r/whowouldwin • u/LetsGet2Birding • May 18 '25

Challenge Darth Vader Is Dropped Into Los Angeles. How Much Damage Can He Do?

Darth Vader right before the events of A New Hope is plopped in the city of Los Angeles, California. He has his lightsaber with him and can use the force. Given how he has just been teleported, he is confused, but of course, let's get the ball rolling by making him even more irritable since he now has no hope of helping retrieve the death star plans.

Just how much damage can Vader do before someone, somehow, puts him down. Police? Military? For how long can he wreak havoc?

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u/djpacheco1003 May 19 '25

Why would a non-living object have any special connection to the force to alert him to. I feel like MOST forms of precog react to intention like spidersense does. Any form of precognition that reacts to ALL input, living or otherwise, isn’t even precognition anymore. That’s straight up future sight with a time limit.

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u/Firm-Character-6852 God HIMperor of r/WWW May 19 '25

Based on how star wars fans love to talk about precog whether its "future sight" or Intent based like you say, people glaze the fuck out of precog. I just put one singular, silly, event in the long list of Vaders precog failing.

Why would a non-living object have any special connection to the force.

I can name multiple times of a living person dunking on Vader/Anakin's precog.

I dont even believe precog should ever be in a conversation with star wars characters because it fails more than half the time it seems like.

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u/Grompulon May 19 '25

People love glazing Vader and act like he has perfect precog, but his sad devotion to that ancient religion didn't help him conjure up the stolen data tapes, or give him clairvoyance enough to find the Rebels' hidden fortress.

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u/djpacheco1003 May 19 '25

Clairvoyance is NOT precognition. It’s in the name. PRE COGNITION. You’re becoming cognizant of something before causality says you would. It is NOT making you cognizant of some fact that you were not ALREADY going to become aware of in the immediate future.

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u/Grompulon May 19 '25

This bickering is pointless! Whatever you want to call it, Lord Vader should've provided the Empire the location of the Rebel fortress by the time their station was operational. Then they could've crushed the Rebellion with one swift stroke!

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u/ImperfectRegulator May 19 '25

Perhaps if the station had been made operational sooner, none of this would’ve been an issue, careful not to choke on your aspirations, Grompulon.

Even the force can not overcome the incompetence of bureaucracy

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u/Grompulon May 19 '25

Don't be too proud of the technological terror that the Empire constructed. The ability to destroy a planet (or even a whole system!) is insignificant next to the power of the Force.

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u/ImperfectRegulator May 19 '25

heavy machine breathing

see this guy gets it, you know what, no force choke for you today buddy, want to come to my sick pad on mustafar? it's got lava

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u/kbobdc3 May 19 '25

I find your lack of faith disturbing

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u/fghjconner ​ May 19 '25

That’s straight up future sight with a time limit.

That's quite literally the definition of precognition:

foreknowledge of an event, especially foreknowledge of a paranormal kind.