Darth Maul Vs Mara Jade or any other imperial hand who wins

I read somewhere that the purpose of the imperial hands was the same as Darth Mauls except he was an actual apprentice and sith lord. This makes sense when you think about it. The emperor would need the hands because Vader and Tyranus couldn't do what Maul did. Vader was the emperors very public enforcer and inspired dread wherever he went. And Tyranus was the man he entrusted with starting and bringing forth the clone wars. Neither one of them were the shadowy assasin that Maul was that why he needed Mara Jade and the other hands. That being said who wins Maul vs any of the imperial hands.

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Maul. Hands down. He was trained as a Sith Lord, designed to replace Palpatine (except he really didn't want a successor, but that's not really the point - he was fully trained as a Sith). None of the Hands were, because Palpatine and Vader neither wanted nor needed that kind of possible threat to their power.

- Keralys

 

That's pretty much what I was going to say. Maul is waay beyond any Hand.

 

Maul, hand down. NO hand was every trained as throughly as Maul was, he was a Sith lord. No hand comes close.

Now a case can be made for either Mara Jade or Lumiya now, as a Jedi Master and Sith Lord respectivly....but while they were Hands they didnt have a snowballs chance in hell.

 

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But Maul. He was trained to be a superpowered fighting machine, plus he has Sith techiques. It's like in the Darth Maul comic, when he went up against a Nightsister. Total pwnage.

 

Agreed. Jade circa even New Jedi Order could take Maul, I think. Lumiya might have been able to defeat him after building her lightwhip weapon. But Maul would have crushed teenage Jade or Brie. If Blackhole was still healthy, he might have been able to present a challenge to Maul (he was a Jedi Master, after all ) but he was a sick old man, so no. Arden Lyn lacked the innovative, ferocious new Sith methods that Maul channeled. Stele was only a latent Force-sensitive, IIRC, and his true talents lay in piloting. We know little about Quest, but he wasn't exceptionally strong in the Force, it can be assumed. Ismaren was weak, and I don't know what use Palpatine had for her.

 

Ismaren was weak, and I don't know what use Palpatine had for her.

As far as I know, she was used to keep an eye on the activities of the folks of his Imperial court. She was also used for other reasons, like producing an illegimate child(Irek aka Lord Nyax).

Maul would have little to no problems against any of the imperial hands.

 

She was a court spy, and possibly used for the sort of activities which could produce a child, but Irek was actually the son of Sarcev Quest, another Emperor's Hand and court personality.

 

I forgot about that. I was mostly correct in my statement then.

 

Lord Maul! He will win, trained as a Sith, with excellent combat-style, I'm sure that he'll win!

 

Well, Sa Cuis gave Vader a run for his credits. But Maul would still beat him.

 

Waru could so have taken Maul. If only Palpatine had had the foresight to make him a Hand.

 

darth maul most definantly.

 

The Hat could so take Waru.

 

True. Was it a Hand?

 

This is, I can say without hyperbole, the only time I can remember actually looking forward to seeing Tiershon_Fett come in and obliterate Mara.

*grabs some popcorn*

KW

 

I think the real question is - could young Mara beat padawaan Ben Kenobi?

That sounds fairly plausible, right?

Now remember what happened to Maul...

- The Imperial Ewok

 

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To hell with Maul!

I wanna see Mara Jade vs Asaaj Ventress.

Preferably in a slave outfit blue milk match. Hells Yeah!

 

Darth Maul would beat Mara Jade at any point, assuming equal amounts of training. Mara gets better and better as she practices, and Maul can't improve after his death, so it's not really a fair comparison. If he had as much extra practice time as she did, he would mop the floor with her. (Actually - and I admit that I have only seen Maul in TPM and DM:SH, so later comics/etc. aren't in my mind right now - I think TPM Maul could beat NJO Mara, too. It would be close, but I'd still put my money on Darth Maul.)

Padawan Obi-Wan would also beat a young Mara, unless by "Padawan" you mean "was still a youngling last week."

 

Hell no. Young Mara struck me as the shallow end of the pool compared to just about any prequel-era Padawan, Obi-Wan definitely included.

 

Sigh....no,no,no. Mara Jade by the time she is a Jedi Master is completely able to take on Darth Maul, Kenobi was great as a padawan but not THAT good. As for Maul getting better, no. It says quite matter-of-factly in TPM novelization that Darth Maul was "A warrior in his prime, never to be any better". Anyway, its a hands down waxing around the time of her Mastery, and I think she'd take him as a knight too.

As for Mara Vrs Asajj, another waxing. She took out Lumiya while she was still ::for all intents and purposses:: a padawan, although I willadmit that Luymiya wasnt much more than one herself, despite her boasts at the time. Either way I'll argue that Lumiya was better trained than asajj was at the time, so if Mara beat her, then she beats Asajj hands down. That being a marker of her ability pre-kinighthood, I feel comfortable saying, yet again, that shed take out Darth Maul quite neatly by the NJO.

 

Jerec *probably* could've taken Maul. Most likely Lumiya, at the height of her power, could have as well, but we've never seen her there.

TPM Maul > NJO Mara. Maul killed two of the Jedi Order's greatest swordsmen. When has Mara ever displayed that much prowess with a blade?

>>As for Maul getting better, no. It says quite matter-of-factly in TPM novelization that Darth Maul was "A warrior in his prime, never to be any better".<<

Physically, he was at his prime. There's no limit to how powerful he could have grown in the Force.

 

Come on, NJO Mara is good, but Darth Maul is a Sith Lord. These guys are always dangerous even to the greatest of Jedi Masters (Qui-Gon?). Darth Maul was a killing machine and the only NJO's with a chance are probably Kyle, Kyp and maybe Jacen. And Luke of course would best Maul.

 

But could Kyle kill him without the force?





Yes, Kyle doesn't need to force, the force needs kyle...



-The Rebel Gungan