In both Star Wars Legends and canon, Emperor Palpatine was obsessed with attaining immortality. To his credit, Palpatine mastered the Sith art of essence transfer, as shown in The Rise of ...

But there was one influence Lucas wasn’t remotely subtle about and that’s how much Palpatine’s rise to Emperor in the prequels was a direct analogy to Hitler’s ascendency in 1930s Germany.

Emperor Palpatine is widely regarded as the most diabolical ... Star Wars Legacy: War #6 – written by John Ostrander, with art by Jan Duursema – was the spectacular conclusion to the ...

‘There is a great disturbance in the Force,’ says the evil hologram of Darth Sidious or Emperor Palpatine to Darth Vader in a pivotal scene. This line was still much quoted to Revill, despite ...

So I looked back and, sure enough, back in May 2024 I preordered an Emperor Palpatine Star Wars Black Series figure. Ugh. Why did I do that? Did I even still want it? It’s been almost a year.