The Star Wars franchise is unmatched for quotable lines, and some of the best are spoken by the villainous Emperor Palpatine.

In Revenge of the Sith, we saw how Palpatine's devious Order 66 command caused Clone Troopers throughout the galaxy to … Continue reading "Star Wars Didn’t Need Order 66 To Kill All The Jedi" ...

Despite giving countless Jedi and even some Sith a run for their money, Star Wars' strongest character has never shown up in ...

Star Wars has so many fantastic characters, but some of them have run their course and should be able to retire.

That whole “strike me down” routine is actually what Palpatine was doing in Return of the Jedi, when he taunted Luke Skywalker to kill him in hatred. He wanted this to happen so that he could ...

The film’s answer was Order 66, a diabolical part of Palpatine’s plan in which he would have all of the Clone Troopers who had fought with the Jedi throughout the Clone Wars suddenly turn on ...

Two of them became warlords who killed other Jedi. One didn't. And if we buy that Palpatine was really Snoke all along, then that means he recruited Ben Solo pretty much exactly the same way he ...

If Darth Maul hadn’t subsequently killed Qui-Gon on Naboo, Obi-Wan feels, ... Grievous, like the entire Clone War, is a diversion that Palpatine uses to distract the Jedi.