But there was one influence Lucas wasn’t remotely subtle about and that’s how much Palpatine’s rise to ... collapse of Anakin Skywalker into Darth Vader. “They’re a warning,” the ...

Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, Darth Vader redeemed himself by defeating Emperor Palpatine, but Leia still saw him as a ...

Simply put, the future Darth Vader is revealed to be completely dumb when he continues to go along with Palpatine's plans ... Anakin still throws in with him. This would be the real-world ...

His voice can be heard for only a minute in “The Empire Strikes Back,” but it provided the first draft of a character that ...