Star Wars: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Darth Vader
1. He's A Monumental Merchandise Mover
If it hadn't already been made painfully obvious over the course of the prior nine entries, Darth Vader sits head and shoulders above the rest of a seriously stacked roster of notable names as Star Wars' most popular entity ever.
And that's not simply one writer's opinion, either. The proof is undoubtedly found in the sheer amount of dollar that has most definitely been dragged in by the legendary villain.
With Vader's visage being slapped on just about everything Star Wars associated that can be purchased by a galaxy far, far away-obsessed consumer, it's safe to assume that a decent chunk of the $27 billion of profit Lucasfilm had made on merch as of 2015 was largely down to his eye-catching mask being front-and-centre.
If you needed any more proof of just how popular the red-bladed baddie still unquestionable is, though, the Dark Lord of the Sith's iconic helmet used on the set of the Original Trilogy was sold for a whopping $1 million a few years back, and he once again found himself casting a sizeable shadow over the rest of the field on the cover of the most recent Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga video game, too.
The dollar is strong with this one.