Sep 15, 2025
I was telling my friends that for years I couldn’t take Star Wars seriously because “Darth Vader looked so stupid under the helmet”, and they were confused so they asked me what I thought he looked like. I proceeded to describe a purple, alien-skinned thing with horns all over its bald scalp. They informed me that was not, in fact, what Darth Vader looked like, and so I did a deep dive.
This lead me to realize that I conflated the face of Darth Vader with the face of a toy featured prominently in commercials around the time when I was a kid, so allow me to introduce you to what I thought Darth Vader looked like for 25+ years of my life:
Darth Boo-Bah.
