UPDATE! Playing Card Reveals First Real Look at Darth Vader from Rogue One!

Darth VaderOur friends from CartamundiUSA have just revealed on Twitter their Rogue One line of playing cards. Surprisingly one of the cards features Darth Vader – our first look at the Dark Lord from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story! Read on for the details…

 

 

So far, all we have seen from Vader was his back from the last official trailer released a few weeks ago. Knowing that Rogue One takes place immediately before A New Hope, everyone expected that Vader’s costume should be absolutely identical with the one they used in the original movie. But as it is with everything in the modern world, there are always some improvements that can be made to make the Sith Lord look …. better.

 

Here’s Cartamundi’s tweet with the new Rogue One playing decks:

 

 

 

 

Here’s a closer look:

 

Vader

 

As you can see, there are not many differences from the original costume, but the helmet looks to me more like the one from TESB. Of course we can’t jump to big conclusions just based on a playing card, but it’s always nice to know that this is the real thing and this is exactly how Vader will look in Rogue One. We contacted Cartamundi to ask them if it is possible that this is an old render, but they assured us that this is from the Rogue One Style Guide, so it’s absolutely legit!

 

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Darth Vader “A New Hope”

 

So what do you think? It’s nice that they kept the red eyes from A New Hope, but is it just me or does the helmet look more like the one they used in TESB? Tell us your thoughts in the comments below.

 

 

 

UPDATE!

 

Some of our readers noticed that in the Rogue One playing card image, Vader has his shoulder armor over his inner cloak as it was in Revenge of the Sith.

 

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Darth Vader “Revenge of the Sith”

 

Now comes the question, “does it really matter”? I don’t think so. Does he have to wear that armor the same way every single day? Who cares. And as I mentioned above, after all this is just a playing card. Pablo Hidalgo also shared his thoughts on the matter:

 

 

 

 

So while this is an official Rogue One render, still we can’t be sure that this will be his appearance in the movie. We will find the answer to that in just 105 days!

 

 

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83 thoughts on “UPDATE! Playing Card Reveals First Real Look at Darth Vader from Rogue One!

  • September 1, 2016 at 6:54 pm
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    “First real look”? As if Darth Vader would look different?

    • September 1, 2016 at 7:08 pm
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      Helmet is very ANH, amber lenses.

      • September 1, 2016 at 8:22 pm
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        THAT’S IT….the lenses!

    • September 1, 2016 at 7:57 pm
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      I imagine he has more than one set of clothes.

    • September 1, 2016 at 8:24 pm
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      Yep – surprised how Darth Vader-like he looks!

      *crickets*

  • September 1, 2016 at 6:55 pm
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    ANH Vader had his robe thing over his shoulder thinga

  • September 1, 2016 at 7:06 pm
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    The only difference between this and the ANH suit is that he wears the shoulder armor over the cloak. The gloves (which in ANH had a differently sewn lines), chest box and mask & lenses will all be ANH. Of course…it’s impossible for him to change clothes in anyway (sarcasm) even though he’s changed for every movie he’s in so far, even Jedi costume had some subtle difference from ESB

  • September 1, 2016 at 7:31 pm
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    Well, it’s not accurate to New Hope as had been claimed, but then neither is the costume at the end of Episode III, so it doesn’t really bother me.

  • September 1, 2016 at 7:40 pm
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    Maybe he wore the cloak over the armor in ANH because he knew that the Rebel Ship would be a bit chilly.

  • September 1, 2016 at 8:00 pm
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    Shoulder armor OVER cloak?!?!?! Boy I really hope someone gets fired for that blunder.

    • September 1, 2016 at 9:02 pm
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      Because Darth Vader dresses the same way every day until the Death Star explosion. Then he switches it up. Until he fights Luke on Bespin. Then he switches it up again. But only those three times. He never changed anything else about his armor except those three times.

      • September 1, 2016 at 11:17 pm
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        And then there’s his Rebels suit which is also different.

    • September 2, 2016 at 12:47 am
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      Are you an adult? People like you do more to ruin Star Wars than anybody on the set.

      • September 2, 2016 at 3:04 am
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        Listen, I was making a joke. Jeez. Does anyone watch the Simpsons around here?

  • September 1, 2016 at 8:25 pm
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    So cool, can’t wait!

  • September 1, 2016 at 8:36 pm
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    well, he looks like Darth Vader…

  • September 1, 2016 at 8:41 pm
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    I think…THINK the helmet is actually ANH style, but it’s got a polish more like the ESB paint job – that may be what you’re seeing there. More irritating to my eye is the high-polish paint job on the chest armor (and, yes, the fact that it’s over the inner cloak).

  • September 1, 2016 at 9:05 pm
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    it’s the god damned return of the Jedi armor! look at it… I knew they would screw it up.

    • September 1, 2016 at 10:24 pm
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      Challenge: Pick 3 random photos of yourself spanning about 3 years and see if you are wearing the same clothes in each photo.

      • September 1, 2016 at 11:36 pm
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        Vader is never allowed to change his armor out. Even though he’s done in pretty much every movie he is in. Sometimes mid-scenes.

    • September 2, 2016 at 12:46 am
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      OMG…just Shut. Up.

  • September 1, 2016 at 9:17 pm
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    Maybe Vader uses different armor now and then. This is the literal dumbest thing to worry about.

    • September 2, 2016 at 1:08 am
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      Well, he has to change into something new from time to time. Just imagine the smell if he didn’t.

        • September 2, 2016 at 4:33 pm
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          This scene has to be my favorite of all the spoofs of Star Wars.

      • September 4, 2016 at 12:10 pm
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        And Vader is concerned about how he smells … why exactly?

        In fact, maybe that’s how he chokes his victims (the raised hand is just for show…)

        • September 4, 2016 at 9:59 pm
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          Maybe it was Vader’s foul stench and not Grand Moff Tarkin’s. That’s such a Dark Side thing to do – let other people take the rap for your own noxious odours.

    • September 2, 2016 at 4:26 am
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      I won’t lie. I am a huge Star Wars nerd. I love it almost more than my wife. Have watched the entire saga countless times. Read the books as a kid. Have read some of the new books as an adult.

      Video games. Computer games. Board games. Miniature games. RPG Systems. I own’m all.

      Never really noticed Vader’s costume change from movie to movie before. Not until someone started freaking out about it here. Funny.

      • September 2, 2016 at 3:14 pm
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        Same here. I was too busy enjoying the movie and story. It’s weird how people start focusing on everything but that.

  • September 1, 2016 at 9:23 pm
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    As far as the helmet is concerned, to my eyes it’s ANH all the way: dark red-tinted lenses, the more pronounced/harder edges, less polished appearance and the tell-tale darker left tusk.

    • September 1, 2016 at 9:34 pm
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      Brian Muir did the helmet. So you can blame the guy who made the original 1977 helmet used in the movie by telling him his work is wrong. 😉

      • September 1, 2016 at 10:45 pm
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        Except it’s a sculpt he did 40 years ago, recreated by, if rumors are accurate, modifying a screen-used RotJ Vader. I am certainly expecting some little differences.

        • September 1, 2016 at 11:34 pm
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          The rivet/scratch counters will of course find the differences, there are differences in the context of the same films if you look hard enough.

          • September 2, 2016 at 8:29 pm
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            Not in ANH 🙂 Yes, multiple buckets were made, but there’s no evidence anything other than the one was actually on film.

      • September 2, 2016 at 3:17 am
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        Uh…if you actually care to read my comment I’m saying they got it right.

  • September 1, 2016 at 9:28 pm
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    Lucasfilm’s Pablo chimes in.

    • September 1, 2016 at 10:44 pm
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      With his usual nothing.

      • September 2, 2016 at 12:15 am
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        With his usual, “You haven’t seen shit, so don’t say shit” good advice.

        • September 2, 2016 at 12:49 am
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          Solid advice that so many choose to ignore….

        • September 2, 2016 at 8:29 pm
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          Sure, I just fail to see the point of his twitter thingy when he never says anything at all. NOT having a story group guy on Twitter would be equally as effective as whatever Pablo adds to the discussion.

          • September 2, 2016 at 10:13 pm
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            You must not pay much attention because he says plenty of great stuff, but he never talks about future stuff, which you shouldn’t want him to.

            It’s kind of amazing how some Star Wars fans jump to instant conclusions about the movie just from an out of context shot in a trailer or in some promotional material. Telling them to “wait and find out” isn’t that much of a stretch. Indeed, some of them should be able to figure that out themselves.
            But if you have a question about something from the past or some behind the scenes stuff, he is a treasure trove of tidbits. He adds more than anyone here or anyone online.

          • September 4, 2016 at 1:12 am
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            Cranky is here to troll while pretending to be a community leader.

            He only has positive things to say, about anything or to anyone, once every couple of days, to give the impression that he isn’t here just to start shit and antagonize people with his arbitrary comments.

          • September 4, 2016 at 4:16 am
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            I just thought he was cranky

          • September 7, 2016 at 5:04 am
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            There’s a method to his pathological behaviors.

      • September 2, 2016 at 12:45 am
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        Well you’re always such a barrel of insight on everything, what SHOULD he say?

        • September 2, 2016 at 8:31 pm
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          Nothing, absolutely nothing. He historically does nothing to address direct questions, instead answering with vagueness and evasions, so why bother saying anything at all?

  • September 1, 2016 at 9:41 pm
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    Points I want to make. One, the rumor is that this movie ends 10 minutes (I think people are taking it far too literally, but who knows?) before ANH. But how do we know that? It could be days or weeks before ANH when R1 ends. 2) I am wondering if Vader doesn’t start with the chest armor like this pic and by the very end of the movie he had the inner cloak over the armor? Maybe he changes outfits because of some wound or whatnot and maybe that’s what that (appears to be) a bacta like tank is all about from the first teaser, maybe he is in it? And as I posted before, Lucasfilm’s Pablo Hidalg0 chimed in about this very issue.

  • September 1, 2016 at 11:12 pm
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    Admit it. It’s much cooler with the chest armor all visible!

    • September 1, 2016 at 11:31 pm
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      It’s my favorite look for Vader.

    • September 1, 2016 at 11:31 pm
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      Exactly, i’m actually very happy about that, people will bitch about how it is not exactly the way it was in ANH, but c’mon it’s fucking 2016 the suit must have better quality.

  • September 1, 2016 at 11:37 pm
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    Vader’s armor has had differences across all four of his previous film appearances, virtually all have been minor.
    This detail is not that important.

  • September 1, 2016 at 11:44 pm
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    So that’s why they had the extensive re-shoots ! They f#’d up his inner cloak !

  • September 1, 2016 at 11:46 pm
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    Cape-gate 2016?

  • September 2, 2016 at 12:24 am
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    It looks to me like on the trading card, that they tucked the cape under the helmet. Also, his chest box looks like the way my mother-in-law would hang a shelf on the wall., completely crooked.

  • September 2, 2016 at 1:03 am
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    If Vader didn’t have his outfit done differently from movie to movie then it wouldn’t be Star Wars. It’s inconsistency is intrinsic to its consistency. I hope that Vader’s look isn’t a complete match. The fun is in spotting the changes and using your imagination to rationalize why he looks different.

    • September 2, 2016 at 3:03 am
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      Mine is fluctuations in the space-time continuum!

      • September 4, 2016 at 11:42 am
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        Hahahaha mine is that he woke up on the wrong side of his sleeping pod and was in a hurry.

    • September 2, 2016 at 3:07 am
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      I don’t think anyone can sum this up better than you just did with that clip.

  • September 2, 2016 at 1:18 am
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    Oh man he looks great!

  • September 2, 2016 at 3:26 am
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    It better be corrected in the final movie.

    • September 2, 2016 at 3:54 am
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      As if they didn’t do it on purpose for whatever reason, they sure as hell know what ANH Vader looks like, look at the amberish lenses. I have a hunch he’s gonna have both over and under in the movie.

      • September 2, 2016 at 4:29 am
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        Maybe. Pablo Hidalgo seems to like that kind of thing.

  • September 2, 2016 at 4:31 am
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    yup. That looks like Darth Vader. Move Along- Move Along.

  • September 2, 2016 at 4:47 am
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    “Should I rent a billboard” LOL!

  • September 2, 2016 at 5:17 am
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    In the second image, it looks to me like his cape is super neatly draped along the shoulder plate — the shoulder plate is not over the cape.

  • September 2, 2016 at 5:21 am
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    But what the heck is up with his chest box? Not only is it cooked, but it looks strange.

    • September 2, 2016 at 3:51 pm
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      He’s likely sitting.

  • September 2, 2016 at 6:31 am
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    I want to see him with different collors, different armors, she shoud wash this armor sometimes

  • September 2, 2016 at 11:32 am
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    RotS Vader is GOAT

    • September 2, 2016 at 6:47 pm
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      Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

  • September 2, 2016 at 4:27 pm
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    The action figure for Rogue one has the cloak over the armor. It’s going to be fine. At the end of the day it’s Vader regardless. I’m thrilled.

    • September 2, 2016 at 4:53 pm
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      I am betting the two different look Vader theory for R1 is true.

      • September 3, 2016 at 7:38 am
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        Expect at least a few idiots to make up theories about Vader’s clone, Vaader.

  • September 3, 2016 at 3:03 am
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    go figure, he looks like Vader

  • September 5, 2016 at 12:32 am
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    This is slightly off topic, but the Rogue One stormtroopers’ armor is slightly different than that of ANH -and no one seems up in arms about it. I’m a stormtrooper costumer and enthusiast, but in the end, these are decisions they made based on greater comfort for the extras. Fair enough.

  • September 5, 2016 at 8:50 pm
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    Does it bother anyone that for the Revenge of the Sith image they used, it is flipped the other way around? I mean…They didn’t use the actual shot, they used the mirrored version.

    It bothers me a bit…But, just a little bit.

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