10 Underrated Star Wars Legends Characters That Deserve A Second Chance

10. Darth Plagueis

Although Darth Plagueis is technically still canon thanks to the now heavily meme’d dialogue referencing him in Revenge of the Sith, his previously explored backstory in the 2012 novel ‘Plagueis’ by James Luceno is not. Darth Plagueis is now, effectively, an even more mysterious character than he was in Legends.

We now know extraordinarily little of him in the Canon other than he was a powerful Sith able to prevent death. The Tarkin novel (Also written by James Luceno) confirms he is still Palpatine’s master in the canon.

Mortality in Star Wars is a complicated affair, and the return of this Sith Lord could shed some light on the obscure Sith alchemy that allowed Palpatine to return from the dead. He has even more potential if you factor in the heavy speculation that he may have conceived Anakin through manipulating Midi-chlorians.

His obsession with saving his loved ones from dying makes him stand out against the usually narcissistic intentions of his peers. Laying some interesting foundations for the character. Or perhaps this was a steppingstone on the way to learning how to prevent his own demise.

It is entirely possible however that Palpatine conceived the story of Darth Plagueis the wise to lure Anakin to the Dark Side. (He is hardly a trustworthy individual, after all.)