Obi-Wan's Final Words Had a Completely Different Meaning to Darth Vader
The final words that Obi-Wan Kenobi spoke right before Darth Vader killed him in the original Star Wars film were taken as a direct threat by the Dark Lord of the Sith. Every fan remembers the moment that the former Anakin Skywalkerstruck down his Jedi master at the end of A New Hope. The seasoned Jedi tells Vader, "If you strike me down, I'll become more powerful than you can possibly imagine." As the story continues, it becomes apparent that Obi-Wan meant that his death would inspire Luke to topple the Sith, but to Vader, his words were perceived a lot differently.
In Marvel's current run of Star Wars comics, Darth Vader believes that Obi-Wan's final words are nothing more than «Jedi tricks,» but he eventually comes to realize their true meaning. However, one Legends-era comic perfectly highlights why these words might haunt Vader. While the Jedi tend to interpret words and messages from "a certain point of view," the Sith take warnings like these much more literally.
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The 2003 anthology comicStar Wars Tales #16 features a story «Heart of Darkness,» written by Paul Lee with art by Paul Lee and Brian Horton. This story explains why Kenobi's threat was the perfect thing to level against Darth Vader. While it is a Legends story that is no longer canon, many of its themes and ideas do hold up in the current canon. The story centers around a young Jedi of Yoda's species named Minch, who travels to Dagobah where he meets and battles a dark Jedi. The dark Jedi makes the same threat to Minch, and he means it very literally. When Minch strikes him down, the dark Jedi splits into dozens of tiny versions of himself and quickly overtakes his opponent. He takes
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