10 Things Everyone Gets Wrong About Darth Vader

10. His Suit Is Designed To Cause Him Pain

While there are no arguments that Vader's iconic armoured suit helps keep him alive by basically functioning as a mobile life support system, it's a mistake to assume that its functions are all primarily curative.

In actual fact, the suit is also designed to cause Vader pain. For starters, the helmet sticks needles into Vader's face whenever he's wearing it, with the intent of feeding his brainwave activity back to the central computer on the suit's chest.

Also in the Extended Universe, it's stated that Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) designed the suit to be intentionally uncomfortable in order to keep Vader's rage free-flowing, and also to ensure that he could maintain a level of control over him while limiting his potential to rebel.

Though aspects of this have technically been jettisoned from the canon continuity and are now considered Legends factoids, it remains true that Vader's suit isn't an entirely restorative piece of wardrobe: it also causes him agony for a number of reasons.