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word of advice ! This article hold mollycoddler for Star Wars : Darth Vader - Black , White , & Red # 4Darth VaderandLuke Skywalkerare two of the most powerful personnel - user in theStar Warsgalaxy , yet somehow , both of them were gravel by the same iconic stranger at two unlike point in their respective history - and that alien was none other than the Wampa .
InStar Wars : Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back , Luke Skywalker and the residuum of his Rebel allies are on Hoth , planning the next microscope stage of their assault on the Empire followingthe destruction of the Death Star . However , Luke seemed to underrate the hostility of this world , as he was caught off guard by a local dweller , a Wampa . Wampas are yeti - like fauna native to Hoth , and when one construe Luke in their territorial dominion , they knocked him unconscious and took Luke back to their cave , seemingly to eat on him . While Luke was able-bodied to slit the creature ’s arm off with his lightsaber and make his relief valve , his initial capture still counts as a deprivation - though he ’s not the only Skywalker to experience this defeat .
Darth Vader Was Defeated By Wampas, Just Like Luke Skywalker
In theStar war : Darth Vader - Black , White , & Red#4 story title “ Return To Hoth ” by Frank Tieri and Danny Earls , Darth Vader returns to Hoth succeed the event ofEpisode Vto gather abandoned droids that may have had vital intel on the Rebel Alliance . When he bring down , however , Darth Vader ’s simple mission took an unexpected turn for the worse , as he was almost directly attacked by a Wampa . While Vader was able-bodied to slice that Wampa ’s sleeve off just as his Logos had done ( albeit without first being captured ) , he was apace taken off guard by a 2nd and a third Wampa that attack him . In the chaos , Vader had his chest plate damaged , which impacted his breathing . easy smother , Darth Vader pull away from the rampage Wampas , until he was backed into a corner where he was squeeze to stand his ground and fight . In the close , Vader mow down the creature , but he passed out in the insensate C. P. Snow immediately subsequently . If it was n’t for his Imperial security particular , Vader would have died right then and there , all because of the Wampas .
Both Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker had run for - ins with Wampas during their respective missions on Hoth , and both times , the Skywalkers were beaten by the animal . Sure , both of them came out on top in the end , but only after suffering major release that would have lead in their death without the aid of someone else . In Luke ’s case , after depart the Wampa ’s cave , he would have freeze to decease in the frozen tundra of Hoth if Han Solo did n’t deliver him . Vader would have suffered the same fate if his Stormtroopers did n’t witness him unconscious in the nose candy from a lack of atomic number 8 .
Even before the two Skywalkers were on the threshold of death as a upshot of fighting Wampas , they both also effectively lost during the fights themselves . Luke was captured and only survived long enough to break loose the Wampa ’s cave because the creature simply did n’t down him when it could have . As for Vader , he literally could n’t catch one’s breath while combat the Wampas , which entail that even if he did kill them all ( which he did ) , he ’d be dead soon after , which only did n’t take place because of the aforementioned help he received . So , despite their huge strength in the Force and skills with the lightsaber , Darth VaderandLuke Skywalkerwere both beaten by the same iconic alien , the Wampa .
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