10 Star Wars Fan Theories Better Than What We Got
2. Palpatine Drained Padme Of Her Life-Force And Gave It To Anakin
Natalie Portman's Padme Amidala ultimately found herself being dealt perhaps one of the most underwhelming deaths in sci-fi movie history.
In a universe equipped with sinister Force users, many an epic lightsaber duel, and a staggering amount of spectacular battlefield skirmishes that could've all been responsible for this one-time Queen of Naboo's end, Amidala instead wound up depressingly dying of a broken heart post-childbirth.
Many fans have actually theorised that this wasn't the case at all, though, noting how it would actually have made more sense if Darth Vader's new master Emperor Palpatine was the one behind her shocking end.
With the act of his beloved kissing goodbye to the land of the living acting as the final push towards the Dark Side Anakin needed to entirely kill off his Skywalker past, it's not that farfetched to assume Palpatine could've actually been despicably draining away Padme's life-force from across the galaxy; with some even noting that said life-force could've then been used to tragically keep Vader alive, perhaps explaining why the new Sith Lord sensed Padme throughout his transformation.
Whatever way you slice it, anything beats the uninspired choice to simply have Luke and Leia's mum die of a broken heart.