Darth Plagueis Was SECRETLY in THIS Phantom Menace Scene!

Star Wars The Phantom Menace secretly had Darth Plagueis the Wise watching Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker from nearby just before Palpatine killed his Sith Lord. In this Star Wars Explained video, we look at why this matters to George Lucas' prequel trilogy.
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0:00 Intro
0:51 Darth Plagueis Was Secretly in Episode 1: The Phantom Menace EXPLAINED!

[@StarWarsMeg]

Did YOU see The Phantom Menace 25th anniversary screening?

[@DaleESkywalker]

I did, but I forgot to wait for the special screening of The Acolyte!

[@michelleb5753]

Theater was packed 😊

[@ajra6143]

Saw it in 4DX (seats move, vibrate, and blow air for extra immersion), it was a hell of an experience.

[@DaleESkywalker]

That would be awesome AJRA!

[@kyleruth6921]

Yup with my son! First showing and theater was not too busy in a theater near NYC, so not low population. A bit disappointed, not the experience I was expecting.

[@stevenlewis2997]

I saw it 25 years ago on the big screen and on the weekend I took my 12 year old to see it. The circle is now complete.

[@hothmandon]

Palpatine should get his own series on how he started out as a kid and became the villain we know and love today. He murdered his whole family on the family yatch and sent it into the nearest star.

[@rawmilkdrinker]

disney would ruin it

[@shamussilliker-vz6iz]

Thanks for the great content!! Keep up the great work 👍

[@mikelambsworld4368]

I always highly recommend this novel. Whether it’s canon or not, to me, this book is exactly how it all happened. It really does make The Phantom Menace a much better movie. It was my first Star Wars novel and has always been my favorite, and I read it 8 times.

[@artiemedley9369]

So, the Sith WEREN'T extinct for a millennium. I KNEW it!

[@busternineshoes]

Do remember this is fantasy, not real life.

[@AnakinSkywalker-qe2rk]

Plagues , palptine, tembores

[@theamazonprince7132]

I did see it. I'm a recent ish fan of star wars. Jar jar binks is my favorite character in star wars so it was nice seeing him on the big screen

[@Nautilus1972]

Troll

[@brooklynboiprod]

​@@Nautilus1972More like snowflake

[@stephenrodwell]

Thanks Meg! 🙏🏼

[@LorteSandalerMedIs]

... "And that convinced him, the success of the great grand plan, depended on Darth Maul, successfully killing Qui-Gon Jin" - I do not understand how Darth Plagueis could have had this thought, given that he didn't know about Darth Maul. Maul was Sidious own secret project that he kept from his master.

[@dianesinger9729]

Well done I always wondered about Plagueis

[@ianhenry1031]

Hi Meg, awesome video, very interesting video thank you SWM

[@40ozAk]

Amazing book, enhances Phantom Menace so much.

[@teejay1035]

Great video, Meg. Maybe, just maybe, The Acolyte is a toe in the water towards an adaptation of the Plageus novel.

[@HeroesNights]

I think there's a good chance of this. The writers are big legends fans and it'd be at the right time for either Plageuis or tenebrous to appear

[@seanhardner5842]

Plagius is secretly in EVERY scene!! He’s the freaking phantom menace!!!🙄

[@canderousmorningstar3121]

That is such a great book!! It's my favorite SW novel.

[@CosminNeagu]

Very strange that George never included Plagueis into the movies although his influence on Episode I's events is very substantial.

[@colinleat8309]

The Jedi believed the Sith were extinct, Bane, rule of 2. That's what they wanted the Jedi to believe, and it worked!

[@KristinePixler]

I did see the Phantom Menace 25th anniversary screening on Saturday. I grew up on the original 6 movies so I've seen the Phantom Menace neerly a 100 times by now, so it was interesting to see Episode 1 the Phantom Menace on the big screen. I ended up noticing things I didn't notice before and I thought the new acolyte trailer was cool. Now I'm looking forward to watching the new show next month.

[@donnicholas7552]

Interesting!

[@DaleESkywalker]

Have you heard the tragedy of Darth Plagueis, "The Wise"?

[@AnakinSkywalker-qe2rk]

No

[@brettmanus7904]

That creates a bit of a problem with the whole 'rule of 2' silliness.

[@brianstrutter1501]

Rule of 2 always has the apprentice kill the master. So the apprentice sometimes already has their plan in place to kill their master and already have an apprentice lined up

[@ChannelForty2]

They need to make a movie based on the book!!!!

[@wigglemd]

Thanks Meg! Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you. Here, between you, me, the tree, the rock-everywhere

[@ceemichel]

Sidious was Plageius' apprentice. When he killed his master, he became master and he then took Maul on as his apprentice, which had already occurred by the time Phantom Menace takes place. After Maul's demise, Sidious replaced him with Count Dooku. When he instructed Anakin to do away with Dooku, it opened the possibility for Anakin to become his apprentice.

[@Sockimus]

Wrong. Sidious was Plagueis's apprentice and Sidious took on Maul to training while still in training with Plagueis. Maul was nothing more than an assassin that trained in the dark side of the force than a real Darth.

[@bigtomboye]

Unbelievably bad 😔

[@toddbonny3708]

You can't have scenes from TPM from as many angles as we do and NOT show Plagueis himself. He is conspicuously absent.

[@likeluptid]

And this is where the novel conflicts with what George Lucas presented on the films and the Clone Wars series. The imbalance in the Force was not caused by Plagueis. For many years, there existed the Sith and the Jedi together, even though the Jedi thought that the Sith were extinct. Both of them were influencing the galaxy, one secretly and the other openly. The influence of the light and dark sides of the Force upon the galaxy is what was considered balance. As the Sith increased its influence, the balance became a little shaky, but balance was maintained until Order 66 removed the light of the Jedi Order from the galaxy, and there remained only the dark influence of the Sith, by way of the Empire. The prophecy that Anakin would restore balance had already been pointing to Order 66 for many years, but there was no way for anyone to figure that out. Later, when Anakin removed the Sith, the influence of the light and the dark sides of the Force became balanced again so that you afterward see good and bad elements throughout the galaxy, but never too much of either one. If this wasn't understood before, George Lucas clarified this in the Clone Wars during 3 Mortis episodes, in which the Father mistakenly believed that he was to be replaced by Anakin. Anakin's role in the prophecy at first glance seemed to match the Father's job description, and that's why he made the mistake. But at the end of the 3rd episode, he realized that the imbalance in the Force came when the Daughter was killed and only the Son's dark influence on the planet remained. The planet afterward looked like the galaxy during the Empire. When Anakin killed the Son, the Father realized his mistake and acknowledged that the Daughter's death was the beginning of the imbalance; and Anakin restored balance without replacing anyone. The writer of the novel, evidently didn't understand what it meant for the Force to be out of balance, just as the Jedi and Sith within the Star Wars saga also didn't understand. Kenobi's confusion on Mustafar was epic, and fully represented by the Father who was a picture of the Jedi High Council that Kenobi was a part of. When the Son, that is, the Sith, destroyed the Daughter, or The Jedi Order, with its own weapon, the Clone Army, or "dagger of Mortis," at Order 66, that's when a 20 year imbalance in the influence that the Force had upon the galaxy. Plagueis did not create any imbalance. Both the light and the dark were harmoniously influencing the galaxy for some 19 or 20 years before Order 66.

[@lorigoshert6667]

True, but in the book Plagueis "believes" that the imbalance was caused by him. Doesn't mean he was right (we know that the Sith were arrogant, so him falsely believing that he was the cause of something is pretty within character). And if they're planning to canonize parts of the Legends book, this may just be part of it they leave behind (or they'll make it clear Plagueis was wrong about it).

[@likeluptid]

@lorigoshert6667 I, myself, know nothing of the book. I knew that one way or another, Plagueis must have had something to do with Anakin's birth, but I didn't know until yesterday that it was in that novel. Also, I didn't know that there was a Plagueis novel until 2 or 3 days ago when someone on KZbin spoke of it and said that it's a good novel to read if you want to know about the Sith and Plaagueis; but the novel itself isn't very good at all. I thought that Star Wars Meg was saying the Force became imbalanced around the time of Anakin's birth.

[@davidm4566]

Lucas said that the dark side itself was the imbalance. Like in real life, there is no balance between light and dark. Dark is the absence of light and immediately disappears when light is present.

[@likeluptid]

@davidm4566 That's not what he put in The Clone Wars or the movies. He even has several illustration of the dark and light making them look like yin and yang. The explanation that he gives of the light and the dark as if one embodies a self-sacrificing spirit and the other as a self-serving attitude; and you have to have BOTH to have a healthy disposition. While you are thoughtful of other people you have to take care of yourself too. He even made sure in Yoda's trials that Yoda learned this, that every healthy person must have dark and light. So I have no idea why you would even think to say something so opposite of everything that George Lucas HIMSELF has said, illustrated (especially in the Mortis episodes), and made a part of the Star Wars Story. And I've not even said the half. I can talk all night about what you actually saw in the movies and The Clone Wars.

[@davidm4566]

@@likeluptid I was going by what George Lucas said in one of his interviews. Also, he doesn't make those illustrations, his people do. He just OKs it when he thinks they look good enough to his standards.

[@danielnethanel9667]

Is it canon or not?

[@lorigoshert6667]

The book is not canon, but much of it can easily fit into canon if Lucasfilm wishes it to be so. If Amandla Stenberg's character in the Acolyte is indeed a Sith apprentice, that might necessitate some changes (Darth Tenebrous, who would have been the Sith master at the time if going by the Legends book, as he lived a long time, would have had to be training fallen Jedi rather than simply diving into Bith science, and training Plagueis and a secret Bith apprentice), but not huge ones since that's still several years before the events of the Darth Plagueis book.

[@idiot_city5244]

​@lorigoshert6667 if they wipe this stuff out to make it all about Amandala's terrible, trash character, I'm going to vomit lol...

[@TheLeatheryman]

Darth Plagueis was having Jawa juice with Quinlan Vos in Mos Espa pretty sure

[@Jasen-Richie]

Darth Plagueis, such a good book. Thanks for the vid, Meg.

[@ajzepp8976]

25 years ago...wtf. How is that even possible.

[@Nautilus1972]

Old news. There’s already a video on this ….

[@kandy1515]

Loved darth plagueis book

[@thedelaylamakaraokeclub4100]

More like Darth AI of the voiceover!

[@toddkurzbard]

Have you ever seen the video of Darth Plaguis The Wise?

[@debbralehrman5957]

What happened it was like you just dropped off In the middle of your conversation? Thanks Make for your observations. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🌹

[@lamaderarobles]

Interesting

[@nathanoutdoors7981]

WOW 🤩

[@user-yc9vv9xb8s]

Star Wars Meg, I was right and correct the force has a will of its own it works in mysterious ways it exist everywhere and all of Star Wars and it gave life created and conceived Anakin Skywalker through shmi Skywalker’s womb via midichlorians So yes,fact in Star Wars canon confirm, stated and established by George Lucas himself the real true creator and father of Anakin Skywalker is the force itself not Palpatine nor plagues

[@paulsarnik8506]

Yeah! He let Sid' get himself drunk and wasted him 🙀so he wasn't THAT wise 🤷🏼‍♂️🤓😎✌🏼

[@toddrowlands2002]

Yeah g'day, Yes, I feel that we need a Filoniesque kind of treatment for Darth Plagueis. It's a goodnight from you and it's a goodnight from the broken, cantankerous, belligerent, obnoxious, obstinate, obstreperous, cynical Old Fart

[@freebobafett]

Was there more or was that how you meant to end the video? It felt like it was abruptly cut off and there was a missing conclusion that you forgot to add or cut off at the last minute.

[@Digital111]

I was listening to this with my phone in my pocket and thought a timer I had was about to go off and had paused the video 😅

[@freebobafett]

@@Digital111 good. I wasn't the only one. It really seemed like she was building to some sort of conclusion that tied everything together and then...nothing. maybe it was more of a report and less of an essay type piece. That's fine. It just seemed abrupt.

[@ziggiezaggie]

SHUT THE FRONT DOOR!!

[@brianstrutter1501]

This book seemed to be just as much about Palpatine as it was about Plagueis. Not a bad book tho. Bane books are better

[@SezarOroo]

Meg you need a better mic, your voice isn't very clear when you speak.

[@thedelaylamakaraokeclub4100]

It’s AI

[@shaunsutton699]

Great, anything else Disney wants to change from George Lucas’s Star Wats?

[@cockapootoo]

It would be nice to understand what she says 😉

[@rickyhaggerty6159]

Yeah, along with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Captain America, Peter Griffin and all the Disney princesses. Except sleeping beauty... She couldn't make it for obvs reasons. Star Wars is an absolute fucking mess now from top to bottom and all this "off screen" character bullshit has to stop! Its ruined... Enjoy it for what it was and move on!

[@JENX1976]

Is yoda the greatest of all jedi? Why is he so unaware.....for somebody so old and wise in the force, He really is a failure.