Originally Posted by click sidious

To learn it is to die.

Qui-gon, maybe he was getting busy with some female jedi or something. Qui-gon, relativly speaking, was not that 'big'. He had a medium role in EP1 and a mere mention in EP3. He was by no means a big main character. Yoda, Obi Wan and Ani were all in all 6 episodes.

Quiz: Qui-gon does have a very small part in ep2, what is it?
Quiz: Jar jar's role from EP1 to EP2 to EP3 gets less and less each time, but contrary to popular belief he does say something in EP3. What was it?

Note: Darth Sidious (the emperor) doesn't really die. In the expanded universe of star wars it is known that he has learned of a way to exsist outside of a body. He doesn't have the control of the force when in this state but can travel to one of his many clone bodies on another planet to start over again.