Thanks to dark science and cloning, Emperor Palpatine cheated death, but the Star Wars TV shows made his return darker with a ...

There are few villains more iconic than Emperor Palpatine. Across all three Star Wars trilogies (not to mention spin-off media and video games) he's an omnipresent threat; cackling, manipulative ...

This makes it one of the most important cut scenes of the entire saga. The entire story of Palpatine’s rise, and the fight against it, showed just how much George Lucas was a student of history.

Now we know how Emperor Palpatine managed to come back from being burned to death in the fiery heart of a planet-killing superweapon. Adam Rosenberg is a Senior Games Reporter for Mashable, where ...

Clive Revill, the actor who originally voiced Emperor Palpatine in "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back," has died. He was 94.

When George Lucas created the Star Wars saga, it was a combination of many things. It has elements of Westerns, Arthurian legend, fairy tales, Samurai films, Flash Gordon serials, Frank Herbert ...