Originally posted by SpaceMonkeyThat isn't canon.
The tilte "Darth" didn't just get taken from someone else's name though. It was actually shortened from "DARk lord of the siTH". The first 3 letters of the title and the last 2 letters of the title. I've capitalized the letters there t make it easier.
actually when explaining the name Darth Vader, GL stated that Darth came about as a variation of Dark, and Vader, from Father. I will have to find it and re-read it, as im unclear as to whether or not he just said dark, or dark lord of the sith. But i also heard that elsewhere before Monkey said it. If i find it, ill provide a source.
I have heard the whole "Vader father" thing, as well as some of the other character names, primarily the Sith, from both the movies and the EU. I haven't heard anything to convince me otherwise, though it seems possible. However, considering this is a canon based forum it would be safe to say Darth Plageuis is the earliest known Sith by name, and that many more existed prior to him. They would be unknown though since they were never directly mentioned. In terms of the EU Darth Bane was the first to take the title of Darth, where it comes from I don't know, but he was not the first Sith, I am not familiar enough with the EU yet to even guess at who it would be. Darth Bane is also credited with creating the "modern" one master, one apprentice rule.
Seems a silly argument in terms of canon since there is not enough back story in the movies to determine an accurate answer. And considering the EU is ever changing it may take some time before it can be answered there either.
Just my humble two cents.
Sources: OT, PT, StarWars.com Databank
Originally posted by Cascador
I like EU which doesn't mess with the movies...I saw a comic where nobody knew how Jabba looked like, and the comic makers decided to make him a skinny, ape looking alien. That is totally wrong of course!
Owen Lars was once Obi-Wan's brother...they changed that now, but they didn't delete the story....now it's just a brother called Owen...which he almost forgot because of his training. I don't mind about all that! I think it's cool how they present the clone wars in comics and especially the clone wars animated serie! Now those are canon in my opinion.
Heres the Jabba from the Marvel STAR WARS WEEKLY comic and true to the costume departments habit for throwing any old costume on a background character hes wearing an Imperial Officer outfit..i remember the surprise when the first photos of ROTJ Jabba surfaced and he looked nothing like the one in the comic/or the novelisation pic where hes a human.
The comic Jabba is based on a background character who is seen walking past Obi Wan and Luke after the sale of Lukes landspeeder who appears to have come out the docking bay where the Falcon is parked i guess the Marvel artists took this as Jabba.
Dont know why they didnt draw the Human version of Jabba as seen on the behind the scenes clips.
Originally posted by Tangible God
IN Star Wars however, the Dutch language doesn't exist, so there is NO chance of that being canon. And that whole "Darth=DLOTS," is, to me, bullshit.
Instead of always adressing a Sith Lord as "Dark Lord of the Sith Vader" or "Dark Lord of the Sith Maul", they just took the beginning and the end of the long title and made it "Darth Vader" and "Darth Maul". Why is that so incredible or impossible?
Originally posted by Tangible God
IN Star Wars however, the Dutch language doesn't exist, so there is NO chance of that being canon. And that whole "Darth=DLOTS," is, to me, bullshit.
So Dutch doesnt exist, but only English does? I didnt say that Vader came from father in the movies, as in why he was named that, i was saying that GL here in the real world made that correlation. But like i said I will re-read it adn try to post what I read in the first place. Im not saying that im completely right (I know USh, "You're completely wrong."😉, but I know what i read, and thats all I have to go on...
It's funny how people say Vader didn't come fom the Dutch word for Father, yet every Sith Lord after that had a meaning to their name, say any Sith Lord and I could find an alternate meaning for it, fiting their personality.
That's where he got it, GL can deny it if he wants, like he does with lots of things