10 More Crazy Star Wars Theories That Might Not Be Quite So Crazy

10. Palpatine Drained Padmé's Life Force To Keep Anakin Alive

Padmé (Natalie Portman) dies in Revenge of the Sith after "losing the will to live" - a head-scratching outcome which has baffled fans ever since the film's release almost 20 years ago.

But fans have managed to put it into perspective through a wild yet shockingly plausible theory, that Padmé really died because Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) was draining her life force in order to sustain a gravely wounded Anakin (Hayden Christensen).

Given that this very film has Palpatine tell Anakin about Darth Plagueis and his ability to stop those he cares about from dying, and Palpatine was his apprentice no less, it absolutely tracks that he would've learned to use the Dark Side of the Force in a similar manner.

Sure, giving Palps the ability to just Force-drain anyone he wants from a vast distance would make him grossly overpowered, but it still makes more sense than Padmé giving up and dying a weird, lousy death because George Lucas remembered she can't be around for the next movies.