According to Star Wars creator George Lucas, he experimented with various combinations of names for the character built upon the phrase "Dark Water". Then he "added lots of last names, Vaders and Wilsons and Smiths, and ... just came up with the combination of Darth and Vader". After the release of The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Lucas stated that the name Vader was based upon the German/Dutch-language word Vater or vader, meaning 'father', making the name representative of a "Dark Father".[6] Other words which may have inspired the name are "death" and "invader",[7] as well as the name of a high-school upperclassman of Lucas's, Gary Vader.[8][9]
Psychiatrists have considered Vader to be a useful example for explaining borderline personality disorder to medical students.[88] Anakin's origin story in The Phantom Menace has been compared to signifiers of African American racial identity, particularly his being a slave,[150] and his dissatisfaction with his life has been compared to Siddartha's before he became Gautama Buddha.[151] A Mexican church advised Christians against seeing The Phantom Menace because it portrays Anakin as a Christ figure.[152]
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