Once more the Sith will rule the galaxy.
Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
Palpatine também deu uma aparência muito odiosa ao lutar contra o Jedi. Por exemplo, quando confrontado em seu escritório por Mace Windu e outros três mestres Jedi:
E um rosnado para Yoda:
Há mais evidências de que Palpatine obteve força principalmente do ódio. Por exemplo, ele disse a Luke que o ódio o tornaria poderoso:
Ainda assim, quando Palpatine usou o Relâmpago da Força contra Lucas, ele não encorajou Luke a transformar esse sofrimento em combustível para o lado negro.Good! Your hate has made you powerful. Now, fulfill your destiny and take your father's place at my side!
Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi
Outras fontes canônicas indicam que Palpatine ensinou a Vader a importância do ódio em particular como uma fonte de força. Abaixo está uma citação do romance canônico Lords of the Sith , consistindo nos pensamentos de Vader sobre os ensinamentos de Yoda vs. Palpatine:
Yoda once had told him that fear led to hate and hate to suffering. But Yoda had been wrong. Fear was a tool used by the strong to cow the weak. Hate was the font of true strength. Suffering was not the result of the rule of the strong over the weak, order was. By its very existence, the Force mandated the rule of the strong over the weak; the Force mandated order. The Jedi had never seen that, and so they’d misunderstood the Force and been destroyed. But Vader’s Master saw it. Vader saw it. And so they were strong. And so they ruled.
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Mesmo Vader usou seu sofrimento principalmente para alimentar seu ódio, e por sua vez usou seu ódio para ganhar força.
Without the neural connection to his armor, he was conscious of the stumps of his legs, the ruin of his arms, the perpetual pain in his flesh. He welcomed it. Pain fed his hate, and hate fed his strength. Once, as a Jedi, he had meditated to find peace. Now he meditated to sharpen the edges of his anger.
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