Darth Vaderian

English

Etymology

From Darth Vader +‎ -ian.

Adjective

Darth Vaderian (comparative more Darth Vaderian, superlative most Darth Vaderian)

1. Resembling or characteristic of the fictional character Darth Vader.
   • 1989 February 13, Kevin Harris, “Odd correlation”, in The Bellingham Herald, Bellingham, Wash., page B2, column 5:

     (What the heck is this “gun lobby” anyway? Am I it or is it some sort of Darth Vaderian conspiracy that manipulates the minds of innocent legislators?)

   • 1990 March 11, Bud Collins, “The changing winds of Atlanta”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 237, number 70, page A3, column 3:

     Though crowded and dwarfed by Darth Vaderian upstarts such as the Equitable Life Building across from it, the 17-story Candler Building on Peachtree remains alone in its 1904 stylishness.

   • 1990 August 12, Tom Barberi, “Barberi!”, in The Salt Lake Tribune, volume 240, number 120, Salt Lake City, Utah, page 2B, column 2:

     Now that the “wall” has become a souvenir to be mounted on a plaque or picture frame and the lien between good guys and the “Evil Empire” with all its Darth Vaderian images is becoming more of a blur, there is evidence that those out there who live to protest something, anything, are getting desperate.

   • 1995, James Riordan, Stone: The Controversies, Excesses, and Exploits of a Radical Filmmaker, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, →ISBN, pages 246–247:

     His [Oliver Stone’s] acceptance speech on September 17 concluded with the following lines: […] How can we possibly win against the overwhelming force of this government of the future, this Darth Vaderian empire?

   • 1998 September 3, John J. Fried, “Forgetting to back up data? FileSitter automatically does it for you”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 170th year, number 95, page F2, column 4:

     They spring up only after you have clicked the right-hand button on your mouse, a secret that is revealed by a message to that effect several seconds after you have been left staring at this Darth Vaderian screen.

   • 1999 May 1, Katherine Monk, “Empire of hype”, in The Vancouver Sun, page E1, column 3:

     And therein lies a very troubling reality about the Orwellian — perhaps even Darth Vaderian — measures increasingly employed by marketers of today’s mega-media products.

   • 1999 May 9, Steven Rea, “Curse of the ‘Phantom’”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 170th year, number 343, page F5, column 4:

     To be sure, there will also be flops aplenty — misguided, mismarketed or simply amiss movies that would have tanked whether Phantom Menace was casting its Darth Vaderian shadow across the land.

   • 1999 December 19, Franz Schurmann, “Peace hangs by a thread”, in The Fresno Bee, page G1:

     If even America has difficulties managing the world, none of the four even think about becoming a Darth Vaderian-style world empire.

   • 2003 April 30, Sandy MacDonald, “‘Man of La Mancha’ is lavish but lacking”, in The Boston Globe, volume 263, number 120, page C3, column 4:

     Peter Edmund Haydu assaying triple roles, some of which employ his marvelous Darth Vaderian bass.

   • 2009, Michael Czyzniejewski, Elephants in Our Bedroom, Dzanc Books, →ISBN, page 186:

     It seems like this is the moment, me covered in ice cream and my own guts, that Sanders is going to confront me with Darth Vaderian news.

   • 2017, Scott Kenemore, Zombie-in-Chief: Eater of the Free World, Gollancz, published 2020, →ISBN:

     His heavy breathing fell to a Darth Vaderian murmur.

   • 2021, Steve Marcone, Dave Philp, Managing Your Band: A Guide to Artist Management, 7th edition, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 104:

     Thus don’t name your band Boozie Tromwellium & the Darth Vaderian Cosmonauts.

Synonyms

• Darth Vader-esque, Vaderesque