Why Were The Younglings Killed And Not Turned Into Inquisitors?

Quite simply, the inquisitors did not exist in Star Wars until the Rebels cartoon which was made long after Revenge Of The Sith.

 

Because have that many extra kids around when trying to take over the universe would be a pain in the a$$.

 

Sidious wanted every person in the Jedi Temple killed and leaving anyone alive could bite him in the butt later on. Take Caleb Dume/Kanan Jarrus for example. He was a very young Padawan when Order 66 occured, little more than a youngling, and he managed to escape with his life. He trained Ezra Bridger and together the two of them did some serious damage to the Empire and Palpatine's plans before the Original Trilogy. Sidious wanted to prevent things like this from happening and he didn't want to leave any loose ends, like children who could grow up to be the next generation of Jedi. Besides, he'd already had most of, if not all of, his Inquisitors cherry picked before Order 66 was carried out.

 

If the younglings you are talking about are the padawans who made their lightsabers and did stuff on Illum, then it isn’t certain but they’re most likely dead after Order 66.

 

I think that you might be a bit too literal

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the inquisotrs remind me more of the people form Utapau for some reason

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Why would anyone assume that the Jedi younglings should have automatically become Inquisitors in the first place?

 

If the younglings you are talking about are the padawans who made their lightsabers and did stuff on Illum, then it isn’t certain but they’re most likely dead after Order 66.

 

I'm pretty sure it was Palpatine testing what Anakin would and wouldn't kill, to see if he had fully given himself to the Dark Side yet or if there was still some good in him.

 

That's a very legitimate question. However, after reading through some of these responses, some of them make good sense as reasonable answers.

 

because there was only meant to be 2 sith. but rebels changed that because they needed a villian

 

I don't know the back stories of each Inquisitor, but from what I can tell it seems like nearly all of them were sort of mid-tier Jedi during the end of the Clone Wars, some (like the Tenth Brother) even displaying pretty dangerous psychological traits.

If you're looking for an in-universe answer, perhaps this is it- Palpatine didn't want to train another apprentice, and he sure as hell wasn't ready for Vader to take on his own. So, rather than rounding up a ton of Jedi children and training them, he instead got some questionable Jedi who were still far from the height of their skills and effectively stunted their training.

That way, they basically had a ton of ready-made force sensitive warriors who would never really get the chance to become powerful enough to challenge Palpatine's sith succession, and he barely even had to put in any effort to do it. Far easier than training kids, at least.

I guess the Cylo creations kind of fit in here too- they were beings essentially modified by Cylo, not warriors trained by the sith.

 

The Grand Inquisitor was a P'uan, and former Jedi Temple Guard. The rest were fallen Jedi as well, but of all different species. In comics, several (maybe just one) questioned Vader and was killed for being weak.

 

I see it as Palpatine testing Anakin and solidifying his turn to the dark. Obviously Palpatine did not have to kill them all but was good measure of Anakins loyalty and willingness to follow Palpatines orders.

Palpatine also played 4 D chess due to his ability to see multiple futures. He may have foreseen OB1 viewing the tapes.

 

I think that is a great question. I would say it was because they were seen as collateral. Palpatine perhaps wasn't interested in them, only Anakin at that point. He wanted Anakin and he got him. Perhaps Palpatine didn't think much about it either. He was focused on corrupting Anakin and bringing himself to power as Emperor.

 

From a writing perspective...shock value. We needed a reason to hate Vader and see how fully Anakin fell to the darkside.

 

Dave created the Inquisitors long after RotS. If there had been a loophole, Filoni probably would have exploited that bit of continuity.

 

Filoni never created the Inquisitors, they were created for legends, and used in a variety of Star Wars stories. In fact they were a common enemy in TFU2, a game series from which the Inquisitors' sabers and the Incinerator Trooper in the Mandalorian comes from.

 

I remember some references to Inquisitors but I don't know TFU2 (not a game player). Was it the same concept or was it like the Nightsisters, just a name and concept that got reworked? Either way, Lucas never acknowledged their existence onscreen so it was probably never a consideration.

 

Similar concept. I believe they were originally introduced in legends comics as ex-Jedi or force sensitives Palpatine had recruited to help hunt down Jedi, however the numbers and way they operated were different to canon. For starters, there were way more of them and I believe they didn't fall under the direct command of Lord Vader. Not to mention there were also various other force sensitive groups working under the Empire in legends, such as Vader's Shadow Guard: a small division of force sensitive Royal Guards.

Canon has been more reserved in this area.