Darth Sidious and Darth Maul present themselves to the Trade Federation as Master and Apprentice. What makes Darth Sidious a frightening character is not only his brutal power nor his extremely evil nature, but how he manipulates people and how he easily intimidates, It’s difficult piecing together that he and Palpatine were the same individual all I can say about Sidious is well done Ian Mcdiarmid for playing a brutal cold hearted villain in the prequels and in the last 2 original movies.