10 Times Star Wars Gave Fans EXACTLY What They Wanted
4. Darth Vader Finally Rages
Like father, like son, I suppose.
Yet, where Luke Skywalker's eventual brandishing of his green blade in The Mandalorian brought with it a sense of safe and secure familiarity, the same most definitely could not be said for the moment which sees his paps unleashing his iconic red blade aboard a Rebel command ship in Rogue One.
After years of clamouring to see a version of the uncompromising and freakishly powerful Vader they'd seen butcher many a rogue Jedi and innocent civilian in everything from comic books to video game properties, Gareth Edwards provided fans with the sort of display that leaves your jaw ricocheting off your knees in an instant.
Slicing and Force-choking his way through Rebel scum like frustrating gnats at a BBQ, the entire sequence plays out like something out of a horror flick as the freedom fighters desperately sacrifice their lives in order to keep the vital Death Star schematics out of his reach.
They just about succeed, but at one hell of a price.