When Palpatine Challenged Darth Vader to a 1v1 Duel [Canon]

When Palpatine challenged Darth Vader to a lightsaber duel and then taught him the difference of how Sith fought compared to Jedi.


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[thenativegamer]

Anytime palapatine takes you to a secluded area it’s never good

[TetsuShima]

Lightsaber according to Sith: "The tool we use to symbolize our unlimited power"

Lightsabers according to Jedi: "The tool we use to symbolize our rejection of violence"

Lightsabers according to Grievous: "The tool I use to KICK YOUR A*S!!!"

[floricel_]

Dark side aside, teaching someone to use everything at their disposal and take advantage of the environment around you to achieve victory is an objectively good lesson

[Robocopnik]

Anakin - "why do we use lightsabers?"

Obi-Wan - "The most powerful force in the Galaxy, public relations"

[sundown]

I think Palpatine took this philosophy from his master Plagueis. Plagueis hated lightsaber combat, and would much rather use his force powers. That being said he would use his lighsaber in combat, but only in a fight where using his force powers was not enough.

[hordegaming]

Also reminds me of when Palpatine fights Maul and his brother in the Clone Wars and is literally laughing as they actually try to take him on. He just throws them around like ragdolls aswell.

[Pin-Din]

That's an interesting counter response Kenobi gives when thinking of what Palps said about the lightsaber. Very thoughtful.

[ChristianVillamil]

Even when Sidious despised using lightsabers, he became a master using them with such ease and precision.

[Keptaro]

Been used so much to Palpatine manipulating and testing Vader, it's nice to see him actually giving his apprentice down to the earth lessons and advice

[Blundabus]

You know, Palpatine was... kind of nice in this situation?

Like, he was legitimately trying to teach Vader something, training him properly. Hes not wrong saying he fights like a Jedi. This was less Palpatine being evil and more Palpatine giving vader some tough love.

I love this scene, hes not trying to control vader or abuse him, there's a purpose to this.

[BrickMaster]

Now we know why Vader fights like a baller

[Gweb]

I’ve always really wanted to see Jedi who use a blaster or other variations of “lightsaber tech “ . Or a Jedi that specializes is hand to hand combat (maybe he “blocks” other lightsabers using the force like Vader in the duel with obiwan in the show ) . I know in one of the old legends books, obiwan used a “lightsaber whip “ . There are just a ton of cool things they could do

[haroldearlgray]

Imagine making gonk droids in your hive factory on coruscant and seeing this go down

[WestDBD]

Palpatine saying to use the force and throw stuff, but when Mace Windu was getting up in that @$$ he wasn’t throwing nothing except his face into that lightning ⚡️ 😂

[Nickboy-]

On one hand, Sidious was wise to teach using the force in all of it's utility against an opponent. This actually parallels higher level Jedi philosophy of being more than just their lightsaber. Anakin never grew past using his lightsaber for aggression, which is why he never developed that understanding or the rank of master.

On the other hand, Palpatine loved to disparage and disrespect the lightsaber as a flimsy trinket yet on two different occasions he was completely fried by one with his own force lightning.

It was an elegant weapon for a more civilized age.

[GlidingZephyr]

Palapatine's expression in the bottom panel at 1:05 is bone chilling.

[ImperialsExplained]

Sidious kept on testing Vadar to see how powerful his apprentice could become. No wonder Vadar eventually turned on him.

[YourFreund]

If Vader was in his prime, he would stand a better chance. And in prime I mean not being a poorly cooked beef jerky with robot limbs.

[apb]

One thing to note is we all start on the light side. As they say, you have to be turned to the dark.

[bskilla]

The Jedi didn't over rely on their light sabers, Anakin did. Great Jedi like Obi-Wan (that left Vader for dead twice) had such a strong connection to the force that it was essentially the force that fought through him. Anakin on the other hand had an inferior connection to the force. He could USE it greatly, but it didn't work THROUGH him.