Anakin Skywalker (Padawan) — Star Wars The Black Series #110
The Black Series Anakin Skywalker in AOTC Padawan configuration — Red Line #110, 2020. The young Hayden Christensen portrait with Padawan braid and blue lightsaber. The Red Line's first numbered Anakin. Collector guide.
Overview
Red Line #110 is Anakin Skywalker in his Attack of the Clones Padawan configuration — the black Jedi robes, the single Padawan braid, the Hayden Christensen face at approximately 20, the blue lightsaber of a Jedi who is being trained and who already exceeds his training. This is the numbered Red Line’s first Anakin Skywalker — the franchise’s most significant single character, the man who becomes Darth Vader and whose redemption is the original trilogy’s emotional purpose, arriving at #110 in the sequence’s closing trio of prequel Jedi.
Blue lightsaber. 19 joints. 8 total Anakin releases. MSRP $19.99.
The AOTC Padawan Configuration
The AOTC configuration captures Anakin at the specific age and circumstance where the prequel tragedy begins its active phase. He is reunited with Padmé. He is sent to protect her over Obi-Wan’s assignment. He returns to Tatooine, finds his mother dying from Tusken Raiders, and kills them all — men, women, and children — in the first act of the specific rage that Palpatine will channel for the next three years into the Sith apprentice who becomes Vader.
The black Jedi robes are Anakin’s specific contribution to the Jedi visual tradition — where other Jedi wear the traditional brown-and-tan, Anakin’s black robes communicate both the darkness of his path and the specific vanity of a young man who knows he is exceptional and has begun to dress like it. The Padawan braid on this figure marks the specific pre-Knighthood stage: Anakin is still technically a learner, but he is already the most powerful person in any room he enters.
The Padawan Braid and What Follows
The Padawan braid on the AOTC Anakin is one of the most narratively freighted specific accessories in the prequel collection. He wears it here. By ROTS, it is gone — cut during his Knighting, which the theatrical cut of ROTS doesn’t show but which the extended materials have dramatised. The braid communicates the specific window: after TPM’s child Anakin, before ROTS’s Knight Anakin, the adolescent-to-young-adult Anakin who is most actively being shaped into what he will become.
The Red Line’s Anakin Arc
The Red Line numbered sequence’s Anakin coverage: no earlier numbered slot, then Padawan at #110, two figures from the sequence’s end. This specific absence — Anakin Skywalker not appearing in the numbered Red Line until #110 — reflects the production team’s decision to cover the prequel era’s Anakin with the 2020 wave rather than earlier. For collectors who want the complete Anakin arc in Black Series numbered configurations, Phase 4 releases (Clone Wars, Force Spirit, ROTS) provide the subsequent chapters.
Secondary Market
Above-retail secondary market prices sustained by the franchise’s central character and the 2020 wave’s prequel concentration. Verify the lightsaber on secondary market purchases. No production variants documented.
Verdict
The Red Line’s first and only numbered Anakin Skywalker. Buy for the prequel Jedi display, the AOTC Padawan configuration, or Red Line sequence completion.
Anakin and Padmé at the AOTC Crossroads
The AOTC configuration covers the specific period where Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala’s relationship moves from the reconnection after ten years apart to the secret marriage on Naboo that Palpatine will exploit for the next three years. The specific dynamic the figure covers: Anakin is assigned to protect Padmé, follows her to Naboo, tells her he loves her while she attempts to hold the line against the relationship, and they are captured on Geonosis together.
The two figures — Anakin Padawan (#110) and Padmé AOTC (#81) — create the specific AOTC Naboo and Geonosis display. Both arrived in the Red Line at consistent 2019-2020 production quality. The arena scene requires both.
Anakin Across Eight Releases
Eight Black Series Anakin releases trace the character from his first 2014 Phase 1 appearance through the 2020 Padawan, the Clone Wars animated configuration, and beyond to the Force Spirit. The Red Line #110 fills the AOTC Padawan slot specifically — the earliest numbered Red Line Anakin and the most Jedi-uncorrupted. The black robes and the braid before everything.
The Absence as Statement
Anakin Skywalker’s absence from the Red Line numbered sequence until #110 — while Luke, Han, Leia, and most other principal characters entered much earlier — is itself a production statement. The original trilogy’s Luke (multiple configurations) and the sequel trilogy’s principals were prioritised in the 2015-2018 waves; the prequel era’s central character waited until the 2020 closing wave. When he arrives, he arrives as a Padawan — not Vader, not the war hero of the Clone Wars, but the young man with the braid who still has all his choices ahead of him.
Anakin Skywalker at #110 is the penultimate named Jedi in the Red Line sequence — three figures from the end, the franchise’s most important character appears in his most uncorrupted configuration. The black robes and the braid before the choices that define the next twenty years. Above-retail secondary market prices. Verify lightsaber. No production variants documented.
The Anakin Padawan configuration is the one that makes the most sense of everything that follows. The black robes communicate the darkness ahead; the Padawan braid communicates how far he still has to fall before he gets there. Display alongside Obi-Wan Jedi Knight (#111), the Padmé AOTC (#81), and the Geonosis Battle Droids (#108) for the sequence’s most complete AOTC display.
Anakin Skywalker at #110, Obi-Wan Kenobi at #111, Kit Fisto at #112: the Red Line’s final three figures are all prequel Jedi. The sequence that documented the franchise’s future — TFA characters, TROS characters, Mandalorian characters — closes in the prequel past, with the Order that existed before everything went wrong.
Anakin Skywalker arrives at #110 having been the most conspicuous absence in the numbered Red Line sequence — the man at the centre of six of the nine main saga films, appearing in the numbered sequence only in its final three figures. The wait was worth it. The Padawan configuration is the right one: before the Vader armour, before the yellow eyes, before any of it. Just the braid and the black robes and the choices still unmade.
Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Red Line. Related: Obi-Wan Kenobi Jedi Knight P3-111 | Padmé Amidala P3-81 | Attack of the Clones | All Anakin figures.