YMMV / Darth Maul

• Angel/Devil Shipping: Since the comic's release, there's been an increase of various fanart and fanfiction of Maul and Eldra together as a romantic couple.
• Magnificent Bitch: Xev Xrexus is the head of the Xrexus Cartel. Having her men abduct a Jedi Padawan named Eldra Kaitis and hoping to turn a profit, Xrexus arranges an auction with multiple decoy events to sell the Padawan to the highest bidder. Deducing Maul will kidnap the Padawan from a simple conversation, Xrexus sets a bomb to send the ship he takes her in crashing to the planet below and arranges a pay-to-enter hunt to make further profit from the ordeal. Though the hunters fail, Xrexus remains composed when Maul kills her, talking solemnly to him and deconstructing his desire for vengeance before ultimately revealing to him that she deduced his true nature as a Sith as her last words.
• Squick: While on Malachor, Palpatine makes Maul breathe in the ash of the some hundred/thousand-year old corpses.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: When the series was first announced, some were disappointed that it would take place before The Phantom Menace rather than in the Time Skip between The Clone Wars/Revenge of the Sith and Rebels, as at the time of the announcement, what Maul had been up to during the Time Skip and how exactly he got stranded on Malachor was unknown. However, current reception to the plot of the series is relatively positive, as it does give insight to Maul's past as a Sith apprentice, helped in that his endgame story in Rebels was being released side-by-side with the first two issues then.
• Unexpected Character:
  • Khaat Qiyn and her apprentice Bairdon Jace. Considering they were peripheral characters in Attack of the Clones, their appearance in Darth Maul and the fact that they actually first appeared in the theatrical films was surprising to the fans. The two also have very little information in the Legends continuity as well, so hardly anyone expected them to have a role beyond being part of what is basically a filler crowd.
  • No one expected bounty hunters to help Maul in his hunt, nevermind Cad Bane and Aurra Sing, who will also continue to be adversaries of the Jedi Order in The Clone Wars.
• The Woobie: FE-B3, an unfortunate protocol droid, who is interrogated for information on Xev Xrexus and her auctioning of the Jedi Padwan, ending with Maul pulling his eyes out. "Fee-Bee"'s later forced to accompany Maul and Cad Bane and his crew in their mention, where he's treated like garbage by the other bounty hunters and later left behind on a planet to wander alone, before being unceremoniously cut down by Maul just for being the closest thing for him to take his anger out on.