What if Mace Windu Killed Palpatine?

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[obi-wankenobi]

Hello there.
I see there are some people here saying that Anakin could not defeat Windu. I agree that Windu was more powerful but we need to have in consideration that he just fought the most powerful Sith and i bet that made him very tired, and this could affect his performance in the next fight.
To turn his children to the dark side, Anakin told lies about the Jedi to them, right? Once Anakin and Leia destroyed the temple, i think she would start to study the Jedi arts and see that her father lied to her. What would later happen? She accepts this or she would challenge her father? And in this case, would Anakin kill her (because i don't think she could defeat him)

[davemus]

This just doesn't seem realistic. Mace may not have trusted Anakin but he is a master of the light side of the force and it's highly unlikely he would be hateful or angry towards him.

Also, there's no way Anakin beats Mace, sorry you're way off there. Anakin would have just gone to the dark side and he barely knew anything about how to use it even in the real timeline. In canon Palpatine tells Anakin if he fought Yoda he would die. Mace was 2nd only to Yoda. I would admit a fully trained dark side Anakin destroys Mace but at this point hell no. Mace would pick him apart.

[jayghale]

Personally I don’t see how he beats windu if he couldn’t beat kenobi….twice

[aguy]

I don't think Anakin would've continued down the darkside after all that time, especially not with Palpatine dead, and Padme and his kids alive and with him.

[cadeshanley]

I prefer what ifs where Anakin gets the happy ending he deserves with Padmé, his children, his in-laws, his brother, his sister, etc.

[animafia-family]

I don’t really see how Anakin would be training his children in the dark side so vigorously when at the point of his leaving, he had barely taken his first steps towards fully embracing the darkness. That part just doesn’t seem realistic.

[adamt.borrowmanmr.mattobei]

I think mace windu would have turned to the dark side ESPECIALLY since glass breaking is an important meaning for characters in movies, because I thought palpatine broke the glass leading him down a deeper darker hole of manipulating anakin (eventually becoming Darth Vader) but mace windy broke the glass window and anakin said “it’s not the Jedi way. He must live!”

[TheChef]

I never understood why mace reached back to swing the lightsaber when he could have just stabbed him with it

[wiktorociepa]

What if Anakin killed Obi Wan (disguised as Rako Hardeen)?

[Grandmaster_Darqui]

he has no chance against windu... if he fighted with anger, windu would be stronger due to the fact he had vapaad

[blindvision]

I’m not sure if Aniken will turn to the Darkside after seeing his children born with no complications. But even if this were the case, the force would eventually overthrow the Skywalker line, since they did not bring balance to the force, but instead allowed the Darkside to rule. I know some argue that TooJay and two S. is balance, but even in the legends timeline, there were several other exiled Jedi and Darkside users besides the two Sith into Jedi. And considering Anakin‘s conflicted personality, I don’t know if he would’ve turn to the Darkside completely, permanently, or any such thing. And wouldn’t have been interesting of Padme reached out to the Jedi for help? At least Obi-Wan and/or Yoda. And would Anakin have really been powerful enough to kill mace Windu? Especially if he increases in Darkside power? When does Lightsaber form was literally created to combat dark side users, so the more powerful Aniken became, the more power window could just throw right back at him. Not to mention that I think Anakin ultimately had to be the one to kill Palpatine, or at least destroy the Sith, otherwise he could have been the chosen one. Sorry. Not a big fan of dark side endings.

[skyscrapermadness_]

What if Dooku became the Supreme Chancellor?

[jilldurham]

Dang. You're growing extremely fast. Well done. I used to watch the YouTube channel Star Wars Theory for the exact content your doing and I don't watch it anymore cause it's not my cup of tea anymore. I miss his theory content. Well done

[darth_vedant]

Yoda stabs Luke

Anakin force screams

Yoda: I am so screwed now, ggs

[anthonyp]

Dude this is one of your best the videos I love this a lot man I appreciate it and you

[randallbaber]

I love what you're doing. Keep it up. I might have gone a different direction, but it's not my story. Great work

[gerardocovarrubias]

Next time make what if Padme was Supreme Chancellor after episode 1 or what if padme stayed queen of Naboo what if Luke and Leia will never separated and we're trained by Mace Windu and Yoda

[oliverlewis]

Unfortunately I feel like this is extremely unlikely. However it was an entertaining video. 1. I don’t think he would have killed windu. 2. I feel like he would have tried to save maul from the temple or something as he still believed padme would die from childbirth. 3. I feel like he would have just lived as a peaceful family and not hated the Jedi. Still enjoyed the what if scenario though

[Exaris]

The problem with being a powerful force user, if they go to Korriban, they're an opportunity that the mummified Sith Lords spirits can't miss. The old Sith Lords are typically tempted to take over the untrained dark side user's body. So if Anakin was self-learning the dark side by himself, other than Korriban, he would have to steal the Sith holocrons that's been found&confiscated by the Jedi over the thousands of years. It's the reason that Palpatine wanted the Jedi Temple since there's a lot of Sith artifacts contained inside it. The same with the Sith holocrons as possibly the spirit of the SIth who created it could be using it as a trap to take over the force user that wants to learn from it. This was consistently done in the SW KOTOR comics&novels too.

So while Anakin was learning about the dark side by himself&growing strong from it, I doubt that he had access to the Sith artifacts from the Jedi temple unless he went to Korriban and that location isn't public knowledge&likely it's forbidden information that's been scrubbed the holonet. If Anakin's kids aren't properly trained to protect themselves from being taken over by dark side spirits, they shouldn't had been able to find Korriban or even walk away from exploring it as the Sith spirits will try to take over them. If Anakin/Vader even went to Yavin4, Exar Kun's spirit will be very tempted to take over his body if it's been corrupted by the dark side.

IMO, the Jedi temple should had been turned it into a trap to reflect the dark side energy back at its user. This is how the Sith temple's energies as a Force Nexus is contained under the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. The Jedi should had expanded it so that it negates anyone using the dark side inside the temple as it's not the first time that the Sith attacked it from the KOTOR games. The Jedi High Council were expecting Anakin to come back and attack the temple so they should had built countermeasures for a dark side user. Before the High Republic era, in the KOTOR comics, the Jedi did have some counter measures in the Coruscant Jedi Temple to turn it into a light side fortress and amplify that light side energy from the Force Nexus underneath the temple.

Also the dark side force user's body acts more like a fuse, the more power you use, the faster it corrupts and consumes the users' body. This happens with Palpatine that he did need Anakin's healthy body as a new host for his essence transfer ritual. In the Dark Empire comics, his clones was having the same problem and they're expiring much faster that he needs a new bloodline to be the new host of his spirit.

[teddykazandjiev]

Nah, this story is highly unlikely in multiple regards. 1. Even if we were ti assume that Anakin could beat Windu( which is highly unlikely). I am a guy who has always been team Anakin. In my opinion, Kenobi would be chopped into bits on Mustafar and only plot armour saved him. However, unlike Kenobi, who by every standart is an average Jedi( including the movies where he lost to maul and did an insane jump which Maul easily could predict if not for plot armour, then lost to Dooku, then lost to Dooku again) is the same guy who beats Anakin. That being said, even a Anakin fan like myself cannot deny that Windu's form 7 and his great skill would best Skywalker. Unlike Kenobi, who was average, Windu was exceptional. 2. The second problem is, even if we assume Windu dies due to being tired or wounded or simply not knowing Anakin well enough or underestimating him why would Anakin train his children in the dark side. Also, why would Anakin not talk to Obi-wan who in this timeline is still his friend and tell him: " Master, Master Windu broke the Jedi code and killed Palpatine then he told me he hated me and attacked me." He could spin it in his favour and justify his actions. Finally, Anakin here has not become Darth Vader. He has not pledged himself to the Sith or refined his dark side powers like older Vader has. At best he is a dark jedi but even that makes no sense since Padme and his kids are alive and well.
I usually really love your stories- the Sith Lord Padme one, The Vader going back in time and fighting himself one and so on. But this one is iffy in so many places.