Yea he did and it is on camera.
I’d like to see it then.
Yes. In fact, he originally planned for
Maul with cybernetics to be the main separatist general in the Prequels and only changed the concept into Grievous later.
It’s interesting. However, the fact that it’s coming out in a recent interview and Lucas’s tendency to meddle and retcon his own work, makes me deeply suspicious.
As prior to this there was not even a whisper of an idea that Maul and Grievous were initially intended to be the same character. And I would know- I used to be utterly obsessed with Grievous, he’s still a favorite of mine*, and this is all completely new to me.
Even if Lucas did intend to bring Maul back all along, it still doesn’t change the fact that the idea of Maul surviving getting chopped in half and so on is ridiculous. Never mind his sudden change in personality- as prior to TCW, Maul was pretty much Sidious’s loyal attack dog/assassin. Which was how Sidious wanted him- someone who would never even think about backstabbing him.
However the idea of Maul coming back as a cyborg predates TCW by several years. It was part of a non canon ‘what if’ comic series where he shows up at the Lars homestead on Tattooine, gets into a duel with Obi-Wan and is killed via a blaster shot from Owen Lars, if memory serve me right.
"Old Wounds" is a 13-page non-canon comic from 2005 featured in Star Wars: Visionaries that was written and drawn by Aaron McBride and edited by Jonathan W. Rinzler. It is set in 16 BBY. Darth Maul, with replacement bionic legs attached to his upper torso, seeks out the Lars homestead to find...
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Interestingly this wouldn’t be the first time Maul would be resurrected; he showed up even earlier in a comic where he is seeming brought back in one piece from the dead by Sith cultists (exactly how is never explained). Said cultists view Vader was being ‘not a true Sith’ due to his previous loyalties to the Jedi Order as Anakin. So bring back Maul to kill and replace Vader. Obviously Vader wins.
And it heavily implied that Sidious set this whole thing up- if true, I would guess that Maul was brought back via a combination of Sith sorcery and cloning, much like the Emperor would transfer his spirit into clone bodies and would later resurrect himself after Endor.
I thought it was beyond you to underestimate a Jedi. After all, death and resurrection are common deceptions played out by both Nightsister and Jedi.Thrawn Resurrection was the concept of coming back to life after death. It is used in a belief in the resurrection of individual souls, believed by...
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* which is part of why his depiction in TCW infuriates me.