From the Wookieepedia article on Darth Vader's armor: "The disfigured helmet of the infamous suit was scavenged from the funeral pyre,[6] and eventually found its way into the possession of Vader's grandson, Kylo Ren, a Force-sensitive dark side practitioner of the First Order."
It would seem the obvious answer to the mystery is that Kylo Ren went to Endor and found Vader's helmet himself. Such an artifact is worth a personal mission, and it's doubtful the Ewoks would ever lay their paws on Vader's charred armor.
Luke confronted the Dark Spirit in the form of Darth Vader within and defeated it in a lightsaber duel, dipping into the passion of the dark side in the process. It was there that he realized what would happen if he turned to the dark side of the Force. Behind the mask of Darth Vader, he saw his own face.
That is, until he duelled with Rey in a Force-connected lightsaber battle in The Rise of Skywalker, which saw the pair, who together make up a Force dyad, inadvertently destroy Vader's helmet.
But who is the man behind the mask? Toys expert Gerben van Ijken reveals the men that brought to this memorable villain to life. The man in the costume that actually played Darth Vader throughout three Star Wars films was David Prowse.
The helmet was designed to look sinister; as a Knight of Ren, Ren was part of an enclave of dark side warriors who wore masks to induce fear in their prey. Ren's helmet was a symbolic reminder of his lineage as Darth Vader's grandson, serving no practical use in his life.
This occurred because Vader was not Luke's enemy in the Cave of Evil. Instead, Luke was fighting himself and his own fears, which Luke discovered when he saw his own face in Vader's helmet.
On Malachor, Ahsoka Tano damaged Vader's helmet and thereby learned the truth of her former mentor, Anakin Skywalker. Three years prior to the Battle of Yavin, Vader engaged in a duel against his former apprentice, Ahsoka Tano, inside the Malachor Sith temple.
From the Wookieepedia article on Darth Vader's armor: "The disfigured helmet of the infamous suit was scavenged from the funeral pyre,[6] and eventually found its way into the possession of Vader's grandson, Kylo Ren, a Force-sensitive dark side practitioner of the First Order."
In addition to delivering a stream of data to the Imperial head honcho, the lenses of his helmet allow him to see ultraviolet and infrared vision, far beyond the standard of any other living person on the visual spectrum.
After briefly giving in to the dark side, Luke utterly failed his nephew and the Jedi Order in a single moment. The crushing guilt of his failure drives him to sever his connection with the Force.
Yoda. Yoda's knowledge of Luke Skywalker's true parentage was also confirmed in Return of the Jedi. As with Obi-Wan, Yoda believed that Anakin's fall to the dark side made him unsalvageable, with the Darth Vader persona being his only identity following his ascension to Sith Lordship.
By bringing weapons into the Dagobah Cave, Luke already failed the test. Even Yoda explicitly said he will not need weapons. But like any young acolyte, Luke doesn't listen and takes his belt of weapons. He's focusing on the immediate threat (Darth Vader), and doesn't understand that being a Jedi is a journey.
No. According to the Visual Dictionary, Rey's salvaged helmet once belonged to Captain Dosmit Raeh, who was an X-Wing pilot of the Tierfon Yellow Aces. She found that helmet while scavenging the remains from the Battle of Jakku.
Technology may not have been able to properly hide the true eyes of Vader at the time the original films were made, and the story called for that veil of secrecy the red lenses couldn't provide. But in Rebels and Rogue One, it works.
Well remember that Vader was the father of both Luke and Leia. Leia conceived a child with Han Solo, named Ben Solo, or later Kylo Ren. So Vader is technically Ren's grandfather from his mother's side, and Luke is his uncle.
During the battle, Anakin, who had been known as the Sith Lord Darth Vader, was redeemed by Luke and brought balance to the Force. However, the redemption cost Anakin his life, having been mortally wounded by the Emperor, Darth Sidious, while killing his former Master.
He was so clouded by the dark side and Palpatine's lies that he unknowingly walked away from his own family. To confirm that Vader had no clue during the trench run, the moment he finds out about his son is actually revealed in a comic.
Vader's redemption in Return of the Jedi was not just about saving his son; it was also a defiance of the dark side's corruption and his own past as a Sith Lord. Vader's decision to block Luke from killing Palpatine was motivated by his knowledge that it would corrupt Luke and lead him down a similar path of suffering.
The mask also represents the villain's fragility and, of course, his weaknesses, and that's why Darth Vader taking the mask off to Luke at the end of Return of the Jedi is so significant. He's showing his son who he really is, or the person he used to be: Anakin Skywalker.
There is also a series of tubes that run through his chest to his lungs and to his burnt-out throat, allowing him to breathe without this advanced system for a brief period should his life support take on severe damage. If he were to take his mask off, the Sith Lord would soon suffocate.
The uniqueness of Darth Vader's lightsaber stems from a dark ritual known as "bleeding," wherein a Force user corrupts a kyber crystal with their pain and anger, turning it crimson. This process makes the lightsaber not merely a weapon but an extension of Darth Vader's immense power and fury.
