Respect Darth Vader!

Originally posted by StiltmanFTW

It's from Splinter of the Mind's Eye mini-series.

That was originally going to be the sequel to the first Star Wars movie (1977)

Somehow I forgot to post this showing...

Vader Force chokes an Imperial captain who was aboard one of the Star Destroyers that had formed a blockade above the planet he was on:
https://i.ibb.co/r3QTfQ1/choke0.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/jzLFgbr/choke1.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/MkPSNT3/choke2.jpg

Interestingly enough, Vader did this without having a visual of the captain. All he had was radio communication.

Range is definitely not a problem when Vader doesn't actually see his target 😉

Vader's 'hunt-off' with Tarkin happened at some point in 14BBY, or about 5 years after RotS.

IOW, Vader, while still powerful, wasn't in his prime there(his 'prime' being the Rebels/ANH era.)

Good work.
I think you forgot Vader surviving the explosion of the Malachor super weapon in Rebels. The weapon was empowered by a kyber crystal and we can see here what a kyber crystal explosion can do. Since his helmet was compromised by Ahsoka i think he used a force barrier/shield to survive which is extremly impressive imo.

Yeah, don't know why I didn't include that one. It's one of his best durability feats in canon. 👆

I'll add it to the OP in a bit.

Very nice. 👆

Thanks, SWL. 👆

A few others...

Vader tanks an explosion, and uses TK to lift the subsequent mound of debris off of himself:
https://i.ibb.co/HD5yh1g/1.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/r0bMTbk/2.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/4Ypz8dR/3.jpg

Disables/destroys Luke's podracer with a gesture, via hologram:
https://i.ibb.co/s1m3T5f/4.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/ZS8yRrn/5.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/thTWrrx/6.jpg

Another tidbit...

Vader deflects the blaster fire from a few freighters, before using TK to pull one out of the sky:

The freighters opened fire, writing thick lines of plasma onto the air. The shots churned the ground, destroyed trees, heated the air of the clearing; one slammed into the chest of a Royal Guard and vaporized all of him save for his helmet.

Lost in the Force, Vader anticipated the shots that would have hit him, saw the appropriate angles of impact and deflection, and used the rapid spinning of his lightsaber to turn first one, then a second, and then a third shot not into the tree line but back at the ships, the heat and energy of the blaster shots driving him backward, warming the hilt of his weapon, a heat he could feel even through his glove.

[...]

Vader lifted a hand and reached out with the Force toward the other ship. Vader enmeshed himself in the Force, in his seething, ever-present wrath, and used it to take hold of the freighter and drive the entire ship toward the ground. He grunted with the effort, his respirator increasing his rate of breathing to account for the exertion.

The ship, its damaged engines unable to compensate enough against the downward push of Vader's power, went nose-down and streaked into the ground. Vader imagined the screams of the pilots as they watched the forest race toward them. The ship disappeared behind the tree line and exploded into a fireball that reached above the forest's canopy and caused the ground to vibrate.

-Lords of the Sith

A bit more...

In the VR game Vader Immortal (yes, it's canon as well), Vader uses TK to perfectly reconstruct the shattered statue of Lady Corvax, before destroying it again:
https://i.imgur.com/bYe5sTv.gif

In GoA, Vader uses TK to casually blow open a massive metal door on Hoth, before ragdolling a few Rebel soldiers:
https://i.imgur.com/nWFNMEW.gif

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Vader withstands the explosion of the Malachor superweapon:
https://i.imgur.com/vCW43r6.gif
https://i.imgur.com/I3WJoWA.gif
https://i.imgur.com/WLpc15c.gif

*And prior to this, his armor was already slightly compromised:
https://i.imgur.com/XMY3AJJ.jpg

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Just so everyone is aware, the Malachor superweapon was powered by a "giant kyber crystal":
https://i.imgur.com/oAyjNti.jpg

And in an earlier scene from Rebels, we also saw what the detonation of a giant kyber crystal was capable of:
https://i.imgur.com/C69RTK2.gif

Just some food for thought. 🙂

Vader's chops off the jaw of a Colo Claw Fish, before seemingly using the Force to compel the creature to attack one of its own kind:
https://ibb.co/B414m5Y
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Vader survives being 'eaten' by a Sando Aqua Monster, and proceeds to kill it:
https://ibb.co/Pgwryrb
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Apparently Vader is the first known being to ever solo the beast.

Vader uses the Force to destroy a Gungan Wort Projector field that was imprisoning him, and then slaughters the Amidalans:
https://ibb.co/BLZFWpx
https://ibb.co/y81CqcT
https://ibb.co/fYXnn6f
https://ibb.co/LnPVG7p

Vader reluctantly fights Padme's Handmaidens:
https://ibb.co/6ZWPS0w
https://ibb.co/fSTZ4F9
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https://ibb.co/q0DFH6F
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*Note in the fourth scan he palms close-range blaster fire, then TK chokes all of the Handmaidens simultaneously in the last scan.

Vader vs. the Amidalan Fleet:
https://ibb.co/Gnh7k9w
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https://ibb.co/51T9PpN
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Vader finds a recording of Padme's final moments, and is overcome by grief... Palpatine is not amused:
https://ibb.co/nsvv8S1
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Through what I would assume is some form of Sith Sorcery, Vader has trapped the spirit/essence of the Grand Inquisitor inside a High Republic-era Jedi Outpost, to act as a sort of guardian. When a Jedi enters the Outpost, and the GI-shade 'activates', Vader is immediately able to sense it. What's more, the indication is that only Vader can release the GI from this purgatorial prison:
https://ibb.co/1bkz2bs
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Vader: "You are but a tool, shaped to serve my purposes. You will... Continue."

Vader "versus" Palpatine:
https://ibb.co/kx9YjfY
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https://ibb.co/0ntpQFS

And as suspected, the "Sith Assassin" is indeed Ochi:
https://ibb.co/b7HPTqM
https://ibb.co/8MJDh2Z

Originally posted by Galan007
In GoA, Vader uses TK to casually blow open a massive metal door on Hoth, before ragdolling a few Rebel soldiers:
https://i.imgur.com/nWFNMEW.gif

Vader then uses TK to move a large ice wall out of his path:
https://ibb.co/WtfcVkQ
https://ibb.co/jkM3MrF
https://ibb.co/hcsW98t
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Vader's "vision" on Mustafar(during RotS):
https://ibb.co/h7r6h2f
https://ibb.co/6Yy32Ks
https://ibb.co/K7W6ZcG
https://ibb.co/6HwdHDv
https://ibb.co/r0KpmYQ
https://ibb.co/W37sRDy
https://ibb.co/bQNDDXH
https://ibb.co/GVqHZp0
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Vader uses casual TK to defeat Dr. Restin's enhanced Gamorrean mutated hybrids:
https://ibb.co/MDfKXNk
https://ibb.co/zNSFY5m
https://ibb.co/Bc5VhQL
https://ibb.co/vv9ZyjX
https://ibb.co/1JGSZfM
https://ibb.co/CQ3r5Pd
"I do not need to touch my enemies to defeat them."

In the wake of Vader's defeat at the hands of Palpatine, he was left battered and broken on Mustafar, and forbidden from using the Force.

Vader crawls to a nearby facility filled with machinery resources, and uses the 'leftovers' found there to begin rebuilding his armor:
https://ibb.co/H7BcpjZ
https://ibb.co/WG3f1s2
https://ibb.co/5v5yg1g
https://ibb.co/jbzGK3B
https://ibb.co/nw3vjMD
https://ibb.co/5MyzsWQ
https://ibb.co/KGvrT9W
https://ibb.co/3kj4GGS

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Vader(with heavily damaged/compromised armor, and without the aid of the Force) vs. Oochi:
https://ibb.co/TMzrnBH
https://ibb.co/8YCtRFn
https://ibb.co/0X0mdws
https://ibb.co/Kq0j97h
https://ibb.co/qY4pjhc
https://ibb.co/jZdLCqz

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After defeating an array of various 'guardians'(with heavily damaged/compromised armor, and without the aid of the Force), Vader confronts the Eye of Webbish Bogg:
https://ibb.co/f9VTxPS
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https://ibb.co/TrfVhVc
https://ibb.co/CKwbrgs
https://ibb.co/tc1ttdb
https://ibb.co/BnLB6Z1
https://ibb.co/7bt5p2T
https://ibb.co/wrv0wBL
*The Eye of Webbish Bogg then presents Vader with a Wayfinder that leads to Exegol.

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Oochi was convinced that Vader's armor/tech was extremely unique and special, and gave his droid mercenaries exclusive rights to pillage his armor if they helped defeat him. Suffice to say, Vader(with heavily damaged/compromised armor, and without the aid of the Force) rapes all of the droids:
https://ibb.co/R2S52qs
https://ibb.co/PcvrBSv
https://ibb.co/dgvpwzY
https://ibb.co/XSjGx14
https://ibb.co/8bBn4Pk
https://ibb.co/hLpZkN0
https://ibb.co/r2cFrSq
https://ibb.co/XDBxY6r
https://ibb.co/x6zkTg1
https://ibb.co/GMBv5MC
https://ibb.co/hfZB2sH
https://ibb.co/qjvWtMq
*The droids ultimately came to the revelation that Vader's armor was primarily comprised of obsolete "junk" that they had no use for. What they(and Oochi) failed to realize is that it isn't the armor that makes Vader 'special'... It's the man underneath it.

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Vader takes Oochi hostage and begins his journey to Exegol. Shortly afterward, he encounters the Summa-Verminoth- "the galaxy's greatest predator":
https://ibb.co/NS8W5pF
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https://ibb.co/7vz3BY7

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Vader(in an unfamiliar ship) solos ~a dozen TIEs with ease:
https://ibb.co/h2dWp3g
https://ibb.co/4NMXFRx
https://ibb.co/sFKrB2s
https://ibb.co/vXsKXyd
https://ibb.co/RYPqCJ9

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We then learn that the Summa-Verminoth's attacks transcend the physical. If it fails to break your body, it will attempt to break your mind:
https://ibb.co/ZGy7MJZ
https://ibb.co/v4QYYkq
https://ibb.co/ZBzYNwn
https://ibb.co/8Dpx4s7
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https://ibb.co/gVNzpJN
https://ibb.co/xh1qgFY
https://ibb.co/jzLxSKZ

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Vader ultimately shrugs off the Verminoth's TP assault, makes it through the nebula and onto Exegol. Vader then uses the Force to take control of the Verminoth, and will undoubtedly use it to begin his siege on the Exegol Temple in order to discover Palpatine's greatest secrets:
https://ibb.co/Pzg7R26
https://ibb.co/QFgJRR8
https://ibb.co/P6zxy9W
https://ibb.co/Qv4z699
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"Fear leads to anger... Anger leads to hate... And hate... Leads to power. So now... Let the Emperor fear ME."

Vader uses TK to disarm dozens of Palpatine's Sith cultists, then kills them all with their own weapons:
https://ibb.co/V3yV1BY
https://ibb.co/vLMkhv6
https://ibb.co/Mkv8vtw

Neat idea. Sorry I haven't been around much these last few years.

Mike! Blast from the past!

Good to see ya around after all this time. 👆

After Vader's trials on Exegol, he emerged more hate-fueled(and therefore more powerful) than ever:
https://ibb.co/1ry6WVq
https://ibb.co/0qBddTt
https://ibb.co/51fQJQK

*This implies that RotJ-era Vader = peak Vader.

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Vader vs. IG-88 and his droid mercenaries:
https://ibb.co/wcrr480
https://ibb.co/9G33FHy
https://ibb.co/mGm3rKY
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https://ibb.co/ctjM07r
IG-88: "I deployed your provided slice and disabled his armor... But his abilities transcend technology."

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Vader uses his saber to block close-range blaster cannon fire:
https://ibb.co/tPQtyMY
https://ibb.co/wh6YRFQ

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Vader vs. Sly Moore and her band of would-be usurpers:
https://ibb.co/3SwRmHF
https://ibb.co/BwjJN6y
https://ibb.co/gM1WtqM
https://ibb.co/W61cVZ4

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Vader shrugs off Sly Moore's attempt at mind-phuckery:
https://ibb.co/C515dTC
https://ibb.co/bBqJpX4

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Vader casually TK ragdolls several guards/soldiers:
https://ibb.co/MRZzzmB
https://ibb.co/p2fLtJ2