Lucasfilm Writer Confirms Palpatine Is Not Anakin's Father

Lucasfilm Writer Confirms Palpatine Is Not Anakin's Father

The final installment of the Skywalker Saga, The Rise of Skywalker, has fans questioning many things and old topics bubbling up to the surface. Beware of spoilers ahead as we discuss Anakin's father.

By AlfredoSauce - Dec 26, 2019 03:12 PM EST
Filed Under: Star Wars
Source: Matt Martin

Yes. You heard that right, Star Wars fans. One of the oldest and most popular questions in the fandom has finally been answered. Is Emperor Palpatine really Anakin Skywalker's father? Was Anakin's birth a product of Darth Sidious' dark practice of The Force? Well, a member of the Lucasfilm Story Group, Matt Martin has stepped in and tweeted the following:

But I can tell you definitively, as someone who worked on the comic, that is 100% not the intended implication. I’m not saying there isn’t a logical misinterpretation that they’re coming to. I’m just telling you definitively that it’s not correct.

The Twitter thread is attached below, where you can read for yourself what exactly is going on. If you are not aware of this issue, a comic book released a while ago featured Sidious manipulating Schmi Skywalker's (Anakin's Mom) womb. Fans thought this was a clear indication that Sidious did in fact "create" Anakin Skywalker and thus began his plan. Like stated above, Matt Martin and now writer Charles Soule cleared up this thought.

Martin says that "the scene is all in Anakin's head" and Soule states that "The dark side is not a reliable narrator." As this issue stands right now, fans are in both sides. Some believe Martin and Soule and some don't. What do you think? If Sidious did not create Anakin, how do you think he was born if he did not have a father? Let us know in the comments below!

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Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 12/26/2019, 4:45 PM
Please, this is Star Wars. Even Vader didn't know he was the father until the absolute last minute ret-con.
L0RDbuckethead
L0RDbuckethead - 12/26/2019, 5:16 PM
Forthas
Forthas - 12/26/2019, 5:18 PM
I always thought that it should be Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas who was mentioned in the Attack of the Clones who should have wound up being Anakin's father. That is how I would have wrote it.

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Sifo-Dyas
SethBullock
SethBullock - 12/26/2019, 7:15 PM
I've never liked the "chosen one" bullsh*t, that he had no father, that the midclowhatevers pregnated his mom somehow and all of that crap, he should just be a great jedi knight that for some reason was tempted by the dark side of the force and became Darth Vader, but finally found redemption thanks to his son, that's all, the prequels had tons of completely unncessary stuff, who was Anakin's father shouldn't matter much, what matters is that he was Luke's father (being also Leia's father was one of the dumbest things on the OT).
Forthas
Forthas - 12/26/2019, 8:54 PM
@SethBullock - This is actually right!
Darkknight2149
Darkknight2149 - 12/26/2019, 8:18 PM
Darth258
Darth258 - 12/26/2019, 10:52 PM
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 12/27/2019, 3:11 AM
Well the full prophecy says something about a kid without a father shall bring balance, so I guess it true what Matt says
Repian
Repian - 12/27/2019, 4:52 AM
Darth Plagueis is Anakin's "father." Shmi Skywalker was a slave of Plagueis. Then, when he feels the betrayal of his apprentice, Plagueis creates Anakin and sells Shmi. Plagueis intends to have Anakin someday kill Palpatine. Anakin is a weapon.
Eli
Eli - 12/28/2019, 9:28 AM
It's all connected...kind of...until we say it isn't.

ROFLMFAO
CassianAndor
CassianAndor - 12/29/2019, 6:55 AM
This should have been Rey’s origin in IX. The Emperor should have revealed how he created Anakin through manipulation of the midichlorians (I don’t think that makes him his father however. The Force is his father) and that he did the same thing again to create Rey. Then Rey really would be a Skywalker, in the sense that she’s the same as Anakin, and she’d still have a connection to the Emperor. And I wouldn’t have to think about the Emperor having sex.
hppavilion1
hppavilion1 - 1/3/2020, 6:35 PM
Point of order: based on Matt Martin's phrasing, he never TECHNICALLY said "Palpatine isn't Anakin's father" [in the sense of "created Anakin through the force], what he said is better phrased as "Palpatine has not officially been stated to be Anakin's father", or "the panel in question wasn't written to mean that Palpatine was Anakin's father".

What probably happened was: that panel was made for whatever reason (maybe to illustrate Palpatine's effect on Anakin's life, maybe because the illustrator wanted to allude to the theory, or maybe it just looked cool), but that the LucasFilm Story Group never gave the authors permission to "reveal" that Palpatine is Anakin's father, and they never meant to take a position one way or the other.

LucasFilm might just still be undecided on whether or not they want to make Palpatine officially have created Anakin (vs. him being a child of the force itself, or perhaps him being Plagueis's creation), and Matt Martin said that so they can keep their options open.
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