How Kylo Ren Constructed his Red Lightsaber and Became Leader of the Knights of Ren! (Canon)

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The Non-Canon Expert looks at today's fourth and final issue in The Rise of Kylo Ren comic series, explaining the final steps that would bring Ben Solo to his path with the dark side to become Kylo Ren and make him leader of the Knights of Ren, and also how Kylo Ren was about to construct his red lightsaber.
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[@ajra6143]

Cal Kestis: Used both part of his broken crystal to create a double bladed lightsaber that could split into two for Jar'Kai moves Ben Solo: Took both parts of his broken crystal to make one crossguard saber What do we learn from this? Splitting your crystal in two makes for cooler lightsabers

[@EmperorOfTheScrubs]

now I wanna see how they'd duel each other

[@OmegaTheMyth]

I believe most double bladed lightsabers have more than one crystal.. Maul's had I think more than two. The only one that more than likely has only one is Exar Kun's

[@trentroberts6736]

Omega The Myth yeah, because unless I’m mistaken, a single bladed lightsaber already has two crystals: a source and a focus.

[@Ruby_Eve]

@@Fortniteloverepic though he beat 2 inquisitors. Killed one of them and disarmed the other

[@arctixanarchy8908]

Anubis Yh because of video game plot that didn’t actually happen to darth Vader s inquisitors they were much more skilled than that

[@eccentricjoe5410]

After watching this, I REALLY wish they had made a prequel style trilogy of movies about Ben's descent into darkness

[@HCBailly]

I don't know about that. It sounds really hard to come up with a logical reason for someone to turn to the dark side and murder countless innocents.

[@satans_crotch]

@@HCBailly but it's badass

[@ChaosReaper426]

@Bruce Wayne there was very high leaps of logic within anakin's decent to the dark side, and that's sorta what defined Darth Vader self hate cuz even he knew he fucked up.

[@nicholasperry2302]

Yeah but they wouldn't have done that because Ben is a man and they wanted a StRoNg FeMaLe LeAd

[@satans_crotch]

@@ChaosReaper426 damn that's deep

[@imperialistopinions2276]

It was a really good issue, but at this point I am honestly only invested in seeing Palpatine mess things up for everyone. Of course we know that he loses at the end, but I just can't help enjoying good old Sheev have fun

[@imperialistopinions2276]

@GrnMachine 22 You are not wrong, but I don't think there are any winners in the sequel trilogy

[@imperialistopinions2276]

@Anakin Skywalker Agreed. And unless something really, really interesting happens, I am not going to read these novels and instead keep up through videos like this.

[@michaelkuzela967]

Anakin Skywalker no in the book it says rey didn’t beat him the Jedi did rey didn’t have any power the Jedi took over her body so the Jedi killed her

[@naseemweathers8358]

@@michaelkuzela967 you’re right about that I am so sick of people calling her a Mary Sue when she’s not if the Jedi had not intervened when they did she would have lost completely or worse fallen to the Darkside

[@cgplayz545]

The knights of ren had so much potential, yet they were used so vaguely in The Rise of Skywalker. So sad.

[@vossburton3437]

They were used too little in the whole trilogy. They were already a thing in TFA.

[@CheeseRunner]

They are an awesome concept who were simply introduced too late in the trilogy to deliver on that potential

[@splatoonistproductions5345]

Kylo is very interesting, he isn’t like anakin where he fell due to fear of loss and the temptation of power. He felt he was betrayed by his uncle, who put his family name of skywalker and the legacy on his shoulders, and felt his mother and father dumped him with Luke because they couldn’t deal with him. His reasons for falling weren’t in temptation or fear of things, but through pure hate and the feeling of betrayal from his family and friends. It’s why he is my favourite character in the sequel trilogy. He never fell because he wanted to like anakin ( for reasons already known) he fell because he believed he was in the right and his family wasn’t.

[@thebigidea9659]

Might've been more interesting if the trilogy was about him instead Rey.

[@splatoonistproductions5345]

Thebig Idea true, but I think this adds to this quite nicely

[@ChaosReaper426]

That's part of the reason that I kinda dislike his turn, but there is no way to turn dark side without becoming an edge lord it seems

[@splatoonistproductions5345]

Chaos well he is less mature than anakin, and besides, he’s meant to be a younger and slightly more arrogant version of Vader. and who isn’t an “Edge lord” when they go dark Side? hell at least it isn’t Hayden christiensen (cannot f ing spell it)

[@DianaDxD]

@@thebigidea9659 probably but I always saw Rey as the light and the reason to guide him back. She helped him to become better and while he died in the end she was there to see his return to the light and was there to see his sacrifice. It's why I love them as a couple

[@Catalyst375]

This really hammers home why Ben is so adamant about "letting the past die/killing the past". To him, people look at him and see nothing but the past - his first name is the one Obi-Wan took while in hiding. He is of the Skywalker bloodline, which means people always expect things of him because of it. Even with Snoke, he's under the pressure of the expectations of his "legacy". People have only ever seen him as the legacy he represents. It seems rather clear that, under all those expectations, all his anger and hate towards his own legacy, he broke at the point shown in the comics.

[@pascalhicks4376]

bloodline of the mothers side, so you mean that sometimes some people have their mothers blood and not the fathers like who I have my fathers blood?

[@pascalhicks4376]

sorry I ment how I have my fathers blood.

[@Catalyst375]

@Nathan-DTS Which is why Rian Johnson is a better director and story writer than Abrams.

[@DianaDxD]

@@pascalhicks4376 his family on both sides are famous regardless. His mother the smart and awesome princess and general and his father a famous smuggler turned war hero

[@DianaDxD]

@@Catalyst375 yeah I really liked that Rian focused on him as an anti hero while JJ limited his screen time and only offered surface stuff. I hate how limited Adam too. Adam has range for days and he really gave it all in this performance.

[@riven8404]

Even now he needed to take off his shirt goddammit Ben Swolo

[@darthkalis8993]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@DianaDxD]

I don't mind😍😍😍

[@macwelch8599]

I really liked Kylo Ren’s red lightsaber

[@starwarsreadingclub]

I'm glad we know the background to his lightsaber now. I wonder how he was able to know about the ability of bleeding a kyber crystal. Right now I'm thinking Snoke, or perhaps a lesson by Luke during his time with his Jedi Order, but I think it would be nice to see how he knew that part of it. Thank you for watching!

[@macwelch8599]

Star Wars Reading Club I think both of his masters taught him

[@isaiahvilla6691]

@@macwelch8599 I was hoping kylo and the knights would go back to that weird garden space station thing. And snoke say my appearance you have done well and now you will be called kylo ren now come training time .

[@daydreamdirty]

I believe Kylo is my favorite Sith or Dark Side user next to Darth Malgus simply because of his struggle and because of his potential mixed in with what’s modern.

[@macwelch8599]

@@daydreamdirty Dark Jedi and other independent Dark Side Force users are potentially more dangerous than the Sith, in my opinion, because they don’t have an ideology or set of traditions to follow

[@ShEDDiNgmYSkiN]

These comics make me like Kylo way more. By far my favorite character of the new trilogy but they should have included some of this within it.

[@RandomGuy-ed8zq]

In my headcannon, killing Ren not only made him the leader of the Knights but also turned him... D U M M Y T H I C C

[@Sp0n937rOn]

Leethecomicbookmaker Nah he’s BEN SWOLO now.

[@nou8257]

he is so stuffed with fluff

[@andrealugo841]

BEN-FUCKING-SWOLO!

[@daydreamdirty]

Wtf comment that makes NO sense.

[@therealdonnawagner]

I wish they had made THIS into a movie. That's such a cool story! Thanks for sharing your time and awesome video work with us. Have a great weekend! 😊

[@naseemweathers8358]

Or better an animated series

[@Ayahuasca98]

Kylo’s such a great character, god.

[@RyanTheDark]

SWRC is my Jedi Master.

[@Ivbo]

They have Adam Driver, a two time Oscar nominee, an actor that Martin Scorsese himself has praised as *“One of the best actors of his generation”* a prequel movie, or tv show needs to be made on this character, following his training and relationship with Luke, his relationship with Snoke/Palpatine, his fall to the dark side and they can show just how far he had fallen, this is where they can go full evil/Vader with him considering it’s the beginning of his dark side path, the 6 years before the Force Awakens. We know Snoke had other apprentices, so they can have Snoke with another apprentice at his side when Ben arrives at the throne room for the first time, this other apprentice can be portrayed as Kylo’s enemy/friend/partner, they can have them fighting side by side in the earlier parts of the movies/tv show build a sort of bond between them, but as time goes on it leads up to a massive dark side saber fight between them at some point in the end, where Kylo obviously wins and kills this other apprentice, this would be a saber duel between two dark side warriors trained from childhood, so it could even look like a prequel style saber fight, where force lightning is used, it would have a KOTOR era vibe to it...just imagine Kylo walking away from the dead body of the other apprentice after a long drawn out duel, with rubble and fire everywhere as a result of their fight, with Sith Eyes and “Anakin’s Dark Deeds” playing... I’m telling you there is *so much* potential with this character.

[@DoughBoy45]

Ivbo I hate the way JJ Abrahm treated Luke I’m the new movies. But I love kylo rens story line and Adam drivers acting. It’s awesome

[@hotshot5164]

Noe Jj abrams did nothing with Luke. It was all Rian Johnson

[@DoughBoy45]

hot shot oh my bad

[@pascalhicks4376]

I'd still wonder why Ben throw the saber to the ocean when he could just unbleed the crystal just like ahsoka did with 6 brother inquisitor's crystals

[@hispanicyoutubeperson6100]

@Pascal Hicks Maybe he didn’t want the weapon that caused so much misery and like he said, let the past die and that saber is part of his past.

[@AfternoonWolfSpice]

It’s likely at that point Ben no longer wishes to be anything other than himself. Neither a jedi nor a sith. So he discarded the weapon that belonged to both factions.

[@hispanicyoutubeperson6100]

@AfternoonWolfSpice maybe because of all the terror it caused and,like you said, it shows the allegiance Ben has to no one but himself.

[@bigenson18]

@@hispanicyoutubeperson6100 His kyber crystal was unstable af.

[@DanielGonzalez-dr7so]

Because Nucanon lucasfilm doesn’t give a shit about continuity.

[@pacoramon9468]

Ren was more interesting than Snoke and Zombie Palpatine

[@KobaLenk]

I wish there is an origin story about him. Where he came from? Was Palpatine 'the master' Ren mentioned? So much questions left.

[@naseemweathers8358]

If Ren meaning the former leader of the knights of Ren would’ve been Kylo Ren‘s master I think we would’ve seen another dynamic of Sith master and Sith apprentice it would’ve been pretty cool

[@earthhound]

I...DECLARE... MYSELF AS THE LEADER OF THE KNIGHTS OF REN!

[@nou8257]

*DABS*

[@clarencegarvis4262]

Just wanna say love ur channel dude. Every time I finish a comic I check your reading of it!

[@josetomascamposrobledano4618]

Even in his early years he was SWOLE!

[@yamiyoung]

Great video :) I figured the crystal bleeding process was the reason behind it cracking. Glad we finally got to see the backstory and it was interesting to see that he successfully bled it without being shown force visions

[@johnpaulsanchez3517]

Always look forward to your uploads

[@kaywood6495]

Why couldn’t they have made him this badass in the movies wtf

[@californiansniper2133]

Seriously after these comics I’m actually starting to like Kylo, all it takes is good writing I guess.

[@steel.9714]

@@californiansniper2133 All it actually takes is time spent to do it. You can be a bad writer and still make a story which can be nominated for Oscar (not giving guarantee that you are gonna win) if you spend time with your story and collect.

[@steel.9714]

@@californiansniper2133 All it actually takes is time spent to do it. You can be a bad writer and still make a story which can be nominated for Oscar (not giving guarantee that you are gonna win) if you spend time with your story and collect stuff which will support you.

[@victorpetrescu6586]

When are you going to cover his time as an undercover boss?

[@davids7252]

👏🏽...👏🏽...👏🏽...👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@Crilyte]

which one? as Matt or Randy? or both?

[@MrHarper2010]

Okay boomer

[@victorpetrescu6586]

@@MrHarper2010 nice b8 m8, I r8 1/8

[@MrHarper2010]

@@victorpetrescu6586 He spams it in part 2. It ain't no b8 XD

[@kingzseventh7017]

I'm really enjoying these comic issues I find them to be some of the best.

[@DavidEmanuelUwU91]

i love star wars

[@DarrelsWonderland]

This is where the fun begins! Ok, Boomer?! (SNL Reference)

[@deadshot5007]

The final issue was amazing

[@MrRonald327]

They needed more club picnics.

[@CR604]

This channel is actually better than the stupendous wave

[@neilmurphy966]

So u cud say the crossguard purpose was a dual thermal exhaust port!! ...oh dear, says Bevel Lemelisk 😂

[@_Cognito]

Kylo Ren truly🔥 badass 🔥

[@booch32484]

This is where he also becomes ben swolo apparently

[@HighLiner15]

We should have gotten this story as part of Ep. 7 or a flashback in Ep. 8 at the latest. Just this comic issue alone was more entertaining than all of what happened in Ep. 8 ☠

[@bowiesensei5574]

The whole trilogy should have been about him

[@nedmintz7447]

I want to see this as a spin-off story somewhere down the track. Please disney

[@sebastiansuazo2734]

Now this is something I would have love to see IN THE MOVIES!!!

[@RodCine]

Such a bad ass story.

[@CiabanItReal]

I left a like for *Jedi Mind Trick Variations*

[@isaiahlightfoot6625]

I want to see a ben solo series with this event as an episode

[@philipg6579]

They could’ve made a trilogy just about Ben’s turn into the dark side

[@thebigboy6070]

Yesh

[@ConnerVain]

This should been a prelude scene in the "last jedi" or/and flashback scenes like arrow.

[@tardarsauce3355]

Ngl this is pretty cool

[@SPECTRE_Madman]

I wonder if the knights of Ren knew palpatine was behind it all

[@KobaLenk]

In Chapter 1 Ren referred to 'the master'. Perhaps he talked about Palpatine

[@darthcaedus9130]

Would have loved to see Colin's version of episode ix where kylo doesnt get redeemed and stayed loyal to the dark

[@dreamslove1184]

He was also redeemed there in both drafts.

[@naseemweathers8358]

Me too I hate the fact that he is loosely based off of legends character but doesn’t finish it Legends Luke Skywalker‘s nephew falls to the Darkside and dies A dark Lord of the Sith

[@deanblue5077]

I wonder is he named after Ben Kenobi

[@starwarsreadingclub]

Great question! A few issues back in a conversation with Snoke, it was one of the aspects that Ben Solo was angry about, where he was named after Obi-Wan (i.e. Ben) when he didn't even know Obi-Wan. He also thought that he was then expected to live up to that legacy as well, which was a significant point in this issue today too. Thank you for watching!

[@isaiahvilla6691]

@@starwarsreadingclub hello there um my question is why did kylo did not have the sith eyes I'm curious 🤔

[@neilmurphy966]

isacc Villa hi...maybe he did sometimes like when killed San Tekka in TFA but had mask on so we cudnt tell..? Tho I'd have to reread TFA novel..😂

[@isaiahvilla6691]

@@neilmurphy966 what were your thoughts when general hux revealed to be a spy ?

[@shallows529]

@@starwarsreadingclub at least Ben Skywalker didn't make a fuss out of it compare to him. LMAO.

[@connersteven9518]

Kylo is one of my favorite Star Wars characters his character arc is amazing and you feel his pain oh and he’s a bad ass

[@brandonnimocks2815]

Awesome just awesome

[@olgak.1139]

Well, the Force started the connection between Ben and Rey at that turning point in his life,before killing the Master of Ren.Rey felt cold at that moment! !!

[@cinematicplays2644]

Love Star Wars

[@kionisua8564]

Huh. That explains the weird lightsaber. How neat

[@dannyvestal299]

For Jedi Mind trick variations!!!

[@CloneScavengerVulpin8389]

For jedi mind trick variations. Also i like kylo's lightsaber.

[@_xxpigmenplaysxx_]

Now I want a Kylo Ren A StarWars Story Movie

[@vindurza]

I love kylo's saber is basically a pipe bomb

[@ultragodzillafan]

Tai vs Ben reminded me of Anakin vs Obi-Wan.

[@iwantsomecookies08]

Good shit

[@llsymbiotell]

Such an amazing issue 🤧

[@theredshift180sx]

His outfit in this comic is much cooler than his in the movies but the mask would make this one so much cooler

[@kronosaur417]

the mind splinter? splinter of the minds eye? hmmmmm.........

[@klipsfilmsmelbourne]

That’s rare to see Kylo with Sith eyes

[@FunnyAndCleverHandle]

With his force alignment, Kylo should have a pink light saber

[@moderndemon84]

3:10 I thought he cut his hand off.

[@ethannorris2930]

Thought him bleeding the crystal would have been more emotional

[@parkb5320]

Why did he choose the name Kylo, when he could have used the name “Ben Ren”?

[@MrHarper2010]

S(Ky)walker and So(lo)?

[@killgre2399]

Because kylo ren is cooler

[@G200064]

I was really hoping you were going to say Ben swolo

[@ShadyzOfficial]

Only this would be a great movie

[@Facade953]

Was Palpatine speaking through Snoke?

[@Speetlebeetle]

The trio just had to try and understand him and how he wouldn’t have destroyed the training ground

[@zalari]

Wait.. I thought in some of the earlier SW Merch it clearly stated that Ren's saber design was ancient and gifted to him by Supreme Leader Snoke? Does anyone else remember this?

[@spinnenpfotedonnerclan5318]

Never heard of Snoke gifting it to him but he probably still had the idea with the crossguard from some ancient designs

[@trentroberts6736]

I thought the Mimbanese couldn’t blink, since they spent most of the their lives underground before the Clone Wars.

[@themetalone7739]

...and then he went on to get his ass kicked by a young woman with 0 training, who had first used the force about 5 mins before said fight. Clearly, the power of the dark side falters before a Mary Sue with plot armor.

[@roachct9076]

3:47 that's something Anakin would do

[@jojotheswede8444]

Ben swolo creates a laserstick

[@emmawhycantmyuserjustbeemm8278]

I find it interesting that Rey felt his rage...

[@Notium]

Knights of Ben

[@chriseyes20]

Wow im shocked normally i here about disney stuff im like lame this was actually good and like another said would have made a better trilogy then we got or atleast a way better starting point

[@TK-867]

Yes. There are other great stories under Disney. Some people simply resent them, and don't want do give them a chance. This is why I don't understand the High Republic negativity.

[@chriseyes20]

Cuz its just what 200 years before stuff we already know jedi knight have bin guarding for over a 10000 then why 200 year? Thats all ive seen bad on it and i agree why just 200 why not 600 alteast ?

[@TK-867]

@@chriseyes20 I get it. I don't mind that much. I mean, 200 years ago things were quite different. You won't be able to find pictures of the year 1820, considering that permanent images were first produced succesfully in the mid 1820's. Let alone all the advances that came after that. And societal change is more marked and accelerated, the more technologically advance a society becomes. Considering how advance SW thechnology is, changes should even be more marked. Lets just hope the writers take advantage of this.

[@chriseyes20]

Verry true just pointing out more time ppl are complaining about then anything else so seams like an easy fix change the time go from 200 to 400 see if that alone quites ppl if so done less hate but il keep an eye on it like everyone else just 200 years is not much but we shall see its way to early to say ether way

[@TK-867]

@@chriseyes20 yeah. We'll have to wait and see. I think fans should be taken into consideration, but not entirely. I mean, I think TROS aimed at pleasing everyone and look how it turned out. I liked it, but didn't loved it. What are your thoughts on Ep 9?

[@JelaniWood]

You know whats insane? I LOVE SW Lore since FOREVER (im 1 year oldr than the OG trilogy). I LOVE your channel (been subbed forever) but when it comes to this very topic at hand I could not care less! Totally not your fault Im sure this is one of your usual great videos but I just mean this new "Star Wars" overall. They made it so fans like me dont care and I know that "new audience" they wanted to bring in with these movies isn't watching at all. Its a weird feeling for a SW trilogy to be over and I just dont care...what weird times. Anyways, keep up the good work and hopefully we'll be dealt some SW I can care about again. You know I gotta leave you a "Like". I didnt just come here to bitch lol.

[@alphariusfuze8089]

Ben solo: *bEcAUse I lIke to, aNd I lOve SaND*

[@kvaldez46]

He became...Ben Swolo

[@snyper5150]

I though Kylo bought his lightersaber on the clearance isle at Walmart with the rest of the Sequel Trilogy merchandise...

[@jaredreyna3773]

Woah

[@ming45612]

It'd be funny if Ben didn't actually screw up in bleeding the crystal and it only broke because he physically clenched his fist rather than only using the force.

[@ciscoak9074]

It looks like Ben used to dress like han solo b4 taking on the kylo ren moniker.

[@miwwnikk]

i'm commenting for jedi mind trick variation

[@AirbenderHawk]

Ben swollo is at it again! 😤😤😤⚔️⚔️⚔️😈😈😈😈. Kylo is indeed menacing once he bled his lightsaber red, and seeing Sidious here puts a smile on my face, clarifying the events that indeed Palpatine manipulates during the events of TFA/TLJ/TROS. I knew that he’s alive during those years, as the most poserful Sith alive, he always have a contingency plan.

[@thejawgz6719]

I do like the original Ren as a character. He's like Canderous or maybe Han if they were force sensitive.

[@zacklee5875]

It remind me Ben is anakin betraying the order and his friend was Obi-Wan fighting in the lace area

[@zominous7024]

WAIT WHAT

[@superfish6794]

Next video idea: 'How Kylo Ren became non canon'..

[@theviking6052]

Ya and he made vents that would in reality would have cut his own hand off...lol

[@jendersonmohammed443]

Cool! Palpatine is the consumate manipulator!

[@darylsdesigns6679]

So I guess my theory about Ben bleeding his own Kyber crystal was correct!! Yes!!

[@thejawgz6719]

I felt a little bad for Tai because he never stopped believing in Ben. The other two pressured him.

[@Colincamera363]

Am I the only one who noticed that kylo fully turn to the dark side when his friend the Jedi got killed?

[@tenebrous-merciless.3962]

I never cared for Kylo Ren to much, but if some of these aspects would have been implemented in the movie I would have actually liked him a lot better. Even the fact that his eyes became Darkside eyes would have made him much cooler. I hated the movies not implementing Darkside eyes especially on Snoke. Great vid. Keep up the great work

[@naseemweathers8358]

Not all users of the dark side had Sith eyes Plus yellow eyes didn’t mean a dark Side user was powerful it actually meant they were a slave to their power

[@thedescendedangel]

Good lord that would have made a hell of a better force awakens

[@NVDuster]

Interesting now that we have a reason why he has that lightsaber other than JJ saying, Hey! It's cool and wacky! Like Darth maul! Still thought he should've took Anakins lightsaber from rey and bled the crystal or Vader's

[@ryateo1]

If it's like his character in the movie, I'd say he cried on his light saber and threw a temper tantrum at the knights.

[@alexiberthe2574]

He hated Lando Calrissian

[@thewatcher4552]

Disney pay A.D. ad make this a mini-series on film!!

[@BuddyWhite616]

I wish i lived in the star wars universe

[@KobaLenk]

Same, buddy.