Darth Maul's Lightsaber: Every Version, Film by Film

Darth Maul’s lightsaber is a red, double-bladed saber that he built from a Sith design and first used in The Phantom Menace (1999) [1][4]. It is the best known of his weapons, but not the only one. Obi-Wan Kenobi cut it in half on Naboo, and Maul kept using the surviving half, rebuilt it, lost it and replaced it with a different hilt years later [1][2][4]. This page lists each version by era, what happened to it and where it appears. For the weapon type itself, see double-bladed lightsaber. For what the colour means, see red lightsaber.

Everything below is canon unless it says Legends. The film and series order is the same as in every lightsaber by film.

Short answer

Maul has one famous saber, the double-bladed one, and several later versions of it. The colour is red in every version [1][2]. Which weapon he holds in Rebels is the one point where sources disagree, covered in its own section below.

Timeline of Maul’s sabers by era

Years before the Battle of Yavin are given as BBY, and dates follow the cited wiki [1][2].

The double-bladed saber from The Phantom Menace

The original saberstaff is the one most people mean by the Darth Maul lightsaber. Wookieepedia describes two lightsabers fused so the blades extend in a single line, with a metal hilt about 49.5 centimetres long, a red blade and a design taken from a Sith holocron owned by Darth Sidious [1]. The Databank describes it as made by joining two hilts end to end [4].

The Databank adds that Maul trained enough to use it as a single-bladed saber or to light both blades against several opponents [4]. In the Tatooine duel with Qui-Gon Jinn, Wookieepedia says he lit only one end [1]. In the Naboo duel he killed Qui-Gon, then lost half the weapon when Obi-Wan struck the hilt, and was himself cut in two [1][9].

This is the first double-bladed saber in the saga’s films. The wiki says it was not a split saber at first but could be separated into two sabers [1]. The handbook card for it lists type double, colour red and canon, and notes that the blade colour was not checked against a primary source [7].

What happened after Naboo

Maul survived and became a crime lord during the Clone Wars and the Imperial Era [3]. In the Clone Wars he used the half that still worked. The Databank describes a single-bladed saber used while he led the Shadow Collective [4]. Wookieepedia describes more movement than that: the half was taken by Death Watch, returned, lost again in a duel with Darth Sidious, then rebuilt into a new double-bladed hilt that fell during the Siege of Mandalore [1]. The handbook list for the series names Maul in seasons four and five and in the Siege of Mandalore arc, and says the Darksaber went to him after Pre Vizsla’s death [9].

We have not found a source that lines up the Databank and Wookieepedia on exactly when the saber was single-bladed and when it was rebuilt. Treat the order of those events as the wiki’s account.

The split-saber version comes from Maul: Shadow Lord, according to the wiki [1]. The Databank lists that series among Maul’s appearances [5].

The Rebels conflict

Here sources do not agree. Our handbook card for Rebels says Maul holds a single-bladed saber there and fights Obi-Wan on Tatooine in “Twin Suns” [8][9]. The same card says the type is “a double-bladed saber Maul can use as a single” and that the details were not verified [8]. It also records that an earlier version of the card gave 2016 as the first appearance, a date that belongs to a different saber [8].

Wookieepedia has a separate page for the Rebels weapon. It calls it Maul’s lightsaber, a double-bladed Inquisitor-style hilt, bent outward and broken, hidden on a wooden stick so he could pass as a feeble old man [2]. It lists “Twilight of the Apprentice” (30 March 2016) as the first appearance, and “Twin Suns” as the duel where Obi-Wan cut it in two [2].

So there are two readings. In one, Maul uses one blade of the old saber. In the other, he carries a different double-bladed weapon built from Inquisitor parts. This page does not pick one. If you need the answer for a replica or a build, check the episode itself.

Solo and the Obi-Wan Kenobi series

Maul appears in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) as a hologram, leading Crimson Dawn, and there is no saber fight [9]. Wookieepedia says the film originally planned to show his original saber, but Sam Witwer suggested using the Rebels weapon instead, so the saber seen in Solo is the cane saber [2]. The handbook card for Solo lists a double-bladed type [9]. These two entries are not the same claim.

The Obi-Wan Kenobi series (2022) does not feature Maul in the final version. Wikipedia says earlier scripts had Darth Maul as a villain, but director Deborah Chow dropped him because she felt having both Maul and Vader would be too much, and noted that “Twin Suns” had already told their story [6]. Ray Park was preparing to return as Maul before production stopped in 2020 [6]. The handbook entry for the series does not list a Maul saber [9]. So no saber from this series belongs on the list.

Legends

Wookieepedia keeps a separate Legends page for Darth Maul. In that continuity he has a different history, including a cybernetic body, and the Legends page gives a different death [12]. Legends details are not used for any entry above.

Real replicas that exist

Several licensed replicas of Maul’s sabers have been sold. We list the ones we can source and do not recommend a purchase here.

• Hasbro announced a Black Series Force FX Elite Maul electronic lightsaber in April 2026, priced around $269.99, aged 14 and up, for fall 2026. The listing says it matches the saber from the Maul: Shadow Lord series. It comes with a display stand and an adapter that joins two sabers, with the second saber sold separately [10].
• Disney’s Legacy line launched in 2020 with a Darth Maul hilt among the first three. WDWNT reported hilts at $129.99 to $139.99 and blades at $49.99 at launch [11]. That price is a 2020 launch price. Current prices were not checked.

Which of Maul’s sabers a given replica copies varies by product, so read the listing. For the wider picture, see lightsaber replica and Black Series Force FX lightsabers.

Sources

1. Darth Maul’s double-bladed lightsaber, Wookieepedia, https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Darth_Maul%27s_double-bladed_lightsaber (read via the wiki’s public API, accessed 2026-11-09)
2. Maul’s lightsaber, Wookieepedia, https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Maul%27s_lightsaber (read via the wiki’s public API, accessed 2026-11-09)
3. Maul, Wookieepedia, https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Maul (accessed 2026-11-09)
4. Darth Maul’s Lightsaber, StarWars.com Databank, https://www.starwars.com/databank/darth-mauls-lightsaber (accessed 2026-11-09)
5. Maul, StarWars.com Databank, https://www.starwars.com/databank/maul (accessed 2026-11-09)
6. Obi-Wan Kenobi (miniseries), Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obi-Wan_Kenobi_(miniseries) (accessed 2026-11-09)
7. Editorial handbook note, handbook/sabers/darth-maul-red-double.md, resting on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightsaber and https://starwars.archivum.wiki/article/maul’s_lightsaber (handbook check 2026-11-01)
8. Editorial handbook note, handbook/sabers/darth-maul-red-single.md, resting on https://starwars.archivum.wiki/article/maul’s_lightsaber (handbook marks it not verified)
9. Editorial handbook notes, handbook/films/04-episode-1-phantom-menace.md, 08-clone-wars-series.md, 09-rebels.md, 13-solo.md and 19-obi-wan-kenobi.md, resting on their Wikipedia articles (handbook check 2026-11-01)
10. Star Wars Reveals at CCXP Mexico 2026, The Toyark, https://www.toyark.com/2026/04/25/star-wars-reveals-at-ccxp-mexico-2026-587667 (accessed 2026-11-09)
11. Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Legacy Lightsabers and Costumes Now Available on shopDisney, WDWNT, https://wdwnt.com/2020/09/shop-star-wars-galaxys-edge-legacy-lightsabers-and-costumes-now-available-on-shopdisney/ (read for the replica guide on 2026-11-07, not re-fetched)
12. Darth Maul (Legends), Wookieepedia, https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Darth_Maul/Legends (accessed 2026-11-09)