Palpatine Vs Marv: Star Wars Fan Creates A Home Alone Mash-Up You Can't Unsee
"Star Wars" and "Home Alone" are both iconic franchises in their own ways, and now, the world has the opportunity to see two of their biggest villains clash. In a mashup video by YouTube channel Jar Jar Studios+, Sheev "Darth Sidious" Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) and Marv "Wet Bandit" Murchins (Daniel Stern) face off in the former's quarters. Emperor Palpatine is quick to attack the hapless Marv with his patented Force lightning. Much to the "Star Wars" villain's shock, the "Home Alone" antagonist — who, of course, has ample experience of painful attacks — shakes off the damage and kicks the Sith across the room. The clip ends with the victorious Marv pummeling Palpatine with his trusty crowbar.
The short video is based on the memorable "Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith" scene where Yoda confronts Palpatine, casually defeating the two Imperial Royal Guards with a simple wave of his hand before challenging the emperor himself. As the furious and surprisingly formidable Marv replaces the diminutive Jedi and defeats Palpatine, Stern's burglar baddie is reminiscent of Ultra Instinct Shaggy — another largely inept character whom fans reimagined as an all-powerful warrior.
Daniel Stern is an unlikely mash-up veteran
As strange as seeing Marv defeat Darth Sidious may seem, there's precedent for classic Daniel Stern characters turning up in high-profile sci-fi franchises. In 2017, Funny Or Die released a slick sketch called "City Slickers in Westworld," which reveals that Stern's Phil Berquist and Billy Crystal's Mitch Robbins from the Western comedy "City Slickers" have been robotic "Westworld" hosts all along, and the 1991 movie was simply a programmed narrative to benefit the park guests. The skit revolves around Luke Hemsworth's "Westworld" character Ashley Stubbs trying to figure out why the Mitch host keeps shooting the Phil one, only to find both of them so insufferable that they end up in cold storage.
With the unexpected re-emergence of Stern-adjacent mash-ups in the Marv-Palpatine video, it remains to be seen if the world receives — or is ready for — more of his characters in alien situations and franchises. Will the world one day see Eli Hobson from "For All Mankind" facing off against a T-1000, or perhaps A.J. Shepherd from "C.H.U.D." staring down the Klingons? Possibly not, but one can always hope.