The Palpatine family is a fictional dynastic human family in the Star Wars franchise. Within the series, the Palpatines are presented as a bloodline with strong inherent capabilities to the Force, a metaphysical and ubiquitous power to which users can matching their personal wills to/exploit to try and bend it toward their destructive desires. The Sith Lord Senator/Chancellor/Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine/Darth Sidious is the main antagonist of both the Skywalker Saga and the franchise as a whole; First Order Supreme Leader Snoke (a failed strand-cast clone of Sidious), and the last Jedi Rey (Palpatine's granddaughter) are central characters in the sequel Star Wars film trilogy; of the Palpatine bloodline, Rey's father, Dathan (another failed strand-cast clone of Sidious) is the only me