What sucked so much about the prequels was that Maul, Jinn, Dooku and Windu didn’t get nearly as much screen time as needed.

It's why Ahsoka took Maul so seriously in the final arc she saw him as a real threat while the other Jedi were worried about a fake war..

"That's just a politician with way too much superpower." 🤣 That sums up Sidious perfectly.

Absolutely! Maul was taught to be a Sith Warrior while Sidious only ever cared about his power and the Sith legacy was just an afterthought. Maul embodied what a Sith truly was while Sidious only twisted things to fit his own narratives.

Darth Maul is my #1 favorite character in Star Wars and I thank you for giving him the credit he deserves

This is the most convincing argument I’ve heard in years! You have convinced me, sir.

Yeah as a Sith Lord myself, I agree with this 💯

Maul truly broke his chains

2:46 With the Hutts under his command, Maul had already taken over an entire third of the known galaxy! If Maul and the Shadow Collective hadn't gone into hiding and the Republic & the Sith hadn't both attacked him at the same time Maul would've lasted with his syndicate, probably until the Sequels, speaking of which, Maul would've been the main antagonist of those sequels if Disney fully listened to what people wanted.

Maul and his brother's relationship would have been different since they were blood I suppose.

Maul made his own plan while all the other sith in his time followed Plagues grand design let that sink in....

Please make more videos like this.

Sidious was indeed powerful, especially in Legends but I agree that he just didn't have the Sith grindset that Maul does. Maul if nothing else embodied the passion that supposed to embody the Sith whearas Sidious was more of a self centered tyrant who just happened to be a Sith. Not saying his control over the dark side wasn't insane but he just didn't have the same hunger that you can see with Maul. I'm glad you made this video because I never really thought of how Maul's near unhinged obsessions actually made him the truer Sith of the two.

Sidious was just a darkside user pretending to be a Sith .

Very interesting take. I think in terms of upholding the sith order, Maul was the best of his era and the best successor to the Banite line. Regardless of his dedication though, he simply wasn’t as strong as Dooku, Vader, or Sidious so he would never be able to succeed in becoming the foremost sith master. And I think it’s interesting that Maul was the one with the most dedication to the Sith despite only being raised originally as just another throw away assassin.

I've thought this for a while. Good take.

While I do love Sidious, I believe that Maul was the most dedicated to the Sith out of all of the Sith Lords we've seen in the Skywalker Saga. Which makes sense, because Maul was straight up born and raised a Sith. His every thought and action was about unending hate, thirst for revenge, and conquest. But I think Maul went about ruling his empire better than Sidious would have. Ol' Sheev was a brilliant strategist, but he essentially relied on Vader and Thrawn to do his dirty work once the Jedi were all but wiped out. Maul had his goons too, but he was always watching them like a hawk, and his influence was so powerful that even Jabba, the Black Sun and the Pykes were terrified of him. If Maul ended up killing Sidious, taking Vader as his apprentice, conquered the Empire, along with having all of the crime families under his command? He would have been unstoppable.

Good video! I like your perspective

Darth Maul is my favorite character and I 100% agree!

The Dxun Moon was something i heard from Jango Fett when i was a kid. I love Star Wars

First time I actually hear this point of view and.... you're on to something indeed. Interesting take

This is one of my favorite videos about Darth Maul ever This video was put in my favorite folder instantly

From an EU Legends perspective, I also have to say Maul was the last truly great Sith Lord. Krayt’s legacy was a failure, Sidious fell in a hole 20 years after getting galactic dominance in the most avoidable way possible, and Dooku was merely there for housekeeping. Meanwhile Maul is still alive and going by Legacy if we count that Darth Maul Legacy game that had Lucas G-canon involvement. In Legends, Darth Maul was one of the most powerful and highly trained Sith Lords of all time. He took Sidious’ training and evolved it.

bro your so on point maul really is a real sith, no gonna lie you make an excellent point im glad you posted tho thank you and may the force be with you

That's why Sheep "pimp" Palpatine chose Maul in the first place. And Palpatine literally was the only man to challenge the force. That's like challenging God

Great analysis. I agree

I just wish Darth Maul was stronger or at least have some forgotten son or apprentice for a comeback revenge story or something. I guess we got the Force Unleashed with Vaders Apprentice...the dark side is just so much more interesting than the boring Jedi.

Maul’s story was just mad!

Very well articulated. I myself am a follower of Darth maul. The true last sith of the rule of 2.

great video mate

Good vid and love the tats brother 💪

Bro! I wish i could just show this video to every person that says Maul was never a true sith, how he was just a "sith assassin" (well now i can at least mention your video! I never could articulate why but you did an amazing job!) those comments really grind my gears lol

Maul was all about fair combat and taking things with brute force . Not hiding like a coward

If the Sith Empire survived even up to the Clone Wars, Darth Maul would made the rightful heir to the Sith imperial throne.

I enjoyed your analysis. I agree with your assessment.

Hell yeah man I'm with ya maul was the best sith as much as I love Vader he was controlled and took orders from people that was not his master lol

I second this

Sideous claimed maul was no longer a sith. But I reject that claim. I say maul was a true sith lord fr

Dxun!! love the throw back! kotor 2 lets go

hell yea! i clicked the like when it was on 420 😎😎

I agree. Sidious had zero intentions of letting Vader take the reigns of the Sith. Even if Vader would have had them ambition to do so. Maul is one of my favorite characters for sure.

1:59 did we forget the part where sidious solo rolled up on Maul and Savage on mandalore oooooorrr?

I agree with everything you said. But i would also like to add that Palpatine is the natural end point of what the rule of two leads to. If not Palpatine, then later someone else would rise to incredible levels of power due to immense greed and that would fuel that greed even further, to the point when the individual would hoard every Sith teaching for themself, not caring for anything aside from their own gain. Maul is a great example of what Bane must've envisioned a proper Sith Lord must be like, but Palpatine is the inevitability of the Sith order and its eventual ultimate downfall.

Correct, indeed

Darth Sidious never had more than one apprentice at a time. And Inquisitors are not sith, they never learned the sith ways they just used the dark side a bit but it was more a manipulation tactic.

I watched 100% of this video

❤️

Darth maul was definitely a badass character. From his looks to his saber he kicked ass. Qui gon and obi kinda slipped by double teaming him 2 on 1 is isnt fair and just made them look like sloppy cheaters desperate and outshined by maul. How careless qui gon was by getting cocky and fighting without his back up, when they were both attacking him he was still dominant and honestly i dont think maul should have lost, why couldn't they have given him a force power when he was halved letting his top half levitate and force choke and the legs fight too lol, turn into 2 people on h Them. Qui gons injury was instantly cauterized and shouldnt had been fatal either

Honestly, I felt Palpatine got maul and said to himself "do over"

While I love Vader more, I have to agree with you. You bring up some great points. Also, as far as I know Maul didn't kill kids so that's a plus. 😂

darth maul should be called "darth garbidge" he begs for hes mercy in the clone wars and he is a tryhard edgelord.. he is an embaressment to the sith

Maul was the last true Bane era Sith. Palpatine tried to meld Bane's and brotherhood ideologies. In Legends there was a real deep dive into different Sith ideologies and how by Palpatine's time the Rule of Two was all but defunct. It's too bad that the new canon never sought to expound upon this.

Why is that the "right" way? Palpatine largely succeeded with his approach. It seems like you prefer Maul therefore his way is better, which isn't proper justification for an argument. Also I need justification for sidious not caring about the dark side lol. Cool video though, liked

Mabye Maul should be a sith force ghost....Also he trained Qira who is not even force sensitive and she put up a better fight than some Jedi who fought him lol .

Good points. Would have been interesting if Maul had been the big bad in the sequel trilogy like George Lucas had originally conceived

Maul is just a conqueror with too much power

I would say the master before Tenebrous. As far as we know he did not raise two disciples or try to circumvent the rule of two. They would also have worked on furthering the sith plan for better or worse.

maul is my faviort chareter

I agree and disagree. Darth bane said the sith should be like shadows and sidious embodies that philosophy perfectly, but you are right darth sidious lost his ambition as soon as there was no threat in the Galaxy. Sidious deep down just wanted to crush the enemies and not actually rule an empire.

Palpatine cared about the rule until Anakin got put in that suit. He really wanted him to replace him as the true sith lord

Sidious being selfish is the nature of the sith and him being so is normal Ro2 is meant to be cover the weakness which the sith already has

true, indeed u are

Its a good analysis but a lot of it is a huge stretch, like saying palpatine wasn't a true sith because he didn't fight battles himself. That's was the only way to defeat and overthrow the jedi which is something darth bane realized 1000 years ago. Maul's method of open war and conquering was not efficient and possible to defeat 10 000 jedi. Sidious did expand the empire and bits of this are shown throughout all the shows, both animated and live action.

Why does the Sith want the jedi gone. Slavery Only whit jedi destroyed can slavery be defeated!

Do sith take pride in when their apprentices succeed them?

Ofcourse sidious is not a real sith ..he didn’t even take his master down through one on one combat like the tradition calls for ..

The rule of two... Is the dumbest thing ever. The abilities and fighting techniques would be lost to time in just a few masters and apprentices..... Imagine you know everything about the dark side, but you don't want to die, so you only train your apprentice in about 70% of your dark side knowledge. You finally get too old or sick and he kills you. Your apprentice is a 70% dark sider. He takes an apprentice. He only teaches that apprentice to 70% of what the master knows..... Do this 2 or 3 more times, and you have no powers or skill....and no sith left.

Uhm i see your point about sideous and maul an i believe your right but even so sideous was supposed to be the last sith due to the fact he wielded so much power an it was a double edge sword because it made him cocky an complacent like the jedi he had vader wipe out

Exactly 💯 Darth Sidious destroyed the Sith

Ofc was palpi a sith.......every sith since baine had a public live.....in a certain way..... Palpi had more power as yoda .....yoda was 900 years old and had no chance.... yoda was literally the avatar of the light side and still lost

Yes my master i'll do your biden

Sidious wrecked Maul... So Sidious wrecked the best Sith. 🤔

Youre judging a "true sith," entirely by Rule of Two standards. I would argue that as a false equivalnce when strictly conversing about the sith from the movies compared to the sith that came before, and the sith that followed them for SEVERAL reasons. 1. Darth Maul within the Plaguies novel that you referenced was strictly trained as an Assassin under Palpatine. While he may have been noted as a true successor before Anakin came along from other sources, he was not a complete Sith to the same extent Vader and Dooku were incomplete. In this case it would be his training. Sith Assassins served a lesser role, and were usually treated as disposable. This is also why Plaguies let Palpatine get away with training Maul, knowing full well he was dubbed "Darth." He found Maul lacking. 2. Palpatine himself on multiple occasions was "blessed," by the darkside. In the Plaguies novel, even though he killed his master through dishonorable means, the power no longer being shared between the two, and infusing itself into Palpatine, was described as almost an event that was meant to be from Sidious's perspective. Furthermore from the Dark Empire story that came out almost 15 years before this novel, the means Palpatine could ressurect was because the Sith spirits enpowered him enough so he could keep willing himself out of Hell. The Sith spirits prior to this in ANH according to the book of the Sith, tried to kill Palpatine for trying to aquire their knowledge. At this point in the story he would have to be considered a worthy Sith for them to give him everything they had. An "overpowered politician," is like me describing, Hitler as a "small angry man," the destruction and chaos they rought on their worlds was and is still unfathomable, and these descriptors are too limiting as a means to characterize them. 3. The only reason that Palpatine hoarded knowledge for himself, was because in a way he was correct. He honored the rule of two in a ceremonial sense up to Vader, however it was obsolete. The entire purpose of the rule of two was to subvert the Jedi from the shadows. They achieved that Goal, and wiped them off the face of thr Galaxy, and ruled in a legitimate capscity for over 20 years. Maul embodying key aspects of a "Rule of two sith," doesnt diminish Vader, Tyranus, or Palpatine at all for the mark they left on the title of "Sith Lord." They all do to a certain extent, and represent Sith ideals in their own right.

Palpatine also didn't teach Maul to his full potential, Because he was the son of Mother Talzin, his potential of that dark magic from another Galaxy, and being fully taught from palpatine would have surely allowed Maul to overthrow Sideous. To learn everything from Lord Sideous and be super powerful with dark magic, The Jedi would have been outmatched and outclassed in every way. In palpatines hubris and lust for power, he in fact brought the end of the Sith, at least for the time being.

I think Vader could have been a truly great Sith, but he never got the opportunity while under Sidious' thumb. I hate Sidious.

Brilliant video except you contradict yourself. Maul was not a Sith Lord. He was a Sith warrior. You said so yourself but then go on about how great a Sith lord he was. He never was unless you want to consider his rule of either a criminal syndicate or Mandalore. Sydious, like him or dislike him, was a Sith Lord. He did conquer the Republic and held it for twenty years and wiped out the Jedi Order. Very few Sith Lords managed the first, and only one other did the second one. PS: He took out three Jedi Masters including Kit Fisto in less time than it took me to write this.

you should create a series on the idiocy of the sith and the jedi

Maybe story wise I too like maul better but let’s not forget Palestine manhandle maul and savage oppress easy at the same time lol

Agreed 100% Maul was a true sith and should have succeeded Palpatine and continued the rule of 2

Palpatine may have been the most powerful sith of all time . But the old sith would hate him . He didn’t make people suffer or take over the planets and making plannets suffer .

the only thing maul knew about the sith was what palps told him. palps also killed a couple jedi masters and maul and savage. so there is that. maul killed qui-gon and then got beat by kenobi, an apprentice. yeah, he sounds like a true sith.

No... Maul not true sith

No he wasnt he was just a sith assassin used by Palpatine

Sith are ultimately all the same: SELFISH. Their closest analog in the real world is libertarians.

i didnt mean to watch this whole video i was driving lol

i think sidous realised there would be little to be gained on ground battles even know he could easily best those battlefields if he wanted, hence his force storm, saying the emperor did nothing tho kinda defeats the concept of an empire, they conquered worlds didn't they ? Maul just wasn't on the same scale as the true sithari

Sidious kick Mauls ass though with ease