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How Kylo Ren Obtained Darth Vader’s Mask Explained

That much we know.

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The last time we saw Vader’s helmet, it was burning on a funeral pyre in Return of the Jedi, so how did it end up in the hands of Vader’s wayward grandchild?


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A new video posted by Star Wars Minute, however, has posited a new theory regarding Darth Vader’s helmet that has the entire Star Wars universe buzzing like no other.

In any event, it matters little to The Force Awakens, as JJ Abrams and Laurence Kasdan went back to the drawing board and cut all of the Luke-centric stuff out.

In The Perfect Weapon, Bazine is hired by a mysterious client to retrieve a mysterious package from the room of a former stormtrooper who fought at the Battle of Endor (depicted in Return of the Jedi). As we now know, however, that’s not the case, and Kylo Ren managed to track that bad boy down and build a creepy shrine to his dead grandpa. According to the above video, this question may have been answered by “The Perfect Weapon”, a Star Wars canonical short story published in November as a tie-in with The Force Awakens. If we see Anakin Skywalker, because he does flow back and forth between Darth Vader and Anakin, let’s see him as a character with a dark and light side.

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Either way, Slash Film’s Han believes that the theory, regardless of whether or not it plays out on the big screen, is essentially little more than “fun trivia” for fans “looking for something more”. It’s not at all hard to imagine him going to great lengths to retrieve this artifact, the way a Star Wars superfan might scour auctions for original trilogy memorabilia.

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