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Topics: Star Wars, TV And Film
It shouldn’t really be questioned on how Darth Maul survived being chopped in half by Obi-Wan Kenobi and falling down a seemingly endless pit.
We should be able to simply suspend disbelief and allow the criminally underused villain to reappear and become the amazing character that appeared in the Star Wars animation projects.
How did Maul survive? Hatred, basically.
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That doesn’t stop fans wondering just how he was, at one point, reduced by 50% and then suddenly back to revel in his hatred of Kenobi.
As one fan on Reddit wonders, “How did Maul exactly survive?”
User cakemaster1928 says, “It's claimed Maul was able to survive, when he had his spider legs, through the dark side, but how exactly?”
The simple answer is what usually gets me through each day - “hatred and lust for revenge,” as explained by IncoherantFrog.
They go on to describe the situation, saying it, “fuelled his will to survive. So much so that it drove him mad.”
63CansofSoup explains their thinking, “I imagined it as his hatred, madness, and connection to the Dark Side allowing him to operate basically on a permanent, feral adrenaline high, so much so that he cobbled together the spider legs over time while living on the trash world.”
You could, of course, assume that him being an alien, he has a different biology to humans, and perhaps his vital organs operate differently to ours.
Of course, this doesn’t explain how he poops.
This could be explained by the age-old get out clause of “The Dark Side is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be... unnatural,” as Kerouac_43 replies.
There’s also the simple explanation of “Plot Armour” which is the reply from Intraocular.
The Star Wars creative team just wanted to give him another chance, seeing as how he was the most badass part of The Phantom Menace and was only given one, albeit brilliant, fight scene.