Darth Maul's Sith Replacement Would Have Killed the Prequel Trilogy
The Star Wars character known as Darth Maul is the badass apprentice of the villainous Palpatine, but in a Star Wars Legends comic book story set just before the events of the prequel trilogy, Maul’s secret Sith replacement would have made those movies far less interesting to experience.
As seen in 2005’s Star Wars Tales #24, the first story of the issue titled “Marked,” by Rob Williams and Cully Hamner, focuses on Darth Maul as he's sent on a mission for his master, the Sith Lord named Darth Sidious. Set before the inciting incident of Star Wars — Episode I: The Phantom Menace, this tale sees Darth Maul just before he becomes the eventually recurring character fans know and love from the movie.
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Not only sorting through some troubling thoughts in his mind and obsessing over the idea of how “fear leads to suffering,” Maul is also wrestling with memories from the first time he met Palpatine as a young boy. Thinking over these events as he heads out on his mission, it’s revealed that Maul is on the hunt for a powerful Dark Side user that Palpatine has sensed — a being that he wants eliminated so that the Jedi aren't prompted out of their complacency.
Soon arriving on location, Darth Maul comes across the Dark Side user in question: a crab monster with boyband hair and a weird flesh-mustache named Silus, a being who doesn’t exactly scream of potential-Sith material. Tasked by Palpatine to then fight to the death to secure the apprenticeship role, Maul beats Silus, but not before the implications of Maul losing to this laughable adversary flash across fans’ minds as something that could have turned disastrous for the prequel trilogy.
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