The Phantom Menace In the film's climax, Maul duels Qui-Gon and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor). He is able to kill Qui-Gon and knock Obi-Wan down a shaft, but Kenobi propels himself out of the pit and uses Qui-Gon's lightsaber to bisect Maul, sending the two parts of his body falling down the shaft.
Calming himself, Obi-Wan leaped over Maul and used Qui-Gon's lightsaber to sever Maul in two.
The duel. Darth Vader defeats Darth Maul. The two Sith Lords engaged in a lightsaber duel, going through the volcano and onto a bridge situated over a river of lava, which collapsed, though they both survived and continued their battle.
However, Kenobi swiftly blocked Maul's strikes. Anticipating Maul's hilt-strike to the head, the same technique that bested Jinn thirty years earlier, Kenobi bisected Maul's lightsaber in two while simultaneously mortally wounding him with a slashing blow to the torso. Maul dies in Obi-Wan's arms.
Dissecting the short fight, Obi-Wan used the same moves Qui-Gon Jinn did during their battle in The Phantom Menace, tricking Maul into executing the same parry he did before. However, instead of committing the fatal error his master did, Obi-Wan pivoted and hit Maul in the body, killing him.
However, Sidious' plan backfired when Vader ultimately renounced the dark side and killed Sidious to protect Luke. Thus, with the Sith's destruction, the Force was brought back into balance, fulfilling Anakin's destiny as the prophesied Chosen One.
Obi-Wan Kenobi's six-episode story revealed that several years before he met his end at the hands of Darth Vader in A New Hope, Obi-Wan embarked on a perilous rescue mission.
One of the best villains ever to be created is Darth Maul. Trained by Darth Sidious and born on Dathomir, this terrifying Sith Lord is the one who took down Qui-Gon Jinn. Thanks to the buzz surrounding his character in The Phantom Menace, Darth Maul made a triumphant return in The Clone Wars and Rebels animated series.
Qui-Gon was ultimately defeated by a move that can only be done with a double-bladed lightsaber as Darth Maul used the handle of the weapon, striking Qui-Gon physically on the chin, stunning him for just long enough to deliver the killing blow.
Maul was a Force-sensitive Dathomirian Zabrak male who established himself as a crime lord during the reign of the Galactic Empire. He was once known as Darth Maul when he was the apprentice of Darth Sidious, and therefore, a Dark Lord of the Sith.
Because he was not an active member of the Jedi Order during Order 66, Infil'a escaped execution. Some time later, he faced the Sith Lord Darth Vader wielding a green lightsaber. Infil'a put up a fierce fight against Vader, almost killing him by throwing the Sith Lord off of a cliff.
Appealing to the hate and conflict within him, Darth Sidious goaded Luke into attacking. Vader defended the Emperor and he and Luke were locked in mortal combat. Luke lost control of his anger, viciously attacking Vader, finally beating him down and chopping off his hand with his lightsaber.
Although they didn't interact with each other, Anakin Skywalker first met Darth Maul on Tatooine during the events of The Phantom Menace and then later on in the film on Naboo.
The Sith apprentice Darth Maul struck Qui-Gon down during the battle for Naboo, but the mortally wounded Jedi lived long enough to ask his Padawan, Obi-Wan Kenobi, to promise to train Anakin.
Maul, the talented apprentice of Sidious. In 37 BBY, by the time Maul was seventeen, his Master had already forged him into a living weapon of pure hatred.
Darth Maul longed for revenge against the Jedi. He was finally unleashed by his Master, Darth Sidious, in an assassination attempt on Queen Amidala on the outskirts of Tatooine.
Legend had it that Yoda—a Jedi who became Grand Master—was trained by N'Kata Del Gormo. A Force-sensitive Hysalrian, N'Kata Del Gormo was trained in the ways of the Force and achieved the rank of Master within the Jedi Order.
Qui-Gon Jinn was a Force-sensitive highly respected, yet maverick and unconventional Human male Jedi Master, who lived during the last decades of the Galactic Republic and was most notably responsible for discovering Anakin Skywalker, the Chosen One of the Jedi prophecy, and bringing him into the Jedi Order.
Maul, however, soon lost the Darksaber when Darth Sidious defeated him in combat and sent him away to prison on Stygeon Prime.
But as soon as he managed to separate the two, Maul was able to overwhelm Qui-Gon and strike him down. That should've sealed the fight for Darth Maul, yet, in the end, he was cut in half by Obi-Wan. And while some fans believe his victory was blind luck, there's likely far more going on than that.
In fact, in this same scene, Sidious says he is keeping Maul alive because he has "other uses for you!" If Palpatine thought Maul knew he about his double identity, there's no way he would have let him stay alive.
Emperor Palpatine
His status as a supreme villain comes in large part from his immense power, which at times seems to be almost unlimited. On top of that, Palpatine is one of the best manipulators in the entire galaxy, and Ian McDiarmid's performance in the role only makes him all the more sinister.
So, as Anakin was dying from his wounds on Mustafar, the Emperor siphoned the Living Force from Padmé and brought it to Anakin. Thus, she died as he was reborn as Darth Vader.