Sith Typically Left Handed According To Comic Books

Question

Darth VaderAnakin Skywalker is left handed in the movies.

Does this also hold true for the comic books?

In addition are Sith more likely to be left handed?

Answer 1

Sith do not appear to be predisposed to left-handedness

It’s not clear that Vader is left-handed in the movies. Here he is fighting with his right hand in his duel with Luke Skywalker on Bespin, for example.

He also is portrayed as right-handed in the Marvel Star Wars comics.

As for other Sith, Darth Sidious at least sometimes fights with his right hand only:

According to Nick Gillard, the stunt coordinator, Sidious is in fact ambidextrous:

Pertaining to whether Sidious is right-handed or left-handed with a lightsaber, he’s ambidextrous. He’s just that good.

(This seems to be sourced from a Hyperspace chat, but I can’t find a screenshot etc. of the original).

Dooku also appears to be right-handed, or at least employing a right-handed fighting style:

Note that this also shows Anakin holding his lightsaber with his right hand.

Darth Maul, on the other hand, is left-handed:

These comprise the sum total of the Sith we have seen in canon (Pong Krell, for example, being a dubious example).

That said, there is some (non-canon) evidence of left-handedness among Sith. In Legends, the Sith species (which predated the Sith as an organization of Dark Side users) tended to be left-handed:

A peculiarity of the Sith people was their innate tendency toward left-handedness. This led to their creation of the lanvarok, a forearm-mounted weapon adapted strictly for left-handed use (human Sith Lords later crafted a right-handed version).

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