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

A Star Wars Story and Star Wars: Andor are all about the lengths the Empire will go to keep its power. Whether it’s inciting ...

Star Wars just doubled down on the idea that Palpatine never really cared about the Sith's Rule of the Two, a core principle ...

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

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Many Star Wars fans came out of The Rise of Skywalker baffled about Palpatine’s return, complaining that his master plan was illogical, inconsistent and maybe even a little convoluted.

Operation: Cinder – which you can actually play through in Star Wars Battlefront 2 – involved Palpatine’s most trusted allies wiping out all remnants of both the Empire and New Republic in ...

How Star Wars Re-Introduced Palpatine’s Rise To Power. Before it was de-canonized by Disney, a bulk of what we knew about Darth Plagueis and Sheev Palpatine came from the 2012 novel by James ...

Nothing really matters to Star Wars canon outside of the moment it has to, beyond what is now established in the primary series of nine films (Palpatine’s speech included by proxy). And yet in ...

Palpatine is Rey’s Uncle. The Star Wars universe uses the word 'clone' extremely loosely. In biology, a 'clone' means the same as it does in non-scientific language: an identical copy.