Palpatine's Physical Transformation

I read that Palpatine physically transforms into Sidious, does anyone think he maybe a Shapeshifter?

I think he is a human who is just using the force to hide his true appearence (how do u spell that?).

Appearance. That is interesting, but how does the force mask his reality.

http://www.killermovies.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=28233&highlight=palpatines+appearance

Thanks for the link Jedi Priestess.

Personally I think he starts off looking human. Then when he and Yoda fight, Yoda is kicking the **** out of him and he has to be completely consumed by the dark side to pull through. This removes any humanity he had left and leaves him deformed.

i agree and also if anakin thinks he's killed padme after he's rescued from the lava, he gets angry and accidently disfigures his master(sidious)

No, I think its the same but different...look here a sec.i think that he looks as he does when he's palpatine, all the time. Then when he really uses the darkside of the force, since it IS stronger (as said by GL), it just takes so much out of him and his appearence ages rather quickly. Since SW is like religion on steroids, it could be like when Moses saw the burning bush and aged like 30 - 40 years just from the power of God, ya know? (and no im not saying God is anything like the darkside of the force)

I always thought that during the duel between Yoda & Sidious Yoda throws some toxic stuff on sidious and runs.And that's why he is so ugly.(i made this up myself).

yea...punch yourself in the face.....

Same

j/k

i wasnt...lol yeah i was

The first time Palpatine has used the dark side to fight is when he is discovered by the Jedi. And, hes confronted by a group of Jedi. So he most likely has to unleash the full power of the darkside to stop his ass getting whipped. this surge of darkness probably changed him.

thats what we've been saying.....

My prediction = Palpy's transformation will come just before he squares off against Yoda.

hold on a sec.
i thought the jedi group confront palpatine in his office or something and anakin helps kill them.

then yoda fights palpatine in the jedi temple after they've killed all the jedi in it.

so palpatine should fight yoda much later.

wats going on?

its called different opinions since no1 knows for certain.

I know for fact that we see Palpatine fight with a light saber in ep 3, so it could be injuries from a battle. Another possibility is that he is very badly burned when rescuing anakin from the lava pit, this is one of the reasons for vadars loyalty to him; because he risked his life to save him.

Yeah. He looks

like he puts a hood on

Thats about it

Maybe a bit of dark side transformation