In contrast, the amount of his training and personality shown in canon shows little intellectual interest, if any at all, before his "death" and descent to madness forced him to wise up in order to get revenge. The Essential Guides also indicated he was rather skilled with programming, having created his probe droids himself. In Legends, as revealed in the Darth Plagueis novel, Maul was a gigantic bookworm who loved to read in Sidious' library about Sith culture, and was also perceptive enough to harbor suspicions that Hego Damask was another Sith Lord behind Darth Sidious (which proved to be right, a realization that many Jedi Masters at the time failed to do). Adaptational Dumbass: Played straight and later subverted.Legends Maul was known as Darth Maul up until his death, while Canon Maul stopped using the "Darth" title after his defeat on Naboo, and actively rejected it after realizing Sidious abandoned him, and later went after him, simply going by "Maul" until his death. Adaptational Name Change: A Downplayed example.All in all, Maul only looks weak in the Force compared to the likes of Sidious and Vader. In canon, however, Maul was a genuine Sith Lord apprentice to Palpatine and has proven to be so powerful in the force that he can single-handedly decimate armies of clone troopers and tear down spaceships with it alone. Adaptational Badass: It was made clear in Legends that while Maul could never be called weak in the Force, he was nothing overly special and not trained to be a true Sith, something Plagueis was content with assuming he was merely Sidious' assassin.In canon, however, it appears that Maul was indeed considered a true Sith Lord, and Sidious' heir, prior to his defeat on Naboo. Additionally, in Darth Plagueis, it was revealed that, despite being granted the title "Darth," Maul was never considered a proper Sith Lord by either Sidious or Plagueis, but merely an assassin à la Ventress.
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In The Clone Wars, Maul's tattoos are Nightbrother tattoos that he received shortly after birth as a result of the series changing his origin, with Legends' Darth Plagueis novel showing him already having them as a baby. In Legends, they were painful Sith markings that Sidious gave him in his adolescence, with pictures of him as a child portraying him without them. The origin of his tattoos was also changed.The canon went further and declared him son of the top Nightsister, Mother Talzin herself, altering his background for the second time (instead of being given by Kycina as a baby, he's kidnapped by Sidious as a boy). The Clone Wars made Maul into a Dathomirian, which resulted in Legends presenting him as a long lost Nightbrother birthed by the traitor Kycina. Early Legends works established Iridonia as Maul's homeworld.Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Maul is much more defined by his inner turmoil and bitterness in The Clone Wars (and by extension the canon) than he was in Legends.
When you consider Sidious' sadism, the effects of his "parenting" are obvious in Maul's sociopathic, murderous personality.