Darth Sidious question - **RotS Spoilers**

[Brother Shatterstone]

Well in the noveliazation its closer to 1. Mace redirected the lighting and it started burning and maiming the Palapitine.

Probably next on my reading list and it might be the truth if its in the book as I can think of at least one Jedi Master that should have been killed in the movie but wasn’t.

 

[Dark Jezter]

I favor option 2.

And did anybody else get a big grin on their face when Palpatine started begging and pleading for his life? It reminded me of his screaming fit at the end of RotJ when he realized that Vader was going to kill him. Palpatine likes to act like he has everything under control, but when he's in real danger he turns into a coward.

 

[Welverin]

1. Just like Palpatine says, the lightning rebounding on him really does deform and deface him. Problems with this include the fact that lightning doesn't actually cause your face to get all wrinkly and leathery, and did not when it hit anyone else in the movies either, as in Luke in RotJ. A twist on this theory is that Palpatine was actually in some serious danger from Mace Windu after all (as opposed to mostly putting on a play for Anakin's benefit) and so was channelling the Dark Side of the Force so strongly that he literally became corrupted and mutated before our very eyes.

Which do you favor? Or do you have a variant?

I lean towards one, and the reason I don't think anyone else ended up deformed the same way is because no one else was exposed to as long as he was. Luke, Yoda, and Anakin got hit by short blasts, Palpy was not only shooting it out but was getting hit by it for an extended period of time.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

If you're strictly following the movie...it was definitely the lightning that did it to him. Look at Sidious in the other two Prequels. He looks exactly like Palpatine...not deformed or Emperor-like at all. There's NO hints of deformity beyond the fan speculation that he's masking it.

However...I lean towards it still being a mix of the things.

 

[Taelorn76]

I have always thought that he was hiding the disfiguration. That is was all part of his plan.

 

[Jack Daniel]

Well it's EU canon that dark side powers are severely corruptive, and that Cos Palpatine had (previously and subsequently) transfered his life force into a clone body several times, every time his old body burned itself out. It's how he survived Return of the Jedi to plague the Skywalkers again in the Dark Empire trilogy.

So, I figure, yeah, the darkside lightning really did corrupt and scar his body before our eyes.

 

[Welverin]

Well it's EU canon that dark side powers are severely corruptive, and that Cos Palpatine had (previously and subsequently) transfered his life force into a clone body several times, every time his old body burned itself out. It's how he survived Return of the Jedi to plague the Skywakers again in the Dark Empire trilogy.

But that was insanely cheesy, which is why I chose to ignore long ago.

p.s. Why is it the only non-cheesy SW comics (from ten plus years ago) were the old republic ones?

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

But that was insanely cheesy, which is why I chose to ignore long ago.

p.s. Why is it the only non-cheesy SW comics (from ten plsu years ago) were the old republic ones?

Because some of them had to be good?

Good enough that Lucas loved them, and reading them again, you can just see how the Jedi developed into what they became in the Rise of the Empire Era. That, is great...and I can't help but wonder if Lucas at least did some of that on purpose.

 

[Welverin]

Because some of them had to be good?

Unfortunately that's not true, and even if it was it wouldn't explain the lopsidedness. Of course the novels make up for that, too bad there are no old republic novels.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

p.s. Why is it the only non-cheesy SW comics (from ten plus years ago) were the old republic ones?

What about the Rogue Squadron comics?