Dooku

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Dooku
Out of Universe
Portrayed by	Christopher Lee (film actor) Corey Burton (voice actor in animation)
Debut appearance	Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones
Major appearances	Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith The Clone Wars, select episodes Legends · Yoda: Dark Rendezvous New Canon · Dooku: Jedi Lost New Canon · Tales of the Jedi: "Justice", "Choices", and "The Sith Lord"
In Universe
Also known as	Tyranus (Sith name)
Gender	Male
Pronouns	He/him
Species	Human
Cultures	Serennian Jedi Sith
Biographical Details
Birth	102 BBY, Serenno
Death	19 BBY, on the Invisible Hand, above Coruscant
Homes	Coruscant Serenno
Occupations or vocations	Jedi (former) Head of State
Other titles	Count (of Serenno) Jedi Master Lord Darth
Descriptive Details
Hair	New Canon · Black (pre-graying) White and gray
Height	1.93 meters / 6'4"
Relationships and Connections
Group connections	Jedi Order (former; the Lost Twenty) Confederacy of Independent Systems (aka the Separatists) The Sith
Teachers	Yoda (Jedi Master; film and New Canon) Legends · Thame Cerulian (Jedi Master)[source?] Darth Sidious (Sith Master)
Learners	Qui-Gon Jinn (Padawan) Asajj Ventress (dark side apprentice) Savage Opress (dark side apprentice) New Canon · Quinlan Vos (dark side apprentice)
Biological family	Legends · (Unnamed, once-mentioned) (presumed brother) New Canon · Anya (mother) New Canon · Gora (father) New Canon · Jenza (sister) New Canon · Ramil (brother)

Count Dooku, also known as Lord Tyranus or Darth Tyranus, is a former Jedi who left the Jedi Order and became Darth Sidious's Sith apprentice and the leader of the Separatist cause. Although he presents himself to the galaxy as an idealist, his true ambition is to lead a Sith Empire beside Sidious.

Timeline

For a fanon timeline that combines New Canon and Legends and makes him several years older to better fit various events, see Disaster Lineage Timeline.

For a fanon combined timeline of Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith plus Legends and New Canon sources intertwined with the film events, see Revenge of the Sith and The Clone Wars timeline.

New Canon

Aside from Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith, the primary sources for Dooku in New Canon are the novel Dark Disciple, the audio drama and script book Dooku: Jedi Lost, select episodes of The Clone Wars, and the Dooku-focused stories from the animated anthology series Tales of the Jedi: "Justice", "Choices", and "The Sith Lord". The dates using "c." are given that way in Star Wars Timelines because it's a ridiculous book that arbitrarily marks some dates that way.

• 90 BBY, age 12
  • Visits Serenno and begins secretly corresponding with his sister Jenza
• 88 BBY, age 14
  • Dooku and Sifo Dyas are caught trying to break into the Bogan Collection, a collection of Dark artefacts at the Coruscanti Jedi Temple
• 86 BBY, age 16
  • Becomes Yoda's padawan
• 82 BBY, age 20
  • Dooku's mother dies, and he is allowed to return to Serenno for her funeral. While there, he has an angry confrontation with his father, Count Gora
• Shortly before 80 BBY, age 22?
  • Knighted
• c. 80 BBY, age 22
  • Takes on Rael Averross as his padawan
• c. 70 BBY, age 32
  • Knights Rael Averross
• c. 68 BBY, age 34
  • Takes on Qui-Gon Jinn as his padawan
• c. 58 BBY, age 44
  • Knights Qui-Gon Jinn
  • Joins the Jedi Council
• 41 BBY, age 61
  • Leaves the Jedi Order
  • Kills his brother Ramil
  • Takes on the mantle of Count of Serenno
• 32 BBY, age 70
  • Qui-Gon Jinn dies
  • Becomes Sheev Palpatine's Sith apprentice, taking on the name Darth Tyranus
  • Sifo-Dyas is assassinated by the Pykes. After his death, Dooku takes over the cloning project that Sifo-Dyas commissioned on Kamino, and instructs the Kaminoans to implant mind control chips in the clones.
• 24 BBY, age 78
  • Dooku announces the founding of the Confederacy of Independent Systems in a speech on the planet Raxus.
• 23 BBY, age 79
  • Dooku rescues Asajj Ventress from Rattatak and takes her on as his agent and assassin.
• 22 BBY, age 80
  • The Clone Wars break out, with Dooku leading the Confederacy of Independent Systems
  • Dooku is revealed as a Sith Lord
• 21 BBY, age 81
  • Dooku is captured by Hondo Ohnaka after crashing on Vanqor, and is imprisoned on the pirate world Florrum. Hondo offers the Republic a ransom to release him into their custody
  • When Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker are sent to Florrum to verify Dooku's identity, they are also captured by Hondo. Tied together, Dooku, Obi-Wan and Anakin work together to escape the prison. Despite the GAR's efforts, Dooku escapes the planet
• 20 BBY, age 82
  • Palpatine orders Dooku to kill Asajj Ventress. He reluctantly fires on her ship, but she escapes to Dathomir
  • Ventress attempts to assassinate Dooku on Serenno, but fails
  • Mother Talzin offers Savage Opress to Dooku as his new apprentice, and Dooku accepts
  • Savage betrays Dooku, and attacks both Ventress and Dooku. He fails, and all three survive the encounter
  • The Republic captures General Grievous. Dooku then captures Anakin, and proposes a prisoner swap, which Padmé Amidala accepts
  • On Dooku's orders, General Grievous kills almost all the Nightsisters on Dathomir
  • Quinlan Vos attempts to assassinate Dooku, but fails. Dooku captures him and tortures him to turn him to the dark side. Later, Vos is rescued and returns to the Jedi
• 19 BBY, age 83
  • Quinlan Vos tries to assassinate Dooku again, this time on Christophsis. Instead of striking the killing blow, Vos agrees to join Dooku to defeat Sidious
  • Dooku kills Asajj Ventress
  • Dooku launches a Separatist force on Coruscant, starting the Battle of Coruscant
  • Dooku is killed by Anakin Skywalker aboard the Invisible Hand, above Coruscant

What's in a name?

In both New Canon and Legends, Dooku is a singular name for this character, not a family name paired with a separate given name. As a point-of-view character in Jude Watson's Legacy of the Jedi (2003) he is referred to only as Dooku, and in the published script for the audio drama Dooku: Jedi Lost (2019), he is listed only as "Dooku", while other characters have both given names and surnames listed. His New Canon family members do not have Dooku in their names: Anya (mother), Gora (father), Jenza (sister), and Ramil (brother). Cavan Scott, the author of Dooku: Jedi Lost clarified on Twitter: "Don’t think of it as a first name, but a singular name. The aristocracy of Serenno only use one name, but use the format Dooku of House Serenno, not Dooku Serenno. In my mind it started as a sign of the importance of independence which runs through Serenno culture."

Erronenous but officially published

One Legends comic book, Agent of the Empire, treated the Dooku name and title differently. Taking place on Alderaan during the Imperial Era, new character Adan Dooku is titled Count Dooku of Serenno and repeatedly addressed as Count Dooku, and this passes in the same issue to his son, Bron Dooku. Bail Organa speaks with Adan about the family history, which suggests THE Count Dooku took over from a dead brother(?)

Bail Organa

We've been friends for a long time, Adan--since your uncle returned to Serenno and took up the title as Count.

Adan Dooku

Mother liked being regent after father's death, and she and my uncle did not get along. So we went into self-exile here. But you didn't sent Candra out of the room so we could reminisce. You want to talk insurrection, don't you?

Bail Organa

Your planet has had a long history of resisting authority--backed by the considerable wealth and influence of the Count of Serenno.

Adan Dooku

And paid the price for it, especially following the Clone Wars. Only the fact that I was raised away from Serenno, here, for more of my youth let my family retain the hereditary title. And the other Houses do not much care for that, I can tell you. I don't have the influence you might think I have.

— Discussing Dookus

Whatever's going on with the Dookus of this comic book, THE Dooku doesn't get a different name out of it.

Fanon

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Many fans have treated "Dooku" as a surname, and the fan-invented given names "Jard" and "Yan" were both fairly well known by 2005. The origins of "Jard" have been documented in the "Behind the Scenes" section of the Star Wars Fanon wiki's "Jard Dooku" page, but the origins of other possible names are a little more obscure.

Yan

The name "Yan" appeared in the fanfiction "Coming Home", posted on the Jedi Council Forums on November 29, 2002, just six months after the premiere of Attack of the Clones in May of 2002. The author of the story, then posting as Marnie, published the story on their personal fanfiction website The Borrowed Ones around the same time it was crossposted to the Jedi Council Forums. In response to a Tumblr ask message, they confirmed that they believe they invented the name "Yan" during the writing of that story by switching out the "I" in "Ian."

Glamnor

In an August 2017 ask message on Tumblr, an anonymous user claimed that "Glamnor" had been established as Dooku's canonical given name, but no one in the reblog chain could track down a source. (Unless Star Wars: Trials of the Republic and Star Wars: Battles of the Sith are real and simply absent from both Google searches and Wookieepedia, or Pablo Hidalgo truly did Tweet it and simply nobody could find it; unfortunately plausible, but impossible to verify at this point).

End of fanon content

Dooku's curved-hilt lightsaber