PT Why Was Palpatine So Happy to Hear Anakin Wants to Kill Him?

I mean wouldnt that upset him because his plans for his empire would be in ruins surely or did he have a plan b?

 

For the same reason he taunted Luke into attempting to kill him.

 

I can't picture an "upset" Palpatine.

...except maaaaaaybe while he's falling down that shaft.

 

Sidious didn't need a backup plan because Skywalker was a hot-mess: "But you aren't sure of their intentions are you?"

 

Sidious feeds off of anger and despair, especially in the person who he was trying to turn to the dark side. He had the trump card of 'I can save Padme', so Sidious was never in danger of Anakin actually killing him.

 

Plus.... Sidious is no joke at hand-to-hand. Even if Anakin attacked him, he'd probably be able to buy time and talk to calm him down. Like Joes said, he had the trump card.

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Anakin would never have killed Sidious. He was happy because Anakin wanted to kill him, which means he has what it takes to be a Sith. Anakin's hatred is what made him want to kill Sidious, not some Jedi ideology.

 

Falling into hatred and killing your enemy is the first step into the path of the Dark Side... Killing Palpatine would only enable Anakin to fall easily into his trap.

 

Yes but what if Anakin had killed him?

 

Anakin didn't have the stones to kill his mentor and Palpatine knew it.

 

well if palpatine egged him on I think he would if he gave him good reason to.

 

Yeah I see that it would be stupid

 

Palpatine knew the way of the Sith. I think he was trying to lure Anakin in under his watch, but knew that if he was to be killed, it would still send Anakin to the Dark Side. Either way, the Sith win.

 

Doesn't that mean Darth Maul would have to train him?

 

Trolls are always happy to see their trolling is working.

 

It showed that Anakin was well on the path to the Dark Side, and therefore to become his servant. Plus,

 

Palatine was the puppet master. Even as Vader he had no idea until the throne room that he was a punked. Anakin have followed the lie blindly, never questioning anything, as a result of selling his soul for a false promise.

 

In my hypothetical, Anakin arrests Palpatine and brings him to the Jedi Temple. That would've fixed everything.

 

What about Mas? He was the VC & a Sith puppet...

If the Jedi arrested the Chancellor and took him to the Jedi Temple, then Mas would have made the call and Order 66 would have happened a little bit sooner. Once Palpatine got Anakin a seat on the Council, it was all over for the Jedi... they were painted into a corner they could not escape from.

 

I don't think Mace had to check if Anakin's claim was true. Once he arrives at Palpatine's office, he almost immediately ignites his lightsaber and says he's under arrest. And Palpatine did not say anything the least suspicious up until this point to make Mace think he was really a Sith like Anakin claimed, because he only says, "Master Windu, I take it General Grievous has been destroyed?", which actually almost implies the opposite i.e. that his loyalty really does lie to the Republic and Democracy. And Mace said he is under arrest before Palpatine went aggressive and pulled out his saber, so he really had no reason to believe he was Sith other than what Anakin told him. Therefore, he must have trusted Anakin's claim.

 

I think it is a matter of personal pride among Sith masters for them to see their apprentices want to kill them. I remember reading about how Palpatine, coming from a long line of masters who had been killed by their apprentices, basically dumped Maul on some wasteland of a planet and when he returned, he kicked Mauls ass in a duel, then basically told Maul hat he was dumping him as an apprentice. This made Maul want to kill his master so badly, that he bit Palpatine's hand out of desparation. This had been a test for Maul, as wanting to kill your master was the trial of becoming a Sith Lord. I think that Palpatine had the same malicious test going in with Anakin, only more subtly this time around. He played mind games with Skywalker, molding the guy into his own future apprentice. When Anakin revealed that he wished to kill Palpatine, Palpatine saw that Anakin was ready to become a Sith Lord and that his patience had finally paid off.

 

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Although I'm not a big EU man, I found the Darth Bane novels by Drew Karpyshyn to be very useful in throwing light on Sith ideology, including this issue.