The “Sith legs” of Darth Maul have become their own villain in a popular Star Wars meme posted on Twitter. Strangely, Star Wars comics jokingly already introduced the concept of the sentient Sith legs, as imagined in the original artist’s depiction.
After Darth Maul was cut in half by Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, he returned in The Clone Wars. Finding refuge in a junkyard, he managed to gain robotic legs. When he finally left the planet, he vowed to find Kenobi and take revenge. However, fan art imagines that the Sith’s lower half has a life of their own, with a similar mission.
In a popular meme posted on Twitter by @cortex0917, the legs of Darth Maul wield a red lightsaber, seeking revenge on Obi-Wan Kenobi, much like the top half of the Sith. The art was created by ScaryisGood who shared it to the subreddit, r/StarWars with the title, “So, since the top half of Maul was able to survive being cut in half, whose to say his bottom half couldn’t?”
Interestingly, the idea harkens back to humorous dialogue in Darth Maul: Death Sentence as featured in Clone Wars: Epic Collection Volume 2 (written by Tom Taylor with art by Bruno Redondo). In that story, the idea of Darth Maul's missing legs--equally lost, equally presumed dead, and equally deadly--is directly addressed, wondering if the Sith Lord actually knows if he is now two beings bent on revenge. Or, as the comic puts it, "Crazy Sith legs running around by themselves ready to deal out a good kicking?”
The fan art is reminiscent of the character designs first revealed for Star Wars: The High Republic, which introduced fans to new characters from the galaxy’s distant past who would soon appear in comics and other media. Maul’s independent legs echo the meme of “Geod,” the sentient rock companion that many fans mocked.
While the idea of Maul’s active Sith legs remains a fantasy, his reaction to the thought makes it seem like his own worst nightmare. Fans can imagine his haunted dreams, even after the Clone Wars era, as he remembers the part of himself that remains a Sith. As he goes onto lead the crime syndicate Crimson Dawn, there will always be a part of his past he struggles to reconcile. Somewhere in that junkyard are the legs of Darth Maul.
Source: @cortex0917, u/ScaryisGood
source https://screenrant.com/darth-maul-sith-legs-villain-star-wars-meme/
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