Thee Obsessed Avenger and his Son

Star Wars. Everyone and their mother has seen it at least a couple of times, and if you haven't then I am sorry, I suggest you rent them and probably not read on, cause they are classic and I do not want to ruin them for you. Anyways one of my favorite characters, even though he is the bad guy, will always be Darth Vader. In the newer movies, showing how Darth Vader came to be out of such a sweet and innocent little boy named Anakin Skywalker you learn just how twisted someone can become with the right encouragement. Sure it can be argued that Darth Vader did it to himself. He choose to turn to the dark side and sure he chose to try and jump over Obi-Wan Kenobi leading to himself being pretty much a walking burnt piece of toast, but he was pushed in that direction very hard by the evil Darth Sidious, who kept spitting him lies after Anakin gets his hand cut off and marries his true love (who he then fears is going to die).

After getting his hand cut off Anakin becomes even more bitter about being a Jedi and having rules to constrict him. He feels he can be the most powerful Jedi ever and that everyone is holding him back, so he tries to take matters into his own hands (one mechanical and one flesh) and ends up becoming even more decapitated, which he then blames on Obi Kenobi and swears revenge.

He is the perfect model for the obsessed avenger becuase something horrible happened to him (which even though it was pretty much his own fault, he still blamed everyone else), to make him disabled and rely on a machine to pretty much keep him alive. He then swears revenge and eventually gets it when he kills Obi-Wan later in life (or in the earlier movies).

Now his son, Luke is quite the opposite. After Darth Vader cuts off his own sons arm to make his son more like him, and to try and turn Luke into a bitter evil boy, Luke goes and decides that he never wants to turn to the dark side and that he is going to fight for good. Even though Luke does want revenge on his father for killing Obi-Wan and chopping off his hand, he more wants to rescue and save the world, making Luke something his father never could be, and that is a hero.