I am going to go that route and it's clearly one you can't follow. As a Sith Lord, Revan's plan was to conquer the Galactic Republic by force. He did not succeed; your apologist attitude by making ceaseless excuses for him doesn't change it, AC. Did he come close? He sure did. Close =/= actuality.
And...so he's a tragic and pathetic failure because his student turned on him on a whim? Even though withing a year he'd nearly done something that took the Banites 1000 years of plotting and waiting to do. I'm sorry but thats a tad bit stupid.
Revan was betrayed and it was his own fault (thinking Malak wouldn't turn on him the first chance he got) that alone suggests a VERY heavy ego on Revan's part that he'd give Malak that much power and not be worried about him even AFTER he hacked the dudes jaw off. That is a character flaw.
Likewise, you suggest that him "tearing down everything he ever had done" is supposed to impress me. As the grand architect of his empire, he'd obviously know what flaws to exploit better than any man, the same reason why Palpatine was able to practically destroy the Galactic Empire and then rebuild it from the ground up.
Um wut? You are aware that Revan had no memories of his past life during KOTOR when he was flat out the ONLY person who could stop Malak
Put down the bottle, AC. The two leading men in Star Wars, Luke and Anakin Skywalker, don't share half of those traits. Both Skywalkers were easily manipulated, naive, gullible, arrogant, and in many ways inexperienced. Despite the fact that father Skywalker's status as the Chosen One essentially made him a perfect being Force-wise, he was turned into a pawn by a man who, Force-wise, was inferior to him. Son Skywalker was mind****ed, got his hand chopped off, attacked and nearly killed his father, actually fell to the dark side (none of this "he used the dark side but didn't fall" bullshit) and continues to be outwitted even in his prime.That is flawed.
So wait Revan has to be a gullible moron for you to accept him? You must have enjoyed the latest LOTF novels which dumbs down Luke to utter a buffoon, having him still plagued by fears of the dark side at 60 when he settled those issues at 23 and having him being outwitted by someone he smashed time and time again when he was 25 at 60 is just dumb. And LOL at you listing falling to the dark side as one of Skywalkers flaws when Revan you know: did the same thing, but his still a perfect little gary stu omnipotent in your little world.
Better at everything? Revan's certainly the greater mechanic, pilot, and tactician. Easily on par with the Emperor in personal charisma. Palpatine's narcissistic compulsion to take hold of those who could destroy him -- the Skywalkers -- and break them and dominate them is what led to his eventual defeat and death. That is flawed.
We have NOTHING suggesting Revan was a godly pilot, its never stated and Carth pilots the Ebon Hawk not Revan. And so he could probably plan a military campaign better then Sidious and he could fix R2D2 if he needed to...wow those are the only two areas he beats Palpy in where as Palpatine is:
Uberly powerful in the force? Check.
Uber saber duelist? Check.
Uber strategist? Check.
Ass loads of charisma and charm? Check.
Master Manipulator? Makes the Chosen One his ***** Check.
Strongest Sith ever? Check.
Potential Immortal? Check.
Brings Sexy back? Check.
and Palpatine is not a gary stu how now?
Oh thats right its cause you like him thats why, cause he's your fav...
You have yet to prove Revan's flaws, mistakes, or momentary stupidity.
And Revan thinks he can single handily save himself from the darkside, the galaxy and pretty much everything from the True Sith, he much like Jacen started their roads with very good intentions yet let the Dark Side corrupt them to the point where they went from well intentioned extremist to megalomaniac sociopaths, which in the end is what DARTH Revan is and is what Caedus is, Revans need to systematically wipe out and break every prominent warrior class (Echani, Mandalorians, Jedi, Sith) to mold and unify the galaxy into a strong force under one and only one command (his) to go off and fight yet ANTHER war even though he would have just gotten done with two previous bloody campaign's WREAKS of fascist megalomania. If your going to seriously try and sit here and claim that combined with his fall to the Dark Side and his nonchalant arrogant ways toward Malak are NOT character flaws then um well: u dumb.
Unless of course your going to suggest that Revan is something of a ubermensch which Kreia's self delusions seem to want to believe
And keep out your failed little attempts at insults/humor.