#Sam Witwer voiced it

[adh-d2]

Psst.

JediMaul AU nerds.

We just got the closest thing yet to a canon depiction of Maul's personality if he'd not been raised by a sociopath from infancy.

Dude's an enthusiastically affectionate goofy goober this is canon now pass it on.

[girlcaelius]

anakin was not born with the teeth of a star-eater, ferrous-black and always dripping blood. his halo did not used to shine so brightly that it hurt his master's eyes, his skin did not always shift and ripple like the surface of a newly-forming planet as the magma churns beneath. his eyes used to be soft and blue and human. he did not grow into his own radiance like it was an oversized sweater, nor did it grow from within him, transforming him gradually from within; his greatness was thrust upon him by a creature who whispered dark promises with the voices of a thousand evil men. he does not want it, this power, and it does not want him.

he is glad his mother has never known him like this. in the depths of his spiralling despair he finds himself almost glad she died, so that she remembers him as human and not... this. supernova child, borne of the cosmos. sky-walker. he is not the son of the stars, he is the son of shmi - wide-eyed boy, sunburnt cheeks, shock blonde hair. the galaxy will not remember him that way.

they will know him as monstrous. she knew him as kind.

[bikananjarrus]

omg hiiiii sam witwer darth maul <3

[ladyzirkonia]

The hottest shit on the mandalorian throne.

#forscience

GIF's by: @djareen@dailymaul@mask-knife-clone-simp@tesb@casian@cal-kestis

[weregonnabecoolbeans]

Before I got into star wars, I saw Darth Maul’s face everywhere so I assumed he was like a major character in these movies

Imagine my surprise watching TPM for the first time

I was like why is everyone obsessed with this guy, why is he everywhere!?!

He had a cool battle with awesome music then just fucking died! He said like 2 sentences the whole movie!!

Then I watched The Clone Wars and Rebels (I had already seen Rebels growing up but apparently I blocked maul from my memory) and now I find myself completely obsessed with him so….jokes on me I guess :)

[captainshyguy]

[pacing] no but actually what did they put in close wars maul to make him so hot like what was that

[edwardbonnets]

#is this a safe space.........#because um. maul during this arc. well 🥴

NO LISTEN I'VE BEEN IN LOVE WITH HIM EVER SINCE--

LMAOOO IM SO GLAD IM NOT ALONE like i've mentioned to my irl friends that maul is hot and they look at me like im insane

like yeah. is he bald and red and spiky and also a murderer???? yes. but also have people considered.........sexy voice and sexy character development

[claracivry]

palm tree and jasmine for the ask game

palm tree ⇢ do you have a fictional villain you shouldn’t like but love regardless?

I mentioned some of them before and idk if Nebula and Lila (tua) count? Because the did start as villain even tho now they're part of the gang. Oh also in the "are they even really villains they are so justified omg" Jin Guangyao from the untamed. He's right and he's allowed, I'm sorry.

Oh! Lately I've been on a Sam Witwer phase because of that guy in Ted Lasso that looks like him and he was greeeattt in Smallville as Doomsday. Also he was in OUAT as Mr Hyde and he didn't have a lot of screen time but he was HAWT in Victorian clothes (Sam Witwer. Not the Ted Lasso guy) (the ted lasso guy is apparently younger and british) (the more you know)

jasmine ⇢ do you have a movie or book you loved but will never watch/read again?

uuuuhmmm tht's tricky because why wouldn't I want to revisit if I liked it? Maybe Memento. I have such fond memory of it I dont want to watch it again and realise that "it wasn't that good, actually".

Thanks for asking! Sorry for that tanget in the first question lol

[lightsabergirl]

NO you don't understand!!!

I love him ❤️🖤

(the fact that he's also voiced by sam witwer????? I'm gonna scream omg)

someone pinch me

we got happy maul

we got happy maul, holding flowers

we got happy maul holding flowers in Lego form

oh my goodness

[transfemmbeatrice]

some of the great maul talk from amca 92 on "visions and voices" (rebels s3e11)

transcript under the cut

(audio from star wars: rebels s3e11)

darth maul: it is unfortunate about your friends, ezra, but this, this is your opportunity to embrace your destiny... as my apprentice.

ezra bridger: i told you, that is never going to happen!

darth maul: forget the past! forget your memories! forget your attachments. our futures converge on a planet with two suns; we can walk that path together! as friends! ...as brothers.

(audio from a more civilized age ep 92)

rob: ...with sam witwer putting in that work!

austin: every time!

rob: to the point where... he gets a shakespearean monologue here, and is in full--the tragedy of maul unfolding here as he tries to get ezra to join him one last time. and it becomes clear that for maul--all really maul wants--beyond just the revenge--he needs all this to not be meaningless!

rob: that is how it feels. the thing that haunts him is that he's become aware. like rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead type self awareness. that ultimately, his role in the story is episode one. he is an apprentice who shows up, he fights one duel where he appears to be tougher than they expect, and then... he kills qui gon and is slain as part of obi wan's journey to becoming the great obi wan kenobi, master of anakin skywalker and future teacher of luke skywalker.

austin: he's a character who knows that without his specific actions, he's only going to have two paragraphs on the wookiepedia. and he's like, "i ain't goin out like that. i'm a main character!"

rob: and because of those two paragraphs, everyone he's ever known has been wiped out. dathomir is gone. he had a brother: wiped out. everything he's ever attempted is crushed and erased from history.

austin: it's like, "okay, do you want some more paragraphs? okay! each one's gonna be a tragedy." and he's like: "give me another one. i want another one. i'm going to have as many paragraphs as any of these other motherfuckers. i'll take the tragedy! i want them. i want it all."

ali: he's going through it. there was a pause when he says "forget your past forget your memories." i think he's projecting a little bit...

austin: are you kidding me??

ali: i think it would be healthy if he took that to heart.

austin: listen to yourself, my man. it's great. yeah, "forget your past, forget your memories, forget your attachments." you are the most attached man in the world! and you are attached to: obi wan kenobi.

rob: the only person who remembers who he is!

natalie: it's true! the only one who witnessed him at his peak!

austin: well, at every stage, in a way.

natalie: yeah true true true.

rob: he's bound to this guy!

[legends-expo]

A happy birthday to Sam Witwer! Not only is he a talented voice actor, but it is always a delight to hear him discuss his thoughts on Star Wars as well!

[herbirdglitter]

This is very exciting for the Star Trek fandom, obviously, and for all fandoms as star trek is responsible for so so much of the stuff we enjoy,

but in the excitement let us not overlook the fact that Darth Maul played young Kirk.

Sam Witwer, the voice of Darth Maul, played young Captain Kirk, presumably under the cgi

[clonebrainrot]

This is going to be tricky. But I think it’s going to be a landslide knowing how I post biased things. I absolutely think all these voice actors and actresses knocked it out of the park, but who’s your favorite/who did the best job?

Again I thought they all did wonderfully and this is where I wish I could make a poll with 30 options.

[ivorydragoness44]

Someone made their own Darth Maul "disability headcanons/fan explanations for how his body works". With great art too, here on Tumblr. 🙂 I think there is another that I reblogged, but I would have to search to be sure.

Disabilities exist in Star Wars. Period.

This post is dedicated to certain specific people who say they are not be able to reconcile service animals in Star Wars, especially Jedi, since the Force and technology exist. These people seemingly have never seen Star Wars, where disabilities not only exist but feature prominently in many cases — yes, even in Jedi. So let us prove them definitively wrong here.

From the very beginning, disabilities have existed in Star Wars. In fact, one could argue a feature of a disability is one of the most iconic things about Star Wars. Even people who aren't Star Wars fans, or who haven't seen the movies at all, know the sound of Darth Vader's breathing. Darth Vader -- Anakin Skywalker -- is unable to breathe on his own and needs to be constantly hooked up to a life-support system simply to stay alive. This in itself is an answer to the argument that the Force compensates for everything. Perhaps you might want to say it is the Force that lets him stay alive beyond what would kill someone else, but still it cannot take the place of functional lungs, or grow back missing limbs, etc. Anakin Skywalker is one of the most powerful Force-sensitives to have ever lived, and yet he can still be disabled and need assistance. (Also, because sometimes I see people making the argument that because of all the pain that Anakin is in, he should be forgiven for his actions, let me say this: Anakin Skywalker can be disabled and still be villainous and make choices that hurt untold billions of people. Being disabled does not absolve you of your bad decisions. Disabled people are people too, and all people make choices and that is what determines the kind of person they are. But that's another post.)

Another example of the Force not compensating for everything is Yoda. We see Yoda using mobility aids multiple times throughout the OT and the PT, from a cane to a hoverchair. He is known as one of the wisest and most powerful Jedi ever, and yet he still uses mobility aids. "Yeah, well," you say, "he still fights with his lightsaber and does all those flips, so that doesn't count." This is the same stupid argument that people make against ambulatory wheelchair users. Needing to use a mobility aid does not mean you need to use it all the time. Total paralysis is not the only thing that makes people need to use wheelchairs or similar mobility aids. Often, people are technically capable of walking or moving around or even fighting and doing backflips in Yoda’s case, but the amount of pain and decreased function that such actions would cause are not worth it except for short amounts of time or in dire circumstances. This does not make them less disabled, or mean that they are faking it. 

“Must be a Jedi thing,” you say. What about Chirrut Îmwe or Kanan Jarrus, who are both blind (or become so). The Force does not give them their sight back (aside from a certain final scene in Rebels). “It’s only for Force-sensitives, then,” you try next. Try looking at Saw Gerrera, who needs oxygen assistance and wears a pressurized suit over his body. Or how about 99, a disabled clone who helps in brothers and is commended as “a true soldier” upon his death? The clones are excellent examples, for that matter. Wolffe is missing an eye, Gregor has a traumatic brain injury, Echo uses extensive cybernetics to function, among many others. 

Maybe still you want to argue that sure, someone might have a limb chopped off or whatever, but technology has come so far in Star Wars that they're not really disabled. Hear me now when I say: having accommodations that help you function in everyday life does not erase a disability. Go back and read that a few times if you need to, because it’s important. 

Now, to be clear, I’m not at all saying Star Wars always has amazing disability representation. I know that’s not the case in many, many regards, and I will link below references that discuss it in more detail. But to say that something like a service animal does not belong in Star Wars is, frankly, extremely idiotic and ableist and ignores the long history of disability in the GFFA. Disabled people have always existed in Star Wars and other sci-fi/fantasy media and they always will. 

Further reading and other perspectives:

Disability in Star Wars

Blind Warriors, Supercrips, and Techno-Marvels: Challenging Depictions of Disability in Star Wars

How Star Wars: The Bad Batch delivers the disability representation the franchise needed

Twisted and Evil: Ableism in Star Wars

This post was written largely in response to a comment left on a fic in the Service Animal Boga AU, so if you would like to read fics about disabled Obi-Wan with a service animal, please consider supporting us there. :)

[wizardofpalmsprings]

You ever just sit there and fancast a D20 animated show? Like imagine Cree Summer voicing the Junk Mother. Ashley Eckstien as Kipperlily Copperkettle a la Reese Witherspoon in Election. Colman Domingo as Doug Meat. Mary Elizabeth McGlynn as Hallariel. Sam Witwer as Kalvaxus