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.
According to the book The Secret History Of Star Wars the name for Darth Vader has nothing to do with invaders dark or otherwise.