Star Wars Black Series Exegol

Exegol is the hidden Sith world at the end of The Rise of Skywalker — the destination that the entire film has been building toward, where the resurrected Palpatine waits with a fleet of Star Destroyers and an army of Sith Eternal cultists. The Black Series covered this scene extensively in the 2019-2020 production window around the film’s release, producing a wave of figures that captures the cast and military presence of the sequel trilogy’s conclusion.

The Scene in Star Wars

The Rise of Skywalker is the most divisive entry in the sequel trilogy and Exegol is its most divisive sequence. Palpatine’s return — announced without setup, explained through dialogue rather than story — was widely criticised as a narrative shortcut. The battle above Exegol, where a fleet of planet-killing Star Destroyers is held at bay by a Resistance force that should be hopelessly outmatched until civilian ships arrive, is the film’s attempt at an Avengers: Endgame moment. Whether it earns that moment depends on how much the previous two films have invested you in the characters rallying.

What the scene does achieve is a visual language for the Sith Eternal that’s distinctive in the franchise. Exegol’s surface — lightning-raked, underground, built into ancient architecture that predates any recognisable Star Wars era — looks unlike anywhere else in the trilogy. The Sith Trooper’s red-black armour is a deliberately striking variant on the stormtrooper design, marking the Sith Eternal as something older and more specifically ideological than the First Order’s military bureaucracy.

Rey’s confrontation with Palpatine is the film’s climax and its most compressed argument: the power of lineage versus the power of choice, the Skywalker legacy passed to someone who isn’t a Skywalker by blood. It’s an argument The Last Jedi had already made more carefully, which is part of why The Rise of Skywalker’s version felt to some viewers like a retreat. At figure level the scene produces Rey in her Dark Side Vision configuration — the white-robed dual-saber version that represents one of the film’s more visually striking moments.

The Sith Trooper

The Sith Trooper is the Exegol scene’s primary army-building figure — the Sith Eternal’s ground forces in their distinctive red-black armour. The Black Series produced both a standard mainline Sith Trooper and a First Edition variant, plus a Sith Jet Trooper with flight capability, giving collectors multiple versions of the same design across the wave.

The SDCC 2019 exclusive Sith Trooper, released before the film as the first look at the design, is the most accessory-complete version — multiple weapon configurations and the first appearance of the armour in Black Series format. For collectors building the scene as a visual display, multiples of the standard Sith Trooper provide the rank-and-file presence the Exegol setting implies.

The Knights of Ren

The Knights of Ren are one of the sequel trilogy’s most conspicuous unfulfilled promises — introduced in The Force Awakens, barely present in The Last Jedi, and finally deployed in The Rise of Skywalker for a fight that lasts minutes before being reversed. Vicrul is the only Knight of Ren to receive a Black Series release, carrying his scythe-like weapon and representing the group’s aesthetic without their expanded lore.

As a figure Vicrul is striking in design — the Knights’ shared armour language with individual weapon distinctions makes each one visually interesting, and the scythe is one of the more unusual melee weapons in the line. The lack of additional Knights of Ren releases reflects both the brevity of their actual screen presence and the sense that the sequel trilogy left them underused.

The Supporting Cast

Zorii Bliss — the spice runner turned Resistance ally from Kijimi — is one of The Rise of Skywalker’s more interesting new characters and one whose story the film doesn’t quite have room for. Her helmet configuration makes for a distinctive display figure, and she’s one of the few sequel trilogy characters to bring a genuinely new aesthetic to the Resistance side of the display.

Jannah’s arc — a former First Order stormtrooper who mutinied before Finn, connecting the two characters thematically — is handled briefly in the film but gives her figure a narrative weight the display benefits from. Wedge Antilles returning in The Rise of Skywalker for a single scene after decades of absence is a different kind of weight — pure fanservice, executed with the understanding that the audience for that moment knows exactly who he is and what it means.

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