways.

[@bigyoshi5170]

“Compliment me…please… *PLEASE!”* -Maul “There are no compliments.” -Sidious *Insert Sam Witwer screaming here*

[@DaDocDuck]

I love how this made me empathise with Maul, just like the original scene

[@MCSPARTAN501]

Interestingly enough, Sam Witwer also voiced Sidious at one point

[@ethansolomon2126]

“Remember, the first and only reality of the Sith: there can only be passive aggression. And I can see you tried your best teaching Savage how to use a lightsaber.”

[@ZephKin]

SIDIOUSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!1!!!!!

[@i-maxwalker3401]

Maul: So hypothetically if I lost that would look badly on you? Palpatine 2 weeks later: Son of a-

[@discombobulatedecho6025]

Palpatine: “Maybe Maul was right. I should’ve complimented him.” *Several years later on Mandalore* Palpatine: “I am most impressed you managed to survive your injuries…” Maul: “FINALLY! A compliment!”

[@kayden232ou]

​@@discombobulatedecho6025I know in lore that is an actual compliment, but in the premise of this video that would just be another self compliment so...

[@lisboah]

"I can't operate at my best if I'm psychologically damaged" Buddy, your foster parent/master is Darth Sidious. You have been psychologically damaged from the moment he met you.

[@georgeoldsterd8994]

I don't like how that sounds. 😓

[@lisboah]

@@georgeoldsterd8994 Already changed it. Thanks for pointing out how creepy it sounded.

[@warlordofbritannia]

The Prequels are about an older, powerful politician selecting and grooming a much younger and emotionally unstable man.

[@davidw.2791]

@@warlordofbritanniaAnd then he has the audacity to sneer at Vader’s loss of linbs and thus his loss of Force potential.

[@suitcaseofsmarts]

@@georgeoldsterd8994 what was the original comment 💀

[@TrixerFerKids]

"With all due respect, which is none because you're stupid" is definitely the funniest line of the video imo 😆

[@kaios26k90]

"Why did we spend so much time training on how to survive falling down seemingly bottomless pits?" Works on a few levels...

[@tylerm6453]

Of course, when it happened to Palpatine, he exploded and it was on a space station that also exploded. There’s no way you can come back from that…

[@Psyoid]

Somehow, Palpatine returned.

[@j.trades9691]

@@tylerm6453 The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many pits some would consider... Unnatural.

[@Frosty4427]

More than a few. They are bottomless afterall.

[@stansman5461]

If only Palpatine trained him how to take advantage of the high ground

[@AtheistPirate]

A fine demonstration of the S.H.E.E.V. system. S: Socially isolate H: Harbor resentment E: Eliminate weakness E: Encourage violence V: Value results

[@professorhaystacks6606]

Of course if you have a female apprentice you should use the VEEHS system.

[@user-nz3es4kh9j]

Palpatine: “Hopefully this will be the last apprentice who does not know when to shut up”.

[@LontEnCaras]

I bet he misses maul later.

[@ManFromThePits]

Then Anakin comes along with his degree in "Tragedy of Darth Plagueis Studies".

[@user-nz3es4kh9j]

Both apprentices need some serious counselling.

[@Roger00100]

Dooku casually reveals the entire sith plan and anakin with his thesis

[@greatpurplecroctopus]

The doublesided lightsaber reveal makes so much more sense now, he just really wanted someone to tell him he was cool 😢

[@Landotp]

Damn 😢

[@agustingomez1575]

Why is that kind elderly gentleman acting like Obi-Wan all of the sudden? That seems unnatural. A very unusual state of affairs.

[@pimpamtrucutruku3873]

Unnatural, you say? Are you implying Master Kenobi is a master of Dark Side? Known for being the path to powers some may call unnatural, such as his personal art, the *Int E'Rupting?* That fair jedi knight being a secret master of Dark Side would be quite the _dichotomy...._

[@jetflyer62901]

​@@pimpamtrucutruku3873 Shut up! Shut up! I will grant you the rank of Master here and now if you promise to never mention dichotomy ever again.

[@AF-tv6uf]

Read this in Palpatine's voice.

[@jetflyer62901]

@@pimpamtrucutruku3873 Shut up! Shut up! I will grant you the rank of Master here and fucking now if you promise to never mention dichotomy again.

[@jetflyer62901]

@@pimpamtrucutruku3873 Stop it! I will grant you the rank of Master here and now if you promise to never mention dichotomy again.

[@inductivegrunt94]

Palpatine playing the long game with his training of Maul. It all proceeded as he forsaw.

[@Dan_Jado]

"Politics is very important Lord Maul, it only feeds into your anger...." That's great, for some reason I really liked that part XD

[@GFHmicaella]

Same. Really makes sense for a Sith to go into politics if you think about it that way, a source of anger to fuel their power.

[@lordlittletoeq8537]

​@@GFHmicaellaimagine fighting a sith fueled from talking to people on Twitter and Reddit

[@marthdaeglin]

"...why did we spend so much time training on how to survive falling down seemingly bottomless pits?" "Lord Maul, this is the world we live in. Look over that balcony and tell me if you see anything remotely approaching a 'bottom'."

[@feuerling]

So the weird pits in the death star are for Sheev's parkour training?

[@kohai-kun9261]

"With all due respect, which is none, because you're stupid" is powerful.

[@thestormwalker6665]

I just Imagine Now Maul falling down that very pit in half saying to himself "Just like the simulations"

[@jonothanthrace1530]

Darth Maul learned a very particular set of skills.

[@snoweagle2514]

Poor Maul, he just wants to be loved

[@warlordofbritannia]

His unrequited love for Kenobi in particular is such a sad story. He even went full crazy stalker and killed Kenobi’s actual waifu.

[@ThePariahDark]

Ah yes, the "form a mechanical spider lower body out of junk" course... good times.

[@daksmyth9320]

"with all due respect -- which is none, because you're stupid" holy hell I'm stealing that one

[@ryanrouse5590]

“All this training about how to survive injuries that sound fatal really makes me feel like you don’t like my chances…” “…” “Did you ever hear the tragedy…”

[@stefanbroers8146]

oh a tragedy? i heard anakin wrote a thesis about a certain tragedy!

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

​@@stefanbroers8146what who's Anaki- That kid my (former) Master made as a test right before I killed him? He's got to only be like 9! How could he have written a thesis already‽‽‽

[@PlebNC]

Palpatine after leaving the room: "Well that was annoying. Still, could be worse. At least Maul doesn't insist on read me a thesis of some kind. That would really suck. Good thing my plan is foolproof so that'll never happen."

[@israelnoble7614]

Like master like padawan, they really did practice how to properly fall down seemingly bottomless pits

[@stooge389]

I need like 400 more hours of Palpatine's apprentices questioning his... well, everything lmao

[@kamillavalter]

The saddest thing is that’s pretty much how their relationship looked like in the canon. Palps didn’t give a shit about Maul.

[@talora5991]

And in legends

[@RFDN0]

Palps doesn't care about anyone but himself. Everyone/thing else is a piece on the board to give him what he wants.

[@talora5991]

@@RFDN0 yes

[@pole8740]

if it makes you feel any better, he probably could not give a single shit about vader either

[@Cooli167]

@@pole8740 To be fair, if your best guy- which you've been influencing for over a decade to get him into the position, not to mention fighting the Second Greatest Jedi master with a huge risk of death or imprisonment- got himself maimed to master "high ground" **after** taking out most of the Jedi, making your empire, and defeating the greatest Jedi master yourself, you might care alot less too.

[@hunterkiller1440]

Palpatine: If you're successful, it's because of me. If you fail, your fault.

[@arbknight12]

Plaguies: "What're they talking about now 11-4D?" 11-4D: "Maul appears to be critiquing his training. And Sidious appears to be flexing his lightning fingies."

[@DarknetDude]

Did you ever hear the tragedy of giving compliments to undeserving people? It’s not a story the Jedi would tell you.

[@germanvisitor2]

Learning how to fall down seemingly bottomless pits did come in handy for both of them, huh.

[@raynmanshorts9275]

"It could lead to psychological damage." Oh, boy. I sure hope the _Sith_ isn't psychologically damaged! Surely that would interfere with his ability to utilize the Dark Side!

[@Death_Trooper645]

Palpatine is the only person in this whole series who is sane. He’s just reacting to all the insanity around him

[@israelnoble7614]

How many children did he run over before Anakin

[@jlev1028]

You don't wanna know...

[@Roger00100]

​@@jlev1028 Some say that after obi-wan, it was cut short temporarily

[@vaimantobe3034]

Yes

[@ZeusAmun-pt9dc]

You would be surprised how many times light saber duels take place near a bottomless pit

[@atimholt]

The Phantom Menace is still the only piece of media I've seen with Darth Maul in it.

[@theorixlux]

after that, he was just a half maul...

[@isaiah55678]

​@@theorixluxindeed, considering he was just HALF the man he once was.

[@Darkenmal]

Clearly he needs to write a thesis. Perhaps about some wise old sith?

[@AllisterVinris]

"Compliments are a lie, There's only Emotionnal Damage™" - Darth He 'On the dichotomy of the Sith Code' 69420 B.B.Y

[@zachh6868]

That Maul inflection is crazy good

[@cobra8888]

"You have been trained well my you..." "Yes on that matter, who is Kenobi? And why did you train my vocal cord to scream his name every time I get upset?" "......Oh shut up Maul and go fight Kenobi...I mean Jedi".

[@ricksimilar]

I like how despite pointing out the insanity of the crime syndicate disjointed revenge plot, Maul will still go through with it. Truly he was well-trained.

[@toonterraminegamer1234]

Arguably, the dark side feeds off of psychological damage, making Maul more powerful. He was so angry at Obi-Wan for defeating him that he survived his fall. The pain and suffering caused by Vader’s suit made him more powerful as well.

[@georgehouliaras7239]

This Darth Maul guy really needs to stand on his own legs.

[@legocrack1]

Now we know why Maul lost the fight against Obi Wan, he was psychologically damaged., everything makes sense now

[@dimwarlock]

The idea of a villain who just knows every single detail of what's going to happen is infuriating in canon, but hilarious in parody. They know when they're going to be humiliated, lose a ton of resourses and even be killed, but that's also part of the plan... for some reason.

[@lordlittletoeq8537]

Planning around their Planning around your Planning and so on

[@deadlypandaghost]

Personally I would have spent a bit longer on the not getting cut in half lessons but this works too.

[@Kirk-36Moshpit]

"Why do you refuse your destiny as a Sith?" "Because your validational support plan sucks."

[@Spoit0]

If only Maul had heard the Tragedy of Darth Plagius the Wise. Alas, it appears to not be a tale the sith would tell you

[@TonyFett66]

Its funny that they both sound like Sam Witwer

[@alexeysavelyev]

well both voiced by him :)

[@lost_dude]

@@alexeysavelyev palpatine wasnt voiced by witwer in tpm

[@bobthespud9634]

@@lost_dude yes but he was in the force unleashed

[@lost_dude]

@@bobthespud9634 oh ok

[@Banazir-uz9zt]

It doesn't quite sound like Sam Witwer though. Witwer's Palpatine has a weird retracted [s̺]-sound, where the original has [z] or [s]. Seriously, if you listen to Witwer's Palpatine (which is really great, don't get me wrong), you'll notice that "his Sith Master" would sound almost a bit like "hishsss Sshith Mashter". McDiarmid doesn't do it that extremely, if he does it at all. If you look up that one Rebels scene that got dubbed by both Witwer and McDiarmid, you can hear it pretty clearly. "Thisss is an opportunity we cannot passhhhsss. Sshkywalker's apprentisssh could lead us to other losssht Jedi." His [i:] at the end of words is also more open than McDiarmids, sounding more like [ɛ:]. "An opportunitehh". And when he is voicing Maul (which IS my favourite Witwer performance in SW) he has a weird tendency to make this weird little "fffhhhh" breathing sound at the end of some sentences, which I think is him either drawing in his breath or his saliva through his front teeth. It is really hard to unhear once you notice it. Just look up the Clone Wars' Satine Death Scene. "Your emotions betray you (hhh): Your fear (fffhhh) and yes your anger (fffhhhhh)! [...] SILENCE! You think you know me? (ffffthh) It is I who has anguished for years thinking of nothing but you! (ffffhhhhhh)"

[@CJusticeHappen21]

TBH, both of them were served by the admittedly esoteric focus on Fall-Survival.

[@mahpell7173]

Now I want Maul and Anakin discuss this dichotomy.

[@richardlionerheart1945]

"I can't operate at my best if i'm psychologically damaged" you're dark side user you quite litteraly do

[@francisweller839]

I love how everyone except Palpatine is trying to have real conversations while he tries to get them to play their parts in his plan which he refuses to tell anyone about.

[@richardthompson6366]

Psychological damage, the silent killer.

[@TheDlemo]

I appreciate that you're a big nerd for the clone wars canon

[@BigBossStatus1]

Dint get to see it, but I've seen so many clips of Maul and their constant "somehow Maul is still connected" bits in the new lore is interesting

[@chimaerabr]

2 minutes and 33 seconds of Sam Witwer talking to himself

[@rejvaik00]

Maul was in the wrong he needs to listen to the thesis of the dichotomy on compliments Only then can he understand sidious' inentions

[@victoraabech2407]

"Call me a good boy or I won't do it" - Maul

[@FantomMisfit]

0:53 So that's what happened. Dude killed Qui Gon let Obi Wan have his rage out and then Force pushed him off to let him know who was wearing the pants and then was slashing at Obi Wan to motivate Obi Wan to win in order to spite Sidious. Masterful plan 😂

[@TerryBowles-qm3qc]

Darth Maul has *EMOTIONAL DAMAGE*

[@Carribla]

If i had a nickel for every time a sith survived falling down a seemingly bottomless pit....

[@yawgmoth6568]

You'd have two knickles, which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice. Also what the hell is a knickle?

[@Odinfang]

Palpatine must be thinking that he really should have gone with the original plan of making Mother Talzin his apprentice 😂

[@francisweller839]

Even when he is at his best, Palpatine’s inability to effectively communicate makes it impossible for him to maintain control over his pawns

[@thomasnewton2935]

Conversations like these are why maul was always the strong silent type until he became 50% off.

[@standardbrickproductions3328]

Discovered your star wars videos a month or so ago. Absolutely love them!! Hilarious everytime!!

[@Beak0n]

Darth Plagueis audiobook last chapters:

[@ZReaders]

“It could be P S Y C H O L O G I C A L L Y D A M A G I N G to not receive compliments. I can’t operate at my best if I’m P S Y C H O L O G I C A L L Y D A M A G E D.”

[@Erbors]

In another universe in a galaxy far far away Darth Mail was reincarnated as Wimplo from Kung Pow. “We trained him wrong on purpose…as a joke!”

[@daveOnYouTube]

Maul 5 years later: Yeah I should have shut up and just listened.

[@torik9300]

This just sounds like Sam Witwer arguing with himself 😅

[@VinluvAntonHandesbukia]

1:12 I like how Palps decides to rub it harder in Maul's face to prove a point

[@EDMemm]

Self-esteem gone, carry on

[@CygnusLaboratorys2056]

the goddamn voice crack when he said "OKAY?!" at 1:02

[@Dwayne_LaFontant]

Maul be like: where my hug at?

[@AtlasTorment]

Ah, another great video. Subscribed!

[@chance1240]

Here's an idea: episode 2 when obi wan is floating, being captured by dooku, dooku talks to obi Wan about HIS thesis on how sand was instrumental in the influencing of anakins thesis about dichotomy which would lead to the destruction of the jedi order.

[@HonkaiMain]

Maul would've succeeded if he had learned of the dichotomy of Lord Plageuis the Wise.

[@sodaman8888]

The funny thing is that Maul does operate at his best while he's psychologically damaged

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

Was Maul truly a bad guy in the end? Consider: just like Anakin, he never once used lightning fingies.

[@shapular]

I both this and Solid jj's Yoda video in my subscriptions and thought you had uploaded twice today.

[@simonandreyevdestiny2]

i forgot that darth maul spoke in the phantom menace

[@Jaimethepanda]

Maul just wanted a dad…

[@college54114]

Seals are good, and this video is great

[@black2342]

Palpatine didn't taught Mual how to use the high ground.

[@chrissaccary524]

Maul: bro you could psychologically damage me by refusing compliments Also maul: run over a bunch of kids? Weird but like, aright 🤷

[@n00bplayer72]

I honestly love how Maul enunciates his words here "It could be *_P S Y C H O L O G I C A L L Y D A M A G I N G_* to not receive compliments.... I can't operate at my best if I'm *_P S Y C H O L O G I C A L L Y D A M A G E D . "_*

[@pablovirus]

This channel never fails

[@genx-odus5678]

Somehow..Maul returned…

[@serenahiggins1849]

This is a brilliant example of the dichotomy of life forms and the struggle of light and dark even within the ranks of the Sith. Trying to be light hearted with humor while needing to maintain the undeniable presence of what some would call evil.

[@hoodedkupo8537]

"with all due respect, which is none because you're stupid" is a great line

[@vonneely1977]

Incredible voice impressions.

[@_Vengeance_]

Palpatine: "Ugh, next time I get an apprentice, I should make sure he's psychologically damaged and give him a purposely badly designed suit that will make sure he stays psychologically damaged. That way he can't whine he'll get psychologically damaged if he receives no compliments"

[@terrencemoldern2756]

I would love it if in one of these... Palpatine just lost it and started going on a rant about following the script and how he try’s his best but everyone around him always brings him down and ruins it 😂😂😂 Bro needs to vent in one of these videos 😂

[@Banazir-uz9zt]

"Palestine"?

[@terrencemoldern2756]

@@Banazir-uz9zt omg... auto correct lol

[@bill7533]

The irony of Palpatine teaching Maul how to survive a long fall....

[@drrodopszin]

I will tell at work when they wanna put another crazy deadline on me that: "I can't operate at my best, if I'm psychologically damaged.'

[@elcalabozodelandroide2]

1:38 hey maul! , thats a history class that anakin would love to hear. Ancient sith lords used to do that all the time.

[@alansmithee419]

"It could be psychologically damaging" Don't worry, that'll just make your dark side powers stronger!

[@Doncroft1]

Never thought I'd hear Maul talk too much. Here we are.