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The most potent enemy of the Jedi Order is returning… but how? A new rumor has surfaced around the return of Emperor Palpatine, AKA Darth Sidious , in the upcoming Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker. It indicates that there won’t be any arcane rituals or Sith trickery involved – rather, that the explanation for the Emperor’s return will be an exceedingly simple one. The Emperor seemed to have met a decisive end in his final screen appearance, but the first trailer for The Rise of Skywalker teased us with the sound of the villain’s distinctive laugh. Since the spot’s release, it’s become public that Ian McDiarmid, who portrayed the character in all of his previous appearances, is involved with the new film – leading to fan speculation that Palpatine may appear in some kind of vision, or as a Force Ghost, or even return as a clone. “As you know in Star Wars, they’re very good at dealing in unexpected moments the whole time, and secrets are a big thing.” According to some new purported spoilers for Episode IX making the rounds on the internet, the real explanation is quite a bit more mundane. Instead of coming back as a ghost or spirit, it’s being claimed that the Emperor has actually just been physically alive this whole time, waiting for the right moment to make his presence known once again. Hey, weirder things have happened. Fans will remember that at the conclusion of 1983’s Return of the [More]

Emperor Palpatine will return in Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, and he won’t be stopping by for a cameo despite what actor Ian McDiarmid might say: All joking aside… Speaking with IGN at Disney’s D23 Expo, stars Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, and Kelly Marie Tran offered some insight into the importance of the dastardly figure who was famously thought to have perished at the conclusion of 1983’s Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi to the flick’s story. Fans were shocked when Palpatine’s distinctive laugh was heard at the end of the first teaser trailer for Rise of Skywalker, and it was made explicit that this was no misdirection when the movie’s first poster was revealed at D23. The poster features the Emperor’s visage floating above Ridley’s Rey and Adam Driver’s Kylo Ren as they face off in a lightsaber duel. In the same way that his likeness looms over the poster’s imagery, Boyega astutely pointed out that Palpatine’s machinations loom large over the entire Star Wars series. He explained: “I think the Emperor and his doctrine has trickled down to so many of the characters in the Star Wars universe, and that the Dark Side [of the Force] is what it is because of a lot of his actions and plans. And so, to have him come back, he’s like the greatest foe, and greatest enemy… I mean, we might as well take him down properly.” Ridley similarly called attention to the importance of the [More]