The Rise of Skywalker - How Did Palpatine Survive?

How did Palpatine survive being thrown down the Death Star reactor shaft? This is my guess as we prepare for The Rise of Skywalker in December!
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[AverageJoe]

If he survived, Mace Windu is DEFINITELY alive

[JakeGraceAndGlory]

He survived by the wallet and imagination of Disney Inc.

[spicygungan]

He came back because he wanted to tell Rey about the tragedy of Darth Plagius the wise

[standardbrickproductions]

You gotta give it to Palpatine.... He is really really patient.

[NUKEYHEAD]

Snoke: *dies*
Disney: well, now what?!
Palpatine: Senate time

[neelwadhwana]

If the Emperor is still alive, doesn't that nullify Anakin (or Darth Vader) fulfilling his destiny by defeating the Sith?

[GreenGo]

That’s easy : when Hulk snapped his fingers he brought him back.

[rockon]

Seems like everyone who falls in a hole has never actually died

[NRGSpider]

It’s obvious. Mickey Mouse found the infinity stones and brought Palpatine back for money

[dexterchoy]

He survived because Rian Johnson killed a main villain meaninglessly.

[redterror]

2021 rerelease of the original trilogy will show a cgi emperor grabbing onto the ledge

[MTVTK]

Just makes Snoke all the more pointless. They won't explain why hes back, just like they didn't say anything about Snoke.

[theartjedi]

He survived because he had UNLIMITED (Obviously)

[Vikash]

How did he survive? Simple, he was resurrected by disney in a cheap attempt to bring back the og starwars fans after they gutted the franchise with the last two movies of the trilogy

[katherinealvarez]

I’m sure we’ll know after we see the movie, or while we see the movie. Until then, I’m just gonna say he survived by being preserved in peanut brittle.

[athroughzdude]

The Dark Side is a pathway to many abilities, some considered to be retcons.

[jeyfromnowhere]

"I'll just focus on the parts of the movie that I'm sure I will love."


What?! On the internet?!

[IggyStardust]

"The Dark Side of The Force is a pathway to MANY abilities, some consider to be... unnatural." -Palpatine.

I've been saying this for months now... this line is KEY to how he survived. We didn't know Luke(or anyone else) could "Force Project" themselves, until we saw it on screen. I'm calling it now, Palpatine opened up some kind of portal to the outer regions(a place he had previously marked) as a safety measure against Vader's treachery. Also, remember this line; "Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen it."

Palpatine may be evil incarnate, but one thing he's not is "short sighted". Dude plays the Long Game better than anyone in history. He sets things in motion, and adapts his plans for all possible outcomes. No doubt he was ready to kill Anakin the second he uttered the line, "Are you going to kill me?" and Anakin replied, "I would certainly like to." But it was in that moment of uncertainty on Anakin's part that told Palpatine he had the young Jedi right where he wanted him.

Anakin's "return" while Palpatine was hitting Luke with the Force Lightning may have been unexpected in the moment, but I've no doubt he prepared for such an eventuality. Now, 35 years later, after having the Dark Side sustain him, it's time to re-emerge.

[andrewl]

Disney: Aight, what we gonna do to end the sequel?
Random Disney worker: lets add palpatine back lol jk j-
Disney: ok

[michaelramon]

Going to repeat my standing theory here: Palpatine prepared some sort of Dark-Side-powered resurrection ritual before Endor as a backup. But it required enormous amounts of Dark Side energy to work, and that meant pain, fear, suffering and death. The Contingency and Operation Cinder were meant to accomplish this - millions of Imperial citizens sacrificed to bring back their emperor while the Rebels and Gallius Rax's Imperials destroy each other and Palpatine can come sweeping back through with his secret fleet. However, between Rebel interception and certain Imperials' reluctance to execute Cinder, the ritual didn't get enough Dark Side juice. Only thirty years later, when the First Order declared war on the galaxy, did enough people die to finish charging the Dark Side battery and restoring Palpatine.


I suppose the ritual could simply require 30 years to complete and the rest of the Contingency was to make certain that the Rebels won and became complacent while also ensuring that no rival emperor took over and solidified power enough to reject Palpatine when he returned. Either way, I believe Snoke was not actually a part of this plan, and he hijacked the Contingency Remnant for his own rule-the-galaxy plot.