Star Wars: Every Character Raised By Palpatine (In Canon & Legends)

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Palpatine, aka Darth Sidious, was the ultimate villain in the Star Wars franchise, and in addition to ruling the galaxy for a time, he also raised several notable characters in canon and Legends. Palpatine embodied the malice and power of the Sith Order, training numerous apprentices throughout his Sith Lordship. In many cases, Palpatine raised such apprentices, taking them from their families during their early childhood, not unlike the old Jedi Order. In each of the two continuities, Palpatine had at least one literal child who he didn’t necessarily train as a Sith apprentice but left a significant impact on, as he did for his adopted children. Palpatine is, unsurprisingly, a cruel person, both as a father and leader, but most of the characters he raised ended up leaving the Sith, choosing to be kind and altruistic.

Palpatine’s full origin was explored in Expanded Universe non-movie material before Lucasfilm rebranded it as Legends and made the once-official continuity into an alternate timeline. The 2012 novel, Darth Plagueis, explores Palpatine’s upbringing on Naboo, including his animosity towards the rest of his family that eventually resulted in him murdering them all as part of his initiation into the Sith Order. Needless to say, the novel depicts Palpatine as extremely dangerous and violent, even at a young age. Whether or not his Legends-era origin is, in the broad strokes, part of the post-2014 canon timeline, Palpatine’s children all ended up turning against him in both continuities, unsurprisingly.

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While Palpatine was undoubtedly an extremely powerful dark side practitioner, his strength alone wasn’t what made him the galaxy’s most