Why Palpatine REFUSED to Ally with Maul & Make Him GRAND INQUISITOR 

The man survived getting cut in half and still conquered a space warrior cult. Yeah I wouldn’t take any chances with maul either 😂

I don't see why Maul didn't just write an anonymous letter saying Palpatine is the Sith lord and sending it to the Jedi.

Formerly Darth, now just maul

"You have become a rival....!"

You can't have both your top commanders obsessed with killing Obi Wan

Sidious: "I always have to be extremely careful never to overtrain my subordinates an ounce more than necessary to do their jobs, or I'll be in trouble." Valkorion: "Bitch please, I'm so powerful that I'll field a literal army of Sith because not even they could overthrow me with their power put together."

If I were Sidious, after killing his brother Maul would've been next. "He's to dangerous to be left alive..."

Maul is way more powerful than people give him credit for. He was the only true threat to the empire and vader until luke came along

honestly i think sidious didnt want to team up with maul or allow him to join back (besides rule of two obviously) i think honestly sidious taught maul TOO well. going by canon’s continuity dooku was always just a place holder until anakin came along. but by sidious words maul was a lost. maul WAS a true apprentice of sidious ill say even more so than vadar. even though sidious played both sides of the clone wars the fact that maul was able to STILL hide create his own army lead death watch etc. his longterm planning manipulation cunning and patience im sure he learned from his master. sidious called him a rival and he was way too dangerous to ignore. to even take his time away from being “palpatine” to handle maul himself says a lot.

Maul leading a third powerful faction to take on the New Republic and the Imperial Remanent would've been a hell of a lot better than the sequel trilogy we got.

That’s the first thing that came to my mind maul was a full fledged sith in his own right he even had the title of darth, if you think about it sideous acknowledged maul, he called him a rival

The challenge was for Palpatine, if he truly was this impressive a Sith Lord/Master, to take on both Vader and Maul; he never wanted a rule of two, so having Vader constantly on his toes and Maul edging to rise up was a worthy test, equally for his Red Guards and his inate Sith skills to govern, control, dominate and suppress. In this, Palpatine believed he was the final Sith; he'd subdued prophesy of the 'one who would bring balance' and unlike Vader and Maul, he was whole, without machine parts with the power of essence transfer to rule forever... Great video. Thanks so much.

Palpatine ABSOLUTELY made the right decision in not making Maul the Grand Inquisitor! He would have trained them up even more than what they already had and use them to try and overthrow the empire!

I’m reminded of Shaak Ti’s quote from the Force Unleashed “Your power is wasted with him. You could be so much more!”

2:32 It almost sounds like you're barely holding back laughter, and I love it.

We may never know what Sidious wanted to do with Maul. But my own headcanon is that he wanted to use Maul as a means to push Anakin into the Dark side. I think Sidious would have had Anakin hunt down Maul and eventually kill him in revenge for Maul killing Quigon. The longer it would have taken to find and kill Maul, the angrier Anakin would likely have become. A perfect way to build up Anakin's turn to the dark side.

I like seeing Sidious flex as much as the next guy, but I thought it was straight up overkill. It would have been more gratifying to see Sidious send Dooku to avenge his Qui-Gon. Dooku could easily take them both on. It would have been more tense and gratifying.

This is the man who not only had Dooku drop Ventris like a stone stone but orchestrated the entire genocide of the night sisters just because he was threatened by Dooku. Having an ex apprentice who arguably was every bit as strong as Dooku at least in terms of raw power would’ve been too much for Sidious to deal with, and he would’ve been constantly looking over his back expecting Darth Maul to betray him and take over honestly as cool as it might seem from a political and logistic perspective the last place that Sidious would ever want Maul would be in the role of grand inquisitor

I think the answer is super obvious and he even says it. “You have become a rival.”

Because giving the strangely charismatic guy who despises you, who's only getting stronger, and whose mother took you, your apprentice, and your pet murder cyborg to finish off, a potential army of dark side users is not exactly what you'd call a good idea.

"You have become a Rival" Is all you need to know lol

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Maul can't be an Inquisitor. he's already a sith

1. Because Maul failed him in a over embarrassing way. 2. He had a currently more powerful apprentice in Dooku who was kept as insurance if Maul did not work out like if Maul either got crippled badly, got locked up in a high level guarded force takeaway jedi prison, or got executed he had Dooku around as a insurance replacement should Maul not go as planned which happened. 3. Maul was too loyal to Talzin And Savage as well as Dathomir to work for Sidious in full capacity even if not as a apprentice. 4. Anakin was meant to be his ultimate apprentice before his defeat on Mustafar yeah.

Do y’all notice him taking quick breaths ?

This is a great question thank you for reviewing it

Being an inquisitor is a demotion from apprentice

He doesn’t need that cheap spin feature on the inquisitors saber, but man, how freaking cool would that be? Darth Maul spinning around a spinning double bladed lightsaber. Darth Blender (chuckle)

Perhaps one day, we could explore the advantages and disadvantages of certain lightsaber designs (double-bladed, saber staffs, crossguard, etc.).

My man sure is breathing in a lot

I would think that Sidious also felt disappointed that Maul lost in the first place to Obiwan. His failure to stop both a master and an apprentice collectively is what I think Sidious deemed a failure. Plus, in Legends around the history during the phantom menace and before attack of the clone once both Sidious and Plagueis found out about the prophesy of the chosen one Anakin became the ultimate price for Sidious. Originally, Maul was to be that great apprentice had he reached his full potential, but when Maul was defeated and Plagueis was killed at the same moment Sidious needed that new apprentice which was ultimately Anakin.

This will be interesting 🤔👏 Yes Maul was still far too powerful to become an inquisitor, so that was out of the question for Palpetine. So in the end, Mauls exile was is only option...

Maul is Badass & his character throughout Star Wars is amazing🔥👍

I think "other plans" where that Maul was maybe an final task for the young Vader

This is why we need Star Wars what if 😩

Maul have come truly terrifying in cannon and in what could have been cannon

Who actually wants to see a second Solo movie with Maul showing himself as the main antagonist? 🤚

Darth Mauls initiation into the Sith as a Lord automatically disqualifies him as an inquisitor, in order to be one he’d have to be content with a lower position of power and authority. In order to become a Sith you have to truly hate your master, crave power and plan to overthrow him, that being said as a Sith Lord he cannot be trusted to stay in his lane, even knowing how much more powerful Sidious and Vader were his arrogance overpowers his rationality to make good judgment calls and we’ve seen that on multiple occasions, not to mention Sidious murdered his mother and brother so he would have never willingly kneeled to the empire. Its a shame too because Maul was inherently very powerful and if he were to join Sidious, I’m sure continued training with him and Vader would have only caused him to grow in power until his potential was finally met which would have been very interesting to see.

Why are you taking heavy breaths so much throughout the video. I never noticed that in other videos if you have. Hope you are feeling good. Great video!!

Maul would never be a lacky like a. Inquisitor was .. especially the Grand Inquisitor.. Plus he would have to bow down to Vader and Mall was once The apprentice of sidious he would not except nothing less than apprenticeship to sidious or the title or the dark lord title itself

I feel Maul had wasted a chance to get Obi-wan to train him even just a little bit in the Jedi code. Learning to relax and become calm. This in a true light. Also Obi-wan could of learned from Maul to understand the dark side to a point of Jinn.

It's often forgotten that Mandalore was the most influential member of the council of neutral systems in the clone wars, a group often forgotten. If Maul was allowed to continue, he could have influenced not just the criminal underworld, but thousands of Star systems.

I’m so used to these videos being cut in a way you don’t hear breathing. So it sounds weird when I do hear it.

Love your videos wave

Sidious got his use out of Maul before he escaped, contrary to what is stated in the video. Sidious was using Maul to get to Talzin and end her threat. Once he had accomplished that, he knew that Maul was of not nearly as much consequence.

Maul vs Obi-Wan Kenobi was awesome 😎

Maul was a friggin beast and Too big of a threat to be left alive

Would have been interesting if Sidious decided to do away wit the rule of two and take Maul and Vader on as apprentices. Pitting them against one another likely would have kept them both busy and and out of Sidious' hair.

Because they fucking hated each other, and Palpatine thought he was dead until Rebels, why is this even a question?

Darth Maul's tenacity is truly something to be admired.

Sidious made the right choice to not take Maul back because he was a rival to his goals of conquering the galaxy. If Palpatine had taken Maul back as his pupil, Maul would've overthrown him as Anakin had intended.

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Thanks for this video I Finally got the answer to my question

On one side, would have been cool...and following the mantra: keep your friends close and enemies closer, I agree it would have been unworkable

Son of Dathomir was the use for Maul. He was meant to lure out Talzin, whom Sideous saw as a threat to his power.

Maul, in the span of a few weeks, went from a crippled and broken shell of a being, to usurping several criminal organizations as well as the homeworld of a warrior people, and taking his own apprentice. All of this done without ever ONCE receiving the training to do so. When Sidious called Maul a rival, he meant it as a sign of respect.

the why is pretty obvious Maul HATED PALPATINE even more then Obi Wan and that's saying something plus unlike the Inquisitor Maul could genuinely be a rival to Palpatine if he got more training in the darkside

Anyone else notice those huge breath intakes like the guy is being waterboard or stuck with a Vader respirator?

Great video mate, Thankyou

Can you do a full lore video on the Yuuzhan Vong at some point? They get mentioned in a lot of videos, but you don't have much info on them.

Because sideous was all about the rule of one, despite saying rule of two

As far as I saw it 1. Maul wouldn’t have worked with Sidious as this point, so why would he? 2. As far as Maul saw it Palpatine abandoned and replaced him. 3. Mauls potential as far as I know goes beyond Palpatines, Talzins potential rivalled Palpatines and Mauls potential goes surpasses Talzins and in legends, Sidious says maul has the potential to surpass him, so he may have feared this possibility. Maul wouldn’t have joined Palpatine and Sidious wouldn’t want to risk it firing back on him.

Palpatine loves you all remember that

This just makes me so sad that we never got to see Maul as the main villain of the sequel trilogy! George Lucas' original plans just sounded so much better imo!

I’m in love with that idea now

If Sidious was smart, he would've had the Jedi council members to be inquisitors, instead of stupendously killing them off. If Mace and Yoda could not be leaders of the inquisitors, then have Ki Adi Mundi lead them.

Sidious doesn't consider himself as a Dark Lord of the Sith anymore but above that position. This pissed off the Dark Lords on Korriban. Maul follows the Sith traditions and didn't need to learn from Palpatine anymore.

At this point maul wasn't fuckin with the sith anyway

Honestly, I think that Maul's rage was his biggest downfall. I think he would've eventually become a problem for Palpatine no matter what, and if he'd become the emporer I suspect he would've become paranoid without the next goal to focus on.

I think if Sidious had the opportunity. I believe Maul could have been repurposed to be a powerful Sith Stalker.

The main reason is because Palpatine doesn’t want share anything. Least of all power.

I think if Palpatine had approached Maul after killing his brother and his mother and asked him to be the Grand Inquisitor renouncing the title of Darth and the rank of sith lord and serving under his replacement Darth Vader who Maul probably saw as a glorified droid, Maul would finally have found enough rage and hate to kill the old guy. He would have split him in 2 with the Dark saber. Also in the early days of the Empire when Vader was still getting used to his suit and refining his fighting style he wouldnt have stood a chance against Maul in a duel as this Vader was much weaker than ROTS Anakin.

The Grand Inquisitor does not have Maul's ambition .....nor does he have Maul's sensibility lol

Maul developed an acient sith power that naturally produced on him cause of how much Hate he has but Palpatine saw it as a threat and confronted him before Maul ever became powerful.

Great pick out.

I don't think it was George Lucas original plan to bring Darth Maul back but his popularity was so huge that he let Dave Filoni bring him back in The Clone Wars cartoon.

Maul wasn’t brought back from the dead….

I wonder if Maul might have been responsible for the creation/initial training of the Knights of Ren. We don't know exactly how long they had been in existence, but they already existed by the time of the OT. They weren't trained by Sidious, Vader, or any Imperial ally that we know of, so who else had sufficient Dark Side knowledge to train them....

Maul Really need A LOT more lightsaber training. Because he loses a lot of fights

Man I wish George Lucas was in charge of producing the sequels because that would’ve been so fire

Excellent video!

Legends continuity continues to prove why Disney were idiots for declaring it non canon. Maul being the new villain of the galaxy after the fall of the Empire would’ve been great. He’s one of the best characters in Star Wars and his story is captivating and interesting. But that’s the fumble of Disney

If palpatine didn't attack maul on mandalore, rather used him to hold that position so the rise of the empire would come with the beskar steel and madalorian warriors, not only would jedi extermination be more efficient and guaranteed, but also allow a new source of clone dna to come about. Already we know palpatine to break from sith traditions, so allowing to go further to bend or break tradition and adopt even more apprentices, so they may competitively fight for the singular rank of master, which would not be outside his psychopathic and sadistic nature to do so. Especially between vader and maul. Maul would most likely give his brother brother the inquisitor position, and request to hunt jedi with grand inquisitor and perhaps even on occasion with vader, just to prove himself superior to vader and palpatine. He would even take responsibility on training the inquisitors given to him by palpatine as vader was pure talent in the force, while maul was skill, of which is much more attainable to achieve in training. This would certainly cause great infighting, especially if the events went as kenobi series, where maul and vader would be butting heads the entire time to kill obiwan. Assuming they don't end up killing one or the other, in the original trilogy I don't think would involve himself until he learned they maybe a jedi among the rebels, aka Luke. Otherwise he would be keeping crime organized on behalf of the empire, and occasionally looking for Obiwan, He will most likely not find the temple as Sidious would keep him occupied with other things. So we wouldn't see him until empire strikes back, again competing with vader to hunt jedi and vader smugly rubbing it in mauls face that he was the one who killed obiwan. From there till cloud city, maul would be stalking Vader, as he sense something, fear, desperation. Perhaps that vader was worried of being replaced, but only to learn that Luke is vaders son. A weakness to prey upon. Between then and return of the jedi I can't say for certain what would happen, but let's say Maul uses this information to taunt vader and even blackmail him, which is bringing their toxic rivalry to the boiling point, Maul even threating to kill Luke if he ever found him first, which definitely would result in a scuffle, that leads to vader to uses savages life to keep maul away, holding him up in the air with the force, threating to crush his wind pipe. This determination to keep Luke away from maul will certainly bring vader closer to the light. May even result in a 2v2 in the emperors chambers. Sidious just kicking back and enjoying the mayhem, Firmly believing vader is still within his control. Cause if he was that ignorant in the original movie, knowing full well that vader only joined the darkside to save his family, but still chose to attempt to vaporize Luke with lightning, then it would be no different here. I do believe that Luke and Vader will win, killing maul and savage, But the battle would take so long that Palpatine would notice the shields are down and that death star is about to blow up and make his escape. Vader will most likely survive, but not without serious wounds from mual. Vader will most likely defect but not to the rebels, he's free and he will do what he can to protect his son and make amends, no longer a slave to anyone. Not to say he won't be hunted, but he would most likely be busy taking down mauls criminal organization when he cannot accompany his son.

Maul was too powerful and ambitious to be Grand Inquisitor.

He knew too much

Honestly this could be a great what if?

As the Grand Inquisitor, Maul would only improve and grow in experience. And we all know one purpose of the Inquisitorius was searching for a possible replacement for Vader. He might be able to get to a point where he could replace Vader and retake his position as Sith Apprentice. So, he might very well have taken the long game and, really, he would have been an apprentice that never would have turned to the Light and throwing him down a reactor shaft. Maybe Sidious would have been better off had he gone that route, but not so much for Vader.

Hey, love your vids. I noticed that your breathing is heavier in this video and more visible than in other videos. Just want to make sure you are okay and I hope there isn’t anything wrong.

Maul is my favorite character in the show

This is very interesting. Maul is extremely powerful and smart. I completely agree,it was extremely dangerous if Maul became Grand Inquisitor. He had all ambitions and powers of a Sith. May the Force be with you too,have amazing day too

The Inquisitors were just cannon fodder, not trained to be a potential threat to either Banite Sith.

rebels just needed lightsaber bad guys.

Is this before or after he died after being cut in half and falling down a shaft? You're insane.

Nice video

I dont see any scenario where maul would want to be just an inquisitor. Also hes much much stronger than them. Hes compareable to vader even if weaker theyre atleast in same realm of strength. Hed just battle vader for his apprenticeship and die

Maul fought with too much honor.

Can we get a what if of Vader and Maul teamed up.

Maybe palpatine didn’t want maul to train the inquisitors incase they became to powerful and over threw him which could’ve led to another sith civil war

Definetly because Maul was a threat to him and Vader. Albeit he probably wouldn't succeed but he was still powerful enough to be considered a threat. Just like how Ventress was a threat to him. Just goes to show how much of a joke the inquisitors are that Palps was totally fine with there being 10 of them