In Revenge of the Sith, Palpatine manipulates Anakin at the theater event and tells him a story about a "Wise and powerful" Sith "Darth Plagueis who discovered the secret to immortality - 'keeping the ones he loved from dying'.
Typical in any manipulation there's bound to be some ounce of truth to stitch it together, and the only way that Palpatine would have had such familiarity with Plagueis is if that was his master and that 'he' had killed him in his sleep, where he grins in reflection.
Palpatine also reveals that his master taught him everything he knew in another scene. Apart from any canon, Plagueis sounds like he lived a very long time ago compared to current events in episode III. If this were true, Palpatine very likely was using the darkside itself vs some apparatus to present a false image publicly, filling peoples minds with an illusion.
He would be so disfigured after battling with Mace, compared to any of his apprentices because he could literally be years old. That he was so committed to the darkside that he cheated any pitfalls associated with it. He also shows high enthusiasm when he finally meets Yoda, which likely is rooted to his self image of long existence - not exactly life as Yoda was also long living. Thus seeing the other as a kind of distorted equal. He was also still vibrant when he quotes - "Unlimited power" and destroys Mace.
The power probably extends beyond the scope of just force lightning. Rather the ability to continue living - albeit disfigured from age, more zombie esque. The darkside would have concealed his true age and Sith qualities, but like you said, he was so manipulative that he simply allowed his true appearance to take shape in front of Anakin. Afterward he took advantage of it publicly, seeing no reason to hide anymore, moreover after issuing order A secondary question that arises is why did Darth Vader physically age at least twice as fast as he should have, being so young when he was converted?
As he is revealed without his helmet, apart from scarring, he already appears old - up until this point he had not begun the journey back to the light side per his interactions with Luke - where it would be suggested that his aging was due to a lack of commitment to the darkside, this being contrary to Palpatine who cheated death and would have been truly very old.
Another thought is that perhaps part of acquiring the long life Palpatine could have been draining life from another such as his loyal apprentice Darth Vader - where he celebrates in episode III that his new apprentice is "Far younger and more powerful", even to the extent that the darkside would drain from that greater power in Anakin. Finally, I've always imagined that Palpatine told Anakin the story of Plagueis because he was actually boasting on how he himself used the knowledge to order the midi-chlorines to create Anakin in the first place - truly "owning" him.
This event could have taken place a century prior and the force determined the arrival and timing of the child - along with presented prophecy from the Jedi temple. It also seemed odd that at any time the Sith lord would have embraced marriage or having a child which is the essence of life not death. Even if the story claims he killed off Rey's parents, - his own child, later.
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Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Was Darth Sidious already scarred and deformed to begin with? Ask Question. Asked 4 years, 3 months ago. Active 1 month ago. Viewed 19k times. Improve this question. Are you asking whether he was using the Force to conceal his true looks? Because I'm pretty sure you can't do that, at least within the main canon.
Valorum Mother Talzin has demonstrated that her dark side sorcery - ways that Sidious had learnt - are capable of altering one's physical appearance while in effect, as demonstrated when Ventress attempted to assassinate Dooku, and especially within Savage Opress. Who knows what the full power of the dark side is capable of? Related: Does Sidious consider himself separate from Palpatine?
Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Sidious' face apparently looked that way before getting hit by lightning in canon, and definitely did in Legends. Canon In the Darth Maul comic series, which takes place before Episode I, Maul has a conversation with Darth Sidious, who appears to already look like the Emperor post-duel: Later in the series, they talk again, and this time Sidious has visibly yellow eyes: So there is canon evidence that Sidious looked that way already, and the comic seems to imply that this is Sidious' "true" face that he only shows to Darth Maul.
Semi-canon In the Revenge of the Sith novelization, Palpatine examines his face after Mace Windu has been hurled out the window page , emphasis mine : Palpatine examined the damage to his face in a broad expanse of wall mirror.
Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. Milo P Milo P I don't really buy your assertion in the canon portion the moire in the image makes it even harder to tell. But some of Legends most notably the Witches of Dathomir make it out that going full Dark Side can result in disfigurement — Machavity.
Machavity Looking closer at the scene, you're right. I've edited the film part out of my answer. Of course, it's also possible this is just supposed to be ambiguous Though all of the images of Sideous in comics and cartoons are likely just being dumbed down for the audience. Because Ian didn't need makeup back then, as I said in my answer. Look at Palpatine's face in Return of the Jedi: static. Sidious: static. He looks noticeably gray in the second screenshot, although it could be the lighting.
Do you have any sources explicitly saying that his pre-ROTS appearance as Sidious is meant to look different from his appearance as Chancellor wearing a hood? But the first and most notable character to use force lightning is of course Palpatine, who employed it against Luke in Return of the Jedi.
In the movie, Palpatine took pleasure in repeatedly blasting the young Jedi with it. In Revenge of the Sith , Mace Windu successfully redirected a force lightning blast back at Palpatine, thus damaging his face beyond repair. Palpatine kept this disfigured look up until the end of his Star Wars story. Numerous theories have attempted to explain this, among them being the idea the force lightning just exposed what years of succumbing to the dark side had done to Palpatine.
Another theory is he purposely allowed the lightning to scar him so that he could appear more sympathetic to Anakin Hayden Christensen.
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