A Note
Some people will say also say that unlike the others on this list, Darth Vader isn’t doing his killing in his capacity as a dad.
We respectfully disagree. It’s true that Vader doesn’t know, as Alderaan is destroyed, that Leia is his daughter. But he must sense… something. A New Hope is definitely playing off the generation gap between the Military or Greatest Generation (represented by Vader and the Empire) and the Baby Boomers (represented by Leia and the Baby Boomers).
Vader’s most basic motivation seems to be his failure as a partner to Padme — the mother of his twins — and his failure as a father to Luke and Leia. His redemption only comes when he makes peace with his son. (Sadly, no big reunion with his daughter ever happens. Maybe he still feels guilty about Alderaan.)
Anyway, congratulation to Darth Vader, No. 1 on our list of the deadliest dads in movies.
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