Maul

* Live-Action
* Animated

### Goal

Kill Qui-Gon Jinn once and for all.Take over the Mandalorian Death Watch Organization.Assemble a powerful army of crime lords and gangsters in order to overthrow the Duchess Satine and seize control over Mandalore (all succeeded).
Destroy the Jedi Order and the Empire.
Turn Ezra Bridger to the dark side and make him his new apprentice.

### Family

* Talzin (mother)
* Savage Opress (younger brother)

### Allies

Palpatine (formerly), Cad Bane, Nute Gunray (formerly), Pre Vizsla (formerly), Bo-Katan Kryze (formerly), Jabba the Hutt (briefly), Gar Saxon, Rook Kast, Almec, Dryden Vos, Qi'ra, Ezra Bridger

### Enemies

Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, C-3PO, R2-D2, Jar Jar Binks, Padmé Amidala, Asajj Ventress, Darth Sidious, Count Dooku, Hondo Ohnaka, Pre Vizsla, Bo-Katan Kryze, General Grievous, Seventh Sister, Fifth Brother, Eighth Brother, Anakin Skywalker, Tobias Beckett. Ahsoka Tano, Kanan Jarrus, Hera Syndulla, Garazeb Orrelios, Sabine Wren, C1-10P, Satine Kryze

### Apprentice

* Savage Opress (Sith Apprentice)
* Ezra Bridger (informal dark-side student, temporarily)

### Affiliation

* Sith(formerly)
* Trade Federation  (formerly)
* Cad Bane's group  (formerly)
* Death Watch  (temporarily)
* Shadow Collective(formerly)
* Crimson Dawn(formerly)

### Paraphernalia

* Darth Maul's lightsaber
* Maul's lightsaber
* Darksaber
* Bloodfin
* Scimitar
* Goji-DF
* Inquisitor TIE fighter
* Nightbrother (Gauntlet fighter)

### Fate

Killed in a duel between himself and Obi-Wan

**Maul** (formerly known as Darth Maul) is a major antagonist in the Star Wars franchise. He was the former Sith apprentice of Darth Sidious and a master manipulator and Dark side Force user. Maul was the son of Mother Talzin, matriarch of the Nightsisters and brother and Master of Savage Opress.

## Biography

### Early Life

The boy who would become Darth Maul was born on the planet, Dathomir, to Mother Talzin and had two brothers, Feral and Savage Opress. As a Dathomirian, Maul and his brothers were Nightbrothers, a group of males who were subservient to the Nightsisters). He and his brother, Savage, were given their tattoos before their first birthday. While still young, Maul's mother was made an ally of Darth Sidious (Sith identity for Sheev Palpatine). However, Sidious noticed that Maul was highly sensitive to the Force Seeing great potential in the boy, Sidious abducted Maul to become his Sith apprentice, earning Talzin's resentment and hatred for the Sith.

Earning the title "Darth Maul," he became highly skilled in lightsaber dueling and gaining a strong hatred for the Jedi.

### Invasion of Naboo

After two Jedi, Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi prevented the Trade Federation to make their invasion of Naboo legal by rescuing Queen Amidala, Nute Gunray and his allies failed in searching for her. Impatient, Sidious dispatched Maul to retrieve the missing ship that Queen Amidala was on and capture her and to kill the two Jedi. Maul traced a distress call from the governor, Sio Bibble, which the queen received on Tatooine. Maul found the Jedi on the desert planet. Finally tracing the Jedi as they were about to leave the planet, he subsequently encountered and ambushed the Jedi Master, Qui-Gon Jinn while he and the boy, Anakin Skywalker. Qui-Gon yelled at Anakin to run while he faced off Darth Maul. However, before Maul could finish his opponent off, Qui-Gon was saved by his allies, where he was attended to by Obi-Wan and Anakin and revealed that Maul was highly skilled in lightsaber. This caused Darth Maul to fume with rage and anger. Because of this, Maul had revealed himself and his Master to the Jedi. However, Maul had taken great pride within it.

After the Jedi returned to Coruscant, the Jedi were surprised that the Sith had returned due to them being extinct for more than 2000 years. At that moment, Queen Amidala and her forces returned to Naboo to fight the Trade Federation. Sidious sent Maul to fight the Jedi, but warned him to be mindful. When Qui-Gon and his apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi, entered the ship hangar where Nut Gunray was hiding and the Jedi, queen and Republic Officers had taken the Droids out, Maul was on the other side of the door and drew out his double-bladed lightsaber. He engaged Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan in a three-way duel. It was long and hard fight between the three. During the long battle, Maul chased the Jedi into the reactor room, where Obi-Wan was separated from his master and Maul's duel by the laser walls in the security hall. Maul had proceeded in killing Qui-Gon rather quickly. Enraged, Obi-Wan attacked Maul, who was caught off guard. Because of the loss of his Master, Obi Wan was able to slice Maul's saber in half. With only one saber left, Maul knocked Obi-Wan into an air shaft while king the Padawan's weapon into the pit. While Obi-Wan hang for his life, he used the Force, calling his master's lightsaber into his hand.

Obi-Wan took his master's saber and cut Maul in two halves, causing Maul to fall into the air shaft. Both Palpatine and the Jedi thought Maul had perished on Naboo.

### Revenge Against Obi-Wan

Nearly thirteen years later, Maul survived and used the Force to grab onto an air vent. His mutilated body was eventually dumped on the junk planet of Lotho Minor.  He managed to replace his legs with a six-limbed apparatus that allowed him to walk again. During his exile, he made a bargain with a sentient sneaky Anacondan called Morley, who agreed to bring Maul food in return for his leftovers. Maul's mind became mutilated, with his thirst for revenge against Kenobi still causing him to live. He began living in the bowels of Lotho Minor.

### Siege of Mandalore

Eventually, Maul was freed by his Mandalorian allies and took back Mandalore. During this time, the republic forces occupied Mandalore, led by Bo-Katan Kryze and Ahsoka Tano. During the Siege, Ahsoka and Maul engaged in a duel. However, she managed to trap him ina  ray shield, but before she could apprehend Maul, Order 66 was enacted and Ahsoka rushed off to rescue Rex. They both faked their deaths by Ahsoka leaving her two lightsabers before parting ways.  Meanwhile, Maul fled to Malachor.

### Exile on Malachor

Disguised as "Old Master," Maul met Jedi Padawan Ezra Bridger after he was separated from his companions Kanan Jarrus and Ahsoka Tano, he crosses paths with Darth Maul, who is revealed to have been staying in Malachor since his ship crash-landed. Ezra remains wary of the stranger and threatens him with his lightsaber. Maul insists he is no threat to the teenager and reveals that he is at Malachor for knowledge, just like Ezra and his friends have come here for. He agrees to help Ezra get out of the lower levels of Malachor if he shows the location of the prize that will know how to defeat the Sith. However, the young padawan refused to trust this mysterious figure, and to change it, Maul told Ezra to call him "Old Master" as Ezra told him to call him "Jabba." During their conversation and way to the Sith Holocron, Ezra learns that Maul was once a force-wielder and accuses him of being a Sith until the Zabrak recalls the Sith taking his mother and killed his brother and used him as a weapon and cast him aside., which causes Ezra to relate how he lost his parents and family to the Empire as well.

    They came across a stone-closed door and opened them with the Force due to the Rule of Two established by the Sith Order. It was there that Ezra revealed what his real name was and that he is in fact called Maul. They find the Sith Holocron, but at a further distance; Ezra has Maul throw him with the Force to get the holocron. He retrieves it but Maul orders for Ezra to jump nonetheless even though the temple was collapsing. Ezra nearly falls to his death but Maul force-grips the teenager and grabs the Holocron. While it appears he is about to let Ezra fall to his doom, Maul brings him back up as well. The two managed to get out of the chasm, coming to the aid of Ahsoka and Kanan and they fend off the Seventh Sister, the Fifth Brother and the Eighth Brother, causing them to retreat.

    Kanan and Ahsoka were reluctant to trust Maul due to his past actions against the Jedi, but Ezra convinced them they all had to work together in order to succeed in defeating the Inquisitors and learning more about destroying the Sith. Maul and Ezra separate from Ahsoka and Kanan while taking the Sith holocron. Maul attempted to sow the heated and strained relationship between master and apprentice by seeing Ezra's potential Force abilities. They are suddenly attacked by the Seventh Sister, who engages in a duel with the Jedi Padawan and the former Sith lord. As Ezra fought the Inquisitor, Maul told the teenager to let his emotions fuel his duel with the Sister. Maul overpowered the Seveth Sister by Force-gripping the defenseless Inquisitor and goaded Ezra to strike her down. However, the boy hesitated, unable to kill a defenseless opponent. Maul shared no such qualms and took his Lightsaber and decapitated the Seventh Sister. He scolded Ezra, telling the teen Jedi that if hesitated like that again, it would cost him the lives of himself and his f

riends.

Maul sent Ezra the rest of the way to use the holocron to activate the temple while he went and helped Kanan and Ahsoka kill the Fifth and Eighth brother. However, Maul ultimately betrayed his Jedi allies, blinding Kanan and revealed that Ezra was going to unknowingly activate the Sith weapon which Maul intended to use a weapon to crush the Sith and the Jedi and that he intended take the boy as an apprentice, During the duel, he taunted Ahsoka of their last duel on Mandalore and taking Ezra away from Kanan. However, Maul overestimated his blinded opponent, who ultimately bested Maul in combat and set him falling off of the cliff. However, he survived and escaped Malachor on the Eighth Brother's TIE fighter.

### Tormenting Ezra Bridger and the Ghost Crew

Six months later, Maul resurfaced. but this time, decided to torment Ezra and his friends. He tortured one of the rebel commanders into coercing him to reveal the Crew's whereabouts, causing Maul to kdinap Ezra and Kanan Jarrus's crew and held them hostage. Maul contacted the two Jedi. Infuiriated, Ezra demanded to know what Maul wanted after betraying him on Malachor. Mauloffered to spare them in exchange for the Sith holocron he and Ezra retrieved on Malachor. Ezra and Kanan agreed, promising ot deliver it in exchange for their friends' safety. Maula greed to their terms but also asked for Kanan's Jedi holocron. During his time on the *Ghost*, Maul saw the ship was more than just Ezra's ship, but also his and the crew's home. He tricked Hera into showing him around the ship in order to find Kanan's holocron. Shown all the crew's room, when he appeared at Kanan's cabin, he successfully identified it it as a Jedi's headquarters and attempted to get Hera to show him where the holocron was, but the Twi'lek woman lied and pretended not to know anything about him until Maul learned thorugh probing through Hera's mind that she knew Kanan's real name was Caleb Dume and therefore, knew more about him what she let on. Probing through her mind, Maul learned how the Ghost crew met Ezra, how it was Hera's idea to recruit him and that where Ezra found the Holocron when he stole it. Maul later attempted to open the Holocron, howeve,r it proved difficult to open because he could not use the Light side of the Force or think like a Jedi. He later found the Ghost crew escaped and attempted to take the Ghost crew back from Maul. However, the Former sith Lord overpowered the crew and threatened to kill them when their usefulness was over.

Shortly after Kanan and Ezra's arrival, Maul saw Ezra had found the Sith Holocron and told Mandalorian guide droids he re-programmed to lead him to the command center and pretended to lead the Jedi Knight to where their friends were supposedly taken until he shoved the Jedi out of airlock in another attempt to make Ezra his apprentice and ordered the droids guarding Ezra to kill Hera, Sabine and Zeb. They combined Kanan's Jedi and the Malachor Holocron together to find the answers they saught. However, Ezra broke their connection when Kanan called for Ezra to look away before it was too late. The boy looked away, ultimately cutting off his and Maul's connection to the Sith holocron. However, the brief connection caused Maul to realize that Kenobi was still alive and left in a hurry, leaving behind the Ghost crew.

## Powers and abilities

* **Power of the Force:**Since he was younger, Darth Maul had a very powerful connection to the Force, solely one of the reasons Darth Sidious had abducted Maul when he was a child. With training from Palpatine, Maul drew from the Dark side of the Force.
	+ **Telekinesis:**Ability to move things
		- **Force Pull:**A form of telekinesis. Ability to pull individuals/items towards the Force user.
		- **Force Choke:**Ability to choke people with the Force, usually to kill or weaken the victim.
		- **Force Grip:** Ability to grip individuals/objects into the air.
		- **Force Throw:**Ability to throw items and individuals to a designated target. Performed by Maul when he threw Ezra into the air to the sith holocron.
		- **Saber Throwing: To** throw their lightsabers and gide them telekinetically towards their opponents.Maul uses it when he killed the Seventh Sister
	+ **Telepathy:**The ability to mentally communicate with certain individuals.
		- **Mind Probe:**Ability to allow a Force-user to sense or probe through the minds of others. However, it is ineffective against those strong with the those with the Force could resist. Maul used it when he was probing through the minds of Hera Syndulla and the clone trooper Jesse
	+ **Force Sense:**Ability to sense another being's emotions, presence (such as presence of darkness).
	+ **Force Vision:**Ability to have visions of the past, present and future. However, images are not always clear and can sometimes happen against the Force user's will.
	+ **Force Jump:**To use the Force to jump at greater distances.
	+ **Force Dash:**The ability to move through amazing speeds.
	+ **Force Rage:** Maul utilized Force Rage to channel his anger to increase his speed, strength, endurance and ferocity.
	+ **Force Bond:**Because Maul and Ezra entered a ritual that combined the SIth Holocrons, they ultimately created a Force bond due to Kanan Jarrus urging Ezra to look away from the Sith Holocron. The incident connected Maul and Ezra together, showing them bonded in the Force.
* **Dathomirian Magic:**Being the son of Mother Talzin of the Nightsisters clan and a Zabrak of Dathomir, Maul was versed in a little bit of Dathomirian Magic. He accessed it through the dark side of the Force and used their magicks  to make magic and had knowledge that there was an ultiamte price when using the Nightsisters' magic.
	+ **Potioncraft:** Part of the Dathomirian magic included the ability to make potions. He created a potion that would temporarily connect his mind with Ezra Bridger

* **Lightsaber Skills**: Maul was a dangerous and highly skilled lightsaber duelist. However, he was aware of his limitations, such as confronting Darth Vader to be a foolish act. He was not afraid of confronting the Inquisitors, who saw that they were not a match for him and caused them to retreat.

* **Skilled Pilot:**

* **Indomitable Will/High Tolerance For Pain/Expert Survivalist:**

* **Genius-Level Intellect/Master Tactician/Manipulator/Leader:**

## **Relationships**

**Family**

* Mother Talzin - Mother

**Allies**

**Enemies**

## References

1. ↑  *Star Wars: The Clone Wars* – "Revival"
2. ↑ Filoni, Dave. “Twilight of the Apprentice.” *Star Wars Rebels*, season 2, episode 20-21, Disney XD, 30 Mar. 2016.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace
4. ↑ *Darth Maul 2*
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1  *Star Wars: The Clone Wars* – "Eminence"
6. ↑ *Solo: A Star Wars Story*