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Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars will finally show how Emperor Palpatine fulfilled his original dark side promise to Darth Vader.
Padmé Amidalahas a subtle dark side in Star Wars, and it's a bit too close to Emperor Palpatine/Darth Sidious for comfort.
Kenneth Colley, an actor known to "Star Wars" fans for his role as Admiral Piett in the original trilogy, has died. He was 87 ...
One of Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker’s wildest fan theories doesn’t hold a lot of water any more — but it does include Darth Vader, Emperor Palpatine, Kylo Ren, Rey, virgin birth, and Marvel ...
(Image credit: Disney+) 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 ...
Which is to say, we open on Darth Vader, having dominated a gigantic mono-eyed space squid through the sheer will of the Dark Side, floating down to meet his master Palpatine in the shadow of ...
Variety spoke to Emperor Palpatine actor Ian McDiarmid for the Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith re-release. The topic turned to Palpatine’s TV show, where McDiarmid was asked if he was given any ...
Darth Vader Killed Emperor Palpatine, Sacrificing Himself In The Process. Flash forward to the Original Trilogy era of Star Wars, and we see Emperor Palpatine seemingly high on the hog.
When Darth Vader tosses Palpatine down the Death Star shaft at the end of Return of the Jedi, a blast of blue energy indicates that something down there had broken. And up until this year, it ...
The resurrection of Emperor Palpatine after his trip down a reactor shaft—a shaft that was then promptly blown to bits—in Return of the Jedi might, at first, seem to come out of nowhere.
Emperor Palpatine / Darth Sidious. Courtesy of Lucasfilm Ltd. Rey, the main character of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, is an orphan who ' s able to use the Force without training. Based on her ...