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Solo : A Star Wars Storyfeatures a major cameo from a popularStar Warscharacter that no one saw coming - Darth Maul ! For years it was think the Sith Lord snuff it when Obi - Wan Kenobi cut him in one-half and his bisect body tumbles down that reactor shaft on Naboo - yetMaul lives , but how ?
First present inEpisode I : The Phantom Menace , Darth Maul is the learner of Darth Sidious ( AKA the soon - to - be Emperor Palpatine ) and strikes an imposing flesh with his reddened cutis , bleak tattoos , horn , and billowing , black robe . Portrayed by actor and martial artist , Ray Park(with Peter Serafinowicz voice his three line of duologue ) , Maul ’s big moment in that moving picture comes when he duel with Qui - Gon Jinn and Kenobi . The three - way duel inThe Phantom Menace ’s final act is for many the biggest highlight of the film and it ’s thanks in big part to Maul ’s flashy , acrobatic fighting style and his now iconic two-fold - bladed lightsaber ( not too mention John William ’s fantastic grading of " Duel of the Fates " ) .
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Maul belt down Qui - Gon in that duel , but Kenobi proves to be more of a challenge , eventually besting and halving Maul . And yet , Maul did n’t become flat asEpisode Iwould have witness think . rather , Maul live and in a string of episodes from the animated series , Star warfare : The Clone Wars , it is break how he survives and what he ’s been doing since that fateful duel on Naboo .
Darth Maul’s Survival Explained
Being lop in one-half by a lightsaber is a serious injury , make no mistake , but due to the very nature of lightsabers , any wound is cauterized just as rapidly as it take place . So in Maul ’s case , though he was cut clear through , most if not all of his vital organs persist within his upper one-half . Beyond that , Maul ’s intense hatred for the Jedi - and Kenobi in particular - fuelled his will to survive , enabling him to expend The Force to pull himself into an air vent and eventually land in a trash container .
Maul ’s mangled body was dumped on the debris planet , Lotho Minor , where he remained for twelve years . There , Maul constructs for himself a set of spider leg to put back those he lost while surviving on whatever local varmint he can find . In clip , the loneliness of deportee force Maul mad , but he never loses sight of what he want most of all - retaliation on Kenobi .
Maul is eventually seek out by his brother , Savage Opress , who is transport by the Mother Talzin of the Nightsisters - a coven of Force - exert witches from Maul ’s home planet of Dathomir - to find Maul and return with him . Upon doing so , Talzin employs her magic to bring around Maul ’s nous and give him a fresh twosome of cybernetic leg . With his mind and body touch on , Maul take Savage on as his apprentice and the two embark on a missionary work to destruct both the Jedi and the Sith .
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Over the grade ofStar Wars : The Clone Wars , Maul had multiple coming upon with Kenobi as well as Sidious and his unexampled apprentice , Darth Tyranus / Count Dooku . He formed an alliance with the Mandalorian terrorist chemical group , Death Watch , and with their drawing card , Pre Vizla , ramp up a alignment of condemnable organizations call the Shadow Collective . Maul even comes to rein Mandalore for a period before he ’s bring down , after which he get away into transportation once again . Maul resurface duringStar Wars Rebelswhere he tries to corrupt the young Jedi , Ezra Bridger and later has one last duel with his greatest resister , Kenobi .
Maul ’s cameo inSolo : A Star Wars Storycomes betweenThe Clone WarsandRebelsin theStar Warstimeline , mean there ’s a whole young chapter to his story being add up . Maul is again build an alliance of criminals , and Lucasfilm is continuing to spring up the character long after his think " demise " .
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