(This article contains some major spoilers for “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”)
The revelation that Emperor Palpatine would return in “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” was definitely a big mystery of the type JJ Abrams loves — we’ve all been cracking jokes about his whole mystery box concept since the “Lost” days. And this one was a doozie because, well, we’ve all thought for the past several decades that Palpatine definitely for sure died at the end of “Return of the Jedi.”
And as we learned in the prequels, it was extremely Anakin Skywalker’s destiny to kill him.