Yeah, but that’s not much better.
“What am I gonna name my bad guy? Well, he’s a tyrant, so…”
I know that Vader’s name is also just changing a real word around, but it also sounds awesome. Not Tryanous.
Correction Vader was actually based off of a Flash Gordon villain. The whole father Vader bit wasn’t developed until draft 2-3 of ESB.
I wasn’t talking about his character or the father thing, I was talking about how his name was a jumble up of Dark Invader --> Darth Vader.
I just looked that up to check and apparently George said something else but who knows with that guy.