When Vader falls over, the suit automatically sends a message to Palpatine, so he can rush over to Vader as he's lying on the ground, and laugh at him.
I love the stupidity of Darth Vader's suit having a serial number. This implies that the galaxy is filled with other darth vader suits which are just. . . worn by random people. Visit a space retirement home, and it's just a bunch of darth vaders playing shuffleboard
Exactly! Like having a serial number implies that it's part of a series lol so that means there's more Vader suits out there? What? maybe they just use Vader suits across the galaxy to treat people with severe burns/injuries as like a rehabilitative exoskeleton lol
I thought the emperor designed his suit to be the ultimate armour. Turns out he just threw him in a commercial life support suit he bought from space Walmart
All of this lore is basically just different variants of “Vader is a crippled old man and his suit is a wheelchair that feeds him applesauce through a straw” and “Vader’s suit is so badass it makes everyone really scared”
He and Obi Wan were aging faster than those shitty Jango Fett clones, with Vader I can get why he was barely human anymore but as shitty as Tatooine is I think its less than ideal living conditions are not enough to explain why Kenobi aged like 40 years in just 2 decades.
@@aristedes9449 except it's less like a wheelchair and more like those iron lungs they used to put polio patients in after their lungs just completely stopped functioning at all. But it also has a tiny little PPK On it so it's not completely worthless in combat
@@aburrito4973 thats actually very funny but makes sense. This is actually a common political trick used between leaders and upper echelon military officers if they're particularly worried about a coup. Arab countries like Saudi Arabia are pretty excessive with this, they keep their military personnel out of the intelligence loop intentionally so the leader has artificial importance which military must rely on and compete for to get political advantages.
The 'boots that fit' thing kills me because he has ARTIFICIAL FEET. THEREFORE, SOME ASSHOLE WENT "YEAH, WE NEED TO MAKE BOTH FEET AND BOOTS FOR VADER, LETS MAKE HIS FEET FUCKING BIGGER THAN THE BOOTS AND GIVE HIM FEELING OF THE FEET SO HE CAN *KNOW* HIS SHOES ARE TWO SIZES SMALLER"
@@benjaminborkowski12 Maybe it wasnt that they actually made the feet and boots, but just found them on sale somewhere and couldnt find matching sets at a reasonable price.
5min after blowing up the second DEATHSTAR, IMPERIAL REMNANTS remained it to Emperor Sheev Palpatine Memorial Reconstructive Surgery Centre (notice the re instead er to denote Core Planet Basic which totally a thing and not an excuse for American and British actors)
Darth Vader: "I can't take living with this constant pain anymore, I'm just gonna end it" *opens nightstand dresser, revealing a blaster. He turns the blaster over in his 'gauntlets', feeling both the literal weight of the gun and the figurative weight of his decision. He holds the blaster up to his own temple* Darth Vader: "I'll be with you soon Padme, my love" *he pulls the trigger, and the energy blast immediately deflects off the 'jagged edges' of his helmet landing harmlessly on his 'thick shoulder armor'* Darth Vader: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"
@@hungarianbeast Wasn't EU. This was all based on non-supplemental material published by Scholastic, not Bantam or Del Rey. If it was considered C-Canon, it had to be published or produced by specific companies (e.g. LucasArts for canon games). EmPal SuRecon, however, WAS EU. It was "ChanPal SuRecon" until the Empire replaced the Republic.
Just imagine Luke clinging on to the pole whilst getting the “I’m your father speech” only for vader to fucking fall down like a bookshelf and ragdoll down cloud citys tubes
It's wild how the expanded material has this bizarre obsession with Vader being in constant agony 24/7. "He has needles jammed into his skull and down his spine to read his brain waves. His suit itches and iritates his seared flesh. His breathing feels like constant suffocation. The pain from his robot limbs makes it impossible to get any decent sleep. His helmet is extremely heavy. His shoes are too small. He has a twelve inch catheter for some reason. The emperor's guards beat him up once a week...etc etc etc."
Due to budgetary constraints, he is fed solely on a gruel made from silica gel packets and space beans, which he is allergic to. This gruel is piped directly into his helmet through a hatch on top at a minimum temperature of 62.35 degrees celsius, and fills the interior. Vader must eat all the gruel before he suffers severe burns or drowns. RepMed Vitapaste is a commonly available and cheap nutritionally complete food, and is in fact a part of regular field rations for Imperial troops, but Palpatine vetoed Vader's access to this product, stating it would be "funnier this way".
"I want a ten mile long spaceship to fly around in!" "Yes, Lord Vader!" "Also, I want boots that fit!" "Sorry my Lord, we don't have the budget for that."
I wonder if this all came from one tongue-in-cheek sequence in one book somewhere, where the author was just poking fun at the fact that the 'real' suit is just a cheap costume, but this wiki editor took the whole thing completely seriously and transcribed it all for future generations.
what an incredible decision to take the series' most badass-looking character and say "actually his suit is a huge piece of shit that beeps constantly for no real reason and he can barely take two steps without falling over"
Not a joke, palpatine likely did it purposefully because he was aware of the rule of two and how things always turn out for the sith. He didnt want his subordinate to kill him and take over as sith lord! ...or they just made Vader because it looked like a cool design and the details came later hahhaha
@@Xvladin ah yes, because george lucas planned out the rule of two and taking over as a sith lord, this is just the creation of book writers who wanted to make vader edgy and tortured but came across incredibly funny
This is Darth Vader. We purposefully built him wrong, as a joke. My face to your lightning style! How do you like it? Please, stop. Vader sucks as a sith lord, his own child could beat him! Well I’m gonna count to three, and if I hear one more friggin’ ‘Nooooo!,’ I’m gonna take his VitaPaste and shove it up his...
They polished Darth Vader's helmet with a special material because they thought if he had a shiny head it would *distract* the supreme emperor of all evil from the various *short-cuts* they took during Vader's *life-saving surgery.*
I love how Emperor Palpatine renamed the surgery center to Emperor Palpatine Surgical Reconstruction Center within like 3 hours of overthrowing the Jedi.
according to the crazy people who understand this stuff the hospital was apparently called "The Chancellor Palpatine surgical Reconstruction Center" so when he took over then only had to change one word.
This might be my favorite Red Letter Media video. They so perfectly illustrate how militant fans can drain a movie of its power and mystery and wonder by drowning it in meaningless detail and literalism.
The other thing the same kind of "fans" doing is to try to make everything connected. Because in few cases it worked (Alien vs. Predator) they try to do it every time putting every character in one universe. Oh that monster have big claws, this monster have big claws too, "In my head cannon these are the same species." (Aliens and the Mist monster for example.) The only thing they can achieve with this is making the universa smaller and dumber. The same thing happening when someone who only care about the money take over a franchise so we gonna have a new character who is the relative of the old character or a student or something else. And we end up with a franchise what can't grow and slowly start dying meanwhile there will be more movie coming from a dead franchise when it came from the alive one. Not every Terminator movie has to be about time travel, not every Alien movie need to have a character named Ripley.
@@lordvoldemort1561 Do you think anyone would have wrote about Vader waxing his helmet with wudu hide if there weren't legions of fans willing to open their wallets for any tidbits of information about Vader's suit?
Some friends recently talked about how Vader is still one of the "most iconic, intimidating villains they've ever seen in movies" and I just remembered this video and had to keep myself from laughing my ass off
The 952 downvotes make me so happy to think that nearly a thousand people in the last 3 years honestly clicked this to learn something and were angry that it wasted their time.
@@Gustavozxd13 People want it to be canon but still don't consider that Palpatine was cloned during the duration of that universe. The Old Republic is the only good thing to come from EU in my opinion
A lot of it is trying to give explanations for the limitations of the films. Like Vader can't raise his arms high and he walks clumsily because the suit is big and cumbersome for the already tall actor in the film.
@@thebignacho yeh thats not true. If you're wearing shoes that don't fit, you're not suddenly more intimidating because ur feet hurt. You just look like an idiot for not wearing shoes that fit.
@@Night5225 And gets beat by a desert scavenger who picked up a lightsaber for the first time. Even though hes had years of training from Luke Skywalker and Snoke. Also weares a helmet he doesnt need with a knockoff Vader complex. So its pretty even in the ridiculous department.
Pooping for Vader is pretty simple. A rectal cathodrone model E5-UX1 was surgically implanted by Ubrikkian prototype DD-13 and once inserted, held in place by servo-activated elasto-meric alloy spikes. Elasto-meric alloys are guaranteed corrosion-free for two hundred years, but due to budgetary restrictions the Emperor Palpatine Surgical Reconstruction Center had to make the rest of the cathodrone out of Duranium steel which isn't normally used in such devices. As a result, a new one had to be painfully replaced and re-spiked into locked position every 6 months. Once seated at his chamber, the male end of the cathodrone would interface with the female connector on the bottom of his seat, and a 180 degree turn of the seat would lock both connectors and open the suction valve, evacuating the waste into the vacuum of space. This process can be seen in the meditation chamber scene of Empire Strikes Back. It is a testament to Vader's superb ability at multitasking. He dropped a deuce and received a status update from one of his admirals without so much as batting an artificial eye.
The meditation chamber was also equipped with a Xexor-Hikan fecal analysis subsystem which would automatically seal the upper and lower halves of the chamber to contain any explosions caused by dangerous methane build-ups. We are indeed fortunate that the system worked as designed.
I really really want a day in the life of Vader. Show his morning physical therapy sessions, breakfast of Vita Paste (TM), the Emperor getting bored and deciding to switch off his breathing assistance for 7-8 seconds just for the heck of it, him tripping over one of those little mouse droid things and falling over and having his life alert go off while his chest plate periodically beeped, finally him trying to sleep. It's a better version of Robot Chicken. I'd almost ponder getting Disney + if we got this. Not saying I'd get it, I'd just think about it and then stop thinking about it.
Don't forget the monthly budget meeting with the emperor and senior executive accountants where Vader is denied repairs to the suit due to budget restrictions
Oh Jesus it got even better with this recent Bad Batch when Palpatine was like "you have all the resources you require for Project Necromancer." But there are budget restraints? I just pictured Palpatine tossing a $5 bill at Dr. Hemlock.
My favorite is the fact that while he is being rushed to a life-saving treatment center, barely clinging onto life with missing limbs and damaged organs, the medical droids decided it was a good time to try to give Vader some hair implants 😂
@@chiefsosa3348 It's the opposite. Conspiracies, mysteries, puzzles, clues, enigmas, phenomenon etc. are always interesting bc it's the unknown and ppl will always ponder and obsess over those things bc they remain unsolved or unknown. Once a story is told, the mystery is no more and that is boring. Just my opinion.
The next Star Wars spinoff movie better be about a stressed out medical droid just trying to run the 'Emperor Palpatine Surgical Reconstruction center' under budget, getting deeper into shady practices to cut costs, developing alchoholism to cope, having affairs with colleagues, ignoring his droid children
I’m so glad they gave us all this information, where would we be without it… I love how “budgetary restraints” hindered the second-highest ranking member of the GALACTIC EMPIRE that built TWO Death Stars and ran the whole galaxy. But hey, at least they had _woodoo hide_ for his helmet shine!
I’d like to see an entire movie dedicated to the ragtag group of individuals that went on a quest to strike down the woodoo monsters, take their hides, & take said woodoo hides to EmPalSuRecon for Vader’s helmet shine. I think that would be a powerful and fulfilling piece of film!
Interest rates on government debt were MENTAL at the end of the Republic. It was Vader's suit or cutbacks on the social security system, and Palpatine knew that he needed good opinion polls ahead of a senatorial by-election.
yes finally @fuggoogle2554 To be fair they were clones and most of them were size 9. Noone knew James Earl Jones + muscle man in person actor were going to show up.
I love the “Mike reads a thing to Rich” episodes. RLM could be so much more lazy with content and it’d still be great, makes me appreciate their high effort content even more.
Luke: “I’ll never join you!” Vader: “If you only knew the power of The Dark Side! Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.” Luke: “He told me enough! He told me you can’t even get shoes that fit”
Quote from Wookiepedia: Woodoo hide was a material that 2-1B instructed DD-13 medical assistant droid to polish Darth Vader's helmet with, in order to make it shine. This was done to distract Darth Sidious from the various shortcuts that had to be taken when operating on Vader. So they basically tried the old car key jingle trick with Palpatine
I think the golden part there is: we read that woodoo hide was used to polish Darth Vader’s helmet. What’s woodoo hide, though? Let’s look it up. Oh… “woodoo hide is a substance defined by its having-been-used-to-polish-Darth-Vader’s-helmet-type quality.”
Fun Guy I'm sure it fuels the suit's power cells or something disgusting like that. The suit recycles his waste and feeds him back the reclaimed vitamins, by Palpatine's design of course.
The constant budgetary constraints and lines like "The monitoring panel beeped frequently and _for no reason_ " just make this insanely comedic. The writer must have been super dense if they didn't realize how this sounded.
It's what happens when you have many people writing on a single timeline. You get people who love some characters and hate others. Then the next set of books, "Those characters suck. Build up these characters." Repeat until every being in the galaxy sucks or has shitty equipment half the time, and then is amazing and has the best stuff the other half.
Yup. And then nerdrotic does a super serious video mentioning 10 of the things and it's click bait. I love that this laughs at the nerdrotic video and the lazy EU fanfiction.
@@gebs123 You literally just described the Legacy of the Force books. One star wars book series with three writers, each with their pet characters who shat on the other writer's pet characters.
For me is the fact that every element of the suit only partially works what kills me. His helmet helps him picking sound but works like crap so it also torture him with too many ambient sounds. He could just have a serviceable pair of boots, but no, they are the wrong size! The suit is so horrible, that he would probably be better in that hoverchair. But then again, maybe the hoverchair has random electric spikes that burn his already burned skin and he is constantly nauseated by the wobbly movement. He could have a better hoverchair, but... budget.
There's at least one person out there who not only knows all of this information, but believes George Lucas thought of all of it as he was writing Star Wars.
One person? You just described every entertainment reporter for every major news outlet, and millions of man-child Star Wars fanatics. At least the believing part.
Did you enjoy the EU media any less at the time once Disney decided "it didn't matter" anymore? Canon is an arbitrary distinction that is insidiously intertwined with quasi-perpetual copyright and intellectual property laws. It exists only in your mind You wouldn't have read, watched or played any of the Star Wars EU stuff if you didn't enjoy it at the time, right? It's not as if there were some Star Wars test you were studying for, and now that the EU isn't "canon", you've wasted your time learning meaningless information. Hell, what does canon mean when we can get 3 different "official canon" spider-man movie series in half the time Star Wars has existed?
"Please for the love of God, my Surgical Reconstruction Center is already in several trillion credits in debt due to keeping your stupid dad alive. Please join me."
+Helis You would be in pain too, if you knew the truth: God is dead and life is an endless repeating perpetual Hell inhabited by inane, banal retards. Have a nice day.
To this day, I still consider this to be the best RLM video, mostly because Mike laughs like 8 times in it. It's nice to see him drop the deadpan "you laugh at my jokes but I don't laugh at yours" act for once and just be as generous a laugher as Jay and Rich are with him.
@@TetsuDeinonychus I love the expanded universe to the death, and I take this information far more seriously than these two, but hey this video was lots of fun to laugh with. And that's what's important at the end of the day.
Tetsu Deinonychus it’s funny considering how stupid Lucas was. And how much credit Lawrence kasdan deserves for directing empire strikes back. Lucas made Howard the duck
@@lukasp5892 Yeah, I can understand that. But I still find some enjoyment out of it. Besides, this video is full of laughs. How can I not laugh with them? Lol
@@lukasp5892 Thanks dude! And I can agree. And either way, it's always good to laugh at this sort of thing. If anything, if they knew anything about the more interesting stuff the EU had to offer, they would wish they were adapted into film.
That article is a gold mine. Look what I found: "The lightning that lashed Anakin was of a lethal intensity: the energies that Palpatine had previously used to strike Luke were less powerful, intended merely to cause agony and torment. When Anakin seized him, Palpatine intensified his output, with the intention of finishing Luke. These discharges were absorbed by Anakin rather than his son. The remarkable intensity of these final energetic bursts-exceeding the shocks that had tormented Luke-was evident in the way they heated Anakin's bones enough for them to glow visibly through his flesh and clothing."
If his bones became glow sticks, then how the hell did he have the little chit chat with his son after killing Palps?! Your bones being so hot that they glow through your flesh and suit sounds very devastating and painful...
This insanity makes it seem like the Emperor didn't even need Vader, or Luke for that matter, and his whole empire was brought down because of his side hobby of enslaving and tormenting fallen Jedi just for his own amusement.
No one is talking about how he has a helmet that takes near misses, turns them into hits, and then redirects them into his torso. Like, it was *DESIGNED* to do this.
The best thing I've taken from this video, all these years later, is that Darth Vader was the product of pork-barrel spending, budget cuts, and a megalomaniacal sithlord whose first action upon receiving absolute galactic power is to rename a fucking hospital. I fucking love Star Wars
I just think it's fascinating that they spent so much time, money, and care to make Vader look cool and intimidating in the original trilogy, and then decades later some expanded universe writer spent so much time and care to make Vader seem so miserable and sad lmao
Jack McGloin I guess you’re entitled to your opinion and what you find interesting, but I think most of us can agree that the EU is just cringe. It’s so needlessly complicated and feels like homework just reading it. The original trilogy kept it nice and simple. I think I could’ve gone my whole life without hearing that the most intimidating villain in the galaxy was actually a crippled wreck
Why re-watching this while I work on the other screen I'm reminded of how before the prequels came out, I always thought Vader's robot body was a choice. Obi-wan's line, "He's more machine now than man, twisted and evil," made me think Vader was choosing to augment his body to become more powerful, sacrificing pieces of himself for more strength. Especially the line delivery of Alec Guinness, the disdain he had for how much of a machine he was, comes off as kinda dickish when it was written after the fact that Obi-wan was the one who put him there. Imagine someone in a wheel-chair, after being pushed off a cliff by a guy, and that guy describing him as "more machine now than man, twisted and evil." It doesn't fit.
So much wasted potential. They even established Anakin was a roboticist when he built C3PO, and then it was never mentioned again. They could have made his backstory more tragic, with him constantly losing friends and family throughout his life due to his failures; leading Anakin to gradually replace parts of himself to become stronger. This would establish a subtext that he is losing his humanity from his pain and guilt, culminating in his fall to the dark side.
Can we please get a wacky hospital soap about the underbudgeted Emperor Palpatine Surgical Reconstruction Center and how the droids there have to constantly cheat and find ways to save people with limited funds while distracting Emperor Palpatine from all the shortcuts?
I can imagine an episode recap :- Last time on EmPaul SuRecon: Betty left Carl for Joe, what will Joe do to recover her affections: Dialogue: "I don't love you anymore Carl" Tabitha just came out in front of her parents Dialogue: "I am who I am mom" And, James told Gideon that he was going to propose to Marjorie Dialogue "Marge, will you marry me?" Continuting, ...
Ahh yes, a confused cripple with anger issues supported by a cheap suit that's constantly itchy, causes slight deafness and is completely dependent on a power button in the middle of the torso. A true dark lord of the Sith.
nma52b I’d now like a cape made of a material known as “SUPER-Asbestos-XX789” written into canon, the backstory being that: a) It was cheap b) Palpatine got off on watching Vader striding around wheezing everywhere
Doesn't a serial number imply that there are more suits like this? I want to see a commercial for Darth Vader suits in the next Star Wars with old people and crippled kids in it that all sound like James Earl Jones through their life support mask.
There were indeed more suits like it out there. In fact this model if I'm not mistaken wasn't even uncommon based on legends material and certainly wasn't a high end suit of this type.
@@phillystevesteak6982 If you prefer canon over legends then you have mental issues. Not to mention all Disney has done since getting their hands on things is declare a bunch of stuff no longer canon then pull shit from "legends" as they see fit. In other words, no imagination whatsoever.
I'm mental? It's ridiculous to think there's a bunch of dudes walking around who look just like Vader. "Holy shit run, it's Darth Vader!!" "No, no. You got the wrong guy, I'm Bob Donglesworth. Btw, do you have change for a dollar?"
@@phillystevesteak6982 I'd suggest you take all that up with ole George then. Also you're sitting here acting like you aren't a fuckin mental case as you argue until you're red in the face about whether or not a fictional characters fictional life support suit was a one off or not...
Coming back to this video now, I can't help but think that there wasn't really anything stopping Vader from getting better shoes for himself. Like, they've expanded on his story enough that we now know he had plenty of free time, relative autonomy, and a shit ton of resources at his disposal. He could have just stopped at any shoe store in the galaxy and bought some shoes. He was either totally dedicated to being as miserably uncomfortable as possible forever, or it just honestly never occurred to him, and I can't decide which is more depressing.
I thought that Jay had typed all the facts up for Mike and Rich and did not show them what he typed when I got to the "Emperor Palpatine Surgical Reconstruction Center", but then I googled it. It's a real thing in the SW universe and no one is willing to wonder why a Sith lord cared that much about a plastic surgery building.
Whoever writes this expanded universe shit should consider becoming comedians. Emperor Palpatine Surgical Reconstruction Center" is the funniest shit I've heard in a long time.
Nicolas Charron - Legend of Remnant lmao it’s awful. It’s just a bunch of nerds making up explanations for why Star Wars stuff looked cool back in 1977.
