In Star Wars Legends, long before Darth Vader asked his son to help him overthrow Emperor Palpatine, he had a secret apprentice known as Starkiller.

As the most iconic villain in Star Wars, Darth Vader has had several iconic lightsaber duels, from the franchise's first movie to the present.

Darth kills my father in front of me when I'm a kid, then he whisks me off to train. Flash forward to my young adulthood, and suddenly I'm an apprentice named Galen, aka "Starkiller." ...

Turns out, the entire “kill the Emperor” plan by Vader wasn’t Vader’s plan at all — it was the Emperor’s. Vader has been training Starkiller as an ace in the hole, but not to take over.

Darth Vader has compassion for his children, and that’s ultimately what children are for. Often, in classical tragedies, there’s a final moment when the scales fall from the hero’s eyes.

The “bad” one kills Darth Vader and replaces him with Starkiller as Palpatine’s new cyborg assassin, absent the “Noooooooo.” ...

Marvel's Star Wars comics have seen Darth Vader commit some impressive feats.

Dubbed Starkiller as an adult, his mission was to wipe out the Jedi remnants as a means of preparing for a greater goal: helping Darth Vader kill the Emperor, thereby elevating himself to a full ...

Vader kills his apprentice to show his loyalty, but it's a fakeout--Starkiller is secretly saved, and Vader gives him a new mission to gather up the Emperor's strongest enemies and create an ...

Despite giving countless Jedi and even some Sith a run for their money, Star Wars' strongest character has never shown up in ...