Maul questions (movie not figure)

[Mookeylama]

was his staff 2 sabers put together or one solid staff? did it get cut in half?

also was he ever seen w/o a shirt/barechested? does a Zabrak have those red tattoos on his chest/back or is his skin just black?

 

[The Josh]

yeah it was two sabers.

 

[Vader AL]

in the Darth Maul TPB it shows them all over his body.

https://www3.tfaw.com/gn/profile.html?cart=6079503100911186&DB=C&SKU=40299

 

[gdb]

He was never barechested in the film but the EU has his torso covered in them.

There's another Zabrak in Star Wars who is neither black nor red... Agen Kolar, the horned Jedi who dies trying to arrest Palpatine.

 

[Buttmunch]

His staff was just one lightsaber with two blades (one on each side). I think Obi-wan cut his staff more to one side than the other so one side still functioned. I think it had to seperate ignitors or crystals. In short, it was one saber, but with two independent blades.

 

[elwood49]

In short, it was one saber, but with two independent blades.

Correct. It was definitely not 2 sabers. The MR BD Maul proves that.

Agen Kolar is the other Zabrak that gdb mentioned. Here is the best picture of him.

Note that there are no tattoos. Maul's tattoos are noted as "Sith tattoos", so they were not originally part of his body.

 

[Alice Adrenochrome]

It is definitely one lightsabre. There's an entire novel devoted to one of Maul's adventures (Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter by Michael Reaves). The book gives insight to his character and his fighting technique: only few can handle a double sided lightsabre. Maul is one of them. Of all the EU SW books, this is one of my favorites. The story is situated right before Episode I. Darth Maul has to hunt down a Neimoidian that wants to sell a holocron... well I don't want to spoil it for ya. Go read the book.

 

[The Josh]

Gonna have to get this book. I really dig the character so knowing even more would be sweet.

 

[Vader AL]

i agree alice, good one...GREAT ending too. the darth maul tpb i posted earlier is bad a$$ too but you can't beat a book for insite. in one of those he talks about the tattoos and the pain...which of course he fed on. very interesting character that i wish they would write more about.

 

[Darth Loki]

The red and black that Maul sports is a full body tattoo. And a damn cool one too.

 

[Customikey]

The question remains: Was he black or red before the tatoos? Or was he some other color, and all that black and red is completely tatoo? Ouch.

 

[Mookeylama]

i guess he was nietjer red nor black. both of those colors must be tats. any pics from that TPB that shows his bare back too?

 

[Vader AL]

yep, his entire body is red and black tattoos.....well i guess we'll never know if EVERYWHERE, ouch! i'm assuming he is like the rest of his kind and has a tan type skin.

 

[Alice Adrenochrome]

When I first heard that Maul was tattooed, I hoped someone made a mistake. I loved the idea that he was born red and black, that it was inherent to his kind. To me, this made the character even more believable. Also, I've heard that if the tattoo's get over a certain percentage, you get serious health issues. If you're skin can't breath, you die. So, having a full body tattoo is not very believable.

 

[Customikey]

When I first heard that Maul was tattooed, I hoped someone made a mistake. I loved the idea that he was born red and black, that it was inherent to his kind. To me, this made the character even more believable. Also, I've heard that if the tattoo's get over a certain percentage, you get serious health issues. If you're skin can't breath, you die. So, having a full body tattoo is not very believable.

Yeah, but he's a horned alien who rides around in a starship and was trsained by a millenia-old evil order of guys in black to kill another millenia-old order of guys in brown, so I suspend my disbelief. Plus it just looks cool.

 

[Gruson]

When I first heard that Maul was tattooed, I hoped someone made a mistake. I loved the idea that he was born red and black, that it was inherent to his kind. To me, this made the character even more believable. Also, I've heard that if the tattoo's get over a certain percentage, you get serious health issues. If you're skin can't breath, you die. So, having a full body tattoo is not very believable.

I am with you Alien and like the idea that he was born like that much better.

 

[Darth Loki]

Having a few tats myself, good meaningful tattoos not barbed wire or some piece of flash, I actually like it more. He wanted to differentiate himself from the rest of his race. God I can't wait for the bust!!!!!

 

[Vader AL]

When I first heard that Maul was tattooed, I hoped someone made a mistake. I loved the idea that he was born red and black, that it was inherent to his kind. To me, this made the character even more believable. Also, I've heard that if the tattoo's get over a certain percentage, you get serious health issues. If you're skin can't breath, you die. So, having a full body tattoo is not very believable.

but blasting lightening from fingertips, lightsabers, etc, are believable?

i personally like the idea of the tattoos because you know how much it had to hurt and that goes along with the sith thing.

 

[Booyah!]

Eeth Koth was the other Zabrak in the films and skin tone was much like Agen Kolar's.

However, in the multiplayer online game you can choose a Zabrak as a species and then choose various skin colors for your character. Just like with Transdoshans and Mon Calimari, Maul could have been born red and the black are his Sith tats.

 

[occulum]

If you're skin can't breath, you die. So, having a full body tattoo is not very believable.

haha. if this was true then many full-body tattoo'd people would be dead. tattoos arent like latex paint. its ink put into your skin, not on top of. All pores, glands etc still work like normal.

... as for Maul, I think the tattoo theory is cool. If you've ever seen true tribal tattooing on Disc or anything you see it's a very painful loong procedure with much bleeding.
So I'd like to think Maul endured painful, tribal tattooing with the blood from the procedure staining the rest of his skin red.