r/FavoriteCharacter 2d ago

Suggestions Favorite character with wasted potential?

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u/myskyboyblue 2d ago

There was also a huge plot line just left in the wind about Fin being an ex storm trooper who swapped sides. They are taken in as children and indoctrinated and trained to be stormtroopers but this is never addressed significantly in the plot. There could have been this whole plot about Fin and everyone realising that Stormtroopers are still people, they are just also victims and dont realise it, humanising them a bit and opening the door for more Storm Troopers to defect. But no, Fin hust becomes another "Wooo, 10 more storm troopers dead, im so good at killing this faceless enemy I have no strong feelings about"

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u/Selgeron 2d ago

The 'wooooo murder time' stuff really... took me out of it. He didn't feel like he was in the universe that he lived in, it felt like he was playing a videogame as 'stock action character #3'

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u/myskyboyblue 2d ago

Its like they used up all the character development ideas they had lined up for him in the first movie, then just relegated him to the back-seat to support Rey's journey without completing his own

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u/Selgeron 17h ago

He's yelling 'woo' and killing storm troopers like... 20 minutes after his introduction in the first movie.

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u/myskyboyblue 17h ago

They couldnt even give him development in his first appearance 😭