Qui-Gon’s Phantom Menace Death Was The Perfect Order 66 Setup

Qui-Gon Jinn is one of the few Jedi in Star Wars to foresee the fall of the Jedi before his untimely death in The Phantom Menace. But George Lucas didn’t kill Qui-Gon off merely because he’d figured out the truth about the Jedi too soon. Qui-Gon sacrifices himself at the end of the film in a duel against Darth Maul, one of the first Sith to appear in over a millennium. Till that point, the Jedi believed the Sith to be extinct. While Qui-Gon had trained and honed his skills under the tutelage of Count Dooku, he probably never expected to come face to face with a Sith assassin.