fascinating application of death of the author: fan wikis which ignore any & all information that can’t be gleaned from the fictional canon in question so you end up w pages like
To be fair:
a. this particular excerpt is taken from the Transformers fandom wiki, and concerns Darth Vader specifically as he appears in crossovers with Transformers media, not Darth Vader in broader media; and
b. the editorial policy of the Transformers wiki is not to disregard information from extradiegetic sources as a general rule; remarks like the one highlighted above are part of a decade-long running gag where the wiki’s editors pretend not to understand where human babies come from.
