![]() Ren’s self-built lightsaber gives a further insight into his troubled state of mind. We soon learn that he’s conflicted between his desire to please his master, the sepulchral Supreme Commander Snoke, and the faint glimmer of the Light side of the Force that still remains within him. ![]() Read our guide to all the easter eggs in Star Wars: The Force Awakens right here.įrom this point on, it becomes increasingly clear that Kylo Ren isn’t your typical movie villain. Where Vader was all cool, efficient resolve, Ren is more hormonal teenager. Sure, Vader had a tendency to kill his underlings (“You’ve failed me for the last time…”), but look at how Ren behaves in The Force Awakens – when a First Order lackey appears with some bad news, Ren responds by smashing up an entire room with his lightsaber. Yet try as he might to emulate the presence of Lord Vader, Ren lacks his chosen hero’s poise and restraint. But a different character emerges in private: a petulant and hot-tempered young man whose obsession with Darth Vader is such that he keeps the Sith Lord’s helmet – seemingly plucked straight from his funeral pyre on Endor – as a prized relic. In public, Kylo Ren’s a merciless and brutal warrior, and powerful with it: his command of the Dark Side of the Force is such that he can stop a laser bolt in mid-air. Having rejected his family name, Ben Solo, he’s taken on the surname of the mysterious Knights of Ren and, seemingly inspired by Vader’s imposing garb, taken to wearing a cloak and voice-distorting mask (note how Vader wore a mask because he had to for Ren, it’s a foppish affectation). ![]() Ren may be the son of Leia and Han, but he’s actively chosen a far murkier role model: the archetypal Dark Father – Lord Vader himself. Buy all your Star Wars movies, books, comics, and merch here!
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