Mace Windu, quite like Qui-Gon and Dooku, is another one of those Prequel Trilogy characters who didn't get nearly enough development onscreen. Instead, most of what made Windu so great (apart from the obvious, being he was played by Samuel L. Jackson and all), came in the expanded canon.
In the original Clone Wars series it was revealed that Windu was the one who crushed General Grievous' chest and gave him that chronic cough. That event was later ret-conned, but it sparked an interest in the character that is yet to subside, with multiple books, comics and animated appearances having released since 2005's Revenge of the Sith, all cementing the character as among the most pivotal of the Clone War era.
Of course, it's impossible not to mention Windu's iconic purple lightsaber when discussing the character. It's one of the coolest looking ones in the galaxy, and came about purely from Jackson insisting it should exist.
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.
