The Emperor attempt to weed out Order 66 survivors with primitive methods that seemed doomed to fail from the start.

Take a look inside Lamar Giles' new 'Star Wars: Bad Batch' novel, 'Sanctuary,' and meet a new member of the ISB.

Star Wars has confirmed that a driving force of Kylo Ren's downfall was his ignorance of galactic history; Marvel's Legacy of ...

Nor was he a one-for-one recreation of a previous body like Palpatine’s clone body. Snoke was an entirely new being made from scratch, and Dr. Pershing explained what ingredients went into Snoke.

Emperor Palpatine's shocking resurrection in The Rise of Skywalker was one of the worst choices in Star Wars, but has the ...

If Palpatine is alive, as our own Mick Joest suspects, there are several possible explanations. In the jettisoned Expanded Universe, Palpatine had clones made of himself as a safeguard against ...

The Palpatine clone reveal was not included in J.J. Abrams’ “Rise of Skywalker” theatrical release, but fans familiar with the old “Star Wars” expanded universe (kicked out of canon in ...

Sheev Palpatine, Darth Sidious, Emperor Palpatine, call him what you want: He’s back. And it’s a moment that’s been planned for.

Does Emperor Palpatine's convoluted plan make sense in 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,', if you think about it? By Andrew James Myers, Dan Gvozden Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi ...

If Palpatine were to return in non-corporeal form and be defeated by Kylo, it might work. Since Anakin would have really killed Palpatine in Return of the Jedi and his grandson would finish the ...

Palpatine’s final, desperate act is depicted in 1997’s Empire’s End. He tries to use Han and Leia’s infant son Anakin as his new host body.

But as much as Palpatine's return raises the stakes for this sequel, we also can't help but be worried. Bringing back the Emperor could wind up doing more harm than good for the franchise.