10. The Emperor Survives
Emperor Palpatine got lobbed down a shaft of the second Death Star. Hes dead. End of. Right? Um, not so much Until the Disney takeover wiped the slate clean, the 1990s comic book series Dark Empire was considered canon for over two decades. Within these pages, it was revealed that the Emperor himself, the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, had actually survived the events of Return Of The Jedi. The cloak-wearing evildoer achieved this state of not-deadness using a technology that has since become part of the very fabric of the film franchise cloning. Before we had learned that the original Stormtroopers were all clones of Jango Fett, the Emperor had ensured himself an infinite lifespan by keeping a few copies of his wrinkly old self on the sly. Years after Return Of The Jedi, Luke sensed a great disturbance in the Force, was sucked into a Force-based anomaly and found himself face to face with the Emperor - alive and well, with his mind and consciousness transferred into a new clone body. If anything, the perishable lifespan of the clone form actually meant hed become more unstable and consumed by the Dark Side. This same story also featured another hefty shock soon after