What Should Kylo Ren’s Fate Be In Star Wars Episode IX?

Over the following 12 months and a half, we’ll be theorizing about how the lead characters within the newest Star Wars trilogy may find yourself as soon as J.J. Abrams brings this thrilling new story to a detailed. Let’s begin with probably probably the most difficult of the bunch, Ben Solo aka Kylo Ren.

The antagonists in tales traditionally don’t fare properly ultimately and Star Wars isn’t any totally different. They both stay steadfast to the tip and die for his or her trigger (Arihnda Pryce) or search and typically obtain redemption or acquittal (Anakin Skywalker).

In our present trilogy, after killing his grasp Supreme Chief Snoke, Kylo Ren has emerged because the army and philosophical chief (snuffing our Hux) of the First Order. All eyes might be on him within the remaining episode due out subsequent 12 months and the way J.J. Abrams plans to wrap up his story stays a thriller. However which manner will it go? Will Kylo’s rage devour him past recognition and fall on his laser sword or will Rey persuade him of the errors of his methods and supply a manner out? Would the Resistance even entertain that concept after all of the crimes he’s dedicated?

With no indication we’ll see any of those characters once more on display we should assume Abrams will tidy up any story threads left excellent, Ren included. In a galaxy the place redemption is a powerful theme we might argue all day about whether or not even Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker deserved any kind of redemption and even forgiveness. I believe all of us agree, had he survived, he would and may have spent the remainder of his life in jail, however Lucas wrapped us his story in probably the one manner he might have, together with his demise. In addition to, redemption and atonement are two various things in any case.

If imitation is the sincerest type of flattery, then Darth Vader can be happy with his grandson. Ben Solo’s checklist of crimes and misdemeanours compiles a rap sheet few have attained and whose life for the previous few years has featured an unimaginable quantity of homicide and destruction. You need to keep in mind his mantra is principally completeness by violence…

“Let the previous die; kill it if you must. It’s the one strategy to develop into what you’re meant to be.”

~Kylo Ren to Rey

When your idol is Darth Vader and your grasp is Snoke, its no surprise his thoughts is broken. He felt betrayed by these closest to him (father/mom) and the one one who was supposed to grasp him, good previous Uncle Luke, entertained the thought of killing him in his sleep. Kylo’s now most essential relationship is with Rey, whether or not you view it as platonic, romantic or in any other case. They each share a standard reward, an entry to shared energy, and that has introduced them perilously shut to one another. She glimpsed his future when their minds had been linked, and she or he believed, and possibly nonetheless does, he’s not a misplaced trigger. It didn’t seem that manner on the finish of The Final Jedi, however we’ve bought an extended strategy to go and with a rumored time bounce kicking issues off in Episode IX, Abrams can cowl plenty of floor in a brief period of time.

If a face flip is certainly coming, then what in regards to the challenge of Kylo’s violent previous? Redemption is attainable however solely from a sure perspective, similar to homicide. In case you kill and also you’re on the “good” aspect (Luke/Loss of life Star I) then its acceptable. However In case you kill and also you’re a foul man, properly, that’s totally different proper? There’s a sure righteousness we connect to homicide when its dedicated towards a perceived evil presence and Star Wars hasn’t strayed away from that. If all of the ancillary supplies have accomplished something for us, its supplied a face to numerous Imperial officers, workers and common Joe’s and Jill’s all who’ve been killed by the Resistance and the Riot earlier than them. However that’s okay, proper? So why ought to Kylo Ren or anybody be judged for doing the identical factor? As a result of that’s storytelling I suppose.

Redemption is the motion of saving or being saved from sin, error or evil. So, let’s take fast have a look at a few of Kyo’s sins, errors and evil deeds and resolve if they’re worthy of redemption within the first place. In our very first have a look at Kylo Ren in The Power Awakens we see him invade a village of passive individuals on Jakku and he brutally murders Lor San Tekka, a peaceable and smart (and unarmed) previous man who’s a member of the Church of the Power. Earlier than he leaves the planet, he orders the execution of dozens of people who find themselves residing within the village of Tuanul.

This is able to set the tone as we see him later lead an assault on Takodana, destroying Maz Kanata’s fortress which housed once more, dozens of beings, earlier than being interruped by Poe Dameron and the Resistance. In the identical episode he can be get together to the homicide of tens of millions of lives by the hands of the Starkiller Base, torture each Poe and Rey and prime all of it off with the homicide of his father Han Solo. And whereas it’s clear that final one had an adversarial have an effect on on his psyche going ahead, the act was dedicated nonetheless.

The demise toll continued in The Final Jedi as we watch the Resistance slowly lose members, a handful of which had been by the hands of Kylo Ren when he assaults their fleet in his Tie Silencer. And in maybe the best scene within the movie, Kylo activates his grasp, slicing Snoke in half and with Rey’s assist kills his share of the Praetorian Guards. In his final act of Episode VIII, he orders the demise of the remaining Resistance members held up on Crait earlier than being thwarted by Luke Skywalker, who’s trickery allowed them to flee.

None of this even consists of the handful of Jedi college students he murdered at Luke’s Jedi Temple or the numerous failed makes an attempt all through the 2 episodes and ancillary supplies. The person has blood on his fingers and it appears to have taken its toll as he’s most assuredly going madder and madder by the second. In actual fact, maybe as a nod to Frankenstein or King Kong, the one one who causes any resemblance of calm and levity in Kylo is Rey. Is that this the sweetness and the very best state of affairs so many wish to see type this duo? We’ll have to attend and see.

So, did the occasions in The Final Jedi cement your emotions on Kylo’s eventuality or did it muddy the waters a bit for you? My feeling is I don’t a lot look after redemptive arcs for the villains until there’s one thing or somebody to take their place, in any case with out battle there’s no drama proper? And if his entire life’s pursuit has been spent making an attempt to dwell as much as his grandfather’s picture, then maybe that’s all of the foreshadowing we’ll want?

What does everybody suppose? Will Kylo dwell or die by the laser sword? Will he finish the sequence on the sunshine or darkish aspect? Or maybe its extra difficult than that.

Until subsequent time…MTFBWY.

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