![]() Plagueis’s intent is very much as Han describes it. We still don’t know what the whole Knights of Ren thing is, but bear with me. The weakened Sith seduced Ben to the Dark Side, at which time Ben became Kylo Ren. As a direct descendant of Darth Vader, Plagueis’s own creation, Ben would be prime pickings for Plagueis’s manipulations. As a Sith, his compulsion would be to rebuild his power and to take on an apprentice.Įnter Ben Solo, an untrained disciple of the Force who has a lot of inherited power through the Skywalker bloodline but who doesn’t yet know how to harness his abilities. Once Palpatine died on the second Death Star, Plagueis would have been the only remaining living Sith of significance in the galaxy (barring any random ones that might show up in the comics or something). This suggests that he’s pretty old, and it’s no great leap to think he might have been lingering in the background all through the events of the classic trilogy and throughout all the prequels, waiting for his opportunity to resurface. Many fans assume, rightly I believe, that this shadowy controller is Snoke. In the canonical Aftermath novel, it is suggested that there is a mastermind behind the scenes who is manipulating events in the days after the Battle of Endor. Snoke, now greatly depowered, hung onto life using his remaining ability to manipulate the Force. In reality, I believe Palpatine took Plagueis’s Force abilities, whacked him in the head with his lightsaber (see the gnarly scars on Snoke’s head), and left his master for dead. ![]() Palpatine suggests that Plagueis’s apprentice (who was, in fact, Palpatine himself) learned all of his master’s knowledge, took his power, and killed him. According to Palpatine, in addition to creating life Plagueis also is able to prevent death. It’s strongly suggested that Plagueis impregnated Shmi Skywalker with the Force, effectively creating Anakin’s virgin birth. The Force Awakens goes to great lengths to distance itself from midi-chlorians, and Han refers to the Force as a sort of magical thing, so I’ll just refer to what Plagueis does as manipulating the Force. Plagueis was able to manipulate midi-chlorians (I know, I know), effectively moving the Force in and out of people at will. So, reading between the thinly veiled lines, Darth Plagueis was an immensely powerful Sith who trained Palpatine to become Darth Sidious. The most direct reference to Plagueis comes in the opera scene from Revenge of the Sith. Given that, I’ll stick mostly to what still is considered canonical for this explanation. Plagueis has had a lot written about him in the Star Wars Expanded Universe novels and comics, all of which have been invalidated as non-canonical after Disney purchased Lucasfilm. I propose that Plagueis is his Sith name, and Snoke is his townie name. No more beating around the bush: Supreme Leader Snoke is Darth Plagueis. ![]() I do, however, feel pretty convinced that it’s a solid idea. After doing that, I did some searching and found that I most certainly am not alone in drawing the parallels I’ve drawn, so I don’t in any way claim that my theory is unique. ![]() While pondering, I came up independently with a theory about Snoke’s true identity, and I was able to back it up with what I feel like is some pretty compelling support. He’s played via motion capture by Andy Serkis and appears as an enormous hologram when addressing Kylo Ren and General Hux, but beyond that, we don’t know much at all about the disfigured guy called Supreme Leader Snoke. There are a lot of intriguing questions posed in The Force Awakens, and one of the central intrigues that interested me the most is the question of who the Star Wars saga’s new big bad really is. Spoilers for The Force Awakens abound from this point forward! I really don’t want to spoil anything for anybody, so this is your chance to bail before I start hypothesizing. If not, then you should skip this post for now, because it’s all about speculation surrounding one particular character, and it refers to specific lines and events from the movie. If you are like millions of others, you already have seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens in the theater, potentially multiple times.
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