To answer the title of this thread: No.
As for your question as to whether or not Anakin has displayed anything truly impressive with the Force, the answer - from what I know - is: "not too much". The only thing that would come to mind is him collapsing the ceiling of a hall that had the description of being pretty voluminous by just screaming:
"But if it was a demonstration of Force ability Dooku wanted, then Anakin was still more than willing to provide it. "Dooku!" he howled. With such force and wrath that the ceiling of the vast hall began to collapse."
-- Labyrinth of Evil, Chapter 41 (?), written by James Luceno.
Of course, I'd consider this rather impressive because all he did was yell, and he did this on apparent will (as noted that he would display his power). And this was only a "demonstration" to Anakin.
Of course, he's not done anything that would rank him up with Yoda in terms of Force powers, but you'd also take into account that he's rather young (only 23 in RotS) and "restricted", you could say, by being a Jedi. Plus, he's only had 13 years of being a Jedi at the point of RotS, you know. Even though he's not displayed an immense amount of things in the Force, he's on par with the best of the era in terms of lightsaber combat.
If he had instead taken up the Darkside from a younger age, under the tutelage of Darth Sidious, I have no doubts we'd see much more impressive things as we see later on as Darth Vader.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
And yeah, it's pretty impressive, although I wouldn't say that the fact that all it took to perform the action was screaming out Dooku's name limited the attack in any way, rather the opposite. To me, that was his current power maximised out with no limitations whatsoever, his pure rage manifested into an uncontrolled attack.
And reading through the passage, I'm pretty sure that the attack wasn't just simply a 'demonstration' to Anakin, it seems the writer was just being poetic.
Well it's a lot of little things that he does that no one else can do or even tries. Like one instance from the movies, is when he jumps out of the speeder and falls a hundred or so stories and perfectly lands on Zam's speeder. I believe at that point in the commentary, GL is saying how he has no real equal as far as peers go and he kind of alienates himself by knowing he's far better than most Jedi. In the ROTS game, he topples a huge statue and then throws a large portion of it through a wall to get to another part of the temple. Being as it fell, it killed a good 6 or 7 Jedi that couldn't stop it.
Like Ox said though, I think the biggest display of power that we get to see is him completely pwning Dooku. But he was unrivaled for a reason, less by Yoda, Mace, and Sidious...although I have my own opinions about that.
Like one instance from the movies, is when he jumps out of the speeder and falls a hundred or so stories and perfectly lands on Zam's speeder.
Good point, those kind of things kinda go unnoticed but yeah, it was pretty impressive, considering he did it when he was like 18.
In the ROTS game, he topples a huge statue and then throws a large portion of it through a wall to get to another part of the temple. Being as it fell, it killed a good 6 or 7 Jedi that couldn't stop it.
The ROTS game isn't canon, is it not?
Originally posted by Dessel
Technically, wouldn't that make the novelisation non canon too?
How would that make the novelization non-canon? No one dies who doesn't die in the movie (unless, perhaps, not depicted or generic characters with no relevance), and hardly any new "powers" are shown to characters that wouldn't have these things at their disposal already.
Certain things in the novelization don't fit continuity due to the direct contradiction to the movies (mainly fight scenes), however, as a whole - it's canon. The RotS game, to my knowledge, is not.
There's a big difference between a game based loosely on the movies contradicting, and a novelization contradicting in certain parts. From what I know, things in the game are not considered to have happened in continuity, in the novels they apparently do (events not shown in the movie), because the novel is accepted as canon material. If something contradicts, then that specific thing isn't right, but if there is no contradicting material it stands.
And, for the majority of the novel, there's nothing that contradicts on such a high level as the RotS game does.
Originally posted by Advent
The game is hardly canonical, it's just a game - there's no true storyline to it. As Dessel said, it contradicts the movies. Anakin also isn't killed during the last duel on Mustafar, the opposite of the movies happens - Obi-Wan is stabbed and dies, and Darth Vader kills Sidious, IIRC.
That's true. Though I don't fancy Anakin Skywalker being the head of an evil empire. Anakin's very clever and very smart (far moreso than people give him credit for - but he's hardly a scheming mastermind).
Palpatine hands him a Sith lightsaber, Anakin takes it, twirls it, and stabs Sidious, lol. No fight. Poor Palpy. I would've been like "WTF"?
ok, well i wasn't arguing that it was canon, it was more of an inquiry, being as that one such scene wasn't mentioned in the movie, but all good.
Well, Anakin pod racing at 9 was quite a feat, flying a star fighter, as cheesy as it was, and lets see, what else?.......i cant think right now, but once Vader he crushed the room and droids simply by yelling and "flexing the force" so-to-speak. He's far more powerful than he credited with, and shown as.
Heres a few off the top of my head:
- Manipulating Durge's Space pod with the force, throwing it into a Star killing him...I'd say thats pretty impressive considering Anakin was inside a capital ship when he did it.
- Durge also comments that Anakin is the fastest Jedi he's seen (if I can remember correctly)
- He repeatedly pwns Assaj Ventress through the clone wars
- The Ceiling collapse thing in LoE
- Most if not all the amazing piloting things he does.
Cant think of anymore right now.