Darth Vader didn't always have a red lightsaber. Early concept art by Ralph McQuarrie (pictured below) shows Vader wielding a blueish-white blade, the same as the Jedi. After all, Vader was always ...

In the original trilogy, Luke gets his father's blue lightsaber, and the prequels would have been hard-pressed to explain that away. In the end, Darth Vader's red lightsaber had to come along ...

Let's face it; Darth Vader is a thousand times cooler ... toy version of the car that comes in a case that looks like Vader's red lightsaber, plus a commemorative box, for $40.00.

While the red ... recent Darth Vader comic book from Marvel. In that, Vader kills one of the few remaining Jedi after Order 66, taking the Kyber crystal from the fallen warrior’s lightsaber.