While Darth Vader may be more machine than man in Star Wars, it never made him any less capable as his master's enforcer for the Empire, and the depths of his rage once allowed him to exceed the limits of his armor. In Marvel Comics' first Darth Vader run, taking place in the days after A New Hope, one of Vader's rivals thought he had an advantage over the Dark Sith Lord due to his expertise when it came to cybernetics. He was very, very wrong.
After Disney purchased Lucasfilm in 2012, the comics publishing rights to Star Wars went back to Marvel Comics, and they began to publish a variety of official canonical series. This included their first run of Darth Vader, which began in 2015 from writer Kieron Gillen and artist Salvador Larroca, and taking place after Darth Vader's failure to prevent the Rebels from destroying the first Death Star. In the series, the Emperor displayed an interest in the work of the human scientist Cylo, who was instrumental in helping build the cybernetic systems and armor that kept Vader alive. However, Cylo's work post-Vader saw him creating cybernetic agents capable of being effective operatives without the use of the Force and his intense rivalry with Vader eventually led to Cylo's actions being viewed as treasonous to the Empire. As a result, the Emperor ordered Vader to eliminate Cylo.
But Cylo revealed that he had a final card up his sleeve in Darth Vader #23-24, activating a kill switch he had kept hidden for years, rendering Vader's armor frozen and inoperable. With Vader unable to move, Cylo believed himself to be victorious. However, Vader had an intense vision while immobile, remembering his late wife, his master Obi-Wan, and his choice to abandon his former self as Anakin Skywalker in favor of the strength and power his role in the dark side provided. Drawing upon his immense self-hatred, pain, and rage, Vader used the dark side of the Force to move in his armor in spite of Cylo's kill switch, much to the scientist's shock... though he wasn't shocked for very long.
Cylo absolutely underestimated Vader, wrongfully assuming that the Dark Lord, thinking that he could be controlled like any other machine Cylo had built. He was very ignorant and unaware of the fact that the entire reason Vader needs cybernetics to begin with is because of his dark, tragic, and painful past, which he uses as a bottomless source to fuel his rage and power in the dark side of the Force.
While some might have thought that Vader's armored suit and life support systems would be his chief weakness, it's pretty clear that the Dark Lord of the Sith is able to circumvent many of its limitations with the Force when the situation calls for it (though probably not indefinitely). In any case, Darth Vader proved in these issues that just because much of his physical body might have been replaced, augmented, and/or supported by machines, he's still a powerful Lord of the Sith who refuses to be dominated or held back by his armored suit in the Star Wars universe.
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