Star Wars: 10 Most Ridiculous Stories From The Expanded Universe

7. Darth Maul Died...or Did He?

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Every Star Wars fan knows that the less said about the bloated prequel trilogy, the better. That is, unless you’re talking about Darth Maul. In a movie full of stilted dialogue about trade embargoes, ugly CGI, ham-fisted acting and a tone more unpredictable than someone suffering from bi-polar disorder, the devilish-looking double bladed lightsaber wielding Sith lord was by far the coolest thing about that joyless cinematic turd.

The climatic lightsaber battle between Maul and Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon is hands down one of the best we’ve seen in the entire series, and it culminates with Darth Maul getting chopped in half and plummeting down one of those bottomless cooling shaft thingies.

But as Harrison Ford found out, you can’t make toys out of dead characters, so Darth Maul didn’t really die, he just lost his memory and had the bottom half of his torso replaced with robot legs. In the infamous words of Jud Crandall, sometimes dead is better.

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Ryan Lynch is a freelance journalist from the United States. He currently lives in Adelaide, Australia and writes for Adelaide-based music magazine Rip It Up. He wishes he could live like Hank Moody, but he watches too much TV and plays too many videogames to be that nonchalant.