I'm not sure the policy of VS threads at this particular Star wars forums, but for those who have read the EU, what are some Characters from the different eras that could take Vader from the comics/Original story line? What are their feats of power/your opinion on how they could defeat Darth Vader?
I have high hopes for a new villain, perhaps a Sith cult or splinter group that has tapped into the Darkside's power and become possessed by Sith spirits or something. It sounds like something from Indiana Jones but I think it would work.
I don't see Abrams going into the EU though apart from taking Anakin's offspring and transplanting them into whatever storylines the writers devise.
I don't particularly care for how much Bioware decided to mimic the original storyline with Vitiate being a more feeble version of Palpatine and Malgus more or less being stylistically similar to Vader. While Malgus is an interesting character, Vitiate exhibited all of Palpatine's similarities but none of the feats of power/diabolical vibes of Palpatine. He came across more as a stoic academic content with letting the Dark council control affairs, while he attempted to achieve immortality.
For the Legacy era, while I think Caedus's fall was more interesting than the prequel's winy Anakin, there wasn't too much in that era that compares to a the KOTOR era. Krayt was weak, Lumiya was the writer's efforts to bridge the post-Imperial era, and she isn't special in any regard either. Also much like the terrible PT Jedi, there are far too many Jedi in Luke's praxeum who do little to nothing to advance the story itself. Jaina is useless, Katarn is boring, and Kyp is boring as well. Overall, I have no real desire to check out the Legacy era.