While throughout the entire Star Wars Saga, Palpatine/Sidious has shown himself to be a ruthless and manipulative monster, he shows a rare moment of compassion in this film when he recovers the horrendously burned Anakin's body from Mustafar. He even goes as far to seemingly comfort his apprentice physically with a hand on the side of his scarred head, almost like a father would comfort a son. Quite appropriate, given that this film was to originally address the 'virgin birth' of Anakin and reveal that Palpatine used the Dark Side to manipulate the cells in Shmi Skywalker's womb to create Anakin, thus figuratively and literally being Anakin's father in all ways except biologically.

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