What If Darth Maul Killed Obi-Wan?

Love or hate The Phantom Menace, its ending comprises one of the crucial well-known lightsaber battles within the historical past of Star Wars. Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi sq. off with the evil Darth Maul, two-on-one. When the mud clears, Qui-Gon is useless and it appears like Maul is simply too, though it was later revealed that he miraculously survived getting minimize in half and hurled down an infinite elevator shaft. (Those Sith, man. They’re like a Steven Seagal film: Hard to kill.) That leaves solely Obi-Wan alive to hold on in future motion pictures.

The younger Obi-Wan goes on to turn into crucial Star Wars characters: Mentoring Anakin Skywalker, battling Darth Vader, after which aiding Luke Skywalker as he takes his first step into a bigger world. But Obi-Wan barely escaped the battle with Maul. And when you concentrate on it, he most likely ought to have died. He didn’t even have the excessive floor!

So what would Star Wars appear like if Obi-Wan had additionally died in The Phantom Menace’s climactic lightsaber battle? That’s the topic of our newest Star Wars video which teases out that very what-if to see how this one little change would radically reshape Star Wars canon. Watch it under:

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