The Rise of Skywalker/YMMV

These things about  are subjective - not everyone will agree with all of them.


 * Memetic Mutation: "Somehow, Palpatine returned". Because this is basically all the audience gets on the movie itself of an explanation of how exactly Palpatine survived being thrown into the pit of a battle station that later exploded, variations of the sentence began to be used to mock either fictious or real unexplained recoveries in fiction.
 * Older Than They Think: Many fans were upset when the movie revealed that Palpatine had been The Man Behind The Man the whole time, believing this cheapened Anakin's Heroic Sacrifice at the end of Return of the Jedi by making it a Senseless Sacrifice. Of course, this is hardly the first version where Palpatine survived, as Expanded Universe stories set after the Battle of Endor (now regarded as non-canon due to the movies) show, having prepared numerous clones of himself and using Body Surfing to transfer his consciousness to them. In fact, he seriously Came Back Strong, proving capable of a Dark Side technique called a Force Storm that could obliterate all life on a planet. He wasn't truly Killed Off For Real until the Dark Horse Comics limited series Empire's End 2, seven years after the events of Return of the Jedi, and even then, many characters in stories set afterwards wondered if he had truly died. Although, given how it happened, he likely did.