Official Site confirms that Palpatine's lightning disfigured him.

Originally posted by Darth Jello
"Skywalker witnessed a stunning sight: the Chancellor, cornered, with Windu looming over him with his lightsaber blade extended. Palpatine unleashed a torrent of Sith lightning at the Jedi Master, but Windu was able to deflect it back at the Chancellor. The evil energies twisted Palpatine's face as they flowed through him, scarring and disfiguring his once handsome features. His eyes burned yellow, his voice grew ragged and deep, and he became a well of dark side energies."-from starwars.com

don't know if anyone mentioned this yet.

Booya... i've been proven right... 😆 poor dodo... 😛

Originally posted by Darth Jello
disfiguring his once handsome features.

😑 uh.........NO. Nothing against Ian but Palpatine was FAR from handsome.

i thought it was already established that SW.com info does not equate to canon

Originally posted by pr1983
Booya... i've been proven right... 😆 poor dodo... 😛

Originally posted by PVS
i thought it was already established that SW.com info does not equate to canon

My belief on what happened to Palpatine is justified when I say that he wasnt disfigured the lightning revieled who he really was, I think the lightning may or may not have changed him, but it did reviel who he really was because look at the facts: when he is revieled in hologram u never see anything more than his jaw are to his lips, even when u see him in person. But then after the attack when u see him anywhere doing anything either in person or in hologram u see his entire face. The ENTIRE FACE. Also when he is using the lightning and it goes back onto his face not only does his face change but so do his hands and his eyes. Not once did his eyes ever be red until after he changed, even when killin the 3 jedi and making spooky sounds and moves, not one look of RED eyes. And saying that he was attacked and deformed he would have broughten compassion from the senate to do his doing. Dont you think so?? Tell me I am wrong.

As for the voice, does anyone really think that a huge sunburn on my face will make my voice change, besides his voice changed throughout the movie.

That is disappointing, i'll hold out hope until the DVD commentary. I wish Palpatines transformation had been gradual over the course of the films, I thought this was going to happen with the dramatic change in Palpatines appearance between Episodes I and II. He looked very frail in Episode II, in fact he looks older in it than he did in Episode II.

Anyway I digress, back to the lightning Luke had a similar dose albiet not to the face. But answer me this how did Palpatines nails grow long and demonic after the Sith lightning? 🙄

Originally posted by Darth Jello
"Skywalker witnessed a stunning sight: the Chancellor, cornered, with Windu looming over him with his lightsaber blade extended. Palpatine unleashed a torrent of Sith lightning at the Jedi Master, but Windu was able to deflect it back at the Chancellor. The evil energies twisted Palpatine's face as they flowed through him, scarring and disfiguring his once handsome features. His eyes burned yellow, his voice grew ragged and deep, and he became a well of dark side energies."-from starwars.com

don't know if anyone mentioned this yet.

Well, this directly contradicts what Ian Mc Diarmid said in his Insider interview. I'm not sure which source is more cannon, but my guess is the OS.

All I can say is, if Palpatine's face really did get disfigured by the lightning and that wasn't his true appearance, the scene just seems akward and badly written.

Palps:
"Whaa.... my face just got SEVERELY damaged to the point where I'm not even recognizable anymore??

Oh.

I don't care. I mean, I actually kind of dig this look, but I refuse to make any comment regarding my new face." 😐

well whatever 😛

The OS can suck donkey balls.

Official Site confirms that Palpatine's lightning disfigured him.

who needs official confirmation, when you've got eyes?! it was, umm, pretty much blatant onscreen 😐

or was it his true face? - oh plz! how cheesy would that of been😘 you can see his god damn face melting! i mean, use your head, lightening - burns!

i dont feel like going down this road again.
what sw.com says means precisely dick.

BANG!

Result:

BANG AGAIN!

Result again:

Until eventually this:

Theres no way Palpatine just 'revealed' his true face. You can see scars and smoke coming from his face after getting zapped ffs!

And the whole 'Luke got zapped with lightning but his face didnt melt', yeah, did Luke get zapped like that ^ No! He got zapped all over his body, the lightning spread out over him. Palpatine got it full force in the face, repeatedly. Mace got zapped, but all over his body, so his face didnt melt.

Live with it 👆

...and that's proof in the pudding😛😛😛

thx Mist👆

Hard evidence, prove it otherwise 👆

I dont buy the whole face melting, revealing true face theory.

i dont see proof.
i see stills from RotS with opinionated commentary.
i say he was being unmasked 🙂

live with it

Why would George Lucas even bother zapping Palpatine in order to show him being 'unmasked'? That just adds confusion. His face doesnt start warping until he gets zapped in the face. He could have unmasked himself while he was zapping Mace anyway, before he gets zapped back.

Another question, why bother even unmasking himself?
'Ah screw it, I dont need a cover anymore', lame 😐

And I dont see proof he's being unmasked either.

If shit was hurting you to the point of possible disfigurement, WHY would you keep pouring it on????

Originally posted by PVS
i dont see proof.
i see stills from RotS with opinionated commentary.
i say he was being unmasked 🙂

live with it

The reason he unmasked himself was to make it look like the Jedi had attacked him and "left him scarred".

Seriously... lightning has never melted faces and it never will! And don't give me that reflecting bullsh*t, that makes no difference. Ian's word is more canon than the stupid OS... and my opinion is more canon than everything! Mahaha! And if Lucas says on the commentary that the lightning disfigured Palpatine he can kiss my arse! 😈

Unmasked I TOTALLY buy......the "disfigurement" was already there....Mist, I usually buy into your views, but EVERYONE here seems to forget that the energy "causing" this damage was being eminated from Palps himself, and only deflected by Maces lightsaber...I.E. Palps/Sids could have stopped "firing" the very second the energy was turned back on him!!!!!
But he didn't.
Ask yourself why.

"Unlimited poweeeeeerrrrr!!!!!!!!"

well, his true self was revealed in the sense that he became as ugly and evil on the outside as he is on the inside. but otherwise, i like and believe the official line. if he was hiding his true appearance, why wasn't he deformed and pale in episode I and II in his guise of sidious?

Because you never saw it. And because his evil obviously had time to rot his body over the course of thirteen years.

And GL always makes things ambiguous, especially when it comes to the PT. But like he says, "think outside of the box."

Why would Sidious continue to jeopardize himself with the lightning?

Why didn't it burn his eyes blind if it burned his skin?

Why doesn't it neccessarily have the same effects each time used? (If you pay attention, lighting used, whether by Dooku or Sidious, acts different depending on the circumstances. It's not always a painful stream, it is sometimes almost concussive, like a wave of force)

Whose to say that generating that much power to try and overcome Mace didn't take from the energy he was expending on his disguise?

Whose to literally say anything?

And there you have it.