Pre Vizsla

**Pre Vizsla** is a recurring antagonist in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. He serves as the primary antagonist of the Mandalore story arc of the second season. He was the leader of the Death Watch on Mandalore and the owner of the Darksaber during the Clone Wars

## **Overview**

Vizsla was a human male Mandalorian warrior who led a terrorist organization, known as Death Watch, during the final years of the Galactic Republic. Formerly the governor of Concordia, Vizsla longed to restore the warrior heritage of his homeworld, the planet Mandalore, by overthrowing Duchess Satine Kryze's pacifist regime. Drawing on the support of his Mandalorian commandos, Vizsla made his bid for power during the galaxy-wide Clone Wars but failed several times in his efforts to conquer Mandalore. Following his failed alliance with the Confederacy of Independent Systems, however, Vizsla joined the renegade Sith Lord Maul's *Shadow Collective*. As a result of their pact, he ultimately succeeded in taking over Mandalore with widespread public support following the collapse of order and stability due to Maul's machinations.

Having achieved his goal, Vizsla turned against Maul, leading to a lightsaber duel to the death. In the end, Vizsla was defeated and executed by Maul, who claimed his one-time ally's weapon—the Darksaber, a Jedi-Mandalorian relic of Clan Vizsla—and therefore leadership over all Mandalorians. Despite Maul's victory, his claim was opposed by one of the late Vizsla's lieutenants, Bo-Katan Kryze, who refused to accept an outsider as her leader. This act tore Death Watch asunder between Kryze's supporters and those who declared their loyalty to Maul, becoming known as his Mandalorian super commandos.

### Season 2

**The Plot**

Seeking to overthrow Duchess Satine Kryze and her pacifistic government, in order to restore Mandalore to its warrior past, Vizsla secretly allied himself with Count Dooku and his Confederacy of Independent Systems. While governing Mandalore's moon, Concordia, and maintaining loyalty to Kryze in public, Vizsla led Death Watch in secret from several Concordian mining camp bases. Death Watch's attack on a Jedi Cruiser and terrorist attacks on Mandalore came to a head when Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi arrived on Concordia with Kryze to follow leads on Death Watch. When Kenobi discovered Death Watch's secret base, Vizsla revealed himself as the renegades' leader. He then addressed Kenobi, proclaiming that Kryze tarnished the Mandalorian race with her peace-seeking government. Returning Kenobi's lightsaber, which his men confiscated earlier during the Jedi's capture, Vizsla drew the Darksaber and explained some of its history before attacking Kenobi. Confident that he would be able to best the Jedi Master, Vizsla was quickly proven to be no match for him and was quickly forced onto the back foot, first by a Force-push that sent him hurling backwards several meters and then with a kick that knocked the Darksaber out of his grip. Vizsla continued his assault on Kenobi, who used unarmed combat techniques to create a temporary gap in the fighting to receive his fallen lightsaber.
This time, Vizsla used his jetpack to employ greater altitude in flight, but Kenobi simply jumped and intercepted him in the air, battering him toward the ground. Defeated, he decided to have his warriors finish the Jedi Master themselves. The three Death Watch members each fired a missile from their jet packs, but Kenobi and Satine retreated by jumping through a mine-shaft to avoid the explosives. The three warriors inspected the damage and told Vizsla if they can still go after Kenobi. However, Vizsla ordered them not to, since there wasn't time, but noted they will catch up with the Duchess soon enough.

**Attempt on Satine's Life**

Vizsla conspired with Mandalorian Senator Tal Merrik to capture Kryze during her journey to Coruscant, where she intended to plead her case directly to the Galactic Senate, but Merrik was defeated before he could complete his assignment. Amassing an army of Death Watch troops on Concordia in preparation to take over Mandalore, Vizsla was forced to wait until his and Dooku's plot to turn Mandalore against the Republic was completed. Vizsla dispatched an assassin to Coruscant to kill Kryze, as her death would remove the opposition to the Senate's upcoming vote to have Republic troops occupy Mandalore—an occupation which would allow Death Watch to gain the support of Mandalore's populace and "liberate" them from the Republic. However, the assassin failed to murder Kryze, and the plot itself fell through, with the Senate voting against occupying Mandalore. With this turn of events, Vizsla was forced to postpone his attack on Mandalore, as his forces would be unable to hold the planet without its people's support.
### Season 4

**Confrontation on Carlac**

Following the aborted takeover of Mandalore, Vizsla then met with Dooku. During this meeting, Vizsla was betrayed by Dooku and scarred across his cheek by the Sith Lord's lightsaber. Vizsla then broke ties with the Confederacy and vowed to kill Dooku. Vizsla and Death Watch maintained a small base on the world Carlac, but the once strictly regulated army now was merely a group of ruthless outlaws. where they committed dishonorable acts against its native species, the Ming Po, forcing their women to work for them. Eventually Lux Bonteri, in an attempt take revenge against Count Dooku for death of his mother, Senator Mina Bonteri, allied himself with Vizsla. Death Watch used Bonteri to attempt to find and assassinate Dooku, but were unsuccessful. When Bonteri traveled to Carlac to meet with them, he brought along the Jedi Ahsoka Tano, who was disguised as Bonteri's close friend.

Shortly after meeting with Bonteri, Vizsla was then confronted by the Ming Po elders who had demanded the return of their women. At first they complied, but Vizsla showed his true colours the next day when he attempted to murder the Ming Po chieftain with the Darksaber, caring not when the man's innocent granddaughter threw herself in front of him and took the blow instead, before ordering the village burned to the ground. However, Tano revealed herself as a Jedi, taking out several Death Watch members before being subdued. Upon return to Death Watch camp, Vizsla expressed his disappointment in Bonteri for bringing a Jedi. Despite Bonteri convincing him to spare her, Vizsla was adamant to execute her. Bonteri accused Vizsla of murderous dishonor before the latter retorted to the young boy that he was no different with his bloodlust towards Count Dooku. Bonteri insisted that he wanted justice, not revenge, yet Vizsla would not have it. Vizsla then stated like Bonteri wanting justice for his mother's death, Vizsla would kill Tano for the Jedi Order's supposed crimes against Mandalore, which in Vizsla's eyes, was justice as well. Before Vizsla could kill Tano, R2-D2 entered the hut, creating a distraction and arming Tano with her lightsabers. After freeing herself and decapitating four Death Watch soldiers who restrained her, she then dueled Vizsla for a time; but after the Jedi's saber caused Vizsla's jetpack to explode, she and Bonteri escaped.
### Season 5

**Joining the Shadow Collective**

Following the events on Carlac, Vizsla and Death Watch established a camp on the swamp moon Zanbar, and once again set about plotting the downfall of Duchess Satine, and the restoration of the Mandalorian's warrior creed. Later, Vizsla and his soldiers came across an escape pod lost in deep space which held the stranded former Sith Lord Maul and his brother Savage Opress. His second-in-command, Bo-Katan Kryze, suggested they kill the two, but Vizsla decided to spare them and bring them back to Zanbar. Later, when Vizsla spoke with Maul, he realized they harbored a common hatred of Obi-Wan Kenobi for his actions against them, they planned on having their revenge after their planned conquest of Mandalore. Gathering an army of criminals including the Hutts, the Pykes, and the Black Sun, the two became the joint leaders of the *Shadow Collective*. However, once Maul revealed his intention to build a criminal empire, Vizsla secretly planned to betray his Sith allies after conquering Mandalore.

**Death**

The criminal alliance attacked the capital, allowing Death Watch to act as heroes to a desperate population after the Duchess's forces failed to stop the criminals. With the support of the Mandalorian people, Vizsla ousted Satine and appointed himself Prime Minister, also assuming the title of Mand'alor. When Maul proposed to spread their success to the other neutral systems, Vizsla informed him that he had no intention of doing so, and that he would still honor their agreement about removing Kenobi, but that Maul would have to submit to his rule. Vizsla then had his warriors imprison Maul and Opress. After the Sith managed to escape, Maul challenged Vizsla to a duel to determine the true ruler of the Mandalorians. Vizsla was skilled, but eventually bested by Maul. After a long and difficult duel, Vizsla accepted his defeat and told Maul that like he said, only the strongest should rule, and closed his eyes as Maul publicly beheaded him in front of Death Watch with his own Darksaber, before claiming his position as leader of Death Watch.
## Appearances

* The Clone Wars

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