Sure, the company could rely on articles such as this one to explain to confused filmgoers exactly how and why Darth Maul went from presumed dead in The Phantom Menace to alive and scheming in Solo, but that’s still a significant amount of backstory they’re opting not to fill in for the huge number of Star Wars fans who only go to see the movies. ( Jimmy Smits’s Bail Organa, for example, made a fun appearance in Rogue One.) This is, however, the first time the movies have leaned quite so heavily on Star Wars non-film content, such as books, comics, and animated shows. Though some prequel subjects seem off the table for the revived Star Wars galaxy-when’s the last time you heard anybody talk about “ midi-clorians”?)-this isn’t the first time Lucasfilm has referenced the prequels in this new Kathleen Kennedy era. Really, though, Maul’s future appearances aren’t as important as his very presence in Solo in the first place. It’s more likely, then, that Maul will feature more prominently in any future Solo adventure presumably, our favorite smuggler will at some point come face-to-face again with his first love, Qi’ra, and be forced to make some tough decisions involving her ultimate survival. But if that happened, the timing wouldn’t seem to line up with what happened between the duo in Rebels. Those two characters have a lot of intertwined baggage. It’s possible that he might show up in the planned Obi-Wan spin-off, which also takes place before A New Hope. Fans of the animated series Rebels already know how things will end for Darth Maul-but it would seem Lucasfilm has some future plans for him. In other words, Maul is here he’s half-robot get used to it. He’s just simply Maul now, and as was the case in some of his animated and book adventures, he has rebranded himself as a crime lord running something called the Shadow Collective, which includes groups named Pyke Syndicate, Black Sun, Hutt Clan, and, apparently, Qi’ra’s crew: Crimson Dawn. He no longer goes by Darth-that’s a Sith title worn by bad guys like Darth Sidious and Darth Vader. Suffice it to say that for people who are deeply absorbed in the non-film side of what Lucasfilm has to offer, Maul has been a big and ongoing presence. If you want to know more about Maul’s improbable second life-guess lightsaber slices cauterize those pesky bisection wounds?-you can check out the animated series, Star Wars novels, or comics. We don’t need to go too far into Maul’s survival story just know that it involves a diet of rats, some robotic spider legs, and finally these more practical cybernetic limbs.
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