YMMV / Darth Vader

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• Jerkass Woobie: Obviously, Vader himself. When he's informed that he has a son, emotions swell up inside him, including a little Tranquil Fury towards the Emperor for lying to him about how his wife died.
• Magnificent Bastard:
  • Moff Trachta is a passionate member of the Empire whose noble loyalty to the cause leads to conflicts with even the likes of the Emperor himself. In his introductory story, Trachta saves the Emperor from Gentis's machinations and then schemes with Vader to take back Coruscant from the leaders of a coup, ultimately succeeding thanks to Trachta's charisma and strategies. When Vader murders a group of prisoners Trachta had honorably promised to spare out of respect, a disgusted Trachta spends decades planning a coup of his own against Vader and the Emperor, putting his plan into play in Star Wars: Empire as leader of the Anti-Sith Conspiracy. Secretly training a squad of stormtroopers to serve him right under Vader's nose, Trachta sacrifices part of them in a faked assassination on the Emperor, killing many of his Elite Guard so that Palpatine would request more security, which Trachta would use to allow his trained stormtroopers access to the Emperor to carry out an assassination. Trachta thinks to lure Vader away from the location into a separate trap as well, and nearly gets the drop on his own allies trying to betray him, a betrayal that ultimately undoes the entire plan and proves that Trachta was the genius behind the Anti-Sith Conspiracy as a whole.
  • Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison: Headmaster Gentis is an Imperial general with a personal vendetta against the Empire, recognizing how horrible its tyranny has become and how callously it dismisses the deaths of its own Imperials. Arranging a coup against the Emperor, Gentis turns hundreds of potential Imperial recruits to his ideology, convincing them to lead a hostile takeover of Coruscant while Gentis himself infects the Emperor with a powerful poison that nearly kills him and reprograms droids across the planet to kill all Imperials in sight. His scheme outdoing even the usually-infallible Emperor and Vader, Gentis successfully seizes control of Coruscant and turns more and more Imperials to his side with sheer charm and conviction, planning to round out his coup by luring Grand Moff Tarkin into a death trap, something that very nearly succeeds by a split second margin and cements Gentis's control.
• Rooting for the Empire: Canon says Vader and Palpatine will defeat any threat against them, but each arc features antagonists who the readers can really hope will win and find far more sympathetic than Vader, who gets some of his worst dog-kicking moments in these comics. Three comics feature Hero Antagonists who want to either stop or break away from the Empire and its atrocities, while the industrialist from The Ninth Assassin is not a good man but still has some impressive guts and understandable grief over the death of his son.
• Tear Jerker: In Darth Vader and the Lost Command: Vader comes face-to-face with Padmé's ghost (maybe), and begs her for forgiveness from all the evil he has done to her. Which she gives.

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