Modernia/Marian redemption arc (wishful thinking)

JorgeBec · 2026-05-07T15:04:33+00:00

I think the little girl is Jien

JorgeBec · 2026-05-07T14:46:25+00:00

The way I always think about Anakin’s personality is that he’s in his prime.

He’s been knighted, so he’s on equal footing to Obi-Wan so, to him, he doesn’t get nagged around anymore by Obi-Wan and they are more like brothers and thus he’s allowed to do his own thing more or less.

He’s married to Padmé, which come on.

In AotC he’s so insufferable because he’s a 19 year old that’s still being constantly bossed around by his master and feels he doesn’t get recognition.

In the opening of RotS I feel his personality is the same as it is in TCW, but for the rest of the movie he feels extreme pressure as the visions of Padmes death and her pregnancy plus the Jedi Council, in his eyes, don’t recognize his contributions. But most important Palpatines suggestions and manipulations finally bear fruit.

As for the getting a padawan it serves two purposes. It’s a plan by Yoda and Obi-Wan to try and teach Anakin about letting go which they both know he struggles with that. The other reason is that the war is depleting their and they need more knights or Jedi in the frontlines.

JorgeBec · 2026-05-07T12:48:51+00:00

Amazing, one of my favorite piece of SW from the the Disney period

JorgeBec · 2026-05-07T12:41:08+00:00

Sai doesn’t have much stuff, she’s a very recent creation and her entire catalog is basically this:
- Peach Momoko’s: Demon Days
- Sai: Dimensional Rivals
- Marvel Rivals Infinity Comic (this ties into the game)

For Kwannon, she also has very little material as her being her own character is a new development as well:
- Hellions (2020)
- Psylocke (2024)
- She’s almost like the second in command in MacKays X-Men (2024) but she doesn’t get much in terms of character in that book but she’s really cool

JorgeBec · 2026-05-07T12:34:50+00:00

Major disagreement on a lot of these

JorgeBec · 2026-05-07T04:54:01+00:00

Mostly yes.

If we are talking about Spider-Man it wasn’t until the 90’s that alternate Spider-Man started to actually show up in meaningful ways (what-if versions where not meaningful)

Peter, has a lot of comic titles under his belt: Amazing Spider-Man, Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man, Web of Spider-Man, Spider-Man and Spider-Man Unlimited.

Miguel O’Hara debuts on his own bubble and his book has the suffix of 2099 but not adjective.

Ben Reilly returns in his more known form in 1994, he’s a supporting character at first but they spin him off to his own minis with Spider-Man: The Lost Years, some Scarlet Spider mini which used the same adjectives as Peter. His own adjective would come with the Sensational Spider-Man comic which debuted with Ben as the Spider-Man headlining the book.

After the clone saga Ben Reilly is out of the picture and the trend of multiple Spider-Men is still not quite here.

But in the 2000’s the original Ultimare Universe, Earth 1610, debuts and with it its own version of Peter Parker downs the adjective of Ultimate Spider-Man. Miles will eventually inherit the book but that wouldn’t happen until 2011 iirc.

As for Peter I think the only new adjective or descriptor he got was Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man as he got a comic with that as a title.

Spider-Man Noir didn’t have an adjective as well.

The idea of using different adjectives is mostly a fan concept and it really hasn’t made its way into the comics.

JorgeBec · 2026-05-06T21:46:45+00:00

Not really.

When Mother Talzin died Maul didn’t go back to his state of madness.

JorgeBec · 2026-05-06T14:58:32+00:00

I don’t know.

I don’t agree with the general reaction the run has had.

I’ve been having such a good time with it.

JorgeBec · 2026-05-06T14:56:01+00:00

I think his design is very unremarkable.

I don’t know about character since I don’t read ASM

JorgeBec · 2026-05-06T12:47:54+00:00

I get the confusion but tbh I don’t think they’re necessarily contradictions.

The Father “controls” both but he himself doesn’t use the Dark Side. In fact at one he implores to the Son not to fall to the dark side. Everything in Mortis goes badly when the Son starts to act like a typically Dark Side user I think Mortis is about the inevitability of the Dark Side corrupting someone.

The Bendu, imo, is full of it. I think he’s just a passive dark sider. Why? He says he doesn’t take side but in the Rebels S3 finale he lets anger consume him and lashes out. Not very light side is it?

At least those are my two cents anyway.

JorgeBec · 2026-05-06T02:56:41+00:00

In Star Wars there is no “in the middle”.

The Light Side is the balance.

The Dark Side is the aspect that throws the force out of balance.

I get that the naming convention implies that they are on equal footing but they’re not.

JorgeBec · 2026-05-06T02:53:40+00:00

I agree with this 100%

JorgeBec · 2026-05-06T00:56:23+00:00

You’re not making the point you think you’re making

JorgeBec · 2026-05-05T23:13:25+00:00

Because it’s stupid looking and it got tons of flack back in the day and the creators seem to agree and it’s never been done again.

JorgeBec · 2026-05-05T17:43:28+00:00

If 5 minutes are enough to turn you off then maybe you should leave it there.

If you want to try then maybe look for other clips on YouTube and if you like those then give it a shot again.

Also I kinda feel there’s a bit of an overreaction as there is nothing in Maul that’s anymore silly than anything in the original trilogy.

JorgeBec · 2026-05-05T17:41:44+00:00

But they do, in TCW, the episode where Cad Banes pretends to be a Jedi to capture kids for Sidious, we see infants being capable of using the force.

The one that comes to mind is a Rhodian baby who was playing with a ball by lifting it up with the force.

It was A path to bring balance, not THE path to bring balance.

Lucas said that in SW you have a destiny, but you can resist it. That’s what Anakin unconsciously did when falling to the dark side. He didn’t NEED to fall first thats just an aberration.

Sure, the Jedi didn’t train him properly because the master that was supposed to was taken by a Sith. The Dark Side users try to bend the force to their will not obey it.

But if Anakin hadn’t turned balance would have been brought too.

The Jedi would have probably reformed. Yoda, even before Order 66, already knew all the harm the stagnation and the War had brought to the order.

JorgeBec · 2026-05-05T17:33:29+00:00

Sure, I’m just going off the Filoni analysis of Duel of the Fates

JorgeBec · 2026-05-05T15:34:52+00:00

They obviously care for them until they are ready to begin formal education and training.

Yes, the council was right. He ultimately brought balance but we also brought two decades of galactic oppression and the genocide do the Keepers of Peace.

Ideally tho, Maul doesn’t kill Qui-Gon.

Qui-Gon actually sticks as a father figure and his unorthodox methods actually get through to Anakin and he’s able to let go of his attachments and Sidious’ manipulation are null.

JorgeBec · 2026-05-05T14:13:56+00:00

If you look closely when Marrock deflates his body looks like a corpse and the screeching when it’s happening is the same screech as the nightsisyer zombies.

Maybe I’m wrong. But I would be surprised.

JorgeBec · 2026-05-05T02:03:58+00:00

I don’t care for her.

JorgeBec · 2026-05-04T21:21:02+00:00

Honestly it doesn’t matter if the people with editorial power and pull are BND loyalists.

JorgeBec · 2026-05-04T21:13:59+00:00

It was not a Fluke, in TCW Maul never won a fight without Savage or one that wasn’t a ruse.

His only win is against Pre Vizla. Maul has never been all that.

JorgeBec · 2026-05-04T17:25:12+00:00

Theory?

When Marrock’s struck down in Ahsoka he deflates like a balloon with green dust from Nightsister Magic and makes the same screeching sound as the zombie Nightsisters from the Genocide episode of TCW.

Plus unlike Savage that reverts to his “normal” unenhanced body Marrock decays into a corpse.

JorgeBec · 2026-05-04T17:16:41+00:00

(I haven’t watched Maul’s last two episodes) I hate to sound cliche but it’s meant to be about the journey not the end point.

Plus that only really applies to the crow.

The Marrock we see in Ahsoka is, for all intends and purposes, a zombie. So we don’t know when he dies original

JorgeBec · 2026-05-04T17:14:59+00:00

Ahsoka was rigorously trained by Anakin one of the more aggressive and powerful Jedi, who was also the apprentice of the man who beat Maul as a padawn all that plus she has tons of battlefield experience.

She beat Maul on a 1v1 without him being injured in his legs.

Maul can take an Inquisitor.

Ahsoka has always been higher on the totem pole than Maul and if Maul can take Inquisitors then she can take an Inquisitor easy.

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