1. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace ... a Senator Palpatine is elected chancellor of the Galactic Republic, and Obi-Wan decides to defy the Jedi Council and train Anakin. 2.

Once upon a time, in a galaxy not so far away, an orange-tinted Palpatine stood in a rose garden and declared economic war on half the planet. On April 2, 2025, Donald Trump emerged from political ...

Reason 3: They tried it already. Which brings us to the last reason the Palpatine rumor isn’t going to happen. Star Wars has done this before and it didn’t work. In the beloved 1991 comic book ...

Although many fans believe it is accurate, Palpatine is not Anakin Skywalker’s father. The cause of this theory started when Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith was released.