When Vader Accidentally Discovered He was a SLAVE TRADER!!

[@theimperialist2686]

It further adds to the notion Anakin was never truly free, he traded one master for the other.

[@ghostface4404]

The Dark Side is often misunderstood. It can either be used to reveal or cloud.

[@brandonwilliams3777]

He was a slave all his life. At least on Tatooine he could love and have a family. He became a child soldier as a Jedi and was forbidden from having a family. Something he wanted more than anything Only to kill said family and have nothing left to serve but Palpatine. Vader was never free.

[@knightingale9833]

He was certainly far less free under Sidious than he had been as a Jedi or as a slave

[@tekhen-px9wl]

He didn't have another master until he went to the darkside with Sideous. He chose to be in his feelings instead of continuing to walking the path of good

[@jeniskindof]

" I *MUST* obey my master" It becomes worse when you realize there was almost nothing Vader could do to escape his situation and his Master

[@maksymilianziele28]

Darth Sidious: "Long have Sith empires been built upon the backs of slaves."

[@cyborgbadger1015]

Palps did it deliberately. He knew full well what would happen when Vader found out and was counting on it.

[@ACruelBadger]

Cousin.

[@tree_alone]

just a little prank

[@Quandeliousdinglenutthethird]

Loved the plot twist were Palpatine pulls a "your mom" joke on vader. Had me dying cause he said it straight to him AND used the name Anakin skywalker. Bro knew how to piss Vader off.

[@IrishEyes1994]

Actually I'd say the worst part of this dynamic is that Vader knows Palpatine is lying about eventually ending the slaving. Vader knows full well Palpatine is a liar. Let's face it, in Palpatine's mind everyone in the galaxy was his slave, just some had more power than others, and Vader knew that it's just now he knows how low a group can fall.

[@cameronhermann9400]

True

[@eng3d]

Palpatine is not a liar but a delayer

[@PlantMan5823]

And that’s why Palpatine was yeeted

[@IrishEyes1994]

@@PlantMan5823 More of a slam dunk honestly haha

[@DarthBagheera]

Is it just me or does Vader have an extra finger in the thumbnail?

[@IAmGodHimself777]

He does 😭

[@blueischiii1575]

Ai 😢

[@KamiKazeD]

Activision : first time?

[@kenm3245]

@@IAmGodHimself777your name is offensive. You are NOT God Himself!

[@dawarboss3709]

Its definetly ai slop

[@vencislavdimitrov9304]

Vader was a slave to the Emperor, and a part of enslaving regime - that is truly ironic.....

[@misanthropicattackhelicopt4148]

The abused becomes the abuser.

[@maltheopia]

Ironic only if you lack any degree of foresight or intuition, which, hmm, describes Anakin/Vader pretty well. So nevermind.

[@digge2210]

All Empire’s servants are slave, always

[@falsehope4421]

I can imagine vader did not take this well, and vader is not the right man to piss off

[@patrickplevak126]

"You became the very thing you swore to destroy!"

[@ДанилаЧереватюк-щ9ф]

Жалко Дарта Вейдера, хотел стать джедаем чтобы освободить рабов, но сам стал тем против кого боролся... Какая Злая Трагическая Ирония.

[@elcalabozodelandroide2]

I pity starwars. This is all legends , something that disney robbed from you.

[@HumorDash]

Tbh vader lashing out when luke asked him to join the light side on that last fight and tossing palpy boy into the reactor couldn't have come sooner.

[@tunnelofdelulu]

more reason that anakin never really died, vader may be present but anakin was always there to

[@pyrored935]

Vader in the tumbnail has 6 fingers

[@BlackTalon-gc2jw]

Vader did not approve

[@capadociaash8003]

Vader will remember that

[@EvilXero359]

Vaser when he finds out that he was tricked into being a slave trader, WHHAAAAAATT!?!?!?!?

[@samlazar1053]

A slave of the jedi a slave of the sith

[@mr.e.6730]

This gives “now I am the master” a whole new meaning. 💀

[@Zivin]

Bro used AI slop and thought we wouldn’t notice

[@chamow2787]

The six fingers incident

[@triplecrosscounter]

*AI gold

[@biggj21]

What chu say about my momma!?...*force choke hold*😅

[@sirreepicheeprules7443]

I think Palpatine may be the greatest villain ever written. He is not merely a big bad, he truly is the mastermind and overarching threat of the story. He killed his own master and became the greatest menace of all, he orchestrates basically everything that happens in the story, and he manipulates and plays everybody, good and bad. He uses peoples mistakes and misunderstandings to his advantage and maneuvers every situation and every thread of the story to his favor. He corrupts characters like Anakin slowly and earns their trust only to use them for his own ends. Vader is a tragic character in that he was not only a slave but he was even more enslaved than he had ever realized, being caught up in the politics and manipulations of others, not just Palpatine but also the Jedi whom had grown complacent and more than a few were hardly practicing the good side they claimed to be. Palpatine saw Anakin's potential for both the force and for the sith, deciding shortly after meeting him who his eventual successor would be and molding him towards that end. Anakin had a high opinion and personal relationship with Palpatine as chancellor and only much later did this bloom into Anakin being completely played into joining the sith, thinking he could save Padme, when in reality this act IS what eventually killed her. She fell in love with him and couldn't believe what he became and it broke her and she died for the lack of a will to live because of him. In the end, Anakin Skywalker was defeated not in battle but by skillful manipulation, Palpatine destroyed him, made him his own slave and anytime Vader did try to oppose Palpatine, we see time and time again how Palpatine dominates him.

[@RaphBlade7]

1:42 - Ah, the classic you either die a hero, or live long enough to become the villain! Ironically Anakin/Vader (as suit Vader is just the dark side shell of the man who was Anakin) managed to do both, albeit out of order! Lived to see himself become something he despised, and died a hero saving his son, daughter, & the galaxy (at least before the sequals came along and ruined it) from Palpatine the man who groomed him to become his Sith Apprentice! 3:33 - "Palpatine is just twisting the proverbial vibroblade knife by bringing up Anakin's mother! He likely hopes it will fuel his anger while at the same time his fear that he is truly reprehensible and possibly Vader will realize that as Palpatine's Apprentice he is basically little more than a slave to him and even if he overthrows Palpatine in accordance with the rule of Two, he will still be a slave to the will of Dark Side especially if he ever gives into it as completely as Sidious does (after all Palpatine fully embraces the Dark Side even to the empire's detriment as it isn't meant to survive without him)! 4:35 - "Let us not forget, Palpatine is as much a politician at heart as he is a Sith Lord! He frames slavery as a mercy to his enemies whom he & Dooku manipulated during the Clone Wars! This allows him to justify enslavement which he believes is necessary for his empire to grow (ignoring the fact that slave labor while cheap, is often ineffective & prone to problems like slaves revolting or escaping their enslavement which can lead them vulnerable to recruitment by factions opposed to Imperial rule)!

[@Forgotten_construct]

This is truly a "wait. We're the bad guys?" Moment

[@CanisMythson]

Please tell me the thumbnail image wasn't from the comic itself because he has too many fingers and his helmet is being dented like soft fabric. Looks AI generated to me.

[@capadociaash8003]

I actually read this comic before the age of AI slop so the comic wasn’t AI generated, the thumbnail looks suspicious though

[@HikariLight121]

Even during his time as Darth Vader, Anakin was still alive deep inside.

[@wbaldwin666]

Not just slaves, but you find out some of them are eaten as delicacies

[@prohacker5086]

What did he have to lose? His life? He already has lost it, I don't think Vader wouldn't mind dying again at any point

[@AmoredTM]

These drawings are fantastic!

[@Walt_Xander94]

Don't know how tf Vader never betrayed Palpatine & took over sooner(besides continuity reasons). Though, not for lack of trying.

[@drifter139]

it was out of a sense of loyalty to Palpatine. Palpatine played the role of a concerned father figure to Anakin during the events of ep 3 telling him everything he wanted to hear. after losing Padme, Anakin didn't have a sense of who he was anymore and Palpatine exploited that by promising him more power which Vader hoped would allow him to find a way to bring Padme back. as for the attempt to take over, Palpatine purposefully made Vader's suit weak to force lightning to give him a constant reminder he was the master and Vader was the dog he kept around out of pity

[@luxuriatr2288]

he wanted to do it he literally said it to Padme i can take him down after being vader he just lost all meaning out of hate so he didnt care

[@CloudWalkBeta]

i think vader's problem was he was stuck, mentally paralysed. he came to hate himself, stuck reliving the events on mustafar, the death of padme and his fight against obi wan and the damage his body went through. its got to be like when you know you hate your life, but you feel stuck, so you just keep going through each day on auto pilot, instead of ever doing anything about it you just give up any hope of digging yourself out of the miserable pit you are stuck in, iv seen it happen in life and guys often need somebody to can pull them out of that kind of darkness. its only when he discovers his son luke exists that he starts to finally come back to life again.

[@randomobserver8168]

He was not strong enough to do so alone.

[@ziddship]

Soooooo, Anakin knew that a fuckton of worlds in the Separtist movement utilized slavery, sided with someone who was a self-proclaimed Sith Lord (a group of people who have historically used slaves, often), helped him assasinate leaders stopping the integration of the Separtist movememt into the Galactic Republic, and was vehemently unaware of current legisaltion in a government where he is a prominent figure. Even if he's supposed to be lying to himself here, Episode 3 made it seem like he lost all fucks. Did he survive as a slave on Tatooine and never see another child die either? Cause the dark side seemed to wipe away THAT trauma enough right after Hayden Christianson put the contacts in.

[@weeblordgaming6062]

He was fully focused on saving his wife, so he didn’t care about anything else

[@cambuxton6835]

Well Big V, what did you think the Emperor did with everyone who disagreed with him?

[@TheLoveBox74-c7t]

Darth Vader will remember that...

[@andrewkathe3471]

Oh I thought it was gonna be about Vader discovering he was a Slav 😂

[@robinfoster7597]

Let is not forget..... The Jedi tollerated slavery! That one act means they were NOT a force for good, just another power base, they deserved to fail.

[@thesanfranciscoseahorse473]

I mean.... Not necessarily. The Jedi were not all powerful, and with an entire galaxy full of different cultures, thousands that practiced slavery, I'm sure there were times they had to just "tolerate" the practice, otherwise they'd probably have destroyed critical alliances and started unnecessary wars.

[@augustinejacob4995]

@@thesanfranciscoseahorse473 That is why the Jedi should never have gotten involved in politics. Politicians are not moral beacons, they compromise their morals for the sake of stability and peace. Politicians will tolerate slavery if it means avoiding more conflict. Our politicians already do. Most chocolate produced comes from countries in Africa where slaves are used to harvest the beans

[@zerofreespeech3002]

Bro does that mean we are not good irl because slavery exists right now as I type and we aren't doing anything about it

[@ziddship]

Nope double checked. Slavery was outlawed in the Galactic Republic.

[@robinfoster7597]

@@ziddship there were slave markets going on beneath the Council Chambers, so not quite sure what you're on about? Also, they knew Anakins Mother was a salve and they did nothing about it.

[@palal-dz4oo]

"There are no accidents"

[@randomobserver8168]

It is ridiculous that a dark lord of the Sith should be troubled by slavery or slave trading in any way, even as a former slave. He should naturally regard himself as superior because he seized opportunities and pursued power, and not care about the victims.

[@MikeS24-v4s]

There is good in Vader.

[@martincamacho2444]

I actually think that slavery was one of the emperor most shortsighted decisions as emperor I mean if you not count any morals of it, it means entire class. People has absolutely no loyalty to said regime and will give themselves to anyone who feeds them and the republic role, its faults had strict anti-slavery laws within its borderers maybe such practices will be allowed after a lifetime of being part of the empire but so soon after the fall, the republic shortsighted

[@xoiyoub]

I think I should read these comics

[@Grayson37]

What comic series is this from?

[@SirMangler]

Here it is, hopefully he doesn't delete this before you see it: Dark Times 2: The Path to Nowhere, Part 2

[@SirMangler]

Dark Times 2: The Path to Nowhere, Part 2 & Part 3

[@JamesCard-u1s]

Wait.. did the emperor really say that slavery DID have to end..?

[@jiyuhong5853]

check out the will of darth vader to find a moment when vader realizes he is a slave

[@BrakSplash]

Vader slaughters and kills innocents, even kids. He's worse than a slave trader 😐

[@themaker2149]

Well yes you have to ask yourself a question if Vader didn't do it wouldn't someone else have? Not defending him but I always felt that Vader knew turning down his new master's orders wouldn't stop him it would just get him killed and it wouldn't save the children. At best there used by the emperor and at worse killed as they were but in death, they were still free something he wasn't not really he was trapped he just didn't know it yet

[@BrakSplash]

@themaker2149 That reminds me one argument someone tried to give me, that it was a good thing Anakin killed those innocent Jedi kids. Because if he didn't, someone else would have, or they would grow up go be dark jedi At that point I just said "okay" and moved on 😅

[@BrakSplash]

@themaker2149 huh, my comment disappeared Ah, well. If someone can argue it's a good thing Vader killed innocent Jedi kids, then I'm not sure if Vader would be blamed for anything If Vader chokes an innocent farmer, someone will point out it was probably the farmer's fault 😅

[@weeblordgaming6062]

Slavers are worse than murderers

[@BrakSplash]

@weeblordgaming6062 Yeah, serial killers that torture and kidnap are no worse than a slave trader... Don't get me wrong, slavery is awful, but it's a hypocrisy calling murder less awful.

[@derekclay9314]

Darth vader essebtually had a crisis of concionce??

[@3266393]

noooo Vader this are not slaves...this are the other kind of slaves :)

[@ZombifiedPreacher1]

Slaves or younglings ……Gotta have morals……Younglings!

[@adamauger]

Have you heard the tragedy of Darth Pelagius the WidePP

[@bluessax5089]

Do you speak of Canon? Since Disney acquired Star Wars, the only episodes that are actually Cannon are Star Wars 7,8, and 9.

[@aaronlaughter6471]

I love EU Star Wars so much.

[@arat2376]

He wouldnt f care.

[@GryffindorScholar]

I would say we need a Vader centric series, if all my faith in who is handling the Star Wars name currently hadn’t evaporated into nothingness. 😒

[@bobjordan69]

*sad trombone*

[@St4rTr3v1Ut10n]

Isn't slavery legal in the Empire? How does anybody take this tripe seriously?

[@deathtrooper7760]

no slavery of imperial citizens is illegal and not allowed inside the borders of the empire. that non human aliens didn´t fell under the same protection of the human centric politics, protection from dangerous work Environments or the anti slavery law when they caused troubles or belonged to former separatist planets/ races or the rebel alliance is something different. what you were and where you came from was an important factor in what kind of prison complex you were put, after that came what you did, human and non rebel related crimes a rather normal prison fitting your crime non unjust treatment or to harsh punishment, not having to work and can do it on a voluntary base for better conditions or short sentances. human with slight resistance against the empire or some anti empire vandalism like in Andor, end in well a rather okay prison, clean healthy enviorment, where you have to work your time in prison so what the USA does with it´s prisoners, non human/ humanoid like a Wookie as your planet and race is constantly fighting the empire in warfare well you end up in a prison colony or planet doing harsh grueling work fitting for the constant damage and problems you have caused. like working the mines on some astroids around kessel or working on the construction of the DSII while the terrorist alliance blows you and million other prisoners up. but to end up in a prison where you have to work won´t happend to any law abiding citizens of the empire, i mean you have to commit some serious offence to be thrown in prison like that, i mean for a speeding ticket, missing landing permit or generally missing an transponder signal for your star ship you won´t end up in prison

[@signedelacroix7213]

Anakin is dead.

[@verihimthered2418]

Lol😂 sure😂

[@zer0sinder]

LMFAO da fuq is this

[@GhostProdical]

First!

[@BlackTalon-gc2jw]

Parasite spotted

[@NoOne-jb6lr]

Vader wasn’t mad about the slaves, he was upset he wasn’t there to slaughter all the younglings himself. Once a child killer always a child killer. Sympathy for the Devil indeed.

[@thomaspaine7098]

Once you start critically examining starwars it starts to fall apart, Vader commits genocide like he’s washing dishes, he would have no problem with slavery

[@KayhoticGames]

Have you maybe not considered using AI for your thumbnail? Lazy af

[@Grimm_Light]

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