Darth Vader: Victim or Villain? is an Insider article about the character of Darth Vader. Several Star Wars authors and artists, such as Timothy Zahn, Aaron Allston, John Jackson Miller, Christie Golden, Michael Reaves, Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Douglas Wheatley, Kevin Hearne, Ryder Windham, Joe Schreiber, and Jason Fry, were asked if they considered the Dark Lord of the Sith as a true villain or a tragic victim, who they thought was truly responsible for Skywalker's fall to the dark side, and if they thought he could really be redeemed. This article was published in Star Wars Insider 145 and later reprinted in Star Wars Insider Special Edition 2015.