"When did Darth Vader go red? Even though the official Star Wars toys in 2005 for Revenge of the Sith depicted Anakin Skywalker with a red lightsaber, the truth is, the moment the former Jedi switched to a Sith blade as Darth Vader, happened off-screen. And now, with a new entry into the Star Wars canon, the moment when Vader first gets a red lightsaber has been given a new canon wrinkle."
"That said, the first onscreen canon instance of lightsaber bleeding happened just last year in 2024's The Acolyte, and the canonical establishment of this idea was a post- Force Awakens YA novel called Ahsoka, which, in 2016, revealed the new rule of Kyber crystal bleeding. It was then shown visually in 2017 in the Darth Vader Marvel Comic miniseries by Charles Soule and Giuseppe Camuncoli."
Anakin Skywalker's transition to a red lightsaber as Darth Vader occurred off-screen. A recent Star Wars canon entry revises the context for when and how Vader first receives a red blade. The red coloration links to Kyber crystal 'bleeding' when the crystal is subjected to Sith influence. The Kyber-bleeding concept entered canon via the 2016 YA novel Ahsoka and was visually depicted in 2017 in the Darth Vader Marvel Comics. The Acolyte (2024) provided the first onscreen instance of lightsaber bleeding. Pre-2016 lore favored synthetic or stolen crystals as explanations for red sabers.
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