Darth Vader

Anakin Skywalker A.K.A Darth Vader is a famous character from the Star Wars saga. He was a powerful jedi knight turned sith lord. He was the secondary antagonist of the original trilogy, serving as the main antagonist of it first two films A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back and the secondary antagonist of it's third film Return of The Jedi where he redeems himself. He was also the main protagonist of the Prequel Trilogy, which reveals how he became evil. He stands as one of the most iconic and greatest villains in both Star Wars and fiction in general.

In the original trilogy, He was portrayed by David Prowse and voiced by James Earl Jones. In the prequel trilogy, Anakin Skywalker, Vader's previous identity, was portrayed by Jake Lloyd as a kid in The Phantom Menace and by Hayden Christensen as a grown up in Attack of The Clones and Revenge of The Sith.

History

Early Life

Anakin was born on Tattooine as the son of single mother Shmi Skywalker. The two to them were slaves for a creature named Watto. Anakin built a wire covered protocol droid named C-3PO to help him and his mom.

The Phantom Menace

One day when Anakin was nine years old, a jedi knight named Qui-Gon Jinn and his padwan Obi-Wan Kenobi, a fourteen year old queen named Padme Amidala, a creature named Jar-Jar Binks and an astromech droid named R2-D2, landed their ship on Tattooine. Padme was the queen of her home planet Naboo and Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan were assigned to protect her from separatists. Qui-Gon, Padme, Jar-Jar and R2 met Anakin who said he could help them repair the ship. Qui-Gon senses that Anakin is very strong with the force and makes a deal with Watto that if Anakin wins a pod race, he [Anakin] can go free and the ship will be fixed. Anakin wins the pod race and is greeted his freedom. After bidding goodbye to Shmi and 3PO, Anakin joins Qui-Gon and the others on the ship where Qui-Gon introduces Anakin to Obi-Wan. After Anakin and R2 end up in a space ship during battle for Naboo, Anakin destroy the separatists command ship. However Qui-Gon was killed by a sith lord named Darth Maul. Qui-Gon's dying words to Obi-Wan was to train Anakin in the ways of the Jedi. Obi-Wan then told Anakin he was going to train to be a Jedi. The new supreme chancellor Sheev Palpatine told Anakin he would watch over his career with great interesting.

Attack of The Clones

Ten years later, Anakin, now nineteen, has become an experienced padwan. Padme was now the senator of Naboo and being threatened by deadly assassins. Anakin, Obi-Wan and R2-D2 were assigned to protect her. While Obi-wan went to investage the attackers, Anakin and R2 went with Padme to Naboo to protect her. During the protection, Anakin told Padme he loved her. At one point, Anakin sensed his mother was in trouble back on Tattooine. He, Padme and R2 went to Tattooine where Anakin reunited with 3PO, now covered in metal, and met his step brother Owen Lars and his girlfriend who said his mother was kidnapped by sand people. Anakin arrived at their camp to recuse his mother but she died in his arms. Saddened and angry, Anakin brutally murdered all the sand people there and then brought his mother back to the house and buried her. Later Anakin got a distress call from Obi-Wan, saying he had been captured by a sith lord named Count Dooku on Gensois. Anakin, Padme, 3PO and R2 travelled to Gensois where Anakin and Padme were captured and sentenced to be killed with Obi-Wan. During their captivity, Padme kissed Anakin. The two of them were then brought into the ring. However the jedi arrived to save them. Afterwards Obi-Wan and Anakin battled Dooku in a lightsaber duel where Dooku cut off most of Anakin's arm. Before he could finish Anakin and Obi-Wan off, Jedi Master Yoda arrived to save them. Anakin then got a robot arm and took Padme back to Naboo where they were married.

Clone Wars Movie

Sometime after, Anakin became a Jedi Knight and Yoda assigned Anakin a padwan. A young girl named Ahsoka Tano. At first Anakin wasn't open to having an padwan but he quickly warms up to her and accepts her as his apprentice as they went to stop a plot by Dooku.

Clone Wars Series

Anakin and Ahsoka continued to fight together during the clone wars. At one point, Ahsoka was framed for crimes against the republic. Anakin caught the person who set her up but Ahsoka left the Jedi order.

Revenge of The Sith

After Ahsoka left the order, Palpatine was kidnapped by Dooku and General Grievous and Anakin, Obi-Wan and R2 went to rescue him. Anakin, Obi-Wan engaged Dooku in a lightsaber battle where Anakin cut off both of Dooku's hands. Palpatine then told Anakin to kill Dooku. At first, Anakin hesitated, but then at Palpatine's urging, Anakin killed Dooku. Afterwards Anakin met with Padme on Corsaunt where Padme told Anakin she was pregnant. Anakin was happy to learn he was going to be a father. But later that evening, Anakin had a vision of Padme dying. He didn't want to lose his wife like he lost his mother. He went to figure out how to stop it. At the same time, he asked to be a master on the Jedi council but the council refused to give him that rank, which outraged him. Feeling lost, Anakin turned to Palpatine, who told him he knew the darkside. There Palpatine revealed that he was a sith lord, Anakin told Palpatine he would turn him in, but Palpatine said he could help Anakin save Padme. Anakin told Mace Windu that Palpatine was a sith lord and Mace went to confront Palpatine. A few minutes later, Anakin returned to Palpatine's office where Mace has defeated Palpatine when suddenly Palpatine started firing blue lightning at Mace which he deflected back at Palpatine with his lightsaber. Anakin watched as Palpatine started to weaken. Mace was ready to kill Palpatine but Anakin protested against that. Mace told Anakin that Palpatine was too dangerous to left alive. Before Mace could finish Palpatine off, Anakin sliced off Mace's hand and then Palpatine electrocuted Mace with force lightning and sent the Jedi out the office window. Anakin was horrified by what he had done. Palpatine got up and told Anakin this was his new density. Palpatine offered Anakin a chance to be his apprentice. Anakin accepted, became Darth Vader, joined the darkside and help Palpatine enslave the galaxy and wipe out all the jedi - except Obi-Wan, Yoda and some other survivors. Palpatine then sent Anakin/Vader to Mustfar to destroy Nute Gunray. Anakin went there and killed Nute. Padme went there and tried to bring Anakin/Vader back to the lightside but to no avail. When Anakin/Vader saw Obi-Wan on Padme's ship, he accused Padme of betraying him and force choked her into unconscious. He and Obi-Wan then engaged in a lightsaber duel which ended with Obi-Wan slicing off Anakin/Vader's legs and Anakin getting severely burned by the lava. Palpatine then arrived on Mustfar and found Anakin/Vader. He then gave Anakin/Vader a life support suit with a cape and mask and told him that Padme had died and Anakin/Vader killed her in his anger. Anakin/Vader screamed then screamed in despair. At last, Palpatine ruled the galaxy with Darth Vader at his side. However in her dying moments, Padme gave both to a boy named Luke and a girl named Leia, who would grow up to defeat the empire.

Rebels

After Vader lost his wife, he was tasked with dealing with the rebels who hated the empire. Eventually he had a run-in with his old padwan Ahsoka. The two of them battled in a lightsaber duel where Ahsoka sliced Vader's mask, revealing Anakin Skywalker. The duel ended with Vader walking away.

Rouge One

In order to keep his galaxy in line, Palpatine demanded the construction of a deadly weapon called The Death Star which could destroy entire planets. A man named Orson Krennic was in charge of the construction. Vader met with Krennic and ordered him to make sure the weapon had not been compromised in any way. However a man named Galen Erso had placed a hole in the death star and if somebody fired a shot in it, the whole station would blow up. Galen's daughter Jyn and her friends stole this information and delivered it to a rebel squad led by Anakin's now grown-up daughter Leia.

A New Hope

Vader is charged with recovering the stolen plans of the Death Star and finding the Rebel Alliance's secret base. He captures and "interrogates" Princess Leia and, along with Death Star commander Grand Moff Tarkin, destroys her home world of Alderaan. Shortly afterward, he duels his former master, the Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, who has arrived at the Death Star to rescue Leia, and cuts him down, turning him into a spirit in the Force. He then encounters his son, Luke, during the Battle of Yavin, and senses in him a great strength in the Force; this is confirmed moments later when the boy destroys the battle station. He was about to shoot Luke down using his TIE-Fighter, but Han Solo disabled his ship using the guns on the Millennium Falcon, and sent Vader spinning into space.

The Empire Strikes Back

Vader captures Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca, and C-3PO on the planet Cloud City to lure Luke into a confrontation. He strikes a deal with the administrator of Cloud City, Lando Calrissian to give Han over to the bounty hunter Boba Fett, and has Solo frozen in carbonite. Luke, who has been partially trained by Yoda, duels Vader, but is eventually defeated, losing his right hand to Vader's lightsaber. Vader then reveals his true identity as Luke's father and offers Luke the chance to overthrow Palpatine and rule the galaxy as father and son. (Note that Vader never says the now famous line, "Luke, I am your father" but rather, "No, I am your father".) Luke refuses, throwing himself down a mine shaft. He is sucked into a garbage chute and rescued by Leia, C-3PO, Chewbacca and Lando. He is fitted with a robotic hand to replace the one Vader had cut off.

Return of the Jedi

Vader is charged with overseeing the completion of the second Death Star. He meets with Palpatine on board the half-constructed station to plan Luke's turn to the dark side.

By this time, Luke has nearly completed his Jedi training, and has learned from a dying Yoda that Vader is indeed his father. He learns about his father's past from Obi-Wan's spirit, and also learns that Leia is his sister. On a mission to the forest moon of Endor, he surrenders to Imperial troops and is brought to Vader. Aboard the Death Star, Luke resists the Emperor's appeals to his anger and fear for his friends, but snaps when Vader telepathically probes his mind, learns of Leia's existence, and threatens to turn her instead. Enraged, Luke nearly kills Vader, severing his father's right hand. He controls his anger at the last minute, however, as he looks at Vader's cybernetic hand and then at his own; he realizes that he is perilously close to suffering his father's fate.

As the Emperor approaches, encouraging Luke to kill Vader and take his place, Luke throws down his lightsaber, refusing to perform the final blow. Angered, the Emperor attacks Luke with Force lightning. Luke writhes in agony under the Emperor's lightning, begging his father for help. Unable to bear the sight of his son in pain, Vader spiritually ceases to exist and Anakin Skywalker is reborn. Anakin turns on his master who was really the true enemy of the Galactic Republic and in the Clone Wars and throws him into the very core of the Star, where the evil emperor was engulfed and killed.