Anakin Skywalker (TFM)

Anakin Skywalker was a bratty young slave boy from Tatooine. He later became the infamous Darth Vader after being corrupted by the Dark Side and taken in by Darth Sidious. His path to the Dark Side was not subtle. He had been twisted and deceived by Sidious for some years. However, Sidious did not know that Anakin knew his true identity until it was almost too late.

As a young boy, Anakin lived on Tatooine, until he was freed by Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn. He was trained in the ways of the Jedi, hoping to become a powerful Jedi Knight. He was handed down to Obi-Wan Kenobi to train, as Qui-Gon went into hiding. Under Obi-Wan, Anakin grew to become the powerful Jedi Knight he had sworn to be. Then the Clone Wars broke out.

Anakin’s skills, bravery, conscience, mind, and patience were tested many times throughout the Clone Wars. It was at the end of the war, that Anakin fell to the Dark Side, becoming Darth Sidious’ evil apprentice. He became known and feared as Darth Vader. He assisted Sidious in growing the recent evolved Empire to its fullest strength. It was then that Anakin, now Darth Vader, was faced with a new challenge.

Beginnings
He went into slavery, being sold to a Toydarian named Watto, along with his mother, Shmi Skywalker. A couple years later, Anakin was freed from slavery when a Jedi Master named Qui-Gon Jinn came and retrieved the boy. Watto gave him to Qui-Gon just to get rid of him, giving Qui-Gon twenty thousand Republic dataries, a holoprojection of a J-type 3-27 Nubian hyperdrive, and R2-D2. Before leaving Tatooine, Anakin was placed under the watchful eye of Jar Jar Binks.

Once Anakin was in Qui-Gon’s hands, he traveled with them to Naboo to make one final stand against the Trade Federation and their Peace Treaty. While on Naboo, Anakin was placed under the care of Padmé Amidala as Jar Jar went off to fight the droids on the plains of Naboo. During her care, he asked her to marry him. She agreed only, if Anakin could disable the Droid Control Ship. Anakin agreed and flew off to prove his worth; however, while he was in the air, the controls were disabled by one of the droids aboard the ship, and Anakin returned back to the surface. In doing so, he accidentally crashed into the throne room, where Padmé was holding negotiations with the Trade Federation Viceroy, Nute Gunray. He ended up causing the Peace Treaty to fail, once again, which allowed for fair trade for Naboo.

Shortly after the Battle for Naboo, Anakin was taken aside by Qui-Gon to teach him the ways of the Jedi. He also informed Anakin that he would hand him over to his apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi. It was here that Anakin first alluded to his knowledge of the future by pointing out that Darth Sidious was the mastermind behind it all. During his stay on Naboo, Anakin was trained by both Obi-Wan and Yoda. He eventually grew up to be a promising Jedi Knight, and each master waited for the day he would be able to prove his skill.

Reemergence
That day came when he met up with Padmé, along with Obi-Wan, just before she was about to leave to vote on the Frank Creation Act. He arrived just as her ship blew up and agreed to help her find the vandal. He and Obi-Wan immediately chased down the person responsible for the assassination attempt. While interrogating a Clawdite named Zam Wessel, they both discovered the existence of a bounty hunter named Jango Fett. They returned and reported what they had learned to the Jedi Council.

The Jedi Council agreed to send Padmé into hiding and assigned Anakin to protect her. Together they traveled to the lake country. While they were there, Anakin received a text from a man named Cliegg Lars, while watching a Smashball game on HoloNet. The text stated that Cliegg’s wife had been taken by Sand People. Padmé entered and forced Anakin to help Cliegg. In doing so, Padmé tried to teach Anakin to fly on there way to Tatooine.

Once they arrived on Tatooine, Anakin met up again with his former master, Watto. Watto informed Anakin that he had sold his mother to a guy named Cliegg Lars, the same man from the text, and that she was freed and eventually married Cliegg. Anakin insisted on Watto giving him the location of the homestead, but Watto kept diverging the conversation to try and sell something. Finally, Watto gave Anakin and Padmé the location of the homestead and Anakin purchased a speeder, the one Jar Jar broke when Qui-Gon had journeyed to the planet, for one thousand credits. However, Anakin forgot his wallet in his other robe and had to borrow money from Watto to make the purchase.

They made it to the homestead just in time to find C-3PO working on the security cameras. However, Anakin was still learning to pilot and ended up crashing into the front of the homestead. When they reached C-3PO, he immediately informed Anakin and Padmé of Shmi’s capture. Anakin affirmed the information by stating that he had received the text from Cliegg. He asked C-3PO where the Tusken camp was, and C-3PO gave him directions.

Anakin reached the Tusken Camp, only to knock every Tusken unconscious. He found his mother lying next to a moisture vaperator. She woke up and walked over to where Anakin was. She told him that she had missed the turn to Anchorhead and decided to spend the night behind the vaperator and head back to the homestead in the morning.

He took Shmi home to the homestead, where Cliegg came out to meet her. Anakin, Shmi and Cliegg started talking and Anakin told his parents about Padmé and their engagement. Shmi gave her blessing, and the two traveled back to Mos Espa. There they met up with Obi-Wan, who mistakenly traveled to Tatooine instead of Geonosis. They asked him why he was going to Geonosis, and Obi-Wan told them he was tracking the bounty hunter Jango Fett. Together, they traveled to Geonosis to confront Jango and finally figure an end to the rising conflict.

The Clone Wars
They arrived on Geonosis with Obi-Wan, who flew ahead to a different location, and immediately went in search of Jango Fett. However, they stumbled upon a System of Independent Confederates (SIC) outpost and battle droid factory. They watched on as they saw an ensemble of B1 Battle Droids and newer B2 Super Battle Droids. When they tried to return to their ship, they were captured by a Geonosian and taken to Poggle the Lesser and Count Dooku.

They were placed before trial in a large battle arena on Geonosis and were being prepared for execution. Obi-Wan was placed beside Anakin and Padmé in the arena. Count Dooku prepared them for what would happen and released the beast that was to kill them. However, before Dooku could inform them, each person took a guess at was the creature was. Anakin guessed right when he said it was a larger then life, dripping with mucus, green-eyed, sharp toothed, nerf. Dooku released the nerf and watched as they fended off.

Anakin was first to be attacked, but managed to dodge the nerf’s initial lunge. The nerf rammed into the execution column and caused it and the two others to collapse on top of the nerf, pinning it, and freeing the others. Anakin retrieved his lightsaber and met up with Padmé. Obi-Wan used force blast to clear the debris and too met up with the rest of the group. Just at that time, an LAAT/i flew in and picked up the prisoners.

As they were leaving the arena, Master Yoda, who had called in the Clone Troopers, spotted Count Dooku and ordered Anakin to take the controls. However, Anakin was reluctant at first; he eventually agreed to fly the LAAT to chase Dooku down. They followed him to a SIC hangar, where the rest of the SIC leaders were located. As the LAAT came crashing in, literally, the SIC leaders fled, leaving Dooku alone. Anakin and Obi-Wan exited the LAAT to confront Dooku.

Anakin and Obi-Wan came at Dooku from two different sides, hoping to pin him, but Dooku leaped out of the way in time for both Anakin and Obi-Wan to ram into each other. Dooku landed just right that his lightsaber cut off Anakin’s right arm. When Dooku was forced to flee by Yoda, Padmé rushed over and helped Anakin up, commenting on how his arm was missing. Together, they left the hangar and headed back to Naboo.

While on Naboo, Anakin and Padmé finally got married. The ceremony was open to all who wished to come, which included the entire Jedi Council, random members from Tatooine, a Droid escort, and a couple other special guests. When the ceremony was over, Padmé persuaded to get Anakin the mechanical arm, since they had left the real one on Geonosis to get swept away by The Cleaner Guy. They had given him a fake one for the wedding, but Padmé insisted on a permanent mechanical one. It was not long after that Anakin received his first mechanical arm, and his first step towards becoming Darth Vader.