"Somehow, Palpatine returned."
-Poe Dameron in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
At the end of Return of the Jedi, Palpatine is thrown down a deep shaft on the Death Star and apparently explodes and/or is incinerated. The flames of the explosion rise to the top of the shaft. A short time later, the Death Star itself explodes.
Palpatine's screams are audible for several seconds as he falls (I counted 12 seconds from when he dropped until the explosion), indicating he fell at least a few hundred meters. So even if he hadn't exploded, the fall would have surely killed him, and if he somehow survived both the fall and the explosion, he couldn't have possibly survived the destruction of the Death Star. That explosion was so large, it was visible hundreds of miles away on the surface of Endor.
Good fiction requires plausibility or at least internal consistency. Try harder, screenwriters.
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