The Darth Maul & Savage VS Palpatine Lightsaber Duel (Why It's Great)
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Darth Maul & Savage VS Emperor Palpatine stands as one of the best lightsaber battles in both The Clone Wars and Star Wars as a whole. Here, we breakdown how through use of animation, Dave Filoni and his team were able to inject greater movement into Darth Sidious and unleash his full potential.
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I love how Maul calls Savage “brother” when he’s concerned for his safety. The whole thing about Savage just being his “apprentice” and his apprentice only, is just a facade he puts up because as a Sith Lord, he doesn’t really know how to convey emotions very well. He genuinely cares about his brother but he doesn’t want to show it.
Also when Obi-Wan cut Savages arm off, Maul is overwhelmed with emotion and even ignores Obi-Wan to care for his bro.
If Obi-Wan was a darker he could have executed Maul then and there while he was distracted. You have to give him credit here considering that Maul had executed Satine the last time they met. If Anakin was in his position (with Maul killing Padme) he'd try to mow down everyone in the room.
Sidenote, Sidious' also allowed Maul to care for his brother, but solely to inflict pain on him in the same way Maul did with Obi-Wan and Satine. These tangential parallels are very interesting, and both reinforce the difference in characters and also present a theme of actions having consequences.
Shanez1215 great observation, adds another rich layer to the Maul/Obi Wan connection.
Stop you’re making me feel bad for this guy after he’s committed actual war crimes
@@shanez1215 Satine hadn’t died at this point. This was during the Florrum arc with Hondo, back when Maul first returned.
@I want to suplex Joe Cecot but Maul is for sure black.😐
Something that has always stood out to me in this fight is how Palpatine is animated. There's this unnatural fluidity to the way he moves, flipping, ducking and bending in ways that just don't look quite right. A lot of the time when he's moving, he looks less like he's running and more like he's just floating along the ground like some kind of wraith. It makes him seem all the more inhuman, like he's not so much moving normally as he is simply puppetting his own body with the force.
It's a great effect and makes Palpatine seem all the more unnatural and unimaginably powerful.
*The dark side has access to skills that some would call...unnatural."
This is how RotS SHOULD HAVE portrayed him. The Palpatine/Windu duel was unfortunately very awkward.
@@noahfortner2 HOW DARE YOU?!
He was using Force Speed so effortlessly
He should have two on oned Ben and Rey in tros
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My favorite lightsaber fight in all of Star Wars by far!
Darth maul just has the best battles in all of star wars
I wonder how Revan would fare against Palpatine?
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It's great
The Lore Master A comment from the lore master? What an honour!
The Palpatine fight with Savage and Maul was a true demonstration of his combat ability... and Clone Wars’ amazing animation.
It makes me wonder Why Didn't yoda oder get rid of both of them
Honestly the fact that maul starts using obi wans stance just demonstrates how he knew he was going to be on the defense for that entire fight
@@orionxx9998 which considering this is maul of all people, shows how terrifying sidious is as an opponent.
@@azathoththeprimalchaos2289 Sideous wanted to deal with maul because he knew he would become a actual threat and even stated so in the comics
I would watch a remastered version of the fact with a more crisp animation and better refresh rate for modern screens so hard. Disney should really remaster all the best animated fights like that (don't change them; just improve the color quality and refresh rate and stuff) and package them into a light saber dueling special.
Palpatine's legs get tired from all that killing that's why he's always in chairs
Carrying all his plans puts quite a bit of strain on Sidious’ back
Carrying that big swinging dick is murder on anyone's knees
@@JS-ct3kr wtf bro 🤣
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Another thing this shows is Palpatine's strengths and weaknesses. Mainly how his smirk breaks only a few times during this fight as if he's thinking "Really, I need to put effort in?" While it also shows how he only uses lightsabers as an egotistical exercise as there are moments where he just wildly swings.
Also I really like Witwer's performance as Maul. Massively looking forward to his performance in Season 7.
That is one of the best part of TCW the animators were amazing at duels in the later seasons not only are they amazing looking but they are all more than just duels in this one you can tell that Savage is totally outmatched the entire time and both maul and palpatine are not really going all out palpatine is just toying with them and maul is just fighting normally but after Savage dies maul goes full force and palpatine stops smiling so much and starts snarling palpatine still wins but it's harder for him it's one of my favorite episodes in the entire series
Sounds like EvanNova and Jensaarai.
@@Darthpsychonis yeah, that's where I first heard it.
@@Jedi_Spartan They do good research for their vids, but are often bias in their opinions. Sidious as a swordsman is one of their pet peeves, mostly because Jensaarai does not like how Palpatine fights in the films and how impractical it would be IRL. It is the same reason he doesn't like Yoda as a swordsman and thinks that someone like Vader world beat him. They are worth a listen, but I would be hesitant in forming your opinion off of theirs.
@@Darthpsychonis yeah but the spin from Episode 3 does look stupid and only seems to have the benefit of throwing off his opponents whereas with Yoda it at least makes sense why he does it. Also at 2:14 of this version of his duel with Maul and Savage, he's just swinging his lightsaber at Maul randomly: ruclips.net/video/-7hBZNsPnyg/видео.html also the move he pulls of to disarm Maul at the end looks like it would be impractical even for a force user.
"Welcome back, Chancellor. How was your holiday?"
"It was..."
*Maul screaming and sobbing under electrical shocks*
"...most restful." *smiles serenely*
How did you knew?
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"Even got to see an old friend...."
I've seen this exact comment in the fight video
*"Welcome back, Chancellor. How was your holiday?"*
"Good...., i could feel my anger!"
I love how for like half the battle with Savage, Darth sidious did not have his lightsabers on. He was that far ahead of Savage, Maul on the other hand got the lightsabers.
Headhunter12345 not entirely true, while yes he’s very far ahead of Savage he turns off the lightsabers to force push Maul and if you go watch it he only has them off for 6 seconds before he has to reactivate them
@@Nett11 A force user can force push anyone even with lightsabers activated. Sidious turned them off because like Headhunter said he was many steps ahead of both Savage and Maul. He was most likely using "Dun Moch" a technique used by Sith where the user basically taunts their opponent to implement doubt into them. He was just stepping aside and barely moved his body everytime Savage would strike.
I love how shortly after Sidious starts to fight Maul one on one he deals Maul the greatest disrespect by putting away his lightsabers and tossing him around like a ragdoll with the Force. As if to say "Okay I'm bored now let's end this."
More like "I've had my fun now time to end this"
@@messengermal5298 More like “Oh shit, it’s gotten really late and I have to make a report for tomorrow’s meeting! My secretary is going to kill me.... oh yeah, Maul is here...”
No.It's because Palpatine needs toe force to make certain that he can subdue Maul.
@@hellothere4045 He disarms Maul before using the Force no ?
@@NormanOsborned Sidious increased his force augmentation to overpower Maul
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Rey.
Rey who?
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I love how he just casually swaggers through the fight as if none of it really matters to him. He knows he could flat kill the two of them exactly how he killed the two Mandalorians, and this fight is just his way of having fun with it. Its brutal and you kinda gotta respect the hustle
Maul actually put up a good fight tho
@@gabecarr8496
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Mail had no chance, but I suppose he did "okay" under the circumstances Sideous sets 😂
Cad Bane palpatine was just toying with him
Wait what stops Maul from just force choking Sidious?
@@fortunasp5391
Think of it as a power scale, with Sideous being at the very top.
He's like your Beerus/Madara/Aizen.
So more or less, what stops Sideous from just force choking mual? Nothing.
What stops mail from force choking Sideous?
Power gap
What a lot of people don’t realize is that when Maul ‘begs’ for mercy, he is actually begging Sideous to kill him. He knows what kind of torture Sideous is capable of. He would rather die with honor than be tortured indefinitely
The Senate: "I see you survived your injuries..."
Maul: "The dark side of the force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural"
Maul: "abilities like force-fan service, capable of resurrecting the dead such as myself."
The senate: REALLY!? YOU DONT SAY!?
@@aurorauplinks Maul: Did you ever hear about the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise?
Sidious: understandable, have a good day.
Ironic
"you want a character with duel wielding lightsabers?"
ventress: am i a joke to you
Grevious: (cough cough) Am I a joke to you?
Dual*
Sadly.... Venturess and Grievous are nothing compared to Sidoues for he is the true with Lord. And I always loved the old cannon of Lightsaber forms and stlyes and a book talking about how to fight against with which some t xts talked about fighting two with with two lightsabers so I always thought that Sidoues used two lightsabers cuase he was fight two Other sith and thus showed off his power in his way.
Everyone saying he was playing with them and that I agree but I would like to think he had to be careful for even as powerful as he was. His plans where the real weapon and when he has to Hustle. Well he can Hustle.
Ahsoka Tano?
Ahsoka Tano.
Asajj Ventress.
Sheev Palpatine/Darth Sidious.
Galen Marek/Starkiller.
@@Tar-Numendil I think this thread is about dual-wielders in TCW. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Galen Marek shows up in TCW.
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“I’m not like you. I never was”
God I love Savage’s last line. It’s so perfect
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You should also cover other duels in TCW, I would particularly like to see:
Savage + Maul vs Obi Wan on Florrum
Dooku vs Obi Wan + Anakin (Obi Diah).
Ahsoka Vs Maul lol "Your lucky my master didn't show up.... the way your fighting you wouldnt have lasted long.."
@BattleEmpoleon what battle you talking about
@@chaos_kid-_-9147 I LOVE THAT BATTLE SO MUCH
@BattleEmpoleon true very under appreciated, maybe the most under appreciated, i love what a genius dooku is putting them into their weak lightsaber forms, anakin on the defensive and obi wan on the offensive
Palpatine using a lightsaber is like when your band teacher uses an Instrument.
Accurate.
He’ll take your instrument, sneer at the brand, make a comment about cheap factory production and then absolutely dominate you
"Our boy Palpie is more of a Machiavellian schemer in the shadows than a duelist...But it's Sheev we're dealing with here. He manipulating events 24/7, in the middle of a lightsaber duel...Palpatine is 50 steps ahead of the game at all times."
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It's super effective!
5:02 let's take notice how maul took form 3 as a stance instead of his mainly used form 4, he respected and feared Sidious so much that he changed from and attacking form to a defensive form.
The Kenobi Stance
I never really looked at this duel as a duel, mostly because Palpatine is having way too much fun to take anything seriously lol
So every single duel he's ever been in isnt a duel?
Because he's always having fun!
@@jidk6565 Maybe except the Mace Windu and Yoda duels but other than those, yeah basically 😂😂😂
@mosesheffner It's still a duel regardless of numbers, just how easy this duel is to Palpatine.
mosesheffner True. But when someone is talking about “duel” we usually just refer to the fight itself but you’re right.
mosesheffner Again true but in Star Wars it isn’t
For some reason I like Palpatine better when he has two lightsabers
Nah I feel as if it fits him much better with 1. Its alot more elegant and mature.
He looks dope as fuck with 2. Almost as cool as Revan.
It gives off the sense of him being a frenzy of destruction in a fight and also indicates how little effort he puts in.
Same
richard schlange wtf? His stance ain’t dope at all. 2 lightsabers are far more elegant.
"I was expecting Kenobi"
Also the video starts at 2:33
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I still can’t believe how Palpatine was able to make someone like his former apprentice beg for mercy. Sidious was that terrifying.
I believe the mercy maul meant was to go ahead and kill him and spare him the torment
7:31 "it's over maul, I have the high ground"
Maul definitely got a bit of revenge on obi wan. He freaking killed his gf.
Josh Allen yeah, to be fair, it was Obi-Wan getting revenge on Maul for killing his master
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I really hope the new season includes fights like this
Ashoka vs Maul fo sure
ray parks came back to mo-cap the fight that maul is gonna have with ahsoka
Filoni said during Star Wars Celebration that he he considers the Maul-Ahsoka duel is their finest work. A paraphrase but in essence of what he said.
I really hope they show Palpatine's full power since Rise of Skywalker only brought him back to be one shotted before he could show us everything.
Ahsoka vs Maul is gonna be lit af
I hope that the Darth Maul Son of Dathomir comics are adapted back into episodes! I really want to see Sidious, Maul, Dooku, and Grievous on screen together!
I would honestly love to see an alternate timeline where Sidious just goes "sure you can be my apprentice again, you just have to get rid of the current one" because a Dooku vs Maul battle would be fantastic.
We see quite a few battles from Dooku but he always seems untouchable. He never seems to be threatened by anyone who challenges him, so it would be interesting to see him battle someone who is around his level.
Going by lore and rep, Dooku would completely annihilate Maul. Maul had good fighting skills, but that was abou it. It's why Sidious acquired him "on the side" to use for assassinations. And he did this while he was still an apprentice under Darth Plagueis too. Maul was never really a full sith apprentice, more like a side project.
Dooku on the other hand was jedi trained by Yoda and was supposedly just as good with a saber. I mean Dooku and Yoda dueled in the 2nd movie and it was pretty close. Matching Yoda swing for swing is no small feat.
Dooku would likely beat Maul just about as easily as Sidious did.
One slight correction. I guess Maul was a full apprentice after Sidious killed Plaguis and before he picked up Dooku. (I'm actually not fully up on when Dooku joined him. I haven't read that book). Like in The Phantom Menace. But he was never in Sidious long term plans.
@@TheRayfield77 I'm pretty sure maul was originally meant to be sidious' long term apprentice. But once he assumed maul was dead and discovered Anakin's great power in the force, his plans changed to make him his apprentice, and when maul showed up again, he decided not to bother with taking him back because he knew Anakin had more potential
Darth Maul's Failure could have led to one hell of a Redemption story.
The funny thing is Palpy in a really Twisted way has a genuine "Fatherly" "affection" for Maul and Vader 'note the quotes' unlike poor Dooku who he never saw as a viable successor but just a pawn in the game to be thrown away.
My fave moment in the fight is when sidious just glides out the way of savage’s strikes. He’s having such a laugh while savage just gets more angry and unbalanced
I mean, it was pretty clear he was playing with his food from the first move. When he was able to pin both of them down with the force- with them unable to break free. He dropped them so he could see what they've got.
Dude, the Son of Dathomir comic was the only thing aside from the main movies/clone wars to remain canon in the Disney purchase.
It is meant to be apart of TCW which they said from the beginning would stay canon.
Psychonis glad to hear that
i love how my boy Shev turns off the lighsabers in the middle of the fight, even though the opponent is literally attacking him at the exact moment as seen in 5:46, he is so confident in his own ability that even though the opponent has a weapon that can rip off a limb with a simple movement and its only form of defense is the lighsaber, it keeps it off because it knows it doesn't need it.
5:40 The way Palpatine was kicked off by Savage, then backflips and force pulls both him and Maul whilst momentarily floating is incredible.
One of the things that surprised me the most is that Filoni stated in an interview that Savage did better against Sidious than the Jedi (the ones that accompanied Windu: Tiin, Fisto, and Kolar). Which only goes to show how superior Sidious is to other Force users, save Yoda, Vapaad amped Windu and full potential Anakin and *sighs* All the Jedi aka Rey
If rey could defeat kylo with 2minutes of swinging lightsaber practice, imagine what she would with 10 minutes of swinging.
@@paulwalker9608 Do you want reality to be shattered as the center of the galaxy is swallowed up by a black hole after one swing???
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"I have plans for you" Since the series was cancelled I thought we'd never see what those plans are but the new trailer for the end of clone wars has given me hope!
Maul was put in prison by Sidious and escaped. The sith then launched an attack on Dathomir killing all but one of the Night sisters. This new season takes place after Maul is saved from Dathomir by Death Watch and brought back to Mandalore
Isaac Whittaker-Dakin I don’t think we’ll be seeing them in the new series. But we did get to see them in the Son of Dathomir comic
@@EditedAF987 he is in the trailer are you dumb
@@Lanosrep thanks for the catch up! 👍
@@IsaacWhittakerDakin 👍
7:03 Heh I like how the "brother" is synchronized with the clip
4:49 This line reminds me heavily of the “I have been every voice you have ever heard inside your head” quote
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Can’t wait to see what his opinion of the Ashoka vs Maul fight is like
This was my favorite arc. Palpatine actually coming out of his ivory tower to become Sidious and slap Maul down was tremendous
I loved this video but the peep show moment was the icing on the cake.
Chance would be a fine thing!
@@FullFatVideos Is that a thing people say?
At least we know Maul is coming back in the final season of Clone Wars.
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One thing I appreciated aside from the fight itself is the background mural of the Mandalorians gunning down Jedi, portrayed as deformed monsters. Really shows the relationship between the two way back then, a good example of show don't tell.
"He just shot lightning," as a jab at The Rise of Skywalker. In response, I present to you Return of the Jedi, where the only thing he does is shoot lightning until he is physically picked up and carried.
That's fair
But Revenge of the Sith he get shocked by his own lightning,but at least be started the fight using a Lightsaber and only converted to his Force Lightning was beacuse he was disarmed
It doesn't make both of this scenes less stupid🤷
Different circumstance. In Return of the Jedi he was just trying to torture Luke to death. In Rise of Skywalker he keeps shooting lighting at Rey even though she keeps bouncing it back until he is destroyed. If there ever was a time for Sidious to use his lightsaber instead, it was then.
@@Darthpsychonis he was hooked up to a machine (presumably keeping him alive) and without a lightsaber.
I was promised an analysis of the Grievous fight in his first appearance in Genndy Tartakovsky's Clone Wars in 2 weeks...3 weeks ago. I am disappoint.
It's out next week! :)
@@FullFatVideos I am looking at you with suspicion xD
@@FullFatVideosHi! There is an extended scene in this sidious vs maul duel where maul force chokes sidious and pins him to the wall. Is that scene canon? Because Matt Martin stated that in a tweet. What do you know of this?
I always love how Sidious laughs pretty much the whole time, man's genuinely enjoying himself.
Like when you're 25 and you're 10yr old cousin gets boxing gloves so thinks they're tough af 🥊😂
Thats false. Sidious always laughs to intimidate his opponents which is why he also laughed against yoda and mace even though he was loosing so you could basically say he laughs when he is serious
@picklerick3588, I don't see why it can't be both my guy
And the fact they all use juyo makes the duel so raw and so brutal
The Dolby Atmos sound in this fight was really great. Hopefully we get more duels in the new season.
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Rey who?
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i loved this duel for the intensity in everything going on and how Savage seemed to know he was out of his league but still stuck by his brother's side anyway
You can also notice that Palpatine only really tries after he kill Savage, before then he seams to just toy with them.
THIS is the best lightsaber duel ever. Period.
The clone wars is by far my favourite star wars media. Every season was great and the lightsaber fights were even better. I so cant wait for season 7 and see what it gives us.
The thing I love is that the lightsaber combat is that its also mixed in with plenty of martial arts, kicks, punches, etc.
i've never noticed that Maul is like obi wan in this fight
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A little detail I love is when Sidious has the two against those windows. They were cracking and with what would probably minimal effort he could have sent them flying likely to their deaths. Instead he lets them go, showing he was indeed playing with his food
Can’t wait for his video on the Ahsoka V Maul Duel!!
Ah you guys have finally covered this beauty of a fight. Now we need more!
*A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.*
It wasn't intended to stay ambiguous, there would have been more arcs with him if the show hadn't been cancelled (we got Maul escaping as a comic: Son of Dathomir)
I recently rewatched this episode. God this duel is awesome.
Yea,That's Right,I'm a BadAss..
Btw,that wasn't me in RoS,that was my twin bro
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This is getting out of hand, now there are two of them!
I love the way he says "the graphics are amazing"
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7:54 fun fact he wasn't begging for his life he was begging for a quick end. Because if you've seen the comics and know palps well, you know there are far worse things than death,quoted from the grand inquisiter.
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i seriously loved this battle - bought all season 5 clone wars on RUclips to view this story
7:29 because the high ground always wins
I’m so glad this was talked about, this is probably my favorite duel in the show. If I had a recommendation for another duel, it would probably be General Grievous’s first appearance in the 2003 Clone Wars.
When you finally find a video whose comments haven’t been deactivated
Darth Sidious moves like he’s in his 20s or 30s. Just shows how powerful he is in the force, truly an amazing villain and one of my favorite Sith.
8:07 that’s not entirely true. He yelled, “SAVE ME” but it was cut in the end, although you can see his lips moving.
0:20 - ahahahaha. That reaction 🤣🤣🤣🤣
6:24 - Damm, that laugh. You can feel every emotion from Palpatine : joy, fun, anger etc. But the one emotion that strikes into every viewer is fear. Cause you see how effortlessly and casually Palpatine made it. Simply toying with them. Now that's scary.
Canonically, Windu defeated Palpatine not because he was a superior dualist, but because he used a fighting style that absorbs the strength of dark side force users. Since Palpatine's fighting style relied heavily on the force to work, he could no longer perform many, if not most, of his moves in his arsenal, handicapping his performance.
I think it's interesting to note is that when the sabers get ignited. Maul enters Obi-Wan's defensive pose for the first and only time ever on screen. He's so scared shitless that he instinctively moved to self preservation mode.
Something I personally like is, at the end, Maul really starts to stand up to Palpatine. They start to break even in the duel, trading the same blows, blocking perfectly. I think that in a straight saber duel, no directly using the force with no pushes and lightning, Palpatine vs Maul at that point is a 50-50. But Palpatine is smart, he knows damn well he can out-do Maul in the force easily, and just goes to finish the duel before there's any chance for that. It displays the skill of two true sith lords, but still shows that the strongest one comes out on top, no matter where that strength comes from.
I know maul can keep up with sidious just like dooku can with yoda but eventually the apprentices will loose
The coolest moment of this fight for me was when Sidious was pushed off that balcony but uses the force to pull both Savage and Maul with him... !!!
7:53 I felt so bad for Maul even though he’s one of the most powerful sith ever lol
I also love the deeper hum of Sidious's sabers.
Makes him all the more menacing.
You gonna do the mandalorian? I just finished it
This is my second favorite duel in the franchise, just behind Maul vs Obi Wan in Rebels. Dave Filoni really goes above and beyond for us every chance he gets
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a great thing with this part of the series is how they animated fights
they started with emphasis on each clash, and making everything in between awkward
but THIS fight shows how improved the animators are, it's so smooth with every clash
just beautiful
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😬 Welp, guess it’s time to head out
I love the attention to detail of Palpatine having 2 sabers. In episode 3 he used one that got lost in the duel with Mace and another during his fight with Yoda
It was comfirmed by Lucas that mace won because of his vaapad lightsaber style forged to use the darkside within his enemy and himself to win the battle especially against darkside users
Well yes, but part of it may have been because he needed to lose for Anakin to take pity on him and join the dark side. He had a winning scenario whether or not he won or lost the duel.
Palpatine didn’t sit in that office for over a decade to get offed by one Jedi. He manipulated that entire situation.
Though vapaad is very strong and can be a logical explanation for windu winning the fight , it’s believed that was anakins final straw before becoming Vader . George Lucas is the creator of Star Wars but I’ve read he doesn’t know what is going on half of the tine
8:07 actually, anakin was supposed to beg to be saved, but it was cut due to the scene becoming too long. In fact, you can see him reaching his hand out and mouth the words "help me" they just muted it and cut Obi Wan's dialogue.
6:45 Mace fucked him up. Thank Vapaad
The way Palpatine went in on Maul & Sauvage...I honestly didnt expect that level of BEAST. New found respect for Palps.
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Did? Might wanna remake this line