Who is the shadowy villain of the Sequel Trilogy?
Both physically and metaphorically, Supreme Leader Snoke loomed large overStar Wars: The Force Awakens.
Have you felt it…?).
Does his ravaged appearance mean that hes a character weve seen in earlierStar Warsstories?
The following is an attempt to compare the various theories weve read online so far.
The fan theory goes that Plagueis is far less dead than Palpatine thought he was.
Perhaps using his power over midi-chlorians, Plagueis managed to revive himself and assume his place as Supreme Leader.
First, LucenosDarth Plagueisnovel is no longer considered canon by Disney-Lucasfilm.
In May this year, Hidalgo plainlystatedthat Plagueis died at the hands of Sidious (or Palpatine).
Other than this, the evidence for Palpatine being Snoke is rather flimsy.
I can confirm that, he told the crowd at the Anaheim Star Wars Celebration.
George [Lucas] was quite categorical.
Was there really much of his body left for Palpatine to possess?
Evidence?Well, Snoke certainly looks old.
As with the other ideas weve seen so far, it suggests that the character in question never died.
Would Windu be so bent on revenge that hed destroy half the galaxy to get it?
And would he really put on an English accent while doing so?
Is the Grand Inquisitor a familiar enough character to warrant such secrecy, though?
It is very much a newly-introduced character, Serkis also toldEW.
I think itd be fair to say that he is aware of the past to a great degree.
Theres more evidence to support the new character theory, too.
Ah, you may be saying by now.
But Snoke appears as a hologram throughoutThe Force Awakens.
Couldnt this be a disguise of some sort?
Might Snoke be revealed as an entirely different-looking character in later films?
But stop and think about the dramatic implications of revealing Snoke as an entirely different character for a moment.
Or Anakin Skywalker possessed by the spirit of Emperor Palpatine.
Or Jar Jar Binks, whos somehow managed to hide his accent.
Would you be impressed by this revelation, or slightly deflated?
Wed wager it would be the latter.
Just a few days before the release ofThe Last Jedi,Serkis told Empirethat Snoke wasnt a Sith.
Without giving too much away, that begins to unfold a little in this one.
Hes terribly powerful, of course.
But he is also a very vulnerable and wounded character,Serkis told EW.
He has suffered and he has suffered injury.
The way that his malevolence comes out is in reaction to that.
His hatred of the Resistance is fueled by whats happened to him personally.
What was done to the heavily-scarred Snoke that made him hate the Resistance so much?
Whatever it was, theres a chance well learn about it at some point inThe Last Jedi.
TheStar Warssaga has long been one of family connections and hidden puppet masters controlling events from behind the scenes.
