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* [[Evil Sounds Deep|Speaks in a really deep voice.]]
 
[[Fountain of Expies|Not surprisingly]], many characters of this type are found in ''[[Star Wars]]'' canon itself. See also [[May the Farce Be Withwith You]].
 
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== Anime & Manga ==
* Iron Mask from ''[[GundamMobile FSuit Gundam 91F91]]'', combining Darth Vader Clone and it's Japanese equivalent, the [[Char Clone]].
 
== Comic Books ==
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* [[Micronauts]]' own Baron Karza, in both the toy and the [[Marvel Comics|comic]].
* [[Marvel Star Wars|Lumiya]] was trained by the man himself and is practically a [[Distaff Counterpart]].
* There's also Dirk Raider from ''[[Brewster Rockit: Space Guy!]]''. Not only is he similar in appearance to Darth Vader (although his helmet is more similar to Boba Fett), he even has a similar backstory to Vader's [[Start of Darkness]] in [[Revenge of the Sith]]. A notable difference, however, is that Dirk Raider's more of a [[Card-Carrying Villain]] instead of a complex character.
 
== Films ==
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*** [[Word of God]] says the three were used for [[Foreshadowing]], each one being an element of Vader: Maul as [[The Dragon]] who enforces the Emperor's will, Dooku as a fallen Jedi, and Grievous as a cyborg with breathing problems.
* Darth Vader's own appearance is often thought to be inspired by the [[Film Serial]] character The Lighting from ''The Fighting Devil Dogs.''
* Dark Helmet from ''[[Spaceballs (Film)|Spaceballs]]''.
* Zurg from ''[[Toy Story]]'' (Toy Story 2, especially.)
* Lord Graal is a pretty blatant one from ''The Humanoid.''
* The Doctor {{spoiler|AKA Cobra Commander}} is this in ''[[G.I. Joe: theThe Rise of Cobra]]''. The sequel will (apparently) have him closer to his original cartoon incarnation.
* ''[[Tron Legacy (Film)|Tron: Legacy]]'' has the masked, black-clad bad guy Rinzler who {{spoiler|actually is former good guy Tron, who returns to the light side and tries to kill his evil master at the end}}.
 
== Literature ==
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== Video Games ==
* A non-canon example is in ''[[The Force Unleashed]]'''s {{spoiler|dark side ending, which has Galen Marek in a similar situation to Darth Vader by being made a cyborg.}}
* Darth Malak from ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (Videovideo Gamegame)|Knights of the Old Republic]]'' is possibly the most obvious Darth Vader expy.
* Dark Madder from ''[[Warp Force (Video Game)|Warp Force]]''.
* Kabal from the ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' series.
* Grahf '''[[Evil Is Hammy|THE SEEKER OF POWER]]''' of [[Xenogears (Video Game)|Xenogears]] was specifically designed to resemble Darth Vader.
* Golbez from ''[[Final Fantasy IV (Video Game)|Final Fantasy IV]]'' is a more fantasy-themed version, complete with a {{spoiler|[[Luke, I Am Your Father|Cecil I Am Your Brother]]}} moment. He wears black armor, is a [[Badass Baritone]] when he's voiced, has a rather ominous and rather badass theme whenever he is nearby, used to be good but was corrupted and brainwashed by Zemus, and once he comes to his senses he helps the heroes destroy him.
** As two more Shout Outs, in ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy (Video Game)|Dissidia Final Fantasy]]'' he has an attack called "Cosmic Ray", which fires blasts of electricity from his hands in a manner heavily resembling Force Lightning (ironically, the original Darth Vader never actually learned this attack and in fact was killed by it), and he calls the CPU boss from ''IV'' to fire lasers, the CPU greatly resembling the Death Star as a large black metal [[Attack Drone]].
* Gabranth in ''[[Final Fantasy XII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XII]]'' is [[The Dragon]] to [[The Emperor]], Vayne, is revealed to be Basch's [[Evil Twin]] and is a [[Fallen Hero]] who is pretty much single-handedly responsible for the fall of Dalmasca and the Empire's reign in the region. Clad in dark silver armor with a black cape and having a metallic echo to his voice due to his helmet, Gabranth is actually a broken man who feels he has nothing to live for except his servitude to Vayne, his home and family having been taken from him or given up. By the end of the game he helps the heroes defeat Vayne, but is mortally wounded for his heroism and dies soon after.
* King K. Rool behaves this way in ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]''.
* Darth Malgus in ''[[Star WarstheWars: The Old Republic]].'' Also, most Sith Warrior PCs can give it a decent go, especially with some of the late game helmets like [http://quietube2.com/v.php/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klN9Tt1GM3s&feature=player_embedded this].
* The bosses of the 1987 ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Licensed Game]] for the Famicom are a long line of Darth Vader knockoffs, such as Scorpion Vader and Wampa Vader, who drop their masks and cloaks soon into the [[Boss Battle]]. The actual Darth Vader is defeated before the assault on the Death Star.
* The Darkshine Knight from [[Seiken Densetsu 3]] qualifies. He wears bulky [[Black Knight|dark armor]], is a formidable swordsman and is [[The Dragon|second in command]] to the [[Big Bad]]. {{spoiler|Later he is revealed to be working for the [[Bigger Bad|Dragon Emperor]], which actually makes him third in command. Oh, and he's also Duran's (one of the protagonists) father}}
* In the arcade game ''Xain D'Sleena'' (also known as ''Solar Warrior''), one finds on the top of a temple located in the planet (named ''Cleedos Soa''/Jupiter <ref> despite being a [[Artistic License Astronomy|desert world]] with even a [[Shout -Out]] to Dune</ref> respectively) a flying head that looks [[Expy|suspiciously similar]] to Darth Vader's helmet and that must be destroyed in order to follow on the level. If one skips the planet, [[Recurring Boss|it will appear in space]] chasing your ship from behind. Worse, [[Sheathe Your Sword|it cannot be killed since your ship just fires to the front]], so you must just dodge its bullets until it retires.
* Arguably, Xemnas from the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series in terms of appearance and backstory. He wears a black cloak, wields "ethereal blades" that resemble red lightsabers, and {{spoiler|his past incarnation Terra is a ''very'' blatant Anakin Skywalker Clone with a similar [[Fallen Hero]] backstory}}.
* Epsilon from ''[[Mega Man X Command Mission (Video Game)|Mega Man X Command Mission]]''.
* The Gamecube game [[Custom Robo]] has Sergei, who not only possessed a baritone voice (well, it's implied due to the eight-bit speech sounds being deep), a face mask obscuring all but his right eye, being a high-executive to the Z-Syndicate, and [[The Dragon]] to Oboru, but is also the older brother of Marcei. Likewise, he also pulls a [[Heel Face Turn]] late into the game.
* The [[Big Bad|Magic Emperor]] in ''[[Lunar: theThe Silver Star (Video Game)|Lunar the Silver Star]]'', being a [[Fallen Hero]] on a [[Knight Templar]] quest to return the world to [[A God Am I|divine rule]], and clad in black armor and robes with an enclosing helmet that makes his voice [[Evil Sounds Deep|sound much deeper]] than it does otherwise.
 
 
== Western Animation ==
* Dark Laser from ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]''. Some TV guide misprints even refer to him as Vader.
* Dark Vegan from ''[[Johnny Test]]'' - though he's probably more of an [[Expy]] of the aforementioned [[Spaceballs (Film)|Dark Helmet]].
* Duck Vader from ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures (Animation)|Tiny Toon Adventures]]''
* Baron Ryang from the [[Trapped in TV Land]] episode of ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]''
* Darph Bobo from ''[[Tripping the Rift]]''
* ''[[Loonatics Unleashed (Animation)|Loonatics Unleashed]]'': Slyth Vester, a combination of the cat Sylvester and Darth Vader!
* Jack Thompson in ''[[Ctrl +Alt +Del]]''
 
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