The true Sith Lord in the new trilogy is Jar-Jar Binks

Jar-Jar is actually a master of Obfuscating Stupidity. While everyone's been laughing at him, just take note of what he's been able to do:

1. Two Jedi are on a critical mission to warn the Naboo about an incoming invasion. Every second counts, delaying things by as little as half an hour could mean hundreds or thousands of lives lost. He convinces the Jedi to waste time and risk their lives for a silly detour. This is beyond master-level mind trickery.

2. He acts clumsy as hell but is always capable of producing results. In the Battle of Naboo, he makes precision shots using a damaged bot attached to his foot, reflects blaster shots with precision equalling any Jedi... all while playing around and having fun.

3. Despite all this, he is promoted to the highest ranks. Again, mind-trick, anyone? A reward for being lucky might be expected, but a position of power for what *looks* like pure luck and clumsiness? that's throwing logic straight out the window.

4. Why would a supposed "sith lord" Palpatine be doing on a backwater planet like Naboo? I dunno... but maybe was still being trained by his own master...

5. Most importantly, he was the one who almost single-handedly swayed the entire senate, a corrupt and constantly bickering group of people, into creating a clone army and making Palpatine emperor.

6. Why would any true Sith Lord paint such a huge target on their backside by actually being named Emperor? The Sith work from the shadows, and put fall guys in high-visibility places. Who was Palpatine the fall guy for?

Jar jar.

But now that his student has fallen, he decides to come out of hiding and train a new apprentice...

I don't know what to think of this but I could see it happening. Also if you take a look in the prequels Jar-Jar has a habit of mouthing the lines of certain characters before they say it.

And the only person who knew was C 3 P 0....and that is why his memory was erased. XD

I've heard a theory he was both the true Dark Lord, and also the Mule from the Foundation novels.

Jar-Jar doesn't appear at all in The Force Awakens. Maybe this is the direction that the new trilogy is going in!

There's more.

In Episode 2, Jar Jar is given the title of Senator, and gives Palpatine the clone army, which leads to Order 66, as a direct result in Episode 3.

He's always happy to see Skywalker, and acts like a friend, to the CHOSEN ONE. Who later becomes Darth Vader, and is the father of the child who convinces him to remove Palpatine from power.

What if, Jar Jar planned to kill Palpatine, because Palpatine wasn't his apprentice? He was another Sith, with more resources.

Finally, Jar Jar gets off free, during all of this. Jedi die, the Empire rises, and he relaxes in the comfortable position of Senator.

Until the Empire falls, and he changes his name to Snoke.

A recent comic strip in MAD makes use of this idea by having Jar-Jar control Snoke's hologram like the Wizard of Oz.

edited 12th Mar '16 12:08:16 PM by DrNoPuma

That's way too intelligent an idea of George Lucas' to be true.

This.

Also, Jar Jar's character arc is at least somewhat logical (or at least doesn't require the dark side). Jar Jar's shtick is that, despite incompetence, he succeeds. Ergo, him being able to "accidentally" destroy a droid army. He manages to become a general due to unwittingly causing an alliance between the Naboo people and the Gungans, which later opens up a position in politics for him. Palpatine states that a Clone Army is necessary to defeat the Separatists and that he can only build one in time if he has emergency powers (both of these statements are technically true), so Jar-Jar requests people to give him emergency powers.

Him somehow managing to succeed in situations despite being incompetent could legitimately imply some level of force sensitivity that he's unaware of, however. The force serves partially as a plot device that makes out of left field coincidences occur, and turns some characters into weirdness magnets with improbable luck and/or competence.

edited 18th May '16 2:26:59 PM by Protagonist506

Robot Chicken actually likes this theory.