STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI: Supreme Leader Snoke's Jewellery May Reveal The Villain's Surprising Origin Story

STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI: Supreme Leader Snoke's Jewellery May Reveal The Villain's Surprising Origin Story

Looking for more answers about Supreme Leader Snoke after seeing the villain in Star Wars: The Last Jedi? Well, a tie-in book for the Rian Johnson helmed release may answer some lingering fan questions...

By JoshWilding - Dec 18, 2017 05:12 AM EST
Filed Under: Star Wars
Source: CBR
WARNING: Major Spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi can be found below!

Ever since he was first introduced in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, fans have been anxious to learn more about the identity of Supreme Leader Snoke. Unfortunately, those answers didn't come in The Last Jedi and the villain's past remains a mystery to us as a result (something which has infuriated fans who came up with theories ranging from him being a clone to a resurrected Grand Moff Tarkin). 

Well, the Visual Dictionary for Star Wars: The Last Jedi reveals some intriguing details about Snoke's ring, reiterating that he's not a Sith Lord and that that lineage ended with the demise of Darth Vader. He is, however, powerful in the Dark Side of the Force and it seems his origins lie in the Unknown Regions of the Galaxy. A recent tie-in novel pointed to that being the case and his Praetorian Guard are actually described as hailing from the same place so that adds a lot of weight to that particular theory. 

So, what's the deal with his ring? Made from obsidian mined from the catacombs beneath Darth Vader's castle on Mustafar, it's etched with glyphs of the Dwartii, the four sages who serves as somewhat controversial lawgivers and philosophers from early in the history of the Galactic Republic. 


Braata, Faya, Sistros, and Yanjon could be seen as statues in the office of Chancellor Palpatine in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones and the future Emperor made no secret of his fondness for them. Braata was a big fan of studying the Dark Side so a new possible theory is that he's actually Supreme Leader Snoke. Sure, that means he'd be over 1000 years old but that would explain his twisted and aged body.

Then again, Snoke might just be a fan of them as Palpatine was but whatever the answer may be, you have to hope we'll learn more about the villain's past somewhere down the line. What do you think?
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BlindAl9
BlindAl9 - 12/18/2017, 5:55 AM
Hopefully JJ Abrams will address his OG in the third movie
Origame
Origame - 12/18/2017, 6:52 AM
@BlindAl9 - yes Abrams should address how snoke was an original gangsta.
gulducati
gulducati - 12/18/2017, 6:59 AM
@BlindAl9 - Have you seen the TV show LOST? JJ Abrams created it, set up big questions and interesting characters...then there were zero answers.
Technosham
Technosham - 12/18/2017, 7:04 AM
@Origame - Thank you for saying this.
JFogg
JFogg - 12/18/2017, 7:13 AM
@gulducati - the biggest questions of lost were answered. Also they weren’t dead the entire time. Can’t understand why people think they were dead.
JFogg
JFogg - 12/18/2017, 7:15 AM
@BlindAl9 - they didn’t address who the Emperor was in the original trilogy. I wasn’t disappointed at first but it’s really not a big deal.
RocknRolla
RocknRolla - 12/18/2017, 7:31 AM
@BlindAl9 - I have a feeling we haven't seen the last of Snoke.
gulducati
gulducati - 12/18/2017, 7:35 AM
@RocknRolla - Before he died, he transferred his consciousness into one of those animals on Ach To that Luke was milking.
gulducati
gulducati - 12/18/2017, 7:47 AM
@JFogg - I think the point is that by that time, nobody cared if they were all dead or not.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 12/18/2017, 8:42 AM
@JFogg -

The emperor was created during a time where backstories of characters were not as important. Heroes were good because they were good and villains bad because they were bad.

Snoke however is a character they intentionally wasted for no reason.
JFogg
JFogg - 12/18/2017, 9:13 AM
@gulducati - completely disagree.
JFogg
JFogg - 12/18/2017, 9:14 AM
@Scarilian - so you’re saying for heroes and villains now they need this big backstory to explain why they are that way? Disagree with that big time.
gulducati
gulducati - 12/18/2017, 9:23 AM
@JFogg - Sorry, correction. You cared.
JFogg
JFogg - 12/18/2017, 9:56 AM
@gulducati - Ha that actually made me laugh.
DarthMoose
DarthMoose - 12/18/2017, 1:16 PM
@JFogg - I was a huge fan of lost, my only gripe with that was what they did to John Locke. The ending didn't bother me.
Jezi
Jezi - 12/18/2017, 5:56 AM
IronGenesis
IronGenesis - 12/18/2017, 6:01 AM
Still baffled by the poor storytelling and structure and over lack of planning bewtween the creators of this sequel trilogy. From plot holes to inconsistencies to down right just poor writing. And all in the name of $$$$.

Help us JJ...you’re our only hope.

And I say this with not great faith in him either. But it’s on him Now so what other options have we?
Ragnarocknroll
Ragnarocknroll - 12/18/2017, 6:08 AM
@IronGenesis - I loved the film personally. It was unique, bold and interesting in ways that I haven't found any of the other Star Wars films to be.
Jezi
Jezi - 12/18/2017, 6:09 AM
@IronGenesis -
IronGenesis
IronGenesis - 12/18/2017, 6:11 AM
@Ragnarocknroll - I liked the film too. But as a Star Wars movie with a responsibility to continue the Skywalker Saga? Nope.
danield222
danield222 - 12/18/2017, 6:51 AM
@IronGenesis - No it was great like this, the story was always about Rey and Kylo, Snoke was only there as a stepping stone, it was never said he's the big bad.

Remember the end of ROTJ? Vader kills Palpatine because of redemption, to save his son, Luke. This is the opposite of that. Kylo kills Snoke to gain absolute power and to save Rey who at that moment Kylo thinks he can turn to the dark side.

And Rey's parentage? The fact that they're nobodies gives her character depth! She has to let go of the notion that her parents are someone great, and when she finally accepts that, the rotten hole (remember the rotten hole on the island?) that was left there by her parents disappears, thus the dark side calling to her is gone. Not everyone needs to be somebody to achieve greatness. Who were Anakin's parents again?

And dont come with the Mary Sue bs, she was on Jakku since she was 5 growing up around thiefs and murderers, she learned to defend herself, she's a selfmade (yet-to-be) hero.

This movie was about learning through failure (every character went through failure in this one and changed because of it) and it was about becoming your own person (Kylo, Rey).

Yes the Finn story was weak, Leia moment too much, but everything else was well thought out, saying the whole movie has bad writing and it ruined force awakens is an exaggeration of great proportion, it moved the story forward and changed every character. Easily the best writing in a Star Wars movie since ESB.
ODanil
ODanil - 12/18/2017, 6:03 AM
I'm cool with him beeing that dude.
JizzerTron
JizzerTron - 12/18/2017, 6:03 AM
Completely agree
cbostont102
cbostont102 - 12/18/2017, 6:04 AM
At first I was disappointed that we didn’t learn more about Snoke but then I remembered that there are other movies coming out that can address the issue.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 12/18/2017, 8:54 AM
@cbostont102 -

Why would a future movie expand on Snoke when none of the movies before his death did? Why would anyone care now that he is dead? Why would you have any faith in them developing the character when it's clear they don't care?
UltimateCarnage
UltimateCarnage - 12/18/2017, 6:08 AM
Honestly, worse than Steppenwolf.
Ragnarocknroll
Ragnarocknroll - 12/18/2017, 6:08 AM
@UltimateCarnage - Nope
Jezi
Jezi - 12/18/2017, 6:10 AM
@Ragnarocknroll - Yep.
UltimateCarnage
UltimateCarnage - 12/18/2017, 6:11 AM
@Ragnarocknroll - I'm one of the biggest Disney heads here.

And I hate the DCEU with a passion.

But Steppenwolf was better.
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