Which leaves Revenge of the Sith to deliver the final, damning strike against the character, and there are so many potential candidates to choose from.
If the prequel trilogy was a baseball game, and Darth Vader was a player at bat, he’d never make it past home base.
Way to rob a new generation of any sort of respect for the Sith, guys.
Strike one has to be the young and ridiculously cutesy portrayal that we saw in The Phantom Menace, with that second strike coming from the creepy/whiny Padawan that he becomes in Attack of the Clones.