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dooku was a human male sith lord and the political leader of the confederacy of independent systems. dooku was once a jedi master of the jedi order, but he left the jedi and the galactic republic after growing disillusioned with the corruption in the government. he turned to the dark side and became the apprentice of darth sidious, taking on the name darth tyr-n-s and reclaiming his t-tle as the count of serenno. with his master, who was secretly supreme chancellor palpatine, dooku helped form the separatist alliance and engineer the clone wars. he was also involved in the creation of the clone troopers of the grand army of the republic, having supplied the kaminoans with the chip containing clone protocol 66.

count dooku led the separatist alliance throughout the war, turning star systems against the republic through political maneuverings and military might. he took on apprentices of his own, with the intention of one day succeeding his master. he first trained asajj ventress; later, after being ordered to dispose of ventress, dooku took on a second apprentice, savage opress. the tutelage was short-lived, as opress had been used by ventress as a tool of revenge against her former master. toward the end of the war, dooku took on a third apprentice, the fallen jedi quinlan vos, with whom he plotted to overthrow his master. this apprenticeship, too, was cut short, as vos was redeemed in the force with the help of asajj ventress.
the final days of the war saw a battle over coruscant. in a duel aboard the separatist command ship, count dooku was defeated by jedi knight anakin skywalker, who beheaded the helpless dooku at palpatine’s command. dooku was soon replaced as palpatine’s apprentice by skywalker himself, who fell to the dark side and became darth vader. despite dooku’s death, the plans he helped set into motion during the clone wars came to p-ss, with the destruction of the jedi order and the rise of the galactic empire.
it was a great blow to the jedi order when count dooku voluntarily renounced his commission. a strong-minded man, dooku’s ideas were often out of step with those of the jedi council, despite the fact that his former mentor, yoda, held a lofty position in that governing body. his challenging views were often echoed by his former padawan, qui-gon jinn, another jedi who would on occasion defy the council.
dooku was a political idealist. he felt that the jedi weakened themselves by serving an inst-tution as corrupt as the republic. after his departure, he disappeared for years, re-emerging as a political firebrand fanning the flames of rebellion in the galaxy. in an alarmingly short time, dooku rallied thousands of systems to his cause, building a growing separatist movement that threatened to split the republic.

opportunists working in dooku’s name would start flashpoints of violence, and it was all the jedi could do to maintain order in these turbulent times. for all the strife, the jedi council refused to believe that dooku was personally responsible for the worst of the conflicts, believing that his jedi training elevated him above such acts.

but the jedi didn’t realize dooku’s secret. behind a veneer of elegant charisma and well-tabled political arguments, dooku had been corrupted by the power of the dark side. after his departure from the jedi order, dooku was seduced to the dark side by darth sidious, the dark lord of the sith. by sith tradition, dooku adopted the name darth tyr-n-s and added deceit and treachery to his already formidable array of weapons.

in both guises, dooku began recruiting agents for what would eventually amount to the death of the old republic. as tyr-n-s, he contacted the notorious bounty hunter jango fett to become the template for a hidden clone army on kamino. as dooku, he appealed to the greed of the galaxy’s most powerful commerce barons to consolidate their forces to challenge the republic.

deep within the mighty spires of geonosis, dooku chaired a meeting of the minds to formally create the confederacy of independent systems. separatist senators alongside representatives from the commerce guild, the trade federation, the corporate alliance, the intergalactic banking clan and the techno union pooled their resources together to form the largest military force in the galaxy. the separatists were ready for war.

the jedi knight obi-wan ken-bi discovered the treasonous meeting and warned the republic, but not without being captured. dooku met with ken-bi in the geonosian dungeons, and revealed to obi-wan the truth about the republic — that it was, in fact, becoming increasingly under the control of darth sidious. distrusting of dooku’s words, obi-wan refused to believe and refused to join dooku in rooting out the corruption.

ken-bi was soon joined by anakin skywalker and padmé amidala, who had come to geonosis in an ill-fated attempt to rescue him. dooku placed the three captive heroes in an execution arena, but their deaths were staved off by the timely arrival of jedi reinforcements.

the droid armies of the separatists engaged the jedi, and later the newly crafted clone army of the republic. dooku attempted to escape but was intercepted by anakin skywalker and obi-wan ken-bi. the two jedi challenged dooku to a lightsaber duel, but dooku’s masterful skills in old-style lightsaber combat made short work of the younger combatants. as they lay wounded, another jedi entered into dooku’s secret hangar.

the jedi master yoda confronted dooku. the two engaged in a t-tanic struggle of force powers, neither besting the other. it came down to a contest of lightsabers. in a blurring tangle of speed and light, the two masters of the force dueled. unable to find an advantage, dooku distracted yoda by endangering ken-bi and skywalker with a toppling crane. as yoda used the force to save his fellow jedi, dooku fled.

dooku escaped, with the jedi aware of his succ-mbing to the dark side, but yet still unaware of his sith allegiance. aboard his exotic interstellar sail ship, dooku traveled to a decrepit warehouse district on coruscant. there, he met with his master, darth sidious, and delivered the good news: the clone wars had begun.

for three long years, warfare ripped apart the galaxy. the confederacy and the republic did combat on a wide variety of planets. military command of the droid armies fell to general grievous, the deadly cyborg general that dooku partially trained in the jedi arts. whereas dooku handled a lightsaber with finesse and accuracy, grievous used his bizarre mechanical anatomy to wield up to four lightsabers in a blurring haze of brutal lacerating energy.

at the end of the clone wars, the separatists staged a daring strike against the republic. the confederacy had penetrated coruscant’s defenses and absconded away with the kidnapped chancellor palpatine.

it was all a ruse: palpatine was in fact darth sidious, and dooku was his apprentice. but dooku was unaware of palpatine’s master plan. the kidnapping was a test of a prospective new sith apprentice. blazing onto general grievous’ flagship — the vehicle of escape for dooku and his “captive” — were the jedi heroes obi-wan ken-bi and anakin skywalker. once again dooku dueled with the jedi pair. he bested ken-bi, knocking the jedi unconscious with a brutal force push, but was unable to overpower skywalker. goading the fiery-tempered young man throughout the duel, dooku thought he had the upper hand until anakin outmaneuvered him.

skywalker severed both of dooku’s hands and sn-tched the sith lord’s red-bladed weapon. dooku fell to his knees before skywalker, who was now holding two lightsabers at his throat. “kill him,” advised palpatine — and dooku fully realized that treachery was the way of the sith. he was expendable, dooku realized. skywalker was the true prize, the gifted apprentice, the new sith.

this understanding awakened in him as skywalker crossed his blades, severing dooku’s head.
count dooku star wars episodes ii and iii
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to defecate. as seen in the venture bros. episode “victor. echo. november.”
henchman 21: get out of here… i have to take a count dooku.
a ridiculously small bearded p-n-s.

some refer to it as, “the count”, or just plainly “dooku”.
“nancy: hey brian, it looks like the count’s come out to play”

“karen: for gods sake craig, i can see your dooku from here.
craig: i like to put it on show. i like the attention i get.”

“morgan freeman: everybody run! it’s count dooku!”