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Volcano? I thought that Anakin became Darth Vader when he battled Obi-wan over a pit of acid and got knocked in, thus meaning he needed the suit to survive. Daveryan 18:21 19 May 2003 (UTC)

I've always heard that it was a volcano, though apparently there is no official (canonical) evidence one way or another. Several fan sites claim that a fake prequel (fan fiction, perhaps) script is what started the volcano story. One site I found says it was either a volcano or a giant blender. Heh. Then again, as you say, I was able to turn up a few sites that say it was a vat of acid. I really have no idea :) I will have to ask my wife (big SW fan) to see if she knows whether there is an official version... -- Wapcaplet 18:28 19 May 2003 (UTC)
Funny thing is, I remember from back when I was young, reading the (non-canonical, I know) comic books that followed from the then-existing movies, there was an issue in which Darth faced off against a cyborg, because such creatures were outlawed in the Empire, or something like that. (It's been twenty years, give me a break.) And to top it off, Vader won by dipping the borg in a lake of acid (that happened to be very lava-coloured in the artwork). Now, you can take that as inconsistency, or as irony, or assume it's being retconned, I suppose. All depends on how you look at it. -- John Owens 18:44 19 May 2003 (UTC)
Actually, those comic books are canonical. The cyborg in question was a bounty hunter named Valance. It has not been retconned, and I don't know how anyone could see it as being at all inconsistent.
What I've always heard is a combination of the lava and a duel with Kenobi. I thought it was from the novelization of RotJ (or another of the OT novels). My Star Wars reading has never gone into the novelizations of the films, though. Aidje 16:43, 2005 Mar 8 (UTC)
It is a pit of lava. Anakin duels his master, and he falls into the pit. Then he's rescued by droids or something of that nature. I saw it in a preview for Episode III when they were shwoing how they remade the mask of Darth Vader. (It's gonna be a long duel!) KFan IISunday, March 20, 2005, 5:08 PM


Hmm, I wonder if having Darth Vader link here isn't a spoiler in itself, and an inevitable one to boot... -- Emperorbma 18:41, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)

no, totally evitable. crazy redirect, really. they could easily have two very differently-tomed articles, both werll-written. It would be less jarring, really; since we never learn much about the transition that takes place in his mind [and hardly can, in the one bridging episode remaining]. I have this horrible sinking feeling that Verbal and Kaiser Soze share a single page as well... +sj+