r/StarWars Grand Inquisitor Nov 11 '24

Why didn't Count Dooku have yellow eyes? Movies

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u/argle__bargle Nov 11 '24

Doesn't this theory require Palpatine to assume that, as part of his master plan, Darth Vader will be horribly injured and require robotic life support?

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u/Hellknightx Grand Admiral Thrawn Nov 11 '24

I doubt it was planned out, but Palpatine did apparently choose painful and crude implants for Vader as a way to inhibit him intentionally.

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u/RisKQuay Nov 11 '24

Was pain limiting though? Pain is meant to help one focus the dark side, isn't it?

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u/jaysmack737 Nov 11 '24

Its not the pain that is limiting. Palps basically used off brand, and mixed brands for the suit, so it just sucked. Palos also later offered a brand new upgraded version, but Vader Turned it down

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u/Fatmaninalilcoat Nov 11 '24

Plus all the flaws that made him weak to sidious force lightning. Hence why he really died in episode 6.

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u/jaysmack737 Nov 11 '24

Unfortunate side effect of being mostly circuits

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u/wiredpersona Nov 11 '24

Iirc in legends, his armor also has a myriad of sith artifacts that are built in, and some of them really fuck with him by perpetually causing pain and shit

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u/zerocool359 Nov 11 '24

Perpetual IBS … oof, palps really was evil

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u/wiredpersona Nov 11 '24

I'd be angry, too, if I needed to wear an intergalactic diaper daily.

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u/colimar Nov 12 '24

Even taking a dump is a moment of pain. No wonder he is angry.

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u/RevolutionaryGur5932 Nov 11 '24

Was there a lore reason that Anakin didn't go to town with his engineering prowess on an improved suit?

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u/jukebox_jester Nov 11 '24

I could see it as it being less practical.

It's hard to hide upgrades from your boss like that and that bodes ill

Additionally, he would have to put his arms back on with just the force which he seems to use with less finesse as Vader.

Finally, there's still the breathing apparatus where you'd either need to be really quick about it, or let a third party replace that for you which would be more or less suicide even if he kept it in house.

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u/Gridde Nov 11 '24

Current lore makes it clear that he did. He oversaw his own repairs once he got used to the suit and even remade large portions of it from scratch using scavenged parts in some stories.

I don't think it's still canon that the suit was intentionally made to be bad or makes him any weaker. The first Marvel Vader series (which is incredible btw) even goes in-depth on the guy who designed the suit and they never mention it being bad. He's even pitted against the inventor's other 'creations' to see which is best.

Closest we get to a reference that the suit has flaws built-in is that the inventor had a remote devive which would let him turn the suit off if Vader tried to attack him. Of course Vader doesn't give a fuck and still kills the dude quite spectacularly, so even that wasn't a huge deal in the end.

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u/thomasthetank57 Nov 11 '24

He did. He had a state of the art suit to being with. Palpatine allowed him to modify and tweak the suit as he wanted, and he did.

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u/thomasthetank57 Nov 11 '24

Not true for new canon. The suit was top of the line when he was first put into it.

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u/jaysmack737 Nov 11 '24

I wasn’t aware they updated the suit canon, where does that come from?

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u/thomasthetank57 Nov 12 '24

It started as soon as disney canon began, the 2015 Darth vader comic run