6) A new world
Although this isn’t explicitly mentioned in the trailer – and yet it’s giving off some heavy Coruscant low-level vibes –shadow lord It’s actually set on a brand new planet, Xenix, whose capital is built inside a giant crater. This is for good reason, beyond taking us away from a familiar place: Maul isn’t stupid enough to almost set up shop right under his former master’s nose, after Palpatine kicked him and his brother Savage out after Maul usurped the reigns of Mandalore. clone wars.
5) TK Troopers
talking about someone else star wars A legacy of the animated series, we get to see a group of very specific Stormtroopers in action throughout the trailer. Heavily inspired by the early Ralph McQuarrie art of the Stormtroopers for the original star warsTK Troopers, as they are known, were introduced bad batch As the initial wave of non-clone military forces recruited by the Empire.
Although prior to this they were being secretly trained by former clone commandos, the phasing out of the clone army with the introduction of the Imperial Defense Recruitment Bill in around 18 BBY, along with the formal induction of TK Troopers, gives us some specific time frames. shadow lordThe setting of the early rise of the empire.
4) Blade of a Dark Disciple…
We get a very interesting glimpse of Maul’s lightsaber in the trailer as he kneels in front of a tea set. Using part of Maul’s original lightsaber, some of the weapon has been modified to create the two-bladed saber we saw him wield Phantom Menace And clone wars Until he was thought lost after his aforementioned duel with Sidious on Mandalore. We actually see Maul use this new saber clone wars‘In the final season, during his duel with Ahsoka Tano at the climax of the Republic’s siege on the Mandalorian homeworld (this was the time of the duel in Maul’s life).
But the interesting thing is that the newly added part of the design has already been given priority star wars: The new part of the hilt is the same design that was used by Asajj Ventress in the artwork created for her appearance in the initial canon novel. dark disciple. What’s interesting is that neither Maul nor Ventress themselves keep the weapon for long: Maul gets a new weapon by the time of his appearance. rebels And Solo: A Star Wars StoryWhat appears to be part of the rounded guard of an Inquisitorious saber attached to the hilt, while the latter appears to have been returned from the grave bad batch And tales of the underworld Sees him using a curved hilt inspired by the original sabers he used as a Sith apprentice.
3) …and a new disciple altogether?
But we have all those words of the disciples Very Another character that has sparked interest features prominently throughout the trailer – a young, pink-skinned Twi’lek Jedi. Named in supporting press as Devon Izara (and voiced by Gideon Adlon), Devon is a Jedi on the run with his master, Eko-Dio-Daki (Dennis Haysbert), and we see him doing many ex-Jedi things like helping others and fighting Imperial forces. But it also seems as if, pushed into a moment of desperation, shadow lord Maybe that sees him turning to the dark side and partnering with Maul.
Naturally, a young Twi’lek is being roped in as Maul’s new apprentice star wars Fundamentalists are raising their eyebrows at the possible canonization of an acquaintance star wars Face from the Expanded Universe: Darth Talon. Talon, a red-skinned Sith Lord with Maul-esque tattoos, was created by John Ostrander and Jan Duursema for Dark Horse’s 2006 comic series. star wars legacywhich was set 130 years after the events of the original films, where she was one of the two Hands of the resurrected Sith Empire of Darth Krayt along with Darth Nihil (not to be confused with Darth). nihilus From Knights of the Old Republic IIBut we’re getting distracted by Sith names here).
While that would be absolutely crazy star wars Canonizing Talon in some form, making him Maul’s apprentice, isn’t exactly without precedent. George Lucas himself had previously revealed his strong interest in the character, to the extent that one of his possible early ideas for the sequel trilogy before selling Lucasfilm to Disney included Maul’s return from the grave as a version of the big bad of the trilogy, with a version of Talon as his apprentice. Of course, that never happened, but given that we’ve already seen Lucas revive Maul and make him a crime lord clone warsThis won’t happen Very It was surprising to see that contemporary continuity had its own influence on Lucas’s thinking.
2) The Die Is Cast
Speaking of familiar faces, we get a brief glimpse of another comics character working alongside Maul in the trailer: a purple-haired woman wearing Mandalorian armor, at one point seen destroying Maul’s enemies with a flamer attached to her wrist. While some people may be wondering about that description rebels‘The time of Sabine Wren, who was actually a bounty hunter for a short time before joining Hera Syndulla’s rebel cell shadow lord makes it almost impossible—Sabine was almost 16 by the time the rebelsBy the time of this show she had become a child.
Thankfully, there’s one more thing that matters more when it comes to purple-haired Mandalorian women, which has been confirmed in the show’s casting: Rook Cast. Voiced by, quite funny, rebels Alumnus Vanessa Marshall, cast for Dark Horse Comics miniseries Darth Maul-son of Dathomirbased on an unpublished clone wars The story that would have set the stage for Maul’s escape after his defeat on Mandalore. Still one of the loyal Mandalorian supercommandos who was part of Maul’s Shadow Collective, Cast helped free Maul from imprisonment and eventually went back to his animated roots when he appeared briefly. clone wars‘ as one of his lieutenants during the siege of Mandalore in the seventh season, where we see him defeated and captured by Bo-Katan.
1) No one expects the Imperial Inquisitorius
It’s back to this one with familiar faces, but the trailer hinges heavily on the fact that, no matter how much he wants to, Maul still can’t escape the shadow of his former master. Palpatine sent not only stormtroopers to Genix, but also the Imperial Inquisitorius to hunt down Maul in the form of two familiar inquisitors.
The trailer briefly sees the bird-masked eleventh brother, previously seen jedi stories And Stories of Empire, But more prominent is Maroc, the gaseous inquisitor brought in (and killed). AshokaThe first season of. The character is no stranger to being established at the pinnacle of the Inquisitorious as the First Brother star wars Animation, making a brief appearance in the above stories of empire.
We won’t have to wait much longer to see what other cool connections the show makes: to criticize—shadow lord Hits Disney+ on April 6.
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