Kylo Ren (The Last Jedi) — Star Wars The Black Series #45
The Black Series Kylo Ren in The Last Jedi — Red Line #45, 2017. Unmasked TLJ configuration with facial scar, simplified robes and crossguard lightsaber. The fourth Black Series Kylo Ren. Collector guide.
Overview
Red Line #45 is Kylo Ren in The Last Jedi configuration — the fourth Black Series Kylo Ren, and the first to show Adam Driver’s face with the specific facial scar that Rey’s lightsaber left at the end of TFA. This is Kylo after Snoke ordered him to destroy his own mask, after the scar runs visible from forehead to cheek, after the TFA construction of the Kylo Ren persona has been literally broken open and left unreconstructed. He wears simpler black robes than the TFA cowled configuration — no mask, no modulator, nothing between the character and the audience.
This figure is the immediate display companion to Rey (Jedi Training) (#44) — the two TLJ principals at consecutive numbers, both released in 2017-2018 as the TLJ wave. The Adam Driver portrait with the scar is pre-Photo Real and approximates his specific TLJ features at the production standard of the era. MSRP $19.99.
The Character in The Last Jedi
TLJ’s Kylo Ren arc is the most complete of the sequel trilogy — it begins with a character who has been constructing himself as Darth Vader’s successor and ends with one who is trying to construct something new from the wreckage of both identities. The key movements: Snoke’s deliberate humiliation by ordering the mask destroyed; the Force-bond with Rey that develops into something neither of them fully understands; the throne room fight where Kylo kills Snoke to save Rey and for a moment seems to have stepped toward something genuine; and then the choice to become Supreme Leader instead.
The scar is the film’s physical marker of the TFA-to-TLJ transition. Snoke’s contempt for it in the film’s opening scene — the “that is a wound for a stormtrooper, not a knight of Ren” line — establishes that the scar reads as vulnerability in the First Order’s aesthetic of strength. Kylo’s subsequent smashing of the helmet is his response to that contempt, which is itself a complicated act: he’s destroying something Snoke mocked, which makes even the rebellion a reaction to authority rather than an autonomous act.
The TLJ vs TFA Kylo Ren Configuration
The three unmasked Kylo Ren figures in the line differ by facial scar status and costume: the TFA Unmasked (#26) has no scar, the TLJ cowled versions have the scar, and this simplified-robe TLJ version has the scar with the cleaner costume. For display accuracy:
- Pre-mask-smashing TLJ scenes: No specific figure covers this; the TFA masked #03 is the closest
- Post-mask-smashing TLJ scenes: This figure (#45), unmasked with scar and simplified robes
- Throne room fight: This figure alongside Rey Jedi Training (#44)
Accessories
Crossguard lightsaber — same hilt design as the TFA version, same crackling plasma configuration. The blade is removable. The simplified robes enable a wider range of arm and torso articulation poses than the TFA cowled configuration. 19 points via the standard Red Line scheme.
Eleven Total Kylo Ren Black Series Releases
Eleven releases spanning TFA masked, TFA unmasked, TLJ versions, Centerpiece, and later Phase 4 releases. This TLJ #45 is the scar-present configuration without the TFA cowl — the specific mid-TLJ look that appears across the film’s second and third acts. Later releases continue to refine the Adam Driver likeness with Photo Real technology.
The TLJ Display
TLJ’s primary display moments are the throne room fight and the Crait projection sequence. For the throne room: this Kylo Ren #45 and Rey Jedi Training (#44) are the two opposing characters in the sequence that becomes a coordinated fight. For the Crait showdown: Kylo leading the First Order against the projection of Luke Skywalker — this figure alongside Luke Jedi Master (#46) captures the film’s climactic confrontation.
Secondary Market
Available at modest secondary market prices. The pre-Photo Real scar portrait is the display consideration. No production variants documented.
Verdict
Buy for the TLJ unmasked-with-scar configuration, the throne room pairing with Rey Jedi Training, or Red Line sequence completion.
The Scar’s Narrative Function
The facial scar running from Kylo Ren’s forehead down through his cheek and onto his neck is introduced in TLJ as the physical evidence of TFA’s ending — the wound Rey inflicted in the Starkiller Base forest, the blow that ended the fight without ending either character. Snoke’s contempt for it in TLJ’s opening scene is specific: he’s saying the scar is a wound a better warrior wouldn’t have taken, that it marks Kylo as fallible in a context where appearance of invulnerability matters. The subsequent mask-smashing is Kylo’s refusal of that criticism on Snoke’s terms, while simultaneously revealing that the critique landed.
The scar distinguishes this figure from the TFA Unmasked (#26) at a glance — the absence of scar on #26 and its presence on this #45 date the figures precisely within the trilogy’s chronology. Collectors building a chronological Kylo Ren display across the trilogy can use this detail to sequence the figures accurately.
Kylo Ren’s Costume Evolution
The four Black Series Kylo Ren masked/unmasked versions tell the costume story across the trilogy. TFA masked: the fully-constructed Kylo Ren persona, cowl and helmet. TFA Unmasked (#26): the face beneath the persona, no scar. TLJ (#45, this figure): the persona broken, the scar visible, the simpler robes of a character who has stopped performing Darth Vader. Later TROS versions: the reconstructed Supreme Leader, the repaired helmet with the gold crack-fill that references Japanese kintsugi — the philosophy of repairing broken things with gold to make the repair visible rather than concealed.
The TLJ Kylo Ren display works especially well as a diptych with the TFA Masked #03 — the two figures bookend his TFA-to-TLJ transformation. The masked, cowled TFA Kylo at one end is the fully-assembled performance of villainy; the unmasked, scarred TLJ Kylo at the other is the character stripped of that performance and left with the question of what he actually is underneath it. No other single-character two-figure display in the Red Line wave tells a character story as completely as these two Kylo Ren figures set side by side.
Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Red Line. Related: All Kylo Ren figures | Rey Jedi Training P3-44 | Luke Jedi Master P3-46 | The Last Jedi.