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The son of Han Solo and Leia Organa, Ben Solo was seduced by the dark side of the Force and renamed himself Kylo Ren: leader of the Knights of Ren, champion of the First Order, and apprentice to Supreme Leader Snoke. Driven to destroy the past, Kylo killed his father and his master, supplanting Snoke as Supreme Leader. But he remained haunted by his father’s death, his connection with the mysterious Rey, and the pull of the good in himself. In time, all three would help Ben Solo return to the light.
The Force Awakens
The Force Awakens
The Last Jedi
A dark side warrior with a mysterious past, Kylo Ren was neither Jedi nor Sith, but a product of both sides’ teachings. Once an apprentice ofLuke Skywalker’s, he killed his fellow students and drove Skywalker into exile, becoming aFirst Order warlord and servant ofSupreme Leader Snoke. Kylo was determined to destroy the last remnants of the Jedi, fulfilling the legacy ofDarth Vader.
Both theFirst Order and theResistance were determined to locate Lor San Tekka, a galactic scout rumored to know how to findSkywalker. Kylo found San Tekka on Jakku and killed him, but not before San Tekka gave a bit of a star map to the Resistance pilot Poe Dameron. When Kylo captured Poe, he discovered the map was now in the memory banks of BB-8, anastromech on Jakku. By finding the lost droid, theFirst Order could locate Skywalker and extinguish the Resistance’s last hope.
Snoke warned Kylo that there had been an awakening in the Force, and his apprentice would face a test when he confronted his father. Kylo swore his loyalties were only to Snoke. But he was intrigued when he capturedRey, aJakku scavenger whose Force abilities were raw but very powerful. A mysterious connection seemed to link the two.
Kylo faced his father inside the First Order’sStarkiller Base, and struckHan down with his lightsaber. But this shocking act of patricide didn’t make the former Ben Solo feel stronger – somehow he felt weaker. Rey then bested Kylo in alightsaber duel, sparing his life. Kylo Ren had hoped to end the conflicts that caused him so such pain, but found he remained at war with himself, more lost than ever.
Castigated bySnoke as weak and sentimental, Kylo led a mission to destroyLeia Organa’sResistance flagship, but found himself unable to fire on his mother. He was also confused by an increasingly strong Force connection withRey, who had sought outLuke Skywalker to train her in the ways of the Force.
Kylo sawRey as an ally in destroying the past he hated, and exulted when she leftAhch-To to join him aboard theSupremacy. WhenSnoke ordered Kylo to kill Rey, he activatedLuke’s lightsaber with the Force and struck down his master instead. But Rey refused Kylo’s entreaty to rule a new galactic order and fled. Kylo toldHux that Rey had murdered Snoke, and declared himself theFirst Order’s new Supreme Leader.
Kylo led the attack on the Resistance’s hideout onCrait, but was lured into a confrontation withLuke Skywalker. Luke apologized to Kylo for failing him, but warned his nephew that if he struck him down he’d always be with him – likeHan Solo. Kylo ran Luke through with his blade, only to discover he’d been fooled into fighting a Force projection. Meanwhile, Rey had helpedLeia and the survivingResistance members escape Crait.
Kylo’s control ofthe First Order was threatened by the stunning return ofEmperor Palpatine, who’d created a vast Sith armada on Exegol. Palpatine revealed that he had createdSnoke and manipulated Kylo for his entire life. He offered Kylo dominion over the galaxy if he destroyed Rey – whom Palpatine warned wasn’t who Kylo thought she was.
Kylo’s strange connection withRey had returned and intensified. He learned that Rey was Palpatine’s granddaughter, and the two of them formed a rare, powerful dyad in the Force. Kylo entreated Rey to join him so they could overthrow the Sith Lord, but she refused him, struggling to stay ahead of his relentless pursuit.
Kylo confrontedRey amidthe Death Star ruins onKef Bir, but was distracted by his mother reaching out to him throughthe Force, an effort that cost Leia her life. Rey ran Kylo through with his own lightsaber, but then healed him with the Force and left him on Kef Bir. Kylo then had a vision of Han, who told his son he loved him. Kylo hurled his Sith lightsaber into the sea, becoming Ben Solo again.
Ben hurried toExegol and foughtPalpatine alongside Rey. Rey destroyed the Sith Lord, but the effort left her dying. Making a sacrifice that recalled that ofAnakin Skywalker, Ben gave his life to heal her. Redeemed by this selfless act, he then passed into the Force.
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