Yeah he was always meant to be part of the three apprentices that mirrored vader in some way his was the hero that faltered, the fallen jedi. While maul was hatred and fear and slavery, born and bred to serve. And grevious was more machine/droid than alive
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?
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
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.
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/Megendrio Nov 11 '24
I've never even seen him as evil. I've always seen him as more of a "tragic hero" figure (he ticks all the boxes).