Solo The Darth Maul Cameo

The fact Maul never assasinates anyone proves he’s not an assasino. He could have sprung on Amidala from the shadows, but instead sirecrly faces off with Qui-Gon and Kenobi, which indicates he’s a Sith Warrior and true apprentice. In retrospect, Maul was very ambitious to take on two Jedi at once; but the again his master Palpatine slayed two Jedi Masters in one move (Episode IIi), which indicates Maul was trained to take on mulitiple Jedi.

 

Actually the EU's brought Maul back a few times even. Once as a clone created by Sidious's Dark Side Prophets and other as a still living disembodied brain powering a solid-state hologram on Iridonia that Luke came across. Another was Old Wounds, while non-canonical even in the EU, but it was this one shot quasi-canonical story - one that was eventually used as a loose basis for Maul's return on TCW and Rebels for Lucas' G-Level and modern Canon. One of the TFU's proposed early storylines actually featured the return of the Darth Maul from the dead. And by 2011 Lucas was still developing a Darth Maul: Battle of the Sith Lords game that woud've brought Maul into the Legacy era as either a clone or decedent or a still living original Maul with cyborg lower torso.



Anyway, back to SOLO, I liked how they made his eyes glowing red under his hood on the hologram. You have to really enjoy watching the scene on 4K ultra HD.

 

Maul's not an assassin? C'mon now. If Palpatine had wanted Amidala dead, Maul'd have no trouble doing his damndest to carry that out.

It was never about killing Amidala, it was about starting to set the chess pieces on the board for what comes in the next two movies.

 

I think some are confusing "Sith Assassin", an EU concept class with assassin and with that acts of assassination. Sith Lords can be assassins and carry out acts of assassination.

Something else SOLO changed for Maul's tattoos in the modern make up process, they arent just tattoos. His tats are actually edged into this skin like some kinda scarification ritual took place rather than just painted on.

 

I'm in.

 

On a side note, it kinda looks like this Crimson Dawn commander in the comic book was loosely modeled on the TFU Sith Apprentice but they went with Sargate SG-1 Egyptian goa'uld reject looks for these characters:

 

Darth Maul Hot Toys Action Figure









http://www.hottoys.com.hk/productDetail.php?productID=709

 

Are they half off?

 

More like half my pay check.

Hopefully Figuarts and Hasbro's versions (in BS and TVC) comes out around the same time.

 

A second chance to make up for the losses of the film at the box-office. And when I see, just how many videos about describing action figures of other big Star Wars characters are on Youtube, then some turnout should come around.

 

Just to think Maul was on screen for at least 1 minute and he gets a figure for the movie. this is why i can't imagine he not showing up again in live action.

 

I can already read the future postings in the Cassian Andor live action series thread: "I just watched the series because of Maul". And they pressed the last out of Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford. So why not take a similar chance on Ray Park?

 

Ugh, those legs. Completely ruined the character for me.

 

It is strange that they look far less advanced than the last legs he had in TCW....


Or Rebels.


Infact I would say his legs in Solo look more clunky and clumsy than the spider legs. It's like they were desperate to point out to the audience that they were fake, robot legs, oh wait,,,, that is exactly what they were doing.

 

Maul never really covered his entire cybernetic legs, just up the knees same as above/movie. I don't really think he really hid it in any incarnation. Some of the concept art did feature some designs that were outlandish and others that were much closer to this appearances on TCW or Rebels.

While it may look heavy, we do not really know the kinda fictional materials that made it and obviously Maul wouldve conditioned himself to handle it. And its doubtful it would've matter since Maul remained more mobile and agile than Vader, whatever cybernetics he used - they worked well for him. I think the finished look, do look more more sturdy and rugged than in the animated series, which probably would not have the kinda believable articulation, wiring and hydraulics necessary for Maul to move like a ninja as we see in the cartoon. Pretty much very similar to combat chassis from a Terminator endoskeleton and less C-3PO droid model. In fact they're more inline with the live action films, and not dissimilar to Vader's prosthetic lower legs(which had to fit inside boots and shin armor).




Even Saw Gerrera sported a very robotic foot/leg in Rogue One in the film. And it could've been worse:

 

They were probably trying to make sure people could tell they were robotic legs. for anyone who did not know about Mauls return in Clone wars.

 

Aughhhh....why did they have to put Darth Maul in this?

 

Who’s Aughhhh, and what did they have to do with this decision?

 

Ron Howard...that was his old username here. I think. I could be mistaken.

 

Maul's collecting astrological and Dark Side objects from Sith Holocrons to including Rakatan Wraith boxes. And he became a knowledgeable practitioner of Nightsister shadow magick . He's definitely up to something mystical aside from running a vast Criminal empire...