The Emperor's poster from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi.
Darth Sidious as he appears in Revenge of the Sith.
Darth Sidious in his disguise as Palpatine (top) and in his true identity (bottom) as he appeared in Attack of the Clones.
Palpatine on the Revenge of the Sith DVD.
Palpatine on the Return of the Jedi DVD.
Darth Sidious released in Lego.
Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader in Lego Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out.
Darth Sidious in Family Guy
The Emperor as he appears in the HISHE series.
Palpatine as he appears in Robot Chicken.
The Emperor in MAD tv short Star Wars: The Groan Wars.
Wallpaper of Darth Sidious.
Darth Sidious illustration in the Legends continuity.
Emperor Palpatine with two of his guards.
The Emperor enraged at Luke's denial to join him.
Palpatine post-duel in Episode III.
Sidious hologram speaking to Dooku on Sullust.
Darth Sidious' appearance in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Darth Sidious appearing on the bridge.
Sidious talking to Nute Gunray and his aid.
Sidious in The Phantom Menace.
Darth Sidious tells Gunray to kill the Jedi.
Senator Palpatine appears in hologram.
Darth Sidious reports the news of the Senate.
Sidious tells the Neimoidians to gain control.
Darth Sidious finishes his transmission.
Sidious angered that Queen Amidala escaped and didn't sign the treaty.
Darth Sidious revealing his new apprentice to Nute Gunray and his aid.
Sidious with Darth Maul on the balcony.
Darth Sidious with his apprentice, Darth Maul.
Senator Palpatine awaits the Queen's arrival.
Palpatine with Chancellor Valorum.
Senator Palpatine says the Senate is corrupt.
Senator Palpatine states the Chancellor has no real power.
Palpatine tells the Queen to call a vote.
Senator Palpatine concerned for the Queen's decision.
Sidious disguising himself as Senator Palpatine.
Palpatine persuading Padme into siding with him.
Darth Sidious hears about the Queen's plan for battle.
Sidious calls the whole plan foolish.
A hologram of Sidious in the Theed palace on Naboo.
Palpatine meets Anakin for the first time on Naboo.
Palpatine attends Qui-Gon Jinn's funeral.
Supreme Chancellor Palpatine discusses the Separatist Movement.
Palpatine asks the Jedi to protect Padme.
The Chancellor says he'll speak to Padme.
Palpatine tells Anakin that he is a great Jedi.
Chancellor Palpatine holds a meeting with Senators and the Jedi.
Mas Amedda says the Senate should give Palpatine emergency powers.
Chancellor Palpatine in the Senate.
Palpatine is granted emergency powers.
Darth Sidious approaching Count Dooku.
Sidious meets with Dooku on Coruscant.
Palpatine with Senators watch the Clone Army assemble.
Chancellor Palpatine watches as the Clone Wars begins.
Palpatine's appearance in The Clone Wars.
Palpatine talks with Jedi Master Mace Windu.
Sidious smiles during a hologram communication.
Darth Sidious concerned over Gunray's capture.
Sidious allows Tyranus to proceed with the plan.
Darth Sidious contacts Cad Bane for a job.
Sidious provides Bane with information for the job.
Darth Sidious tells Bane he needs test subjects.
Sidious states he will take care of the children.
Lord Sidious tells Bane to bring him Force children.
An Astromech droid projects Sidious' hologram.
Sidious gives the nanny droid RO-Z67 orders via holocam.
Darth Sidious hovers over Zinn Toa.
Sidious foresees an army of Force talented spies in his service.
Darth Sidious states his enemies will be helpless against his vision.
Lord Sidious says if the surgery fails he will lose nothing.
Darth Sidious watches the surgery begin.
Sidious stands as his plans are foiled by the Jedi's arrival.
Sidious orders the facility destroyed...
...and the children be taken to his other compound.
Sidious ending his holographic transmission.
Darth Sidious tells Tyranus of the Republic occupation.
Sidious smiles at Duchess Satine's apparent death.
Darth Sidious tells Dooku of a disturbance in the Force.
Sidious tells Dooku that Ventress is too important.
Darth Sidious accuses Tyranus of wanting him destroyed.
Sidious is pleased to hear Ventress is dead.
Lord Sidious appears in a Force vision on Mortis.
Darth Sidious orders Tyranus to make a prisoner exchange.
Darth Sidious tells Tyranus to lower Anakin into a trap.
Lord Sidious assures that Padme will accept the terms.
Sidious gives Tyranus a lecture.
Darth Sidious tells Dooku to end the Queen's reign if she fails.
Palpatine preying on Anakin's insecurities.
Palpatine smiling while Anakin duels Dooku.
A hologram of Sidious with Embo.
Sidious contacting Embo on Scipio.
Darth Sidious communicates with Nix Card.
Sidious tells Nix to continue to the next stage.
Darth Sidious assures Nix protection.
Sidious hologram on Serreno.
Darth Sidious informs Dooku of the Republic attack.
Sidious told by Dooku that their plan succeeded.
Darth Sidious arrives on Mandalore.
Sidious Force chokes two Mandalorian super commandos.
Darth Sidious enters the Sundari Palace.
Sidious confronts Maul and Savage.
Darth Sidious uses the Force on the Nightbrothers.
Sidious laughs as he battles Maul and Savage.
Darth Sidious as seen in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Sidious dueling Maul and Savage in the plaza.
Darth Sidious kills Savage Opress.
Sidious against his former apprentice Maul.
Darth Maul begs the Sith Lord for mercy.
Sidious states there is no mercy.
Darth Sidious blasts Maul with Force lightning.
Sidious cackles as he has other plans for Maul.
Count Dooku informs Sidious of a clone problem.
Darth Sidious tells Tyranus to make the incident isolated.
Sidious worries his plans will be ruined.
Darth Sidious orders the clone to be seized.
Chancellor Palpatine reveals the secret to Fives.
Palpatine keeps Order 66 a secret from the Jedi.
Lord Tyranus contacts Sidious with successful news.
Sidious orders all evidence to be destroyed.
Lord Sidious cackles as Order 66 remains uncovered.
Sidious hologram zooming out.
Darth Sidious questions Lord Tyranus.
Sidious asks his apprentice of Sifo-Dyas.
Lord Sidious tells Tyranus to retrace his steps.
And orders Dooku to eliminate the loose end.
Darth Sidious chastises Tyranus' clumsiness.
Sidious shows Dooku the price of failure.
Darth Sidious appears to Yoda in a vision on Dagobah.
The Sith Lord igniting his lightsaber in the vision.
Sidious walking towards Dooku as he arrives.
Darth Sidious welcoming his apprentice.
Sidious telling Dooku that Master Yoda is on Moraband.
Darth Sidious explains Dooku and Yoda have a strong Force-bound as a ripple.
Sidious producing a knife cutting Dooku's hand for a drop of blood.
Lord Sidious recites an ancient Sith ritual in Balc.
Darth Sidious performs the Sith incantation.
Sidious dips his face towards the basin wielding the power of dark illusion.
Darth Sidious chained by lightning shackles to stone pillars.
An apparition of Sidious appears laughing.
Darth Sidious and Count Dooku at the altar.
The Sith Lord sees Clones and the Jedi arriving.
Sidious draws his lightsaber towards Yoda.
Lord Sidious readies to take on Yoda and Anakin.
Sidious levitates Anakin into the air and zaps him with lightning.
Yoda holding back Darth Sidious' Force lightning.
Sidious blasting Yoda with more lightning while cackling.
Darth Sidious taunting Yoda to let Anakin fall and die.
Sidious attacking Yoda while he saves Anakin.
Yoda deflects Sidious' lightning with his lightsaber.
Darth Sidious hanging onto the railing of the bridge.
Sidious and Yoda tumbling to their certain doom.
Lord Sidious angered that he failed to break Yoda's spirit.
Sidious leaving as he will need more time to defeat the Jedi and Yoda.
Chancellor Palpatine held hostage.
Palpatine's appearance in Revenge of the Sith.
Palpatine smiles as Anakin duels Dooku.
A foreshadowing of Palpatine's true nature.
The Chancellor on the Separatist bridge.
Palpatine is rescued and returns to Coruscant.
General Grievous contacts Darth Sidious.
Sidious tells Grievous to move the Separatist leaders.
Lord Sidious states he will have a new apprentice.
Palpatine appoints Anakin as his Jedi Representative.
Anakin visits the Chancellor at the opera.
Sidious sits with Anakin during an opera show.
Sidious smiling as he slowly lures Anakin into the dark side of the Force via manipulating his emotions.
Palpatine looking at the Death Star plans.
Palpatine tells Anakin the Jedi don't trust him.
Palpation's evil grin after revealing himself to Anakin.
Darth Sidious senses Anakin's anger.
Chancellor Palpatine welcomes the Jedi.
Palpatine claims to be the Senate.
Palpatine finally reveals his identity as the Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Sidious.
Sidious prepares to engage his would be Jedi captors in a fight in his main office.
Sidious duels Mace Windu.
Sidious disarmed and cornered by Windu.
Palpatine attempts to blast Mace with Sith lightning.
Palpatine unmasked by his deflected Force lightning.
Sidious unleashing his power against an injured Windu.
Sidious knighting Anakin Skywalker as Darth Vader.
Darth Sidious declares the Jedi enemies.
Sidious first orders Vader to the Jedi Temple.
Darth Sidious tells Vader to show no mercy.
Palpatine now in his Emperor form.
Lord Sidious contacts Commander Cody.
Darth Sidious ordering the clones to execute Order 66.
Sidious speaks with the Separatist leaders on Mustafar.
Darth Sidious tells the council his apprentice is coming.
Palpatine presides at a special session of Congress.
Sidious blames the Jedi for his disfigurement.
Sidious proclaims the formation of the Galactic Empire.
Darth Sidious triumphs as the Senate cheer the new regime.
A hologram recording of Sidious in the Jedi Temple.
Hologram Sidious tells Vader to bring peace to the Empire.
Palpatine speaks to hologram Vader in his office.
Palpatine in a hologram on Mustafar.
Sidious receives a visit from Master Yoda.
Darth Sidious calls Yoda arrogant.
Sidious shocks Yoda with Force lightning.
Sidious approaches an unconscious Yoda.
Sidious takes his lightsaber out to duel Master Yoda.
Yoda and Palpatine duel on Coruscant.
Sidious smiles during the fight with Yoda.
Palpatine laughing manically at Yoda.
Palpatine grunts as he duels with Yoda.
Darth Sidious duels Yoda in the Senate.
Sidious laughing as he lifts Senate pods.
Sidious continues throwing pods at Yoda.
Darth Sidious throwing a Senate pod at Yoda.
Sidious laughs as he gains the upper hand against Yoda.
Palpatine tells Mas Amedda to prepare his shuttle.
Darth Sidious senses his apprentice is in danger.
Sidious finds a mutilated but living Anakin on Mustafar.
Lord Sidious arrives on Coruscant with an injured Vader.
Darth Sidious at the completion of Darth Vader.
Sidious seeing the birth of Darth Vader.
Sidious tells Vader that he killed Padme in his anger.
Sidious smiles knowing that Vader has fallen to him.
Sidious seeing Vader lash out in anger over Padme's death at the final act of Revenge of the Sith.
Sidious and Vader on a star destroyer with Tarkin.
Sidious and Vader oversee the construction of the First Death Star at the very end of Revenge of the Sith.
Hydan reporting the progress to the Emperor.
The Emperor consults with Minister Hydan.
The Emperor appears in hologram to Minister Hydan.
Emperor Palpatine telling Hydan to proceed.
Darth Sidious in Star Wars: Rebels.
The Emperor cackling as he finds Ezra Bridger and Ahsoka Tano.
The Emperor performing Sith alchemy in the portal.
The Emperor in the World Between Worlds.
The Emperor casting forth fire to capture Ezra.
The Emperor trying to access the World Between Worlds.
Palpatine in hologram appearing as a friendly version.
Emperor Palpatine showing Ezra a portion of the Lothal Temple.
The Emperor with Ezra at the temple entrance.
Palpatine smiling deviously as Ezra enters the temple.
Emperor Palpatine telling Ezra to join his parents in the portal.
The Emperor using the Force to release Ezra's binds.
Palpatine shocked as Ezra refuses to activate the portal.
Emperor Palpatine shouting "NO"! as Ezra destroys the gateway.
Palpatine trying to stop Ezra from escaping.
The Emperor's hologram revealing his true form.
Emperor Palpatine's hologram distorted as the temple collapses.
The Emperor exiting the rubble of the Jedi Temple.
The Emperor's hologram walking towards Ezra.
Darth Sidious enraged as his plans are foiled.
The Emperor with Ezra at the ruins of the Lothal Temple.
The Emperor calling Ezra's decision unfortunate.
The Emperor commands his Royal Guards to destroy Ezra.
The Emperor ending his holographic transmission.
The Emperor contacts Vader on the Executor.
The Emperor's hologram in The Empire Strikes Back (Original edition).
Sidious communicating with Darth Vader via hologram in The Empire Strikes Back (Special edition).
Sidious revealing the existence of Vader's son, Luke Skywalker.
Palpatine's appearance in Return of the Jedi.
Emperor Palpatine arrives on the Second Death Star.
The Emperor walks with Darth Vader.
Emperor Palpatine senses Vader wishes to search for Luke.
Palpatine seeing Darth Vader in his throne room over Endor.
The Emperor with Vader, Aloo and Greejatus.
Emperor Palpatine sends Vader to the command ship.
The Emperor receives a report from Lord Vader.
Close-up view of Emperor Palpatine on his throne.
Palpatine holds Luke's lightsaber.
The Emperor tells Luke his faith is misplaced.
Emperor Palpatine sits on his throne.
The Emperor reveals his grand plan to Luke.
Emperor Palpatine converses with Luke Skywalker.
The Emperor orders the Death Star to be fired.
Palpatine taunting Luke during the Battle of Endor.
Darth Sidious smiling and laughing as he witnesses Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker duel each other.
Palpatine laughing as Luke gets the upper hand in his fight.
Sidious tempting Luke into killing his father.
Palpatine lifting his hands up to use Force Lighting.
Darth Sidious attacking Luke with Force Lightning.
Sidious unleashing Force Lightning on Luke.
Vader witnessing Palpatine attacking his son.
The Emperor tortures Luke with Force lightning.
Sidious'
villainous breakdown as he loses what is left of his sanity ("Now, young Skywalker... you will die.")
Anakin picking up Sidious to save his son Luke.
The Emperor is Defeated by the Redeemed Anakin Skywalker.
Darth Sidious plummets down the Death Star II's reactor; his last moments before his death.
Sidious is evaporated in the main reactor thus killing him and finally ending his reign of terror.