Why didn't the Nabooians shoot Darth Maul dead?

Originally posted by Jam-Jul_Lison
the idea of pushing blaster bolts away seems like it would be extremely hard to do for any force user. Guiding it's direction it is heading is one thing. Completly pushing it back in the opposite direction just sounds to hard for any force user to do. I am sure it is possible but it would be hard. It would be easier to lift an X-Wing in the air with the force then do that. lol

Originally posted by Jam-Jul_Lison
the idea of pushing blaster bolts away seems like it would be extremely hard to do for any force user. Guiding it's direction it is heading is one thing. Completly pushing it back in the opposite direction just sounds to hard for any force user to do. I am sure it is possible but it would be hard. It would be easier to lift an X-Wing in the air with the force then do that. lol

Obi-Wan some weeks or months after AOTC did it easily, when he was wounded and all. Kyle did so in JO as well. I'm pretty sure that Maul would be able to do the same, not that he would need to though....

Originally posted by kamikz
Obi-Wan some weeks or months after AOTC did it easily, when he was wounded and all. Kyle did so in JO as well. I'm pretty sure that Maul would be able to do the same, not that he would need to though....

Uh could you please show me some proof of this.

Sure bro, here it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyl08Aejswo&search=Star%20Wars%20clone

Lol it's in the wrong language though.

I don't have time to go in on JO and take a screen shot, but this should be enough.

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Clone Wars show portrayed the Jedi more Godly than they really were, as did the Comics, they deflect hundreds of Blaster Bolts at once, while in ROTS during Order 66, they only can get a few before being killed

Well what is happening in clone wars is true. And darth vader blocked han solos shot with his hand. And i am sure that darth maul would be able to slay the naboians kinda fast, because it takes time to draw a gun and aim. However, of course maul knows the basics, and i am sure that he knows how to block a shot with the force.

Clone Wars was exaggerated, made more for little kids, the guns were aimed if you would watch the scene in Ep 1, Panaka had his blaster pointed right at him, and blocking Laser Fire isnt a basic, only a few Jedi/Sith were ever able to do it, Vader was learning at the time of ESB, and the Glove took most of it.

Thing is that we have seen Obi and Kyle "I have had force powers for one day" Katarn do the same. We have not seen many do it, but that may be because they all had lightsabers and didn't want to take a risk, after all, it is more comfortable to use a saber then trying to deflect it with the force. The people that have done it though, is not the most powerful persons. Blocking with a hand like Darth was indeed impressive, and I don't think that could be copied by Maul, but pushing away the blaster bolts I belive he could do....

And btw, the clone cartoons are approved by Lucas and this is an EU forum, so they count.

Kyle got his powers from the Valley of the Jedi, and he was still a powerful Jedi, most could not use this power, definately not a non-master, and Maul was like a Sith Padawan
Clone Wars was exaggerated, though it was still canon, Mace Windu jumping thousands of feet in the air onto a fighter and using it to blow up other fighters is not possible by any Jedi

Clone wars are completly true.

And the glove doesnt looks like it takes any damage

Everything in clone wars is true. Everything, everything

Maul were able to take a jedi master and a jedi padawan, come on.

Originally posted by Kaithen
Clone wars are completly true.

And the glove doesnt looks like it takes any damage

Everything in clone wars is true. Everything, everything

Maul were able to take a jedi master and a jedi padawan, come on.

It "looks" like it doesn't take damage? You don't really know much from looks alone, his Armor was supposed to be resistant to Lightsabers, thus Blasters wouldn't do much

Maul was skilled at Lightsaber fighting, and Qui-Gon's Ataru was not effective in the closed area, Obi-Wan killed Maul

Clone Wars was canon, but the Jedi Powers were exaggerated, they were not as powerful in the Movies as they were in Clone Wars. Examples being, in the opening, Anakin force Pushing a whole circle of Super Battle Droids away, destroying them. Asajj Ventress using the Force to take down multiple pillars of rock and smashing them on enemies, which would have been a very difficult feat since Yoda took a little time to rise the X-Wing. Asajj Ventress crushing a Ship with the Force alone. Let me think of some more to add

I know they may seem a bit exaggerated, and I pretty much know all of the stuff that are. But the thing is that it's okay to do so in a cartoon because it doesn't look as silly as if you did it in the movies, and everybody and everything that happens is approved by Lucas....

Yoda wasn't trying hard at all. He was using one hand AND the X-Wing was stuck under that gluey water. Luke Skywalker even made it about half the way out of the water...

What is overrated here? Anakin has shown to push droids that way, the only difference is that he does it around him, not just at one place..

Again, what is overrated here? Assaj was with the force alone, able to lift up Obi-Wan in the air and prevent him from doing anything at all. Seems pretty powerful, a power displayed by Count Dooku....

Meh, Anakin crushed a whole place with medical equipment as well only by screaming, and this was when he was weakened. Assaj was damn powerful in the force as well, there is no doubt here...

And just because "some" actions are overrated doesn't mean the whole thing is. Obi stops laser blasts coming in at him, a whole bunch actually, on occasional times too. But really, I don't see why Maul would have to do that. He dodged (without using his lightsaber) a machine gun with laser blasts. In about one second he was beside it and crushed it's head. He could get to them before anyone of these voulenteers would know it. Also, he could do a shit load of things with the force to them as well. Maul faced the whole black sun alone, these guys actually had the best thugs available and they knew he came and sent out the best they had (when they were escaping from him). They didn't even slow him down, not even some seconds.....

You can't really put Clone Wars abilitys into the Movies, and I never read the comics, just the ones linked (which really don't show much)
But from what I saw on those, he had his Lightsaber activated, unlikely that he would be able to dodge all of those by the time he gets his saber on, unless he pulls out some Agent ability from the Matrix. He didn't know the Laser Deflect ability, we should stick with that, as I doubt it ever said anywhere he did use it.

The cartoons are approved by Lucas nuff said. They are true, the abilities are true, they are to explain the characters development and what happened during the clone wars....

So, he did not use it. He can indeed do it. Why? Because he can sense where they are going to shoot. If you look at the previous pages he dodges some there as well, like ducking, running up from walls, flipping over. Thing is, Maul has beat FAR worse than those guys without getting a scratch, and we are talking SECONDS here. These guys will not prove as a threat. I would have thought the same as you if I hadn't read the comics or any books about Maul, but now I have and I know he will make it.

Originally posted by kamikz
Sure bro, here it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyl08Aejswo&search=Star%20Wars%20clone

Lol it's in the wrong language though.

I don't have time to go in on JO and take a screen shot, but this should be enough.

[Edit to add]
With regards to Darth Maul's 'level', he may have been a Sith Apprentice, but, he was still able to duel against Jedi Masters (Anoon Bondara and Qui-Gon Jinn to name but two) Also, Palpatine is way more powerfull than Master Yoda, so it could be that the Sith 'ranks' relate to higher skill levels than the Jedi equivelents...

It was Darth Maul's Lightsaber skills that gave him the Upper Hand, as well as the disadvantage of Ataru in the closed space, I was merely making that point for his knowledge of Force Powers.

Well even if he cannot push back the laser (which I don't see the problem how he shouldn't), he can still kill them with relative ease....

If they were shooting maul, who would take care of the battledroids and droidekas?

Clone wars are accepted by lucas and are completly true

Even if maul couldnt block, he would be able to dodge and than put on his lightsaber.