STAR WARS: THE ACOLYTE Spoilers: Why The Master's Secret Identity Might Not Be What You're Expecting

STAR WARS: THE ACOLYTE Spoilers: Why The Master's Secret Identity Might Not Be What You're Expecting

The Acolyte's first episode ends with the introduction of The Master, and while you might have assumed he's just another Sith bad guy, there may be more to him than meets the eye. Read on for details...

By JoshWilding - Jun 05, 2024 03:06 PM EST
Filed Under: Star Wars
Source: SFFGazette.com

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"The Jedi live in a dream. A dream they believe everyone shares. If you attack a Jedi with a weapon, you will fail. Steel or laser are no threat to them, but an Acolyte...an Acolyte kills without a weapon. An Acolyte kills the dream."

Those are the words spoken by The Master, the mysterious red lightsaber-wielding villain who appears in the final moments of The Acolyte's premiere, "Lost / Found."

We don't know who he is beyond the fact he trained Mae. His face and voice are both hidden/distorted and while The Master clearly wishes to destroy the Jedi, his Acolyte - not apprentice - can only win the villain's approval by killing one of them without a weapon. 

Many of you will understandably assume that The Master is a Sith and perhaps who Darth Plagueis (the Sith Lord who one day takes a young Sheev Palpatine under his wing) reports to. The timeline doesn't quite work for that, making Darth Tenebrous a far more likely possibility...unless there's a new Sith Lord somewhere in that lineage we're only just meeting. 

All of that is possible, though we believe The Master is Tenebrous's apprentice. Like many Sith before him, he's likely training Mae to kill his Master with her bare hands, sticking to the Rule of Two. It could be he's unable to beat him, and either way, this mirrors what happened when Count Dooku trained Asajj Ventress and Savage Opress to kill Palpatine. 

Before that, Palpatine trained Maul - with Plagueis' blessing as an "assassin" - to eventually serve as his apprentice...as soon as Sheev killed his Master, of course. 

This makes sense than him being Tenebrous or Plagueis as a reveal like that will only mean something to the most hardcore of Star Wars fans (and there's nothing to say Lucasfilm are going to remain remotely beholden to Expanded Universe lore).

Another possibility is that The Master isn't a Sith; there was a Sith apprentice called Darth Millennial who rejected the Rule of Two and was cast out by his master, Darth Cognus. He formed a splinter group called Prophets of the Dark Side who worshipped the "Dark Force" religion. 

That may well be what we're looking at here so don't necessarily expect The Master to be too closely tied to the Sith and Palpatine's eventual ascension to Emperor. There may even be several Acolytes, with one of them potentially a character like Tenebrous or Plagueis depending on how fast and loose Lucasfilm is playing with EU content. 

Who do you think The Master is? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.

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FireandBlood
FireandBlood - 6/5/2024, 4:00 PM
He/she is definitely a Sith. The question is, are they

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soberchimera
soberchimera - 6/5/2024, 4:00 PM
If you attack a Jedi with a weapon, you will fail. Steel or laser are no threat to them.
Trinity was killed by a knife in the first 10 minutes dude...
FireandBlood
FireandBlood - 6/5/2024, 4:02 PM
@soberchimera - Post the rest of the quote. It didn’t end there, so you’re doing nothing right now.
RKSDooM
RKSDooM - 6/5/2024, 4:05 PM
@soberchimera - Because the assassin attacked her spirit and morality and willingness to sacrifice herself to save others.

She attacked the Jedi "dream".

Prior to that, her knives weren't getting her very far.
soberchimera
soberchimera - 6/5/2024, 4:05 PM
@FireandBlood - but an Acolyte...an Acolyte kills without a weapon. An Acolyte kills the dream.
But the Acolyte was the one who killed her with the knife which is.......A WEAPON. Sorry if I don't feel like I'm in checkmate.
FireandBlood
FireandBlood - 6/5/2024, 4:08 PM
@soberchimera - Read what @RKSDooM said. Take it all in. Let it marinate, if you have to.
soberchimera
soberchimera - 6/5/2024, 4:09 PM
@RKSDooM - Did Trinity die from a broken spirit or a knife sticking out of her heart? The mental gymnastics you're pulling off to defend bad writing is truly a sight to behold.
RKSDooM
RKSDooM - 6/5/2024, 4:12 PM
@soberchimera - She died because she sacrificed herself to save others. This is how Sith defeat more powerful Jedi. Vader used the exact trick in his comic.

What do you think "kill the dream" even means?

This really isn't that complicated or hard to work out my guy.
soberchimera
soberchimera - 6/5/2024, 4:15 PM
@RKSDooM - She died because she sacrificed herself to save others.
Annnnnnnnd from bleeding out from a wound that was caused by a knife she was attacked with. Nothing in this show is even remotely complicated to work out. It doesn't ruin my day at all if you like the show though my friend :)
FireandBlood
FireandBlood - 6/5/2024, 4:19 PM
@RKSDooM - What we’re seeing here is the same people calling out the creators for ‘not’ making the show Star Wars enough not even know their own Star Wars lore, confusing their own ignorance for “bad writing”, and that @soberchimera is really the sight to behold here. 🥴
soberchimera
soberchimera - 6/5/2024, 4:26 PM
@FireandBlood - My initial comment had nothing to do with Star Wars lore, it was an appeal to basic common sense. Never in all my years did I think I would have to argue that knives are weapons, but here we are.
FireandBlood
FireandBlood - 6/5/2024, 4:29 PM
@soberchimera - No one’s disputing the fact knives are weapons. But either you’re being wilfully obtuse to justify this nitpick (and that’s happening a lot, here) or you simply lack the basic common sense to understand what “The Master” was actually saying.
AlexGSpeaks
AlexGSpeaks - 6/5/2024, 4:35 PM
@soberchimera - so you obviously didn't watch the second episode where she is determined to kill the next Jedi without using a weapon because killing Indara with the knives, with a weapon, didn't please her master.
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 6/5/2024, 4:37 PM
@FireandBlood - He is ABSOLUTELY being willfully obtuse to justify this nitpick, though the latter option is, sadly, never out of the question around these parts.
BlackStar25
BlackStar25 - 6/5/2024, 4:44 PM
@soberchimera - Yeah...That shit bothered me. I do get the sense that the "Acolyte" is cheating after her conversation about her 2nd target.
soberchimera
soberchimera - 6/5/2024, 4:46 PM
@FireandBlood - You can dismiss all legitimate complaints as nitpicks all you want. If you praise bad writing and have no standards for quality, you'll get more of the same subpar content from Kennedy and Co.
soberchimera
soberchimera - 6/5/2024, 4:50 PM
@AlexGSpeaks - Poison is also a weapon, there are literally thousands of real-life cases where poison has been pointed to as the "murder weapon." You can make the argument that he took his own life, but if you give a suicidal person a gun to kill themselves, you're still liable for their death.
marvel72
marvel72 - 6/5/2024, 4:59 PM
@soberchimera - Why did he need her to kill himself?

Couldn't he had done a lot sooner.
soberchimera
soberchimera - 6/5/2024, 5:04 PM
@marvel72 - Apparently, she made a deal to forgive him if he killed himself. Again, in any court of law she would still be held liable for his death.
marvel72
marvel72 - 6/5/2024, 5:09 PM
@soberchimera - Crappy writing at its best.
Origame
Origame - 6/5/2024, 5:25 PM
@AlexGSpeaks - ...then why did she bring them?

The show pointing out it's dumb doesn't suddenly mean it's not dumb.
Origame
Origame - 6/5/2024, 5:26 PM
@clintthahamster - yes, it's nitpicky to point out the character who's supposed to kill without a weapon...is killing with a weapon.
Origame
Origame - 6/5/2024, 5:28 PM
@soberchimera - I swear, the people on this site are reading from a script written by the acolyte writers to justify this sh!t.
Batmangina
Batmangina - 6/5/2024, 5:56 PM
@RKSDooM - WTF is this poetry slam retardation? It's [frick]ing Open Mic night at the Cantina. 🤣
Elle79
Elle79 - 6/5/2024, 6:01 PM
@FireandBlood - I know the lore inside and out. This is still bad writing. Why are you adamant about defending this joke of a show? It's an absolute, and the writing is subpar, and that's being overly generous.

Get higher standards, dude. Stop shilling for Disney and beiong a corporatist stooge.

The reaction to the show is negative because the show sucks. Cope.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 6/5/2024, 7:40 PM
@FireandBlood - How's this? If people can't already tell that the "Master" is Twins' mother from the witch coven, then I don't know what to say. It's so blindingly obvious.

She will be the "Master". Her helmet will get knocked off, and she will say something along the lines of "I am your MOTHER!".

Kathleen Kennedy is way too transparent. You can see through her agenda a mile away.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 6/5/2024, 8:47 PM
@soberchimera - I liked how Indara told Osha that "Jedi don't attack the unarmed".

Then in episode 2 a jedi walked right up to an unarmed Osha and stuck his lightsabre in her face.
LeeHolland
LeeHolland - 6/6/2024, 3:58 AM
@soberchimera - She says in episode 2 'I have to kill one without a weapon'. That suggests she failed in the way she meant to kill Indara and Torbin.
RKSDooM
RKSDooM - 6/6/2024, 11:21 AM
@Batmangina - You think that asking someone what they think a single line in an episode meant is "poetry slam retardation"?
Alrighty.
Good luck with your future endeavors, little guy! I'm sure you don't at all have a difficult life ahead of you.
([frick]ing YIKES)
THEDARKKNIGHT1939
THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - 6/5/2024, 4:05 PM
Guy looks like a Knights of Ren reject. I liked it better when the Sith were just demonic looking people with hoods.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 6/5/2024, 4:07 PM
@THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - was thinking the same thing. I'm kinda thinking it's the Ren (the leader of the Knights of Ren). Think that'd be interesting
abd00bie
abd00bie - 6/6/2024, 7:37 AM
@bkmeijer1 - THE Ren? Which would be weird because why did Kylo worship Vader if Ren already existed and he even led a team of Knights (of Ren). Would have made more sense for Kylo to idolize Ren if he is indeed a person. I sense a plot to destroy the lore by retcon (again), they keep adding stuff.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 6/6/2024, 11:44 AM
@abd00bie - Ren (the character) met Ben at one point and suggested he followed the dark side. Ben later followed him up on that by killing Ren and taking his title and position. Him not idolizing Ren probably helped commit a coup
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 6/5/2024, 4:07 PM
I'm still thinking The Master should be Venamis. Although with the way The Master looks, I wouldn't be surprised if it's Ren (either the one that recruited Ben Solo, or a previous Ren)
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 6/5/2024, 4:38 PM
@bkmeijer1 - "I wouldn't be surprised if it's Ren (either the one that recruited Ben Solo, or a previous Ren)"

That would actually be really cool, but Headland's been pretty adamant that she's making this a standalone story without significant ties to other corners of Star Wars other than the EU/Legends stuff.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 6/5/2024, 4:43 PM
@clintthahamster - could still be a previous Ren, maybe even the first. It's not really tied to the Knights of Ren, as they aren't around yet.

If it really isn't tied to anything except non-canon stuff, I'm sticking to Venamis. Dude is gonna have a tragic ending.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 6/5/2024, 4:08 PM

he will clearly be the token evil oppressive white guy on this show.

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