Fun fact: The robes Sidious wears when hes making the speech to the senate. Those are Sith robes. The only people who knew what the robes were are the Jedi. So its one giant "Fuck you. I win."
Politicians are just pawns to the people who fund them. If you want to know who truly runs the world, you need to look beyond politics and delve into who funds them, and why they're being funded. (hint: it's the banking cartels) All wars are bankers' wars.
This entire essay reminds me of a famous movie line: “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled, was convince the world he didnt exists” perfectly fits with Palpatines story
It's more than convincing the world of his 'non-existence', he was able to shift the blame onto others for his wrongdoing, much like Palpatine did with the Jedi
he had to do that because he learned how many Sith Lords fell in history. He didn't have the arrogance of the Sith Lords of old. Palpatine understood his enemies like the Jedi and other enemies well enough to plan ahead.
@@Rinesmyth Although by doing that he also convinced the general public that the Sith were a phantom enemy created by the Jedi to disguise their plot. So I’d say the quote applies.
Holy crap I’ve not laughed that hard in ages! I’m a sequel fan myself but man that was hilarious - I wonder what sort of nonsense went into the development of the other trilogies too that we’re not privy to.
The genius of Ian McDiarmid in this role is the eyes. If you look at the scenes of the Chancellor, he changes his facial expressions to fake empathy or to fake joy during a celebration…but the eyes stay dead focused, cold and unchanged. He is always working on the great plan. No days off and Ian McDiarmid showed that focus in every scene no matter how small
And some of the expressions, whenever chancellor gets whatever he wants for the great plan, you can see the very beginning of an evil grin on his face, the dude is obviously laughing maniacally in his head
@drewpowers7236 love his real smiles too they aren't of joy well in a good sense relative to us but that smile of evil he does when he was pleading to Anakin to use his knowledge to help his wife and when Vader was having his breakdown at the news of his wife passing away.
Palpatine is more like Sauron’s master, Morgoth (aka Melkor from the Silmarillion). Morgoth fought with God (Iluvatar) for control of the universe. Morgoth was cast down to Middle-earth where he took over for hundreds of years. He was a bad dude. He created the Orcs by twisting Elves & mating them with animals! And like Palpatine, no one could ever completely kill Morgoth. His spirit continues until the final conflict of the universe.
Voldemort's problem was that "Spam Crucio and Avada Kedavra" was his answer to everything. Palpatine put on a nice guy act and pretended he was working for the galaxy's good while secretly organising an invasion of his own planet to force Valorum to step down after being unable to stop it so he could become Chancellor, used Dooku and other people's problems with the corrupt Republic to form the Separatists to create a fake threat to justify creating the clones he actually intended to use to kill the Jedi and tricked dumbass Jar Jar into giving him emergency powers then framed the Jedi for trying to overthrow the Republic and used the emergency powers and Mace Windu's attempt to kill him to get sympathy and form the Empire. And only showed his true evil self when he had all the power and didn't have to hide it anymore. Voldemort's "I'm evil and will torture you into insanity then kill you" was unsubtle and was never going to work.
Exactly. If you look at Palpatine's apprentices, while giving them certain powers, the Dark Side also brought suffering to their lives. But we don't really see that with Palpatine. He completely revels in the Dark Side. He pretty much IS the Dark Side!
@@gnc623 There is only one other Sith Lord i can remember that started out like that as they no sense of morality and it was actually a foreign concept to them and that was Darth Cognus…Zannah’s apprentice. But unlike Sidious, she had no back story of family trauma as far as we know. Most Sith we read about have some sense of dispute, trauma or childhood rejection/tragedy and so forth.
@@streetsdisciple0014 another Sith with this kind of nature is Tenebrae/Vitiate/Valkorion, who in his prime was halfway to a deity. Honestly, I think Vitiate might be someone who Palpatine drew inspiration from.
In words of Darth Plaguies the Wise: Evil, what is that? For a Sith, entire concept of good and evil is just so goofy. You seek the acquisition of power, and most things in order to do that just happen, incidentally, to contain murder or genocide.
Yeah; at least Vader might have enough empathy left to spare you. It's unlikely, to say the least... but the possibility, however slight, is there. The same cannot be said for Palpatine.
Psychopaths are typically too impulsive, chaotic and incapable of long term planning, but some are and those are the most dangerous kind. Palpatine actually exercises self control while manipulating everybody around him.
@@SungTheRealRiceGod which is kind of a paraphrase for 'psychopath'. Like an empath, the psychopath is very aware of your emotional state but the psychopath observes it from a self serving egocentric perspective: they possess you like a marionette, placating to those emotions to keep you on the strings.
@@DisturbedBurger empathy isn’t included in the definition for a psychopath. As an empath u still feel those emotions. It’s because you know how to recognize and spit them in yourself that you can also feel it in others. I personally. Believe it’s to very different things.
@@tinobemellow Not particularly narcissistic as he does not seem to care much for the emotional input of others. Narcissists also tend to operate with a sense of entitlement and revel in a sense of importance. Palpatine is strictly goal oriented and doesn't seem to care for ego fuel. He does however demonstrate an absolute absence of empathy and regard for other's needs while grooming them by exploiting vulnerabilities with false promises of gain like he did with Anakin. He pays no loyalties to anyone, and everyone is regarded as tools to use for fulfilling a self serving agenda as needed. Primarily political power and use of surrogates he invariably disposes of when he's done using them as seen in this plot to use Anakin and Obi-Wan to kill Dooku. He is tenacious, ruthless, callous, calculated, sadistic, exploitative, materialistic...among other characteristics. The perfect, quintessential dark triad.
Palpatine is hands down the best villain. As "So Uncivilized" said: "He is the devil, and he dragged the Messiah (Anakin) to the Dark Side." It's not the exact quote, but you get the idea.
6:33 His last conversation with his dad in the Darth Plageuis book was great. Cosinga: You're an animal at heart. Palpatine: King of the beasts father.
Usually it's villains who have a motivation or goal that's at least somewhat sympathetic that are the best, but Palpatine is a definite exception. He's evil and he loves it.
He is immersed in his maliciousness so much that he doesn't plinch even while knowing he had done horrible things and staged an intergalactic war that cost the lives of thousands to make the rest relinquish their rights to a an authoritarian dictatorship.
Sidious *IS* Ian McDiarmid's own creation. Originally The Emperor in ROTJ was supposed to have an even deeper voice than Vader but Ian thought that he should have a more snivellish voice based on his concept art. And in every single review I have ever seen bashing Rise of Skywalker, they never fail to mention that - even if they did not agree with Palpatine's return - they love McDiarmid's performance... That speaks volumes of his acting ability and his total control of the character.
Yep, however, as Ian has gotten older his voice has gotten way deeper. Now, I'd say he is almost as deep as Vader was. He just speaks from the upper half of his throat while James Earl Jones speaks with the lower half of his throat.
That said, Ian McDiarmid is the Emperor. There are few actors who get close. The only one that reaches it is Ian Abercrombie (R.I.P.) in the Clone Wars series.
I hate Disney Wars, but was always happy Ian McDiarmid and Hayden Christiansen got more work from them. Still won’t watch any of it, though. Hopefully Elon buys Disney someday.
They should have left Snoke the true villain and instead of killing him off made him more interesting with a good backstory. Thanks Rian Johnson/ Kathleen Kennedy, you are the true villains
What I always found interesting about His plan was he built both armies for the civil war he planned. Basically the galaxies population wasn’t needed to be mobilized into the service, the war in modern terms was between child soldiers and drones.
Yep. Both are massive, easily manufactured, and disposable armies. I know that people make this comparison all the time, but Palpatine truly was playing chess with the entire galaxy.
What’s truly brilliant about Sheev’s plan during the Clone Wars is that since he’s the leader of both armies, he wins either way. I know that’s really fucking obvious, but I can’t help it, that blows my mind. Sidious was an absolute genius, the best player of the game in every way.
@@cashthecurator666 Yeah, the only way he could lose his game is if someone managed to flip the board before the endgame was complete. If you are into the deeper lore you know that the only people really capable of stopping him are the Jedi. But they are so complacent throughout the series that by the time they really begin to question him it is almost to late. They don't do a good enough job of it in the movies, but the Sith rise is due in large part to the Jedi failure to adapt and their own dogma
The way he admires and mocks his old master Hego Damask aka Darth Plagueis at the same time is something you don't often find in villains. He is so skilled, learned, patient, charismatic, focused, easygoing and even therapeutic that would make you wish he was your mentor. He loves foreplay and adores his main victims, like a true super-predator. He also has a strong feminine side to him, that makes him look so kind, soft, gentle, warm and caring, like a mother. He also gives the impression that he has all the answers and makes his followers feel very comfortable around him. This is how he gains their trust because he boosts their ego in different ways to manipulate them. This is how he hides from everyone, because who'd think that a man so sweet and wise can be that sinister? That scene in the theater with Anakin, when he's seducing him and getting off on it, was the most charismatic owning of a young booty in cinema history. Its hard to criticize him or find flaws in his perfect game plan. He's like a cat-fox-snake hybrid as a person, so cunning and you can't catch him. Sheev Palpatine aka Darth Sidious savors every moment. That's a deep character right there. Ian McDiarmid played him brilliantly.
Yeah I don’t think Palpatine hated Plagueis personally, I think he hated the fact Plagueis was more powerful than he was. It’s similar to how he hated his own father. He was so arrogant that he didn’t think anyone should ever be above him. He was a son who hated the fact he needed a father, and he was an apprentice who hated the fact that he needed a master.
He was obsessed with the role of Sith master because he wanted to rule like any Sith would want. The deciding point in his relationship between him and his master was at some point he began to manipulate his master so he would have it later easier to kill him and his master wouldn’t doubt his loyalty to him. He did it because he was at this point not strong enough to defeat him in a 1 vs 1. But why fighting with all your might when you can make your enemy weaker so your chances to win are higher? Anyway Ian played him so good!👌🏻
@@erikdayne5429 I always saw Palpatine as stronger by the time he killed Plagueis immediately after the Phantom Menace. He mainly kept him around because he needed his money and patronage to get into the office of Chancellor. For one, he was a better lightsaber duelist than Plagueis. He had more desire (however little) to improve his swordplay, if for no other reason to spite the Jedi and be more combatively viable. Plagueis had zero interest. He also had more combative skill, as Plagueis was a researcher and a scientist who learned what was necessary to survive in combat. Also, Midichlorian manipulation would not help Plagueis if they came to blows. I mean it took him several minutes to kill a non-Force sensitive (Ars Veruna). He liked Plagueis, the thing that pissed him off is that Plagueis recruited him into the Sith Order on a lie. He didn't like that because Plagueis had been honest if nothing else up to that point, and he enjoyed the ability to be honest with someone. Also, he came to resent Plagueis' title as "master" as he desired power just like nearly all Sith before him. In his own words to describe Plagueis, "Teacher yes. And for that I shall be forever grateful. But master? Never!"
@@erikdayne5429 I will say, I do find the fact interesting that Plagueis actually considered Dooku for his apprentice before and even after Palpatine. And, Plagueis believed that the use of the Rule of Two had ended with him and his next apprentice. Had he recruited Dooku instead of Palpatine, I think Dooku would have been amenable to this. He wouldn't have attempted to usurp Plagueis, and Dooku would rule the galaxy. Plagueis would just be content to sit in his lab and experiment, with occasional discussions with Dooku on the state of the galaxy and what to do. Plagueis wanted a partnership rather than an apprentice after a certain point, and had he chosen Dooku I think this would have worked. It just so happens that Palpatine had too much of an ego to live with this and be happy.
@@891delta This obsession with making multi-dimensional/complex villains is more of a modern phenomenon. Disney is now going back and trying to make heroes/protagonists out of their villains (e.g. Maleficent and Cruella). While occasionally that can work to serve a story, making a villain more of a gray figure than a plainly evil one, it usually subtracts from the villain's purpose, which is just to be dastardly and set up as a roadblock/opponent for the protagonist(s). You're not supposed to be relating to and sympathizing with the villain (usually). Palpatine, IMO, is anything but boring. He is the personification of pure evil, but it's his grand scheme that is his most fascinating aspect. He was truly the devil in the sense of being the puppet master, a skillful manipulator. There are no redeeming qualities about him at all.
@@891delta Nothing one dimensional, but rather complex and entertaining. He's a benevolent politician on one side and a super powerful being who's capable of destroying the strongest when using the dark side. He's also a Sith. It goes deeper than that
I remember as a kid, watching the prequels and being legitimately persuaded MYSELF of all the things he was saying. He's a pretty persuasive character...
I like how in episode v when Darth Vader says Luke would make a powerful Ally. The emporer says he would be a great "Asset". Shows a lot about their different personalities.
I think Palpatine is still trying to deceive Vader by saying "asset", I think he actually wants Luke to be an apprentice, but he doesn't say apprentice, so Vader isn't threatened, I think if Palpatine was saying what he actually meant at that seen, It would be "He would be a great apprentice".
@Guy Whose opinions will offend you And a deeply, deeply cynical man, playing one side against another. From everything I've read of the run-up to the Balkan Wars, he came across as incredibly bland and boring, like some inoffensive small-town bank manager. It was an illusion many fell for. Shame he never faced justice.
@@PrismaPog_17 Of course he is, as soon as Palpatine became aware of Luke's existence the first thing that would have come to Palpatine's mind is 'a replacement for Vader'. After all, as Anakin's son Luke has as much (or nearly as much) force potential as his father did but because he's not dismembered in a cybernetic suit he has the ability to enforce Palpatine's will moreso than Vader, because he can actually use Force Lightning and any other Force technique that requires natural hands.
What I love about Palpatine is, he appears as the type of villain that will only scheme from behind, the cowardly evil politician type villain that is absolutely defenceless if he was locked in a room with an enemy, but no, he will beat the living shit out of you in the most humiliating way possible if you ever tried to attack him and be like “What you gonna do about it?”
@@bloodangel7731 In the Darth Plagueis novel, when a rival politician attempts to assassinate Plagueis, Palpatine was furious that his master was nearly killed before he could learn everything from him. He then paid a visit to the Senator's estate with Plagueis' lightsaber and slaughtered every man, woman, and child on the grounds. He was described as looking like a ravening wolf with red his hair wild and wind-swept, his eyes orange-yellow and bloodshot, and his mouth in a snarl and slightly foaming in rage. He capped it off by cleaning himself and decapitating the Senator. Plagueis' personal guards came in afterwards to see he had already done the deed, and were very much unnerved by his presence. Keep in mind that these guards were the best money could buy and had top-of-the-line training and mental toughness. And a thin politician scared the fuck out of them.
The levels to which Sidious rose, thanks to help from Plageuis, over the decades, is nothing short of phenomenal. He seems to have been born a dark side being. He murdered his entire family early in life. His training was purely savage and brutal under his master. The long term planning, and manipulation of vast sectors of planetary populations, the galactic economy, industry, the Order itself, and the Senate, to achieve a conflict he would rise to the top of, no matter who won, is essentially unrivalled in all of cinema, as you say. What is even MORE impressive to me, is that as DEEPLY corrupted as he was, to the core, from the dark side, he he still maintained the correct sensitivity to completely, and convincingly fake his interactions with other beings so well, that he came across as a great human, trying to bring the Republic together. It is extremely hard for any person, who is deeply corrupted, to fool everyone. Usually that depth of extreme pathology distorts a person so terribly, that at least in some ways, to some people who know them, they cannot hide their dark sides. I work in mental health. Such deeply disordered people, at least on the most menial levels can fool many. But not everyone. On the levels of the powerful, they can rise to presidents and premieres, and more. Yet from the books, and the movies, until the moment of his rise, Sidious had EVERYONE fooled, except his very closest companions, who prior to his rise, served him while Plageuis was still alive and already knew him in full. He utterly, and completely avoided scandal at every turn. I cannot see how anyone could have stopped him. He was so adept at using the dark side to hide in complete banality, while manipulating so much, this his rise to Emperor seems all but utterly assured. And even then, he still planned for failure, to still succeed anyways.
Palpatine did adopt the political influence of Plagueis and he also did adopt the great scheme of the sith. Saying all this is Palpatines doing/scheming simply is wrong. I mean he was probably the most important part in a scheme that wasn't even his own. Though most people not familiar with star wars deep lore give credit for Palpatines victory only to Sidious when it's actually a complex centuries old plan made by Darth Bane from which Sidious basically harvested the success by being the final piece.
@Raffy Completely untrue. Palpatine only inherited the wealth but concocted the entire grand political schemes behind the Sith take over. The Yinchorri Uprising, the Stark Hyperspace War, Seperatist Crisis, Clone Wars, etc. and various grand political schemes were all created and executed by him. This is literally documented in various materials from novels, Star Wars Insider, Star Wars Fact Files etc.
@@edwardhyde7512 Completely untrue is vastly overexaggerated don't you think. I mean for starters plageius wealth did not exist inside a vacuum right? Money is always also a political tool. Also the shift in the force to the dark side on a galactic level was a ritual conducted under Plagueis supervision. It augmented the chance of success of any dark side undertaking. Plus the weakened Jedi order and them being unable to comprehend what is going on. All that very important groundwork is not based on Sidious. Without it it's very unlikely he could have come that far at all.
The ultimate proof of his genius is his complete success in framing the Jedi as the villains of the galaxy. A victory so pervasive and enduring that Star Wars fans themselves often quote his lies in their own condemnation of the Order without even realizing they're doing it.
@@thehammurabichode7994there is none. Oh don't get me wrong, Palpatine is EVIL. In a room with Voldemort, Morgoth, Frieza, Joker and Ronald Reagan, Palpatine eclipses their achievements with the single fact that he won. However... The Jedi were a militant order of warrior priests that consistently interfered with galaxy-spanning political decisions. Decisions that, given their objectively dogmatic faith, are in opposition with the views of the Jedi Order. That's the evil yet sweet allure of Palpatine, you see. He never technically lies.
@@vorpalweapon4814I would assume. with order 65 presumably being executable by a jedi, and them being military officers, if they believed there was treason from the chancellor they probably had the authority to arrest.
Becomes even more fascinating if you take into account the thousand years leading up to his victory. The entire Sith Grand plan is a brilliant idea. It is not like Palpatine had to convince everyone in the galaxy to be evil and corrupt. Human nature mostly takes care of that. They worked in the background to pull strings to make the corruption worse true, but it was not entirely up to him.
@@PrismaPog_17 weak? Was the misspelling intentional? Edit: technically not a misspelling I guess, just from the context it would be week, but like I said if it was intentional that's pretty clever 🤔
What i like most about sidious is that he serves a higher purpose. He is not just some power hungry dude as he first appears to be. He indeed sticks to his authority and does not allow anyone to mess with it, but he feels like the sith legacy is safe and actually gets very happy when he learns Vader is building his own small power sphere within the galactic empire. He is delighted with his apprentices patient and calculated approach about overthrowing the emperor. What furiates him is when Vader cant direct his anger with control. Sith masters of old appreciate their apprentices slowly yet surely prepearing for the day they will confront their masters but they hate it when their apprentices decide to take over when they are not yet ready. They wish to see that their apprentices are wise enough to understand wether they learnt everything they could from their master before they act. That makes them feel like they can trust their successors to carry the responsibility of keeping sith legacy alive. Darth Bane loses his shit when he thinks his apprentice tried to confront him too early but feels proud when his apprentice actually defeat him years later and claim the title of master. Vader still had demons he fought. Thats why Sidious was angry at Vader most of the time. He wanted to make sure Vader was focused and ready when the time came. That does not make him a good guy in no way tho, but it proves he is not a hypocrite. Consistent ideology and action makes great characters
Indeed. I'm no music theorist, but I tend to believe that while Vader's theme (the Imperial March) is bold and loud, indicating the rule of force he wishes to impose on the galaxy, Sidious' theme hints at an even greater evil lurking just beyond.
They never really touched on what Palpatine wanted with Maul. Sure he kept him in a prison and tortured him briefly before he escaped, but during that time Palpatine and Dooku were mainly concerned with extracting more information from Maul about the shadow collective. That surely can't be the furthest extent of what Palpatine wanted with Maul, so what would he have used Maul for if he didn't escape?
It’s revealed that he wanted maul to escape so he would lead him to mother talzin. This works resulting in palpatine killing her. He is always one step ahead
@@scottphillips8607 NO dark empire was pretty awesome and GENUINELY dark. Plus it gave us The Eclipse, the World Devastators, Galaxy Guns all that really cool shit.
I too am inclined to view Palpatine as the GOAT of cinema villians, but I'm also partial towards "evil mastermind" types. Also HUGE shoutout to Ian McDiarmid (who was a trained Shakespearean actor before joining SW)! Palpatine would have nowhere close to as compelling, enduring, or chilling as he was without his stellar portrayal of the character! Fun Fact: Ian said in an interview that George Lucas originally wanted a more "aristocratic" emperor like Clive Revel's version in the original Empire Strikes Back (ie, the Palpatine voice in hologram sequence). But it was Ian's idea to make the emperor be the embodiment of evil and George was swayed after seeing Ian's efforts at doing so.
What Palpatine managed to accomplish and HOW he managed to do it is very hard to even BEGIN to match. Absolutely masterful and absolutely terrifying. He infiltrated the machine, took over the machine and then destroyed the machine and rebuilt it to serve only himself. Astonishing; a galactic feat of unfathomable complexity and uncanny success.
Seriously, he manufactured a war by arming and organizing two opposing factions behind the scenes which he uses to play both sides against the middle. The entire conflict is just a charade of lies and deceit, both sides unaware that the chancellor is directing the entire show. Then, through more lies and deceit he convinces the people that the Jedi were power hungry terrorists, when the Jedi in reality are the ones defending peace and freedom. Finally, this artificial reality of war and unrest and turmoil eventually scares the people into voluntarily surrendering their freedoms so that they can remain safe in this dangerous time. Imagine if something like that happened in the USA like between 2001 and 2011, that would be WILD. Thankfully this movie is fictional
I always find the differences between Palpatine and Tenebrae (Aka Darth Vititate) really interesting to look at, Palpatine wanted a galaxy to rule and torment but Tenebrae wanted to devour the galaxy and become a force god. But both were so pragmatic and patient, they planned for so many eventualities and possibilities. Still they were beaten both.
Words cannot describe the excitement I felt, when I saw this episode appear on my recommended list on May 28, 2021. I had been waiting for it ever since I first checked out the channel. Well done, Vile Eye.
The genius of Palpatine's manipulation of Anakin and thus the birth of Darth Vader is that, Darth Vader is as much as the creation of the Jedi Order as it was Palpatine's. It was the teachings of the Jedi and their overall indifference or lack, or rather suppression, of emotion is what laid to Anakin's dark path. All Palpatine had to do was nudge Anakin.
I feel like palpatine used to be so cunning and genius, but once he achieved his unlimited power he didn’t need to be clever about anything anymore, he just had overwhelming, universal, indomitable power and just did whatever he wanted without penalty. He didn’t need to manipulate anyone anymore he could just go through them
@@fuehrer_tb5597 We can blame a lot of that on Tarkin though, Palestine “liked” tarkin, and arguably most of the empires oppressive tactics were derived from tarkin, with his use of brutality, overwhelming force, and distain for those who opposed assimilation starting in the end of the clone wars
Well that is the flaw of all Sith, they become to arrogant and that leads to their death. He was the greatest Sith of all time but he still was a Sith and not above their flaws
They're so unwilling to make a stand on anything that they retconned the son of Sidious into a kind of clone. The clone then got married, had Rey Palpatine, then got killed because plot.
My mom has this really heavy, warm, thigh-length jacket that looks like the top half of Sheev's episode 1 senate robes, so whenever one of us is cold and wants it we ask the other where The Palpatines at. He's usually in a closet under the stairs. Very snuggly 10/10
100% agree. Palpatine is the singular most evil character brought to life on screen or on page. Everything about his existence. Complete and total evil compounded by genius level intellect and unbridled success.
@nohbuddy1 lol you sound so butthurt and @santinosolis8405 is that why he failed to do anything of significance since it was all according to God’s plan and there was nothing he could do to stop that
As evil as Palpatine is, I wouldn’t say he’s the most evil. The Judge from Blood Meridian is probably the purest embodiment of evil I can think of(and perhaps the best villain ever written) and Morgoth is a good second.
@@anatoldenevers237 Its rather difficult to put anybody as *more* evil than Darth Sidious. There are certainly no shortage of characters in fiction that are AS evil, but as hard it may be to believe on some days, there is a bottom to the abyss, and Palpatine is it. I guess there are characters that literally ARE the abyss, as it were, or evil itself, whom I suppose technically qualify, but Morgoth, at least, doesn't really qualify as being more evil. Although I suppose it also depends on how exactly you qualify or quantify evil, because if you look at deeds or feats or such then the task becomes far easier, but I don't really think that's a particularly good way to view it.
"You may be wondering...'When did he begin to change?' The truth is that I HAVEN'T changed. As we have clouded the minds of the Jedi, I clouded yours. Never once did I have any intention of sharing power with you. I needed to learn from you. No more, no less, to learn all of your secrets, which I trusted you would eventually reveal. But what made you think I would need you after that? Vanity, perhaps, your sense of self-importance. You've been nothing more than a pawn in a game played by a genuine master. The Sith'ari. (Laughs) Reflect back on even the past few years, assuming you have the capacity: Yinchorr, Dorvalla, Eriadu, Maul, the Neimoidians, Naboo, and army of Clones, the fallen Jedi Dooku. You may think these were your ideas, when in fact, they were MINE. Cleverly suggested to you so that you could feed them back to me. You were far too trusting, Plagueis. No true Sith can ever really care about one another. This has always been known. There is no way but MY way. Are you still with me, Plagueis? Yes, I detect that you are, though barely... ...If it's any consolation, I'm being honest when I say I could not have succeeded without you...but now that we've won the race, i have no need for a Co-Chancellor. Your presence, much less your unnecessary counsel, will only confuse matters. I have Maul to do what the risk of discovery might not allow me to do, while I execute the rest of the Grand Plan: Growing an army, formenting rebellion, and fabricating intergalactic war, cornering the Jedi and catching them unawares. Rest easy in your grave, Plageuis. In the end, I will be proclaimed Emperor. The Sith will have had their revenge and I will rule the Galaxy."-Darth Sidious
Spot on about him being the greatest villain ever onscreen. There are a few close challengers IMO, but yea... Sidious was on another level. For what its worth, Sidious seems, to me, an example of what would happen when someone's shadow or dark side (Nietzsche & Jung) became the ubermensch... oh, and had control of a mystical force that enabled them to do Sith stuff... Sidious had the patience of Job, the intellect of a Hannibal Lecter, and is, in my opinion, the greatest manipulator ever explored in fiction or cinema outside of the Devil Himself. It didn't hurt that he was also a master duelist and arguably, had the greatest command of the dark side in all of the Star Wars universe with, perhaps, Darth Vitiate or Valkorion a worthy challenger. That Darth Plagueis book though...
Yeah really makes me dislike Disney. I wish they would get the F away from Skywalker era. In Eu/legends there is thousands of years of galactic history to work on. And God Damnit I wanted a Darth Bane trilogy. Sucks we can never get anything cool like that though because it would not be the most popular with kids. To me the movies are just a jumping off point though and the best SW material are the books and games. Clone Wars was really good, but still... Shame that we needed those to make Anakin likable. Ahsoka is about the only real cool character we have gotten from normal canon since the prequels.
The Rise of Skywalker should have been called: "How Palpatine won everything"... Yeah, Rey is a Palpatine.. No matter if she does not feel identify with her surname.
@@monicaaboites5053 I should have been called "Palpatine: A Life Well-Lived" and it should have had a nauseatingly trite trailer with him on Naboo playing around in the prairie like Ani and Padme. Just rolling in the heather laughing girlishly with Disney's trademark woodland creatures congregating around him....
@@troyevitt2437 he will return in the sequel sequel trilogy: "Somehow... Palpatine is gay..." "How could this happen!?" "Forced inclusion... pandering... secrets only Disney knew..." "This was his plan all along... to put stuff in the water to make the frogs gay..."
Truly the greatest Sith Master of all time. His weapon of choice, politics, absolutely the greatest weapon he could have. Start a war, spread anger, hate and fear across the galaxy and feed off it and completely annihilate his enemies.
One of my favorite pieces of acting from Mcdirmid is in revenge of the sith, after Vader first speaks and learns padme is dead, as Vader shouts noooo in absolute agony, you can see palpatine with a genuine smile, it's so subtle, but so insanely evil. You can tell he is proud of his horrifying Frankenstein monster that he turned Anakin into
Well to be fair, he originally was going to make anakin a poster boy for him, to show to the Galaxy that anakin helped him fend off the evil jedi, since anakin was very popular in the galaxy. The only problem was anakin losing to obi-wan. Since palpatine thought that anakin would win against obi-wan or that he atleast wouldn't lose. But after that he became the evil dictator and made Anakin into the villain we love.
The irony is that once Palpatine became Emperor, he seemed to abandon the strategies that got him there. On the way to the throne, he used manipulation and cunning. Once he became Emperor, he increasingly relied on brute force and intimidation, with the Death Star being the apex of this tendency. As far as redeeming qualities, it seems that until the Rebellion came along, the Empire mostly fulfilled its mandate of peace, prosperity and stability. Was it perfect? No. But neither was the Old Republic, which seemed unable to effectively govern. To me, it seems like the Rebellion caused Palpatine to overreact and forget himself.
Well he basically manipulated the rebellion into existence out of little more then boredom. So while he abandoned his more cunning plans it mostly was because he truly viewed others as toys and viewed himself as almost unbeatable
It should be noted that the Death Star was not originally palpatines plan, that was done by the genosians (who though their war against the republic was REAL, as the construction of the Death Star was started in the closing months of the war by what was left of the CIS forces in the region. Palestine merely hijacked the death star, and it could be argued the completion of it is more or less Stark is fault, as the Death Star was a part of the “Tarkin doctrine”, furthermore, a lot of the brutal intimidation tactics the empire used can be traced to tarkin during the Clone wars.
@@stuglife5514 - Even so, Tarkin worked for Palpatine. I assume Tarkin did what he did with Palpatine's blessing. If Palpatine failed to rein him in, then that is on him.
@@stevensenator4804 He didnt do what he did with palpatines blessing, he did what he did because he saw that as the best pathway to peace. The Emps simply hopped onto his bandwagon
@@stuglife5514 - Well, I disagree. If he didn't have Palpatine's blessing & confidence, Vader would have dispatched him long ago. Indeed, Tarkin was maybe the only imperial that Vader would obey.
Palpatine is such a fascinating villain. His character is so diverse yet so simple. He simply wants power but he achieves that power through extremely well thought out plots. I am one of the few who absolutely loved Palpatine's return in TROS. No other villain or plot would be able to compare to the emperor himself. Its truly sad that the sequels didn't give him enough buildup or screentime but despite that I cannot wait for all the revelations we will eventually get in other media. I love that Palpatine is and always will be the ultimate villain of star wars.
Well it's been confirmed the Disney sequels were not planned out. If they were done right (planned out and made by better people) it would have been better...
@@dboymax1 I'm fine with him coming back, but they have to properly justify it, of course.... Not to mention where the Chosen One and the prophecy now fit in, too. And they dropped the ball a good deal, on that.
I hated it. It was such a half-assed contrived twist that cheapens the OT gang's achievments (which JJ Abrams pretty much undid all their wins) and his death was so dumb felt like fanfiction. They didn't even bother explaining how he's back.
@@iamstewpit6740 Yes, but George Lucas created him. And I wonder how he's worse than the devil, because he's done everything the devil does; caused war, deceive many and killed.
The Devil is also manipulative, he makes people see sins as something good sometimes which could represent Palpatine as a friendly looking man until he reveals his true form in Episode 3 when Anakin's "sins" has gone so far that he can't turn back from evil.
@Greg Elchert depending on the interpretation the Devil felt wronged and discarded by God in favor of humans. Yes he does bad things but its beyond just the desire for power. I think the key difference between the 2 is their motivation.
I really like how Ian has stayed committed to playing palpatine through the years. I do wish that palpatine was involved in more direct fights in the films.
The more I hear about him, the more I feel he was waisted in Rise of Skywalker. His death in Return of the Jedi was so meaningful that the way he died in Rise of Skywalker made it meaningless. Off that topic. I would love it if you would analys the evil of Sauron.
He was written in last minute, which is why he used fortnite to announce his return. Matt Smith was filmed playing the Son-dark side of the force from Clone Wars
Analyzing Evil suggestion: Shodan *(System Shock 1&2)* She is perhaps the greatest Artificial Intelligence villain of fiction so far. She's sadistic, scary, manipulative, egotistical, and sees herself as a goddess that thinks all lower life forms should bow before her and she goes as far as to play God and create her own life forms.
As much as I enjoyed that game, I think you wrote everything that needed to be written about that villain in your comment. Pretty one dimensional one. If you want AI villains, check out GLADOS from Portal. Or the classic HAL9000. Much more depth to both of them.
In the darth plaguies book, darth sidious seemed to express regret for having to kill a certain senator (I think his name was kinman or something that begins with a k). He had considered him to be the closest thing he had to a friend...so that be one extremely small redeeming quality
I cried when I was a kid seeing Anakins transformation into Darth vadar and I would be lying if I said I dont tear up a little as an adult watching the same. You know whats going to happen, but it's one of the only series I tell myself, "no no, come on, don't do it!" Something about the story of Anakin turning to the dark side gets me everytime.
Darth sidious is most important character on star wars. He's almost the only one you can cover the entire plot of all the star wars movies except one or two lol or maybe three lol. But he's in the whole story even though he's not always seen lol. He's pulling the strings lol
I must say your channel is one of the finest jewels I've found so far since I've started my acting career and I've been studying villains nonstop for my voice acting. Keep up the good work, mate!
Palpatine/Darth Sidious was one of the greatest Villian ever. He manipulted Darth Vader and turned him into an unstoppable force too… A manipulative conquerer, which managed to totally annihilate the Jedi order and the galaxy.
Very good delivery, and the caveat with the sequels shows well thought out professionalism. As someone working on their own analytical essays, this was a nice channel to find at random today. Great work.
Palpatine is probably one of the best written villains in fiction. He is such a well developed villain and Ian McDiarmid played him perfectly. I finally rewatched all 6 Star Wars Films (not counting Disney) and you see how clever he is. George wrote a great villain and I think he is probably the best version of a tyrant we have in fiction. Love your video.
You have to watch Rise of Skywalker because McDiarmid does such a good job in it for the limitations imposed upon him. It would've been so much better had they simply adapter "Dark Empire" 2 decades ago since there would've been so much more material for him to chew on with Palpatine the Undying.
@@TheJeremyHolloway the writers did such a disservice to his genius. (In TRoS) Ian's performance is flawless, but his plan in the movie is straight up nonsense, one question dismantles the entire plot: "why did he announce his return?" And the only answer is: to set the plot in motion, because otherwise he could've taken over the galaxy (again) without interference. It would take more time than I can spare to list all of the flaws of his plan, but the one mentioned above must be the worst. The writers who worked on the sequels should never touch pen and paper (keyboard or whatever) ever again. Even an intelectually handicapped chimpanzee could write a more logically coherent story. When I was watching it I had the feeling that they first came up with the visuals and then tried to write a story around them.
Palpatines childhood reminds me of a quote from Ray Holt in Brooklyn 99: "it's sad to see a father who cares so little for his son that he allows him to get away with anything."
Easily im- ahem- I mean HE is the Greatest Villain of all time! Even in the expanded universe story Dark Empire he's so entertaining and interesting. The Novel Darth Plagueis is one of my favorite books ever, and even his inclusion in the sequel trilogy is fun ( despite the movies issues)
18:38 I wasn't looking at the video while I was listening at this point, and I heard the word "grievous." I thought in my mind how funny it would be if Vile popped up a picture of General Grievous at that point, so for the hell of it, I rolled back, and saw that my thought was confirmed. Thank you for these little details. It really gives personality to the videos.
This video paints a whole new picture of palp like imagine what actually happened to fives when they were alone in that room and next time we see him he’s gone insane
Daniel Plainview will be out next! I hope
you’ve all enjoyed this little mini series on Star Wars.
Can't wait!
Can you please do one about Reverse Flash
@@Ehrenhaider_Akainu oooohhh, damn good one!
can you do ''Vincent'' from collateral??
@@m.p.6947 Omg yes!!! I would love that
Fun fact: The robes Sidious wears when hes making the speech to the senate. Those are Sith robes. The only people who knew what the robes were are the Jedi. So its one giant "Fuck you. I win."
No, in this particular scene he wore a red robe. Sith wear black.
@@sidnew2739 Sith wear whatever the fuck they want.
@@sidnew2739 ceremonial robes, sith have style when we want to.
And the biggest fuck you- Making his palace out of the Jedi Temple lol
@@sidnew2739 Look it up dumb ass lol. They are Sith Robes.
“The most evil villain in all cinema history is a politician” Hits too close to reality.
This is why we should all shoot up as much establishments as possible. Anarchy is the only way humanity can be happy
So evil that he will salugher his loyal minions once they are of no use to him
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Politicians are just pawns to the people who fund them. If you want to know who truly runs the world, you need to look beyond politics and delve into who funds them, and why they're being funded. (hint: it's the banking cartels) All wars are bankers' wars.
You ain't lying
This entire essay reminds me of a famous movie line: “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled, was convince the world he didnt exists” perfectly fits with Palpatines story
Ah man, a review on Keyser Soze would be awesome
It's more than convincing the world of his 'non-existence', he was able to shift the blame onto others for his wrongdoing, much like Palpatine did with the Jedi
he had to do that because he learned how many Sith Lords fell in history. He didn't have the arrogance of the Sith Lords of old. Palpatine understood his enemies like the Jedi and other enemies well enough to plan ahead.
@@DeathScepter not well enough to escape his own death though. Twice. Three times if you count the legends timeline.
@@Rinesmyth Although by doing that he also convinced the general public that the Sith were a phantom enemy created by the Jedi to disguise their plot. So I’d say the quote applies.
“His crimes are immeasurable.”
That’s honestly the most terrifying part about Darth Sidious.
Darth Immeasurable
So are Frieza's, who is inspired by Palpatine to an extent.
its not a crime if he makes the rules. after all, he is the senate
"I will make it legal"
He didn’t commit crimes, he simply made it legal
He was so good at planning, he'd created plans that even the writers didnt know about until they scrambled to bring him back for episode IX
*My goals are beyond your understanding*
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Holy crap I’ve not laughed that hard in ages! I’m a sequel fan myself but man that was hilarious - I wonder what sort of nonsense went into the development of the other trilogies too that we’re not privy to.
@@ligmagaming3249 My goals are beyond my* understanding.
@@ligmagaming3249 *and mine*
The genius of Ian McDiarmid in this role is the eyes. If you look at the scenes of the Chancellor, he changes his facial expressions to fake empathy or to fake joy during a celebration…but the eyes stay dead focused, cold and unchanged. He is always working on the great plan. No days off and Ian McDiarmid showed that focus in every scene no matter how small
He went on record to say he enjoyed playing villians, esspecially Palpatine
And some of the expressions, whenever chancellor gets whatever he wants for the great plan, you can see the very beginning of an evil grin on his face, the dude is obviously laughing maniacally in his head
@drewpowers7236 love his real smiles too they aren't of joy well in a good sense relative to us but that smile of evil he does when he was pleading to Anakin to use his knowledge to help his wife and when Vader was having his breakdown at the news of his wife passing away.
It would be funny if he was just like that in everyday life, and was actually not acting at all lmao. But nah, he is great
@@Manterok he is and loved his small role in dirty rotten scoundrels.
you do have a point. Palpatine ruled the entire known galaxy. Sauron failed conquering middle earth. Voldemort couldn’t conquer a high school.
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Palpatine is more like Sauron’s master, Morgoth (aka Melkor from the Silmarillion). Morgoth fought with God (Iluvatar) for control of the universe. Morgoth was cast down to Middle-earth where he took over for hundreds of years. He was a bad dude. He created the Orcs by twisting Elves & mating them with animals!
And like Palpatine, no one could ever completely kill Morgoth. His spirit continues until the final conflict of the universe.
Voldemort's problem was that "Spam Crucio and Avada Kedavra" was his answer to everything. Palpatine put on a nice guy act and pretended he was working for the galaxy's good while secretly organising an invasion of his own planet to force Valorum to step down after being unable to stop it so he could become Chancellor, used Dooku and other people's problems with the corrupt Republic to form the Separatists to create a fake threat to justify creating the clones he actually intended to use to kill the Jedi and tricked dumbass Jar Jar into giving him emergency powers then framed the Jedi for trying to overthrow the Republic and used the emergency powers and Mace Windu's attempt to kill him to get sympathy and form the Empire. And only showed his true evil self when he had all the power and didn't have to hide it anymore. Voldemort's "I'm evil and will torture you into insanity then kill you" was unsubtle and was never going to work.
@@bb1111116 Morgoth created a lot more than just orcs. Playing god was his favourite passtime lol.
Palpatine didn't even _need_ to be turned to the Dark Side. He just needed to be *unleashed.*
Exactly. If you look at Palpatine's apprentices, while giving them certain powers, the Dark Side also brought suffering to their lives. But we don't really see that with Palpatine. He completely revels in the Dark Side. He pretty much IS the Dark Side!
@@gnc623 There is only one other Sith Lord i can remember that started out like that as they no sense of morality and it was actually a foreign concept to them and that was Darth Cognus…Zannah’s apprentice.
But unlike Sidious, she had no back story of family trauma as far as we know.
Most Sith we read about have some sense of dispute, trauma or childhood rejection/tragedy and so forth.
@@streetsdisciple0014 another Sith with this kind of nature is Tenebrae/Vitiate/Valkorion, who in his prime was halfway to a deity. Honestly, I think Vitiate might be someone who Palpatine drew inspiration from.
@streetsdisciple0014 Did Sidious have family trauma? I guess I didn't know that. I know he hated them but I thought it was just because....
@gnc623 It's implied in the novel he was just born evil.
Palpatine, what every politician aspires to be
Drop Live Grenade when killed
He will make all corrupt politicians and dictators (past and present) into punk bitches.
In a way
Do tell.
I mean he is smart he has that over most
To summarize why I love Palpatine: He knows he is evil and he *loves* every second of it
Mr plinkett said the same in his review 😂
A fellow RLM chad.
basicly
In words of Darth Plaguies the Wise: Evil, what is that?
For a Sith, entire concept of good and evil is just so goofy. You seek the acquisition of power, and most things in order to do that just happen, incidentally, to contain murder or genocide.
Like when he fighted maul and savage he laughed and smiled every single second of the fight
This video makes the words that Vader said in return of the Jedi “the emperor is not as forgiving as I am” hit much harder
I know right
Yeah; at least Vader might have enough empathy left to spare you. It's unlikely, to say the least... but the possibility, however slight, is there.
The same cannot be said for Palpatine.
Vader loved his family palpatine killed his family and also fun fact vader tried to commit suicide because of padme’s death
Psychopaths are typically too impulsive, chaotic and incapable of long term planning, but some are and those are the most dangerous kind. Palpatine actually exercises self control while manipulating everybody around him.
He isn’t a psychopath or a sociopath. He’s kinda like a evil empath.
@@SungTheRealRiceGod which is kind of a paraphrase for 'psychopath'. Like an empath, the psychopath is very aware of your emotional state but the psychopath observes it from a self serving egocentric perspective: they possess you like a marionette, placating to those emotions to keep you on the strings.
@@DisturbedBurger empathy isn’t included in the definition for a psychopath. As an empath u still feel those emotions. It’s because you know how to recognize and spit them in yourself that you can also feel it in others. I personally. Believe it’s to very different things.
i am like this
@@tinobemellow Not particularly narcissistic as he does not seem to care much for the emotional input of others. Narcissists also tend to operate with a sense of entitlement and revel in a sense of importance. Palpatine is strictly goal oriented and doesn't seem to care for ego fuel.
He does however demonstrate an absolute absence of empathy and regard for other's needs while grooming them by exploiting vulnerabilities with false promises of gain like he did with Anakin.
He pays no loyalties to anyone, and everyone is regarded as tools to use for fulfilling a self serving agenda as needed. Primarily political power and use of surrogates he invariably disposes of when he's done using them as seen in this plot to use Anakin and Obi-Wan to kill Dooku.
He is tenacious, ruthless, callous, calculated, sadistic, exploitative, materialistic...among other characteristics. The perfect, quintessential dark triad.
Palpatine knows exactly what he is and he's having a blast with it.
Absolutely
@ Absolute power 🔋🔋
@ never saw it this way, what an absolute chad move, no beskar, hell no armour. A fucking robe, legend
yes... the senate
@@michaelpalacio3545 Welcome to Shinobi Land
Palpatine is hands down the best villain. As "So Uncivilized" said: "He is the devil, and he dragged the Messiah (Anakin) to the Dark Side." It's not the exact quote, but you get the idea.
"In many ways, the prequels are a story of an arrogant religion who gets ahold of the messiah, who then accidentally hands him over to the devil"
Then who is the anti-Christ?
@@ash_11117 darth vader probably
@@ash_11117 maybe luke
Oh shit, that is chilling.
6:33 His last conversation with his dad in the Darth Plageuis book was great.
Cosinga: You're an animal at heart.
Palpatine: King of the beasts father.
Imo that conversation was so dramatic it took me out of the atmosphere and tone of the book lol
The novel is good???
@@linkinnactoch8266 very much so
@@linkinnactoch8266 it is good but I wouldn't recommend it if it's your first SW read.
@@jakobrenner2230 which ones would you recommed me??
The fact he has no redeeming qualities is exactly why i love him so much
Usually it's villains who have a motivation or goal that's at least somewhat sympathetic that are the best, but Palpatine is a definite exception. He's evil and he loves it.
He is immersed in his maliciousness so much that he doesn't plinch even while knowing he had done horrible things and staged an intergalactic war that cost the lives of thousands to make the rest relinquish their rights to a an authoritarian dictatorship.
like frieza In dbz
Bro is evil and does not care how you feel about it. Evil is as evil does and Palpatine is a master of evil.
Sidious *IS* Ian McDiarmid's own creation. Originally The Emperor in ROTJ was supposed to have an even deeper voice than Vader but Ian thought that he should have a more snivellish voice based on his concept art.
And in every single review I have ever seen bashing Rise of Skywalker, they never fail to mention that - even if they did not agree with Palpatine's return - they love McDiarmid's performance... That speaks volumes of his acting ability and his total control of the character.
Yep, however, as Ian has gotten older his voice has gotten way deeper. Now, I'd say he is almost as deep as Vader was. He just speaks from the upper half of his throat while James Earl Jones speaks with the lower half of his throat.
That said, Ian McDiarmid is the Emperor. There are few actors who get close. The only one that reaches it is Ian Abercrombie (R.I.P.) in the Clone Wars series.
I hate Disney Wars, but was always happy Ian McDiarmid and Hayden Christiansen got more work from them. Still won’t watch any of it, though. Hopefully Elon buys Disney someday.
THE MOST EVIL 😈 CHARACTER IN STAR 🌟 WARS DARK SIDIOUS.
The most terrifying enemy is one that knows patience.
@Joe Curr ur
Meanwhile, Kylo Ren is throwing a tantrum with his lightsaber over inconveniences.
@@ryanm.8720 You have to show the coffee maker who's boss sometimes.
if only im patient and not unstable like Anakin
They should have left Snoke the true villain and instead of killing him off made him more interesting with a good backstory. Thanks Rian Johnson/ Kathleen Kennedy, you are the true villains
You’re right. Palpatine is an amazing villain. He had LITERALLY EVERYTHING planned out from the start.
What I always found interesting about His plan was he built both armies for the civil war he planned. Basically the galaxies population wasn’t needed to be mobilized into the service, the war in modern terms was between child soldiers and drones.
Yep. Both are massive, easily manufactured, and disposable armies. I know that people make this comparison all the time, but Palpatine truly was playing chess with the entire galaxy.
Yup he created the problem so he would be the only solution
What’s truly brilliant about Sheev’s plan during the Clone Wars is that since he’s the leader of both armies, he wins either way. I know that’s really fucking obvious, but I can’t help it, that blows my mind. Sidious was an absolute genius, the best player of the game in every way.
@@cashthecurator666 Yeah, the only way he could lose his game is if someone managed to flip the board before the endgame was complete. If you are into the deeper lore you know that the only people really capable of stopping him are the Jedi. But they are so complacent throughout the series that by the time they really begin to question him it is almost to late. They don't do a good enough job of it in the movies, but the Sith rise is due in large part to the Jedi failure to adapt and their own dogma
He created 3 armies
The way he admires and mocks his old master Hego Damask aka Darth Plagueis at the same time is something you don't often find in villains. He is so skilled, learned, patient, charismatic, focused, easygoing and even therapeutic that would make you wish he was your mentor. He loves foreplay and adores his main victims, like a true super-predator. He also has a strong feminine side to him, that makes him look so kind, soft, gentle, warm and caring, like a mother. He also gives the impression that he has all the answers and makes his followers feel very comfortable around him. This is how he gains their trust because he boosts their ego in different ways to manipulate them. This is how he hides from everyone, because who'd think that a man so sweet and wise can be that sinister?
That scene in the theater with Anakin, when he's seducing him and getting off on it, was the most charismatic owning of a young booty in cinema history.
Its hard to criticize him or find flaws in his perfect game plan. He's like a cat-fox-snake hybrid as a person, so cunning and you can't catch him.
Sheev Palpatine aka Darth Sidious savors every moment. That's a deep character right there.
Ian McDiarmid played him brilliantly.
Yeah I don’t think Palpatine hated Plagueis personally, I think he hated the fact Plagueis was more powerful than he was. It’s similar to how he hated his own father. He was so arrogant that he didn’t think anyone should ever be above him. He was a son who hated the fact he needed a father, and he was an apprentice who hated the fact that he needed a master.
He was obsessed with the role of Sith master because he wanted to rule like any Sith would want. The deciding point in his relationship between him and his master was at some point he began to manipulate his master so he would have it later easier to kill him and his master wouldn’t doubt his loyalty to him. He did it because he was at this point not strong enough to defeat him in a 1 vs 1. But why fighting with all your might when you can make your enemy weaker so your chances to win are higher? Anyway Ian played him so good!👌🏻
@@erikdayne5429 Him and Kreia would have a fun time playing with each other and philosophizing all day and all night.
@@erikdayne5429 I always saw Palpatine as stronger by the time he killed Plagueis immediately after the Phantom Menace. He mainly kept him around because he needed his money and patronage to get into the office of Chancellor. For one, he was a better lightsaber duelist than Plagueis. He had more desire (however little) to improve his swordplay, if for no other reason to spite the Jedi and be more combatively viable. Plagueis had zero interest. He also had more combative skill, as Plagueis was a researcher and a scientist who learned what was necessary to survive in combat. Also, Midichlorian manipulation would not help Plagueis if they came to blows. I mean it took him several minutes to kill a non-Force sensitive (Ars Veruna). He liked Plagueis, the thing that pissed him off is that Plagueis recruited him into the Sith Order on a lie. He didn't like that because Plagueis had been honest if nothing else up to that point, and he enjoyed the ability to be honest with someone. Also, he came to resent Plagueis' title as "master" as he desired power just like nearly all Sith before him. In his own words to describe Plagueis, "Teacher yes. And for that I shall be forever grateful. But master? Never!"
@@erikdayne5429 I will say, I do find the fact interesting that Plagueis actually considered Dooku for his apprentice before and even after Palpatine. And, Plagueis believed that the use of the Rule of Two had ended with him and his next apprentice. Had he recruited Dooku instead of Palpatine, I think Dooku would have been amenable to this. He wouldn't have attempted to usurp Plagueis, and Dooku would rule the galaxy. Plagueis would just be content to sit in his lab and experiment, with occasional discussions with Dooku on the state of the galaxy and what to do. Plagueis wanted a partnership rather than an apprentice after a certain point, and had he chosen Dooku I think this would have worked. It just so happens that Palpatine had too much of an ego to live with this and be happy.
"The Emperor is pure evil. He shows no mercy. He´s the devil himself."
I have heard that George Lucas said something like that of Emperor Palpatine
"(Palpatine) is more evil than the Devil. At least Satan fell; he has a history, and it's one of revenge."
- Ian McDiarmid
@@ryanm.8720 Yeah Sheev was evil from the start
One-dimensional pure villain... boring
@@891delta This obsession with making multi-dimensional/complex villains is more of a modern phenomenon. Disney is now going back and trying to make heroes/protagonists out of their villains (e.g. Maleficent and Cruella). While occasionally that can work to serve a story, making a villain more of a gray figure than a plainly evil one, it usually subtracts from the villain's purpose, which is just to be dastardly and set up as a roadblock/opponent for the protagonist(s). You're not supposed to be relating to and sympathizing with the villain (usually). Palpatine, IMO, is anything but boring. He is the personification of pure evil, but it's his grand scheme that is his most fascinating aspect. He was truly the devil in the sense of being the puppet master, a skillful manipulator. There are no redeeming qualities about him at all.
@@891delta Nothing one dimensional, but rather complex and entertaining. He's a benevolent politician on one side and a super powerful being who's
capable of destroying the strongest when using the dark side. He's also a Sith. It goes deeper than that
The emperor turning around in his chair and saying “hello everyone” is the perfect start to a video
I was gonna say the same thing
Should've been "hello there"
The fact that a man got so powerful just with his words and rhetoric, fooling them all, is honestly so wonderfully crafted and enjoyable to watch
I remember as a kid, watching the prequels and being legitimately persuaded MYSELF of all the things he was saying. He's a pretty persuasive character...
I know GL made the prequels about Anakin's fall, but to me the prequel trilogy was about the Rise of Palatine/ Darth Studious...
It’s not that far from reality in...our galaxy
Ever hear of Hitler?
You might recall a politician who came down an escalator calling Mexicans rapists.
I like how in episode v when Darth Vader says Luke would make a powerful Ally. The emporer says he would be a great "Asset". Shows a lot about their different personalities.
I think Palpatine is still trying to deceive Vader by saying "asset", I think he actually wants Luke to be an apprentice, but he doesn't say apprentice, so Vader isn't threatened, I think if Palpatine was saying what he actually meant at that seen, It would be "He would be a great apprentice".
It hints that Vader may view Luke as more than just a path to power, while Palpatine views Luke as just that.
@Guy Whose opinions will offend you And a deeply, deeply cynical man, playing one side against another. From everything I've read of the run-up to the Balkan Wars, he came across as incredibly bland and boring, like some inoffensive small-town bank manager. It was an illusion many fell for. Shame he never faced justice.
@Guy Whose opinions will offend you I can't begin to imagine. He left a trail of destruction wherever he went.
@@PrismaPog_17 Of course he is, as soon as Palpatine became aware of Luke's existence the first thing that would have come to Palpatine's mind is 'a replacement for Vader'. After all, as Anakin's son Luke has as much (or nearly as much) force potential as his father did but because he's not dismembered in a cybernetic suit he has the ability to enforce Palpatine's will moreso than Vader, because he can actually use Force Lightning and any other Force technique that requires natural hands.
What I love about Palpatine is, he appears as the type of villain that will only scheme from behind, the cowardly evil politician type villain that is absolutely defenceless if he was locked in a room with an enemy, but no, he will beat the living shit out of you in the most humiliating way possible if you ever tried to attack him and be like “What you gonna do about it?”
"I am unnarmed" Ha nope
"Oh I'm not trapped in here with you, you're trapped in here with me" - Palpatine
@@bloodangel7731 In the Darth Plagueis novel, when a rival politician attempts to assassinate Plagueis, Palpatine was furious that his master was nearly killed before he could learn everything from him. He then paid a visit to the Senator's estate with Plagueis' lightsaber and slaughtered every man, woman, and child on the grounds. He was described as looking like a ravening wolf with red his hair wild and wind-swept, his eyes orange-yellow and bloodshot, and his mouth in a snarl and slightly foaming in rage. He capped it off by cleaning himself and decapitating the Senator. Plagueis' personal guards came in afterwards to see he had already done the deed, and were very much unnerved by his presence. Keep in mind that these guards were the best money could buy and had top-of-the-line training and mental toughness. And a thin politician scared the fuck out of them.
Sith including palpatine were bad but thee empire it’s self was good
18:41 “suffered grievous injuries” flashes to general grievous for a split second. Nice one😂 great video as always!👏
I didn’t catch that one the first time. 😂
The actor who played him once said he’s more evil than Satan - Satan, after all, fell.
Palpatine also fell, down a big hole
@@shearman360 They both fell in different ways. One from good to evil. The other to his own destruction.
Satan fell, Palpatine jumped
@@james739123 Yep
@@james739123 Nope
The levels to which Sidious rose, thanks to help from Plageuis, over the decades, is nothing short of phenomenal. He seems to have been born a dark side being. He murdered his entire family early in life. His training was purely savage and brutal under his master. The long term planning, and manipulation of vast sectors of planetary populations, the galactic economy, industry, the Order itself, and the Senate, to achieve a conflict he would rise to the top of, no matter who won, is essentially unrivalled in all of cinema, as you say.
What is even MORE impressive to me, is that as DEEPLY corrupted as he was, to the core, from the dark side, he he still maintained the correct sensitivity to completely, and convincingly fake his interactions with other beings so well, that he came across as a great human, trying to bring the Republic together. It is extremely hard for any person, who is deeply corrupted, to fool everyone. Usually that depth of extreme pathology distorts a person so terribly, that at least in some ways, to some people who know them, they cannot hide their dark sides. I work in mental health. Such deeply disordered people, at least on the most menial levels can fool many. But not everyone. On the levels of the powerful, they can rise to presidents and premieres, and more.
Yet from the books, and the movies, until the moment of his rise, Sidious had EVERYONE fooled, except his very closest companions, who prior to his rise, served him while Plageuis was still alive and already knew him in full. He utterly, and completely avoided scandal at every turn.
I cannot see how anyone could have stopped him. He was so adept at using the dark side to hide in complete banality, while manipulating so much, this his rise to Emperor seems all but utterly assured. And even then, he still planned for failure, to still succeed anyways.
Couldn’t agree with your analysis more, spot on take and well-written to boot!
Palpatine did adopt the political influence of Plagueis and he also did adopt the great scheme of the sith.
Saying all this is Palpatines doing/scheming simply is wrong.
I mean he was probably the most important part in a scheme that wasn't even his own.
Though most people not familiar with star wars deep lore give credit for Palpatines victory only to Sidious when it's actually a complex centuries old plan made by Darth Bane from which Sidious basically harvested the success by being the final piece.
@@Raffney you mean exactly as a Sith should, going by the creed?
Nothing I said disagrees with what you said :P
@Raffy Completely untrue.
Palpatine only inherited the wealth but concocted the entire grand political schemes behind the Sith take over. The Yinchorri Uprising, the Stark Hyperspace War, Seperatist Crisis, Clone Wars, etc. and various grand political schemes were all created and executed by him. This is literally documented in various materials from novels, Star Wars Insider, Star Wars Fact Files etc.
@@edwardhyde7512 Completely untrue is vastly overexaggerated don't you think. I mean for starters plageius wealth did not exist inside a vacuum right? Money is always also a political tool. Also the shift in the force to the dark side on a galactic level was a ritual conducted under Plagueis supervision. It augmented the chance of success of any dark side undertaking. Plus the weakened Jedi order and them being unable to comprehend what is going on.
All that very important groundwork is not based on Sidious. Without it it's very unlikely he could have come that far at all.
*"There is no mercy."*
~ Darth Sideous
"Don't worry, I'm not gonna to kill you. "
Darth Sidious.
Words to live
“I don’t want to live as ordinary beings live.” - Darth Sideous
@@therealspeedwagon1451that says a lot about palpatine himself
So basically, Sheev Palpatine was already a politician long before he became a Sith Lord.
A Sith Lord?
If what you say is true...
@@11Survivor you would of earned my trust
Ah yes nothing is more vile than a Politician even more so than a Sith.
So the most evil villain of all time is a politician? Huh. Makes perfect sense.
Palpatine is absolutely my favourite villain ever. Brilliant especially his smiling face when he tells vader he killed padme. Genius
The ultimate proof of his genius is his complete success in framing the Jedi as the villains of the galaxy. A victory so pervasive and enduring that Star Wars fans themselves often quote his lies in their own condemnation of the Order without even realizing they're doing it.
This is the most fascinating part.
That's pretty interesting.
May I have an example?
@@thehammurabichode7994there is none.
Oh don't get me wrong, Palpatine is EVIL. In a room with Voldemort, Morgoth, Frieza, Joker and Ronald Reagan, Palpatine eclipses their achievements with the single fact that he won.
However... The Jedi were a militant order of warrior priests that consistently interfered with galaxy-spanning political decisions. Decisions that, given their objectively dogmatic faith, are in opposition with the views of the Jedi Order.
That's the evil yet sweet allure of Palpatine, you see. He never technically lies.
I mean did the Jedi ACTUALLY have the authority to arrest the head of state and put them on trial? He WAS the Senate.
@@vorpalweapon4814I would assume.
with order 65 presumably being executable by a jedi, and them being military officers, if they believed there was treason from the chancellor they probably had the authority to arrest.
Becomes even more fascinating if you take into account the thousand years leading up to his victory. The entire Sith Grand plan is a brilliant idea. It is not like Palpatine had to convince everyone in the galaxy to be evil and corrupt. Human nature mostly takes care of that. They worked in the background to pull strings to make the corruption worse true, but it was not entirely up to him.
Precisely. Both the Republic and the Jedi Order were already decaying. The Sith simply sped up the process.
The most evil thing Palpatine ever did, was help create Episode 9
Best joke I heard in a weak.
@@PrismaPog_17 weak? Was the misspelling intentional?
Edit: technically not a misspelling I guess, just from the context it would be week, but like I said if it was intentional that's pretty clever 🤔
@@christopherfoley7460 Damn, never expected to get caught.
You mean Darth Kennedy?
Actually makes the Dark Empire comics look good by comparison.
0:03 I thought Darth Sidious said "Hello everyone".
😂😂
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What i like most about sidious is that he serves a higher purpose. He is not just some power hungry dude as he first appears to be. He indeed sticks to his authority and does not allow anyone to mess with it, but he feels like the sith legacy is safe and actually gets very happy when he learns Vader is building his own small power sphere within the galactic empire. He is delighted with his apprentices patient and calculated approach about overthrowing the emperor. What furiates him is when Vader cant direct his anger with control.
Sith masters of old appreciate their apprentices slowly yet surely prepearing for the day they will confront their masters but they hate it when their apprentices decide to take over when they are not yet ready. They wish to see that their apprentices are wise enough to understand wether they learnt everything they could from their master before they act. That makes them feel like they can trust their successors to carry the responsibility of keeping sith legacy alive. Darth Bane loses his shit when he thinks his apprentice tried to confront him too early but feels proud when his apprentice actually defeat him years later and claim the title of master.
Vader still had demons he fought. Thats why Sidious was angry at Vader most of the time. He wanted to make sure Vader was focused and ready when the time came. That does not make him a good guy in no way tho, but it proves he is not a hypocrite. Consistent ideology and action makes great characters
"So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause."
Padme is a queen🥵
@@tmann9neyrgsalazar993 A drama queen
🤔
Star wars, one of the misquoted movies in history (above is the correct quote).
I am the Senate
Emperor: *slowly turns around in chair
Emperor: * stares
Empreror: hello everyone and welcome to the 3rd episode of analyzing evil
Emperor: Hello Mario
😂😂
Palpatine: Space Hitler with an IQ of 200 and M A G I C.
Honestly all things aside, Palpatine/Darth Sidious probably has one of the best themes in movie history
One of the most menacing for me
It’s so great it’s like the defining theme for the Sith. Palpatine is the true Sith after all.
That high note in it tho 🔥
Indeed. I'm no music theorist, but I tend to believe that while Vader's theme (the Imperial March) is bold and loud, indicating the rule of force he wishes to impose on the galaxy, Sidious' theme hints at an even greater evil lurking just beyond.
He's a very well written villain.
Facts
"There is no mercy, I'm not gonna kill you, I have other uses for you"
Palpatine's thoughts: and yes my old apprentice, the other uses involve clapping them cheeks in front of the galaxy.
They never really touched on what Palpatine wanted with Maul. Sure he kept him in a prison and tortured him briefly before he escaped, but during that time Palpatine and Dooku were mainly concerned with extracting more information from Maul about the shadow collective. That surely can't be the furthest extent of what Palpatine wanted with Maul, so what would he have used Maul for if he didn't escape?
It’s revealed that he wanted maul to escape so he would lead him to mother talzin. This works resulting in palpatine killing her. He is always one step ahead
Palpatine is so OP that he returns in both continuities after actually dying
Pretty much
And he isn't even a VAMPIRE lol.
@@JeanLucCaptain Exactly
And both times it sucked.
@@scottphillips8607 NO dark empire was pretty awesome and GENUINELY dark. Plus it gave us The Eclipse, the World Devastators, Galaxy Guns all that really cool shit.
After watching the part about Palpatine’s skin being damaged and being able to show his true self I got an ad about skincare lmao
Lol
"Have you been overusing the dark side? Then try our new skincare product."
🤣
"Jedi Master got your Skin looking dry? You can enjoy a discount on one of our select products"
I too am inclined to view Palpatine as the GOAT of cinema villians, but I'm also partial towards "evil mastermind" types. Also HUGE shoutout to Ian McDiarmid (who was a trained Shakespearean actor before joining SW)! Palpatine would have nowhere close to as compelling, enduring, or chilling as he was without his stellar portrayal of the character!
Fun Fact: Ian said in an interview that George Lucas originally wanted a more "aristocratic" emperor like Clive Revel's version in the original Empire Strikes Back (ie, the Palpatine voice in hologram sequence). But it was Ian's idea to make the emperor be the embodiment of evil and George was swayed after seeing Ian's efforts at doing so.
Palpatine: I love democracy.
Also Palpatine: Starts the galactic empire.
Ironic...
Cause the Senate gave him the Power through voting
Hiding in plain sight
Not to mention that Ian's pedal tones when speaking in that deep, powerful voice were all his.
What Palpatine managed to accomplish and HOW he managed to do it is very hard to even BEGIN to match. Absolutely masterful and absolutely terrifying. He infiltrated the machine, took over the machine and then destroyed the machine and rebuilt it to serve only himself. Astonishing; a galactic feat of unfathomable complexity and uncanny success.
Seriously, he manufactured a war by arming and organizing two opposing factions behind the scenes which he uses to play both sides against the middle. The entire conflict is just a charade of lies and deceit, both sides unaware that the chancellor is directing the entire show. Then, through more lies and deceit he convinces the people that the Jedi were power hungry terrorists, when the Jedi in reality are the ones defending peace and freedom. Finally, this artificial reality of war and unrest and turmoil eventually scares the people into voluntarily surrendering their freedoms so that they can remain safe in this dangerous time.
Imagine if something like that happened in the USA like between 2001 and 2011, that would be WILD. Thankfully this movie is fictional
And don't forget, pure eeeeevviiilllllll
I always find the differences between Palpatine and Tenebrae (Aka Darth Vititate) really interesting to look at, Palpatine wanted a galaxy to rule and torment but Tenebrae wanted to devour the galaxy and become a force god. But both were so pragmatic and patient, they planned for so many eventualities and possibilities. Still they were beaten both.
When I first saw ROTJ I was captivated by the Emperor's dark, cold, minimal clothes and surroundings. He didn't want luxury he was just pure evil.
Words cannot describe the excitement I felt, when I saw this episode appear on my recommended list on May 28, 2021. I had been waiting for it ever since I first checked out the channel. Well done, Vile Eye.
"No redeeming qualities"? But he loves opera!
And architecture 😅
I absolutely love Palpatine, he terrified me as a kid. Ian McDiarmid's portrayal, especially in the prequels is just phenomenal.
The genius of Palpatine's manipulation of Anakin and thus the birth of Darth Vader is that, Darth Vader is as much as the creation of the Jedi Order as it was Palpatine's. It was the teachings of the Jedi and their overall indifference or lack, or rather suppression, of emotion is what laid to Anakin's dark path. All Palpatine had to do was nudge Anakin.
I feel like palpatine used to be so cunning and genius, but once he achieved his unlimited power he didn’t need to be clever about anything anymore, he just had overwhelming, universal, indomitable power and just did whatever he wanted without penalty. He didn’t need to manipulate anyone anymore he could just go through them
It is called victory disease
@@fuehrer_tb5597 We can blame a lot of that on Tarkin though, Palestine “liked” tarkin, and arguably most of the empires oppressive tactics were derived from tarkin, with his use of brutality, overwhelming force, and distain for those who opposed assimilation starting in the end of the clone wars
@@stuglife5514 i do agree and when palestine kept building the death star was when theempire already lost
@@leeroyjenkins4456 is there a wierd insider joke or why do you call palpatine palestine?
Well that is the flaw of all Sith, they become to arrogant and that leads to their death. He was the greatest Sith of all time but he still was a Sith and not above their flaws
"Wait, Palpatine wasn't married. How could he have a granddaughter?"
"He happened to like hookers, okay."
The idea of Palpatine having sex is the ultimate Star Wars nightmare fuel.
@@Xehanort10 Execute Order 69...
They're so unwilling to make a stand on anything that they retconned the son of Sidious into a kind of clone. The clone then got married, had Rey Palpatine, then got killed because plot.
Those hookers must've been desperate for a fix! That's all I can say.
You make the joke, but he did.
My mom has this really heavy, warm, thigh-length jacket that looks like the top half of Sheev's episode 1 senate robes, so whenever one of us is cold and wants it we ask the other where The Palpatines at. He's usually in a closet under the stairs. Very snuggly 10/10
Plot twist: it is the same robe. Your mom didnt know she was buying cinema second-hand.
@Brett's Gaming Tavern lmfao TJ Maxx secretly mixes one-of-a-kind cinematic costumes into its inventory for lucky shoppers 🤣
You could say it's...
The embrace of the Dark Side...?
@@xanmontes8715 yoooo I'm fucking howling rn lmao
100% agree. Palpatine is the singular most evil character brought to life on screen or on page. Everything about his existence. Complete and total evil compounded by genius level intellect and unbridled success.
'Cept for Morgoth from Tolkien's Legendarium. The guy literally invented evil in his universe.
You need to read more and watch more movies
@nohbuddy1 lol you sound so butthurt and @santinosolis8405 is that why he failed to do anything of significance since it was all according to God’s plan and there was nothing he could do to stop that
As evil as Palpatine is, I wouldn’t say he’s the most evil. The Judge from Blood Meridian is probably the purest embodiment of evil I can think of(and perhaps the best villain ever written) and Morgoth is a good second.
@@anatoldenevers237 Its rather difficult to put anybody as *more* evil than Darth Sidious. There are certainly no shortage of characters in fiction that are AS evil, but as hard it may be to believe on some days, there is a bottom to the abyss, and Palpatine is it. I guess there are characters that literally ARE the abyss, as it were, or evil itself, whom I suppose technically qualify, but Morgoth, at least, doesn't really qualify as being more evil. Although I suppose it also depends on how exactly you qualify or quantify evil, because if you look at deeds or feats or such then the task becomes far easier, but I don't really think that's a particularly good way to view it.
"You may be wondering...'When did he begin to change?'
The truth is that I HAVEN'T changed. As we have clouded the minds of the Jedi, I clouded yours. Never once did I have any intention of sharing power with you.
I needed to learn from you. No more, no less, to learn all of your secrets, which I trusted you would eventually reveal. But what made you think I would need you after that?
Vanity, perhaps, your sense of self-importance. You've been nothing more than a pawn in a game played by a genuine master. The Sith'ari.
(Laughs)
Reflect back on even the past few years, assuming you have the capacity:
Yinchorr, Dorvalla, Eriadu, Maul, the Neimoidians, Naboo, and army of Clones, the fallen Jedi Dooku.
You may think these were your ideas, when in fact, they were MINE. Cleverly suggested to you so that you could feed them back to me. You were far too trusting, Plagueis. No true Sith can ever really care about one another. This has always been known.
There is no way but MY way.
Are you still with me, Plagueis? Yes, I detect that you are, though barely...
...If it's any consolation, I'm being honest when I say I could not have succeeded without you...but now that we've won the race, i have no need for a Co-Chancellor.
Your presence, much less your unnecessary counsel, will only confuse matters.
I have Maul to do what the risk of discovery might not allow me to do, while I execute the rest of the Grand Plan:
Growing an army, formenting rebellion, and fabricating intergalactic war, cornering the Jedi and catching them unawares.
Rest easy in your grave, Plageuis. In the end, I will be proclaimed Emperor.
The Sith will have had their revenge and I will rule the Galaxy."-Darth Sidious
Spot on about him being the greatest villain ever onscreen. There are a few close challengers IMO, but yea... Sidious was on another level. For what its worth, Sidious seems, to me, an example of what would happen when someone's shadow or dark side (Nietzsche & Jung) became the ubermensch... oh, and had control of a mystical force that enabled them to do Sith stuff... Sidious had the patience of Job, the intellect of a Hannibal Lecter, and is, in my opinion, the greatest manipulator ever explored in fiction or cinema outside of the Devil Himself. It didn't hurt that he was also a master duelist and arguably, had the greatest command of the dark side in all of the Star Wars universe with, perhaps, Darth Vitiate or Valkorion a worthy challenger. That Darth Plagueis book though...
Yeah really makes me dislike Disney. I wish they would get the F away from Skywalker era. In Eu/legends there is thousands of years of galactic history to work on. And God Damnit I wanted a Darth Bane trilogy. Sucks we can never get anything cool like that though because it would not be the most popular with kids. To me the movies are just a jumping off point though and the best SW material are the books and games. Clone Wars was really good, but still... Shame that we needed those to make Anakin likable. Ahsoka is about the only real cool character we have gotten from normal canon since the prequels.
He's one of the best Sith of all time and he's pure evil. No pretending to be good or noble. That's why he's badass.
"The Rise of Skywalker" should have been called "Death Star for Cutie". That is all.
Isn't it The Force Awakens as well?
This comment will possess my heart.
The Rise of Skywalker should have been called: "How Palpatine won everything"... Yeah, Rey is a Palpatine.. No matter if she does not feel identify with her surname.
@@monicaaboites5053 I should have been called "Palpatine: A Life Well-Lived" and it should have had a nauseatingly trite trailer with him on Naboo playing around in the prairie like Ani and Padme.
Just rolling in the heather laughing girlishly with Disney's trademark woodland creatures congregating around him....
@@troyevitt2437 he will return in the sequel sequel trilogy:
"Somehow... Palpatine is gay..."
"How could this happen!?"
"Forced inclusion... pandering... secrets only Disney knew..."
"This was his plan all along... to put stuff in the water to make the frogs gay..."
Truly the greatest Sith Master of all time. His weapon of choice, politics, absolutely the greatest weapon he could have. Start a war, spread anger, hate and fear across the galaxy and feed off it and completely annihilate his enemies.
One of my favorite pieces of acting from Mcdirmid is in revenge of the sith, after Vader first speaks and learns padme is dead, as Vader shouts noooo in absolute agony, you can see palpatine with a genuine smile, it's so subtle, but so insanely evil. You can tell he is proud of his horrifying Frankenstein monster that he turned Anakin into
Well to be fair, he originally was going to make anakin a poster boy for him, to show to the Galaxy that anakin helped him fend off the evil jedi, since anakin was very popular in the galaxy. The only problem was anakin losing to obi-wan. Since palpatine thought that anakin would win against obi-wan or that he atleast wouldn't lose. But after that he became the evil dictator and made Anakin into the villain we love.
that cut at 14:03, when you synced your "no" with sidious's no, was genius :D
18:15 "The brightest light casts the darkest shadow" wow, that was good.
Palpatine 2024. For a SAFE and SECURE society!
Giant meteor 2024
Better him than Bidan
Better him than both of them tbh
@TheAntiDisneyEmperor you are the worst kind of person
Redeeming quality: he is superior in intellect and a wonderful actor
The irony is that once Palpatine became Emperor, he seemed to abandon the strategies that got him there. On the way to the throne, he used manipulation and cunning. Once he became Emperor, he increasingly relied on brute force and intimidation, with the Death Star being the apex of this tendency.
As far as redeeming qualities, it seems that until the Rebellion came along, the Empire mostly fulfilled its mandate of peace, prosperity and stability. Was it perfect? No. But neither was the Old Republic, which seemed unable to effectively govern. To me, it seems like the Rebellion caused Palpatine to overreact and forget himself.
Well he basically manipulated the rebellion into existence out of little more then boredom. So while he abandoned his more cunning plans it mostly was because he truly viewed others as toys and viewed himself as almost unbeatable
It should be noted that the Death Star was not originally palpatines plan, that was done by the genosians (who though their war against the republic was REAL, as the construction of the Death Star was started in the closing months of the war by what was left of the CIS forces in the region. Palestine merely hijacked the death star, and it could be argued the completion of it is more or less Stark is fault, as the Death Star was a part of the “Tarkin doctrine”, furthermore, a lot of the brutal intimidation tactics the empire used can be traced to tarkin during the Clone wars.
@@stuglife5514 - Even so, Tarkin worked for Palpatine. I assume Tarkin did what he did with Palpatine's blessing. If Palpatine failed to rein him in, then that is on him.
@@stevensenator4804 He didnt do what he did with palpatines blessing, he did what he did because he saw that as the best pathway to peace. The Emps simply hopped onto his bandwagon
@@stuglife5514 - Well, I disagree. If he didn't have Palpatine's blessing & confidence, Vader would have dispatched him long ago. Indeed, Tarkin was maybe the only imperial that Vader would obey.
Palpatine is such a fascinating villain. His character is so diverse yet so simple. He simply wants power but he achieves that power through extremely well thought out plots. I am one of the few who absolutely loved Palpatine's return in TROS. No other villain or plot would be able to compare to the emperor himself. Its truly sad that the sequels didn't give him enough buildup or screentime but despite that I cannot wait for all the revelations we will eventually get in other media. I love that Palpatine is and always will be the ultimate villain of star wars.
This. He is the literal devil in the franchise. But anything he asks will in the end benefit only him.
Well it's been confirmed the Disney sequels were not planned out. If they were done right (planned out and made by better people) it would have been better...
@@dboymax1 I'm fine with him coming back, but they have to properly justify it, of course....
Not to mention where the Chosen One and the prophecy now fit in, too. And they dropped the ball a good deal, on that.
And kylo ren was the true protagonist
I hated it. It was such a half-assed contrived twist that cheapens the OT gang's achievments (which JJ Abrams pretty much undid all their wins) and his death was so dumb felt like fanfiction. They didn't even bother explaining how he's back.
According to George Lucas, he's supposed to be the devil.
According to the actor, he's actually worse than the devil
@@iamstewpit6740 Yes, but George Lucas created him. And I wonder how he's worse than the devil, because he's done everything the devil does; caused war, deceive many and killed.
The Devil is also manipulative, he makes people see sins as something good sometimes which could represent Palpatine as a friendly looking man until he reveals his true form in Episode 3 when Anakin's "sins" has gone so far that he can't turn back from evil.
@Greg Elchert depending on the interpretation the Devil felt wronged and discarded by God in favor of humans. Yes he does bad things but its beyond just the desire for power. I think the key difference between the 2 is their motivation.
@Greg Elchert Thats a great answer and a valid point! 👌🏾
this guy perfectly times his voice with palpatine turning his chair and i love it
Honestly, a series about young Sheev Palpatine would be interesting.
As long as they keep it true and real to Sheev.
@@rossjones8656which is likely something they won’t do
@@TheAntiDisneyEmperor sadly true. I bet they would pull, "The only reason I became a sith is because I wasn't loved by a girl."
I really like how Ian has stayed committed to playing palpatine through the years. I do wish that palpatine was involved in more direct fights in the films.
The more I hear about him, the more I feel he was waisted in Rise of Skywalker. His death in Return of the Jedi was so meaningful that the way he died in Rise of Skywalker made it meaningless. Off that topic. I would love it if you would analys the evil of Sauron.
Who says he is finished now? He could still have survived Reys assault..
@@danielschoch4881 exactly disney fucked everything lmao
I personally dont consider the sequels canon, especially ROTS
He was written in last minute, which is why he used fortnite to announce his return. Matt Smith was filmed playing the Son-dark side of the force from Clone Wars
@@Jose-se9pu me either lol
Gotta love how much of a scamp Sidious is, he just has a great time being evil.
You love to see it
Analyzing Evil suggestion: Shodan *(System Shock 1&2)*
She is perhaps the greatest Artificial Intelligence villain of fiction so far. She's sadistic, scary, manipulative, egotistical, and sees herself as a goddess that thinks all lower life forms should bow before her and she goes as far as to play God and create her own life forms.
As much as I enjoyed that game, I think you wrote everything that needed to be written about that villain in your comment. Pretty one dimensional one. If you want AI villains, check out GLADOS from Portal. Or the classic HAL9000. Much more depth to both of them.
@@karolszykowny8627 Or Wheatley, who wasn't really evil, just influenced by the mainframe, a victim of his own programming
In the darth plaguies book, darth sidious seemed to express regret for having to kill a certain senator (I think his name was kinman or something that begins with a k). He had considered him to be the closest thing he had to a friend...so that be one extremely small redeeming quality
I cried when I was a kid seeing Anakins transformation into Darth vadar and I would be lying if I said I dont tear up a little as an adult watching the same. You know whats going to happen, but it's one of the only series I tell myself, "no no, come on, don't do it!" Something about the story of Anakin turning to the dark side gets me everytime.
Anakin was the only thing that could have stopped him and he made sure to cut his power level to make sure he would not be a threat
A quartet of Star Wars villains. I was excited for this one.
Darth sidious is most important character on star wars. He's almost the only one you can cover the entire plot of all the star wars movies except one or two lol or maybe three lol. But he's in the whole story even though he's not always seen lol. He's pulling the strings lol
Papa palpatine is also my favorite villain in cinema. He’s just.... so evil. And so good at being evil.
His speeches about the dark side and his obvious weasel adherence to evil is endearing lol
Big Daddy Palpatine.
Then there's the people who don't appreciate art and hate villains because of their evilness
Idea for the next Analyzing Evil: Kingpin from Netflix's Daredevil?
Do it!
I would absolutely watch that.
Great idea! 👌
Yesss
Kingpin isn't really evil, he's justa badguy
I think we will see him again. A being that powerful and evil can never truly die.
Would be cool to see his youth in a mini-series.
I must say your channel is one of the finest jewels I've found so far since I've started my acting career and I've been studying villains nonstop for my voice acting.
Keep up the good work, mate!
This episode is long overdue. One of the most evil villains in all of cinema...
Also
UNLIMITED POOOOWWWWEEEERRRR!!
Sorry couldn't help it!
The Dark Lord is one of my favorite character archetypes and George Lucas doesn’t get enough credit for writing him so well
Palpatine/Darth Sidious was one of the greatest Villian ever. He manipulted Darth Vader and turned him into an unstoppable force too… A manipulative conquerer, which managed to totally annihilate the Jedi order and the galaxy.
Very good delivery, and the caveat with the sequels shows well thought out professionalism. As someone working on their own analytical essays, this was a nice channel to find at random today. Great work.
I think it shows how sensitive the haters are since they need a trigger warning.
Palpatine is probably one of the best written villains in fiction. He is such a well developed villain and Ian McDiarmid played him perfectly. I finally rewatched all 6 Star Wars Films (not counting Disney) and you see how clever he is. George wrote a great villain and I think he is probably the best version of a tyrant we have in fiction. Love your video.
You have to watch Rise of Skywalker because McDiarmid does such a good job in it for the limitations imposed upon him. It would've been so much better had they simply adapter "Dark Empire" 2 decades ago since there would've been so much more material for him to chew on with Palpatine the Undying.
@@TheJeremyHolloway the writers did such a disservice to his genius. (In TRoS) Ian's performance is flawless, but his plan in the movie is straight up nonsense, one question dismantles the entire plot: "why did he announce his return?" And the only answer is: to set the plot in motion, because otherwise he could've taken over the galaxy (again) without interference. It would take more time than I can spare to list all of the flaws of his plan, but the one mentioned above must be the worst.
The writers who worked on the sequels should never touch pen and paper (keyboard or whatever) ever again. Even an intelectually handicapped chimpanzee could write a more logically coherent story. When I was watching it I had the feeling that they first came up with the visuals and then tried to write a story around them.
That quick cutaway to Grievous was simultaneously hilarious and genius.
Palpatines childhood reminds me of a quote from Ray Holt in Brooklyn 99: "it's sad to see a father who cares so little for his son that he allows him to get away with anything."
The absolute STAR of the prequels and the main reason I love them.
Not the man the myth the legend Ewan McGregor?
@@SonOfSparda03 He was good. Liam Neason was good. Christopher Lee was great. But Ian MacDiarmid stole the show.
@@hullbreach33 Ewan was imo the star but Ian was definitely a close second
Easily im- ahem- I mean HE is the Greatest Villain of all time! Even in the expanded universe story Dark Empire he's so entertaining and interesting. The Novel Darth Plagueis is one of my favorite books ever, and even his inclusion in the sequel trilogy is fun ( despite the movies issues)
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I wasn't looking at the video while I was listening at this point, and I heard the word "grievous." I thought in my mind how funny it would be if Vile popped up a picture of General Grievous at that point, so for the hell of it, I rolled back, and saw that my thought was confirmed.
Thank you for these little details. It really gives personality to the videos.
This video paints a whole new picture of palp like imagine what actually happened to fives when they were alone in that room and next time we see him he’s gone insane