He may have have been trained as a Sith, but Palpatine was actually a heretic - and these ten facts prove it. The Sith suffered one of their greatest defeats a thousand years before the Skywalker ...

But there was one influence Lucas wasn’t remotely subtle about and that’s how much Palpatine’s rise to Emperor in the prequels was a direct analogy to Hitler’s ascendency in 1930s Germany.

But there was one influence Lucas wasn’t remotely subtle about and that’s how much Palpatine’s rise to Emperor in the prequels was a direct analogy to Hitler’s ascendency in 1930s Germany.