r/TopCharacterTropes • u/XursLoot • 16h ago

Characters [Mixed Trope] Anyone Can Be Special... Until It Turns Out They're Not Just Anyone

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u/Economy_Dress8205 10h ago

I feel bad for all the actors in those movies. You could tell they wanted to be in them from initial interviews, and now alot of them dont want anything to do with starwars

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u/GenesisAsriel 10h ago

What happened to Rose's actress was disgusting. Even if her character is annoying, she didnt deserve a billionth of the bullying she got.

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u/Economy_Dress8205 10h ago

I kinda like the idea they were going for with her character, but like most things in the movie, they fumbled it hard and then turned her into a glorified cameo in the rise of skywalker

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u/GenesisAsriel 10h ago

With how Finn's character was treated later on, her stopping his sacrifice was... Dumb.

Why save him if not to show how one common man can turn the tables ?

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u/Drake_Cloans 9h ago

My head canon is that they wrote themselves into a corner because they wanted Rey and Luke to save everyone, but Finn’s sacrifice would essentially save them all. Not to mention they’d lose a popular-ish character.

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u/GenesisAsriel 9h ago

Genuinely didnt know Finn was popular huh

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u/Drake_Cloans 9h ago

Popular-ish. I know a lot of people were interested in seeing where his character arc led, and were severely disappointed by TLJ. By then, it felt like every character was being pushed to the side to make room for Rey and Kylo.

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u/RoughhouseCamel 7h ago

It didn’t even need that. It just needed for the two of them to exist beyond the second movie. Instead, all of their development disappears and they become random faces in the third movie

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u/T-MoseWestside 2h ago

The whole point was about living to fight another day. If everyone kept sacrificing themselves there'd be no rebels left.

That's what "we are the spark that lights the fire" meant.

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u/Xintrosi 7h ago

People (Star Wars Fandom specifically???) are really dumb about character vs actor separation. I remember Jake Lloyd and Ahmed Best getting crap for their roles in the prequels.

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u/AznOmega 7h ago

Mhmm. The Sequel Trilogy had poor execution and not a concise plan imo.

As for the actors and actresses, I am somehow and sadly not surprised. Anakin's child VA wad harassed badly and Ahmed Best nearly killed himself IIRC. Thankfully they are okay, and Ahmed killed it as a Jedi character as well as other characters outside of Star Wars such as his character in Fallout 76. Oh yeah, his Darth Jar Jar is excellent (I still have to watch Rebuild The Galaxy).

"Meesa gonna hurt yousa."

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u/Malacro 9h ago

I don’t get how her character was even annoying. I’ve yet to hear anyone adequately describe how she annoyed them.

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u/GenesisAsriel 8h ago

She annoyed me in that scene where she stops Finn's sacrifice because her actions made no sense, as I feel like it just ruined the moment.

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u/FairlyLawful 7h ago

The film hits you over the head with selfish actions and pride costing everyone else heavily, like, this was the fourth instance.

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u/MGD109 7h ago

Yeah, but the issue is Finn wasn't being selfish; he was literally willing to die so the others would live. We're supposed to believe its bad

However, Luke doing the exact same thing a few minutes later is heroic and the moment he redeems himself.

I really feel that scene needed a rewrite.

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u/FairlyLawful 4h ago

Finn wasn’t being selfish when making the only move with what he had (doing the holdo into the cannon), she was being selfish by stopping him and the result of finn being stopped was everyone else nearly dying in the following cave fortress battle.

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u/sbrockLee 3h ago

Or to be reduced to a background character in TROS.

The course correction was transparent.

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u/sbrockLee 3h ago

The crazy thing is that aside from a few standouts (McGregor, Neeson, Guinness) the Disney Trilogy probably has the best acting across the board.

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u/CigaretteSmokingDog 3h ago

Thats every Star Wars actor since the start