The return of Emperor Palpatine to Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker, he explained

“The dead are talking!” The opening moment begins Star Wars: The Awakening of Skywalker. “The Dead” is Emperor Palpatine, who has begun broadcasting throughout the galaxy, confusing everyone who was convinced that he had not survived his fall Return of the Jedi. How did he come back to life? J.J. Abrams' second sequel offers a few answers, allowing years of story-telling about Star Wars to harden (if you know where to find it).

(Vol. Note: this post contains great spoilers for Star Wars: The Awakening of Skywalker.)

The wake of the Skywalker, a trilogy-capper, sets up many new rules for Palpatine power. This is followed by the screenwriting process for Star Wars: As well as introducing the physical character to Return of the Jedi, George Lucas also developed the concept of Force Lighting, the idea that one can turn on the Dark Side by killing someone in an act of anger or fear. The prequel trilogy kept its secret Sith Lord (aka The Phantom Menace) hidden until Revenge of the Sith, and made fun of the idea that Sheev had created Anakin Skywalker in midi chlorians. In the Seagawalker Saga, the great revelations of Palpatine come in for the final thriller.

Palpatine is a confusion when it comes in The rise of the Skywalker. Towards the end of the movie, he stays stuck in the main press, his eyes devoid of students, and his hands dead. When Kylo Ren and the audience stumble upon him, he appears next to a full Snake tank. He says he "made" Snoka, and based on the use of the laboratory, the idea is that we might take him literally. Although it is amazing to put out the songs in the song "Have You Ever Lived" to talk about Palpatine who has lived several lives: "How did we get here?" The lore of the previous Star Wars media provides a little clarification that the film does not.

To have a grandson, Palpatine needs a son

Great twist in the middle The rise of the Skywalker that Rey is the grandson of Palpatine, and has been linked with blood by his father's line. So when did Palpatine have a son? No replica of the book is available, but there are rumors from Legends, a pre-Disney Expanded Universe material that has been cut to hell The Army Awakens, which can provide bread crumbs. They surround the imported character first Clone attackss: Palpatine's assistant Sly Moore.

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The idea that Sly Moore knew that Palpatine was Darth Sidious throughout his career remains a canon in the later trilogy era. He sits to the left of him whenever Palpatine talks to the Senate and it looks like he's having a good time at the opera in the Palpatine booth before being fired so Palpatine can talk to Anakin. Sly Moore is said to have been very honest and may have had the power to clear people's minds, indicating that he may have had some sympathetic powers.

In the Leons canon, the man who was the son of Emperor Palpatine, born when Sly Moore found himself with a sample of Palpatine's DNA, is seen in Spice Mines of Kessel. His defining characteristic? Three eyes. Also called… Triclops. A little thought is a simple thing, but the idea that Sly Moore would have killed Palpatine's son before the Emperor completely disrupted the Senate A New Hope you won't be wasted, and there aren't many female characters around that spend time with Palpatine.

Did the Emperor keep his genes around? As Dominic Monaghan's character said when he entered The rise of the Skywalker, there was a lot of black science happening in Sith circles over the years, so the answer is … probably. Power

The emperor survived the return of the Jedi – but after that?

There is reason to believe that Palpatine conquered death before being thrown down the shaft of Star Wars II Return of the Jedi. Star Wars has expanded a number of novels, comics, and cartoons that show that Palpatine was using "Sith Magic," though he did not focus on a single killing plan at the same time. Star Wars: Rebels has shown us that with the Imperial Era, Palpatine wanted to look into the magical world that allows the user to look at space and time. The vagary of using magic opens the doors to be as good as anything that can happen in the Star Wars universe. Like, Palpatine really dies in Star Wars II, and he comes back to life.

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When Darth Vader dumped Palpatine down the Star Wars shaft at the end of Return of the Jedi, an explosion of blue energy indicates that something was there that was broken. And up until this year, it looked like that was the end of the Sith Order. In The rise of the Skywalker, Palpatine says he "passed away earlier," which is clear from his focus on Episode 6, which concluded with the explosion of Star Wars II in the pits that went down in various parts of Endor. It was safe to assume that his body was destroyed.

How Palpatine keeps Exogol in a body that looks like Palpatine is a mystery the movie itself doesn't solve. Contextual clues and a clear reference to Monaghan's character lead you back to an unexpected place: a reunion, a cough from that mass of information everyone loves.

History of the Emperor with cloning

In the early '90s, non-canon (Legends) comic series The Black KingdomPalpatine awakens himself after the events of Return of the Jedi thanks to the large number of clones that have been able to breed quietly throughout his empire. Each time Palpatine's body dies, the Sith chief uses the Side Side of the Force's strategy to jump into a new body. The Clone, in this case, is being rewritten by the Emperor. In the next series Kingdom of Darkness II, Palpatine threatens Leah's baby, and successfully performs a few Jedi. The good guys finally defeat the Emperor when one of his ghostly souls pulls Palpatine's core into Force Hell before the body jumps into a soul sacrifice action. (Star Wars of the & # 39; 90s!) There are some references to these ideas being redesigned, at least the idea of ​​a soul-writing one, with great potential.

The idea is that Palpatine will keep the clones secret to jump the track about what we know about the character in the new canon, even if it hasn't happened in all of the Palpatine shells yet in the Expanded Universe. Emphasize for now – we just learned that this man had a legitimate son in some way.

One problem that Palpatine encounters when jumping into multiple bodies internally The Black Kingdom is that using the Dark Side of the Force to the required levels weakens the age of his body. This was used to describe the Emperor's appearance in the original language, long before we learned that he was getting it when Mace Windu demonstrated his powers of Force Lightning. That may still mean that using the Dark Side is physically wearing a person, but it's not something we've seen reboot in the canon yet.

The mystery of the Snoke clones

As we can see by the shooting of the Snoke Clone tanks earlier in the film, Palpatine made the Supreme Leader of the First Order. But was Palpatine always a Snoke? Some are new canon references, and some reveal Snoke back in The Last Jedi, suggest that it is.

At the latest Marvel & # 39; s tournament Darth Vader In comic books, readers were told the story of Darth Momin, a Sith who managed to save his life as a mask. If anyone put on this mask, the spirit of Darth Momin would have that business. Momin's strategy was to use Mustafar's strong connection to the Dark Side, along with Kader's desire to resurrect Padme, to create a site that would allow you to bring people back from death. Finally, Momin manages to wake himself up, and Vader smashes his head and mask, completing the test as quickly as possible.

The canon-approved comic introduces the awakening of the strong Sith using something they have in Mustafar, a piece that takes us back The Last Jedi. When we finally see Snake in the flesh for the first time, wearing a gold dress in a room full of red, with a ring with black stones on it.

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In accordance with The Last Jedi Dictionary, the black stone of the Snoke ring is from Mustafar (which we have no archive of Snoke ever visited) and the mark belongs to ancient Dwartii glyphs. This description is a striking reference to the Emperor's hand in the presence of Snoke; The Four Sages of Dwartii, ancient philosophers whose doctrines were ineffective became the foundation of the Galactic Republic and adopted by the Sith, appeared as Palpatine's room figures in the prequel trilogy, and again as the high-floor sculptures at Exogol. Palpatine is even shown to take one of his legal Dwartii to his Sith temple in cartoons. If there was something that allowed Palpatine to throw his mind into the body of the puppet, history suggests it was the Snoke ring.

So why not make another Snoke after his inner demise The Last Jedi

In the latest Marvel comic Years of Opposition: The Supreme Leader of the Serpent, we see the training of young Snoke Kylo Ren. "If I had your uncle beside me instead of you," he tells a boy named Ben Solo, "I would have ruled the galaxy long ago." The uncle mentioned is Luke Skywalker, and knowing that Snoke Light was not available during the Empire means that this Palpatine is probably referring to Luke's trial in Star Wars II. If Luke had killed Vader in anger, Snoke / Palpatine would have ruled the galaxy long ago. Like 30 years ago.

Maybe it's natural, maybe it's midi-chlorians

In the evil struggle of Exogol, the Emperor tries to get Rey to kill him in a rage, so that his consciousness can pass to him and he will rule the Final Order as Empress Palpatine. He does this in his own diminutive way, before Ben Solo appears, giving Palpatine the fantastic Force Force to finish. Knowing how Palpatine demands full power, it is well thought that Rey had beaten her would have taken her body and re-realized her blood relation.

The term "life force" is circulated in relation to the new Force Healing (as opposed to the non-canonical "element"), meaning that users who use the light side can use the Force to transfer their life to another. As a force of shadow, Palpatine absorbs life from the Dyad and into his own hands, which reads much like non-canonical now “Acquire Understanding” the power used by Palpatine to transfer between clones in the The Black Kingdom. This shiny Dyad power allows him to turn his fingers and get his yellow irises in the final battle.

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An important moment brings another way that Palpatine could overcome death: he could become the supreme king of midi chlorians. The difficulty was Darth Pisodeis is a Methodist group departure Revenge of the Sith, Palpatine means that the Dark Side can create life. It's also shown in Marvel & # 39; s Vader jokes that Palpatine created Anakin. With enough power of Dark Side Power, did Palpatine rebuild the body with genetic material? Or nothing? That would explain why his white-eyed version needed to remain connected to machines on the secret Sith Planet machine and at that time it would have been useless if Kylo Ren had decided to kill him right away at the start of the movie.

This is probably why a clone's body would not be sufficient if one really wanted to die: you have to have a natural body to use, and if it was the one who killed it in the form of a Sith, that would be all right. When in doubt, simply recommend the Life Force to the person.

Strange choice The rise of the Skywalker it makes in the middle of the desire to choose the supernatural to begin with the inability of swallowing Palpatine to be alive and to think that our answers can come from putting too much power into Force Powers. It's a weird way of writing a franchise story, assuming some old-fashioned stuff will fill the gaps in your big bad villain, but that's what Palpatine has always been the third Star Wars movie of the trilogy: a weird wonder full of Mystery and Power.

In the meantime, how it is possible that Palpatine is immortalized is in the science education phase, the result of connecting the dots from previous and current Star Wars stories. Where we will get solid answers may be in the extended atmosphere.

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