I don't think Maul is a Sith. He got discarded by Palpatine and Vader replaced him. And according to the rule of two, he should be just another dark side force user like the Inquisitors.
It was smart he didn't want powerful or smart inquisitors he wanted them stupid and useless against anyone more powerful than an average Jedi Padawan, he didn't want them to threaten his own power so he trained them half assed and killed any who might challenge his poisition.
@@henocksherlock3340They trained Maul to be a competent assassin though without giving him too much secret knowledge on the force. They could've done the same for the Inquisitiors too.
To their credit they were literal padawans who didn't immediately die to either Ahsoka or Maul. Maul for obvious reasons, and Ahsoka even more so considering that by the time rebels takes place she's not only easily stronger than Obi Wan, but it was stated only Vader or Sidious could actually defeat her.
@@earlgrey7791and probably Yoda, her power level comes from interesting lineage. Yoda was a master of Count Dooku, Count Dooku of Qui Gon Jin, Qui Gon of Obi Wan, Obi Wan of Anakin and Anakin was Ahsoka's master.
Ahsoka at her best is pretty much the same level as Obi Wan at his best, both were able to defeat Maul, Obi Wan also beat Grevious and Ahsoka held her own against him too. Ahsoka disrespected the fuck out of all the Inquisitors who most of the time she was just playing with rather than actually fighting. Both Obi Wan and Ahsoka also got the better off Darth Vader too although Vader was distracted when Ahsoka slashed his mask. Ahsoka however has something that few people actually have and that is the will to always survive thanks to Anakin teaching her to survive and his unwillingness to lose her during the Clone Wars he taught her to fight and defend above and beyond the Jedi standard and his teaching ensured that she survived order 66. But she also survived and saved many during the Clone Wars thanks to his teachings, she survived the Droid foundry collapse on Genosis thanks to his teachings, she survived being kidnapped by the Trandoshan kidnappers who used her and others to hunt for sport and she brought them all down. She also survived on the ship where that mind control parasite broke loose and turned almost the entire crew and Baris against her.
I love the Ahsoka vs 7th Sister and 5th Brother fight because every time the 5th Brother tries to get involved, he just immediately gets bodied and lays down for two minutes.
@@zwykyziomek2570 The Fifth Brother staggered both Ahsoka and Kanan in the Season 2 finale, even having Ahsoka on the defensive until Maul helped her. It’s within reason he’d give Junda and Kestis issues too.
The Inquisitors were initially a random throwaway line in an obscure book, which pretty much only stated that Inquisitors existed during the Empire's early days to wipe out the Jedi remnants then just disappeared once the job was done. Apparently the real context was that they got bodied by said jedi in the process but took out enough before they died to not have been considered total failures.
Well the inquisitor saber is actually more inefficient compared to a regular double blade maul was able to take on two Jedi at once plus defensively it’s pretty good only major flaw is the long hilt even then some of the double blades can retract into the length of a single blade and probably was designed to work even if one half was cut off
grand inquisitor is cold, thats why hes the grand inquisitor, they had to summon plot armour to even win a 2v1 against him while it took 1 inquisitors to even match kanan and ezra individually. her droids are cool but completely unutillised when the battle actually begins, like use them for distraction or something
@@upisntdownsilly the grand dude was a jedi temple guard iirc, so at least he's properly trained for combat for a good while now. Everyone else is an absolute joke
To be fair, he was an absolute CLOWN. He got buried under a pile of rubble by one Jedi survivor he just called "weak" minutes before, and he got his saber broken by a rusty Padawan who left before the Clone Wars. Also, Luke before RoTJ, fresh off the Bespin duel, with a salvaged lightsaber, absolutely wrecked him in spirit form. Being a "Jedi Guard" means nothing, if that amounts to being a glorified bouncer LMFAO
The first duel you were referencing he initially won, but darth vader interfered. The second one Kanaan, as he said “I have nothing left to fear” had nothing left to fear, so essentially he was more powerful. A bit harder to explain that one but its pretty fair to say Kanaan gained the strength needed to beat him. I hve nothing to say for the last because i never read that comic, but luke isnt exactly weak however.
@@reallydopegaming8229 Uhhh You're referring to his duel with Jocasta Nu in the Vader comics. I was referring to his duel with Kira Vantala from The Orphanage short story. And the second one was ANOTHER Padawan who broke his saber before Kanan did, called Naq Med. So barring Jocasta Nu, he got beaten by THREE washed out Padawans (Kira, Naq and Kanan), got stabbed in the gut by Reva, and Luke in Disney canon is pathetically nerfed. And we're talking about pre-RoTJ Luke, just recovering from the Bespin duel, with almost NO experience outside of two encounters with Vader and that Stomtrooper with a green saber, and some battlefield engagements. The truth is : The Grand Inquisitor is pathetic.
"You may be strong in the force. You may be trained by vader. Even your pitiful little glowstick shares the same color as his. BUT YOU WILL NEVER BE HIM.
@@J03ThumbsUpThat is kind of the point. Why would Sidious ever allow Vader to train an apprentice more powerful than either of them? It's why he had Dooku abandon Ventress in Season 3 of the Clone Wars. Sidious wants to be the last of the Sith, with Vader only being his tool used to secure his ascendancy. The Inquisitors would've been a threat if they were actually able to defeat higher-skilled Jedi.
“Bro my controllers been glitching out all day I swear dude” “I don’t care you let the Jedi get away and lost us the game you fucking idiot” “HE WAS HACKING BRO I SWEAR I WAS LAGGING MY CONTROLLER DISCONNECTED A ROBBER BROKE INTO MY HOUSE I SWEAR BRO”
2:38 Kanan: So, we're trapped hanging onto the edge of the cliff right, and what the the Inquisitors do? Hera: They start monologuing? Kanan: They start monologuing! I mean, they have us on a silver platter and they won't shut up!
This actually feels like a conversation those two would have, I love it. Or maybe Cal and Kanan if they ever met and swapped stories about these losers.
Second Sister: in five years has tons of crazy moves and force abilities and beats Cal Kestis twice Fifth Brother and Seventh Sister: can’t kill two Jedi learners after ten years of experience
Because he didn't want then posing a threat to him. The I questions job is the hunt weak jedi. Kanan and Ezra could barely hold them off most of the time
@@Green_MnM_Commander_of_Antifa I mean, they could have been a lot more competent while still not being threats to some of the most powerful Siths to have ever lived.
There's something poetic about Maul just cleaning house against 3 inquisitors at once. The apprentice who was discarded by Palpatine just embarrassing his elite soldiers.
... vaders pets, he made them to clean up/find jedi he didn't want to deal with. Intentionally training them wrong so they could never rise to challange him and his position as apprentice.
elite-looking soldiers with rookie-substances, the degree palpatine want them to stay at, the same reason he didn't teach Maul more advanced sith techniques/teachings, which was why there was deleted brief scene of ashoka asking maul regarding who vader was, he replied "what i should've been"
Most of the Inquisitors: “Who are you?” Inquisitor Cal, Trilla, and the Grand Inquisitor: “We’re you but better.” Galen Marek/Starkiller: “P a t h e t i c .”
I like how maul got pissed off when they started helping him defeat the inquisitors because he knows dam well he could do it alone and he wants to do it alone to fuel his ego lmao.
@@GOvsJOrn I have an OC, who is not force sensitive at all and learned how to use a lightsaber like its a normal sword who would probably end Rey in three hits
I gotta say they were actually more or less competent in Fallen Order. Second Sister whooped Cal's ass twice before he finally defeated her on Bogano. Ninth Sister didn't get any Ws, but still, she has some nice force abilities, didn't give up the advantage of having a ship and tried to use it to kill Cal first, sustained multiple injuries and still kept on fighting. I can respect that.
While I do agree cal was in trouble during all of the inquisitor fights, I wouldn't describe them as more or less competent when one padawan who never finished his training, a noncombatant pilot, a nightsister, and a retired jedi can easily beat them. Like they were hunting cal for days at best, weeks at worst, and he was 2-0 by the end of it.
@@upisntdownsilly it wasn't even that, if he wasn't using a stupid gimmick lightsaber he might have lived 😂 I really want to know wtf Filoni & co were thinking (or more likely smoking) when they came up with them.
@@GeneralTaco155555aI think it makes sense in context - the Inquisitors are really just meant to take care of fodder - they had enough skill to hold their own, and the spinning blades just allow them to disorientate people around that level of experience. Sort of like how General grievous’ “I’ll try spinning, that’s a neat trick” would be a meat grinder to most people not called “Obi-Wan Kenobi”. If Jedi skilled enough to come out on top were found, Vader himself would show up. I highly doubt either Vader or Palpatine would actually WANT the Inquisitors to be too much of a threat anyway. He doesn’t need a bunch of rival Sith apprentices running around again, he just needs a task force capable of dealing with all the leftovers from the order that’s already in tatters. … Also… It’s a kid’s show - I know, I know, that doesn’t necessarily excuse dumb writing, but… It’s just spinning blades, it’s not exactly the height of absurdity for Star Wars. (Although FLYING with them was certainly a little bit over the top lol)
@@matthewbibby8921 the flying is the only thing i really have a problem with. I get it's a kids show, but it's also trying to be mainline Star Wars canon. You can't really have both without making canon goofy kid shit
@@GeneralTaco155555a I just gotta wonder; were their lightsabers designed to do that, or did one of them just try it one day while high as a kite on death sticks?
@@The_Misanthropic_Magpie how is she most competent? She lost to a padawan whom was disconnected from the force and she lost to him TWICE! At least the inquisitors in rebels are losing to either a Knight (kanaan), someone who should have been a Knight but was more like a master anyway (ashoka) or a literal sith lord (maul).
@mapping shaman in fallen order, she lost to him ONCE at the end, well after healing his connection. He had already pretty much been on his way to becoming a knight before order 66 as far as I know (please correct me if I'm wrong) and he did have to gain plenty of experience to get that far anyways. Constantly apply pressure to someone and they'll either break or bend. Cal didn't break and grew from his experiences, beating a fallen jedi after fighting hundreds of enemies (it sure fucking felt like it with me) since fighting the ninth sister, an admittedly weaker version of the second sister, who herself had only been a padawan before getting corrupted. Take that all into account, alongside the fact that the inquisitors weren't MEANT to be some super high tier threat like vader or dooku or maul, of course Cal beat her. The encounter on bogano wasn't a win either. She, at any time, could have killed him the moment he grabbed her saber. He was so overwhelmed, he was an easy target. He made a rookie mistake in thinking he needed to grab her weapon. If it weren't for Cere, Trilla would have won. She saw her chance to get the holocron and leave. Why work harder when she could work smarter?
I have several questions about the Heli Sabers: 1) Which Inquisitor discovered that party trick? 2) How many times were they injured perfecting it? 3) How did they convince the others to do it? 4) How many injuries did the Inquisitorius suffer collectively in trying to prefect it? 5) Did Vader flip his shit because his lackeys were veering dangerously close to the territory of "having fun"?
And here I thought the death star was his most destructive project. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant compared to the power of that burn.
@@highonsugar6273 I think in his lore it specifically says he hated *most* force users because the force made them lazy in more practical matters. Like he gained respect for Anakin, then laterThe Emperor and Vader for actually being competent outside of being force users.
@RilfDanielson Yeah, most of the Jedi sucked at grand strategy in the Clone Wars, and very few actually ever got the hang of it, such as Anakin. So yeah, makes sense Tarkin would see some force users as... well, lesser in such aspects across basic life skills.
They equipped the Inquisitors with red (therefore badass) lightsabers that have this fun spinning trick. To be fair, they are probably distracted from completing the mission by thoughts like: “Damn, I look so cool and intimidating”
To be honest the design of their lightsabers while looking cool it's actually pretty dumb, first the "guard" on the weapon, in 1 bladed form, I mean its not necessarely bad but being normal metal and not lightsaber resistant metal...its..kinda useless, the second bladed mode is just stupid,it limits their movements being unable to grab in multiple ways the handle (which is fundamental in a high risk sistuation) and when they spin the blades to either deflects blaster bolts or other lightsabers they non move it and just keep the hole where their hand is located IN FRONT OF THEIR ABDOMEN, that is just the most stupid thing they could and usually do. Also using then to fly away like a slow ass elycopter just makes them an easy target. I think that either they gave them a standard double bladed lightsaber (or like Cal Kestis where two lightsabers can combine and become 1 double bladed one) and a jetpack they would have actually been able to do better against the jedi, while maybe not killing them anyway, but at least making them look somewhat competent
@@jaypeadieL611 You're actually quite on the mark, the whole spinning lightsaber gimmick is to make up for the Inquisitor's lack of skill and to intimidate weaker Jedi, like Ezra and Cal when they were younger. (once those two grew up they became pretty strong, Cal especially.) Yeah sure people will clown on the Lightsaber all they want, but if someone was waving what's basically a giant spinning rotor blade that is made of lazers at you you'd be pretty scared. (unless you're an actually competent Jedi that is.)
@@johnsnow6946yeah, but Grievous had two other lightsabers in addition to his spinning trick, and none of the blades restricted his movement options by being joined together at the hilt as he had one for all four of his separate arms that he could control and move independently of each other
I hate when they say this "Army" or squad is "Elite" but never show them to be elite. Like seriously, does anyone remember when Stormtroopers were considered to be the "Elite" forces of the Empire? Yeah, we all know how that turned out…
@@nomus1172 Yeah, but at the same time, these are JEDI HUNTERS they have to be skilled to some extent? Yet they can't deal with the likes of Kanan and Ezra? Something clearly aint right there.
@@ArcticWolf00Alpha0 but aren’t they just like Kanen and Ezra. Besides the grand inquisitor most of them were former padawans and didn’t even finish in their training . The only one with actual skill was the grand inquisitor who was a temple guard. In the lore those guys killed hundreds of clones but they had fewer numbers because the grand inquisitor betrayed them before the temple massacre.Possibly with poison or a surprise attack
In the Inquisitors defense, Darth Maul could solo a Jedi master and a sith assassin at the same time, and it took a Dark Lord of the Sith to put him out of commission.
Well Darth Vader never intended for them to be successful jedi killers. They were mainly tasked for things beneath him like finding weaker jedi and force sensitive children so they couldn't become jedi. Plus for stories in the empire era, it would look bad for Vader's character if a random jedi somehow beats him, so they make villains weaker than him to help the protagonist get victories and development.
Virgin Star Wars Inquisitor: -Jedi rejects -Barely trained -epitomizes the definition of bond villain stupidity and Saturday morning cartoon idiocy. That even a goddamn youngling can get the best of these dumbfucks -Over reliant on their lightsabers and darkside of the force that it over Cripples them and has rendered them both as nothing but a crutch and an exploitable liability. That any weapons that is not a blaster can put them down for the count -indulges in evil gloating, showing off and makes it a big show out of the situation at the worst possible time and place. that even THE JOKER! off all people would shout at the screen to say, "FINISH THEM OFF ALREADY YOU STUPID JACKASSES!!!" -Stupid ass useless spinning laser sword with no secondary weapons -Usually work as a solo unit because “TheY’rE tOo KwEl” -Easily fooled by anyone and anything -Only made to handle weakest of Jedi. everyone else is their kryptonite. -Have to stand aside and let some dude with one arm do their job better than they can Sigma Chad 40k Inquisitor: -Either literally the best or trained from birth to be the aces of aces there is. -Trained rigorously and battle tested for years while being an interrogator/apprentice -taught to never underestimate anyone or anything and to always assume that anything can be a threat, be highly prepared, calculating, always be on guard for combat even if there are no enemies in sight, will neither delay nor take unnecessary chances when their objective is at hand. extremely practical, well rounded, armed to the teeth and more than willing to adapt, improvise and even outright invent new tools for the trade to overcome any enemies and obstacles. -Never indulges in easily exploitable evil gloating, never recklessly give away ANY intel or exposition that could be used against them, never cares about dicking around and showing off like a poser. -Have access to all variety and manner of weapons be it alien, or imperial made alike. from simple auto-guns, las-weapons, Stubbers. To more sophisticated and advance armaments Volkite Guns to Digital weapons to Master Crafted melee weapons. Even up to barely tested, barely understood and extremely dangerous Archeotech munitions and ordinance straight out of the D.A.O.T -Have an armed entourage that can comprise of squads of elite Guardsmen Veterans to an entire Imperium Battlegroups depending on the inquisitor and their rank, reputation, authority and experience. -A master genius who has been crafted and/or picked for the literal purpose of finding out things they aren’t supposed to know -Knows how to fight a variety of enemies including Chaos, Eldar, Orks, Tyranids etc. -Are usually the ones who have to make the heavy-hearted big decisions and usually no one can take over if they fail
5:00 well trying to helicopter across when your lightsaber is broken is straight up dumb. If I were them, I would try to slide down the temple, stabbing my lightsaber to the wall so it slows me down and I take less fall damage. tho Maul would problaly throw his lightsaber at me and I couldnt reflect it since I'm stabbing my saber to the wall so I would be dead.
He might still be alive, his species can survive falls from similar heights easily and he could use a Force Push to slow his momentum. That and besides Windu we haven't seen a Force Wielder die from falling yet
It is and it's something that's done quite often not only in pretty much every version of Star Wars but almost every other movie, show, or video game where someone has to turn their back to the enemy or do a bunch of silly spins and twirls that just expose your back and would instantly get you killed in real life. As a martial artist, it drives me nuts.
In context, he has enemies on both sides. Kanan didn't pull that second lightsaber out of thin air. You'll notice that most of Grand Inquisitor's clips came from Kenobi, where he had almost no screen time, rather than from Rebels where he was the main villain of Season 1.
The way the 7th Sister can’t hold onto a small shuttle with the Force vs the way 17 year-old Ahsoka holds a much larger one while being shot at from all angles. Shows the massive power difference between inquisitors and someone truly powerful
Not everyone is equally strong in the force or lightsaber skills, 7th is better a lightsaber combat (as seen in the fight with Ahsoka) but lacks force power, and 5th is better with the force (since he is always using it, and didn't have problems with stopping the ship) but sucks at duels
My favourite inquisitor moment is when the fifth brother sense Ezra in the vent and then immediately plunges his lightsaber into it. They're pretty incompetent but that was cool
Disney didn’t inherit most good things about the old Star Wars, but they did inherit the objectively bad part: saying an enemy is menacing and serious but then proceed to show them being pathetic and clumsy.
@Homer Correction: Disney wiped out the tier system, threw it in a box called Legends, went off to do their own thing, then gaslit their way to legitimacy. Piss off with that tired old argument.
Disney's problem is that they prefer things be black and white. Clear cut villains, clear cut heroes. No complicated grey morality crap, kids won't understand that. Disney was the worst corporation that could have taken over Star Wars because of their business model necessitating dumbing the franchise down.
Trilla: You're too late. My soldiers have already found the relic in this tomb and returned it to my ship. Cal: Oh for fuck sakes- I wasn't even looking for that. Stop calling me.
Trilla: "Aha! Tremble, jedi, for i have already raided this village in my search for you!" Cal: "I'm not even on the same planet, what are you talking about and why do you keep on telling me every tiny thing you do?" Trilla: "...okay, to be honest i just want someone normal to talk to."
Some Inquisitor's are just built different. 2nd Sister was easily the most difficult boss fight in any Star Wars game. 3rd Sister's organs are arranged in a doughnut shape, so she's fairly stab-proof. Ninth Sister is built Ford-tough, so she's probably still alive, despite falling off the World Tree.
They really need to make a series where the Inquisitors look somewhat competent with decent writing. Same for stormtroopers - what I’m saying is, we need more shows like Andor, where the Empire actually feels like a huge threat.
@@ashtray4344 Eh, competent villains were showed in the Tartakovsky miniseries; even his Grievous was an 'horror movie monster' level threat but cartoon animation helped to minimize the psychological impact and keep it in "it's all action and flashy movements" for the kid audience meanwhile grownups still could get entertainment. I swear, forcing your child to watch Alien will be less traumatic than that Grievous taking the place of his Clone Wars 3D counterpart.
rouge one was great too on that. the heroes were skilled, and had a bit of luck, but they didn't have plot armor. they died and it felt natural when they died, not a forced plot point. also vader absolutely fucking everyone up in that one scene was just perfect.
the problem is that the stormtroopers and the Inquisitors are incompetent by design and i don't mean for story reason but in universe. The first are designed to scare people into submission, to look intimidating and to be fiercely loyal to the Emperor but not to be competent soldiers as competent soldiers lead by charismatic leader can become a problem for the Emperor. They are good at the role intented for them...occupation troops; sure there are elite group and frankly the 501th Legion is very competent but honestly it's the only one and more because it's the personal fiefdom of the emo kid with breath issue and anger management problem and we all know how he dislike incompetence. The Inquisitors are also trained this way intentionally as neither Palpy and Vader want real direct competition expecially by someone that know the sith way...so the inquisitors are more attack dog with limited (dakr side) force and combat training efficient against non force users and padawan but as Ashoka showed totally outclassed by a real Jedi. Look at how Ezra and Kanan become better at fighting them while the season progress...the initial were cumberstomp battle won only by luck and wits but by keep training the jedi padawan duo become better while the inquisitors not, worse it become clear that they can't reall work well together unlike the jedi. In Andor is different as the main characters are basically civilians with no training and weapon...this is the reason the stormtroopers are so scary.
At this point I honestly believe that The Second Sister is probably the only useful Inquisitor... Edit: HOLY 2,3 K likes? That's the most I've ever had in my life 😄
@@cristinacristescu1173 There's always the EU Inquisitors. Jerec, from Dark Forces 2, became a warlord after RoTJ and had 7 Dark Jedi followers at his disposal. Antinnys Tremaine was a sneaky dude and one of the few who managed to hit Vader on his chest plate.
Ok but like, why is it that only Trilla is actually capable of doing her job without needing help from at least 2 other inquisitors? Like, she's probably the only inquisitor in the whole series that actually succeeds in her mission, her only mistake was for whatever reason not just taking the holocron directly to Coruscant.
Probably because only a Jedi could open the Holocron, so taking it to Coruscant wouldn't have done much of anything, I think that's why she was waiting for Cal and Cere to come so she could force one of them to open it.
I’ve always seen the funny spinny sabers as something pretty genius writing wise. To me it signals that these guys are mostly just there to be threatening, the spinning saber thing is a pretty scary trick at first. Imagine being an average imperial citizen and a group of people in black armor show up and one of them pulls out this thing. You’d start talking pretty quick I’d bet.
I mean, if you think about it, (5:51) nobody in their right mind would actually think about attacking the Inquisitorius’ headquarters so they likely assumed it wouldn’t be necessary to add defensive measures.
The Grand Inquisitor was extremely competent, and was never really rattled or shaky under pressure. Seventh Sister was both smart and a great fighter, utilizing technology and being able to keep up with Asoka Tano(who isn't a full Jedi but still has more battle experience than most Jedi ever get). The eighth brother also had a lot of cool technology but mostly wasted all of it in his one and only appearance. Aaaand the fifth brother never really did jack shit in rebels honestly. Haven't watched Kenobi though.
I love how live-action Fifth Brother turned out to be worse than animated Fifth Brother 😂 Can we give Maul some points tho? He just stepped in next to 2 Jedi and a Padawan to face some Inquisitors like “get the f**k outta here with these amateurs” and just killed them in like 5 minutes 😂
What’s funnier is that those inquisitors had been giving Ezra and Kanan shit all season, and then within 5 seconds of them turning on their lightsabers, Maul and Ahsoka made them look like Jar Jar with a stick.
@@joemackley7894 Maul and Ahsoka are both experienced force sensitive wsr veterans trained in the opposite arts, hence why they beat the Inquisitors more easily. You're right, though.
@@joemackley7894 well Kanan and Ezra are capable enough to hold their own against those inquisitors shown in the shroud of darkness episode but maul and Ashoka though they would defeat them easily
Watching rebels is a reminder of how much easier everything would be for everyone if heroes and villains simply went for killing blows. The amount that the inquisitors turn their back or leave themselves open on Jedi or other hostiles mid fight for no real reason would make it brutally easy for a Jedi of any skill to wipe out their ranks, I mean Kal Cestis (I think I spelled that right) seems to be the only dude who tries, and he does damn easy work with it depending on your skill at the fallen order franchise
Got the K and the C reversed, but otherwise totally agreed - if Second Sister and Ninth Sister were anywhere near the same level of incompetent as the other Inquisitors as the appeared in Rebels and Kenobi, Cal Kestis would have wiped the floor with them fairly quickly because he would have ample time to train and regain his connection to the Force lol Like, both Second Sister and Ninth Sister were individually more pragmatic, powerful with the Force, skilled at duelling, and otherwise dangerous than any of their peers we've seen on screen besides possibly the Grand Inquisitor himself lol
To give them some credit, considering that Inquisitors were meant to just hunt down low-level Jedi, they did that part alright. Both the Grand Inquisitor & the Seventh Sister defeated Ezra like nothing. Kanan usually struggled against both of them and the Fifth Brother.
That’s another reason why I hate them, inquisitors only seem to exist to trim Darth Vaders personal Jedi kill count. *he could’ve handled those other ones.* they’re excessive meandering pests, bloated growths on a system already corpulent with too many pointlessly specialized sub divisions
@@greatsageequaltoheaven8115 sure, but that kinda makes every other Jedi survivor out there to be more green than grass and weaker than a youngling if these guys were the ones who are supposed to be killing them. There are hundreds of Jedi survivors, many are probably Jedi knights and Clone War veterans. And these clowns are able to take a lot of them down? Kinda reduces these Jedi survivors into cannon fodder, if you ask me.
Majority of the Inquisitors are basically Jedi Padawans and Younglings except for the Grand Inquisitor since he's formally a Temple Guard who was driven into the Dark Side after Barriss made her speech.
They were basically bullies. They'd taunt imperial officers and fold the average person, but would collapse against the majority of competent force users.
2:18 Make it count, play it straight, Don't look back, don't hesitate When you go big time What you want, what you feel Never quitin' make it real When you roll big time
6:21 Go and shake it up what you gotta lose, Go and make your luck with the life you choose, If you want it all, lay it on the line It's the only life you got, so you gotta live it big time
The Fifth Brother might be the most incompetent Force-user I’ve ever seen…and yet, according to Kenobi, he’s next in line to take over as Grand Inquisitor. The Inquisitors might look cool, but the fact is, they’re not elite; they’re just the strongest of the weak: strong enough to be useful, weak enough to be broken and turned through torture. Even Vader and Sidious know they don’t stand a chance against any real Jedi Knight or master. That’s what the spinning blades are for: to surprise and overwhelm opponents who are far stronger than them.
The thing I really like about that one inquisitor falling to his death because his helicopter saber broke is that it completely destroys any headcanon about them using the force to fly - they really are somehow being propelled upwards by rotating plasma.
They're like the Team Rocket of Star Wars. They get their ass owned each time but they come back every time, without being better. At this point they're almost comic relief.
I'm pretty sure that's not fair to Team Rocket. Yes, they get blasted off every episode, but they maintain that same edge throughout the development of the heroes for season upon season. They're basically hilariously elite at this point, and don't realize it.
3:28 I mean, it’s obvious why, Maul is a true sith through and through, for nearly all of his life up till the Phantom Menace, Palpatine himself brutally beat him, and forged him into a skilled and deadly weapon
2:29 pause at this moment after he says "I don't go for crazy" Because it really looks like he is considering it. Like that face totally screams "I think"
3:35 I mean… it’s Darth Maul, so I’ll give them some slack for not having a chance against him since he was a fully trained Sith Lord. Fact they can’t kill a teenager who’s barely padawan level in terms of skill is unacceptable though.
...until you realize most of them are padawan level as well lmao. Literal padawans who were just turned to the dark side, with the exception of the Grand Inquisitor who was previously a Jedi Guard.
Maul wasn't a fully trained sith lord. He was a fully trained Sith Assassin. A tool to be used and disgarded as seen fit by his master, an actual sith lord.
@@ChaosSandwich Thats not mutually exclusive. Loosing a very useful tool IS a loss, doesnt mean you saw that tool as your apprentice. Maul wasnt intended by Sidious to be his successor, nor was Dooku. Maul was considered to be weapon (even his name, darth maul reflects that. A Maul is considered a dangerous and effective, yet unsoffisticated, weapon). In terms of fighting skill, Maul absolutely rivals a proper Sith lord, because fighting is all he was really trained to do, and do well. But in terms of knowledge of the force, and all other non-combat knowledge passed down by the sith, Sidious kept him on a short leash.
0:44 Im sorry but can we talk about this scene for a sec? What was the point of the seventh sister just casually reaching her hand out to Ezra? Did she expect to just...grab him? What the heck was that for??? He has a lightsaber!
Do not reach out a hand to someone with a lightsaber. When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When you have a lightsaber, everything looks like a Skywalker limb.
"I must apologize for the Inquisitors. They are idiots, I have purposefully trained them wrong as a joke." - Darth Vader
Vader more like bullied them than train them 😂
POV: Every hardcore Rebels fans head canon to justify this kiddie show with no real stakes...
@@-104th-cmdwolffe6 wdym
@@-104th-cmdwolffe6 ...that's not how "point of view" works?
Reva: "If you've got an ass, I'll kick it!"
Maul: 'shows up'
Inquisitors: "Who the hell are you?"
Maul: "A real fucking Sith."
Probably Maul in his head
Hellsing Ultimate: Abridged reference.
@@diabolusabinfernum3461W
Based maul.
I don't think Maul is a Sith. He got discarded by Palpatine and Vader replaced him. And according to the rule of two, he should be just another dark side force user like the Inquisitors.
You know in retrospect, the dumbest thing Vader has ever done as a sith is kill the only competent inquisitor.
Yeah but Trisha was about to dessert I think after what cereal said.
It was smart he didn't want powerful or smart inquisitors he wanted them stupid and useless against anyone more powerful than an average Jedi Padawan, he didn't want them to threaten his own power so he trained them half assed and killed any who might challenge his poisition.
That was not dumb. It was what sidious wanted. They didn't want them strong enough to pose as a potential threat
@@henocksherlock3340They trained Maul to be a competent assassin though without giving him too much secret knowledge on the force. They could've done the same for the Inquisitiors too.
"Okay look Trilla I'm willing to forgive this infraction just because you are my only competent employee."
To their credit, Maul and Ahsoka would be a tough opponent for virtually anyone.
To their credit they were literal padawans who didn't immediately die to either Ahsoka or Maul. Maul for obvious reasons, and Ahsoka even more so considering that by the time rebels takes place she's not only easily stronger than Obi Wan, but it was stated only Vader or Sidious could actually defeat her.
@@earlgrey7791and probably Yoda, her power level comes from interesting lineage.
Yoda was a master of Count Dooku, Count Dooku of Qui Gon Jin, Qui Gon of Obi Wan, Obi Wan of Anakin and Anakin was Ahsoka's master.
Not for people like Inquisitor Jerec🌝. I can name about 3 others as well.
Maul was like in his 50s and was alone on a planet for years yet still kicked there ass
Ahsoka at her best is pretty much the same level as Obi Wan at his best, both were able to defeat Maul, Obi Wan also beat Grevious and Ahsoka held her own against him too. Ahsoka disrespected the fuck out of all the Inquisitors who most of the time she was just playing with rather than actually fighting. Both Obi Wan and Ahsoka also got the better off Darth Vader too although Vader was distracted when Ahsoka slashed his mask. Ahsoka however has something that few people actually have and that is the will to always survive thanks to Anakin teaching her to survive and his unwillingness to lose her during the Clone Wars he taught her to fight and defend above and beyond the Jedi standard and his teaching ensured that she survived order 66. But she also survived and saved many during the Clone Wars thanks to his teachings, she survived the Droid foundry collapse on Genosis thanks to his teachings, she survived being kidnapped by the Trandoshan kidnappers who used her and others to hunt for sport and she brought them all down. She also survived on the ship where that mind control parasite broke loose and turned almost the entire crew and Baris against her.
I love the Ahsoka vs 7th Sister and 5th Brother fight because every time the 5th Brother tries to get involved, he just immediately gets bodied and lays down for two minutes.
lmao. He’s TIRED.
Mood
Yet he completely destroyed Cal 😂😂
Meanwhile Cal casually defeated two inquisitors a few years back 😂
@@zwykyziomek2570 man was this in that stupid freaking book.. swear they literally didn’t have to do Merrin like that….
@@zwykyziomek2570 The Fifth Brother staggered both Ahsoka and Kanan in the Season 2 finale, even having Ahsoka on the defensive until Maul helped her. It’s within reason he’d give Junda and Kestis issues too.
Inquisitors feel like something you’d make up as a kid when you need an unnamed character to die in your toy lightsaber battle
That's so accurate - like you never want to kill named characters since you know how the story ends but you need deaths to feel like a battle
Five Hundred & First Brother.
bingo
The Inquisitors were initially a random throwaway line in an obscure book, which pretty much only stated that Inquisitors existed during the Empire's early days to wipe out the Jedi remnants then just disappeared once the job was done. Apparently the real context was that they got bodied by said jedi in the process but took out enough before they died to not have been considered total failures.
@@joshuakim5240 in legends right?
I love how the grand inquisitor was like "oh" the second he realized that the double lightsaber isn't as flawless as he thought
Well the inquisitor saber is actually more inefficient compared to a regular double blade maul was able to take on two Jedi at once plus defensively it’s pretty good only major flaw is the long hilt even then some of the double blades can retract into the length of a single blade and probably was designed to work even if one half was cut off
Like green goblin in spider man 1
I feel like Second Sister is the only one that is genuinely menacing and is actually good at her job.
I feel like youre right
Actually the Grand Inquisitor Is pretty efficient and good at his job in star Wars rebels
grand inquisitor is cold, thats why hes the grand inquisitor, they had to summon plot armour to even win a 2v1 against him while it took 1 inquisitors to even match kanan and ezra individually. her droids are cool but completely unutillised when the battle actually begins, like use them for distraction or something
9th Sister was a pretty hard boss but she was also a brute.
@@upisntdownsilly the grand dude was a jedi temple guard iirc, so at least he's properly trained for combat for a good while now. Everyone else is an absolute joke
Inquisitors: We were trained by Vader
Ahsoka: Le mao that's cute
Ahsoka:Tell sky guy I said hi
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how to train an inquisitor:
"Trained" More like maimed
@@xdsmile5359 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
tarkin trolling the grand inquisitor at 3:17 is just too perfect
I love Tarkin he's petty af
He's like, I called the exterminator, why are there still bugs in the kitchen?
@@dustinjones7458 Well now I've called Pest Control, why are there *still* bugs in my kitchen?!?
Tarkin has such an amazing attitude
If I was a stormtrooper I would've laughed and then got immediately killed
2:28
"I don't go for crazy!"
*face contorts, realizing he actually does go for crazy but would never admit it*
I watched this episode. He’s thinking of the best insult with that face, then comes up with “not anymore”
Kanan just like me fr
I think the voice actors for them are married, I might be wrong though
@@professionalritarde4989 yep, Freddy Prinze Jr and Sarah Michelle Gellar are married
@@doggo1dogThe irony is thick for this one.
The way Kanan defeated the Grand Inquisitor by shoving his two lightsabers in between the spinning thing will never not make me laugh.
It just shows how dumb the Inquisitors are
Grand Inquisitor: no my one weakness!
To be fair the Grandinquisitor was not that bad, after all his a former Jedi Guard.
To be fair, he was an absolute CLOWN. He got buried under a pile of rubble by one Jedi survivor he just called "weak" minutes before, and he got his saber broken by a rusty Padawan who left before the Clone Wars. Also, Luke before RoTJ, fresh off the Bespin duel, with a salvaged lightsaber, absolutely wrecked him in spirit form.
Being a "Jedi Guard" means nothing, if that amounts to being a glorified bouncer LMFAO
The first duel you were referencing he initially won, but darth vader interfered. The second one Kanaan, as he said “I have nothing left to fear” had nothing left to fear, so essentially he was more powerful. A bit harder to explain that one but its pretty fair to say Kanaan gained the strength needed to beat him. I hve nothing to say for the last because i never read that comic, but luke isnt exactly weak however.
@Daniele Mulas I forgot to @ you and i dont want to rewrite the message
@@reallydopegaming8229 Uhhh You're referring to his duel with Jocasta Nu in the Vader comics. I was referring to his duel with Kira Vantala from The Orphanage short story. And the second one was ANOTHER Padawan who broke his saber before Kanan did, called Naq Med. So barring Jocasta Nu, he got beaten by THREE washed out Padawans (Kira, Naq and Kanan), got stabbed in the gut by Reva, and Luke in Disney canon is pathetically nerfed. And we're talking about pre-RoTJ Luke, just recovering from the Bespin duel, with almost NO experience outside of two encounters with Vader and that Stomtrooper with a green saber, and some battlefield engagements.
The truth is : The Grand Inquisitor is pathetic.
@@reallydopegaming8229 I love when Disney Star Wars fans try to flex and defend this garbage "canon" when even they don't know half of it lmfao
The way Tarkin both insulted and gaslighted the inqusitors at the same time is quite savage
"You may be strong in the force. You may be trained by vader. Even your pitiful little glowstick shares the same color as his. BUT YOU WILL NEVER BE HIM.
@@J03ThumbsUpThat is kind of the point. Why would Sidious ever allow Vader to train an apprentice more powerful than either of them? It's why he had Dooku abandon Ventress in Season 3 of the Clone Wars. Sidious wants to be the last of the Sith, with Vader only being his tool used to secure his ascendancy. The Inquisitors would've been a threat if they were actually able to defeat higher-skilled Jedi.
Which episode was that
6:14
- How did you defeat the villain?
- Cartoon logic suddenly stopped working
2:26
A funny little nod to the fact that the voice actress of the 2nd Sister is married to Kanan’s voice actor
SARAH MICHELLE GELLER VOICED THE 2nd SISTER??
@@toomanyoldsports yep
You mean 7th sister?
Plot twist: fifth brother's controller glitched out multiple times
Out of power- please charge
Bruh💀💀💀
“Please reconnect your controller”
"have you tried turning it off and on again"
“Bro my controllers been glitching out all day I swear dude”
“I don’t care you let the Jedi get away and lost us the game you fucking idiot”
“HE WAS HACKING BRO I SWEAR I WAS LAGGING MY CONTROLLER DISCONNECTED A ROBBER BROKE INTO MY HOUSE I SWEAR BRO”
2:38
Kanan: So, we're trapped hanging onto the edge of the cliff right, and what the the Inquisitors do?
Hera: They start monologuing?
Kanan: They start monologuing! I mean, they have us on a silver platter and they won't shut up!
That’s amazing!
Heh I get that reference
Incredibles
HERA! WHERE’S MY LIGHTSABER???
This actually feels like a conversation those two would have, I love it. Or maybe Cal and Kanan if they ever met and swapped stories about these losers.
4:31 I find it funny how she smiles thinking that like maul is just gonna let her go and live 🤣
Maul doesn't play those games. That chick doesn't know how vicious he actually is.
@@chrisnichols9014 I know and just In general even who tf would be that dumb 🤣
7th: *ha, now I can beat Maul*
Maul: hey! Catch!!
Second Sister: in five years has tons of crazy moves and force abilities and beats Cal Kestis twice
Fifth Brother and Seventh Sister: can’t kill two Jedi learners after ten years of experience
Palpatine- "We purposefully trained them wrong. As a joke."
Because he didn't want then posing a threat to him. The I questions job is the hunt weak jedi. Kanan and Ezra could barely hold them off most of the time
@@Green_MnM_Commander_of_Antifa I mean, they could have been a lot more competent while still not being threats to some of the most powerful Siths to have ever lived.
Inquisitors only care of how cool they look. They're pretty much your equivalent rookie nba players
@@henocksherlock3340
Coming from you, that's racist.
Uu@@kjj26k
There's something poetic about Maul just cleaning house against 3 inquisitors at once. The apprentice who was discarded by Palpatine just embarrassing his elite soldiers.
"elite"
... vaders pets, he made them to clean up/find jedi he didn't want to deal with. Intentionally training them wrong so they could never rise to challange him and his position as apprentice.
elite-looking soldiers with rookie-substances, the degree palpatine want them to stay at, the same reason he didn't teach Maul more advanced sith techniques/teachings, which was why there was deleted brief scene of ashoka asking maul regarding who vader was, he replied "what i should've been"
Maul: "Posers."
*embarrassing his toy soliders
Most of the Inquisitors: “Who are you?”
Inquisitor Cal, Trilla, and the Grand Inquisitor: “We’re you but better.”
Galen Marek/Starkiller: “P a t h e t i c .”
I like how maul got pissed off when they started helping him defeat the inquisitors because he knows dam well he could do it alone and he wants to do it alone to fuel his ego lmao.
*Maul:* "They give lightsabers to anyone these days..."
Rey:
@Mihalydumitru Rey bad me funny.
@@mylessmith9758 yes
@@GOvsJOrn I have an OC, who is not force sensitive at all and learned how to use a lightsaber like its a normal sword who would probably end Rey in three hits
@@TVOverlord_F_Alastor I have an OC who can destroy 10 planets at once with a single punch
they can probably beat rey
I gotta say they were actually more or less competent in Fallen Order. Second Sister whooped Cal's ass twice before he finally defeated her on Bogano. Ninth Sister didn't get any Ws, but still, she has some nice force abilities, didn't give up the advantage of having a ship and tried to use it to kill Cal first, sustained multiple injuries and still kept on fighting. I can respect that.
Yeah but they’re different Inquisitors
Second Sister was actually cool
And even though Ninth Sister didn't get any wins it was in my opinion the most challenging duel of the game
@@LegionistaRzymu imo ninth sister was the easiest duel. Trilla wasnt that much difficult but some of her unblockable attacks do ALOT of damage
@@LegionistaRzymu Oggdo bogdo is the most challenging duel, lol😅
While I do agree cal was in trouble during all of the inquisitor fights, I wouldn't describe them as more or less competent when one padawan who never finished his training, a noncombatant pilot, a nightsister, and a retired jedi can easily beat them. Like they were hunting cal for days at best, weeks at worst, and he was 2-0 by the end of it.
Maul absolutely mopping the floor with three Inquisitors, showing them the true power of the dark side. And this is old man Maul, too.
You know looking back Trilla was an absolute beast…it never once felt like she was incompetent.
tbf neither was grand inquisitor apart from when they ruined him in kenobi and when he died, and thats not even incompetence kanan just became op
@@upisntdownsilly it wasn't even that, if he wasn't using a stupid gimmick lightsaber he might have lived 😂
I really want to know wtf Filoni & co were thinking (or more likely smoking) when they came up with them.
@@GeneralTaco155555aI think it makes sense in context - the Inquisitors are really just meant to take care of fodder - they had enough skill to hold their own, and the spinning blades just allow them to disorientate people around that level of experience. Sort of like how General grievous’ “I’ll try spinning, that’s a neat trick” would be a meat grinder to most people not called “Obi-Wan Kenobi”.
If Jedi skilled enough to come out on top were found, Vader himself would show up.
I highly doubt either Vader or Palpatine would actually WANT the Inquisitors to be too much of a threat anyway. He doesn’t need a bunch of rival Sith apprentices running around again, he just needs a task force capable of dealing with all the leftovers from the order that’s already in tatters.
… Also… It’s a kid’s show - I know, I know, that doesn’t necessarily excuse dumb writing, but… It’s just spinning blades, it’s not exactly the height of absurdity for Star Wars.
(Although FLYING with them was certainly a little bit over the top lol)
@@matthewbibby8921 the flying is the only thing i really have a problem with.
I get it's a kids show, but it's also trying to be mainline Star Wars canon. You can't really have both without making canon goofy kid shit
@@GeneralTaco155555a I just gotta wonder; were their lightsabers designed to do that, or did one of them just try it one day while high as a kite on death sticks?
Trilla being one of the first Inquisitors to die and seeing all the others get bodied in such embarrassing ways: *Outstanding*
Trilla was actually competent
@notnormal6437 She was Second Sister for a reason.
Trilla was easily the most competent of them. Grand inquisitor and Ninth Sis are cool too
@@The_Misanthropic_Magpie how is she most competent? She lost to a padawan whom was disconnected from the force and she lost to him TWICE! At least the inquisitors in rebels are losing to either a Knight (kanaan), someone who should have been a Knight but was more like a master anyway (ashoka) or a literal sith lord (maul).
@mapping shaman in fallen order, she lost to him ONCE at the end, well after healing his connection. He had already pretty much been on his way to becoming a knight before order 66 as far as I know (please correct me if I'm wrong) and he did have to gain plenty of experience to get that far anyways. Constantly apply pressure to someone and they'll either break or bend. Cal didn't break and grew from his experiences, beating a fallen jedi after fighting hundreds of enemies (it sure fucking felt like it with me) since fighting the ninth sister, an admittedly weaker version of the second sister, who herself had only been a padawan before getting corrupted.
Take that all into account, alongside the fact that the inquisitors weren't MEANT to be some super high tier threat like vader or dooku or maul, of course Cal beat her.
The encounter on bogano wasn't a win either. She, at any time, could have killed him the moment he grabbed her saber. He was so overwhelmed, he was an easy target. He made a rookie mistake in thinking he needed to grab her weapon. If it weren't for Cere, Trilla would have won. She saw her chance to get the holocron and leave. Why work harder when she could work smarter?
I have several questions about the Heli Sabers:
1) Which Inquisitor discovered that party trick?
2) How many times were they injured perfecting it?
3) How did they convince the others to do it?
4) How many injuries did the Inquisitorius suffer collectively in trying to prefect it?
5) Did Vader flip his shit because his lackeys were veering dangerously close to the territory of "having fun"?
These are perfect questions that I need answers for now.
@@its_an_echo I have one more question to add to that- were alcohol and/or drugs at any point involved in that process
@@SentientHairBall Yes, I believe that 100%
Warp Zone just made a parody video about it.
@@user-xx6vy9ri8p where has this parody been all my life 🤣
To be fair Ahsoka and Maul are especially built different, they never would've stood a chance against those two.
Vader:"dam...i miss Starkiller so much..."
2:26 Those two are husband and wife IRL, so that was absolutely genuine.
This is great
the voice actors? really?
@NightcrawlerNC yes, it's true. Look it up
Probably the main reason she said that line
@@NightcrawlerNC no the cgi models
3:15 Never figured Tarkin to be the type to throw shade, but here he is, giving the Grand Inquisitor enough shade to block out the sun.
He threw shade plenty of times in the clone wars
And here I thought the death star was his most destructive project. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant compared to the power of that burn.
He hated force users I’m pretty sure
@@highonsugar6273 I think in his lore it specifically says he hated *most* force users because the force made them lazy in more practical matters. Like he gained respect for Anakin, then laterThe Emperor and Vader for actually being competent outside of being force users.
@RilfDanielson
Yeah, most of the Jedi sucked at grand strategy in the Clone Wars, and very few actually ever got the hang of it, such as Anakin. So yeah, makes sense Tarkin would see some force users as... well, lesser in such aspects across basic life skills.
3:40 fifth brother didn’t want the smoke
He was perplexed
Bamboozled
nothing could ever beat the hilarity and silliness of the helicopter lightsabers
I call them flightsabers
@@gimmeyourrights8292 Genius
They equipped the Inquisitors with red (therefore badass) lightsabers that have this fun spinning trick. To be fair, they are probably distracted from completing the mission by thoughts like: “Damn, I look so cool and intimidating”
To be honest the design of their lightsabers while looking cool it's actually pretty dumb, first the "guard" on the weapon, in 1 bladed form, I mean its not necessarely bad but being normal metal and not lightsaber resistant metal...its..kinda useless, the second bladed mode is just stupid,it limits their movements being unable to grab in multiple ways the handle (which is fundamental in a high risk sistuation) and when they spin the blades to either deflects blaster bolts or other lightsabers they non move it and just keep the hole where their hand is located IN FRONT OF THEIR ABDOMEN, that is just the most stupid thing they could and usually do. Also using then to fly away like a slow ass elycopter just makes them an easy target.
I think that either they gave them a standard double bladed lightsaber (or like Cal Kestis where two lightsabers can combine and become 1 double bladed one) and a jetpack they would have actually been able to do better against the jedi, while maybe not killing them anyway, but at least making them look somewhat competent
All show no skill unlike Maul show and skill but Obiwan got the kill
@@jaypeadieL611 You're actually quite on the mark, the whole spinning lightsaber gimmick is to make up for the Inquisitor's lack of skill and to intimidate weaker Jedi, like Ezra and Cal when they were younger. (once those two grew up they became pretty strong, Cal especially.)
Yeah sure people will clown on the Lightsaber all they want, but if someone was waving what's basically a giant spinning rotor blade that is made of lazers at you you'd be pretty scared. (unless you're an actually competent Jedi that is.)
It's the same logic as Grevious, though he was a tougher opponent, kind of.
@@johnsnow6946yeah, but Grievous had two other lightsabers in addition to his spinning trick, and none of the blades restricted his movement options by being joined together at the hilt as he had one for all four of his separate arms that he could control and move independently of each other
I hate when they say this "Army" or squad is "Elite" but never show them to be elite.
Like seriously, does anyone remember when Stormtroopers were considered to be the "Elite" forces of the Empire? Yeah, we all know how that turned out…
That's what the newer TV series' are for.
Well it’s because they were never supposed to be elite . If they were too powerful Palpatine would have more than vader to worry about
@@nomus1172 Yeah, but at the same time, these are JEDI HUNTERS they have to be skilled to some extent? Yet they can't deal with the likes of Kanan and Ezra? Something clearly aint right there.
@@ArcticWolf00Alpha0 but aren’t they just like Kanen and Ezra. Besides the grand inquisitor most of them were former padawans and didn’t even finish in their training . The only one with actual skill was the grand inquisitor who was a temple guard. In the lore those guys killed hundreds of clones but they had fewer numbers because the grand inquisitor betrayed them before the temple massacre.Possibly with poison or a surprise attack
Plot armor is a bitch ain't it?
4:42 that entrance was sick asf. Maul is a fucking badass
In the Inquisitors defense, Darth Maul could solo a Jedi master and a sith assassin at the same time, and it took a Dark Lord of the Sith to put him out of commission.
Well Darth Vader never intended for them to be successful jedi killers. They were mainly tasked for things beneath him like finding weaker jedi and force sensitive children so they couldn't become jedi. Plus for stories in the empire era, it would look bad for Vader's character if a random jedi somehow beats him, so they make villains weaker than him to help the protagonist get victories and development.
And then there is reva hunting one of the most powerful jedi on her own.
@@Backfisch5927 and how did that go for her
@Voidev Preach! And then we’re supposed to cheer for Ashoka when she beats thing 1 and thing 2 ? I beg to differ.
Dogs. They where basically hunting dogs.
Kanan and Ezra were infants compared to other Jedi and they still couldn’t beat them
Yoda: "Do or do not, there is no try."
Galactic Empire Inquisiters: let's keep trying. It'll work sometime soon. Right?
Anyone want to become better trained Jedi Shadows and/or Sith Inquisitors? I'm sure we could do better than Vader's Inquisitors did.
star wars team rocket
Proves Yoda's point
Virgin Star Wars Inquisitor:
-Jedi rejects
-Barely trained
-epitomizes the definition of bond villain stupidity and Saturday morning cartoon idiocy. That even a goddamn youngling can get the best of these dumbfucks
-Over reliant on their lightsabers and darkside of the force that it over Cripples them and has rendered them both as nothing but a crutch and an exploitable liability. That any weapons that is not a blaster can put them down for the count
-indulges in evil gloating, showing off and makes it a big show out of the situation at the worst possible time and place. that even THE JOKER! off all people would shout at the screen to say, "FINISH THEM OFF ALREADY YOU STUPID JACKASSES!!!"
-Stupid ass useless spinning laser sword with no secondary weapons
-Usually work as a solo unit because “TheY’rE tOo KwEl”
-Easily fooled by anyone and anything
-Only made to handle weakest of Jedi. everyone else is their kryptonite.
-Have to stand aside and let some dude with one arm do their job better than they can
Sigma Chad 40k Inquisitor:
-Either literally the best or trained from birth to be the aces of aces there is.
-Trained rigorously and battle tested for years while being an interrogator/apprentice
-taught to never underestimate anyone or anything and to always assume that anything can be a threat, be highly prepared, calculating, always be on guard for combat even if there are no enemies in sight, will neither delay nor take unnecessary chances when their objective is at hand.
extremely practical, well rounded, armed to the teeth and more than willing to adapt, improvise and even outright invent new tools for the trade to overcome any enemies and obstacles.
-Never indulges in easily exploitable evil gloating, never recklessly give away ANY intel or exposition that could be used against them, never cares about dicking around and showing off like a poser.
-Have access to all variety and manner of weapons be it alien, or imperial made alike. from simple auto-guns, las-weapons, Stubbers. To more sophisticated and advance armaments Volkite Guns to Digital weapons to Master Crafted melee weapons. Even up to barely tested, barely understood and extremely dangerous Archeotech munitions and ordinance straight out of the D.A.O.T
-Have an armed entourage that can comprise of squads of elite Guardsmen Veterans to an entire Imperium Battlegroups depending on the inquisitor and their rank, reputation, authority and experience.
-A master genius who has been crafted and/or picked for the literal purpose of finding out things they aren’t supposed to know
-Knows how to fight a variety of enemies including Chaos, Eldar, Orks, Tyranids etc.
-Are usually the ones who have to make the heavy-hearted big decisions and usually no one can take over if they fail
5:00 well trying to helicopter across when your lightsaber is broken is straight up dumb. If I were them, I would try to slide down the temple, stabbing my lightsaber to the wall so it slows me down and I take less fall damage.
tho Maul would problaly throw his lightsaber at me and I couldnt reflect it since I'm stabbing my saber to the wall so I would be dead.
He might still be alive, his species can survive falls from similar heights easily and he could use a Force Push to slow his momentum. That and besides Windu we haven't seen a Force Wielder die from falling yet
Inquisitor is sure a funny way to spell Incompetent.
6:02 “don’t turn your back on your opponent” is literally one of the first lessons you are supposed to learn about fighting
Along with 3:58
but also who even is that guy
I don't know what Is the problem in this
Well, at least he does look back once to make sure his opponent ain't trying to do the funny while the villain is having his evil monologue.
It is and it's something that's done quite often not only in pretty much every version of Star Wars but almost every other movie, show, or video game where someone has to turn their back to the enemy or do a bunch of silly spins and twirls that just expose your back and would instantly get you killed in real life. As a martial artist, it drives me nuts.
In context, he has enemies on both sides. Kanan didn't pull that second lightsaber out of thin air. You'll notice that most of Grand Inquisitor's clips came from Kenobi, where he had almost no screen time, rather than from Rebels where he was the main villain of Season 1.
The way the 7th Sister can’t hold onto a small shuttle with the Force vs the way 17 year-old Ahsoka holds a much larger one while being shot at from all angles. Shows the massive power difference between inquisitors and someone truly powerful
Ahsoka being able to do that is bullshit. Vader couldn't hold Millennium Falcon, Tantive 4 or Phantom.
@Саша Черняк yet in other parts of star wars he literally rips ships out of the sky and into two with just the force
@@user-xx6vy9ri8p have you watched Kenobi? I don't think you have
Not everyone is equally strong in the force or lightsaber skills, 7th is better a lightsaber combat (as seen in the fight with Ahsoka) but lacks force power, and 5th is better with the force (since he is always using it, and didn't have problems with stopping the ship) but sucks at duels
In her defense, she was holding the shuttle and closing the rusted doors from the old Clone Wars medical facility
3:55
Never forget how this sith assassin got 1v1d by a sentient trash can.
That’s not just any sentient trash can though
That 'Trash Can' has the third biggest body count in the rebellion, beaten only by Luke and Lando after their death star kills
And then in the next game, Cal just beheads her in the tutorial boss
My favourite inquisitor moment is when the fifth brother sense Ezra in the vent and then immediately plunges his lightsaber into it. They're pretty incompetent but that was cool
I just love how brutal maul is, of course, out of anyone, letting a bad guy live, could backfire horribly
He's the primary example of why letting the bad guy live/bad guy surviving is a *_bad_* idea.
Maul: "Oh, God. I remember when we actually killed the Jedi. Without saying a fucking word! First kill, then, if you really need it, talk!"
@@neutronalchemist3241 Bud does NOT want to make another Obi Wan
2:07 actually started cackling when I watched this for the first time
Ahsoka massively outclassing the inquisition always makes me laugh.
Disney didn’t inherit most good things about the old Star Wars, but they did inherit the objectively bad part: saying an enemy is menacing and serious but then proceed to show them being pathetic and clumsy.
Disney certainly has a tendency for that.
Disney rarely does anything right with Star Wars, so that's not new.
@Homer Correction: Disney wiped out the tier system, threw it in a box called Legends, went off to do their own thing, then gaslit their way to legitimacy. Piss off with that tired old argument.
Unless they’re Vader, Gideon or the Imps in Andor
Disney's problem is that they prefer things be black and white. Clear cut villains, clear cut heroes. No complicated grey morality crap, kids won't understand that. Disney was the worst corporation that could have taken over Star Wars because of their business model necessitating dumbing the franchise down.
Trilla: You're too late. My soldiers have already found the relic in this tomb and returned it to my ship.
Cal: Oh for fuck sakes- I wasn't even looking for that. Stop calling me.
Why did I read Cal's reaction with an irish accent?
Trilla kept calling Cal lmao
I wish he'd just call her up Instead like "Hey hot stuff" and just cause mass confusion
Trilla: "Aha! Tremble, jedi, for i have already raided this village in my search for you!"
Cal: "I'm not even on the same planet, what are you talking about and why do you keep on telling me every tiny thing you do?"
Trilla: "...okay, to be honest i just want someone normal to talk to."
@@joshuakim5240 I smell a decent fanfic idea.
@@violetroseinthedark3071 💀
Seventh Sister's back must really hurt from carrying Fifth Brother that whole season....
And also, you know, from that time Maul chopped her in half.
Fun fact: darth Vader cut off all of the inquisitors hands to teach them what loss is and yes the same hand he lost
Some Inquisitor's are just built different.
2nd Sister was easily the most difficult boss fight in any Star Wars game.
3rd Sister's organs are arranged in a doughnut shape, so she's fairly stab-proof.
Ninth Sister is built Ford-tough, so she's probably still alive, despite falling off the World Tree.
Doughnut shape lol🤣🤣🤣
Not the Reva slander LMFAOOO 😭😭
Love this lol
Ngl I forgot who Third Sister was for a minute there so I was trying to figure out what alien species she was. 😂 NOW I get the joke.
Third sisters organs in a donut shape 🤣🤣😂😂
They really need to make a series where the Inquisitors look somewhat competent with decent writing. Same for stormtroopers - what I’m saying is, we need more shows like Andor, where the Empire actually feels like a huge threat.
The probles is the public, both clone wars and rebels are kids shows and as so they are scared of really showing "competent villans".
@@ashtray4344 Eh, competent villains were showed in the Tartakovsky miniseries; even his Grievous was an 'horror movie monster' level threat but cartoon animation helped to minimize the psychological impact and keep it in "it's all action and flashy movements" for the kid audience meanwhile grownups still could get entertainment.
I swear, forcing your child to watch Alien will be less traumatic than that Grievous taking the place of his Clone Wars 3D counterpart.
rouge one was great too on that. the heroes were skilled, and had a bit of luck, but they didn't have plot armor. they died and it felt natural when they died, not a forced plot point.
also vader absolutely fucking everyone up in that one scene was just perfect.
@@estebanatachaoarguedas6321 [insert grievous snapping someone's spine, crushing a clones skull and torturing a jedi to death]
the problem is that the stormtroopers and the Inquisitors are incompetent by design and i don't mean for story reason but in universe. The first are designed to scare people into submission, to look intimidating and to be fiercely loyal to the Emperor but not to be competent soldiers as competent soldiers lead by charismatic leader can become a problem for the Emperor. They are good at the role intented for them...occupation troops; sure there are elite group and frankly the 501th Legion is very competent but honestly it's the only one and more because it's the personal fiefdom of the emo kid with breath issue and anger management problem and we all know how he dislike incompetence. The Inquisitors are also trained this way intentionally as neither Palpy and Vader want real direct competition expecially by someone that know the sith way...so the inquisitors are more attack dog with limited (dakr side) force and combat training efficient against non force users and padawan but as Ashoka showed totally outclassed by a real Jedi. Look at how Ezra and Kanan become better at fighting them while the season progress...the initial were cumberstomp battle won only by luck and wits but by keep training the jedi padawan duo become better while the inquisitors not, worse it become clear that they can't reall work well together unlike the jedi. In Andor is different as the main characters are basically civilians with no training and weapon...this is the reason the stormtroopers are so scary.
Gotta love how they made the circles so big and put holes in them so an enemy could just stick their lightsaber in it
4:36 bro actually just killed her in just a second
At this point I honestly believe that The Second Sister is probably the only useful Inquisitor...
Edit: HOLY 2,3 K likes? That's the most I've ever had in my life 😄
Didn’t Vader execute her?
@@jwil4286 He did, but aside from the Grand Inquisitor, she was the only one who was useful enough until Vader unfortunately killed her...
@@cristinacristescu1173 why did he kill her? I couldn’t recall
@@jwil4286 he killed her because she failed to protect the holocron from Cal Kestis and Cere Junda, and to also kill them both
@@cristinacristescu1173 There's always the EU Inquisitors. Jerec, from Dark Forces 2, became a warlord after RoTJ and had 7 Dark Jedi followers at his disposal. Antinnys Tremaine was a sneaky dude and one of the few who managed to hit Vader on his chest plate.
Ok but like, why is it that only Trilla is actually capable of doing her job without needing help from at least 2 other inquisitors? Like, she's probably the only inquisitor in the whole series that actually succeeds in her mission, her only mistake was for whatever reason not just taking the holocron directly to Coruscant.
Probably because only a Jedi could open the Holocron, so taking it to Coruscant wouldn't have done much of anything, I think that's why she was waiting for Cal and Cere to come so she could force one of them to open it.
I’ve always seen the funny spinny sabers as something pretty genius writing wise.
To me it signals that these guys are mostly just there to be threatening, the spinning saber thing is a pretty scary trick at first. Imagine being an average imperial citizen and a group of people in black armor show up and one of them pulls out this thing. You’d start talking pretty quick I’d bet.
I mean, if you think about it, (5:51) nobody in their right mind would actually think about attacking the Inquisitorius’ headquarters so they likely assumed it wouldn’t be necessary to add defensive measures.
4:34 the scream of her death always stuck in my head
Can imagine his pov
6:26 perfectly vertical...
The Grand Inquisitor was extremely competent, and was never really rattled or shaky under pressure. Seventh Sister was both smart and a great fighter, utilizing technology and being able to keep up with Asoka Tano(who isn't a full Jedi but still has more battle experience than most Jedi ever get). The eighth brother also had a lot of cool technology but mostly wasted all of it in his one and only appearance. Aaaand the fifth brother never really did jack shit in rebels honestly. Haven't watched Kenobi though.
Third sister managed to not instantly die against Vader
Fifth brother does even less in kenobi. He doesn't even ignite his Saber once in the show
Let's not forget how Ahsoka literally just takes away one of their sabers and just beheads him...
The regret of the seventh sisters face after messing with Ashoka in 2:18 😂😂😂.
I love how live-action Fifth Brother turned out to be worse than animated Fifth Brother 😂
Can we give Maul some points tho? He just stepped in next to 2 Jedi and a Padawan to face some Inquisitors like “get the f**k outta here with these amateurs” and just killed them in like 5 minutes 😂
He wanted to proof how much powerful he is compared to the inquisitors
These shows really turned Maul into a great character.
The Inquisitors probably induce a lot of second-hand embarrassment in him. 😅
What’s funnier is that those inquisitors had been giving Ezra and Kanan shit all season, and then within 5 seconds of them turning on their lightsabers, Maul and Ahsoka made them look like Jar Jar with a stick.
@@joemackley7894 Maul and Ahsoka are both experienced force sensitive wsr veterans trained in the opposite arts, hence why they beat the Inquisitors more easily.
You're right, though.
@@joemackley7894 well Kanan and Ezra are capable enough to hold their own against those inquisitors shown in the shroud of darkness episode but maul and Ashoka though they would defeat them easily
The little 'Wheeeeee' at 4:12 has me in stiches. Thanks for making such a goofy looking gimmick even sillier!
The fact that Maul could solo three of them just shows how much more powerful a real Sith is
5:40 Plot armour be like:
Watching rebels is a reminder of how much easier everything would be for everyone if heroes and villains simply went for killing blows. The amount that the inquisitors turn their back or leave themselves open on Jedi or other hostiles mid fight for no real reason would make it brutally easy for a Jedi of any skill to wipe out their ranks, I mean Kal Cestis (I think I spelled that right) seems to be the only dude who tries, and he does damn easy work with it depending on your skill at the fallen order franchise
Got the K and the C reversed, but otherwise totally agreed - if Second Sister and Ninth Sister were anywhere near the same level of incompetent as the other Inquisitors as the appeared in Rebels and Kenobi, Cal Kestis would have wiped the floor with them fairly quickly because he would have ample time to train and regain his connection to the Force lol
Like, both Second Sister and Ninth Sister were individually more pragmatic, powerful with the Force, skilled at duelling, and otherwise dangerous than any of their peers we've seen on screen besides possibly the Grand Inquisitor himself lol
0:07 sadly he cound not helicopter enough
Inquisitor missing their target all the time is equivalent to Stormtroopers missing their shots.
To give them some credit, considering that Inquisitors were meant to just hunt down low-level Jedi, they did that part alright. Both the Grand Inquisitor & the Seventh Sister defeated Ezra like nothing. Kanan usually struggled against both of them and the Fifth Brother.
Well he didn’t have his training yet Ezra now would kick his ass without thinking about it
That’s another reason why I hate them, inquisitors only seem to exist to trim Darth Vaders personal Jedi kill count. *he could’ve handled those other ones.* they’re excessive meandering pests, bloated growths on a system already corpulent with too many pointlessly specialized sub divisions
@@GreaterGrievobeast55 exactly but they don’t seem to want to kill off anyone just yet so we got the inquisition instead
@Greater Grievobeast 55 There were hundreds of Jedi survivors the Empire can't send out its best guy to Elizabeth every pawadwan.
@@greatsageequaltoheaven8115 sure, but that kinda makes every other Jedi survivor out there to be more green than grass and weaker than a youngling if these guys were the ones who are supposed to be killing them. There are hundreds of Jedi survivors, many are probably Jedi knights and Clone War veterans. And these clowns are able to take a lot of them down?
Kinda reduces these Jedi survivors into cannon fodder, if you ask me.
Maul: you shall pay for your insolence
Inquisitors: we are Imperial Inquisitors, we don't know what that means
Inquisitors: exist
Maul, an actual Sith: LOL
“the elite of the empire”
*proceeds to get their asses kicked*
Majority of the Inquisitors are basically Jedi Padawans and Younglings except for the Grand Inquisitor since he's formally a Temple Guard who was driven into the Dark Side after Barriss made her speech.
Yeah and that’s why they are super incompetent they aren’t trained much ethier so it’s essentially Padawans vs padawans
They were basically bullies. They'd taunt imperial officers and fold the average person, but would collapse against the majority of competent force users.
@@RudeAndObscene yep
The tenth brother was basically the only Jedi master in the inquisitor faction.
@@shallows529 ninth sister too
2:18
Make it count, play it straight,
Don't look back, don't hesitate
When you go big time
What you want, what you feel
Never quitin' make it real
When you roll big time
6:21
Go and shake it up what you gotta lose,
Go and make your luck with the life you choose,
If you want it all, lay it on the line
It's the only life you got, so you gotta live it big time
Please shut up
Maul out here droppin bodies, love to see it
Inquisitors spend half their time fighting other dark side people.
Truly the empire’s most elite. Stopped by a barely trained Jedi padawan and barely able to put up a fight. Thank you 9th sister very cool
@@soloamaro5605 Yea I was mostly memeing when I typed this lol
@@soloamaro5605 It's cool bro lmao. I just find it funny to meme on inquistors is all
To be fair the Grand Inquisitor had to be the only competent Inquisitor in their ranks.
After all, he does have “Grand” in his title
Yeah after he just got outsmarted by a padawan and decided to spin to win right infront of his opponent directly showing off the weak point
@@maniac7302you mean how Obi Wan did a so similar thing with Maul? 😂
And Kanan is Depa Billaba's Padawan. And Depa is Mace's Padawan.
The Fifth Brother might be the most incompetent Force-user I’ve ever seen…and yet, according to Kenobi, he’s next in line to take over as Grand Inquisitor.
The Inquisitors might look cool, but the fact is, they’re not elite; they’re just the strongest of the weak: strong enough to be useful, weak enough to be broken and turned through torture. Even Vader and Sidious know they don’t stand a chance against any real Jedi Knight or master. That’s what the spinning blades are for: to surprise and overwhelm opponents who are far stronger than them.
The thing I really like about that one inquisitor falling to his death because his helicopter saber broke is that it completely destroys any headcanon about them using the force to fly - they really are somehow being propelled upwards by rotating plasma.
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They're like the Team Rocket of Star Wars. They get their ass owned each time but they come back every time, without being better. At this point they're almost comic relief.
I'm pretty sure that's not fair to Team Rocket.
Yes, they get blasted off every episode, but they maintain that same edge throughout the development of the heroes for season upon season. They're basically hilariously elite at this point, and don't realize it.
And the emperor and Darth Vader are Giovanni
6:20 lmao that was hilarious
3:28 I mean, it’s obvious why, Maul is a true sith through and through, for nearly all of his life up till the Phantom Menace, Palpatine himself brutally beat him, and forged him into a skilled and deadly weapon
As the great Emperor Palpatine once said
“You are the worst bad guys ever”
2:29 pause at this moment after he says "I don't go for crazy" Because it really looks like he is considering it.
Like that face totally screams "I think"
He’s like “eh maybe I’ll consider it “
My headcanon is that he’s thinking to make sure Hera isn’t crazy.
3:35 I mean… it’s Darth Maul, so I’ll give them some slack for not having a chance against him since he was a fully trained Sith Lord. Fact they can’t kill a teenager who’s barely padawan level in terms of skill is unacceptable though.
...until you realize most of them are padawan level as well lmao. Literal padawans who were just turned to the dark side, with the exception of the Grand Inquisitor who was previously a Jedi Guard.
Maul wasn't a fully trained sith lord. He was a fully trained Sith Assassin. A tool to be used and disgarded as seen fit by his master, an actual sith lord.
@@earlgrey7791inquisitors varied some were full knights and others were padawans.
@@BrotherHood-xh9sgactually dooku was the one that sidious saw as a tool, he admitted that Maul's death was a loss in a comic
@@ChaosSandwich Thats not mutually exclusive. Loosing a very useful tool IS a loss, doesnt mean you saw that tool as your apprentice.
Maul wasnt intended by Sidious to be his successor, nor was Dooku. Maul was considered to be weapon (even his name, darth maul reflects that. A Maul is considered a dangerous and effective, yet unsoffisticated, weapon).
In terms of fighting skill, Maul absolutely rivals a proper Sith lord, because fighting is all he was really trained to do, and do well. But in terms of knowledge of the force, and all other non-combat knowledge passed down by the sith, Sidious kept him on a short leash.
0:53 I appreciate that the Fifth Brother at least looks a bit intimidating in this shot
The Starkillers are just sitting in the back going “Seriously? Vader replaced us with these morons!?”
2:50 Its over Bannanakin, they have the low ground
You underestimate my potassium
0:44 Im sorry but can we talk about this scene for a sec? What was the point of the seventh sister just casually reaching her hand out to Ezra? Did she expect to just...grab him? What the heck was that for??? He has a lightsaber!
First of all, 195 likes and no comments? Let’s fix that.
Second, honestly, I have no idea.
Do not reach out a hand to someone with a lightsaber. When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When you have a lightsaber, everything looks like a Skywalker limb.
Imagine getting clowned by a child wielding a spicy noodle
Ashoka even killed one of them...
Without a lightsaber