Talk:Kylo Ren/@comment-24357538-20160117164702

Kylo Ren's design went through various phases during production. In his earliest incarnation, he was an alien with one red eye, and wielded a lightsaber with a Wampa bone for a hilt. Later in production, he was a cyborg, with metal parts covering his face and arms. His final design shows him as human, but he wears a mask heavily reminiscent of Darth Vader and Darth Revan's mask.

Kylo's background is also based on the popular Expanded Universe (now referred to as "Legends") characters Jacen Solo/Darth Caedus/Jacen Solo from the New Jedi Order novel series and Darth Revan from the popular video game, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. However, Caedus never struck down his own father and was slain by his own sister, Jaina Solo.