Would Palpatine count as an Indirect Serial Killer? Obviously, he's a genocidal tyrant and war criminal, and he has no problem committing murder himself (Darth Plagueis, Savage Opress, Kit Fisto and Mace Windu), but there are times where he has his apprentices kill individual people for him; Maul kills Qui-Gon after Sidious orders him to move against the Jedi, Dooku kills Sifo-Dyas (who Dooku himself killed indirectly by hiring the Pykes) and Yaddle to prove his loyalty to Sidious, and Anakin kills Dooku when Palpatine eggs him on.
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I don't think so, because he does kill people himself directly a lot as well. Manipulating others into killing in just one of his tools, not his primary method or interest.
Where did it say that Vader was the exception to Palpatine's contingency plan, as mentioned several times in this character page? It's not like Palpatine would risk having Vader undo some of his crueler policies and the plan started anyway, even though Vader did kill him.
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With the new The Rise of Skywalker coming out, should Palpatine be considered more of a foil to Vader as opposite ideals of family men?
Vader risked everything to make sure his family was safe, even if he had to do horrible things to do so. Palpatine on the other hand, tries to kill them the minute they decide to go against him- his own son, daughter in law and granddaughter. He only didn't try to kill his granddaughter, Rey because he initially wanted to body-hijack her, but decided to rejuvenate himself with her energy and kill her anyway.
should this be sorted into original tropes and prequel tropes like the rebel heroes characters?
I saw a "multiple pages" notification. Should Palpatine's appearance in Rise of Skywalker have a separate page, or is there a different setup we can use?