“Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” baffled moviegoers by bringing back Emperor Palpatine without explanation (the film begins and all the characters readily accept the Sith lord is alive), but the ...

Either way, aside from some extremely minor potential hints in books, comics, and video games, the story of the new trilogy never seemed headed for a Palpatine resurrection, especially seeing as The ...

Star Wars wheeling out Sheev Palpatine for The Rise of Skywalker was received with all the enthusiasm of a droid convention at the Mos Eisley cantina. And while the basic idea of Palpatine's survival ...

How Emperor Palpatine Survived And Will Return Explained | Fan Theory by Deffinition. We break down all the ways Palpatine ...

The Rise of Skywalker spends a lot of time making up for what it believes to be mistakes. Instead of just embracing Star Wars: The Last Jedi‘s story and building on i ...

Back in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Darth Vader put aside his allegiance to Emperor Palpatine and briefly became Anakin Skywalker once again in order to save his son Luke from certain death. That ...

All stories need an antagonist. An evil character to inspire hate and fear in the hearts of audiences. The Star Wars franchise has seen many such evil characters. Some fans were surprised to learn ...

Four years ago, when The Force Awakens hit theaters, it would have seemed insane that the new trilogy would end with the return of a really old villain. And yet, with Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker ...

When J.J. Abrams revived Star Wars with The Force Awakens, he was slammed for playing it too safe. But with The Rise of Skywalker, Abrams is set to close this new trilogy by taking a massive risk that ...