Why Palpatine Is The Greatest Movie Villain Ever 

And this is presented very well in the Clone Wars series.

@3 I was thinking the 3D animated and I watched it recently and it was a first. Didin't watch it when it came out. Aside from some cringy episodes I liked it. Waaay better than the "new trilogy".

A game of chess with only two pieces, and he's both pieces. He's also the board, the scorer, and the crowd, while everyone else are the hobos sleeping in the alley behind the building.

"What is this game, I win."

Yes i get it after seeing this 500 times

So trueee. Why did the Jedi not trust him!

kinda resembles warhammer

@@MonkeyGoatLicker because they feared him. They feared his power, they feared what he represented, they feared their lack of control over him. And fear, as they say, leads to the darkside.

@@wiseforcommonsense I thought about that last sentence while reading this before I read the last sentence. Very true.

@@MonkeyGoatLicker Because, after centuries of not fighting a single powerful enemy (the Sith) they lost their original purpose. Also, they didn't like the fact that Anakin had unstable emotions, like many fallen Jedi before him. They were wary of him, because he was unpredictable. But this only contributed to Darth Sidious' plan; After centuries of deterioration, a war that hardened them (driving some, like Sora Bulq, away from the Jedi way), and an unstable (and easy to manipulate) messiah, the Jedi were never in a position to win against the evolved Order of the Sith Lords. Their enemy this time was not another dark-sided empire emerging from Korriban, it was a subtle venom corrupting the heart of the Republic itself, something they never truly fought against.

The problem is that it isn't true. It's Sidius and himself who did it. You can point mistakes of the Jedi, but the blame is on Sidius and Anakin himself.

@@sergiocortes125If you actually delve deep into it, you’ll realise the Jedi did much more work turning Anakin to the dark side and Palpatine only had to nudge him a little. So no, it is an accurate description.

@@roronoalaw7772 If you pay actual attention you'll learn is Anakin's wrong choices choices who lead him to his ruin. And you'll also learn his main flaw the inability to let go. By the way, the Jedi tried to help him fix the problem that led him to ruin while Sidius fed it for his own greed. I'm worried if having to repeat this much that a grown adult is responsible of his actions. I don't know if Tiktok and Insta are swallowing people's braincells are what the hell is happening here, but I'm terrified. Dude, it's a simple maniqueist story that even the author has explained, wake up.

@@roronoalaw7772 Honestly, with the Jedi being ignorant and short sided, Palpatine being a brilliant manipulator and Anakin simply having personal flaws which were never adressed (due to lack of a father figure and the contrast between hypercritical Jedi while the rest of the galaxy worshipped the ground he walked on) the whole thing was arguably a group effort.

@@sergiocortes125 The author has also admitted the Jedi were arrogant and short sighted. So your condescension is unwarranted, yes obviously an adult is responsible for their choices, however to deny outside influences had an impact on his is just plain ridiculous. They told him to be a robot and not give a shit about his family which is awful advice and something Luke took into account for the NJO in the EU.

That's one of the things that make Palpatine the best of the best. In terms of pure evil, nobody short of Satan himself tops him. Aaravos in The Dragon Prince comes very close because he's another Satanic figure but I'm worried that Aaron Ehasz might fall into the trap of trying to make him sympathetic and relatable. We don't need that in all our villains. Complexity is wonderful but if we're looking purely in terms of who represents the Devil the most efficiently, without literally BEING the Devil, Palpatine is at the top of the list. The simplicity is what makes him so iconic, on top of Ian McDiarmid killing it in the role. No other actor could handle this character as well as him. Ian Abercrombie, may he rest in peace, was great but he was only doing the voice. Ian McDiarmid is a Shakespearean actor which perfectly suits Star Wars' tone and style and enabled him to bring the physicality and expressiveness that voice acting simply can't convey.

I hate to be that guy but it boils down to the fact that the people in charge of the media now don’t believe in traditional evil, they believe that tradition is evil. They attribute their beliefs to villains but dial it up to 1000 & just use the excuse that they were ridiculed or exiled & became vengeful & radicalized. It’s very rare that we get a flat out evil villain. Look at the MCU for example, they built up Thanos for 10 years just for the payoff to be shit. He was basically a big purple Leo DiCaprio eco-nut gone mad who we’re made to sympathize for. Then look at Guardians 3 as a good example, The High Evolutionary had a goal but reveled in his cruelty. He wasn’t relatable to anyone & they used a cheap gimmick like animal cruelty to show that, but still, the point is the same. It all went down the drain when people started trying to relate to their villains rather than their heroes.

Villains can be allegories without being boring but very interesting and fun and threatening

Thanos is practically the hero in the Avengers movie

That's because people want it both ways. They call villains that are evil just because, poorly written, cartoonish and boring. Then people like yourself say differently.

nice one

Damn you stole my comment

He played chess when the others played checkers

Thrawn > Creamy Sheeve.

Prequel

Unless it is his plan. The Sith feed off fear and what's more terrifying than a powerful Emperor thought to have been dead to somehow come back? I actually enjoyed Disney's sequels. And the fan theories that were made before and after the release of each film.

@@cadeshanley218 Hmm, interesting point of view, the only problem I have with that is this: nobody really feared him, let me explain: in TLJ the other people from different planets didn't want to help the resistance against the First Order, but they show up for some reason when the First Order is combined with the Last Order, which is an even bigger threat

@@VibingMeike Very true.

@@cadeshanley218 He's not stupid. Or not supposed to be anyway. If the excuse you want to make for the Sequels is that he's stupid, that's fine.

@@inarencommander4663 *Shrugs* Was trying to figure out things from their point of view.

While at the same time, knowing how to hide this until the time is right

Exactly he’s the perfect scopayh

Does he though? Palpatine's a psychopath and the don't feel anything at all. If anything I think he loves power and has no qualms in doing whatever he can to get it. And if that includes the power to turn people into puppets.

​​@@vittoriacolonaI'd say that Palpatine does feel strong emotions, that's why he's so powerful in the use of the dark side. In one of the canon comics Palpatine tells Vader that he loves making and having enemies, because he loves always having someone to kill. He also says that the hate and rage that fuel his powers come from the fact that he sees almost everyone as below him, and everyone below him enrages him to the point that he thinks they don't deserve to live. I think he's truly a wretched evil fuck that enjoys doing harm as much as he does power.

That's why he's so compelling. He just does not care. He murdered two people to embarrass his dad.

Sure, can be, but it's very much the exception. Only thanks to a career-defining, singularly charismatic, once in a lifetime performance. Doesn't mean it's something writers should emulate, or that 98% of the time a more nuanced character with motivations beyond pure evil won't be more interesting and engaging.

That's because he doesn't do evil stuff for the sake of it, but he has a clear goal in mind and thus does things He has a personality, unlike so many other poorly written characters

@@jackstrawful That just exemplifies how talented George Lucas actually is at writing. The idiots who claim he didn't know what he was doing suffer from the Dunning Kruger effect. It takes a VERY good writer to make a fairly simplistic character into such an iconic villain. It would have been so easy to turn Palpatine into a Saturday morning cartoon villain - that's what Disney's trainwreck did - but because Star Wars is for all ages, George Lucas knew that there needed to be mature themes underneath the silliness in order for both children and adults to appreciate the story. It helped that he's knowledgeable about history, religion, politics and psychology so he knew how to to develop the story whilst keeping Satan as its core antagonist. Ian McDiarmid's performance elevated an already solid foundation.

@@tomnorton4277 He was a good creator of storys and a good editor, not a good writer, and certainly a terrible director, the star wars dialogues are are terribly written artocities

@@ericleal157 George Lucas saved The Empire Strikes Back. If he was a bad writer or director, Star Wars wouldn't have lasted for so long. If you want to see the work of terrible writers and directors, just watch the Disney Trilogy. Rian Johnson and JJ Abrams' dialogue is far worse than George Lucas' and on top of that, they have no clue how to write a logical and consistent narrative. George Lucas actually understands storytelling. Only idiots who suffer from the Dunning Kruger effect would call him a bad writer or director. And unfortunately, there are a lot of idiots in the world.

A COMPETENT politician.

long live the empire

@@Diego-zz1df A SEXY politician

Lmao

Too true

True, at the end of most movies the villain is defeated, but in ROTS he actually succeeded

For a time, until the end of ROTJ and {cough, cough} ROS.

Palpatine and Thanos are favorite villains for that reason. They actually won.

@@captainfordo3969 yea thanos is a good villain but he lacks many things that palpatine has: manipulation, pure badass moments, and an epic theme song. this is all just "my opinion" btw so don't take it personally. they're really just differently great villains. thanos, the man who just wanted to execute a huge plan mostly by himself. he has a somber theme song that reflects his somber life and somber persona. on the other hand, palpatine manipulates, plans, and backstabs, while still being capable to destroy his most powerful opponents in direct combat, should the need arise. but yea, the "they won" argument still stands for both these cases.

And not only succeed but flourished ruling an empire spanning half of the galaxy for 20 years and all the while making himself appear as a frail old man with honor in the core worlds and inner rim systems

He's still killing it in the spin off shows. He's been reprising his role lately

I saw episode 3 in theaters when I was like 8 years old. One of the happiest memories of my life. I love Star Wars. Or at least I used to. Until Disney.

@@funtimeflorian1643 Far from the first time he did.

@@Ethan_Alexandur Same here, friend. Same here.

Seriously, the most underrated acting performance of my lifetime. Just the way he delivers his lines is nothing short of a masterclass in acting. Most of the Emperor's memorable dialogue is simple due to the acting choices that McDiarmid made. Simply brilliant.

The politics in the prequels are not complex, can be understood by children easily and take a small amount of screen time. I've no idea why ''boring politics'' was ever seen as a valid criticism by some.

​@@legrandliseurtri7495it made perfect sense to me at 10. Most kids of this generation thou... not so sure

@@I_dcd I mean I understand the politics perfectly and im only 16!

@@walidbentaher Keep that intuition strong man. You really never know what you can believe

@@I_dcd Yeah its sad when I try to explain stuff like that to other kids my age they would say something like: "What is bro babbiling about? 💀

I agree!! 👏👏👏

That's perhaps the most beautiful thing to explain the Prequels.

Amazing statement!!!

And then the devil accidentally hands over the Messiah's children to that same religion. lol

One of the reasons why I'm not actually that bothered by Order 66, at least not when it comes to the Jedi Council. Complacent idiots the lot of them.

That literally made my eyes brim with tears ... and with the music and images... 🥺

That’s the most Metal description of the birth of Darth Vader ever.

That and the line before, that the last person in the galaxy that believes there is still good in him, dies.

@@Comkill117 metal?

That's not even the worst of it. Because 25 years later, Palpatine tried to replace that skull-faced slave... WITH HIS OWN SON. The sheer evil of the man was... palpable. Teehee. ;)

Nah. Vader's mask is a skull, a shell from his true self (which he killed).

@@saricubra2867 I get that, but it also is eerily similar in shape to the Tusken Raider masks. It even has the same mouth shape.

Holy shit. I mean, the video pointed out the skull thing but crap, that adds another layer to how fucked up Vader's situation is.

Good point. Could be that design was a reminder chosen to help channel his hatred more, since using the dark side relies on it.

This is kind of a stretch

pov: the bishop heard there were children in hell

nice

No! No! No! He is The List!

Whoever made that list is as short sighted as the Jedi once was!

Deleted maybe they were.

Forget the list. He goes to the block.

oh wait...

It's truly a shame there are no new SW movies after episode 6. (Excluding Rogue one)

@@freekjobse7051 I see that you also don't count the sequals as Canon. Lol at least I won't be alone

Surviving being blown up twice XD *ONE OF WHICH WAS THE DEATH STAR BLOWING UP* Don't be so silly

The dark side is a pathway to many abilities that some consider to be unnatural.

And when he finally lost, it was because love was the one thing that he couldn’t account for because he was I incapable of it himself... It was the love that Anakin had for his son that defeated him.

​@@infinitedonutsI love the fact you see that scene as the moment when Palpatine was truly defeated. sequels are not canon. they can't be

​@@infinitedonutsI think it was more so being chucked down 1000 feet that defeated him but you've got the spirit and I'm here for it 😂

And what's funny is, palpatine dies not because of any massive oversight on his end, but by two things he could never have suspected. The first being the Luke Skywalker, a random moisture farmer with seemingly no concrete reasons to stay as a Jedi, when shown that his friends were being massacred and promised that joining palpatine would spare there lives, refused to turn to the dark side. The second being the Darth Vader, the man who killed his wife because of the dark side, who massacred children for palpatine, who struck down his master and dear friend in cold blood, was turned to the light side purely because his son had unwavering faith that he still had good in him. Dieing not because you Lost, not because your plan had a gaping holes in it, not because of masterful counterplan, but because of something nobody could have expected, is something very very few villans manage to come close too. Only one I can think of is Sauron, who was taken down because two hobbits walked across the world, went through a series of caverns guarded by the spawn of the gigantic spider which tied up and tortured Saurons Boss, then walked through the single most inhospitable environment on the planet, scaling a volcano, and managed to destroy a ring which was known for corrupting some of the greatest of men in the time it took them to scale a volcano. Sauron didn't even know hobbits existed until he found out that they were the things which held the ring.

@@Santisima_Trinidad And Grand admiral thrawn He had all the rebels, where he wanted them, he tricked them so many times. There was just one moment: He ignored Leia Organa, and helped her convincing the Noghri, people, who swore eternal respect, to turn against him. But his whole puzzle was just misding one tiny peace

@@smartlinus2592 A very small wrench can break a very large machine.

@@kraigisboss that's right

Everyone in the comments on this video: you know im something of a philosopher myself

Obi wan is the only one who isn’t one lol

@@thelordshrek2938 Ehh, he's the greatest master of Dun Moch in the movies, so who knows...

Yeah, but all sith will fail against the high ground

Speciality*

Yep

Palpatine is truly a master of manipulation. I'd love to shake the hand of the man that planned this

Well Palpatine was the one who clouded the vision of the jedi with the dark side, so that they could not foresee what Palpatine could every step of the way. This foresight is emphasised by Palpatine himself in Episode VI, he said he had foreseen everything that had led him up to that point, everything. I can only interpret that this sentiment applied since early on. He literally played a game that he couldn't possibly lose. Even if he made an error here or a misstep there, it would always turn out in his masterplan's favor in the end.

@@averagejoeschmoe9186 I find this... Kinda weird, I remember the jedi commenting about something clouding their ability to sense the dark side or their vision relative to the darkside situation... But I never got the sense that they were deprived from "the power to see the future", if it were the case I think they would make a bigger deal out of this. Obviously Palpatine is able to foresee a lot of things but I always attributed this to dark side abilities.

@@BubblegobThey did make a bigger deal about their failing sight in AotC but concealed that info so they would not be seen as weak. The Force pulls at and decides your destiny, but it also will obey your commands if you are of strong enough mind. For Palpatine who is so attuned to the Force and is always manipulating it to his designs, there was not a single Jedi who could see Palpatine for what he was. It is also important to remember that almost all of the Jedi were not only too dependent on the Force for their insights but their sense in the force was severely dulled from their rigid dogmas and belief that the Sith were extinct.

@@Redpoppy80 When you describe it like this it sounds more like the Jedi being duped or barely realizing their power in the force is being impaired seldom for the masters worried but cautious as the force is sometime mysterious. Which is much more in line with the impression I got.

“The prequels are a story of an arrogant religion who get a hold of the messiah, and then accidentally hand him over to the devil”

Satan: "I like to say I am a huge fan" *Proceeds to send him to the final movie*

Ehh that movie is overrated. It is the good one but still had the same problems as the other two prequels

@@Spongebrain97 So if by problems, do you mean flawlessness I agree.

@@kalleenstoddard357 no problems that are in the screenplay and others like wooden acting and thinly developed characters. For example Maul and Dooku are just cool boss battles but they hardly do anything and the audience barely knows anything about them. If you want more info you gotta go look up EU content 😑. Thats the problem with George's writing. He clearly needed help but surrounded himself with yes men

A magnificent jewel box created both to display and preserve the greatest treasure of the Sith.

That was known in 80s already, you know?

Yeah, Palpatine didn't like him after he got dismembered and lost so much power because he was no longer a worthy successor

@@inadequis6132 he only lost power because palpatine had his suit created to inflict pain upon him consistently so he never had full control. He would have been stronger than palpatine and he knew this

F**k that’s great!! I never thought of that! Damn..

That hate has definitely decreased a ton in recent years after the Disney fiasco at least lol

@@erikstrickland96 I think it's sad that learning to love something you once hated requires hating something that never got a chance.

Have you ever heard The tragedy of Anakin Skywalker

This actually makes sense right

Nice heavy pfp

nah more like edgy boy anakin who was supposed to save the galaxy ends up fucking it up because of love and power yada yada yada

*Anakin: The Documentary

or biblical even

No

@@raimiallpowerful2020 yes

@@rockyseverino9230 Anakins story is way better than some biblical stories

Someone never read Shakespeare...

Sounds a lot like these days

Ye I agree

look at hitlers rise to power, because of the destruction from WW1 and its aftereffects it allowed him amongst other fascists to rise to power

The damnn people that hated on the prequels and caused Lucas to sell Star Wars away and Disney ummm.... doing what Disney does in the past 15 years

Also sorry to hear about your struggles man. These themes are unbelievably relive in today's age.

It's treason then.

@@eliaspeter7689 *autistic screeching*

*kills 3 jedi in a matter of 1 minute*

@@gameral4235 in a matter of 1 second

Dew it

Maul also fears Sidious as well.

Isn't that a great description of the devil. The ultimate deceiver.

Dooku didn’t care about Sidious or the Jedi. he just wanted to create his own Organisation with using the dark side, if he would succeeded he would kill Sidious that was his plan, sadly he was the one who got killed first.

@@elmaz46 Initially i tought Dooku was more of an antagonist than a villain, he had good intentions. Maul meanwhile is such a mess with his mind twisted and a lot of missery. He has Sith eyes all the time.

And Vader and Kylo!

The man's too badass for something as superficial and meaningless as fashion.

​@@tomnorton4277damn straight

I say that every time he appears in episode six. The most powerful man in the universe and yet he only wears black robes and a chain to hold it together

It’s not like the Jedi were that great either. They were dangerous. What palpatine did was cold, sure, but it can be justified. The execution of the Jedi is nothing like if they were civilians, the Jedi had lightsabers and extreme force powers making them ridiculously overpowered.

@@KoopaMedia64 Hum, yeah. The jedi still valued life of others over their own. Palpatine created a dictatorship and did multiple genocides, the revenge against the jedi was just a step in his great evil plan. I don't understand why people are so keen on painting the jedi as evil characters. They weren't perfect but were mostly a good force for the galaxy, not some evil dictatorship that takes control of as many worlds as they can to exploit every living being to death. Like, you know, the empire.

I think that is one of the things missing in storytelling of the past twenty years - people want to write villains who are evil but who we understand and can think of as people, because they believe that this is somehow more real. But this is massively unsatisfying and also, I think, actually unconvincing. We want our villains to be devils, not people, and we want our heroes to be a little bit more than people.

@@morgen3369 They were a religious cult, taking three year olds to be trained as warriors. If you look at the empire from an unbiased perspective and listen to what people say in the mandalorian the empire isn't all that bad.

Palpatine knew his purpose so he didn't need any apologies. That's why I like Darkseid for the same reason.

Well... I’d say just Revenge of the Sith and maybe kinda The Phantom Menace

@@tam2237 All three of them. Stop being a toxic fanatic.

Ima watch them the rest of my life and show my grand children

Not really ROTS is fine but the others are dog shit no one can say otherwise

The first half hour of Revenge of the Sith is the best Star Wars. Period.

Its no contest

The title isn't certainly wrong. He truly is the greatest villian in media

Well he didn't end his life a slave because he killed palpatine. Just that he ended his Jedi saga a slave

@@themoshpit8341 Fair enough, I should have said "Spent most of his life as a slave"

Why do you think George said it was like poetry

It… really isn’t when you put it like that… That’s actually horrible.

He was also a slave to the Jedi order. He only truly became free when he at last killed Palpatine. The savior of the galaxy, a slave his entire life. Only knowing freedom in his final minutes which he chose to spend looking at his son

As someone who grew up during the prequels, I was pretty young when episode 3 came out, 7 to be exact (I'm 22). At the time I loved the action but never really understood the gravity of the situation. Now that I dig deeper into the lore and watched the clone wars, I come to truly appreciate the absolute genius and pure evil of darth sidious. Not to mention how much raw force power he had, to the point where he worked among the most powerful jedi ever completely undetected. Could you imagine living in a society where you have prospered for literally 1000 years, for all of it to suddenly topple over night by ONE MAN. People tend to overlook just how cunning and powerful sidious really was. I truly believe he was the most powerful being ever in the star wars universe, even more so than Darth Vitiate and Darth Bane. He was so talented in the force and the arts of lightsaber dueling that he mastered all 7 forms, but yet he thought using a lightsaber was weaker than just using the force itself. Palpatine will always be one of my favorite characters ever just because of how calculated he was, yet at the same time had just raw power. I think its fucking awesome that he commonly stands among the most powerful jedi yet they are oblivious to the fact that they are literally right next to the most powerful being in existence, a man who is thought to be a selfless honorable politician that is for the people.

@@houndsmaster34 plus the fact he (along with plagueis) literally bent the force to his will so strongly that Anakin was spontaneously brought into existence by it. (Hence Anakin having no father) I never appreciated as a kid how absolutely ludicrous it is to create life with the force. Here we have Yoda and Luke barely lifting x-wings, meanwhile Sidious and plagueis are bending the force into the form of a living person. It's exactly like E=MC² 9 x 10^16 units of energy = 1 unit of mass Enough concentrated energy in one place will spontaneously bend into an actual tangible particle, e.g. an electron Sidious manipulated the force so strongly that it didn't just create a few particles, or atoms, or molecules, or proteins, it created a fucking human embryo in the womb of Anakin's mother That is such an absurdly massive amount of energy to collect into one spot, let alone to collect AND manipulate perfectly into a highly ordered and genetically viable embryo He had to shape the DNA The chromosomes The endoplasmic reticulum The mitochondria The phospholipid bilayer Every receptor and chemical compound that makes the cell capable of replicating into an actual baby Like literally wtf. You can't even say he just waved his hand and life just randomly appeared. Sidious even said specifically that it was accomplished through extraordinary knowledge. The dark side is fucking legit honestly

The prequels had to explain how Palpatine took over and stablished a galaxy wide dictatorship, there had to be politics involved.

I was very little when revenge of the sixth came out wasn’t alive for phantom menace but grew up with these lol

@@houndsmaster34 also Lucas based off Palpatines coup from Julius Ceasar and Augustus. Lucas always put some political elements during his reign making Star Wars

Its not an active thing like the jedi mind trick. Palpatine has a special trait of Presence, he is a living shadow in the force, the stronger he is the wider and darker it becomes. When he becomes a senator he basically covers all of coruscant. When he becomes chancellor, and sith master having killed Plagueis on election night, he reaches through the galaxy.

@@cpob2013 sounds very intriguing. Where can I read more about this?

Underrated comment

He's not on the list, cause there is only a place 1 and that's not good enough.

Palpatine is not on the list. He is the list.

@@plumeater1 not yet

@@Chad_Milk It is treason, then.

This. Them being too passive is actually the trouble.

@@budakbaongsiah isn't the story basically that them getting involved in the war was their downfall, rather than remaining peacekeepers? I don't see how that is them being too passive.

@@SelectHawk Whether they got involved or not is actually irrelevant (and I don't really see how they could avoid getting involved eventually once the war started). Their big mistake was in allowing the war to begin in the first place. Not only did they not detect the machinations of a Sith Lord who was right under their noses, they couldn't even be bothered to consider it a possibility, believing the Sith were "extinct". It's an incredible level of hubris on their part, knowing full well the lure of the Dark Side of the Force that every Force user has to actively avoid, to assume that there wouldn't eventually be some Dark Side acolyte with enough skill at manipulation and power in the Force to become the same as a Sith Lord of the past. Or considering the long history of the Sith to actually believe they could be made extinct in the first place. Ultimately the Jedi had one responsibility to the Republic; to guard against a return of the Sith or any other dark side force user that threatened it. But 1000 years of the absence of Sith basically turned the Jedi into an insular, feckless order that no longer paid attention to the events happening around it as if they were above such things, even going so far as gatekeeping who can and cannot be trained by them nearly guaranteeing a group of fallen Force users would spring up eventually. Their arrogance and aloofness created the opportunity that Palpatine used. And if you really want someone to blame, it's Yoda. As much as I love Yoda, the movies do a good job of showing him to be a very different person before and after the fall of the Republic. Something happened early in his time as a Jedi to lead the order down the wrong path and having such a long lifespan he alone kept it on that path instead of listening to wiser Jedi like Qui Gon and likely countless other long-dead Jedi during his tenure. By the time Luke meets him in ESB, Yoda has had plenty of time to reflect on his mistakes and has lost much of the arrogance he once had.

Jedi: “We don’t care about politics.” Palpatine: “I care!”

It’s treason then

Which inevitably led to a larger empire in the long run.

Like the joker

Woah never tought about it . He never yelled screeched a monologue. He really is a good experienced villan after all

Damn bro

Finally someone understood

I'm not sure why you think that - the Sith revel in fear, anger, and hatred. They draw their power from these emotions and it gives them focus and this is portrayed in all of the movies. He was, however, able to conceal his fear, anger, hatred and motives from the Jedi with perfection. His laughing is cackling was perfect because it showed his perverse joy when finally confronting and destroying his arch nemesis.

It's more like he was playing chess with a guy who had previously been super good at it but hadn't played in 50 years, and manipulated him into playing by *his* rules instead.

and the only wild card he didnt see comming, is the love of a father to his son wich is poetic as F or the hope and will to choose the rigth way of his own family(rey) ps: dont really like the sequels ..also dont hate them, but they are cannon so....

Palpatine was playing 5-D chess while the Jedi council was playing go fish

He was playing chess while everyone else was playing checkers

He played Chess with himself, playing both sides, knowing the outcome - That *HE* would win no matter what, no matter the cost... Sheer brilliance.

😆 And then as soon as he was gone people walked out disgusted...

@@TFZ. For me that wasn't the case, it was the moment when Rey was suddently a Palpatine.

@@saricubra2867 🤦‍♂️ I couldn't believe they did that... Ug...

Basically a dune ripoff, oh wait, thats star wars

@@jukaa1012 😑

This could be prophetic in more ways than you know.

@@jukaa1012 never read dune so I wouldn't know.

@@servant7777 its star wars everything is fucking poetic as shit

@tanio12 No I think Alexander got it pretty well spot on. The Jedi absolutely deserved to be wiped out after the way they treated Anakin. They were backwards and dogmatically stubborn in their thinking, refused to concede even the possibility that emotions might not lead to pure evil, and basically pushed Anakin to the dark side every step of the way. Miracle he didn’t turn sooner with some of the geniuses on the council constantly pushing his buttons. Especially Mace and Yoda, never seen two guys more full of themselves.

@tanio12 It's about a man who was forced to show his ugly side to a religion which was a shadow of it's past.

@@tommyl.dayandtherunaways820 the Jedi weren't great but anakin is down right a moron in ROTS, dude literally enslave the galaxy under someone who is clearly a psychopath because he had some dreams of his wife dying by CHILDBIRTH, in a universe like star wars with the kind of technology they have he really believes that she is going to die by childbirth, death by childbirth isn't even a problem in 3rd world countries in our world(and don't tell me it doesn't matter that much because it's the whole reason anakin sided with palp), and even if she was actually going to die, he is EXTREMELY egoistic, he goes to murder his comrades and literall children just so he can save his wife. Let's not talk about his best demonstration of intelligence, he know palpatine is a sith lord and he sees that palpatine is clearly not a good person nor mentally sane but he actually believes that the jedi order attacked palpatine because they wanted to overthrow the government. P.S The Jedi never deserved to be wiped away, the Jedi needed to be reformed

@@MC-yg1mq you fucking drongo, did you forget that force visions are a thing and are directly addressed in the movie?

@@MC-yg1mq Anakin's my second favourite character in Stars Wars but I have to agree with you.

thats true on so many levels

*underrated.*

THE LIIIST! Wait shit wrong movie.

that's how great Palpatine is, he fooled everyone to make a list and not suspect him

Yeah this is the best comment😂

This is why I love HISHE (especially the Villain Pub). The Bar keep's Palps while Voltamort, Joker, Loki, even Zod are the regular customers 😆

He is the ultimate bad guy. No remorse, no seeking attention, no sad back stories to sympathise with, no mental health issues. Nothing. Just purely cold, calculative, selfish desire to get to the top and rule over all by any means necessary. Just because HE himself wants it all.

I mean when he fighted maul and savage he was laughing and always with a smile

It's interesting, and fitting that a sith with the concealed identity of a do-gooder politician is literally just a mastermind pathological power monger, this video added greater depth to a film that has embedded itself in my memory and everytime I watch it the ending is a brutal emotional experience.

I gush about my love for Palpatine as a villain pretty often and I always bring up just what a huge kick he gets out of being evil. He knows he's won and there's nothing anyone can do about it, so he's cackling his whole way through his fight with Yoda. The man finally gets the let loose after all his quiet scheming. The galaxy is his. It's as if he's walking on air with utter glee at just how diabolical he is.

I knew someone in the comments was gonna point it out, I love it

@@paxxisticks Someone pointed it out 1 year ago in the comments.

Well put. Regarding Anakin’s tragic fall from grace, I always view the prequel trilogy, especially Revenge of the Sith, in the same vain of a Shakespearean tragedy. So much pain and betrayal eloquently out of how love can be corrupted into obsession.

Brilliant

Yeah but Jesus had to die in order to save us so I can't blame the jews or anything. Idk if that's what you were getting at

*From life.*

@Loopy but so ironic and beautiful

Death bed repentance is shallow and non effective.. check out larry flint publisher of hustler magazine.

@@roymadison5686 it's different when you repent after sacrificing yourself to save your son and kill the man that enslaved you.

All it took was a multi-billion dollar corporation to foist literal abominations upon us for people to realize how good they really were.

I agree in this Chase pure evil works because we already have a tragic Villian (Darth Vader)

Pure evil can be more fun sometimes as well. Their charisma makes them likeable and it's just as fun to watch them succeed as it is to watch them fail (see 99% of Disney villains or my personal favourite, Frieza from Dragon Ball Z as some good examples).

Another great pure evil character: Melkor/ Morgoth from the Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (basically prequels to LotR except that these prequels were written first) Similarly, in the same book, his apprentice Sauron shows his brilliance similar to what palatine does. Befriending your worst enemy, gaining their trust by hiding in plain sight and then overthrow them. Although Sauron is only successful in the destruction part, he doesn't really get to rule anything.

@@sebastianjost never read it, but I've been meaning to give it a go for a while, might start ASAP now

I don’t think palpatine is the best

Well, balance in the Star Wars sense means the abundance of the light side. As Lucas himself said, the natural state of the Force (and of balance) is the light side. Just that the Jedi weren't in tune with this pure light side, it was their own corrupted version.

@@whydidimakethis111 It's pretty crazy when you take a step back and realize Dooku was 100% correct about the Jedi and why they had to be destroyed and rebuilt.

The problem was that the Jedi and the Sith were corrupted emulations of the force; and at the end of Episode 6, its what makes Luke's stand against Palpatine so powerful; his father may have brought balance to the force, but he has become the future of that very balance. He's everything his father wished he could be. and its that moment that allows Vader to see how far he has fallen.

@@REDDAWNproject and then it’s all throne out the window as he attempts to kill a kid in his sleep.

@@TeamASGTS yeah thats a big reason i thought the st is dumb

But Maul ended up outlasting him anyway. Makes sense why Palpatine needed to go in person.

@@procyon6370 Maul died while Luke was still a kid though...

What are you talking about? Darth Maul was in Episode VII.

@@procyon6370 he was in solo, not ep7.

No, he was in Episode VII. He was the Sith master, and Darth Talon was his apprentice.

Agreed. I tried to defend the first one assuming they'd get better. I gave up after the second one I couldn't see the galaxy far away bastardized anymore.

@@IAmTheDoctor00 Same. Exactly the same here. I defended TFA against the haters, promising the sequel would be worth it.

yeah disney pretty much eviscerated this series

It’s downright criminal what the new Lucasfilm under KK did to Star Wars… Look at what they did to my boy… :’(

If it makes you feel better, the original writer for that decision was fired and the sequel trilogy was de-canonized. I think... Disney's now working on another three wastes of money to replace them. 🙂

If you research psychology it does in fact make perfect sense. Not a degree or anything but the general awareness

Exactly

Except for Darth maul in the clone wars

EXACTLY, in both canon and legends, Palaptine ordered Maul to specifically kill Qui-Gon. He knew that he would be a grave threat as he is a rebel unlike the rest of the order and expose him one day as a sith lord. Once he met Anakin in person, he was releaved that he killed Qui Gon so he could forge Ani into the Monster we all know today, he forged the most gifted and loved Jedi knight into the deadliest and Hated sith lord Darth Vader.

Thats why the duel theme was called 'duel of the fates'

Except for the very son of his apprentice

Well to be fair, his confidence was kinda warranted, no?

@@nerd_5615 Somewhat

"Your overconfidence is your weakness" - Luke Skywalker.

@@nerd_5615 He did miss out on one thing. Vader's loyalty and conflict. That's what caused his defeat. As for the battle on Endor and the space battle, he had the right to be confident/overconfident. His fleet was going to win according to his plan.

A friend of mine and I had a realization watching Game of Thrones, and it very much applies to Star Wars. What's the #1 cause of death in Westeros? The same as in the Star Wars galaxy: winning too much

except in return of the jedi.

@@lionfan96 he didn't consider Vader his enemy. Luke defeating his father was in Palpatine "I got that covered" " Palpatinre having to kill a still defiant Luke, ditto. Vader regaining his humanity back in the very last moments of his life and defending his son, THAT is the only thing Palpatine couldn't.see-- because self sacrifice for love was utterly incomprehensible to the Emperor.

If you qualify YTPs, then Palpatine is also one of the few villains that attacks when their opponent is talking, as seen in 'The Tragedy of Darth Sand'. *Yoda:* If so powerful, you- *Palpatine: {blasts Yoda with force lightning}*

@@robertlehnert4148 I don’t think it was incomprehensible for him, but more that he thought Vader’s only loved one had died.

@@robertlehnert4148 I think that Palpatine knew that Vader was dangerous but what happened was extremely unlikely and as such Palpatine didn't prepare for it

I think the real reason is because the most popular and iconic film he was in is "return of the jedi" and there he was just a plot device for Vader to turn into a good guy

Exactly! I'm always floored how Darth Vader always makes the top, if not THE top, of best cinema villains of all time list, and Palpatine almost never even makes the list. IMO, Palpatine is cinema's greatest villain.

I hated this palpatine at first but he grow on me later

Amen

@@nra3zehuti781 and in the pt Vader is a plot device. poetry.

"practically everyone involved never knew that there was a plan at all." Count Dooku was in on it. The only thing he didn't know was that Anakin was to be his replacement.

@@jamesgravil9162 that’s why I said practically, and to be fair we don’t know the extent he was in on the plan. Like you said he probably didn’t know Anakin’s part, which is arguably one of the more important parts of the plan. The only other one that really knew there was a plan was maul and he didn’t know the extent of it. Only that Anakin was a big player.

*i love it when i join a two-man cult that opposes a bigger cult, where we are hidden, and then i betray the other guy by leaving him to die from the hands of the other cult and then having another guy and having a massive droid army and a droid general (yes he is a droid, hehe) with some spinny swords (oh yeah btw both the cults have laser swords) and then trick the majority into leaving yourself emergency powers betraying your other cult member by telling the other cult's most powerful member to " **_DEW IT_** " and then use that to get that powerful member as my new more permanent apprentice, and then use the emergency powers to destroy the other cult with their own clone army and then make myself an emperor of the new empire and then get thrown down a reactor shaft* (imma ignore the sequels, they were a failed abortion)

@@waltuh2.3bviews3secondsago3 thanks for ignoring the failed abortion!

@@MrCoolguy425 what if the Emperor never got thrown down the shaft and actually had a plan, and that's Palpatine sending a loyal secret Sith Lord unbeknownst to Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker to spy on him and at the right time, assassinate him before he could oust the Emperor. This Sith Lord, who had already a contempt of Anakin Skywalker (as well as his former Padawan Ashoka Tano, who the Sith Lord has a eye on as well because of a little thing I like to call "a misconception" that the Sith Lord has, that makes him think Ashoka is unbeatable and un-killable.)

Same

I definitely resonate with this. 🤟🏽

Same

except for the disney stuff which has no soul. you could never make an analysis video like this about them, because you wont find any hidden or subtle messages in them

This is why Star Wars matters so much, as one evolves so does the interpretation of SW does.

Yes

Sheeeeeeeeeit

@Andrew Austin its my all time favorite movie not just favorite star wars movie but of all movies this is my favorite

SAME HERE!!

Yoda knew about order 66, watch clone wars season 6

I think Yoda is one of the few who truly understood, too late, the gravity of the situation. He senses the deaths of the Jedi trough the Force, and the shock makes him drop his cane.

@@something7641 I'm not sure what you're getting at. The point is that Yoda, being Grandmaster and a survivor of Order 66, is the one who more than anyone else understood "how deep their failure truly went".

@@fernandorivera4719 Yeah, that's why the cut was brilliant. Yoda survives and ends up being the one who understood his failure probably more than anyone else.

A lot of villains are underrated Percival C. Mcleach from Rescuers Down Under is underrated Shan Yu from Mulan is underrated Zira from The Lion King 2 is underrated All For One from Boku No Hero Academia is underrated Morgoth from middle-earth franchise is underrated Randall from Monsters Inc. is underrated

True

I hate how so many people hate on the prequels. This is almost absolute perfect plot and people dislike it because "oh its different from the originals." Yeah so WHAT YOU F***ING GOT WAS A COMPLETE FARCRY SEQUEL SERIES THAT HAS NO RESPECT WHATSOEVER TO THE ACTUAL PLOT

@@I_dcd EXACTLY AND THEY ACTUALLY SUPPORT THE NEW ONES LIKE WTF!

Because it's so true. lol

@@charlinethom1624 I know right!

No. It was judgement day for the galaxy. It’s descent into 20 years of pain, enslavement, and agony under the rule of Emperor Palpatine.

Because that phrase has a lot of big sounding words that ring nice together.

@@celestialspartan1176 What do you mean "no"? You just disagreed with what he said and then rephrased his point all over again.

The only villain I can think of who had better success (in terms of stated-goal outcome) was Thanos; the Endgame movie paints the picture as optimistic because he was beaten with Earth-616, but that's just because we're not gonna talk about the other 14+ million universes that Dr. Strange watched fail. Thanos actually won 14+ million times. Even still, Palpatine became a revered icon through his actions. He succeeded in convincing a whole galaxy to change their way of life, wear the same clothes, and perpetuate a culture of his own creation. Thanos succeeded in his plan execution, but he expected everyone to thank him for his actions -- and he definitely didn't succeed at that. To be the villain while convincing your victims to praise you? That's Trump-level success.

@@extantsanity won 14+ million times how did i not realize that fact sooner it was right in front of meヾ(•ω•`)o

@@extantsanity I really liked your comment until you had to get political, c'mon man, you're no better than Rian Johnson, shoving politics where it doesn't belong.

@@justint.2858 You say that, but George Lucas' prequel trilogy was excruciatingly political, too. It was about how you end up with a backsliding democracy, overthrown by people who were sold lies. As much as I'd have loved to omit a political slant to my comment, it would be a crime against George to do so.

@@extantsanity The difference is that Star Wars politics is not irl politics, so no, not including your Trump bashing wouldn't be a crime against George.

as long as he was the one and ONLY ruler!

Peace freedom justice

I love how he pointed out the contrast of palatine's speech and its promises with the same promises, now broken, to the Separatists at Anakin's hand.

Well... He DID keep that promise, and made the empire into a place of high quality of life as well.

@@chazzerine7650 This is why he's not on the list. He's not a villainous brainwashing order that kidnaps children unnecessarily.

How can you expect someone to comprehend a 2 hour long movie with shitty dialogue and even worse acting?

I honestly can’t think of a better summary for how a lot of people view the prequels. It’s really pretty hard for us prequel fans

@@Wigglystilts so you expect an ancient space civilization billions of light years away from ours to talk and act like we do?

@@Wigglystilts How does wooden dialogue and some questionable acting (not even every actor does a bad job) make the story hard to comprehend? You just have to pay attention

@@Wigglystilts why do I have the feeling this isn’t even your own idea just something you’re regurgitating .

I would like this comment but it's at 66 likes and I can't bring myself to change that

@@battletoaster. A wise decision. Most wise.

My lord *kneels and bows head*

I would like this comment but it’s at 111 and I can’t bring myself to it

@@eightan9589 Dew it.