‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ Novelization Reveals Rey’s Father is a Failed Palpatine Clone – /FILM

One of the biggest surprises to come out ofStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalkerwas its controversial revelation that Rey wasnt actually nobody. But less surprising is that theStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker novelization continues to give us information about the movie that we never asked for. The latest is another whopper about Reys identity or rather, her fathers identity.

TheStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker novelization reveals that Reys father is actually a failed Palpatine clone, thus ending the months-long discussion over what woman would actually let a wrinkled, undead Palpatine father her child.

Youve probably heard the revelation that the Palpatine we see inStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker isnt the exact same Palpatine we saw in the prequel and original trilogies. Before his demise inReturn of the Jedi, Palpatine transferred his consciousness into a clone body, which led to the decaying form we ultimately meet inThe Rise of Skywalker. When Rey meets her grandfather for the first time, she passes by other unfinished clones, which means he had tried this process before. Little does she know, the last clone attempt was her own father.

During the scene when Rey pretends to take part in the Sith Ritual on Exegol to trick Palpatine, she has visions of her grandfathers past. In this vision, the novelization describes (via ScreenRant) that Palpatine thrust his consciousnessinto a clone body, but the transfer was imperfect and the members of the Sith Eternal worked to engineer a new vessel for Palpatines essence. One of these attempts was labeleda useless, powerless failurewho wasa not-quite-identical clone. That failed clone would still manage to live on, escape Exegol, meet Jodie Comer, and become Reys father.

This isnt the first time that cloning has produced offspring in the galaxy far, far away. When Jango Fett agreed to be cloned for the Republicans army on Kamino, he received as part of his payment an unaltered clone who aged normally and became the iconic Boba Fett. And of course, theres the former Supreme Leader Snoke, who also ended up being a clone. No word yet on whether he is anyones grandfather.

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'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' Novelization Reveals Rey's Father is a Failed Palpatine Clone - /FILM