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with the opposite, and it makes
him a formidable threat, and more
nuanced than the villains who have
“KYLO REN IS THE VILLAIN STAR WARS come before him. In the scene when

Kylo kills his father, I tear up first
NEEDED. IN SOME WAYS, HE’S A PARALLEL when Kylo says, ‘I’m being torn
apart.’ His emotion is so raw. I’ve
OF LUKE.”—AMY RATCLIFFE never felt that from another villain
in Star Wars.”

As the author of Aftermath, the

first book bridging the divide
between Return of the Jedi and
The Force Awakens, Chuck Wendig
wouldn’t let us not take his opinion
on Kylo Ren’s villainy:
“For me, a villain at the surface
has to be cool and has to be scary,
right? Like, you need someone
who is a real bad news kind of
character, someone who enters the

scene and, with presence, lets you
feel awe in the truest sense of the
word. But that’s not really enough,
to me. You have to go deeper, you
have to have a villain who has more
going on—remember, villains don’t
know they’re the villains. They think
they’re the heroes! They are the
protagonists of their own story.
Vader is great when he first steps

onto the Tantive IV, but he gets

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