Darth Vader

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After the success of Star Wars, many of its actors, including: Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, and Carrie Fisher, went on to illustrious careers, garnering numerous academy awards. Darth Vader, on the other hand, struggled to make a name for himself as a legitimate actor. He was hindered by being typecast as an evil villain, but more importantly he faced excessive discrimination for being a cyborg in a mostly human society. In fact, automatonophobia (or the fear of humanoid robots) was so prevalent in the early 1980s, that James Cameron went so far as to cast an actual human (Arnold Schwarzenegger) for the role of a cyborg over Darth Vader in the box office hit The Terminator. It wasn’t until 1987 that Darth Vader was able to land the lead role of Officer Alexander James Murphy in the RoboCop trilogy. Following the limited success of the RoboCop trilogy, Vader retired from acting to pursue a career in the music industry. His most notable accomplishment was his creation of Auto-Tune, which was developed as a byproduct of tinkering with his own voice modulation unit, and which he sold to T-Pain in 2005 for an undisclosed amount.