Yeah, and people weren't happy with the idea of giving Palpatine a Freudian Excuse, much less a sexist one. In the current canon, he was always pure evil, but his formative childhood moment was when he accidentally killed some people while racing and his rich father covered it up. That's when he realized subtlety was the way to go.
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That's... So damn appropriate a origin story for a superpowered evil politician.
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That reminds me of a hilarious What If? fanfic I read where Palps, upon being offered apprenticeship by Plagueis, uses his power to forsee the future to see if it's a good idea. Instead of seeing his initial triumph, this time he sees his ultimate downfall, and promptly decides to run Plagueis over with his dad's speeder.
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And so the galaxy was saved by a douchebag rich kid in a overpriced sports car.
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So Darth Sidious the most powerful and dangerous Sith thus far... Was going to be a freaking incel?!
... GODDAMMIT.
"These 'no-nonsense' solutions of yours just don't hold water in a complex world of jet-powered apes and time travel."
Humans inferior. Ultron superior.
Darth Plagueis really messed up by accepting Sheev as his apprentice huh?
I suppose you could call it some sort of... tragedy.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
My favorite wtf Star Wars fanfic is the one where Sheev gets the Order numbers mixed up and accidentally orders the Clones to arrest him.
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
Do a barrel roll!
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Did they succeed? I imagine a team of Clone officers isn't exactly a match for the most powerful darksider to have ever lived
Say to the others who did not follow through You're still our brothers, and we will fight for you
That all you got?
The Force doesn't protect you from blaster bolts.
Come to think of it, why didn't the Jedi declare Order 65 when Anakin told them Palpatine was a Sith Lord?
That is the face of a man who just ate a kitten. Raw.
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He did it first and that took priority.
I think this is why they retconned it into bio-chips that mind controlled the clones.
Arrogance?
Also assuming, like the above, that "No one can handle a Sith - that's TRUE Jedi work".
And Palpatine still took out Kit Fisto and all the others. If Anakin hand't turned up then Palpatine MAY have gone down to Mace.
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He was holding back because he knew he needed Akanin to kill Windo for him so he could fall further to the darkside
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Palpatine is such a Love to Hate figure that they don't give him a Freudian Excuse because nothing would feel fitting enough, even if its obviously Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse
Palpatine has a perfectly good freudian excuse: His parents named him Sheev.
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Humans inferior. Ultron superior.
But he's The Senate now.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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Actually he's Too Weak.
Let him be Frank.
I missed the part where that's my problem.
Palpatine moonlights as a Meme Lord when he's not a Sith Lord or Chancellor/Emperor
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That might actually be pretty cool if that's his role in the film: some sort of Force Wraith haunting the derelict ruins of the second Death Star.
That last shot of the trailer kinda looked like the husk of a piece of the Death Star, rotting away on Endor. It's probably not, but I'd totally be down for that to be the case. The First Order is helmed by Palpatine's vengeful spirit or some shit. That'd be pretty cool.
Is there a precedent for evil Sith Lord Force Ghost-like Things?
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Just the illusion of Bane in Clone Wars, at least in the current canon, but that wasn’t really him.
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
I'd buy that it's smart enough to lead the First Order. At the very least, a wraith could probably remember a bunch of old caches that Palpatine squirreled away. That would be a huge boost even if the wraith wasn't able to actually plot or plan for them.
I wonder how many quarter portions a haunted Death Star fragment would sell for.
Fun fact: Apparently the cancelled live-action star wars TV show was going to include a story arc of Sheev falling in love with a woman... And her promptly obliterating him in some metaphorical way.
"Evil guy becomes eviller because of emasculation" probably isn't the best plot you can dream up in general but it's an interesting tidbit nonetheless.
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