ANDOR Season 2 Hid a Secret Darth Maul Easter Egg — GeekTyrant
In the final episodes, a good portion of the action takes place on Ghorman, a silk-producing planet known for its native arachnid species, the Ghorlectipods. As it turns out, one of those silk-spinning spiders was hiding a face you might recognize… Darth Maul's.
Hull shared a mural of one of these creatures, and if you stare long enough, you'll spot the unmistakable red-and-black, tattooed snarl of the former Sith apprentice subtly embedded in the creature's design.
No, this doesn't mean Maul was secretly hanging out on Ghorman. This wasn't setup for some wild crossover. It was just a cool visual nod.
As Hull put it, it was 'created just for aesthetic reasons.' But even a simple Easter egg like this is still pretty cool, especially when you remember Maul's own spider-adjacent past.
After Obi-Wan famously sliced him in half in The Phantom Menace , Maul survived on Lotho Minor, held together by rage and the Force, and gave himself robotic spider legs, which we saw in The Clone Wars . It's a bizarre, memorable look, and seeing a literal spider with Maul's face painted onto it in Andor is the kind of subtle fan-service.
While Maul's end came in the Rebels episode 'Twin Suns' with a final duel against Obi-Wan on Tatooine, Star Wars has kept him alive in other corners of the timeline. His cameo in Solo teased more criminal dealings to come, and Clone Wars Season 7 gave us his brutal control of Mandalore.
He's also getting his own animated series: Star Wars: Maul — Shadow Lord , which will explore the rise of his syndicate and the training of a new apprentice.
So while Maul didn't make an appearance in Andor in the traditional sense, his shadow still crept in.
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