No, I am your father full quote

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"Luke, I am Your Father" is a misquotation of a line uttered by the villain Darth Vader in the 1980 science fiction film Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back, which is often cited as an example of the Mandela Effect.

Origin

On May 21st, 1980, the second film in the epic space opera series Star Wars was released, featuring a scene in which the antagonist Darth Vader reveals himself as Luke Skywalker's father in an attempt to manipulate him into betraying his comrades (shown below).

Vader: "Obi Wan never told you what happened to your father."
Luke: "He told me enough! He told me you killed him!"
Vader: "No, I am your father."

Throughout the 1990s, the line subsequently became a widely used trope[1] in television and film, including parodies in the 1999 comedy Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (shown below, left) and the animated children's movie Toy Story 2 released the same year (shown below, right).

Spread

On January 12th, 2006, Urban Dictionary[2] user Luke D. Lorenz submitted an entry for "I am your father," citing the "Star Wars film as the origin of the phrase. On February 14th, 2007, YouTuber Jimmania07 uploaded a video titled "Vader Makes Fun of Luke," featuring the audio from Vader's infamous "No!" clip in the film Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (shown below, left). In the next seven years, the video gained more than 2.39 million views and 3,900 comments. On May 2nd, YouTuber REALchexy94 uploaded an edited clip of the Star Wars scene with the word "mother" substituted for "father" (shown below, right), which was poorly received by the YouTube community earning over 9,000 down votes within the first six years.

On May 9th, 2008, the single-serving site No I Am Your Father[4] was launched, featuring various translations of the Vader quote, including 1337 Speak, morse code and binary ASCII. On May 11th, 2009, The Guardian[5] published an article identifying the line "Luke, I am your father" as a pervasive misquotation. On October 2nd, 2011, YouTuber bashthemonkey uploaded a recording of a 4-year-old reacting to the pivotal Star Wars scene (shown below), accumulating upwards of 3.97 million views and 4,800 comments in the following two years. On January 2nd, 2012, "Luke, I am your father" was added to Wikipedia's "List of misquotations" page.[3]

Notable Examples

Luke, Je Suis Ton Père

Luke, Je Suis Ton Père Parodies are a series of exploitable French comics featuring an illustrated depiction of Darth Vader (“Dark Vador” in French) and Luke Skywalker from the Star Wars "I am your father" scene. The comics were initially made with puns and rhyming captions before expanding to include versions in which Vader is substituted with celebrities and fictional characters.

This is the dialogue from Star Wars, The Empire Strikes back, scene where Vader tells Luke he is his father.

Vader lunges at him and Luke immediately raises his lit sword to meet
Vader’s. Sparks fly as they duel, Vader gradually forcing Luke
backward toward the gantry.

VADER
You are beaten. It is useless
to resist. Don’t let yourself
be destroyed as Obi-Wan did.

Luke answers by rolling sideways and thrusting his sword at Vader so
viciously that he nicks Vader on the shoulder. The black armor sparks
and smokes and Vader seems to be hurt, but immediately recovers.

Luke backs off along the narrow end of the gantry as Vader comes at
him, slashing at the young Jedi with his sword. Luke makes a quick
move around the instrument complex attached to the end of the gantry.
Vader’s sword comes slashing down, cutting the complex loose; it begins
to fall, then is caught by the rising wind and blown upward.

Luke glances at the instrument complex floating away. At that instant,
Vader’s sword comes down across Luke’s right forearm, cutting off his
hand and sending his sword flying. In great pain, Luke squeezes his
forearm under his left armpit and moves back along the gantry to its
extreme end. Vader
follows. The wind subsides. Luke holds on. There is nowhere else to
go.

VADER
There is no escape. Don’t make
me destroy you. You do not yet
realize your importance. You
have only begun to discover your
power. Join me and I will complete
your training. With our combined
strength, we can end this destructive
conflict and bring order to the
galaxy.

LUKE
I’ll never join you!

VADER
If you only knew the power of the
dark side. Obi-Wan never told
you what happened to your father.

LUKE
He told me enough! It was you
who killed him.

VADER
No. I am your father.

Shocked, Luke looks at Vader in utter disbelief.

LUKE
No. No. That’s not true!
That’s impossible!

VADER
Search your feelings. You know
it to be true.

LUKE
No! No! No!

VADER
Luke. You can destroy the Emperor.
He has foreseen this. It is your
destiny. Join me, and together
we can rule the galaxy as father
and son. Come with me. It is the
only way.

Vader puts away his sword and holds his hand out to Luke.

A calm comes over Luke, and he makes a decision. In the next instant
he steps off the gantry platform into space. The Dark Lord looks over
the platform and sees Luke falling far below. The wind begins to blow
at Vader’s cape and the torrent finally forces him back, away from the
edge. The wind soon fades and the wounded Jedi begins to drop fast,
unable to grab onto anything to break his fall.

INT. REACTOR SHAFT

Suddenly Luke is sucked into an exhaust pipe in the side of the shaft.
When Vader sees this, he turns and hurries off the platform.

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