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Darth Vader's Noooooooooooo! refers to the widely parodied scene from the 2005 film Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, the third and final installement of the Star Wars prequel trilogy in which Darth Vader yells "No!" after finding out the fate of his pregnant wife, Padmé Amidala. This yell was also added in the 2011 Blu-Ray version of the movie Return of the Jedi.

Origin

The scene takes place during the final sequence of the film, when Darth Vader awakens in the aftermath of a fight with fellow Jedi, Obi-Wan Kenobi. He is then informed by Sith Lord Darth Sidious about the consequences of his rage. A video of Vader yelling was uploaded to Youtube on March 2008, and it has over 7 million views as of September 2016. (Shown, below)





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On May 20th, 2005, the YTMND user Redily created the YTMND "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" which depicted a still from the newly released Star Wars Episode III, along with the sound byte of Darth Vader saying the phrase 'Nooooo!'. Since then the site has accumulated over one million views, and has since been inducted into the YTMND Hall of Fame. Several other parodies have been since added to the site. On December 1st, 2009, the Single Serving Site "nooooooooooooooo.com" was launched, which features a single button that, when pressed, plays the infamous yell.





On October 5th, 2015, Reddit user spikesya made a post in /r/FanTheories analyzing the scene, it garnered over 1,700 points (91% upvoted) before being archived. On September 10th, 2011, user CineWeekly uploaded a Youtube video adding Vader's yell to multiple memorable movie scenes (Shown below, left) which has almost 400,000 views as of September 2016, another remix, called "Darth Vader loves snow!" was uploaded on November 9th, 2010, and it has over 80,000 views as of September 2016. (Shown below, right)





Related memes

Do Not Want

"Do Not Want" refers to the erroneous subtitles that appeared in a Chinese bootleg DVD version of Star Wars Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith, comically mistranslated as Star War The Backstroke of the West. Found on June 7th, 2005, by blogger Jeremy Winterso. The movie included many Engrish translations including the “Jedi Council” becoming “The Presbyterian Church” and “the force” becoming “the wish power.” During the pivotal scene where Darth Vader learns of Padmé's death, his famous line “NOOO” was translated as “Do not want" instead.





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