Anakin Skywalker

Kirby Morrow (adult Anakin in LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles and Droid Tales)

**Anakin Skywalker** is the central protagonist of the prequel trilogy of *Star Wars*. He is also the father of Leia Organa and Luke SKywalker, the son of Shmi Skywalker, stepson of Cliegg Lars, stepbrother of Owen Lars, stepbrother-in-law of Beru Lars.

Through his wife, Padme, Anakin is the maternal uncle of Pooja and Ryoo Naberrie son-in-law of Jobal and Ruwee Naberrie and brother-in-law of Sola Naberrie.

## *Prequel Trilogy*

### *Revenge of the Sith*

Anakin Skywalker, who found out that Darth Sidious is in fact Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, approaches and finds Mace Windu about to kill Sidious. Hesitating, Anakin is shocked when he suddenly betrays Mace Windu before Sidious throws him out the window. Sidious promises to save his pregnant wife from dying in exchange for becoming his apprentice. Tempted, Anakin falls and is rechristened as Darth Vader by Sidious and made into his new apprentice. As Vader, he leads the 501st Legion and slaughters Jedi, including the Younglings and Padawans. Vader killed all the members of the Separatist High Council on Mustafar, where he was was confronted by Padmé and Obi-Wan, whom he enters in a lightsaber duel with. He is left to burn after Obi-Wan bests him in mortal combat and flees the planet with an unconscious Padme.

Vader is found by Clone Troopers and Sidious, who has Vader brought back to Coruscant and being given his iconic suit. Afterwards, Vader asks for Padme's whereabouts, but Sidious reveals that Padme died in his anger, causing Vader to scream in agony at losing his wife and children. What little remained of Anakin was finally gone and Vader's transition towards the dark side is complete.

He later oversees the construction of the Death Star with Wilhuff Tarkin and Sidious.

## *Obi-Wan and Anakin* Comic Book

The comic serves as a bridge between Episode II an Episode II as they explore the planet of Carnelion IV to answer a mysterious distress call. The series also features flashbacks, scattered across every issue, that detail the beginning of Anakin's trust towards Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine. Back when he was a younger Padawan, Anakin once considered leaving the Jedi Order and would soon gain the attention of Palpatine (who was the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sidious). He voices his concerns to his Master, Obi-Wan and offers him his lightsaber. Obi-Wan is not able to change his mind right now because they are needed on a mission. In one of the issues, a young Anakin went into town with Palpatine but made Anakin promise not to tell Obi-Wan or anyone else what really happened However, after the mission, Avalon decided to stay.

## *Original Trilogy*

### *Return of the Jedi*

Anakin is redeemed after saving his son from Sidious' torture and Vader is permanently gone. He becomes one with the Force, but not before making amends with Luke before dying. Anakin becomes a Force ghost, and watches his children celebrate their victory, along with Yoda and Obi Wan.

## *Star Wars The Clone Wars*

### Season 3

During the Mortis arc, Anakin's dark-side persona, Vader appears in a Force vision given to him by the Son on Mortis when he shows him the future on what he will become. However, the Father erases Vader's memories of what events he was shown.

## *Star Wars Rebels*

### Season One

In *Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion*, Vader appears in a cameo at the beginning of the television movie, telling the Grand Inquisitor to hunt down the remaining Jedi, as his Master's command due to an unforeseen threat growing.

After the death of the Grand Inquisitor, Vader appears on Lothal to personally deal with the rebels on Lothal led by Kanan Jarrus, Ezra Bridger and Hera Syndulla. However, unbeknownst to him, Ahsoka has also come out of hiding and returned.

### Season Two

In The Siege of Lothal, Vader and Alexsandr Kallus plot to undermine the rebels and turn the Lothalites against them by staging an assassination attempt on Lothal's Minister, Tua. Later, the rebels try to escape the planet until Vader confronts Jedi Knight Kanan Jarrus and his padawan, Ezra Bridger. He wounds Sabine Wren and engages the Jedi in a brief duel before their friends come to the rescue. He allows them to smuggle themselves out of a TIE but has it tracked to the rebel fleet. During the battle, he senses the presence of Ahsoka among the rebels. Before he can capture the Ghost, the ship makes it into hyperspace and the tractor beam of his Star Destroyer, catches Vader's ship instead. In the aftermath, Vader reveals to Sidious that Anakin Skywalker's apprentice lives and that she could lead them to other Jedi survivors, including Obi-Wan. However, Sidious tells Vader to be patient to serach for his former Master. He sends the Fifth Brother and Seventh Sister to handle the rebels.

During the Seventh Sister and Fifth Brother's hunt, they eventually come across a Jedi temple on Lothal, something which pleases Vader and believes, it will have the same effect on the Emperor. Following the discovery of the Jedi Temple on Lothal, Vader later arrived at the Sith Temple discovered on Malachor after the death of the Inquisitors. Encountering Ezra, he noticed that Ezra had acquired the Sith Holocron on the planet with Darth Maul. He questioned the boy as to how he opened the path to the Malachor Sith Temple; Ezra told him to find out himself and engaged Vader in battle, but the Sith Lord was too strong and easily destroyed Ezra's lightsaber. But before he could finish the boy off, Ahsoka arrived and engaged Vader. He eventually managed to knock Ahsoka out of the Temple and attempted to stop Ezra and a blinded Kanan from escaping. A recovered Ahsoka charged up behind Vader and slashed part of his mask off, knocking him down to the floor and exposing a considerable amount of his disfigured face, including his yellow right eye. Seeing that he really was her former master, Ahsoka refused to leave him again. For a few moments, Ahsoka's compassion appeared to have reached Vader, but he then shrugged it off; coldly declaring that she would die, he then ignited his lightsaber and moved to attack her again. As the pair resumed their battle, the temple collapsed and exploded around them, with Kanan and Ezra barely managing to escape. Vader survived the temple's collapse, but was badly wounded and limped away from the ruins.

### Season Three

In Steps Into Shadow, Vader has moved on to more important manners after having dealt with the Jedi leadership on Malachor. Instead, Grand Admiral Thrawn is called to deal with the rebels.

## *Sequel Trilogy*

### *The Force Awakens*

The film reveals that Anakin's grandson Ben Solo, son of Han Solo and Leia Organa, followed in Vader's footsteps and hoped to finish what his grandfather started. He kept Anakin's shard helmet from when he was Darth Vader.

### *The Rise of Skywalker*

Anakin's Force spirit speaks to Rey, as well as other Jedi of the past. He helps her destroy Sidious by telling her to balance the Force as he did. His grandson, now once again Ben Solo, followed his grandfather's sacrifice by saving Rey from death.