That's completely off the point and you know it. Since the very beginning of this 'debate' you knew he fought the Inqs in front of the Jedi, yet you still argued 'he deceived them into thinking he was weak'. You just screwed up your argument and have no effective counter. Unless you think Maul is stupid, it was pretty obvious they were eventually going to face the Inqs or Vader, so his intention was never to 'deceive the Jedi into thinking he was weak', like you said. Try harder.
How about the fact that there's a massive dark side temple with a Holocron so powerful and important that Vader himself considered it of vital importance to acquire? Or how about the fact that the Inquisitors can fly around with their lightsabers due to its power boost? I mean, we can safely reach this conclusion based on the fact that we never see the Inqs pull off something like that prior to Malachor.
And it matters because Maul was fighting Ahsoka evenly while being amped by a dark nexus. Do I need to connect the dots for you?
So, according to your flawed logic, a duel only ends when one of the combatants is injured? Like, if they never get injured, but they are separated and stop dueling for a year, when they clash sabers again it's the same duel? Mmkay, genius.
Yeah, Vader was injured by an unexpected cheap shot from behind. That's telling, definitely. On the other hand, you keep ignoring this:
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Excuses. He wasn't distracted, he has precog and Kanan was ****ing blind. He failed to react. He was in the process of trying to react. Kanan got the better of him. He managed to throw him off the temple with one move.
See what I did there?
He's the director and executive producer. He runs the goddamn show. He decides what happens in it. Your everlasting denial never ceases to amaze me.
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We already see her after the explosion alive. You acting like it's likely she was dead it's like you didn't watch the episode. She's alive and was in better shape than Vader. Facts. They hurt.
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You are misunderstanding me. I didn't mean he meant to imply he's a scrub only that he needed them for Vader as to assuade their anxiety in aligning with a former Sith Lord. You just screwed the pooch with this and thus concede he thought he'd meet up with Vader and tried to kill them anyways.
It was a massive weapon but at no point does the episode point to power amplification for dark siders. This only makes Vader look worse off than anyone since he had ample time against Tano and was unable to hurt her in any significant way. They fought for a short time and she left. Somehow fighting Vader for a longer time without any injuries means worse for Maul. You're a damn fool. Biased, stupid, and weak.
A duel ends with a winner. Vader never won and only delayed her. You are misrepresenting my argument because yours is so damn pitiful.
Vader has precognition, distance between the two, and a dark side nexus according to you. He was slow to react. I've made this claim about him before.
Vader temporarily kept her away. If that's a definitive win to you then Vader lost to Ezra and Kanan.
He was overconfident and fell off. He wasn't injured and had already had Kanan dead to rights before Tano intervened. Maul blinded him. Tell you what let's meet. I get to blind you and you can push me off a short ledge in which I'm fine. You can brag about getting the better of me. Sound good ?
Maul blinded him for life. You're an idiot.
And his opinion no matter how weighted isn't a fact.
I am berating you I am not upset. I enjoy mocking dummies like yourself. I am doing it right now with a smile on my face.
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My arguments haven't been routed as they are reasonable and rely on the actual evidence of the episodes themselves not interviews with Filoni. Run along now, kid.
Well, I doubt that Maul was planning to face Vader without any advantage. He attacked Tano and Kanan, because he wanted Ezra and power of the Temple for himself. And they were an obstacle. So he attacked them, counting, that he will be able to deal with them and return to Ezra before Vader's arrival. With Ezra and Temple's power, it is possible, that he wanted to confront Vader. But without it? Doubtful.
And another thing - if Maul wouldn't be such a fuc.... coward, he possibly would be able to kill Vader, after his duel with Tano and Temple's explosion. Vader barely could walk after all...
Even against Sidious... he was crying like a bitc... and beg for mercy.
Not to mention, that he wasn't brave enough to challange Kenobi in a single combat and fulfill his revenge on him by himself, and himself only.
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Are you kidding me ? Maul is in this for himself. He's there for one thing only. Vader was already wounded by Tano the girl who fled from Maul. Yet you foolishly call Maul a coward. Silliness.
Maul wasn't there to exterminate Vader so why would he hang around for Tano's *****. He has his own thing. He's not obsessed with shitty Lord Vader. Tano got the better of him already.
Actually that's true! He would have had a chance if he just stayed and let it all play out before intervening, and didn't crap himself and run like b**ch
To increase his collection of failures? Might be true...
She didn't run. She just test him, if he's worth of fighting her. And he faild (again) his exam, by loosing to blind Kanan. So she challanged the only worth opponent there - Vader. Pitty that the Emperor wasn't there as well.
The Troll talking shit is making even Maul fans argue against Maul.
But to be fair it's Filoni who has really butchered the character in Rebels. It will take a lot of work to get him back to the bad ass he was in Ep.I again. But tbh He's probably damaged beyond repair now. Because no matter what happens now or what he does he will always be the guy who got stomped by Blind Kanan.
On the other hand Filoni has his favorite character going toe to toe with Vader. He should keep his personal bias out of Canon.
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You really are delusional then.
He has survived despite an entire empire wanting him dead. That's pretty impressive. If you want to talk about failures Yoda and Vader come to mind. You seem emotionally vested in this topic to the point of it being an unhealthy obsession.
So now you're making things up like the whole purpose was to test his mettle. You're a dope. He blinded Kanan and the force makes it clear via the New Hope vision isn't necessary. Have you watched Star Wars at all ? You seem to not get it and make up stupid reasons as to bolster your delusional positions.
Vader was the one who was harmed and limped away. Tano was fine despite a long time dueling against Vader. Poor Vader.
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Nonsense and another bias laden post in which he cries over Filoni. Newsflash you're just some loser fan who has no input on this whatsoever. Cry more I enjoy it.
Filoni and Disney. I'm and oldschool kind of fan. I always considered Yoda and Palpatine as superiors of the others. But Dooku or Mace had always their positions as inferiors who could compete with those guys. And actually gave them a good figts. Anakin joined them at the time of ROTS, Maul was nearly up there as well.
I remember the times of Luceno's finest novels, like Plagueis and LoE and Dark Lord. Ostraner, Jedi and the Republic series...
Mace is lucky, that there wasn't much of him in TCW. But still, he was outmanuvered by Cad Bane in his own Temple and he fell into Cad's trap in "Children of the Force" ep story (as I remember). He also stelemated Talzin in a duel, while he should have beat her. Filoni screwed Star Wars' univers. Diney will be even worse ;/
^ I think it was fine upto the end of TCW. Both Mace and Dooku were given some nice feats. Maul was made much more 3 dimensional. Anakin was shown slowly gaining power. Kenobi had some low showings then finally in the S5 opener really showed what he can do.
But now with Lucas gone it seems Filoni has really let loose on all his own fanboy ideas while disrespecting the characters which he's not as fond of.
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On the other hand, you keep ignoring this: 
