You figure with Anakin's proclivity for tinkering with things that he would eventually upgrade the suit to some extent.

Vader with a hood is such a hardcore drip I'm telling you

Gets hit with Palpatine Lightning. "Power at 400% capacity" Darth, " Well how bout that!"

That new Suit for Vader would be scary.

a full sprint vader would be terrifying

Vader in an upgraded suit would be Dr. DOOM. Lol

take a shot every time he says "upgrade his soooot" lmao. You'll be dead.

As a claustrophobic person, I tore up the cast on my arm after surgery. It did negatively affect the healing process, but I simply could not deal with the restriction. Vaders suit would have been a living hell!

Imagine a Darth Vader that upgraded his suit in a way where he was part Vader and dark trooper.

I imagine if Star Wars came out today we would have had a formal suit for vader and some sort of battle armor for when he stormed Hoth. Would have been a cool aspect to see a difference between them.

If all the books weren't decanonized, Vader was working on getting less dependent on the suit, during his times where he was in a state of meditation outside of the suit, he was force healing his body but the damage took a lot of work from his ability in using the force

I like that image with a hood.

Especially if you include the canon Vader comics, Vader had the skill and resources to upgrade his suit, even if it was behind Palpatine's back. He was shown to be able to rebuild himself on the fly with spare battledroid parts, and had multiple chances to perform the procedure over the years. The reason he didn't was HIS choice. Either he kept the suit because it made him more focused in the Dark Side, or maybe he did it as punishment to himself.

Anakin had so much anger that he endured that pain for decades to kill the rest of the jedi

Darth Vader’s new suit should have been a cloned body. If I were Vader, there is no risk I wouldn’t have taken to get out of that body and suit.

I recommand "Shadow of the Empire" from Steve Perry from 1997 , there are great passages - from the point of view from Vader and his thoughts about his Life Support, his Armor. You also get an explaition, why he´s not completly healing. Eventhough trying , he can even life for some minutes without his Systems. But it requires enormerous strengh in the Dark Side, too much ,even for Vader - and in a preview Video Star Wars Comics already explained , why Old Sith Lods look down on Vader - He still had to much good in him, wich is why he fails Healing himself with the power of the Dark Force / still needs his Suit. And by keeping his Suit "Unconfortable" ,it helped him imensly staying angry. Anakin was a Soldier , still a formidable Warrior as Vader and he punishes himself with the Suit and uses it at the same time to fuel his anger.If you are in Pain, you easly get very angry from one moment to another -- Pragmatism at is finest. One of Anakins best characteristics ((That´s just my personal bios))

an ultimate darth vader suit would be one that causes pain for vader to fuel the dark side but didnt have weaknesses or hinder his movement or use of the force

After finding out about nanodroids, I’ve been wondering what if they were used to reconstruct Anakin? I’d bet they could be reprogrammed to do so. If they can turn a human into a bomb, they definitely could reconstruct Anakin’s body after mustafar.

More important than anything, the suit is a symbol of a man who is wounded and hides it. He doesn't show his true wounded self and has lost "feeling" as a result. That's the basic from G Lucas.

That vader suit in the vid is so cool imo

Dark Lord The Rise of Darth Vader explains a lot.

Vader held back considerably if you compare General Grievous to Darth Vader you can see that Vader was slow. Grievous had multiple abilities without being a force user, and Vader knew it. However Vader for different reasons chose to limit himself.

For Anikan his hell was staying alive in pain

Speaking of Luke, Anakin may have failed to save both his mother Shmi and his wife Padme, but he has succeeded in saving his son Luke, and it's a total shame that Darth Sidious failed to realize that Luke's pleas for his father to help has caused Anakin to successfully arrest, relinquished, and turned against the Dark Side and return back to the Light Side of the Force, and not even the faultiness of Vader's old suit can prevent Luke from calling out to his father.

Pretty sure Vader never "tried" because Papa Palps wouldn't allow it.

You assume that Vader wanted to defeat Luke in Return of the Jedi. I don’t think Vader ever wanted to defeat Luke, he wanted to turn Luke to the Dark Side and rule with him. Vader was toying with Luke the whole time, and until Luke used the Dark Side Vader was in complete control. The only thing an upgraded suit would have done for Vader in Return of the Jedi, would be to not allow Palpatine’s Sith Lightning to damage the life support system in his suit. Additionally Vader used Bacta Tanks without his suit in canon. He could have upgraded his suit at any point in time and then gone into a Bacta tank, and have the droids insert him into the new suit after the Bacta treatment.

what if Fives wasnt killed of by Fox and came clutch for the Clones.

Some of the suit pictures in this are amazing.

A nose an mouth respirator face mask with his eyes an head uncovered, with a deep Hooded knee length cape would've been neat for Vader. You could see the fire and anger in vaders eyes and feel the weight of his gaze

Doesn't he remove the suit when he goes in the bacta tank, which we've seen many times? Seems like when he gets out of the tank would be the time to switch suits without posing any danger to him - or does that make too much sense?

Whenever he was in the Bacta tank, he was free from his suit. What would have been the problem with just attaching a new upgraded suit instead of leaving the tank and having the original suit fitted on him? I know he had implants very similar to Borg implants, but they definitely could have been adapted to fit a new suit considering the technology available, as well as the time to build and engineer a new suit, as opposed to the haste that was necessary to save his life after his accident, which all had to be done on the fly.

They covered this in one of the comics. He decided not to upgrade at the last minute as there would be a lengthy time he'd be vulnerable. If the Emperor took his upgrade as a slight or threat he'd have Vader killed at the stage between suits. He was going to try in secret but was still too unsure. That was just some expanded universe comic though, barley cannon. In my mind the real reason Vader puts up with all the pain, trauma and sleepless nights is because he believes he deserves it.

So what you are saying, basically palp wanted anakin to become stronger so he could posses his body, but obi wan beating him made him very weak and so palp turned to get vaders son instead. But because vader struck palp down and luke didnt turn to the dark side palp had no way of coming back....until the sequels ruined everything. We don't talk about them tho

Its said that vaders strength in a lightsaber battle is like being hit by a meteor crashing on a planets surface. Now with an upgraded suit to give him more mobility would be absolutely TERRIFYING

The reason vader died in return of the jedi is because his helmet was removed. Yes the lightning shut his suit down, but inside his suit, there is an emergency power reserve that will keep him going for a little while longer. If he kept his helmet on, he would've survived.

Challenging and tasking how discipline he was

Honestly, I can see upsides and downsides to an upgrades suit. Upsides being he'd be able to duel like his old self again, he'd need to adapt his fighting style again, but he'd a nigh unstoppable lightsaber duelist and now resistant to force lightening. Considering the old suit was somewhat a punishment, I can see it also fueling the dark side of the force for Vader. So, taking the frustrations of the suit away might have actually made him weaker in the dark side.

hearing his clopping footsteps no you heard the breathing before the step js every scene with vader before the sound of his boot you hear his ragged breathing apparatus

i imagine that moving vader to another suit would be like working on an old car thats been owned by 5 different people over 50 years. its kinda just a rats nest of wires and parts now and kinda just working on hope and duct tape.

For one, Think if I were in his suit, I would consider something that could redirect the Force Lightening at whoever was using it against me.

Is force lightening actually the same as electrical lightening? If not, then there would be nothing that could be do to protect yourself from it short of using the force like Yoda did.

that 1 darth vader just wearing a bin bag lol 5.17

P.s. It doesn't matter if the suit was insulated or not. It is force lightning and does not conduct like electricity it flows through everything, just like the force. It just looks like electricity because it is so focused. It doesn't just shock you it burns away your essence and life force.

We see Vader completely out of his suit in Rogue One. So the idea that he couldn't be removed doesn't appear to hold up. We also see him almost entirely resist an EMP grenade, and tank normal electricity in the comics, pretty reasonable installs given that literally anyone trying to take him down would try to disable his cybernetics. Plus the clips shown in the video is from when he literally rebuilds his suit. Its either he's already about as good as the Empire is able to provide, given the extent of his injuries, and/or he refuses to let basically anyone else touch the suit as we already see. Any upgrades come from him, not the Empire, to prevent any malware essentially.

Okay time to talk about this. Look guys. The movie was made in the 70s. He was supposed to look scary. That's it plain and simple. Sudious in cannon comics TOLD Vader to adjust his siute how he wants.

You would have figured he would have had the suit grounded.

He couldn't save his mother, his wife, or his baby. He thought the baby died with Padme died. He only learns otherwise when Luke is revealed in a New Hope blowing up the DeathStar. A young rebel named Skywalker.

What Vader and Shevva had a child😅🎉😂❤ True Dark Side Baby

Make a cloned body and put himself in a new suit, surprise Palpatine, my turn at being emperor..

8:40 so basically vader was cranky

Vader was in the bacta tank so he was disconnected from his suit. He could have got into a new one.

I agree the suit held back is ability to move faster … depending on the nerve damage from being burned .. however upgrading that suit would be definitely a threat to the emperor.. remember he wanted Luke to rule with him.. Vader had ambitions… He would virtually be a menace and almost unstoppable…. More faster and maneuverable Darth Vader.. the fear … Strong with the Dark Side he would be

Beware it's known that a Jedi with a full body has more power. Vader lost limbs and so lost part of his Force

Maybe Vader did get an upgrade, by the time return of then Jedi came around Vader just couldn't take it anymore! So that way we see Vader pick up the Empire with one handed and body throw him over the age, into the abyas! Doing so the light side of the force chased away the darkness. Leaving Vader extremely weak that's why in the hanger bay we see Luke carrying Vader to the craft.

This concept has been covered over and over again and the ultimate answer is that in order for Vader to obtain a new suit he would have had to be removed from his current suit completely for an extended period of time and the odds were very high that would have killed him because he wouldn't have had all of the life support from the suit which had essentially become his nervous system and it also controlled his breathing

Vader should have contacted the cloners and had them clone his own arms, legs etc to replace the damaged parts of his body.

I like to think that Palpatine cancelled parts orders that Vader placed for improving his suit, and just said "It appears in your order, they have ran out"

here's a thought, for all we know Anakin/Vader could have secretly had a clone or clones of himself made where he could incorporate his new suit so he could be the most powerful user of the force both light and dark. since it was being done in secret away from Palpatine/Sidious it would have been a slow process and taken years to complete.

I think the Best question is why didnt the writers do it?

Omg this is just him yapping like craxy

One factor i don't hear people take into account; if Anakin were to switch suits, he might not survive. In order to switch suit they'd have to temporarily shut down or remove his support systems.

Didn't Vader actively refuse to upgrade his suit because the constant pain and suffering helped fuel his dark side finger-wiggling?

In the cartoon (are they canon?) Maul got his Midi-chlorians back after getting cut if half. Imagine if Vader had gone threw the same process....

It’s simple the suit is too iconic

I always assumed Anakin was tinkering and trying to upgrade bits here and there as they wore out?

I never understood why the emperor never cloned Vader

Vader constantly being in pain and suffering gave him power from the dark side. It fueled him. Made him focus. Made him stronger. While vader could have force essenced to another body, his pain and suffering would be gone. Therefore so too would his power.

5 years ago you made a darth jar jar fanfic it ended on a cliffhanger wil you make a part 3?

He could have upgraded it relatively easily. We see him in a bacta tank in Rogue One so he's out of the suit. All he needed was to slowly build a new one and when he finished with it, the next time he came out of the bacta tank, get put in the new one.

I think taking him out the suit wouldnt have been a problem since he has his chamber and a bacta tank that he normally goes in to either semi or completely remove his armor.

3 minutes ago is preposterous

Has very big Tulak Hord vibes

Vader wife's soul was put into that suit.

Imagine Vader with an Ironman suit...

I need to buy a Vader suit! The dark Lord of the sith takes no crap! Lol.

bro vader would stay in the bacta until his suit was ready

1:54 since when is vader, iron man😂😂

Why couldn't Vader just block Palpatine's electricity like Mace did with his saber?

That AI photo looks like the Cylons, from the original Battlestar Galactica.

I always wondered why he didn't clone himself like Jango Fett?

Where did you find that pic of Darth Vader in an Iron Man type suit!!???

Speaking as an aging guy here. At some point, you just stop thinking about updating anything and you don’t even realize it. Couldn’t the explanation be just as simple as the psychology of aging?

To be fair there’s nothing to show he didn’t upgrade it. The suit from the movie limited the actors mobility and we just ran with it and made it cannon, but we only really hear how the suit works in comics closer to when he gets it. Nothings there to say he never upgraded the mobility over the years other than how he moves in episode 6, but he could just be old and dying due to being half a human in a can for like 20 years

Cloned wars proved that cloning works. And the Empire could of cloned a whole army of Vaders. Or Palpatine On the flip side. A rebel army could of been cloned from Luke, or Yoda. Why couldn’t Anakin just of cloned Padme? They had the tech to clone everyone of our favorite deceased characters. From Padme to Porkins.

malgus would be disappointed

Even if Vader improved his suit h would never beat Sidious but he would be indeed a greater juggernaut to deal with. What if it the suit was made out of beskar armor

Palpatine shouldve just cloned anakin and had him swap bodies

There's already 100 "Why no gewd soot??" videos...

A top of the line suit would make Vader weaker because pain and suffering draws from the darkside. Vader believes he deserves the pain and suffering for killing his wife and child/children. He owed the pain,he deserves the suffering because misery is his only companion and in misery he is free of weakness and now can tower above the people while driving fear into their very soul and even if it's only a brief glance that fear would never leave.

I still don’t understand why he never implemented cortosis in his armor, lightsabers aren’t able too cut it

just because the look never chainged dont think he never upgraded whats under the hood.

really stretching the video for a 30 - 1min answer XD

Absolutely

No new suit for you George Lucas is lazy.

Think full beskar plate set

source of hooded darth vader picture?

What would a new suit look like?

Disney should shoehorn in a story of Darth Vader building the most powerful suit he could muster, one that even Palpatine was afraid of, and somehow ends up back in the old one.

how was he in the bacta tank suitless with no robitic arms or legs. he could of survived to get into another suit no problem!!

Didn't need to upgrade deep down he always knew he chose wrong by choosing the dark side so he has been waiting to die that's why he chased down Jedi not because they survived but he was looking for any Jedi good enough to strike him down but we all knew how that worked out he's just a broken man looking to get put back together