If you were a Star Wars fan in 2019, you know most fan theories centered around one thing: Who is Rey? The sequel trilogy’s heroine was described as coming “from nothing,” but before 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker, it seemed like everyone had a different idea of who she really was, from Rey Skywalker to Rey Kenobi to Rey Palpatine.
In the end, two of those were kind of correct: Rey was born from a discarded Palpatine clone, making her something between a daughter and a granddaughter, depending on how you look at it. But in the movie’s last moments, she took on a new name: Rey Skywalker, adopted in honor of her mentors, Luke and Leia, who are seen as Force ghosts. The abruptness of the scene and her lack of serious connection to the Skywalker family made it controversial, to say the least, but a new look at the moment shows it from a different angle.
