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Why does Rey wear the same outfit in different environments?
I'm not aware of an explicit answer in the movie or the novelization, but it seems pretty self explanatory to me:
Rey is an orphaned, impoverished scavenger who lives a hand to mouth existence. She ...
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Why was Kylo Ren mistaken about Rey?
He saw her helping him, and assumed she was on his side
It’s that old standby of prophecies, exact words. Both Rey and Kylo are correct in what they saw. It’s important to note that Rey says she saw ...
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Who turned on the lightsaber?
It was 100% Kylo Ren.
When Snoke was slain, Rey had her back to him and when she turned around to see what happened, she was in complete shock.
Also, Snoke narrated Kylo Ren's thoughts, which included ...
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Why give this character his old lightsaber?
She was reaching out to a man who had shut himself away from the galaxy...
...by giving him something that he has a personal connection to — his long-lost lightsaber.
Even if she was aware of ...
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Why give this character his old lightsaber?
First of all, Rey offering Luke her weapon shows that she means no harm. But there is much more significance to offering that particular weapon.
The lightsaber belonged to Luke's father before him. ...
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Whose helmet did Rey put on?
The helmet belongs to a rebel pilot called Captain Dosmit Ræh, a member of an elite fighter squadron called the Tierfon Yellow Aces, hence the instantly recognisable yellow sigil.
Her X-Wing, (...
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Why doesn't Rey sell BB8?
There are a whole bunch of reasons why she decides not to sell him, at least according to the film's various novelisations.
She clearly feels an affinity for him
Rey had been teasing the little ...
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How does Rey know the Wookiee language?
She picked it up by interacting with offworlders.
According to Pablo Hidalgo’s TFA Visual Dictionary (which is canon):
Rey’s interaction with offworlders has allowed her to learn nonhuman ...
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Where does Rey get the book she reads in The Rise of Skywalker to find the holocron?
Rey took them from Ahch-To in The Last Jedi, we see them aboard the Falcon at the end of the film.
This is confirmed in The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary:
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Whose helmet did Rey put on?
The helmet belonged to a rebel pilot named Dosmit Ræh.
The biggest clues is the Aurebesh writting on the helmet. Link to Canon Canon Aurebesh
In the Outer Rim Territories, Aurebesh was sometimes ...
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When was Rey’s lineage decided?
Like everything in the Star Wars universe it seems like it was all “made up as they went along” with a follow-up of “we always meant to do this” or concocting some way to rationalize it all.
I know ...
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Rey's familial ties in “The Force Awakens”
There are several hints as to her lineage. But nothing for sure.
And
Also
And
There is also a lot of imagery linking
Now this could all be misdirection, but I think it is what we are meant to ...
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Why doesn't Rey sell BB8?
My take on it at the time was that she didn't regard BB-8 as being her property in the first place -- so she had no right to sell him to anybody else, in the second place.
Remember, they first met ...
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Who turned on the lightsaber?
It was pretty obvious in the scene that it was Kylo Ren, as he was
Rey was focused on Kylo
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Why does Rey wear the same outfit in different environments?
The canon answer (offered by the Force Awakens: Visual Dictionary) is that Rey was simply too busy saving the whole.damn.galaxy to think about changing her outfit. When she arrives at the Starkiller ...
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Why did Rey kiss this person?
Out of universe explanation: because J.J. Abrams thought it would be cool. The following are his words as reported by Indiewire and Slashfilm:
“There is as much of a brother-sister thing between ...
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Who is Palpatine's Wife?
Rey's father Dathan is a clone of Palpatine. He was made in a cloning chamber. There is, by definition, no mother. There are, however, indications that Palpatine may have included foreign DNA in order ...
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What color is Rey's new lightsaber?
It is "golden yellow" according to Industrial Light & Magic's (ILM) visual effects supervisor, Patrick Tubach and the rest of the team there.
Is there a specific name to Rey's ...
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Why did Rey not change her clothes for 6 years (three movies)?
She did change her clothes...
The Force Awakens
The Last Jedi
The Rise of Skywalker
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When did Palpatine have children?
According to comicbook.com:
Rey’s father is actually a failed Palpatine clone in the Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker novelization.
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In the novelization, Rey is trying to fake out the Emperor ...
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Why give this character his old lightsaber?
Rey gave Luke the lightsaber, but she was not:
searching for Luke Skywalker to give him his lightsaber
She had it, and she was looking for him, and it was his, but they don't flow in the order you'...
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How could Finn know about Han Solo, given Finn's upbringing?
Finn has apparently had access to entertainment programmes (of a historical nature) as well as the more mundane First-Order weapons and tactical training.
As madness ebbed and surged around him, he ...
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Rey's familial ties in “The Force Awakens”
I didn't see any evidence in the movie that suggests who her parents really are. The two theories are Han and Leia, or Luke and "someone."
You listed one point about Luke's lightsaber that could ...
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Is Rey unaware of her parentage?
From Rey's Story
Absentmindedly, Rey mimicked the mother’s loving gesture, softly
stroking the salvage in her hand. Rey had no memory of her parents.
She didn’t know why they had taken her to Jakku, ...
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Rey's familial ties in “The Force Awakens”
Latest update: (2016/01)
There's still no canon information (for a good reason) but Star Wars: Episode IX director Colin Trevorrow told Entertainment Tonight regarding the theories:
“I’ve seen all ...
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Why doesn't Rey go back to Jakku?
Leia ordered her to go to Ahch-To to find Luke Skywalker. Rey feels that the Force is guiding her and that her decision (to go) is the right one.
Rey headed to the launch area with R2-D2. Leia ...
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Are Rey and Finn in Love?
As of the end of Episode 7, there is no romance between the two.
John Boyega (Finn) cleared this up in an interview with Variety when they said they liked the romance between the two.
I loved the ...
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How does Rey know the Wookiee language?
The factbook "Rey's Survival Guide" strongly implies that she learned to speak Wookiee using the computer language tapes that she found during her salvage of Rebel ships, in much the same way that she ...
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Why didn't Palpatine win the standoff with Rey?
Rey was buoyed up with the power of all the past Jedi. It magnified her abilities and, allied with her lightsaber, made her able to (just) withstand a Sith as powerful as Palpatine.
He rose from ...
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Rey's familial ties in “The Force Awakens”
Any familial ties between Rey and other characters have yet to be confirmed.
J.J. Abrams did release an answer to a young fan back in April of 2016, stating:
"Rey's parents aren't in Episode VII....
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