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TIL that the developers of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed hoped that George Lucas would give Vader’s apprentice a Darth moniker. Lucas agreed and offered up two Darth titles to choose from; ‘Darth Icky’ and ‘Darth Insanius.’ People waited for George to say ‘just kidding,’ but it never came.

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