Could we please stop calling him "Darth Cheney"? It's offensive.

[arbusto_baboso]

After all, in the Star Wars movies, Darth Vader started as a good person. Even after he transformed into something evil, he had a certain panache, and in the end, his conflicted nature came out in an act of goodness. We KNOW that is not the case with Shooter.

Also, don't call him a vampire. Most of the vampires of legend don't choose to be who they are.

He's a lich, pure and simple. If you don't know the term, Google it. You'll see. He's a lich, one of the undead kind.

[JuniperLea]

1. I'm sure Cheney was a good person once...

For about a nanosecond after his birth... or hatching... or that last cell division...

[arbusto_baboso]

2. If that is so, I'm sure he's had killed anyone who can verify it.

he learned early not to leave any trails back to himself.

[hifiguy]

3. Howzabout Voldemort then?

Tom Riddle was always a twisted and sick fuck even before he transformed into Voldemort.

[arbusto_baboso]

4. That could work. But I still prefer "lich".

Probably because I was a D&D geek, and liches represent ultimate evil to me.

[EOTE]

12. I think Voldemort is a kind of lich.

At least he shares a number of characteristics with them. The Horcruxes in which Voldemort has hidden his soul is very much like a lich's phylactery that also contains its soul. I wouldn't doubt it if J.K. Rowling used the lich as inspiration for Voldemort.

[TheKentuckian]

5. Darth is a Sith title not a first name, Cheney is Sithy as one gets without a red lightsaber.

[arbusto_baboso]

6. Okay, extra points to you for use of "sithy".

And btw, I know that about Sith being a title. BUT....

Most people just associate the word Darth with Darth Vader, so....

[sce56]

7. BINGO That is the correct answer! Darth Cheney fits him like a glove!

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

8. Cheney is a homunculus

He is an artificial human created by a mix of alchemy and magick. Undoubtedly the person that made him/it didn't realize the extreme evil of their creation, or they did and purposely set him loose onto the world to destroy mankind.

[War Horse]

9. OK, I will comply :)

[and-justice-for-all]

10. These is no Anakin Skywalker in Cheney....

He is DARTH (Vader) CHENEY through and through.

[shraby]

11. Why quit? He's earned the name.

[dtexdem]

13. Well, I can see how the Sith could be offended.

But he's still Darth Cheney to me, and to hell with the Sith. ;-)

Note that the title "Darth" evolved in the Star Wars fiction to mean the "Dark Lord of the Sith," always a very bad guy.

"My my this here Anakin guy
May be Vader someday later
Now he's just a small fry."

(Sorry, Weird Al.)