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The clones really are a fascinating contrast to stormtroopers. And I don’t mean Finn and the First Order because they follow in the wake of The Clone Wars; I mean Imperial stormtroopers who dominated the Star Wars imagination first and the longest.

For decades, stormtroopers basically functioned like clones: they looked and sounded the same, even though we knew there were different people underneath the helmets they never took off; different faces, same personality.

Then actual clones basically inverted the model: genetically identical men used every opportunity to differentiate themselves, from their armor to their body modifications to their behavior; same face, different personalities.

The one place where the Venn diagram intersected was loyalty, but even then, they still inverted each other’s models. Clones designed to be unwaveringly loyal and obedient consistently questioned orders and their place in the galaxy. Meanwhile, stormtroopers from disparate planets and cultures unfailingly followed the orders of an impersonal Empire.

For all of Star Wars’s faults, for all the ways in which they dumb down or gloss over traditional scifi modes and themes, I can’t think of a more thorough exploration of cloning, the attendant questions of identity and free will, and the sociopolitical and metaphysical implications of a race of genetically identical men, of sameness in difference and difference in sameness, than the clone troopers.

EWAN MCGREGOR as OBI-WAN KENOBI Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)

Rex is out of commission for an indefinite amount of time so command batch has to draw sticks over who's going to temporarily stand in and oversee his menaces.

It ends up being Wolffe and within the first ten minutes his hands are around Fives's throat.

deleted scene from empire strikes back

(based off of this)

Friends at the end of the Republic | Ahsoka & Rex, by illustrator, Veronica Ruffato

this is the vibe he gives

a shiny: that’s a cool name sir! how’d you get it? fives: i fought off five super battle droids with my bare hands one time :) shiny: wow that’s amazing sir!!! echo: go ahead fives. why don’t you tell him your CT number fives: uh fives: it’s not important

sorta-sequel to this.

“ At this very moment, you are… ”

THE CLONE WARS APPRECIATION WEEK 2021

Day 7 : Favorite quotes(s)

“ We’re just clones sir. We’re meant to be expendable.”

“ Not to me.“ 

c plot of shadow lord will be maul dedicating time to proper oral hygiene considering he suddenly has pearly whites in rebels

The Siege of Mandalore | by Jake Bartok

beer bender, mate

Hahaa! I’ve been following @scuttlebuttin‘s Darth Maul art with great enthusiasm lately and I had to try out my hand on this guy. No regrets. I think I’ll have to watch Clone Wars now.

[Jedi Maul AU] me and @cranity​ was talking about a scenario where Maul and Kenobi get stranded a bit on Dathomir at the Nightbrother village, waiting for their ship to be fix. Maul soon found himself circling by curious younglings, he tried to act cool and ignored them at first but gave up. Now he just gushing over these exquisite little rascal because Maul have never seen any specimen like him before.

++ Maul joked that he “has every desirable attribute in abundance” and he would have make “aesthetic pleasuring offspring”…Obi-Wan holding back laughter in hopelessness like what the hell are you talking about “So, what are you thinking? Settle down here, fathered a couple of those, send me podcast later?“ 

Darkside lineage

(Mace Windu’s lineage) ( Yoda’s Jedi lineage )

Star Wars: The Clone Wars x Persona 5 cut-ins 

It was fun working with my inking skills for these yet very difficult trying to mimic the original style in the game. 

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I feeling Shitty™ today, so only one meme. But a good ol classic!!

Darth maul is a good example of making an interesting menacing villain with a sad backstory without redeeming them

strongly agree | agree | neutral | disagree | strongly disagree Further, I think Maul is great at being incredibly sympathetic and tragic without redeeming him (in the sense of making up for his actions or in saving his soul from the dark), that we can genuinely love him and ache for him, we can hurt for the abuse he was dealt pretty much his entire life, we can understand why he couldn’t climb out of the dark, without making him narratively right. Maul had a great character design, he has some absolutely iconic fights, he has an incredible story and he is genuinely menacing and legitimately awesome in a fight, he’s cool in a very legitimate way! But he is also someone who has been shown even by the Force itself (in Age of the Republic: Darth Maul) that he could choose another path, he could have been a Jedi, he could still make better choices, and who rejected that, because he’s too afraid to admit to that possibility, because he doesn’t have the tools to do it, no one ever gave those to him. Maul is amazing because there’s so much there to examine that has so much sympathy, like I really think underneath it all he’s incredibly lonely--he latches on to Savage, to Ezra, to Eldra Kaitis, even to Ahsoka to a degree, because he wants companionship and the only thing he knows what to do with that feeling is to try to force those people into his worldview, to beat them down because he thinks that’s the only way he can have any kind of real connection. It also helps that Maul can be genuinely funny a character, like some of the fandom silliness around the character is hilarious, so you know when a character can make you laugh, can make you cry, and can make you frustrated, all at the same time, you know they’re a great character.

Tending to the jedi temple gardens

Maul’s finally got someone to remind him to brush his teeth in my jedi!Maul AU. Seriously, Maul, please do it.

Padawan Obi-Wan and Maul chilling on the grass. With socks on and no shoes. Messed up, right?

You know nothing. Nothing about who I am. Nothing about what I want.

The Jedi lessons are going great.

Anakin’s origin villain story

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I will make sure you stay awake long enough to feel every single cut. Your death will be beyond excruciating.

NIK’S FOLLOWER PARTY ★ Maul + A Study of Zabraks for @obiewan​ 💌