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Lopen posted...

But him doing it out of self-preservation is 100% fanfiction.

There's no way to prove one way or another what is going through his mind, but while the trilogy wants to make a big point about redemption and love and all that, what we have seen from Vader suggests that he wants to kill the Emperor anyway, he knows the Emperor wants him dead based on how Palpatine was encouraging Luke (especially factoring in the prequels, where Anakin has personally been in Luke's position), and because of that, trying to kill the Emperor in the situation he's in is clearly his only hope of survival.

The point isn't that the real story *is* that Vader acted out of pure self-interest, it's that Vader's actions being portrayed as anything else bugs me.
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