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msilverstar · 8 months ago

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[ID: Two similar white middle-aged men with receding white hair, one is the Star Wars character Palpatine and the other is Colin Mochri. Hashtag is: "its your friend palpatine & your pal friendpatine" /ID]. Apparently the joke is originally from Rifftrax.

Reblogging because it comes across my mind at random moments

Palpatine looks like an evil Colin Mochrie

#its your friend palpatine & your pal friendpatine

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gffa · 11 months ago

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your pal friendpatine - 13, 18, 9, and 10 pls (also 1) :)

and 14 for stephanie brown?

13. What's an emoji, an emoticon and/or any symbol that reminds you of this character or you think the character would use a lot? How could it be anything other than:

😈😈😈

18. How about a relationship they have in canon with another character that you admire? I think, of the relationships Palpatine has, the only one that doesn't leave me with a case of the icks, is possibly the one he has with Obi-Wan, where he just absolutely H A T E S that guy because he's keeping Anakin pretty emotionally stable despite Palpatine's best interests and also, no matter what Palpatine throws at him, that bastard just WILL NOT DIE. It's infuriating, he wants Obi-Wan Kenobi dead so badly, he calls Commander Cody SPECIFICALLY, delivers a personalized message to him during Order 66, he wants to make EXTRA SURE that asshole is dead, and IT STILL DOESN'T WORK. He probably also had to hear ENDLESSLY from Dooku and Maul and Grievous about how he's the best/worst, just Obi-Wan Kenobi this and Obi-Wan Kenobi that, and then he got Vader and oh my GOD Vader NEVER SHUT UP about Obi-Wan, why can't Sheev escaping hearing about this guy!!!! WHY DO YOU ALL LIKE HIM SO MUCH!?!? I JUST WANT HIM DEAD!!! 9. Could you be roommates with this character? Absolutely not lmao. 10. Could you be best friends with this character? Again, absolutely not, as much fun as he is to watch as a villain living the best day of his life, he's a horrible person who does monstrous things, I wouldn't want to be anywhere near him irl, much less friends with him.

1. Why do you like or dislike this character? I like Palpatine because he's a genuinely effective villain and illustrates a lot about our own political system, in that I can believe he'd do numbers in our real world. Even when swathes of people are like, that guy isn't actually doing what he says, there are still a lot of people taken in by the kind grandfatherly act, and that's extremely fascinating as a story element, that the Republic was destroyed through politics rather than an invading force or whatever. Because politics matter. Because leaders matter. Because the galactic public had to get its shit together and hold their leaders accountable and they chose the fears that he stirred up in them over not becoming a dictatorship. Palpatine is an effective leader because he engineered a genuinely near impossible to win scenario--the Separatists were not a noble cause, they were committing atrocity after atrocity, they were backed by the Trade Federation and the Sith, people knew what they were going to do to innocent lives, and then lo and behold, the Separatists started carpet bombing civilian targets, releasing biochemical warfare into civilian populations, partnering up with a slave empire that stole entire colonies to force them into slavery, they had to be stopped. Yet it was through that fight that the Republic fell further into the fear and paranoia until they were ready to let Palpatine do WHATEVER he wanted in the name of "safety". AND THAT IS A GENUINELY BALLER SET-UP FOR A VILLAIN. 14. Assign a fashion aesthetic to this character. Steph likes cute, trendy, pop, adorable clothes, like this outfit is SO CUTE on her: