Padmé Amidalahas a subtle dark side in Star Wars, and it's a bit too close to Emperor Palpatine/Darth Sidious for comfort.

With good reason; this was yet more heresy. ... Maul was right, although the vengeance of Jedi and Sith upon Palpatine would ...

Of all of the cameos in Rise of Skywalker, Harrison Ford’s was the most unexpected. After all, Han Solo isn’t a Force user, ...

Ian McDiarmid “thought [he’d] gone too much too far” during his Palpatine vs Mace Windu duel in ‘Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith’. The 80-year-old actor - who has portrayed ...

It might seem silly to say this with a performance from the Star Wars prequels, but McDiarmid really deserved some sort of award (or at the very least, an Oscar Best Supporting Actor nomination ...

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.

Star Wars never presented a reason to even consider Palpatine's sex life until its final movie, 2019's The Rise of Skywalker, which resurrected the Emperor after he was presumed dead in 1983's ...

It’s very Sheev Palpatine to announce that you’ve cheated death with a big fleet of Star Destroyers and by basically sending the “I lived, bitch” meme across the galaxy.

McDiarmid also portrayed Palpatine in Obi-Wan Kenobi and voiced the villain in select episodes of Star Wars Rebels, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars: The Bad Batch, and Tales of the Jedi.