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It's Been 5 Years Since Palpatine Was Talking Shit on the Radio in Fortnite

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Star Wars canonicity has never been stretched to its weirdest point since.

Palpatine ’s return to the galaxy came as part of a Fortnite special event this past weekend .

It's already weird enough that it's not in the movie, but the real absurdity is that it is just kind of lost to history.

The dead speak, but also they do not.

A Fortnite event you can’t play any more is as important to the climax of the Skywalker Saga as the movie that tells that climax is, especially given the lengths Star Wars media has gone in the five years since to retroactively justify it.

And perhaps that's as important a message to tell Star Wars fans, obsessed with the truths of its universe as they so often are, as getting the word out that somehow, Palpatine returned is.

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