Invention of The Sith
Star Wars creator George Lucas took the name "Sith" from Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter of Mars series in which the sith are giant, venomous, hornet-like insects that are difficult to kill. The first use of the word "Sith" is in the Star Wars novelization for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, as a title for Darth Vader, the "Dark Lord of the Sith." The Sith are not formally introduced or mentioned as such on-screen until Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, the fourth film to be released, though they had been named in the Expanded Universe before that time.
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