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Count Dooku
Count  Dooku is a fictional
Count Dooku
character from the Star  Wars
Darth Tyranus
franchise, appearing in Star Wars:
Episode  II  –  Attack  of  the  Clones Star Wars character
and Star  Wars:  Episode  III  –
Revenge  of  the  Sith, as a primary
antagonist. He was portrayed by
Christopher Lee[1] and voiced by
Corey Burton in the animated
series Star  Wars:  The  Clone  Wars
and Star Wars: Clone Wars.

Once a respected Jedi Master, he Sir Christopher Lee as Count Dooku

falls to the dark side of the Force in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of
after the death of his former the Clones.
Padawan, Qui-Gon Jinn, and
First Attack of the Clones
becomes Darth Sidious' second
appearance (2002)
apprentice under the name Darth
Tyranus. As the founder of the Last The Clone Wars:
Confederacy of Independent appearance Legacy
Systems, he is instrumental in the – "Dark Disciple"
Clone Wars. Dooku was trained by (2016, novel)
Yoda as a Padawan learner. Created by George Lucas
Portrayed Christopher Lee
by (Episode II-III)
Voiced by Corey Burton (Star
Contents Wars: Clone Wars,
Appearances Star Wars: The Clone
Films Wars (TV series), Star

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Attack of the Clones Wars: Galactic

Revenge of the Sith Battlegrounds, Star
The Clone Wars (film) Wars: The Clone
Television Wars, Star Wars:
The Clone Wars
Bounty Hunter, Star
Star Wars: Legends
Wars Episode III:
Comic books
Novels Revenge of the Sith,
Star Wars: Clone Star Wars: Battlefront
Wars II, Star Wars: The
Toys Clone Wars, Star
Portrayal Wars: The Clone
References Wars - Republic
External links Heroes, Lego Star
Wars III: The Clone
Wars and Kinect Star

Appearances Wars)
Jeff Bennett (Star
Wars: Jedi
Films Starfighter)
Christopher Lee (Star
Wars: The Clone
Attack of the Clones Wars film)
Introduced in Star  Wars:  Episode Michael Donovan
II  –  Attack  of  the  Clones, Count (Lego Star Wars: The
Dooku appears as the leader of the Yoda Chronicles and
Confederacy of Independent Lego Star Wars: Droid
Systems, a federation of planetary Tales)
systems rebelling against the Information
Galactic Republic. He says that the
Gender Male
Republic is corrupt, and that its
politicians are more interested in Occupation Jedi Master (formerly)
maintaining the bureaucracy and Lord of the Sith
enriching themselves than in Count of Serenno
helping poor, oppressed systems. Head of State of the

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Dooku recruits bounty hunter Confederacy of

Jango Fett to assassinate Padmé Independent Systems
Amidala on Coruscant; the attempt Affiliation Jedi Order
on her life fails, however. When a (formerly)Galactic
fight with Obi-Wan Kenobi forces Republic (formerly)
Fett to flee from Kamino to Sith Order
Geonosis, the bounty hunter Confederacy of
rendezvous with his benefactor. Independent Systems
After capturing Obi-Wan on
Homeworld Serenno
Geonosis, Dooku tells him that he's
attempting to save the Republic, explaining that thousands of senators are
under the influence of a Sith Lord named Darth Sidious. When Obi-Wan
refuses to join him, Dooku promptly sentences him to death.

After an army of Jedi and clone troopers rescue Obi-Wan, Anakin Skywalker
and Padmé, a battle breaks out between the Republic forces and Dooku's army.
Dooku tries to flee, but Anakin and Obi-Wan engage him in a lightsaber duel.
Dooku subdues Anakin with a blast of Force lightning, and wounds Obi-Wan
with his lightsaber. When Anakin comes to Obi-Wan's defense, Dooku cuts off
the young Padawan's arm. Just as Dooku is about to escape, Yoda confronts
him and engages him in a lightsaber duel. Unable to match Yoda's speed and
agility, Dooku distracts his former master by using the Force to dislodge a
large pillar and send it hurtling toward Anakin and Obi-Wan. While Yoda is
busy saving them, Dooku escapes.

After he arrives on Coruscant, Dooku shows the Geonosian designs of the

Death Star to Darth Sidious and informs his master that their plan is working:
"The war has begun."

Revenge of the Sith

In the opening of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, set three years
later, Dooku and Separatist commander General Grievous kidnap Supreme
Chancellor Palpatine—Sidious' alter ego—as part of a plan orchestrated by
Palpatine to lure Anakin to the dark side of the Force. Anakin and Obi-Wan

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board Grievous' ship and confront Dooku, who knocks Obi-Wan unconscious,
leaving Anakin to face the Sith Lord alone. Anakin gives in to his hatred of
Dooku and uses the dark side to overpower him, severing both of Dooku's
hands and leaving him helpless. Palpatine then tells Anakin to execute Dooku
on the spot; after initial hesitation, Anakin brutally decapitates Dooku. This act
sets off a chain of events that leads to Anakin's eventual fall to the dark side
and transformation into Darth Vader.

The Clone Wars (film)

In the 2008 CGI film Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Count Dooku plots to bring
Jabba the Hutt into the folds of the Confederacy by enlisting Jabba's uncle Ziro
the Hutt to kidnap Jabba's son Rotta. After Ziro's agents deliver the Huttlet to
the planet Teth, Dooku contacts Ziro again to arrange for his minion Asajj
Ventress to take custody of Rotta. When Jabba requests Jedi assistance to
rescue his son, Dooku plans to frame the Jedi for the crime. Dooku duels
Anakin for the first time since their encounter in Attack of the Clones. The duel
ends in a draw, and Anakin and his Padawan Ahsoka Tano eventually foil
Dooku's plan.

Television

The Clone Wars

In the 2008 animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Dooku is the leader
of the Separatists. In addition to sending Grievous and Ventress on missions to
antagonize the Republic, he works with the terrorist group Death Watch to give
the Republic a reason to send a military presence to Mandalore, which would
play in his favor. The plan falls through when Duchess Satine Kryze of
Mandalore urges the Galactic Senate to hold off a military force.

In the third season, Dooku is forced to eliminate Ventress to prove his loyalty
to Sidious. Ventress survives, however, and works with Mother Talzin to kill
Dooku by giving him Savage Opress as a replacement apprentice. During a

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confrontation between Dooku and Ventress, Savage turns on both. In the

fourth season, after defeating Anakin in three separate lightsaber duels, Dooku
gets his revenge on Ventress by having Grievous order the systematic genocide
of the Nightsisters. Believing both Ventress and Talzin have been killed, Dooku
knows the only threat left to him is Savage while sensing his eventual meeting
with Darth Maul. In the fifth season, Dooku plays minor roles via hologram in
guiding King Rash of Onderon and Grievous taking over Florrum.

In the sixth season, Dooku finds out the clone trooper Tup executed Order 66
prematurely and works behind the scenes to stop the Republic's investigation.
He then manipulates the Banking Clan and its representative Rush Clovis into
putting all their resources in the hands of the Sith, bringing war to the planet
Scipio. The Jedi find a lightsaber belonging to deceased Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas
—whom Dooku murdered years earlier—and start an investigation. Sidious
forces Dooku to clean up their trail. Dooku confronts Anakin and Obi-Wan on
Oba Diah, revealing his alter-ego Darth Tyranus to the Jedi, and they realize
that it was he who created the clone army. Some further investigation by Yoda
prompts Dooku and his master to perform a Sith ritual in an unsuccessful
attempt to break the Jedi Master; Dooku appears to fight Anakin in the
illusion, but is executed in a manner very similar to his eventual demise.

Star Wars: Legends

Dooku appears extensively in the Star  Wars series' "Expanded Universe" of
novels, comic books and the 2003 micro-series Star  Wars:  Clone  Wars. In
2015, Lucasfilm labeled such material non-canon, and rebranded them "Star
Wars Legends".

Comic books
In the Star  Wars:  Republic series, set during the Clone Wars, Dooku trains
multiple Dark Jedi apprentices, most of whom he uses as minions. His
apprentices include Ventress, Tol Skorr and renegade Jedi Quinlan Vos. Vos
initially intended to infiltrate the Separatists as a spy for the Jedi Council but
instead nearly falls to the dark side.
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Novels
In Jude Watson's Legacy of the Jedi, Dooku is first tempted by the dark side of
the Force as a child when his friend and fellow Padawan Lorian Nod steals an
ancient Sith Holocron from the Jedi Archives. Dooku is intrigued by the Sith's
open embrace of power and realizes that he is just as capable of ruthlessness as
they are. When they get caught, Nod lies that the theft was Dooku's idea.
However, Dooku eventually manages to convince the Jedi Council of the truth,
and Nod is then expelled from the Jedi Order. Nod's treachery leaves Dooku
with a great bitterness and intolerance of any form of betrayal. Years later,
Dooku encounters and eventually kills Nod.

In Sean Stewart's Yoda:  Dark  Rendezvous, Dooku attempts to trap Yoda by

offering to negotiate an end to the Clone Wars. Dooku attempts unsuccessfully
to sway Yoda to his cause, while Yoda nearly convinces Dooku to return to the
Jedi Order. When Anakin and Obi-Wan appear unexpectedly, Dooku believes
that Yoda was trying to set him up to be captured, and renounces his former
master once and for all. In the novel, it is also revealed that Dooku always
resented his parents for "giving him away" to the Jedi Order.

In James Luceno's Labyrinth  of  Evil, Dooku engineers Grievous'

transformation into a cyborg and trains him in lightsaber combat. He then
schemes with Sidious to invade Coruscant in what he believes to be a plot to
kill Obi-Wan and initiate Anakin into the Sith.

Matthew Stover's novelization of Revenge  of  the  Sith expands upon Dooku's
character: it portrays him as an evil man who has no concept of loyalty or
friendship, and who despises cyborgs, as well as the galaxy's non-human
species. It also explains that Dooku believes that Palpatine's staged kidnapping
is part of a plan to kill Obi-Wan and recruit Anakin into the Galactic Empire as
the commander of its army, while Dooku and Palpatine will rule the galaxy
together. The novelization depicts Dooku's death scene from his point of view;
in his final moments, he realizes that Palpatine merely used him as a means to
engineer the war and as a placeholder for Anakin, whom he intended to be his
apprentice all along.[2]

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Star Wars: Clone Wars

During the 2003 animated miniseries Star  Wars:  Clone  Wars, Count Dooku
leads the Separatists from behind the scenes, taking the Dark Jedi Asajj
Ventress as his apprentice while training General Grievous in lightsaber
combat. In the final episode, he and Grievous kidnap Palpatine, setting the
stage for Revenge of the Sith.

Toys
A number of toys based on Count Dooku have been produced, including the
Lego set Lego Star Wars: Duel on Geonosis which recreates the duel between
Jedi master Yoda and the Count Dooku,[3] and a Hasbro Count Dooku
lightsaber.[4]

Portrayal
Count Dooku was portrayed by Christopher Lee in Attack  of  the  Clones and
Revenge  of  the  Sith, while Kyle Rowling performed the lightsaber action
sequences. The character was voiced by Corey Burton in Star  Wars:  Clone
Wars (as well as most of the video games).

Lee reprised his role to voice the character in the 2008 animated film, while
Burton returned to voice the character in the subsequent TV series.

References
Bibliography

Stover, Mathew. Revenge of the Sith. Lucas Booka, Century, London.

ISBN 0-7126-8427-1

Notes

1. "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones" (http://christopherleeweb.co

m/movie-database/movie/star-wars-episode-ii-attack-clones). Sir
Christopher Lee Web.
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2. Stover 2005, pp. 76–79.

3. "Yoda takes on Count Dooku in battle to be Christmas number one" (http://
www.express.co.uk/news/sunday/431154/Yoda-takes-on-Count-Dooku-in-
battle-to-be-Christmas-number-one). Daily Express.
4. "Star Wars Count Dooku Electronic Lightsaber" (http://www.entertainment
earth.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HS85410). entertainmentearth.com.

Further readings

The New Essential Guide to Characters, 1st edition, 2002. Daniel Wallace,
Michael Sutfin, ISBN 0-345-44900-2
Reynolds, David West. Star Wars: Attack of the Clones: The Visual
Dictionary, hardcover, 2002. ISBN 0-7894-8588-5
Luceno, James. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: The Visual Dictionary,
hardcover, 2005., ISBN 0-7566-1128-8
Slavicsek, Bill & Collins, Andy. Star Wars Roleplaying Game: Revised
Core Rulebook, hardcover, 2002., ISBN 0-7869-2876-X

External links
Count Dooku (http://www.starwars.com/databank/count-dooku/) in the
StarWars.com Databank
Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus (http://www.wikia.com/wiki/c:starwars:Dooku)
on Wookieepedia, a Star Wars wiki
Count Dooku (http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0000011/) on IMDb

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