Christopher Lee did an excellent job with this role, but credit must also be given to the talented Corey Burton who voiced Dooku in both the 2003 Clone Wars mini-series and the 3D The Clone Wars series as well as in several video games.
well at least one scene that is memerable with christopher lee and corey burton is the scene with ziro the hutt contacting dooku. It is like having an actual conversation.
There were so many times when Dooku was begging Jedi to listen to him so he could tell them what was really happening, but they were just like, "See Sith. Kill Sith." It really shows how far the Jedi had fallen. I get the sense that he was trying to be the next Revan: Embracing the Dark Side to save the galaxy from itself, including Sidious. I think that may be a part of why he was silent at the end. He knew he was doomed either way. If he spoke, he could save the galaxy. But he was too angry at the Jedi for failing to listen and himself for failing to see Sidious's true plan, so he said to himself, "Fine. They embraced this fate long ago. Let them burn."
I think also along the way he new the Republic had been corrupt and resolved that The Empire Palpatine wanted would be better and it some ways it was, but it was corrupted by the ideologies of the Sith
Dooku was right about the Jedi becoming corrupt and fallen. “They embraced their fate long ago. Let them burn.” Awesome line! Had Qui-gon Jinn known about it, he wouldn’t have died at the hands of Darth Maul and he and Dooku would’ve trained Anakin to lead a new order that wasn’t corrupt. But it doesn’t change the fact that Dooku tried to have Padme assassinated many times just to please Viceroy Gunray. But at least tales of the Jedi did show that the Jedi in their blindness never took Dooku’s words with warning nor did they trust Anakin even though he is the chosen one as Qui-gon said he was.
@@Wildboyz6913 With some more development he could have been an amazing character. Realising the Jedi are becoming corrupt and/or blind in unison with the Republic senate he leaves the order. Then Sidious comes along with the plan. Whilst Dooku goes along with it, he doesn't trust Sidious, or really believe in the Sith. Instead believing he can actually use the droid army to destroy the Sith, create a new order, and create a more equal galactic government. It's a delicate and dangerous game that was rigged against him from the start.
That is not really true, Dooku was a Sith lord, everything what he did was for his own interest and the only reason he confessed Sidious to Obi Wan was to gain.
@@eho6380 I feel like Dooku was just using the dark side of the force because he believed he could use it for the ultimate good. He was on the wrong side, but only because he doubted the Jedi way for a very good reason. His path of villainy was pathed with good intentions. He didn’t really have much of a choice in that instance, if you were in his shoes, you wouldn’t be able to do much in the larger scale anyways such as he did without the use of the dark side.
Fun Fact: The reason Count Dooku (Darth Tyrannus) has a curved hilt is because Christopher Lee was very skilled in rapier fencing so it suited him better to use a curved hilt. Similar to how Samuel L. Jackson asked for a purple lightsaber.
@@finlandguy427 It was actually through the force where he sensed the upcoming order 66 event. Ahsoka felt it too but was too late. Probably sounds like it came out of my ass but it makes more sense when you watch the episodes.
1:05:18 One thing I love about this fight is how well Dooku understands his opponents. He keeps Anakin, a practitioner of aggressive lightsaber combat, and Kenobi, the Defense master, is forced to be on the offensive. That in combination with his combat proficiency made a brilliant coreography there.
Count Dooku is more of a politician and idealist than a Sith Lord. 5:21 Don't end Obi-Wan Kenobi's life please. He's the only connection left to Qui-Gon Jinn.
Dooku is my favorite Sith, because he is a fallen angel. To me he is a dark lord of the Sith capable of having his own Sith group. Dooku deserved a clone wars live action movie, it would’ve helped to flesh out his role and power in all of this.
I've always found it interesting how Dooku accepted the teachings of the Sith while never fully abandoning the teachings of the Jedi. He believes in self-control and dispassion while accepting that people have negative emotions for a reason and need to use them from time to time. He's the kind of Sith I would be, not the most conventional or traditional.
Dooku is the worst case of a betrayed traytor, On Bogden he offered immortallity to an immortal, as the running boy of an immortal. Boba wouldn´t be a clone but the original like Ky Narec, Temuera Morrison or Dar Salim. Django and Palpatine knew this before. Palpatine pretends to know why he himself is immortal, but he doesn´t know. Vader doesn´t want to be a clone, Padme having been a clone. Yoda dreams of the end of the clone wars, no matter what galaxy, all history, nothing else it is! No more, no less!
He was probably the only sith who wasn’t fully committed to the dark side, he had even imagined of destroying the sith but knew the only way to do so was to tap into the dark side of the force
Fun fact the Corey Burton used for Dooku impressed Christopher Lee so much that Lee refused to reprise the role of Count Dooku because he thought Corey was better.
Corey Burton used to be Dooku's voice in video games too, long before Filoni's series. He did a fantastic work in the CSI campaign from Galactic Battlegrounds, which is a story that stands in its own right as an amazing tale of Dooku's accolyte Sev'rance Tann rallying up another droid army after the fall of Geonosis.
"Corruption like yours must be eradicated!" "For a Jedi succumb to a surprise attack is rare... unless it would come from someone one would trust, like you. I will have the truth." "I used to bring Qui-Gon here as a boy. He was fascinated with this tree. Having been born here on Coruscant, a planet of steel and stone he knew nothing like it." And there you have character going from a side villain acting as a tool for the main great villain into an anti-hero, a second Anakin.
Can we appreciate the fact that the Clone Wars series made Dooku an even bigger badass than he was in episodes 2 & 3? Every time he's in action, he absolutely dominates.
@@thomasthetank827 With only 10 minutes Mr.Lee stripped the charcter's complexity to its fullest: an upstanding gentleman, borrowing darkness with a blunt believe for good In Tcw he's just a murderous political figure. Good depiction for Tyranus, but poorly executed for the character a a whole
That moment on Geonosis with Obi-Wan is one of the most interesting scenes in the franchise! Dooku seemed to be one of the most nuanced villains - with genuine points - before he descended further into the dark side. You could feel/see that Qui-Gonn's death genuinely affected him, and he just wanted change in the galaxy. He didn't care about Sidious or the Sith at all.
Edit: This post is an extremely outdated perception of Dooku. Some comments helped enlighten me about his lighter side seen in Episode II. But the recently added Tales of the Jedi mini-series has three episodes focused on Count Dooku's time as a Jedi. I need to reevaluate my thoughts on him but do yourself a favor and watch Tales of the Jedi. The Ahsoka Episodes are good, but Dooku is clearly the highlight. It's so fucking goooood. Outdated: Dooku is a character who I think became very interesting with the context of the Clone Wars. With only episodes 2 and 3 of the Prequel movies, he is a forgettable character who is only really seen as an obstacle and inconvenience for Anakin. But now, Dooku's involvement in the Clone Wars has shaped him to be one of the most warmongering, deceiving, and vile people in the Clone Wars. And yet, he was arguably the biggest fool in the galactic chessboard Sidious had laid out. With the numerous times, Dooku and Anakin fought, their last duel is so much more impactful for me and slightly tragic for the old man. The ROTS novel handled it really well. He's become one of my favorite villains in Star Wars.
As you said, the show built on him more. However, I can say that one thing that will never be forgettable about the character in the movies at least to me is Christopher Lee (Saruman) being a Sith Lord who can shoot Sith Lightning! The character was sort of explained and built up in attack of the clones (The Basics of being a fallen Jedi who found the senate corrupt able) but it wasn’t enough. Dooku needed more scenes.
Dooku wasn't forgettable in the prequels. I liked him even before watching the clone wars. Any character played by Christopher Lee aint forgettable Also the number of times they fought in TCW makes Anakin's line "My powers have doubled since the last we met" sound stupid.
@@sarveshnathan7559 perhaps, but a period of time where the two protagonists never encounter the two main antagonists of the war wouldn't be the greatest watching
I like how Dooku fights with his lightsaber by using one hand when his opponents are weaker or not as strong as he is, toying with his preys but when comes to face stronger opponents such as Yoda, then he'd had to use both hands.
That's probably just because it was easier to simplify the choreography away from precise fencing maneuvers when he'd be fighting a CGI model that would be inserted later.
roles: Count Dooku serves as the main antagonist of Episode 2 Attack of the Clones, the 2008 movie Clones Wars and its 2008-2020 television series (apart from Palpatine) being the main antagonist of Seasons 1, 3 and 4 a major antagonist in seasons 2 and 5, the secondary antagonist from season 6 and a posthumous / mentioned antagonist in season 7 and a minor but pivotal antagonist in episode 3 Revenge of the Siths He is the arch-enemy of Anakin Skywalker during the clone wars
@@sharpspoon7371 I believe that Attack of Clones was Peak Dooku. Age and DS degradation began to weak him slowly over the course of the war while Obi and Ani Became more Skilled and Powerful though I could be wrong about the Dooku one.
I just realized something: some say that the clones were unable to attack Dooku, as he was a Sith Lord. So I checked through the scenes in this video, and discovered something intriguing: Dooku NEVER encounters clones in person, except for two times, throughout the war! The first time is in AOTC, when the clone gunship is chasing him, and in response to being told to attack Dooku, the pilot says, “we’re out of rockets”. Someone once pointed out that you can actually see the ship still has rockets on the wings. The ONLY other occurrence I could find of Dooku personally fighting or confronting clones was in Yoda’s vision in season six, the same one where Anakin kills Dooku prematurely and Yoda battles Sidious. The clones do fire on Dooku here, but as this was a vision, I believe the Sith could manipulate the events that occurred. In other words, whether or not the clones attacked Dooku in the vision has no bearing on whether the real clones would. The only exception I can think of, I’m not 100% certain about, but he might have encountered Kix in person, when interrogating him. I’d need to double-check. I find it super strange and unusual that Dooku has such an aversion to fighting clones, and almost seems to purposefully plan where he locates himself so he will never encounter clones.
I find it incredible that Christopher lee went from being in the SAS in ww2 doing some brutal things, to voicing a cartoon character in my fav show 70 years later 😂 what a life
Clone Wars Dooku was alot more openly villainous. As a result he felt far less complicated as a character and more like your standard villain which is one of the things I disliked about the show. That said they did give him a few good fight scenes.
I always loved how dooku held his lightsaber a fencing stance seems very apt for a count. I don't think I could ever imagine anyone else playing dooku.
I haven't watched the prequels as an adult yet, but jesus, within Dooku's first scene, he's immediately right. makes his death more tragic, knowing the truth.
1:24 I never get why obi Wan was foolish enough to never take this statement of dooku seriously. Force users can detect if someone is lying or not, and dooku was saying the truth, but obi wan denied it.
I'm happy to see him more in the Clone Wars than he was in Episodes 2 and 3. He was seen as a powerful darkside user but we never got to see how powerful. In the Clone Wars, we see he's powerful, elegant, calm and collected, not to mention intelligent in the way he fights and goes about things. Edit: we did see how strong he was at the end of Attack of the Clones and briefly at the start of Revenge of the Sith; I mostly mean we didn’t get to see much than a couple of quicker battles.
"He was seen as a powerful darkside user but we never got to see how powerful" Literally destroyed Anakin and Obi Wan in a fight and stalemated Yoda, and destroyed Obi-Wan in ROTS What?
He's even more powerful than most think. Near unbeatable during the clone wars. The canon novel dark disciple teaches us that the only way to defeat tyranus (as a jedi) is to tap into anger, fear and hatred
@@sarveshnathan7559 but that was short, while correct in how that does show how strong he is. We didn’t get to see it much is my point. In Clone Wars, we see a lot more of him and just how calculated he is. I worded what I said poorly, so thank you for correcting me in my statement
I hate to sound critical but Dooku's eyebrows are more darker than gray in Episodes 2, the 2003-2005 Clone Wars Volumes 1 & 2 and Episode 3 with lighter hair on his head and beard sort of like a very light gray and rounder. I love Christopher Lee's Count Dooku /Darth Tyranus the best. He would have been amazing to voice Dooku during the Clone Wars taking turns with Corey Burton per Season until Darth Tyranus's last appearance in the Clone Wars. I wish Christopher Lee were still alive. He would have had a better chance to celebrate 🥳 him entering the triple digits of being 100 on May 27th of this year. I guess anyone can wish him a happy 7th birthday in the afterlife on June 7th. That was the date of his passing. One of the best English actors in mankind's history!
It's one of those let-downs about TCW. With a couple of minutes Mr.Lee successfully conveyed the character complexity. Here they made him a stereotypical big-bad guy. Kind of sacrificing one character for the sake of the show. Overall it's stil great.
he wanted Savage to help him with that before Ventress turned him @@thomasthetank827 Sidious did find both Maul and Savage a threat which once Savage was eliminated along with the witch Talzin, he no longer cared at that point even after ordering the troops to eliminate Maul in the final episode of the clone wars finale
When Dooku said he wished Qui-Gon was still alive it was because he still had some good left inside him. Even if Dooku was a Sith Lord he still cared for Qui-Gon.
Dooku in the movies: A badass villain with some great one-liners Dooku in the Clone Wars: So evil that hitler would be rolling in his grave Dooku in Tales of the Jedi: Someone who's anger we can understand
Wow, for some reason the final scene in this video hits different after watching it the whole way through, along with Tales of the Jedi. You really see how he wanted to do good for the galaxy but his ideals were perverted by the dark side until he became a pawn. In thinking that destroying the Jedi would pave way for a better future, he is horrified to see that Sidious had no intention of pursuing such a route and was more than willing to discard him once Anakin was all his. This is a gross simplification of it, but for a “diplomat” known for using his words to demean his foes, it is fitting he goes out in complete silence.
Count Dooku: Geonosians doesnt trust bounty hunters Obi wan: is that so? Geonosians after realizing that Republic Troopers are clone after a Bounty Hunter: I F**King knew it!..
If Jabba and his criminal empire had joined the Separatists, would he have been destroyed by the Empire at the end of the war too? All of the Seppies were systematically conquered after the battle droids were decommissioned
Probably, but Palpatine really overlooked the criminal under world until Maul showed up. One of the few times he seemed genuinely caught off guard was when Cad Bane held the Senate hostage, so I doubt he even considered involving the Hutts. Edit: before the war began that is (I kind of just forgot the plot of the Clone Wars movie). It seems like the issuse of the hyperspace routs became more clear when the war began, that's why he didn't contact them before that.
@@sebastianoleary2743 Agreed, he didn't even go after Maul until he'd already gotten the Death Watch, Pyke Syndicate, Black Sun, and Hutts on his side. To me it kinda seems like Palpatine NEVER talked to crime-lords or gangsters at all and always had someone else talk to them on his behalf, namely Maul and Dooku. If he had no contact with any actual crime organizations then ig it makes sense he was blindsided, but like come on it's Palpatine, he'd have accounted for everything. Though Plagueis' death clouded his vision so he felt Darth Maul "die" instead of being in grave danger like Anakin on Mustafar. It makes sense that he kind of allied Jabba after Order 66, since I do believe there was a Hutt representative in the Banking Clan that knows that both Hego Demask is Plagueis and Palpatine is Sidious so maybe he didn't want to test it. Edit: I think the Senate hostage job was what made Palpatine consider Cad Bane for so many jobs, especially because he had no idea about it since the Hutts organized it, it probably impressed him.
Dooku was many things, but he was never a liar when it came to the Sith. The Jedi continually ignoring his warnings about the Sith further solidified his belief that like the Republic, the Jedi Order was irreversibly corrupt and had to be eliminated as well. Made it easier for him to fall to the dark side since he believed that was the only way to undo all the corruption.
Fun fact: Dooku’s voice actor in the clone wars is the same as Hugo Strange in Batman: Arkham City I love both franchises and I’m never able to hear either character the same
@@justinumeda That Jango Fett Bounty Hunter game is not canon anymore. In case you don't know, Disney decanonise all previous Star Wars materials except the Original Trilogy, Prequel Trilogy and The Clone Wars.
Actually Sleepy Hollow had 3 Sith Lords. 1) Christopher Lee (Darth Tyranus) as Burgomaster, 2) Ian McDiarmid (Darth Sideous) as Dr. Thomas Lancaster and 3) Ray Park (Darth Maul) as one of the major stuntman for the Headless Horsemen.
I just noticed that every time palpatine wears the hood his face is all wrinkled looking I don’t know if that just me who see that I just noticed that when watching clone wars so when he got hit with lighting he was just showing his true form.
I most likely probably maybe got them all sorted now but received a copyright claim haha
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Why bother showing a clip when you just skip skip skip through it
If I wanted to watch something skip I've get a dvd 😂 just slow the footage down and we can speed it up in settings
Christopher lee is an amazing actor, may the force be with him.
Always .
He was the best. Still the clone wars cgi version looks more dookish.
@@adrianmacklin418 The beard is a bit pointy but it fits the art style of the show.
@@grayski3324 yeah it is pointy lol. The attitude posture and voice make him good in the show tho
Clone wars count dooku face looks like a walrus but he's still cool
"Lollipops, also known as cavities on a stick." One of favorite quotes from Dooku
@@skulker1235 nah, it's a unused quote from rots-
@@skulker1235 r/woooooosh
My favorite line from dooku is " but you have elected the way of PAIN!"
@@daviddifr I think your the one who's been wooooshed
It's a joke
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Christopher Lee did an excellent job with this role, but credit must also be given to the talented Corey Burton who voiced Dooku in both the 2003 Clone Wars mini-series and the 3D The Clone Wars series as well as in several video games.
true
Always wish we saw more of him in Clone Wars panels and stuff
well at least one scene that is memerable with christopher lee and corey burton is the scene with ziro the hutt contacting dooku. It is like having an actual conversation.
my favourite performance of his was hugo strange in arkham city
No lies here.
There were so many times when Dooku was begging Jedi to listen to him so he could tell them what was really happening, but they were just like, "See Sith. Kill Sith." It really shows how far the Jedi had fallen. I get the sense that he was trying to be the next Revan: Embracing the Dark Side to save the galaxy from itself, including Sidious.
I think that may be a part of why he was silent at the end. He knew he was doomed either way. If he spoke, he could save the galaxy. But he was too angry at the Jedi for failing to listen and himself for failing to see Sidious's true plan, so he said to himself, "Fine. They embraced this fate long ago. Let them burn."
I think also along the way he new the Republic had been corrupt and resolved that The Empire Palpatine wanted would be better and it some ways it was, but it was corrupted by the ideologies of the Sith
Dooku was right about the Jedi becoming corrupt and fallen. “They embraced their fate long ago. Let them burn.” Awesome line! Had Qui-gon Jinn known about it, he wouldn’t have died at the hands of Darth Maul and he and Dooku would’ve trained Anakin to lead a new order that wasn’t corrupt. But it doesn’t change the fact that Dooku tried to have Padme assassinated many times just to please Viceroy Gunray. But at least tales of the Jedi did show that the Jedi in their blindness never took Dooku’s words with warning nor did they trust Anakin even though he is the chosen one as Qui-gon said he was.
@@Wildboyz6913 With some more development he could have been an amazing character.
Realising the Jedi are becoming corrupt and/or blind in unison with the Republic senate he leaves the order.
Then Sidious comes along with the plan. Whilst Dooku goes along with it, he doesn't trust Sidious, or really believe in the Sith.
Instead believing he can actually use the droid army to destroy the Sith, create a new order, and create a more equal galactic government.
It's a delicate and dangerous game that was rigged against him from the start.
That is not really true, Dooku was a Sith lord, everything what he did was for his own interest and the only reason he confessed Sidious to Obi Wan was to gain.
@@eho6380 I feel like Dooku was just using the dark side of the force because he believed he could use it for the ultimate good. He was on the wrong side, but only because he doubted the Jedi way for a very good reason. His path of villainy was pathed with good intentions. He didn’t really have much of a choice in that instance, if you were in his shoes, you wouldn’t be able to do much in the larger scale anyways such as he did without the use of the dark side.
Fun Fact: The reason Count Dooku (Darth Tyrannus) has a curved hilt is because Christopher Lee was very skilled in rapier fencing so it suited him better to use a curved hilt. Similar to how Samuel L. Jackson asked for a purple lightsaber.
6:40 No wonder Count Dooku in his ready position vs yoda, his style and fighting looks of a true fencer or having skills fighting with a sword ⚔️
And so, the 2nd form was born.
More to do with an ancestor of his
Oscarus4250 - Oscar Samson yeah I love how form 2 being a thing is mainly cuz of Lee actually knowing how to sword fight 😩
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The fact that Dooku was actually right about Sidious was crazy
He knew he was on it he even told Obi Wan but he was too blind and arrogant to see it.
@@gravemind6536 maul said the same thing to ahsoka just without him being part of the seperatist.
@@andrewsung3965 maul doing it was a retcon. Dooku did it in 2002
I've wondered how Maul knew his former master's plan?
@@finlandguy427 It was actually through the force where he sensed the upcoming order 66 event. Ahsoka felt it too but was too late.
Probably sounds like it came out of my ass but it makes more sense when you watch the episodes.
1:05:18 One thing I love about this fight is how well Dooku understands his opponents. He keeps Anakin, a practitioner of aggressive lightsaber combat, and Kenobi, the Defense master, is forced to be on the offensive. That in combination with his combat proficiency made a brilliant coreography there.
21:05 most awkward moment in star wars history
"The Sith already control everything, you just don't realize it yet."
- Count Dooku, Clone Wars.
"i told you everything you needed to know on Geonisis all those years ago"
Dooku: I may use force lightning and I may have a red lightsaber, but I still hate the Sith. Even though hate is a path to the dark side.
Count Dooku is more of a politician and idealist than a Sith Lord. 5:21 Don't end Obi-Wan Kenobi's life please. He's the only connection left to Qui-Gon Jinn.
Dooku is my favorite Sith, because he is a fallen angel. To me he is a dark lord of the Sith capable of having his own Sith group. Dooku deserved a clone wars live action movie, it would’ve helped to flesh out his role and power in all of this.
Definitely wouldn’t have been against more Christopher Lee content if that did happen back then
I've always found it interesting how Dooku accepted the teachings of the Sith while never fully abandoning the teachings of the Jedi. He believes in self-control and dispassion while accepting that people have negative emotions for a reason and need to use them from time to time. He's the kind of Sith I would be, not the most conventional or traditional.
Dooku is the worst case of a betrayed traytor, On Bogden he offered immortallity to an immortal, as the running boy of an immortal. Boba wouldn´t be a clone but the original like Ky Narec, Temuera Morrison or Dar Salim. Django and Palpatine knew this before. Palpatine pretends to know why he himself is immortal, but he doesn´t know. Vader doesn´t want to be a clone, Padme having been a clone. Yoda dreams of the end of the clone wars, no matter what galaxy, all history,
nothing else it is! No more, no less!
@@realJoeMavro facts bro
@@The1976spirit damn but did tu happen tho
A vengeful Sith.
A fallen Jedi.
A strong Cyborg.
All foreshadowing Vader.
It's like poetry
I never thought of that
A Vengeful Sith of Darth Maul
A Fallen Jedi of Darth Tyrannous Dooku
And A Vicious Cyborg Of General Grievous
All equaled into Darth Vader
Hes not really sith tho
@@ezzekieldirks8542 do you own a red telephone?
Dooku was a great character. I wish we’d seen more of him in the live action movies.
Maybe in high republic content hopefully dude was such a cool character.
He was probably the only sith who wasn’t fully committed to the dark side, he had even imagined of destroying the sith but knew the only way to do so was to tap into the dark side of the force
Agreed
I wish he wasn't killed so early in Revenge of the Sith
And now the time has sadly passed.
Fun fact the Corey Burton used for Dooku impressed Christopher Lee so much that Lee refused to reprise the role of Count Dooku because he thought Corey was better.
Really?…. That’s insane..AND huge Props. Since Lee as one of the greatest and most sophisticated actors to ever live.
Doubt he thought he was better than him,he is the original count
damn
Corey Burton used to be Dooku's voice in video games too, long before Filoni's series. He did a fantastic work in the CSI campaign from Galactic Battlegrounds, which is a story that stands in its own right as an amazing tale of Dooku's accolyte Sev'rance Tann rallying up another droid army after the fall of Geonosis.
Yeah, when they had Christopher Lee return for The Clone Wars movie, he, heard Burton and was like "why do you even need me?"
“The SITH control everything. You just Don’t KNOW IT!”
Then explain those Sith Eyes in this scene 37:06
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"Corruption like yours must be eradicated!"
"For a Jedi succumb to a surprise attack is rare... unless it would come from someone one would trust, like you. I will have the truth."
"I used to bring Qui-Gon here as a boy. He was fascinated with this tree. Having been born here on Coruscant, a planet of steel and stone he knew nothing like it."
And there you have character going from a side villain acting as a tool for the main great villain into an anti-hero, a second Anakin.
Can we appreciate the fact that the Clone Wars series made Dooku an even bigger badass than he was in episodes 2 & 3? Every time he's in action, he absolutely dominates.
he was nearly unbeatable
Maybe but he became a lot more 2 dimensional.
@@trueblue6201 please, explain?
@@thomasthetank827 With only 10 minutes Mr.Lee stripped the charcter's complexity to its fullest: an upstanding gentleman, borrowing darkness with a blunt believe for good
In Tcw he's just a murderous political figure. Good depiction for Tyranus, but poorly executed for the character a a whole
@@Bedoroski but at the end if attack of the clones it's revealed that he was lying the whole time. All that complexion was a ruse
That moment on Geonosis with Obi-Wan is one of the most interesting scenes in the franchise! Dooku seemed to be one of the most nuanced villains - with genuine points - before he descended further into the dark side. You could feel/see that Qui-Gonn's death genuinely affected him, and he just wanted change in the galaxy. He didn't care about Sidious or the Sith at all.
Corey Burton does an awesome impression of Christopher Lee.
As well as an awesome impression of tony jay
Seriously sometimes I forget it’s not the same actor lol
as a cartoon character it suited him better
Clone wars Count Dooku was a different breed. He was a great character in all the movies, also Rest in Peace Christopher Lee.
Clone wars dooku be like:🗿
Yes
Dooku: i dont need my eyes to see! (Fought 3 camouflaged night sisters while being poisoned and ill with eyes closed, also while in pajamas)
“Why the long face bro”
Count Dooku: *literally tells obi wan everything on geonosis*
Obi Wan: I'm gonna pretend I didn't hear that
After tales of the Jedi, I wonder how honest Dooku is when he calls Windu an old friend and when he orders him to be killed.
Obviously he didn't mean it
1:04:00 He totally kicked that dead clone’s head on purpose.
Edit: This post is an extremely outdated perception of Dooku. Some comments helped enlighten me about his lighter side seen in Episode II. But the recently added Tales of the Jedi mini-series has three episodes focused on Count Dooku's time as a Jedi. I need to reevaluate my thoughts on him but do yourself a favor and watch Tales of the Jedi. The Ahsoka Episodes are good, but Dooku is clearly the highlight. It's so fucking goooood.
Outdated:
Dooku is a character who I think became very interesting with the context of the Clone Wars. With only episodes 2 and 3 of the Prequel movies, he is a forgettable character who is only really seen as an obstacle and inconvenience for Anakin. But now, Dooku's involvement in the Clone Wars has shaped him to be one of the most warmongering, deceiving, and vile people in the Clone Wars. And yet, he was arguably the biggest fool in the galactic chessboard Sidious had laid out.
With the numerous times, Dooku and Anakin fought, their last duel is so much more impactful for me and slightly tragic for the old man. The ROTS novel handled it really well. He's become one of my favorite villains in Star Wars.
clone wars did that for a lot of characters. grievous, maul, dooku, hell even anakin and obiwan
Oooh “Biggest fool in the galactic chessboard Sidious had laid out” what a great line. Also pretty sad that’s a major part of Dooku’s legacy
As you said, the show built on him more. However, I can say that one thing that will never be forgettable about the character in the movies at least to me is Christopher Lee (Saruman) being a Sith Lord who can shoot Sith Lightning! The character was sort of explained and built up in attack of the clones (The Basics of being a fallen Jedi who found the senate corrupt able) but it wasn’t enough. Dooku needed more scenes.
Dooku wasn't forgettable in the prequels.
I liked him even before watching the clone wars.
Any character played by Christopher Lee aint forgettable
Also the number of times they fought in TCW makes Anakin's line "My powers have doubled since the last we met" sound stupid.
@@sarveshnathan7559 perhaps, but a period of time where the two protagonists never encounter the two main antagonists of the war wouldn't be the greatest watching
I like how Dooku fights with his lightsaber by using one hand when his opponents are weaker or not as strong as he is, toying with his preys but when comes to face stronger opponents such as Yoda, then he'd had to use both hands.
1 hand to parry and jab, 2 hands to put more force into it, or locked between another lightsaber.
That's probably just because it was easier to simplify the choreography away from precise fencing maneuvers when he'd be fighting a CGI model that would be inserted later.
roles: Count Dooku serves as the main antagonist of Episode 2 Attack of the Clones, the 2008 movie Clones Wars and its 2008-2020 television series (apart from Palpatine) being the main antagonist of Seasons 1, 3 and 4 a major antagonist in seasons 2 and 5, the secondary antagonist from season 6 and a posthumous / mentioned antagonist in season 7 and a minor but pivotal antagonist in episode 3 Revenge of the Siths
He is the arch-enemy of Anakin Skywalker during the clone wars
It’s amazing how much information dooku really gave away to obi wan but took them to mass murder for them to realise Palpatine was Darth sideous
Its evidence imo that George changed the plot after the first movie. Something more interesting was supposed to happen and he chickened out
@@Heatherder Are you speaking of Darth Jar jar?
cognitive dissonance is the Jedi specialty
Dooku was a skilled duelist he should fight that Vader guy
Peak Anakin vs Peak Dooku lightsaber duel only no “force abilities” who wins?🤔
@@JournaloftheWhills We kinda already got that in Episode 3
@@sharpspoon7371 I believe that Attack of Clones was Peak Dooku. Age and DS degradation began to weak him slowly over the course of the war while Obi and Ani Became more Skilled and Powerful though I could be wrong about the Dooku one.
@@grandenigma9400 ehhh dooku only got like 3 years older, Anakin tho literally went from soyjack to chad REAL quick in terms of power so there's that
@@sharpspoon7371 I respect that. Vader would most likely defeat Dooku due to being smarter than Anakin.
Anyone else notice the B1 on the right waiving goodbye to dooku as he leaves him on the ship at 19:09?
“Bye, I’m about to die!”
Info that’s adorable 😂
“The Jedi are never that harsh on their clones”
I just realized something: some say that the clones were unable to attack Dooku, as he was a Sith Lord. So I checked through the scenes in this video, and discovered something intriguing: Dooku NEVER encounters clones in person, except for two times, throughout the war!
The first time is in AOTC, when the clone gunship is chasing him, and in response to being told to attack Dooku, the pilot says, “we’re out of rockets”. Someone once pointed out that you can actually see the ship still has rockets on the wings.
The ONLY other occurrence I could find of Dooku personally fighting or confronting clones was in Yoda’s vision in season six, the same one where Anakin kills Dooku prematurely and Yoda battles Sidious. The clones do fire on Dooku here, but as this was a vision, I believe the Sith could manipulate the events that occurred. In other words, whether or not the clones attacked Dooku in the vision has no bearing on whether the real clones would.
The only exception I can think of, I’m not 100% certain about, but he might have encountered Kix in person, when interrogating him. I’d need to double-check.
I find it super strange and unusual that Dooku has such an aversion to fighting clones, and almost seems to purposefully plan where he locates himself so he will never encounter clones.
I find it incredible that Christopher lee went from being in the SAS in ww2 doing some brutal things, to voicing a cartoon character in my fav show 70 years later 😂 what a life
Not only that, he has a Heavy Metal album, xD. This guy has some of the best resume than anyone in the field.
He didn’t voice him in The Clone Wars
@@AxeIRad
He did in the clone wars 2008 movie
@@rhysnichols8608 ah right I forgot about that
Christopher Lee will go down as one of the most versatile and skilled actors to ever walk the earth there was basically nothing he couldn't do.
One thing I loved about the Prequels is that each actor felt like their looks/speech/acting belong in the Star Wars world.
Unlike the Disney sequels unfortunately.
@@hokutoshinken-chrisarmstro131 exactly
Corey Burton did a good job with the impression of Sir Christopher Lee
And also the fact that both of their voice is having a conversation in the scene with ziro the hutt and dooku.
Thank you for this. Christopher Lee was amazing! RIP
No prob he really was! Thanks for watching!
23:08 Dooku just beat that guy while shackled up, with just 2 hits!😆
He was probably venting out his frustration on having to put up with Anakin and Obi Wan's antics.
I like every video you make because you so much time and effort into them, also count Dooku is my favorite sith.
Thank you thank you!! I have characters I like more than dooku but this vid definitely made me appreciate him a bit more
Mine too
Christopher lee : stunning look of superiority paired with the diplomatic voice and great acting straight legend 🔥💪🏾
Corey Burton loves voicing characters with lightning powers
Dooku in the CW is a lot more serious then in the movies haha. Lee felt more chill😂
True
Clone Wars Dooku was alot more openly villainous. As a result he felt far less complicated as a character and more like your standard villain which is one of the things I disliked about the show. That said they did give him a few good fight scenes.
“Twice The Pride, Double The Fall!”
Dooku a very underrated character, one of my favorites
I always loved how dooku held his lightsaber a fencing stance seems very apt for a count. I don't think I could ever imagine anyone else playing dooku.
Christopher Lee is such legendary actor. Rest in Peace
How can a human have such a great voice, simply amazing.
I haven't watched the prequels as an adult yet, but jesus, within Dooku's first scene, he's immediately right. makes his death more tragic, knowing the truth.
But Sir do we have time to watch an hour and ten minutes straight of Dooku?
Me: Some things are just that important.
1:08:40 - Look how Dooku's hair is fine then in the neck scene he looks bald on the top of his head, then after that it flip-flops on him being bald.
Lol
1:24
I never get why obi Wan was foolish enough to never take this statement of dooku seriously. Force users can detect if someone is lying or not, and dooku was saying the truth, but obi wan denied it.
44:10 "Senator Amidalla I must regretfully inform you that Young Skywalker has been.. Detained, TORCHER?! I don know what you mean" lmao
1:05:20 is probably one of my favourite dooku lines. The way he says it with such elegance and composure. Such a Classy man.
I'm happy to see him more in the Clone Wars than he was in Episodes 2 and 3. He was seen as a powerful darkside user but we never got to see how powerful. In the Clone Wars, we see he's powerful, elegant, calm and collected, not to mention intelligent in the way he fights and goes about things.
Edit: we did see how strong he was at the end of Attack of the Clones and briefly at the start of Revenge of the Sith; I mostly mean we didn’t get to see much than a couple of quicker battles.
"He was seen as a powerful darkside user but we never got to see how powerful"
Literally destroyed Anakin and Obi Wan in a fight and stalemated Yoda, and destroyed Obi-Wan in ROTS
What?
He's even more powerful than most think. Near unbeatable during the clone wars. The canon novel dark disciple teaches us that the only way to defeat tyranus (as a jedi) is to tap into anger, fear and hatred
@@sarveshnathan7559 but that was short, while correct in how that does show how strong he is. We didn’t get to see it much is my point. In Clone Wars, we see a lot more of him and just how calculated he is. I worded what I said poorly, so thank you for correcting me in my statement
I hate to sound critical but Dooku's eyebrows are more darker than gray in Episodes 2, the 2003-2005 Clone Wars Volumes 1 & 2 and Episode 3 with lighter hair on his head and beard sort of like a very light gray and rounder. I love Christopher Lee's Count Dooku /Darth Tyranus the best. He would have been amazing to voice Dooku during the Clone Wars taking turns with Corey Burton per Season until Darth Tyranus's last appearance in the Clone Wars. I wish Christopher Lee were still alive. He would have had a better chance to celebrate 🥳 him entering the triple digits of being 100 on May 27th of this year. I guess anyone can wish him a happy 7th birthday in the afterlife on June 7th. That was the date of his passing. One of the best English actors in mankind's history!
Christopher Lee is such an amazing actor. I also love him as Saruman from LOTR.
agreed
B1 Battle Droids: **Mass-produced because they are cheap**
Count Dooku: Those battle droids are expensive!
Hard to believe dooku was quite merciful due to the fact his old allies were close allies but later began to not care
It's one of those let-downs about TCW. With a couple of minutes Mr.Lee successfully conveyed the character complexity. Here they made him a stereotypical big-bad guy.
Kind of sacrificing one character for the sake of the show. Overall it's stil great.
My favourite Sith Lord and one of my favourite characters in all of Star Wars
“surely you can do better” -tyranus
I just realized that dooku kicked the clones head at 1:04:00
God the clone wars did such a good job fleshing out every prequel character
After Tales of the Jedi, this is something else.
12:49 wow never thought dooku would laugh evily. Most sith lords except palpatine and maul never laugh.
*laughs in sith lord*
While the cartoon had an art style it was going for, each character stayed true to how they looked in the movies, and then there's Count Dooku.
He...actually believed Obi Wan could help him overthrow Sidious...didn't he?
for sure. he wanted a dark disciple to eventually overthrow his master
he wanted Savage to help him with that before Ventress turned him @@thomasthetank827 Sidious did find both Maul and Savage a threat which once Savage was eliminated along with the witch Talzin, he no longer cared at that point even after ordering the troops to eliminate Maul in the final episode of the clone wars finale
Gotta love this guy
When Dooku said he wished Qui-Gon was still alive it was because he still had some good left inside him. Even if Dooku was a Sith Lord he still cared for Qui-Gon.
Dooku in the movies: A badass villain with some great one-liners
Dooku in the Clone Wars: So evil that hitler would be rolling in his grave
Dooku in Tales of the Jedi: Someone who's anger we can understand
I like TCW Dooku, he is a badass.
(19:33) Dooku has awaken his inner general Grievous. 🤣
Wow, for some reason the final scene in this video hits different after watching it the whole way through, along with Tales of the Jedi. You really see how he wanted to do good for the galaxy but his ideals were perverted by the dark side until he became a pawn. In thinking that destroying the Jedi would pave way for a better future, he is horrified to see that Sidious had no intention of pursuing such a route and was more than willing to discard him once Anakin was all his. This is a gross simplification of it, but for a “diplomat” known for using his words to demean his foes, it is fitting he goes out in complete silence.
I wish we got the son of dathomir and dark disciple we could got more dooku in clone wars
Who's here after watching Tales of the Jedi?
The most underrated villain in all of star wars.
Villain?
@@basiosrasian225 He is a villain. That he had good intentions is something else.
@@Ratchet2431 HE WAS A VISIONARY! CUT DOWN IN HIS PRIME BY THE JEDI ENFORCERS.
I think antagonist would be a better word to describe him
Sir Christopher Lee is so classy!!!
23:08 bro I remember this scene being unexpectedly funny af💀
Bro smacked the shit out of that guy😂
@@sicksadworld765 While being stuck with Anakin and Obi Wan, who are doing one of their gag routines.
18:50 that cut had me dead
I want a dooku series. He is underrated
And who do you think is suitable to play him aside from Mr. Christopher?
@@martmandred9182 If you're talking about a Dooku origin story, for younger maybe Benedict Cumberbatch.
There will be more of Dooku's bacstory in tales of the jedi.
I've been looking forward to this!
Twice the pride double the fall
One of the best Sith Lords in all of Star Wars.
The one thing the Clone Wars show didn’t have that AOTC and ROTS did was Christopher Lee. The Clone Wars Movie did bring him back at least.
Crazy how Dooku kept dropping hints to the Jedi about how he wasn’t in control of everything and that they were in danger
Count Dooku: Geonosians doesnt trust bounty hunters
Obi wan: is that so?
Geonosians after realizing that Republic Troopers are clone after a Bounty Hunter: I F**King knew it!..
If Jabba and his criminal empire had joined the Separatists, would he have been destroyed by the Empire at the end of the war too? All of the Seppies were systematically conquered after the battle droids were decommissioned
Probably, but Palpatine really overlooked the criminal under world until Maul showed up. One of the few times he seemed genuinely caught off guard was when Cad Bane held the Senate hostage, so I doubt he even considered involving the Hutts.
Edit: before the war began that is (I kind of just forgot the plot of the Clone Wars movie). It seems like the issuse of the hyperspace routs became more clear when the war began, that's why he didn't contact them before that.
@@sebastianoleary2743 Agreed, he didn't even go after Maul until he'd already gotten the Death Watch, Pyke Syndicate, Black Sun, and Hutts on his side. To me it kinda seems like Palpatine NEVER talked to crime-lords or gangsters at all and always had someone else talk to them on his behalf, namely Maul and Dooku. If he had no contact with any actual crime organizations then ig it makes sense he was blindsided, but like come on it's Palpatine, he'd have accounted for everything. Though Plagueis' death clouded his vision so he felt Darth Maul "die" instead of being in grave danger like Anakin on Mustafar. It makes sense that he kind of allied Jabba after Order 66, since I do believe there was a Hutt representative in the Banking Clan that knows that both Hego Demask is Plagueis and Palpatine is Sidious so maybe he didn't want to test it.
Edit: I think the Senate hostage job was what made Palpatine consider Cad Bane for so many jobs, especially because he had no idea about it since the Hutts organized it, it probably impressed him.
the classiest sith next to darth revan in all of star wars history.
Dooku’s is far classier than Revan.
Dooku was many things, but he was never a liar when it came to the Sith. The Jedi continually ignoring his warnings about the Sith further solidified his belief that like the Republic, the Jedi Order was irreversibly corrupt and had to be eliminated as well. Made it easier for him to fall to the dark side since he believed that was the only way to undo all the corruption.
1:05:58 If only Obi Wan actually paid attention to that conversation back in Geonosis and took Dooku's word for it.
Fun fact:
Dooku’s voice actor in the clone wars is the same as Hugo Strange in Batman: Arkham City
I love both franchises and I’m never able to hear either character the same
3:34 Didn't he commission the clones, along with Sifo-Dyas? Or is he faking because he's in front of the Voldemorts?
I’m not sure if he knew exactly when the clones would be used, but I’m sure he was mostly faking
He was faking, check out the ending of the Jango Fett Bounty Hunter game and you’ll see Dooku recruit Jango to be the clone template
Dooku was playing it up to hide the fact that this war was engineered by him and Sideous.
@@justinumeda That Jango Fett Bounty Hunter game is not canon anymore. In case you don't know, Disney decanonise all previous Star Wars materials except the Original Trilogy, Prequel Trilogy and The Clone Wars.
Voldemorts 😂
Dooku: "The Sith has bought the Republic! Lock, stock and barrel!"
Obi-wan: "Prove it."
Dooku: "...we have the receipts."
Dooku relying on someone else: 😾. . Dooku doing it himself: 😼
“Young Master SkyWalker, You are NOTHING If Not Relentless. What a Surprise.”
Dooku was only in AOTC for 7 MINUTES?
And like another 5 min in ep. 3 yet he’s a pretty major bad guy lol
Yep. His first appearance was in AOTC and he wasn’t even introduced until about halfway into the movie. Then died at the beginning of the next movie.
Dukoo was a grieving father of the loss of his son in cost of being pawns of the republic
Count Dooku: Master...
Palpatine: Silence!
Count Dooku: Never! My allegiance is to you, my lord.
Great work, Dooku is one of the best sw characters.
I wish dooku has note screen time in films. He was a great character
Indeed it was a shame he wasn't used more in the movies it would have been amazing
Now it hits a little bit different after Tales of the Jedi
Favorite Sith Lord
Ahh yes, Master Dooku
The best scene of dooku 38:49 and 1:05:43
7:27 that music reminded me of Sleepy Hollow. Which is also interesting in that both Sith Lords were also in that film.
Actually Sleepy Hollow had 3 Sith Lords. 1) Christopher Lee (Darth Tyranus) as Burgomaster, 2) Ian McDiarmid (Darth Sideous) as Dr. Thomas Lancaster and 3) Ray Park (Darth Maul) as one of the major stuntman for the Headless Horsemen.
@@trueblue6201 yeah but in that scene, only 2 Sith Lords were present.
count dooku is one of my favorite sith
his elegant
he's an ex jedi and this is what make him even more lovable
I just noticed that every time palpatine wears the hood his face is all wrinkled looking I don’t know if that just me who see that I just noticed that when watching clone wars so when he got hit with lighting he was just showing his true form.