Onto the films now, and while it's fair to say Sir Christopher Lee's Count Dooku didn't get nearly enough development onscreen as he did off it, there's no getting away from the fact he made for a fantastic villain. The Count also brandished an interesting blade too, one that sported a curved hilt.
While that may seem a tad unconventional, or indeed even impractical, the curve on Dooku's lightsaber actually benefitted his frenetic and free-flowing style of lightsaber combat.
A one-handed duelist, Dooku was renowned for being one of the most skilful lightsaber users in the galaxy, a reputation that preceded him by the time he turned to the Dark Side before the Clone Wars.
It's a brilliant blade though, and while we're yet to see the design imitated in any other storylines since, there's no denying its aesthetic value, especially when it was in the hands of the late, great Sir Christopher Lee.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
