Darth Bastila?

I'm sorry, but being Darth General would be kind of lame

 

Begone, post.

 

Jarael did shoot him down, I suppose... the Wookiee seems to think so, anyway

 

Alek supposedly is a variant of Alexander, who was both a sovereign and a general, which are different meanings for Malak/Malek/Malik etc. So the name change from Alek to Malak might make sense out-of-universe, but not in-universe.

 

Ouch ....now my head hurts....I need a stiff drink

 

ARGH! KenobiKid, I gave you more credit than this! Obviously, since Alek and the Revanchist were lazy bums and spent about .5 seconds coming up with half-ways decent Sith names, Darth Bandon must have been Brandon at one time!

I mean, seriously. Duh.

 

Well Barriss, if Malak is Alek then he was always on the look-out for ways to improve his name.

First he changed it from Squinquargesimus to Squint, then he started referring to himself by his much more appropriate first name, rather then his inpronouncable surname, and finally as a Sith Lord he changed the spelling to only involve one pair of vowels instead of two seperate ones for typographical reasons.

And I still think that Alek might actually be Bandon, reather then Malak. All he has to do is grow a goatee. But this would still reduce him to an evil guy whom Revan eventually kills, and therefore be less awesome then if Alek were simply an original character.

And Revan was too busy leading a Jedi Crusade to bother coming up with an original name, (if Revan wasn't his name in the first place, which I still wonder) if everyone thought of him as the "Revan-chist" he might as well use it.

 

Kenobi_Kid, you gotta let it go. Its basically done deal now that "Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force" came out and flat out said Alek IS Darth Malak. Yea...yea...yea...its not "offical" canon, but they didn't put that in there for the hell of it.

 

Not until he gets blue tattoos will I accept it!

 

¿Qué?

 

"Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force" came out and flat out said Alek IS Darth Malak.......its not "offical" canon, but they didn't put that in there for no reason.

 

I understand what you were referring to. I'm just curious as to what you mean by "official canon."

 

Wait, blue tattoos, pale, white skin...

You don't suppose they're related to Jarael in any way?

 

You may be onto something there!

 

Sidious named his apprentice simply "Maul" years before he granted him the full title "Darth Maul"

p.s. looked up "revanchist" on dictionary.com, it is a real word after all, meaning one seeking revenge for defeat and to regain lost territory

how very appropriate

 

If that's all that he needs for you to accept it, then, what's the argument? Does he have to be born with tats in order to be Malak? If you go back to issue #0, you'll notice he says "--But, to get them to notice us, we'd have to paint our heads and babble about the darkside!" If that's not foreshadowing, then I don't know what is. And besides, Bandon was Malak's Sith apprentice, no Revan's. Why the heck would Bandon be following Revan, when Malak was his right hand man? This is either
A)You just don't want to face the fact you were proven wrong.
or
B)You're just trying to get people to argue with you.

It's been proven, plain as day.

 

At least they'd be consistent. Seems like it took Palpatine about that long to give Vader his.

 

A day's night side embrace does not make Shan a darkwoman.

 

It certainly is "official" canon (as opposed to...the unofficial kind?).

 

The ending shot of Squint in that red spacesuit and own red attire certainly matches the seers' Sith vision . . . but so what? It's an obvious giveaway, and the artistry team make spring something unexpected yet.

 

I'm curious...

The Exile is accepted as female in light of the NEGTD but Alek is not being accepted as Malak despite the EGTTF.

I can't get my head around why the two situations are being treated differently.

 

You think that Exile is accepted to be a female? You must have missed much whining from lots of people who wouldn't and many of who still won't accept that Exile is a she and not a he.

The opposition to Darth Malak being Alek has in fact so far been less than the opposition from the fans to the decision that Exile is canonically a woman.

 

Just from what I've seen, I think the difference there is that people were (and still are) against the idea of the Exile being female, not that they didn't believe it was true. With Alek, I think a lot of people genuinely don't believe that he's Malak and expect that there's still a plot twist coming.

 

For some people, there is always a plot twist coming. They never lose their belief that the stories are full of misleading red herrings, even when real cases are few and far between.

 

These people remind me of the folk who were absolutely convinced for five years that Palpatine and Sidious could not possibly be the same person, because it was just too obvious.

My favorite idiot theory was that Palps was going to kill Sids and steal his midichlorians.