“Born the most powerful Jedi in the galaxy — and brought down by the one thing he could not let go.”
A man torn between genius and fear. His terror of losing what he loves is so overwhelming that it becomes the very thing that causes him to lose it. The Jedi principle of non-attachment was an impossible demand for him — and Palpatine knew exactly where to dig. He fell not because he was villainous, but because he was too human.