Anakin Skywalker's Origins Still Unknown After Comic Clarification

It wasn’t too long ago that all Star Wars fans thought the greatest mystery in the history of the trilogy had been solved, the mystery of Anakin Skywalker’s creation.

Charles Soule’s 2017 comic Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith wrapped its run in December 2018 with an incredible revelation that Anakin Skywalker’s ‘father’ was none other than Sheev Palpatine, aka Darth Sidious. This information came to Anakin while he was traversing The World Between Worlds, but it seems like Soule and the Lucasfilm story group have now decided that the information given in the comic was not true.

Lucasfilm creative Matt Martin reiterates Palpatine didn't create Anakin Skywalker with the Force

'This is all in Anakin’s head … I can tell you definitively, as someone who worked on the comic, that is 100% not the intended implication'

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— Culture Crave 🎥 (@CultureCrave) December 22, 2019

Charles Soule, the writer of the comic, confirmed Martin’s explanation in a follow up Tweet.

I am, in fact, the writer. Matt and I worked closely on this series and this point in particular. I hate explaining stuff in my work in too much detail, but you need to understand the scenario happening here.

The Dark Side is not a reliable narrator.
— Charles Soule (@CharlesSoule) December 23, 2019

So now you strike off all of those theories and speculations about how Rey and Anakin could be related, because it seems like we may never get the full story of Anakin’s birth.

Via CheatSheet