Even after Palpatine declared himself the galaxy's Emperor, he still bided his time, waiting in the shadows to unleash his true capacity for evil.

As Revenge of the Sith turns 20, let's look back on Ian McDiarmid's brilliant performance as Palpatine.

The great Emperor Palpatine returns as promised in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. So how’d he pull it off? Well, we’d be honored if you would join us while we break this down.

We explore how Emperor Palpatine might have survived his death in Return of the Jedi and his possible connection to Supreme Leader Snoke in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

Last week, Emperor Sheev Palpatine - Darth Sidious to his friends - was pulled from Star Wars Battlefront 2. He was too powerful! So powerful, in fact, he could kill people through walls. A week ...

Palpatine’s return in "The Rise of Skywalker" somehow even made "Return of the Jedi" a worse movie.

The revelation that Emperor Palpatine would return in “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” was definitely a big mystery of the type JJ Abrams loves — we’ve all been cracking jokes about his ...

And now we’ve seen the movie, and it turns out that, uh, I’m still not really sure how Emperor Palpatine ended up in this movie. He’s not a ghost — he’s just still alive.

If Palpatine appears via hologram, we would get to see him, but he would still be dead. Another possibility that is very intriguing is that Palpatine could appear via flashback.

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