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Darth Sidious

Darth Sidious, born as Sheev Palpatine, is a central character in the Star Wars universe, primarily known as the Emperor. The character first appeared in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope and was fleshed out in the prequel trilogy where his rise to power was the main focus of the story. Palpatine was portrayed by Ian McDiarmid across all the films. He is one of the most iconic villains in cinematic history and his character has widely been noted for its deep political and psychological layers.

Darth Sidious was initially a politician from Naboo, who used his notable skills of manipulation and deceit to climb the political ladder. He eventually became the Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic, a position he used to secretly organize and take control of The Clone Wars. Unbeknownst to his political allies, Sidious was a Sith Lord and the mastermind behind the war, manipulating both sides to his advantage. This allowed him to consolidate his power and eventually transform the Republic into the Galactic Empire.

As an antagonist, Darth Sidious is known for his insidious nature and absolute power. His mastery of the Dark Side of The Force is unparalleled. He possesses abilities such as Force lightning, mind control, and foresight. These powerful skills, combined with his Machiavellian cunning and ruthlessness, make him a formidable adversary and one of the most powerful beings in the Star Wars universe.

During the Galactic Empire's reign, Sidious was essentially a dictator, crushing any form of opposition and ruling with fear. His regime was marked by his pursuit of complete control over the galaxy. He also continued to train a series of Sith Apprentices, including Darth Maul, Count Dooku, and ultimately, Darth Vader.

Darth Sidious was eventually killed by his apprentice, Darth Vader, but his influence continued to be felt years after his death. He was even resurrected in Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker, where he revealed that he had survived by transferring his essence into a clone body. Despite his eventual defeat, Sidious has left an indelible mark on the Star Wars universe, forever remembered as the Emperor who created the Galactic Empire and sparked the events of the original trilogy.

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"From a story perspective, I think it's fair to criticize the idea of Palpatine's return and his fleet of planet killers."

2. - (40 BBY) Master & Apprentice by Claudia Gray
"Grievous's interactions with Palpatine during his capture suggest he has no idea who he"

2. - (40 BBY) Master & Apprentice by Claudia Gray
"includes Grievous asking the hologram of Darth Sidious why he wasn't allowed to kill the"

2. - (40 BBY) Master & Apprentice by Claudia Gray
"Did General Grievous know Darth Sidious was Palpatine?"

2. - (40 BBY) Master & Apprentice by Claudia Gray
"He also fights Palpatine, again, and bends the knee, again,"

2. - (40 BBY) Master & Apprentice by Claudia Gray
"The movie obviously shows us that Palpatine is fully aware of their marriage, Obi-Wan"

2. - (40 BBY) Master & Apprentice by Claudia Gray
"So they get a hold of Palpatine's and activate it, but realize it won't just kill him,"

2. - (40 BBY) Master & Apprentice by Claudia Gray
"Obi-Wan claims Palpatine has stayed in office long after his term has expired,"

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"In Attack of the Clones, Palpatine is granted emergency powers to stay in office,"

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"states that Palpatine was able to extend his term thanks to the growing Separatist movement."

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"Everything Palpatine did was meant to be the act of a leader"

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"Did Darth Sidious and Darth Plagueis create Anakin Skywalker?"

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"and I would say that it's implied with Palpatine's knowing look to Anakin"

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"with Palpatine telling Anakin,"

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"I choose to believe Palpatine's implication in the film"

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"to Darth Sidious and Darth Plagueis."

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"So in a sense, Palpatine could have been considered"

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"was not meant to imply that Palpatine was directly connected to Anakin's birth."

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"When did Palpatine kill his master, Darth Plagueis?"

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"We basically just know that Plagueis was Sidious's master"

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"The canon Star Wars Timelines book says Palpatine"

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"Twelve years later, Sidious took Maul as his own apprentice,"

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"and that Palpatine killed him the night he was elected Supreme Chancellor."

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"What happened to Darth Sidious's lightsaber?"

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"The Clone Wars series shows Darth Sidious confronting his former apprentice Maul"

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"That's the only time we ever see Palpatine duel-wielding lightsabers,"

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"In the dark side, made so by Darth Sidious, the building had been the place of Dooku's"

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"of time in the works, coming and going at will, or as required of him, by Darth Sidious. Even in"

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"spent under Sidious's tutelage, learning the ways of the Sith, practicing the dark arts,"

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"dark side to be on top, then so be it. With Dooku, Sidious hadn't had to waste precious hours on"

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"Temple, for Dooku had long before rid himself of those. Instead, Sidious had focused on giving"

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"to Sidious, that at long last he had found a true mentor. The Sith saw no need to take on only young"

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"I'm curious who those other disciples that Sidious trained could have been, if there were any. Maybe"

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"Darth Revan, Darth Bane, Darth Plagueis, Darth Sidious, Darth Vader, and Darth Krayt."

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"that only Qui-Gon could have stopped Palpatine. Yeah, I agree with that. Totally. Yeah."

3. - (33 BBY) Qui-Gon Jinn - The Age of the Republic & The Weapon
"And I will put some of the blame at Mace's feet for refusing to let Palpatine stand trial."

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"In fact, Reddit user SlowWillingness187 did the math and estimated Palpatine would have been on the phone"

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"Mace almost stopped the Sith, and the galaxy could have been saved, but Palpatine had manipulated Anakin too well."

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"He had likely fallen to the dark side and become an ally of Darth Sidious before the end of the Clone Wars."

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"He was said to be a friend to the Jedi and a political enemy of Palpatine's during the Clone Wars"

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"So I think some clones got a special call from Darth Sidious, and the rest just got a pre-recorded message."

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"Did Darth Sidious call each clone individually to execute Order 66?"

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"So my best guess is that Palpatine called a handful of specific clones to ensure certain targets were killed."

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"Alan Dean Foster's novelization for A New Hope also states that the Emperor rose to power thanks to help from the massive organs of commerce."

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"We do see Palpatine call Commander Cody by name."

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"I could also believe that Sidious would have tracked down his lost weapon on his own off-screen."

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"Did Mace Windu really beat Darth Sidious? This is one of those questions I think will always be up for debate."

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"In the audio commentary for Revenge of the Sith, George Lucas said that the story always included Mace overpowering Palpatine,"

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"And he's kind of like guiding them, but he knows he can't act because Palpatine or Sidious would get totally pissed at him."

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"Darth Sidious, we know this, Darth Sidious clouds the Jedi's powers."

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"Sidious and Pop, or Sidious, I'll just call him Sidious for right now."

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"So he's experiencing in his meditation some kind of flashback at the behest of Sidious"

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"little bit. Like he's flashing back to a session when he was a kid where Sidious took him into"

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"this vision. That's what's. Yeah, but that's a flashback to a flashback. Yeah. But Sidious"

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"exactly how I interpret this. This is Sidious. It's a zombie. They look like zombies. Yeah."

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"is a manipulation by Sidious to turn Maul to twist Maul into what he has become."

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"see the grin on Sidious's face as he's standing above the young Maul being like, oh, my gosh,"

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"characters and like he's been raised to do this one thing and this one thing only by Sidious."

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"I don't know. I don't know the character. And I still don't know the character after four issues of this comic. All I know is that that he was twisted into being a weapon by Sidious."

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"So we've already seen him rebel from Sidious a little bit. Like this whole Padawan mission is his own thing."

4. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries (1-4)
"100 survivors would mean Palpatine's plan was 99% effective."

5. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries #5 & Age of Republic - Darth Maul
"It became Emperor Palpatine's Imperial Palace."

5. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries #5 & Age of Republic - Darth Maul
"During the reign of the Empire, Sidious continued to use the Scimitar for special missions."

5. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries #5 & Age of Republic - Darth Maul
"He kept that position until the Battle of Endor and the death of Emperor Palpatine,"

5. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries #5 & Age of Republic - Darth Maul
"That's why Palpatine is so concerned with achieving immortality through the Force."

5. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries #5 & Age of Republic - Darth Maul
"After the Emperor's death, Mas Amedda became a puppet of the Imperial military,"

5. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries #5 & Age of Republic - Darth Maul
"talking to the Emperor saying your overconfidence is your weakness."

5. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries #5 & Age of Republic - Darth Maul
"Turn her to the dark side. I thought maybe, you know, into an agent that he could use, possibly against the Emperor."

5. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries #5 & Age of Republic - Darth Maul
"So he goes back to Palpatine, and Palpatine's like,"

5. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries #5 & Age of Republic - Darth Maul
"porch. I guess Palpatine's just so really good at cloaking their bad activities but like you would"

5. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries #5 & Age of Republic - Darth Maul
"think if Palpatine's not trying to be seen as a Sith Lord he's not walking around on his deck."

5. - (32 BBY) Darth Maul Miniseries #5 & Age of Republic - Darth Maul
"Ironically, the group that Palpatine assembled to ensure loyalty grew suspicious of him as the Clone Wars went on"

7. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (1-3)
"but Chancellor Palpatine says the Republic has stood for a thousand years."

7. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (1-3)
"It was a group of politicians gathered together by Chancellor Palpatine to advise him during the Separatist Crisis"

7. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (1-3)
"which sought to end Palpatine's emergency powers."

7. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (1-3)
"and that he would have been Palpatine's next apprentice instead of Dooku."

7. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (1-3)
"So number one, Palpatine getting direct access to a Padawan,"

7. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (1-3)
"Wouldn't it have been really cool if they had done a little subtle Palpatine"

7. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (1-3)
"One of the parts that I did definitely enjoy was that Palpatine was happy to be watching"

7. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (1-3)
"And Palpatine's like, is this the young Skywalker?"

7. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (1-3)
"he has no clue, you know, who Palpatine is."

7. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (1-3)
"And it's a nice little moment where Palpatine is starting to corrupt Anakin."

7. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (1-3)
"So it was a nice moment where you can see Palpatine tempting Anakin,"

7. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (1-3)
"because Palpatine can't keep his mouth shut."

7. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (1-3)
"He laughs like evil Emperor Palpatine does."

7. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (1-3)
"Also, this is Palpatine we're talking about."

8. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (4-5)
"Jango's identity and ultimately the identity of Darth Sidious himself."

8. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (4-5)
"funeral, and so followed him to a meeting where he confronted Darth Sidious, blaming"

8. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (4-5)
"With her death, he became Darth Tyrannus, the new apprentice of Sidious."

8. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (4-5)
"And then there's this panel right below it with no words on it. That is fantastic. It's Palpatine just just staring at him."

8. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (4-5)
"You know what Palpatine is thinking. Yeah, that's why it's beautiful. You know exactly what's going through his head."

8. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (4-5)
"Yeah, he's done. He was out. And so so Palpatine is trying to get Anakin out of the orders to turn him."

8. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (4-5)
"So when Palpatine was trying to get Anakin to leave the Jedi, we find out later that had Anakin left the order."

8. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (4-5)
"That's right. And so Palpatine's plans wouldn't have worked out anyway or he would have had to do something."

8. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (4-5)
"Palpatine and Palpatine is just kind of tugging at that thread a little bit"

8. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (4-5)
"He took it upon himself to order the clone army from Kamino, which caught the attention of Darth Sidious."

9. - (28 BBY) Queen's Shadow by E.K. Johnston
"I also think Kenobi finding the clones on accident worked out in Palpatine's favor."

9. - (28 BBY) Queen's Shadow by E.K. Johnston
"Dooku and Sidious went to great lengths to keep Kamino and the clone army a secret,"

9. - (28 BBY) Queen's Shadow by E.K. Johnston
"Was Obi-Wan meant to find the clone army on Kamino? Was that part of Palpatine's plan?"

9. - (28 BBY) Queen's Shadow by E.K. Johnston
"After becoming an ally of Darth Sidious and taking control of the clone army on Kamino,"

9. - (28 BBY) Queen's Shadow by E.K. Johnston
"The Essential Guide to Warfare states that Obi-Wan Kenobi eventually discovered what was happening, but Sidious was untroubled."

9. - (28 BBY) Queen's Shadow by E.K. Johnston
"The original plan for the story was for the name to be a clear pseudonym for Sidious, pronounced Sido-Dyas,"

9. - (28 BBY) Queen's Shadow by E.K. Johnston
"But at this point in the clone army's development, the plan was too far along, and Sidious is always ready to adapt to new situations."

9. - (28 BBY) Queen's Shadow by E.K. Johnston
"Then Sifo-Dyas was killed, allowing Dooku and Sidious to take control of the project."

10. - (27 BBY) Age of Republic Obi-Wan and Count Dooku
"Personally, I don't think Sidious would tell a mercenary that detail unless he absolutely"

10. - (27 BBY) Age of Republic Obi-Wan and Count Dooku
"vessel for Palpatine's spirit in the event of his death."

10. - (27 BBY) Age of Republic Obi-Wan and Count Dooku
"part by Palpatine funneling billions of Republic credits through a maze of intermediaries to"

10. - (27 BBY) Age of Republic Obi-Wan and Count Dooku
"rebel weapons dealing gang that Palpatine has sent him to talk to, but he also needs to have"

10. - (27 BBY) Age of Republic Obi-Wan and Count Dooku
"this planet and other planets so that when Palpatine does come to power, he comes to power a"

10. - (27 BBY) Age of Republic Obi-Wan and Count Dooku
"you're assuming and I don't know for sure. You're assuming that Palpatine didn't know he was going"

10. - (27 BBY) Age of Republic Obi-Wan and Count Dooku
"to be there either. So Palpatine is has understood that there's a gap in his knowledge of the Jedi"

10. - (27 BBY) Age of Republic Obi-Wan and Count Dooku
"Or maybe I'm wrong. I mean, maybe maybe Palpatine is this is a test for Doku."

10. - (27 BBY) Age of Republic Obi-Wan and Count Dooku
"And he gets back and he's and of course, you know, Sidious is like, yeah, you know,"

10. - (27 BBY) Age of Republic Obi-Wan and Count Dooku
"I enjoyed Palpatine's joke earlier in the comic too."

10. - (27 BBY) Age of Republic Obi-Wan and Count Dooku
"And Palpatine's like, I can only have one."

10. - (27 BBY) Age of Republic Obi-Wan and Count Dooku
"Dooku and Darth Sidious took advantage of the greed of the megacorporations"

11. - (25 BBY) Dooku Jedi Lost by Cavan Scott
"I pictured Yzma from Emperor's New Groove, because that's her voice."

11. - (25 BBY) Dooku Jedi Lost by Cavan Scott
"No, that's Eartha Kitt in Emperor's New Groove."

11. - (25 BBY) Dooku Jedi Lost by Cavan Scott
"I thought you sounded mad that I didn't know it was Eartha Kitt in Emperor's New Groove."

11. - (25 BBY) Dooku Jedi Lost by Cavan Scott
"to the Emperor problems."

11. - (25 BBY) Dooku Jedi Lost by Cavan Scott
"And the Emperor being the biggest example."

11. - (25 BBY) Dooku Jedi Lost by Cavan Scott
"And we know that he's already been talking to Palpatine."

11. - (25 BBY) Dooku Jedi Lost by Cavan Scott
"with Doku, if he was actually helping, you know, the Emperor and he knew"

11. - (25 BBY) Dooku Jedi Lost by Cavan Scott
"But also, Dooku technically isn't in, or is he in Palpatine's picture at this point?"

11. - (25 BBY) Dooku Jedi Lost by Cavan Scott
"I don't think he is. I think Palpatine knows about him."

11. - (25 BBY) Dooku Jedi Lost by Cavan Scott
"You watch Emperor's New Groove and then go back and listen to What's-Her-Face Talking and tell me that is not the same voice."

11. - (25 BBY) Dooku Jedi Lost by Cavan Scott
"Did Mas Amedda know Chancellor Palpatine was Darth Sidious? Yes, he did."

12. - (24 BBY) Age of Republic Jango Fett
"During the time of the Empire, he and Sly Moore competed with and undermined one another, and even Darth Vader, in hopes of grasping more power and favor with the Emperor."

12. - (24 BBY) Age of Republic Jango Fett
"Darth Maul being dead is not felt by Palpatine."

12. - (24 BBY) Age of Republic Jango Fett
"It's like faces. They're like, like Palpatine. Yeah."

12. - (24 BBY) Age of Republic Jango Fett
"The Kaminoans didn't have the facilities to manufacture vehicles and ships, so Darth Sidious"

13. - (22 BBY) Attack of the Clones
"supporting Ahsoka Tano and Bo-Katan Kryze in their fight against Darth Sidious's"

13. - (22 BBY) Attack of the Clones
"How is Palpatine captured by the Separatists? We don't have a canon version of this story,"

13. - (22 BBY) Attack of the Clones
"I thought that Palpatine was behind that"

13. - (22 BBY) Attack of the Clones
"he knows that he's gonna be building his robot army or or Sidious does he's gonna be building"

13. - (22 BBY) Attack of the Clones
"chaos so that Palpatine can take over as the leader. I'm glad yeah I'm glad you're not going"

13. - (22 BBY) Attack of the Clones
"When he meets with the Emperor at the end, he said everything went to plan."

13. - (22 BBY) Attack of the Clones
"Yeah, this is the Emperor playing all sides."

13. - (22 BBY) Attack of the Clones
"But he's not necessarily a bad guy. The Emperor is a bad guy."

13. - (22 BBY) Attack of the Clones
"Right. I'm sure the Emperor may have led on as well, because he knows that Anakin's there with him all the time and being trained and all that good stuff."

13. - (22 BBY) Attack of the Clones
"What? No, no. In the beginning of this movie, he talks about how much time he's... he thanked the... well, not the Emperor, he thanked the... what is his title?"

13. - (22 BBY) Attack of the Clones
"No, not Doku. Palpatine."

13. - (22 BBY) Attack of the Clones
"He has a special purpose, but he does not foresee him becoming the next Darth, the next Padawan for Sidious, right?"

13. - (22 BBY) Attack of the Clones
"When he was talking to Obi-Wan, if Obi-Wan wouldn't have said, yeah, let's do it, they would have... I mean, he would have gone after the Emperor right then."

13. - (22 BBY) Attack of the Clones
"Also, too, how does Palpatine get out of his political duties so much?"

13. - (22 BBY) Attack of the Clones
"But the clones obviously being part of the Emperor's plan, did they know about it?"

13. - (22 BBY) Attack of the Clones
"It's my Palpatine influenced by Palpatine like Palpatine so they're telling them you're gonna be the biggest Jedi ever"

13. - (22 BBY) Attack of the Clones
"Grievous killed two Jedi and incapacitated Shaak Ti before escaping with Palpatine."

14. - (22 BBY) Age of Republic: Anakin Skywalker / Mace Windu Comic #1
"He chased Palpatine and several Jedi out of the Senate building through public transportation"

14. - (22 BBY) Age of Republic: Anakin Skywalker / Mace Windu Comic #1
"The movie obviously shows us that Palpatine is fully aware of their marriage."

14. - (22 BBY) Age of Republic: Anakin Skywalker / Mace Windu Comic #1
"The in-universe reference book Star Wars Propaganda states that Palpatine was able to extend his term"

15. - (22 BBY) Mace Windu Comics #2-5
"with Palpatine telling Anakin,"

15. - (22 BBY) Mace Windu Comics #2-5
"In Attack of the Clones, Palpatine is granted emergency powers to stay in office,"

15. - (22 BBY) Mace Windu Comics #2-5
"Did Darth Sidious and Darth Plagueis create Anakin Skywalker?"

15. - (22 BBY) Mace Windu Comics #2-5
"I choose to believe Palpatine's implication in the film"

15. - (22 BBY) Mace Windu Comics #2-5
"Everything Palpatine did was meant to be the act of a leader reluctantly accepting"

15. - (22 BBY) Mace Windu Comics #2-5
"and I would say that it's implied with Palpatine's knowing look to Anakin"

15. - (22 BBY) Mace Windu Comics #2-5
"It's possible he could have been acting for the benefit of the Jedi, but the novelization includes Grievous asking the hologram of Darth Sidious why he wasn't allowed to kill the Chancellor."

15. - (22 BBY) Mace Windu Comics #2-5
"Grievous's interactions with Palpatine during his capture suggest he has no idea who he is truly talking to."

15. - (22 BBY) Mace Windu Comics #2-5
"Obi-Wan claims Palpatine has stayed in office long after his term has expired,"

15. - (22 BBY) Mace Windu Comics #2-5
"Did General Grievous know Darth Sidious was Palpatine? The short answer is no."

15. - (22 BBY) Mace Windu Comics #2-5
"So, in a sense, Palpatine could have been considered accidentally responsible for Anakin's birth in Legends."

16. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S2E16 'Cat & Mouse' & S1E16 'The Hidden Enemy'
"and that Palpatine killed him the night he was elected Supreme Chancellor."

16. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S2E16 'Cat & Mouse' & S1E16 'The Hidden Enemy'
"When did Palpatine kill his master, Darth Plagueis?"

16. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S2E16 'Cat & Mouse' & S1E16 'The Hidden Enemy'
"Twelve years later, Sidious took Maul as his own apprentice, so Plagueis likely died somewhere in that time."

16. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S2E16 'Cat & Mouse' & S1E16 'The Hidden Enemy'
"So my best guess is that Palpatine called a handful of specific clones to ensure certain targets were killed."

16. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S2E16 'Cat & Mouse' & S1E16 'The Hidden Enemy'
"The canon Star Wars Timelines book says Palpatine became the Senator of Naboo in the year 52 BBY with the help of his master's influence."

16. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S2E16 'Cat & Mouse' & S1E16 'The Hidden Enemy'
"Did Mace Windu really beat Darth Sidious?"

16. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S2E16 'Cat & Mouse' & S1E16 'The Hidden Enemy'
"In fact, Reddit user SlowWillingness187 did the math and estimated Palpatine would have been on the phone for over 20 hours straight if that were the case, which is hilarious."

16. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S2E16 'Cat & Mouse' & S1E16 'The Hidden Enemy'
"In the audio commentary for Revenge of the Sith, George Lucas said that the story always included Mace overpowering Palpatine,"

16. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S2E16 'Cat & Mouse' & S1E16 'The Hidden Enemy'
"but its creators specifically stated that the intent of the story was not meant to imply that Palpatine was directly connected to Anakin's birth."

16. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S2E16 'Cat & Mouse' & S1E16 'The Hidden Enemy'
"Mace almost stopped the Sith, and the galaxy could have been saved, but Palpatine had manipulated Anakin too well."

16. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S2E16 'Cat & Mouse' & S1E16 'The Hidden Enemy'
"That's the only time we ever see Palpatine duel-wielding lightsabers."

16. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S2E16 'Cat & Mouse' & S1E16 'The Hidden Enemy'
"The Clone Wars series shows Darth Sidious confronting his former apprentice Maul wielding two nearly identical lightsabers."

16. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S2E16 'Cat & Mouse' & S1E16 'The Hidden Enemy'
"Did Darth Sidious call each clone individually to execute Order 66?"

16. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S2E16 'Cat & Mouse' & S1E16 'The Hidden Enemy'
"We do see Palpatine call Commander Cody by name."

16. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S2E16 'Cat & Mouse' & S1E16 'The Hidden Enemy'
"We basically just know that Plagueis was Sidious's master and that his apprentice killed him in his sleep."

16. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S2E16 'Cat & Mouse' & S1E16 'The Hidden Enemy'
"The Legends Darth Plagueis book does link the birth of the Chosen One to Darth Sidious and Darth Plagueis."

16. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S2E16 'Cat & Mouse' & S1E16 'The Hidden Enemy'
"And I will put some of the blame at Mace's feet for refusing to let Palpatine stand trial."

16. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S2E16 'Cat & Mouse' & S1E16 'The Hidden Enemy'
"I could also believe that Sidious would have tracked down his lost weapon on his own off-screen."

16. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S2E16 'Cat & Mouse' & S1E16 'The Hidden Enemy'
"What happened to Darth Sidious's lightsaber?"

16. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S2E16 'Cat & Mouse' & S1E16 'The Hidden Enemy'
"You said that the person sounded like Eartha Kitt and that she sounded like Yzma from Emperors New Groove."

16. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S2E16 'Cat & Mouse' & S1E16 'The Hidden Enemy'
"He kept that position until the Battle of Endor and the death of Emperor Palpatine, although his status was never secure."

17. - (22 BBY) Star Wars: The Clone Wars Movie
"100 survivors would mean Palpatine's plan was 99% effective."

17. - (22 BBY) Star Wars: The Clone Wars Movie
"during the Obi-Wan Kenobi series, so I think some clones got a special call from Darth Sidious and the rest just got a pre-recorded message."

17. - (22 BBY) Star Wars: The Clone Wars Movie
"It became Emperor Palpatine's Imperial Palace."

17. - (22 BBY) Star Wars: The Clone Wars Movie
"He had likely fallen to the dark side and become an ally of Darth Sidious before the end of the Clone Wars."

17. - (22 BBY) Star Wars: The Clone Wars Movie
"That's what I'm talking about. Palpatine established that's just a thing."

17. - (22 BBY) Star Wars: The Clone Wars Movie
"having Padme's death be the fault of Anakin has way more weight than Palpatine killing her."

18. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S3E1 ‘Clone Cadets’ & S3E3 ‘Supply Lines'
"Did Palpatine kill Padme, taking her own life force to keep Darth Vader alive?"

18. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S3E1 ‘Clone Cadets’ & S3E3 ‘Supply Lines'
"who attempted to replace him as Palpatine's apprentice after the Battle of Yavin."

18. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S3E1 ‘Clone Cadets’ & S3E3 ‘Supply Lines'
"After the Emperor's death, Mas Amida became a puppet of the Imperial military,"

18. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S3E1 ‘Clone Cadets’ & S3E3 ‘Supply Lines'
"So Obi-Wan was able to avoid any news of the Emperor's attack dog for an entire decade."

18. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S3E1 ‘Clone Cadets’ & S3E3 ‘Supply Lines'
"he wasn't as strong as the Emperor."

18. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S3E1 ‘Clone Cadets’ & S3E3 ‘Supply Lines'
"But no, I don't think there's anything to suggest Palpatine is doing that,"

18. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S3E1 ‘Clone Cadets’ & S3E3 ‘Supply Lines'
"which of course Darth Sidious was aware of."

18. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S3E1 ‘Clone Cadets’ & S3E3 ‘Supply Lines'
"After his failure, Sylo attempted a coup against the Emperor"

18. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S3E1 ‘Clone Cadets’ & S3E3 ‘Supply Lines'
"I mean, the Emperor's cheap."

19. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E1-S1E4 'Ambush / Malevolence Trilogy'
"missive from I was it I think it was from Palpatine himself or"

19. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E1-S1E4 'Ambush / Malevolence Trilogy'
"valuable she is to Anakin, but Palpatine sure does. You know,"

19. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E1-S1E4 'Ambush / Malevolence Trilogy'
"show up. She showed up because Palpatine asked her to. Yep. But"

19. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E1-S1E4 'Ambush / Malevolence Trilogy'
"not know that Palpatine is who he is at this point?"

19. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E1-S1E4 'Ambush / Malevolence Trilogy'
"You know, once. So basically, Hondo radios up to Southern Honda, raise up to Palpatine."

22. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E11 / General Grevious - Age of Resitance Comic
"And yeah, I thought that was good how Palpatine was like, OK, well, we've got two Jedi on the ground right there. We'll have you guys go over and check them out. Make sure that Doku is doing well and he can be taken prisoner and then we'll pay your ransom."

22. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E11 / General Grevious - Age of Resitance Comic
"It's not even close. I mean, Emperor Cleon I is in the first story of the first book for a couple of pages, and that's it."

23. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1 E12, S1 E13 & Star Wars Visions Episode 1
"Children's show aimed at children. We got him stealing babies. He's, you know, tasked with going and grabbing four different babies from Sidious."

28. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Ep 2 / Ep 3
"Well, that was. But the next level up from that was Palpatine, of course, saying, I don't care if it kills him or, you know, whatever."

28. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Ep 2 / Ep 3
"Would you remember that. You remember that comic we read where Anakin goes over to Palpatine's thing and he or his office and don't they go down to like like the lower levels and he takes him around."

28. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Ep 2 / Ep 3
"And it just shows Anakin going with Palpatine and they go to lower levels and they're like you know this is where the the scum of the earth live blah blah blah."

28. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Ep 2 / Ep 3
"I mean he really is like it's really good. It shows how much you know Palpatine now you know gloves are off."

28. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Ep 2 / Ep 3
"But then when you get more into Palpatine in the second episode, I'm like, did Mace kind of like want to keep this thing alive because he."

30. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Ep 18 / Ep 19 / Visions 5
"And Palpatine realizes that that that they can't necessarily fight this thing with lightsabers."

30. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Ep 18 / Ep 19 / Visions 5
"It's drawn to Palpatine."

30. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Ep 18 / Ep 19 / Visions 5
"Because if you remember, like the beginning of Episode 19, he kind of raises an eye at Palpatine when Palpatine's talking."

30. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Ep 18 / Ep 19 / Visions 5
"And it knows that Palpatine is his mortal enemy now."

30. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Ep 18 / Ep 19 / Visions 5
"Because Palpatine is being really it."

30. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Ep 18 / Ep 19 / Visions 5
"This was a nice, nice, you know, progression to see Palpatine being really kind of nasty."

30. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Ep 18 / Ep 19 / Visions 5
"You took him where he should never have gone because Palpatine had ulterior motives and and you ended up having to kill him."

30. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Ep 18 / Ep 19 / Visions 5
"Like, I mean, like what is what is her biggest fear, because I mean, she knows she shouldn't be cloning this thing, you know, and it's like, oh, OK, like like like this is where this is where the normal population can start to see evil in Palpatine."

30. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Ep 18 / Ep 19 / Visions 5
"And Palpatine kind of being behind it, but not being behind it. You know, that kind of stuff."

36. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Eps 20 and 21, Tales of the Jedi Ep2
"He's working for Palpatine."

39. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 3 Episodes 4 and 7 & Tales of The Jedi Ep 4
"I believe at this point and basically she goes and follows Doku who is going to meet the Emperor and finds out that Doku is kind of the root of all this evil."

39. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 3 Episodes 4 and 7 & Tales of The Jedi Ep 4
"this episode until episode two? He has solidified himself as Palpatine's second, at this point."

39. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 3 Episodes 4 and 7 & Tales of The Jedi Ep 4
"And also, too, I like it that the episode shows a little bit of his technical kind of hacking skills, you know, where he gets the he's able to call it the Palpatine and not Palpatine."

40. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars S1 E22 and S3 E9 & Stories of Light and Dark
"It amazes me that Palpatine or Dooku would let them know about the ultimate evil plan."

42. - (21 BBY) Forces of Destiny S2 Episode 2 and Clone Wars - Heroes on Both Sides
"Like Palpatine, I guess Dooku's the proxy and they don't know who Palpatine really is."

42. - (21 BBY) Forces of Destiny S2 Episode 2 and Clone Wars - Heroes on Both Sides
"Let me just say this. If I was Palpatine, trusting someone like Doku or Grievous would be a very big step because you are literally, like, trying to command the entire galaxy, right? Like, like, you're trying to command everything, everything, everything under the sun, or not everything under the sun, everything under all the suns. Like, you're trying to control everything. You're trying to pull the biggest, the biggest, the biggest, what am I looking for? The biggest"

42. - (21 BBY) Forces of Destiny S2 Episode 2 and Clone Wars - Heroes on Both Sides
"And it shows how Palpatine is able to engineer whatever he wants, pretty much."

42. - (21 BBY) Forces of Destiny S2 Episode 2 and Clone Wars - Heroes on Both Sides
"I don't think that they're being honestly controlled by Palpatine, I think he's just using their greed."

43. - (21 BBY) Forces of Destiny S1 E12 and S1 E4 and Clone Wars S3 E11
"And that makes them easy for someone like Palpatine to just, you know, use them like marionettes."

43. - (21 BBY) Forces of Destiny S1 E12 and S1 E4 and Clone Wars S3 E11
"but Palpatine is talking to Mas Amedda, who's the, his, his vice president, or sidekick in"

43. - (21 BBY) Forces of Destiny S1 E12 and S1 E4 and Clone Wars S3 E11
"the Senate, who I'm assuming at this point knows who Palpatine is."

43. - (21 BBY) Forces of Destiny S1 E12 and S1 E4 and Clone Wars S3 E11
"He's the little blue guy that's got the big horns, that's always standing next to Palpatine"

43. - (21 BBY) Forces of Destiny S1 E12 and S1 E4 and Clone Wars S3 E11
"I don't think she ever wanted to be. I don't think she ever wanted to be Palpatine's next."

44. - (20 BBY) Clone Wars S2 Episode 15 and S3 Episode 12
"I'm amazed at the quick efficiency, and maybe I probably shouldn't be, where Palpatine was just like, you need to take her out. She's getting too powerful. And then Doku's like, okay."

44. - (20 BBY) Clone Wars S2 Episode 15 and S3 Episode 12
"But this was the first time too, that I got caught wind of Doku talking about Sidious and wanting to usurp Sidious. Because I don't know if you I don't know if you noticed that, but there was a line and there's like, if you stay with me, we're so powerful that we can take over Sidious. And I don't know that I've ever seen him."

45. - ( 20 BBY ) The Clone Wars Season 3 Ep 15, 16, and 17
"I mean, even with Asajj, I don't ever remember an episode where they're plotting to overtake Sidious. You know, he's always been the head guy. And then now Doku is just like, I'm done. I don't we're, we're, we're going all in."

45. - ( 20 BBY ) The Clone Wars Season 3 Ep 15, 16, and 17
"and the Jedi, it's in Palpatine's voice? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I totally picked up on that."

46. - ( 20 BBY ) The Clone Wars Season 3 16, and 17 - Visions Season 2
"bit more of an air of mystery about Sidious, really, in my opinion. Like, how much more does"

46. - ( 20 BBY ) The Clone Wars Season 3 16, and 17 - Visions Season 2
"Yet we know that by throwing the Emperor over the rail."

46. - ( 20 BBY ) The Clone Wars Season 3 16, and 17 - Visions Season 2

Darth Sidious

"From a story perspective, I think it's fair to criticize the idea of Palpatine's return and his fleet of planet killers."

"Grievous's interactions with Palpatine during his capture suggest he has no idea who he"

"includes Grievous asking the hologram of Darth Sidious why he wasn't allowed to kill the"

"Did General Grievous know Darth Sidious was Palpatine?"

"He also fights Palpatine, again, and bends the knee, again,"

"The movie obviously shows us that Palpatine is fully aware of their marriage, Obi-Wan"

"So they get a hold of Palpatine's and activate it, but realize it won't just kill him,"

"Obi-Wan claims Palpatine has stayed in office long after his term has expired,"

"In Attack of the Clones, Palpatine is granted emergency powers to stay in office,"

"states that Palpatine was able to extend his term thanks to the growing Separatist movement."

"Everything Palpatine did was meant to be the act of a leader"

"Did Darth Sidious and Darth Plagueis create Anakin Skywalker?"

"and I would say that it's implied with Palpatine's knowing look to Anakin"

"with Palpatine telling Anakin,"

"I choose to believe Palpatine's implication in the film"

"to Darth Sidious and Darth Plagueis."

"So in a sense, Palpatine could have been considered"

"was not meant to imply that Palpatine was directly connected to Anakin's birth."

"When did Palpatine kill his master, Darth Plagueis?"

"We basically just know that Plagueis was Sidious's master"

"The canon Star Wars Timelines book says Palpatine"

"Twelve years later, Sidious took Maul as his own apprentice,"

"and that Palpatine killed him the night he was elected Supreme Chancellor."

"What happened to Darth Sidious's lightsaber?"

"The Clone Wars series shows Darth Sidious confronting his former apprentice Maul"

"That's the only time we ever see Palpatine duel-wielding lightsabers,"

"In the dark side, made so by Darth Sidious, the building had been the place of Dooku's"

"of time in the works, coming and going at will, or as required of him, by Darth Sidious. Even in"

"spent under Sidious's tutelage, learning the ways of the Sith, practicing the dark arts,"

"dark side to be on top, then so be it. With Dooku, Sidious hadn't had to waste precious hours on"

"Temple, for Dooku had long before rid himself of those. Instead, Sidious had focused on giving"

"to Sidious, that at long last he had found a true mentor. The Sith saw no need to take on only young"

"I'm curious who those other disciples that Sidious trained could have been, if there were any. Maybe"

"Darth Revan, Darth Bane, Darth Plagueis, Darth Sidious, Darth Vader, and Darth Krayt."

"that only Qui-Gon could have stopped Palpatine. Yeah, I agree with that. Totally. Yeah."

"And I will put some of the blame at Mace's feet for refusing to let Palpatine stand trial."

"In fact, Reddit user SlowWillingness187 did the math and estimated Palpatine would have been on the phone"

"Mace almost stopped the Sith, and the galaxy could have been saved, but Palpatine had manipulated Anakin too well."

"He had likely fallen to the dark side and become an ally of Darth Sidious before the end of the Clone Wars."

"He was said to be a friend to the Jedi and a political enemy of Palpatine's during the Clone Wars"

"So I think some clones got a special call from Darth Sidious, and the rest just got a pre-recorded message."

"Did Darth Sidious call each clone individually to execute Order 66?"

"So my best guess is that Palpatine called a handful of specific clones to ensure certain targets were killed."

"Alan Dean Foster's novelization for A New Hope also states that the Emperor rose to power thanks to help from the massive organs of commerce."

"We do see Palpatine call Commander Cody by name."

"I could also believe that Sidious would have tracked down his lost weapon on his own off-screen."

"Did Mace Windu really beat Darth Sidious? This is one of those questions I think will always be up for debate."

"In the audio commentary for Revenge of the Sith, George Lucas said that the story always included Mace overpowering Palpatine,"

"And he's kind of like guiding them, but he knows he can't act because Palpatine or Sidious would get totally pissed at him."

"Darth Sidious, we know this, Darth Sidious clouds the Jedi's powers."

"Sidious and Pop, or Sidious, I'll just call him Sidious for right now."

"So he's experiencing in his meditation some kind of flashback at the behest of Sidious"

"little bit. Like he's flashing back to a session when he was a kid where Sidious took him into"

"this vision. That's what's. Yeah, but that's a flashback to a flashback. Yeah. But Sidious"

"exactly how I interpret this. This is Sidious. It's a zombie. They look like zombies. Yeah."

"is a manipulation by Sidious to turn Maul to twist Maul into what he has become."

"see the grin on Sidious's face as he's standing above the young Maul being like, oh, my gosh,"

"characters and like he's been raised to do this one thing and this one thing only by Sidious."

"I don't know. I don't know the character. And I still don't know the character after four issues of this comic. All I know is that that he was twisted into being a weapon by Sidious."

"So we've already seen him rebel from Sidious a little bit. Like this whole Padawan mission is his own thing."

"100 survivors would mean Palpatine's plan was 99% effective."

"It became Emperor Palpatine's Imperial Palace."

"During the reign of the Empire, Sidious continued to use the Scimitar for special missions."

"He kept that position until the Battle of Endor and the death of Emperor Palpatine,"

"That's why Palpatine is so concerned with achieving immortality through the Force."

"After the Emperor's death, Mas Amedda became a puppet of the Imperial military,"

"talking to the Emperor saying your overconfidence is your weakness."

"Turn her to the dark side. I thought maybe, you know, into an agent that he could use, possibly against the Emperor."

"So he goes back to Palpatine, and Palpatine's like,"

"porch. I guess Palpatine's just so really good at cloaking their bad activities but like you would"

"think if Palpatine's not trying to be seen as a Sith Lord he's not walking around on his deck."

"Ironically, the group that Palpatine assembled to ensure loyalty grew suspicious of him as the Clone Wars went on"

"but Chancellor Palpatine says the Republic has stood for a thousand years."

"It was a group of politicians gathered together by Chancellor Palpatine to advise him during the Separatist Crisis"

"which sought to end Palpatine's emergency powers."

"and that he would have been Palpatine's next apprentice instead of Dooku."

"So number one, Palpatine getting direct access to a Padawan,"

"Wouldn't it have been really cool if they had done a little subtle Palpatine"

"One of the parts that I did definitely enjoy was that Palpatine was happy to be watching"