What did Canon Darth Vaders suite feel like ? (See below for details)
In Star wars legends it said that darth vaders suite was designed and made to make him feel extreme discomfort, pain and suffering (ie itch, pain , heaviness , hard to breathe etc) and it was done deliberately by palaptine so that he can stay in tune with the dark side of the force ie the pain and discomfort made him more angry etc.
What does the canon stuff really say about what darth vaders suite really felt like when he wore it etc , was it painful and uncomfortable like the legends series or better ?
It wasn't painful or uncomfortable.
It made him stronger and faster. I forgot where it said this originally, but in the Darth Vader series by Kieron Gillen in 2015, it was pretty obvious that the armor had no disadvantages.
He was Palpatine's right-hand man so I imagine he had a pretty nice suite. At least a cocktail bar and walk-in baththub.
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See, the thing is that it was a little inconsistent in Legends. There are certain sources, like Luceno's books, which claim that the suit was uncomfortable and maybe even painful. Some say it was weak to lightning. Some claim the Emperor may have made his suit intentionally faulty with so that he couldn't overthrow him.
But other sources said that the hinderance of his powers was psychological. And the 4 Dark Horse Darth Vader comic runs proved his armor was capable of taking quite a beating, and that he wasn't useless even if it did fail him. And the Force Unleashed pretty much destroyed the argument about his suit being weak to lightning.
So really, the big change is that there are no other uber-powerful force-users there to make Vader seem like a weakling. He's one of the most powerful characters in Canon (short of the Emperor, of course), like he was always supposed to be.
Yeah, Vader doesn't seem particularly susceptible to lightning and whatnot in canon.
In Darth Vader #1 he soaked a lightning barrage from Palpatine and was none the worse for wear afterward. Granted Palpatine's lightning has varying levels of intensity, but still.
In Darth Vader #18 he endured a massive bolt of natural lightning on Eriadu with his armor already heavily damaged/comprised.
In Star Wars #75 he endured an EMP that was so powerful that it dropped ships out of the sky. Granted, this EMP weakened him to an extent, but he still went on to fight the heroes and ultimately tank the destruction of that world.
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Last edited by Galan007 on Mar 2nd, 2020 at 01:03 AM
On that note, in Target Vader, Beilert Valance assumed (for some reason) that an "E.M.P. Device" would deactivate his suit. And it's implied that it would have had Valance not dropped it like a Jar Jar.