Worth noting that canonically, Palpatine had the suit intentionally made to be restrictive and annoying/uncomfortable so that Anakon would have to waste his power/energy using the force to help him move, and to annoy him further into the dark side.
“Make sure it always feels like he has a rock in his shoe! Bwahahahaha!”
Red Letter Media has a wonderful shitpost of a video on it.
Not exactly intentionally, it was made from random parts, he wasn’t exactly planning on having ani nearly die and have to save his life remember.
More cobbled together and made due with what he had, and of course palpatine has always lied to ani to get him to believe what he wants. So you can’t even believe that he intended that as well.
I believe it was canonized that Vader made improvements when it was required. Vader was still a technical genius and a pilot that no one rivaled.
Take his right hand for instance - he was given the first prosthetic, that he replaced during the clone wars. One of his legs in a comic gets beat to all hell, and he rips off a jedi training droid leg to replace it, which works better and is far sturdier.
But originally it was intended to be a hinderance. Anikin was a walking vergence in the force, simply by existing he made his connection to the force stronger. By sticking him in a much less technically advanced cyborg suit than what Grievous got, he could also just blast him with some lightning to weaken him physically again.
I believe he also treasured his times in his barochamber, and a new suit wouldn’t need it, so that was one of his reasons for not even wanting to get a new one himself.
Worth noting that canonically, Palpatine had the suit intentionally made to be restrictive and annoying/uncomfortable so that Anakon would have to waste his power/energy using the force to help him move, and to annoy him further into the dark side.
“Make sure it always feels like he has a rock in his shoe! Bwahahahaha!”
Red Letter Media has a wonderful shitpost of a video on it.
Not exactly intentionally, it was made from random parts, he wasn’t exactly planning on having ani nearly die and have to save his life remember.
More cobbled together and made due with what he had, and of course palpatine has always lied to ani to get him to believe what he wants. So you can’t even believe that he intended that as well.
It’s intentional to not upgrade it. He’s in that janky shit for 20+y
I believe it was canonized that Vader made improvements when it was required. Vader was still a technical genius and a pilot that no one rivaled.
Take his right hand for instance - he was given the first prosthetic, that he replaced during the clone wars. One of his legs in a comic gets beat to all hell, and he rips off a jedi training droid leg to replace it, which works better and is far sturdier.
But originally it was intended to be a hinderance. Anikin was a walking vergence in the force, simply by existing he made his connection to the force stronger. By sticking him in a much less technically advanced cyborg suit than what Grievous got, he could also just blast him with some lightning to weaken him physically again.
I believe he also treasured his times in his barochamber, and a new suit wouldn’t need it, so that was one of his reasons for not even wanting to get a new one himself.
Who’s gonna tell Vader that he cant hide in his closet for a while?
Man, someone actually came up with all that bullshit… Thanks for the link