Star Wars 9 Rise of Skywalker: Is THIS how Palpatine survived after Return of the Jedi?

Of course, there’s a tank on Exegol growing Snoke clones, since Palpatine was using the Supreme Leader as his puppet to rule over the First Order and manipulate Ben Solo to the Dark Side as Kylo Ren.

As Screen Rant points out, Palpatine may have transferred his consciousness into a clone of himself, but then why is he older and blind?

Nevertheless, there are other areas of Star Wars canon that teased Palpatine’s possible return and how it was achieved.

Firstly, Chuck Wendig’s Aftermath trilogy, which charted the galaxy’s canon history after the events of Return of the Jedi saw Palpatine’s followers believing he would return one day.