If it’s been a while since you’ve seen Star Wars Episodes I-VI (or you’ve never seen them — it’s okay, we won’t tell anyone), you might be fuzzy on how big a role Palpatine played over the course of ...

How exactly did Emperor Sheev Palpatine show up in The Rise of Skywalker when any fan will tell you he plunged to his death in Return of the Jedi? The novelization has an answer, it turns out. Look.

Palpatine's return in The Rise of Skywalker left everyone with a bad feeling, but the perfect solution was right there in the ...

In less than three months, when The Rise of Skywalker debuts, Star Wars fans who grew up in the nineties will see something we never expected to witness on the big screen: A twisted version of a comic ...

Before revealing the return of Darth Sidious — Emperor Sheev Palpatine — the first trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker shows the ruination of his evil design for the galaxy, with a shot of ...

The first teaser for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, aka Star Wars: Episode IX, ends with a familiar evil laugh that comes from one of the most notorious intergalactic villains ever: Emperor ...

Emperor Sheev Palpatine is arguably the best Star Wars villain of all time, and the franchise has yet to come up with a more menacing or petty big bad in the decades since he was first introduced in ...

A cackle in the dark. That was all it took for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker to deliver its biggest shock—a shock that not even a title, a Death Star, or a host of other reveals in its first ...

Because Emperor Sheev Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) was never intended to be in the third Disney Skywalker film, Supreme Leader Snoke was, Palpatine is given very little character building time in this ...

Most of the goings on at Star Wars Celebration's Episode 9 panel didn't come as much of a surprise. JJ Abrams and the cast being cagey? Check. A trailer that didn't give much away? Check. The reveal ...