Who exactly is Palpatine? (theories welcome)

Palpatine and Sidious are the same person, Palpatine is Sidious disguise. Rumors are that we will see how Sidious uses the disguise in Ep III

Originally posted by finti
Palpatine and Sidious are the same person, Palpatine is Sidious disguise. Rumors are that we will see how Sidious uses the disguise in Ep III

The movies has not shown / proofed that yet. Although i think that you are right - but it would be a nice twist if they where 2 different people.

not gonna happen 😑

I think it should be that Darth Sidious is Palpatines' alias... 🙂
Wouldn't that make ore sense, since Darth Vader is Anakins' alias.... 😕 eh?

perhaps i skipped over a post pondering this,
but is it possible that sidious was also conceived by the force?
perhaps he was created by the darkside, inherently evil, a reincarnation
perhaps?

in the PT, mention is made of the "will of the force".
we are to assume from quigon that it was that 'will' that created anakin, right?
should we also assume that the 'will' is of the light side? (since the jedi seem to trust and follow it, that is) if so, then it would stand to reason that the dark side would have its own will...

ahh hell, its not like lucas will ever explain it, so its anyone's guess.
but make no mistake, palpatine is nothing more that a "good guy disguise" for sidious. that disguise will wear away as we see the corrosion in palps' eyes, skin, teeth, etc. ala RotJ. he was already looking pretty strung out in AotC wasn't he?

I think he was taken by the Sith very early on indeed.

i heard he found holocrons when he was a kid or somthing i dunno ill ask my friend he said he knew how this happend

Originally posted by Darth KickAss
The movies has not shown / proofed that yet. Although i think that you are right - but it would be a nice twist if they where 2 different people.

check the Ep II DVD, see the movie with the commentary, I believe GL mentioned Palpatine being Sidious around three times... you can't really miss it

rick mccallum says it blatantly constantly too. and according to lucas on episode 1 commentary, we saw sidious fro the first time in ESB

i know he is a sith but where is his light saber

is it an obligation to have one?

don't know, but i thought Sidious had a light saber made for him for Ep3. and if so then there would be only 1 reason for Lucas give him one - cause the man is gonna FIGHT baby!!

he has one and he will use it. they showed it in a HS photo. it looks like it has a gold hilt

Originally posted by finti
Palpatine and Sidious are the same person, Palpatine is Sidious disguise. Rumors are that we will see how Sidious uses the disguise in Ep III

I hope so, I've been dying to find out how he uses the disguise.

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Originally posted by Sith Master X
I hope so, I've been dying to find out how he uses the disguise.

well if he wants to disguise as palpatine he wears his chancelor robes. if he wants to be sidious he wears a black robe. 😛 i might be worng cos it just seems so easy.😕

I guess what I meant was, how he goes back and forth between being Sidious and Palpy so quickly. I mean, 1 scene, he's Palpy, and shortly after that we see him as Sidious. So how does he go back and forth like that so quickly is what I'd like to know. Hope this clarifies. lol 🙂

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BUT you guys are all assuming that this takes place in the time frame that we see it. I think that its a different time of day. Not everything is so literal.

Well, take toward the end of AOTC for example, the time of day and the looks of the sky is exactly the same. We see Dooku meet with Sidious, next we see Palpy standing on the balcony watching the beginning of the Clone Wars, right before it cuts to the wedding scene. Dunno, but it looks awfully like the same time to me.

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now see I thought it looked different.

Hmm...maybe. It's nothing that really bothers me, just something I'd like to know, the scenes that are right next to each other with the same atmosphere can make it a bit tricky time wise.

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