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George Lucas make the possibility that Palpatine live the event ofStar Wars : Return of the Jedi , setting up his potential retort inStar Wars : The wage hike of Skywalker , but nobody even noticed . TheStar Warsprequels have seen a good deal of criticism over the years , admit the repeat suggestion that film prequels are inherently blemished because they ca n’t amount to much more than a checklist of events pass to the story we already know , but that ’s not straight when it comes to a major moment inStar Wars : Revenge of the Sith .
wide regarded as perhaps the best scene in the prequel trilogy , and popular as a meme in its own right hand , Palpatine state the narrative of the Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise to Anakin did n’t just serve to tempt his future apprentice , it also create that blinding possibility that Palpatine wascapable of outlast the remainder ofReturn of the Jedi .
The notion of Palpatine surviving his battle with Luke ( and the betrayal of Darth Vader ) is hardly young toStar Wars . TheDark Empirecomics in the early 90s told a report about a resurrected Palpatine who could transplant his awareness into one of many clones he had hold off around just for that purpose . WhileLucas often had little to do with Expanded Universe stories , he was supposedly so proud of with that particular story that he give way it out as his yearly holiday gift to Lucasfilm employees .
So , when it came metre for the prequels , a X and a one-half later on , it should have ship off dismay bell when Palpatine infers to Anakin that his master , Darth Plagueis , knew how to keep people from dying , and teach Palpatine the ability before his learner killed him . Then , likewise , when it come sentence for the sequel trilogy , rooter theory about Darth Plagueis being involvedwere plebeian , but the much more coherent assumption , that Palpatine survived , was n’t nearly as common as peradventure it should have been in retrospect .
Palpatine ’s master was n’t able to save up himself , patently because Palpatine kill him in his sleep , but Vader ’s master was wide alive when he throw him down the reactor shaft of light of the second Death Star . At the time , the mind of Darth Sidious live on after his apparent death may not have seemed shocking since it was still considered canyon as a part of the Expanded Universe , but since the Disney purchase of Lucasfilm when theExpanded Universe became non - canon " Legends,“it still should have been a big question of whether or not Palpatine still endure .
Now that his presence inStar Wars : The acclivity of Skywalkerhas been confirmed , a quick looking back at the Darth Plagueis scene inStar Wars : Revenge of the Sithand a turn of other current canon stories written since the Expanded Universe was abandoned cod Palpatine ’s quest for immortality , it ’s actually clear-cut as Clarence Day that Palpatine ’s story was n’t over yet .
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