SuperShadow

Mickey E. Suttle is a controversial and infamous Star Wars fan who posts so-called Star Wars news, images and FAQs on his website, supershadow.com almost every day, using the 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.

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.'" The Whois service reveals that  is owned by Mickey Suttle, of Hickory, North Carolina, who also appears to own a law firm. His location is also stated on FindLaw. The owner of the SuperShadow.com domain also owns MickeySuttle.com

SuperShadow.com
Mickey Suttle's website first appeared during the production of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. He released "exclusive" information and claimed to be an Industrial Light & 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." 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: Attack of the Clones, even though 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 academic 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 that he had read the script for Episode III, but could not post any information about it due to copyright restrictions. 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&mdash;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.

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In addition, mickeysuttle.com 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'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. An 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, originally he claimed that Darth Imperius (a character that does not exist in Star Wars canon) was Darth Sidious's Sith master. Then SuperShadow posted some so-called spoilers for Episode III, which include 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.

Also, on his Q&A, SuperShadow often tells fans that their ideas are "gold, excellent" and they will be forwarded to Lucas.

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. 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", "The Republic in Crisis" and "Victory of the Force". SuperShadow claims these scripts have been written by George Lucas, even though Lucas himself has said many times that Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith will be the final Star Wars film.



Recently, SuperShadow has announced another sequel trilogy, consisting of Episodes X, XI and XII. He claims that R2-D2 and C-3PO won't be appearing in the trilogy. The main enemy of the second sequel trilogy is supposed to be the ultimate evil, the Raverons.

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 impossible, as both Windu and Boba are canonically dead. (Windu was wipedout by Order 66, and Fett was eaten by the Sarlaccin Return of the Jedi.

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's "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. Very little of it has canon to back it up.

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.

He has said that General Grievous, who is not Force-sensitive, has many midi-chlorians. He also once claimed Wicket W. Warrick has -1 midi-chlorian count.

History of Star Wars
A timeline of the Star Wars phenomenon, starting in 1973 with the release of George Lucas's second film, American Graffiti. For an unexplained reason, "Star Wars" is always highlighted in blue and "History" in yellow.

SuperShadow's galactic map
While he does not claim to own this image of the Star Wars galaxy, SuperShadow was very careful to blackout the accreditations of the image's creator: E.S.P of nav-computer.com.

SuperShadow's Episode III cameo
In the midi-chlorian list, SuperShadow claims to have a cameo in Episode III 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". He claims he is the Jedi with long hair fighting Anakin Skywalker in the security hologram, but this is really Nick Gillard playing Cin Drallig.

This claim was specifically debunked in Star Wars Insider 86.

"Nebar Foxis doesn't exist&mdash;it's another fan-created story that's spread across the Internet, but there is no such character in Star Wars."

- Pablo Hidalgo

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

SuperShadow's filmography
This page claims that "SuperShadow is one of the world's premier documentary film makers, although none of his films have been found by SS, or Anti-SS, Fans. 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 has posted numerous glamour photos of women he claims are his girlfriend(s). As of January 2006, the images are taken from the public section of Bullz-Eye.com, a subscription-based bikini model website, of a woman named Lauren. The images have been noticeably edited to smudge out the copyright owner information and date.

As of April 2006, he removed the picture gallery of Lauren and replaced it with the previous lingerie model picture as well as a link to a page of "SuperShadow's Girlfriends wearing the Princess Leia bikini from Return of the Jedi" which appears to be a gallery of random female fans wearing home-made "slave Leia" outfits at fan conventions or Star Wars themed parties. The first photo shows a male Star Wars fan standing next to the woman in a slave Leia costume, and his face is edited out. This man is Jonathan L. Bowen, a fan who attended Star Wars Celebration 3.

As usual, these new pictures are copied directly from other sites, for example Kerri Valkova's costume page. Other images were plundered from a site devoted to Leia's Metal Bikini.

Another picture is of a woman wearing a Leia outfit at a Star Wars themed party or convention with a "painted on" top and bottom (only the "loin cloth" and boots are real), taken from another website.

In late June 2006, he removed all the pictures without explanation and the page simply reads "Supershadow's Girlfriend." Many speculate that he is having legal troubles with one of these women.

As of September 2006, the lingerie model magazine scan has reappeared again, with the usual text. Her true identity is still unknown.

He has also been noted to have directly taken one of the fanmade desktop wallpapers from rabbittooth.com. This was the Leia Organa Solo wallpaper, featuring her in her famous Jabba slave bikini. He provides no credit to rabbittooth.com which explicitly requires such if any of its images are to be used elsewhere.

SuperShadow's claims and fanon creations
In his and "Lucas"'s replies, Suttle often mentions characters, events and other in-universe entities that do not actually exist in Star Wars canon and are not mentioned in any published works. Besides the aforementioned Nebar Foxis, a Jedi allegedly played by SuperShadow himself, notable creations of Suttle include Kaja Sinis and Darth Scarz (who are said to be the first Jedi and Sith, respectively) and Grentarik, Yoda's alleged homeworld, among many others. He also gave names to some characters who only have one name in canon, such as Dantius Palpatine, Jard Dooku, and Yoda Dkana.

Suttle presents his creations as part of "George Lucas's true vision of Star Wars". The Expanded Universe, he claims, is "fake" and exists only to make money for Lucasfilm Ltd., even though Suttle himself freely uses Expanded Universe material in his own replies and sequel trilogy claims, regarding at least some of its characters as valid. To date, he has made numerous other claims about Star Wars, Lucas, and Lucasfilm, many of which are not supported by any official sources.

Status of SuperShadow.com
On November 11, 2005, SuperShadow's website was apparently down.

As of December 2, 2005, the following statement was made under "About SuperShadow".

"'SuperShadow is legendary for revealing the plot scripts to Star Wars Episode 1, 2 and 3 many years prior to their theatrical release."

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."

As of January 2006, Suttle posted that he has a high paying consulting job for Lucasfilm. He also claimed that he was featured prominently in the special features of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith'.

On May 17, 2006, SuperShadow introduced a PayPal link to his page, stating: "Your donation makes you an official member of SuperShadow.com".

The Wookieepedian "SuperShadow"
On November 2, 2005, a user by the name of "SuperShadow" launched an attack of vandalism against Wookieepedia. The person behind the attacks was identified to be from Kentucky, which proved that he was probably not Mickey Suttle, the owner of SuperShadow.com.

MySpace profile
Someone claiming to be Mickey Suttle has a MySpace profile, where he apologized and confessed to deceiving fans as SuperShadow. However, there is no proof that the message was posted by the real Mickey Suttle, as another MySpace profile exists and Suttle's main website is still operating.

Lucasfilm response
In issue #90 (November-December 2006) of the Star Wars Insider, Lucasfilm's Pablo Hidalgo stated in response to a question about SuperShadow: "The site, and the person who runs it, have absolutely no relationship with Lucasfilm or George Lucas. The person who runs it has never met nor talked to George Lucas. So-called information, "scoops", and interviews on the site are complete fabrications. Lucasfilm has taken action against the site several times when it has attempted to solicit fans' money under false pretenses."

- Pablo Hidalgo

Group theory
There is a research done within the Shadowscourge community which alleges that "SuperShadow" is actually a collective pseudonym, and the original group behind SuperShadow included four people. Mickey Suttle, it claims, is the only one known of them because he owns the domain, and he regularly receives hostile phone calls from disgruntled visitors.