How One Planet-Eating Sith Lord Made Palpatine Look like a MEME - The Story of Darth Nihilus
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- We delve deep into the lore of Darth Nihilus in this video, with a bit of a philosophical twist at the end ;)
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Vader: Became a Sith to save his wife
Revan: Became a Sith out of necessary evil
Tyranus: Became a Sith out of disdain for what the Jedi and Republic had become
Nihilus: Became a Sith because he was hungry
"You're not you when you're hungry." - Snickers
@@geetslys I'd feel sad for him if Meetra gave him a Snickers.
He couldn't eat it because his body's gone...
:(
@@geetslys that’s all he needed. If the Jedi had just given him a snickers his hunger would have been satiated and would just go home.
Yum
@@geetslys Snickers who then became Darth Mars
ah, yes, the Death Star with a lightsaber.
perfect description
But the Death star used Kyber crystals. So its just a giant lightsaber which would make this guy a giant lightsaber with a lightsaber
@@prowl1123 finally someone understands that
I’ll use that to describe him to friends now thank you XD
@@prowl1123 Lightsaberception
Kylo ren: " I made a large solar system destroying planet."
Palpatine: "I made a moon sized planet destroyer"
Nithilus: " you guys needed to build them?"
Elder powerful old sith: Imma use this sun to destroy the entire system and the ones around it just to clean some bugs
Dark Empire Sidious could rip holes in the space-time continuum and teleport people with them. He could also use Force Storms to ravage the surfaces of entire planets and devour entire fleets.
@@sirpepeofhousekek6741 Then why bother with the death star?
checkmate, non-canon stans
@@thatpunkcatte Status symbol about fear.
@@thatpunkcatte Hes a big evil baddie with a big evil ego and needs a big evil planet destroying monument to himself obviously.
I’d be lying if I said Nihilus’ design wasn’t the initial reason I thought he was cool, but all the lore surrounding this bottomless stomach of a man makes him that much more badass.
The rule of cool reigns supreme.
We came here for his design , stayed for the lore .
So true
@@joshualap401 very true
I'd HATE to be his head chef...🤣🤯
“This one looks delicious.” He says as he looks out the window. “Sir that is a planet” “Exactly.”
Underrated and unoriginal
@@generalgrievous8997 hi sir do you sell planets i can eat?
@@generalgrievous8997 Hello There
@@APersonOnCZcamsX general Kenobi
But sir, Sir.😂😂😂😂
Darth Vader: I hate sand.
Darth Nihilus: I eat sand.
You got that right
Unstoppable force meets immovable object.
@@geetslys hello there
Sidious (from the newest Darth Vader comics): You can't use the Force to survive or fight for this test.
Darth Vader: I can deal.
Darth Nihilus: NO!!!
lol.
Light saber: I heat sand.
Meetra Surik had disconnected herself from the Force, and was a blank spot devoid of it's power. When Nihilus tried to consume her, he basically consumed 'nothingness' and nearly destroyed himself.
That makes no sense as when the fight she has clearly regained her connection to the Force.
@@corruptangel6793 Kreia re-established her Force powers by siphoning through others, while she herself remained a dead spot.
@@SkullLeader I haven't played in a long time, but I thought Meetra was the one doing all that and that she was the one who allowed Kreia to regain her power.
That was her Wound, the ability to create bonds with those in her presence. Influencing those alive (which is how she "convinced" Sion to let go for example) and leeching the power of those she killed. Basically writing the game mechanics into the story. That's why the Jedi Council were so scared of her and try to cut her off from the Force again
@@SkullLeader at the very least she clearly has regained some of her power as of the Revan novel.
@@corruptangel6793 Kreia had taught her to regain her Force connection through other ways which is what I meant. She did, in essence, remain a dead spot in the Force.
""If you were to face an ancient Sith Lord in combat, you would learn that we are as children playing with toys compared to the prowess of the old masters." - Kreia
Nihilus wasn’t really ancient
@williampg gois nah you know nothing. Nihilus is older than yoda and was around 3000 year before the phantom menace. However in the Star Wars timeline that’s the ancient era that’s the old republic
@@williampggois6620he’s older then Yoda by 2 gens and a bit
“If you were to face an ancient Sith Lord in combat ….. we are as children …..compared to the prowess of the old Masters” - Kreia
A WHO
A WHO
A HEWHWHEHE
THIS IS SPARTA
GG NO RE
@@user-it2zg9sr7e but one would still merely be mocking him by engaging him in combat!
This guy ate a planet, scion literally pulled himself together, sidious came back to life but HEAVEN FORBID starkiller pulls down a single ship.
To be fair it was a destroyer class so it was still quite impressive.
@@jankjaws9815 if it was a fleet I’d understand but cmon. Vader and post Endor Luke could do something like this.
@@neofulcrum5013 I agree. If Starkiller pulled down a whole fleet, I would be impressed.
@@neofulcrum5013 that’s way too far fetched. The only reasons Darth Scion and Nihlus were so powerful was due to the mass shadow generator. If not for that key event the powers they have never manifest. Besides Scion couldn’t go on forever and Nihlus would eventually eat to the point he had nothing to feed on and essentially off himself. Starkiller on the other hand was just a young man. He was what 17 when he pulled that Destroyer down? Palpatine couldn’t do that because his training just barely started. Anakin wasn’t even a Jedi Knight yet at that age, and none of the Sith Triumvirate could accomplish that either.
@@jankjaws9815 Theoretically, Sion could go forever. If his will wasn't weakened, that is.
For Nihilus "all you can eat" is a way of being, not just a buffet gimmick
He is me
Tyranids and Angron have entered the chat.
@@JeanLucCaptain Life Eater Virus is on line 3, not sure if it's even safe to take a message........
@@banebeard SHE WHO THIRSTS IS ON LINE 4: SAVE YIUR SOULS!!!!😰
@@JeanLucCaptain fuck.... tell her I'm not here........ you let a chick tie you up ONE TIME and they never leave you alone.........
Nihilus is essentially the opposite side of the coin to The Exile. While Meetra Suriik cut herself off from the Force at the horror of Malachor 5, Nihilus stared into its heart, unable to turn away.
darth nihilius was addicted and he let his addiction consume him.
he wasn't addicted, the mass shadow generator just made him insanely hungry for life force, and he had to keep feeding to keep himself alive.
@Amritansh Mishra Rehab centers hate him
Nah, he just had an appetite.🤣
Disney Lucasfilm: "now that Snoke is dead, we need a new, badass antagonist...let's bring back Emperor Palpatine!"
Darth Nihilius: "am I a joke to you?"
You know, they better stay with non-Force (if not Skywalker-based) storylines instead.
there are sith lords more bad ass than him
Disney is just stupid
It's Disney, Nihilius, everyone's a jake to them, including their own fans who sustain their very existence.
Don't tell Disney about him, they will ruin it.
They couldn't let a man ruin MaRey Sue ThE BeStaST EvAR
*reads the title*
That’s how it’s done ladies
She brought you here to telos to set a trap
@@supremeleadergnkdroid3202 sorry I drank some force energy so my memory is kind of fuzzy so forgive if I have no idea what you’re talking about
Lol
You know it, mate.
@@GalvatronStudios that’s what surik tells nihilus In Kotor 2
Sidious and Vader: we have a weapon the size of the moon so powerful it can destroy a planet
Nihilus: what a waste of good food
Vitiate: “I devoured all life on Ziost!”
Nihilus: “That’s cute.”
Vitiate needed rituals and tons of bloodshed to do those to top it off. Nihilus didn't. Still, DE Sidious could create multiple Force Storms that could devour fleets and ravage the surfaces of planets. He also teleported Luke by ripping a hole in the space-time continuum.
It is even more funny/terrifying once you realise G0-T0 directly says to you that outer rim planets are slowly becoming lifeless , besically revealing that Katarr wasn't the only place he ate .
@@ra.n9482 KOTOR 2 was amazing. Did you know that Nihilus is symbolic?
@@sirpepeofhousekek6741 course I did , the symbolim is not hidden in the game .
@@ra.n9482 Oh? I played it many times. Can you quote it?
Yeah well, palpatine DID say oof at one point. So yes. He's a meme lord.
The Meme Lord of the Sith
People were saying oof before memes were even a thing
_Ironic_
No one like this comment he has a perfect 66 likes
@@brandenbosserman7162 it's ruined. :')
Darth Ninulus is a monument to all of the sins of the jedi. In a way, he was a punishment. Thats what I take from his existence.
True, the common fatal flaw of the jedi is their belief that they need to fight wars for the republic. That has always ensured their own downfall as war is philosophically the worst thing the jedi can commit to and often results in their fall to the darkside
@@shamrock141 That fact is that every war that lead to the downfall of the Jedi can be traced back to the first Jedi war, the great schism. the one that lead the first dark Jedi to Korriban
In the same vein that Nihilus is a punishment for the Jedis, Nihilus was also a representation of the ultimate destination of the Sith ideology as well. An ideology where it's code is to constantly purge the weak will ultimately grow so large that it will end up eating it's own tail, and as it does, it grows weaker and weaker, even if its physical being somehow grows bigger. KoTOR 2 is such a wonderful deconstruction of Star Wars because it manages to critique not only a single aspect of its themes but all the parts in it aswell. Fantastic game.
He, like Sion and Meetra, are embodiments of the nature of the dark side.
Nihilus was the all consuming hunger for more.
Sion, the pain and suffering.
And Meetra, the dominating and corrupting nature of the dark side.
@@corruptangel6793 The signs that lead to the realisation that the jedi are just as bad as the Sith they fight against. They have committed similar atrocities to the sith. To be honest, due to how stuck up the jedi order can be, I think they are worse then the sith in most cases, as they never take responsibility for what they have done.
Darth Nihilus isn't the only one who made Palpatine look like a meme, the internet did that too
The Senate
Palpaties master was also stronger then palpatine resorting palpatin to kill him on his sleep tho i am not sure what happend
D E W I T
@@m7gxz477 palpatine wasn't in his prime tho
@@m7gxz477 So he was lying in bed, giving Palpatine the high ground. No way a Sith master would make such a mistake, it must have been done deliberately to allow Palpatine to ascend.
I think this is why Nihilus is my favourite of the expanded universe sith. He was so interlinked with the darkside that he could no longer be considered much of a person anymore. Everything about his nature was otherworldly and distant.
Have you heard the tale of Darth Nihilus the Hungry? It’s not one the Jedi would tell you...
"Because there are none that survived to tell the tale"
@Varun Nathamuni i mean like she ended him, yes, but he killed her after
He is even too terrifying for the sith to tell
Darth Nihilus is the Pennywise of the Star Wars galaxy.
Dearth Nihilus the Ravenous sounds better in my opinion.
I read this as "Plant eating" and thought, "huh, a vegan sith."
He is the very definition of omnivorous.
Imagine a fight between nihilus and the tyranids
"Have you heard about Darth Nihilu, who become Sith to wipe out all who eat meat to protect Galaxy?"
@@myselft36yearsago Well... Tyranids are simply galactic pest with hive mind. They can eat whole planet but only as they physically eat stuff and mutate rest. Darth Nihilus would simply suck them dry.
_"I think Darth Nihilus is a Vegan Sith."_
*"A VEGAN SITH?!"*
“Sion: Nihilus’s underrated Scottish counterpart”
Yep, he’s basically the evil version of William Wallace.
The zombie sith
Breaking News: Local Scottish Man too angry to die finds love in the most unlikely of places, promptly dies. News at Eleven.
Jesus...
This guy was everything sith Lords WISHED to be: a literal Lich.
His day really was the darkest age for Jedi and sith: both orders basically pushed to bordering extinction...all from a Mandalorian war gone VERY wrong
The Old Republic’s was facing hundreds of different threats that could destroy several planets at the time, but the reason why Darth Sidious could destroy the Republic was because he destroyed it from within. One could argue that many Sith Lords were more powerful than Palpatine, but Darth Sidious was the most intelligent with both political ideas and force abilities.
@@blackpanther6208 Pfff Darth Jar Jar is NOTHING compared to his master, Darth Gonk Droid!!!
Palpatine just got lucky he reaped the benefits of several generations of previous Siths hard work.
Sidious still lost
@@tristancoward6935 I mean that’s the point of the rule of two right
Name me the Sith lords and ill tell u why your wrong
This game has some of the best dialogues in any game. And the lessons and philosophy of kreia are just masterful
@Skaank Huntt oh the irony. Says the guy that chose Gerald as profile pic and skank hunt as name
Hell yeah! I absolutely love how the game dove into the philosophy behind the Force, and really drove home how influential it is in the Star Wars universe.
Nothing short of a genius deconstruction of the absolutist morality of SW
Im sure you saw the philosophy of kreia vid on youtube. Very deep analysis.
@@jjeaze A timeless classic that is.
Nihilus was always one of my favorite sith lords. He's just one of the coolest and most mysterious characters of all time. He's such an interesting character. I wish he had a live action adaptation though. That would be so freaking cool. I would love that so much. Maybe they could make a movie ABOUT Nihilus. Like they did with Han Solo. Like, they could make "Nihilus: A Star Wars Story" I think if any character deserved their own movie, it would be Nihilus.
That shit would be a fuckin horror film and disney aren't likely to do that
@@hollunk6969 because with disney we can't have anything good movie wise.
Nah, he would just eat the audience..!🤣
He deserves a Triology like Anakin Skywalker
A Movie about how Nihilus (and Sion) came about would be great!
The funny thing is, this guy was probably more in touch with the Dark Side than any other Sith. To the point where he was essentially the embodiment of it, quite literally a ghost formed out of it, and as a result developed a greater dependency on it than any other.
I just want someone to redub all his Sith noises with "Om Nom NOM!"
I'm sure someone can make a mod for that...
*hungry Sith noises*
Doesn't he say nothing but gibberish?
@@DamnDaimen he spoke the ancient sith language
@@shaheenshaikh4525 So ancient only babies spoke it.
Nihilus I choose you:
Nihilus used: force drain IT WAS SUPER EFFECTIVE.
Bruh ten likes
This will definitely make my parents respect me
@@grimgrom3355 hello there
@@00Grimreaper00 omg...
It would be hilarious if Sidious and Vader met him in a random sith planet and try to reason with him and just consume them 2 and act nothing happened.
Nihilus : that's some tasty as burgers.
I mean they can find his ghost on korriban where they brought his armour
Wouldn't happen. Vader and Sidious are leagues above him.
@@nicholaspeterman9111 what was the last time Vader consumed planets? He lost to Starkiller who can barely pull down a star destroyer.
@@helloeveryone5251 considering the guy who created nihilus said he couldn’t beat Vader and palps?
@Ruosong Gao isn’t Vader immune to drain? Idk about palpatine
No bro, The Rise of Skywalker already made Palpatine look like a meme!
I thought It was the comic where he literally said "oof".
Sadly, yes.
And not even a good meme
Wasn't he a meme since 1983?
@@michaelandreipalon359 it was the prequels that catapulted Palpatine to meme lord status
"There is no strength in the hunger he possesses… and the will behind his power is a primal thing. And it devours him as he devours others-his mere presence kills all around him, slowly, feeding him. He is already dead, it is simply a question of how many he kills before he falls" - Kreia
😯
Kreia is one of the greatest characters in all of Star Wars lore.
Or gets a heart attack from all that over-eating!🤣
@@InfamousLegato I couldn’t agree more. The deconstruction of Star Wars and the force in general presented through KOTOR II is worth thorough examination.
So Darth Nihilus is the Jason Voorhees of Star Wars essentially
I always thought that Darth Nihilus was just a Force fart. Silent, but deadly.
Darth Nihilus has been my favorite Sith for years. Having his lore pieced together like this is really insightful, as it has been many many years sense I last finished KOTOR II, some of it I didn't even know or understand at the time! Although, it's sad to see that his own power made him weak in the end.
It blows my mind that people don’t know about him...
At work, we had a kid (about 9-12 give or take) who had a Padawan braid and we were psyching out. Then he asked us to guess who he was for Halloween. We assumed the usual culprits (Vader, Maul, etc). Then he said two words that made us holler through the roof in jubilation: “Darth Nihilus”. That boy is certainly brought up right (in Star Wars terms that is)!
To be fair, more people are familiar with the first KotOR, if not only the movies and TV shows.
In other words, there are a lot of casual Star Wars fans, and some of them are too casual for their own good.
@@tweso1499 Yeah, that kid's was raised well in Star Wars.
Hope he's also raised well in real life however.
@@michaelandreipalon359 same here
@@tweso1499 freaking LEGENDARY.
Ironically, it would be a hole in the force itself that would be his end
He was destined to consume the galaxy. But then he encountered a glitch in the Force and crashed.
@@Rastislav000 That is a pretty accurate way to describe it.
a hole in a hole
Palpatine: *builds 2 death stars*
Nihilus: "That's cute"
Lesson to be learned: using planet devastating weapons tends to have disastrous and unintended consequences
This man is most underrated character in Star Wars, just like the stormtroopers
Stormtroopers just have the worst luck
Is he even still a man?!
@ @@michaelandreipalon359 , he used to be a man, a human - but he used up this type of force energy so much, that his entire body just disappeared..
@ @@gladiatorjeff2283 , no they have good luck, amazing aim and are incredible fighters
@@thekhans2823 That depends on the division.
If there are two things we shouldn't do, don't cross with the 501st Legion and the Hand of Judgment.
Fun fact: a rock is a loaf of sand
Actually sand is a mix of rock particles and dust so therefore rocks are different than sand
I don't know about that one chief.
no, rocks are granddaddies of sand
*Cue Anakin screaming at random rocks*
Fun fact: Metal also has earth in it. If you're a capable Earthbender, you can actually try to Metalbend.
Sorry, A: TLA fan here.
Darth Nihilus fell to Meetra Surik because the two of them were wounds in the force born from the destruction of Malachor V and she was effectively immune to his force drain ability. Once he couldn't drain the force from her he became vulnerable. Surik also had Visas Marr with her who was able to disrupt Nihilus' connection to the force through the bond she shared with him. Kreia knew that Surik would stop Nihilus and so she lured him to Telos IV to get revenge for his part in stripping her of the force and casting her out into her own exile.
Kreia's ultimate goal was to create a new and substantially larger wound in the force at the Trayus Core on the remnants of the planet Malachor V that would have defeaned the entire galaxy to it and likely killed many people in the process. She came to the belief that the force had a will of its own and was in control of everyone's destinies, so she wanted to end it for good. Her plan ultimately failed as she also fell to Surik who afterwards reactivated the mass shadow generator to destroy Malachor V for good.
If Kreia didn't lure Nihilus, he would have kept consuming more and more until there was nothing left in the universe except himself, at which point he would starve and there would be nothing left in all of the universe.
@@cleverman383 his name is derived from Nihilism, meaning literally believing in nothing. You are exactly right, he would have eventually consumed all life in the galaxy leaving nothing left and needed to be stopped. There would have been no Republic left for Emperor Vitiate to attack 300 years later if Darth Nihilus hadn't been defeated above Telos IV.
Sounds like an amazing trilogy
I wish they would make the whole story of “Knights of the Old Republic” into live action movies
Maybe we should mail it to executives of Disney and tell them the possible financial benefits it could bring
Because typically , they will only make a major project unless it brings big bucks to their pockets
They have mentioned making a movie around that era
The power to to destroy a planet is insignificant to the power of the force
Maybe there was some merit to Vader's words when he said. I always just thought it was Vader just being an arrogant bastard.
@@ashtonchane6126 The power of the dark side is what allowed Palpatine to conquer the entire galaxy, destroying a planet or two is literally insignificant
@@ashtonchane6126 Nah Vader was being literal. Destroying a planet is a pretty mid-level feat in legends.
Darth Nihilus: *Eats planets*
Meetra Surik: *Ends this whole mans career*
You mean "The Exile".
I mean yeah that's her title
@@PumpkinPain That depends on how you choose to describe him/her in your KotOR II playthrough.
Yes?
@@michaelandreipalon359 It's been two hours and i'm still trying to figure out what you meant
My first time of seeing him was a short comic that I don't even know where I found, in which he destroyed a planet of blind, force sensitive people, but saved one of them so that she could "see". It was so bizarre and strange that it remained stuck in my mind for years before I even learned Nihilus' name
5:53 That's the one!
The pinnacle of movie thicc-ness…
I always think that Nhilius is just an aspect of the dark force like how dark force users being consumed by their anger, jealosy etc he consumes everything around him.His sole purpose is to consume everything.
It wasn’t an easy fight. It took Surik, who was Revan’s top general and another wound in the force which is the one thing Nihilus was weak to, Nihilus’ own apprentice who had a force bond with him that she severed to weaken him, and mandalore the preserver who was a friend and partner of Revan, all fighting Nihilus at once to bring him down. So that means Nihilus was likely deflecting shots from a heavy blaster shot by a veteran Mandalorian while fighting two lightsaber wielders. Pretty impressive to hold your own against all of that.
Not really. His the easiest boss fight in the game
@@srottfaen honestly the kotor series is a series where you have to separate gameplay difficulty from lore strenght
yeah I've noticed this guy tends to aggrandize the "good" characters (aka empathetic ones) and downplay and even demonize "bad" characters (which includes Ki-Adi Mundi in his opinion, because he is emotionally detached, like idk, a JEDI IS SUPPOSED TO BE??) like Im sorry, but does this mean Ayla Secura, Mace Windu, Jango Fett, and others are all weak? - because they were certainly killed with less handicaps and planning than Nihilus was. Half the game frames him as your main baddie, with Sion popping in every now and then and Kreia being Kreia. Its just nonsense when he downplays characters he doesnt align with morally.
yet he is very weak. his power controlled him and consumed him and he had no control over his own actions, a slave to hunger.
@@loganmoody1816 he isnt wrong tho.... his power made him weak, he had no control over it and it controlled him, he was merely a slave to his own hunger. they frame him as the "big baddie" as a diversion from the actual big baddie. kreia, who manipulated all these events to achieve revenge against the force its self in an attempt to purge the galaxy from how she views the tyranny of the force's will.
nihilus was a force of nature as she puts it but also weak, a walking corpse that devours everything around it until it eventually consumes all life and eventually starves and dies. again, he is a slave to his own hunger and lacks any real control over himself or his power. the power of his hunger is great and terrible but it is not his own power
Darth Nihulus makes Palpatine look like the Jedi Council
Edit: I was watching the previous video when this came out lol
YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO DO HIM LIKE THAT.
That's cold.......
@@banebeard cold but true
Poor Palpatine he is going to need more then ice for that burn
@@theblackswordsman3612 maybe get him that cold lightsaber????
1:59 I think the lore is that Revan picked less loyal troops for the first two fleets, picked the most loyal for his own, and wasn't delayed by anything. He showed up late on purpose.
Making this an officer purge in preparation for the next phase of his plan.
Correct. Before that awful Revan book and the MMO came out, Revan never met any Sith Empire, he only saw signs of them and used brilliant strategy to create his own Sith Empire to prepare the galaxy for their arrival.
You can learn a lot of Revan's tactics from the interface he created on the Edean/Kashyyyk Star Map
i have three things to say:
1. darth nihilus tall AF
2. this is me when i hunger for food
3. anyone else getting Galactus vibes?
I'm getting Unicron vibes
Mitra Suric: You were a proud man once, but now your nothing more than a beast driven only by his hunger!
Darth Nihilus: I wield great power foolish Jedi!
(She proceeds to kick his ass).
Mitra Suric: That power will only consume you in the end. That hunger will devour you instead.
*Meetra
Was Nihilus starving when they fought is that why he was so weak?
@Joseph Douek not to mention Meetra's insanely powerful ability to master anything just by WATCHING it happen. Hell I bet she could consume planets too
@@libertyprime1614 in short the Exile is his kyptanite he was way more powerful than her but she is his perfect counter so that power doesn’t mean jack
@Mad Philosopher that dwells in the halls of madness he didn’t eat one planet for decades he ate multiple ones but traveled for decades to always find suitable planets to consume. He properly consumed planets as fast as a normal meal
And, of course, the name Nihilus is derived from the Latin 'Nihilo', meaning 'nothing'.
"Ex nihilo nihil fit" - "From nothing comes nothing". Perhaps not exactly true, but for the purposes of the character, certainly so.
Thought it was a play off of nihilism. The philosophical belief that all things are meaningless.
Nihilus needs to eat but his hunger grew so no matter how much he ate, he would never be satisfied and would only grow hungrier. His eating is meaningless
@@FeedMeChaos1 nihilism itself comes from the latin root "nihil-". Both derive from nihil-, but for Nihilus I think translating "nihil-" as "void" is more accurate, and as "nothingness" as in "everything has the value of nothingness" for Nihilism.
Sith names are pretty on the nose.
Darth Nihilus was a being of nothingness.
Darth Sidious was quite insidious
Darth Tyranus was on his way to become a tyrant
Darth Vader was actually someones father
@@HappyBeezerStudios Vader isn’t referring to father, it refers to the word “invader”(That’s why Vader is pronounced Vay-der like in-vay-der rather than Vah-der like the Dutch word for father). Just like Darth Sidious it knocks off the “in” prefix. Darth Vader’s name was probably created initially as a jumbled up way of saying “Dark Invader” as he was first shown invading the Rebel ship in A New Hope clad in black armor. Unlike most other Sith titles Vader’s never had any real meaning behind it when it was created. I believe Sith titles come from the force itself to summarize the darkest aspect of the person, although I could be wrong, I thought I read it in a book once that Sidious got the name for Vader from searching the force, although maybe I’m misremembering things.
@@kaiserreichempireofohio834 Nah that is only one possible explanation and it's based on speculation. From Wikipedia:
"According to Star Wars creator George Lucas, he experimented with various combinations of names for the character built upon the phrase "Dark Water". Then he "added lots of last names, Vaders and Wilsons and Smiths, and ... just came up with the combination of Darth and Vader". After the release of The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Lucas stated that the name Vader was based upon the German/Dutch-language homophone Vater or vader, meaning 'father', making the name representative of a "Dark Father".[7] Other words which may have inspired the name are "death" and "invader",[8] as well as the name of a high-school upperclassman of Lucas's, Gary Vader.[9][10]
As no other character with the title "Darth" was introduced until the release of The Phantom Menace (1999),[u] some viewers interpreted it as the character's first name, in part because Obi-Wan Kenobi addresses him as "Darth" in the original film.[11][v] The moniker is bestowed upon Anakin in Revenge of the Sith (2005) upon his turn to the dark side of the Force."
Nihilus is one of the scariest and best characters. They should give him the real treatment in a series or movie.
Vader: “I am your Father”
Sidious: “I am the Senate”
God: “I am the Force”
What is scarier Nihilius and Galactus trying kill or both having the munchines?
When someone says Palpatine was the strongest Sith Lord.
Me: You ever hear the awesomeness of the Sith Triumvirate? Darth Sion, the pained, Darth Nihilus, the hungry, Darth Traya, the betrayed, and Darth Revan, the badass
Tenebrae/Vitiate/Valkorion: Allow me to introduce myself.
If they're so awesome, why were they beaten by someone deemed as "the Exile"?
@@michaelandreipalon359 the exile was a wound in the force, and so she passively took power and strength from others, that's how she was able to beat Traya after fighting through the entire sith academy. She never technically beat Sion, she just eventually convinced him to let himself die. As for Nihilus, he couldn't drain her life force when they met, which weakened him and allowed her to destroy his physical form
What about me?
@@RhantheSlayer Hmm, passive defeats are still defeats all the same.
THE PERSON WHO DREW THE PICTURE SHOWN AT 0:44 WAS MY BROTHER!! THANKS SO MUCH FOR USING THIS PIC
"Strength? Do not mistake such hunger as a strength. It is ultimately a weakness, for if he does not feed, he will die."
Oh finally I would wishing this would come true for a long time
He is the True Primarch of the World Eaters :)
You know I’ve been thinking about the idea of Dave Faloni making a show or shows detailing the events of the Mandalorian wars the Jedi Civil War and the events of the Knights of the old republic games as well as the unreleased and ungreen lit knights of the old republic three although I feel like he would have to beg Bob Iger and Kathleen Kennedy to let him do it and I’m not just talking about doing it. I’m talking about keeping it as accurate to the source material as possible while altering a few things to fit with some new canon like for example Mitra Suric (I think that’s how you spell it) not destroying Malacore but doing something else to heal the wound in the force because Malacore still appears in rebles
How’d u get that clone trooper in ur name?
@@randombuildingintorontocan8962 you have to become a member to this channel.
@@duckduckduck6355 oh, thank you!
Galactus:IM THE DEVOURER OF WORLDS
Darth nihilus:hold my beer
Go play fn.
When you think about it, Nihilus and Galactus would work quite well together, after all, Nihilus is only interested in the living things on the planet, whereas Galactus only wants the planet itself.
This brought back so many amazing memories from KotOR !!! I absolutely adore those games and the whole Old Republic. I have all the comics ever made by Dark Horse on that and the other star wars eras before the mouse took over, and the sheer amount of story telling is unmatched by anything the mouse can throw at it.
Watching this 2 years later and STILL nobody can convince me that Nihilus isn’t the most badass Sith Lord ever!
Thank you thank you I know I’m awesome.
Have you ever heard the tragedy of Darth plague us the wise?
Makes you ponder the true meaning of "The Force shall free me".
It's kind of sad that the main flaw of Force-users is their in-ability to live freely with the Force, something I believe would be the true "Balance" of the Force.
That was Nihilus's curse. "Through Victory, my chains are broken" as the video states, the power was consuming him not the other way around and therefore there was no Victory for him.
The death of the Force is the only way that anyone would be free.
Padme: your planet is hot. A bit too hot for my taste.
Nihilus: ah yes, a fellow planet eater
Surprised you didn't mention how he literally had to abandon his physical body because it was being consumed. He was basically just his force presence contained in his robes and mask.
Especially since that's one of the main aspects of his character. No longer any face behind the mask, no longer any body beneath the robes. The man he once was had consumed himself. Now nothing more than just a hunger for the sake of hunger.
When Darth Sidious is refereed to as "The most powerful Sith lord ever" - I am starting to think either we are also counting in his political machinations which allowed him to become the Senate Emperor of the Galaxy (Darth Bane Sith lineage tactic was more sabotage and infiltrate than frontal assault after all), or there is some slight Sith ego hyperbole involved in that statement. I wonder if Darth Sidious was chucked backwards in time to the era of this kinda planet eating Sithery going on: How would be rank among the other Sith lords on a purely raw combat level basis? I am sure knowing how murderous Sidous really deep down is he would have loved to go up against ancient Sith lords toe to toe...after learning all their tricks.
to be fair Vitiate was a shit lightsaber duelist and still became emperor
There's no hyperbole here. He was capable of doing things like using battle meditation on a galatic scale, muddying the perceptions of the the entire Jedi Order, using telepathy to potentially wipe the minds of millions+, directly impart Force power to his underlings, and perfecting Malgus' Force Maelstrom technique into full on Force Storms, capable of consuming entire fleets of ships and tearing the crust off of planets
@@stargatecommand714 But could he use his powers to make cookies? After all: If the Dark side has cookies, you are compelled to join.
Sidious is the greatest Sith lord of all time. He was the pinacle of the rule of two era sith. With that said should he come up against Nihilus he'd loose against him. Simple reason that only someone like the Exile can kill Nihilus and only because she's a wound in the force. Nihilus is a one trick guy. If he cannot force drain you. The rest of his abilities are average. So should Sidious know a way to defend against Nihilus's extremely OP force drain, he'd be able to cut him into pieces or disintegrate him with his force lightning. But this is a big if, and I'm more inclined to believe he can't as he is not a wound in the force therefore he cannot weaken Nihilus and defend against him at the same time.
@@vadfarkas14 Something tells me Sidious would have a fun time going against someone he can go all out on. Cackling like a madman all the way~
Darth Nihilus, Revan, Bane, and Vader are arguably the coolest looking Sith Lords
*coughs in Darth Talon*
@CT-2307 lmao, fair point
Hey, what about Bane and Vader?
@@michaelandreipalon359 Oh yeah, thanks for reminding me.
Darth Nihilus was a malachor survivor ,who lost everything in his life ,he was a wound in the force trained by Darth traya . he helped the Sith to eradicate the Jedi from existence so he can consume the life energy of living beings.
How do you burp that out after eating it?🤷♂️
Palpatine: Unlimited POWAAAA!
Nihilus: Are you sure about that?
2:34 That’s not the Mass Shadow Generator, that’s the Gravity Well Projector from Star Wars Empire At War.
You silly goose.
Darth Nihilus, one of the most powerful Sith to ever live, and one of the most overhyped bosses in the history of video games. I was ready for a really difficult fight but then I barely took any damage.
The curse of bad gameplay design and having too many companions. Could have been worse though; was still a great play for a game that got a surprise rush-out deadline of a year (instead of the originally planned 3 or so, iirc)
You're missing the entire point of WHAT Darth Nihilus even is. He wasn't even a person during the events of KOTOR 2. No face hidden behind that mask, no body beneath those robes. Just a hungry void, just like what the Exile had the potential to become. And so when one void tried to feed on another, there was nothing to feed on. He starved, and ceased to exist. The mask and robes fell to the ground, and Darth Nihilus was gone forever.
what i take from all the talks and the game itself was that, while he is a powerful sith, his greatest feats were never his own, it was the wound itself. nihilus was a nobody and got that power simply for being in the wrong place. once the wound was healed, he was back to being that nobody.
but who knows maybe that fight against him was the result of being rushed for a deadline lmao
"Mmm, I'm hungry, we should go for some planets." -Darth Nihilus
I still remember back in high school I play this game in the first time I heard Darth Nihilus speak. It was so eerie and strange. I really liked his character and the aspect of the power that he wielded. Especially the fact that he was able to hold together entire ship's. It always was impressive that he had the ability to do that.
Definitely want to see y’all cover Sion. He’s an interesting character. I’m not sure we’ve seen another character like him in legends.
Don't forget Traya... I guess.
@@michaelandreipalon359 Kreia, Treya, Traya, I don’t fucking know anymore.
@@QixTheDS Kreia/Traya. Also, tone it down, OK.
His mask is awesome.
Agreed!
Wait… so, could you _kill_ the Force using a Death Star or Starkiller Base? Because, if one planet was a wound, destroying an entire sector would do unimaginable harm to the Force. I think killing the Force is possible, which in turn makes killing the universe possible.
War Alone kills the force
Technically yes. But the sequels are terribly written and not smart enough to come up with that.
So, you just made Darth Nihilus sound more like an Eldritch Abomination.
I was just listening to his theme, the horror version made by Samuel Kim, this is perfect timing. Also can you do a video about Scourge sometime perhaps.
Oh, you actually check on his vids too. Nice.
@@michaelandreipalon359 who DOESN'T check his vids?! He's a legend! His Star Wars music is AMAZING!
@@darthknightwingphoenix2081 this is true, his revan original theme is one of my favorites.
Man, did I even PLAY KOTOR2??? This was the backstory of the game the whole time??? Like I thought I understood the gist before but this video has suddenly helped me understand the actual events and chronology regarding Malichor V, the mass shadow generator, Kataar and Meetra Surik's origin. I've completed the game 3 times and I never actually got it until now.
"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." This quote embodies what Nilius became.
OMG that battlefront 1 map sound fx took me back man, hit me hard
"Palpatine? Never heard of her."
-- what Darth Nihilus probably said
That intro just invoked a boatload of nostalgia. 😭
KOTOR 2 has some of the best symbolism in the whole Star Wars canon. Nihilus' self-destruction, Meetra being his opposite in the Force, and the coming together of Sith, Jedi, and Mandalorians to defeat him - it's all the best stuff from the other stories put together in a new epic way.
Nihilus has always been my favorite Sith, I've always found its powers and origin fascinating.
Darth Nihlus really would be a good fit for Warhammer 40k.
"What is given, can be taken away" - the Kree
8:38 cuts to art of the Exile squad doing the "slow walk" like they invented it, and I'm here dying because they'd NEVER get along well enough to pose for such a badass pic together.
This is officially my favorite Star Wars CZcams Video
Thank you for re-igniting my love of Star Wars. Been listening/watching your channel a lot this past week. And I finally feel the need to go play through KOTOR 1 and 2 finally. I know it’s been more than 10 years. But I see only pros, no cons, since I’ve forgotten most of what happens aside the major spoilers. Thank you for what you all do. It’s awesome!
Imagine if Revan had Nihilus' power
@@ming45612 that's not how that happened AT ALL. Meetra Surik gave the order to activate the Mass Shadow Generator, an order that was fulfilled by Bao-Dur. The resulting surge in gravity ripped apart Malachor V, and destroyed both the Republic and Mandalorian fleets orbiting it, killing hundreds of thousands if not millions of soldiers. The wound in the Force created by this catastrophic event deafened Surik to the force, and created Nihilus as well.
@@ming45612 there were plenty of Jedi present at Malachor V who weren't forced to cut themselves off from the force the way Surik was. Her condition was a result of her own natural ability - she was always able to form connections to the life and living beings around her far more easily than other Jedi. Thus, when those lives were snuffed out all at once in such a horrific manner, cutting herself off from the force was the only way that she could survive. Revan did not form connections with such ease, and thus was not affected as badly by the destruction of Malachor V - though it doubtlessly affected him, and likely drove him even further into the dark side.
Revan is already FAR more powerful than nihilus.
Both of them are incredibly powerful and badass
@@abeloth1116 Yeah but Revan is more powerful.
OH MY GOD! that intro! That's unlocked some core memories, man battlefront was amazing.
0:04 i still remember listening to that description while playing the game. truly awe inspiring. really puts his power into perspective there.
What I find terrifying about Nihilus the most, even though he is a slave to his hunger, is that he isn’t really a man anymore. Sure what Meetra said is that he was only a man, but uh, she’s literally blind. And Nihilus died a long time ago. He binded his spirit to the mask and robes. But this also leads into most ironic part about this all.
Nihilus did not care for the Jedi obviously. He only saw them as a food source. But the same really was of the Sith too. He was an antithesis of the Force itself. But what makes this even more ironic is that, since his spirit is imbued in it, he’s technically achieved a form of immortality. But all he is is a hunger, a black hole. He has no desire, no ambitions. He is simply just hunger.
Well written mate. The very embodiment of hunger sounds pretty terrifying!
You nailed it! He is A BLACK HOLE. Just a quick look at his mask and you'll know immediately what he is. Without his mask and robe, he is a void.
Ouch that is a burn on Palpatine, but it is accurate.
"Lord Nihilous we can stop at McDonald's, Wendy's, taco bell, jack in the box, Carl's Jr, Panda Express, in n out burger, Tommy's burger, white castle etc"
"All of them."
Darth Nihilus is legit just a Snickers commercial.
I would SO love to see Palpatine get put in his place and see what "the true power of the Dark Side" is like by Nihilus!
Nihilus isn't the dark side of the Force, he is the lack of the Force.
My Dude, DE Sidious Would Take On, Valkorian, Nihilus, Kryat, Rynx, Revan, Using 40% Of His Power, He Litterally Destroyed An Entire Galaxy In Dark Empire, And Took All The Jedi That Lived In His Time To Defeat Him, Quit Underestimating Sidious And Learn Your Shit Before You Make Stupid Comments.
Nihilus just gangs up with Hannibal, so Palpatine becomes the entrée for Darth Appetite, er, Nihilus.
@@Ujuani68 palpatine is stated to be able to destroy all of space which is infinite universes, dont try to pull shit on me
@@Wiz_Danger Chill, sweetie.