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Why did Sheev Palpatine take over the galaxy? Why is this dude evil?
- Thread starter Bor Gullet
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Palpatine was born evil.
If anything the EU just reinforced that. Dude was born to a rich family and was a sociopath even during his childhood.
I believe the empire itself was canonically space racism. Of course the actual movies shows literally nothing motivation wise for some reason.
Sheev himself I think just wanted power in a mustache twirling villain way.
The fuck did Vader want
Sheev himself I think just wanted power in a mustache twirling villain way.
The fuck did Vader want
political and metaphysical power. he has exactly the same motivations as it appears from the outside to people who don't know he's a sith: dude used a war to install himself as the dictator of a military dictatorship. that is the goal, that is the motivation. not complicated.
To overthrow Palpatine and take over the empire. Sith Master and apprentice relationships are toxic AF because they tend to end with the master being murdered.
Darth Maul, despite having little dialogue, summed up their motivations perfectly, "At last we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi. At least we will have revenge." The Jedi nearly wiped out the Sith and forced them into hiding, and they adopted the rule of 2, master and apprentice to survive. His goal was to wipe out the Jedi as revenge and take over the galaxy. He nearly accomplished both, but he left 2 alive that trained Luke. That plus the rebellion was his downfall.
Just like how William Zabka was the true hero of Karate Kid in How I Met Your Mother?
Sheev's takeover was funded by a group of shadowy, right-wing hedge fund managers and disaster capitalists. They posited that, by calling a state of emergency, it would create economic turmoil, allowing them to short the galactic economy for trillions of creds.
Their funding came with a number of other conditions, too, including: relaxing laws around the investigation of off-rim accounts and tax evasion, lowering galactic corporate tax altogether, and selling-off a number of ring-fenced, government services, such as the Galactic Health Service and Universal Social Care System.
Once Sheev had completely gutted the Republic, he was to spend a few years on the speaker circuit before ending up in a cushy, non-executive board of director role at Blackwater Systems. Unfortunately, Sheev found religion, and this whole sorry mess didn't quite pan out like that.
That reads like the scroll at the start EP1.
Their funding came with a number of other conditions, too, including: relaxing laws around the investigation of off-rim accounts and tax evasion, lowering galactic corporate tax altogether, and selling-off a number of ring-fenced, government services, such as the Galactic Health Service and Universal Social Care System.
Once Sheev had completely gutted the Republic, he was to spend a few years on the speaker circuit before ending up in a cushy, non-executive board of director role at Blackwater Systems. Unfortunately, Sheev found religion, and this whole sorry mess didn't quite pan out like that.
That reads like the scroll at the start EP1.
Even worse than his original name, Frank.
Full name is Shephen.
Dude just doesn't like taking orders. 🤷‍♂️ Ego the size of a death star.
Look at this face. This face loves being evil as much as Data loves scanning for life forms. Guy loves his job.
Look at this face. This face loves being evil as much as Data loves scanning for life forms. Guy loves his job.
Dude enjoys the hell out of his job and his job is to be an evil overlord. He's living his best life.
OP
OP
I'm pretty sure I'm responsible for most of the Palps threads here. Something about him just speaks to me.
My favorite quote about him:
"...the man seems to find such joy in being pure evil, you gotta respect that. He even seems to get off a little in his pantaloons on how much hate he can feel in Anakin...He's fucking evil and he loves it. And he's got a goal he's working towards obtaining."
"...the man seems to find such joy in being pure evil, you gotta respect that. He even seems to get off a little in his pantaloons on how much hate he can feel in Anakin...He's fucking evil and he loves it. And he's got a goal he's working towards obtaining."
Still can't believe some of these takes made it into a multimillion dollar blockbuster lolBecause he wanted
Ian McDiarmid's cheese is the most glorious part of the prequel movies.
Him along with Ewan.
I love how he was basically like "fuck this, it's time for full ham, whatever" and GL was like "yes, that's great"
Ian is a national treasure
