Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-1672596-20161125132922

Hi.

I was wondering if you could unlock the Voldemort Page. I just want to add in a trivia point regarding Voldemort's similarities to Emperor Palpatine/Darth Sidious, that's all. If you're not willing to reopen the article, can you at least add in that specific trivia for me?

"**Voldemort also had some similarities to Emperor Palpatine. Both had loathed their father enough to not only eventually commit patricide against him and his family, but even go as far as to do a name change specifically to disassociate themselves from their fathers (although Palpatine' case was not quite as extreme, as he simply adopted his family name as his sole name, and his later name change to Darth Sidious had absolutely nothing to do with his father, while Voldemort, originally known as Tom Marvolo Riddle, as evidenced by his name Lord Voldemort, actually underwent a complete name change). Both also were born psychopaths who were among the most powerful people and both even briefly ran the very government they tried to take down (although in the case of Voldemort, it was more indirect, as Voldemort had a puppet Minister of Magic installed), and both ironically met their first deaths due to the love of a parent to their child (Voldemort first "died" due to his Killing Curse backfiring as a result of the love barrier enacted by Lily Potter's sacrifice, while Sidious ended up killed by a redeemed Vader due to the latter's love for his son Luke Skywalker). At least in the case of the Legends continuity, both also experienced a brief revival before being killed off permanently, and both also desired immortality. There are some differences, however: Voldemort was explicitly a racist against muggles, muggle-borns, and to some extent half-bloods, while Sidious, despite running as part of his New Order a more racist ideology, himself doesn't actually hold to racism at all as he himself admits in the Book of Sith. In addition, Voldemort is intensely fearful of death, while Sidious, despite desiring immortality himself, did not fear death himself and in fact was perfectly willing to forsake even his own life under the prospect of turning someone to the dark side, and his holocron in the Legends continuity implied he also took into account the possibility he would fail in his quest for immortality and made provisions for such an event. Also Sidious having some humorous traits whereas Voldemort does not, and Sidious is far more calculating and careful, while Voldemort often refusing to believe his plans are flawed, thus leading to his own downfall." 