"Fear is the path to the dark side...fear leads to anger...anger leads to hate...hate leads to suffering." These are the exact words that Master Yoda once told young Anakin Skywalker, which has now come back to haunt him in Dark Droids. October’s Darth Vader #39 continues the epic crossover event that spans Bounty Hunters, Darth Vader, and Doctor Aphra.
The latest Marvel comic book pits the Dark Lord of the Sith against the massive Octuptarra. Once Darth Vader was sent by the Grand Vizier to investigate the malfunctioning droids present on the Executor and ordered him to destroy the ship, the rogue A.I. droid known as Scourge managed to overtake Mustafar’s lethal tri-droid and ZED-6-7.
Marvel Comics recently released some preview pages from Crucible of Hate. You can also read the official synopsis below:
"The Droid Scourge takes over one of Darth Vader's closest allies — and seizes one of Mustafar's greatest weapons! To survive, Vader must finally reclaim his control over the Force by exploring his deepest hatred. Featuring the answer to the terrifying question: Who does Vader hate more than anyone else in the galaxy?"
The question that triggers a whole storm of memories is, “Who do you really hate?” In Star Wars’ first episode, The Phantom Menace, the story follows a young Anakin Skywalker, who’s a slave on the sand-covered planet of Tatooine. He eventually meets the Jedi Qui-Gon Jinn as well as the teenage queen Padmé Amidala.
In the second episode, Attack of the Clones, Anakin, who’s now become a Jedi Padawan, goes back to Tatooine a little too late to save his mother, Shmi Skywalker. She ends up dying at the hands of the wicked Tusken Raiders. In Revenge of the Sith, Anakin has become a fallen and defeated Jedi who has been left to die on Mustafar. However, that’s not the end of him, as he is somehow reborn and rebuilt as the evil Darth Vader.
He finds out that Padmé, his pregnant wife, has died by being Force-choked by Vader’s hand. "It seems in your anger... you killed her. YOU killed her. YOU." That’s the point when the real question comes up, which is, "Lord Vader...who...who do you really hate?" One can probably guess that Darth Vader hates himself the most.
Fear is the path to the Dark Side...
…Fear leads to anger…
...Anger leads to hate...
...Hate leads to suffering.
Star Wars: Darth Vader #39 is on sale on October 4th from Marvel Comics.
