Whether the silent hunter seen in The Phantom Menace or the more emotional mastermind he's become in stories since, one thing is consistent about Darth Maul: his lethality. His tattooed, demonic appearance radiates rage and evil like none of his fellow Sith Lords, and many have been on the receiving end of his fury.
Looking across the Star Wars canon and the various media which has told Maul's story, it is possible to pinpoint the first characters who met him and didn't walk away to tell the tale.
10 "Dirty" Calgriz Was The First Of Many
Cullen Bunn and Luke Ross' 2017 Darth Maul comic mini-series shows one of the most important events in Maul's Sith apprentice-hood; the first Jedi Maul killed. In the comic's first issue, Maul learns of a Jedi Padawan captured by slave traders.
Seeing a chance to finally face a Jedi face-to-face, Maul travels to the planet Nar Shaddaa for more information. While there, he gets into a bar brawl and kills the Quarren gangster "Dirty" Calgriz.
9 Maul Killed Jee Kra To Get To His True Quarry
Maul, leading a team of bounty hunters, infiltrated the auction for the captured Padawan. Rather than attempt to bid his way to victory, Maul allowed the auction to go undisturbed; a group of Moogans led by Jee Kra eventually won out.
When Kra and his men attempted to leave the station with their prize, they were ambushed by Maul's team, who wasted no time in killing them and stealing the Jedi captive.
8 Eldra Kaitis Was The First Jedi Killed By Maul
Suspicious of Maul, the auctioneer Xev Xrexus placed a bomb on his ship. Thus, Maul, his team, and the captured Padawan Eldra Kaitis crash-landed on a small moon, then were beset by Xrexus' guests. Maul and Kaitis temporarily allied to defeat the bounty hunters, but once they were dealt with, the duel which Maul had craved begun.
It was a battle where the dark side won; Maul impaled Kaitis with his lightsaber, claiming the life of his first Jedi. Left empty and unsatisfied, Maul concludes he'll simply have to kill more.
7 Maul Killed Xev Xrexus To Protect The Sith
Once he kills Kaitis and parts ways with the bounty hunters, Maul tracks down Xrexus to get some revenge. The crime lord assumes that Maul is a Jedi and that he wishes to avenge Kaitis' death.
When Maul corrects her, she realizes what he really is. If Xrexus had even the tiniest chance of survival, that realization snuffed it out; Maul kills her not only for revenge but to protect himself and his master from prying eyes.
6 Maul Next Killed Zek Peiro
Age of Republic - Darth Maul 1 is a one-shot follow-up to Darth Maul; Ross returned to art duties for a script written by Jody Houser. The first half of the issue, set after Maul's return to Coruscant, shows a disguised Maul (using the name "Kaitis" after the Jedi he killed) hire master thief Zek Peiro.
Maul suspects that Peiro is force-sensitive, and when he's proven right, Maul kills him to satiate his craving for Jedi blood.
5 Killing Qui-Gon Jinn Changed Maul's Life Forever
Easily the most significant of Maul's murders is when he kills Qui-Gon Jinn at the climax of The Phantom Menace. During the three-way duel on Naboo, Jedi Master and Apprentice are temporarily separated and Maul picks off Qui-Gon. While he fares less well against Obi-Wan, this is just the beginning for Maul and Kenobi.
Aside from Qui-Gon being the most developed character who Maul killed, the death had wide-reaching ramifications; if Anakin Skywalker had trained under Qui-Gon, he may never have become Maul's successor, Darth Vader.
4 Maul Killed Gritz While He Was A Feral Savage
Bisected by Kenobi, Maul barely clung to life thanks to his hatred amplifying the darkness within him. Ending up on junkyard world Lotho Minor, Maul constructed an arachnid-like cybernetic to replace his missing limbs.
However, while his body survived, his mind didn't; he spent the next thirteen years as a cannibalistic beast. As told in Cavan Scott's comic story "The Horned Devil," some of his prey during this period was Gritz, an unfortunate member of the ship Salvage-1.
3 After His Rebirth, Maul Slaughtered A Raydonian Village
Eventually, Maul was found on Lotho Minor by his brother Savage Opress; their mother Talzin restored Maul's mind with Force magicks and refined his cybernetics to a more humanoid shape. Obsessed with revenge and reclaiming lost glory, Maul decided his first step would be to lure out Kenobi.
Taking Savage as his apprentice and accomplice, Maul went to Raydonia and held a local village hostage—when Obi-Wan arrived, the village was in flames.
2 Finn Etray Was A Victim Of Maul & Savage
In "Revival," the opening episode of The Clone Wars Season 5, the introductory "newsreel" spotlights Maul and Savage's activities since their encounter with Obi-Wan back in "Revenge." The pair have been cutting a path across the Outer Rim; even when the Jedi find them, they can't capture them.
The sequence specifically shows the Sith brothers killing two Jedi; Finn Etray duels Maul while her partner battles Savage. Etray eventually attacks Savage to save her defeated partner, but this simply gives Maul an opening to stab her. Clearly, Twi'lek Jedi don't have a good track record against Maul.
1 After Recruiting Some Pirates, Maul Killed One To Assert Control
For the task of eventually opposing his old master, Maul decided to build a power base in the Underworld. To do so, he recruited some pirates employed by Hondo Ohnaka, winning them over with the promise of a greater cut under him than their old boss. However, in an attempt to demonstrate his authority and cow Ohnaka into submission, Maul executed one of the three captains who pledged to him.
This no doubt played a role in the others' eventual defection back to Ohnaka. However, Maul's efforts didn't stop here; his later criminal enterprises would be more successful than his first.
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