Awesome / Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith

• Darth Vader force pushes Palpatine into a wall after hearing his wife’s death. When he tries to kill Palpatine, Vader tries to Force choke his Palpatine but Palpatine manages to resist being killed, however, he is still pinned to the wall.
• Darth Vader defeating an army of clones in a space station.
• Kirak gives Vader a Curb-Stomp Battle when Vader comes to kill him and take his lightsaber crystal.
• Vader destroys an entire town to defeat Kirak.
• Vader takes on the Grand Inquisitor while claiming he is only testing his newly repaired suit. It is implied that Vader used shatterpoint, an ability Mace Windu knows.
  • Later on Vader uses the Ninth Sister’s double-bladed spinning lightsaber to kill bounty hunters who were sent to kill him.
• While in issue 5, Vader was experiencing a Force Vision, it is shown that he is still capable of defeating Palpatine despite being more machine. It also shows that like Yoda and Windu, Anakin is capable of keeping up with Sidious's speed in lightsaber combat.
• Jocasta Nu, the Jedi archivist, survived Order 66 and returns to the occupied Jedi temple to recover data to start a secret Jedi school.
  • Vader comes across a hidden Jedi storeroom full of artifacts guarded by a security droid. He throws his lightsaber and the droid catches it.
• Jocasta, in spite of what we were led to assume so far, makes the ultimate selfless sacrifice in deleting everything she's worked for in the Archives so that the Empire can't use it for their own perverted purposes.
• Jocasta attacks Vader with a BFG that converts her lightsaber into a laser weapon.
• Barr manages to kill an Inquisitor by initiating Order 66 in their clone escorts, resulting in them attacking the fallen Jedi with the same sudden ferocity as they unleashed on the Jedi initially. Furthermore, even though he dies, he gets exactly what he wanted: laying the beginnings for a rebellion against the Empire.
  Barr: Once a Jedi, always a Jedi.
  • Even though the Ninth Sister ended up surviving, it wasn't until she appeared in Fallen Order that we knew for sure she survived. For a long time, it looked as if Barr had managed to kill two Inquisitors.
• In issue 18, Vader asks a favor from Tarkin: that the Moff, a skilled hunter, lead a group of hunters and hunt down him. There's multiple moments for both Vader and Tarkin's group, such as the hunters stealing Vader's lightsaber and Vader taking on one of the most dangerous beasts on the planet unarmed and fashioning it in a new cape. Still, in the end Tarkin, the last survivor of the hunters, beats Vader by luring him into a thunderstorm and letting Vader being much taller do the rest.
  • And then Vader, downed by the lightning, still gathers enough strength to Force-choke Tarkin to his knees. That's when Tarkin realizes that Darth Vader was far deadlier and with much greater willpower than he thought - and he had already realized the only reason he had lived for so long was that Vader had not been taking him and the hunters seriously the whole time.
• In issue 20, when Sidious rewards Vader with Padmé's Naboo Cruiser, he asks his apprentice to go on a mission to Alderaan. Vader flat out says no to his master, telling him he wants a planet first before executing any other tasks the Emperor requires him to do, and Sidious grants him his request. First of all, Vader has the guts to flat out refuse an order from his master, aka the ruler of the Galaxy and also someone who can easily kill him as demonstrated in the very first issue of this comic (this will not be the last time Vader will be this blunt toward Sidious). Second, the planet Vader asked for is Mustafar, which proves that despite what happened there, Vader is not the least traumatised by the experience (proving his strong will) and is willing to bend it to his advantage (remembering when he goes to bleed his lightsaber's crystal) to the point of asking Mustafar as his personal planet. Sidious is impressed by his apprentice and lets him do as he pleases. It doesn't stop there: Palpatine even assists him in his project by assigning some crew to Vader and gifting him a Sith Artifact.
  Palpatine: You are truly a perfect Sith, Lord Vader.
• In issue 23, after much trial and error, Momin is able to achieve what was impossible for the Sith across both canons: pierce the veil of time and resurrect himself.
  Momin: "Hello me."
• In issue 24, the overwhelmed Imperial forces are attacked by native Mustafarians and are preparing to evacuate but Vader orders them to stay and fight. He then uses the Force to send waves of lava at the attackers and then charges at them with his lightsaber. Inspired by his example, the stormtroopers turn their retreat into a counter-charge and defeat the attackers.
  Stormtrooper: All personnel prepare to evacuate!
  Vader: This is Vader. Belay that order. There will be no evacuation. There will be no retreat. You will destroy the attackers. You will teach them the meaning of Empire. Here. I will show you how.
  Stormtrooper 1: For Vader!
  Stormtrooper 2: For the Empire!
  • The Mustafarians get one, too - channeling what's either the Force or some tribal magic of their own, they command the lava itself and unleash it against the Stormtroopers. The end result is a massive tidal wave of magma that wipes out the entire platoon...
  • ...Except for Vader, who uses the Force to shield himself despite being submerged in the sea of lava. Even with his suit's cooling systems overloading, Vader catapults himself out of the magma, returns to his newly-constructed castle, and uses its ability to channel the Force to unleash a massive eruption of magma that wipes out the Mustafarian attackers.
• At the very end, when Vader is inside the Dark Side locus and has slaughtered his way through everything that mattered to him as Anakin (up to and including failing to rescue Padmé again), it seems for a moment as though he has truly killed his past and become nothing more than a Sith. And then, from out of a pillar of blue light walks the silhouette of Luke Skywalker. Vader is instantly propelled back into his own body in the real world, his dark side thwarted not by something in his past, but his future.