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You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. When did Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker's skin become all white and pale???

• Thread starter Spiderman2099
• Start date Dec 8, 2012

Spiderman2099

Joined Dec 6, 2012 Messages 198 Reaction score 0 Location USA Darth Vader's skin, underneath his robot suit, was all deathly pale and white. However, "when" did his skin color go from being normal-colored (after he was burned on the Mustafar planet and when he was being rebuilt into the cyborg samurai robot suit on Coruscant his skin was still normal colored, not yet pale/white.) When did Darth Vader's skin become white? It become white due to a lack of sunlight/his face being covered up underneath a mask/helmet for about 2 decades (aka 20 years). However, when did that actual physical transformation happen? It was pale and white in empire strikes back too, in that scene with the breathing pod. At the end of revenge of the sith, darth vader's face looked like this-all burned and bald and deformed and scarred-just like above in episode 6 return of the jedi, but it wasn't really pale white yet. There is a 3 year yr gap in between episodes 4 and 5. Maybe it could have turned white then. Was Darth Vader's skin all white and pale during episode 4 a new hope??? A few months/years after the ending of episode 3 revenge of the sith??? Maybe at the very end of revenge of the sith, luke and leia are a few months old (some time passes on), and it gradually starts then? I don't know. Feel free to speculate. I aint sure on this either. Those are just action figures of him without the mask. Not from the movie, but since I couldnt find a picture in google images of darth vader in the suit but with the mask off (before it turned all white and pale, I'll will use this one right over here)

trandoshanhunter

Joined Sep 22, 2011 Messages 5,195 Reaction score 3 Location Saskatchewan, Canada Probably soon after being put in the suit I assume. Last edited: Dec 8, 2012 P

pohatu771

Joined May 19, 2010 Messages 4,546 Reaction score 3 Location Rochester, NY 19 year between ROTS and ANH, and Vader had no exposure to the sun except through the lenses of his helmet. I'm sure he was pure white within a year of going into the suit.

Spiderman2099

Joined Dec 6, 2012 Messages 198 Reaction score 0 Location USA

pohatu771 said: 19 year between ROTS and ANH, and Vader had no exposure to the sun except through the lenses of his helmet. I'm sure he was pure white within a year of going into the suit. Click to expand...

How do you know that episodes 3 and 4 had 19 years in between? Who confirmed that? Is there a quote that proves that? Well, I don't know all of the medical stuff about this kind of stuff. Like, for instance, his skin was white-white, as pale as a corpse, pale as white, but, I don't know how long it would take medically for that to happen. It was probably very gradual, though, however. So, do you think that his skin was already white by the time of episode 4 a new hope? Nah. I don't think so. Why would u say so? Besides, what about all of the admirals and officers and stormtroopers that were out on the death star? They had no sunlight either. They were on a space station.........

EnigmaticOne

Joined Jul 15, 2011 Messages 2,646 Reaction score 3 Location Los Angeles, CA

pohatu771 said: 19 year between ROTS and ANH, and Vader had no exposure to the sun except through the lenses of his helmet. I'm sure he was pure white within a year of going into the suit. Click to expand...

Exactly^ 1010101010

Spiderman2099

Joined Dec 6, 2012 Messages 198 Reaction score 0 Location USA

EnigmaticOne said: Exactly^ 1010101010 Click to expand...

A year? Nah. I think it would be longer. There are some people out there (i aint sure of that medical condition or what it's is called), but they R afraid of going out into the sunlight, like that guy howie on the benchwarmer's comedy movie/film. They stay in the house for a very long time but their skin doesn't turn bleached pale deathly white as a corpse. Darth Vader's head looked as white as a glass of milk, it looked like an egg shell (bald/round, white)...........

notch_vader

Joined Apr 9, 2012 Messages 147 Reaction score 1 Location Rehab George would say because of the force... In this case I find it even plausible. However if you look at Anakin's face in ROTJ you can clearly see it wasn't completely burned, his nose is perfectly intact and he only has scar tissue on his cheek and the back of his head. So either those medical droids did a hell of a job fixing up his face with plastic surgery and just overlooked those scars, or Anakin didn't get burned the way it is shown in ROTS. And because George had to remove Anakin's eyebrows in the SE... well, don't even bother trying to make it all fit.

Cobalt60

Joined Aug 18, 2006 Messages 6,419 Reaction score 789

Spiderman2099 said: How do you know that episodes 3 and 4 had 19 years in between? Who confirmed that? Is there a quote that proves that? Click to expand...

luke was 19 at the beginning of ANH Luke Skywalker - Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki

Spiderman2099

Joined Dec 6, 2012 Messages 198 Reaction score 0 Location USA

Cobalt60 said: luke was 19 at the beginning of ANH Luke Skywalker - Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki Click to expand...

How do you that whoever wrote that luke skywalker was 19 was basing that off of canon (the films or the EU the expanded universe). Fan speculation aint canon.......

DarthBeek

Joined Mar 7, 2002 Messages 25,523 Reaction score 3,207 Location Illinois This thread takes things to an embarrassing level of geekiness. Wow.

EnigmaticOne

Joined Jul 15, 2011 Messages 2,646 Reaction score 3 Location Los Angeles, CA

Spiderman2099 said: How do you that whoever wrote that luke skywalker was 19 was basing that off of canon (the films or the EU the expanded universe). Fan speculation aint canon....... Click to expand...

Lurk Moar? But seriously, 19 years would make anyone paler. I spent 3 Months indoors and I significantly got lighter. Not pale but light for a brown complexion.

Spiderman2099

Joined Dec 6, 2012 Messages 198 Reaction score 0 Location USA how long would it take for somebody's skin to turn all deathly pale and white like an egg like darth vader did??? 19 years??? Maybe a bit less. It also depends on the gradualness of it all too, so the scale for measuring this is kinda of hard.......

DarthBeek

Joined Mar 7, 2002 Messages 25,523 Reaction score 3,207 Location Illinois Seriously, who cares? Sebastian Shaw IS Anakin. In my SW, his past is still a mystery. Pasty old man FTW.

Spiderman2099

Joined Dec 6, 2012 Messages 198 Reaction score 0 Location USA

DarthBeek said: Seriously, who cares? Sebastian Shaw IS Anakin. In my SW, his past is still a mystery. Pasty old man FTW. Click to expand...

Hay Chris is anakin skywalker in my opinion. Darth Vader having a mysterious past is nowhere near as intersting as giving him a prequel backstory.......

DarthBeek

Joined Mar 7, 2002 Messages 25,523 Reaction score 3,207 Location Illinois

Spiderman2099 said: Darth Vader having a mysterious past is nowhere near as intersting as giving him a prequel backstory....... Click to expand...

Negative. When the prequel story is as lousy as what was portrayed...I will take mystery.

Revanfan1

Joined Jul 13, 2010 Messages 8,032 Reaction score 1 Location Maelstrom Prison He didn't see sunlight for 23 years. What do you think your skin would look like?

Spiderman2099

Joined Dec 6, 2012 Messages 198 Reaction score 0 Location USA

Revanfan1 said: He didn't see sunlight for 23 years. What do you think your skin would look like? Click to expand...

Neither did the imperials, admirals, and officers and all of the stormtroopers that were hanging out on the death stars, which was space station located in outer space, in the middle of nowhere, and their skin color was normal-looking. And the contracors who built the death star for 19 years yrs. Besides, one thing that I don't get. When did his skin become all deathly white and pale??? There are heliophobic people, people who R afraid of the sun. Their skin can get pale just from hiding in their houses for months. But when does their skin become deathly white and pale??? Like white as snow, white as an egg. White White. Was Darth Vader's skin deathly pale and white during star wars episode 4 a new hope??? I always thought that in his breathing pod and meditation chamber, he could take off his cyborg samurai helmet/mask and relax with his head/face uncovered..........

Revanfan1

Joined Jul 13, 2010 Messages 8,032 Reaction score 1 Location Maelstrom Prison

Spiderman2099 said: Neither did the imperials, admirals, and officers and all of the stormtroopers that were hanging out on the death stars, which was space station located in outer space, in the middle of nowhere, and their skin color was normal-looking. And the contracors who built the death star for 19 years yrs. Click to expand...

He did not take his helmet off. Sunlight could not get through the helmet, so he could not get sunlight. That is why he's so pale. Even when he's outside, he's still inside.

Spiderman2099

Joined Dec 6, 2012 Messages 198 Reaction score 0 Location USA

Revanfan1 said: He did not take his helmet off. Sunlight could not get through the helmet, so he could not get sunlight. That is why he's so pale. Even when he's outside, he's still inside. Click to expand...

I don't know what you mean by "outside" or "inside" in this specific context right here, though. Darth Vader/anakin skywalker did take off his helmet, though, however. The cyborg samurai mask/helmet is lowering onto his head/face right there. That is heavily implying that it was totally and completley off of his head for a time. Here is just a nice drawing that I found, showing what it might have been like inside of the dark lord darth vader's breathing pod/meditation chamber.

Revanfan1

Joined Jul 13, 2010 Messages 8,032 Reaction score 1 Location Maelstrom Prison Yes, the helmet could come off in his pod, but the pod was closed off - no sunlight could get in. So once again, he has not seen the sun since Mustafar - perhaps literally.

Spiderman2099

Joined Dec 6, 2012 Messages 198 Reaction score 0 Location USA

Revanfan1 said: Yes, the helmet could come off in his pod, but the pod was closed off - no sunlight could get in. So once again, he has not seen the sun since Mustafar - perhaps literally. Click to expand...

You'd just said earlier that he did not take his helmet off. U R kinda contradicting urself right here. The imperial admirals and officers that were hanging out on the death stars space station never/barely got any sunlight either......

Wishing_Well

Joined Sep 14, 2011 Messages 4,485 Reaction score 1,006 Location Michigan Who is this guy?

AllSystemsGo

Joined Aug 10, 2008 Messages 2,151 Reaction score 250 Location Michigan

Wishing_Well said: Who is this guy? Click to expand...

Obviously a new member to the site who enjoys talking about SW. Why don't you find something better to do instead of antagonizing this guy.

Revanfan1

Joined Jul 13, 2010 Messages 8,032 Reaction score 1 Location Maelstrom Prison

Spiderman2099 said: You'd just said earlier that he did not take his helmet off. U R kinda contradicting urself right here. The imperial admirals and officers that were hanging out on the death stars space station never/barely got any sunlight either...... Click to expand...

But they got to leave their stations from time to time, get shore leave - and they didn't keep their helmets on! But unless he was in his dark, sunless chamber, Vader had to keep his helmet on! So again - even when he was in the sunlight, his skin could not be exposed to it because his helmet blocked it! J

jpolli666

Joined Oct 12, 2009 Messages 4,011 Reaction score 5 Location Northeast CT. yeah, no doubt. probably gets real clammy n sweaty too, and then it's like you've been in the tub too long,with white wrinkly ol' fingers n toes.

Revanfan1 said: He didn't see sunlight for 23 years. What do you think your skin would look like? Click to expand...

Spiderman2099

Joined Dec 6, 2012 Messages 198 Reaction score 0 Location USA

jpolli666 said: yeah, no doubt. probably gets real clammy n sweaty too, and then it's like you've been in the tub too long,with white wrinkly ol' fingers n toes. Click to expand...

The question/topic of this thread is when Darth Vader/anakin skywalker's still turned all deathly pale and white. Was it like that a few months after getting the cyborg samurai suit?? By the time of A New hope?? When?? Even more disturbing, how did he urinate/pee/poop/drink water/eat/digest food stuff??? Last edited: Dec 10, 2012

Neal

Joined Jan 15, 2002 Messages 35,388 Reaction score 1,356 Location Rochester, NY Who the **** cares when it happened?! It happened at some point between when he was sealed in the suit during ROTS and when we first saw him without his helmet on in TESB. Pick a time within those 22 years.

Spiderman2099

Joined Dec 6, 2012 Messages 198 Reaction score 0 Location USA

Neal said: Who the **** cares when it happened?! It happened at some point between when he was sealed in the suit during ROTS and when we first saw him without his helmet on in TESB. Pick a time within those 22 years. Click to expand...

It definitley had to have happened gradually, I guess. By the end of episode 3 ROTS (the revenge of the sith), I guess his skin turned all deathly pale and white then?? Didn't his skin in TESB not look as pale deathly white as it did in episode 6 ROTJ?? What color was lord darth vader/anakin skywalker's skin during star wars episode 4 A New hope??? I care because I like knowing about all of the details of stuff. Im a very curious person.

Darth_Engelhast

Joined May 18, 2000 Messages 11,043 Reaction score 4 Location Top-Secret Hideout you think his face is pale then you really don't want to see his Lilly-white wrinkled old butt. Talk about where the suns don't shine. Palpatine should have popped for the extra deluxe tanning booth option for Darth's creepy breathing chamber.

DagMarus

Joined Feb 11, 2010 Messages 4,875 Reaction score 1,647 Location Chicago, IL

Spiderman2099 said: Hay Chris is anakin skywalker in my opinion. Click to expand...

..."Hay Chris"? Really? Ugh. But really, I assume it had something to do with the methods they went to in order to keep him alive over time. Last edited: Dec 10, 2012 P

pohatu771

Joined May 19, 2010 Messages 4,546 Reaction score 3 Location Rochester, NY Let's settle this: The difference between Vader and the rest of the Empire is that he lives in his armor, the rest can take it off. The only way Vader can remove his helmet is in his chamber. Even in space, on star cruisers or the Death Star, there had to be some sort of artificial sunlight for the troops. They have to have one for the health of the soldiers. In this case, Vader's skin likely can't handle exposure to UV light like the rest of us can. The time lapse between ROTS and ANH is widely known. You can't rely on us to cite every piece of information, especially if it isn't something anyone has ever contested. Besides, look at this logically. If his skin is white in ESB, is it more likely to have gone white between ROTS and ANH (knowing Luke aged many years, regardless of whether you believe it's 19 or not), or between ANH and ESB (knowing Luke has aged very little). As far as Vader's bodily functions, there is an entire Wookieepedia article about Vader's armor, which handles most of those. It's well-cited with all of the books that have covered it.

Spiderman2099

Joined Dec 6, 2012 Messages 198 Reaction score 0 Location USA

Darth_Engelhast said: you think his face is pale then you really don't want to see his Lilly-white wrinkled old butt. Talk about where the suns don't shine. Palpatine should have popped for the extra deluxe tanning booth option for Darth's creepy breathing chamber. Click to expand...

how did he urinate and pee, though, however??? In his little breathing meditation chamber pod???

DagMarus

Joined Feb 11, 2010 Messages 4,875 Reaction score 1,647 Location Chicago, IL Now, granted, I'm no biologist, but I'm fairly certain peeing and urinating are the same thing.

Spiderman2099

Joined Dec 6, 2012 Messages 198 Reaction score 0 Location USA

DagMarus said: Now, granted, I'm no biologist, but I'm fairly certain peeing and urinating are the same thing. Click to expand...

I have an OCD thing where I feel like I gotta copy the same thing over and over again, and mainly that I gotta memorize stuff that I write. I wrote to urinate and to pee twice for OCD issues/reasons.........

Mildoo

Joined Jan 17, 2009 Messages 6,699 Reaction score 95 His skin lost it's color gradually during the time between Episode III and Episode IV. Being in a full body suit for about 20 years tends to do that to you.

DarthBeek

Joined Mar 7, 2002 Messages 25,523 Reaction score 3,207 Location Illinois I sense a very short lived member in the making. Watch and see.

DagMarus

Joined Feb 11, 2010 Messages 4,875 Reaction score 1,647 Location Chicago, IL Too late! 10

DarthkSithLady

Joined Dec 11, 2012 Messages 45 Reaction score 0 Location My own imaginations

Mildoo said: His skin lost it's color gradually during the time between Episode III and Episode IV. Being in a full body suit for about 20 years tends to do that to you. Click to expand...

I would argue that it aint just the lack of sunlight (no pun intended here, my friends!!!!), that made Darth Vader have a skin with a lack of color, but the fact that his face was in a tightly pressurized helmet. Last edited: Dec 12, 2012 You must log in or register to reply here.

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