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re: Was how Vader died lame or was he really that vulnerable?

Posted on 9/20/25 at 9:12 am to
Posted by Gusoline
Jacksonville, NC
Member since Dec 2013
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Posted on 9/20/25 at 9:12 am to
Not as lame as leia waking up in space with no oxygen to use force she never had or trained to use.

Posted by thenza
Member since Sep 2013
1441 posts
Posted on 9/20/25 at 9:29 am to
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Not in my world. Star Wars is only the OT and nothing else.


And Andor. I fully embrace that too.
Posted by chinese58
NELA. after 30 years in Dallas.
Member since Jun 2004
33349 posts
Posted on 9/20/25 at 10:36 am to
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Vader's suit kept him alive and the lightning ruined his suit's electronics is my guess.
Was this an early lesson about our becoming too dependent on tech?









JK
Posted by Underwood
Member since Dec 2022
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Posted on 9/20/25 at 11:01 am to
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And furthermore, Vader is helmetless/ventilator-less in his chambers during the Empire Strikes Back, but in Return of the Jedi, dies without the helmet when Luke reluctantly took it off.

Ultimately, I don't care. I love the OT.



I remember in one of the EU books it was describing Vader's thoughts being able to sit in his chamber without his helmet on.
Posted by Shiftyplus1
Regret nothing that made you smile
Member since Oct 2005
14289 posts
Posted on 9/20/25 at 3:14 pm to
Palpatine put him in that suit for several reasons. One of them was it made him incredibly vulnerable to his Sith lightening attack.
Posted by drizztiger
Deal With it!
Member since Mar 2007
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Posted on 9/20/25 at 3:28 pm to
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Was how Vader died lame or was he really that vulnerable?
He was probably a leftist.
Posted by TigerMyth36
River Ridge
Member since Nov 2005
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Posted on 9/20/25 at 5:55 pm to
I never saw this as remotely lazy. He was a machine and the force lightning fried his life support. Plenty of lazy other plots in other spots but it made complete sense to me.

Posted by MWP
Kingwood, TX via Monroe, LA
Member since Jul 2013
10983 posts
Posted on 9/20/25 at 9:11 pm to
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I always assumed the electricty took out his life support. The machines that kept him alive failed.


But if you had the force as powerful as Vader, you would think he would be able to absorb it like Obi Wan did with the old guy Count Dooku or whatever. But then the Emperor tumbled little Yoda with it so the Emperor electricity must of been some bad shite.
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