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Darth Vader-esque
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English
Alternative forms
en Darth Vader–esque Darth Vaderesque
Etymology
From en Darth Vader esque.
Adjective
1
Resembling or characteristic of the fictional character Darth Vader.
en Liz Galst Right-wing crotch shots The Boston Phoenix July 2–8 1993 2 https://archive.org/details/sim_boston-phoenix_july-2-8-1993_22_27/page/n1/mode/1up 3 Full of low-angle crotch shots and ominous Darth Vader-esque music, these gross distortions of gay and lesbian life (though mostly it’s gay men’s lives that are depicted) have been making the rounds in Congress and among the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
en Steven Puchalski Can these sci-fi videos show us the Woman of the Future? Sci Fi Entertainment October 1995 36 https://archive.org/details/Sci-Fi_Entertainment_Vol._2_3_Oct_1995/page/n28/mode/1up Her big mission is to recover the precious Blue Star (a glowing rock in a box), which leads to a Western shoot-out, a space-age motorcycle gang, and an unamusing Darth Vader-esque villain.
en Sarah Hull The Rough Guide to Boston New York, N.Y.; London; Delhi w:Rough Guides 2008 237 https://archive.org/details/roughguidetobost0000hull/page/237/mode/1up 9781843538608 Its self-billing as a multimedia sound-and-light show makes it sound grander than it actually is: wax figures are used to depict the hysteria, a Darth Vader-esque voice is used to narrate the show, and thanks to the museums circular seating arrangement, there are significant portions of the performance where you can’t actually see what’s happening.
Synonyms
en Darth Vaderian
en Vaderesque
en eponyms
en Star Wars