Hero With No Fear

, nicknamed the Hero With No Fear. — Anakin Skywalker, nicknamed the **Hero With No Fear**.

"Somebody's got to be the poster boy."

―Obi-Wan Kenobi to Anakin Skywalker^[1]

The title "Hero With No Fear" was one of many monikers given to Anakin Skywalker during the Clone Wars.^[1] Following his exploits during the Battles of Jabiim and Aargonar,^[2] HoloNet features commonly referred to Skywalker using this nickname, turning him into a poster boy for the Republic war effort.^[1]

Despite this nickname, Skywalker himself was plagued by the fear of failure, pain and loss, and delved into the dark side of the Force in an attempt to attain further power and quash his fear. As Darth Vader, he initially considered himself to truly be the Hero With No Fear, but after realizing the cost of his newfound power—the death of Padmé Amidala and his injuries suffered on Mustafar—he came to understand he would always carry fear with him.^[1]

Behind the scenes

The 20th anniversary deluxe edition of Matthew Stover's Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith novelization features an addendum titled The Sun-Dragon Crisis in which he explains that the sun-dragon motif used throughout the novel to represent Anakin's fear is not that which appeared in his original manuscript, but a revision which came about only after he truly understood why the script of the film had tagged him as the "Hero with No Fear," that it was dramatic irony. In a footnote elsewhere in the novel, he explains that he had originally believed Anakin's main struggle to be with his anger, that he naturally assumed that rage was most of what drove him. Upon waking in his armor, Vader himself has the revelation that the "dragon" never existed, that it was himself all along.^[1]