What I learned today.

Sheev Palpatine.

When the hell did that old fart get a christian name?

 

Oy vey.

 

I think it is the Star Wars Galaxy equivalent to Steve. There must always be a Steve.

 

According to Wikipedia, it was actually after Disney took over. The first time the Emperor was referred to as "Sheev Palpatine" was the 2014 novel Tarkin, which does fall under the Disney Canon. The name was allegedly created by George Lucas, just never used in the EU, surprisingly.

 

I heard this a while back - I have my own canon and his name is Palpatine.

End of.

 

I agree.

 

It's been popping up on me at Wikipedia & co when I've looked him up during the last year or so. Every time I shouted at my computer: “No, not that Sheev guy, whoever that is, I want the Emperor”

 

I guess the new guy then is Shaank Snoke.

If you got a shiv, you gotta shank, as they say.

 

This article from Tor links the name "Sheev" to the Hindu deity Shiva (regarded as "the destroyer" and "the transformer"), taking into account the use of Sanskrit for other Naboo character names:
http://www.tor.com/2014/10/16/palpatine-first-name/

Kor

 

I'm partial to Joe Palpatine myself.

 

And I like Joe Bob.

Or Jim Bob.

Whichever.

 

In The Phantom Menace when speaking to Padme he says "Let me be Frank..."

Frank Palpatine.

Straight from the bantha's mouth.

 

Why do you think he it plotting to take over the galaxy? No one will let him be Frank. Frank was taken already.

 

Order 67 was "Kill all Franks."

 

Order 68 was "No Homers".

 

But they were allowed to keep one.

 

"No... There is another."

 

It's "I must be frank"