Ever since we first saw Darth Vader’s mask in Kylo Ren‘s hands in that trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, there has been an inkling: is the new Dark Side wielder basically a huge nerd? He built his own lightsaber, he’s basically cosplaying a Sith (unlike grandpa, he doesn’t actually need that mask), and he owns perhaps the best piece of war memorabilia in his corner of the galaxy.
On the day The Force Awakens was released on Blu-ray, J.J. Abrams has revealed to EW that he’s even more of a collector than you realized.
When we say we have a collection of ashes, we’re generally referring to a significant number of Evil Dead or Pokémon action figures on our shelves. Kylo’s collection of ashes–upon which he rests his own helmet when he removes it–actually is evil, and very dead.
“The backstory is, that that table has the ashes of the enemies he’s killed. That moment was actually shot for, and meant to be used in, the scene where he was talking to the Vader mask.”
I originally thought it was Vader’s ashes, but I was wrong! Oh well, you can’t win them all. What are your thoughts on Ren’s collection?