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today we're gonna go over 10 interesting facts about Darth Maul now for me Darth
Maul was a really interesting character he was one of my favorites if not my
favorite when I was 9 years old when the Phantom Menace came out let's start with
fact number one from childhood Darth Maul was trained to kill Jedi Anakin
Skywalker almost never became a Jedi because the council considered him to be
too old to begin his training the Jedi recruited force sensitives from a very
young age as they wanted the members of their order to be as free of emotional
attachment and life's baggage as possible so they could concentrate on
the force and avoid the temptations of the dark side the Sith on the other hand
embraced any and all intense emotions from anger and hate to love and passion
life experience was a useful tool for them to twist and turn their recruits
towards the dark side however that doesn't mean that only adults can become
Sith in fact Maul was just a child when pal teen began training him when he was
the appropriate age to join the Jedi Order
the Zab rack became a Sith instead as Maul was so young
he didn't yet have the bitterness that someone who has experienced life's
hardship might have which meant that mauls training in addition to turning
him into a weapon with phenomenal acrobatic and double bladed lightsaber
skills was also designed to be as aggressively brutal and harsh as
possible to build his hate in conjunction with his skillset and force
powers he was such a savage that he preferred to kill you up close and
personal to watch the light leave your eyes rather than just use the force like
a typical Sith would number two he was manipulated into hating the Jedi Darth
Sidious is training along with turning maul into a perfect assassin also taught
the Zab rack to hate the Jedi for years and years before he actually ever met a
member of their order his hate ran deep but was ultimately engineered as it
didn't come from an organic or traumatic event in malls past until of course he
lost Obi 1 this was Palpatine's doing his hate for the Jedi
when Maul was still young boy the Dark Lord of the Sith brought his young
apprentice to the planet malgor to witness the relics and remains of a
devastating battle that had been fought there between the
Jedi and the Sith centuries earlier Sidious then forced the young Maul to
inhale the ashes of some of the Sith who had fallen in that battle the ash caused
hallucinations that brought Maul back to the ancient battle where the Sith
apprentice could feel the pain and suffering that his sibron had gone
through as they were struck down by the Jedi he felt every strike and slash as
if the Jedi were doing it to him when he could finally break free of the
hallucination the experience had embedded in him and from that moment on
a pulsating hatred and intense craving for vengeance against the Jedi number
three molls mother was Sidious his original apprentice as a member of Darth
Bane's rule of two Darth Sidious knew that when the time came to pick his own
apprentice he would have to be certain to choose the right apprentice to aid
him in the Sith revenge against the Jedi so when in his travels he came across
the knight sister mother Talzin Cities befriended the deathly witch and
promised to take her under his tutelage but when he sensed the strength of her
sons force connection the Sith recognized how much potential was in
Maul so he rejected mother Talzin and took Maul as his apprentice instead
number four the size of maules horns grew as he aged aside from his iconic
tattoos perhaps the most recognizable part of Darth Maul's outward features
are his horns from pubescens to adulthood into their elder years zap rax
horns grew as they aged not all Zab rax can actually grow horns though for those
who do even then there are differences in their growth pattern while most have
their horns grow around their entire head some Zab rack just grow horns on
their foreheads the horns just like their tattoos are a symbol of honor and
strength from all species they are a cultural signifier that as a Brack has
finally become a true warrior now of course the horns along with their
cultural significance can also be used to impale enemies with as seen when
mauls brother Savage Opress was on the planet florrum
and used his horns defeated Jedi apprentice who is travelling with
obi-wan Kenobi during the Clone Wars now for maul when he briefly ruled over the
Mandalorians homeworld his troops who understood what the horns meant for the
xab rack said patterned their armor in a red and black color scheme with horns
protruding from their helmets as a show of honor and respect towards their new
ruler number five molls earring the average
fan may or may not have noticed that Darth Maul wears a small pearl like
earring on the upper part of his left ear it's a nice little touch that adds
to his warrior like overall appearance but the reason he wears it doesn't lie
in lore but in a little mistake on the set of the Phantom Menace Rey Park the
actor who portrayed Darth Maul in Episode one and in solo had just been
put in his full costume and makeup when he realized that he had forgotten to
take off his earring but rather than having the costume department take off
the earring and redo the makeup George Lucas liked the addition and so they
decided to keep it as part of the characters look it definitely makes Maul
look a little more edgy and rebellious number six Darth Maul's tattoos are
based on the muscle patterns of his face Maul is definitely one of the best parts
of the Phantom Menace but regardless of where you fall on that his character's
appearance definitely became an iconic part of the Star Wars lore he has the
least lines of any villain and yet is one of the most popular his look
underwent numerous different designs during the development stages of the
film the intricate arrangements of his tattoos that Lucas people came up with
warrant just random set of markings that looked menacing and cool but they're
actually based on the muscle patterns underneath his skin this configuration
of his tattoos was a clever way to make the Sith assassin look as terrifying and
unsettling as possible because they were patterned after his muscle if you were
to tear the flesh from his face the muscle underneath would match the look
of the tattoos number seven he founded a group of crime lords called the shadow
collective during the Clone Wars Darth Maul along with his brother and
apprentice Savage Opress sought out numerous bounty hunters and crime lords
with the goal of forming a group together called the shadow collective it
was during this time that the Sith assassin would first come into conflict
with the Mandalorians who later he would go on to rule thanks in part to the
assistance of his shadow collective the role of crime lord came easy to Maul as
his keen intelligence ruthlessness murderous instincts and incredible
abilities quickly made him the apex predator in a group of killers thus the
clear leader of the shadow collective and eventually arrival to the rule of
two Sith order number eight there is a wink to him in the force awakens in
Episode seven when Han Solo and Chewie came across rey and finn and are finally
reunited with millennium falcon the scruffy-looking
nerf-herder and his hairy partner have been flying around in the galaxy and a
giant freighter that happens to hold very dangerous creatures called wrath
tars when his freighter is boarded by various factions who have bones to pick
with the smuggler Han releases the Wrath tars at them the result was a terrifying
chase through the ship as the beasts killed Hans enemies and nearly han and
the other heroes too however Solo isn't the only major Star Wars character to
have had a run-in with the wrath tars as you could probably guess mall has had
his own unique encounters with the ferocious beasts as the Sith apprentice
had grown impatient with his training craving to face a worthy opponent he
decided to travel to the planet twon keti to hunt down their famous predators
the wrath tars you might remember in a comic that I've covered their brutal and
savage nature appeared to Darth Maul and he respected that unlike him they served
no master for most hunting rathtars was a perilous proposition that was not
undertaken lightly but from all hunting them down was merely to pass the time
and his boredom number 9 he was a killer with a heart two of them though the xab
rack species are very similar to humans in their appearance they do have several
key differences the horns being the obvious ones but internally they were
also different in that mall and the rest of his kind had two hearts beating in
their bodies like a human heart the Zab racks hearts regulated their blood but
also worked as kidneys so if one of them stopped working the other heart would
keep pumping blood in its place this could help give Maul and others a Brax
an advantage almost a second chance in battle as they kind of had an extra
battery to run on most species were not the only one to have two hearts another
famous person was ki-adi-mundi skin the Sirians though there has yet as far as I
know to be any lower story where mauls second heart comes into play and gives
him an unexpected edge in a duel or battle it's fun to think about how one
of the most dangerous and cold-hearted killers in the galaxy is all full of
heart number 10 Maul and obi-wan had their first rematch in the Clone Wars
Maul wanted two things during the Clone Wars one was to create his own rival
power to the Jedi and the Sith the second which may have been
more urgency for thes a Brack was he wanted vengeance against Kenobi for his
defeat on Naboo his brother savage had found them all on a junkyard planet and
took the injured sits back with him to Dathomir the home of mother Talzin who
restored his sanity and repaired his legs once rehabbed Maul became obsessed
with finding obi-wan and enacting his revenge on the Jedi Master so soon after
he managed to hunt down Kenobi and a decade after their epic duel the two
warriors once again faced each other Maul clearly had the advantage in their
duel but he was unable to get his revenge on obi-wan because Count Dooku's
former apprentice Asajj interceded herself into the battle siding with her
enemy Kenobi against small this wouldn't be the final confrontation between the
two of course there would be others through the years even after the Clone
Wars both opponents would cause each other a lot of heartache Maul was
literally half the man he used to be because of Kenobi and Kenobi would lose
the woman he loved to mauls blade as well as his master it wouldn't be until
near the Battle of Yavin that the two of them would have their last duel but
obi-wan had just been a Padawan who got lucky on Naboo
a Jedi whose powers were still growing into the Clone Wars but by the time of
their final duel he was a wise and powerful Jedi Master and for the first
time the superior of the two obi-wan only felt sorrow when he slayed Darth
Maul but at last the Sith who never had been given a choice about joining the
dark side found some peace in his death hope you enjoyed this video about Maul
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