It wouldn’t be Star Wars if someone wasn’t making it up along the way. George Lucas didn’t know Darth Vader was Luke Skywalker’s father when the first movie came out in 1977, and we’re pretty sure J.J ...

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker proved itself the most divisive of all the sequels, not least because it brought Emperor Palpatine back from the dead. What should have been an epic, exciting reveal ...

The Rise of Skywalker brought Sheev Palpatine back from the dead and gave him a new clone body. It also revealed Snoke was nothing more than a lab creation imbued with Force powers. But while the film ...

Long before the Star Wars prequels were released, we were all excited to catch our first glimpse of Darth Vader's Master, Emperor Palpatine, in The Empire Strikes Back. The villain ended up looking a ...

Emperor Sheev Palpatine is arguably the best Star Wars villain of all time, and the franchise has yet to come up with a more menacing or petty big bad in the decades since he was first introduced in ...

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, returning to theaters on April 25th for a one-week engagement, revealed Emperor Palpatine’s (Ian McDiarmid) machinations coming to fruition, a ...