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[[File:Star Wars The Force Awakens poster.jpg|thumb|[[Fire Emblem: Awakening|Must another battlefield run red with blood and sorrow?]]]]
The ''[[Star Wars]]'' movies became stagnant after the release of ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'' and the prequel trilogy, since the overreaching plot was intended to end with Luke Skywalker saving his father from the Dark Side, which was accomplished towards the end of Episode VI. However, with [[George Lucas]] selling the rights to the franchise to [[Disney]] in 2012, a new opportunity for progress was created. With it, a new trilogy of mainline films and at least two expository movies were made as the years passed. The first of these, '''''The Force Awakens''''', became the seventh film in the main continuity of the ''[[Star Wars]]'' franchise.
A few decades after the fall of the Galactic Empire on ''Jedi'', the remnants of the Empire have reformed into the First Order in order to conquer the reformed Galactic Republic, with Leia being given command of a military force known as the Resistance to fight them. Luke has vanished into thin air, and Leia wants to find him so he can help her in defeating the First Order, that has between their leaders Kylo Ren, one of Luke's
Resistance's pilot Poe Dameron is given information about Luke's location by an elderly man living on desertic planet Jakku, Lor san Tekka. More exactly, a map with partial coordinates to the elder Skywalker's sibling. However, the First Order and Ren arrive just as he receives said information and, faced with likely capture, he sends his astromech droid BB-8
BB-8 ends up meeting a young scavenger called Rey. Meanwhile, Poe manages to escape the First Order's hold with the help of a defective Stormtrooper called FN-2187, that Poe dubs Finn. However, while trying to return to Jakku, the ship they used to escape
Coincidentally, he ends up finding Rey in a nearby settlement, and the fact he is wearing Poe's jacket make she and Poe's droid attack him, mistaking him for a thief. As they clear their misunderstanding, the First Order attacks the settlement, and they're forced to escape Jakku, with now the objective of taking the information BB-8 have to the Resistance.
Directed by [[J.J. Abrams]]. Produced by Lucasfilm Ltd. and Bad Robot. Distributed by Walt Disney Motion Pictures.
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* [[Ace Pilot]]: Poe Dameron, one of the squadron leaders from the Resistance earns his keep by shooting down several TIE Fighters and quick succession and destroying Starkiller Base with his X-Wing. And his expertise isn't limited to just one ship. In his own words, "I can fly ''anything''" when asked if he can fly a Special Forces Tie Fighter.
* [[Achilles in His Tent]]: Han Solo gets this treatment on the grounds that he retired from being a war hero and went back to illegal shipping industry. However, the Resistance needed someone to infiltrate Starkiller Base and his son really needs some spiritual guidance.
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* [[Anticlimax Boss]]: Captain Phasma got a lot of hype during the movie's pre-release days, with Disney clearly trying to hype her up as a really big deal. She gets maybe a minute or so of screentime before being unceremoniously tossed down a garbage chute [[Dirty Coward|after dooming Starkiller Base to destruction just to save her own skin.]]
* [[Attack Its Weak Point]]: The main weakness of Starkiller Base is that there is a need to contain the energy it receives from absorbing a star and the base's thermal oscillator is one of the more important safeguards that's preventing the energy from violently tearing the First Order's stronghold apart. The Resistance is aware of the oscillator's role and with it's destruction, Starkiller Base explodes in a similar manner to the second Death Star.
* [[Bait and Switch]]: At this point of the franchise, it was almost a cliche for Sith to kill their minions by force choking them after they inform the Sith of their failures. Kylo Ren instead just attacks an electronic panel in frustration when he first receives bad news, and
* [[The Cavalry]]: Finn, Solo, and Chewbacca are on the verge of being overrun by the First Order in the ruins of Maz's cantina. As the Stormtroopers were processing their new prisoners, Poe Dameron leads a squadron of X-Wings to free the heroes from their captors and the battle gains a second wind as Poe decimates the First Order's air support and the occasional Stormtrooper.
* [[Derelict Graveyard]]: Sometime between this film and ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'' there was a massive battle between the New Republic and the stragglers of the Galactic Empire above Jakku, and the aftermath is the hulls of several Imperial Star Destroyers partially submerged in the planet's sand dunes. And also, Rey is living inside an incapacitated AT-AT.
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