What was his problem? Seriously, what was his actual problem?

What was his problem? Seriously, what was his actual problem?

Treason.

He's white and a male

Noone knows. George didn't think it would be important for us to know the background of the main villain for the entire trilogy, who would see to the death of thousands of people, including main characters like the Jedi who tried to kill him.

Hero of the galaxy against an unseen enemy.

He was literally psychotic.

This. Episode 9 better have some major revelation/redemption arc for him.

Malignant Narcissistic Personality Disorder

He was the living embodiment of evil in the form of a wizard

Ah yes, the Trump condition

He really cut through that republic bureaucracy though. You have to give him credit for that.

He had a completely unlimited will to power and an unwillingness to just be another mediocre member of the herd.

Of course, I think he was justified in his actions although killing off the jedi was too far.

He didn't have any problems. He was enjoying the shit out of life and true to himself.

Disney isn't even going to so much as mention Palpatine in the new trilogy

From his point of view, the Jedi are evil. So he probably didn't go too far enough.

In that sense, Lucas is a hack for making him just a human duplicate of Jar Jar.

When you consider who he was up against it's no wonder he was so happy

Jesus Christ. Were the Jedi autistic?

What would have happened if Vader beat Obi-Wan, didn't choke Padme, and didn't get fucked up in his battle?
Would Palpatine have abdicated his throne later on for him?

It seemed like he really believed Vader would be even more powerful than him, like he wanted him to take his place and run the empire.

>Would Palpatine have abdicated his throne later on for him?

No. Vader was always a disposable puppet. If Vader became a threat he'd kill him via trickery.

Was Patty Hearst?

I mean, this is an ancient nutjob cult that kidnaps children and brainwashes them to be part of what's basically a shadow government.

One would have ended up killing the other. Their partnership only went as far their own self interests.

So what was his endgame exactly?

Unlimited power

He was the senate.

Didn't have any friends and never got laid as a teen so he latched onto ultra dark wing alt-sith ideology to make himself feel better about being a loser and feel like he belongs somewhere and convince himself he's inherently special. His alt-sith mentor, Darth Plagus raped him and gave him force aids so he killed him in rage and then had a complete mental breakdown from loss of trust and belonging. He lost his mind, evident from constant shifting emotions, one moment laughing, next moment intense rage...and just devoted himself to lashing out at a galaxy of people who he felt rejected him. Some time later, he ended up dead at the bottom of a long shaft before being exploded by space fish.

Yes

It seems like he did genuinely want Vader to rule the empire one day but only through the Sith tradition of killing him first. Palpatine wasn't going to give up his power without a fight. Aside from that, however, Palpatine also seemed to care for Anakin to at least some degree. Of course how much of that 'care' was just Sith manipulation is debatable but I like to believe that, even if he didn't care about him, that Palpatine was more open and honest with Anakin than anyone else in the galaxy.

Not yet.

Wait, when did they attack one of those Trade Federation ships from the inside?

What background do you need? He was an evil, power hungry cunt. Nothing more or less. The only real question was "how did he succeed so thoroughly?" which the prequels do answer, for better or worse.

>politicize star wars even more
This franchise should be hung and left to rot outside

>that shot of them just flailing around while entering the control room

when the door opens lmfao!

He was sick of paying the republic's taxes

There was potential for a good origin story, but the prequel fucked it up. The jedi are kinda dicks and it easy to how not everyone would agree with them. If Palapatine had been set up as a revolutionary figure like Mao or Lenin with the goal of giving power to the common people rather than a handful of force user things might have been more interesting.

A lot of meme lefty film lovers (rian johnson included) will say he's the physical manifestation of fascism itself. He's actually supposed to represent the jew. Lucas can't outright say that of course but that's what we're all thinking.

>Archetypal embodiment of Evil
>HE NEEDS AN ANIME REDEMPTION ARC

millennials were a mistake

All of the prequels have loads of deleted scenes, Revenge of the Sith deleted like 3 entire subplots

Why are you using Endless Space art for a Star Wars thread?

Idk. The prequels were too confusing to understand what was going on

I feel this shot was meant to convey that Sheev did actually care about Anakin, he's weirdly tender in it

Anakin kills him.

He as evil.