In-universe, Mace Windu is a Jedi Master and member of the High Council during the final years of the Galactic Republic, who wields a unique purple-bladed lightsaber and is regarded as one of the most powerful Jedi of his time. Although the Clone Wars led him to question his most firmly held beliefs,  he is a staunch follower of the Jedi way, but distrusts Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker due to his dangerous potential. Towards the end of the Clone Wars, he learns from Anakin that Supreme Chancellor Palpatine is the Sith Lord Darth Sidious responsible for the war and attempts to arrest him, only to be killed by Palpatine with the help of Anakin himself, who then becomes Darth. Vader. .

The character of Mace Windu and Jackson's portrayal in the prequel films were met with largely positive reviews. The character became a fan favorite and is among the most popular Star Wars characters of all time, as well as one of Jackson's best-known roles. 

Conception and description of the character

Several early incarnations of the character who would become Mace Windu were developed in the original drafts of Star Wars as a narrator, the brother of Princess Leia, and a friend of Luke Skywalker.  Through the process of redaction and copyediting, his character was cut from the original trilogy, but was reintroduced in 1994 when series creator George Lucas began writing the prequel trilogy.

During the production of Episode II-Attack of the Clones, Samuel L. Jackson asked Lucas if his character could wield a purple lightsaber as a way to make the character easily distinguishable in large battle scenes.  Although his weapon is not seen on screen until Attack of the Clones, action figures released for Episode I-The Phantom Menace pair Mace with a blue lightsaber. 

Appearances

Movie Skywalker Saga 

The Phantom menace

Introduced in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999), Mace Windu is depicted as a 40-year-old master of the Jedi Council, second only to Yoda.  Rebel Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn appears before the council and offers to train Anakin Skywalker, believing the boy to be the Chosen One of Jedi prophecy. Windu and the other Council members decline, deeming Anakin too old and fearful. After the corrupt Trade Federation is defeated and Obi-Wan Kenobi defeats the Sith Lord Darth Maul, who killed Qui-Gon, Windu realizes that the Sith have returned, and he and the Council reluctantly allow Have Obi-Wan train Anakin on Qui-Gon. place. 

Attack of the clones

In Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002), set ten years after the previous installment, Windu initially refuses to believe that the assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala on Coruscant was authorized by the former Jedi Master. Count Dooku, now the leader. of a galactic separatist movement. After learning of Obi-Wan's whereabouts on Geonosis, Windu arrives to save him, Padmé, and Anakin from being executed on Dooku's orders. In the ensuing battle, Windu kills bounty hunter Jango Fett, the template for the Republic clone trooper army, and leads them and a group of Jedi to victory in a battle with Dooku's forces. At the end of the film, with the Clone Wars beginning, Windu decides to keep a closer eye on the increasingly corrupt Galactic Senate. 

Revenge of the Sith

In Star Wars: Episode III-Revenge of the Sith (2005), set three years after the start of the Clone Wars, Windu and the other members of the Jedi Council are concerned that the Supreme Chancellor of the Republic, Palpatine, will not resign. to his emergency. powers when the Clone Wars are over. His suspicions only grow when the Senate grants Palpatine a vote on the Jedi Council by appointing Anakin as his personal representative. The Council makes Anakin a member, but Windu notifies Anakin that he is not granted the rank of Jedi Master. Also, the Council orders Anakin to spy on Palpatine.

After Obi-Wan kills the Separatist leader General Grievous, Anakin discovers Palpatine's true identity and informs Windu that Palpatine is the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, the mastermind of the war. Telling Anakin not to get involved, Windu and three other Jedi Masters—Kit Fisto, Agen Kolar, and Saesee Tiin—attempt to arrest Sidious, but the Sith Lord easily cuts down Windu's companions, then engages Windu one-on-one. . Windu takes the lead and submits Sidious. Needing Sidious to have the power to prevent the possible death of his wife Padmé, Anakin arrives and pleads with Windu not to kill Sidious. Windu replies that Sidious is too dangerous to keep alive and prepares to finish him off. However, Anakin intervenes on Sidious's behalf, betraying and disarming Windu by cutting off his right hand. Sidious then tortures and defenestrates Windu with another Force bolt, sending him flying out the window of his office.  Sidious uses Windu's death to initiate Order 66 and kill the vast majority of the Jedi. 

The Rise of Skywalker

Samuel L. Jackson makes a vocal cameo appearance as Mace Windu in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), the final installment in the Star Wars sequel trilogy. During the battle between Rey and the resurrected Palpatine, the former hears Windu's voice, encouraging her to rise up and fight, as all the past Jedi are with her.

Other movies

The Clone Wars 

Windu plays a supporting role in the 2008 animated film Star Wars: The Clone Wars, set shortly after the start of the Clone Wars in Attack of the Clones. He is depicted as a General in the Grand Army of the Republic, like all other Jedi Masters. Samuel L. Jackson reprized his role from the live-action movies. 

Television 

The Clone Wars

Mace Windu has a supporting role in the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008-2020), set between the 2008 animated film of the same name and Revenge of the Sith. He is voiced by Terrence "TC" Carson. Windu is a protagonist in several story arcs, including being involved in the liberation of Ryloth, having to deal with Boba Fett's attempts at revenge for his father Jango's death, trying to retrieve a Jedi holocron stolen by Cad Bane alongside to Obi-Wan Kenobi and rescue the captured queen of Bardotta from a cult led by Mother Talzin, with the help of Jar Jar Binks.

In the seventh season, released on Disney+ in 2020, Windu and Obi-Wan lead the Republic ground forces in the Anaxes campaign, with the former managing to defuse a bomb hidden by Admiral Trench as a contingency plan once he is defeated. Later, during a meeting with the Jedi Council similar to a scene from Revenge of the Sith, Windu orders Ahsoka Tano to deliver the captured Darth Maul to Coruscant, refusing to discuss sensitive information with her, as he no longer he is part of the Jedi. Order. While in the process of handing over Maul, Ahsoka senses Anakin turning to the dark side and helps Palpatine kill Windu; Archival footage of Samuel L. Jackson as Mace Windu was used for this scene.

Comic Books 

In 2017, Marvel released Star Wars: Jedi of the Republic - Mace Windu, a 5-issue series focusing on Windu during the early days of the Clone Wars. The series received somewhat negative reviews for both its art and story. [11] Follows Windu leading a small team of Jedi to a remote planet to investigate a Separatist presence. Windu fights a mercenary droid hired by General Grievous, and one of the Jedi turns on Windu after becoming disillusioned with the Order's involvement in the war.

Legends

Windu appears extensively in prequel-era Expanded Universe material. As of April 2014, most of the licensed Star Wars novels and comics produced since the original 1977 film were retitled by Lucasfilm as Star Wars Legends and declared non-canon to the franchise. 

Clone Wars

Mace Windu is a supporting character in Genndy Tartakovsky's Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003–2005) micro-series, which is set between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. In the early chapters, he defends the grassland planet Dantooine against a large floating Separatist "fortress", and in the course of the battle, he loses his lightsaber, forcing him to use a deadly form of power-powered unarmed combat. Strength. In the final chapters, Windu and Yoda help defend Coruscant from an attack by General Grievous.

Comic books

The 1999 "Emissaries of Malastare" arc of Dark Horse Comics' self-titled Star Wars series, set shortly after The Phantom Menace, mentions a Jedi Windu exercise in which he had swapped his lightsaber with Eeth Koth. However, the lightsaber he returned to her is blue, so this doesn't explain why the color of his saber changed to purple, as is sometimes claimed. 

Novels

Windu has appeared as a supporting character in the Legends/Expanded Universe novels, such as Cloak of Deception, Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter, Rogue Planet, Outbound Flight, The Cestus Deception, Jedi Trial, Yoda: Dark Rendezvous, and Labyrinth of Evil.

Mace Windu is the central character in Matthew Stover's 2004 novel Shatterpoint, which takes place six months after Attack of the Clones. Stover based the novel on Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness and its loose adaptation Apocalypse Now. George Lucas wrote the novel's foreword, and the audiobook version is read by Jonathan Davis.

Windu's former Padawan and her Jedi partner, Depa Billaba, has been sent to Windu's homeworld of Haruun Kal to start a revolution against the allied Separatist government. Evidence is discovered that Billaba has fallen to the dark side of the Force. As Windu taught her a special form of lightsaber combat, the Jedi Council sends him alone to find her. After a fight, he arrests Billaba and calls a Republic cruiser. He is attacked by Vulture droids and deploys gunships, which fight off the droid starfighters with the help of clone troopers. Some of the landing craft make it to the surface, and the cruiser defeats the Separatists. Windu uses the gunships to destroy the droid fighters that followed them, then orders the clones to take out a nearby droid control station. The Separatists are forced to surrender to the Republic, and Billaba falls into a vegetative coma. A Republic force remains on the planet to keep an eye on restless local tribes.

The novel explores Windu's unique talent for detecting "breakpoints," her flaws in the Force that allow him to exploit the weaknesses of his enemies. He also explains that Windu is the creator and sole master of a lightsaber combat style called Vaapad, in which the user gets dangerously close to the dark side enjoying the thrill of the fight. Everyone else who tried to master the form either gave in to the dark side or was unable to properly master the technique. Stover later made reference to Windu's unique lightsaber fighting abilities in his Revenge of the Sith novelization. Vaapad was also recognized in the 2010 reference book The Jedi Path. 

Commercialization

A Mace Windu action figure was added to the Star Wars Transformers toy line in 2006. It was a remodel of the toy first used for Obi-Wan Kenobi. He becomes an Eta-2 Actis-class light interceptor starfighter with the Astromech R4-M6 droid.

Legacy

IGN listed Mace Windu as the 27th main Star Wars character, stating that he is a major component of the series. 

Samuel L. Jackson called for Windu's return at Star Wars Celebration in 2017, saying "We all know Jedi can fall from incredible heights and survive, so apparently, I'm not dead. Yes, I have two appendages right now, but we know the long and rich history of Star Wars characters reappearing with new appendages

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