Anakin Skywalker

## Behind the Scenes

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**Anakin Skywalker** is a one of the major protagonists in the *Star Wars* universe as one of the three main protagonists of the *Skywalker Saga* in the franchise, being the protagonist of the prequel series. At the age of nine, Anakin became a Jedi Padawan and rose to the ranks until finally reaching the rank of Jedi Knight. He is the secret husband of Padmé Amidala, father of Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa, and the grandfather of Kylo Ren, and he is the Jedi master of Ahsoka Tano until she eventually left the Jedi Order.

After his wife became pregnant, Anakin finally fell to the dark side of the Force to save her from dying, being named **Darth Vader**, the new apprentice of Darth Sidious until his redemption by saving his son from the Emperor.

## Biography

### *Star Wars: The Phantom Menace*

In this film, Anakin Skywalker who meets Qui-Gon Jinn, Padme Amidala, and Jar Jar Binks who wander into his master, Watto. He offers to help them with their ship parts by entering his own podracer in the competition. During their time on Tatooine, Qui-Gon becomes close with Anakin, up to the point he is convinced Anakin is the Chosen one. Anakin wins his freedom in a podrace, tearfully parts with his mother. On Anakin and Qui-Gon's way back to the ship, they are suddenly attacked by a dark and mysterious figure suspiciously talented in the ways of the Sith. Anakin is initially terrified of the warrior until Qui-Gon yells for him to reach the ship. Making it to the ship, he warns everyone on board of Qui Gon's fight with Maul. The crew saves Qui-Gon, who introduces Anakin to his apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi.

When they reach Coruscant, Anakin is left in the Queen's group of companions, unknowingly encountering Darth Sidious (known as Sheev Palpatine to the public). Qui-Gon takes Anakin to the Jedi Council, who forbid training on the grounds because the boy's future is clouded by the fear he exhibits. Instead, Anakin accompanies Padme, Jar Jar, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan to Naboo, where Padme wins the love of the Gungans. During the Invasion of Naboo, Anakin was told by Qui-Gon to remain in one of the starships, as he and Obi-Wan faced Darth Maul. Using his piloting skills, Anakin destroys the Trade Federation's command ship. However, after the battle, he learned Qui-Gon was killed in a three-way duel between him, Obi-Wan and Darth Maul. During Qui-Gon's funeral, Obi-Wan informs Anakin he will now look after the boy as his padawan and promises he will become a Jedi.

Afterwards, the Republic's Supreme Chancellor, befriends the boy, telling him that "we will watch your career with great interest".

### Star Wars: Attack of the Clones

Ten years afterwards, Anakin and Obi-Wan are told by Palpatine to investigate an assassination attempt made on Padmé, who is now a senator following her term as Queen of Naboo expiring. Anakin and Obi-Wan locate the assassin, but before they can board a ship, Obi-Wan hurls himself out the window and onto a droid. Fortunately, Anakin "borrows" an air speeder and he is able to rescue him. With that, the two are able to chase down the assassin, but fail to learn her identity when she is shot by her own employer with a toxic dart that poisons and kills her in seconds. Being assigned to protect Padme, Anakin travels with her to Naboo, where they fall in love. In the mix, Anakin has a vision of his mother in pain, and goes to Tatooine, where he learns that Shmi had been kidnapped by Tusken Raiders weeks ago. He goes to the Tusken camp, where he discovers his mother has been tortured beyond saving by the tribe; she dies in his arms. Heartbroken, Anakin flies into a violent rage and slaughters every single Tusken Raider; men, women, and even children.

He returns with his mother's body, and tearfully confesses his deed to Padmé, who comforts him and forgives him for acting upon his emotions. Soon after, Anakin and Padmé travel to Geonosis, hoping to rescue Obi-Wan from Jedi-turned-Sith Lord Count Dooku and his army of battle droids and Geonosians; instead, they end up in a droid factory and are captured and sentenced to death. Anakin and Padmé profess their love for each other before being transported into the arena. After fighting the Reek turned loose on him, Anakin and his friends are rescued by an army of clone troopers and Jedi. After fighting in a fierce battle, Anakin and Obi-Wan follow Dooku to a hangar and confront the Sith Lord, only to be electrocuted by Force Lightning. When he recovers, Anakin loses his right forearm in a lightsaber duel with him; it is later replaced with a prosthetic. Anakin and Padmé then marry in a secret ceremony.

### Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith

Three years later, Anakin is now a Jedi Knight and hero of the Clone Wars. He and Obi-Wan lead an attempt to rescue Palpatine, who has been captured by Count Dooku and Separatist commander General Grievous and taken to the Separatist flagship, *Invisible Hand*. During the rescue, Anakin defeats Dooku in a lightsaber duel and executes him in cold blood at Palpatine's urging. When he returns to Coruscant, he meets with Padmé, who tells him she is pregnant with his child. That night, he has a vision of Padmé dying in childbirth; he fears it will come true, as it is similar to the visions he had of his mother before her death.

Meanwhile, Palpatine names Anakin his personal representative on the Jedi Council. The Council, suspicious of Palpatine's near-dictatorial power in the Senate, denies Anakin the rank of Jedi Master, and orders him to spy on Palpatine, whom Anakin considers a friend and mentor. Confused and angered by the perceived snub and the instructions to commit what he believes to be treason; Anakin continues to lose faith in the Jedi.

Eventually, Obi-Wan engages General Grievous on the planet Utapau, and Anakin is sent to inspect the Chancellor's reaction. During their chat, Palpatine reveals to Anakin that he is Darth Sidious, the Sith mastermind behind the war, and that the dark side of the Force holds the power to save Padmé's life. 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 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.

### Star Wars: A New Hope

Shortly afterwards, Vader is charged with recovering the stolen plans of the Death Star and finding the Rebel Alliance's secret base. He and the storm troopers attack the ship owned by Princess Leia, who was in fact his own daughter. He captures and "interrogates" Princess Leia and, along with Death Star Commander Governor Tarkin, destroys her homeworld of Alderaan. Shortly afterward, he duels his former master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, who has arrived at the Death Star to rescue Leia, and cuts him down, turning him into a spirit in the Force. He then encounters his son, Luke, during the Battle of Yavin, and senses in him a great strength in the Force; this is confirmed moments later when the boy destroys the battle station. He was about to shoot Luke down using his TIE fighter, but Han Solo disabled his ship using the guns on the Millennium Falcon, and sent Vader spinning into space. The Death Star was then destroyed by Luke's torpedo, forcing construction of a second one.

When Obi-Wan told Luke about Vader and his father, instead of revealing Anakin's fall from grace, Obi-Wan instead said that Anakin and Vader were separate entities: Anakin was said to be his friend while Darth Vader used to be his apprentice until he joined the dark side of the Force, and killed Anakin during the fight. This was the half-truth however, though in some ways, it was true from Obi-Wan's point of view: The statement where Vader killed Luke's father actually refers Anakin's fall from grace where the good inside him almost gone, and Vader was his apprentice right when he was Anakin.

### *Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back*

Three years later, Vader leads an assault on a rebel base on planet Hoth, dispatching probe droids to confirm this. Though the Empire takes the base after a while, Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca and Vader's old droid C-3PO escape in the ship, the *Millennium Falcon*. One scene shows Vader speaking with the Emperor via hologram, when Sidious senses a disturbance in the Force that confirms the rebel Luke Skywalker to be Vader's son. In Cloud City, he strikes a deal with the administrator of Cloud City, Lando Calrissian to give Han over to the bounty hunter Boba Fett. Calrissian, Fett and Vader he captures Leia, Han, Chewbacca, and 3PO on Cloud City to lure Luke into a confrontation. and has Solo frozen in carbonite. Luke, who has been partially trained by Yoda, confronts the Sith Lord in the carbonite chamber, and ignites his lightsaber. Vader does likewise, and Luke attacks him. An increasingly one-sided duel broke out, in which Luke was overwhelmed by lightsaber, Force and strategy time and again, all the while Vader calmly fended off every single attack. Eventually, Luke managed to land a blow on Vader's shoulder. Then, deciding that the duel had gone on long enough, Vader resorted to unleashing the full breadth of his lightsaber skills and brutally overpowers Luke, ending the duel abruptly by cutting off his right hand. Vader then reveals his true identity as Luke's father and offers his son the chance to overthrow the Emperor and rule the galaxy as father and. Luke refuses, throwing himself down a mine shaft. He is sucked into a garbage chute and rescued by Leia, C-3PO, Chewbacca and Lando. He is fitted with a robotic hand to replace the one Vader had cut off.

### *Return of the Jedi*

Sometime later, he was charged with overseeing the completion of the second Death Star. He met with Sidious on board the half-constructed station to plan Luke's turn to the dark side. By this time, Luke had nearly completed his Jedi training, and had learned from a dying Yoda that Vader is indeed his father. He learned about his father's past and fall to the dark side from Obi-Wan's spirit, and also learned that Leia is his sister. On a mission to the forest moon of Endor, Luke surrendered to Imperial troops and is brought to Vader. Luke then talked with his father, insisting there is good in him, which Vader denies. Aboard the second Death Star, Luke resisted the Emperor’s appeals to his anger and fear for his friends, but eventually tried to attack Sidious. Vader stepped in and defended his master, and Luke and his father engaged in a fierce lightsaber duel. This time, they seemed to be evenly matched, but Luke calmly resisted Vader's lulling him to the dark side. However, when Vader telepathically probed his mind, learned of Leia's existence, and threatens to corrupt her instead, Luke snapped. Enraged, Luke violently attacked and very nearly killed Vader, severing his father's mechanical right hand and falls on the floor yelling in pain as Luke points the lightsaber blade near his face. He controlled his anger at the last minute, however, as he looked at Vader's cybernetic hand and then at his own; he realized that he was perilously close to suffering his father's fate.

However, as Luke refuses to become like his father, Sidious attacked Luke with Force Lightning. Vader immediately disappeared and Anakin took his place once again. Anakin is redeemed after saving his son from Sidious' torture and Vader is permanently gone. As Luke drags his father out of the Star Destroyer, Anakin realizes there is not much time left for him and asks to see his son with his own eyes. He tells Luke to inform his sister that he was right before becoming one with the Force. Anakin becomes a Force ghost, and watches his children celebrate their victory, along with Yoda and Obi Wan.

### The Force Awakens

Unfortunately, Vader came with great consequences: his grandson, Ben, fell to the dark side of the Force, as Kylo Ren. Looking at his grandfather's destroyed mask, he promised to finish what his grandfather.

### *The Rise of Skywalker*

Anakin's Force spirit speaks to Rey, as well as another Jedi of the past. He helps her destroy the resurrected Darth 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.

## Navigation

Prequel Trilogy
Mace Windu • Plo Koon • Ki-Adi-Mundi • Saesee Tiin • Adi Gallia • Even Piell • Depa Billaba • Aayla Secura • Cin Drallig • Luminara Unduli • Yaddle • Oppo Rancisis • Yarael Poof • Quinlan Vos • Qui-Gon Jinn • Darth Maul • Finis Valorum • Jar Jar Binks • Padme Amidala • Nute Gunray • Rune Haako • Aurra Sing • Greedo • Sio Bibble • Quarsh Panaka • Ric Olié • Sabé • Rabé • Eirtaé • Saché • Yané • Gungans • Boss Nass • Roos Tarpals • Lyonie • Shmi Skywalker Lars • Watto • Sebulba • Jawas • Tusken Raiders • Bail Organa • Kit Fisto • Shaak Ti • Sifo-Dyas • Coleman Trebor • Stass Allie • Imperial Royal Guard • Ord Free Taa • Barriss Offee • Sly Moore • Count Dooku • Poggle the Lesser • Battle Droids • Jango Fett • Zam Wessel • Kaminoans • Jamillia • Cordé • Versé • Dormé • Royal Naboo Handmaidens • Agen Kolar • Breha Organa • Commander Cody

*Star Wars: The Clone Wars/Rebels*
Ahsoka Tano • Ziro the Hutt • Whorm Loathsom • Rex • Rotta • Wullf Yularen • Ezra Bridger • Hera Syndulla • Chopper • Kanan Jarrus • Zeb Orrelios • Sabine Wren

Anthology
L3-37 • Dryden Vos • Qi'ra • Tobias Beckett • Enfys Nest • Jyn Erso • Cassian Andor • K-2SO • Chirrut Îmwe • Baze Malbus • Bodhi Rook • Saw Gerrera • Galen Erso • Orson Krennic
Original TrilogyLuke Skywalker • Leia Organa • Han Solo • Chewbacca • Jan Dodonna • Wedge Antilles • **Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker** • Darth Sidious • Obi-Wan Kenobi • Wilhuff Tarkin • Boba Fett • Greedo • Jabba the Hutt • Owen and Beru Lars • TIE Pilots • Kendal Ozzel • Firmus Piett • Maximillian Veers • Lorth Needa • Xamuel Lennox • Stormtroopers • Yoda • Mon Mothma • Gial Ackbar • Nien Nunb • Tiaan Jerjerrod • Bossk

Sequel Trilogy
Rey • Finn • Poe Dameron • BB-8 • Kylo Ren • Maz Kanata • Lor San Tekka • Rey's Parents • Snoke • Rose Tico • DJ • First Order Stormtroopers • Captain Phasma • Jannah • D-O • Knights of Ren • Armitage Hux • Sith Troopers • Zorii Bliss

Organizations
Rebel Alliance • Galactic Empire • Jedi • Confederacy of Independent Systems • Sith • Galactic Republic • First Order • Resistance • New Republic • Knights of Ren