document_title: MTV Splitsvilla

question_text: who is the winner of splitsvilla 10 wikipedia

text: MTV Splitsvilla

text: Summary[edit]

text: The reality show revolves around young boys and girls trying to secure a place in "Splitsvilla", a villa. It is a "hunt for love" show where boys and girls compete in tasks to stay in the competition and mingle with the contestants to find love. In the end, one boy and one girl are crowned the winners of Splitsvilla, as a couple. There are a lot of fights, jealousy, hatred, friendship, backstabbing, and love when all these wild contestants get together. There are also a King and Queen who have dumping powers.

text: Seasons overview[edit]

text:
Season
Location
Hosted By
Start Date
Finish Date
Winner(s)

1
Goa
Rannvijay Singha
20 June 2008
13 October 2008
Vishal Karwal
Shraddha Haribhai

2
Goa
Nikhil Chinappa
7 March 2009
14 June 2009
Siddharth Bhardwaj
Sakshi Pradhan

3
Pattaya
Nikhil Chinappa and Deepti Gujral
19 December 2009
13 March 2010
Parag Chadda
Riya Bamniyal

4
Dubai
Nikhil Chinappa
3 December 2010
25 March 2011
Dushyant Yadav
Priya Shinde

5
Jim Corbett National Park
Nikhil Chinappa
7 April 2012
24 June 2012
Paras Chhabra
Akanksha Popli

6
Trivandrum
Nikhil Chinappa and Sherlyn Chopra
25 May 2013
23 August 2013
Paramvir Singh
Mandy Debbarma

7
Jaipur
Nikhil Chinappa and Sunny Leone
21 June 2014
25 October 2014
Mayank Gandhi
Scarlett Rose

8
Goa
Rannvijay Singha and Sunny Leone
4 July 2015
28 November 2015
Prince Narula
Anuki Tchokhonelidze

9
Puducherry
Rannvijay Singha and Sunny Leone
11 June 2016
8 October 2016
Gurmeet Singh Rehal
Kavya Khurana

10
Jim Corbett National Park
Rannvijay Singha and Sunny Leone
23 July 2017
10 December 2017
Baseer Ali
Naina Singh

text: Popular Contestants[edit]

text: People who have come on MTV Splitsvilla get a lot of visibility and a few of them have moved on to do many popular shows and films after the show. Below are the most popular contestants and what they have done after participating in the show.

text: Vishal Karwal - He was seen participating Season 1 (2008) and went on to do many hit TV soap operas. His popular show was Rangrasiya which starred Sanaya Irani and also was a contestant in Bigg Boss 6.

text: Sakshi Pradhan - She was seen participating in Season 2 (2009) and later in Bigg Boss 4.

text: Nalini Negi - She was seen participating in Season 2 (2009) and was later known for her role in Naamkarann.

text: Mohit Malhotra - He was seen participating in Season 2 (2009) and made his acting debut with Mitwa Phool Kamal Ke. He also was seen in Ragini Khanna's Sasural Genda Phool and Nia Sharma's Jamai Raja.

text: Suyyash Rai - He was seen participating Season 2 (2009) and landed his first TV show with Ekta Kapoor's Pyaar Kii Ye Ek Kahaani. He later participated in Bigg Boss 9 along with his wife Kishwar Merchant.

text: Priya Shinde - She was seen participating in Season 4 (2011). Later she was seen in many popular shows like Naagin, Ye Hai Mohabbatein and Tashan-e-Ishq.

text: Aly Goni - He was seen participating in Season 5 (2012). Later he was known as his role in Ye Hai Mohabbatein as Romi. He was also known as the ex-boyfriend of Bigg Boss 8 contestant Natasa Stankovic.

text: Arjit Taneja - He was seen participating in Season 6 (2013) and was later seen as Purab in Kumkum Bhagya.

text: Prince Narula - Prince Narula became the winner of Season 8 (2015). After the show he went to participate in Bigg Boss 9 and became the winner.

text: Varun Sood became a popular contestant during Season 9(2016). After the show he became a VJ for MTV India and made an acting debut with an episodic in MTV Big F season 2.

text: Priyank Sharma - He was seen participating in Season 10 (2017). After he went on to participate in Bigg Boss 11 and has often been in the news about his friendship with Hina Khan & Vikas Gupta.

text: Season 1[edit]

text: The season was hosted by VJ Rannvijay Singha, of MTV Roadies Season 1. In this season, two boys, Varun Saini, a former participant of MTV Roadies 5 and Vishal Karwal, of MTV Roadies 4, find their ultimate girl of their dreams by choosing from 20 girls by putting them through grueling tests. The girls battle stress, politics, exhaustion, fear, bitchiness and other such emotional challenges to be the chosen one and avoid humiliation of getting dumped. The girl who is dumped leaves the show. In this manner, a winner is selected.

text: Girls in order of

text:
Shraddha Haribhai - 1st winner
Heena Pardasani - dumped by boys
Prianca Sharma - dumped by boys
Ritu Kochhar - dumped by friends of Vishal and Varun
Bianca Mendonca - dumped by boys
Bosky Bhatia - dumped by girls of the villa
Hannah - dumped by boys
Yamini Batra- dumped by boys
Minakshi Khanduri - dumped by girls of the villa
Shruti Rawat - dumped by Vishal
Anubha - dumped by Varun
Annie Krislinzki - dumped because of betrayal
Hoorzan Irani - dumped by boys
Aarti Thaokar - dumped by boss
Vani - dumped by boys
Simran Dhawan - dumped by boys
Richa Singh - dumped by boys
Akanksha - dumped by Varun
Kanika Narbar - dumped by Vishal
Sneh Richa - dumped by Vishal

text: Boys

text:
Vishal Karwal - winner
Varun Saini - eliminated
Aakash sharma - eliminated

text: Of the final three (Shraddha, Heena and Prianca), Shraddha emerged as the winner and became the queen of Splitsvilla. Shraddha then goes on to choose Vishal. However, the decision wasn't finally Shraddha's. Vishal, the champion was challenged by Varun, the challenger. They had to fight over three contests; the winner of two out of the three was to be declared the ultimate winner. Vishal came out a clear winner by winning the first two in which the first victory saw Vishal beating Varun in Varun's territory.

text: Winners Shraddha and Vishal got to host a weekly show on MTV India, MTV Couplesutra,s a 10-minute show in which they discuss one "reel-life"[clarification needed] couple, one real-life couple and one break-up. Prianca joined an acting school in Mumbai. Bianca and Simran appeared in Bechaare Zameen Par (a take on the Bollywood film Taare Zameen Par which was aired on MTV). Vishal played the male lead in the show Rishtonse Badi Pratha, which aired on Colors TV and was also seen in Bigg Boss 6. He played the main antagonist in Sanaya Irani's Rangrasiya.

text: Season 2[edit]

text: Season 2 of Splitsvilla had ten boys and ten girls, selected from auditions. This season was hosted by MTV India VJ Nikhil Chinappa.

text:
BOYS

Name
Dumped by
Notes
Status

Siddharth Bhardwaj
NONE
WINNER of Mtv Splitsvilla
Won by the majority of votes from the eliminated contestants in the finale

WINNER

Mohit Malhotra
NONE
Runner Up
Lost to Siddharth in the challenge round.

ELIMINATED

Paramvir Singh
Siddharth
9th boy to get dumped
DUMPED

Bhav Aman Singh
Joanna
1st dumped, Re-entered in place of Meherzaan B Mazda, 8th boy to get dumped
DUMPED

Varun Jhamb
Joanna
2nd boy dumped , Re-entered, 7th boy to get dumped
DUMPED

Rahul Dwivedi
Joanna
6th boy to get dumped
DUMPED

Aman Sharma
Joanna
5th boy to get dumped
DUMPED

Meherzan Mazda
None
Quit because of illness.
WITHDREW

Ashutosh Kataria
Joanna
4th boy to get dumped.
DUMPED

Suyyash Rai
Joanna
3rd dumped by Joanna.
DUMPED

text:
GIRLS

Name
Dumped by
Notes
Status

Sakshi Pradhan
NONE
WINNER of Mtv Splitsvilla
Won by the majority of votes from the eliminated contestants in the finale

WINNER

Joanna Magee
NONE
Runner Up
Lost to Sakshi in the challenge round.

ELIMINATED

Stuti Nag
Siddarth
9th girl to get dumped
DUMPED

Ritika Nainta
Siddarth
8th girl to get dumped
DUMPED

Sakshi Bhayana
Siddarth
2nd dumped by Mohit, Re-entered, 7th girl to get dumped
DUMPED

Nalini Negi
Siddarth
6th girl to get dumped
DUMPED

Shikha Taneja
Siddarth
5th girl to get dumped
DUMPED

Cheshta Bhagat
Mohit
4th girl to get dumped.
DUMPED

Meenakshi Negi
Mohit
3rd girl to get dumped.
DUMPED

Swaagata G Shah
Mohit
1st girl to get dumped
DUMPED

text: Season 3[edit]

text: The winning couple of Season 3 wins Rs. 5 lakh and a chance to be a VJ on MTV. Season 3 had 10 singles (5 boys and 5 girls) and 5 unmarried couples. The show is hosted by VJ's Nikhil Chinapa and Deepti Gujral. The game has gone international for the first time in Splitsvilla history. It is aired on every Saturday at 7:00 p.m on MTV. The King and Queen are challenged every week. The king and queen stay in the villa this year but in special chambers known as the 'King and the Queen chambers'.

text: 5 Single Boys

text:
Vikas Mehandroo (King for episodes 9, 11, runner-up)
Sufzal Saleem (4th dumped by Niharika, returned in the finale but lost)
Raj Kumar (6th dumped by Pavitra)
Ramanjot Singh (5th dumped by Pavitra)
Pulkit Khanna (1st dumped by Pooja)

text: 5 Single Girls

text:
Kriti Sharma (4th dumped by Mahip, returned in the finale, runner-up)
Pavitra Punia (Queen for episodes 5, 6, 10)
Monika Maryjane (11th dumped)
Nirmal Sandhoo (5th dumped by Mahip)
Shivkiran Bajwa (3rd dumped by Arjun)

text: 5 Couples

text:
Riya Bamniyal (7th dumped by Niharika, returned, Queen for episodes 9, 11) & Parag Chadha (3rd dumped by Pooja, returned in the finale) (The Ultimate King & Queen, Winners)
Niharika Kareer (9th dumped by Vikas, Queen for episodes 4, 7, 8) & Mahip Marwah (11th dumped, King for episodes 4, 5, 6, 10)
Pooja Amin (voluntarily dumped, Queen for episodes 1, 2, 3) & Arjun Kumar Mahendroo (8th dumped by Niharika, King for episodes 1, 2, 3)
Ruchi Arora (2nd dumped by Arjun) & Ashish Agarwal (voluntarily dumped, King for episodes 7,8)
Priyanka Sharma (1st dumped by Arjun) & Hemant Kaur (voluntarily dumped)

text: Season 4[edit]

text: The Season 4 of Splitsvilla had 4 boys and 13 girls selected from auditions. The first episode of the show was aired on 3 December 2010. This season was hosted by MTV India VJ Nikhil Chinapa.

text: Format The girls were divided into 4 groups(Qabilah) which were headed by each boy.

text:
KINGS
Status

Dushyant Yadav
WINNER

Manish Khanna
ELIMINATED

Saiprasad Gundewar
ELIMINATED

Ashish Choudhary
DUMPED by Manish

text:
DUSHYANT'S QABILAH

Girls
Dumped by
Notes
Status

Priya Shinde
None
1st, 2nd, 4th, 10th episode's Queen. Awarded as Master Mind of Splitsvilla 4
WINNER

Aakriti Bhamri
Ashish
3rd, 5th, 7th, 10th episode's Queen. 11th dumped by Ashish
DUMPED

Ruchita Rao
Ashish
3rd dumped by Ashish, Returned, 5th dumped by Ashish
DUMPED

text:
SAI'S QABILAH

Girls
Dumped by
Notes
Status

Tina Thapa
None
6th episode's Queen RUNNERS UP
ELIMINATED

Yashita Sahu
Sai
6th episode's Queen. 1st dumped by Manish,returned, 12th dumped by Sai
DUMPED

Sanjana Bhatia
Dushyant
3rd, 5th, 6th episode's Queen. 9th dumped by Dushyant
DUMPED

text:
MANISH'S QABILAH

Girls
Dumped by
Notes
Status

Pooja Bisht
None
8th, 9th, 12th episode's Queen
ELIMINATED

Payal Thapa
Dushyant
2nd, 4th episode's Queen. 8th dumped by Dushyant
DUMPED

Dimple Chawla
Ashish
1st, 2nd, 4th episode's Queen. 7th dumped by Ashish
DUMPED

text:
ASHISH'S QABILAH

Girls
Dumped by
Notes
Status

Archana Choudhary
Manish
1st, 2nd, 4th, 11th episode's Queen. 13th dumped by Manish
DUMPED

Sohfi
Dushyant
5th, 7th episode's Queen. 2nd dumped by Manish,returned, 10th Dumped by Dushyant
DUMPED

Vartika Kaul
Sai
3rd, 5th episode's Queen. 6th dumped by Sai
DUMPED

Srishttii Gupta
Manish
3rd episode's Queen. 4th dumped by Manish
DUMPED

text: FINALE

text: A roulette game based on luck was played between the three pairs of finalists: Manish and Pooja, Sai and Tina, and Dushyant and Priya. This first task was won by Sai and Tina who went directly to the finals. The second task was between Manish-Pooja and Dushyant-Priya on who would join Sai-Tina for the final task. The final task was an obstacle task and was won by Dushyant-Priya who next joined Sai-Tina in the final face-off. The final task was won by Dushyant-Priya, and hence were declared the winners of Splitsvilla 4.

text: Season 5[edit]

text: The season began at the beginning of April, with 9 girls and 9 boys. Contrary to the last two seasons, this season had been set in Uttarakhand, India. The villa is located somewhere outside the Jim Corbett National Park. Up till now, all tasks had been set in the national park. The season was hosted by Nikhil Chinapa. The season finale was aired on 24 June 2012 on MTV India. The final competition to win Splitsvilla 5 title was fought between Vroon and Jasmine as a couple and Paras and Akanksha as the other. Paras and Akanksha went on to win the title of Splitsvilla 5- Love Gone Wild.

text:
Girls

Girls
Dumped by
Notes
Status

Akanksha Popli
None
Earlier dumped by Vroon, came back and paired with Paras to defeat Vroon and Jasmine in finals.
WINNER

Jasmine Avasia
None
Coupled with Vroon and lost to Paras and Akanksha in final
Runner Up

Rupa Khurana
None
Defeated Shivangini, the on time queen to become queen and got defeated in semi-final
2nd Runner Up

Vidushi Khanna
Vroon
Dumped by Vroon over Akanksha and Jasmine in Top4, earlier Avishka Kashyap exchanged with her to get dump.
DUMPED

Shivangini Rajyalaxmi Rana
3 votes
Became the queen lost to Rupa to loose throne and then dumped by boys of villa.
DUMPED

Tasneem Sheikh
Vroon
Dumped by Vroon over Shivangini.
DUMPED

Swati Bakshi
Vroon
Dumped by Vroon over Tasneem.
DUMPED

Mandakranta Debbarma a.k.a. Mandy
Shivangni
Competed for Queen with Shivangini, then dumped by Shivangini
DUMPED

Avishka Kashyap
Vroon
Dumped by Vroon in first episode and then came back then gave her place to Vidhushi to get dumped.
DUMPED

text:
Boys

Boys
Dumped by
Notes
Status

Paras Chhabra
None
Earlier dumped by Shivangini, came back and then paired with Akanksha to defeat Vroon and Jasmine in final
WINNER

Vroon Sharma
None
Coupled with Jasmine and lost to Paras and Akanksha in final
Runner Up

Nitin Chauhaan
None
Coupled with Rupa, and lost to Paras and Akanksha in semi-final
2nd Runner Up

Rishabh Sinha
Rupa
Popularly known as Junglee on the show,competed with Vroon for throne,dumped by Rupa over Nitin and Paras.
DUMPED

Rishipal Gulati a.k.a. Rishi
Rupa
Earlier dumped by Shivangini, came back and then dumped by Rupa, over Rishabh.
DUMPED

Ali Goni
Rupa
Dumped by Rupa over Rishi
DUMPED

Nikhil Nagpal
Rupa
Dumped by Rupa over Nitin.
DUMPED

Saif Mir
Rupa
Dumped by Shivangini
DUMPED

Sikander Dhawan
Shivangni
Dumped by Shivangini
DUMPED

text: Season 6[edit]

text: This season was premiered on 25 May and was hosted by Sherlyn Chopra and Nikhil Chinappa. It is tagged as "Hot as Hell". There were 9 males and 9 females in Splitsvilla 6. This season also had a review show for each episode titled "Sexy Sana" hosted by Sana Saeed. This season featured few true love couples like 'Subuhi and Gaurav', 'Purvee and Nawab', and 'Shatakshi and Prabhjot'. Nawab was called the chicken legs and Purvee was awarded the title 'master mind of splitsvilla'.

text:
Girls/Princesses

Name
Notes
Status

Mandy Debbarma
(The Ultimate Queen)
WINNER

Shatakshi Joshi
Runner up
RUNNER UP

Subuhi Joshi
2nd Runner-up
2nd Runner-up

Priyanka Chauhan
(Dumped by the Splitsvillians)
DUMPED

Pari Sahni
(Dumped - dumped by Param)
DUMPED

Ruby Dahiya
(Dumped - dumped by Param)
DUMPED

Peenaz Ahmed
(Dumped - dumped by Param)
DUMPED

Priyanka Chandel
(Dumped - dumped by Nitin)
DUMPED

Purvee Singh
(Dumped - dumped by Param)
DUMPED

text:
Boys/Warriors

Name
Notes
Status

Paramvir Singh
Winner - The Ultimate King
WINNER

Prabhjot Sahota
Runner Up
RUNNER UP

Gaurav Chopra
2nd Runner-up
2nd Runner-up

Nitin Sharma
(Dumped by Mandy)
DUMPED

Aman Dev Pahwa
(Dumped - dumped by Mandy)
DUMPED

Ashwini Koul
(re-entered and Dumped by the Splitsvillians)
DUMPED

Parichay Sharma
(Dumped - dumped by Mandy)
DUMPED

Arjit Taneja
(Dumped - dumped by Mandy)
DUMPED

Nawab Faizi
(Dumped - dumped by Ruby)
DUMPED

Aakash sharma
(Dumped - dumped by Priyanka)
DUMPED

text: Season 7[edit]

text: Season 7 started in June, 2014 and ended on 25 October 2014. Mayank Gandhi and Scarlett rose won this season. The show was hosted by Sunny Leone and Nikhil Chinappa.

text: There were 7 males and 20 females. This season's set was Samode Palace, situated in Jaipur, India. In this season, the audience got to see old splitsvilla contestants like - Ashwini Koul and Rishabh Sinha. Ashwini chose to quit the game after his lady love Sanjana decides to leave the show due to an injury sustained during a task. Rishabh was banished by queen Khushi. There were 2 kings and 2 queens in this season. King - Shravan Reddy and Abhishek Malik. Queen - Khusi Bhat and Dana Vana. This season of splitsvilla was amongst the most popular seasons as there was love triangle, emmosity, hatred. Just like a fairy tale.There were 2 female (dana vana and ranji) and one male (Yazir Khan) wildcard entry through MTV Battleground.[2] There were lots of love couples in this season than in the rest of the season like 'Rashi and Mayank gandhi', 'Ayaz and Priyanka', 'Khushi and Abhishek', 'Ashwini and sanjana'. Mayank pawar also titled as 'Mr.Asia' was also seen participating in the show. His elimination brought tears in sunny leone's eyes. and dumping of Rashi Sharma (when Mayank gandhi ties the protection thread around her hand) and Ayaz Ahmed (when he proposes to Priyanka) brought tears in everyone's eyes. Scarlett Rose and Mayank Gandhi Later won the show competing against Abhishek and Khushi. This season also featured a brother-sister relation between Abhishek and Scarlett, where abhishek felt so bad when his love (Khushi) had to fight against his sister (Scarlett) in the finale.There was a situation in which one of the contestant Shravan throws some thing on Sunny leone out of anger on the other splitsvillans.

text:
Girls/Princesses

Name
Notes
Status

Scarlett Rose
(The Ultimate Queen)
WINNER

Khushi Bhat
(1st Runner up)
RUNNER UP

Dana Vana
(2nd Runner up )
RUNNER UP

Apurva Singh
(3rd Runner up)
RUNNER UP

Damanjit Grewal
Eliminated
ELIMINATED

Etansha Gupta
Eliminated
ELIMINATED

Heena Koranga
ELIMINATED
ELIMINATED

Jacqueline Ledli
ELIMINATED
ELIMINATED

Kriti Lohia
Dumped by Shravan Reddy
ELIMINATED

Mukti Chopra
Dumped by Shravan Reddy
ELIMINATED

Palak Purswani
Dumped by Shravan Reddy
ELIMINATED

Pooja Mishra
Dumped by Shravan Reddy
ELIMINATED

Priyanka Purohit
Eliminated
ELIMINATED

Rashi Sharma
Dumped by Abhishek Malik
ELIMINATED

Rosemary Fernandes
Eliminated
ELIMINATED

Sanjana Ganesan
Quit due to injury
ELIMINATED

Savita Dokwal
Dumped by Shravan Reddy
ELIMINATED

Simran Mahendrawal
Dumped by Shravan Reddy
ELIMINATED

Snoove Das
Eliminated
ELIMINATED

Sonali Katyal
Dumped by Shravan Reddy
ELIMINATED

Unnati Pathak
Dumped by Shravan Reddy
ELIMINATED

Ranji Chopra
Eliminated
ELIMINATED

text:
Boys/Warriors

Celebrity Boys

Name
Notes
Status

Mayank Gandhi
Winner - The Ultimate King
WINNER

Abhishek Malik
1st Runner Up
RUNNER UP

Shravan Reddy
2nd Runner Up
RUNNER UP

Yasir Khan
3rd Runner Up
RUNNER UP

Ayaz Ahmed
Dumped by Khushi Bhat
ELIMINATED

Mayank Pawar
Dumped by Dana Vana
ELIMINATED

Rishabh Sinha
Dumped by Khushi Bhat
ELIMINATED

Ashwini Koul
Quit
ELIMINATED

text: Season 8[edit]

text: Season 8 was hosted by Rannvijay Singha from MTV Roadies and Sunny Leone. Nikhil Chinapa[3] was replaced by Rannvijay Singha.[4] Karan Kundra too appeared on the show to host a couple of segments. This season saw the presence of 14 girls and 8 boys from the auditions, and 8 celebrity boys. Subuhi Joshi from Splitsvilla 6 re-entered the show as a queen. The season's theme was "What Women Love". The season was talked about due to two contestants Karishma and Gaurav being confident and indicating that they had bisexual tones.[5] The season also featured couples like 'Sana and Utkarsh' that seemingly displayed a real connection. The non-celebrity boys were dumped within 2–3 days of their existence and shortly, so were girls who had connections with them. Gaurav had to quit due to illness. After the initial dumpings, we can see that even the celebrity boys started infighting and the whole villa was against Karishma and Zaan.

text: Tbe primary rule of the show is that those who are already in a relationship outside the villa are not permitted to participate. Since two contestants Ish and Viren broke this rule, they were eliminated.

text:
Girls/Princesses

Notes
Status

Anuki Tchokhonelidze
Winner - The Ultimate Queen
WINNER

Sana Sayyad
(1st Runner up)
RUNNER UP

Karishma Talwar
(2nd Runner up )
RUNNER UP

Subuhi Joshi
(Ex-Queen of Splitsvilla and later Lost to Karishma talwar and Zaan khan in underwater task and eliminated)
ELIMINATED

Sophiya Singh
(Eliminated as her partner Yash Pandit quit the show)
ELIMINATED

Priyanka Bora
(Dumped by Karishma Talwar)
ELIMINATED

Mia Lakra
(Dumped by Paras Chhabra)
ELIMINATED

Vanessa D'Souza
Dumped by Subuhi Joshi
ELIMINATED

Reshu Singh
Dumped by Subuhi Joshi
ELIMINATED

Vaidehi Srivastava
Eliminated for Paras Chabra, him to become the king
ELIMINATED

Sharika Raina
Dumped by Utkarsh Gupta, eliminated 6th on 12 July 2015
ELIMINATED

Ashmita Singh
Dumped by Utkarsh Gupta, eliminated 5th on 12 July 2015
ELIMINATED

Veronika Rajput
Dumped by Utkarsh Gupta, eliminated 4th on 12 July 2015
ELIMINATED

Enakshi Sharma
Dumped by Zaan Khan, eliminated 3rd on 11 July 2015
ELIMINATED

Alisha Sharma
Dumped by Prathamesh Maulingker, eliminated 1st on 11 July 2015
ELIMINATED

Harshita Kashyap
Dumped by Prince Narula, eliminated 2nd on 11 July 2015
ELIMINATED

text:
Boys/Warriors

Celebrity Boys

Notes
Status

Prince Narula
Winner - The Ultimate King
WINNER

Utkarsh Gupta
1st Runner Up
RUNNER UP

Zaan Khan
2nd Runner Up
RUNNER UP

Yash Pandit
Banished and quit later due to issues with Sophiya Singh
ELIMINATED

Ishaan Chhibber
Banished and later Lost to Zaan Khan and Karishma Talwar in underwater task and eliminated
ELIMINATED

Paras Chhabra
ex- KING of Splitsvilla, Banished by Prince Narula, Lost the banished boys competition
ELIMINATED

Amaad Mintoo
Banished, Lost the banished boys competition
ELIMINATED

Viren Singh Rathore
Quit due to violation of rule: Being Committed outside Splitsvilla
ELIMINATED

Regular Boys

Gaurav Arora
Quit due to illness
ELIMINATED

Ish Thakkar
Quit due to violation of rule: Being Committed outside Splitsvilla
ELIMINATED

Abhishek Yennam
Dumped by Subuhi Joshi
ELIMINATED

Abhijit Dutta
Dumped by Subuhi Joshi
ELIMINATED

Prathamesh Maulingkar
Dumped by Subuhi Joshi
ELIMINATED

Ravi Shukla
Dumped by Subuhi Joshi
ELIMINATED

Shivam Babbar
Dumped by Subuhi Joshi
ELIMINATED

Nishant V Anand
Dumped by Subuhi Joshi
ELIMINATED

text: Season 9[edit]

text: Season 9 was hosted by Rannvijay Singha from MTV Roadies and Sunny Leone. The show telecasted its first trailer On May 15, 2016 and preimered its first episode on June 11, 2016. This season had 15 celebrity boys and 6 girls with the theme "Where Women Rule" on the show. There was no King until the final competition and the boys were not given the power to dump a girl. 3 Princesses and 2 warriors later joined as wild card entries. During the course of the show, a number of couples emerged with a seemingly genuine connection such as 'Kavya and Gurmeet', 'Rajnandini and Archie', 'Varun and Martina' , and 'ShreeRadhe and Karan'. Martina was the first queen (The fiery queen), followed by Rajnandini (The evil queen) and then Kavya (The bold queen). Fights and arguments erupted between Martina and Rajnandini, Ayaan and Nikhil, Kavya and Rajnandini, Isha and Mayuri, Karan Chabra and Nikhil, and Mayuri and Karan Khanna. There even appeared to be a love triangle between Shree Radhe, Karan Khanna and Karan Chabra. This Season had its Finale on October 8, 2016 and was won by Gurmeet Singh Rehal and Kavya Khurana.[6]

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Girls/Princesses

Notes
Status

Kavya Khurana
Winner (Ultimate Queen)
WINNER

Martina Thaiyan
1st Runner Up
RUNNER UP

Rajnandini Borpuzori
2nd Runner Up
RUNNER UP

Mia Lakra
(Eliminated 6th after losing to Varun and Martina at Semi-Finals)(3rd Runner Up)
ELIMINATED

Shreeradhe Khanduja
(Eliminated 5th as no one paired up with her for the Semi-Finale Task) (4th Runner Up)
ELIMINATED

Isha Anand Sharma
(Dumped by Kavya and Rajnandini)(Eliminated 4th)(Semi-finalist)
ELIMINATED

Priya Haridas
(Dumped by Rajnandini)(eliminated 3rd)
ELIMINATED

Mayuri Das
(Dumped by Martina) (eliminated 2nd)
ELIMINATED

Niharika Ghai
(Evicted after losing to Rajnandini) (eliminated 1st)
ELIMINATED

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Boys/Warriors

Notes
Status

Gurmeet Singh Rehal
Winner - The Ultimate King
WINNER

Varun Sood
1st Runner Up
RUNNER UP

Pratik Kalsi
2nd Runner Up
RUNNER UP

Nikhil Sachdeva
(Eliminated 13th as no one paired up with him at the Finale)(3rd Runner Up)
RUNNER UP

Karan Khanna
(Dumped by Kavya)(Eliminated 12th)(Semi-finalist)
ELIMINATED

Abhishek Singh Pathania
(Dumped by Kavya and Rajnandini)(Eliminated 11th)(Semi-finalist)
ELIMINATED

Ayan Khan
(Dumped by Rajnandini)(eliminated 10th)
ELIMINATED

Zain Abideen
(Quit for saving Priya from elimination)(eliminated 9th)
ELIMINATED

Karan Chhabra
(Dumped by Martina)(eliminated 8rd)
ELIMINATED

Aditya Singh Rajput
(Dumped By Martina)(eliminated 7th)
ELIMINATED

Akhil Kataria
(Dumped by Martina)(eliminated 6th)
ELIMINATED

Anuranjan Awasthi
(Dumped by Martina)(eliminated 5th)
ELIMINATED

Milind Manek
(Dumped by Martina)(eliminated 4th)
ELIMINATED

Harshit Tomar
(Dumped by Martina)(eliminated 4th)
ELIMINATED

Shubhashish
(Dumped by Martina)(eliminated 3rd)
ELIMINATED

Ishaan Singh Manhas
(Dumped by the princesses)(eliminated 2nd)
ELIMINATED

Sushant Mohindru
(Dumped by the princesses)(eliminated 1st)
ELIMINATED

text: Season 10[edit]

text: MTV Spiltvilla Season 10 started on 23 July 2017. It was hosted by Sunny Leone and Rannvijay Singha. The show consisted of 10 boys (now 11) and 10 girls who came to find true love. The theme of this season was Experiment of love, i.e. experimenting and testing whether love can be found through science or it's just the heart that finds. The show took place amidst the stunning surroundings of Jim Corbett National Park. MTV Splitsvilla Season 10 was the second season to appear on Voot, Viacom18's advertising-led video-on-demand platform, while the season aired. The season ended on 10 December 2017 declaring Baseer Ali & Naina Singh as the winners.

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Girls

Name
Notes
Status

Naina Singh

WINNER

Divya Agarwal
Eliminated in Episode 16 by Hritu and Aquib. (Re-entered in Episode 19)
RUNNER UP

Steffi Cyril
Eliminated in Episode 21 after losing to Baseer and Naina in Semi Finale Task
ELIMINATED

Alisha Farrer
Eliminated in Episode 21 after losing to Divya and Priyank in Semi Finale Task
ELIMINATED

Akshata Sonawane
Eliminated in Episode 20 after ex-contestants voted in favour of Divya and Priyank
ELIMINATED

Nibedita Pal
Eliminated in Episode 19 by Divya and Priyank
ELIMINATED

Hritu Zee
Eliminated in Episode 19 after losing to Divya and Priyank in a task
ELIMINATED

Anmol Chaudhary
Eliminated in Episode 11 along with Nachiket by Priyank and Nibedita
ELIMINATED

Eisha Chaudhary
Eliminated in Episode 8 by Alisha and Haneet
ELIMINATED

Khushi Mukherjee
Eliminated in Episode 5 by Akshata and Siddharth
ELIMINATED

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Boys

Name
Notes
Status

Baseer Ali

WINNER

Priyank Sharma

RUNNER UP

Mohit Hiranandani
Eliminated in Episode 21 after losing to Baseer and Naina in Semi Finale Task
ELIMINATED

Haneet Narang
Eliminated in Episode 21 after losing to Divya and Priyank in Semi Finale Task
ELIMINATED

Siddharth Sharma
Eliminated in Episode 20 after ex-contestants voted in favour of Divya and Priyank
ELIMINATED

Aquib Mir
Eliminated in Episode 19 after losing to Divya and Priyank in a task
ELIMINATED

Ripudaman Singh
Eliminated in Episode 16 by Hritu and Aquib.
ELIMINATED

Akash Chaudhary
Eliminated in Episode 14 by Steffi and Mohit, re-entered but got defeated and eliminated again by Divya and Priyank
ELIMINATED

Rapper Maddy
Eliminated in Episode 12 by Baseer Ali after defeating in a task
ELIMINATED

Nachiket Karekar
Eliminated in Episode 11 by Nibedita and Priyank
ELIMINATED

Archit Bhatia
Eliminated in Episode 5 by Akshata and Siddharth
ELIMINATED

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IDEAL MATCHES

Names
Notes

Akshata Sonawane & Siddharth Sharma
Eliminated in Episode 20 after ex-contestants voted in favour of Priyank and Divya

Alisha Farrer & Haneet Narang
Eliminated in Episode 21 after losing to Divya and Priyank in Semi Finale Task

Nibedita Pal & Priyank Sharma
Eliminated in Episode 19 after Priyank chose Divya over her in a task

Anmol Chaudhary& Nachiket Karekar
Eliminated in Episode 11 by Nibedita and Priyank

Steffi Cyrill & Mohit Hiranandani
Eliminated in Episode 21 after losing to Baseer and Naina in Semi Finale Task

Hritu Zee & Aquib Mir
Eliminated in Episode 19 after Winning to Divya and Priyank in a task

text: Guests[edit]

text: Prince Narula & Yuvika Chaudhary[7]

text: Controversies after Splitsvilla 2[edit]

text: Sexual exploitation[edit]

text: A month after the second season of Splitsvilla ended, some of the contestants claimed that the show's crew members had engaged in sexual acts with other contestants.

text: Swaagata G Shah, a contestant from Season 2, claimed in a tabloid that there were exchanges of sexual favors between contestants and important people of the production team, to get undue advantages in the contest.[8] Later, contestants Varun Jhamb and Nalini Negi who had been eliminated early on in the show, alleged that ‘some crew members, including the director, had slept in the same room as top contender Joanna Magee, and others engaged in sexual favours, especially towards the end.'

text: In response, Rajiv Laxman (creative director of the show) said: ‘I firmly disagree with these allegations. We have strict rules that prevent the mingling of the crew with the cast. Swagata was the first contestant to be eliminated and didn’t even spend a night at the villa. She doesn’t have any linking of the way things work there.’

text: Racial slur[edit]

text: One of the contestants on the show Mohit has been accused of using a racial slur after he called Siddharth Bhardwaj, a "Nepali with 'chinky' eyes". This caused obvious discomfort to India's North East Community, many of whom have oriental facial features. Though the show is unscripted, the network and the sponsors have been accused of supporting such racial slurs by not bleeping the content after they decided to air it.[9]

text: Another such incident took place in the fourth season, when Aakriti had a verbal fight with Payal.[10] The racial slur that was used was beeped out and later Nikhil Chinappa at the dumping ground raised the issue telling Aakriti not to "advertise her ignorance anymore" and that serious actions will be taken if it happens hereafter.[citation needed]


document_title: Darth Vader

question_text: who played anakin skywalker in return of jedi

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text: Darth Vader

text: Creation and development

text: Concept and writing

text: In the first draft of The Star Wars, tall, grim general "Darth Vader" was already close in line with his final depiction,[12] and the protagonist "Anikin Starkiller" had a role similar to Luke Skywalker's as the 16-year-old son of a respected warrior.[13]

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text: After the success of the original Star Wars (1977), series creator George Lucas hired science fiction author Leigh Brackett to write the sequel with him. They held story conferences and, by late November 1977, Lucas had produced a handwritten treatment. The treatment is similar to the final film, except that Vader does not reveal he is Luke's father. In the first draft that Brackett would write from this, Luke's father appears as a ghost to instruct Luke.[14] Lucas was disappointed with the script, but Brackett died of cancer before he could discuss it with her.[15] With no writer available, Lucas had to write the next draft himself. In this draft, he made use of a new plot twist: Vader claiming to be Luke's father. According to Lucas, he found this draft enjoyable to write, as opposed to the year-long struggles writing the first film.[16]

text: The new plot element of Luke's parentage had drastic effects on the series. Author Michael Kaminski claims and argues in his book that it is unlikely that the plot point had ever seriously been considered or even conceived of before 1978, and that the first film was clearly operating under an alternate storyline where Vader was a separate character from Luke's father.[17] After writing the second and third drafts in which the plot point was introduced, Lucas reviewed the new backstory he had created: Anakin had been Obi-Wan Kenobi's brilliant student and had a child named Luke, but was swayed to the dark side by Palpatine. Anakin battled Kenobi on the site of a volcano and was badly wounded, but was then reborn as Vader. Meanwhile, Kenobi hid Luke on Tatooine while the Galactic Republic became the tyrannical Galactic Empire and Vader systematically hunted down and killed the Jedi.[18] This change in character would provide a springboard to the "Tragedy of Darth Vader" storyline that underlies the prequel trilogy.[19]

text: After deciding to create the prequel trilogy, Lucas indicated the series would be a tragic one depicting Anakin's fall to the dark side. He also saw that the prequels could form the beginning of one long story that started with Anakin's childhood and ended with his death. This was the final step towards turning the film series into a "saga".[20]

text: For the first prequel, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999), Lucas made Anakin nine years old to make the character's separation from his mother more poignant.[13] Movie trailers focused on Anakin and a one-sheet poster showing him casting Vader's shadow informed otherwise unknowing audiences of the character's eventual fate.[21] The movie ultimately achieved a primary goal of introducing audiences to Anakin.[3]

text: Author Michael Kaminski, in The Secret History of Star Wars, offers evidence that issues in Anakin's fall to the dark side prompted Lucas to make massive story changes, first revising the opening sequence of the third prequel, Revenge of the Sith (2005), to have Palpatine kidnapped and his apprentice, Count Dooku, killed by Anakin as the first act in the latter's turn towards the dark side.[22] After principal photography was complete in 2003, Lucas made even more massive changes in Anakin's character, re-writing his entire turn to the dark side; Anakin's fall from grace would now be motivated by a desire to save his wife, Padmé Amidala, rather than the previous version in which that reason was one of several, including that he genuinely believed that the Jedi were plotting to take over the Republic. This fundamental re-write was accomplished both through editing the principal footage, and new and revised scenes filmed during pick-ups in 2004.[23]

text: During production of the Clone Wars TV series, Ahsoka Tano was developed to illustrate how Anakin develops from the brash, undisciplined Padawan apprentice in Attack of the Clones (2002) to the more reserved Jedi Knight in Revenge of the Sith.[24] Clone Wars supervising director and Rebels co-creator Dave Filoni said that giving Anakin responsibility for a Padawan was meant to place the character in a role that forced him to become more cautious and responsible. It would also give him insight into his relationship with Obi-Wan and depict how their relationship matured. Ahsoka and Anakin's relationship was seen as an essential story arc spanning both the animated film and Clone Wars television series.[25] Filoni began thinking about the final confrontation between Ahsoka and Vader ever since he created Ahsoka;[26] different iterations had different endings,[27] including one in which Vader kills Ahsoka just as she slashes open his helmet to reveal Anakin's scarred face.[28]

text: Ahsoka's presence in Star Wars Rebels was necessary to allow Darth Vader to encounter the show's lead characters without the latter being "destroyed"; Ahsoka can "stand toe-to-toe" with Vader.[29]

text: In Rebels Recon of the episode The Holocrons of Fate, Filoni reveals that he has always felt that one of the reasons for Anakin's turn to the dark side was the lack of compassion of the Jedi; in their dedication to selflessness, they "almost forgot to care".[30]

text: Design

text: The original design of Darth Vader's costume did not originally include a helmet. The idea that Vader should wear a breathing apparatus was first proposed by concept artist Ralph McQuarrie during preproduction discussions for Star Wars with George Lucas in 1975. In an interview with Star Wars Insider Magazine, McQuarrie stated that Lucas's artistic direction was to portray a malevolent figure in a cape with Samurai armour. "For Darth Vader, George [Lucas] just said he would like to have a very tall, dark fluttering figure that had a spooky feeling like it came in on the wind." McQuarrie noted that the script indicated that Vader would travel between spaceships and needed to survive in the vacuum of space, and he proposed that Vader should wear some sort of space suit. Lucas agreed, and McQuarrie combined a full-face breathing mask with a Samurai helmet, thus creating one of the most iconic designs of space fantasy cinema.[31][32] McQuarrie's 1975 production painting of Darth Vader engaged in a lightsaber duel with Deak Starkiller (a character prototype for Luke Skywalker) depicts Vader wearing black armour, a flowing cape and an elongated, skull-like mask and helmet. Its similarity to the final design of Vader's costume demonstrates that McQuarrie's earliest conception of Vader was so successful that very little needed to be changed for production.[33]

text: Working from McQuarrie's designs, the prop sculptor Brian Muir created the helmet and armour used in the film.[34][35]

text: The sound of the respirator function of Vader's mask was created by Ben Burtt using modified recordings of scuba breathing apparatus used by divers.[36] The sound effect is trademarked in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office under Trademark #77419252 and is officially described in the documentation as "The sound of rhythmic mechanical human breathing created by breathing through a scuba tank regulator."[37]

text: Commentators have often pointed to the influence of Akira Kurosawa’s films such as The Hidden Fortress (1958) on George Lucas, and Vader's Samurai-inspired costume design is held up as a significant example of the Japanese influences on Star Wars.[38]

text: Portrayals

text: Darth Vader was portrayed by bodybuilder David Prowse in the original film trilogy, and by stunt performer Bob Anderson during the character's intense lightsaber fight scenes.[12][39] Lucas originally intended for Orson Welles to voice Vader (after dismissing using Prowse's own voice due to his English West Country accent, leading to the rest of the cast nicknaming him "Darth Farmer").[40] After deciding that Welles's voice would be too recognizable, he cast the lesser-known James Earl Jones instead.[41][42] Jones initially felt his contributions to the films were too small to warrant recognition and his role was uncredited at his request until the release of Return of the Jedi (1983).[12] When Jones was specifically asked if he had supplied Vader's voice for Revenge of the Sith—either newly or from a previous recording—Jones answered, "You'd have to ask Lucas about that. I don't know".[43] Hayden Christensen and Gene Bryant alternately portray Vader in Revenge of the Sith.[44][45][1] During the production of Revenge of the Sith, Christensen asked Lucas if a special Vader suit could be constructed to fit his own body, rather than have a different actor don one of the original sets of Vader armor worn by Prowse.[46] Brock Peters provided the voice of Darth Vader in the NPR/USC radio series. Both Spencer Wilding[47] and Daniel Naprous portrayed Vader in Rogue One (2016), with Jones reprising his role as the character's voice.[48]

text: Vader's character has also been portrayed in several video games; in games such as Star Wars: Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire and Star Wars: Dark Forces, visual effects artist C. Andrew Nelson appears in short sequences in the Vader costume, voiced by Scott Lawrence. Matt Sloan, who appeared in the YouTube parody Chad Vader, provided the voice of Darth Vader in The Force Unleashed .[2] As a result of his video game appearances, Nelson was cast to appear as Vader in brief sequences inserted into the 1998 special edition of The Empire Strikes Back, in which Vader is seen boarding his shuttle.[1]

text: During production of Return of the Jedi, the casting crew sought an experienced actor for the role of Anakin Skywalker since his death was unquestionably the emotional climax of the film, and Sebastian Shaw was selected for the role.[49] When Shaw arrived at the set for filming, he ran into his friend Ian McDiarmid, the actor playing the Emperor. When McDiarmid asked him what he was doing there, Shaw responded, "I don't know, dear boy, I think it's something to do with science-fiction."[50] His presence during the filming was kept secret from all but the minimum cast and crew, and Shaw was contractually obliged not to discuss any film secrets with anyone, even his family. The unmasking scene, directed by Richard Marquand, was filmed in one day and required only a few takes, with no alteration from the original dialogue.[49] Lucas personally directed Shaw for his appearance in the final scene of the film, in which he is a Force Ghost of Anakin. Shaw's image in this scene was replaced with that of Christensen in the 2004 DVD release. This last attempt to tie the prequel and original trilogies together proved to be possibly the most controversial change in the Star Wars re-releases.[51][52] Shaw received more fan mail and autograph requests from Return of the Jedi than he had for any role in the rest of his career. He later reflected that he very much enjoyed his experience filming for Return of the Jedi and expressed particular surprise that an action figure was made of him from the film.[49]

text: When The Phantom Menace was being produced, hundreds of actors were tested for the role of young Anakin[53] before the producers settled on Jake Lloyd, who Lucas considered met his requirements of "a good actor, enthusiastic and very energetic". Producer Rick McCallum said that Lloyd was "smart, mischievous and loves anything mechanical—just like Anakin."[54][55] During production of Attack of the Clones, casting director Robin Gurland reviewed about 1,500 other candidates for the role of the young Anakin before Lucas eventually selected Hayden Christensen for the role.[56] When Revenge of the Sith was being produced, Christensen and Ewan McGregor began rehearsing their climactic lightsaber duel long before Lucas would shoot it. They trained extensively with stunt coordinator Nick Gillard to memorize and perform their duel together. As in the previous two prequel films, McGregor and Christensen performed their own lightsaber fighting scenes without the use of stunt doubles.[57]

text: Anakin has also been voiced by Mat Lucas for the 2003 micro-series Star Wars: Clone Wars, and by Matt Lanter in the CGI animated film Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the television series of the same name and for Anakin's cameos in Star Wars Rebels. For Vader's appearances in the Star Wars Rebels animated series, James Earl Jones has reprised the voice role.[58][59] Both Lanter and Jones contributed their voices for the second-season finale of Rebels, at times with identical dialogue spoken by both actors blended together in different ways.[60]

text: Appearances

text: Darth Vader appears in seven of the nine live-action Star Wars films and The Clone Wars animated film and spinoff series. He has a recurring role in Star Wars expanded universe material.

text: Featured films

text: Original trilogy

text: Darth Vader first appears in Star Wars as a ruthless cyborg serving the Galactic Empire. He is tasked, along with Imperial commander Grand Moff Tarkin, with recovering the secret technical plans for the Death Star, which were stolen by the Rebel Alliance. Vader captures and tortures Princess Leia Organa, who has hidden the plans inside the droid R2-D2 and sent it to find Vader's former Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi on the planet Tatooine. During Leia's rescue, Vader kills Obi-Wan in a lightsaber duel. Having placed a tracking device aboard the Millennium Falcon, Vader is able to track down the Rebels' base on the planet Yavin 4.[61] During the Rebels' attack on the Death Star, Vader attempts to shoot down Luke Skywalker's X-wing fighter, but Han Solo intervenes and sends Vader's ship spiraling off course, allowing Luke to destroy the Death Star.

text: In The Empire Strikes Back, Vader becomes obsessed with finding Luke[61] and leads the Imperial attack on the Rebel base on Hoth, but the Rebels escape. While conversing with the Emperor, Vader convinces him that Luke would be valuable to the Empire if he could be turned to the dark side of the Force. Vader hires a group of bounty hunters to follow Luke and his friends, and negotiates with Bespin administrator Lando Calrissian to set a trap for them so that Luke will follow them.[61] After Han, Leia, Chewbacca, and C-3PO arrive, Vader tortures Han, freezes him in carbonite and gives him to bounty hunter Boba Fett.[61] When Luke arrives, Vader defeats Luke in a lightsaber duel, severing his opponent's hand. Vader then tells Luke that he is his father[61] and asks Luke to help him overthrow the Emperor so they can rule the galaxy together. Horrified, Luke escapes through an air shaft. Vader telepathically tells Luke that it is his destiny to join the dark side.

text: In Return of the Jedi, Vader and the Emperor are supervising the second Death Star's construction. Unknown to Vader, the Emperor intends to replace him with Luke as his apprentice.[61] Thinking that there is still good in his father, Luke surrenders to Vader in hopes that he can be redeemed. Vader brings Luke to the Emperor on board the Death Star. While there, the Emperor tempts Luke to join the dark side by appealing to the young Jedi's fear for his friends, which leads to Vader dueling with Luke once again.[61] Realizing that Leia is Luke's twin sister, Vader threatens to turn her to the dark side if Luke will not submit. Furious, Luke overpowers Vader and severs his father's robotic hand. The Emperor orders Luke to kill Vader and take his place. Luke refuses, however, and the Emperor tortures him with Force lightning. Moved by Luke's pleas for help, Vader throws the Emperor down the Death Star's reactor core to his death; he is mortally wounded by the Emperor's lightning in the process.[61][62] After asking Luke to remove his mask, the redeemed Anakin Skywalker tells his son that there was good in him after all before he dies.[62] Luke escapes the Death Star with his father's remains, and ceremonially burns them in a pyre. Anakin's spirit reunites with those of Obi-Wan and Yoda to watch over Luke and his friends as the Rebels celebrate the Death Star's destruction and the fall of the Empire.[62]

text: Prequel trilogy

text: Anakin first appears in the prequel trilogy in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, which takes place 32 years before the original Star Wars, as a young slave[63] living on the planet Tatooine with his mother Shmi. Anakin was conceived without a father and he can foresee the future. Also a gifted pilot and mechanic, Anakin has built his own protocol droid, C-3PO. Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn meets Anakin after making an emergency landing on Tatooine. Qui-Gon senses Anakin's strong connection to the Force and becomes convinced that the boy is the "Chosen One" of Jedi prophecy who will bring balance to the Force. After winning his freedom in a podrace, Anakin leaves for Coruscant to be trained as a Jedi, but is forced to leave Shmi behind. During the journey, Anakin forms a bond with Padmé Amidala, the young queen of Naboo. Qui-Gon asks the Jedi Council for permission to train Anakin, but they sense fear in the boy and refuse. Eventually, Anakin helps thwart the Trade Federation's invasion of Naboo by destroying their command ship. After Qui-Gon is killed in a lightsaber duel with Sith Lord Darth Maul, Obi-Wan promises to train Anakin, with the Council's reluctant approval.[62] Palpatine later befriends Anakin and tells him that he will watch the boy's career "with great interest".

text: Anakin is Obi-Wan's Padawan apprentice in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, which takes place 10 years after The Phantom Menace. Having rescued Padmé, who is now a senator, from an assassination attempt, Anakin travels with her to Naboo, where they fall in love. Sensing that Shmi is in pain, Anakin travels to Tatooine to rescue her. While there, Anakin learns she was kidnapped by Tusken Raiders. Anakin locates Shmi at the Tusken campsite, where she dies in his arms. Anakin, enraged, massacres the Tuskens and returns to the Lars homestead to bury Shmi.[62] Anakin travels with Padmé to Geonosis to rescue Obi-Wan from Sith Lord Count Dooku, Qui-Gon's old master and leader of the Separatists, a conspiracy of star systems bent on seceding from the Galactic Republic. Dooku captures them, however, and sentences them to death. However, a cadre of Jedi arrives with the Kaminoan clone army to halt their executions. Obi-Wan and Anakin confront Dooku during the ensuing battle, but the Sith Lord beats them both in a lightsaber duel and severs Anakin's arm. Yoda intervenes and rescues the Jedi. By the end of the film, Anakin is fitted with a robotic arm and marries Padmé in secret.

text: In Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, set three years after Attack of the Clones, Anakin is now a Jedi Knight and a hero of the Clone Wars. He and Obi-Wan lead a mission to rescue Palpatine from Separatist commander General Grievous on board his starship. The Jedi battle Dooku, whom Anakin eventually executes on Palpatine's command. They rescue Palpatine and return to Coruscant. Anakin reunites with Padmé, who tells him she is pregnant. Anakin has visions of Padmé dying in childbirth and becomes determined to prevent them from coming true.[62] Palpatine tells Anakin that the dark side holds the power to cheat death, and eventually reveals that he is the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, the mastermind of the war. Although Anakin informs Jedi Master Mace Windu of Palpatine's treachery, he follows Windu to make sure Palpatine is captured alive. When he realizes that Windu is going to kill Palpatine, Anakin intervenes on the Sith Lord's behalf, allowing Palpatine to kill Windu. Desperate to save Padmé, Anakin pledges himself to the dark side and becomes Palpatine's Sith apprentice, Darth Vader.[62] On Palpatine's command, Vader leads a legion of clones to kill everyone at the Jedi Temple and massacres the remaining Separatist leaders hiding on the volcanic planet Mustafar. Padmé confronts Vader and implores him to abandon the dark side, but Vader refuses and abandons her instead. Upon witnessing Obi-Wan invited to intervene, Vader accuses his wife of conspiring against him and uses the Force to choke her into unconsciousness. Obi-Wan duels and defeats Vader, severing both of his legs, and leaving him at the bank of a lava river, where he is horribly burned. Palpatine later finds Vader still alive and takes him back to Coruscant, where his apprentice's mutilated body is covered in the black armored suit first depicted in the original trilogy. Palpatine explains to Vader that he killed Padmé in his rage; Vader screams in agony, his spirit broken. As the film concludes, Vader supervises the construction of the first Death Star alongside Palpatine and Wilhuff Tarkin.

text: The Clone Wars (film)

text: In the 2008 film The Clone Wars, Yoda assigns Ahsoka Tano as Anakin's Padawan apprentice to teach him a greater sense of responsibility, and Anakin is initially frustrated by this decision. Their early interactions are "playfully contentious", with Anakin calling her "Snips" for her "snippy" attitude and Ahsoka calling him "Skyguy" as a pun on his surname.[62] After earning Anakin's respect during a dangerous mission, Ahsoka joins him on a quest to rescue Jabba the Hutt's infant son. Her impetuousness both annoys and endears her to her master, and, by the end of the film, Anakin reveals a newfound affection for his apprentice.

text: Anthology films

text: Vader appears in the first anthology film Rogue One, played by Spencer Wilding[64] and Daniel Naprous,[65] with James Earl Jones once again voicing the character.[66] In this film, Vader meets with Imperial weapons engineer Orson Krennic, who asks him for an audience with the Emperor regarding the Death Star which Krennic lost command of to Tarkin. Vader refuses, however, and uses the Force to choke him as a way of putting him in his place and orders him to ensure the Death Star project has not been compromised. At the end of the film, Vader boards the disabled Rebel flagship Profundity with a cadre of Imperial stormtroopers and kills several Rebel soldiers as he attempts to recover the plans. However, the Alderaanian blockade runner Tantive IV (which was docked with the Profundity) escapes with the plans, setting the stage for the events of A New Hope.

text: Prior to the hallway scene being filmed, during the finale for Rogue One it was planned that Orson Krennic would survive the Death Star's assault on Scariff and Vader would then murder him for failing to stop the theft of the Death Star plans. However this scene was cut from Rogue One due to the difficulty of explaining how Krennic survived the explosion the Death Star caused.[67]

text: Television series

text: The Clone Wars (2008–2014)

text: Anakin is a lead character in all seasons of The Clone Wars. As a Jedi Knight, he goes on several missions with both Obi-Wan and Ahsoka throughout the war. While continuing to teach Ahsoka the ways of the Jedi, Anakin has developed a close bond with her and they take risks to protect or save one another. Some of Anakin's actions taken out of concern for Ahsoka violate the Jedi code, such as torturing prisoners who may know her location when she goes missing.[68] During the third season, Anakin experiences a vision of his future as Darth Vader.[69]

text: Rebels (2014)

text: Darth Vader is a recurring character in the first season of Star Wars Rebels, which takes place 14 years[70] after The Clone Wars concludes. Vader leads a squadron of Force-sensitive Imperial Inquisitors who are actively searching for and killing any remaining Jedi and Force-sensitive children. In the second-season premiere, Vader discovers that Ahsoka has joined the Rebel Alliance, and the Emperor orders him to hunt her down.

text: During their first confrontation in which Vader wipes out most of Phoenix Squadron's troops, Ahsoka is overwhelmed when she recognizes Anakin under "a layer of hate" in Darth Vader.[27] Later in the season, Ahsoka has a vision in which Anakin blames her for allowing him to fall to the dark side. Vader makes a brief cameo at the end of "Shroud of Darkness" in which he is brought to the Jedi temple on Lothal. In the season finale, Ahsoka duels with her former master inside a Sith Temple, allowing her friends to escape Vader and the temple's destruction. As the episode concludes, Vader escapes from the temple's ruins. Filoni said that it was "an elected decision" not to feature Vader for the third season.[71] Vader makes a final voiceless cameo in the late fourth season episode “A World Between Worlds”, as Ezra looks back in time to see the conclusion of his duel with Ahsoka before rescuing her from him. Shortly afterward, quotes from Vader are heard echoing in the void after Ezra says his name.

text: Forces of Destiny (2017)

text: Anakin appears in the episode The Padawan Path. He is voiced again by Matt Lanter.[72]

text: In The Padawan Path, Anakin is waiting along with Yoda in the Jedi temple for Ahsoka, for her ceremony.

text: Comics

text: In 2015, Marvel released a 25-issue series called Darth Vader (2015),[73] which focused on the title character in the aftermath of the destruction of the Death Star, as well as his life after learning about the existence of his son,[74] the series happens parallel to the comic series Star Wars (2015) and has a cross-over with it titled Vader Down.[75]

text: The Obi-Wan & Anakin 5-issue mini-series written by Charles Soule, depicts the lives of both Jedi between The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. At New York Comic Con 2015, Dan Brooks of StarWars.com held an interview with Soule, who described the story as "pretty unexplored territory."[76]

text: A second series named exactly as the previous series Darth Vader (2017), is also written by Charles Soule. It begins moments after Vader wakes up for the first time in his black suit at the end of the film Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. The series will focus on exploring the title character's reaction to Padme's death, his adjustment to his mechanical suit, how he creates his red lightsaber, as well as how he hunts Jedi, and the beginning of the Inquisitor program shown in the animated series Star Wars Rebels.[77]

text: Star Wars canon literature

text: Star Wars: Lords of the Sith was one of the first four canon novels to be released in 2014 and 2015.[78] In Lords of the Sith, Vader and Palpatine find themselves hunted by revolutionaries on the Twi'lek planet Ryloth.[79][80]

text: Virtual reality game

text: In the 2015 Star Wars Celebration, it was announced David S. Goyer is helping to develop a virtual reality game based on Darth Vader. It is said that the audience as "visitor" will be able to walk, pick up, push and open things, and might even have some effect in the story.[81]

text: Legends

text: In April 2014, most of the licensed Star Wars novels and comics produced since the originating 1977 film Star Wars were rebranded by Lucasfilm as Star Wars Legends and declared non-canon to the franchise.[78][82][83]

text: Clone Wars (2003–2005)

text: Anakin is a lead character in all three seasons of the Clone Wars microseries, which takes place four months after the conclusion of Attack of the Clones. Anakin becomes a Jedi Knight and is quickly promoted to a General of the Republic's Clone Army, due in part to Palpatine's influence. Among other missions, he fights a duel with Dark Jedi Asajj Ventress, helps Obi-Wan capture a Separatist-controlled fortress and rescues Jedi Master Saesee Tiin during a space battle. During the third season, Anakin frees the planet Nelvaan from Separatist control and sees a cryptic vision of his future as Darth Vader. In the season finale, Anakin and Obi-Wan go on a mission to rescue Palpatine from General Grievous, leading to the opening of Revenge of the Sith. Series creator and director Genndy Tartakovsky admitted that he was bothered that Lucasfilm declared Clone Wars non-canon, but said that he was proud of what he did and how much the microseries and the characters influenced later works.[84]

text: Literature

text: Vader is featured prominently in novels set in the Star Wars universe. In the 1978 novel Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster, Vader meets Luke Skywalker for the first time and engages him in a lightsaber duel that ends with Luke cutting off Vader's arm and Vader falling into a deep pit.[12] (In 1999's Vader's Quest, however, Vader encounters Luke for the first time after hiring a bounty hunter to find the pilot who destroyed the Death Star.) Shadows of the Empire (1996) reveals that Vader is conflicted about trying to turn his son to the dark side of the Force, and knows deep down that there is still some good in him.

text: Anakin Skywalker's redeemed spirit appears in The Truce at Bakura (1993), set a few days after the end of Return of the Jedi. He appears to Leia, imploring her forgiveness. Leia condemns him for his crimes and exiles him from her life. He promises that he will be there for her when she needs him, and disappears. In Tatooine Ghost (2003), Leia learns to forgive her father after learning about his childhood as a slave and his mother's traumatic death. In The Unifying Force (2003), Anakin tells his grandson Jacen Solo to "stand firm" in his battle with the Supreme Overlord of the Yuuzhan Vong.

text: Upon the release of the prequel films, the Expanded Universe grew to include novels about Vader's former life as Anakin Skywalker. Greg Bear's 2000 novel Rogue Planet and Jude Watson's Jedi Apprentice and Jedi Quest series chronicle Anakin's early missions with Obi-Wan, while James Luceno's 2005 novel Labyrinth of Evil, set during the Clone Wars, depicts Anakin battling Separatist commander General Grievous. In Luceno's Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader (2005), set a few months after the events of Revenge of the Sith, Vader disavows his identity as Anakin Skywalker as he systematically pursues and kills the surviving Jedi and cements his position in the Empire. The novel reveals that Vader plans to eventually overthrow Palpatine and that he betrayed the Jedi because he resented their supposed failure to recognize his power.

text: In The Dark Nest trilogy (2005), Luke and Leia uncover old recordings of their parents in R2-D2's memory drive; for the first time, they see their own birth and their mother's death, as well as their father's corruption to the dark side. In Bloodlines (2006), Han and Leia's son Jacen – who has himself turned to the dark side – uses the Force to "watch" Darth Vader slaughter the children at the Jedi Temple.

text: Vader also appears in a series of tongue-in-cheek children's books by Jeffrey Brown.[85] In Brown's series, a somewhat hapless Vader sets out to be a father to a young Luke and Leia, with some scenes directly based on their darker film counterparts (for example, one scene shows Vader, Luke and Leia at the carbonite freezing chamber on Bespin, with Vader pronouncing the freezer adequate for making ice cream).

text: Comics

text: Vader appears in several comic books such as Dark Horse Comics' Star Wars Tales and Marvel Comics' Star Wars (1977–1986) series.

text: Anakin Skywalker is a major character in Dark Horse's Star Wars: Republic series (1998–2006).

text: Video games

text: Darth Vader and Anakin Skywalker appear in a variety of video games such as the Lego Star Wars series and the Battlefront series. Vader plays a central role in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (2008). He is a playable character in the first level of the game, where he and his armies invade Kashyyyk to hunt down a Jedi who had survived the Order's destruction. Vader kills the Jedi and kidnaps the man's young Force-sensitive son, whom he raises as his secret apprentice, Starkiller. Vader sends Starkiller on various missions throughout the galaxy, with an ultimate goal to assassinate Palpatine so that Vader can rule the galaxy himself. Toward the end of the game, however, it is revealed that Vader isn't planning to overthrow Palpatine at all; he is merely using his apprentice to expose the Empire's enemies. At the game's climax, the player chooses between attacking Palpatine to help his Rebel friends escape the Death Star or killing Vader to become the Emperor's new apprentice. He also appears in the sequel Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II as the final boss.

text: Other

text: Darth Vader features in the 1981 radio drama adaptation of Star Wars, voiced by the actor Brock Peters. Vader makes his first appearance on the planet Ralltiir, where he treats Princess Leia Organa with suspicion. In later extended scenes, he is heard interrogating and torturing Leia on board his Star Destroyer and aboard the Death Star.[86][87][88]

text: Vader appears in Star Tours – The Adventures Continue, where he is voiced by Jones. Vader is featured as a combatant in the popular series Death Battle, in which he is pitted against Marvel Comics villain Doctor Doom. He loses the fight due to Doom's superior weaponry and abilities.

text: Characteristics

text: In Attack of the Clones, Anakin Skywalker feels "smothered" by Obi-Wan Kenobi and is incapable of controlling his own life.[89] By Revenge of the Sith, however, his "father-son" friction with his master has matured into a more equal, brotherly relationship.[90] Once he becomes Darth Vader, each evil act he commits shatters any hope or connection towards his previous life, which makes it harder for him to return to the light,[91] but he ultimately escapes the dark side and redeems himself by sacrificing his life to save his son, Luke Skywalker, and kill the Emperor in Return of the Jedi.[92]

text: Eric Bui, a psychiatrist at University of Toulouse Hospital, argued at the 2007 American Psychiatric Association convention that Anakin Skywalker meets six of the nine diagnostic criteria for borderline personality disorder (BPD), one more than necessary for a diagnosis. He and a colleague, Rachel Rodgers, published their findings in a 2010 letter to the editor of the journal Psychiatry Research. Bui says he found Anakin Skywalker a useful example to explain BPD to medical students.[93] In particular, Bui points to Anakin's abandonment issues and uncertainty over his identity. Anakin's mass murders of the Tusken Raiders in Attack of the Clones and the young Jedi in Revenge of the Sith count as two dissociative episodes, fulfilling another criterion. Bui hoped his paper would help raise awareness of the disorder, especially among teens.[93]

text: Cultural impact

text: Darth Vader's iconic status has made the character a synonym for evil in popular culture. For example, a three part series of episodes of the YouTube series Epic Rap Battles of History has Darth Vader facing off against Adolf Hitler.[94] Psychiatrists have considered Vader to be a useful example for explaining borderline personality disorder to medical students.[93] Anakin's origin story in The Phantom Menace has been compared to signifiers of African American racial identity,[95] and his dissatisfaction with his life has been compared to Siddartha's before he became Gautama Buddha.[96] A Mexican church advised Christians against seeing The Phantom Menace because it portrays Anakin as a Christ figure.[97] The slime-mold beetle Agathidium vaderi is named after Vader,[98] and several buildings across the globe are regularly compared to him.[99][100][101][102][103][104] A grotesque of Darth Vader looms over the east face of the Washington National Cathedral's northwest tower.[105] During the 2007–08 NHL season, Ottawa Senators goaltender Martin Gerber performed so well in an all-black mask that fans endearingly termed him "Darth Gerber".[106] In 2015, a statue of Vladimir Lenin in Odessa, Ukraine, was converted into one of Darth Vader due to a law on decommunization.[107]

text: Many commentators and comedians have also evoked his visage to satirize politicians and other public figures, and several American political figures have been unflatteringly compared to the character, including General George Custer, the subject of the acrylic painting Darth Custer by Native American artist Bunky Echohawk.[108] In 2005, Al Gore referred to Tele-Communications Inc.'s John C. Malone as the "Darth Vader of cable",[109] and political strategist Lee Atwater was known by his political enemies as "the Darth Vader of the Republican Party".[110]

text: On June 22, 2006, US Vice President Dick Cheney referred to himself as the Darth Vader of the Bush administration. Discussing the administration's philosophy on gathering intelligence, he said to CNN's John King, "It means we need to be able to go after and capture or kill those people who are trying to kill Americans. That's not a pleasant business. It's a very serious business. And I suppose, sometimes, people look at my demeanor and say, 'Well, he's the Darth Vader of the administration.'"[111] Jon Stewart put on a Darth Vader helmet to address Dick Cheney as a "kindred spirit" on The Daily Show on January 25, 2007.[112] Cheney's wife, Lynne, presented Stewart with a Darth Vader action figure on her appearance on the show on October 10, 2007. Both Stewart and Stephen Colbert have occasionally referred to Cheney as "Darth Cheney". In the satirical cartoon show Lil' Bush, Dick Cheney's father is portrayed as being Darth Vader. At her presidential campaign event on September 19, 2007, Hillary Clinton also referred to Cheney as Darth Vader. At the 2008 Washington Radio and Television Correspondents' Association Dinner, Cheney joked that his wife Lynne told him that the Vader comparison "humanizes" him. George Lucas told The New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, however, that Cheney is more akin to Emperor Palpatine, and that a better stand-in for Vader would be George W. Bush.[113] An issue of Newsweek referenced this quote, and compared Bush and Cheney to Vader and Palpatine, respectively, in a satirical article comparing politicians to various Star Wars and Star Trek characters.[114]

text: Many films and television series have paid homage to Darth Vader. Marty McFly in Back to the Future (1985), dressed in a radiation suit, calls himself "Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan" to convince the past version of his father to ask his mother to a dance. Rick Moranis plays "Dark Helmet" in the Star Wars parody Spaceballs (1987). In Chasing Amy (1997), Hooper X speaks at a comic convention about Darth Vader being a metaphor for how poorly the science fiction genre treats black people; he is especially offended that Vader, the "blackest brother in the galaxy", reveals himself to be a "feeble, crusty old white man" at the end of Return of the Jedi. The character was also parodied in the Nickelodeon cartoon Rocko's Modern Life in the episode "Teed Off".[115][better source needed] On another Nickelodeon cartoon, Jimmy Neutron, Darth Vader's infamous line, "I am your father", was interpolated in the mini-episode "New Dog, Old Tricks".[116] The line was also alluded to in Toy Story, a film franchise also owned by Disney.[117]

text: The character has gained much positive reception as a classic film villain. Darth Vader ranked number two on Empire magazine's 2008 list of The 100 Greatest Movie Characters.[118] Premiere magazine also ranked Vader on their list of The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.[119] On their list of the 100 Greatest Fictional Characters, Fandomania.com ranked Vader at number 6.[120] Darth Vader was also the No. 1 supervillain on the Bravo series Ultimate Super Heroes, Vixens and Villains.[121] Darth Vader was also ranked as No. 1 in IGN's list of top 100 Star Wars characters.[122] Furthermore, Darth Vader's quote in The Empire Strikes Back – "No, I am your father" (often misquoted as "Luke, I am your father"),[123] – is one of the most well known quotes in cinema history. The line was selected as one of the 400 nominees for the American Film Institute's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes, a list of the greatest American movie quotes.[124] Vader received the Ultimate Villain recognition at the 2011 Scream Awards.[125]

text: In 2009, Vader (or, more precisely, a reproduction of him conserved at the Smithsonian Institution) had a brief cameo in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, as he, along with an Oscar the Grouch prop replica, tries to join the army formed by (the reproductions of) Ivan the Terrible, Napoleon, Al Capone and the fictional Pharaoh Kahmunrah, but they judge him only a futile robot, as he does not speak, but tries to Force-choke them, with a gesture they interpret as a sort of salute.

text: In 2010, IGN ranked Darth Vader 25th in the "Top 100 Videogames Villains".[126]

text: In Ukraine, the Internet Party of Ukraine regularly lets people named Darth Vader take part in elections.[127][nb 1]

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Jump up ^ Hidalgo, Pablo (2016). Star Wars Character Encyclopedia: Updated and Expanded.
Jump up ^ "Databank: Cliegg Lars". StarWars.com. Retrieved December 3, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Databank: Shmi Skywalker Lars". StarWars.com. Retrieved December 3, 2015.
^ Jump up to: a b Attack of the Clones (2002) and Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Jump up ^ "Databank: Beru Lars". StarWars.com. Retrieved December 3, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Databank: Owen Lars". StarWars.com. Retrieved December 3, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Databank: Anakin Skywalker". StarWars.com. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Databank: Darth Vader". StarWars.com. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Databank: Padmé Amidala". StarWars.com. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
Jump up ^ Adopted father of Leia Organa, as established in Revenge of the Sith (2005).
Jump up ^ "Databank: Bail Organa". StarWars.com. Retrieved December 3, 2015.
Jump up ^ Adopted mother of Leia Organa, as established in Revenge of the Sith (2005).
Jump up ^ "Databank: Luke Skywalker". StarWars.com. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
Jump up ^ In the alternate Star Wars expanded universe (Legends), Luke is married to Mara Jade and has a son, Ben Skywalker.
Jump up ^ "Databank: Princess Leia Organa". StarWars.com. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
^ Jump up to: a b The Force Awakens. 2015.
Jump up ^ In the alternate Star Wars expanded universe (Legends) continuity, Han and Leia have three children: Jaina, Jacen and Anakin Solo.

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text: Jump up ^ Two men named Darth Vader were candidates at the 25 May 2014 Kiev mayoral election and the Odessa mayoral election of the same day.[128][129][130] A man named Darth Vader earlier had submitted documents to be registered as a presidential candidate in the 25 May 2014 Ukrainian presidential election; but his registration was refused because his real identity could not be verified.[131][132][133] In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Darth Vader and Star Wars characters such as Chewbacca, Princess Amidala and Yoda ran for seats in the Ukrainian parliament.[127] Candidates named Darth Vader reappeared in the 2015 Ukrainian local elections.[134]

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document_title: Charles Duryea

question_text: when was the first gasoline-powered american automobile made

text: Charles Duryea

text: Biography[edit]

text: He was born on December 15, 1861 near Canton, Illinois to George Washington Duryea and Louisa Melvina Turner.[citation needed]

text: Charles Duryea and his brother Frank (1869–1967) were initially bicycle makers in Washington, D.C., but later became world-renowned as the first American gasoline-powered car manufacturers, headquartered in Springfield, Massachusetts. Generally speaking, Charles engineered the automobiles, while Frank built, tested and raced them.[citation needed]

text: Tests of the first, gasoline-powered automobile[edit]

text: On September 20, 1893, the Duryea Brothers road-tested the first-ever, working American gasoline-powered automobile in a portion of Springfield, Massachusetts that is now Chicopee, Massachusetts.[citation needed] The Duryea's "motor wagon" was a used horse drawn buggy that the brothers had purchased for $70 and into which they had installed a 4 HP, single cylinder gasoline engine. The car (buggy) had a friction transmission, spray carburetor and low tension ignition.[3] Frank Duryea test drove it again on November 10[3] — this time in a prominent location: past their garage at 47 Taylor Street in Springfield.[citation needed] The next day it was reported[3] by The Republican newspaper with great fanfare.[citation needed]

text: This particular car was put into storage in 1894 and stayed there until 1920, when it was rescued by a former Duryea engineer Inglis M. Uppercu[4] and presented to the United States National Museum.[3]

text: He was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 1973.[5][6]

text: The Duryea Motor Wagon Company[edit]

text: On November 28, 1895 in Chicago, their vehicle, driven by brother Frank, had won America's first car race. It ran to Evanston, Illinois and back. The only other finisher was one of three Benz cars mostly made in Germany. After Frank won, demand grew for the Duryea Motor Wagon. In 1896, the Duryea Brothers produced 13 cars by hand — in their garage at 47 Taylor Street — and thus Duryea became the first-ever commercially produced vehicle, and also the largest automobile factory in the United States.[7] For the history of the company and its cars, see Duryea Motor Wagon Company.[8]

text: Charles Duryea sought out investors and buyers while his brother, Frank Duryea, primarily handled the mechanical side of the business.[9]

text: A Duryea car was involved in the world's first known auto accident.[10] New York City motorist Henry Wells hit a bicyclist with his new Duryea. The rider suffered a broken leg, Wells spent a night in jail and the nation's first traffic accident was recorded.[10] Due to low production and extraordinarily pricey cars, e.g. in 1913, George Vanderbilt purchased and drove a Stevens-Duryea, but was one of few people in the United States who could afford one. His 1913 Duryea is Vanderbilt's only original car kept at his Biltmore Estate.[11]

text: Duryea ceased manufacturing in 1917.[8]

text: Charles Duryea died of a heart attack[12] in Philadelphia on September 28, 1938 and was buried in Ivy Hill Cemetery, West Oak Lane.[13][1]

text: Legacy[edit]

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text: The annual Duryea Hillclimb is named in his honor.