Star Wars 10 Sith Who Would Have Made Excellent Jedi
Star Wars: 10 Sith Who Would Have Made Excellent Jedi
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Within the Star Wars universe, Jedi and Sith are truly two sides of the same coin. But what notorious Sith would have made amazing Jedi?
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The dark side’s promise of power has seduced many Jedi, but precious few pure Sith have ever found themselves enveloped in the light side of the Force. For every Darth Vader or Kylo Ren who have carved a path to redemption, there have been numerous Sith like Count Dooku who have died still clinging to the dark side’s allure.
How could Sith, mired by their lust for influence and control, be viewed as possible Jedi? Some Sith have been in conflict about the nature of the dark side, while others have become disillusioned with Sith teachings, creating the possibility of a conversion to a path of peace and justice. And still some simply exhibit traits and personalities that upon further inspection, would make them excellent members of the Jedi Order.
10 Darth Maul
Taken from his mother at a young age by Darth Sidious, Darth Maul didn’t have a choice in growing up to embrace the dark side. All of his brutal training was focused on molding him into an elite warrior, completely without kindness or love. Even after Sidious betrayed him and murdered his brother, it would be a long time before Maul ever questioned his path.
Though Obi-Wan Kenobi was one of his nemeses, at the end of his life Maul confided in the Jedi Master that he knew the Force needed balance, and though Anakin Skywalker had not been able to bring it about, his son Luke might. Had Maul’s dedication and abilities as a swordsman been put to use as a warrior for the light side, he would have been one of the most impressive Jedi ever seen.
9 Darth Plagueis
While Darth Plagueis was first mentioned in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, his origin story came from the 2012 novel Darth Plagueis, now considered a part of Star Wars Legends. He was born through the machinations of Darth Tenebrous, who coerced a Force sensitive female Munn to seduce his father Caar Damask, therefore producing Plagueis (born Hego Damask II), a potentially powerful Force user.
Plagueis was created out of necessity – his master believed he could use midi-chlorians to eventually transfer his essence into a powerful apprentice until the Chosen One appeared. Plagueis didn’t have a choice in his destiny because it was determined for him, including his eventual desire to carry on his master’s tradition of manipulating life to cheat death.
8 Darth Sidious
Much like his master Darth Plagueis before him and his apprentice Darth Maul after him, Darth Sidious did not have a choice when it came to becoming enveloped by Sith teachings. Plagueis learned of Force sensitive individuals around the galaxy under the tutelage of his own master Darth Tenebrous, and once he’d murdered him, he sought the best to be his own apprentice.
Palpatine was discovered at seventeen on Naboo, part of a traditional political house, whose ambitions Plagueis stoked until he pledged himself fully to the Sith path. Under different guidance, the part of Palpatine that was always seen to be charming, charitable, and gracious might have been elevated. His more malevolent tendencies might have been muted instead of being encouraged, leading to him becoming one of the most powerful forces in the galaxy.
7 Kel’eth Ur
Featured in Star Wars The Old Republic, Kel’eth Ur was a Sith Lord raised in the heart of the Sith Empire, but nevertheless disagreed with certain aspects of the Sith path. He recorded a special holocron that advocated for principles of the light side, which was hidden the Dark Temple on Dromund Kaas.
A member of the Light Sith, or Sith within the Empire who supported its doctrine but didn’t ally themselves with the dark side, he could not avoid judgment from the Sith Emperor, who had him killed for heresy.
6 Darth Gravid
Introduced in the Darth Plagueis novel in 2012, Darth Gravid was a Sith Lord who followed Darth Bane’s Rule of Two almost 500 years before the Skywalker saga began. Even while he held the mantle of Dark Lord of the Sith, he drifted between the light and the dark side.
He felt that the Sith path had been corrupted and that the only way to reconstruct it was to destroy the current Sith knowledge and build it from scratch. This made the work much harder for Darth Plagueis and Darth Sidious, who toiled tirelessly to see the Sith Grand Plan realized and find a means to transfer their essence into a vessel to cheat death.
5 Lord Scourge
From the popular game Star Wars The Old Republic, Lord Scourge was a member of the Sith species as well as a true Sith Lord, and saw looming on the horizon a time when the Sith Emperor would try to destroy the entire galaxy.
In an effort to ensure that never happened, Lord Scourge sought an alliance with the Jedi Order, pledging his loyalty to its doctrine. Though he never fully turned to the light side, he understood the merit in it and the need for balance in the Force, which could have made him a highly practical Jedi in the vein of Qui-Gon Jinn.
4 Darth Bane
One of the oldest and most notorious Sith Lords to exist in the galaxy, Darth Bane operated a thousand years prior to the Skywalker saga, in an era when the Sith numbers were plentiful and infighting caused them to bicker among themselves. Due to the fractious nature of the Sith Order at the time, Bane created the Rule of Two so that the Sith Grand Plan could be realized more efficiently.
By operating clandestinely, with the knowledge and power of the Sith only ever transpiring between two individuals, he felt the doctrine could be secure from their enemies. Had Bane’s temperance, wisdom, and calm-headedness been used as part of the Jedi Order, it might not have become so blind, arrogant, and out-of-touch in the waning days of the Republic.
3 Darth Millennial
Darth Millennial was a three-eyed prophet as well as a Sith apprentice, but eventually left the teachings of his master Darth Cognus because of a conflict of interests. Cognus had been a student of Darth Bane’s, and fiercely adhered to the Rule of Two, while Millennial felt there were greater lessons in the dark side by following the Rule of the Strong.
Millennial was excommunicated, forcing him to leave his master and flee to Dromund Kaas, where he founded the religion Dark Force. In the Star Wars Legends novel Fate of the Jedi: Ascension, Luke Skywalker explained that though Millennial didn’t stray from the dark side, he felt “there was more than enough of the dark side to go around” and welcome an egalitarian approach, much like the Jedi Order.
2 Visas Marr
The only apprentice of Darth Nihilus, one of the mightiest Sith Lords in the galaxy in the wake of the Jedi Civil War, Visas Marr was a survivor of Lord Nihilus’s purge of the Conclave at Katarr. Nihilus consumed all life on the planet save Marr’s, and he began aiding her path to the dark side.
In Star Wars: Knight of the Old Republic: The Sith Lords, Marr had a very strong bond with her master, who was as wounded as a Sith could be when she was inspired to find solace in the light side of the Force after being bested by Jedi Meetra Surik. The Jedi Order had been struck a significant blow, and had Visas Marr not sacrificed herself, she might have become a great Jedi Knight.
1 Asajj Ventress
Asajj Ventress was a student of Count Dooku, but due to Darth Bane’s Rule of Two, she could never acquire a proper Sith title unless Dooku had murdered his own master, Darth Sidious. As she sought more power through the dark side of the Force, her training brought her into conflict with famous Jedi like Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker.
A former slave from Dathomir, Ventress had much in common with young Skywalker, and was an example of what might have happened to him had the galaxy’s treachery hardened him at an earlier age. Had her early mentor Ky Narec not been killed, her Force sensitivity would have been identified by the Jedi Order, and she would have been a fully fledged Jedi Knight long before she could hope to be a Sith.
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