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When thinking of Kylo Ren’s parentage in Star Wars, many fans think first of Han Solo. The two’s confrontation in The Force Awakens proved to be one of the film’s signature scenes and one of its most shocking moments. Furthermore, Han’s influence can be felt in Kylo even after his death, with Snoke and Kylo mentioning him often, and small mannerisms seeping through – such as his sarcastic shrug before engaging the Knights of Ren.
Nonetheless, Kylo Ren has two parents, and in many ways, he is more like Leia Organa. Whilst Han has some of the more significant interactions with Kylo, it is Leia’s personality, and their similar histories, that often shine through most clearly. In many ways, when they have similar traits, Kylo acts like a dark mirror to his mother, showing the worse side of her traits.
7 Kylo Is At Least As Powerful In The Force As Leia
As members of the incredibly Force-sensitive Skywalker Clan, both Kylo and Leia are shown to be immensely powerful in the Force. Kylo is able to do feats never seen before in Star Wars, like using his powers to freeze a blaster bolt in midair, and is shown to be a competent telepath and telekinetic, as well as a member of a powerful Force Dyad.
Leia makes less use of the Force, having never completed training, but she does show power in it when she feels Han’s death from across the galaxy, communicates with her son from many miles away, and completely instinctually when she uses the Force to save her from her death in space.
6 Both Of Them Expect To Be Obeyed
Regardless of how he got the position, Kylo Ren is one of Snoke’s primary lieutenants, and later the Supreme Leader of the entire First Order. Throughout, he is unafraid of using his position and the authority it gives him, with his anger and his poor response to be denied known by many in the First Order.
Leia shows a similar assurance in her authority as the General of the entire Resistance, but in a much more compassionate way. Her orders are always for the good of the Resistance, rather than just her whims, and while she does punish subordinates who disobey her, she doesn’t threaten or kill them like her son. Instead, after Poe disobeys her and has most of their fighters destroyed, she slaps and demotes him.
5 Both Of Them Were Raised Away From Their Biological Parents
Kylo Ren ultimately only had ten years of being raised by his biological parents, unlike Leia who lived with an adoptive family from the day she was born. Rather than being adopted, Kylo was sent to be trained by Luke from a young age, having semi-frequent content with his family after then. By contrast, Leia grew up considering the Organas her family.
In both cases, it was an attempt to protect them from the Dark Side. Leia was sent to live with the Organas to disguise her true identity as Darth Vader’s daughter, knowing the Empire would never stop hunting for her if they knew she was alive. Kylo was sent to train with Luke because Leia saw some of Anakin’s influence in him and wanted him to choose a better path. Ultimately, Leia’s would succeed in keeping her safe, whilst Kylo’s would send him into the arms of Snoke.
4 Neither Completed Their Jedi Training
A strange twist of fate would see both Kylo and Leia never fully train as Jedi Knights, despite years of learning the ways of the Order. Leia trained with Luke for a year and was skilled enough to be on the eve of completing the most intense part of her training when a vision of Kylo caused her to give her lightsaber back to Luke and return to a more normal life.
Kylo trained with Luke for many years, becoming one of his most powerful students at the new Jedi Temple. However, Snoke corrupted him before he completed his training. Although Kylo continued to receive training under Snoke, he never became a true Jedi Knight the traditional way, having burned down the Temple before he could become one.
3 Both Caught The Interest Of A Powerful Darksider
The turning point of Luke and Vader’s famous duel aboard the Death Star comes when Vader, unable to find Luke to continue their duel, reaches out with his telepathy instead. Sensing Luke’s anxieties, he learns that Luke has a sister, and threatens to turn her to the Dark Side to serve as an apprentice to either him or Palpatine. This causes Luke to attack in anger, ultimately winning the bout.
Kylo would also serve as a figure of interest to powerful Darksiders, with Snoke reaching out to him from a young age to corrupt him. Even later on, once again Palpatine would pretend to find him worthy of being an apprentice, in reality likely intending to betray him. Where Luke is able to protect Leia, he cannot do the same for Kylo.
2 The Desire To Build Something
One of the most extreme cases of Kylo taking a trait of Leia’s and turning it dark, they both, at times, act as architects of a new Galactic order. Leia is instrumental in the founding of the New Republic, and even when she is forced to the sidelines by politics, continues to act to protect it and see it become something better.
After Snoke’s death in The Last Jedi, Kylo reveals to Rey and nobody else his true intention: to destroy everything, all factions in the galaxy, including the First Order, so that he can build something new in its place. While he has not achieved his goal as of a year later in The Rise of Skywalker, nothing suggests he has changed his course before his redemption.
1 They Both Love Han Solo A Great Deal
For some fans, Kylo Ren’s killing of Han Solo, his own father, is the signal that he is irredeemable, and that he has given himself over fully to the Dark Side. For Kylo, however, killing his father only propels him to a more intense stage of his struggle with both sides of the Force, as his guilt and emotional turmoil caused him to doubt the Dark Side.
In The Rise of Skywalker, it is both of Kylo’s parents who convince him to abandon the Dark. Leia reaches out to him from across the galaxy, and it is the presence of a Force-empowered memory of Han that talks with him and is the one who convinces him to do better. Despite everything, Kylo does love his father. There is no doubt of the love between Leia and Han.
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