Star Wars Episode IX: 8 Consequences We'd Like To See With The One-Year Time Jump

Domhnall Gleeson's General Armitage Hux really came into his own in The Last Jedi. Whereas Force Awakens essentially set him up as just a discount Tarkin, Last Jedi moved the character in new and interesting directions, especially in terms of his kinship with Kylo Ren.

Their relationship was tumultuous at best and only grew all the tenser once Supreme Leader Snoke was killed, leaving Kylo Ren to usurp Hux and become the new leader of the First Order.

Hux is clearly unhappy with this change of management, even attempting to kill Kylo Ren himself at one point. Episode IX will undoubtedly see the culmination of this relationship in one way or another, but seeing as Hux will have now been serving a full year underneath Supreme Leader Kylo Ren, he's almost certainly not going to be very happy about it.

This could mean any number of outcomes for Episode IX; Hux splitting off from the First Order into his own faction, Kylo Ren disposing swiftly of Hux as an example of what happens to those who question him, or perhaps most tantalizing of all, it could mean Hux betrays Kylo Ren and attempts to kill him once more.

Regardless, Gleeson is so good at playing Hux as the ungrateful servant, especially in the face of Ren's more bombastic desires, that we cannot wait to see more of it.