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23 de ago. de 2023 · Ahsoka has brought back Clancy Brown for his second Star Wars live-action appearance, and his first was incredibly fascinating. Brown is known for having voiced Savage Opress in Star Wars: The Clone Wars , and Ahsoka has further cemented his place in the Star Wars franchise.
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"You have grown so powerful."
"And I shall complete your training. Not as your brother–but as your master."
―Savage Opress and his brother, Maul
Savage Opress ( pronounced /sə'vɑʒ oʊ'pres/) was the brother of Maul and Feral. A Force-sensitive Dathomirian Nightbrother, he became a Sith apprentice under Count Dooku and later became a Sith Lord, apprenticed to Maul, who was a renegade Sith Lord during the Clone Wars
Originally a tribal leader on Dathomir, Opress was handpicked by the Nightsister Asajj Ventress to become her "mate" and servant following her grueling tests of Selection, as part of her bid for revenge on her former Master, the Sith Lord Count Dooku. In accordance with their plot against Dooku, Mother Talzin and her Nightsister witches employed their dark magic to grant Opress fearsome abilities, such as a strong, raw connection to the Force and domineering physical power. After murdering his beloved brother Feral in a display of loyalty to Ventress, Opress entered the Clone Wars as a Dark Acolyte, serving as an enforcer in Dooku's Confederacy of Independent Systems.
Immediately, Opress established himself as a dangerous warrior and a force to be reckoned with. However, Opress soon realized he was being used by Ventress and when Ventress sprung the trap and tried to defeat Dooku with his help, he betrayed both her and Dooku. He would return to Dathomir, where Mother Talzin sent on a quest to seek his long-lost brother and Talzin's son Maul. Opress was led to the junkyard world of Lotho Minor by the Talisman of Finding, where he found his brother Maul, a deranged and broken shell of his former self. He brought his brother back to Dathomir and to Talzin, who restored both his mind and his legs. She then left the pair together as Maul became reconnected with the drastically-changed galaxy around him. He and Opress then joined forces, embarking on a quest to exact vengeance on Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, sowing death and chaos throughout the galaxy as they went.
Sith apprenticeship
"You have a natural ability, but we must hone it." ―Count Dooku, while training Savage Opress Savage Opress was born on the planet Dathomir as a son of Mother Talzin. He had brothers named Maul and Feral. At a young age, Maul was taken away from Dathomir by the Sith Lord Darth Sidious. By the time of the Clone Wars, Opress lived in the Nightbrother village with Feral on Dathomir. As part of the Nightsister Asajj Ventress' plot for revenge on her former Master, the Sith Lord Count Dooku, she traveled to the Nightbrother village to select a warrior to serve Dooku but secretly be controlled by the Nightsisters so they could exact their revenge. As Ventress put the group of Nightbrothers through her grueling tests of Selection, which involved the deaths of many of the candidates, Opress emerged as an excellent, fearsome, and brave warrior, and he was handpicked by Ventress to become her servant. In accordance with their plot against Dooku, Mother Talzin and her Nightsister witches employed their magicks to grant Opress fearsome abilities, greatly amplifying his strength and aggression as well as physically transforming him into a hulking and imposing brute. Opress grew in height and physical size significantly, and even the horns on his head grew much larger. After choking his brother Feral, a brother who he had fiercely protected during the Selection, to death in a display of loyalty to Ventress, Opress was equipped with armor and a mystically enhanced spear before being offered to Dooku as a Dark Acolyte by Talzin. Dooku accepted Opress, allowing for him to enter the Clone Wars as his personal enforcer. Opress was initially sent to execute a mission against the Galactic Republic on the planet Devaron to prove himself, aiding the Separatist forces that were attacking the Temple of Eedit. Opress slaughtered a group of clone troopers and slew his first Jedi, Master, Halsey, and his Padawan Knox, overpowering them with his brute strength, endurance, and hand-to-hand combat skills. Opress soon became apprenticed to Dooku, who intended to use his new acolyte to overthrow his own master, Darth Sidious, and claim control of the galaxy. While Opress was subjected to brutal Sith training under Dooku's charge, Ventress prepared to pit the monstrous Nightbrother against Dooku when the time was right. Opress began to use a double-bladed lightsaber as his training progressed. Although Dooku easily defeated him while dueling and disdainfully noted his sloppiness and lack of technique, he admitted that Opress could grow very powerful if he was trained properly. Outside, on the castle grounds, Dooku heavily tested Opress and his abilities, forcing him to lift a dozen obelisk stones at once telekinetically. When Opress was unable to accomplish the feat, he was continuously shocked with Force lightning as punishment for his failure. Opress grew angry as he was subjected to the tasks as well as the punishments for failing them.
Breaking free
"You have a brother." "A brother? But all of my kin were killed." "Not all of them. He lives in the Outer Rim in exile. You will find him. He will teach you everything you need to learn to become even more powerful." ―Talzin and Savage Opress Eventually, Opress was sent on a mission to Toydaria, where he was tasked with capturing the Toydarian King Katuunko. Opress slaughtered several guards and forced his way inside the royal palace, but accidentally killed Katuunko by Force choking him. He was confronted by Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, but he bulled his way past them and returned to Dooku with the King's corpse. Opress was again subjected to Force lightning as punishment for killing the King instead of bringing him back alive, and when he begged for mercy from his master, Dooku replied that mercy was not the way of the Dark Side. However, Ventress soon arrived and enacted her plans for revenge, revealing Opress' hidden allegiance to her and attacking her former master. While disarming Dooku and knocking him down initially, he would then be repeatedly overwhelmed and weakened by Dooku's Force lightning. A furious Ventress ordered him to kill Dooku, but after Dooku fired his Force Lightning at him again, an exhausted Opress claimed that Dooku was too powerful, but this caused Ventress to berate him. Being tortured by Dooku and berated by Ventress, caused Opress to eventually overcome Ventress' spell of control and also terminate his service to Dooku. He Force choked them both in a fit of rage, and threw them back. He then viciously attacked both of them and initially had the upper hand, but was then thrown back by Dooku and Ventress. Dooku proceeded to escape and Ventress followed him, leaving Opress alone who then proceeded to escape, further battling his way through Skywalker and Kenobi as well as an army of droids. Opress eventually made his way to the hangar and escaped and headed to Dathomir. Returning to Talzin, he told her that Ventress betrayed him, and then learned of his kinship to the former Sith apprentice Maul. Talzin told him to track down his lost brother and train under him.
Search for Maul
"What? What is it? Brother, what are you saying?" "[...] Revenge. I must have revenge." ―Savage Opress and Maul Opress' search for his brother took him to the Outer Rim. When he was pursued by the authorities after an altercation at a diner on Stobar, he encountered a an assortment of cargo crates that gave him clues to his brother's location. Locating the nearest ship, he forced the captain of the ship to let him travel with him to the planet Lotho Minor and later tossed the unfortunate man out of the ship when they arrived. As he began to search, he was greeted by the Anacondan Morley, who offered to be his guide. Opress at first refused, but after realizing that he would have little success locating his brother on the dangerous and unfamiliar world alone, he begrudgingly followed Morley, who told him that he had seen another of his kind on the planet. Navigating through the tunnels of junk, slaying numerous Junkers, and evading acid rain, Opress eventually discovered what he believed to be his brother's residence. However, when his talisman stopped glowing, he became frustrated. Just then, he was tricked by Morley, who sent him falling through the junk into a tunnel, with the Anacondan noting that he would soon be killed by his master. After wandering the tunnels, Opress was attacked by a spider-like creature, which Opress soon realized was his deranged brother with cybernetic legs. Upon realizing this, Opress chased after his brother, calling out to him until he caught up to him in a cavern. Opress tried to communicate with his sibling, but Maul's words were only desperate and nonsensical ravings. After killing Morley for setting him up, he began to question his brother to learn more about how he had ended up here. He eventually discerned his brother's hatred for the Jedi, and eventually rescued him from his tortured existence on the junk world and brought him home to Dathomir, where Talzin restored his mind and body with her magicks. Maul was given new cybernetic legs and had his injuries healed to an extent. Opress then began his service to his experienced brother, becoming involved with Maul's pursuit of vengeance on Kenobi, who had cut him in half over a decade ago in the Theed Royal Palace on Naboo.
"You have no technique. Sloppy! But with the proper training, you could be a powerful warrior. You have a natural ability, but we must hone it. Are you up for the challenge of putting your hate to better use?"
"Yes, Master."
―Count Dooku and Savage Opress
Savage Opress was a formidable Sith warrior, proficient with the use of the various weapons in the Nightbrother village. He was also a skilled hand-to-hand combatant, utilizing the Nightbrother's mixture of combat styles best known for its acrobatics and agility. For these reasons, Opress was considered to be among the best of the clan's fighters, able to fight on par with Asajj Ventress even before his transformation. After Savage was handpicked by Ventress to become her apprentice, Mother Talzin used magick to grant him fearsome abilities and was transformed into a terrifying opponent for the Jedi. After his transformation, Savage was a head taller, had a much broader chest and even stronger arms, and a full crown of sharp and elongated horns, as well as experiencing dramatic increases to his already considerable strength, durability, agility, and stamina.
Savage was a proficient lightsaber duelist. Dooku began training Savage Opress, who quickly mastered the double-bladed lightsaber like his brother before him, a tricky weapon because it could be much more dangerous to its wielder than an enemy. His combat style relied on his immense strength, with Opress hammering and swiftly repelling his opponents with raw kinetic power. Opress was quickly able to fight on par with skilled opponents, including several simultaneously, as seen when Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi confronted him on Toydaria and, soon after, on Dooku's ship. Side-by-side with Ventress, with his immense strength, Opress even bested and disarmed Dooku, who was a proficient duelist. However, when Dooku began attacking him with his Force Lightning, Opress was significantly weakened and overwhelmed, even acknowledging that Dooku was too powerful.
After joining his brother Maul, he further advanced in his Sith training. Opress' skills grow quickly, and he was soon able to contend with and even defeat Jedi Council members such as Kenobi in combat. He even became skilled and powerful enough to slay Adi Gallia in a duel on Florrum. When fighting Darth Sidious alongside his brother Maul, he proved to be quick and skilled enough to keep up with the immensely powerful Dark Lord of the Sith. Opress fought hard alongside Maul and even threw Sidious off the balcony with a headbutt, proving to be a great foe for the Dark Lord. However, when separated from his brother, his immense strength and brutality proved to be no match for Sidious' flawless swordsmanship.
"For you, an enchanted blade blessed with our most potent magicks."
―Mother Talzin to Savage Opress
Prior to his transformation, Savage wore simple rags matching those of his Nightbrother brethren and wielded crude, archaic weaponry such as an ax. Upon his transformation, Mother Talzin gifted Savage with a specially designed suit of armor and a spear. The suit of armor was incredibly durable, capable of withstanding blaster fire and the acid rains of Lotho Minor. The armor seemingly dissipated upon Savage's death at the hands of Darth Sidious. Savage used the spear during the Devaron massacre, killing a handful of clone troopers and two members of the Jedi Order with the enchanted weapon.
At some point after the Devaron massacre, Savage began using a crimson double-bladed lightsaber in favor of the enchanted spear given to him by Talzin, wielding the weapon until his death at the hands of Darth Sidious. After betraying Ventress and Dooku, Savage returned to Dathomir and was given the Talisman of Finding by Mother Talzin. The talisman served as a compass that eventually led Opress to Lotho Minor and his long-lost brother Maul.
During his apprenticeship under Count Dooku, Opress piloted a Punworcca 116-class interstellar sloop similar to his master's. Opress used the ship to travel to and from Devaron and Toydaria, and later escaped Tyranus' Providence-class Dreadnought aboard the solar sailor.
For his journey to Lotho Minor, Opress piloted a hijacked Turtle Tanker. He also used the Turtle Tanker to travel to Dathomir and later Raydonia. After their duel with Kenobi and Ventress, Opress and Maul stopped using the tanker in favor of a YV-865 Aurore-class freighter. The brothers used the YV-865 to travel to Florrum; however, it was later damaged beyond repair by the Ohnaka Gang on the planet's surface.
Development
Savage Opress was voiced by prolific voice actor Clancy Brown in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, first appearing in the episode "Monster." Savage Opress' introduction in the series was instrumental, along with George Lucas' recommendations, to bring back Maul into the series following his apparent death in the 1999 film Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace. Early plans of the Star Wars Rebels episode "Twin Suns" featured Maul experiencing Force visions of both Opress and Satine Kryze before facing Obi-Wan Kenobi on Tatooine. In contrast to Kryze, Opress nearly actually made it to design phase before Dave Filoni thought it better, feeling that in an already lengthy episode, there was no time to explain Savage's origins as they couldn't risk alienating new Star Wars fans who would be confused with Opress' sudden appearance. The Witches of Dathomir Squad Pack for Star Wars: Shatterpoint states that Oppress was Talzin's oldest son. However, the preview databank entry for the set stated Maul was his older brother. This article does not assume which is correct.
Non-canonical information
In the LEGO Star Wars: Droid Tales episode "Crisis on Coruscant," Savage Opress was present on Geonosis alongside multiple other Separatist agents, sitting at a table inside a room of a factory as General Grievous delivered top-secret Republic plans to Count Dooku. As Opress and the other Separatists present prepared to watch the plans, however, R2-D2—disguised as a Separatist astromech droid—instead played footage of several Ewoks dancing. A group of Jedi—led by Yoda—then arrived, and Opress initially fought Ki-Adi-Mundi. The factory soon blew up after R2-D2 got stuck in some of its gears, forcing the Jedi, C-3PO, and R2-D2 to escape with the plans while the Separatists escaped on their own. C-3PO later recounted this story to Admiral Gial Ackbar during the Imperial Era.
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