Just because we didn’t see it onscreen… :rolleyes:
If not for his unfortunate death (and subsequent resurrection, and another death), he probably would have been emperor of the galaxy…
Oh, I know. I was right there with you at the time. It’s just that the intervening years made that scene – and others like it – dull by comparison to, well, everything else in the entire franchise.
In theory, by this point, there was no one else left who threatened earth.