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Star Warsstill has n’t fully register the pathBen Solobecame Kylo Ren whiletraining with Luke Skywalker , and it ’s been 9 years sinceStar Wars : The Force Awakens . The central baddie of theStar Warssequel trilogy , Kylo Ren quickly became a devotee - favorite character reference , and one that many see as one of the honorable aspect of the sequels . With his iconiccrossguard lightsaberand metallic mask , Kylo Ren is an incredibly cool villain and character with so much potential for futureStar Warsstories , despite the fact that Ben altruistically sacrificed himself inStar warfare : The Rise of Skywalker .
Truthfully , the biggest shame about Kylo Ren ’s character is that there is n’t more of him . There will not be any more Ben afterThe Rise of Skywalker , and the amount of Ben Solo / Kylo Ren depicted object before the events ofThe Force Awakensis very limited . There are some broad strokes , like that he was manipulated from afar while training atLuke Skywalker ’s Jedi Templeon Ossus , but not too much more than that . The report of Ben Solo bend to the dark side is one of the biggest and most glaring holes intheStar Warstimeline .
Star Wars : The ascension of Skywalker adds more layer to Kylo Ren ’s arc . Here ’s everything that happened to him in the final Skywalker Saga film .
Palpatine Manipulated Ben Solo For Years
The Sith Spoke Into Ben’s Mind During His Training
One of the things that ’s known about Ben Solo ’s fall is that Palpatine ’s representative was in Ben ’s header from the very beginning . Whether in the tone ofSnokeor Darth Vader , Ben was manipulated by Palpatine through voices in his head for his entire life . In fact , the 2017 Chuck Wendig novelAftermath : Empire ’s Endestablishes that when she was significant , Leia felt both the light and colored side inside Ben within her . These voice underline Ben ’s already significant insecurities about his family , his legacy , and his power , but not much else is known about them - or when they lead off .
Ben Solo Was Shaken By Learning His Grandfather Was Darth Vader
The New Republic Political Reveal Damaged The Young Jedi
One surprising view of Ben Solo ’s report is that he actually did n’t love Darth Vader was his grandfather . TheStar WarsbookBloodlineby Claudia Gray is one of the most important book in the new canon , and it by all odds affects Ben Solo , as it address with a public revelation tothe New Republicthat Darth Vader was Leia ’s Padre . It ’s mean as a political manoeuvre to subvert Leia ’s campaign for First Senator , but the news without a dubiousness reaches Ben at Luke ’s honorary society - and in the book , Leia worries about how this worrying news will affect Ben .
Maybe Ben ’s struggle with this revelation , and his action following it , were what caused Luke to look into his mind on the calamitous night uncover in The Last Jedi .
Ben was already struggling with the dark side and his bequest , so this news would be so improbably world - shaking . The reveal happened very in brief before Ben ’s destruction of Luke ’s Jedi Temple , and it may have even been a part of the upshot of that night . Maybe Ben ’s struggle with this Revelation of Saint John the Divine , and his actions following it , were what stimulate Luke to front into his mind on the portentous night revealed inThe Last Jedi , which was the last time the two saw each other - butStar Warshas yet to tell the write up .
The novel Star war : Bloodline revealed a gravid mickle about the galaxy pre - Force Awakens . Here are some of the biggest revelations .
Luke Skywalker Sensed Ben Solo’s Darkness
During His Training, Ben Revealed His Dark Side
constitute in negotiation inThe Last Jedi , Ben Solo ’s turn to the coloured side was not a sudden single instance of option . It had work up up over years . When discover the flashback , Luke says :
I saw dark . I sense it building in him . I ’d seen it in moment during his training . But then I look inside , and it was beyond what I ever imagine . Snoke had already turned his inwardness . He would bring destruction and pain and death , and the end of everything I love because of what he will become .
This acute darkness that Luke saw was what made him make the instinctual decision to light his lightsaber , which he regretted like a shot after - but what made that lightsaber inflammation so impactful was that Ben had been struggling with the black side for years . He was plausibly told by the voice that Luke would betray him , or that Luke secretly hat him , sothat night simply became a fulfilment of Ben ’s biggest fears .
What any of that swarthiness during his training in reality looked like is still unknown . Ben apparently seemed so bound by the darkness that Luke looked into his mind while he was sleeping . Whatever the dark look like in Ben ’s grooming , then , must have been very worrisome to Luke .
Did Kylo Ren Ever Fall To The Dark Side… Or Was He Trapped By It?
The Rise Of Kylo Ren Was Seemingly Not Kylo Ren’s Fault
This begs the question whether Ben Solo even fell to the sorry side himself , or if he was just trapped by the dark side from the very beginning . The fact that he had Palpatine ’s various voices in his heading from his young childhood seems to indicate that he was a victim of the Sith , and they simply drew him to the dark side . This becomes even more clear inThe procession of Kylo Rencomic serial by Charles Soule and Will Sliney , which is currently the most essential piece ofStar Warsstorytelling that detail Ben ’s fall to the dark side .
This comic makes it seem like Ben was manipulate from the get - go , and that he never even really had a chance .
The amusing clean up immediately after the destruction of Luke ’s Temple and Academy , and bit by bit flashes back to Ben ’s adolescence on Ossus . The tarradiddle shows Ben as a young son , have hole-and-corner conversations inside his head with Palpatine , and eventually suffer up with Snoke after the Temple was destroyed . Snoke right away ferry Ben off to join the Knights of Ren , a dark side group of marauders that would help mold Ben even more so into who Palpatine want him to be .
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This is where Ben gets the name Kylo Ren and kills a former acquaintance of his from Luke ’s Academy , afterward even killing the leader of the Knights to become their new leader and Snoke ’s apprentice . This risible urinate it seem like Ben was manipulated from the get - go , and that he never even really had a luck . This make Ben Solo ’s story so improbably tragical , and absolutely worth of a more detailed telling in a futureStar Warsstory .
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