QUOTE(Callidus Thorn @ May 23 2014, 09:43 PM)
QUOTE(Darkness Eternal @ May 23 2014, 08:08 PM)
Favorite characters: Darth Maul, Darth Vader, Darth Sidious, Darth Tyranus, Darth Bane( thank you sir for helping the Sith.survive), Darth.Zannah. I sort of liked Darth Revan but he was corrupted by the lightside after being manipulated and brain-wiped by the Jedi. Starkiller was interesting but he, like Revan, turned evil.
Vader, Sidious, Tyrannus, and Bane, I get. They were all good characters, and I
love the books focusing on Bane. But Maul? Does he get a pass just for being a Sith? That guy was a major letdown as Sith go. Not only was he an utterly one-dimensional character (one of the worst parts of the phantom menace was that flop of a villain compared to Vader) but he then got himself sliced clean in two by a padawan.
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"Corrupted be the light side", "turned evil", are you trying to run the old "Jedi are really the evil ones, and the Sith are the righteous" argument?
Because if so I'm more than happy to throw down about that
The movies didn't do Darth Maul any true justice on his character. He was a mysterious, dark-clothed Sith we knew nothing about. All we knew about this guy is that he's an alien, he wants revenge against the Jedi, he's a Sith Lord and he's apprentice to Sidious. The EU did give him more justice than the movies ever did, and I started liking him much more since we got more story on him. I guess, though, that EU is no longer canon so we have to stick with what we saw of him in the Clone Wars(I hate you, Dave Filoni).
The fact that he got sliced in two by a padawan was due to his overconfidence as a Sith Lord. His ego, as many Sith, is way high. Hell, Sidious warned him that he's not a one-being army and that if he keeps being cocky he's going to end up getting more than scratch(he told this to him after he got wounded after butchering a bunch of Black Sun criminals all over the Outer Rim territories). As far as I remembered, Maul, a Sith
apprentice killed Jedi master( a skilled Jedi MASTER) Qui-Gon Jinn, and then was able to overpower Obi-Wan and leave him hanging for his life. Instead of killing the padawan, Maul taunted him. That's what got him sliced in half, his arrogance.
Darth Vader was the same deal. His arrogance and believing he had the ultimate power resulted in his losing of his limbs and suffering fourth-degree burns and encasing him in a metal suit of a prison his entire life. Darth Tyranus was overconfident as well in his duel against Anakin Skywalker. He believed he had the upper hand and could use Dun Moch(a technique used to lower an opponent's self esteem via psychological warfare) and he lost his head when it backfired on him.
Hmm, on Revan:
The whole Sith being good and Jedi evil is more of a tease I like to use through my own point of view. Like I said, going by the books, the Sith believe the Jedi are corrupt, hypocritical, and to some extent, evil(Darth Vader, and Darth Tyranus referring Yoda to a "shriveled and evil green potato). I just believe it is a matter of perspective, and everything else is just relative.
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