STAR WARS RIVALS Darth Maul & Anakin Skywalker by Funko
Darth Maul was a Zabrak Sith Lord during the Naboo crisis. As apprentice of Darth Sidious, he was taken at an early age to be trained in the ways of the dark side of the Force. An apparition of Maul would later appear to the Jedi Padawan Anakin Skywalker in a crystal cave on Ilum, only a few years after his death. Anakin was to enter a cave (similar to one which Luke Skywalker would later have to enter on Dagobah). When Anakin went into a trance-like state, Darth Maul appeared and Anakin immediately attacked him. After a furious lightsaber duel in which Maul taunted Anakin about Qui-Gon's death and about the boy's training lightsaber, Anakin won, but as real as he might have looked, this time Maul was a creation of the dark side. It was not the last time the two would do battle.