Thread:Red Chevalier/@comment-24097388-20200126015727/@comment-24439896-20200126042122

Palpatine did get vanquished at the end of Return of the Jedi. He is clearly shown exploding into Dark Side energy after being thrown down the shaft. Not to mention that the Death Star exploded right after, so he got vaporized twice. Yet in this movie, he also gets vanquished, but there's no confirmation in the movie that he's gone for good this time. And as you point out, how he came back is still unclear. We don't know if the mechanics that led to his rebirth are no longer in play and thus we cannot reasonably confirm he is gone for good. If getting vaporized by the explosion of the Death Star wasn't enough to kill him, then why would getting vaporized by Force be enough. If there is another canon source that provides explicit confirmation he is dead and explains how, we can change it to "deceased". However, since there is no such confirmation within the movie or in any other canon source to my knowledge, we cannot declare Palpatine to be dead.

Let me ask you this. Let's say, in a film, a villain has the power to revive from gunshot wound. However, at the end of the movie, the hero shoots and kills the villain with a gun. Would it be reasonable to say that the villain is dead for good now because it was the hero who shot him?