3) Vader Turned On The Empire, So Why Is He Now Worshiped By Kylo Ren?
At first glance, it doesn’t seem so odd that new villain Kylo Ren would idolize Darth Vader, formerly the baddest bastard in the universe. But remember that Darth Vader turned on the Empire, and threw the Emperor into the bowels of the second Death Star in order to finish him off. Then the Rebels burned Vader’s body on a funeral pyre, as if he was no longer their enemy, but a vanquished ally deserving of a hero’s farewell. Seems odd that Kylo Ren would be full of admiration for someone who turned on his own cause, doesn’t it?
There’s the possibility that First Order propaganda is such that it has used the story of Darth Vader as an inspiring incentive for its troops to fight, leaving his treacherous ways at the end out of the history books. But if Kylo is to get a hold of Vader’s melted helmet as seen in the trailers, then he would have had to be aware in the first place that the Rebel Alliance burned Vader’s remains and claimed him as a folk hero of their own.