8 Hidden Facts You Never Knew About Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith
6. “His Fate Will Be The Same As Ours" Was Actually Foreshadowing
Back to the opening section of Lucas' last prequel we go, and to an intriguing moment that goes down just after Anakin Skywalker obeyed Chancellor Palpatine when he told him to "DO IT!"
When the latter throws another order at his future apprentice, Anakin chooses to ignore it, however.
Palpatine told him to leave a knocked out Obi-Wan behind or the pair of them wouldn't make it off the ship alive. And how did Skywalker respond to this? By letting Sheev known that "his fate will be the same as ours," before carrying Kenobi to safety.
In the moment, this likely felt like little more than Anakin stubbornly refusing to leave his master behind. But the more you think about it, you start to realise that this was actually some secret Lucas foreshadowing.
You see, all three of these men do indeed share the same fate in the end, not just in these opening moments, but later down the road.
After surviving the cruiser crash, and the Empire eventually rising post-Order 66, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Emperor Palpatine, and Darth Vader all die on the Death Star.
Sure, they technically perished on different versions of the giant space station - Obi-Wan on the first, and the latter two on the second - but a Death Star is a Death Star, right? And this little throwaway line in Episode III hinted at all three men's deaths years before they happened.
Also, though he did (unfortunately) "somehow" return in the sequels, Palpatine did initially die on the Death Star II.
In other words, this still counts as a subtle piece of foreshadowing.