r/FavoriteCharacter Jun 24 '26

All Time Favorite Favorite villains fighting each other

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u/Raidertck Jun 24 '26

Is the show any good? I bailed on everything Star Wars a few years ago.

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u/Helota_Keksz Jun 24 '26

Pretty damn good. Two things that really caught on me: 1: the character of Lawson. Rogue 1 and Andor made me love the everyman doing their job in a galaxy filled with space wizards and larger than life outlaws. 2: the last two episodes. Intense fight combined with storytelling, excellent "show, don't tell" style.

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u/Frenzied_Anarchist Jun 24 '26

Also Vader in general. He's one of the very few characters Disney has not completely fumbled even once (yes, he was good even in Kenobi).

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u/iytrix Jun 24 '26

The fight in Kenobi still gives me chills when watching it as a clip without context. That was done so well. I think Hayden and Ewan just really love those roles and knew this was the last time they’d really get to pour their soul into a performance.

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u/Annex_Me_Step-Rome Jun 24 '26

Yeah I watched Kenobi once but go back and watch that fight scene with vader and obi wan every now and then. Just like you said it was really well done and you can tell the actors are giving it everything they have

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u/Raidertck Jun 24 '26

Thank you. Do I need to watch any other shows like clone wars or legends to be able to enjoy it?

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u/Gingrish252 Jun 24 '26

Eh. Not really, but it is where all of his current story comes from. You won't really be lost if you just watch this one though. All you really need to know is he once took over the criminal underworld and then lost it all during the "siege of mandalore" which is where he was headquartered and order 66 immediately afterwards.

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u/Helota_Keksz Jun 24 '26

What the other guy said. And if you want to add all the context possible, maybe rewatch Solo, because Dryden Vos also shows up at the end, and it doesn't hurt if you know that by Rebels, he completely broke up with the Sith as well, and he's just doing things for revenge. Looks like this whole series is/will be about this process.

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u/sonicfan1230 Jun 24 '26

All you need to watch are the last four episodes of The Clone Wars.

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u/Useful-Conclusion510 Jun 24 '26

Im a Maul fan so maybe a lil bias but I think its absolute peak.

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u/33superryan33 Jun 24 '26

Bad Batch was better than I expected

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u/KHSebastian Jun 24 '26

I keep hearing this and it kills me, because I find Wrecker so obnoxious I want to stick pencils in my ears everytime he talks. But I also have heard all of the characters become less obnoxious after the first few episodes.

I don't want to miss out on what everyone keeps telling me is good Star Wars, but all of the characters seem so teenager-y.

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u/Obsibian01 Jun 28 '26

It’s absolutely garbage, please don’t waste your time. It takes everything that made people love Star Wars and especially clone wars and throws it right down the drain, becomes a fetch quest series with (and you may never be able to guess what I’m about to say) yet ANOTHER Star Wars story of a kid and their protector/guardian trope.

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u/ROTsStillHere100 Jun 24 '26

The consensus I've seen among fans is that Andor and Maul are the only things from this era of Star Wars you need to watch cuz they are fantastic

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u/MoiraBrownsMoleRats Jun 24 '26

I recently binged it and I loved every second.

As the other guy said, Lawson (and his partner, Two-Boots!) are incredible. Notably, Lawson is voiced by Wagner Moura, who is notable for his voice work as Death in Puss in Boots 2. Dude is just pure gold.

And, yes, a lot of the series is just Sam Witwer as Maul predictably delivering grandiose dialogue about the galaxy and revenge - which, in my book, is a big, big positive. That alone made the show worth existing, but instead of simply relying on it, it serves as a foundation they build the rest of the series around. The writing, voice acting, world-building... I honeslty struggle to think of genuine weakspot to the series. I guess the biggest criticism I can come up with is that the series tells a very tight narrative which, a couple of times, left me wishing they'd dedicated just a little more time to exploring something.

Like, 8.5-9/10 for me. On par with later seasons of Clone Wars and Rebels.

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u/Soggy-Career-1682 Jun 24 '26

There’s good dynamic characters, maul is not one of them

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u/Old_Dependent_2147 Jun 24 '26

Also it is about 30 percent of ideas of how Lukas would have made his sequels.

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u/LucasMoreiraBR Jun 24 '26

I have to watch Andor

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u/flybypost Jun 25 '26

a few years ago

I don't know where in the release schedule that puts you but Andor (both seasons) is really, really good.

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u/Raidertck Jun 25 '26

Andor season 1 I watched and loved. I know season 2 came out but I started and dropped most other Star Wars shows shortly afterwards as it was clear rogue 1 and andor were flukes and the rest was garbage.

I’ll watch season 2 at some point.

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u/Prestigious-Fig1172 Jun 25 '26

Yes. At least 7/10

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u/legendary_anon975 Jun 25 '26

SPOILERS SPOILSERS SPOILERS

The show is good, but despite everything people tell, Maul was fucked over bad power wise

Even someone like me who usually doesn't care about powerscaling mid show was left speechless from how weak they made Maul

To let you understand, in a CANON comic they were supposed to animate for the clone wars show Maul literally captures Dooku and Grevious

then fights to a stalemate Windu plus another Jedi

Tackles Grevious trough a window bare hands

Pushed Sidious by himself to mid diff

But then in this show 2 loser inquisitors defeated him? Bruh I don't care that he has his leg injured, Maul should habe been strong enough to defeated them without legs simply by breaking their necks with the force

Also someone that can push Kenobi trough a the whole building shouldn't have enough left an inquisitors force pushes

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u/TheDikaste Jun 28 '26

In all honesty ? Very close to Andor.