Originally posted by Nephthys
Interested to see the thoughts of people who put a lot of stock in author statements about this.
It feels good to be somewhat vindicated in my placement of Kun on Sidious' tier.
It was obvious to me that from actual depiction - and not hyperbolic statements - Exar Kun is the strongest Dark sider of them all.
Virtually all the other contenders, Sidious, Krayt, Plagueis, Vitiate, Nihilus were taken out by either an elite individual or a small number of elites from their own era.
Even in the case of Abeloth, the bulk of her essence/power was defeated by Luke and Krayt together.
That's not the case with Kun. He was head and shoulders above the elites of his own era. It took the concerted efforts of thousands of Jedi using the greatest Light side power in the mythos to beat Kun. Then 4000 thousand years later his spirit casually wrecks post-DE Luke.
Kun is not even a character I particularly like. But it's undeniable that he's the strongest Sith ever.
That's cause Kun was doing some ritual that was similar to Vitiate's ritual on Nathema, which would have made him some spirit that can wander throughout the cosmos or something like that. If anything Ragnos>Nadd>Kun going by the comics themselves and disregarding encyclopedias. Ragnos is hyped being this amazing DLOTS who's mere amulets granted Kun and Ulic far more power than they could have ever gotten from what the Krath and Nadd's teachings can offer them. Nadd implied he was in awe of the prowess of the Ancient Sith, and was in belief that with his new body he'll be the head honcho of his relationship with Kun but ofc Kun destroyed him instead of granting him his wishes.
It "takes" thousands of Jedi to seal Kun (who had just drained the power of virtually the entire Massassi species) in the same way that it took every Jedi who ever existed to seal Palpatine forever.
Also, accolades declaring that you're the most powerful ever aren't hyperbole, lol. Not when there's over a dozen of them.
Originally posted by Unbowed
It was obvious to me that from actual depiction - and not hyperbolic statements - Exar Kun is the strongest Dark sider of them all.Virtually all the other contenders, Sidious, Krayt, Plagueis, Vitiate, Nihilus were taken out by either an elite individual or a small number of elites from their own era.
Even in the case of Abeloth, the bulk of her essence/power was defeated by Luke and Krayt together.That's not the case with Kun. He was head and shoulders above the elites of his own era. It took the concerted efforts of thousands of Jedi using the greatest Light side power in the mythos to beat Kun. Then 4000 thousand years later his spirit casually wrecks post-DE Luke.
Kun is not even a character I particularly like. But it's undeniable that he's the strongest Sith ever.
I want to add that reading TOTJ the characters Ommin and Waarb Null were obvious expys of Palpatine and Vader from ROTJ, pretty sure that's supposed to indicate that they're also supposed to be as powerful as said characters. Ommin even had the entire planet of Onderon under the power of the dark side with his sorcery along with his family, akin to DE Palpatine and his Dark side adepts control of Byss. And all of that was given to him by the power of Freedon Nadd's mere spirit, and just a fraction of that power.
One wonders how things would have been if they kept the idea that Naga Sadow was a mere Sith sorceror who was banished by the TRUE Dark Lords of the Sith and Nadd was someone who was too weak to take the mantle of Dark Lord from a Sadow who only became Dark Lord via proxy aka the destruction of the Sith species.
In fact if that were kept true then the Krath and Nadd's teachings were mere scraps of what the Ancient Sith had and considering Markas talismans granted Kun and Ulic far more power than the Krath's and Nadd's teachings like I said beforehand then the Ancient Sith's true intentions painted God like beings in Star Wars continuity. Sadly that only partially came into frutition.