9 Hunting Down Jedi. During the process to create his lightsaber, we see another fact about Darth Vader become canon that had only been alluded to. While there are many instances in the expanded universe, we had never actually seen Vader hunt down surviving Jedi in canon before the comics. While trying to find a Jedi to defeat to claim their On one occasion early on in Vader's career as a Sith, Darth Sidious threatened to use Force lightning against him when Vader expressed displeasure with a dressing-down his master was giving him. Sidious revealed on that occasion that he was well aware that the delicate circuitry that allowed Vader's life support systems to function was Darth Vader was believed to not be a good fit for a Sith Lord because of his Jedi training, making Maul the ideal candidate to become the second Sith Lord. In an attempt to intercept the stolen Death Star plans, Vader found Maul and the two had a duel to the death. Although Vader would ultimately come out on top, it wasn't easy to do so. Both of Vader's legs are machinemost of his right arm, and I believe at least half of his left as well. Large parts of his torso are reinforced or replaced by machine parts, and his spine and neck appears to be machine as well. He's not exactly in the best of shape. DamonD, Jul 9, 2003. #3. Jedi and Sith are hard as nails. Qui-Gon somehow died of a relatively minor wound - perhaps he was just incredibly unlucky and exhausted, or maybe there was a spiritual reason. Him aside, they're incredibly durable: Vader survives a triple lightsaber amputation followed by full-body fourth-degree burns with his lungs burnt away and a broken British actor David Prowse, who played Darth Vader in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, has died aged 85, his management company announced Sunday. Prowse died after a short illness, according Likewise, Vader has been established as being more powerful than Anakin in print, so the loss of potential no longer applies. Yes. As stated above, Lucas said that Anakin's potential to be more Both are powerful cyborgs who had their legs cut off (RHM has mechanical legs, and if you choose yo-yo you hit him with a chainsaw, and Obi-Wan Kenobi used his lightsaber to cut off Anakin's legs) Both wield blades and lasers (Darth Vader uses a lightsaber, which could be classified as a sword, which is a blade. The Empire Strikes Back scene. Done with Screencast-O-Matic to calculate the amount of force needed to cut off Luke's hand. Now, with Hayden Christensen returning as a younger Vader for the Disney "Obi-Wan Kenobi" series, it feels like the appropriate time to stock of his words, ranked from the worst to best lines. 15 kARwWX.