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TFU backstory at the link.
Witwer also voices Maul on Rebels and stormtroopers in new the movies.
Starkiller, the fabulously ridiculous antihero of The Force Unleashed, almost featured in Star Wars: Rebels. This would have been bonkers.
The tidbit comes from a Twitch stream event broadcasted by Witwer.
Dave [Filoni] did share with me, by the way, he considered making Starkiller an Inquisitor in Star Wars: Rebels, Witwer said. It didnt quite fit the story they were telling, but he did think about it because he thought that would be interesting.
Didnt quite fit is a mastery of understatement from Witwer, who voiced Starkiller before taking on the role of Darth Maul on Rebels and its predecessor, The Clone Wars. The videogame hero, if introduced in anything like his form in 2008's Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, would have damn near broken the new canon. Gather around, children, let me tell yall about Starkiller.
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So, yeah. Starkiller couldve been a fun nod to the fandom, and placing him as an Inquisitor (theyre basically Vaders personal army of anti-Jedi Force-using assassins in Rebels) makes a bit of sense. But to make him work in the more grounded Disney canon wouldve forced Filoni and co. to ditch almost everything that made the character so memorable and unintentionally funny.
And if Starkiller cant wreck a Star Destroyer with his mind, why even bother?
TFU backstory at the link.
Witwer also voices Maul on Rebels and stormtroopers in new the movies.