How the Royal Guards Reacted After Returning to the Throne Room [Canon] 

And when they returned, stalin had died, same with the emperor. "Ironic"

"Should we check inside?" "Should you shut the fuck up before you get us both killed?"

That’s a very interesting comparison.

Its the ultimate flaw of authoritarian leadership; eventually all of the lack of trust and atmosphere of fear causes the whole hierarchy or organization to implode.

​@@willbrightmore1737 yeah

Luke is a good guy.

This is the Luke we deserved in the sequels. A compassionate man who would help others.

He didn't waste time on pity when he sent so many living victims into the Sarlaac's maw not long before his sojourn aboard the Death Star 2 😱

@@neilmurphy966 He warned Jabba and by extension his lackeys more than once. Once the choice was made by the Hutt for himself and his retinue, Luke acted to save his friends. Jabba and his pals thought it better to have a laugh than act in their own self-interest, right up until it was too late.

Except for pig guy guards :p

Is he safe, is he alright? It appears you have abbonded me in your small talk!

It would seem that in your absence, you killed him.

"Drake, where's the emperor?"

“He’s right there- see? I drew him with a magic marker.”

@@hellstrom4209 Reading this in Palpatine's voice is even more hilarious.

especially when they had to kill their best friends go to hell just to pass the academy ni yinchorr

@@enrico1pucci Enough for them to commit suicide.

It just reminded me of Buzz Lightyear in the midst of his crisis "years at the academy and training waisted"

@@Ian_Buncethat was the whole point of the reference lol

@TheCommando626 I'm stupid sometimes lol.

Just goes to show that the Emperor *was* the Empire. Everything about the system was devoted to him in one shape or another. The second he died everything began to fall apart because really there was nothing else that held The Empire together.

Is because palpatine mainly appointed 2 types of people to important positions of power: the overly ambitious and the blindly loyal. When he died the ambitious moffs and admirals decided to carve territory in a gambit to become the new emperor, meanwhile the blindly loyal obeyed operation cinder which means they destroyed many loyal imperial worlds.

@@rhymenoceros3303 Sounds exactly like Nazi Germany after Hitler killed himself.

I mean..technically there was infighting while the Emperor was alive.

@@rhymenoceros3303yup. Battlefront 2 and the aftermath books go into detail about how Sheev basically said the empire dies with him.

😂

He's MORE than capable of taking care of himself. Perhaps he ultimately became a bounty hunter.

Wait....I have no pension....I never got paid at all!!!!

Mexico ~! Floaties and margaritas ahoy!!

I'm the 1k like

Only? lol no

I double dare you to read the silmarillion

Jurassic Park does this as well

Transformers and G.I. Joe also. But yeah Star Wars runs hard with this, makes me proud lol

Almost every NPC in a game series called the The Legend of Heroes: Trails has some kind of background story that can be explored over the course of multiple games. Here's one of the examples in the Trails series that I can think of off the top of my head (there are some spoilers here for these NPCs, but I doubt most people care about NPC spoilers, sooo...): In the prologue for Trails in the Sky FC, there is a young man named Armand who, if you choose to talk to him, will mention a young woman named Ellie who he is interested in. If you continue to talk to him through various points in the prologue (every time the story advances the NPCs in Trails will have new dialog/be doing something different than they were doing before), you'll eventually reach a point where he asks her to date him. Hesitant at first, she eventually agrees, and later on in Trails in the Sky FC you can meet them in another part of the country of Liberl (which is where the Sky games take place in), seeing that they had grown closer to one another throughout the course of the story. In the direct sequel to Trails in the Sky FC, called Trails in the Sky SC, there is a side quest you can do that, upon completion, will see them get married. In the direct sequel to Sky SC, called Trails in the Sky the 3rd, you can find them discussing buying a house and starting a family. Armand's only regret is that his father was unable to attend his wedding. This is mainly due to the fact that his parents divorced when he was a child, and he hasn't seen his father since. Aside from the side quests you can do for Armand/Ellie, there really isn't any reason to interact with them throughout the course of the Sky trilogy. They'll inevitably end up doing all of this stuff on their own, regardless of whether or not you choose to interact with them. But choosing to do so gives you a fair bit of insight into who they are as characters, how they eventually fell in love, and how/why they got married. The next game in the series called Trails from Zero takes place in Crossbell (which neighbors Liberl). Throughout the course of the story, you eventually meet a man named Gable. And while you don't know it yet when you first meet him, he is in fact Armand's father. While his role in the story is actually more important than Armand's/Ellie's role is in the Sky trilogy, in the end he is still mostly a background NPC outside of one or two very specific instances. Gable is actually part of one of two major political factions in Crossbell, but due to a corruption scandal that he was involved in prior to the start of the Zero's prologue, he is forced to fake an illness and hide in a hospital throughout the course of the game. Your interactions with him are limited to whether or not you bother to visit his hospital room whenever you drop by. If you choose to do so, you quickly find out that he is a creep attempting to leverage his political power to get away with behaving however he wants. It doesn't really go well for him though, as the nurses are aware that he isn't actually sick, and thus don't put up with his nonsense. There eventually comes a moment in the story where he is forced to accept that he has been abandoned by the political faction that he once supported, which leads into the direct sequel for this game. In the direct sequel to Trails from Zero called Trails to Azure, you meet him again (this time you are required to by the story), living in the downtown district of Crossbell. Initially abrasive towards everyone he meets due to his status hitting rock bottom, you eventually see signs of him becoming more and more humble throughout the course of the game if you choose to interact with him, even warming up to his new neighbors who he had (at one point in time) saw as being beneath him. But the real turning point for his character is when Armand and Ellie, along with their new baby, come to Crossbell in an attempt to find him. He is initially terrified by thoughts of seeing his son who he admits he had abandoned and attempts to go into hiding out of shame. It isn't until you go through the effort to reunite them via a quest that you find out Armand just wanted his father to meet his wife and son. It is a touching reunion, especially so if you bother to interact with all of the characters involved throughout the course of these 5 games. Gable actually returns in future entries in the series, but his role is largely diminished by that point. Again, you don't have to interact with any of these characters outside of some minor story events and optional sidequests. It's something that is easily missed by most people playing the games. And there are a ton of other NPC stories like this in the Trails series. In conclusion: Star Wars isn't the only series out there that explores obscure background characters. Even a series like Trails, which I doubt most of the people reading this have heard of, can give indepth backstories for background characters. =P

Exactly! Not the kind of guy that tries to kill instead of save his nephew.

It shows how naive he is. Saving a guy who will grieve over a dead emperor who was terrorizing the galaxy. But it's also just a continuation of the general rhetorical argument RotJ is making, that if you do nonviolent protest hard enough, your enemy will come over to your side. An argument that very often does not hold up in RL history when considering powerful entities that are as cruel as the empire is in SW.

​@@TransparentLabyrinthwow You really don't know what you are talking about.

@@jokerman9623 I "don't know what I'm talking about" or you don't like how it feels to talk about SW in this way?

​@@TransparentLabyrinthpessimism stupid

Basically just Kir Kanos to a degree

If he joined the New Republican he would immediately be put into their Special Forces or Intelligence, his knowledge of the Emperor's operations surpass no else. He would be a great asset to the New Republic.

It could be titled "My Honor is My Loyalty".

@@_Dovar_ LMAO no publisher is going to let that happen

I once comtemplated a story about a Royal Guard that basically escaped the destruction of the Second Death Star and basically runs around in patched up Royal Guard gear fighting pirates and criminal syndicates and former Empire associates. This was before this story the video shown here was made...

Kinda like Trump supporters lol

@@blaketindle4703and biden supporters

@@NihilOni OH GOD NO also if Biden loses he loses, we'll get another candidate. Not sure what to say when Trump dies though

@@blaketindle4703 emm more like biden fanatics like you...

And the various fandoms

Death of Stalin?

​@@BCrane-ej4iqyep

I read all the issues and they were awesome, I still wonder where Kanos is these days, hope he never ran into the yuuzhan vong.

​@@Oh_well339here hoping roan fel approached him for training the future imperial guards

@@Oh_well339havent seen those words “Yuuzhan Vong” in awhile..awakened the nerd inside me..i havent read any SW comics/books in years. Good to see people still mention it , such great stories ..hopefully one day we see an adaptation of it but after Disney bought everything who knows 😔

Kir Kanos was a legitimate badass and I wish they’d used him more

Darth Vader didn't really train with the Royal Guards, he was more of a motivator to them by killing off the best while the rest watched so that they'd do even better. But Darth Vader does personally oversees the building of their Custom TIE Interceptors.

"...the first death of Palpatine..." When one says a line like this out loud, he realizes the sequel trilogy is even dumber than he originally thought.

@@kingwilly8041 I already knew that anyway, though originally I was just going to write the death of Palpatine before recorrected myself. But that said, I do still like TFA, but TLJ and TROS should have been far better.

​@kingwilly8041 Same thing happened in Legends and, if I remember correctly, Palps actually died and came back a couple of times there, unlike the current canon where he only came back once.

@CloneCommanderCrater1102 I had heard that, and I also heard people say not everything in Legends was good just because it was Legends. You have to pick and choose and, as usual, disney didn't choose correctly.

@@kingwilly8041 I agree that it wasn't the best decision, I was simply just stating the fact that the idea of bringing Palpatine back has been around a LOT longer than the Sequels.

Yeah he's an awesome dude...unless you're his angry nephew, that gets dicey

Unless Luke's gets a bad dream about u then without hesitation he going to try to kill u.

@@solisprime2669the luke from the og trilogy/comics would never do that tho, they butchered his character so bad

@@user-cx1ov6gm1s I know

@@cptsteele91 there are no Sequels in Ba Sin Sei. That's just some dream he had after driking a little too much at the Endor party.

The is a story in ACPOV return of the jedi about one of the characters in the first order.

GARY THE STORMTROOPER😂

CRIMSON EMPIRE 1-3, Great Comics about Royal Guard Kir Kanos. 🙂

@@LysThePenguin Exactly. Almost every Royal Guard story is amazing.

@@calebmetcalfe6998 Absolutly!

This right here ☝️

Glad you liked it!

Nah, they simply expand on it after the main movies. Thats star wars for ya

Somehow palpatine returned Probably because of project necromancer

I would prefer we keep the sequels as far away from the source material as possible.

@@bluecat4802 Too late for that and Palpatine was alive in Legends too.

Oh, didn’t know that. I feel like they really should have kept him dead

Well as little as the plot point in TLJ can be justified, it should be clarified that Ben’s side of the story was “yeah Luke straight up tried to kill me” but what actually happened was that Luke activated his lightsaber in a split second of worry, immediately got over it (and to be clear, never tried to attack him), and got seen by Ben before he could leave, who then assumed the worst. Doesn’t make things much better but still, he never tried to kill Ben.

​@@emblemblade9245they should've made that clear lmao

You have to be unhinged to even brandish a weapon Infront of a supposed loved family member. Split second or no, the deed was done, and it put lukes doubts clear on display. Point being: That was not Luke Skywalker, but jake the impostor.

Thanks!

Can’t expect much from fanatical royal guardsmen

I don't care what disney says, the sequels are not cannon in my head, but rather a feaver dream of someone living in the legends continuity (which has many flaws as well, but not nearly as many as disneys cannon)

not even academy and not even years. They trained in a secret base for decades, many of them died in the process.

Darth Vader, since I have to use images from the comics of various royal guards for the visuals since the story is from a book, and it would have been weird with Vader being there after he had already died in the context of the video.

@@TheLoreMasterYT yeah i imagined