Star Wars/Characters/The Sith Order

• Main
• Characters
  • Anakin Skywalker
  • New Jedi Order and Legacy Eras
  • The Jedi Order
  • The Sith Order
• Laconic
• Trivia
• YMMV
• Fridge
• Fanfic Recs
• Headscratchers
• WMG
• Crowners
  • Awesome
  • Funny
  • Heartwarming
  • Nightmare Fuel
  • Tear Jerker
• Wikipedia
• All Subpages
  • Allegiance
  • Choices of One
    • YMMV
  • Drinking Game
  • Narm
• Create New

The Ancient/Pre-Rule of Two Sith

Darth Momin

• Mad Artist

Rule of Two Era Sith

Darth Bane

• Pragmatic Villainy: Realized that the biggest threat to the with was their Chronic Backstabbing Disorder and thus turned that into a weapon by making sure that there were only ever two Sith, each successive generation could only become stronger as a student had to surpass and kill their teacher to ascend and couldn't rely on other Sith to overthrow their master.
• The Rule of Two: He was the one that came up with it.

Darth Maul

Played by: Ray Park (Ep.I) Voiced by: Peter Serafinowicz (Ep.I)

Ray Park, wearing horns, wielding a double-bladed lightsaber. The fact that all his lines were overdubbed does not in any way diminish his coolness rating.

• Awesome but Impractical: Seriously, if you see somebody wielding such a ridiculous weapon and not covered on scars and bionic legs, either he's a Sith-wannabe loonie with zero experience or a top-tier actual Badass. Fortunately, Maul is a Badass.
• Awesome McCoolname: All Sith Lords come with this.
• Badass
  • One-Man Army: Wiped an entire crime syndicate clean off the galactic map days before The Phantom Menace in the Expanded Universe.
• Bald of Evil
• Black Cloak
• Blood Knight
• Cast the Expert: Played by Ray Park, who was a martial arts expert and stunt man, not an actor (though he became one following this movie). This is one of the reasons that he had virtually no lines. His lines were dubbed by Peter Serafinowicz.
• The Dark Side
• Disney Villain Death
  • Disney Death: ...Only to survive by grabbing a duct, crawling through it, and go into hiding.
• Double Weapon
• The Dragon: To Darth Sidious in Episode I.
• Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting: The first warrior in the Star Wars franchise to openly utilize martial arts as opposed to swordsmanship alone.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Half-human-half-Zabrak, though usually called a full Zabrak.
• Half the Man He Used To Be: Complete with Disney Villain Death.
• Horned Humanoid
• Hot-Blooded: By virtue of his facial expressions and body language alone.
• Implacable Man
• Meaningful Name: Look up the definition of the word 'Maul'. Yeah, it's one of those Names to Run Away From Really Fast.
• My Master, Right or Wrong: Unlike most Sith apprentices, who usually seem to just put up with their masters until they can finally betray them, Darth Maul was completely loyal to Darth Sidious. In fact, so loyal, that this loyalty almost cost him in regards to passing a Sith Initiation Test, to the extent that Palpatine had to motivate Maul by lying about cultivating an apprentice (or at least a half-truth) to get him to have enough anger to even nearly kill his master.
• Obviously Evil: Seriously, look at him.
• Pet the Dog: Given a slight one in his reappearance in Season 4, when his brother learns his survival.
• Psychic Powers
• Psycho Supporter: See My Master, Right or Wrong above.
• The Quiet One
• Unwitting Pawn: Like Count Dooku, Darth Maul was only a useful placeholder for the spot of Palpatine's apprentice while he was preparing Anakin for the role. If he hadn't been killed by Obi Wan, Palpatine would still have found a way to off him eventually.
• Weapon of Choice: Red double-bladed lightsaber.
• White Mask of Doom: In early concept art, at least.
• You Have Failed Me...: This is the reason why he avoided making contact with his master after he lost his legs and fled Naboo, as he feared that Sidious would kill him (or worse) if he returned having failed his mission.

Count Dooku/Darth Tyrannus

Played by: Christopher Lee (Ep.II-III)

A fallen Jedi who left the Order over philosophical issues, Dooku turned up on the side of the Separatists. What nobody knew, at least for a while, was that he was also the other member of the Sith, apprenticed to Darth Sidious. He gives Yoda a run for his money in a lightsaber duel, which makes his Anticlimax Boss appearance in Episode III somewhat disappointing. Played by the legendary Christopher Lee.

• Actor Allusion: What do you think "Count" stands for?
• Aristocrats Are Evil
• Awesome McCoolname: "Darth Tyranus". All Sith Lords come with this.
• Badass Grandpa
• Beard of Evil
• Big Bad: Subverted. Similar to Vader, he's the most prominent villain in Episode II, but is subservient to Darth Sidious. Inverted in that he is generally perceived to be this by the Jedi and the galaxy at large, and on a smaller scale he does occasionally act without consulting Sidious, sometimes in plots to betray him.
  • Big Bad Wannabe: Intended to kill Sidious at some point in the future and take over the Sith Order- he fails.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Betrayed the Jedi Order for the Sith, and proceeded to wage a campaign of murder and assassination against them all, despite many of them being his close friends. In the EU, regardless of the version, he ultimately betrays his apprentice Asajj Ventress, and as per Sith tradition is conspiring against his master Sidious (which doesn't work out). The entire Separatist movement itself is basically one giant con too.
• Cool Sword: The curved-hilt lightsaber allows for a more fencing-like fighting style and is designed to have an advantage in saberfights (due to the unique angles) at the expense of being harder to use to block blaster bolts.
• The Dark Side
• Depending on the Writer: His death. In ROTS, although he does have some fear when he learns of Palpatine's betrayal, he nonetheless remained Defiant to the End right up until Anakin beheads him. In the novelization, however, he panics are realizing Sidious is going to let him die and starts pleading for mercy.
  • According to Christopher Lee, the novelization's take was actually originally going to be in the film, but he had convinced Lucas to change it, as he felt that Dooku would not have begged for his life like a coward.
• The Dragon
  • The Heavy
• Evil Brit: Well, he's played by a Brit.
• Evil Sounds Deep: It's Christopher Lee, what did you expect?
• Fallen Hero
• Hero-Killer: As shown by the Curb Stomp Battle he dishes out in the second film.
• Interim Villain: Mostly as part of Sidious' Xanatos Gambit. Details can be found on the page itself.
• Master Swordsman: Is able to take down both Obi-Wan and Anakin, and holds his own against Yoda.
  • Not to mention being able to train General Grievous into such a powerful swordsman that he was able to slay Jedi in single combat without the Force.
• Meaningful Name: Christopher Lee points out in an interview with the Star Wars monthly magazine that "Dooku" is a homonym for the Japanese word doku, which literally means "venom."
• Off with His Head: After defeating him, Anakin decapitates him scissors-style at Palpatine's urging.
• The Paragon Always Rebels: Used to be one of the Order's finest Knights.
• Shock and Awe
• Unwitting Pawn: To Palpatine.
• Uriah Gambit: Falls hard in the early part of Revenge of the Sith'.
• Weapon of Choice: A curved-hilt red lightsaber.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: For being such an important figure in the Clone Wars, he gets, at most, 30 minutes of total screen time in a saga exceeding 13 hours in length, and none of the "political idealist" persona is elaborated upon. Averted in the EU where, in stories set in this era, he is a fully fleshed out character with the appropriate number of scenes.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: In the EU, its clearer. In AOTC, none of this is actually shown, as he spends his choice few scenes plotting how to best extort the Republic for...something, presiding over a flashy execution, and fighting Jedi. His political beliefs, his ultimate goals, etc. are given zero elaboration. Even his reasons for joining the Sith are never actually explained within the films themselves.
• Villainous Breakdown: Has a brief one after Anakin chops off his hands and he realizes that Sidious wants him dead. Then he gets beheaded.
• Villain with Good Publicity: In the EU at least, and briefly in Attack of the Clone as far as his former fellow Jedi are concerned; in the eyes of many, on both sides of the conflict, Dooku is a charismatic idealist crusading against the very real corruption endemic in the Republic, and all the more overtly villainous characters in the Separatist movement are simply the allies he's stuck with, and the atrocities they commit are done without his approval. Neither is true, of course; although its implied he is against the corruption his idea to weed it out is to set up a sprawling galactic dictatorship, and far from disapproving of those atrocities he usually instigates them, and is more than happy to blame them on the Republic.
• We Could Have Avoided All This: Implied by his reaction shortly after defeating Obi-Wan and Anakin, but before facing Yoda. Upon their defeat, he sighs in a somewhat disappointed manner.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: In Revenge of the Sith.

---

Back to Star Wars