25 best duos in Star Wars history

3. Rey and Kylo Ren/Ben Solo

Before we even knew anything about Rey and Kylo Ren’s Force dyad connection, it was clear the two were somehow connected in a unique way. Rey had no Jedi training and was able to see inside of Kylo Ren’s mind in The Force Awakens. The Last Jedi found the two connected even more deeply with an ability to see each other and interact with one another a galaxy away. It was through that connection that their conflict with each other began to evolve into a deep understanding of where they were both coming from. Rey believed Kylo still had good in him and could return to the light, and Kylo believed Rey would turn and join him.

Their relationship throughout The Rise of Skywalker was much like a dance. Are they enemies? Are they friends? When a final confrontation between them ends with Rey stabbing Kylo with his own lightsaber, the depth of Rey’s care for him is revealed in her giving a bit of her life force to him to heal him. The event, combined with Kylo’s conversation afterward with his dead father Han Solo, changes Kylo, and he sheds the mantle of Kylo Ren to become Ben Solo again. When Rey and Ben fight together, it’s a beautiful thing to watch. They’re united by the Force bond, sure, but they’re also the result of a decades-long conflict between the Skywalker family and Palpatine.