Why was Vaders suit painful?

The armor encased Vader completely, creating a seal to protect his charred skin and lungs. It was also uncomfortable to wear.
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Why is Vader's suit weak to lightning?

19 Weakness: Electricity

Darth Vader possessed the skill to use Force lightning, but the limitations of his suit prevented this. A lot of the systems that were keeping Darth Vader alive were maintained by electricity, which is why Force lightning was so destructive towards him.
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Did Vader's suit weaken him?

2) The answer is probably yes - he limited him to some extent. He also explicitly points out that he can easily kill Vader by overloading his sensitive mechanical body. Over the years Vader would have made amendments to the suit himself.
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Was Darth Vader's suit comfortable?

9 The Suit Was Obsolete On Purpose

The less calm and comfortable Vader was, the angrier and closer he was to the Dark Side and the rage-filled powers it instilled in him. To escape the armor's claustrophobia and pain, Vader had several meditation chambers built where he could survive without the mask and the suit.
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How does Darth Vader pee?

According to Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader, the eponymous Dark Lord relies on catheters to urinate. As for his solid waste, he needs collection pouches. His suit also includes recyclers, an understandably vital feature since it's not realistic to clean out his suit all the time.
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Why does Darth Vader breathe so heavy?

When Vader breathes out, the suit is at a low pressure, and when he breathes in the interior atmosphere is at a higher pressure. This difference would effectively force (haha) air into and out of his lungs.
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Can Darth Vader eat?

Short answer: Yes. He eats a crude paste, a bit like in The Matrix, but it tastes awful. He also uses an IV for nutrition. His internal organs are badly damaged, so he can't really eat normal food, or even much special invalid food, but he eats occasionally.
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Can Darth Vader breath without his mask?

Dark Vader cannot breathe without his mask because his mask is connected to a life support system. His famous black armor suit covers this life-sustaining system. In Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith, Anakin Skywalker suffered severe burns and injuries after his lightsaber fight with Obi-Wan Kenobi.
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Does Vader sleep?

When Vader did sleep, he was awoken soon after by a disturbing series of visions, sounds and pain, most of which including Obi-Wan or Padme. It's entirely possible that he never really needed to sleep given the powers of his mechanical suit, however, his brain was still completely biological.
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Why is Darth Vader's face white?

When did Darth Vader's skin become white? It become white due to a lack of sunlight/his face being covered up underneath a mask/helmet for about 2 decades (aka 20 years).
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Can Vader breathe in space?

Once sealed, Vader's mask and armored suit could serve as an airtight spacesuit for at least a short time. He relied on an internal oxygen supply when he flew his TIE fighter in the Battle of Yavin, and he had survived surprise exposure to space during assassination attempts by mutinous Imperial officers.
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Can Darth Vader heal himself?

While Vader was able to heal himself to some degree.. overall, healing energies are not a strong suit of the dark side by any means. That is something that is typically in the area of the light side, which is why many Jedi such as Yoda, Ikrit and others lives for hundreds of years.
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Was Anakin weaker than Vader?

Over the years, he learned from his mistakes and evolved as a warrior due to his years of hunting Jedi throughout the Galaxy. Thus, for the lightsaber category, Vader ended up being more powerful than Anakin.
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Did Palpatine make Vaders suit painful?

Before canon it was stated in "Legends". That he was in constant pain, the suit was uncomfortable and purposefully so, since Palpatine never wanted Vader to reach his full potential.
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Can Darth Vader use force lightning?

Darth Vader can not use force lighting, because of his severed arms. Robotic hands can't summon the force lighting.
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What is under Darth Vader's mask?

Former bodybuilder and champion weight-lifter Dave Prowse played two iconic screen figures familiar to anyone growing up in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s. Or rather he played one and a bit, for, although he was the man behind the Darth Vader mask in the original Star Wars trilogy, James Earl Jones provided the voice.
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What were Darth Vader's injuries?

He lost both legs around the knees, and much of his left arm. He fell onto a slope of volcanic sand, and slid helplessly to the edge of a lava river. His body ignited due to heat radiated off that flow. His lungs were scorched by the hot gases he inhaled.
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What do the buttons on Vader's chest do?

The buttons on the rightmost box are temperature controls, allowing Vader to adjust his suit's internal temperature to suit his needs. (This same type of environmental control is also found in storm trooper suits.)
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What happened to Darth Vader's body?

Later, in the Legends continuity, it was established that Anakin's body disappeared after his death, and that Luke burned Darth Vader's empty armor on Endor.
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Why does KYLO have Vader's helmet?

One key aspect of Kylo Ren's character in Star Wars is his reverence for his grandfather, Darth Vader, which was shown visually in The Force Awakens, both in his style and in his altar-like shrine to Vader's helmet.
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How does Darth Vader's suit keep him alive?

After the fight between Anakin Skywalker and his former Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi left Vader devoid of two legs and an arm, the suit had to function as both a life-support system and prosthetic encasement.
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Does Darth Vader have one arm?

Eventually, he lost both his legs and his remaining arm in the climactic duel on Mustafar between both he and Obi-Wan. As Vader, he had each limb replaced with cybernetic parts, but would lose his robotic right arm one last time when Luke Skywalker faced his father in Return of the Jedi.
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