History Sandbox / MonsterStarWars

* Original and prequel movie trilogies: [[TheChessmaster Sheev Palpatine]], as Senator of Naboo, engineers the [[Characters/StarWarsTradeFederation Trade Federation]]'s invasion and blockade of his own home planet, [[WoundedGazelleGambit using the sympathy generated]] to become Supreme Chancellor. Palpatine later starts the Clone Wars and uses the war to gain considerable emergency powers, and later on successfully turns [[Characters/StarWarsAnakinSkywalker Anakin Skywalker]] to TheDarkSide by exploiting Anakin's fear about the possible death of his wife [[Characters/StarWarsPadmeAmidala Padmé]], and afterwards nearly annihilates the Jedi Order by means of Order 66. He brands the Jedi as traitors to the Republic and has and has most of them--including the Jedi children--killed by his soldiers. Palpatine kills and disposes his loyal [[Characters/StarWarsSeparatistAlliance Separatist allies]], such as his apprentice [[Characters/StarWarsCountDooku Dooku]], when he has no more use for them, and turns the Republic into a [[Characters/StarWarsGalacticEmpire fascist dictatorship]], ruling by fear and using planet-destroying superweapons like the Death Star against anything with the idea of dissenting. Once he becomes Emperor, Palpatine is known to have personally destroyed entire populations and single-handedly razed entire cities that were suspected to conspire against him. Finally, Palpatine flawlessly engineers the total destruction of the Rebellion, and treats Darth Vader as expendable because he wants to make Luke his next apprentice by goading Luke into murdering his father. When Luke refuses, Palpatine then gleefully blasts him with Force lightning, trying to kill him.

* ''Infinities: A New Hope'': In this alternate telling of ''Film/ANewHope'', [[Characters/StarWarsEmperorPalpatine Emperor Palpatine]] is, as usual, portrayed as a purely evil monster. The mastermind behind the Death Star and its [[EarthShatteringKaboom destruction]] of the planets Alderaan and Yavin 4, the Emperor rechristens it the "Justice Star", promising to use it on any and all planets that won't cow to his Empire's whims. Upon capturing Princess Leia Organa, the Emperor has her put through [[TrainingFromHell intense training and brainwashing]], turning her into his loyal servant with whom he uses to lure the entire Rebellion into a trap designed to slaughter them all. The Emperor orders Leia to murder her twin brother, Luke, cackling and mocking Darth Vader over his two children fighting to the death, and when the twins try to join forces, the Emperor proclaims them failures and tries to [[ElectricTorture torture them to death with his Force lightning]], turning it on Vader himself when the cyborg mounts a rescue of his children.

* [[Characters/StarWarsEmperorPalpatine Emperor Palpatine]] is the despotic ruler of the [[Characters/StarWarsGalacticEmpire Galactic Empire]] and the person behind the destruction of the Jedi Order. He turned [[Characters/StarWarsAnakinSkywalker Anakin Skywalker]] to the DarkSide, turning him into Darth Vader and Palpatine's main enforcer. Palpatine sanctions Lord Tion's bloody invasion of Raaltiir while planning to cement his rule using the planet-killing Death Star. After the Death Star is destroyed, Palpatine has Vader hunt down rebels across the galaxy and orders him to turn [[Characters/StarWarsLukeSkywalker Luke Skywalker]]--Anakin's son--to the Dark Side. Palpatine plans to build a second Death Star and leaks information to the Rebel Alliance to lure them into a trap and destroy them. Facing Luke Skywalker, Palpatine tries to force the boy to watch the destruction of Rebel alliance and manipulate him into killing his own father. Whe Luke resists his temptations, Palpatine tries to use Force lightning to torture him to death.

* ''Infinities: A New Hope'': In this alternate telling of ''Film/ANewHope'', [[Characters/StarWarsEmperorPalpatine Emperor Palpatine]] is, as usual, portrayed as a purely evil monster. The mastermind behind the Death Star and its [[EarthShatteringKaboom destruction]] of the planets Alderaan and Yavin 4, the Emperor rechristens it the "Justice Star", promising to use it on any and all planets that won't cow to his Empire's whims. Upon capturing Princess Leia Organa, the Emperor has her put through [[TrainingFromHell intense training and brainwashing]], turning her into his loyal servant with whom he uses to lure the entire Rebellion into a trap designed to slaughter them all. The Emperor orders Leia to murder her twin brother, Luke, cackling and mocking Darth Vader over his two children fighting to the death, and when the twins try to join forces, the Emperor proclaims them failures and tries to [[ElectricTorture torture them to death with his Force Lightning]], turning it on Vader himself when the cyborg mounts a rescue of his children.

* [[Characters/StarWarsEmperorPalpatine Emperor Palpatine]] is the despotic ruler of the [[Characters/StarWarsGalacticEmpire Galactic Empire]] and the person behind the destruction of the Jedi Order. He turned [[Characters/StarWarsAnakinSkywalker Anakin Skywalker]] to the DarkSide, turning him into Darth Vader and Palpatine's main enforcer. Palpatine sanctions Lord Tion's bloody invasion of Raaltiir while planning to cement his rule using the planet-killing Death Star. After the Death Star is destroyed, Palpatine has Vader hunt down rebels across the galaxy and orders him to turn [[Characters/StarWarsLukeSkywalker Luke Skywalker]]--Anakin's son--to the Dark Side. Palpatine plans to build a second Death Star and leaks information to the Rebel Alliance to lure them into a trap and destroy them. Facing Luke Skywalker, Palpatine tries to force the boy to watch the destruction of Rebel alliance and manipulate him into killing his own father. Whe Luke resists his temptations, Palpatine tries to use Force Lightning to torture him to death.

* ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsDarthMaulBlackWhiteAndRed Darth Maul - Black, White & Red]]'' issue #1--"Ghost Ship": [[ChaosIsEvil The Emissary of Chaos]] is the mysterious leader of the [[AnarchyIsChaos anarchistic]] Final Occultation and is strongly hinted to be a being of the Netherworld. When Darth Sidious arranges for the cult to be taken into custody in order to learn their secrets, the Emissary leads them to hijack the prison ship that is transporting them and slaughter the crew. The Emissary organizes and presides over a summoning ceremony, planning to use the ship's hyperdrive to open a rift in space and unleash chaos and madness on the galaxy.

* ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsDarthMaulBlackWhiteAndRed Darth Maul - Black, White & Red]]'' Issue #1--"Ghost Ship": [[ChaosIsEvil The Emissary of Chaos]] is the mysterious leader of the [[AnarchyIsChaos anarchistic]] Final Occultation and is strongly hinted to be a being of the Netherworld. When Darth Sidious arranges for the cult to be taken into custody in order to learn their secrets, the Emissary leads them to hijack the prison ship that is transporting them and slaughter the crew. The Emissary organizes and presides over a summoning ceremony, planning to use the ship's hyperdrive to open a rift in space and unleash chaos and madness on the galaxy.

* [[Manhua/StarWars 1980 manhua]]: [[Characters/StarWarsDeathStarCrew Tarkin]] is the tyrannical leader of the Galactic Empire who is hellbent on [[GalacticConqueror taking over the entire galaxy]], crushing any opposition on the planets he has conquered. Upon capturing [[Characters/StarWarsLeiaOrgana Leia]], Tarkin would proceed to torture her endlessly, requesting information on the rebel base, but after she refused, he would [[EarthShatteringKaboom use the Death Star to destroy her home planet of Alderaan]] in a fit of pure rage. After locating the rebels on Yavin, Tarkin prepares to use the Death Star once again to completely decimate the planet, [[CrushingThePopulace planning to crush the rebellion for good]].

* ''Radio/StarWarsRadioDramas'':
** [[Characters/StarWarsEmperorPalpatine Emperor Palpatine]] is the despotic ruler of the [[Characters/StarWarsGalacticEmpire Galactic Empire]] and the person behind the destruction of the Jedi Order. He turned [[Characters/StarWarsAnakinSkywalker Anakin Skywalker]] to the DarkSide, turning him into Darth Vader and Palpatine's main enforcer. Palpatine sanctions Lord Tion's bloody invasion of Raaltiir while planning to cement his rule using the planet-killing Death Star. After the Death Star is destroyed, Palpatine has Vader hunt down rebels across the galaxy and orders him to turn [[Characters/StarWarsLukeSkywalker Luke Skywalker]]--Anakin's son--to the Dark Side. Palpatine plans to build a second Death Star and leaks information to the Rebel Alliance to lure them into a trap and destroy them. Facing Luke Skywalker, Palpatine tries to force the boy to watch the destruction of Rebel alliance and manipulate him into killing his own father. Whe Luke resists his temptations, Palpatine tries to use Force Lightning to torture him to death.
** ''Film/ANewHope'':
*** [[Characters/StarWarsDeathStarCrew Grand Moff Tarkin]] is the Imperial officer in charge of the first Death Star. When [[Characters/StarWarsLeiaOrgana Princess Leia]] is captured by [[Characters/StarWarsDarthVaderAndServants Darth Vader]], Tarkin orders her tortured. He threatens to destroy Leia's homeworld of Alderaan unless she gives up the location of the rebel base, only to have [[EarthShatteringKaboom Alderaan destroyed]] anyway. Finding out that the rebel base is on Yavin IV, Tarkin plans to destroy it, along with any other planet that rebels against the Empire. A cruel and ambitious man, Tarkin even starts to consider using the Death Star to [[TheStarscream overthrow the Emperor]].
*** [[StarterVillain Lord Tion]], a [[CanonForeigner character original to the radio drama]], is the Imperial nobleman placed in charge of the Ralltiir invasion. Tion is a smug sadist who blockades Ralltiir and begins a planetwide crackdown, where he abuses the citizens--rebels or not--with impunity. He establishes torture chambers all across the planet, press-gangs citizens into forced labor, holds executions without proper trial, and happily [[ReminiscingAboutYourVictims reminisces]] on the time he burned alive a group of surrendering rebel leaders who [[ILied thought they were being invited to a peace talk]]. Tion intends to involve himself with the Death Star and then wed Princess Leia--on whom he has a [[VillainousCrush crush]]--to fully assert his power, knowingly abetting the creation of a galaxy-wide regime of fear and terror for the sake of his own advancement.

* ''[[Anime/StarWarsVisions Visions]]'':
** "[[Recap/StarWarsVisionsTheVillageBride The Village Bride]]": [[SmugSnake Izuma]] is a [[TheDon crime lord]] who discovers an army of battle droids on the planet, Keelia, and reprograms them to serve him, using them to subjugate the Meevai, deplete their planet of its resources, and kill any who oppose him. When the village chief and his granddaughter, Haru, offer themselves to be Izuma's hostages, Izuma entertains their offer only to [[ForcedToWatch force them and the villagers to watch]] him attempting to execute Saku, while implying that he was never going to spare the villagers anyway. When the Jedi F rescues Saku, Izuma orders his men and droids to kill everyone in the village while he uses Haru as a HumanShield against F.
** "[[Recap/StarWarsVisionsInTheStars In the Stars]]": The [[EvilColonialist Imperial Officer]] in charge of the factory on Koten and Tachina's planet is personally responsible for the near extinction of their people. She came to the planet and set up the factory which polluted the planet and stole its clean water. When Koten and Tachina's mother led their people in the rebellion against the Empire, the Officer unleashed the AT-ST to kill the rebels before destroying their village to make sure they were all gone. When the Officer learns the sisters survived and are breaking into her factory, she orders them captured and tries to [[WouldHurtAChild throw young Tachina to her death]], before unleashing the AT-ST on the sisters.
** "[[Recap/StarWarsVisionsThePit The Pit]]": [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil The stormtrooper commander]] is the one responsible for all the horrors that the miners endure. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced]] forcing them to mine for materials for the city, the commander is shown shocking one of the miners for going slower than the rest, in a process that is implied to have gone on for months if not years. When all the material is collected, the commander proceeds to leave them to rot in the pit, and when Crux eventually escapes to ask for help from the residents of said city, he is thrown back into the pit to his death, likely under the commander's orders. When the residents come to investigate the pit, the commander makes a final attempt to intimidate them to turn back.
* ''[[Literature/WilliamShakespearesStarWarsSeries William Shakespeare's Star Wars]]'', by Ian Doescher:
** [[BigBad Palpatine]], aka Darth Sidious, is a diabolical Sith mastermind who [[CardCarryingVillain revels in his own evil]] and finds no greater joy than crushing others. Orchestrating the invasion of Naboo and near-massacre of swathes of its populace to secure his place as Supreme Chancellor, Palpatine then [[PlayingBothSides plays the Republic and Separatists against each other]] to kick-start the Clone Wars, leading to a years-long, galaxy-wide bloody conflict that engulfs countless worlds in war. For his masterstroke, Palpatine [[TheCorrupter corrupts Anakin Skywalker]] into becoming his apprentice Darth Vader; uses Order 66 to [[FinalSolution wipe out almost all Jedi]] down to [[WouldHurtAChild the younglings]]; and institutes the oppressive [[TheEmpire Galactic Empire]] regime to become the dictatorial Emperor of the Galaxy. Constructing the Death Star in the hopes of using it to destroy entire worlds against his rule, Palpatine later sets a trap to wipe out the entire Rebellion and turn Luke Skywalker into his pawn all at once, hoping to have Luke kill his own father before attempting to [[ElectricTorture torture]] Luke to death when he refuses. Returning one last time, Palpatine twists Ben Solo into Kylo Ren; unleashes the First Order onto the galaxy to terrorize and destroy many worlds; then attempts to once more rise to power not only through use of his "Final Order", an army of planet-killing Star Destroyers, but also by forcibly transferring his essence into his own granddaughter Rey, having murdered the girl's parents to bring about the possibility.
** ''[[Film/ANewHope Verily, a New Hope]]'': [[AntagonisticGovernor Grand Moff Tarkin]] has been a key figure in the Empire from the beginning. Tarkin's most notable act is when he threatens to use the Death Star to blow up Princess Leia's home planet of Alderaan unless she tells him the location of a rebel base. Even after she tells him--giving a false location, but him not being aware of this--Tarkin, for no other reason than to "[[KickTheDog watch with joy as she with grief is torn]]", orders [[EarthShatteringKaboom Alderaan destroyed]] anyway [[ForcedToWatch in front of Leia]] to [[MakeAnExampleOfThem demonstrate the Death Star's power]]. He later tries to have Leia executed and plans to crush the Rebellion to ensure continued Imperial reign.
** ''[[Film/ANewHope Verily, a New Hope]]'' & ''[[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi The Jedi Doth Return: Star Wars Part the Sixth]]'': [[AdaptationalVillainy Jabba the Hutt]] is a [[FatBastard bloated]], slug-like [[TheDon crime lord]] who Han Solo considers the most depraved being he ever faced. A gangster who terrorizes Tatooine, Jabba enjoys torturing innocents and indebting petty crooks to him to force them into servitude, and regularly [[FedToTheBeast feeds people alive to his pet Rancor or Sarlacc]], including his own men. Having Han frozen alive in carbonite and hanging him on the wall as a trophy, Jabba captures Han's attempted rescuers and turns Leia into his latest [[GoGoEnslavement scantily clad slave]] meant to be permanently chained to him, before trying to throw Han and the rest of his friends and allies to the Sarlacc to be digested slowly and painfully for years.
* ''[[Literature/StarWarsCultEncountersAndSupernaturalEncounters Cult Encounters and Supernatural Encounters]]'': The monstrous [[EldritchAbomination Typhojem]] is the worst of the Old Ones and the Sith WarGod. Born the child of the Celestials, Typhojem genetically engineered the genocidal Yeveetha and created the cults to the Dark Side to [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil enslave]] the lesser races. Going on a genocidal rampage, Typhojem exterminated entire worlds, razed Geonosis into ash and annihilated the entire Vorsuul system. Going through the galaxy, Typhojem left horrific rampages in his path, even torturing his "grandfather", Wutzek, to death. Seizing control of Coruscant, Typhojem fed all dissenters to his demonic Ruzzem, set to ensure that all life either [[AGodAmI served and worshipped him]] or ended.

->'''Cosinga Palpatine:''' Murder has always been in your thoughts, hasn't it? You've merely been waiting for someone to grant you permission to act.\\
'''[[Characters/StarWarsEmperorPalpatine Sheev Palpatine]]:''' I don't need anyone's permission.\\
'''Cosinga:''' Precisely. You're an animal at heart.\\
'''Sheev:''' King of the beasts, Father.
-->-- ''Literature/DarthPlagueis'', before Palpatine murders his family

* [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsZygerrianSlaversArc Zygerrian Slavers arc]]: [[FatBastard Keeper Agruss]] is the cruel [[Characters/StarWarsZygerria Zygerrian]] taskmaster of the Kadavo mining facility. Charged with breaking the will of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Agruss starts by [[MakeAnExampleOfThem executing several slaves just to make a point to the Jedi Master]]. Setting his slaves to work in horrible conditions, Agruss has other slaves tortured if Obi-Wan tries to help them, intending to make his help unproductive and alienate those whom Obi-Wan wants to aid. When the Republic arrives to free Kenobi and the other slaves, Agruss sets the mining facility's system to drop all of the slaves to their deaths, and smashes the control panel to prevent Obi-Wan from undoing this. Agruss then taunts Obi-Wan by claiming that he cannot retaliate because of his Jedi beliefs, prompting the normally merciful Obi-Wan to subtly order Rex to kill Agruss. Even in a society of slavers, [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil Keeper Agruss]] is a despicable being who places [[LackOfEmpathy no value on innocent lives beyond their use to him]].

** Issues #1-6--"Slaves of the Republic" arc: [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil The Keeper]] of the Kavado mining facility is a smug Zygerrian tasked with breaking their slaves, the latest being the population of planet Kiros. Tasked with breaking the will of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the Keeper drops few of them into the lava to show Kenobi the consequences of disobedience. The Keeper places Obi-Wan with other slaves and has ones whom he tries to help beaten to break Kenobi's spirit and alienate him from the other slaves. When the Jedi and the Republic attack his prison, the Keeper threatens to drop all of the slaves into lava. After Separatists attack to destroy his facility and frame the Republic for the deaths of the people of Kiros, the Keeper desperately tries to kill all of the slaves in hopes of saving his own life.

* ''Boba Fett: Agent of Doom'': Mir Tork and his [[MadScientist chief scientist]] Leonis Murthé are the masters of the ship ''Azgoghk'' and the worst that the Empire's human culture has to offer. In their service to the Empire, Tork would land the ''Azgoghk'', abduct entire species and ionize the weak, sick, elderly and children before forcing the survivors to work to death. Murthé would regularly take specimens to [[TortureTechnician torture to death]] in hideous science experiments just to cause them pain, while Tork would often simply walk into a holding pen and gun everything there down. After the Empire's fall, the two return to the ''Azgoghk'' and continue their work while one survivor of a race they destroyed hires [[BountyHunter Boba Fett]] to kill them. Murthé is seen carving up a victim with a lightsaber and admitting he has no more pretense at science whatsoever, instead doing it [[ForTheEvulz for fun]]. Tork is simply driven by a genocidal need to [[FantasticRacism exterminate anything that isn't a human]]. Before Fett's arrival, Tork calmly informs Murthé they have found a new world to "cleanse".

* [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsUmbaraArc Umbara arc]]: [[InsaneAdmiral General Pong Krell]] first comes across as a heavily abrasive and unpleasant Jedi Master with a particularly [[FantasticRacism burning hatred for Clone Troopers]], only to turn out to be far worse than anyone imagined. Infamous for having ridiculously high casualty numbers due to him [[WeHaveReserves callously throwing his troops' lives away to secure a victory]], Krell takes command of the 501st legion and forces them into following disastrous battle plans that are designed to kill as many of them as possible. When troopers Fives and Jesse disobey his orders so they can secure a victory against the Separatists without too many casualties, he orders the reluctant Captain Rex to have them executed. When it doesn't pan out, Krell instead [[ManipulativeBastard orchestrates a battle]] between two Clone battalions and tricks each side into thinking that the other consists of disguised enemy infiltrators, which results in several deaths before the Clones catch on. Exposed as a traitor, Krell slaughters dozens of Clone Troopers while smugly revealing that he was planning to help the Separatists strike a crippling blow to the Republic by leaking sensitive information to them, and then join the Sith Lord Count Dooku due to foreseeing the Jedi losing the Clone Wars and desiring a place on the victorious side. When defeated and questioned, Krell is smug and unapologetic about his crimes and gleefully reveals that he manipulated and murdered the Clones out of nothing more than pure, spiteful bigotry.

* [[Characters/StarWarsWilhuffTarkin Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin]] is one of the highest-ranking officers in the Galactic Empire and one of their most infamously cruel. Even before his integration into the Empire, the utterly sociopathic Tarkin showed resentment towards the Jedi, despite them saving his life many times. During his time in the empire, Tarkin infamously destroyed Alderaan simply to [[MakeAnExampleOfThem set an example]] of what would happen if anyone crossed the empire. Tarkin's only response to any of his atrocities is a cold, smug sense of satisfaction. A KnightTemplar par excellence, Tarkin exercised cruelty nightmarish even by the standards of the Empire despite not even being a Sith, coldly dismissing Berch Teller's words to his protocol with "[E]vil will have to do." His multitude of said evil can be found in various canon works below; in the ''Legends'' section (which includes ''Literature/DeathStar'') and the ''Legends'' video game ''VideoGame/EmpireAtWar''; and in "Others".

* [[Manhua/StarWars 1980 manhua]]: [[Characters/StarWarsWilhuffTarkin Tarkin]] is the tyrannical leader of the Galactic Empire who is hellbent on [[GalacticConqueror taking over the entire galaxy]], crushing any opposition on the planets he has conquered. Upon capturing [[Characters/StarWarsLeiaOrgana Leia]], Tarkin would proceed to torture her endlessly, requesting information on the rebel base, but after she refused, he would [[EarthShatteringKaboom use the Death Star to destroy her home planet of Alderaan]] in a fit of pure rage. After locating the rebels on Yavin, Tarkin prepares to use the Death Star once again to completely decimate the planet, [[CrushingThePopulace planning to crush the rebellion for good]].

*** [[Characters/StarWarsWilhuffTarkin Grand Moff Tarkin]] is the Imperial officer in charge of the first Death Star. When [[Characters/StarWarsLeiaOrgana Princess Leia]] is captured by [[Characters/StarWarsDarthVaderAndServants Darth Vader]], Tarkin orders her tortured. He threatens to destroy Leia's homeworld of Alderaan unless she gives up the location of the rebel base, only to have [[EarthShatteringKaboom Alderaan destroyed]] anyway. Finding out that the rebel base is on Yavin IV, Tarkin plans to destroy it, along with any other planet that rebels against the Empire. A cruel and ambitious man, Tarkin even starts to consider using the Death Star to [[TheStarscream overthrow the Emperor]].

* ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' & ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]'': [[PresidentEvil Chancellor Palpatine]], aka [[BigBad Darth Sidious]], is the instigator of the Clone Wars and the Dark Lord of the Sith. Desiring an army of Force-users to serve his will, Sidious hired Cad Bane to kidnap Force-sensitive infants, so that Sidious could perform horrific and potentially fatal experiments upon them, coldly disregarding their possible deaths. When he felt that Asajj Ventress was growing too powerful, Sidious commanded [[Characters/StarWarsCountDooku Count Dooku]] to kill her, ignoring his protests and mockingly praising his apprentice for his "loyalty" when Dooku believed that he had carried out the order. Later, after deciding that his former apprentice, [[Characters/StarWarsDarthMaul Darth Maul]], had grown too powerful, Sidious attacked him on Mandalore, gleefully murdering Maul's brother, Savage Opress, and sadistically torturing Maul himself into submission, later [[ComicBook/DarthMaulSonOfDathomir using Maul]] in a plot to kill Mother Talzin. When Fives discovered [[ThePurge Order 66]]--about which it is later [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS7E11Shattered revealed]] that the clone troopers who executed the order were [[AndIMustScream fully aware of what they were made to do]]--Palpatine had him drugged into insanity to prevent the truth from being revealed, a plan which ended in Fives's death. When Yoda sets out on a vision quest, Sidious takes the opportunity to try and destroy the vulnerable Jedi Master, using Sith sorcery in an attempt to corrupt and kill Yoda. Decades later, he attempted to tempt Ezra Bridger into using The World Between Worlds to return to his parents, which would give Palpatine control over time itself, to remake all of existence [[InTheirOwnImage in his image]]. As always, Darth Sidious is a malevolent, sadistic monster who employs exceptionally cruel methods in his quest for power.

** Issues #7-9--"In Service of the Republic" arc: [[FatBastard Warlord Unger Gout]] is the [[Characters/StarWarsRiseOfTheEmpireEraSeparatists Separatist]] leader on Khorm, who [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil enslaved]] his own people and works them to death in his mines, feeding corpses to the slaves to save money on food. He uses a WeatherControlMachine to keep the Republic forces off of Khorm, even though it devastates the planet's ecosystem and causes many deaths. A [[DirtyCoward coward]] who runs and hides from battle, at Asajj Ventress's suggestion, he plants bombs in the mines to kill the slaves if the Jedi come after him. When Ventress goes to kill the Jedi, Gout attempts to kill them with an ice storm, not caring that Ventress could also die.

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* ''VideoGame/BattlefrontEliteSquadron'' (Platform/NintendoDS version): X1 is a clone trooper who, alongside his brother X2, were cloned from the genes of a Jedi. X1 [[FaceHeelTurn gleefully turns on the Jedi Order]] during the Clone Wars upon Palpatine's order, and becomes one of the Empire's top Jedi hunters alongside X2 in the process. After X2 [[HeelFaceTurn abandons the Empire]] when X1 massacres an entire village to kill one Jedi, X1 instantly [[CainAndAbel orders his brother be killed]] for treachery, and, upon meeting the Jedi they were cloned from, X1 pretends to redeem himself solely to stab the man in the back. Working his way up in the Empire, X1 greatly assists in the construction of the Death Star, [[BadBoss killing one of his men for a mistake]] in the process, and later uses a Star Destroyer to lay waste to any escape transports trying to flee from a war between the Empire and the Rebellion. Once the Emperor and Darth Vader are killed, X1 rallies the remaining Imperial forces to his side, planning to use Luke Skywalker as a baseline for an army of Dark Jedi that X1 will use to bring destruction and death across the galaxy, for no reason other than the fact that [[WarIsGlorious he loves war]]. After X2 stumbles across many of X1's failed cloning experiments, the brothers do battle, and X1 uses his last moments to attempt to murder X2 after the latter spares his evil brother.