Star Wars: The Force Awakens - 10 Design Secrets You Probably Didn't Know

3. The Guavian Death Gang Soldiers Are An Early Kylo Ren Design

It’s hard to imagine Kylo Ren wearing any other type of mask; it’s just such a striking, Star Wars-ian design, with influences from Darth Vader’s helmet and a front visor that's stylistically similar to Rey’s desert garb. That and it’s just so menacing. But to get to that design took a rather long time, with a galaxy-spanning range of ideas being brought up for the character.

When the identity of the “Jedi Killer” was unknown, one concept was for him to have a red helmet marked with a big black circle, something that fell by the wayside as the character became more defined.

It wasn’t a total waste of time, however – the image turned up in The Force Awakens as the costume of the Guavian Death Gang who unsuccessfully try to claim their debt from Han (you think after 30+ years people would learn that rarely happens).