I think I’ll start a rumor now of a hidden Easter Egg in one of the umpteen different editions of the DVD releases of the Star Wars movies, where there is a secret “Gungan” language dub selection with English subtitles. So that ALL the dialogue sounds like this. Even Jabba the Hutt. And Yoda gets a double layering, so that he says things like “When 900 years old yousa reaches, Look as good yousa will not!”
Darth Vader pushes the Emperor down the Death Star 2 air shaft. Palpatine howls, “How wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude!” as he plummets to his death.
Yes! Give into your anger. Strike me down with your mental telekinetically-focused mental hyperspace death ray which you can only survive using with this advanced alien self-repairing energy-field dispersing crystalline-ceramoplated battle armor with psionic enhancement barrier, and your journey to the dark side will be complete!
Epic lightsaber battle with Mace Windu culminates in the latter’s BMF lightsaber spinning off into the night followed closely by its owner as Palpatine looks out through the shattered window and opines, “Meesa … clumsy!”
They are going to be covering this in episodes -1, -2 and the much anticipated
**Star Wars -3**
Return of the Revenge of the guy who is a Jedi but becomes Sith and later takes the name Darth Sidiious and may or may not have had a hand in the creation of the guy who is a Jedi but becomes a Sith who later takes on the name Darth Vader and helped in the creation of the guy who is a Jedi but becomes a Sith and later takes on the name…well he stayed Luke but you know he wanted to.
Okay, but wait… when he was Emperor, he used the name Palpatine again. But he was still a Sith Lord, right? So why not “Emperor Sidious”? 
People tend to back a poor helpless man burned in the face by the Evil Jedi Mace Windo. Who was trying to over though the Senate. They would be slightly less than tolerant of the Dark Sith Lord who is playing all of them against each other so he can earn supreme dominance.
His door name plate, stationary and parking space sign all said, “Palpatine” and it’s a bitch getting them changed.
Door plate, right
Ok forget everything I said. I’m in for the stationary thing.
oh and e-mail! you every try and change your e-mail address?
OMG it’s like, like I don’t even know Freaking impossible! Like trying to build a 1920 style death ray the size of the freaking moon. It’s just not gonna happen.
I don’t think Maul had another “identity”. Isn’t “Darth” the Sith term for “Lord”? I thought he was just an apprentice Palpy made into a disposable killer. Tyrannus was his REAL apprentice, and had probably been so for awhile. If Maul’s dead, they don’t go looking for another apprentice, and if they DO find “Dooku”, they assume he was Maul’s master. That’s how I read it.
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I was wondering about Maul. If the Sith are all about patience and stealth, Maul really stuck out like a sore thumb. He must have known he was being used.
Oh, man, to mention getting his name reprogrammed on the telephone system. I remember when Galipotus the Younger’s dad died, and he wanted his name changed to just Galipotus … you’ve never seen such a clusterf&ck.
They say when you’re issued a 'way cool double-bladed lightsaber and are paid with all of the Correllian buttermilk you can drink, you don’t really mind.
Actually, he kept his email (Lightnin_daddy1138) because it also his MySpace name.
But he did change his doper name.
Well, according to Darth Maul’s Tragic Emo Backstory ™, he identified with his abuser (i.e. Sidious) to the point of being utterly devoted to him.
“Hey, slave, go to Naboo and get yourself killed trying to assassinate a Jedi Master and his Apprentice.”
“Okay! hearts”
C K “Darth” Haven?
Sorry, Dex, couldn’t resist.
Darth = DARl lord of the siTH
Dooku did not officially become a Sith until after Maul’s death, but did so quite rapidly (and also may have asassinated a few Jedi in the process). It would be reasonable to assume that Sideous had been playing on Dooku for some time.
There’s an old saying. If you look around a room of Sith, and you cannot tell who the fake-apprentice, being used, disposable killer is…it’s probably you. I think it is in the Old Testament some where.
Seriously, I think there is a good story there about the “Corruption of Palpatine.” I envision a Machiavelli/DeMedici situation. Palpatine was a bright, golden child from an influential family and his parents pick the wrong tutor to help the boy meet his potential.
I personally imagine a terrible fight. Palpatine, young and outraged when he realizes how far he’s been manipulated, how his “mentor” has murdered his parents and cut him off from all human contact, blazes up and kills him in an epic lightsaber fight. Shattered emotionally and fileld with fury, he kills ‘Ols Plagueis. After the fight, he sits in Plageis’ throne over the hacked body of the Sith Lord, weeping blood from one (wounded) eye and tears from the other. slowly, cruel-looking droids begin to assemble - he thinks they are there to kill him, but realizes the truth as they begin to bow before him…
As the scene fades, the weeping slowly turns into laughter, mad laughter with the sheer insanity of life and the chaos of the Dark Side.