Ian McDiarmid, who donned the villainous robes of the Sith Lord, is attending the Cape Town event on 3 and 4 May - Star Wars ...

Vader reliving of his Mustafar defeat serves as a brutal reminder of Anakin Skywalker’s fall, amplifying the tragedy of his manipulation.

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.