Reasons to believe that Ben was transported to the World Between Worlds and is coming back:
-No Force ghost
-Everything with Leia and Maz: Maz said it would take all of Leia’s strength to do what she had to do next, Leia knew Ben was going to die, Leia’s body disappears at the exact same moment as Ben’s even though she died earlier, Maz smiles
-The Visual Dictionary established that Exegol is linked to the World Between Worlds
-The fissures on Exegol have a transportative vergence: a high concentration of the Force
-Ahch-To, where Rey saw Ben’s silhouette behind the mirror, is also linked to the WBW
-Rey’s Jedi texts contain information about the WBW
-The voices in the Rebels WBW episode include the following: Rey saying “we’ll see each other again, I believe that.” Ben saying, “Show me grandfather and I will finish what you started.” and Maz saying “the belonging you seek is not behind you.”
-Rey looking up at the stars on Exegol and hearing voices is extremely similar to Ezra being surrounded by stars and hearing voices in the WBW. Direct parallels were drawn here.
-Ahsoka was one of the voices speaking to Rey even though she’s not a Force ghost. But since Exegol is connected to the WBW this makes sense.
-It’s likely Palps was able to come back because of Exegol being connected to the WBW
-Speaking of which, Star Wars has a habit of bringing back “dead” characters
-The WBW is a collection of doorways and paths that exist between time and space. The prophesized “dyad” connects two individuals across space and time.
-A dyad is something incredibly rare and powerful - it hasn’t been seen for generations. You don’t set this up just to go nowhere with it. There is crazy opportunity here for future stories with these two and what they can do with the Force.
-“Stand together, die together.” “The lifeforce of your bond. A dyad in the Force. A power like life itself. Unseen for generations.” This entire speech is about the two of them together, alive or dead, and the power of life that their bond is.
-The story is continuing on. Kathleen Kennedy literally said that they’re not abandoning the characters created in the most recent trilogy
-The setup for the new story is obvious. Besides needing to get Ben back and him and Rey being a dyad, we have Finn being Force sensitive, something he kept wanting to tell Rey but never got around to doing. We have Rey with a new lightsaber. We even have Lando asking Jannah where she’s from and when she said she didn’t know, he said to her “let’s find out”.
-At the TROS premiere Kathleen Kennedy also said this: “We’re completing the saga. We’re not finishing the Skywalkers necessarily. They can always, in one way or another, reappear. For right now it is bringing it to a close.“
-Matt Martin gave us this hint: “We’ve seen characters come back before so it’s always comes down to the story being told.”
-Dave Filoni, who would know how upset we all are, gave us a lovely Christmas present of Gandalf talking to Ahsoka saying “People thought I was dead too. Look how that turned out…”
-Star Wars knows that Ben is their most popular character. I mean he’s winning the poll on their website by around 86-90%. The next highest is Rey at 3%. They can’t possibly be that stupid. Keeping Ben around equals money for Disney, and Disney definitely wants money.
Haven’t we always been right before, about basically everything in this story? Ben being redeemed. Reylo. Them having a Force bond. Ben not slaughtering the students at the Jedi temple. Snoke lying about creating the Force bond and it happening during the interrogation scene. Palpatine speaking through the Vader mask. Star Wars has lied to us about many things before, but they always leave in enough clues. They give you enough information that if you want to figure things out, you can, and as a group we’ve always been the ones to understand these clues.
Also one last thing: didn’t we predict before this movie that Ben would die and be brought back? We literally saw this coming. The one thing we didn’t realize was that this wasn’t the end of the story and that it’s still continuing on. And Star Wars, being extremely evil, just happened to cut off before the resurrection part.
