Savage Opress
When Star Wars: The Clone Wars brought back Darth Maul, they built up to his return with Savage (say it like suh-vaaj) Opress, Maul’s brother. A member of the Dathomirian males, Savage was tricked by the Night Sisters and Asaaj Ventress into serving them as an assassin. After breaking hold of their mental control, he went on his own path to find his brother Maul, which wound up with the latter getting robot legs and the two of them trying to kill Obi-Wan Kenobi.
That obviously didn’t take, leading to the two brothers trying their hand at piracy, which also didn’t end well. Savage’s luck went pretty bad after that, costing him his arm and eventually his life in a fight against Darth Sidious. Sure, he ended up taking over the Death Watch alongside his brother Maul for a while, but given that it ended with him dead, his brother tortured by Sidious, and their empire crumbling…yeah, they probably could’ve gone about things better than they did.
You wouldn’t think that this would really make him a good reason to be included in the cast of Heroes for Battlefront II, especially when you consider the fact that he actually has nothing to do with the Clone Wars in any capacity. But, if the game is going to follow in the footsteps of its predecessor and embrace a wide array of Heroes beyond just the A-listers, he’s as good an inclusion as any, and not just because of his double-bladed lightsaber. Savage is fueled by pure rage more than most Sith, and what he lacks in the typical Force lightning he more than makes up for with resilience and endurance. He once impaled someone on the horns on his own head, which would be the sort of stupidly awesome thing a multiplayer game like this could use. Plus, any game that gives Clancy Brown more work can’t be bad.
