Darth Maul

Darth Maul later known as Maul is a fictional character and a villain in the Star Wars universe. Trained as Darth Sidious's first apprentice, he serves as a Sith Lord and has a mastery of wielding a double-bladed lightsaber. He first appears in Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace as the central antagonist (portrayed by Ray Park and voiced by Peter Serafinowicz). He reappears as a minor antagonist in Solo: A Star Wars Story, although indirectly helping both Qira and Han Solo defeat Beckett. Maul later makes appearances in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels going by just Maul for he is no longer a sith due to the rule of two he is voiced by Samuel Witwer.

The Phantom Menace
Introduced in Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, Darth Maul is ordered by Darth Sidious to capture Queen Padmé Amidala. On Tatooine, Darth Maul fights Qui-Gon Jinn while approaching the Queen's starship. While Anakin Skywalker (the future Darth Vader) gets on board, Qui-Gon engages Darth Maul in a lightsaber duel, but the Jedi Master escapes. Eventually, Darth Maul fights Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi at the same time. Maul duels Qui-Gon and eventually kills him. Although Obi-Wan gets almost knocked down into a reactor pit, he uses the Force to propel himself out of the pit, and equips himself with Qui-Gon's lightsaber to cut Darth Maul's legs off seemingly killing him, after which the two pieces of Maul's body fall into the pit.

The Clone Wars
Darth Maul appears in the fourth and fifth seasons of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. In the third season, Darth Maul's origins are elaborated upon: he is portrayed as a warrior of the Nightbrother clan on the planet Dathomir inhabited by the dominant Nightsister witchcraft society led by Mother Talzin. Darth Maul's tattoos are described as the markings of a warrior (in contrast to earlier sources which identify his body art as Sith markings). Talzin has Savage Opress find his long lost brother.

In the fourth season, Darth Maul is revealed to be alive, having survived his presumed death at Obi-Wan Kenobi's hands by climbing into a vent in the pit and falling into a dumpster. Having ended up on the junkyard planet Lotho Minor via a dumpster craft, Darth Maul has become insane and suffers amnesia since Obi-Wan defeated him. Opress finds Maul and brings him to the devastated Dathomir, where Talzin restores Maul's mind and gives him robotic legs. Maul learns that the Clone Wars have started without him as he is aided by Opress to exact his revenge on Obi-Wan. Maul proceeds to attack a village on planet Raydonia as his first attempt on Obi-Wan's life, only to be thwarted due to Asajj Ventresses unexpected appearance to collect a bounty on Opress. Obi-Wan and Ventress flee due to Maul and Opress overpowering them, the former deciding to await another opportunity while realizing that the Jedi already know of his continued existence through the Force.

In the fifth season, Maul continues to appear with Savage Opress. With Opress as his apprentice, Maul begins building a criminal empire. Needing followers, they travel to Florrum and manage to convince Weequay pirate Jiro and his crew to join them and betray their leader Hondo Ohnaka. Maul once again duels Obi-Wan, while Opress fights and kills Jedi Master Adi Gallia while Maul's pirates attack Hondo's loyal forces. Obi-wan and Hondo forces retreat and regroup inside Hondo's compound. Maul's forces eventually break in and Obi-Wan draws the two brothers away form the pirates, engaging them in a two on one due while the pirate factions fight elsewhere in the compound. Things go badly for Maul however, as Obi-Wan, thought numbered, cuts off Opress's arm and forces the Sith Lords to retreat. Meanwhile, Honda wins back his crew by "persuading" them under threat of heavy artillery. Both the Pirates and Kenobi chase off, blowing off one of Maul's robotic legs and badly damaging Maul's ship. Maul and Opress manage to escape, however, but get stuck in dead space due to the damage to their ship. After several days are found close to death by the Death Watch Mandalorian warriors, led by Pre Vizsla, who gives Maul a new set of legs and Opress a new mechanical arm. Maul offers Vizsla the chance to reclaim Mandalore by recruiting the Black Sun and Pyke crime families and Jabba the Hutt's minions to create the criminal syndicate named The Shadow Collective.

From there, Maul engineers Vizsla's rise to power: he orders his henchmen to attack Mandalore so the Death Watch can arrest them and appear as heroes to the denizens who have long lived under Duchess Satine Kryze's pacifist rule. Vizsla, however, betrays Maul, imprisoning both he and Savage. Easily breaking free, Maul challenges Vizsla to a duel to take over the Death Watch and Mandalore; he succeeds in killing Vizsla and then claims his former co-conspirator's darksaber. He wins the loyalty of most Death Watch members, but Bo Katan retreats along with those loyal to their previous leader. Maul then puts the disgraced former prime minister Almec, whom Satine had imprisoned for corruption, in power as a puppet leader, thus solidifying his control over Mandalore. Maul then anticipates Satine being broken out of prison and her attempt to contact the Jedi Council as part of his plan to get Obi-Wan to Mandalore. Once Obi-Wan arrives and attempts to rescue Satine, Maul captures him and exacts revenge on the Jedi by murdering Satine right in front of him, hoping to make the Jedi suffer as much has he once did. Obi-Wan is later freed by the Night Owl rebels (Bo Katan's Death Watch faction) who request Republic aid.

Maul senses Darth Sidious arriving on Mandalore. Although impressed with his former apprentice's survival, Sidious declares Maul a rival and uses the Force to push and choke him and Opress. He then engages them both in lightsaber combat, fatally injuring Opress. After Opress dies from his wounds, Sidious reminds Maul of the Rule of Two and that he had been replaced. Enraged, Maul pulls out both his lightsaber and darksaber and proceeds to fight Sidious on equal ground, but Sidious ultimately defeats him. Maul pleads for mercy, but Sidious ignores him and tortures him with blasts of Force lightning. However, Sidious reveals that he has no intention of killing Maul, remarking that he has other uses for his former apprentice.

Solo: A Star Wars Movie
He is the employer of The Crimson Dawn and is an ally for both it's leader Dryden Vos and Tobias Beckett, who directly works against The Rebellion. However, after Qira tells him about his plans to steal the coaxium and lied to Maul that he had actually killed Vos and the other goons, Darth Maul asks Qira to come to him so that they can decide what to do about "traitor Beckett and his minions". Qira realizes that Han Solo has killed Beckett, and drives Vos's small ship towards Dathomir, to assure the defeat of Beckett's gang, and the safety of Han Solo.

Rebels
An older Maul appears in the season 2 finale of Star Wars Rebels. Tracked by an Inquisitor named the Eighth Brother, Maul has become stranded on the ancient Sith world of Malachor, where he is discovered by Ezra Bridger among the ruins. Introducing himself as "Old Master" and seeking revenge for Sidious' actions against himself and his family, Maul leads Ezra into an ancient Sith temple, where they discover a holocron that Maul claims can give them the knowledge needed to defeat the Sith. After recovering it by gaining Ezra's trust, the two find Ezra's master Kanan Jarrus and former Jedi Ahsoka Tano locked in battle with the Eighth Brother and two more, the Fifth Brother and the Seventh Sister, who have been pursuing the rebels for some time. Maul—having cast aside the title of Darth—then reveals a new lightsaber disguised as a component of a walking stick and joins the Jedi in battling their enemies.

After the Inquisitors retreat, Maul convinces the Jedi that he can be trusted due to his shared antagonism of the Sith, and expresses his conviction that he lacks the ability to defeat Darth Vader on his own. Working together, he and the Jedi ascend towards the top of the Sith temple and successfully defeat the three Inquisitors. It is then that Maul reveals his intention to take Ezra as his apprentice, having already tricked him into activating the temple. After blinding Kanan, Maul briefly duels Ahsoka before facing Kanan again, only to be knocked off the temple's edge. However, he survives the fall and escapes Malachor in the Eighth Brother's TIE Fighter.

Months after the events on Malachor, Maul once again reveals himself to the Jedi as he takes the Ghost's crew hostage. He threatens to kill them unless Kanan and Ezra bring both the Sith and Jedi holocrons to him. Despite an attempt by the Rebels to escape, Maul successfully recaptures them and takes them to a remote base in the Outer Rim where he awaits the arrival of the Jedi. After they arrive, the holocrons are hazardously united allowing Ezra and Maul to see visions of their desires: Ezra sees images of a way to destroy the Sith, images including "twin suns", while Maul sees a vision of his own. Kanan begs Ezra to look away before he sees something he doesn't want to while Maul tells him to ignore Kanan and keep looking. Ezra heeds his master's words and breaks off the connection, which causes a great explosion. Maul escapes in the confusion uttering, "He lives."

Maul reappears after finding the Rebellion's secret base. He tells Ezra that because the connection was severed, they got bits and pieces of each other's visions. With the holocrons destroyed from the events of their previous meeting, Maul discovered another way to get the information he needed. With Ezra he travels to Dathomir, former home of the Night Sisters, and recreates one of their spells to temporarily meld his and Ezra's minds. After the spell is completed Ezra, who was still looking for a way to destroy the Sith, and Maul realize they are both looking for Obi-Wan Kenobi.

In the episode "Twin Suns", Maul is shown lost on Tatooine. He decides to use Ezra to lure Obi-Wan out of hiding. During their confrontation Maul deduces that Obi-Wan is not only hiding, but is protecting someone. In a swift duel, Obi-Wan delivers a fatal injury to Maul. As he dies in the arms of Obi-Wan, Maul asks if the person he is protecting is the Chosen One, to which Obi-Wan replies "he is", which convinces him that the boy will avenge them.