''When Sidious realized Maul's potential he took him from me and trained him as a Sith''
I mean he became considerably more powerful in the clone wars just with in few months, clearly I can't imagine what would he become in 10 years after the period of TPM, could he be a real challenge for his Master ? Or would he be still noticeably inferior to him ?
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Intrepid showed me a quote once that at least gave credence to the idea of Maul one day getting up to Sidious's level or something along those lines. I'm not sure if I believe it, but he had somewhat of a lesser potential than Anakin's.
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Just the fact that Sidious chose Maul as his apprentice, to one day replace him, shows Maul's potential should at least be somewhere close to Sidious's.
Although how much of that potential he still has after being revived in Tcw is unclear. He was cut in half after all.
Sidious however really wanted someone with even greater potential than himself. That's why he loved the Skywalkers.
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Re: What was Darth Maul's true potential ?
Seems legit
Since when is losing your apprentice ever a good thing? It wasn't Anakin's time to be cultivated yet.
Not really sure that implies that as heavily as you think.
An interesting question. One I might actually explore in my fanfic...
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Obi-wan's destiny is entirely based around cutting limbs off, training people, and having girls die in his arms.
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Maul's character doesn't really focus on potential. He's more about breaking overwhelming limits that are forced on him through sheer willpower. He sets his own potential, if that makes sense. Like, he isn't going to let the need for a couple of prosthetic legs slow him down. As soon as he could he rebuilt himself on Lotho Minor, kept on pushing for survival in conditions that would kill anyone else. His strength is earned, not inherent.
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I also think he would have eventually been able to defeat Sidious, but Maul would have done it through physical combat prowess and relied little to none on sith sorcery.
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Eh, given time, Maul surpassing Dooku isn't a stretch.
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I don't think it'd make sense for Maul to get to even Dooku's level of power. At least in regards to offensive powers like telekinesis. It'd be cool if he somehow found innovative ways of advancing Force Augmentation, seeing as he is primarily a physical combatant. But aside from that I'd rather Maul kept to his roots.
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Maul's actually younger than Kenobi Iirc. Plus he pretty much lost 10 years of his life.
I think he would have surpassed Dooku, but not Sidious. So maybe Windu level potential?
Come to think of it, he's still alive, so could still do that. Unless losing half his body has cost him potential (it did for Vader so should do for Maul as well).
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Like I said in the other thread. If Maul hadn't been so stuck up about his lightsaber skills for the majority of his life and actually gave his attention to his Force powers, he would be a ridiculous sorcerer esc character. Maul always had a lot of potential in the Force but for the largest chunk of his life he was obsessed with beating people by being a great swordsman and that is Darth Mauls folly
I dunno. He was only like 22 in TPM Iirc. Up to that stage I think his combat training should focus on martial abilities. After perfecting that he should spend the next few decades focusing on increasing his connection to the Force, to improve his Tk and augment all his other abilities.
Which is probably what he would have done had he not been sliced in 2.
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