Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker featured the return of an iconic villain in Ian McDiarmid’s Emperor Sheev Palpatine, and while some fans welcomed the return of the galaxy far, far away’s biggest Big Bad, others felt that his presence could have been explained a heck of a lot better. After all, it seemed like he was pretty much done for after his last chronological appearance in the saga (getting tossed down a near-endless shaft on an exploding space station will have that effect).

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