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Darth Vader Is The Biggest Force User, Lightsaber Dueler in Star Wars

February 22, 2019 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas
Darth Vader David Prowse Photo Credit 20th Century Fox

We’re continuing our look at the stats from the new Star Wars in Numbers site, and deep diving reveals that Darth Vader holds a lot of records. The Dark Lord of the Sith is king of categories such as deadliest Dark Side user, most uses of the Force and more. You can check out some more stats below and scour through the site at the above link.

* More Dark Side followers with names die than Jedi with names, at a twenty-five to twenty count. (“Dark Side followers” in this case refers to anyone who is or serves the Emperor, Vader, or Snoke.) To the surprise of no one, Revenge of the Sith had the most Jedi kills at fifteen. A New Hope has the most named Dark Side-associated characters killed with nine.

* There are 185 uses of the force in the films, with Darth Vader/Anakin using it most often. Revenge of the Sith has the most uses of the Force with forty-eight.

* Specifically looking at “Force holds” (aka Force chokes), there are nine. Again, no surprise that Vader has the most of those.

* There are a total of twenty-three lightsaber battles in the films thus far, and Revenge of the Sith has the most at six. Vader has the most duels.

* He also has the most lightsaber ignitions, of which there are a total of 140 in the film series.

* Finally, there are a lot more missing limbs than even I expected at twenty-six. Before you start thinking of that many names, that includes five each from C-3P0 and Anakin (the latter losing most of them of course in Revenge of the Sith).

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