Talk:Supreme Leader Snoke/@comment-1031724-20161022232403

"Fate"? Not much of one, because of course the conclusion to this war will be in Episode IX.

I think he'll survive Episode IX. For some reason Star Wars has an aversion to killing the villains now, just like Disney in their three most recent movies (can't say whether the upcoming one fits this pattern or not, to avoid spoilers).

Why?

Because, The Force Awakens follows a similar plot to A New Hope. Han Solo plays a similar role to Obi-Wan Kenobi there. Yet General Hux, whose original trilogy counterpart is Tarkin, survives. Tarkin was quite clearly on the Death Star when it blew, but Snoke told Hux to get Kylo Ren off the Starkiller, which we're sure he did, they wouldn't just kill Ren offscreen, they'd have shown him there before it exploded, plus they have to use him as the Darth Vader in Episodes VIII and IX, and since Hux is the one who rescued him, he escaped too. Hux should have been blown up along with the Starkiller to mirror Tarkin, but he wasn't. Why?

The only villain in The Force Awakens that seemingly dies is Captain Phasma, who is thrown into the Starkiller's trash compactor, but it's been said she'll return so she probably found a way to escape too.