Originally posted by Omegaman
A little bit of trivia, did you guys know that David Prowse didnt know that his voice would not be used until the movie was completed. He found out when he saw the finished movied that his voice was out and James Earl Jones was in???? He was pissed!
I have heard this debated on this board and others that the name Darth(Vader) is referring to his title like "Lord" Vader and not his first and last name but it just might suppose to be his first name after all. If you watch the original movie credits it clearly lists ...David Prowse ...Lord Darth Vader! So unless you call him LOrd , Lord....??
For that question on Exar Kun (since its an EU question I'm giving an EU answer so I don't want no guff! 😉 )
Exar Kun went bad BEFORE the Sith were into the only two rule or the Darth title. Here's the EU Sith background-there used to just be light jedi and dark jedi. Then the dark jedi took over a planet with an actual race known as Sith. The dark jedi took this name for there own (along with the planet, makes sense) and trained tons of Dark Jedi. Then there was a huge war between Sith and Jedi. This is in the Tales of the Jedi trade paperbacks from Darkhorse if you want to read it. Then, around a thousand years before the movie story, there was another great war between Sith and Jedi. During the war (this is in Jedi vs. Sith from DarkHorse-okay art, great story) a Sith known as Darth Bane (this guys actual first name was Darth) decided to kill off all of the Sith because he realised the more there were, the more in-fighting there would be. That's why they kept losing to the Jedi. So Bane kills off all of the Sith, and takes a jedi child as his apprentice (read it to understand how that happens). Now, I don't know if all these wars are canon to GL, most likelyl not, but he DID invent Bane. Darkhorse didn't make a comic of it until after Lucas came up with the character some time around TPM's release. There were rumors of a history lesson about Bane appearing in the movies, Palpatine may tell Anakin about it. So Bane starts the only two at a time, as well as lying in wait to destroy the jedi. the jedi thought they had killed all of the Sith. Bane escaped with his apprentice and the Sith have been lying in wait ever since. All dark jedi who are part of this lineage have taken the name Darth out of respect to Bane.
And as for Vader- he's hardcore as hell. Hes awesome, a great tragic hero along the literary lines of Hamlet, Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights, or Edna from The Awakening. how can you not think he's cool? I know I know, he killed a bunch of people...details details 😉