Did Vader know his daughter was Leia?

Darth Vader didn't learn he had a daughter until Return of the Jedi, when he stood before Emperor Palpatine. The Emperor's power probed Luke's mind, attempting to goad him to fall to the dark side, and he discovered Leia's existence.
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When did Vader Realise Leia was his daughter?

Vader learned that Leia was his daughter by sensing it from Luke in Return of the Jedi. Vader learned about Luke after he sent Boba to capture Luke alive, but he escaped and Boba only managed to learn his name: Skywalker.
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Did Vader know Leia was his daughter in Kenobi?

Key details in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series connect to the original Star Wars movies, hinting Darth Vader knew and ignored Leia was his daughter.
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Why didn't Vader sense Leia was his daughter?

He only senses Luke when he actually using the Force, Leia is not actively aware or using the Force and therefore he does not sense her. He is also not looking for a daughter either until Luke spills the psychic beans on her later on.
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Did Leia ever know Darth Vader was her father?

Alderaan's princess knew she had been adopted by Bail and Breha Organa after the Clone Wars, but she had no idea who her parents were. That was until Luke Skywalker told her the truth - that he was the son of Darth Vader, and that she was his sister.
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Did Vader Know Leia was his Daughter After Sensing Luke Had a Sister in Episode 6? (Legends)



How did Leia react to Vader being her father?

Her first reaction is one of slight revulsion, perhaps even of him. She gets a very concerned look on her face. Then he tells her she's his sister. She says quietly, “I know.
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Does 3rd sister become a Jedi?

Before she became a Jedi hunter, she had possession of a droid. However, it was taken away from her, like many of her past belongings and acquaintances. During her time as an Inquisitor, the Third Sister wore black armor with a cape, and wielded a red-bladed Inquisitor lightsaber.
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How did Vader not know Leia was Force sensitive?

Leia was not using the Force or was currently Force-sensitive during her confrontation with Vader. She began training as a Jedi years later. All these reasons prove my point: Vader didn't know Leia was his daughter, and felt no presence of the Force in her, as she was not currently strong with the Force.
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Why did Leia name her son Anakin?

after his father, but his mother, Leia decided to name the boy after his maternal grandfather, Anakin Skywalker. She wanted to redeem her father's name, and she also thought she could overcome her fear of Darth Vader by seeing, through her son, what her father could have been.
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Why did Leia name her son Ben after Obi-Wan?

For Leia to name her son Ben Solo is the greatest honor, with Obi-Wan's memory able to live on in someone she loves. It is a sweet and moving gesture, and it retroactively addresses the questions that lingered around the Ben Solo name. After all, why name your child after someone who was important to someone else?
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Why didn't Leia recognize Obi-Wan?

Throughout her encounters with Kenobi in the series, he refers to himself as Ben. The most straightforward explanation would be that Leia knows the person who rescued her is Ben, and never connected the dots that Ben is actually Obi-Wan.
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Who did everyone think was the father of Padmé's baby?

Since Rush Clovis and Padmé used to have a relationship, long before she was secretly married to Anakin Skywalker, people assumed that he was the father because she rekindled her romance with Clovis, on the planet Scipio, around the time she became pregnant.
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How old is Leia when he dies?

Now, according to Star War: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary, the events of the final movie in the Skywalker saga took place in 35 ABY, so that makes Leia 54 years old when she died and became one with the Force, appearing one last time at the end of the movie as a Force ghost.
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Did Anakin know he had twins?

Darth Vader never knew he had twins until that final battle on the second Death Star. The force ghost of Obi Wan had warned Luke to bury his understanding of Leia deep or Vader would be able to sense his feelings.
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Does Darth Vader know he has twins?

In short, yes. Darth Vader found out that Luke had a twin sister a few moments before his death. Leia also found out that Vader was her father when Luke told her on the bridge in the Ewok village.
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Who was more Force sensitive Luke or Anakin?

Anakin is more powerful than his son because he is the direct descendant of the force, while Luke is the son of the descendant.
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Did Leia have Midichlorians?

The Jedi however also have three outliers in that of Luke, Leia, and Cade Skywalker (23000/23000/21000 midi-chlorians respectively) all of which were children/descendants of Anakin Skywalker (the chosen one) and so genetically predisposed to having abnormally-high midi-chlorian counts for Jedi.
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Why can Vader sense Luke but not Leia?

Why did Vader sense Luke but not Leia? He only senses Luke when he actually using the Force, Leia is not actively aware or using the Force and therefore he does not sense her. He is also not looking for a daughter either until Luke spills the psychic beans on her later on.
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Can Jedi get pregnant?

Although the 2002 film Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones established that the Jedi Order members couldn't marry or have children, Star Wars creator George Lucas explained that despite their monastic regime, the Jedi were permitted to have sexual intercourse as long they didn't form attachments or possessive ...
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How many Jedi survived Order 66?

Known survivors. It was said that fewer than one hundred Jedi—approximately one percent of the entire Order—survived Order 66.
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Why is Third Sister so angry in Obi-Wan?

The reason why the Third Sister hates Obi-Wan Kenobi so much is because she was a Jedi initiate when Order 66 happened. On that infamous day, Reva was training with her fellow Jedi younglings in the Jedi Temple of Coruscant.
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Does Darth Vader regret killing the younglings?

Over the years since the Youngling massacre, and even sometime before, Darth Vader has regretted killing the Younglings, recognizing that it was the most terrible thing he had ever done. Moving forward from the slaughter, Darth Vader found a dark way to avoid repeating the Youngling massacre.
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Who impregnated Anakin's mom?

In The Phantom Menace, when Qui-Gon Jinn meets tiny Anakin Skywalker and his mother, he goes on about how the Force is like, crazy strong with Anakin or whatever, and then asks his mother about Anakin's dad. Shmi Skywalker is pretty clear in her answer: There isn't a father. She was impregnated by the Force.
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How did Vader justify killing younglings?

The Younglings Reminded Anakin of How Different He Was

Those negative emotions also power the dark side, meaning Anakin likely felt stronger as he killed the younglings. That, in turn, reinforced his belief that only the dark side could save Padmé.
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