Awesome / Star Wars: Vader Down

• Vader's sheer badassery is simply staggering. Vader is left to believe that Luke is in a planet called Vrogas Vas. While it's technically true, the informant deliberately omitted that a huge rebel army is stationed there for the time being. So when Vader comes out from hyperspace, he finds dozens of X-Wings. What does Vader do? Run away? No, fight them. And completely wrecks them.
  • Luke crashes his own X-Wing against him in order to take him down. Then, when Vader is alone on Vrogas Vas, completely isolated from any Imperial forces, and with no way to ask for reinforcements, he's surrounded by literally hundreds of rebel soldiers and tanks and is told to surrender due to being ridiculously outnumbered. Vader's response◊:
  Rebel Soldier: Lay down your weapons, you're surrounded!
  Darth Vader: All I am surrounded by is fear. And dead men.
  • Vader uses the Force to detonate the grenades of the rebel soldiers facing him. After that comes the part where he deflects tank blasts and generally turns things into a full-blown Mook Horror Show for the rebel soldiers. They never had a chance.
  • Vader fights Karbin and manages to come out on top, despite Vader being distracted by the voices of his former masters and having some assistance from Dr. Aphra. The only reason Vader didn't fight fairly was due to time because it was more to save time than fear.
    • Keep in mind that Karbin's cybernetics are based on General Grievious and Clyo says that he made some improvements, if Anakin fought Grievious, he would probably win, despite the Jedi Council saying not.
  • Special call out to Karbin who had the longest fight with the Sith Lord.
• Chewbacca ripping Triple Zero's right arm off and bludgeoning him with it.
• Artoo gets back at his counterpart by blinding him, and casually rolling away while BT-1 fires wildly to no effect.
• When Luke, Han, Chewbacca, and the droids get back to the Millennium Falcon, Aphra manages to corner them with micro-mines, and it looks like she finally has them on the ropes. Then Leia casually sneaks up on her and knocks her out with one punch.

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