When it comes to Star Wars, no one’s more iconic than Darth Vader, who used to be the man called Anakin Skywalker. Of course, ...

Padilla mirrors the film’s villainous and duplicitous Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, who deliberately gets hurt in a physical confrontation with a political rival, a Jedi, to gain sympathy from ...

Supreme Chancellor Palpatine was kidnapped by Separatist forces, and Count Dooku was executed by Anakin during the rescue. Obi-Wan kills the Separatists’ cyborg military commander, General Grievous.

The Clone Army Would Have Slaughtered Anakin Regardless When Palpatine issued Order 66, Anakin’s world collapsed further, because the Clone Army was mandated to kill all Jedi without exception.

The brains behind his downfall, of course, is the prequel trilogy's MVP, Ian McDiarmid’s Supreme Chancellor (later Emperor) Palpatine.

The film finds Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi (a bearded Ewan MacGregor) and his young apprentice Anakin Skywalker (a wooden Hayden Christensen) attempting to rescue Supreme Chancellor Palpatine (Ian ...

The film finds Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi (a bearded Ewan MacGregor) and his young apprentice Anakin Skywalker (a wooden Hayden Christensen) attempting to rescue Supreme Chancellor Palpatine (Ian ...

Anakin’s longer hair and new facial scar from “Episode III” actually show up first in “Clone Wars” (though without much of an explanation as it happened in-between time jumps).

Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, of course, know all of this. To a degree, he has played an active role in Anakin’s development as a Jedi and as a man.

The undertones (basically overtones) of Palpatine’s election as supreme chancellor echo Hitler’s real-life appointment as chancellor of the Weimar Republic in 1933.

Whether it’s Supreme Chancellor Palpatine manipulating Anakin Skywalker, Luke Skywalker giving new meaning to daddy issues, or Mon Mothma delivering a powerful warning about tyranny, the “Star ...