I found myself thinking, 'You know, Indiana Jones would be an archetype who’d work. They were showing us around the building, and I just passed one of the Indiana Jones bits.

And soon, you kind of hit a certain kind of character type, and make them feel big enough. These are kind of quite the ideas you get, you know, and Han most of all. Leia is a certain princess archetype, and Luke is a farm boy turned Jedi Knight. And the thing about Star Wars is, the characters better be broad and direct. And, you know, Trios is Leia.īut at the same time, I was also thinking, they can’t just be mirrors. And obviously, the droids are the droids, and Black Krrsantan is Chewbacca. Aphra ends up taking sort of Han-ish position. I need to surround him with a cast, so I kind of end up almost mirroring the main Star Wars cast. And at least part of it was, I wanted to. Okay, I’m going to take Vader. where did the idea come from? I was trying to make the idea of how to make something feel like Star Wars. You know, it’s kind of all built towards this final scene, and I think it’s quite powerful. And it’s the final scene the final confrontation between Vader and Aphra in issue #25 is one of my highlights of the run. So you get all of the politics back and forth. And Vader knows that Aphra knows he’s going to kill her. The emotional backbone for a lot of the book is, is Vader gonna kill Aphra? Because Aphra knows Vader is going to kill her. You know, that’s the thing: what the tension of the book is, is anyone around Vader going to survive? And by having a character kind of likable, that’s kind of the thing. It’s one of those things where, she’s kind of the heart of the book, and like, I should say that Vader isn’t going to die. I mean, this is sort of tricky because actually, I’m not going to say whether she survives or not.

: So, what was the inspiration for Aphra, and what does she mean to you as a character? She’s popular I mean, people love her.

Although I’m sure Triple-Zero would probably disagree with that. Perhaps no character has had as much of an impact as Dr. : So, Darth Vader, the series, has brought a number of characters into the Star Wars universe that have left an unforgettable mark. (In case you missed it, check out part one of the interview here.) In the final installment of 's Darth Vader wrap-up interview with writer Kieron Gillen, we discuss the inspiration for Doctor Aphra, Vader and Palpatine's tense dynamic, and the comic becoming one with the Force at the right time. The acclaimed writer discusses ending a modern classic and much more.

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