6 years ago

Shouldn't Darth Sidious have a Galactic Republic Tag?

Was just wondering this the other day. I am not particularly DETERMINED for him to have the tag though, just curious.

I thought that maybe he was a sith and so technically wasn't considered part of the Galactic Republic as Chancellor Palpatine, but then there's EMPEROR palpatine. It would seem quite redundant to subdivide Chancellor Palpatine and Darth Sidious.

Another thing to factor in would be Galactic Republic tagged toons are all currently LS, so maybe CG want to keep it that way?

24 Replies

BucMan55
6 years ago
He should either be Separatist or Republic. I'm leaning more towards Seps. He was Dooku's master after all.
StravBlardo
6 years ago
I think he should have the Separatist tag. When he was his Darth Sidious persona, he was usually bossing around Dooku/Maul.

If they give him a Galactic Republic tag, then I think it'd have to be a Chancellor Palpatine character.
Aplusho1996
6 years ago
"BucMan55;c-1845729" wrote:
He should either be Separatist or Republic. I'm leaning more towards Seps. He was Dooku's master after all.

True, though the thought of considering Darth Sidious as a separatist weirds me out. Perhaps the fact that he is a puppet master controlling Dooku while Dooku is the leader of the Separatist makes him neither Separatist or Republic?
GiantJellybaby
Newcomer
6 years ago
I'd have thought separatist myself.

This thread has got me thinking about this 'Neutral' alignment that appeared months ago and where this sits in the grand scheme of things? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Doesn't apply to Sidious obviously.
tattoory82
New Spectator
6 years ago
Vader should have the droid tag aswell
riffinator24
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
No
JacenRoe
6 years ago
It's been made pretty clear that he NEVER actually fought as Sidious with the separatist army, and never fought PERIOD as chancellor until he was discovered at the end of episode 3.

And had he fought, he had to stay in whichever character he was posing as just to maintain the lie. So Sidious would NEVER fight for/with the Republic. Just to drive the point home as to how different they were, Ian McDiarmid was never told Sidious, and Palpatine were the same person during filming of episode 1. He was given separate directions for the characters, and had to piece it together himself that it was one person.
braskme
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
Sidious manipulated both the separatists and the galactic republic. When he was done with them, he killed the separatists and dissolved the republic. That's Sith through and through, and he wouldn't have identified as either as they were merely pawns.
vaexquagrupen12
6 years ago
"BucMan55;c-1845729" wrote:
He should either be Separatist or Republic. I'm leaning more towards Seps. He was Dooku's master after all.

Yoda was also dookus master
ChiizuLamb
6 years ago
Sheev palpatine (the chancellor) was galactic republic.

Darth sidious was a Sith. Not galactic republoc

Emperor Palpatine was a Sith but also ruler of the Empire (not the Republic).

They're all the same person, but different characters.