@Hoplite Well Disney wanted to make the teenage girls and middle age Karens get their panties wet over something. Who cares about making a good villain? What is most important is making a dreamy bad boy that you can change and have cute babies with. Goddamn do I hate fangirls.
Doesn't really have anything with his looks, V from DMC 5 looks like a prettier version of Kylo Ren and he manages to be pretty creepy, and DMC5 is more of an action comedy.
The Emperor was pretty intimidating in Return of the Jedi, even if a bit hammy in some scenes (Vader was also guilty of this). But yeah, the prequels and Rise of the Skywalker turned him into a joke.