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People Who Understand Palpatine vs People Who Don’t #2

Literally the first thing he does of note is get someone killed while street racing and not giving a womp rat's ass about it. Teen Palpatine was basically the SW answer to Joffrey Baratheon.

It took decades for him to become the villain we see in movies. What you’re seeing in the incident you mentioned as a troubled youth from a dysfunctional home. But he’s shown to have a conscience and feel guilt for his actions throughout his backstory. The most notable one is when he loses control of his powers and doesn't want to kill his family then continues to feel guilt about it on into adulthood.

“Palpatine stood rooted in place, his hands trembling in front of him and his face stricken. Something stirred behind his incandescent eyes. He heard the pounding on the hatch and whirled. “Don’t come in! Stay away from me!”

{“Now tell me again, Apprentice, and in greater detail.” Once more Sidious allowed his memories to unfold, and he relived the crime— the event as he had come to think of it. His father’s limp and bloody body, the smashed skulls of the bodyguards, his hands around his mother’s slender throat—but not really, only in his mind—strangling her with his thoughts, the lifeless forms of his siblings, slumped here and there. In telling it and telling it, in reliving it, he had finally gained a kind of authority over it; the ability to see the event merely for what it was, without emotion, without judgement. It was as if the event had occurred years, rather the months, earlier.}

“It was Hego Damask as Plagueis who then set his sights on a seemingly confused young man and, with meticulous skill, manipulated him into committing patricide, matricide, and fratricide.”