Maul

* TCW
* Rebels

**Maul**, fomerly known as **Darth Maul**, is a main character and an antagonist in *Star Wars: The Clone Wars* and *Star Wars Rebels*. He was a Dathomirian Zabrak Sith lord, the first known apprentice of Darth Sidious and can also be considered as Obi-Wan Kenobi's archenemy.

He served as a the primary antagonist of the Clone Wars its fifth and seventh season.

## **Overview**

Maul was taken by Sidious from his home and trained to be a weapon fueled by the dark side of the The Force. In 32 BBY, he was bisected by Obi-Wan Kenobi during the Trade Federation invasion of Naboo and presumed dead after killing Obi-Wan's master, Qui-Gon Jinn. However, despite his bisection, Maul had survived his encounter with Kenobi and escaped to Lotho Minor, where he remained for the next ten years in exile, losing his memories as he was slowly driven mad. Years later, Savage Opress would come to locate him, and together they caused havoc across the galaxy, including Mandalore.

After Savage's death at the hands of his former master, Sidious, he returned to Mandalore. There he engaged with the former Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano and fled after Order 66 was activated in the Clone Troopers. After the Galactic Empire rose to power, Maul became stranded on the ancient Sith world of Malachor until he was found by young rebel and Jedi apprentice, Ezra Bridger, who he sought as his apprentice. After killing the Inquisitors and blinding Ezra's master Kanan Jarrus, Maul escaped Malachor in search of Obi-Wan, in the hopes of finishing his longtime rival once and for all. After tracking Kenobi to Tatooine, Maul engaged him in a brief Lightsaber duel, which resulted in Maul's demise. Before dying, Maul was comforted with the knowledge that Kenobi was protecting the Chosen One, finding some peace in the idea that the end of the Sith was at hand and that he would be avenged.

## **Storyline**

* The Clone Wars
* Rebels

### Season 3

**Still Alive**

After Savage Opress returned to Dathomir, he told Mother Talzin he would not be strong enough to defeat *them all*; Mother Talzin told him he would be and then told him that he had another brother other than Feral named Maul. Mother Talzin had reason to believe Maul was alive; she gave Savage a Nightsisters' talisman necklace to help him find his brother. Mother Talzin then sent Savage to search for his long-lost brother Darth Maul who would train him; she said that Maul was living in the Outer Rim. Talzin told Savage that both he and his brother had important destinies to fulfill. When looking into a crystal ball, Talzin saw Maul's face.

### Season 4

**Found on Lotho Minor**

Guided by the Nightsisters' talisman necklace, Opress traveled to the Outer Rim planet of Lotho Minor, where he found his brother's dwelling among the planet's caves. But upon seeing him, Maul attacked his brother and defeated him, not recognizing him as he still did not possess a majority of his memories. But when the talisman came into Maul's presence, Savage realized it was indeed his brother and, with this, Maul fled back to his cave. Afterwards, Opress questioned his brother what he had been through in the past years of his exile. But Maul's mind had become so twisted, what Kenobi did to him was all he could recollect. But his need for revenge fueled his soul to continue.
**Revenge on Kenobi**

Savage proceeded to take his brother aboard the Turtle tanker and return to Dathomir, where he met with Mother Talzin to have Maul treated. Talzin lured Maul to her lair, where she began to restore him to his original self, creating for him new cybernetic legs from pieces of destroyed Super Battle Droids. Once the transformation was complete, she awoke Maul and departed. Savage greeted his brother once more as Maul became accustomed to his new legs. Maul informed him of his apprenticeship to Darth Sidious and how he was robbed of his destiny of great powers by Obi-Wan Kenobi. Before leaving the planet with his long-lost brother, Opress assured him he would have his revenge on the Jedi.

Maul lured Obi-Wan to Iridonia after having slaughtered the civilians. Obi-Wan didn't recognize him at first, but Maul spoke of him killing his master and how Obi-Wan left him dead on Naboo. Maul expressed his hatred to Obi-Wan, and it was because of his hatred towards him he survived. Both Savage and Maul then knocked out Kenobi. He then brought the Jedi aboard the Turtle tanker, where they began mercilessly beating him to the point of unconsciousness. Maul then stated he would ensure Kenobi would suffer as he had in past years. However, Sith Acolyte Asajj Ventress infiltrated the ship and led Maul and Savage away. She then returned to aid Kenobi. Maul and Opress engaged them both in a lightsaber duel, Kenobi armed with one of Ventress's lightsabers. When Opress temporarily overpowered Ventress, Kenobi retrieved his lightsaber from Maul and rearmed her with her other one. During his duel with Kenobi, Maul taunted the Jedi, reminding him of how he was powerless to save his master. This caused Kenobi to become unbalanced, and he was overwhelmed once again. Conceding that they were outmatched, Kenobi told Ventress to make for the cockpit escape pod. In doing this, they only narrowly escaped the Sith brothers. Despite Kenobi's escape, Maul employed patience and suggested to his brother that he do the same. Opress warned him that with the knowledge of his return, the Jedi would pursue them both, which was precisely what Maul anticipated.
### Season 5

**Havoc in the Outer Rim**

After Kenobi and Ventress escaped the two brothers, Maul continued to wreak havoc in the Outer Rim. After slaying a majority of a Jedi task force organized to catch himself and Opress, Maul then raided an InterGalactic Banking Clanspace station for the wealth it contained. The brothers then used this wealth to sway Weequay pirate Jiro and others of Hondo Ohnaka's pirate gang to pledge themselves to serve Maul. Setting a course towards Hondo's base of operations Maul and Savage led an assault against Hondo's pirates. The brothers were interrupted by Jedi Masters Obi-Wan Kenobi and Adi Gallia. After Savage killed Gallia, the brothers had forced Kenobi to retreat along with Hondo's remaining forces into the ruins of the pirate compound. Kenobi and the pirates split up, drawing the brother's attention and the rebel pirates to an ambush. Kenobi alone had engaged the brothers, weakening Savage until a lightsaber deadlock had occurred between the three that cost Savage his left arm in the process. Enraged by this action, Maul released a powerful force wave at Kenobi, which injured him and caused the area to cave in completely. Realizing his plan had failed and with Savage severely weakened, Maul took his brother and retreated.
When they reached the outside of the compound, they ordered Jiro to gather his men to prepare to flee. But his pirates had betrayed him and again returned their allegiance to Ohnaka instead. Hondo knew of the riches in Maul's stolen cargo ship and ordered his men to open fire on the brothers and take their wealth. Maul and Opress fled to their ship while being pursued by the pirates. In the ensuing chase, Maul had his left cybernetic leg blasted off, and the two were barely able to reach the ship. However, before they could take off, one of Hondo's pirates fired a rocket into the ship's left engine, resulting in the ship's plummet towards the surface. Maul and Savage narrowly escaped the crash in the ship's escape pod.

**Forming the Shadow Collective**

Maul and Savage could not pilot their escape pod to any nearby system after fleeing Florrum and soon fell unconscious as its power drained. However, they were soon discovered by the rogue Mandalorian group, Death Watch, led by Pre Vizsla, who boarded the pod and, on Vizsla's intent, transported to their base on Zanbar. There they treated the brothers as Maul regained consciousness. When he regained consciousness, Pre Vizsla asked who he was. Maul was going to attack, but one of Vizsla's companions pointed a blaster at Savage Opress. He explained that they were Sith but did not work for Count Dooku. When Vizsla asked what happened to their ship, Maul said that Kenobi destroyed it. Maul then agreed to help them reclaim Mandalore from duchess Satine Kryze.

They traveled to Mustafar to make a treaty with the Black Sun for supplies. When they refused to help, Maul signaled for Savage to throw his lightsaber, decapitating the leaders in one strike. The remaining leader agreed that "after careful consideration," they would join them. While regathering on Zanbar, another crime family joined them, The Pykes. Their next and final target were the Hutts, on Nal Hutta. However, the bounty hunters there put up a good fight, and after the battle, they traveled to Tatooine, finally allying with the Hutts as Maul convinced Jabba the Hutt to join his *Shadow Collective*. In the aftermath of the fight, Maul finally revealed the rest of his plan to Vizsla, which was to rule a crime family, using Mandalore to do it.
**Ruling Mandalore**

Death Watch, Maul, and Savage finally moved in to reclaim Mandalore. Maul devised a plot in which he, Savage, the Black Sun, and the Pykes would attack multiple targets around the capital city, and then Death Watch would arrive and stop the criminals, being viewed as heroes. After the strategy had been executed without flaw, Vizsla revealed to Maul that he had no interest in the other end of the bargain and threw Maul in prison with Savage. Maul then escaped prison and appointed Almec as the new Prime Minister, and had a very intense duel with Vizsla to claim the throne. After killing him, he claimed Vizsla's Darksaber. Some members of Death Watch joined Maul, while Bo-Katan and other loyal members rebelled and fled.

Maul allowed duchess Satine and members of the original Death Watch to escape to get a message out to the Jedi Temple, intended for Kenobi. Shortly after her message, she was recaptured. After Kenobi received the message, even though Mandalore was neutral, he borrowed Anakin Skywalker's freighter, the *Twilight*, and traveled to Mandalore to rescue the Duchess. Disguised as a Mandalorian Super Commando, Kenobi managed to free Satine from her cell and bring her aboard the ship, but the pursuing commandos fatally damaged and destroyed the *Twilight*.

Having narrowly escaped the crash, Kenobi and Kryze were taken into custody by Maul and Savage. At his mercy, Kenobi attempted to reason with Maul, knowing that the Nightsisters, not himself decided to join the Dark Side. However, this only fueled Maul's anger. In the act of vengeance on Kenobi, he forced him to witness Satine's murder by stabbing her with the Darksaber and left him in a cell to rot in his anguish. However, Kenobi was able to escape off-world with the aid of Satine's sister, Bo-Katan, and her Nite Owl renegades.

During the battle, Maul's former master, Darth Sidious, arrived in person to deal with them. While Maul claimed he built his empire in the hope of returning to his side, Sidious saw past his deception with the sight of Opress and began to duel the two brothers. With their combined strength, Maul and Opress were able to stand against him for only a short time until Sidious knocked Maul back and used his dual lightsabers to stab Savage in the abdomen. Maul's anger rose as his brother died and as Sidious reminded him that there could only be two Sith at a given time and that he had been replaced. Maul used both his lightsaber and the Darksaber simultaneously to duel him, but Sidious still overpowered him and tortured him with Force Lightning. The former Sith Lord begged his master for mercy, but Sidious continued the onslaught, subduing but not killing him, as he still had uses for the fallen apprentice.
### Season 7

**Siege of Mandalore**

In the final days of the Clone Wars, Ahsoka Tano and Bo-Katan Kryze contacted the Republic about Maul's machinations. As a result, Tano and Kryze led a battalion of clone troopers, led by Commander Rex and Kryze's Mandalorian warriors. Maul encountered Tano not long after the siege of Mandalore began, noting that he had been expecting Obi-Wan Kenobi to come. Maul briefly mentioned Darth Sidious, whom he escaped, to Tano before escaping from her and her clone troopers. Maul sent his lieutenants in the Shadow Collective into hiding, noting that the Galactic Empire was about to be formed. He also interrogated a clone trooper named Jesse, using the Force to extract information from his mind. Maul would encounter Tano again in the Mandalorian throne room. He informed her about the impending rise of the Empire and that Sidious seeks to make Anakin Skywalker, Tano's Jedi Master, his Sith apprentice. Maul further stated that he engineered the conflict on Mandalore to lure Kenobi and Skywalker there to kill the latter and offered Tano the chance to join him to stop Sidious. Tano refused to believe that Skywalker would ever betray the Jedi and dueled Maul to the scaffolding above the throne room. Tano was able to defeat and capture Maul, preventing him from falling to his death. Maul was then imprisoned in a Mandalorian box meant to hold Force users and placed on a Republic cruiser to be taken back to Coruscant and be tried for his crimes.
**Order 66**

As Maul was being transported back to Coruscant, he and Tano sensed Skywalker's fall to the Dark Side of the Force and the execution of Order 66. Maul was nearly executed by two clones guarding him, but they were stopped by Tano, who escaped being executed by her troops. After Tano freed him from his prison, Maul explained that while he knew of Sidious's plan to destroy the Jedi Order, he did not know how he'd intended to do it, commenting on the brilliance of using the Jedi's army against them. Maul then offered to ally with Tano, but Tano refused, instead sending him unarmed to distract the clone troopers pursuing her. Maul proceeded to wreak havoc across the ship, killing several clones with only the Force before damaging the ship's hyperdrive, causing it to crash on a small moon. In the chaos, Maul hijacked a shuttle and escaped, despite Tano's efforts to stop him. Maul then went into hiding as the Empire was fully established, and the Jedi, as the galaxy knew it, was all but wiped out.
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## **Appearances**

* The Clone Wars
* Rebels

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