When Obi-Wan Kenobi advised Anakin Skywalker that he would deliver steadiness to the pressure, I don’t assume he imagined something alongside the strains of Fortnite.
And but right here we’re. The builders of the favored battle royale teased a brand new visible on Thursday that implies {that a} younger Anakin shall be becoming a member of the roster of playable characters within the recreation. Now, Darth Vader gained’t simply have the ability to shoot and kill Anakin, he can even have the ability to hit The Griddy on his alter ego’s limping physique on the battlefield — if the chance arises.
Fortnite is a battle royale recreation with a completely monumental forged of characters that brings collectively characters from a number of franchise throughout the Marvel, DC, and Star Wars universes. Final summer time, the builders launched Darth Vader as a playable pores and skin to the sport so now when you play as Anakin, and another person picks the Darth Vader pores and skin, you’ll have the ability to kill Darth Vader as Anakin (or vice versa). We don’t know when exactly the Anakin pores and skin will land, however we received teaser artwork for him displaying him strolling onto the scene.
This explicit pores and skin seems to primarily based on the likeness of a long-haired Hayden Christensen we see in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith and/or the cartoony model of Anakin from the animated sequence Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Within the visuals, we see him stroll with a lightsaber in hand and starships loom overhead.
I’d prefer to assume that Darth Vader murdering Anakin in Fortnite nonetheless brings us to the logical finish level of the unique batch of Star Wars motion pictures. In Star Wars: A New Hope, Obi Wan Kenobi tells Luke Skywalker concerning the origin story of the Darth Vader for the primary time, as if Darth Vader and Luke’s father are separate individuals (relatively than one in the identical).
“A younger Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine till he turned to evil, helped the Empire search out and destroy the Jedi Knights. He betrayed and murdered your father. Now the Jedi are all however extinct. Vader was seduced by the Darkish Aspect of the Power.”
Clearly this was early within the manufacturing of the longer term franchise, so all the small print weren’t absolutely labored out but. However now we are able to play via that unique situation as if they’re separate individuals, and Darth Vader can down Luke’s father and himself for actual.
