Originally Posted by
GLFan5994
if you only watch the movies, then yes, he is nothing except a black and white villain. However, in the Legends Canon, they went to great pains to show how, on the inside, Vader was anything but the murder happy dictator that he prototyped himself as.
If he had choked out Tarkin, one of his friends, then the Emperor would have surly sentenced Vader to die after everyone realized what a kind hearted man he was for not wanting to destroy one of the most peaceful planets in the galaxy. It wouldn't have really mattered either, since Palpatine had a second Death Star in his pocket too.
What about Luke. He destroyed a battle-station that had a crew of over 2 million people. I guarantee you many of those people had no idea what the Death Star was going to be used for when they were transferred to the station, nor had any means of sabotaging such a monolithic creation, nor any means of escape between Alderaan and Yavin. Does the murder of millions not turn you from bastion of light to, at the very least, morally gray?