“If so powerful you are, why leave?” Yoda will forever be a badass.

Guards: _prepare weapons_ Yoda: "Sit the fuck down, you will."

I refuse to believe that Yoda couldn't beat Palpatine but Rey did. Disney is a joke.

“If so powerful you are, why leave?” Yoda was a badass

The CGI for Yoda actually holds up pretty well to today’s standards, impressive

You have to admire Palpatine’s outlook on life. Always laughing, always smiling. Very positive guy.

I always loved how Yoda just casually yeets those imperial guards when he walks in

Yoda's line "if so powerful you are, why leave?"is really a terrific bit of dialogue. Yoda declares his intention to kill Palps.

The greatest villain in movie history is a politician. Seems about right.

I remember the theater busting out laughing when Yoda straight up slams the royal guards against the wall 😂

"Fucked around you have Darth Sidious. Find out you will!"

Yoda was 900 years old but only 30 years away from death by old age. That's like a 78 year old human getting into a fight.

Yoda fought the Senate in the Senate while the Senate was throwing the Senate at Yoda

The fact that two old dudes have a more fast paced fight compared to literally any fight in the sequels 💀

Most casual dispute at the retirement home

To this day Yoda just casually knocking out the two guards like that makes me laugh

Ian Mcdiarmid's insane, over the top acting was the best thing about this movie. I love how he's STILL cackling evilly when he's about to fall. Dude's high on the dark side

"If so powerful - why leave?" that's that OG talk

“If so powerful you are , why leave ?” Dam those bad ass words

”If so powerful you are, why leave?” The most badass quote in the whole franchise!

When Yoda first pushes Palpatine and falls over the chair is still the most hilarious part of this fight. It looks like a blooper they left in 😂😂

"if so powerful you are, why leave?" this is badass

1:32 "If so powerful, you are ... Why leave?" 🔥🔥🔥

Darth Sidious ....Always smiling, laughing . Very positive guy. Edit : Aah so many likes and comments. Positivity follows wherever I go!

"If so powerfull you are... WHY LEAVE?" - Master yoda

I think we can all agree the prequels have the best lightsaber duel

One of the coldest lines ever heard “if so powerful you are… why leave?” LIKE ATE HIM TF UP

The Emperor is such a happy and positive person. He's always laughing and smiling

What struck me the first time I saw this was that here we see Yoda with murder on his mind. Here he’s facing a man who has taken everything from not only the Jedi but him personally. Tricked him, killed almost all his friends, and corrupted his apprentice (Dooku). This is more than just Jedi versus Sith. This is personal.

Two of the best light saber battles in one movie. All these years later

Yoda said if you really bout that life why you tryna run homie😂😂😭

"If so powerfull you are, why leave?" One of the best line ever.

Let's be real here, the most badass part of this whole fight is when Yoda starts it by just casually tossing the emperor's bodyguards against the wall like a pair of dirty socks.

Two nursing home grandpas fight over the final prune juice.

If this is what two fully trained Jedi and Sith can do in a duel imagine going back thousands of years when there were hundreds of them. That would be insane. We need an Old Republic saga now.

There's probably a security guard tripping absolute balls watching this on CCTV.

Always wondered what the hell Sidious was looking at. At the start of the scene he's just chilling, daydreaming about shit.

1:46 that saber draw is incredibly smooth

The elderly home after 2 old people forget to take their meds:

Yoda is the most badass 900 year old goblin alien thing ever

“If so powerful you are, why leave?” One of my favorite lines in the whole series. Sidious is always talking about power and how the dark side is the path to receive unlimited. In that moment Yoda insulted his ego and faith in the dark side. Basically saying if u believe the dark power you have is superior to the light, why are you cowering? Ugh I love it.

Always funny to me how even though they're enemies, palp still addresses yoda as master

That has to be the coldest line of all time, “ if so powerful you are, why leave ?

I thought it was a nice touch to have Palpatine gleefully laughing like a kid when he gets to unleash the force. He's enjoying every second of it and it adds depth to his character and lends credibility to the idea that the Dark Side has an addictive quality.

bruh level of disrespect Palpatine's two guards got when Yoda entered the room

’If so powerful you are, why leave?’ One of the most badass quotes ever🔥

Palpatine has good manners, referring to his arch nemesis as master yoda

Imagine being the most elite bodyguards in the galaxy and Yoda utterly destroys you with a simple wave of his hand. I love Yoda!

I absolutely love this line “If so powerful you are, why leave?”

Sidious getting force pushed over the chair is actually hilarious

"And not short enough, it was" Yoda always had such a good sense of humour

"If so powerful you are, why leave" best line ever.

"Faith in your new apprentice, misplaced may be." Yoda knew all along, that Anakin would slay Sidious in the end.

Imagine being one of these two red guards. You spend years of training to be a personal guard of a Chancellor and you end up being defeated in one second by a barely walking frog.

I remember the whole theater laughed and cheered when yoda knocked out the two guards

How extremely powerful this scene actually is baffles me. It’s like the ultimate boss battle at the end of the game and of course Palpatine is throwing the very seats of democracy he used in his secret plan to take full control. Doesn’t get more poetic than that.

The symbolism of them fighting in the main senate room is excellent. The Jedi and Sith are going toe-to-toe with each other in their most critical conflict of modern times, but the empty pods all around really reflect how ultimately, the galaxy is not seeing. That room represents every member world of the Republic, and its emptiness is a pretty nice metaphor for how none of them know what's going on. Sidious throwing them at Yoda and into each other is an amazing parallel for how he really feels about the planets and people they represent; they're all pawns for him to manipulate to help destroy the Jedi. He doesn't care if he makes them crush each other in the process; he just needs to get rid of his rivals no matter what. At the same time, Yoda throws one back; even the Jedi would regretfully cause the downfall of others to preserve their order if they felt they had to, selfless code or not. Adherence to their morals is no longer an option when extinction is trying to bite them in the throat.

“If so powerful, why leave” Yoda the savage

It's clear how much fun Ian Mcdiamid had playing Palpatine. Those laughs were of pure evil enjoyment I also love the way Yoda knocks out the guards with a slight hand swipe and they fall down so goofily

I remember the audience laughing in the theater so hard when Yoda casually pushed aside the guards 🤣🤣

When Yoda knocked those guards out at the start I remember the whole cinema laughing, good times!

Yoda's entrance always makes me laugh. He fuckin yeeted those dudes to the wall lmao

I’m so happy I grew up watching these movies I have no clue how OT Fans hated on this fight seeing Yoda and Sidious go face to face was just pure awesomeness to my kid brain

Having Yoda fight Sidious was pure genius. Best part of the movie.

I just love this shot at 2:23 when they rise into the senate chamber. The ultimate fight between good and evil, where the Emperor finally shows his true colors in front of the Galactic Senate, and nobody can see it. Just as everybodyy was blind to his machinations for all those years, now there is nobody around to witness his true self.

The way he knocks out the guards always kills me 😂😂

"If so powerful you are, why leave?" Yoda wanted all that smoke fr

Interesting Palp’s reaction to Yoda’s first force push. He likely had never experienced that in a long time, someone who could actually knock him off his feet with the force that he couldnt counter

Whilst the fight ended before a winner could be crowned, Yoda clearly had the upper hand multiple times. He even caused Palpatine fear and distress when he reflected his force lightning.

We need to say thank you to the Dysney trilogy. Just because after watching the Dysney trilogy, we can finally realize how much great THESE movies were.

‘So then I threw the Senate at him’...

Fun fact: Sidious was very scared to fight yoda this whole time because he knew yoda could beat him with a lightsaber. That’s why he tried hard to gain distance and only use the force on him because he knew that was the only way he could beat him.

Revenge of the Sith did really well showcasing the greatest of the Jedi vs the greatest of the Sith, without it overshadowing the true story which was the duel between Ani and Obi happening in tandem.

Such a shame Yoda lost his lightsaber. Sidious didn't stand a chance against Master Yoda in blade to blade combat, and he knew it too.

Yoda was an absolute Sigma force pushing those puny guards. He be like: "out of my fucking way"

I always wondered why Palpatine was laughing but this was probably one of the few times in his life that he met someone who was equally as skilled and powerful as him.

“So I threw the Senate at him....”

I like how palpatine is hanging on for dear life and just laughing.

The beginning of this scene gets better with time. We’ve now officially seen the Red Guard and to see Yoda walk in and just wave his hand “No.” is perfect lmao😂 says so much more now than it did then.

“If so powerful you are, why leave?” Yoda to cold with it 🥶

Imagine all the members of the Senate the next day like... whut happened to our chairs 🤔

I love that one guy hangin' out with Sidious whose neck Yoda didn't snap, just kinda nonchalantly shuffles his way out of the room like "I'm just gonna...just gonna head on out now...before this gets out of hand."

Usually palpatine doesn’t try to run, but he knew Yoda ain’t to be fucked around with, palpatine was scared. Oh and yes Yoda won the fight.

The part of Palpatine falling over his chair is legitimately hilarious

The grandmaster of the Jedi order versus the only sith lord in the galaxy. A duel for generations to remember.

Yoda, for all his wisdom, lost. He is not supposed to be physically powerful, but supposed to be wisest. He underestimated the sith, big time. Palpatine did a fantastic comeback and ruled with ease for the next 20 years.

1:17 I always love when people fall or tumble unceremoniously in media. Too many try to make it look cinematic, and for lack of a better word, graceful. Here we have emperor palpatine tumbling in such a ridiculous way onto his chair and I love it. It immerses me.

1:17 when the bus driver doesn't wait til I sat down.

Palpation throwing down the senate seats is a good representation for the fall of the republic

Took me years to realize Yoda technically whooped his punk ass, and that he ran away to where Yoda couldn't catch up to him. But it's what's happened. He was technically beaten twice, and twice got absurdly lucky.

The moment Sidious felt Yoda’s force push, he knew it was gonna be a good fight

I love the little things that Lucas did in this scene. Yoda was not arrogant. He knew Palpatine had the high ground and he knew he was bested. Anakin’s arrogance costed him his limbs and encased him in a metal suit. Yoda knew when the fight was over. Anakin didn’t.

I love how Palpatine tries to run, never in the saga do we see him fear anything but he tried to leave the room instead of facing yoda. Dont fuck with Master Yoda

Yoda using a walking stick but when he’s fighting he’s doing all these flips and somersaults. Looks to me like he has a bogus workers comp claim for his back. “Hmmm….hurt my back at work I did. Use stick to walk I must.”

1:16-1:21 It's not the fact that Sidious falls so ungracefully that gets me every time I see this scene... it's the fact that he's wearing dress slacks and a pair of fancy shoes under his robes that kills me.

I love how the blue dude was all. "Yea ima get the fuck outta here."

Yup.... Sidious had to cheat to win. Yoda was amazing considering he died of Old age just 22 years later.

I love how Palpatine always uses people’s formal titles to address them.

This one scene is better than the entire movie of the Rise of the Skywalker