In 1991's Star Wars: Dark Empire from Tom Veitch and Cam Kennedy, Luke joins the reborn Palpatine in order to undercut and defeat the Emperor. In order to infiltrate Palpatine's forces ...

and both Thrawn and a reborn Palpatine would prevent that. And so he likely had Pershing killed specifically to impede that project. But, as Hux points out in this scene, Gideon had Pershing doing ...

Moreover, Emperor Palpatine was an even deadlier lightsaber combatant than Dooku and Luke dueled and defeated a reborn ...

McDiarmid let it slip that Lucasfilm had plans for a Palpatine show that focused on the Sith’s time with his master, Darth Plagueis the Wise, who made his live-action debut in the only season of ...

Assuming the Yoda baby is alive in The Rise of Skywalker (and a little bit older) it’s conceivable, they could totally square-off against a newly reborn Palpatine. If so, this would be the ...

all in his signature Palpatine voice: “Anakin Skywalker was reborn just in time to die.” Funnily enough, he skips over the part where he’s pushed into a pit and falls to his assumed death.

Perhaps most controversial was the choice to bring back Ian McDiarmid as Emperor Palpatine, a.k.a. Darth Sidious. It was so controversial, that Poe Dameron’s line “Somehow, Palpatine returned ...

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 ...