Is Palpatine Anakin Skywalker's father?

Palpatine certainly all but says he is Anakin's father. It's so overt. I guess it is up to the viewer's own interpretation, and sometimes that is best, because you can think whatever you want and make the movie your own. But it seems pretty obvious that Palpatine having something to do with Anakin's birth is quite possible. For me, that is what happened.
 
the opera in that scene was basically a bunch of floating 'eggs' with sperm cells jumping back and forth, as palps talks about 'midichlorians creating life' :behave GL was hitting us over the head with it -- anakin was spawned by the midichlorians.
 
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It is not Palpatine that is technically Anakin's father, but it is actually Darth Plagueis. The experiments that Plagueis conducted over the years of Palpatine's apprenticeship were to accomplish his greater goal of creating a supremely powerful Force-wielder to help complete the Sith Grand Plan of overthrowing the Galactic Republic and destroying the Jedi. The experiments involved many painful procedures on a false Sith apprentice called Darth Venamis, as well as numerous species that possessed any natural affinity to the Force (Toydarians, for example, are impervious to Force Manipulation). Ultimately, Plagueis both succeeded and failed. He did manage to conceive a being of the Force, but failed to learn the child's location in the galaxy. Through a random happenstance, that child was discovered on Tatooine by the Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn.
In other words, no Palpatine is not Anakin's father.
 
As for the question, no he isn't. It's just a story Shmi made up because her baby-daddy ran out on her. :lol
 
the answer you seek, is in the prophecy of the chosen one. ;)

follow:

the jedi caused imbalance in the force, when the Jedi Order was created, as an arm of the galactic senate.
from this moment, the jedi stopped following the will of the force. they followed the will of the people.

they defined "Good" as the Common Good (as per the opera scene in EP3), and anything 'selfish' as "Evil".
they swore to uphold the "will of the people" through democracy and the galactic senate....

(( note: eventually, the will of the people was corrupted by politics until it matched the 'selfish' will of the Sith Lord;
the jedi found themselves using the force to fight a never-ending war for national security, driven by the people's Fear.
they were "using the force" AGAINST ITS WILL -- this causes imbalance in the force ))

....and the Force responded, by spawning its Chosen One, to wipe out ALL force users who were NOT following the will of the force.
Jedi AND sith, alike.

((the jedi were doomed by their connection to the galactic senate -- which was introduced as "corrupt" in TPM --
they should NEVER have allowed this corrupt body to "guide their actions"))




only qui-gon used the force to enact the will of the force, even when it went against the council (and the senate).
he did not define "good" as the Common Good, as determined by popular vote.
he allowed a higher power to define his concept of "Good", and he was rewarded with Immortality.

in the end, the only one left is Luke, who was taught "let go your conscious self" and "let the force guide your actions".
this is a FAR CRY from the prequel jedis "..we will do EXACTLY as the council has instructed".

the message of SW is not "good" vs "evil", but rather, dynamic morality vs static morality:
if we allow Morality to change according to politics, then eventually good becomes evil.
(its a cautionary tale, re: separation of church and state)




the Jedi Order, being created to serve the senate, was the very mechanism by which the sith took over the galaxy.
(the sith need only control the senate, to control the jedi -- to control both sides of the force)

Balance was restored when the Jedi were no longer sworn to the will of the Senate, over the will of the Force:
when the 'very mechanism' which allowed this to happen, was dismantled.

Balance was restored when (a) the jedi order was destroyed in ep3, when (b) the senate was abolished in ep4,
and when (c ) the sith were finally destroyed in ep6. ((when Luke is free, to follow the will of the force)).

--> anakin was spawned BY the Force .. to destroy the Jedi Order and kill off all its younglings.
(THIS is the ONLY way, for The Force, to restore its own balance).


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short answer: "Teh FORCE" is anakin's daddy.

he was spawned BY the force, to "...end the destructive conflict and bring order to the galaxy".

(to wipe out the JEdi, abolish the senate .. and destroy the sith)


I like this as the best explanation. It brings the karmic debt of the Jedi into the equation, and it's resolution of the debt.
 
Istly: Thegreatgalling, I dig this topic!
IIndly : Welcome DarthRavenn!
And IIIrdly: I agree that Plagueis is Anakin's father.I think Plagueis knew it was coming and because of his betrayal by Palpatines hand, Plagueis's creation of Anakin "the ultimate Sith being" was his forseen plan of creation by willing the force from his own death/the other side, but at the same time his ultimate revenge on Palpatine. For his own Sithly satisfaction

It is not Palpatine that is technically Anakin's father, but it is actually Darth Plagueis. The experiments that Plagueis conducted over the years of Palpatine's apprenticeship were to accomplish his greater goal of creating a supremely powerful Force-wielder to help complete the Sith Grand Plan of overthrowing the Galactic Republic and destroying the Jedi. The experiments involved many painful procedures on a false Sith apprentice called Darth Venamis, as well as numerous species that possessed any natural affinity to the Force (Toydarians, for example, are impervious to Force Manipulation). Ultimately, Plagueis both succeeded and failed. He did manage to conceive a being of the Force, but failed to learn the child's location in the galaxy. Through a random happenstance, that child was discovered on Tatooine by the Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn.
In other words, no Palpatine is not Anakin's father.
 
Arise, ye dead and rotting thread . . . ;)

I think this whole discussion illustrates why Lucas's movies are such a wonderful mythology (in the truest sense of that word), and will still be talked about and analyzed a thousand years from now, just like we still talk about and analyze the Iliad. Despite all the story holes and silly plotlines of the OT and the PT, they are in essence myths, and what they really deal with are universal questions about humanity that everyone at every place and time grapples with. What is good, what is evil? How and why does good turn into evil? (So many characters in the movies start out good, then turn arrogant, self-important and evil through the best of intentions---Dooku, Anakin, the Jedi Order itself). What does it mean to be truly human? Is our destiny set, or can we alter it?

That is why "Star Wars" will endure, and "Transformers" or "Aliens" will not.
 
Here's a question.

When Yoda feels Anakin's pain while slaughtering the Sand People we can clearly hear what sounds a hell of a lot like Palpatine shouting "NOOOOOO!"

It's definitely not Qui-Gonn's voice, neither is it Yoda's. Is it Palpy?
 
Man, did none of you guys read "Darth Plagueis" by James Luceno? Of all EU, this book had the most direct involvement an approval from LucasFilm and GL himself. It is left vague, but to me it is implied that Anakin was created by the Force as a counter to attempts by Plagueis and Palpatine to grow their dark side power.
 
It's definitely Qui-Gonn shouting Anakin's name but the "NOOOOO!" sounds nothing like him.

Then shouldn´t Palpatine shout something like "Yay, yay, you badass mofo, kill them all! And the women! And the children, too! Muahahahaa!"? Would make more sense when you want to get this emo to the dark side.
 
Then shouldn´t Palpatine shout something like "Yay, yay, you badass mofo, kill them all! And the women! And the children, too! Muahahahaa!"? Would make more sense when you want to get this emo to the dark side.

Now I really want to hear the Emperor say "badass mofo"... :lol
 
Here's a question.

When Yoda feels Anakin's pain while slaughtering the Sand People we can clearly hear what sounds a hell of a lot like Palpatine shouting "NOOOOOO!"

It's definitely not Qui-Gonn's voice, neither is it Yoda's. Is it Palpy?

I had a question related to this question.
When Anakin said that he kill all the sand people, did he meant that particular tribe or the whole species?
If it is only the community, probably couldn't create so much disturbance in the Force.
If it is the whole species, why there are still sand people in ANH?

IMHO, it should be the whole species, because that'll be the base experience for Anakin for getting closer to dark side, so later on he can wipe out the whole Jedi (species). What bothers me is the continuation to ANH, because Sand People still pops out. My thinking was that the sand people is more like "a way of life" which can consist mixed species. When it was wiped out before, some people will turn into "another" sand people, and created a new sand people community.
 
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