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7 Intriguing Theories About Rey’s Identity In Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Before Star Wars: The Force Awakens released, fans were full of questions: Where is Luke? Who is Kylo Ren? Why is that Stormtrooper a good guy? Thankfully, after seeing the movie we now know the answer to all those questions - but a bunch of others have taken their place. Is Ren now irredeemable? What is the true identity of Supreme Leader Snoke? And, the question we'll be focusing on today: just who is Rey?

2) She Is The Reincarnation Of Anakin

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That’s enough of this talk of Rey just being somebody’s daughter, we’ve been thinking too small. This next fan theory goes the whole hog and states that she’s not just Darth Vader’s granddaughter – she is Vader himself.

This one comes from the extent of Rey’s Force-sensitivity, which far outshines anyone else’s we’ve yet seen in the saga – she’s been in the game five minutes and already she is able to mind trick Daniel Craig’s stormtrooper (yep, it was him) and beat the trained Kylo Ren in a fight. This would also explain why she gets those hallucinations when she touches the lightsaber that once belonged to Anakin Skywalker.

After all, the prequels (sorry about this, we’ll stop talking about them in a minute) stated that Anakin was the Chosen One, prophesied to bring balance to the Force. Seeing as that didn’t work out too well, the Force might well have tried again – reincarnating Anakin in this second dark time for the galaxy.

See, it all makes perfect sense. Sort of.