The Jedi long suspected Palpatine had a dark side, but there was never enough evidence to be sure until Revenge of the Sith.

Although Palpatine claimed in Rise of Skywalker that he was "All the Sith", Star Wars canon has turned his boast into a joke considering the truth.

Sheev Palpatine, also known as Darth Sidious, was one of the smartest and most powerful villains in Star Wars. He was a ...

The Phantom Menace, a veiled figure shadows all galactic happenings, exercising control over political systems and personal destinies.

At the time, “Star Wars” creator and director George Lucas was filming the third prequel film, “The Revenge of the Sith,” when Palpatine recruits Anakin Skywalker to the dark side to ...

So I looked back and, sure enough, back in May 2024 I preordered an Emperor Palpatine Star Wars Black ... heads which show various levels of dark side rage. There’s also the character’s ...

In “The Empire Strikes Back,” the now-celebrated 1980 sequel, audiences were treated to the first on-camera sighting of Emperor Palpatine. After receiving only a glancing mention in the first ...

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.