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[[Image: |200px|Joe Palladino]]
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| Age | 20s | |
| Colony | Unknown | |
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| Birth Name | Joe Palladino | |
| Birth Date | {{{birthdate}}} | |
| Callsign | Hammerhead | |
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| Introduced | [[{{{seen}}}]] | |
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| Siblings | younger brother | |
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| Family Tree | View | |
| Role | Pilot, Battlestar Galactica | |
| Rank | Lieutenant | |
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| Portrayed by | Jeremy Guilbaut | |
| Joe Palladino is a Cylon | ||
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| Joe Palladino is an Original Series Cylon | ||
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| [[Image:|200px|Joe Palladino]] | ||
Lieutenant Joe Palladino, callsign "Hammerhead", is a Viper pilot aboard Galactica. He leads a detachment of marines to the civilian cargo ship Gideon. Colonel Saul Tigh orders him to retrieve desperately needed supplies from the Gideon, which withheld them from Galactica in protest of Tigh's declaration of martial law.
Due to his inexperience at riot control, Palladino is unable to maintain control of his forces and the irate civilian crowd during the food transfer. When the situation grows violent, one of his marines fires his weapon and other marines under his command begin shooting at random into the panicked crowd. Despite repeatedly orders to his marines to cease fire, four civilians are killed during the incident. Palladino is reprimanded by Colonel Tigh for his failure (Resistance).
The killings aboard the Gideon begin to exact a mental toll on Palladino. He begins to project the blame for the incident onto Tigh and develops a deep and brooding hatred of the Colonel. When reporter D'anna Biers investigates the Gideon incident, Palladino is forced to relive the nightmare all over again.
Palladino eventually snaps and decides to punish Tigh for the incident when no one else would. After leaving a threat in Tigh's quarters, and sabotaging a Raptor that Tigh was to fly in to Cloud Nine, Palladino invades Tigh's quarters, binds and gags his wife, Ellen, and waits for the Colonel to return.
When Tigh returns, Palladino confronts him with a gun, but loses his nerve to shoot Tigh, who is able to talk him down. Galactica's marines escort Palladino away in handcuffs while D'anna and her camera crew look on.
Palladino is likely serving a lengthy sentence in Galactica's brig as a result of his attempt on Colonel Tigh's life (Final Cut).