Darth Vader

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Darth Vader
Star Wars character
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First appearance  Star Wars (1977)
Created by  George Lucas
Portrayed by
Voiced by
In-universe information
Full name Anakin Skywalker
Occupation
Affiliation
Weapon Lightsaber
Family Shmi Skywalker (mother)
Spouse Padmé Amidala (wife)
Children Luke Skywalker (son)
Leia Organa Solo (daughter)
Relatives Ben Solo (grandson)
Master
Apprentice Ahsoka Tano
Homeworld Tatooine

Darth Vader is a character in the Star Wars franchise. He is the primary antagonist of the original film trilogy and, as Anakin Skywalker, is the protagonist of the prequel trilogy. Born a slave on the planet Tatooine, he becomes a powerful Jedi. He is lured to the dark side of the Force by Chancellor Palpatine, and becomes the Sith Lord Darth Vader. After being severely wounded in a lightsaber battle, he is transformed into a cyborg. He is the husband of Padmé Amidala and the biological father of Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa Solo. [1] [2] [3]

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David Prowse physically portrayed Vader in the original trilogy, while James Earl Jones provided his voice in all of the films and some television series. Sebastian Shaw portrayed the unmasked Anakin in Return of the Jedi , as well as the character's spirit in the original release of that film. Jake Lloyd played young Anakin in The Phantom Menace (1999), while Hayden Christensen portrayed him as a young adult in Attack of the Clones (2002) and Revenge of the Sith (2005). Christensen also played Anakin in post-2004 releases of Return of the Jedi and in the series Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022) and Ahsoka (2023). In the standalone film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Vader is portrayed by Spencer Wilding and Daniel Naprous. Vader has also appeared in books, comics, and video games. He has become an iconic villain of cinema. [4] [5] [6]

Profile

Darth Vader began life as Anakin Skywalker. He and his mother Shmi were slaves owned by the junk dealer Watto on Tatooine. The Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn orchestrated Anakin's liberation, hoping to train him as a Jedi. The Jedi Council at first denied Anakin entry, but eventually allowed him to become an apprentice of Obi-Wan Kenobi. [7]

Anakin was assigned to protect Senator Padmé Amidala. He fell in love with her, despite a Jedi Code prohibition against romantic relationships. At the same time, Anakin began having visions of his mother dying. He travelled to Tatooine, and found that she had been kidnapped by Tusken Raiders. She died in his arms, which led Anakin to slaughter every Tusken in sight. After fighting in several battles related to the Clone Wars, Anakin married Padmé in a secret ceremony. [7]

As the Clone Wars continued, Anakin became a hero. He also grew vastly in power, and Jedi Master Yoda assigned him an apprentice, Ahsoka Tano. When Anakin discovered that Padmé was pregnant, he had visions of her dying in childbirth. As Anakin's anxiety grew, Palpatine told him a Sith legend about people with the ability to prevent death. Entranced, Anakin was desperate to learn this power. Palpatine revealed himself to be a Sith Lord, Darth Sidious, and promised to train Anakin in the ways of the dark side. [7]

Anakin succumbed to this temptation, maiming former ally Mace Windu to save Palpatine, who claimed the mantle of Emperor. As Darth Vader, Anakin led the Empire’s eradication of the Jedi Order. He told Padmé of his plan to overthrow Palpatine and rule the galaxy with her, but the idea repulsed her. When Vader found Obi-Wan hiding on his ship, he believed his wife had betrayed him, and he choked her into unconsciousness. He then dueled with Obi-Wan, and was dismembered and severely burned. Recovered on the banks of a lava flow by Palpatine, Vader was encased in mechanical black armor that kept him alive. Padmé died after giving birth to twins – Luke and Leia – and Vader was heartbroken. Obi-Wan hid the children from their father, and they grew up without any knowledge of him. [7] [8]

The emergence of the Empire gave rise to a Rebellion. As Palpatine's enforcer, Vader hunted the Rebels throughout the galaxy, eventually learning that his son Luke was among them. After battling his son in Cloud City, Vader revealed that he was Luke's father. The two met again when Luke—now a Jedi Knight himself—surrendered to Imperial troops on Endor, hoping to bring his father back from the dark side of the Force. Vader resisted and brought his son to Palpatine, who invited Luke to join the dark side. Luke refused, and Palpatine began torturing him with Force lightning. Luke's compassion awakened the long-dormant goodness in Vader, and he saved Luke from Palpatine before killing the Emperor. Mortally wounded, Vader shared a final moment of reconciliation with his son. As Luke and his friends celebrated the end of the Empire, Anakin returned as a Force spirit to watch over them. [9] [7]

Creation

Originally, Lucas imagined the Sith as a group that served the Emperor in the same way that the paramilitary Schutzstaffel served Adolf Hitler. While developing the backstory for The Empire Strikes Back, Lucas condensed the group into one character in the form of Vader. [10] As part of the development for A New Hope, Lucas hired the artist Ralph McQuarrie to create conceptual images for characters. For Vader, Lucas asked McQuarrie to depict a "very tall, dark fluttering figure that had a spooky feeling like it came in on the wind." [11] Lucas also wanted the character to wear a cape and samurai armor.[ citation needed ] Because the script described Vader traveling between spaceships, McQuarrie suggested that he should wear a space suit. Lucas agreed, and McQuarrie created Vader's iconic mask by combining a full-face breathing mask with a samurai helmet. [12] [11] McQuarrie's 1975 production painting of Vader engaged in a lightsaber duel with Deak Starkiller (who later became Luke Skywalker) depicts the former wearing black armor, a flowing cape and a skull-like mask and helmet. This initial design was similar to Vader's final appearance. [13]

Working from McQuarrie's concepts, the costume designer John Mollo devised an outfit that included clerical robes, a motorcycle suit, a German military helmet and a military gas mask. [14] The prop sculptor Brian Muir created the helmet and armor. [15] The sound of Vader's breathing was created by the sound designer Ben Burtt using modified recordings of a scuba breathing apparatus. [16] The sound effect is trademarked at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. [17]

Lucas has provided differing accounts of how the name "Darth Vader" originated. In a 2005 interview with Rolling Stone , he claimed it was a modified version of "Dark Father." [18] On another occasion, he said it was inspired by the phrase "Dark Water". [19] It is also possible that "Darth Vader" originated from the name of Gary Vader, a boy who went to high school with Lucas. [20]

Although "Darth" is a title, and not a first name, this is not made clear in the first Star Wars film from 1977 (which was titled Star Wars, then later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope). In that film, Obi-Wan Kenobi addresses Vader as "Darth", and in the credits he is referred to as Lord Darth Vader, which seems to imply that his title is "Lord", his first name is "Darth", and his last name is "Vader". The prequel trilogy, however, makes it clear that "Darth" is a title for Sith Lords, such as Darth Sidious, Darth Maul, and Darth Tyranus. When Anakin turns to the dark side of the Force in Revenge of the Sith, he is given the title "Darth" and the name "Vader".[ citation needed ]

Director Ken Annakin's films Swiss Family Robinson and Battle of the Bulge influenced the original trilogy, leading some to believe that Anakin Skywalker was named after him. [21] Lucas's publicist has denied this claim, however. [22] Anakin and Luke's original surname was "Starkiller", and it remained in the script until a few months into filming A New Hope.[ citation needed ] It was dropped due to what Lucas called "unpleasant connotations" with Charles Manson, who had murdered actress Sharon Tate in the late 1960s (making him a "star killer"). Lucas replaced the problematic name "Starkiller" with "Skywalker". [23] [lower-alpha 25]

In France, Darth Vader's name was changed to Dark Vador starting with A New Hope. [25] [26] In Italian-language films, the character is named Dart Fener. In 2005, before the release of Revenge of the Sith, an online survey asked Italian fans whether they would rather maintain the Italian name or switch it to the original; the Italian version prevailed. Ahead of the 2015 release of The Force Awakens , however, the name was changed to "Darth Vader". [27] In Iceland, Vader's name is Svarthöfði, which means "black-head". [28]

Character development

After the success of A New Hope, Lucas began working on a sequel, which was eventually titled The Empire Strikes Back. By November 1977, he had produced a handwritten treatment. He wrote, "When we kill [Vader] off in the [third film], we'll reveal ... [h]e wants to be human—he's still fighting in his own way the dark side of the Force." Lucas considered introducing a new lair for Vader to replace the Death Star, such as an Imperial city, a cave, a tower surrounded by lava, or "a little castle on a rock in the middle of the ocean". [29] [lower-alpha 26]

After writing the second and third drafts of Empire, Lucas reviewed the new backstory he had created: Anakin had been Obi-Wan's brilliant student and had a child named Luke, but was drawn to the dark side by Palpatine. Anakin battled Obi-Wan on a volcano and was badly wounded, and then was reborn as Vader. Obi-Wan hid Luke on Tatooine while the Galactic Republic became the tyrannical Galactic Empire, and Vader systematically hunted down and killed the Jedi. [30] When filming The Empire Strikes Back, Lucas kept secret the plot twist that Vader is Luke's father, to avoid the revelation being leaked to the public.[ citation needed ]

After deciding to create the prequel trilogy, Lucas indicated that the story arc would be a tragic one depicting Anakin's fall to the dark side. He also saw that the prequels could form the beginning of one long story that started with Anakin's childhood and ended with his death, in what he has termed "the tragedy of Darth Vader". [31] For the first prequel, The Phantom Menace, Lucas made Anakin nine years old [32] [lower-alpha 27] to make the character's separation from his mother more poignant. [34] The film introduced the concept that he is the Chosen One of an ancient Jedi prophecy, destined to bring balance to the Force. [35] Lucas stated in an interview recorded around the time of the third prequel, Revenge of the Sith, that "Anakin is the Chosen One. Even when Anakin turns into Darth Vader, he is still the Chosen One." [36] [37] Christensen spoke about Vader's role in the six-film saga: "He believes that he's the Chosen One. He's not doing wrong things knowing that it's having a negative impact. So there's that sort of naivety to him now that wasn't there before, and it makes him more human in a lot of ways." [37]

A wax sculpture of Anakin Skywalker at the Madame Tussauds museum in London Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker.jpg
A wax sculpture of Anakin Skywalker at the Madame Tussauds museum in London

Michael Kaminski offers evidence that issues in Anakin's fall to the dark side prompted Lucas to make fundamental story changes, first revising the opening sequence of Revenge of the Sith to have Palpatine kidnapped and his apprentice, Count Dooku, killed by Anakin in cold blood as the first act in the latter's turn towards the dark side. [38] After principal photography was complete in 2003, Lucas re-wrote Anakin's transition to the dark side; his fall would now be motivated by a desire to save his wife, Padmé, rather than the previous version in which that reason was one of several, including that he genuinely believed that the Jedi were plotting to take over the Republic. This fundamental re-write was accomplished both through editing the principal footage, and new and revised scenes filmed during pick-ups in 2004. [39]

During production of the animated series The Clone Wars, the character Ahsoka Tano was developed to illustrate how Anakin develops from the brash, undisciplined apprentice in Attack of the Clones to the more reserved Jedi Knight in Revenge of the Sith. [40] Dave Filoni, the supervising director of The Clone Wars, said that giving Anakin an apprentice forced him to become more cautious and responsible. [41] [42] [43] [44] [45]

Portrayals

As Darth Vader

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Left to right: David Prowse, James Earl Jones, and Hayden Christensen

David Prowse, a 6-foot-6-inch (1.98 m) bodybuilder and actor, portrayed Vader in the original trilogy. Prowse was originally offered the role of Chewbacca, but turned it down, as he wanted to play the villain. [46] Bob Anderson, a former Olympic fencer, portrayed Vader during lightsaber fight scenes in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. [47] Lucas chose to have a different actor provide Vader's voice, because he felt Prowse's West Country English accent was inappropriate for the character. [48] The director originally considered Orson Welles for Vader's voice, but selected James Earl Jones instead after deciding that Welles's voice would be too recognizable to audiences. [49] [50] Jones initially felt his role was too small to warrant recognition, and he chose to be uncredited in A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back. He was finally credited in Return of the Jedi in 1983. [51] [48]

Hayden Christensen portrayed Vader in Revenge of the Sith, while Brock Peters provided his voice in the Star Wars radio series. [52] [53] Matt Sloan and Scott Lawrence have portrayed Vader in video games, and Sloan has also voiced the character in short films. Both Spencer Wilding and Daniel Naprous played Vader in Rogue One, with Jones providing the voice. [54] Jones also voiced Vader in the animated series Star Wars Rebels . [55] [56] In September 2022, it was confirmed that Jones would retire from voicing Vader. Jones's voice was digitally recreated by the company Respeecher for use in the series Obi-Wan Kenobi, and he later signed over the rights to his voice for future Star Wars productions. [57] [58]

As Anakin Skywalker

For Return of the Jedi, the casting crew sought an experienced actor for the role of Anakin Skywalker, since his death was unquestionably the emotional climax of the film. Sebastian Shaw was selected for the role. [59] [60] His presence on set was kept secret from all but the minimum cast and crew, and Shaw was contractually obligated not to discuss any film secrets with anyone, even his family. [59] Lucas personally directed Shaw for his appearance in the final scene of the film, in which he plays Anakin's Force spirit. Shaw's likeness in this scene was replaced with that of Christensen in the 2004 DVD release. This attempt to tie the prequel and original trilogies together was one of the most controversial changes in a Star Wars re-release. [61] Shaw received more fan mail and autograph requests related to Return of the Jedi than he had for any other role in his career. [59]

When The Phantom Menace was being developed, hundreds of actors were tested for the role of young Anakin before Jake Lloyd was cast. [62] Producer Rick McCallum said that Lloyd was "smart, mischievous and love[d] anything mechanical—just like Anakin." [63] [64] For Attack of the Clones, casting director Robin Gurland reviewed about 1,500 candidates for the role of young-adult Anakin. Lucas eventually selected Christensen, reportedly because he and Natalie Portman (who plays Padmé) "looked good together". [65] [66] Anakin was voiced by Mat Lucas in the 2003 animated micro-series Star Wars: Clone Wars . He was voiced by Matt Lanter in the animated series The Clone Wars , Star Wars Rebels and Star Wars Forces of Destiny . [67] Lanter also voiced the character in the film version of The Clone Wars. During the second-season finale of Rebels, Lanter's voice is sometimes blended with the voice of Jones. [68]

Appearances in the official canon

Films

TitleYearPersonaActorVoice
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope [69] 1977VaderDavid ProwseJames Earl Jones
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back 1980VaderDavid ProwseJames Earl Jones
Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi 1983VaderDavid ProwseJames Earl Jones
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace 1999AnakinJake LloydJake Lloyd
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones 2002AnakinHayden ChristensenHayden Christensen
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith 2005Anakin, VaderHayden ChristensenChristensen, Jones
Star Wars: The Clone Wars 2008Anakin—Matt Lanter
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 2016VaderSpencer Wilding, Daniel NaprousJames Earl Jones

Live-action series

TitleTypeYearPersonaActorVoice
Obi-Wan Kenobi [69] Television miniseries2022Anakin, VaderHayden ChristensenJames Earl Jones
Ahsoka Television series2023AnakinHayden ChristensenHayden Christensen

Animated series

TitleTypeYearPersonaVoice
Star Wars: Clone Wars [69] Television series2003 [lower-alpha 28] AnakinMat Lucas, [lower-alpha 29] Frankie Ryan Mariquez [lower-alpha 30]
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Television series2008 [lower-alpha 31] Anakin, Vader [lower-alpha 32] Matt Lanter
Star Wars Rebels Television series2014 [lower-alpha 33] Anakin, VaderMatt Lanter, [lower-alpha 34] James Earl Jones [lower-alpha 35]
Star Wars Forces of Destiny Web series2017 [lower-alpha 36] AnakinMatt Lanter

Novels

TitleYearAuthorPersonaReferences
Star Wars: Tarkin 2014 James Luceno Vader [69] [70]
Star Wars: Lords of the Sith 2015 Paul S. Kemp Vader [71] [72]
Thrawn: Alliances 2018 Timothy Zahn Anakin, Vader [73]

Comics

TitleYearWriterPersonaReferences
Star Wars 2015 Jason Aaron, Kieron Gillen, Greg Pak, Charles Soule Vader [69] [74]
Darth Vader2015–2016Kieron GillenVader [75] [76] [77]
Vader Down2016Jason Aaron, Kieron GillenVader [78]
Obi-Wan & Anakin2016Charles SouleAnakin [79]
Darth Vader [lower-alpha 37] 2017–2018Charles SouleVader [80]
Vader: Dark Visions2019 Dennis Hopeless Vader [81]
Star Wars: Darth Vader2020Greg PakVader [82]
Darth Vader: Black, White & Red2023 Peach Momoko, Torunn Gronbekk, Jason AaronVader [83]

Video games

TitleYearPersonaVoiceReferences
Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series 2019VaderScott Lawrence [84] [85]
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order 2019VaderScott Lawrence [84]
Star Wars: Squadrons 2020VaderScott Lawrence [84]
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor 2023VaderScott Lawrence [84]

Appearances outside the official canon

Books

TitleTypeYearAuthorPersona
Splinter of the Mind's Eye Novel1978 Alan Dean Foster Vader
The Glove of Darth Vader Novel1992 Paul Davids, Hollace DavidsVader
The Truce at Bakura Novel1993 Kathy Tyers Anakin
Shadows of the Empire Novel1996 Steve Perry Vader
Rogue Planet Novel2000 Greg Bear Anakin
Jedi Quest (series)Novel2001–2004 Jude Watson Anakin
The Unifying Force Novel2003James LucenoAnakin
Labyrinth of Evil Novel2005James LucenoAnakin
Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader Novel2005James LucenoVader
Darth Vader and SonChildren's book2012 Jeffrey Brown Vader
Vader’s Little PrincessChildren's book2013Jeffrey BrownVader
Goodnight Darth VaderChildren's book2014Jeffrey BrownVader

Comics

TitleYearPersona
Star Wars 1977–1986Vader
Star Wars: Republic 1998–2006Anakin
Boba Fett: Enemy of the Empire1999Vader
Vader's Quest 1999Vader
Star Wars Tales 1999–2005Anakin, Vader
Resurrection 2001Vader
Star Wars: Empire 2002–2005Vader
Star Wars: Dark Times 2006–2013Vader
Darth Vader and the Lost Command2011Vader
Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison2012Vader
Darth Vader and the Cry of Shadows2013–14Vader

Television

TitleYearPersonaVoiceReferences
Star Wars Holiday Special 1978VaderJames Earl Jones [86]
The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special 2020VaderMatt Sloan [87]
Lego Star Wars: Terrifying Tales 2021VaderMatt Sloan [87]
Lego Star Wars: Summer Vacation 2022VaderMatt Sloan [87]

Video games

Lego Star Wars

TitleYearPersona
Lego Star Wars: The Video Game 2005Anakin, Vader
Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy 2006Anakin, Vader
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga 2007Anakin, Vader
Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars 2011Anakin, Vader
Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens 2016Anakin, Vader
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga [88] 2022Anakin, Vader

Other video games

TitleYearPersonaVoiceReferences
Star Wars: TIE Fighter 1994VaderScott Lawrence [84]
Star Wars: Dark Forces 1995VaderScott Lawrence [84]
Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire 1995Vader
Star Wars: Rebellion 1998VaderScott Lawrence [84]
Star Wars Trilogy Arcade 1998VaderScott Lawrence [84]
Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds 2001VaderScott Lawrence [84]
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader 2001VaderScott Lawrence [84]
Star Wars: Super Bombad Racing 2001VaderScott Lawrence [84]
Star Wars Racer Revenge 2002VaderScott Lawrence [84]
Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike 2003VaderScott Lawrence [84]
Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005) 2005VaderScott Lawrence [84]
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith: The Video Game2005VaderScott Lawrence [84]
Star Wars: Empire at War 2006VaderScott Lawrence [84]
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2008VaderMatt Sloan [89]
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II 2010Vader
Disney Infinity 3.0 2015Vader [90]
Disney Magic Kingdoms 2016Vader [91]
Star Wars: Battlefront II (2017) 2017VaderMatt Sloan [87]

Other appearances

TitleTypeYearPersonaVoice
Star Wars [92] [93] Radio series1981VaderBrock Peters
Lego Star Wars short films (various)Short film2005–2023Anakin, Vader Kirby Morrow (Anakin), Matt Sloan (Vader)

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Episodes IV–VI
  2. ↑ Rogue One
  3. ↑ Rogue One
  4. ↑ Obi-Wan Kenobi
  5. ↑ Shaw appeared as Anakin's Force spirit in the original release of Return of the Jedi (Episode VI). In the 2004re-release, Shaw was replaced by Hayden Christensen.
  6. ↑ Episode I
  7. ↑ Episodes II–III, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ahsoka . Christensen also replaced Shaw as Anakin's Force spirit in the 2004 re-release of Return of the Jedi (Episode VI).
  8. ↑ Episodes III–VI, IX, Rogue One, Star Wars Rebels , Obi-Wan Kenobi
  9. ↑ Radio drama
  10. ↑ The Force Unleashed
  11. ↑ Various video games
  12. ↑ The Clone Wars film and series, Rebels, Forces of Destiny and various video games
  13. ↑ Clone Wars series and various video games
  14. ↑ Clone Wars
  15. ↑ Episode IX
  16. ↑ Lego Star Wars series
  17. ↑ Radio drama
  18. ↑ Episode I
  19. ↑ Episode II
  20. ↑ Episode III , The Clone Wars film and series
  21. ↑ Episode III
  22. ↑ The Clone Wars film
  23. ↑ Episodes III–VI, Rogue One, Rebels, Obi-Wan Kenobi
  24. ↑ Episodes III–VI, Rogue One, Rebels, Obi-Wan Kenobi
  25. ↑ The name "Skywalker" first appeared as Luke's surname in Lucas's 1973 treatment of the film. [24]
  26. ↑ Some of these ideas later resurfaced. The prequel trilogy introduces an Imperial city on the planet Coruscant, while Rogue One and Obi-Wan Kenobi depict Vader's castle on the volcanic planet Mustafar. In the sequel trilogy, Luke hides on an island on the ocean planet Ahch-To.
  27. ↑ Making the character 14 years younger by the time of the original film than A Guide to the Star Wars Universe previously stated [33]
  28. ↑ The series aired for three seasons between 2003 and 2005.
  29. ↑ Voice of adult Anakin
  30. ↑ Voice of child Anakin
  31. ↑ The series aired for seven seasons between 2008 and 2020.
  32. ↑ Vader appears in the series but has no dialogue.
  33. ↑ The series aired for four seasons between 2014 and 2018.
  34. ↑ Voice of Anakin
  35. ↑ Voice of Vader
  36. ↑ The series aired for two seasons between 2017 and 2018.
  37. ↑ Sometimes subtitled Dark Lord of the Sith

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