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Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars will finally show how Emperor Palpatine fulfilled his original dark side promise to Darth Vader.
Padmé Amidalahas a subtle dark side in Star Wars, and it's a bit too close to Emperor Palpatine/Darth Sidious for comfort.
One of Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker’s wildest fan theories doesn’t hold a lot of water any more — but it does include Darth Vader, Emperor Palpatine, Kylo Ren, Rey, virgin birth, and Marvel ...
(Image credit: Disney+) How Star Wars Re-Introduced Palpatine’s Rise To Power. Before it was de-canonized by Disney, a bulk of what we knew about Darth Plagueis and Sheev Palpatine came from the ...
Variety spoke to Emperor Palpatine actor Ian McDiarmid for the Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith re-release. The topic turned to Palpatine’s TV show, where McDiarmid was asked if he was given any ...
Which is to say, we open on Darth Vader, having dominated a gigantic mono-eyed space squid through the sheer will of the Dark Side, floating down to meet his master Palpatine in the shadow of ...
When Darth Vader tosses Palpatine down the Death Star shaft at the end of Return of the Jedi, a blast of blue energy indicates that something down there had broken. And up until this year, it ...
Darth Vader Killed Emperor Palpatine, Sacrificing Himself In The Process. Flash forward to the Original Trilogy era of Star Wars, and we see Emperor Palpatine seemingly high on the hog.
Darth Plagueis Palpatine was successful in his bid to rule the known galaxy for a multitude of reasons. He pulled strings in the political and spiritual arenas, ...
The resurrection of Emperor Palpatine after his trip down a reactor shaft—a shaft that was then promptly blown to bits—in Return of the Jedi might, at first, seem to come out of nowhere.