Question: are palpatine and snoke the same person?
Answer: He's an evil dude surrounded by more interesting people like Rey and Kylo Ren. He was a figurative Emperor stand-in in The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, and Abrams decided he should also be a literal stand-in by revealing that Snoke is a Palpatine-created clone in The Rise of Skywalker. ... Snoke is a clone.