Darth Vader.
Once Anakin Skywalker, the most gifted Force-wielder of his generation — now the Emperor's iron fist. No figure in the galaxy carries a heavier legacy, or a more recognisable blade.
Fall of the Jedi
Episodes I–III · The Clone Wars
Reign of the Empire
Obi-Wan Kenobi · Rebels · Jedi: Fallen Order · Jedi: Survivor
Age of Rebellion
Episodes IV–VI
Darth Vader V2 Lightsaber
Darth Vader Exposed Crystal Lightsaber
Darth Vader EP6 ROTJ Lightsaber – SNV4 PRO
Darth Vader EP5 Lightsaber
Darth Vader SE Lightsaber
Darth Vader EP6 Lightsaber
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8 Vader Designs. Three Eras. One Legacy.
The Chosen One Who Chose Darkness
Born into poverty on Tatooine, Anakin Skywalker was discovered late by the Jedi Order yet accepted regardless — because the Force moved through him at a level no living being had matched. Prophesied as the Chosen One, he entered the Order carrying both extraordinary promise and a grief the Jedi code had no language for. That tension defined him from the start.
The fall came not through weakness but through love — the one vulnerability the Jedi Order never taught him to hold. Seduced by the promise of power over death, he crossed a line that could not be uncrossed. Anakin Skywalker was gone. What the galaxy inherited was Darth Vader: encased in black armour, bound to the Emperor's will, and carrying a red blade that had no memory of the light.
Vader's blade endured across every chapter that followed — the EP5 design carried through The Empire Strikes Back, the Obi-Wan Kenobi series, and multiple game appearances, while the Revenge of the Sith and Return of the Jedi hilts mark the arc's beginning and end. All eight designs on this page trace that trajectory.
The Empire's enforcer, the fallen son — his story ended where it began, in the light.
Related characters
Vader's Circle — Palpatine, Luke, Obi-Wan
His master, his son, his oldest rival — Emperor Palpatine, Luke Skywalker, and Obi-Wan Kenobi each shaped Vader as profoundly as he shaped them.