George Lucas started it! We just continue the tradition.
Honestly I don't think there's anything else we can come up with worse than "live with the knowledge you killed your wife, after you sacrificed everything else trying to save her." Everything beyond that is just icing on the torture-cake.
Re: Palpatine/Vader, abuse, non-con, sexual slavery
Honestly I don't think there's anything else we can come up with worse than "live with the knowledge you killed your wife, after you sacrificed everything else trying to save her." Everything beyond that is just icing on the torture-cake.