Star Wars exhibits Vader’s redemption started sooner than we thought

Star Wars might need proven Darth Vader’s redemption within the authentic trilogy as being impressed by saving his son – however it appears there was extra to it than that.

In the most recent problem of Greg Pak and Raffaele Ienco’s ongoing Darth Vader comedian e book sequence, Vader lastly tracks down the place the place Padmé Amidala died in his quest to search out out who hid Luke Skywalker from him.

However, Vader does not discover the solutions he is in search of on Polis Massa and as an alternative has an surprising response that units the stage for his eventual redemption in Return of the Jedi.

The fifth problem picks up with Vader at Padmé’s tomb, the place knowledge droid Zed Six Seven discovers a med implant with coordinates to Polis Massa.

Instead of stopping the Amidalans monitoring them, Vader tells Padmé’s handmaiden Sabé to get all of them to fulfill him there however, as Admiral Ackbar would know, it is a entice. Vader nonetheless blames the Amidalans for hiding Luke, even when they did not immediately do it.

Vader will get them to fulfill him at Polis Massa as a result of he needs to “make an end to this all” and after they arrive, Vader destroys all of their ships and it is assumed he kills Sabé, Ric Olie and the remainder of Padmé’s handmaidens.

With them out of the way in which, Vader makes his method to the maternity ward on Polis Massa the place Padmé died. All of the info has been destroyed, apart from a recording of Padmé’s remaining moments on a midwifery droid.

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“There’s good in him. I know. I know there’s still…” Vader sees Padmé say as she dies, with the scene taken immediately from Revenge of the Sith.

The incontrovertible fact that she nonetheless thought he may very well be saved, even after seeing Anakin at his very worst on Mustafar, sends Vader right into a spiral of remembering who he was – again when he was simply Anakin Skywalker.

It’s a touch to his eventual redemption in Return of the Jedi and an indication it wasn’t simply Luke’s impending dying by the hands of Palpatine that prompted him to show again to the Light Side.

But wait, we hear you say. Vader was nonetheless a bit evil in Return of the Jedi, which takes place after this present comedian e book sequence. Well, the reply to that comes within the remaining moments of the most recent problem.

After watching the recording, Vader returns to Palpatine on Coruscant and the Emperor realises one thing has modified in his apprentice.

“The Sith know that fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate and hate leads to strength. But you, my friend, have just wallowed in grief. You need to start all over again with fear,” Palpatine tells him, earlier than zapping him as the problem ends on a cliffhanger.

With the Padmé story accomplished, we all know that future problems with this Darth Vader run will tie in with The Rise of Skywalker.

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“Vader goes to endure a horrible punishment and undertake a brand new journey-slash-quest, and there are key parts that can tie into Episode IX in an enormous manner,” author Greg Pak teased at Comic-Con@Home’s Lucasfilm Publishing panel.

“There are some doors that have been thrown wide open, which dig into some great unexplored territory and also dig deeply into the heart of Vader. Once again, I can’t believe they’re letting us do it.”

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