...Palpatine is famous for using his Force lightning on Luke. Have these people literally not seen the movies?Loading…
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"Because we've seen Disney Palpatine use Force Storm against a whole ass load of ships in the sky, it definitely doesn't mean he can use Force Storm on a singular target nearby!"
- An actual argument from a Spacebattler
Also in TROS IIRC I'm pretty sure he was only targetting enemy ships (and he used his lightning against Kylo Ren and Rey, though I can forgive not remembering that movie a lot more than ROTJ).