The latest Stars Wars animated series Maul – Shadow Lord is about more than its iconic titular villain. As well as exploring the dynamic between Darth Maul and his new apprentice Devon Izara, this show will finally be doing justice to one of the franchise’s most overlooked alien races.
When we think of hero deaths in Star Wars, names like Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi usually spring to mind. Moments of high tragedy are typically reserved for major characters who’ve spent a considerable amount of time onscreen, earning our sympathy.
Yet, one of the most tragic – and, frankly, uncalled for – death scenes in any Star Wars movie befell a character we’d barely been introduced to. Vurk Jedi Master Coleman Trebor had spent a matter of seconds onscreen before being killed off. Now, at long last, the franchise has found Trebor’s replacement.
Star Wars Is Making Up For The Death Of Coleman Trebor With Its New Jedi Master
If it weren’t for Coleman Trebor’s premature death in the George Lucas prequel movie Attack of the Clones, this Vurk warrior could have become one of the strongest Jedi in Star Wars. As it is, his brief appearance remains just one of two fleeting glimpses we’ve had of any Vurk character in any of the franchise’s screen releases.
Trebor fell to his death at the hands of Count Dooku’s hired bounty hunter Jango Fett, when fighting alongside fellow Jedi Master Mace Windu in the Battle of Geonosis. The only other Vurk to have featured in a Star Wars movie or TV show is Senator Sweitt Concorkill, who had a short piece of dialogue in Revenge of the Sith.
More than two decades later, the franchise finally has another Vurk character, who’ll play a prominent role in the TV series Maul – Shadow Lord. Vurks are a reptilian race from the planet Sembla, whose physical appearance is distinguished by a large bony crust protruding up from their noses, towards the back of their heads.
Coleman Trebor Was Killed Off Way Too Early In Attack Of The Clones
Coleman Trebor is one of several Jedi who deserved to play a bigger part in the Star Wars movies. There was little use in introducing him during a meeting of the Jedi Council, only to kill him seconds after he first took center stage in a fight scene.
It seems as though George Lucas went to the trouble of creating an entire race of creatures for these few seconds of screentime. While other Vurks have appeared in Star Wars comics and graphic novels, this species from Sembla has played virtually no role in the franchise’s screen releases, other than Trebor’s tragic berth in Attack of the Clones.
So it would have made far more sense to keep him alive, and make him an integral Jedi combatant for the rest of the movie, at least. His premature death is symptomatic of the fact that there’s simply too much going on in the unwieldy second episode of the Star Wars prequel trilogy.
Maul – Shadow Lord’s Eeko-Dio-Daki Is The 1st Vurk Jedi Since Coleman Trebor
Thankfully, the franchise is giving Vurks their due once more, albeit 24 years later. As well as replacing C-3PO with Two-Boots the police droid, the animation series Maul – Shadow Lord has found a replacement for Coleman Trebor, in the form of Vurk Jedi Master Eeko-Dio-Daki.
This brand-new character appears in the show’s trailer, wearing a hood which covers the bony crest on top of his head. It seems as though he’ll be a key adversary of Darth Maul throughout Maul – Shadow Lord, and we can expect the two of them to share some eye-catching lightsaber combat sequences in true Star Wars tradition.