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Mace Windu is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. Windu was portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson in the prequel trilogy. Jackson reprised the role in the 2008 animated film Star Wars: The Clone Wars and with voice only in the 2019 film The Rise of Skywalker, whilst Terrence C. Carson voiced the character in other projects, such as The Clone Wars television series. The character also appears in various canon and non-canon Star Wars media like books, comics, and video games.

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Mace Windu
Star Wars character
Samuel L. Jackson as Mace Windu
First appearanceThe Phantom Menace (1999)
Created byGeorge Lucas
Portrayed bySamuel L. Jackson
Voiced by
Other:
In-universe information
SpeciesHuman
GenderMale
Title
  • Jedi Master
  • Grand Master of the Jedi High Council
  • Republic General (during the Clone Wars)
OccupationJedi
Affiliation
  • Jedi Order
  • Galactic Republic
Masters
  • Canon:
  • Cyslin Myr
  • Legends:
  • T'ra Saa
ApprenticeDepa Billaba
HomeworldHaruun Kal

In-universe, Windu is a Jedi Master and member of the High Council during the final years of the Galactic Republic, who wields a unique purple-bladed lightsaber and is regarded as one of the most powerful Jedi of his time. He is a leading defender of the Old Republic in the Clone Wars, even as the conflict leads him to question his most firmly held beliefs.[1]


Character conception and overview


Several early incarnations of the character who would become Mace Windu were developed in George Lucas's original Star Wars drafts as the narrator, Princess Leia's brother and Luke Skywalker's friend.[2] Through the process of redrafting and copyediting, his character was removed from the original trilogy, but was reintroduced in 1994 when Lucas began writing the prequel trilogy.

Although his weapon was not seen onscreen until Episode II – Attack of the Clones, action figures released for Episode I – The Phantom Menace paired Mace with a blue lightsaber.[3] During the production of Attack of the Clones, Samuel L. Jackson asked Lucas if his character could wield a purple lightsaber as a way of making the character easily distinguishable in large battle scenes.[4] According to Jackson, the hilt was engraved with "bad motherfucker", a reference to his role in Pulp Fiction; the engraving is not visible in the films.[5]


Appearances



Film



Skywalker saga

Main article: Skywalker saga

The Phantom Menace

Introduced in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999), Mace Windu is depicted as a master of the Jedi Council, second only to Yoda.[1] The maverick Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn comes before the council and offers to train Anakin Skywalker, believing that the boy is the Chosen One of Jedi prophecy. Windu and the other Council members decline, deeming Anakin too old and full of fear. After the corrupt Trade Federation is defeated and Obi-Wan Kenobi defeats the Sith Lord Darth Maul, who killed Qui-Gon, Windu realizes that the Sith have returned, and he and the Council reluctantly allow Obi-Wan to train Anakin in Qui-Gon's stead.[6]


Attack of the Clones

In Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), set 10 years after the previous installment, Windu initially refuses to believe that the assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala on Coruscant was authorized by former Jedi Master Count Dooku, now the leader of a galactic Separatist movement. Having learned of Obi-Wan's whereabouts on Geonosis, Windu arrives to save him, Padmé and Anakin from being executed at Dooku's order. In the ensuing battle, Windu kills bounty hunter Jango Fett, the template for the Republic's army of clone troopers, and leads them and a cadre of Jedi to victory in a battle with Dooku's forces. At the end of the film, with the Clone Wars begun, Windu resolves to keep a closer eye on the increasingly corrupt Galactic Senate.[7]


Revenge of the Sith

In Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005), set three years after the beginning of the Clone Wars, Windu and the other members of the Jedi Council are concerned that the Republic's Supreme Chancellor, Palpatine, may not relinquish his emergency powers when the Clone Wars end. Their suspicions only grow when the Senate grants Palpatine a vote on the Jedi Council by appointing Anakin as his personal representative. The Council makes Anakin a member, but Windu notifies Anakin that they do not grant him the rank of Jedi Master, infuriating the Jedi Knight and diminishing his trust in the council. Further, the Council orders Anakin to spy on Palpatine.

After Obi-Wan kills Separatist leader General Grievous, Palpatine reveals to Anakin that he is the Sith Lord the Council had been searching for. Anakin informs Windu that Palpatine is Darth Sidious, the mastermind of the war. Telling Anakin to stay behind, Windu and three other Jedi Masters (Kit Fisto, Agen Kolar and Saesee Tiin) attempt to arrest Palpatine, but the Sith Lord easily cuts down Windu's companions and then duels him one-on-one. Windu gets the upper hand and subdues Palpatine. Anakin, needing Palpatine to teach him the power to prevent his wife Padmé's foreseen death, arrives and pleads with Windu not to kill him. Windu counters that Palpatine is too dangerous to be kept alive and prepares to summarily execute him. However, Anakin intervenes on Palpatine's behalf, disarming Windu by severing his right hand. Palpatine then kills Windu with a blast of Force lightning, sending him falling to his death out of his office's window.[8] Sidious uses Windu's death to brand the Jedi as traitors and to start Order 66 and murder the vast majority of the Jedi.[9]


The Rise of Skywalker

Samuel L. Jackson makes a vocal cameo as Mace Windu in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), the final installment of the Star Wars sequel trilogy. During the battle between Rey and a resurrected Palpatine, Windu's voice is heard by the former, encouraging her to fight back and finally destroy the Sith.


Other films


The Clone Wars

Windu plays a supporting role in the 2008 animated film Star Wars: The Clone Wars, set shortly after the beginning of the Clone Wars. He is depicted as a General in the Grand Army of the Republic, like all other Jedi Masters. Samuel L. Jackson reprised his role from the live-action films.[10]


Television



The Clone Wars

Mace Windu has a supporting role in the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008-2020), set between the 2008 animated film of the same name and Revenge of the Sith. He is voiced by Terrence "T.C." Carson. Windu is a lead in several story arcs, including taking part in the liberation of Ryloth, having to deal with Boba Fett's attempts to avenge the death of his father Jango, trying to recover a Jedi Holocron stolen by Cad Bane, and rescuing the captured Queen of Bardotta from a cult led by Mother Talzin, with the help of Jar Jar Binks.

In the seventh season, released on Disney+ in 2020, Windu and Obi-Wan lead the Republic's ground forces in the Anaxes campaign, and the former manages to deactivate a bomb hidden by Admiral Trench as a contingency plan once he is defeated. Later, during a meeting with the Jedi Council, Windu orders Ahsoka Tano to deliver the captured Darth Maul to Coruscant, and declines to discuss sensitive information with her, as she is no longer part of the Jedi Order. While in the process of delivering Maul, Ahsoka senses Anakin turning to the dark side and helping Palpatine kill Windu; archive recordings of Samuel L. Jackson as Mace Windu were used for this scene.


Literature


In 2017, Marvel released Star Wars: Jedi of the Republic – Mace Windu, a five-issue comic series centered around Windu during the early days of the Clone Wars. The series received negative reviews for both its art and story.[11] It follows Windu leading a small team of Jedi to a remote planet to investigate a Separatist presence. Windu battles a mercenary droid hired by General Grievous, and one of the Jedi turns on Windu after becoming disillusioned with the Order's involvement in war.

Windu also appears in flashbacks in the comic miniseries Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order – Dark Temple.[12]

The 2022 novel Brotherhood (focused on Obi-Wan and Anakin) acknowledges Windu's ability to sense "shatterpoints", established in the Legends continuity.[13]


Legends


Windu appears extensively in prequel-era Expanded Universe material. In April 2014, most of the licensed Star Wars novels and comics produced since the originating 1977 film were rebranded by Lucasfilm as Star Wars Legends and declared non-canon to the franchise.[14][15]


Clone Wars

Mace Windu is a supporting character in Genndy Tartakovsky's micro-series Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003–2005), which is set between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. In the first chapters, he defends the grasslands planet Dantooine against a large Separatist hovering "fortress", and over the course of the battle, he loses his lightsaber, forcing him to instead use a lethal form of unarmed combat powered by the Force. In the final chapters, Windu and Yoda help defend Coruscant from an attack by General Grievous.


Comics

The 1999 "Emissaries to Malastare" arc of the Dark Horse Comics' self-titled Star Wars series, set shortly after The Phantom Menace, mentions a Jedi exercise in which Windu had swapped his lightsaber with Eeth Koth. However, the lightsaber returned to him is blue, so this does not explain why his saber color changed to purple, as is sometimes claimed.[16]


Novels

Windu has appeared as a supporting character in Legends/Expanded Universe novels, such as Cloak of Deception, Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter, Rogue Planet, Outbound Flight, The Cestus Deception, Jedi Trial, Yoda: Dark Rendezvous and Labyrinth of Evil.


Shatterpoint

Shatterpoint
AuthorMatthew Stover
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SeriesCanon C
SubjectStar Wars
GenreScience fiction
PublisherDel Rey & Random House Audio
Publication date
Hardcover: June 3, 2003
Paperback: April 23, 2004
PagesHardcover: 464

Paperback: 432

Audiobook: 3h 45m 17s
ISBN0-345-45573-8
Preceded byBoba Fett: Hunted 
Followed byThe Cestus Deception 

Mace Windu is the central character of Matthew Stover's 2004 novel Shatterpoint, taking place six months after Attack of the Clones. Stover based the novel on both Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness, and its 1979 film adaptation Apocalypse Now. George Lucas wrote the prologue to the novel, and Jonathan Davis reads the audiobook version.

Windu's former Padawan and fellow Jedi Master Depa Billaba has been sent to Windu's homeworld, Haruun Kal, to start a revolution against the Separatist-allied government. Evidence is discovered that Billaba has fallen to the dark side of the Force. Since Windu taught her a special lightsaber combat form, he is sent by the Jedi Council to find her.

After a fight, he puts Billaba under arrest, and calls a Republic cruiser. It is attacked by vulture droids and deploys gunships, which battle the droid starfighters with the assistance of clone troopers. Some of the landing craft make it to the surface, and the cruiser defeats the Separatists. Windu uses the gunships to destroy the droid fighters that followed them, then orders the clones to take out a nearby droid control station. The Separatists are forced to surrender to the Republic, and Billaba falls into a vegetative coma. A Republic force stays on the planet to police the unrestful local tribes.

The novel explores Windu's unique talent of sensing "shatterpoints", faultlines in the Force which allow him to exploit his enemies' weaknesses. It also explains that Windu is the creator and sole master of a style of lightsaber combat called Vaapad, in which the user skirts dangerously close to the dark side by enjoying the thrill of the fight. All others who attempted to master the form either gave in to the dark side or were unable to properly master the technique. Stover later referenced Windu's unique lightsaber-fighting abilities in his novelization of Revenge of the Sith. Vaapad was also acknowledged in the 2010 reference book The Jedi Path.[17]


Merchandising


An action figure was released following the prequel films' release.[5] A Mace Windu action figure was added to the Star Wars Transformers toy line in 2006. It was a remold of the toy first used for Obi-Wan Kenobi. He becomes an Eta-2 Actis-class light interceptor starfighter with Astromech droid R4-M6. He also received his own legacy Lightsaber at Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, before being discontinued around April-June 2021.


Legacy


IGN listed Mace Windu as the 27th best Star Wars character, stating that he is an important component of the series.[18]

Samuel L. Jackson called for Windu's return at Star Wars Celebration in 2017, saying that "We all know Jedi can fall from incredible heights and survive, so apparently, I am not dead. Yes, I have two appendages right now, but we know the long and rich history of Star Wars characters reappearing with new appendages".[19]


Relationships



Mentorship tree


Main article: Jedi
Jedi Order master-apprentice relationship
Yoda
Count
Dooku		Mace
Windu
Qui-Gon
Jinn		Depa
Billaba
Younglings
Obi-Wan
Kenobi		Kanan
Jarrus
Anakin
Skywalker		Ezra
Bridger
Luke
Skywalker
Ahsoka
Tano
GroguLeia
Organa
Ben Solo
[n 1]		Rey
[n 1]
Notes:
  1. Ben Solo and Rey are a Force dyad

Further reading



References


  1. Sansweet, Stephen J.; Hidalgo, Pablo; Vitas, Bob (2008). The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia. Los Angeles, California: LucasBooks. ISBN 978-0345477637.
  2. Rinzler, J.W. (2007). The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film. London, England: Del Rey Books. ISBN 978-0345494764.
  3. Veekhoven, Tim (June 30, 2014). "The Beginning: Hasbro's Phantom Menace Toys". StarWars.com. Retrieved October 13, 2019.
  4. Giles, Jeff (July 1, 2013). "Samuel L. Jackson On The Hilarious Origins Of His Purple Lightsaber in 'Star Wars'". ScreenCrush. Greenwich, Connecticut: Townsquare Media. Retrieved November 1, 2018.
  5. Miller, Prairie (May 18, 2005). "Celebrity Spotlight: Samuel L. Jackson". LongIslandPress.com. Archived from the original on November 19, 2005. Retrieved May 10, 2009.
  6. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (DVD). Los Angeles, California: 20th Century Fox. 1999.
  7. Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (DVD). Los Angeles, California: 20th Century Fox. 2002.
  8. (HD 1080p) Mace Windu vs. Darth Sidious & Anakin Skywalker, archived from the original on December 15, 2021, retrieved February 27, 2021
  9. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (DVD). Los Angeles, California: 20th Century Fox. 2005.
  10. Star Wars: The Clone Wars (DVD). 20th Century Fox. 2008.
  11. "Review: Star Wars- Mace Windu: Jedi of the Republic". ComicBookWire. February 6, 2019. Retrieved May 17, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. Celestino, Mike (September 5, 2019). "Comic Review - "Star Wars: Jedi - Fallen Order: Dark Temple" #1". LaughingPlace.com. Retrieved September 4, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  13. Bacon, Thomas (May 11, 2022). "Star Wars Makes Mace Windu's Rarest Jedi Power Canon Again". ScreenRant. Retrieved May 12, 2022.
  14. McMilian, Graeme (April 25, 2014). "Lucasfilm Unveils New Plans for Star Wars Expanded Universe". The Hollywood Reporter. Los Angeles, California: Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved May 26, 2016.
  15. "The Legendary Star Wars Expanded Universe Turns a New Page". StarWars.com. April 25, 2014. Retrieved May 26, 2016.
  16. Dela Cruz, Judith Anne (March 18, 2019). "Mace Windu's Original Lightsaber Color Revealed". Epicstream. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
  17. Wallace, Daniel (2017) [2010]. The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force. San Francisco, California: Chronicle Books. p. 136. ISBN 978-1-4521-0227-6. OCLC 752590192.
  18. "Top 100 Star Wars Characters: 27: Mace Windu". IGN. Los Angeles, California: j2 Global. Archived from the original on August 16, 2010. Retrieved November 1, 2018.
  19. Cavanaugh, Patrick (June 13, 2019). "Star Wars: Samuel L. Jackson Wants "One More Run" at Mace Windu". Comicbook.com. Retrieved September 19, 2020.



На других языках

- [en] Mace Windu

[es] Mace Windu

Mace Windu es un personaje ficticio de La Guerra de las Galaxias interpretado por el actor Samuel L. Jackson.

[fr] Mace Windu

Mace Windu est un maître Jedi, personnage de la saga cinématographique Star Wars. Il est interprété au cinéma par Samuel L. Jackson dans La Menace fantôme, L'Attaque des clones et La Revanche des Sith.

[it] Mace Windu

Mace Windu è un personaggio immaginario dell'universo fantascientifico di Guerre stellari presente nella trilogia prequel ed interpretato da Samuel L. Jackson, che lo doppia anche nel film d'animazione Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Nella serie televisiva omonima, è invece doppiato da Terrence Carson in originale, da Alberto Angrisano in italiano.

[ru] Мейс Винду

Мейс Ви́нду (англ. Mace Windu; 72 д.б.я. — 19 д.б.я.) — персонаж фантастической вселенной «Звёздных войн», глава Высшего Совета джедаев. Он был первым, кто достиг такого положения в столь молодом возрасте (ему не было ещё и тридцати). Винду был коруном, что делало его великим воином. При этом он также служил общественным представителем Высшего Совета джедаев, обеспечивая тесные связи с Верховным канцлером Валорумом[1].


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