If you've never played a Lego Star Wars game, then Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is your best chance to catch up. While ...

One of Star Wars' most terrifying villains had plenty of alternate designs, and one of them made it to the big screen.

Her most prominent move during the Clone Wars was organizing the Delegation of 2000, seeking to force Chancellor Palpatine to give up his emergency powers. This move by Mothma planted the seeds of ...

It's absolutely riveting to watch McDiarmid glide through how this chaos unfolds, from his withering Chancellor Palpatine begging for mercy to his horrifyingly proud boast of "UNLIMITED POWER!!" ...

But several deleted scenes explored this consolidation of power by Chancellor Palpatine even more. One deleted scene even has Palpatine explain to Anakin how he would take direct control of the ...

Let's make one thing clear: Palpatine isn't a sympathetic character. When Obi-Wan said, "Chancellor Palpatine is evil!" he was right. But what the hell did Palpatine think he was doing? As history ...

First infamously mentioned in Revenge of the Sith when Chancellor Palpatine regales Anakin Skywalker with the “Tragedy” of the ancient Sith Lord—and his purported power to cheat death ...

If Darth Maul hadn’t subsequently killed Qui-Gon on Naboo, Obi-Wan feels, Anakin might not have felt such a need for a new mentor, and might not have been open to Chancellor Palpatine’s offers.

Manipulated by Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid), who is secretly Sith Lord Darth Sidious, Anakin ultimately betrays the Jedi Order. His former mentor and friend, Obi-Wan, ...

In portraying the kidnapping of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine right before the events of “Revenge of the Sith,” “Clone Wars” doesn’t just serve as a fantastic tease to the movie, ...

At the urging of then Chancellor Palpatine (voiced in this season by Ian Abercrombie), the creature was taken to Coruscant to be studied under the guise of replicating the Zillo Beast’s armor ...