When did Darth Vader go from learner to master?
This is an interesting one. So, obviously, in A New Hope Vader says to Kenobi “I’ve been waiting for you, Obi-Wan. We meet again at last. The circle is now complete. When I left you I was but the learner, now I’m the master.” Well, in the finale we saw the “learner.” Vader got crushed. So how does he become the Master? Well, Vader goes through a lot around this time. Lots of it can be seen in the Charles Soule Marvel comics where he explores the nature of the Force, he ends up showing down with his old apprentice Ahsoka Tano a few years later on Rebels, and lord knows what else has happened. You also get a glimpse of it just a few days before he kills Obi-Wan in his Rogue One appearance. Vader is clinical by that time. Focused. Brutal. A master.
