Kylo Ren is one of our favorite Disney villains to date.
With the assisted voice acting of Jeremy Irons, and the synthetic performance by Adam driver, Kylo Ren has touched all of our hearts with his dark sided charm.
Since Kylo Ren is such an interesting character, let's go over all the things that make him unique and interesting.
In today's segment of...
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Top 7 reasons Kylo Ren is TOTALLY awesome and NOT... just a watered down character Archetype.
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1.) Kylo Ren is super powerful!
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Move out of the way Darth Vader! Kylo Ren's force abilities are way stronger than yours! And his Lightsaber skills are so advanced and refined that he was able to defeat and slightly wound a man who is the walking talking definition of fodder.
And it only took him 70 years to do so, and do some damage to Finn.
It wasn't until he was confronted by the master of the light saber and the force, Rey, who came out victorious in a hard fought battle.
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2.) He's very smart!
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Kylo Ren probably has an IQ of 201 considering how much of a genius he is.
He is so calculated and precise with his craft that he can build his own light saber out of a fork pipe and a flashlight. Impressive isn't it?
While he's not ONLY a technical genius in wrist cutting technology, he's also a master strategist.
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He's able to track down Rey using the force, and able to read her mind for 3 seconds before getting his attack repelled by Rey. And instead of trying to find an actual map to Skywalker he just takes her with him, now that's what I call planning ahead!
He was able to kill Snoke by turning on a light Saber right next to him, with such ingenious tactics that shouldn't have been obvious at all.
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He then proceeds to lose a fight with a force hologram of Luke Skywalker. His intelligence matches NO ONE ELSE'S!
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3.) He is very sexy!
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His broad shoulders, his rough exterior, his piercing brown eyes, his perfectly long black curly hair.
Even his mannerism are sexy, the way he stalks Rey and talks to her as if she's a baby. Giving all of those Reylo shippers amazing material to work with, since they have so many things better to do with their lives, right?
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4.) He has a perfect sense of style!
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Y'know how Darth Vader's style wasn't his choice because he was wounded beyond rational medical treatment?
Well Kylo Ren has a custom made helmet that not only muffled his voice, but but has also never helped in protecting him at all. Too bad he smashed it after getting scolded for losing to an absolute Jedi MASTER.
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5.) He has a tragic back story!
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Remember how Anakin had no father figure? How he was under enslavement, and the only way he could make money for him and his Mom to get by was betting on himself to win in extremely dangerous pod races?
Or how Anakin's childhood crush never went away and lingered into his adulthood, causing him to have an unhealthy attachment despite his oath to the Jedi?
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Remember how Anakin wanted to return to his home planet , then only returned to realize that his mom was brutally beaten to death by Tuskan Raiders, finding her and trying rescuing her only a few seconds before she dies from internal bleeding? Getting his right arm chopped off only a few days after?
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Remember how Anakin was having premonitions of the first and only love he's ever had dying? And how chancellor Palpatine used this to manipulate him into thinking he could save her, then ends killing Padme out of rage?
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Then proceeding to have his remaining arms and legs sliced off by his own master, and his skin scorched and filed by magma. Only to be brought back to life by having his organs surgically and cybernetically modified, and his arms and legs replaced with new cybernetic enhancements.
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Remember that?
Well wait until you hear Ben Solo's tragic backstory... !
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Ben had daddy issues because Han Solo wasn't around a lot, then joined Luke Skywalkers training camp.
Luke Skywalker turned on a light Saber in Ben's room and scared him, causing him to kill the other students. Also Snoke talked to him about the Dark side a couple times.
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Can you even fathom such tragic origins of Kylo Ren? Darth Vader is practically a weak brain dead crybaby compared to Kylo Ren!
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6.) He's in love with Rey. And she's I love with him.
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Oh please, isn't it obvious? He's in distress and he's had a VERY rough childhood. Putting the fact that his body is a Jedi temple to the side, he's also very sweet.
Remember how most of their interactions was Kylo Ren offering to teach Rey? How sweet of him to offer that! He's got a really big heart and he's just misunderstood by the society he's currently trying to overthrow.
He even does the sweeter gesture of not killing Rey, but killing his dad, showing just how much he cares about her and how much he values loved ones!
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7.) He has AMAZING character development.
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Remember that bad ass we all saw kill a harmless civilian at the beginning of the movie?
You'd think that someone that bad ass couldn't get any cooler right? Wrong!
He then proceeds to be involved in the destruction of 5 planets using the StarKiller base! Casting fear into the eyes of the resistance, and beginning the search for Luke Skywalker.
As soon as he finds Rey he knows she's seen the map, then decides to make the decision to disobey orders and take Rey to find answers.
He then goes as far as to kill his Dad, and get his armor shot by Chewbacca and his face sliced by Rey afterwards.
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Then in the next movie he starts telling his backstory to Rey, and Rey is moved by his completely tragic backstory and starts developing a connection to Rey.
Then after getting yelled at by Snoke, he captures Rey (who is trying to turn him good) and then kills Snoke, but instead of joining Rey, he decides he wants to rule the empire instead and finish off the Jedi, showing how much he's learned and grown as a person!
He then fights Luke Skywalkers hologram for 2 minutes, and let's Rey escape.
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Wrap up!
Thank you to all new fans and old fans for taking your time to read this article about why Kylo Ren is a great star wars character, and may actually be the best Star Wars character!
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