The TRAGIC Reason Darth Malak was BALD
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- Darth Malak's tattoos and his baldness are truly iconic within Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. However... there is a very tragic reason behind why Malak went bald, and why he chose to tattoo his head...
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Crazy to think Darth Malak went through so much suffering to protect others and then became such a monster... tragic indeed. Come follow me on Twitter to keep up with me across Star Wars Celebration! - twitter.com/100PerStarWars
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*coughs* Anakin Skywalker, Homura Akemi, and Griffith. *coughs*
It always felt from the first playthrough they did an injustice to Malak charakter. He was a bad guy because they needed a bad guy. We didn't get much background other than he rebelled because of power. A typical bad guy plot.
If they added a veteran in the game, say a captain in hiding who've been there with Malak from the beginning, or even changed Canderous story telling us he was there on Flashpoint station and saw, and they explain what has been done to him, we'd got a masterful story.
Surprising, you never did a video on Darth Vectivus
No wonder Malak admired Revan so much. Revan got to keep his John Wick hair and his jaw.
He hasn't mastered Airbending like Malak has, though
@@merkbromerkington3215 Malak : the last Dark Side bender 💀💀💀
Someone should make a mod where you can wield a pencil against Malak... so you can kill him with a fucking pencil
I was half expecting this video to be sponsored by Keeps.
I see Malak as a mix of Darth Vader and Lex Luthor(for obvious reasons). It was really cool to see him in the Old Republic comic book with Zayne. I’m telling ya they should’ve made a game that shows the story of the Mandalorian wars(through the eyes of Revan & Malak). A prequel to the KOTOR games. A $1 million idea just waiting to happen man
So just an external mix? How in-depth
I would love a Clone Wars-style cartoon about the Mandalorian Wars focusing on Revan, Malak and Meetra Surik. And maybe throw Zayne and Jarael in there as shipping fuel. And I'd want it directed by Genndy Tartakovsky, not Dave Filoni.
@@vetarlittorf1807 you good sir have great taste. Tatarkovsky would be perfect. He’s in my top three favorite artists. 👍🏼 Yeah I don’t think we need another live action show. I would love to see a hand drawn cartoon or 3D clone wars animation.
@@vetarlittorf1807 Hmmm.... Tartakovsky would make a great co-director. he specializes in nonverbal communication and strong visuals, and we will need ALOT of nuanced lore to be seeded here and there. I don't doubt he could do it, but Filoni could nail it... if he wasn't already busy carrying the rest of lucasfilm.
I'd say a TV series is more betterer. I hope Lucasfilm is sold and they do KotOR era justice.
His baldness goes beyond regular baldness or even advanced baldness, Malak had mega baldness. 👁_👁
Baldness is the only consistently relaible indicator of true evil
Also lack of eyebrows!
What about Aang? Or Saitama? Or Silver Surfer?
definitely sith thing look at Darth bane and Darth Vader Darth sion
@@xxcaptninjaxx4301 there are plenty of Jedi who are bald though.
@@vetarlittorf1807 don’t ruin our fun 😂😂😂
Malek > Vader
Can I just say I love how you're doing more of the Knights of the Old Republic comic run. Would love to see more of this content covered!
I love that I always tune in so quickly to these, Nice to have some more KOTOR content.. I have a tip .. Can you do a mod list for KOTOR? like what mods do you use when you do your play throughs. I think this is a good thing for people who wants to play through the games for the first time
Good suggestion there.
@@michaelandreipalon359 Yes, I need to play the whole thing now that I'm an adult. I played it when I was like 9 and didn't grasp any of the nuance.
I would like to imagine with the Unknown Ancient Sith Empire that was originally planned for Kotor 3's story Darth Malak's idea and strategy of counteracting them unlike Revan was more for military conquest and through uncovering more about the Star Forge's technologies through further research and experimentations of weaponizing the Dark Side in order to further equal the plain field with the Ancient Sith on a fundamental military level and conquering the galaxy quickly while Revan was looking at it through different perspectives and methods that were more retrained and cautious unlike Malak was thinking who wanted to end the conflict quickly more aggressively and coldly logical in his mind.
People seem to perceive Darth Malak as a tyrannical idiot when they look at the Old Republic but that is not the feeling I was getting from him. I saw him more like what military general in a high central commend position would think while arguing with Revan the commander in chief.
Plus in Kotor he fully knew Revan would beat his forces and wanted time to activate the Star Forge's full potential and defenses.
I think Kotor 3 would have shown Malak as a bit of more understanding commander and warlord then what Swtor gave him this perception as.
A cruel warlord? Yes. But nessesary cruelty he only knows must be enforced by his own doctrines.
Which is just one of the many things I dislike Swtor had done to discredit many of the original ideas and narrative of the Kotor series which could have become a Trilogy.
that was jaw-dropping story 😃
I can't take that title seriously. 😄😄😄
I'd love to hear your thoughts on the Ancient Sith and their knowledge, or lack thereof about the Star Forge! Ajunta Pall alludes quite heavily to the treasure of the Ancient Sith from his era to be the Star Forge, but I have yet to see this referenced anywhere else. I don't believe anyone other than the Rakatta, Revan, and Malak had anything to do with the Star Forge, or even had any knowledge whatsoever about its existence, and yet Pall seems to state otherwise and the Star Map is located within Naga Sadow's tomb, which couldn't have been a coincidence.
Continuity error? Plot thread left unresolved?
Arrogance, Dogmatism and Hypocrisy are the 3 worst defects of those who serve the light.
8:33 I know this is completely unrelated to the rest of the video but I saw someone Cosplaying Revan from that part of the comic (pre mask), I really wish I had asked to take a photo.
The tragic reason I'm going bald is because of genetics.
His edginess made him bald.
Bro I thought we were friends 😭
Stress 😔
Common Darth Malak w. All W villains are bald (mostly).
*All villains is modern media are white males* there, fixed that for you
Was gonna say stress or something but radiation would about do it
Malak in the comics kind of looked like Aang.
I was gonna say Sigma.
For me....I mean Sion is one of my favorites...followed by Nihilus, then Traya, then then Revan (yes I am talking when he invaded the Republic...it was so perfect) then Malak....I mean Malak was still better than any of the new villains, but he was so cut and dried typical...friend and pupil turned enemy and wanted to thwart the master...he's Anakin...he's all of the basic villains out there...but he still fits so perfectly as well...every villain in KOTOR is amazing I feel...which is extremely rare among video games and stories alike
I think Malak is my favorite... least favorite villain?
if that makes sense
He is the most realistic, I can see why he does what he does, he's the most Human.
Scion, and Nihilus (butchered that) are Villain's based on Primal Urges.
While Kreya is well written, her reasons for being full on evil don't make much sense to me, I would assume she'd be more neutral.
But Malak, was a creature created from years of abuse, and just trying too fight back and insure it doesn't happen to others, in some nearby universe out there, he would have become a hero instead of a big bad.
Also, Wasn't he affected by the emperor the same way Revan was? If so that explains why he went full on evil instead of Neutral, he also has plenty of reason to hate the order, and the republic (those who sworn to protect him but failed when it mattered) etc.
So Malak, TOP TIER VILLIAN
even if he is the least cool in my opinion, he still is the best of them
@100% Star Wars You neglected to mention that Alek Squint's unnatural height, was also a product of Demagol's experimentation upon him. In the beginning of Knights of the Old Republic comic, where Alek stands next to Zayne Carrick, you can see their height being pretty close. When Carrick frees the captured Jedi along with Alek Squint Squinquargesimus, you can see his height is well one head higher than almost everyone around him, including Carrick. So there's that little persona signature of Darth Malak.
this quite of topic but really want to know what your thoughts about disney announcing the Old Republic Timeline
John Jackson Miller is a great guy and I wish the KotOR comics got more love.
4:30 [Nitpick] zayne actually never was knighted
My disappointment is immeasurable that this wasn't sponsored by Keeps.
Thank you for exploring the "erra" of the old republic so much. It's honestly the only star wars i carre about these day's. Revan as always fascinated me since i first heard of him. Then i heard about malak/alak.
NGL i really thought this was gonna lead to some elaborate ad for Keeps. Lol
My friend I was hoping you were going to talk about the trailer for the upcoming Ahsoka series. Thrawn, Hera, Sabine, Chopper and Ezra Bridger are back!!!!!!!!
Disney SW has lost over half of the audience, SW is dying kid, get use to it
@Paul Boggess nobody was happy to hear the news that Daisy Ridley was coming back as Rey in the next Star Wars movie but I don't agree with you that Star Wars is dead. Season 2 of the Bad Batch was great...although I wasn't happy about Tech dying and I hope he comes back. Mandalorian season 3 hasn't done well so hopefully the new Ahsoka series will do good
**Whispers**
I think that man (Malak) is the Avatar.
The tattoo artist refused to finish his job unless he shaved 🪒 his hair off
I rate the villains the same way, but if Malek's story had been developed more - if we had been able to see the full story of Revan and Malek, it could put him to the top - number 2.
Yeah, Treya still takes the prize - she's better than Palpatine for me.
Out of context, this would have made a great April Fool's vid that subverted expectations.
1 word, infamous.
@@75JUNAKI The video game duology that deserves a polished PC port nowadays?
Idk if you heard the news at Star Wars celebration in London, but apparently Disney made The Old Republic canon. So does this mean the Kotor remake will officially be the canonical adaptation of Legends Kotor?
I haven’t read the K.O.T.O.R comics but does this take place before he and Jedi Knight / Pre-Darth Revan found the 1st Star Map?
Am I remembering correctly, didn't Malak also grow taller due to these experiments? I was thinking about this a while back, but I can't seem to find that info
Yes, malak grew to 6’11 as shown in kotor from 6’6 in the MW wars
@@ieatmyveggiez5029 I thought he grew from roughly 5'11"- 6' to around 6'8"
@@rere960 nope, malak was already tall. His in game character model in Kotor is 6’11
@@ieatmyveggiez5029 damn
I was expecting a Keeps sponsorship.
He once stood in the shower and made a holotape from that, showed it to people and they all started to laugh at his hairline, which reminded them of an N64 controller.
After many years of constant bullying he finally caved in, gave up on his old identity, shaved his head fully bald and embraced the baldness with tattoos. His final words before shaving his head bald were:
"It is what it is."
I have the story that you are referring to!!!
Nah. Calo Nord is the most iconic.
What happened to the Jedi Covernant?
Still better antagonist than Palpatine ... again.
this is why i never went full darkside--- male pattern baldness
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Oh wow! I didn't know all of this. I assumed he was a Rattataki.
i have a bad feeling none of this will be in the remake whatsoever smh . sigh i hope Sony and saber interactive does the Kotor remake justice but i got a feeling that lore content creators like yourself is goin to write a better story than them .
Great video bro!!
Darth Malak is the Brutus to Revan's Caesar. Returning from the Mandalorian Wars, Revan crossed his own Rubicon. The only difference is that the conspiracy to kill Revan wasn't as successful as the Roman Senate killing Ceasar.
Malak was always a pretty forgettable boss for me. I saw him as an annoying self-centered coward that lacked any ability to properly plan for the future and only cared for immediate gains, so the perfect Sith based on everything I knew about them from the few games I had played up to KotR. Even at the highest difficulty, I stomped him almost instantly each time we fought and his plot armor victories earlier in the game annoyed me.
As for his actual lore and everything he did outside of the game, I never bothered to look it up since he felt like such a throwaway villain to me. I was sure he was a capable commander during the war since it was brought up at some point and was sure he saved a lot of people while leading them to victory but I never got to experience the version of him that didn't look grossly incompetent and shortsighted.
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I was excited for Star Wars Celebration to see if they had any news on KOTOR or plans to make a Movie series or Tv Seriies.Turns out..... NOTHING. I was so disappointed.I hope they do something with the old Republic. The new sh*t is bulllsh*t with all the High Republic nonsense.
And here I thought that Malak was just inspired by the Air Nomad fashion 🙃
I loved those comics but boy oh boy you can tell when the artists changed. x'D
Great vid as always!
Why didn't the captive Jedi simply do Force Crush on the vital organs of Demagol? Non Force-users have no protection against it.
Poor Alec
John Jackson Miller explained on his website back in the day that Revan and Malak are names like the politicians Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov and Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili were known as Vladmir Lenin and Joseph Stalin. It made a lot of sense to me.
OMG! FINALLY! IVE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU TO COVER MALAK
He's ok, not that cool compared to the others. Somewhat of a 1-dimensional bad guy. Did bad things for good reason, and continued doing bad things.
I actually rank Malak second. Yeah, he’s kind of a stereotypical Sith villain, but he has a back story. He actually had a character arc in the comics. Nihilus and Sion are excellent villains, but they are a bit more like one trick ponies compared to Malak and especially Kreia
I agree
The Jedi Covanent forced Alek to become bald, so that the entire galaxy would see the shame of being a bald person and being a follower of Revan.
Malik is a fantastic villain, It's not his fault. The following game had three of the greatest villains in both Star wars or video game history
Malak in the game is extremely shallow, only the additional material (made by superior writers apparently) makes him interesting. Not only he's below all sith villains, but also several other evil characters like Atris
I mean... that's what you see when you think of Malak. I see a dude in a bright-red yoga tight-suit.
Malak goes from wanting to protect and save people just to straight blowing up multiple planets lol
Malak could've been the best villain but they didn't give him a lot of story other then he betrayed Revan maybe they'll add to his story in the kotor remake
I just knew somehow Zayne Carrick was involved
Darth Malak may be the most iconic villain in KotOR, but even he falls short when compared to the greatest villain in cinematic history: DARTH VADER.
Darth Malak ragdolls vader
No, greatest villain is Sheev Palpatine!
@@shaydowsith348 Emperor Palpatine was introduced in Return of the Jedi. Most people who have never seen the prequel trilogy don't even know him. But even those who never saw the prequel trilogy have heard of Darth Vader. That is why Vader outclasses Palpatine in fame.
@@ieatmyveggiez5029 Vader can simply crush him with a Force Choke, he is a greater duelist, and is more powerful in the Force. Malak has more powers, but Vader is stronger in the Force. Vader ragdolls Malak, not the other way around.
@@mikeor- vader is weaker than exar kun… who malak is ridiculously above. He utterly dominates Vader
This is an awesome channel. Love this story. Thank you for sharing.
Keira ist für mich auf dem Boden und Sion an der Spitze. Warum fragt ihr euch sicher lasst es mich erklären: Keira auch wenn Sie noch so klug daher redet sind ihre "Pläne" recht einfach, je klüger du bist des do dümmer kommst du dier vor. Sion hingegen lebt seit dem Exar Kun versucht hat ein Gott zu werden, er hat so viel erlebt und konnte nicht aufhören am leben zu sein Keira hat ihn in Scherben geworfen und Meetra hat die Stücke aufgehoben und wieder zusammengeklebt dadurch konnte er gehen.
Fantastic video! Many people don't realize just how deep characters in the Old Republic era, including both KOTOR games, really are.
Malak is probably behind Kreia but above Scion. Tough call vs Nihilus though.
Malak is bald for the same reason I’m bald. It’s awesome 😎
I just figured he was really stressed out being the big bad leader and all.
Malak was a master air bender cuz of his head tattoos 😉
I agree with that ranking. The 1st game os a classic, true, but more basic, especially when it comes to good and evil. So Malak is a more basic villain
malak should be 1
I remember this comic, pure gold.
He never got to take Jareal to pound town!🎉
Personally I agree with your ranking. He wasn’t a terrible villain, but the fact he isn’t flashed out as much in the first game makes him appear more shallow than he actually is. Even then though, I think that ranking is deserved because of what GO-TO says about his tactics in 2.
Hair is overrated
Malak Baldwin
That is indeed tragic
malak is way better than sion and treya lol
A bit unfair since Sion didn’t have as much story as Malak’s, but Traya is better than both.
Haven't watched the video, yet. But when I saw the title, I immediatly had a theory: When he was young, he really was bad in math and tore his last hair once he was supposed to understand calculus. Especially, once he learned that he couldn't Force crush an integral.😁
You're really running out of video ideas, aren't you?