Star Wars Black Series Throne Room of Snoke

Snoke’s throne room is The Last Jedi’s most visually striking environment and its most narratively consequential sequence. The crimson walls, the crimson guard, the vast scale of the chamber — it’s designed to communicate absolute power, and what happens in it is its complete undoing. Kylo Ren kills Snoke, turns on his own guards alongside Rey, and briefly appears to have made the choice the film has been building toward. The Black Series covers this sequence with its core cast — Rey, Kylo Ren, Snoke, and the Praetorian Guard who make the fight possible.

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Snoke brings Rey to his throne room to break her connection to the dark side’s rising counterpart, and to complete what the Emperor never managed with Vader’s son. He’s read the situation precisely enough to identify the Force bond between Rey and Kylo as a threat, and imprecisely enough to misidentify which side of it was going to act.

Kylo Ren kills Snoke with Luke’s lightsaber — activated while it’s still in Snoke’s hand, pointed at Rey. The choreography of the moment is The Last Jedi’s most carefully constructed surprise: Snoke narrating Kylo’s actions in real time, certain he understands what’s happening, while the film shows what’s actually happening in the same shot. It’s one of the better misdirections in the sequel trilogy and lands as a genuine shock even on repeated viewing.

What follows is the throne room fight — Rey and Kylo against eight Praetorian Guards, using whatever weapons are at hand, fighting back to back in an alliance that feels like it might be the sequel trilogy’s central turn. Then Kylo offers Rey his hand, asks her to join him, and the film reaches its actual emotional hinge: she refuses. He’s not offering the dark side’s abandonment of evil. He’s offering to reshape the galaxy on his own terms, which requires Rey to abandon everything she came from. She can’t do it. He won’t do it her way. The door closes.

The throne room is The Last Jedi’s argument about whether redemption can happen on demand, and whether wanting it badly enough is sufficient. The answer the film gives is no, not yet, not like this — which made it the most divisive creative decision in a film full of them.

The Praetorian Guard

The Elite Praetorian Guard are Snoke’s personal protectors — eight warriors in red armour with varied weapons, the Supreme Leader’s equivalent of the Emperor’s Royal Guard taken several degrees further in lethality. Their design is one of The Last Jedi’s strongest visual contributions to the franchise: the red-on-red of the chamber, the articulated armour, the specific weapon configurations that give each guard a distinct fighting style.

Two Praetorian Guard figures exist in the Black Series — the Red Line Elite Praetorian Guard from 2017 and the Galaxy Collection TLJ version from 2022. The GC version is the modern production recommendation: Photo Real treatment where applicable, updated articulation, improved detail on the armour. For army building within the throne room display, the Praetorian Guard is the primary target — the fight requires eight of them in-universe, and even two or three figures creates a significantly more dynamic display than the Rey and Kylo figures alone.

Kylo Ren and Rey

Both characters received Galaxy Collection TLJ re-releases in 2021 that significantly improved on their Red Line originals. The TLJ GC Kylo and Rey are the display recommendations — the specific costumes of the Supremacy sequences, at modern Black Series production quality with Photo Real face printing.

The TLJ Kylo is shirtless for part of the film’s Force bond sequences, which the figure reflects in its specific costume design. For the throne room fight specifically this is accurate — the interrupted bond communication left him without his full uniform, and the figure captures that specific detail. The TLJ Rey is her Jedi Training configuration — the grey outfit of her island sequences that she wears through the Supremacy confrontation.

Snoke

Snoke is the display’s most visually distinctive figure — the Supreme Leader in his golden robes, physically imposing, the apparent apex villain of the sequel trilogy until the moment he isn’t. His Red Line 2017 release is his only Black Series version. The figure captures the specific physical appearance of the character in his throne room configuration, and as the room’s occupant he’s the display’s necessary centrepiece even if his narrative function ends abruptly.

Captain Phasma

Captain Phasma’s Quicksilver Baton configuration is her The Last Jedi version — the chrome-armoured First Order commander who confronts Finn aboard the Supremacy in the film’s parallel action sequences. Her fight with Finn happens within the same Supremacy context as the throne room, making her the display’s connection to the film’s broader ship-based action. The Quicksilver Baton release is a Fan Channel exclusive, making it the more challenging Phasma figure to source, but it’s the TLJ-accurate version.

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