I love the "what have I done" line. It perfectly encapsulates the character. My dad was watching the prequels for the first time, and when Anakin said that line, he responded with "exactly"
It's kind of silly, but that line alone really hit me when I watched the movie for the first time in theaters. This was Anakin's point of no return. In my opinion, Hayden's delivery of that line was just great. Anakin couldn't fully grasp the magnitude of what he had just done, but ultimately accepted and embraced his fate as he knew the Jedi would never forgive him for such atrocity. Growing up as a kid and watching these two great, powerful characters, it was definitely hard to witness how one of the greatest Jedi icons was no more, and the other had inevitably fallen beyond redemption. Props to Hayden for his interpretation. Rots definitely remains the best out of the three episodes.
@@aurelion9778 tpm and aotc are also great and are essential to understanding the character, it's not just rots to which people feel they are now allowed to deal most of the praise towards. and Hayden's is the definitive. There is no multiple interpretations of Anakin, it's just what we saw in the prequels with Jake and then Hayden as well as from Genndy's clone wars, it's all consistently one character with Hayden being the definitive.
It shows the instant remorse and regret in the choice he just made as well as the disbelief of what he had done, he felt like he's failed. This is something people severely and frustratingly overlook. It showed that he allowed his fear and desperation to make the choice for him. And the way Hayden says "what have I done?" just breaks my heart and you just feel immense sympathy for him.
Couldn’t agree more. The delivery, the inflection; complete dogshit. Not to mention writing that line as opposed to just showing it. Would’ve been 100x better if left in the hands of a more capable actor.
He was aware he was losing his way enough to be horrified by it but not enough to fix it. Which was a really smart addition to the fall of Anakin skywalker.
@@trevturp6891 obviously. Why would I not know he created Star Wars… the fact that you even thought that you were being witty or even funny by asking that on this video is ugly humor. There is plenty out there go find something better to do. ALSO you can read it again….. “Marvel needs to ask him for help?”
@@otapab 1. I didn't think that you were being witty or even funny by asking that on this video. 2. Why the fuck do you think that? 3. You said Marvel, instead of Star Wars, so, of course I would make a comment about that.
He was a victim of palpatine it doesn’t excuse what he did but he didn’t do it because he wanted to he didn’t do it because he was heartless he did it because he loved his wife and couldn’t bare to lose her and their children
My favorite darth Vader lines: when he’s talking to Luke and says “I must obey my master” this really gives you the idea that he’s out of his own control, both in the sense of physically he must but now after it has all been said and done what else could he do except obey palpatine, he’s no longer an apprentice but a slave, as he was at the beginning of his life And in episode three after learning that he killed Padme when he screams No, a lot of people hate this line but ultimately I think it’s the last shred of Anakin leaving, it’s the final non hateful emotion that he expresses for twenty years, he regrets immediately all of the horrific things he has done as the realization that, burning the galaxy to the ground for his wife has now been for nothing, how could someone, even darth Vader not be hurt by the most tragic regret there is
One the best comics stories, I believe no longer cannon bc of Disney, is when Darth Vader fought a clone of Darth Maul. In this fight Maul had the upper hand, pinned Vader from behind and was about to win, as well as asking him what does he hate most bc a sith must have hate. Vader with a destroyed suit, points his hilt to his torso and switches his lightsaber on, to impale not only himself but also Maul killing him and with the response to Maul's question, "...Myself." It was great way that showed he truly hates and regrets the decisions he himself made bc it cost him everything especially Padme. And bc of that self hate, truly made him a formidable and feared Sith Lord.
@@Jorizzle22 There is always a chance and there is always a choice… Many people who grew up in loving stable environments who turned the wrong way and then plenty of people born in horrible situations who turned the right way… No matter what, Anakin made the decision to kill each and every time no matter how he tried to justify doing so…
Not exactly. George Lucas said that there's a difference between love and trying to possess or control something. Lucas said Anakin moved towards the latter, which is why he killed Padme.
@Matthew K he obviously didn't kill her on purpose, he just got out of surgery to keep him alive from loosing all of his limbs and being burnt to death and what is the first thing he says, "where's padme
@Hit it & Clip it That's the point George was trying to make though. The dark side clouds people's judgment because they make decisions in the heat of that moment, not based on logic and reason. Even Maul at the very end, recognized that he had failed and was wrong to continuously hunt Kenobi.
I love my dad, but if I learned he murdered a room full of children with a sword, I dont think my seeing there was still some good in him would really unmurder those younglings. So, I really don't see how Vader was redeemed. The Force apparently re-embraced him, but I doubt those dead younglings would see that as fair.
Sorry but I disagree, this man cause the deaths of billions across the galaxy and by his own hand murdered children! He kills the Emperor and that is considered redemption? It would be like forgiving Adolph Hitler for abolishing or destroying the Nazi regime even though he is responsible for the deaths of millions.😡
@@PandaemoniI guess that’s why you’re not luke skywalker. I don’t believe Vader needs the forgiveness of his past victims to earn redemption. If that’s true that’s saying murderers can never be redeemed because they can never get forgiveness from their victims. Redemption isn’t just about undoing your transgressions because you can’t. You can’t undo the hurt you caused. Life isn’t that easy. Some wounds are permanent. And it’s unfair to expect people to ever forgive you for that. That doesn’t mean you can’t be redeemed though. Redemption is about feeling accountable your wrongdoings, expressing regret, and seeking out a better path. Undoing or fixing things isn’t realistic for redemption because some things can’t be fixed or undone. If Vader could simply un-murder his victims he wouldn’t need to be redeemed at all. In order to be redeemed there needs to be a crime that cannot be easily fixed or undone.
@@victoriaanne6332 You could well be right, but he didn't even really express remorse for his crimes though. All he did was save _his own son_ from death. If it had been a stranger with no connection to him, Vader would probably have let him die. Vader just didn't want to see the same sort of thing Bader inflicted on countless people be inflicted in *his* kid. And for that, still somewhat selfish, impulse the Force gifts him with life after death. All the people Vader murdered, they get absorbed into the Force and are gone forever, but he gets potential immortality. That's not exactly fair. Even if you are right, I am not comfortable thinking that history's greatest monsters can have a presto-chango change of heart minutes before they die and the cosmic slate is wiped clean (for them, but not their victims). That is a hopeful message...for the war criminals of the world...less good for people interested in justice.
I just love George so much. Though his world is a fantastic science fiction with laser swords and little bear midgets, there's still a very human story at the heart of it.
@@seprotide4163 not everybody cares about supplementary materials made years after the actual source material that were created by other people, many of whom don’t even understand Star Wars.
@@whysoserious652heaths joker is insaneeely overrated and his image is ruined by cringelords. Also there are so many other jokers that joker can’t really be the goat. There was only one Sheev Palpatine tho and he was a bad mf
@@heroinabuser5980 you clearly didn't get the idea of Heath's joker abd why he's goat. Maybe you'll after watching some videos on him. Search why Heath's joker is the best villain on youtube and check out some videos.
@@whysoserious652Darth Vader is the ultimate villain in fiction. Yes, there are more evil characters… But none come close to Vader as an icon. Darth Vader encapsulates everything that defines a villain, from physical presence to evil feats and a tragic past
The more I contemplate Star Wars as an adult, the more I recognize its depiction of a contemporary human story. Frequently, I have encountered individuals who despite growing up in supportive environments and learning moral values, opt for a path marred by substance abuse, deceit, and isolation. In their prime years driven by a desire for power and material wealth rather than building families and fostering enduring relationships. This phenomenon of self-inflicted self-destruction isn't limited to one gender, but it represents a genuine societal issue.
His tragedy is a lesson for anyone. It teaches us how easy good people could end up evil if they don't think enough, don't have life principles, and trust the wrong people.
"You do not know the power of the Dark Sssiiidee. I must obey my master.". That's when you know Vader is a coward in the OG trilogy. Then you see the prequels, and that line just hits differently.
The thing many people forget is that he never turned out of sheer hatred. He turned out of love and passion. Caring so deeply for those he loves and seeing the constant conflict being a Jedi brings caused him to forget what was love, and what was hate. He had who he was ripped away, and left as a shell of anger. He didn’t deserve any of it.
Bro murdered dozens of children and to his knowledge choked his wife to death who he apparently did all that evil shit for. Bro Def ended up deserving what happened to him
@@sabastjanadams1829that was after the Jedi council treated Ani like a outcast even after his mother died. Ani was a war hero and was not even given the respect he deserved. As I get older I understand why Ani turned on the Jedi council
@@daboogiemaan323it was the right move. How many war crimes did he commit in the TCW show? Loads. Hell he even killed women and children before the Clone Wars started. Everybody on that council could sense the darkness within him
@@sabastjanadams1829He didn’t choke Padme to death. She died due to a broken heart from Anakin turning to the dark side. Either way Anakin is the cause of her death though.
Butcher the Sand People Betray the Jedi Force Choke his wife Three bad choices is some, right? I mean yeah you can break betray the Jedi down into a lot of small choices, but it really boils down to one big one
I don’t want to seem vulnerable though. A man like Darth Vader does not leave himself vulnerable like that so he’s absolutely humbled, like at the end.
As I grow older I started to understand and love Vader more and more, we all want to protect our loved ones not matter what and it makes want to do or even do morally bad things that change us for ever.
Anakins character is so deep, real and relatable that I’ve always had this “why did you have to do that” feel to his actions, his story is the best written tragedy ever
People lost more if not just as much as Anakin in the real world. They don’t go out and start killing children, choking their wives, committing genocide and killing anyone who annoys them
Even in the Star Wars verse characters who anakin killed, characters who had a tragic past (like bobba fett), other Jedi etc all dont just turn into sith or rogues and decide to mass murder whole planets
I love that I can see Anakin and Vader as two characters and yet the same person, that I can cheer for Vader, shed tears for Anakin and be in awe of the greatest person in all of fiction.
The emporer is the fans…. Y’all the reason he sold it and the reason why all the actors didn’t have career cuz of so called bad acting . Until now cuz Disney is the thing to hate 😂
@@samkornrumph8545I heard there were several palpatine clones in the legends books back when they were considered canon. Did you hear anything like that? Was it bs or true and how did that play out?
@@liliantyra2761 That did happen in the old EU. I can’t speak to the quality of the story because I haven’t read the Dark Empire comics. They came out before the prequels and George signed off on them, because all canon stories had to be approved by George. I’ve heard mixed reviews on the story, but from what I’ve heard, it’s much more respectful to the source material than TROS and they actually explain how he comes back instead of just saying “cloning” and “dark side”.
It's sad to see him fall because you know where is path leads, and seeing him turn to the vader we know because his love was manipulated hurts. I was so mad with anakin but sad as well, seeing how he lost everything, including his freedom, because of a mistake.
It’s a cautionary tale for an individual, and it’s a cautionary tale for a citizen in a nation that could become a corrupt government if you’re not constantly vigilant
People always overlook the politics of the prequels. If you pay attention it's like a mirror image of reality and almost feels like a sort of warning at what is happening in the world, both back then and today. Not enough people realize that, about the movie or real life.
Yeah it's kinda part of the Jedis hypocrisy. They claim to be peacekeepers but kill and commit war crimes. That's why I liked ahsoka so much, she saw what most of the Jedi couldn't.
@@Nick_MG mace windu and obi wan have commited war crimes too. Windu and yoda didn't want anakin to become a master because they didn't trust him and sensed the dark side from him
@@stunna.1 Anakin was the youngest Jedi ever to reach his rank. They wanted him to become Master, but he still had more to learn and was too close to a Sith Lord. It's not the Jedi denying Anakin a promotion that made him go out on a killing spree.
Mace, Obi-Wan, Yoda, & the rest of the council didn’t help. He was also groomed & manipulated for years by one of the most powerful Sith Lords ever. When Qui-Gon Jinn died, Anakin never stood a chance.
But he was. He was a badass in a way cause he let anger fuel him and of course he was a talented Jedi/Sith. But he was limbless, charred, half the man he was. Now more a machine. He had real friends and he had Padme and was about to be a father. He lost it all. Became some pawn to serve the Empire and his master. That's pretty pathetic compared to what he used to have.
@@lastjedi7302 it is pathetic to us and those who know of his past in the Star War universe, but the people who didn’t know his past in universe, were terrified of him
Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made. Spaceballs-the T-shirt, Spaceballs-the Coloring Book, Spaceballs-the Lunch box, Spaceballs-the Breakfast Cereal, Spaceballs-the Flame Thrower.
Yeah, after watching all the new stuff coming out i rewatched Ep. 4, 5& 6. Watching the fight with Luke and Darth Vader in Ep 6 brought me to tears because he was a tortured mechanic soul fighting his son.
Yeah a good man who murdered an entire village including the women and children. He murdered a bunch of Jedi and Jedi younglings. He basically killed his wife leaving his kids as orphans who went on to never really know their parents. Or each other for the first parts of their lives. He forced his best friend to do the unimaginable to him. He is not a good man. Sure he made all these mistakes for his love of Padme but that doesn’t make him a good man.
In a bizarre twisted way, it's so romantic. He was willing to disfigure himself, to save the one he loved. ''To hell with the world. I won't let her go.''
You know why HIS star wars succeeded. Cause this wasn't just a money grab for him. This was his love, his family, an attachment to him where he poured his heart into. And this my friend is they way
We’ve all been Anakin one way or the other… all us, no one is perfect and somewhere in our lives we threw something, whether big or small we threw something away and that forever has altered our destinies…
It was amazing, I do sometimes wish that a better writer was left in charge of certain scenes though, I feel what is already emotional could have been far more so given the right people involved
People said the same thing back when eps 1 2 and 3 were released... now they are all considered masterpieces. Wait and see the same happen to 7 8 and 9...
There was a point in my later 20s where i began to see Anakin like that. When you experienced great loss in your life, love or family, its impossible to not have empathy for him.
Out of all characters I've seen in any series and movies I've watched, Anakin Skywalker/ Darth Vader is the best written character I've seen. There are no words that can describe my ideas and feelings for this character. Hayden Christensen did such a amazing job in his role as Anakin Skywalker. I won't be able to watch a series with Anakin Skywalker, not played by Hayden Christensen. Because of him, i actually got to love Anakin Skywalker. My fav Character of all time❤
The older I get the more I feel bad for what Anakin lost
I always loved anakin and felt that heartbreak for him
@@jay14nyou are not padme, so I do not grant you my love
Same 😔
@@SupremeB_07 rip i always wanted my own s0ace queen to rescue me from my slavery, when you free us?
@@jay14n PADME IS MY ONLY LOVE AND WILL PREVAIL TO BE MY ONLY LOVE
I love the "what have I done" line. It perfectly encapsulates the character. My dad was watching the prequels for the first time, and when Anakin said that line, he responded with "exactly"
That’s fucking beautiful
It's kind of silly, but that line alone really hit me when I watched the movie for the first time in theaters. This was Anakin's point of no return. In my opinion, Hayden's delivery of that line was just great. Anakin couldn't fully grasp the magnitude of what he had just done, but ultimately accepted and embraced his fate as he knew the Jedi would never forgive him for such atrocity.
Growing up as a kid and watching these two great, powerful characters, it was definitely hard to witness how one of the greatest Jedi icons was no more, and the other had inevitably fallen beyond redemption.
Props to Hayden for his interpretation. Rots definitely remains the best out of the three episodes.
I would've gone with "well duh"
@@aurelion9778 tpm and aotc are also great and are essential to understanding the character, it's not just rots to which people feel they are now allowed to deal most of the praise towards. and Hayden's is the definitive. There is no multiple interpretations of Anakin, it's just what we saw in the prequels with Jake and then Hayden as well as from Genndy's clone wars, it's all consistently one character with Hayden being the definitive.
It shows the instant remorse and regret in the choice he just made as well as the disbelief of what he had done, he felt like he's failed. This is something people severely and frustratingly overlook. It showed that he allowed his fear and desperation to make the choice for him. And the way Hayden says "what have I done?" just breaks my heart and you just feel immense sympathy for him.
“What have I done?” Is so painful to hear every time I hear it
Couldn’t agree more. The delivery, the inflection; complete dogshit. Not to mention writing that line as opposed to just showing it. Would’ve been 100x better if left in the hands of a more capable actor.
@@t7489nah it was pretty good acting
@@t7489lol no one cares, cry about it some more
He was aware he was losing his way enough to be horrified by it but not enough to fix it.
Which was a really smart addition to the fall of Anakin skywalker.
@@user-uc7qb1su4eit sounded like he was trying not to laught tfym
A modern Greek tragedy
Shakespeare's modern equivalent
@@ethanearly9245 oh please lol, delusional
@@therealkendallroyu right Shakespeare cant come close
Puh-lease!
Not really, the prequels were terrible haha why does nobody remember that?
George was so ahead of his time with the prequels its insane. I love how much he values story and character development
Anakin’s turn to the dark side and his reasoning for staying Sidious’s bitch could have been done much better.
I know marvel needs him to fix their sht mess
@@otapab Don't you mean Star Wars? George Lucas created Star Wars, not Marvel.
@@trevturp6891 obviously. Why would I not know he created Star Wars… the fact that you even thought that you were being witty or even funny by asking that on this video is ugly humor. There is plenty out there go find something better to do. ALSO you can read it again….. “Marvel needs to ask him for help?”
@@otapab 1. I didn't think that you were being witty or even funny by asking that on this video. 2. Why the fuck do you think that? 3. You said Marvel, instead of Star Wars, so, of course I would make a comment about that.
George Lucas: He’s really the victim!
The younglings : 😒
Yeah, George Lucas has a weird sense of morality.
He was a victim of palpatine it doesn’t excuse what he did but he didn’t do it because he wanted to he didn’t do it because he was heartless he did it because he loved his wife and couldn’t bare to lose her and their children
@@dominictalley6563agreed a father will do anything for his child
They knew what they signed up for!
Victim and villain aren't mutually exclusive, he was a victim and a monster
My favorite darth Vader lines:
when he’s talking to Luke and says “I must obey my master” this really gives you the idea that he’s out of his own control, both in the sense of physically he must but now after it has all been said and done what else could he do except obey palpatine, he’s no longer an apprentice but a slave, as he was at the beginning of his life
And in episode three after learning that he killed Padme when he screams No, a lot of people hate this line but ultimately I think it’s the last shred of Anakin leaving, it’s the final non hateful emotion that he expresses for twenty years, he regrets immediately all of the horrific things he has done as the realization that, burning the galaxy to the ground for his wife has now been for nothing, how could someone, even darth Vader not be hurt by the most tragic regret there is
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One the best comics stories, I believe no longer cannon bc of Disney, is when Darth Vader fought a clone of Darth Maul. In this fight Maul had the upper hand, pinned Vader from behind and was about to win, as well as asking him what does he hate most bc a sith must have hate. Vader with a destroyed suit, points his hilt to his torso and switches his lightsaber on, to impale not only himself but also Maul killing him and with the response to Maul's question, "...Myself."
It was great way that showed he truly hates and regrets the decisions he himself made bc it cost him everything especially Padme. And bc of that self hate, truly made him a formidable and feared Sith Lord.
Even the worst people at some point were someone's little bundle of joy
Not true. Many bad parents out there
@@thenovicewhispers yep
@@thenovicewhispersTrue. Which makes it even more heartbreaking because they never had a chance.
@@Jorizzle22 There is always a chance and there is always a choice… Many people who grew up in loving stable environments who turned the wrong way and then plenty of people born in horrible situations who turned the right way… No matter what, Anakin made the decision to kill each and every time no matter how he tried to justify doing so…
He didnt turn to the dark side out of hatred, he did it out of love. There is nothing he did that wasn't for padme
Exactly his heart was in the right place but unfortunately his path had been paved for him years prior
Not exactly. George Lucas said that there's a difference between love and trying to possess or control something. Lucas said Anakin moved towards the latter, which is why he killed Padme.
@Matthew K he obviously didn't kill her on purpose, he just got out of surgery to keep him alive from loosing all of his limbs and being burnt to death and what is the first thing he says, "where's padme
@Hit it & Clip it That's the point George was trying to make though. The dark side clouds people's judgment because they make decisions in the heat of that moment, not based on logic and reason. Even Maul at the very end, recognized that he had failed and was wrong to continuously hunt Kenobi.
The FEAR of loosing her more so perhaps is what drove him , fear leads to the darkside
Its a tragedy. A tragedy whereby the protagonist is only redeemed by virtue of his own son, seeing the good in him.
I love my dad, but if I learned he murdered a room full of children with a sword, I dont think my seeing there was still some good in him would really unmurder those younglings. So, I really don't see how Vader was redeemed. The Force apparently re-embraced him, but I doubt those dead younglings would see that as fair.
Sorry but I disagree, this man cause the deaths of billions across the galaxy and by his own hand murdered children! He kills the Emperor and that is considered redemption? It would be like forgiving Adolph Hitler for abolishing or destroying the Nazi regime even though he is responsible for the deaths of millions.😡
@@PandaemoniI guess that’s why you’re not luke skywalker.
I don’t believe Vader needs the forgiveness of his past victims to earn redemption. If that’s true that’s saying murderers can never be redeemed because they can never get forgiveness from their victims. Redemption isn’t just about undoing your transgressions because you can’t. You can’t undo the hurt you caused. Life isn’t that easy. Some wounds are permanent. And it’s unfair to expect people to ever forgive you for that. That doesn’t mean you can’t be redeemed though. Redemption is about feeling accountable your wrongdoings, expressing regret, and seeking out a better path. Undoing or fixing things isn’t realistic for redemption because some things can’t be fixed or undone.
If Vader could simply un-murder his victims he wouldn’t need to be redeemed at all. In order to be redeemed there needs to be a crime that cannot be easily fixed or undone.
@@victoriaanne6332 You could well be right, but he didn't even really express remorse for his crimes though. All he did was save _his own son_ from death. If it had been a stranger with no connection to him, Vader would probably have let him die. Vader just didn't want to see the same sort of thing Bader inflicted on countless people be inflicted in *his* kid. And for that, still somewhat selfish, impulse the Force gifts him with life after death. All the people Vader murdered, they get absorbed into the Force and are gone forever, but he gets potential immortality. That's not exactly fair. Even if you are right, I am not comfortable thinking that history's greatest monsters can have a presto-chango change of heart minutes before they die and the cosmic slate is wiped clean (for them, but not their victims). That is a hopeful message...for the war criminals of the world...less good for people interested in justice.
@@Pandaemoniluke never found out until many years later
I just love George so much. Though his world is a fantastic science fiction with laser swords and little bear midgets, there's still a very human story at the heart of it.
The moral of the Star Wars prequels is, “don’t be an overly whiny and easily manipulated idiot otherwise you’ll become a space Nazi”. How uplifting 🙄
@@borbafatt bro what?
@@borbafatt Reductive and silly answer
@@borbafatt how to tell someone’s never read a bit of the literature and comics and prolly hasn’t watched clone wars
@@seprotide4163 not everybody cares about supplementary materials made years after the actual source material that were created by other people, many of whom don’t even understand Star Wars.
George Lucas explaining the moral of the tragedy of Darth Vader was just 😭😭😭
Wait till you hear about the moral of The Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise
Hayden was the best casting as Anakin Skywalker Period.
Facts
Agreed
Exactly
@@trevturp6891exactly
@@trevturp6891factssss
Literally the greatest "villain" of all time.
iconic myb, heath's joker is the goat villain, even palpatine are better than vader. but definitely top5 or 6..
@@whysoserious652heaths joker is insaneeely overrated and his image is ruined by cringelords. Also there are so many other jokers that joker can’t really be the goat. There was only one Sheev Palpatine tho and he was a bad mf
@@heroinabuser5980 you clearly didn't get the idea of Heath's joker abd why he's goat. Maybe you'll after watching some videos on him. Search why Heath's joker is the best villain on youtube and check out some videos.
@@whysoserious652Darth Vader is the ultimate villain in fiction. Yes, there are more evil characters… But none come close to Vader as an icon. Darth Vader encapsulates everything that defines a villain, from physical presence to evil feats and a tragic past
Frieza lol
Escaping the dark side is like getting out of a drug cartel
Only 10 times worse
The more I contemplate Star Wars as an adult, the more I recognize its depiction of a contemporary human story. Frequently, I have encountered individuals who despite growing up in supportive environments and learning moral values, opt for a path marred by substance abuse, deceit, and isolation. In their prime years driven by a desire for power and material wealth rather than building families and fostering enduring relationships. This phenomenon of self-inflicted self-destruction isn't limited to one gender, but it represents a genuine societal issue.
His tragedy is a lesson for anyone. It teaches us how easy good people could end up evil if they don't think enough, don't have life principles, and trust the wrong people.
@@HollowDistrictHe also trusted Palpatine who used that to groom him .
That’s how I always viewed Vader it truly is heartbreaking
"You do not know the power of the Dark Sssiiidee. I must obey my master.".
That's when you know Vader is a coward in the OG trilogy. Then you see the prequels, and that line just hits differently.
That’s why I don’t get it when people say: “tHe PrEquElS rUInEd vAdEr.” It’s like they never watched the OT.
It’s the basic life of a Greek Tragedy! The whole life of Anakin Skywalker is a Big Modern Greek Tragedy!
His story made me sad
George visualized this perfectly when Luke opens his mask. He’s just this completely broken man, barely alive in a shell.
This is the real value in Lucas' storytelling. He baited generations of people with his sci fi and special fxs to teach us about feelings
Vader is easily the most tragic character in Star Wars
The scene on Mustafar where he turns on everyone and chokes padme still makes me cry
Rey Skywalker is easily the most tragic
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@@DudeMan-xs3dbim late but rey Palpatine* there i fixed it for you
Grievous has a pretty tragic story too.
@@hayes4762
is it fleshed out somewhere in legends or canon comic books
Vader is actually the main character and Villain of star wars.
And main hero.
He wasn’t a hero and he wasn’t the protagonist of any film.
The thing many people forget is that he never turned out of sheer hatred. He turned out of love and passion. Caring so deeply for those he loves and seeing the constant conflict being a Jedi brings caused him to forget what was love, and what was hate. He had who he was ripped away, and left as a shell of anger. He didn’t deserve any of it.
Bro murdered dozens of children and to his knowledge choked his wife to death who he apparently did all that evil shit for. Bro Def ended up deserving what happened to him
@@sabastjanadams1829that was after the Jedi council treated Ani like a outcast even after his mother died. Ani was a war hero and was not even given the respect he deserved. As I get older I understand why Ani turned on the Jedi council
@@daboogiemaan323it was the right move. How many war crimes did he commit in the TCW show? Loads. Hell he even killed women and children before the Clone Wars started. Everybody on that council could sense the darkness within him
@@sabastjanadams1829He didn’t choke Padme to death. She died due to a broken heart from Anakin turning to the dark side. Either way Anakin is the cause of her death though.
@@OldBenKenobi2318 I know he didn't, I said "to his knowledge". All he knew, he choked her to death
"He "forces" his friends to turn against him." Well placed pun there Mr. Lucas. Very well said💯👍🏼
God how I love Anakin his character and tragedy break the heart, he is the perfect protagonist and ends up being a pathetic man
“Have you ever heard the tragedy, of Darby Vader the loving?”
“Who made some bad choices” SOME💀
HE MURDERED CHILDREN!
He didn't do nothing
Butcher the Sand People
Betray the Jedi
Force Choke his wife
Three bad choices is some, right? I mean yeah you can break betray the Jedi down into a lot of small choices, but it really boils down to one big one
Clone wars shows the descent.... I appreciated the films more after it
Same.
Ah, but too bad the general film going audience didn't get to see it.
Anakin is all of us
And that’s why the story is so great…
Greatest Character development ever😥😥❤
Anakin is to me the best fictional character ever created, truly amazing and heartbreaking story
I agree
His story is one that will always be remembered in history.
Edit: Thanks for the likes🥹
Rey is the chosen one
@@Shiggystardust chosen by the dark side. she's palpatine's after all
@@AriusAB she’s a skywalker
@@Shiggystardust Somehow Rey Palpatine returned
@@Shiggystardust lmao there is no defending Rey, after all the Disney trilogy is just a ripoff of both the original and Prequels
Within your furnace heart, you burn in your own flame.
This is how it feels to be Anakin Skywalker.
Forever…
I don’t want to seem vulnerable though. A man like Darth Vader does not leave himself vulnerable like that so he’s absolutely humbled, like at the end.
A written masterpiece
Disney should’ve left the first 6 episodes alone and just went with the shows they’re doing.
I'm still curious as to what they will do if they do anything at all to continue past the force awakens trilogy....
As I grow older I started to understand and love Vader more and more, we all want to protect our loved ones not matter what and it makes want to do or even do morally bad things that change us for ever.
“what have i done?” always hits hard
Man I love George
This is what great story telling looks like. Not the new Trilogy 💀
“The person you thought was the villain, was really the victim.” DAMN
Anakins character is so deep, real and relatable that I’ve always had this “why did you have to do that” feel to his actions, his story is the best written tragedy ever
We all have a little bit of Anakin inside of us, he was the most human out of anyone in the cast.
Your right
i’m pretty sure the whole cast were humans 🤦♂️
let’s be honest tho. if we all lost as much as anakin did…we’d all become our own Vaders
Anakin hadn’t lost anything when he became Darth Vader though. He became Darth Vader *then* lost everything.
i’m pretty sure he lost his mother, padawan, virginity, and other things all as anakin….but okay 😃😃
People lost more if not just as much as Anakin in the real world. They don’t go out and start killing children, choking their wives, committing genocide and killing anyone who annoys them
i’m saying if we were in the star wars universe…
Even in the Star Wars verse characters who anakin killed, characters who had a tragic past (like bobba fett), other Jedi etc all dont just turn into sith or rogues and decide to mass murder whole planets
I love that I can see Anakin and Vader as two characters and yet the same person, that I can cheer for Vader, shed tears for Anakin and be in awe of the greatest person in all of fiction.
The terrifyingly strong, black durasteel knight... Is just a pale white, heartbroken cripple inside. A commander of legions, but forever alone.
The path to hell is paved with good intentions.
We need a darth vader video game
"We all fail
We all make mistakes
It's what makes us human"
From the child in 1977, thank you George Lucas, gave a kid a dream.
SW Episodes 1,2 and 3 are masterpieces compared to the Disney SW trilogy
Bro that’s like comparing gold to literal bile. I can put the worst thing I can make and it would STILL somehow be better than the Disney SW trilogy
but the CGI of the prequels is aging very badly
@@lucaallemann5941 it's one of its charm
Except ep 1. Personally found it rlly boring
@@lucaallemann5941 not episode 3, that looks amazing today
Lucas is anakin....disney is the emporer....
The tragedy of George Lucas
Well then he'd better come back to kill the emperor like the prophecy says.
The emporer is the fans…. Y’all the reason he sold it and the reason why all the actors didn’t have career cuz of so called bad acting . Until now cuz Disney is the thing to hate 😂
Lucas is Yoda Anakin is the fans
And all this because he actually had a heart and just wanted to protect Padme
"You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain." Existed much longer before the dark knight.
And then his sacrifice meant nothing because somehow palpatine returned
And his legacy dies out and guess what? PALPATINES offspring lives on.
@@Ocean_Man_ C3P0 is still alive so not all his legacy is gone...
Those “movies” don’t count anyway. The only ones that count are 1-6 no matter what Disney or anyone else says.
@@samkornrumph8545I heard there were several palpatine clones in the legends books back when they were considered canon. Did you hear anything like that? Was it bs or true and how did that play out?
@@liliantyra2761 That did happen in the old EU. I can’t speak to the quality of the story because I haven’t read the Dark Empire comics. They came out before the prequels and George signed off on them, because all canon stories had to be approved by George. I’ve heard mixed reviews on the story, but from what I’ve heard, it’s much more respectful to the source material than TROS and they actually explain how he comes back instead of just saying “cloning” and “dark side”.
Villains are creations of the circumstances of life, I wasn’t always this awful person
“You’re never too old to learn, Snips”
You guys are making me cry
ROTS really showed the heartbreaking parts of the tragedy of Anakin/Darth Vader
It's sad to see him fall because you know where is path leads, and seeing him turn to the vader we know because his love was manipulated hurts. I was so mad with anakin but sad as well, seeing how he lost everything, including his freedom, because of a mistake.
What I’ve done by Linkin Park suits vaders character, listen to the song if you haven’t!
The villains are always the ones that tell the truth
Anakin skywalker is my favorite Jedi def most relatable until order 66 that is
They guy who massacred a whole village of Tuscan Raiders, including the children and the babies?
@@bengrimm3700after they tortured and killed his mother? Yes
It’s a cautionary tale for an individual, and it’s a cautionary tale for a citizen in a nation that could become a corrupt government if you’re not constantly vigilant
People always overlook the politics of the prequels. If you pay attention it's like a mirror image of reality and almost feels like a sort of warning at what is happening in the world, both back then and today. Not enough people realize that, about the movie or real life.
Fear leads to anger, hate, suffering...said it in episode 1...laid it all out for him and he couldnt stop it from happening...Yoda saw it all coming
Why Anakin will always be my favourite character of all time ❤❤❤.
Yeah but he did commit hundreds of war crimes before episode 3 canonically
Yeah it's kinda part of the Jedis hypocrisy. They claim to be peacekeepers but kill and commit war crimes. That's why I liked ahsoka so much, she saw what most of the Jedi couldn't.
@@stunna.1 they are, you know that anakin didn't become a jedi master because OF THOSE WAR CRIMES?
@@Nick_MG mace windu and obi wan have commited war crimes too. Windu and yoda didn't want anakin to become a master because they didn't trust him and sensed the dark side from him
@@stunna.1 Anakin was the youngest Jedi ever to reach his rank. They wanted him to become Master, but he still had more to learn and was too close to a Sith Lord. It's not the Jedi denying Anakin a promotion that made him go out on a killing spree.
@STUNNA Also you claim Obi-Wan committed a bunch of war crimes. Since when? Name a few.
Mace, Obi-Wan, Yoda, & the rest of the council didn’t help. He was also groomed & manipulated for years by one of the most powerful Sith Lords ever. When Qui-Gon Jinn died, Anakin never stood a chance.
And you also realize that he was supposed to be the hero. Even heroes have feelings, and you have to account for their mental ability.
George says this, but I don’t think the rebels in the hallway thought of Vader as a pathetic man
But he was. He was a badass in a way cause he let anger fuel him and of course he was a talented Jedi/Sith. But he was limbless, charred, half the man he was. Now more a machine. He had real friends and he had Padme and was about to be a father. He lost it all. Became some pawn to serve the Empire and his master. That's pretty pathetic compared to what he used to have.
@@lastjedi7302 it is pathetic to us and those who know of his past in the Star War universe, but the people who didn’t know his past in universe, were terrified of him
@@nanashi334Ok but why do I give a fuck about what a fictional character thinks? I want to hear from George about HIS creation
But
Somehow palpatine returned
Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made. Spaceballs-the T-shirt, Spaceballs-the Coloring Book, Spaceballs-the Lunch box, Spaceballs-the Breakfast Cereal, Spaceballs-the Flame Thrower.
Yeah, after watching all the new stuff coming out i rewatched Ep. 4, 5& 6.
Watching the fight with Luke and Darth Vader in Ep 6 brought me to tears because he was a tortured mechanic soul fighting his son.
I’d make a correction here. He was a good man who made wrong choices.
No he became pathetic once he solidified himself as vader
Bruh he murdered dozens of children
Yeah a good man who murdered an entire village including the women and children. He murdered a bunch of Jedi and Jedi younglings. He basically killed his wife leaving his kids as orphans who went on to never really know their parents. Or each other for the first parts of their lives. He forced his best friend to do the unimaginable to him. He is not a good man. Sure he made all these mistakes for his love of Padme but that doesn’t make him a good man.
Your so wrong about me
Everything’s gonna be okay, you’re free now.
In a bizarre twisted way, it's so romantic. He was willing to disfigure himself, to save the one he loved. ''To hell with the world. I won't let her go.''
The scene in the clone wars where anakin is shown his future will always give me chills, the "I will do so many terrible things" makes me want to cry
Where is that Darth Vader footage from?
It's a fan base video search: Darth Vader visiting Padmes tombstone
Name: fallen Angel
@@Auvas_Damask thank you 🙏🏻
That's just Jake Gyllenhaal
Not pathetic George, that's something Disney did to Luke and the wonderful world you gave us..... to George and the Skywalkers, thank you❤
“He was a pathetic man, who made some wrong choices” …. Me too Darth.. Me too 🥺
The most hated man in the Galaxy was really just a young man who did it all for love.
No one hated him more than he hated himself
If you are so powerful as he is you are not pathetic
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You know why HIS star wars succeeded. Cause this wasn't just a money grab for him. This was his love, his family, an attachment to him where he poured his heart into. And this my friend is they way
We’ve all been Anakin one way or the other… all us, no one is perfect and somewhere in our lives we threw something, whether big or small we threw something away and that forever has altered our destinies…
Well said! And you can always pick yourself back up and make things right!
Bro murdered a bunch of children. I'll never believe anakin ain't evil for that
"We all make mistakes in the heat of passion, Jimbo"
Twice
It was amazing, I do sometimes wish that a better writer was left in charge of certain scenes though, I feel what is already emotional could have been far more so given the right people involved
"What have i done?"
You can feel the pain in his voice... Hayden is the best actor i have seen
Anakin broke all our heart's and after hearing this story, it broke me even more 😢
Top 3 fictional character
I’m so sad Disney destroyed starwars, they turned a flawless storyline into a trash trilogy
People said the same thing back when eps 1 2 and 3 were released... now they are all considered masterpieces. Wait and see the same happen to 7 8 and 9...
@@lucaspessoapereirawho TF is saying 1,2, and 3 are masterpieces I think there are very mid movies except 3 which was a 8/10 for me.
@@hihellothere_yea 1 and 2 were alright I would give them both 7/10 but 3 was a 9/10 for me
There was a point in my later 20s where i began to see Anakin like that. When you experienced great loss in your life, love or family, its impossible to not have empathy for him.
I am actually glad Lucas has confirmed what I initially thought!
I relate to Vader some days. 😮💨
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And this is why Anakin Skywalker, was never a Mary Sue
And thats why anakin is a comfort character.
And when I watch him throw the emperor down that shaft, I can feel him realizing all the joy and happiness he lost because of fear.
The older I get, the more I learn, the more I feel sorry for Anakin. His story is so sad.
Father, Padawan, friend, husband, victim, hero and villain
Out of all characters I've seen in any series and movies I've watched, Anakin Skywalker/ Darth Vader is the best written character I've seen. There are no words that can describe my ideas and feelings for this character. Hayden Christensen did such a amazing job in his role as Anakin Skywalker. I won't be able to watch a series with Anakin Skywalker, not played by Hayden Christensen. Because of him, i actually got to love Anakin Skywalker. My fav Character of all time❤