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  • Anti-Climax Boss: Calculating Banking Clan executive Vesto Slipher, Magnificent Bastard mob boss Iram Radique, hard-nosed Warden Sadaki Blirr, her brother and pet savant Dakarai (who has been Playing Both Sides for some time), and resentfully deposed gang leader Vas Nailhead all have powerful arcs and build-ups. Nonetheless, all of them are removed as obstacles to Maul (one way or another) with very little build up, difficulty, or fanfare.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: See here.
  • He's Just Hiding: Coyle's interesting characterization and lack of an on-screen death cause some to theorize he survives, even though it seems as if no prisoner besides Maul or Eogan escapes the prison.
  • Magnificent Bastard: Iram Radique is an infamous intergalactic arms dealer who runs his operations from within the space station Cog Hive Seven. Radique got himself sent to the prison deliberately to run his operations and stay away from assassins. The prison authorities aren't even sure whether he really exists or not. Radique builds and distributes all kinds of weapons inside the prison, smuggling in weapon components one piece at a time and even training birds to carry them down to his workshop, before shipping the finished weapons outside. He pays his inmate workers to blind themselves to keep the location of his factory a secret and is more effective at preventing escape attempts than the guards due not wanting anyone to tell the outside world about what he's up to. When Darth Maul comes to the prison, intending to force Radique to sell Darth Sidious a nuke, Radique and his lieutenants easily manipulate Maul into chasing numerous false leads and even get the drop on the Sith apprentice and only fail to kill him due to a third party's intervention.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: One common complaint is that Radique is a Stranger Behind the Mask and isn't employing Two Aliases, One Character in the same manner as Dakarai/Zero.

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