Originally posted by ZentrexI think there might be a miscommunication here.
My point was that destroying his flesh and blood body wasn't "defeating" him. Keeping him dead was.
DE Palpatine is standing there in a fresh clone body.
RoS Palpatine is standing there after he absorbed the Dyad.
Whose physical form required more power to defeat?
Originally posted by ZentrexActually, it took the power of all the Jedi to defeat/kill RoS Palpatine... Heck, that likely would not have even been enough to perma-kill him, IF he would've had another body to hop into afterward.
When Exegol blew up, they permanently killed Palpatine, not just his flesh and blood. They defeated him. The same would not have killed all of DE Palpatine.
The fact that it took all the Jedi to contain DE Palpatine's essence to the netherworld after his body was destroyed doesn't seem to be indicative of the power he actually held in the flesh... Otherwise a post-RotJ Luke/Leia combo wouldn't have been able to do so well against him, me thinks.
That's all I'm saying. /shrug