10 Sith Lords more badass than Vader

[arisak]

Oki hehe well I figured I can't give you a Top 10 Jedi's of all time with out some sith So deciding the top 10 sith is too hard and I'll leave that up to you   So here are my favs in no particular order 

 

Everyone seems to really like Darth Vader and often refer to him as the most badass character  in Star Wars. Also no Darth Sidious  If you were going strictly by the movies than yes he is, but here are 10 Sith Lords from the expanded universe that are way more badass than Vader.

 

Darth Naga Sadow

 

Naga Sadow was a renowned Sith Magician during the first Sith Empire. He used magic and sorcery to create decoys and illusions. Sadow once laid siege to numerous Republic worlds at the same time from a planet in the Empress Teta system. None of the planets were actually under siege but merely being attacked by illusions created by Sadow. During the chaos Republic ships destroyed each other leading to a further illusion that the threat was real. The fighting ended when Sadow's apprentice, Gav Daragon, fired on his meditation sphere and broke the illusion. Sadow, failing in his goal, fled to Yavin 4 and entered a Sith sarchophagus where he waited until Freedon Nadd came later and awakened him.

 

Freedon Nadd

 

Nadd was a Jedi prodigy who focused his study on sorcery. He consciously chose to embrace the Sith teaching after the Jedi couldn't teach him what he wanted to know. He left the Jedi and went to Yavin 4 where he found the tomb of Dark Lord Naga Sadow. Sadow taught Nadd the power of Sith Sorcery. Once Nadd has learned all he could from Sadow he absorded Sadow's spirit and left the planet for Onderon. He used his power to subjugate the world of Onderon. He ruled for hundreds of years until he died and was buried below the palace of Iziz where his spirit was so powerful it created a focal point for Sith sorcery throughout the galaxy and continued to corrupt and influence the world. A team of Jedi knights went to the world to end the Beast Wars, a conflict between the citizens who worshiped Nadd and those who had been cast out for refusing to pledge allegiance to the Sith. Jedi master Arca Jeth brought a temporary halt to Nadd's influence but a descendant of Nadd, King Ommin, used the chaos of war to resurrect Nadd. Nadd captured Arca Jeth but was mortally wounded after a Jedi Strike team came to rescue him. Nadd's spirit wondered the galaxy teaching different sects about the Sith before his tomb was relocated to Onderon's jungle moon Dxun. Nadd's spirit rested there until Kun arrived. Nadd taught Kun everything he knew. When he was convinced that Kun was strong enough he revealed to Kun his plan of creating a body through alchemical means. Kun refused to help Nadd any longer and killed him. Angry at being betrayed Nadd used the last of his power to contact the Ketos family which created the Krath, founders of the Battle Droids designed for killing Jedi and helpful in the Jedi Purge.  

 

Darth Sion

 

"The Lord of Pain". Darth Sion was was a Sith Lord who lived during the time of the Old Sith Wars. He fought for Sith Lord Exar Kun and was struck down and killed on the battlefield. Rather than accept death he called on his pain, anger, and hated to rise from the dead and reassemble his body. Everytime he was struck down he could rise again at the cost of all-consuming agony. His body was falling apart and decomposing but held together by the force. He was finally ended on Malachor V by Meetra, Revan's second apprentice, after she showed him the price he paid for his immortality. 

 

Darth Caedus

 

Son of Han and Leia Solo, Jacen Solo, was a Jedi Knight who trained under Luke Skywalker with his twin sister Jaina and younger brother Anakin. He was part of a strike team assembled to eliminate the voxyn queen on the planet Myrkr during the Yuuzhan Vong War. His brother was killed during the strike and he was taken prisoner. He spend nearly a year in captivity and was of tortured for weeks at a time. The torture broke his mind and showed him two vision. In one vision he stuck down Luke Skywalker and the galaxy erupted into chaos and in the other vision he saw a dark figure ruling the galaxy through force. Jacen decided that he would make this vision come true and broke out of captivity. He continued to fight in the war on the side of the Republic and stormed the Citadel of the Supreme Overlord. After the war he left in search of how to make his vision come true when he found Lumiya, the Dark Lady of the Sith. She taught him the ways of the Sith. During this time he took the name Darth Caedus, killed his aunt Mara Jade Skywalker, and tortured his other cousin Ben Skywalker. He was finally killed at the age of 32 by his twin sister Jaina.

 

Darth Nihilus

 

lol big pictures for my favs "The Lord of Hunger". Darth Nihilus trained under Darth Traya during the Old Republic Era. Nihilus was almost killed in the Mandalorian wars after Meetra fired a Mass Shadow Generator super weapon during the final battle on Malachor V, (Not the same fight in which Sion died, Meetra went back to Malachor V and destroyed in when she killed Sion). Nihilus used to force to save his body but that left him with an constant hunger. Traya taught him how to control his hunger but it required him to split his spirit and body and bind his spirit in the mask. After Nihilus and Sion fought Traya he used his hunger to rip her force power away from her and then began the Jedi Purge which killed almost every Jedi in the galaxy. During the Purge he went to the planet Katarr and absorbed all of the life there including a Jedi Convlace where several Jedi masters were meeting to discuss combating the purge. He was killed  over Telos IV when Meetra struck him down and ripped the mask from him.

 

Exar Kun

 

A Jedi originally he showed an unusual fascination of forbidden teachings. His curiosity was so strong that upon completion of his training as a Padawan he abandoned his master and set out in pursuit of knowledge and power of the ancient Sith. Kun's first visit was the relocated tomb of Freedon Nadd on the moon of Dxun. Kun learned Sith Sorcery from Nadd before destroying his spirit and setting out for galactic domination. Kun set out to destroy all of Nadd's cults and joined with Qel-Droma's Krath to create a unified Sith army, Brotherhood of the Sith, which waged total war on the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order. Kun was later betrayed by Krath who led the Jedi to Kun's temple on Yavin 4. Kun used a spell to separate his soul and his body. Nomi Sunrider lead a team of Jedi to create a wall of light which destroyed the landscape of Yavin 4 and trapped Kun in his temple. Kun however wasn't dead and when Luke re-inhabited the temple during the New Jedi Order he tortured and corrupted several students. Kun succeeded in ripping Luke's soul from his body and did battle with him in the Force. Only through the combined power of Luke's students and the spirit of Vodo-Shiosk Baas, Kun's former Jedi Master, was Kun finally defeated almost 4000 years after his birth.  

 

Darth Lumiya

 

"The Dark Lady of the Sith." Shira Elan Colla Brie was born on Corusant after the overthrow of the Jedi and the conquer of the Galactic Republic by Palpatine. She joined the Intteigence Academy on Carida where she graduated with top honors and was promoted to the rank of Major, next to Vader. She was given the task of infiltrating the republic and either kill or ostracize Luke Skywalker. The events that led to Skywalkers disgrace, the Battel of the Secret Armada, also left her horribly disfigured. Vader took her, gave her cybernetics like him, and trained he in secret as his shadow hand. At the same time Vader was training her she was undergoing training as one of the Emperor's Hand, Force trained Assassins. During her pilgrimage to Ziost she crafted a lightwhip crafted out of near indestructible Mandalorian iron and powered with a Kaiburr crystal. After the defeat on Vader and Palpatine at the Battle of Endor she swore vengence on Luke and participated in the extra-galactic Nagai species' war against the Tof to draw out Skywalker. She failed in defeating Luke and fled to the Outer Rim where she met Sith Lord Vectivus and together they hatched a plan to defeat Luke. Vectivus captured Jacen Solo torturing him to break his mind and Lumiya corrupted him, turning him against his family. Lumiya was finally decapitated by Luke who utilized a dual wield of standard and short blade to negate the benefit of her lightwhip.   

 

Darth Bane

 

Dessel was born in 1026 BBY on a mining planet called Apatros. He ran away from the planet and joined the Sith Brotherhood of Darkness after killing republic recruiters in a bar fight. Initially a Sergeant in the military he displayed an unusually strong connection to the Force and was recruited by the Sith Lords. He was taken to Korriban to train, where he quickly became a rising star and took the name Bane. After killing a fellow apprentice during a training exercise Bane received the praise of his instructors but struggled with is morality. Leaving the academy he sought answers in the tombs of the old Sith Lords where he came to the realization that the Sith were doomed. Multiple weaker Sith could gang up on a stronger Sith and kill him, thus weakening the collective whole. He knew that he couldn't kill all of the Sith by himself so he left sought a way by following in Revan's footsteps. He found the Unkown World, Ratakka, and Revan's holocron. From the holocron he learned about an Sith Spell called the Thought Bomb, a spell that trapped the target outside of time and ripped them apart for all eternity. Bane tricked the Sith Lords into activating the Thought Bomb and bought them time, by calling down a lightning storm miles wide. The Sith Lords used the bomb and trapped all of the Sith and a third of the Jedi. Bane was able to create a shadow empire, later used by every Sith Lord including Palpatine. Bane also created  his own holocron, a skill long since forgotten, and learned stored his knowledge of the essence of soul transfer, a spell allowing him to transfer his soul into another body. It is unclear if Bane successfully used this spell on his apprentice Zannah but Palpatine did learn the spell from Bane's holocron and used to to escape death from falling down the reactor shaft. Bane's crowning achievement was the Rule of Two in which one Sith Lord would kill the other when they got strong enough.    

 

Darth Vitiate

 

The Immortal Emperor was the illegitimate son a Sith lord and a farmer. At the age of 10 he killed his father and changed his name from Tenebrae to Darth Vitiate. Summoning the Sith Lords that survived the Great Hyperspace War her cast a ritual that absorbed all life, sound, color, gravity, and oxygen on Nathema, his home planet. This spell made him immortal at the cost of a constant fire in his veins. He then proclaimed himself the Sith Emperor and lead the surviving Sith (species not group) on a twenty year voyage discovering Dromund Kaas, the home world of the Sith. He wanted to repeat his spell on the galaxy but that would require war that would end millions of lives so he could use their life for power in his spell. To this extent he started war by tricking the Mandalorians to attack the Republic. He broke the mind of Revan and sent him against the Republic, however when Revan returned to Dromund Kaas he almost beat the Emperor with the help of Meetra and Scourge, a Sith Lord. Scourge betrayed Meetra and Revan causing Meetra to die and Revan to be held captive. Revan used his power over the force to influence Vitiate's mind and make him sue for piece during the Sacking of Coruscant. The Emperor turned his focus on the unnamed Hero of Tython and captured him. He was set free by Scourge, the Emperor's new Wrath, who had a vision about the Hero of Tython defeating the Emperor. The Emperor's physical body began to die and he restarted the galactic war to achieve total immortality and become a God, however he had to constantly transfer his soul into a new body and his clones could not support the Force power he wielded. The Republic eventually invaded Dromund Kaas and the Hero, with the astromech, T7-O1, fought the Emperor and won. Mortally wounded the Emperor fled and died some time before 67 BBY, although the exact date is unknown. 

 

Darth Revan

 

Revan was one of the only Sith to go from being Jedi to Sith, back to Jedi. As a Jedi he lived during the Mandalorian Wars in which the Republic was losing badly. He felt that it was the Jedi's duty to get involved in the war and protect the weak. The council felt otherwise saying there was a darker force lying in wait and they needed it to reveal itself before intervening. Revan however chose to forgo his oath and lead an army of all Jedi volunteers to war. During the war he killed thousands of Mandalorians, uncluding Mandalor the leader. After the war he left in search of the Galaxy where he deiscovered Drumond Kass the homeworld of the Sith. The Sith Emperor there used to force to break his mind and sent him to weaken or destroy the Republic. On his new quest Revan found an ancient Sith machine called the Star Forge which allowed him to create Sith ships out of nothingness creating the infinite army. Revan was betrayed by his apprentice Malak who failed to kill him. The jedi saved his life but wiped his memories. After regaining part of his memories he set out to find and destroy the Star Forge with his love, and future wife, Bastila. Revan was hailed as a Hero of the Republic and prodigal Jedi, however the council forbade him from teaching because he became the first grey walker, a jedi who uses both the light and dark side of the Force. He believed that the Force is neither light nor dark and it is how it is used that matters, a principle Luke Skywalker shares later. Not content with only part of his memories back he leaves in search of his missing past and rediscovers Drumond Kass where he regains his memories. In a fight with the Emperor he is betrayed by his temporary ally. The Emperor locks him in a stasis pod and feeds off his force energy, however Revan is so strong in the force that he is able to survive and trick the Emperor for hundreds of years until he escapes and is later killed by an unnamed Jedi.

[DarkestSin]

I think you forgot Matt!

 

[☙𝔼𝕩❧]

This more badass then 10 sith lords

[Guest JeanetteVoerman]

This more badass then 10 sith lords

who is this guy?

[Lynnibree]

who is this guy?

Character from GTAV

[Lynnibree]

Pfffff, nah the best Sith ever is Visas Marr, sorry but true.

 

My life for your's.

[☙𝔼𝕩❧]

who is this guy?

Trevor Phillips xP

[arisak]

I think you forgot Matt!

 

 

Omg loved this haha posted the video in the Funny Youtube videos topic a few days ago haha 

[arisak]

This more badass then 10 sith lords

 

lmao I don't think any siths would mess with crazy trevor

[arisak]

Pfffff, nah the best Sith ever is Visas Marr, sorry but true.

 

My life for your's.

 

 omg I totally forgot about her!! hehe reminds me of the good old KoTOR 2 days 

 

[HeavyMetalGod]

I think The Emperor is most dangerous.

[HeavyMetalGod]

And he didn;t die.In the novels he is alive.

[TheCriticalMrHits]

I think Darth Zannah deserves at least an honorable mention, because she was probably my favorite of the 'less swordplay, more spell-casting' force users in general, regardless of her alignment.

 

 

It is unclear if Bane successfully used this spell on his apprentice Zannah

I'm pretty sure it was unsuccessful. She went on to take three different apprentices and there was no mention of her internal workings or Bane at all, which I feel like they would've done for us if the transfer was successful.  'My soul is Bane's soul' is a super juicy bit of story, and I think they would've expanded on it for the readers if it actually happened.

 

Anyway, unexpected and great thread! Thanks, ArisaK!

 

*WARNING! It is about to get extra nerdy in here*

 

P.S. in Vader's defense, a force user getting a limb (or part of a limb) replaced with a mechanical one in the SW universe causes the force to flow much weaker through them (in the old D20 tabletop RPG, every robotic part like this gives a potential -1 or -2 to each force related attempt/roll). Most of Vader's body was robotic, yet he was still able to do some decently impressive force feats, such as throwing large chunks of debris around during a saber duel, force choke on the drop of a dime, etc. Most importantly though, we never see him fail any attempt at a force related action (even with the huge disadvantage he was getting, roughly a -8 to literally every attempt).

 

*Notices all the ladies staring at him and winks with a smile*

Ladies, please! I know you're totally into my nerdiness, but I'm not a piece of meat!