50 Fun Facts About Kylo Ren

In a Saturday Night Live sketch, Kylo Ren goes undercover and poses as a radar technician with what name?

Matt was the alias in the 2016 sketch; a 2020 sequel sent Kylo Ren back undercover as Randy, an entry-level intern on a star destroyer.

What colour are the glowing seams on Kylo Ren's rebuilt helmet in The Rise of Skywalker?

Red veins of Sarrassian iron bind the fragments, joined in an ancient Sith forge. Costume designer Michael Kaplan lit them from inside the helmet and said they look like arteries.

Kylo Ren keeps the burned helmet of which Sith Lord as a relic in The Force Awakens?

Darth Vader was his grandfather, and that mask shaped Kylo Ren's own: the film's director said the new helmet was designed as a nod to it.

In The Force Awakens, Kylo Ren kills his father, Han Solo, at which Star Wars location?

Starkiller Base starts to collapse soon afterwards, and a fissure splitting the ground cuts short Kylo Ren's lightsaber duel with Rey.

In The Force Awakens, Kylo Ren shows off his power by freezing what in mid-air with the Force?

A blaster bolt fired at him simply stops and hangs in the air. He can also immobilise people and probe their minds against their will.

Kylo Ren's lightsaber follows which ancient design, recalling weapons from the Great Scourge of Malachor?

Crossguard side blades are properly called quillons, and on Kylo Ren's weapon they appear a moment after the main blade ignites.

How is Luke Skywalker, the Jedi who trained the young Ben Solo, related to him?

His uncle Luke is the twin brother of Ben's mother, Leia, so the boy was a Skywalker by blood as well as a Solo by name.

Through his mother, Leia, Ben Solo would have been prince of which planet had it not been destroyed?

Alderaan was blown up by the Death Star before he was born, so Ben was never formally invested with the title his mother's family held.

After a vision of his late father in The Rise of Skywalker, what does Kylo Ren do with his lightsaber?

He throws it into the sea, and with that gesture Kylo Ren becomes Ben Solo again. Minutes later he is racing to fight at Rey's side.

Which actor plays Kylo Ren in all three films of the Star Wars sequel trilogy?

Adam Driver sometimes stayed in character on set and kept the mask on between scenes, his fellow cast members recalled.

On which desert planet does Kylo Ren kill the elderly Lor San Tekka in The Force Awakens?

Jakku is where he lands hunting a map to Luke Skywalker; after the killing he orders his stormtroopers to slaughter the villagers.

Who shoots and wounds Kylo Ren moments after Han Solo's death in The Force Awakens?

Chewbacca fires in rage at the death of his old friend, so Kylo Ren goes into the lightsaber duel that follows already wounded.

What title does Kylo Ren claim for himself after killing Snoke in The Last Jedi?

Supreme Leader was Snoke's own title, and Kylo Ren secures it by blaming his master's death on Rey.

Which resurrected villain tells Kylo Ren that he created Snoke to lure him to the dark side?

Palpatine then offers Kylo Ren a hidden Sith armada and a new empire to rule, on one condition: that he kills Rey.

How does Ben Solo die at the end of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker?

Reviving Rey with his life force costs Ben his own. He dies in her arms, and his body fades into the Force at the same moment as his mother's.

Which actor returned as Han Solo to share a final scene with Kylo Ren in The Rise of Skywalker?

Harrison Ford's return was as a memory, not a ghost: Kylo Ren talks with a remembered version of his father, who urges him to renounce the dark side.

Which actress played Leia Organa, the mother of Kylo Ren, in the Star Wars sequel trilogy?

Carrie Fisher died in 2016, so her scenes in The Rise of Skywalker were built from unreleased footage shot for The Force Awakens.

Which composer wrote the music for all three Star Wars films in which Kylo Ren appears?

John Williams earned his 50th Oscar nomination for The Force Awakens, and he cameos in The Rise of Skywalker as a bartender.

Which ace pilot does Kylo Ren capture and interrogate over a missing map in The Force Awakens?

Poe Dameron had already hidden the map inside his ball-shaped astromech, BB-8, which sends Kylo Ren hunting for the little robot instead.

Which actress plays Rey, the scavenger who becomes Kylo Ren's great adversary in the Star Wars sequels?

Daisy Ridley auditioned four or five times over seven months, having appeared in only one other feature film before landing the part.

The Rise of Skywalker's director compared Kylo Ren's helmet in that film to which Japanese craft?

Kintsugi mends broken pottery so that the breaks stay on show. The director wanted Kylo Ren masked but visibly fractured, like the man himself.

Costume designer Michael Kaplan likened the thin inlaid lines on Kylo Ren's helmet to which food?

Spaghetti was Kaplan's word for the lines, whose silver finish mirrors whatever is nearby, such as firelight, and seems to change colour with the action.

An unused costume design for Kylo Ren was recycled for which other character in The Force Awakens?

Captain Phasma grew out of a shining silver armour concept that was rejected for Kylo Ren, and her name comes from the 1979 horror film Phantasm.

Kylo Ren's personal starfighter in The Last Jedi, styled to echo his mask, is known as the TIE what?

Silencer was based on the older TIE interceptor, then stretched out further to make it look more aggressive.

Kylo Ren's lightsaber would overload without its extra plasma vents because it is built around what?

A flawed kyber crystal sits at its heart, one that cracked in the comics when Ben Solo bled his own blue crystal for the dark side.

Before the name Kylo Ren was chosen, what did The Force Awakens production team call the villain?

Jedi Killer was still the only label in March 2014, the month the costume was finally approved after many rejected design attempts.

Which Sith alchemist welds Kylo Ren's shattered helmet back together in The Rise of Skywalker?

Albrekh is an eccentric metalsmith known for a steady hand, and he does the repair at an ancient Sith forge.

Which concept artist, who later designed the batsuit for The Batman, originated Kylo Ren's mask?

Glyn Dillon started out in comics, drawing part of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman, before becoming chief costume concept artist on The Force Awakens.

Which motion-capture specialist played Snoke, the master Kylo Ren betrays in The Last Jedi?

Andy Serkis performed Snoke as a fully computer-generated character, and came back to voice him briefly in The Rise of Skywalker.

On which planet does Kylo Ren confront what turns out to be a Force projection of Luke Skywalker?

Crait's battle scenes were filmed on Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni salt flats. In the story Luke is a decoy, buying time for his sister's fighters to escape.

On which planet, where the heroes go to meet Maz Kanata, does Kylo Ren capture Rey?

Takodana is where he gives up chasing the map-carrying robot: he realises Rey has seen the map, and carries her off instead.

Which rival First Order officer does Kylo Ren strangle with the Force until he accepts his rule?

General Hux gets even in The Rise of Skywalker, where he turns spy for the enemy in order to undermine Kylo Ren.

On which moon do Rey and Kylo Ren duel amid the wreckage of the second Death Star?

Kef Bir is where the fight turns: Kylo Ren is distracted by his mother calling to him through the Force, and Rey runs him through, then heals him.

What name does The Rise of Skywalker give the rare bond in the Force shared by Rey and Kylo Ren?

A dyad was described by the film's co-writer as a kind of soulmate pairing in the Force. It lets Rey pass a lightsaber to Ben across space.

A Sith wayfinder leads Kylo Ren to which hidden planet at the start of The Rise of Skywalker?

Exegol hides a secret armada of Star Destroyers armed with superlasers, built in secret by the Sith Eternal.

Which prize for Best Supporting Actor did the Kylo Ren star win for his role in The Force Awakens?

Saturn Award voters made him the first Star Wars actor to win that category since Alec Guinness, the original Obi-Wan Kenobi.

In 2019, Kylo Ren's story was staged with star Ichikawa Ebizo XI in which Japanese theatre form?

Kabuki renamed him Kairennosuke for a play about three shining swords, and the star's own young son played the boyhood version.

Which publisher released The Rise of Kylo Ren, the series showing how Ben Solo fell to the dark side?

Marvel Comics ran it from December 2019 to March 2020; it ends with Ben forging his new lightsaber as Snoke's voice asks what his new name is.

Which Disney park attraction features Kylo Ren as an audio-animatronic figure voiced by his film actor?

Rise of the Resistance needed the largest concrete pour in Disney Parks history, and it puts riders aboard Kylo Ren's own Star Destroyer.

Who wrote and directed The Last Jedi, the film in which Kylo Ren seizes control of the First Order?

Rian Johnson argued Kylo Ren could still be redeemed, pointing out that the saga's original masked villain had done far worse and was forgiven.

The Last Jedi's director compared Kylo Ren's plea for Rey to join him to a scene in which 1999 romcom?

Notting Hill's famous love confession was his model: he wanted the plea to play as a naked, emotional appeal and not as a chess move.

Before acting, the performer behind Kylo Ren enlisted in which branch of the United States military?

Marine Corps service came right after the September 11 attacks; he served as a mortar man and later helped start a nonprofit that staged plays for troops until it closed in 2023.

Which star of The Exorcist played Lor San Tekka, the old man Kylo Ren kills in The Force Awakens?

Max von Sydow borrowed the name Max from the star performer of a flea circus he saw while serving in the Swedish Army.

In a 2019 comic, Snoke tests Kylo Ren inside a dark side cave on which planet?

Dagobah's cave is where Luke Skywalker once fought a phantom of his own father. Kylo Ren strikes down a vision of Luke there, but cannot banish his parents.

A character with the near-identical name Kybo Ren appeared in which 1985 Star Wars cartoon series?

Droids followed R2-D2 and C-3PO through adventures set years before A New Hope, and aired alongside a sister cartoon about the Ewoks.

Which voice of the cyborg villain Grievous also speaks for the masked Kylo Ren in the game Battlefront II?

Matthew Wood is a supervising sound editor at Skywalker Sound who started at Lucasfilm as a game tester; a second actor voices the unmasked face.

Kylo Ren's fall echoes which Expanded Universe son of Han and Leia, who became the Sith Lord Darth Caedus?

Jacen Solo was introduced as an unborn twin in the 1991 novel Heir to the Empire, in the older book continuity now branded Legends.

Which magazine first revealed the name Kylo Ren, on a mock Topps-style trading card, in December 2014?

Entertainment Weekly's card was designed by Lucasfilm itself; about two weeks earlier the first teaser had shown the villain only from behind.

According to Star Wars novels, Ben Solo was born on which planet, the home world of Mon Mothma?

Chandrila was then the temporary capital of the New Republic, and Ben was born there about a year after the Battle of Endor.

Kylo Ren's huge-winged command shuttle is which type of First Order ship?

Upsilon-class shuttles carry the First Order's top officers, and their wings, packed with sensors, shields and jammers, rise and retract on landing.