Darth Maul

Assemble a powerful army of crime lords and gangsters in order to overthrow the Duchess Satine and seize control over Mandalore (all succeeded).
Overthrow Darth Sidious.
Destroy the Separatists.
Kill Count Dooku.
Lure Anakin Skywalker to Mandalore so he can kill him to prevent Sidious from making him his new apprentice.
Convince Ahsoka Tano to join him or kill her.
Destroy the Jedi, the Sith, and the Empire.
Make Ezra Bridger his new apprentice (all failed).
Escape the Republic cruiser and survive Order 66 (succeeded).
Kill both Obi-Wan Kenobi and his friends in order to get revenge on them (failed).

### Why Do People Love The Character?

He has a wonderfully developed story from start to finish as a broken person.

### Type of Ensemble Dark Horse

Tragic Warrior

**Darth Maul**, later known as just **Maul**, is a major antagonist in the *Star Wars* franchise. He was once a Sith apprentice of the power Sith Lord Darth Sidius until he was cut in half by Obi-Wan Kenobi, where he sought vengeance for the rest of his days over his humiliating failure, grinding his dark path through until the very end.

He was portrayed by Ray Park in the films and voiced by Sam Witwer in the shows.

## What Makes Him an Ensemble Dark Horse?

* Although he started off as a character with mixed-reactions in *The Phantom Menace*, *The Clone Wars* breathed much more life into him and made him a well developed character to the very end.
* Despite his status as a secondary character with lack of screentime compared to other characters like Anakin, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka and Luke, Maul stands out for having several very memorable scenes and not being as controversial as them.
* Everybody sympathizes with his tragic backstory, since he was taken away, abused, abandoned, and traumatized through all of the horrible things that had happened in his life. In fact, many more people sympathize with Maul's tragic backstory than Anakin and Dooku's because unlike them, Maul didn't have a choice in joining the Dark Side and was manipulated into it from the very start. Also his death at the hands of Obi-Want in *Rebels* is massively played for sympathy, as he begs his archenemy to make sure that *chosen one* will stop Empire.
* His final scenes at the end of the Clone Wars were the most badass of them all since he has a magnificent fight with Ahsoka and he tore her ship down with no resources.
* To call his double lightsaber iconic would be an understatement.

## External Links

* Darth Maul on the Villains Wiki
* Darth Maul on the Wookieepedia Wiki
* Darth Maul on the Disney Wiki
* Darth Maul on the Wikipedia

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