YMMV / The Star Wars

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• Complete Monster: Lord Darth Vader is a far cry from his tragic and ultimately redeemed film counterpart. Vader rules the tyrannical New Galactic Empire alongside the Emperor, and works with the Knights of Sith to systematically wipe out all Jedi-Bendus alongside their families and friends, despite this version not being a Sith himself. Promoted by the Emperor to partner with Governor Hoedaack in conquering the Aquilaean System, Vader uses the Space Fortress to firebomb the planet of Aquilae, destroying all resistance against him as well as any innocents in the way. Once establishing his grip on the planet, Vader begins rounding up any and all civilians who attempt to resist his rule and brutally vaporizes them in public executions. Once capturing Princess Leia of Aquilae, Vader plans to have his scientists torture her with horrific experiments until her mind breaks to his will, and kicks the torture off by electrocuting her and laughing at her screams. Vader ultimately plans to betray and murder the Emperor and assume control of the New Empire for himself, using it to dominate and destroy all he sees fit.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Go here.
• Narm
  • Kane Starkiller's expression when he's holding Deak's limp corpse. It's supposed to be a sad scene, but his expression, which looks like he's staring into space with his jaw agape, just looks goofy.
  • Even though it it's supposed to be based on a scrapped idea for the first film, the idea of Star Destroyers being ordinary starfighters in this timeline is a little hard to take. They don't look imposing as much as they look like, in the words of Linkara, "paper airplanes or flying Doritos". Mitigating this is that there are giant sized Star Destroyers in this timeline as well.
• Take That, Scrappy!: Deak, who is blatantly modeled after Anakin Skywalker's younger self in The Phantom Menace, is killed off just a few pages into the first issue, obviously meant to cater to fans who hated the young Anakin in that film.

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