Senator Palpatine becomes Lord Sidious. Anakin Skywalker becomes Darth Vader. Lord Tyrannus becomes Count Dooku.

By what means do these dark side converts come up with their new titles?

I'm pretty sure it's as simple as it looks. Darth Sidious = insidious, Darth Vader = Invader, Darth Tyrannus = tyranny (sp?), Darth Maul = mal(ign)(evolent) etc.

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Yes. That must be it.

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

Well, what's Dooku? Dook U Think This Name Is Dumb? LOL

...Dooku was never his Sith name, ever. Count Dooku is Darth Tyrannus.

Palpatine spoons you all

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"It was a slap in the face, how quickly I was replaced".
"Do you remember telling me you'd hold me until you died (until you died)... well you're still alive"

"I just love it when you stick your tongue in my brain, darling"

if(getThingFlags(source) & 0x8){
  do her}
elseif(getThingFlags(source) & 0x4){
  do other babe}
else{
  do a dude}

I don't want an old creepy looking man spooning me

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

I am DARTH MALEVOLENT! YOU WILL ALL BOW BEFORE ME!

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Founder of the Massassi Brute Squad (MBS)
Ab Hoc Possum Videre Domum Tuum
(I can see your house from up here)
"But he's not going to carry you three" said Death.
"Why not?"
"It's a matter of the look of the thing"
"It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it" said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocralypse"

"I am the signature virus! Copy me into your signature so that I can take over the world! Moohahahee!"

Darth Maul. Mal = Bad in spanish. Very similar spellings and pronunciations (sp?).

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Frogblast the Vent Core!

--End of Line--

Maybe he just likes to maul people.. or he uses a maul.. or he likes maults.. Theres many a possibility

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Happy "Diseased" dud: You said I'd be like this guy. Boycotting everything..
Happy "Diseased" dud: ted kazcnisky. That's who it was.
Happy "Diseased" dud: Wait, That's the unibomer.
Happy "Diseased" dud: Wrong guy.

*wonders how Darth J got his name, other than by picking a random letter...

Also, correct me if I'm wrong here (for those who are liguistically more "able" than myself), but doesn't Vader mean "father" in Dutch ... or something? . I know I remember reading somewhere it was "father" in one language - just can't recall which one...

-Jackpot

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"lucky_jackpot is the smily god..." - gothicX

"Life is mostly froth and bubble,
But two things stand in stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own"
("Ye Wearie Wayfarer" - by Adam Lindsay Gordon)

Vader means father in Dutch. Darth means dark. Dark Father = Darth Vader

Still voting on the good descriptions for Sidious and Tyrannus from earlier.

Maul? Come on, Mauling someone/something is brutal.

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MaxisReed
AIM: MaxisReed
ChatOp, EC administrator, and "some sort of god!"

yeah... maul seems pretty obvious.

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Drugs & Stupidity, Tons of it.

It does, but maybe it's too obvious!

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"With Great power comes great Responibility. Seems like the converse should be true as well. Now where the heck is my great Power?"

What chocolate does Darth Maul like?

Maul-teasers.

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The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot stay in the cradle forever.
-- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, The Father of Rocketry

uh.. what?

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Happy "Diseased" dud: You said I'd be like this guy. Boycotting everything..
Happy "Diseased" dud: ted kazcnisky. That's who it was.
Happy "Diseased" dud: Wait, That's the unibomer.
Happy "Diseased" dud: Wrong guy.

BZZZZZZT. WRONG ANSWER. NOW YOU DIE.

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MadQuack on Military school: Pro's: I get to shoot a gun. Con's: Everything else.
"I'm going to beat you until the laws of physics are violated!!" ! Maeve's Warcry

RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

Wait that's right, Dooku isn't his sith name, Tyrannus is. Syphodius (sp?) is his normal name.

I always thought Count Dooku sounded like something out of the Zelda series.

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I have a signature.

They're all Darths, they were just being called Lord.. because. like in Episode 1, for example Obi-wan calls Qui-gon "Master" a good few times, and Qui-gon isn't a Jedi Master yet.

And I believe Dooku is his real name, If I'm not mistaken, Syphodius was who he was impersonating when he went to talk to the kaminoians or whatever, but I may be wrong there [Count Dooku was the name he was using (be it his real name or not) because if he were running around under the name of "Darth Tyranus", the Jedi would know he was a Sith. The title "Darth" has been around since before the Sith war (though how canon that is I'm not entirely sure.) So, It's Darth Sidious, Darth Tyranus, Darth Vader, Darth Maul, etc.

***POSSIBLE (MINOR) EPIII SPOILER***

I've also heard that EpIII will explain what the title of "Darth" means, and how one goes about achieving it. though I'm not sure how accurate this is, because I try to stay away from spoilers and such

***WRAA***

So.. yeah. kthxbye.]
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Moo.

[This message has been edited by A_Big_Fat_CoW (edited February 06, 2004).]

He only calls him master because Qui-Gon is obi-wan's master, training him and such

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Happy "Diseased" dud: You said I'd be like this guy. Boycotting everything..
Happy "Diseased" dud: ted kazcnisky. That's who it was.
Happy "Diseased" dud: Wait, That's the unibomer.
Happy "Diseased" dud: Wrong guy.

Darth Vader was called Darth Vader long before he was anybody's father. The Dutch translation is just a terrible coincidence.

J is the first letter of my first name, pretty obvious.

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

The "lord" title has to do with the original title "Dark Lord of the Sith." The symbolism I see is that you don't become a Master of the dark side, you become a "Lord" over it; possibly a reference to the arrogance involved. If they could truly gain lordship over it, or even master it, it would not warp them so, as it does Palpatine. It controls them entirely, they need it, without it they'd be nothing, they took the easy path due to a lack of control. And they never realize it.

Darth Bane supposedly lent his name to his successor when he founded his secret order.

Of course GL has the final say, but if he changes it it better be way better.

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Steal my dreams and sell them back to me.....

yes that must be it, he just liked a good mault every now and then

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*landfish 'splodes*
7 of 14

... That was my point. People called Vader "Lord Vader" in the original trilogy because he was, well, their Lord. It wasn't his title, it was just what he was called. Same with Lord Sidious, Lord Tyranus, etc.

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Moo.

In the Star Wars universe, yes. But his name was made Darth Vader intentionally by Lucas.

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"What I find especially funny are the neo-Celtic religions based on accounts made by the Romans. It's like learning about Judaism from Nazi lore." --stat

No, I'm talking about the original draft of the first star wars script. Darth Vader was just some high ranking general. He was nobody's father. George Lucas liked the name, not because of it's real meaning.

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

I'm looking foreward to seeing that Darth Robot guy with the four arms and three lightsabres...

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Shut up. I'm GOING to do this whether you like it or not.