The Knights of Ren are Finally EXPLAINED! - Who Are The Knights of Ren? 

They didn't. You know damn well they would have done this thing sooner.

Exactly, and it's ridiculous. They're making movies for the sake of making movies (and money) instead of making the movies because they have a good story worth telling. It's sad really, and a huge missed opportunity.

They never had a plan for these films.

What's even more mind-numbing is they COULD have been successful just making movies year after year if they had simply kept to Lucas's intended story instead of stabbing him and his franchise in the back simply because "enlightened" Hollywood elites "know better".

Jaela Aurelius if they didn't have plans for them why introduce them in the first place?! Have ANY of these writers heard of Chekovs gun? Such incompetence from such a huge company.

When did TFA release? From that time to now. 😬

@@greenbean2222 That'd be 4 then. ^^

Literally 1 day before the saga ends XD

@@Mizra-dq3lj it's cause they didn't have a story to give us... they winged everything from the start of TFA... i dont like the knights of ren, disney is trying hard to move away from darth names because what it takes to get those titles is really dark a lot of the times... and don't ever expect a sith movie to come out because they wont touch it with a 10.5 inch lightsaber.

got the milk everything since they can not really put it in the movie...

i guess we now know who ben swolo Truly trained with to gain his muscle.

Hold my ren

All hail the *swolo*

@@dragonsword7370 ben has no muscles he has dad muscle

LOL

King of the hill

Lol

Some say it's a cult but eh it's not it's just finding and making a group of Sith that find more people with the shadow and make an army of shadow sensitives to then rule the galaxy

Ahsoka 521 and rey could still have been a main character, become kylos apprentice and then causing internal strife when she refuses to fully join the dark side with him once they got somewhere with it

I think they should adapt EVERY sequel trilogy comic, and adapt them into a short series animated by Dave Filoni, Clone Wars or Rebels style.

@@Whydoyoureadme yes, I was thinking the exact same story line! The Knights of Ren could have been bad ass characters😔 whatever happened to all this let the past die nonsense 😆 Palpatine 😳end game

Just like the prequels they have some really great material to work with they just fucked it all up.

Bo Nukem The prequels were great

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More like the Devil's Rejects

yep, they are force sensitive but we don't see them use any force abilities in the film.

They do get more screen time though.

Jeff V Yup. They just walk around and look cool around Ben ;)

Oh dear.

Knights of Ren were like Captain Phasma. They didn't do shit and went out like a bitch.

Elvijs Kurss yea it’s disappointing

@@michaeltrujillojr.8451 ikr.

Classic Star Wars side characters -- look cool, do almost nothing. Boba Fett, Darth Maul, etc etc.

@@tennozeorymer Maul killed Qui-Gon bruh..

Benjamin Wright nah maul did alot more

No you weaboo, they're knights.

Kriv Torrin knights have swords they carry different weapons and their outfits have a Samurai vibe to them

They are nothing like sith.

Shawn Thomas wearing black, at least one has a red Lightsaber I wouldn’t call them Jedi either

You mean samurai/dark jedi knights

no, you get "nerf o sthgink"

You dummy, you just typed the same thing twice...

Cannon fodder

Ner fo sthgink

@@vinnregi4882 That's because it's Ancient Sith for "Cannon fodder", jeez..

Literally this happened. I was so pissed.

Kinda like boba

Caleb Lòpez Honestly, in the ranking of characters who didn't do much, Boba is still the best, he looked cool, he talked like an equal to Vader, and he tracked down Solo, and managed to claim two bounties on one guy. The Knights of Ren.... just stood around. Even when they tracked down the heroes, they just stood there.... menacingly! And when they fought a Jedi, something their supposed to be good at, I assumed, the instant a lightsaber entered the battle they went down.

And then they'll pop up again somehow surviving all those stabs and slices from the movie with cybernetic limbs in expanded lore through other more obscure media. 😑

They were Phasma 2.0's. At least Phasma actually had lines. :P

I considered leaving you a like. If not for yooouu.... For brotherly love. [Both dead and unworthy]

I like this theory, but I think his crystal is red because he isnt fully turned to the dark side, so him bleeding his crystal caused him to crack it.

Taking it by force would probably make it work just fine, I think he didn’t take it by force at all, but that he stole in secret as a coward.

Jeo Trillio his crystal is red meaning he’s bled it and it was imbued with the dark side? His crystal couldn’t be red if it hadn’t been bled with the dark side what are you saying?

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Wake the fuck up Sith, we have a galaxy to burn.

Not surprised that only 3 of them talk at all.

The Knights of Ren were pretty fast dead in the Movie or? Nothing remarkable....like the movie....

@@hanzo8120 They have involvement through the movie. What happens to them wasn't remarkable.

hanzo8120 They raped Kylo Ren then in return got raped themselves...just a little role playing

Who the hell fights with an axe against blasters and lightsabers?

paco ramon they used vibro blades which you can use against light sabers.

Ben Solo.. son of Leia & Han... yeah he’s really gonna struggle when he puts his mind to taking you out 🤨😐😆😆😆

604eign not trying to downplay them for all getting owned by Ben but more of the fact they actually don’t do much else in the movie outside of capturing chewie. I wouldn’t mind if they had some more pivotal role in the movie as they were hyped up to be “dark side force users”. Also what is that non sense of a comment lol? Am I supposed to feel hurt from that?

@@604eign Obviously not the issue.. The Knights were ominously mentioned since TFA, and they had no significant role in the trilogy. When they do finally show up its in a role that could have been subbed in by some fancy storm troopers... There was also zero development regarding their relationship with Kylo, no connection or meaning to their final confrontation.

Most of the new characters in the disney trilogy all are insignificant. Knights of Ren is as killable as any stormtrooper, they were like "Hi!" then they dead. Captain Phasma and Snoke killed off when introduced before I get to know em, a total waste. I barely knew Darth Maul in the Phantom Menace but at least he fought greatly to make it worth it.

The Wayfarer are you feeling subverted?!?

That idea sounds hostile as fuck, i love it!

The Last Jedi was just one big missed opportunity. The KOR vs the praetorian guards would have been awesome!

This would've made much more sense and been a lot cooler

Thought that two

Because they dont have good writer's just hacks.

Because They're corporate. And have stupid requirements for their writer's room.

they only a had plot and just do the next sence and next one and editing and finsih... oh what what about storytelling... just copy old one....

Can't say this story all that impressive. So they edgy Dark side bois club, so what? Pretty usual stuff in SW universe...

That is a really dumb story. What are you talking about?

Hes gonna paddle ya!

They are like discount sith

Omega Storm but Sith nonetheless

@@CTXVII i wouldnt call them sith these ain't sith they are more darker i would say sith work in certain ways and do certain stuff. I would say these guys are a different order definitely not sith like or in the sith order.

Legends canon had various other Dark Jedi, force wielding groups, and force users that were more like wizards and witches.

Only similarity between the Sith Order and Knights of Ren is that they're both practitioners of the Dark Side. How are the Knights "discount Sith" then?

Watch ray beat them in 1 Minute since ray will pull of Mary Sue from her arse

Muzan Kibutsuji Ben: umm, actually...

@Bakasta 😂

big edgy for my taste, but thats what disney has done to dark side i suppose

They did nothing in the movie what makes them so cool and interesting

@@cesar2934 oh I totally agree about the movies they didn't use them at all. I'm just saying from the references in books & comics they seem like really cool characters that had untapped potential.

Nice outfits and Cool poses. 0 skills.

Yes and they were wasted in the movies.

You put way more thought into this comment than either JJ or Johnston did in multi million dollar movies

You bloated sack of protoplasm!!!

Indeed, that's what their brief mention in TFA(or was it in TLJ, I don't remember) seemed to indicate.

I didn't think we'd find someone more disappointing than Phasma, but subverted expectations strikes again I guess.

its like kylo ren , died a warrior and the movies didnt even show the real power that the comics gave him

@@Crossbones6732 Nah I thought Phasma was cool she managed to get out of a trash compactor and fought Finn but yeah the Knights of Ren were lame tho

I wanted them in Battlefront 2 :(

yea but they still look cool

They had potential, some depth and a fascinating philosophy in the comics. Disney made cinematic garbage

Dude seriously. "Sigh" I hope one day rey won't ever be called a mary sue again. Just seriously, anakin when he was 9 years destroyed the whole station. And rey got lucky with beating a rage blinded kylo which was highly circumstantial.

Apparently they fuck Kylo up

@@Orto-jj2di But Anakin later on had flaws. Massive ones at that he lost body parts in battle and was out matched many times by the likes of Dooku, Durge (he did beat them later on but after a lot of time). He had a lot of potential but he unlocked it piece by piece. But Ray does all that he did with 0 training. All this stupid plot armor shit is done with Ray while wasting a character like Finn.

@@MC-el2mw Anakin was restrained by the jedi laws while rey isn't, she is more like a grey jedi.

@@Orto-jj2di Well young Anakin got his hand cut off when trying to fight Dooku while Rey fought and win with what is suppose to be elite guards with little training in the force. See the difference here???? Anakin has character development he lose but improve after many setbacks. So far Rey had just seen victories after victories and literally fought enemies with ZERO effort.

We do not speak of them. They are a clan of eediots!

Squires of Stimpy*

But first...I gotta whizz

Actually the red guards lasted much longer, and were far more impressive.

Yeh this is just one of many reasons why i hate the sequels, they wasted every good, cool looking character and interesting elements.

Dark side wanna be. That is what they are

@@Yokai_Yuri so what happened to Luke's Jedi students who joined Ben? xD seems like knights of ren are just a bunch of space biker gang.

It’s possible they became knights of ren to replace those killed in the raid, were killed by Ben, or even became the praetorian guards.

There are many orders of force users, not just the jedi and sith

@@kelnhide im aware but they keep selling that knights of ren are the "successors" of the sith since force awakens which is not impressive if they are a bunch of space biker gangs.

The edge keeps him warm

Even the nickname 'Jedi Killer' was fake

@@KobaLenk true, he only killed 2 jedi and thats it

You think Rey taking the skywalker name and killing sidious is good

MarkofO Thinking the movie was good isn’t thinking EVERYTHING was good. I think she should have stood to the Palpatine name and the way she killed Palpatine is bullhsit (like he had blue lightning wich is weaker than purple and he had purple before) but I think it was a really good movie

MarkofO it’s his opinion mate not yours

It is probably burned. Also burn scars can make you lose feeling, so he probably doesn't even feel the cold

Tohawk that doesn't mean he isn't freezing to death..

@@ludwigiapilosa508 Dark side powers / a wizzard did it

magister343 yeah, that one bothers me almost as much as when gamers call a dobble-kill for a colateral...

I'm not sure they were "forgotten about" in TLJ. TLJ has a very narrow scope: it takes place over a brief period, with most of the story taking place on Luke's island, in Canto Bite, in Snoke's ship, and in the Rebel fleet. There isn't much room in that for additional characters or locations, especially given the film's run time. I know I didn't miss them.

@@Sardonac Rian Johnson forgot about them, like he did with 90% of the plot points for FA. He also forgot to leave a story for the 3rd film. Oh and he also forgot who Luke Skywalker was. TLJ is the worst star wars film ever made and is single handedly responsible for the current state of the franchise.

@@nlgarmdevil4411 That you think Johnson "forgot" who Skywalker was, rather than that he made a choice to grow his character in a new way, shows you don't have the tools required for this discussion. If you honestly think there wasn't tonnes of room for compelling new stories after TLJ then you've less imagination for narratives than JJ Abrams.

@@Sardonac oh dear. i think we're done here if you think for a moment that Johnson did any kind of good job with anything he did in TLJ.

@@nlgarmdevil4411 TFA and JJ Abrams sucks. Don't blame their failings on Johnson, lol.

shut up dude, you sound like a bitter broke tool, who doesn't have tickets for the rise of skywalkers, I got tickers for IMAX this friday.. and you're fucking jealous.

Well to be fair, there was a lot of expanded material from The Clone Wars that I found way more compelling than the prequels. Any expanded lore for the sequels is nice because it can give more meaning to characters and events that happened in that trilogy. Much like what The Clone Wars did for the prequels.

It' not going to suck, it's going to end the year perfectly. People who say it's sucks before even seeing lets me know their life sucks. I love all 3 star wars movies, I love the comics, I love the Mandolorian, nothing sucks, your life sucks around it.

Beowolfenstein I love all Star Wars as well, the EU and the new material, but some others just don't. They know the kind of Star Wars that they enjoy. It's no use trying to argue with each other about that matter, and to bash one another's enjoyment of said Star Wars material. Both sides need to just agree to disagree, and that's it.

I'm defending Disney, and I'm not a casual,I'm a fucking hardcore fan who has star wars tattoos all over his body, I'm glad Star Wars has the backing like disney, just look what they did with the Mandolorian, just because your youtube name is stormtrooper doesn't mean your a fan.. fucking loser. I once had sex with a girl wearing my Kylo Ren mask.

Thank God. It was always cringy. Glad he didnt do it this time

These seem to be their version. I doubt there is another group of force-sensitives like them in the First Order

Frank Orefice Knowing how secretive the previous inquisitors were, I’m not surprised.

I thought that’s what they were the whole time

No, The first order is a dumber empire

I am

Naw I think the stranger is a race swapped plagueis. Jk

They just lurked in the darkness and ended up getting whooped

That's pretty much the story for this whole sequel trilogy, writers taking what little they can to make something cool to tell in comic and book form. Unlike the EU though, I feel the canon is severely limited.

Yep, they so wasted them, did NOTHING interesting with them whatsoever in the movies, just stood them on a rock plinth looking like some pop band.

@@RaikenXion yeah because the movie is actully there to explain the main heroes story not knight's of ren that's why we have comics

@@skoulikiagamwtanekrasas The thing is though, they're called "The Knights of Ren", they share Kylo's name of "Ren", he leads them, they look mystical, like Space Ronin or something, they were very intriguing and when JJ showed them briefly in Rey's Force-back vision, it made us think they had somekind of prominent role, or part to play in the sequel trilogy. It's like when you see the big holo-image of the Emperor for the first time in ESB, Lucas picks up on him further in ROTJ; and then explored his kind of backstory in the prequels further, giving you solid insight into Palpatine. With the KoR it's very dissatisfying, because Kylo struggled to handle those few Praetorian Guard in TLJ, he needed help from Rey to defeat them. But just a year later, suddenly he can defeat ALL of his own Knights of Ren easily!? They just looked soo badass and mysterious and die so pathetically, nothing interesting is done with them in Ep9!!! So by the time we get round to exploring and being given further insight into them in the comics, it all feels pointless. They could have been messed up force-sensitive clones of Sideous' past apprentices, Maul, Tyranus etc. Or they could have been the feral children from the Aftermath novels, but like grown up. Or they could have been modern take on "Dark Jedi". Or the KoR could have been part of somekind of secret project, where they are cloned from the DNA of Sith Lords from the past, each one having the DNA of Nhilus, Revan, Malak, etc. What i'm getting at is JJ and his writers literally had infinite ideas they could have used, to draw inspiration from, and actually create a really cool role for the KoR to have in the sequels. Instead he did literally NOTHING with them, it's soo disappointing when i think about it. And the comics backstory is LAME AF! It really just kind of makes the Knights of Ren, amount to being nothing more than a band of evil raiders, that are just obsessed with killing, thats it. Theres no intrigue there. And that whole pretentious dribble about them following "the Ren", thats just stupid, empty and shallow. Even the Knight's previous leader "Ren", looks soo frickin cool too, with that black, ash-like scarring all over his body, and that Lui-Kang/Raiden looking fauld he wheres on his waist with the trousers. The sequels are extremely vague on every backstory, and all their cool looking characters, like KoR and Cap Phasma are wasted, such a shame. I'm going to come up with my own backstory for that Ren leader and the Knights of Ren themselves, because i simply can't accept their story how it is. And i promise you, i WILL come up with a truly amazing backstory.

@@RaikenXion i will wait about your story and i understand what youy are saying but you must admit that this was the same deal with royal guards

@@skoulikiagamwtanekrasas I don't know really, cause he seemed to just take out the Knights of Ren very easily, completely on his own. With Snoke's Praetorian Guard, he actually needed help and seemed to struggle taking those on. Or are you talking about Palpatine's Royal Guard?

Kylo is most likely a noob to the mindset compared to Ren the Zen.