Emperor Palpatine/Darth Sidiousis largely seen as one of Star Wars' most powerful Sith, but his Empire actually reveals that he was so much weaker than the ancient Sith. The history of the Sith has ...

Warning! This post contains SPOILERS for Star Wars: Jedi Knights #5 Although it's been teased and heavily suggested for some time, Star Wars has doubled down on the fact that Palpatine really couldn't ...

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, returning to theaters on April 25th for a one-week engagement, revealed Emperor Palpatine’s (Ian McDiarmid) machinations coming to fruition, a ...

Warning: The below story contains a spoiler for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. And also, talk of Emperor Palpatine's sex life, but don't blame us for that. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker answered ...

The final chapter in Star Wars’ Skywalker Saga, The Rise of Skywalker, was controversial, to say the least. Perhaps most controversial was the choice to bring back Ian McDiarmid as Emperor Palpatine, ...

Star Wars canon is a tale of a superstitious and cowardly lot, so it wasn't to be for Rise of Skywalker —but that won't stop the Emperor himself from wondering. Reading time: Reading time 2 minutes It ...

Emperor Palpatine tends to keep his true intentions close to his chest as he manipulates everyone and everything about him to accumulate power. That was especially true in The Rise of Skywalker, when ...

Let's make one thing clear: Palpatine isn't a sympathetic character. When Obi-Wan said, "Chancellor Palpatine is evil!" he was right. But what the hell did Palpatine think he was doing? As history and ...