SuperShadow

"SuperShadow - Threads dedicated to this big fraud are out of the question. In fact, any reference to him and/or his site will result in severe modsmacking."

- "Lad," Message Board monitor at StarWars.com. 



Mickey Suttle is a controversial, and infamous Star Wars fan who posts Star Wars news, images and FAQs on his website,  almost everyday. He uses the self-appointed nickname of SuperShadow. Many of his claims, most notably that he is friends with George Lucas and possesses advanced copies of screenplays, have made him a controversial figure among Internet Star Wars fans. Though however fake his website may be, many still feel that he has made a monumental effort at inventing all of the information that his website gives out. The only biographical details on his website are as follows: "'As you would expect, all information regarding SuperShadow is above top secret (classified at the highest level). Currently, nothing is known about SuperShadow except that SS is very close, personal friends with George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars.'" Using the "Whois" function of, it was discovered that   is owned by Mickey Suttle, of Hickory, North Carolina. He also owns: -, -  (not sirSTEVESguide), -,   -  ,   -   and -,   - all of which redirect to  , and.

In addition,  is also owned by Mickey Suttle. While not having any links to supershadow.com or mentioning the name "SuperShadow", the "SS" logo with the Rebel Alliance and Galactic Empire logos on it has the filename "super_shadow.jpg". The page also shows a fake image of Suttle.

SuperShadow.com
Mickey Suttle's website first appeared during the production of Star Wars Episode I. He released 'exclusive' information and claimed to be an Industrial Light and Magic employee and friend of George Lucas. One day later, the following disclaimer appeared: "This web site has no association with Lucasfilm. SuperShadow.com is a fan operated web site that makes no claims as to the copyrights held by Lucasfilm regarding Star Wars. Star Wars, its characters and all related items are copyright Lucasfilm." It is reasonable to assume an actual Lucasfilm employee was made aware of the site and threatened Suttle with legal action. To this day Suttle still says he is friends with George Lucas, but he no longer claims to be employed by him or have any "official" connection to Star Wars.

He continued posting "news" which turned out to be fake with the exception of stories that appeared on other websites earlier in the day. He attracted controversy again when he claimed to be in possession of the script for Star Wars Episode II--quite a feat considering George Lucas had not finished writing it at the time. SuperShadow's source was "Brad Bender, head of Lucasfilm Internet Relations". There has never been a Brad Bender employed by Lucasfilm, but this was all made elementary when Episode II turned out to be nothing like SuperShadow's version of the story. His excuse was that the script he'd received was a "Rough Draft". SuperShadow claimed to have read the script for Episode III, but could not post any information about it due to copyright law. After enough spoiler information had been released about Episode III to cobble together some kind of basic plot, he posted what he claimed to be the script - it contains only a brief rundown of each scene and no dialogue. He also claims that Lucasfilm released the title "Revenge of the Sith" earlier than expected (July instead of November) because one of his readers had successfully guessed it.

SuperShadow's Q&A
SuperShadow has attracted a legion of fans who send him their questions, which he answers on his website every day or so. These questions pertain to Star Wars history, trivia, and the upcoming movies. These appear on the index page of his site, with the answers in bold text following the questions. Example: "O.K., SS, you promised a long, long time ago and now you must tell us the real Episode III title. Finally someone guessed so speak! Great site and congratulations from Canary Islands, Spain. (SuperShadow: Wish I could, but I just promised Lucas a few days ago that I would not reveal the actual title for Episode 3. The Episode 3 title will be announced on www.starwars.com in November-December 2004.)" Suttle often contradicts himself. For example: "Hello Almighty SS, still scoring? (SuperShadow: Scoring 24/7!) Can you tell us who trained Palpatine? (SuperShadow: Darth Imperius was the master of Darth Sidious/Palpatine) Thankyou Master Shadow, this site is DA BOMB! (SuperShadow: Everyone says so.)" Then SuperShadow posted some "spoilers" for Episode III which includes this apparent quote from the movie: "Darth Plagueis was my master. He taught me the key to his power," Palpatine said. Suddenly, Palpatine's voice turned cold, and old: "...before I killed him."

This was only half correct because in the final version of Episode III, Palpatine did not explicitly state he killed his master, but that he referred to himself in the third person without revealing who he was. The quote is actually from the novelization of Revenge of the Sith, and was originally posted on millenniumfalcon.com. Regardless, the master was Plagueis, not Imperius. On March 28, 2005, it appeared that his website was suspended, although it stated "for billing purposes". However, he soon returned.

Supershadow also declares that DVDs produced by him are distributed by Walmart and Best Buy. No such DVDs have ever been seen.

Finally, on his Q&A, Supershadow usually tells fans that their ideas are "gold, excellent" and they will be forwarded to Lucas. It doesn't make sense, that George Lucas has so much time to hear so many ideas from fans, since Star Wars is only one of his projects. The way that SS portrays Lucas, it suggests he spends most, if not all of his free time to Star Wars.

Star Wars sequel trilogies
SuperShadow claims to possess the scripts, or at least the outlines, for Episodes VII, VIII and IX of Star Wars. These involve an army of Dark Jedi on rocketpacks, a superweapon which creates black holes, and characters fighting clones of each other. An excerpt from Star Wars Episode IX: Victory of the Force reads as follows: "Ben and Anakin battle Horgon while the real Luke battles the Luke clone and Mara Jade battles the Vader clone. Horgon strikes down Anakin. Ben screams in anger and then lunges at Horgon with all his might. The real Luke cuts the clone Luke in half. The real Luke then turns to fight Horgon in order to prevent Horgon from killing Ben. The Vader clone battles Mara Jade. They exchange many, many blows." SuperShadow also claims that the Sequel Trilogy will not be made by Lucasfilm, but by SuperShadow himself, and the fans that support his website. He has specified that the shooting will begin in 2014, and he receives and posts many comments about it. (Recently, however, it was said in the "Lucas" Q&A that SuperShadow chose not to direct the sequels, delegating Episodes 7-9 to Ridley Scott, Peter Jackson and James Cameron respectively.) His episodes 7-9 are titled "The Fallen Hero", SuperShadow's "The Republic in Crisis" and "Victory of the Force”. SuperShadow claims these scripts have been written by George Lucas, even though the creator of Star Wars has said many times that Episode 3 "Revenge of the Sith" will be the final Star Wars film.

Recently, SuperShadow and "GL" have announced another Sequel Trilogy to be made after George Lucas's untimely demise. One of the few known facts is that R2-D2 and C-3PO won't be appearing in the trilogy.

The main enemy of "10-12" is suppossed to be the ultimate evil, The Raverons. This is probably the SuperShadow version of the New Jedi Order Series, and the Raverons are probably his version of the Yuuzhan Vong. SuperShadow also claims the sequels will feature a battle between an aged Mace Windu and Boba Fett, where Fett "finally gets his revenge" against Windu for the death of his father. This however would be difficult as Windu was killed by then-Supreme Chancellor Palpatine in 19 BBY.

The two Star Wars TV Series
In response to a question posted on October 2, 2005 by a fan about the two Star Wars TV series: the animated Star Wars: Clone Wars and the live-action series, SuperShadow responded that "I have been given full control over the Star Wars TV shows. Expect greatness."

Most powerful Jedi Knights and Sith Lords
There is a ranking system on the website that contains characters from the Star Wars movies, the Expanded Universe, and others which appear nowhere except SuperShadow.com. Suttle claims that these characters correspond with George Lucas' "vision" of Star Wars, even though most do not have published stories or profiles on StarWars.com.

History of the Jedi and Sith
An exhaustive history of the Jedi Knights and their enemies, the Sith. Much of this information can be found nowhere else except Supershadow.com.

Midi-chlorian list
SuperShadow claims to have invented the concept of midi-chlorians, and has compiled a list of each character and their midi-chlorian count. Most of these characters are not recognized by Lucasfilm and only appear on SuperShadow.com.

History of Star Wars
A timeline of the Star Wars phenomenon, starting in 1974 with the release of George Lucas' second film, American Graffiti. For an unexplained reason, "Star Wars" is always highlighted in blue and "History" in yellow, making it look like SuperShadow typed "Star Wars + History" into a search engine and copied the result. Because the effect of this is that it looks particularly sloppy some people believe that SuperShadow is a parody of obsessed fans, and the site is then deliberately awful.

SuperShadow's Galactic Map
While he does not claim to own this image of the Star Wars galaxy, he was very careful to blackout the accreditations of the image's creator: E.S.P of Nav-Computer.com.

SuperShadow's Episode 3 cameo
In the midi-chlorian list, SuperShadow claims to have a cameo in Episode 3 starring as a Jedi Knight named "Nebar Foxis". In the "Brief History of the Jedi and Sith", a historical account posted on his site, "Nebar Foxis" is described as "the best looking male Jedi of his time". "Nebar Foxis" is nowhere to be found in Revenge of the Sith.

Star Wars fan fiction
SuperShadow's readers send in their own stories, which he posts. The section is mostly concerned with Episode 3 fanscripts.

SuperShadow's filmography
This page claims that "SuperShadow is one of the world's premier documentary film makers. SuperShadow specializes in films about the paranormal, cryptozoology and extraterrestrials", and lists about two dozen documentaries, none of which exist outside of supershadow.com.

SuperShadow's girlfriend
SuperShadow claims as his girlfriend an "attractive" woman; typically, this "girlfriend" is a non-nude photo of a porno star or model. By SuperShadow's own admission, he "just can't stop scoring". A number of the women pictured on his website (which is changed occasionally) have sued Suttle, though most of the cases were settled out of court. Apparently, they are less impressed with his 'scoring' than he is himself.

SuperShadow has posted numerous glamour photos of a woman he claims is his girlfriend. As of January 2006, the images are taken from the public section of Bullz-Eye.com, a subscription-based bikini model website, of a blonde woman named Lauren. The images have been noticeably edited to smudge out the copyright owner information and date. The previously depicted lingerie model (possibly scanned from a magazine) that was on his site for at least a year is now listed (humorously, in double-negative fashion) as "Former Ex-Girlfriend."

SuperShadow's delusions of grandeur
"The EU is completely false and does not correspond with GL's (George Lucas) vision."

- Mickey Suttle

Below is a list of things that are totally non-canonical (in some cases even completely false) and cannot be substantiated anywhere other than SuperShadow and those who believe him.

Creations

 * Darth Seer, who reorganized the Sith Order and trained Darth Mongerer.
 * Darth Mirage, Darth Sinistar, Darth Horrar, Darth Thrax, Darth Slane, Darth Vak, Darth Vicrone, and Darth Secretus.
 * Three different force using orders. One, the Sutrans, a group of light side users who do not follow the way of the Jedi. This order supposedly contained many member of ET's species. Two, the Vortari, named after their founder Lady Vortari. Three, the Biotans
 * Kaja Sinis, the first Jedi and a Civian, his first apprentice being Shintor Beerus, a Twi'lek.
 * Zuti Darklighter, the first Dark Jedi.
 * Darth Tantalon, the most Force-powerful Sith and Darth Cladar, the most physically powerful.
 * The Penari lightsaber, a Jedi scientist created yellow lightsaber capable of cutting through other lightsabers. The weapon was supposedly considered too dangerous by the Jedi Council, and destroyed. The picture of the weapon is actually a beam sword from Super Smash Bros, made obvious by the token floating underneath it. The saber is supposedly powered exclusively by illegal yellow saber crystals, which are only used in the Penari lightsaber.
 * Darth Scarz, the first Sith. (The name Darth is generally thought to originate with either Darth Revan, or Darth Andeddu) The first Dark lord of the Sith was either Ajunta Pall or the Red-Armored Dark Lord.
 * Xio Jade, the supposed aunt of Mara Jade, and the most powerful female Sith in history.
 * Many other Jedi, Dark Jedi, and Sith Lords.
 * The existence of the Force powers Force grab, Force fireball, Force tornado, Force earthquake, Force avalanche, and Force vanish.
 * That Mace Windu comes from a planet named Erberius (He's from Haruun Kal).
 * That Lando Calrissian comes from a planet named Zaskus.
 * The planet of Pilegias, claiming that Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi was born there. He also claims that Kenobi was found by the Jedi Order on the planet Kelchase, another creation of his.
 * The planet and system of Valorius, the supposed origin point of the Dark Side, which is destroyed in SuperShadow's sequel trilogy.
 * The planet of Thessius, claimed to be the watery island world Shmi Skywalker moved to, before she was sold to slavery, but not before giving birth to Anakin Skywalker.
 * The first Sith monarch, Darth Ghore.
 * The so-called "dumbest Sith", Darth Kanamite.
 * The Black Hole Devastator, a superweapon capable of destroying an entire star system by creating an artificial black hole.
 * That the youngest Jedi to be appointed to the Jedi Council before Anakin Skywalker was not Mace Windu, but a 27-year-old Jedi named Gnaren Viskus, who joined the Council for his ability to foresee the Yakter rebellion (also SuperShadow's invention).
 * That Jango Fett was born on Zogeis (He was born on Concord Dawn).
 * Norius Havok, the most powerful Dark Jedi in history.

Name changes

 * That Yoda is a Whill (no relation to Journal of the Whills) from a planet named Grentarik, and that his last name is Dkana. SuperShadow also claims that his father's name was Syville Dmetris Dkana, and that his trainer was Bontu Sitmus, also a Whill
 * That Anakin Skywalker's middle name is Cleevon.
 * That Ben Skywalker's middle name is Jhon.
 * That the name of the Star Wars Galaxy is Vordarian Beltway Galaxy, and that it is 850 trillion light-years away from the Milky Way galaxy, though the Universe is found to only be 78 billion light-years in diameter. The only official description given about the Star Wars galaxy in relation to the Milky Way is that it is a galaxy far, far away.
 * That Dantius is the first name of Palpatine, Jard is the first name of Count Dooku, that General Grievous' last name is Shakor, and that he is of a species named Omix Patra (General Grievous is of the Kaleesh species; the first names of Palpatine and Dooku are not revealed in the canon, and Grievous' real name is Qymaen jai Sheelal). He later reviewed and changed the race of Grievous, probably after being warned by a fan.
 * That Darth Maul's real name is Khameir Sarin.

Plot changes

 * That the Galactic Republic is at least 75000 years old, and its first Supreme Chancellor was named Merk Quanto. The majority of canon sources state the Republic is just around 25000 years old, and its current incarnation has stood for 1000 years.
 * That Darth Sidious had another apprentice before and after Darth Maul, Darth Venom, who trained Darth Orcron and broke the rule of two, and Darth Rage, a Toban from Yetis, who was killed by Plo Koon using the Force Avalanche technique, another SuperShadow creation
 * The Rodar Wizards of Perdonis, who supposedly created the kyber/kaiburr crystal (which is not a SuperShadow creation, it appears in the first EU novel Splinter of the Mind's Eye) over 100,000 years BBY, and, in his words 'made Emperor Palpatine look like a nun'. SuperShadow also claims that Darth Sidious uses such a crystal to amplify his power. Described as being so poweful that any Jedi or Sith that went up against them "would be slaughtered".
 * That lightsabers were invented around the founding of the Jedi Order. (Whereas during the Great Schism they didn't seem to have been developed, until the primitive ones of the Great Hyperspace War).
 * That Darth Plagueis was trained by Darth Imperius, trained by Darth Baltimort, trained by Darth Frordon.
 * That Anakin Skywalker had no contact with Count Dooku before meeting him in the Invisible Hand. This gives the impression that SuperShadow considers himself above the movies, the highest canon.
 * That Mara Jade married Luke Skywalker five years ABY, despite contradictions in various EU books which state that they did not even meet until 9 ABY. In his defense, SuperShadow has said that "the EU is fake", but he himself uses many EU ideas and characters in his rough drafts and sequel trilogy plot summaries.
 * That Mace Windu has been hiding on Coruscant ever since Episode III (he "lands on refuse that safely breaks his fall") and will feature heavily in his proposed sequel trilogy. Since SuperShadow also claims that Kyle Katarn will be around 65 years old by Episode VII, Windu, even if he did survive Episode III, would die of old age before Episode VII. (To explain this, SuperShadow claims that Humans can live up to 300 years through bio-engineering.)
 * That Count Dooku never killed a Jedi, although it is widely known that Dooku killed his old friend and Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas in order to prove to Sidious his Sith potential, for one.
 * That Yarael Poof was trained by Zinkor Dawn, and that Even Piell was trained by Haccor Topkin.
 * That Mace Windu was trained by Cloto Nervon on Ophuchi
 * That Anakin Solo was trained by Apriles Mondifer, and that Ben Skywalker was trained by Hirin Voltkack.
 * That Grievous was almost defeated by three Jedi prior to his duel with Obi-Wan, one of which was Nebar Foxis, the Jedi for who he claims to have a cameo role in Revenge of the Sith.
 * That Luke Skywalker will destroy the dark side of the Force eventually. which is essentially impossible.
 * That by the end of the Clone Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi was by far the most powerful Force-user in the galaxy, ranking above both Darth Sidious and Yoda.
 * That Darth Bane is  "alive and kicking"  during his proposed third trilogy. Darth Bane died either of old age or someone killed him before Yoda was born.
 * The remains of the Separatists were taken back to Coruscant by Darth Sidious and his clone troopers when they came to Mustafar to save Darth Vader.
 * Mace Windu's lightsaber was found and sold at an auction a few months later.
 * Aurra Sing was killed by Nto Boraj during the Galactic Civil War.

Other changes

 * That Zam Wesell is really a male and is in disguise as a female human
 * That Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas is Ogdarian (in Star Wars Visionaries, he's human).
 * That Darth Maul's Sith Infiltrator lacked a cloaking device, another sign of his defiance of canon material like the Visual Dictionaries.
 * That the planet Granicus was the homeworld of the Gran (they're from Kinyen).
 * That Darth Revan was killed by a force avalanche, and that his apprentice Malak lost his jaw in a fight with a Jedi master named Kylo Spartos
 * Darth Gilgon and his apprentice Darth Augor.
 * Plo Koon was trained by Diris Flassis, rather than by Tyvokka.
 * That General Grievous has a Midichlorian count higher than an ordinary Jedi. The Episode III Visual Dictionary announced that General Grievous is not Force-sensitive.
 * That Exar Kun was not a very powerful Sith lord, ranking less that 15 on SuperShadow's 'Top 15 Most Powerful Sith Lords’. This is surprising, as he claims that the game KOTOR is canon, and in KOTOR Exar Kun is referred to by certain characters as one of the most powerful Sith Lord in history.
 * That Jango Fett was not a Mandalorian warrior (he was Mandalore) and simply found his armor in the trash.
 * That the Yuuzhan Vong are not canon and never invade the galaxy.
 * That Adi Gallia was killed by Clones, Pablo-Jill was killed by clones on Gedius (one of his creations) and Bultar Swan was killed by Super Battle Droids. George Lucas doesn't give the Expanded Universe authors free reign over the movie character's fates. Adi Gallia and Pablo-Jill were killed by General Grievous during the Clone wars. Bultar Swan went up against Darth Vader one month after the events depicted in Revenge of the Sith and another Jedi, named Koffi Arana, killed her and then was was killed by Darth Vader.

Statements

 * It is thought that his script of Episode III has been plagiarized, as it is identical to various other scripts.
 * That the tradition of cremating dead Jedi originated by a Jedi being disintegrated by a bounty hunter.
 * That Lucas said the Expanded Universe is fake, although he ties in the EU in many of his false statements. The truth is the Expanded Universe relates to the movies by extending to the story lines of the movies. George Lucas authorized the EU and is iron handed when it comes to Star Wars. The EU and the movies have some contradictions to each other. George Lucas approves of the EU story lines that take place in between the movies and what covers before and after the movies.
 * That the Clone Wars cartoon series doesn't represent George Lucas's vision of Star Wars and is just for fun.
 * That in general, the Expanded Universe is just for fun or pretend. Acording to George Lucas and his vision of Star Wars the Expanded Universe does not exist.
 * That George Lucas says to ignore the EU because it's irrelavent. The EU covers some character fates and what happens in between the movies.
 * That most fans never follow the expanded universe and that the George Lucas considers the Expanded Universe garbage.
 * That the Star Wars books and comics don't count as canon. The EU novels and comics by Dark Horse Comics are either secondary canon or continuity canon. Only the movies are George Lucas canon and novelizations along with comic book adaptions. George Lucas canonized the books and comics that are supposed to relate to the movies. The only comic books by Dark Horse Comics that don't count as canon and are non canon are Star Wars Infinities: A New Hope, Star Wars Infinities: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Infinities: Return of the Jedi. Also what are non canon are those in the Star Wars Tales that aren't movie related and anything that's Infinities related.
 * That Time Travel doesn't exist in the Star Wars Universe. Yet when replying to a question by a fan the day after regarding time travel he made no mention of this, and even encouraged the idea.
 * That General Grievous was inspired by Darth Rage for a mechanical force using villain since George Lucas didn't include Darth Rage in the movies who was said to be Darth Sidious's Sith apprentice after Darth Maul was killed by Obi-Wan Kenobi.
 * That most or many fans don't know that the New Jedi Order novel series exists.
 * That George Lucas asks fans to stop writing Star Wars fan fiction, when he in fact encourages it on sites such as FanFiction.net and George Lucas despises fan fiction on Star Wars. George Lucas is not concerned about fan fiction as long as it is not done for profit.
 * That George Lucas thinks that all Star Wars Expanded Universe material should be obliterated.
 * That a Sith Lord or Dark Jedi at death has her or his spirit obliterated from existence and there is no afterlife for a Sith Lord or Dark Jedi.

SuperShadow's relationship with other websites
Supershadow.com does not link to any other Star Wars sites, since the vast majority openly state that he is a fraud. Most major Star Wars news websites have some sort of disclaimer which warns that any information found on supershadow.com and not verified elsewhere is fake. How he has attracted so many readers and why his site remains relatively popular remains a mystery.

On February 18, 2006, Supershadow posted on his own site, in response to a question relating to this very question:

"SS: if you consult for GL, how come you don't have any links to the official site (starwars.com) or other Star Wars pages? (SuperShadow: We link to web sites only if their content was created by Lucas. starwars.com is not an official Lucas web site. SuperShadow.com is the official web site of George Lucas. We have exclusive Lucas-created content available only at SS.com. Lucas doesn’t want us linking to starwars.com because it contains so much false information from the expanded universe of novels, comic books and video games. Look around. 90% of our content comes directly from Lucas. Lucas has stated that his vision only covers the Star Wars films and SS.com. All other sources are fake, made-up stuff.)"

Status of SuperShadow.com

 * As of November 11, 2005, SuperShadow's website was apparently down.
 * As of December 2, 2005, the following statement is made under "About SuperShadow". Given the threats of legal action against Mr. Suttle from his original claim to be an employee of Industrial Light and Magic, it is a wonder the same has not been done after the addition of this statement as it has been there for at least two weeks.
 * "SuperShadow is legendary for revealing the plot scripts to Star Wars Episode 1, 2 and 3 many years prior to their theatrical release. Currently, SS is employed by Lucasfilm as a high-paid consultant related to future Star Wars and Indiana Jones projects."


 * As of January 11, 2006 (if not before), the following claim was added to "About SuperShadow":
 * "SuperShadow.com is the official web site of George Lucas."

Attack on Wookieepedia
On November 2, 2005, a user by the name of "SuperShadow" attempted to attack Wookieepedia. They tried to redirect hundreds of articles to the main page, but were stopped in their tracks and banned from the site. Further attempts under user names similar to SuperShadow were made to attack the site, but they too were shut down.

The person behind the attacks was identified to be from Kentucky, which proved that he was not Mickey Suttle, the real SuperShadow.

The only lasting effect of the attack was a positive one, as it prompted the creation of a standardized vandalism reporting function on Wookieepedia.