Darth Vader's Royal Shadow Guard - Star Wars Explained

Composer: Whitesand (Martynas Lau)
Year: 2017
Title: Eternity Additional Music Terminus by: Scott Buckley
Released under CC-BY 4.0.

[UmbrellaGent]

Shadow Guards were so good to fight against on max difficulty level in Force Unleashed.

[alv]

Force Unleashed had some badass designs, even if some people blindly hates that game.

[beaugalaz]

I would say the shadow guard would win against the royal guard. Let's not forget, during the final level of the Force unleashed(Depending on what console you were playing on at least.), in order to reach Vader and Palpatine, Galen Marek had to fight his way past 4 royal guards and 1 shadow guard, who was standing in the middle, at the same time. I think this perfectly demonstrates the difference in power level between the two guards.

[karptamas]

Best minibosses in the Force Unleashed. :p

[jbb]

*what if the younglings killed anakin*

[Gamer]

I remember fighting the shadow guard in Force Unleashed and it was spooky.

[jindrichsander]

If shadow guards could rival starkiller who is arguably as powerful as vader or palpatine they could surely beat royal guards

[fernando]

I would say the shadow guards; they're trained by darth vader, who has an experienced technique in high ground fighting style

[swcl]

They should have been in rogue one instead off red ones

[jedidragonking]

If you haven't already, could you do a video on all the known Inquisitors, Canon and Legends?

[spike]

can you do a video explaining how palpatine planned on keeping vader from killing him before he was put in his suit?

[Fulcrum]

Shadow guards should be in the next issue of the Vader book

[notimportant]

A few things I feel should be addressed here, correct me if I'm wrong.

The _Imperial_ Shadow Guard was trained by Vader, yes, but make no mistake, they did not belong to him; they belonged to the Emperor just like the other guard units, acting as spies and assassins for him. The Emperor would not let Vader have his own unit to counterbalance the Emperor's Royal Guard, the _Imperial_ Shadow Guard was a subgroup of the Emperor's Royal Guard, sure they could accompany Vader if ordered to and often did, but they were not _his._ Just like the Emperor's Royal Guard, they would only follow Vader's commands if the Emperor ordered them to.

Second, as far as I know, they were only known to use lightsaber pikes, not regular lightsabers, that sounds more like the saber guards. Vader didn't deploy them to capture starkiller, the Emperor deployed them to _kill starkiller._

The _Imperial_ Shadow Guards were _not_ primarily tasked to guard places like the Jedi temple, that sounds more like the Imperial Senate Sentinels, the ones found in TFU _at the jedi temple_

Even starkiller refers to them as the "Emperor's Sith assassins" i.e. not Vader's.

Now to the big question, the obvious conclusion is that the _Imperial_ Shadow Guard would win, as they were force sensitive and trained in the force, as well as gifted lightsabers, however I've heard the force pikes the Emperor's Royal Guard use were made of phrik---a lightsaber resistant metal, but in 9 out of 10 cases the _Imperial_ Shadow Guard would win

Perhaps a video could be done to address these errors of fact? If not still a good video, just incorrect.

[marshal]

They are awesome. The only reason i am telling that a Shadow Guard would win a Royal Guard, is because of his force-sensitivity. Great video btw. ☺

[killlerfang]

shadow guard will definitely beat a royal guard

[cpt]

Was Coleman Trebor secretly a royal guard?!

[viperson]

starwars force unleashed shows the shadow guards being much stronger while the royal guards were weaker.i say two imperial royal guards = shadow guard

[darthtroller]

I have a Scar Wars Rebels theory, the attack on Lothal is going on, but the Rebels are losing due to Thrawn's advanced knowledge, so Ezra decides to change tactics and sacrifices himself to destroy the factory and allow the Rebels to continue the attack the factory, Ezra is thought dead and Kanan does everything to help the Rebels and survive since Ezra sacrificed himself and Kanan won't keep it useless, as the factory is destroyed, Vader arrives and takes the unconscious Ezra, we later see Ezra waking up in an Inquisitor costume, more of a cyborg costume where he would heal and get advanced abilities, Vader would use his knowledge to locate Kanan and Obi-Wan and destroy the Jedi survivors, however Ezra has memory problems and the dark side corrupted his mind to an extent where he could no longer think normally and has a thoughtless brain, he creates a group of Acolytes who support Vader, at the end of Rebels, Ezra and Kanan will both die in their final duel, I forgot to mention that Ezra might take the codename Starkiller when trained by Vader as a canon replacement for Galen Marek, the remaining Vader fanatics would go into exile when Palpatine would tell Vader to stop using Force sensitives, they return as the Knights of Ren and train new ones and call their super weapon Starkiller Base in honour of the one who created their organization

[SokarGamer]

Can you explain if Yoda sensed the death of Mace Windu? And what were his thoughts?

[starwarslord]

First!! Hey Stupendous Wave can you make one of these What If's
What if Anakin never stopped the ship in ROTS
What if Anakin never killed the younglings
What if Obi Wan Married Duchess Satine
What if Yoda trained Anakin