10 Things Everyone Gets Wrong About Darth Vader
9. He Shouldn't Remember C-3PO
It's often cited as a plot hole by fans that Vader doesn't recognise C-3PO (Anthony Daniels) in the original trilogy despite the fact that young Anakin (Jake Lloyd) was revealed to have built him in the prequels.
You can chalk this up to George Lucas not having this revelation in mind when he made the original Star Wars movies, but if you look at the facts, it actually makes total sense that Vader wouldn't pay C-3PO any mind at all.
First and foremost, C-3PO isn't exactly the most distinctive looking droid in the galaxy: we've seen hundreds of similar looking droids throughout Star Wars media, so it's absolutely believable that Vader wouldn't give him much of a second thought.
And even if that's not good enough, it's easy to accept that Anakin simply repressed large swaths of his past following his transformation into Vader, whereby C-3PO simply wouldn't exist in his mind.
After all, as Vader told us in the recent Obi-Wan Kenobi series, he "killed" Anakin when he became Vader.