There are so many things he could have said that would have stopped Anakin from killing him but he just stayed silent.
There are so many things he could have said that would have stopped Anakin from killing him but he just stayed silent.
There are so many things he could have said that would have stopped Anakin from killing him but he just stayed silent.
>ANAKIN, STOP. PALPATINE IS A SITH LOR-ACK!!!!!!!
i look like that and say that
That's literally the ps2 game
why'd he get such a shitty, humiliating death?
Because he died because Lucas got sick of the character and didn't know what to do with him, like with Boba.
I fricking hate Lucas
We get it. You're a fricking nerd.
If it helps, originally he was meant to grovel and beg for his life but Christopher Lee didn't want to do that because he felt it would be undignified, so instead we got this.
as expected of an Englishman.
humiliation ritual
>I've been waiting for you, Star Fox
No anon, you don't understand, it was at this moment Count Dooku realized he was in a movie, and then looked at the screen, before nearly saaying "this sitha can't be serious"
Why is Lucas so good at general story shit but bad at plot?
It's the dialogue in particular that makes this not work.
>Kill him.
>I shouldn't.
>Do it.
There's a way to write this scene that it makes sense, but it's not this. Anakin should not have been so easily convinced to kill Dooku just from Palpatine telling him to in an evil voice.
Sith mind trick
Anon, no. If Palpatine tells you to do something and he uses an evil voice, you do it.
I'm pretty sure that only works if he's a Bene Gesserit.
It explains why Palpatine tried to convince Luke Skywalker to kill Darth Vader. It worked for him once, he thought it would work again. The scenes rhyme with each other, it's like poetry.
The prequels are held back more by the former than the latter.
The Phantom Menace is slowly paced and everything between the beginning and the end could have used something else to cut away to from the gang being stuck on Tatooine.
Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith both suffer from leaving out character interactions between Obi-wan and Anakin and between Palpatine and Anakin.
>WAIT, WAIT ANAKIN! SHEEV IS A SITH LORD!
>Lol, what a stupid made-up name
>-ACK
"Only gays kill Sith Lords."
>Anakin, I'm Itali-ACK!
"Only gays kill Sith Lords."
He was in complete shock at his loss and Palpatine’s betrayal.
And the fact that both his arms were just cut off.
It's funny that Luke lets out a bloodcurdling scream when his arm gets cut off, Dooku gets two cut off and he just makes a face like "Yikes!"
Because they're different people who react to things differently.
I would think it would still be pretty painful.
Yeah and for Dooku, he went into shock.
He's a big guy
What? He's only like 6'5''.
Palpatine was force projecting an image of naked yoda into dooku's mind which distracted him long enough for anakin to kill him
lost
What fate would dooku get if he told anakin, palpatine is a sith?
I just assumed he accepted his fate, understood he was being replaced by anakin and was committed to the sith cause/supporting palpatine.
Being committed to getting yourself killed for someone else doesn't seem particularly sith like.
There is no sith cause. The whole point of being sith is being selfish and doing anything for your survival.
Wasn't it part of Dookle's charisma, and his weakness, that he wasn't a particularly good Sith that misappropriated martial honor to them?
Oh no not Count Dookie!
>expecting anything from a guy named doodoo
Dooku was listening to what he had to say, which nobody did.
Turns out it was a bad idea
Palpatine was force choking him you idiots, he couldn't say anything
palpatine forced him to choke on anakin's wiener
>*says anything to anakin*
>wow good point i'm glad you sith are a trustworthy bunch who would NEVER just lie if it meant saving your own life
He didn't even need to reveal any secret information, all he had to do was stop Anakin from committing murder. Anakin was clearly hesitant so he could have said something to stop and make him think about what he was doing. Or even just delayed him until Obi-Wan woke back up because Obi-Wan definitely would have spared him.
>Remember the time I cut off your hand and almost killed your future wife?
>Good times
That's supposed to be the difference between the Jedi and the Sith. They're supposed to be good people who wouldn't kill pointlessly. But Anakin disproved that.
Dooku knows better than to yuck anyone's yum.
Why couldn't he just Force Push him back, and then Force Speed out of there.
He had his hands cut off so he couldn't use Force powers.
rofl
There are so many things he could have said that would have stopped Ornella from killing him but he just stayed silent.
>ORNELLA STOP! BRAD PITT IS A SITH LORD!
>There are so many things he could have said that would have stopped Anakin from killing him but he just stayed silent.
"I surrender"
When Palpatine said "kill him" he was talking to Dooku. Dooku looks at him like that because his shift ended 5 minutes ago.
From Dooku's point of view he was only pretending to be a Sith. He believed himself to be secretly good on the inside, because he was planning on betraying Palpatine and saving the galaxy. What he didn't realize was that every Sith apprentice is always planning to betray their master. It wasn't until Palpatine betrayed him first that he realized that he hadn't just been pretending, he had actually been corrupted by the dark side and been a real Sith this whole time. That's why he was too shaken to say anything.
Wait, so if Siths always betray their master, and Palpatine betrayed Dooku, does that mean that Dooku was Palpatine's master?
Both Siths are always planning on betraying each other, that's how they operate. You see it in the original trilogy when both Vader and the emperor try to get Luke to kill the other.
That's interesting because when you think about how Vader was redeemed in the end, it makes you wonder if the fact that all of them try to betray each other means that all of them have a potential path to redemption. I think that was at least the case for Dooku, even though it didn't happen in the end.
What redeemed Vader is that he sacrificed himself, he killed the emperor not trying to replace him but to save Luke. Dooku had good intentions but he still ultimately wanted to control the galaxy himself.
Cute headcanon. Utterly moronic, though.
I FRICKING LOVE WHEN I FIND OUT ABOUT MID-SIZED GAME WITH SPECTACULAR CONCEPTS AND ART
I LOVE HAVING NEW EXPERIENCES IN WAYS ONLY GAMES CAN PROVIDE
>Wait! Anakin! Before you kill me, I need to tell you about the Intergalactic Banking Clan! It's quite a long winded tale, but I assure you, it is going somewhere! See, the Intergalactic Banking Clan was an organization based on the ice world of Scipio, and they are an unscrupulous organization known for bankrolling conflicts, and exploiting planets by charging exorbitant interest rates. The organization is dominated by an insular, embittered race known as the Muun. Now, you might be tempted to draw parallels between this state of affairs and some other race, but I can assure you, it's all pure coincidence! Anyway, I was part of a scheme to overthrow the leadership and seize power for myself. But alas, I was foiled by one Rush Clovis, who I believe was in a romantic tryst with your beloved wife Padme! But don't worry, I'm sure she is past that phase and quite happy to settle with a stable partner such as yourself, my boy! But the point of all this was to inform you that the mastermind behind the scheme was none other than Senator Palpatine! My master, and a good friend, or so I thought! Spare my life and I will be happy to testify against him!
>Look, I may be willing to decapitate scores of younglings because a decrepit politician told me it would save my pregnant wife, but I would never listen to a vile anti-Neimoidian like you, Dooku.
he knew anaikin was the chosen one (for the dark side)
Originally, Count Dooku was supposed to beg and plead for mercy. He was going to ramble off random things trying to save his life (including accusing the Chancellor of being a traitor and evil).
But Anakin wouldn't believe a single Word. Anakin would kill him with no mercy. Anakin thought it would end the war. Count Dooku had been such a repeated liar by this point that his words were tainted. No one would believe him.
Christopher Lee the actor playing Dooku said that Dooku wouldn't do all that. He argued that Dooku wouldn't beg or plead. That it was beneath him.
So we got the movie version instead.
The novelization actually has the begging in it, so we got a taste of how that scene might have gone if Lee hadn't refused to do it.
>“Chancellor, please!” he gasps, desperate and helpless, his aristocratic demeanor invisible, his courage only a bitter memory. He is reduced to begging for his life, as so many of his victims have. “Please, you promised me immunity! We had a deal! Help me!”
>And his begging gains him a share of mercy equal to that which he has dispensed. “A deal only if you released me,” Palpatine replies, cold as intergalactic space. “Not if you used me as bait to kill my friends.” And he knows, then, that all has indeed been going according to plan. Sidious’s plan, not his own. This had been a Jedi trap indeed, but Jedi were not the quarry.
>They were the bait...
>...And Dooku— As he looks up into the eyes of Anakin Skywalker for the final time, Count Dooku knows that he has been deceived not just today, but for many, many years. That he has never been the true apprentice. That he has never been the heir to the power of the Sith. He has been only a tool.
>His whole life—all his victories, all his struggles, all his heritage, all his principles and his sacrifices, everything he’s done, everything he owns, everything he’s been, all his dreams and grand vision for the future Empire and the Army of Sith—have been only a pathetic sham, because all of them, all of him, add up only to this.
>He has existed only for this.
>This.
>To be the victim of Anakin Skywalker’s first coldblooded murder. First but not, he knows, the last. Then the blades crossed at his throat uncross like scissors.
>Snip.
>And all of him becomes nothing at all.
The Episode 3 Novelization was great. The writer did a great job expanding on the movie scenes. I heard George Lucas supervised and approved it too. There was another scene in the novel that shows us Master Yoda and Master Windu didn't always get along either. They were arguing and had a big disagreement. Obi Wan had to come in and break up the heated debate.
>The Episode 3 Novelization was great.
The following is the actual excerpt from the Revenge of the Sith novelization:
>SAN HILL: Welcome, Lord Vader! On behalf of the leadership of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, let me be the first to...
>VADER: Very well. You will be the first.
>VADER removes his hood and ignites his saber.
>SAN HILL: You're Anakin Skywalker!
>VADER digs his saber into the chest of SAN HILL.
>VADER: The resemblance is deceptive.
>SHU MAI: We were promised a reward...a handsome reward!
>VADER: I am your reward. You don't find me handsome?
>RUNE HAAKO: Stop! Enough! We surrender, do you understand? You can't just kill us!
>VADER: Can't I?
>RUNE HAAKO: We're unarmed! We surrender! Please, please, you're a Jedi!
>VADER: You fought a war to destroy the Jedi.
>VADER slashes RUNE HAAKO.
>VADER (cont.): Congratulations on your success.
>WAT TAMBOR: Please, I'll give you anything. Anything you want!
>VADER cuts WAT TAMBORS arms and head
>VADER: Thank you.
>NUTE GUNRAY: The war... The war is over... Lord Sidious promised... He promised we would be left in peace.
>VADER RISES HIS LIGHTSABER
>VADER: He promised you would be left in pieces.
Right, "great."
That is not an "actual excerpt." That is pieces of the dialogue inexplicably rearranged into the form of a script. Do you know what an excerpt is?
>I heard George Lucas supervised and approved it too
He edited the book.
>cold as intergalactic space
lol this writing is so shitty
Dooku is slang for cash in my country
>There are so many things he could have said
sand people raped ur mom like a european lmao
Literally me.
He was in shock that he actually got bested by the boy. He had fully bought into the idea of being Palpatine's apprentice and inevitable heir. At this moment he was at a loss for words and looking to him to do something about it and it probably began to dawn on him that he had been used as a feeder rat for Palpy's real muse. And yes, prideful guys don't beg and plead, they would rather die than look like a gay.
IIRC the novels say the original plan General Grievous wanted was to send a huge Droid army into the room first (including Droidekas which had energy shields). Wear out the Jedi with huge amounts of Droids in a confined space. Then kill the exhausted Jedi afterwards if they weren't dead already.
But Count Dooku overruled this plan and told Grievous he would handle it. That's why Count Dooku brought only a few Droids with him. Not even good bodyguard Droids with electrostaffs either. Just fodder Droids that barely did anything.
Never complain
never explain
Palpatine Jedi (Sith) mind tricked him into silence
He had the mana for it but it was still on cooldown after he used it on Obi. He was using outdated meta.
It’s so gay that nu-Wars has established being able to block lightsabers with your hands. Dudes like Dooku, Sidious, and Yoda should have been doing that shit left and right. Hell, that’s all Vader should have been doing on Bespin. He shouldn’t have even had to get his lightsaber out.
it's not gay, it's awesome, you are just jealous you didn't come up with it by yourself, george
>It’s so gay that nu-Wars has established being able to block lightsabers with your hands.
Fake fan detected.
>Bioslop
Approved by George.
He's right.
Not approved by George, that's a lie. He probably was not even aware of its existence. In fact, he once said that there was never a war between Jedi and Sith, and it was made up by the fans, so all of KOTOR was just fanfiction to him. But that other anon was also wrong by saying that it was nu-wars that introduced such a mechanic, when it was the EU that did it first. Like with many moronic things that get blame today.