Though suddenly aware of the building power of the Force in Obi-Wan, Darth Maul is nonetheless unable to act on the lightning moves made by the young Jedi, now leaping out of the pit to deliver a lightning fast killer blow, courtesy of Qui-Gon's retrieved lightsaber- poetic justice. The Sith falls down the pit, cut in half and supposedly dead...
Great art from the EPISODE I comic adaptation of 1999 by Rodolfo Damaggio and Al Wiliamson.
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| Darth Maul cut in half, as seen in EPISODE I. |
"I wanted something that revealed a little more understanding of what an apprentice is, obviously because that is where it's all going. At one point, when Obi-Wan kills Darth Maul, he just fell in the pit.I looked at it and thought this isn't going to work because, if people liked him enough, they're going to want him back and they're going to assume somehow that he gets out of it. So I had to cut him in half to say that this guy's gone, he's history, He isn't coming back. I'll come up with another apprentice. The whole issue of having apprentices, poor Darth Sidious trying to replenish his apprentice supply, is one of the main plot points."
George Lucas - Empire magazine - 1999
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