Palpatine's Appearance

Darth Hebrew · Post by **Darth Hebrew** » 2006-03-27 07:04pm

I was watching the PT the other day and (I could be wrong) it looked to me like Palpatine in his Darth Sidious guise resembeled Palpatine after his battle with Windu. Thoughts?

000 · Post by **000** » 2006-03-27 07:22pm

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2006-03-27 07:26pm

Surely you can say more then, No. There is some resemblence between the two but it is not really clear because the colorless hologram. Both do still have the same chin.

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2006-03-27 07:47pm

there's non hologram info on Darth Sidious, to conclude that the "Palpatine face" was more then a "force mask" and that the the post-Windu apprence is indeed just post Windu

Darth Cronos the Proud · Post by **Darth Cronos the Proud** » 2006-03-27 08:53pm

Darth Hebrew wrote:...it looked to me like Palpatine in his Darth Sidious guise resembeled Palpatine after his battle with Windu. Thoughts?

Unless I am mistaken, when Darth Sidious is talking face to face with both Darth Maul in TPM and Darth Tyranus in AotC, the chin and mouth under the hood had no signs of the wrinkled appearance of Palpatine post-Windu fight.

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2006-03-27 11:43pm

Darth Cronos the Proud wrote:
Darth Hebrew wrote:...it looked to me like Palpatine in his Darth Sidious guise resembeled Palpatine after his battle with Windu. Thoughts?
Unless I am mistaken, when Darth Sidious is talking face to face with both Darth Maul in TPM and Darth Tyranus in AotC, the chin and mouth under the hood had no signs of the wrinkled appearance of Palpatine post-Windu fight.

Correct. It's fairly obvious that Wrinklytine doesn't show through in those until much later; you can see his chin, mouth, and nose, neither of which show the graying skin or wrinkles that he got from the Force lightning.

nightmare · Post by **nightmare** » 2006-03-28 12:56am

Question is if we are to throw out the common EU dark side-pruneface effect with the trash or not. I always held it for a 'brain bug'.

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2006-03-28 02:37am

Well, there is one pre-ROTS story that has Palpatine change from his yellow-eyed, prune-faced self (during some bizarre Sith ritual) to his "human" look. (Sithisis in SW:Visionaries)

Tiriol · Post by **Tiriol** » 2006-03-28 03:44am

VT-16 wrote:Well, there is one pre-ROTS story that has Palpatine change from his yellow-eyed, prune-faced self (during some bizarre Sith ritual) to his "human" look. (Sithisis in SW:Visionaries)

Which, hopefully, is non-canon. I have read that comic and while it was visually good, it had rather... strange story.

As to original question...

No, Palpatine doesn't have that twisted face in those holograms so far as I remember; the only place where he did have that wrinkled face as a hologram (with bad teeth to boot) was in Clone Wars cartoon.

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2006-03-28 07:58am

Tiriol wrote:
VT-16 wrote:Well, there is one pre-ROTS story that has Palpatine change from his yellow-eyed, prune-faced self (during some bizarre Sith ritual) to his "human" look. (Sithisis in SW:Visionaries)
Which, hopefully, is non-canon. I have read that comic and while it was visually good, it had rather... strange story.

Visionaries is non-canon afaik; it was merely an opportunity for the artists of Lucasfilm to have fun with their character designs and all that. It's on Infinities level iirc.

And Palpatine looking normal in a hologram is no biggie; even now we have voice disguisers for the normal telephone... no reason for there to not be a technology which allows you to broadcast whatever image you choose over the holocomms.

Noble Ire · Post by **Noble Ire** » 2006-03-28 08:05am

Which, hopefully, is non-canon. I have read that comic and while it was visually good, it had rather... strange story.

I always intripted it as some kind of twisted visual metaphor or something. Really, it was like a long series of dark Salvador Dali paintings.

Visionaries is non-canon afaik; it was merely an opportunity for the artists of Lucasfilm to have fun with their character designs and all that. It's on Infinities level iirc.

I'm pretty sure you are correct. For instances, the Darth Maul story is definiatively non-canon. However, I have heard the Grievous orgin story is official, or at least coroborrated by other sources.

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2006-03-28 09:29am

Visionaries is non-canon afaik; it was merely an opportunity for the artists of Lucasfilm to have fun with their character designs and all that. It's on Infinities level iirc.

Nope. Most stories are part of canon, except the DM one and Wat Tambor's spiritual journey.

Palpatine in Sithisis appears to be meditating inside the surgical reconstruction tower (from ROTS), since I reckognize his meditation chamber and ancient Sith artifacts. I think he goes through some kind of failed Sith Alchemy experiment or a "coming-of-age" ritual or something. Trippy, but fits with what we know about him.