What the fuck?

What the fuck?

Wasn't Count Dooku one of the mightiest Sith Lords, who killed many Jedi Knights easily and was feared as fuck by the Jedi Order?

How did Anakin overpower and kill him so fast? He looked like a complete amateur against Anakin.

Anakin's Zenkai boost + training + rage + experience after the animated stuff

Palpatine was funneling force power through Anakin, which tipped the scale in Anakin's favor.

Why would he do that?

Dooku was a valuable officer of the Empire.

>Why was the most powerful Jedi able to beat Count Dooku

Gee, I dont know OP.

>most powerful Jedi
You mean Yoda?

Rule of Two

Plot armor

wtf, how did Saruman get a lightsaber

Who knows why anything in that movie happened?

>DON'T KILL ME, SHEEV IS THE SITH LORD

this

wtf, how did Dracula get a lightsaber

>Wasn't Count Dooku one of the mightiest Sith Lords, who killed many Jedi Knights easily and was feared as fuck by the Jedi Order?
Count Dooku was a Jedi who one day decided to up and leave, reappearing as a Sith and the leader of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Mightiest Sith Lord seems like a bit of an exaggeration.

Anakin had greater potential. Rule of Two.

Nigga, he was extremely powerful.
Jedi dropped like flies against him.

He was also Grievous' master.

Prequels turned Sidious from a corrupt old wizard/political broiler to ultra mary-sue.

>DUDE I'M LITERALLY CLAIRVOYANT, FATE IS REAL, TIME ISN'T EVEN LINEAR TO ME, FREE WILL IS AN ILLUSION, IM RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING ALWAYS
>BTW IM ALSO THE BEST FIGHTER EVER AT 90 YEARS OLD, I CAN 1V4 EASY EVEN THOUGH THAT'S LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE.

The only person I can think of that was directly killed by Dooku was Asaaj Ventress.

he effortlessly defeated anakin and obi wan

He didn't use force lightning during their second encounter too.

lucas said dooku canonically threw the fight

He threw the fight. He was planning to lose, but he obviously wasn't planning to get his hands chopped off. There's a really interesting (by prequel standards) look at it in the "official novel". He and Palpatine had the whole thing planned out well in advance, including how they would handle his "surrender" and "imprisonment". He even asked Palpatine if he could kill Anakin but spare Obi-Wan, but Palpatine insisted that it be the other way around.

Of course, Palpatine was always planning to screw him over. He just never saw it coming.

This meme rule doesn't even exist outside of EU fanfics.

It's canon

This meme rule was first stated by Yoda in episode 1.

Episode I might as well have been an EU fanfic, for all it contributed to the overall story. What a waste of a movie, you could have boiled down all plot-relevant details to the last 10 minutes.

Didn't kill them though
Rule of Two was mentioned in The Phantom Menace, 5 episodes of The Clone Wars, and in 2 episodes of SW Rebels.

>The Clone Wars
This joke is even worse than EU, and SW Rebels is Disney's abomination.

>Wasn't Count Dooku one of the mightiest Sith Lords, who killed many Jedi Knights easily and was feared as fuck by the Jedi Order?

No. Dooku was an average Sith Lord, and was hardly ever on the field during the Clone War. He was running the Confederate Parliament and planning invasion campaigns most of the time.

>How did Anakin overpower and kill him so fast?

Because Anakin was able to use his youth, raw power and above average swordsmanship against him.

Dooku was one of the best of the Jedi, it was a big deal when he left, and he was definitely feared by the Jedi. He was easily able to hold off Obi-Wan and Anakin (themselves two of the most powerful Jedi out there) multiple times (in the movies and in the The Clone Wars). You're right that he was average compared to the other major Sith, though (Palpatine, Vader, Bane, Revan, Sion, etc.), but some of those guys were borderline demigods.

>Because Anakin was able to use his youth, raw power and above average swordsmanship against him.

Dooku was throwing the fight, the plan was to get himself captured. By the time he realized that he needed to take it seriously, and that Anakin was trying to kill him, he was missing two hands. It's kind of like in Rocky, where Apollo treats it as a joke going in and gets knocked down by Rocky in the first round.

That's not true, he is unequivocally one of the most powerful force users ever. Evidence

-Stalemated with Yoda, very few others could do this.
-Took on Anakin and Obi Wan and beat them both multiple times.
-Effortlessly beat 3 night sister assassins at once while drugged, in his pyjamas.
-Fended off Ventress and Savage.

The popular theory is that Sheev told him to take it easy on Annakin and said something to the effect of: "Don't worry, he won't kill you". But Dooku didn't think he'd get betrayed, which is arguably even sillier.

Anakin had a higher power level.

Did you forget that Anakins power had doubled since the last time they met?

>That's not true, he is unequivocally one of the most powerful force users ever.

The problem is that we don't know exactly how powerful a lot of pre-Episode I force users are. In KOTOR II, one of the characters explains that the things the Jedi can do are child's play compared to what their ancestors were doing 1,000 years before.

>The popular theory is that Sheev told him to take it easy on Annakin and said something to the effect of: "Don't worry, he won't kill you".

It's not just a theory, it's canon. It's in the movie's "official novelization" by Stover, approved as part of the movie's "official materials" by Lucas.

>But Dooku didn't think he'd get betrayed, which is arguably even sillier.

He was unbelievably arrogant. He also thought Palpatine was going to do away with the rule of two, and create a Sith Order that was essentially a more efficient, dark side version of the Jedi (remember the reason Dooku left in the first place was his disappointment with how ineffective the Jedi were). Anakin was going to be the future leader of that order, as a long term option. In Dooku's mind, he was far too young to be Palpatine's right-hand man right away. It's not all that silly, as long as you're willing to take all this sci-fi supernatural monk stuff seriously.

What's the source on the last part?

>In KOTOR II, one of the characters explains that the things the Jedi can do are child's play compared to what their ancestors were doing 1,000 years before.
KOTOR 2 isn't just EU bullshit, it's DOUBLE EU bullshit since it's written by the goofy fuckers at Obsidian who think they're way smarter than they really are and like being subversive with straightforward material. Who the fuck cares what anyone in KOTOR 2 said about anything.

He had the high ground

>What's the source on the last part?

All from the same book. It really gave him some depth as a character, wish we had gotten more like that in the movies. Deep down, he just wanted to reform and improve the Republic and the Jedi, that desire just got twisted into something evil by Palpatine.

NO OPTIMUS

You mean Thon? Yoda's weak compared to Thon.

Leave it to the books to fix Lucas' dumbfuckery.

Anakin was a Mary sue

Except for the fact that KOTOR II is non canon.

Also, if it's in the novelization but not also in the movie, it's non canon.

>where they align

That's fine then, everything in that novel aligns with Episode III. There's nothing in it that contradicts the movies, Anakin's spunky alien sidekick from the cartoon isn't mentioned but presumably that's because she died a horribly painful death or something.

>He was easily able to hold off Obi-Wan and Anakin multiple times

Hardly easy. Almost every consecutive time he's fought them since ended in a draw. And at least three of those fights were with him against Skywalker alone.

>Revan, Sion, etc.), but some of those guys were borderline demigods.

Revan, Sion and the other guys don't exist.

>Dooku was throwing the fight, the plan was to get himself captured. By the time he realized that he needed to take it seriously, and that Anakin was trying to kill him, he was missing two hands.

We don't know what his plans exactly were, but getting captured was not apart of them. It's a known fact that Dooku sought to undermine Sidious. Surrendering himself then and there would not be the way to go.

>That's not true, he is unequivocally one of the most powerful force users ever.

Except he isn't. Highly intelligent and a renownly skilled swordsman. But not extraordinary in his ability with the force.

>Stalemated with Yoda
He lost. Yoda outclassed him in both the Force and Lightsaber.

>Took on Anakin and Obi Wan and beat them both multiple times.
He beat them once. Every other time was a draw.

>Effortlessly beat 3 night sister assassins at once while drugged, in his pyjamas.
It wasn't effortless. And two of these Nightsisters were not very skilled swordsmen (swordswomen?)
>Fended off Ventress and Savage.
Two acolytes with varying degrees of incomplete training.

>presumably that's because she died a horribly painful death or something.
Well know I can't take you seriously at all.

The entire theory that Dooku was throwing the fight at first is non canon because it's not in the movie.

Del Rey made that comment because some fans assumed that being mentioned in a novelization essentially "canonized" some elements of the EU. The novelizations are only canon in so far as they EXACTLY line up with the films.

Kek

>twice the pride
>double the fall
Who the fuck wrote his lines? Fucking hell that's terrible.

Ahsoka isnt in ROTS cause she quit the jedi order after she was framed and doesnt come back till the rebellion starts, she lives through order 66 with the help of Rex and comes back to fight vader.
shes most likely still alive even after that since they dont show her explicitly die on screen.