We follow his rise from Senator of Naboo to the Supreme Chancellor, but little time investigating his shadowier motives as Darth Sidious, the Sith Lord. The prequel trilogy turns Emperor Palpatine into a symbol of ultimate evil capable of converting Anakin Skywalker into Darth Vader. When Return of the Jedi was first released in May 1983, all we knew about Palpatine is that he liked to build Death Stars and kill Rebels. Vader tosses him down a reactor shaft and he definitely dies.
He finally appears in physical form in Return of the Jedi to tempt Luke to the Dark Side. In the original 1977 Star Wars, the Emperor gets name-drop-only-status only. Lucasfilm The original Palpatine in the Star Wars movies To understand Palpatine in Rise of Skywalker, we have to remember the tragedy of Darth Plagueis and dig deeper into what’s happened in the last decade of Star Wars stories. And if you reach back into that canon, you’ll find the highest powered Force Users on both the Light and Dark Sides are obsessed with conquering death. But, like the Force, there’s a Dark Side to the implication: Could the Emperor, last seen plummeting to his death, still be around to threaten our heroes? He certainly appears to be if the final trailer, which shows a cloaked presence sitting tall above Rey, is any indication.ĭarth Sidious, who floated through galactic politics as Sheev Palpatine, was one of the most powerful Dark Side Force users to ever exist in Star Wars.
In the first trailer for the film, Palpatine’s laugh is preceded by Luke Skywalker (who is dead) in voiceover: “No one’s ever really gone.” Star Wars has positioned itself as a saga with hope as a primary motivator for our heroic characters, so it’s easy to hear the line as a glimmer of hope. Maybe you missed the tale in Revenge of the Sith because you were reeling from the bubble ballet visuals or the blue George Lucas cameo, but the scene describing the Sith Lord’s fate is worth revisiting in light of the Emperor Palpatine’s involvement in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise ?
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