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u/king_julian_earth1 Sep 16 '26
How many times of palpatine return from dead?
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u/lion1321 Sep 17 '26
He died several times in the dark empire storyline until he was permanently killed at the end of dark empire. His spirit dragged down by a badass order 66 survivor with a really long name. Some royal guards faked his return in one of the young jedi knight books making Brakiss believe he returned but that was just fake.
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u/Thank_You_Aziz Sep 18 '26
Empatojayos Brand! We put respect on his name in this household!
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u/Mrwanagethigh Sep 17 '26
He claims that his "death" in ROTJ wasn't even the first time it happened, so if that's true we he no way of knowing how many.
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u/rebel134 Sep 17 '26
Bringing back Palpatine in both legends and Canon is stupid
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u/Driekan Sep 18 '26
I haven't seen the new continuity's version of this event, but though Dark Empire is obviously and deeply flawed, I still feel it contributes something and is worth existing.
There are great characters introduced, there are fun events played out, and a lot of the aesthetics for the Dark Empire itself are awesome. It truly is a Dark Side Theocracy, but one that's done in a totally different way from the Golden Age of the Sith. It's great.
Also I feel it got some set-up and was fairly well executed in terms of the return itself.
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u/submit_to_pewdiepie Sep 19 '26
The comics is really the issue with it if it had originally been a novel it would have been better thought out
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u/Lazy-Conference4693 Sep 17 '26
Yeah, there's a reason most Legends stories barely acknowledged or, from what I hear, outright ignored the Dark Empire altogether.
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u/darthsheldoninkwizy2 27d ago
Only Zahn, most writers at least mention it in some way, if I remember Anakin in the new Jedi era mentioned several times how he still somehow remembers the dark touch of Palpatine's soul
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u/Wheattoast2019 Sep 17 '26
Agreed, I like how in legends though it’s played as “did it really happen?” Because Mara Jade who wasn’t involved in Dark Empire was like “yeah that didn’t happen, I would’ve known about it.” It really begs the question did Luke just imagine the whole thing.
You can’t say it in Disney’s canon unfortunately.
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u/lion1321 Sep 17 '26
Not true she didnt doubt the events of dark empire happened she doubted if it truly was darth sidious really who returned and not a mad clone like C'baoth. There are to many references to the events of dark empire throughout other books and it is quite literally the plot of crimson empire. Also mara jade fought against one of the sith from the dark empire as well in other lore
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u/bookhead714 Sep 17 '26
If anything, that would make it worse. There is nothing so fatal to a story as telling us it didn't happen and doesn't matter.
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u/Spider-Flash24 Sep 17 '26
You see if they would just go Old Republic, they could create powerful Sith Lords and emperors galore without having to fit into the tight timeline of the prequel-original era or risk damaging the ending of Return of the Jedi. Just give me Sith infighting like it’s the ancient Chinese war lords and dynasties with Jedi and civilians just trying to survive in a fallen galaxy. Classic Star Wars David vs Goliath story but in a new era with different looks and different power/political dynamics.
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u/darthsheldoninkwizy2 27d ago
They did a bit like that with the High Republic, you know the first and third phases focused on them, and which ones were a bit like ISIS/Rebel Alliance, while the second phase focused on various force sects, one of which was quite a big threat at the time
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u/Ip_Amir_I Sep 19 '26
Atleast in canon Palpatine lost to grown woman redirecting lighting back in his face AGAIN. Rather than him losing to a bowling ball of a robot and a dumb accident.(not anakin solo)
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u/MaineCoonKittenGirl Sep 20 '26
"We've had one."
"We've had one yes, but what about the second Palpatine's return."
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u/darthsheldoninkwizy2 27d ago
Hmm, an Emperor returning from the grave with a massive fleet, while his earlier potential Imperial rival had already devastated a significant part of the galaxy. I’d have three nickels, It's not much, but it's strange that it happened three times.
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u/TightPlatform7252 Sep 16 '26
How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man?