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Palpatine's first name revealed
Posted: 2014-10-15 11:27pm
by Panzersharkcat
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Social media was set a blaze this afternoon after a critical tidbit of information about a legendary Star Wars character leaked online. Ever since his introduction in The Empire Strikes Back back in 1980, Senator/Chancellor/Emperor Palpatine has had no first name, only later being know alternatively by his Sith title Darth Sidious. For years many speculated that the the beloved villain simply only had one name, now we've learned that's not that case. A few days ago at the 'A New Dawn' panel at New York Comic Con, it was revealed that the upcoming novel Tarkin, written by James Luceno, will finally reveal Palpatine's first name. Earlier today the Star Wars Wikia Wookieepedia updated their article on Palpatine with the new name and listed page 93 of Tarkin as their source. (Obviously one of their editors got an advanced copy of the novel.) So without further ado, The Phantom Menace's full name is....
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Sheev Palpatine
So, what do you think? Does it fit him? Or are you glad it was never mentioned in the films? Let us know in the comments below, or in Club SWU on Facebook! And also be sure to pre-order your copy of Star Wars: Tarkin, which promises to give more insight into another iconic Star Wars villain: Wilhuff Tarkin.
*cringe* No wonder he went by just Palpatine.
Re: Palpatine's first name revealed
Posted: 2014-10-16 12:18am
by Darth Nostril
Pffft In an early draft his name was Cos Dashit. This is actually an improvement.
Re: Palpatine's first name revealed
Posted: 2014-10-16 06:21am
by B5B7
it looks like his "parents" were tossing up between shiv and sheep.
As for Tarkin, he will huff and he'll puff and he will blow your planet away.
Re: Palpatine's first name revealed
Posted: 2014-10-16 06:23am
by NecronLord
Jesus. No wonder Palpatine hated his father.
Re: Palpatine's first name revealed
Posted: 2014-10-16 07:23pm
by Vance
That is rather poor.
Re: Palpatine's first name revealed
Posted: 2014-10-16 07:26pm
by Gandalf
To be fair, is there anything that wouldn't disappoint people somewhat?
If Palpatine had a first name when he was introduced, people wouldn't care so much and just refer to him as Palpatine. It'd be like if we never heard Wedge Antilles' name until now. "What sort of a name is Wedge?"
Re: Palpatine's first name revealed
Posted: 2014-10-16 07:35pm
by Batman
'Wedge' is merely unusual. 'Sheev' belongs on the 'list of things to do to make sure your kid ends up a supervillain'.
Re: Palpatine's first name revealed
Posted: 2014-10-16 07:57pm
by Darth Nostril
The bullying at school because of his name is what turned him to the Dark Side in the first place.
Re: Palpatine's first name revealed
Posted: 2014-10-17 04:32am
by Metahive
Some people say that if Hitler's father hadn't changed the family name from Schicklgruber to Hitler, Adolf would have had no chance to become chancellor of Germany because no one could possibly take him seriously ("Heil Schicklgruber *pffffffft*").
Good thing for Palpy the Star Wars galaxy is full of silly names, huh? And let's be honest, "Palpatine" is silly enough already a name.
Re: Palpatine's first name revealed
Posted: 2014-10-17 09:02am
by Borgholio
"Palpatine" does sound an awful like a chocolate drink mix I used to love as a kid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovaltine
Re: Palpatine's first name revealed
Posted: 2014-10-17 09:57am
by Purple
I always thought it was a play on palatine. As in the Roman and later HRE title of nobility.
Re: Palpatine's first name revealed
Posted: 2014-10-17 02:38pm
by Havok
Most names in Star Wars are CORNY AS FUCK. Luke SKYWALKER, the hero who dreams of being among the stars. Han SOLO, the scoundrel that lives by his own rules... I mean, come on; Vader, Sidious, Maul, Tyranus.
Other than Sheev reminding me of the Dukes Of Hazzard remake movie, it's fine.
Re: Palpatine's first name revealed
Posted: 2014-10-18 11:07am
by Mange
Havok wrote:Most names in Star Wars are CORNY AS FUCK. Luke SKYWALKER
And it was changed from Luke Starkiller...
Re: Palpatine's first name revealed
Posted: 2014-10-18 01:10pm
by Metahive
Dirk Starkiller actually.
"I'm Dirk Starkiller, I'm here to rescue you!"
Re: Palpatine's first name revealed
Posted: 2014-10-18 03:41pm
by Napoleon the Clown
Well he did kill the Death Star, so it kinda works.
My take: "Sheev" sounds like the sort of thing you'd encounter on fanfiction.net. But whatever, names Lucas came up with can be pretty goofy. Nute Gunray? Boss Nass? Mace Windu? (Please don't kill me, Mr Jackson)
Re: Palpatine's first name revealed
Posted: 2014-10-19 03:29am
by Mange
Metahive wrote:Dirk Starkiller actually.
"I'm Dirk Starkiller, I'm here to rescue you!"
The name was still Luke Starkiller when Star Wars was in production (it wasn't changed until the Death Star scenes were filmed in England and thus stayed during the filming in Tunisia). As for "Dirk Starkiller", I wonder if that's not some sort of rumor as the early drafts doesn't include that name (though GL might have toyed with different names).
Re: Palpatine's first name revealed
Posted: 2014-10-19 10:55am
by Borgholio
Actually the very first name was Anakin Starkiller in the first draft.
Re: Palpatine's first name revealed
Posted: 2014-10-19 11:18am
by Channel72
Palpatine didn't even have a name until the prequels anyway* - he was just "The Emperor". That's really all we ever needed to know.
* Yes I know his name came from shooting scripts or EU stuff way before the prequels, I just don't care.
Re: Palpatine's first name revealed
Posted: 2014-10-19 12:43pm
by Mange
Borgholio wrote:Actually the very first name was Anakin Starkiller in the first draft.
Well, it was "Annikin" Starkiller.
The very first protagonist was Mace Windy (from the 1973 outline).
Re: Palpatine's first name revealed
Posted: 2014-10-19 04:55pm
by Metahive
Now that I think of it, "Sheev" sounds like "schief" which is German and means "crooked", "askew" or "slanted". It's used with several negative connotations in certain idioms like "Schiefe Bahn" lit. "crooked path" which means "criminal career".
I wonder if it's intentional?
Re: Palpatine's first name revealed
Posted: 2014-10-19 04:57pm
by Borgholio
Well, Darth Vader has been roughly translated to mean "Dark Father", so it's possible.
Re: Palpatine's first name revealed
Posted: 2014-10-19 06:36pm
by Darth Yan
I would have thought it was cosinga palpatine ii (like his dad). On the other had, it does explain why palpatine hated his parents.
Re: Palpatine's first name revealed
Posted: 2014-10-21 01:06am
by Tritio
That's an odd first name. I would have preferred:
There are some who call me... 'Tim'? =D
Re: Palpatine's first name revealed
Posted: 2014-10-21 03:39pm
by Havok
I always thought Darth was just short for DARk lord of the siTH as a kid. I think Lucas made up some BS about it being Dark Father, but as the name was around before Vader was actually Luke's dad, I doubt it and I'm probably correct.
Re: Palpatine's first name revealed
Posted: 2014-10-21 03:50pm
by Havok
Tritio wrote:That's an odd first name. I would have preferred:
There are some who call me... 'Tim'? =D
That would have been bad ass.
Timothy, Timustrus, Timoffen, Timmos, anything that could be shortened to Tim.