Knight of Ren (Vicrul) — Star Wars The Black Series #105

Overview

Red Line #105 is the Knight of Ren — specifically Vicrul, the scythe-carrying member of Kylo Ren’s personal guard of dark-side warriors who appear briefly in TFA’s Force vision and more prominently in TROS as Ben Solo’s adversaries during his return. The Knights of Ren are the sequel trilogy’s most under-developed major design concept — their visual is immediately striking, their lore is expanded primarily in comics rather than film, and their screen presence in TROS amounts to being swept aside by a redeemed Ben Solo in the film’s final act.

Vicrul is the named Knight most associated with the scythe weapon, which makes this specific figure the most accessory-distinctive of the Knights. 19 joints including butterfly shoulders. The only Black Series Knight of Ren. MSRP $19.99.

The Knights of Ren Design

The Knights of Ren aesthetic is one of the sequel trilogy’s most visually distinctive — six warriors in mismatched dark armour, each with a different weapon, united by the dark-side energy Kylo Ren channels and the specific threat they represent as a unit. The design brief was deliberately non-uniform: where Stormtroopers are identical and interchangeable, the Knights of Ren are individuated through their weapons and silhouettes while sharing the general aesthetic of scavenged dark armour.

Vicrul’s specific identity in this ensemble: the scythe. Where other Knights carry blasters, axes, hammers, and blades, Vicrul’s curved reaping weapon gives his silhouette a distinctive agricultural-death reference that reads immediately as threatening in a different register from the others.

The Comics Background

The Knights of Ren’s specific origin and individual characterisations are developed in the The Rise of Kylo Ren Marvel comics miniseries by Charles Soule — the story of how Ben Solo became Kylo Ren and how he came to lead the Knights. The comics give each Knight a name and personality that the films leave implicit. Vicrul’s specific characterisation in the comics has the specific quality of a fanatic rather than a mercenary — he serves Kylo Ren through genuine devotion to the dark side rather than simple alliance.

Display: The Ben Solo Final Fight

The TROS scene that gives the Knights their most prominent screen time is Ben Solo’s return — Force-lightninged by Palpatine’s power via Rey, arriving on Exegol, fighting through the Knights of Ren with his bare hands before reclaiming his lightsaber. The display potential: a redeemed Ben Solo configuration (from later Phase 4 releases) facing down multiple Knights. Vicrul at #105 is the Black Series entry point for that ensemble.

Secondary Market

Above-retail secondary market prices — the only Black Series Knight of Ren, the specific Vicrul scythe weapon, collector demand for the TROS dark-side ensemble. No production variants documented.

Verdict

The only Black Series Knight of Ren. Buy for the TROS dark-side display, the distinctive scythe weapon, or Red Line sequence completion.

The Six Knights and Why Only One Gets a Numbered Slot

The Knights of Ren are six in number in TROS — Vicrul, Kuruk, Cardo, Ushar, Trudgen, and Ap’lek — each with a distinct weapon and a distinct silhouette. Vicrul receives the single numbered Red Line slot because the scythe is the most visually distinctive weapon in the group, making him the most immediately identifiable individual Knight. His specific weapon choice — a harvesting implement repurposed as a weapon of dark-side violence — communicates the Knights’ general aesthetic of repurposed, improvised lethality.

The other five Knights are not represented in the numbered Red Line sequence, which means Vicrul is the entire Black Series Knights of Ren roster in the numbered line. For collectors who want a full Knights of Ren ensemble, Phase 4 releases would need to fill the remaining five slots — and as of the Red Line’s close, only Vicrul had been produced.

Knights of Ren in TFA vs TROS

The Knights of Ren appeared first in Rey’s Force vision in TFA — standing in the rain behind a younger Kylo Ren — and then returned in TROS for their most prominent screen time. The gap between those appearances, during which their identities and origin were developed primarily in the comics, meant that the TROS audience was meeting characters who had substantial expanded-media backgrounds that the film didn’t have time to develop.

Their TROS role — initially threatening, then swept aside by Ben Solo’s Force-channelled attack — is the specific use of the display opportunity that the figure represents: a formation of dark-side warriors defeated by the protagonist’s redemption.

Vicrul at #105 opens the Red Line’s final eight figures — the 2020 production run that closes the numbered sequence. The wave that follows is the most prequel-concentrated in the line’s history, swinging from TROS’s dark-side warriors to the Clone Wars and prequel Jedi with the specific eclecticism that defined the sequence’s final year. Vicrul is the dark-side anchor of that closing wave.

The scythe is the primary secondary market verification accessory — a Knight of Ren without the scythe is missing Vicrul’s defining weapon and the figure’s entire visual identity. Above-retail secondary market prices reflect the unique character status and the TROS dark-side ensemble demand.

The butterfly shoulder joints on Vicrul enable the raised-scythe harvesting-strike poses that communicate the weapon’s specific threat — not a thrusting weapon like a sword, not a swinging weapon like an axe, but a pulling weapon designed to gather rather than pierce. In display, the scythe raised over the shoulder communicates the specific violence of Vicrul’s combat style.

Vicrul at #105 is the Red Line’s sole representative of one of the sequel trilogy’s most intriguing visual concepts. The Knights of Ren promised more than the films delivered, but the figure itself delivers the visual entirely.

Red Line #105 through #112 represent the sequence’s final eight figures and the most concentrated prequel investment in its history.

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Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Red Line. Related: Supreme Leader Kylo Ren P3-90 | The Rise of Skywalker | Dark Side faction.