in "", snoke reprimanded hux for his failure as a military leader, following a failed attack on the resistance's base on d'qar, and ren for his failure to find and kill luke skywalker, doubting his destiny to succeed darth vader. ren later brought rey to snoke, who tortured her for information on luke's location. he also revealed to ren and rey that he had created the psychic bond between them as part of a plan to destroy luke himself. snoke then ordered ren to kill rey, but he instead sliced snoke in half, killing him on the spot. ren and rey then worked together to overpower snoke's praetorian guards before rey escaped. shortly after, ren pinned snoke's death on her and declared himself the new supreme leader of the first order. in "", ren met the resurrected emperor palpatine on exegol, who revealed to him that he had created snoke as a puppet to lure ren to the dark side. ren also observed several clones of snoke at palpatine's lair, but snoke had already served his purpose and palpatine had no further use for them.