Across any character in the Star Wars Galaxy, ones with backstories written on Wookiepedia for just a background alien in the Mos Eisley Cantina, it would seem to be difficult for any Expanded Universe writer or enthusiast to keep track of the lore and standards of that particular universe. However, whilst most of the EU, colloquially known as the Expanded Universe, retains its consistency of the chronicles it contains, there are plenty of things that don't make sense with particular characters. From a simple mugger in the slums of Coruscant, a merchant on Mygeeto, to the highly esteemed black-robed warrior of the Dark Side, Darth Maul.

Throughout his tenure as a Sith Lord, Maul has gone through things that even in the Star Wars reality don't make sense. Whether be it Sith teachings that do not blend with reality, or simple inconsistencies with his character. While he may have been an integral part of the grand scheme of things, being the wake-up call for the Jedi Order and all, there have been occasions where even the highly dedicated fans need to stop and ask: does it work that way? Or, that doesn't seem right, does it? In this list, in no particular order, we'll be listing down 20 things that don't make sense pertaining to the Dark Apprentice. We'll be using materials listed from the previous EU known as Legends as well as the current canon under Disney. Play some "Duel of Fates" in the background, and take up your SaberStaff because this is gonna be juicy.

20 HIS SABERSTAFF TRAINING STILL HOLDS UP?

While we can all imagine it'd be a euphoric rush to wield this deadly weapon like a pro, at one time or another, we admitted to ourselves we'd be injured within 24 hours or at the very least scarred and horribly disabled. While it's not out of the question that Darth Maul trained himself extensively to the point it becomes second-nature to him, it does not make sense how he can simply reuse it again as we see in Star Wars Rebels.

Granted the hilt uses a different design, and it is a weapon he is most familiar with, but he hasn't trained with a double-bladed weapon since The Phantom Menace, and surely he would've remembered less how to use it by then.

19 HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS MASTER

Nobody wants the life of a Sith Lord, despite the cool advantages. But certainly nobody wants Darth Sidious as a teacher or father-figure. What makes Maul an odd case for this is how he views his master initially, prior to their confrontation in The Clone Wars TV series.

In the Darth Maul: ShadowHunter novel, Maul is described to be so loyal to his master to the point if he was ordered to end himself, he'd do it without question. But in another time, presumably before the novel, Maul was tested in his training. To the point where he swore to end his master, and thus Sidious finally acknowledging him as his apprentice. This makes it perplexing on how he views his master.

18 ERRORS BETWEEN LEGENDS AND CANON

Prior to Disney buying the rights to the Star Wars franchise, Maul was resurrected in The Clone Wars TV series. However, at the time Disney had the reigns, and announced an end to the old EU now dubbed as Legends, all of Darth Maul's previous stories were retconned. And despite this controversial decision, Maul's personality had been redefined as well.

While Clone Wars may have turned him into a berserk lunatic, Disney continues his bloodlust in the Darth Maul comic book series. When previously beforehand he was an astute loyalist to the Dark Side and Sith teachings, whilst being a concentrated assassin.

17 HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS BROTHER

Beings like the Sith and the Jedi have a tendency to not understand love. In this case, especially for Darth Maul, it would be considered a sign of weakness, something a true Sith Lord should be void of. While yes, Maul did show some compassion for the end of his brother Savage Opress, there are some instances where it is unclear of how he truly felt about him.

In one instance, Savage suggested there would be no need for secrets due to their kinship. Maul then demonstrated his dominance in a Dark fashion. At a later date, in Rebels, Maul confessed how he despised the Sith for robbing him of his only family in the Galaxy. Sith have an odd way for showing relationships.

16 HIS FIGHTING STYLE HAS CHANGED

We can all admit the stunt work from the one and only Ray Park is extremely eye-catching, and a perfect personification of Darth Maul's character: He's a living weapon. However, it seems that over time Maul himself has forgotten what he truly once was. Imagine it like this, Darth Plagueis (Palpatine's master) was a scientist at heart, so he was trained like a book.

Count Dooku's fighting style is very fencing-like, so he is trained like a rapier. Maul was a secret assassin, so he trained like a knife. He was stage-managing the Jedi in The Phantom Menace. But in The Clone Wars onward, he acted like a chainsaw, and adopted more of a "Leroy Jenkins" approach and hasn't changed since.

15 HIS CANCELLED VIDEO GAME CANON

Around the time Disney bought the rights to Star Wars, LucasArts was beginning to see its final days. After 12 months of work, a standalone Darth Maul game was in development. It was similar to the gameplay of The Force Unleashed, yet taking inspiration from the Batman Arkham series, yet the timeline might have been confusing even then.

Darth Maul's story takes place after the events of Return of The Jedi, during the reign of a "new" Empire. The First Order was not a concept at the time. What makes it mind-boggling though, is that Maul was A CLONE and teams up with Darth Talon, who existed millennia after the movies, but George Lucas insisted that they be friends. That would have confused EU fans.

14 HOW HE SURVIVED OBI-WAN

While it is true the Dark Side of The Force is a pathway to many abilities that many deem beyond the physical or natural, it also depends on whom these abilities are conducted by. It is clear to many that Darth Maul was not a Force User alone, but a practiced hand with the Lightsaber on two ends.

So far all that is seen on-screen are the standard abilities every Force-wielder has. But to survive on his hatred alone from being cut in half? That doesn't seem like Maul's M.O. After all, Maul was a blunt instrument, the arcane knowledge of ancient Sith were not with him, so it stands to reason he could not last that long without legs on a junk planet.

13 THE ABILITY TO SENSE DROIDS

Darth Maul has the ability to sense droids, which is known as the Mechu-Deru ability. It allows him to sense the complex infrastructures of a mechanical being. It makes perfect sense for Darth Sidious to incorporate droids to fight Jedi, despite their shortcomings, because Jedi can only sense living things.

And it would be useful for his apprentice to employ this ability to sense droids as an advantage against his enemies. However, despite the fact Maul can do this, it is unclear how it is executed or applied. The Force moves through living things, since life creates it, not the other way around. And going back to the last point about Maul's survival explains this further.

12 HE APPEARED TO ANAKIN AS A VISION 

Anakin was to undergo one of the most sacred traditions of The Jedi Order. He was tasked to go to the planet Ilum to retrieve a Lighstaber Crystal, to power his own. In the crystal caves, he is told by Obi-Wan that he will be confronting visions of his past and future, as these are the trials a knight must go through.

The odd thing is, among other fears Anakin faced, Darth Maul was like the final boss of this dungeon, so to speak. Anakin never really had a personal vendetta or connection to Darth Maul. Sure, he took out his master Qui-Gon Jinn, but the boy never had any particular reason to fear Maul now that he was supposedly gone.

11 HIS DUEL WITH DARTH VADER

Just a short amount of time before the events of A New Hope, Darth Vader fought a doppleganger of his predecessor while trying to track down the stolen Death Star plans, a facsimile of the character and skills of Darth Maul created by the Prophets of the Dark Side, a Sith cult.

While the story itself sounds intriguing, a what-if scenario if you will, it raises a ton of questions. How were the Prophets of the Dark Side, relatively not as powerful as the Sith themselves, were able to resurrect or at the very least train an exact duplicate of Darth Maul? Or even to go so far as to suggest they resurrected Maul. Made a great fight though.

10 HE WASN'T A CHATTERBOX BEFORE...

Darth Maul's presence demanded reverence in an otherwise disappointing movie for some fans. His minimalist vocabulary made him a "Show, Don't Tell" type of character, further backed up with John Williams' score. He didn't have to speak to fulfill his purpose. After all, his Master would give him orders, and Maul would go do them -- their roles were clear.

However, in every outing he has had since his debut, he speaks his mind to everything. Big change, right? What doesn't align properly is why he never did so to the two Jedi he faced on Naboo in The Phantom Menace.

9 NO FORCE LIGHTNING? 

It's true. Darth Maul has not once used the Force ability known as Force Lightning, one of the deadliest abilities in the Star Wars pantheon of Force-Wielders. Same goes for Darth Vader, but that is more of his cybernetic handicaps rather than lack of interest.

Darth Maul, however, has never been trained with this ability. Sure, he used to be a shadowy agent and didn't like to cause any commotion. But the same can be said for Starkiller, Darth Vader's apprentice whom was best kept secret, and he could zap his opponents until they smoldered. Darth Maul should've stuck to the Force instruction books.

8 THE DUEL IN "TWIN SUNS"

From his defeat from Sidious in The Clone Wars and by the time of his passing in Star Wars Rebels, one would think he would have prepared himself for the coming end of his greatest enemy, Obi-Wan Kenobi. True, Darth Maul was spending most of his time gathering relics from his past on his home planet, Dathomir, to find Kenobi in a ritual of sorts.

However, it is uncertain with what Maul wishes to do after he would've supposedly dropped Obi-Wan. His motives were unclear if he either wanted to end it himself, or to survive and train Ezra Bridger as an apprentice.

7 OLD TIMES, OLD WOUNDS

All the way back in 2005, during the time of Revenge of The Sith's theatrical release, a short, non-canon comic book was released. It was another "What if?" scenario featuring Darth Maul encountering Obi-Wan on Tatooine, and was the inspiration for "Twin Suns" in Star Wars Rebels.

What makes things confusing is how Darth Maul got there to begin with, or how he knew Luke Skywalker was Darth Vader's lost son, and how he knew where to find him and Kenobi on Tatooine, let alone how he got robotic legs before The Clone Wars explained it.

6 MAULKILLER

At some point before The Force Unleashed 2, Darth Vader began cloning his secret apprentice to replace the one who betrayed him in the events of the first game. Oddly enough, he requested the Kamino cloners splice in Maul's DNA to create MaulKiller. The clone however, went berserk and was deemed almost uncontrollable.

Darth Vader had to "deal" with this mistake by negotiations through his lightsaber. To even understand why this happened, it's because Vader believed the Darkness in Maul's DNA would cancel out the Light in his old apprentice, but science doesn't work that way.

5 HE WAS "INSTALLED" IN PROXY

Speaking of The Force Unleashed, Starkiller's sparring droid and best friend has a lot of training modules in store. Designated as Proxy, he can use holographic projections to imitate appearances and fighting styles of famous Jedi or Sith across the Galaxy's history, all for the expressed purpose to drop him -- Vader has an odd concept of training.

How this ties into Darth Maul however, is that Proxy secretly had stored him for the right moment. This raises the question as to how Darth Vader too was able to replicate Darth Maul so easily as well on this list. Not to mention, Proxy stated he contains psychological profiles of his "Programs" as well and it seems that memories can be copied too.

4 REPLICATED FOR THE FIFTH TIME

It seems like anyone can get a hold of Maul's DNA, or in this case... his brain. At one point during the now dubbed Legends continuity, Luke Skywalker goes to the planet Irodonia for a political mission -- Darth Maul's homeworld in Legends, to be exact. However, it seems there is a ghost of Maul himself haunting the planet. Yet Luke could sense he was tangible and not gone for good.

Luke tracked down the source, and apparently a mad scientist has recovered Maul's brain and used it to construct a living hologram. Luke then shut down the life support housing his brain. How a random scientist was able to recover Maul's remains after the confusing timeline adds to the conundrum.

3 HOW LEIA SENSED HIM ONCE

In the current Canon of Star Wars, one story that his been told in Battlefront 2 and the current comic book series is the liberation of Naboo from the Empire. Leia was in charge of leading the assault, and upon her units entering the same hangar bay that was seen in The Phantom Menace, she could sense a great darkness hanging over the place.

While it is not uncommon for extremely powerful Sith Lords to leave echoes behind of their former self, it due to their passing leaving them tied to the place or an object. However, Darth Maul, in the current canon, did not pass away there. In fact, he fell to old Ben Kenobi on Tatooine.

2 PIRATES ARE BETTER THAN SITH 

In Star Wars The Clone Wars, Hondo Onaka and his gang of pirates had, at one point, captured Count Dooku. For the most part, they were either inebriated or recovering, to clarify. Of course, some time later, the pirate gang made a deal with Darth Maul to take down Jedi Knights Obi-wan and Adi Gallia.

While yes, Adi Gallia did perish in that episode, the target was mainly Obi-Wan. Unfortunately, Maul underestimated the "Loyalty" of his underlings. He was outwitted by them and Obi-Wan, was basically sent packing with injuries to boot. Maul's gonna need a Bacta or Kolto patch for that one.

1 EZRA AS HIS SUCCESSOR?

Ezra's alliance to either side of the Force is complicated to say the least, and mostly throughout the early half of season three of Star Wars Rebels. It's unclear how he believes forcing Stormtroopers to end themselves, and trusting Sith Holocrons makes him a good guy, but this does make him an easy pick for an old Darth Maul to select him as an apprentice.

What doesn't make sense is why Maul would have any particular interest of Ezra in the first place, considering he, in his own words, is a force for justice. What is also confusing is that Maul later gives up on Ezra on Dathomir, to only then address him as "Apprentice" again in "Twin Suns".