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jaguarys · 21 days

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Thinking a lot about how by the time TCW comes about Anakin has already committed a grievous sin, already committed a massacre, already chosen his side in some ways. The man Ahsoka knows, the only version of him she ever gets to know, is built on an assumption of purity he has already lost.

He has already begun to fall, and this slip contributes in so many ways to his inability to pull himself back. Because the only person other than Padmé he tells his crime to is Palpatine, because he's the only person who won't judge him (and that in and of itself is a measure of his immaturity–– because he deserved to be judged).

And this contributes so much to Palpatine's control because he has this piece of the puzzle, this ability to go "Oh, but what about this?" any time Anakin tries to pull back from Palpatine's confidence. Because they both know if he ever admitted it to the Order he'd forever lose their approval, and that's what matters most. So Palpatine has this advantage, because he knows more about Anakin than anyone else and Anakin doesn't feel he can confide in anyone else.

But the thing is: for so long, Anakin wants to be better, wants to amend himself for this sin and more than once wants to confess to Obi-Wan, but every single time Palpatine is able to go "Oh but he thinks he's so much better than you, he would never understand you, he would judge you and tell the Order and they'd cast you out" but... Obi-Wan would have forgiven him anything.

I think a lot about Obi-Wan being such a Perfect Jedi (in the eyes of everyone else if nothing else) and how much that hurts Anakin. Because every time he tries to pull himself back from the ledge this epitome of what it means to be a Jedi is just there in his face reminding him of his own failure

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would-you-punt-them · 3 months

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Sheev Palpatine (Star Wars)

#would you punt them #into the sun #tumblr poll #star wars #sheev palpatine #palpatine #sw palpatine

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sleep-deprived-weasel · 1 year

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“It is my opinion that this legislation is our future.”

I absolutely love the wording of this line in “Truth and Consequences.” Even under the pretense of ‘democracy’ this is no less than an imperial decree. Everyone in the senate knows it, and there’s nothing Riyo or Bail can do. Palpatine’s ‘opinion’ is law.

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ventresses · 6 months

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Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (7/?) - Mustafar, part 1

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#i hope no one's getting sick of these bc i keep thinking of more #padme amidala #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #palpatine #obi wan #darth sidious #revenge of the sith #anakin #padme #star wars #sw revenge of the sith #star wars memes #sw rots #prequels memes #ROTS text post #mine #star wars text post

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phoenixkaptain · 1 year

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I love it when pre Original Trilogy era shows how much effort went into making the Death Star. It took decades, literal decades, and it took so much money and so many people and it was such a secretive thing and it’s staffed by millions because it’s the size of a small moon.

I cannot express how much all of the added information makes it so much funnier that Luke blew it up.

Luke destroys literally everything Palpatine built. He blows up the Death Star, which was referenced in universe as early as the second movie. He blew up the weapon of mass destruction twenty years in the making. And he blew it up pretty much directly after it’s first and only successful attack. It was operational for fifteen minutes, fifteen minutes that Palpatine had the thing he’d been building for longer than Luke has been alive, and Luke blows it up. First day retirement, but first hour retirement.

Luke convinces Darth Vader to turn back to the light side, a feat thought literally impossible by literally everybody. Sidious clearly doesn’t see Vader’s betrayal coming. Vader’s betrayal was not in his plans, nor was it something he was prepared for. Sidious is a powerful Force user with all four limbs while Vader is a man in the tin can Palpatine put him in. If Palpatine had seen Vader turning coming, he would not have allowed it to happen.

Luke literally should not even be alive. Palpatine almost definitely got Padme out of the way on purpose, and he almost certainly was trying for her unborn child as well (there was way too big of a risk that a cute liddol bebe would bring some humanity back to Anakin, and Palpatine did not want Anakin to have any humanity) Luke living is literally the first step in Palpatine’s ultimate downfall, especially once Vader finds out that Luke is his son. His very alive son. His son that is not dead, despite Palpatine claiming Anakin killed Padme. Implying that Anakin killed Padme and she posthumously gave birth. But, she didn’t give birth on Mustafar, which was the last place Anakin interacted with her. And once the mother dies, you have to get those fuckers out fast or they die too.

I imagine Darth Vader piecing all of this together is that meme with all the math floating around his head, because how could Padme have died by his hand and then given birth like two hours later?

Luke killing Palpatine is what ultimately leads to the dissolution of the Empire as an omnipotent entity. Luke killed the Empire. Luke spends a good amount of his adult life killing Empire remnants. We see that in the Mandalorian, since he’s so recognizable that Gideon immediately knows he’s fucked just by seeing an X-wing. We read it in Legends’ continuity, where Luke terrifies Imperials because he can walk into their changing room and stand in their for a minute and they don’t even notice.

Luke destroyed Palpatine’s life’s work. Everything Palpatine spent his whole life working towards, and Luke kills all of it. He blows up not one, but two Death Stars (he may not have pulled the trigger on the second Death Star, but without him, it never would have been destroyed). He convinces not one, but multiple Sith and Dark Jedi to return from the Dark Side. He is the only reason that Obi-Wan Kenobi, the biggest pain in Palpatine’s ass ever born, lives long enough to make it to the Death Star.

Palpatine went through so much effort. And just when he had finally won, when he finally had a weapon capable of destroying entire planets with a single blast, making it impossible for any planets or peoples to go against him, Luke shows up nineteen years late to the Jedi party with space Starbucks and a droid twice his age and almost singlehandedly destroys everything Palpatine ever had a hand in creating.

Luke manages to become even worse than Obi-Wan Kenobi, the ultimate thorn in the side of politicians, and Luke doesn’t even understand any politics. He wasn’t trained in diplomacy like Obi-Wan and Leia, no, he’s a farmboy who left home for the first time in his entire life, just this morning. And he is the one to destroy the Empire.

If they rewrote Star Wars and had it entirely from Palpatine’s perspective, Luke Skywalker would be his greatest foe. Luke Skywalker would be the final boss. Luke Skywalker is the antithesis of everything Palpatine believes in and he is the one character that Palpatine cannot predict. He isn’t as moldable as Anakin, he doesn’t respond to threats very well, he’s apparently impossible to kill via Force lightning (still the funniest scene of all times, the progression of Palpatine’s face falling and him looking like “what the fuck??? Is this kid rubber??? I’ve electrocuted him eight times???”), his unwavering faith in his father’s goodness makes Darth Vader want to be a better person, Luke Skywalker is the big bad of Palpatine’s story and—

There is nothing in this world that is funnier than someone’s biggest antagonist being Luke fucking Skywalker. Luke Skywalker, who saved the galaxy with the power of love and who shouldn’t exist, by Jedi rules and by Palpatine’s own attempts, and whose best friends are literally droids, which Palpatine canonically hates!

Everything about this is hilarious, this is the funniest thing in all of media, Palpatine loses absolutely everything to some backwater farmboy who fucking likes droids.

#luke skywalker #star wars #anakin skywalker #sheev palpatine #darth sidious #original trilogy #the inane ramblings of a madman #listen i recognize that other people are important in the plot of sw #but at the same time #luke is the marble that gets things rolling #just in general #luke is the reason obi wan eventually actually kills maul #luke somehow gave yoda hope that another generation of jedi was an achievable goal #luke saved leia from being executed #luke is the sun of the series #it’s from him that literally everything grows #the story that began this universe #is one of a boy becoming an adult #and so without luke skywalker #none of the characters would exist #thus luke is the sun and we should all bask in the rays #but also in how funny it is #that this guy was more of a pain than obi wan kenobi #a feat previously thought impossible #long post

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peppermintquartz · 4 months

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one of my posts is very popular with shippers and i keep seeing the tag #obitine

and since i don't know much about Star Wars beyond the movies i thought "that's an alarming number of people shipping obi wan and palpatine" (alarming as in more than i expected, not that i'm against it)

TODAY i learned that the 'tine' refers to a female character called Satine

#obitine #star wars #listen i have never and don't intend to watch SW #i watched rogue one for jiang wen and donnie yen and that's all i will do #obi wan kenobi #obi wan x satine #palpatine

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tonsillessscum · 6 months

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#star wars #anidala #emperor palpatine #palpatine #Anakin #anakin skywalker #star wars anakin #padme amidala #anakin and padme #star wars padme #Star Wars memes #text posts #revenge of the sith #sw rots #star wars rots #shitposts #shitpost #Star Wars shit post #ristarwars

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an-old-lady · 1 year

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Dooku and Palpatine up to no good.

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captainsamta · 18 days

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On paper, after years

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guinevereslancelot · 1 year

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#i hope im not too late with this #vanilla extract #i love democracy #palpatine meme #sw #polls #meme humor #tumblr humor #memes #this has been a shitpost #1k

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jaguarys · 4 months

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Discuss:

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lothcatthree · 3 months

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what maul and savage were surprised to find was an unlikely ally in the form of marshal commander cody with a durasteel fucking chair

thank you for creating this menace @merlyn-bane

#sheev: it’s so fucking over #cody: we’re so fucking back #no one look too closely at my photoshop skills #I am just a man #commander cody #sheev palpatine #tcw #sw tcw

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sleep-deprived-weasel · 1 year

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I think there’s something to say at this moment. When Palpatine’s platform finally rises, the holographic evidence of the attack on Tipoca City disappears. It’s as if the evidence no longer matters and disappears. Whatever the senators have left to say is dismissed. No piece of evidence is above the emperor’s word and that has been made clear.