Kylo Ren’s Training Is The Direct Inversion Of Yoda’s Training With Luke

Training together with Yoda on Dagobah might have been a challenge for Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) in Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back, but it looks like Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) had to go through so much more training together with Snoke.

Marvel's new Age of Resistance comic books puts the spotlight on significant character moments that before Lucasfilm's sequel trilogy, and Age of Resistance – Supreme Leader Snoke #1 shows readers just how intense Kylo Ren's training with Snoke was.

Taking us back before Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the comic has Snoke lashing at Kylo for being filled with emotion. Not only does the Dark Side user have his apprentice hover over a cliff and then drop him over a bed of spikes, but he also ignites Kylo Ren's fear. He wants the boy's rage to steep, he wants the boy to lash out and attack.

When Kylo Ren tries to cling on to his mask, Snoke slaps him hard. The mask is his weakness, a symbol of Darth Vader and the past. Snoke wants Kylo Ren to focus on the First Order, not on his grandfather who ultimately returned to the light.

Snoke's training is inversely proportional to the things that Yoda taught Luke.

"Anger, fear, aggression — the dark side are they," Yoda said in Return of the Jedi. "Once you start down the dark path forever will it dominate your destiny."

Supreme Leader Snoke #1 definitely helps us understand why Kylo Ren was the way he was in The Force Awakens. It explains all the darkness and the anger, why he had to kill his own father in the film.

We can't wait and see what level of darkness Kylo Ren reaches in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker premieres December 20, 2019.

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