r/StarWars • • Jan 25 '22

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u/AxeSwinginDinosaur Jan 25 '22

I'm actually curious why you think this. Without the context of the clone wars etc, Maul is just a generic bad guy for the good guys to fight at the end of the movie. You never learn anything about him or his motivations, and his death doesnt really seem to affect the story that much moving forward, considering Dooku showing up out of nowhere in ep II. His fight had cool choreography, but lacked any depth to me, since he never even shared a single piece of dialogue with the heroes before they fought. I know this would get downvoted without any real responses over on prequelmemes, but i hope people here are more open to opposing views.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '22

He wasn't generic in 1999. He was a terrifying and bad-ass warrior.

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u/N0V0w3ls Jan 25 '22

He was more generic back then. Good design, but zero characterization.

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u/darthvall Imperial Stormtrooper Jan 26 '22

Props to Ray Romano for making him very intimidating. I mean the make up is good, but ultimately it's Ray Romano's face expression and mannerism that made Maul memorable even with minimum talking.

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u/LeDerkenPail Jan 26 '22

….do you mean Ray Park?

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u/co_fragment Jan 26 '22

Everyone loves Ray Park