Darth Vader

Darth Vader
Star Wars character
First appearance	Star Wars (1977)
Created by	George Lucas
Portrayed by	Darth Vader:  David Prowse [a]  Spencer Wilding [b]  Daniel Naprous [c]  Hayden Christensen [d]  Anakin Skywalker:  Sebastian Shaw [e]  Jake Lloyd [f]  Hayden Christensen [g]
Voiced by	Darth Vader:  James Earl Jones [h]  Brock Peters [i]  Matt Sloan [j]  Scott Lawrence [k]  Anakin Skywalker:  Matt Lanter [l]  Mat Lucas [m]  Frankie Ryan Manriquez [n]  Hayden Christensen [o]  Kirby Morrow [p]  David Birney [q]
In-universe information
Full name	Anakin Skywalker
Occupation	• Slave [r] • Apprentice [s] • Jedi Knight [t] • Member of the Jedi High      Council [u] • Jedi General in the Grand      Army of the Republic [v] • Dark Lord of the Sith [w] • Commander-in-Chief of      the Imperial Military [x]
Affiliation	Skywalker family Watto's shop Jedi Order Galactic Republic Sith Order Galactic Empire
Weapon	Shmi Skywalker (mother)
Spouse	Padmé Amidala (wife)
Children	Luke Skywalker (son) Ben Solo (grandson)
Master	Obi-Wan Kenobi (as a Jedi) Darth Sidious (as a Sith)
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]

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

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

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

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][y]

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][z]

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][aa] 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]

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

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

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

Live-action series

Animated series

Novels

Comics

Video games

Appearances outside the official canon

Books

Comics

Television

Video games

Lego Star Wars

Other video games

Other appearances

See also

• Star Wars books
• Star Wars comics
• Star Wars video games
• Star Wars in other media

Notes

References

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Further reading

• Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace Novelization, 1st edition paperback, 1999. Terry Brooks, George Lucas
• Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones Novelization, 2003.
  ISBN 0-345-42882-X
• Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith Novelization, 1st edition hardcover, 2005.
  ISBN 0-7126-8427-1
• The New Essential Guide to Characters, 1st edition, 2002. Daniel Wallace, Michael Sutfin,
  ISBN 0-345-44900-2
• Vader: The Ultimate Guide, 2005.
• Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary, hardcover, 1998. Dr. David West Reynolds,
  ISBN 0-7894-3481-4
• Star Wars: The Phantom Menace: The Visual Dictionary, hardcover, 1999. Dr. David West Reynolds,
  ISBN 0-7894-4701-0
• Star Wars: Attack of the Clones: The Visual Dictionary, hardcover, 2002. Dr. David West Reynolds,
  ISBN 0-7894-8588-5
• Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: The Visual Dictionary, hardcover, 2005. James Luceno,
  ISBN 0-7566-1128-8
• "Darth Vader in Games: A Visual History". IGN. October 28, 2010. Archived from the original on December 4, 2021. Retrieved December 3, 2021.

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• "Darth Vader". Encyclopædia Britannica. August 16, 2023.