Darth Vader

## Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader

Once the Jedi hero **Anakin Skywalker**, **Darth Vader** (Voiced by Matt Sloan[1]) now serves the Emperor as a Dark Lord of the Sith and an enemy to all who would rebel against the Empire’s tyrannical control. He is highly skilled with a lightsaber and strong with the dark side of the Force, even while sealed within the black mask and armor that keep his scarred body alive. When he brings his captured son Luke Skywalker before the Emperor on board the second Death Star, Vader will have to decide where his loyalty truly lies.

## History

### Life

Darth Vader (formerly Anakin Skywalker) was once a Jedi Knight and expert pilot trained by Obi-Wan Kenobi. After being taken in Qui-Gon Jinn and Kenobi, Chancellor Palpatine, secretly the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, sensed that Anakin had a great power, and befriended him to gain his trust. Ten years later, Anakin and Obi-Wan were reunited with Padmé Amidala, their old friend and a senator from Naboo, to protect her after an assassination attempt by Jango Fett and Zam Wesell. Anakin began to develop romantic feelings for Padmé, feelings which eventually became mutual. They soon secretly married on Naboo. Sometime later, Padmé revealed she was pregnant, and Anakin began to have nightmares which depicted Padmé dying in child labour, in a similar fashion to the nightmares he experienced before his mother was killed. Chancellor Palpatine eventually learned of this began to tell Anakin a story of a Sith Lord, Darth Plagueis, who allegedly could prevent death. Anakin, immediately thinking of Padmé, became very interested in the story. Later on, Palpatine revealed himself as Darth Sidious, which led Anakin to report him to Jedi Master Windu. Windu and Palpatine became engaged in a duel, which Anakin showed up to after realising that with Palpatine's death, the knowledge of the Dark Side of the Force required to keep Padmé from dying would be lost. Anakin gave into his emotions for Padmé and attacked Windu, saving Palpatine, who finished the former off.

After killing Windu, Anakin offered himself to become Palpatine's apprentice, becoming Darth Vader. Palpatine then sent Vader to the Jedi Temple to kill all the Jedi within it. Vader complied and did as he was instructed, and then sent was sent to Mustafar to assassinate the Separatist leaders Nute Gunray and Poggle the Lesser. Obi-Wan eventually figured out that Anakin had murdered the Jedi in the temple and headed to Mustafar with Padmé, in an effort to bring him to his senses. Initially, Vader believed that Padmé had come alone, and told her that he was doing it all to save her. However, after noticing Obi-Wan, he choked Padmé unconscious and initiated a duel with his former Jedi Master. Obi-Wan defeated him, severing Vader's left arm and both legs, leaving him for dead on Mustafar. Vader was severely burned and disfigured by the magma of the volcanic planet. Palpatine, now the Emperor of the first Galactic Empire, sensed the Vader was in danger and rescued him. Palpatine returned with him to Coruscant, where he was given new cybernetic limbs and an armoured suit with a life support system. To remove Padmé from Vader's life, Palpatine told him that Padmé had died as a result of being choked during the duel on Mustafar, which prompted Vader to become enraged and distraught. He destroyed all the medical equipment in the room using the Force. Palpatine, amazed by what Vader had done, realised that Vader was an incredible asset. However, unbeknownst to the both of them, Padmé had actually died of a broken heart after giving birth to Vader's children, Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa.

Vader soon became a feared leader of the Galactic Empire, second only to the Emperor. Two decades later, the plans for the Galactic Empire's superweapon, the Death Star, were stolen by Rebels who had infiltrated the Death Star. Suspecting something about the *Tantive IV*, Darth Vader captured the ship with a Star Destroyer and had Imperial Stormtroopers raid it. After the Stormtroopers neutralised the Rebel troopers on-board, Vader killed Captain Raymus Antilles and captured Princess Leia, who he suspected of being a Rebel. Vader returned to the Death Star with the princess and imprisoned her in the Death Star's detention block. The Princess had stored the plans on R2-D2, an astromech droid. R2-D2 and C-3PO both managed to escape from the *Tantive-IV* and crash-landed on Tatooine, which led Darth Vader to send troops to Tatooine. They eventually traced the droids to the Jawas and their Sandcrawler, and killed them after learning that they had sold them to Owen Lars. Lars was Vader's step-brother, and unbeknownst to Vader, the man that was caring for his son, Luke Skywalker. Imperial Stormtroopers raided Owen Lars' farm in search for the droids, killing him and his wife. With his family killed and home destroyed, Luke decided to join Ben Kenobi and become a Jedi. Kenobi told Luke about his father, saying that his father was Anakin Skywalker, a great Jedi and amazing pilot, who was supposedly killed by Vader, another one of Kenobi's apprentices. Some time later, the Death Star was infiltrated by Luke Skywalker, Ben Kenobi, Han Solo, Chewbacca, C-3PO and R2-D2. Darth Vader soon sensed Obi-Wan's presence on the space station, and set out to look for him. Vader and Obi-Wan eventually ran into each other, and began to duel. The small band of Rebels managed to rescue the princess, however, Obi-Wan stayed behind and sacrificed himself to allow the others to escape. Vader killed Obi-Wan, turning him into a Force ghost. With Princess Leia free, she managed to retrieve the plans for the Death Star which she had hidden on R2-D2. The Rebels then launched an attack on the Death Star, which Vader personally fought in in his TIE Advanced. Vader killed several Rebel pilots, but was unable to stop Luke from shooting proton bombs into the reactor core of the Death Star. The Death Star was destroyed, but Vader was inadvertently saved by Han Solo when Solo shot Vader's armoured TIE Advanced, which sent him spiraling into space.

Between the events of *Episode IV: A New Hope* and *Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back*, Vader became aware that Luke Skywalker was his son with Padmé. Vader then became obsessed with finding his son, and after three years, found him hiding on the remote Rebel base on Hoth. Vader launched an attack on the Hoth Rebel base, and after the Imperial Army subdued the Rebels, Vader personally entered the base to search for Luke. However, Luke escaped, bound for Dagobah in search for Jedi Master Yoda. Instead of pursuing Luke, Vader pursued Leia, Han, Chewbacca and C-3PO in the *Millennium Falcon* into an asteroid field, but turns around after Emperor Palpatine requests to speak to him. Palpatine warns Vader that Luke is a threat to the empire and must be destroyed. However, Vader instead suggests that Luke would be a powerful ally, to which Palpatine agrees. Vader then hired bounty hunters Boba Fett, Dengar, IG-88, and Bossk to find the *Millennium Falcon*, which was actually hiding on the outside of the Star Destroyer they were on. Vader was later informed by Lando Calrissian that Han Solo and the others were coming to Cloud City on Bespin. The Imperial Navy and Stormtrooper Corps. were stationed in Cloud City, hiding in various places. Lando arranged a trap for the Rebel band to meet with Vader, after which they were captured. Vader ordered for them to be tortured, so that Luke would sense their suffering and come to their rescue, as part of a trap. Vader planned to freeze Luke in a block of carbonite, but after Lando informed him that the carbonite freezer was only intended for cargo, Vader tested it on Han instead. Han survived, frozen in a block of carbonite, and handed him over to Boba Fett. After Luke became aware of his friends' suffering, he stopped training with Master Yoda and left for Bespin against the will of Yoda and Ben Kenobi, who insisted that he was not strong enough to face Vader yet. After freeing his friends, Luke went to face Vader in the carbon freezing chamber. They dueled and Vader eventually managed to push Luke into the carbon freezer, but he escaped before he could be frozen and continued to fight. They eventually came to a narrow catwalk, where Vader managed to cut off Luke's right hand. Forced onto the edge of the catwalk, Luke was trapped by Vader, and told Luke that he was his father. Vader then asked a horrified Luke to join the Dark Side and defeat Emperor Palpatine, but Luke refused and instead chose to fall into the abyss below them. However, Luke survived and was rescued by Lando and Leia in the *Millennium Falcon*. Vader then began to telepathically communicate with his son, again asking him to join him.

Six months later, Vader landed on the secret under-construction Death Star II, and ordered the commander to continue with construction as Emperor Palpatine himself was coming to supervise the final stages of construction. A while later, Emperor Palpatine arrived on the Death Star, and told Vader that only together could they turn Luke to the Dark Side. On Dagobah, Master Yoda died of old age in the presence of Luke, after verifying to him that Vader is indeed his father and that there was another Skywalker. As Luke headed back to his X-wing to leave Dagobah, the spirit of Ben Kenobi presented himself to Luke and told him that Vader was once Anakin Skywalker, and that the other Skywalker was his sister. Luke quickly realised that Princess Leia was his sister, the other Skywalker, which Kenobi confirmed. After joining the Ewok tribe on Endor, Luke informed Leia that she was his sister and Vader was their father. Luke then surrendered to the Imperial Army and was turned over to Vader, where they briefly spoke. They then boarded Vader's shuttle and returned to the Death Star to meet the Emperor. Emperor Palpatine revealed to Luke that he had allowed the Rebels to find out the location of the space station and the shield, and that it was all a trap to crush the rebellion. The Battle of Endor then began, with Luke, Vader, and the Emperor watching from the throne room. Throughout the battle, Palpatine and Vader try to talk Luke into joining them, which fails. However, the Emperor's taunting eventually enrages Luke, and he grabs a lightsaber to kill the "defenseless" Emperor. Vader immediately intervenes, and a long duel ensues in the throne room. Vader continues to ask Luke to join him, and he again refuses, but since Luke's fighting was fuelled by his emotions, Vader managed to sense that Luke had a sister, Leia, who he did not recognise as his daughter. They continued to fight until Luke finally got the upper hand and severed Vader's cybernetic right hand. Noticing the parallels between him and his father, Luke does not kill his father and instead proclaims to the Emperor that he is a Jedi Knight. Enraged, the Emperor begins to slowly electrocute Luke with his Force Lightning. Luke pleas to his father to save him, but Vader simply stands and watches. However, after watching his son be tortured in front of him for too long, Vader realises that his love for his son is greater than his loyalty to the Emperor, and throws the screaming Emperor into the Death Star's reactor shaft. However, Palpatine's Force Lightning damaged Vader's life support system, leaving him injured. Realising that death was inevitable, Vader asked Luke to remove his mask so that he could see him with his own eyes before he died. The two shared an emotional moment, before Vader peacefully died of his old injuries. Luke took Vader's body into his Imperial Shuttle and escaped from the Death Star moments before it was destroyed. Later, Luke cremated his father's body in a funeral pyre as was Jedi custom. During the celebrations across the galaxy on the Galactic Empire's defeat, Master Yoda, Ben Kenobi, and Vader, reformed as Anakin Skywalker once again, appeared to Luke as Force Spirits.

### Lego Crossover

Darth Vader first appeared when the Elemental Masters and serveral allies come tough a portal, serveral villains also sneaked in including Darth Vader. He was present when Mallock the Malgin come to help them.

## Trivia

* Darth Vader's minifigure has been redesigned 13 times, including a chrome-ish black style.
* A red version of Darth Vader's helmet was produced by LEGO for mould testing; however, it was not included in any sets. This colour version is available via Bricklink, giving it the liberty of being considered an official LEGO part. It is the exact same part as Darth Vader's original helmet, except it is the colour of red.

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## Gallery

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## References

1. ↑ https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/tv-shows/Lego-Star-Wars-The-Yoda-Chronicles/Darth-Vader/