Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Difference between revisions

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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 shocks a First Order official, using his own hands instead of the Force, only when he mentions Rey, that he wants to know more about.

* [[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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** Rey does the same thing when Kylo Ren recognizes her as the scavenger girl that helped the droid, knocks her out, and takes her to his ship for interrogation. She manages to resist the mind probe fully, and then improvises a Jedi Mind trick to convince a Stormtrooper to free her, leave the cell door unattended, and drop his weapon for her.

* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: {{Spoiler|With Vader dead, the role of [[The Dragon]] is taken yet another time by a masked Skywalker that kills his paternal figure in the second act of the movie, a movie that is the first one of a planned trilogy, Kylo Ren}}.

* [[They Look Just Like Everyone Else]]: Under the mask, Kylo Ren is nothing more than another average, soft-spoken twenty-something Caucasian human being. It doesn't detract from the fact he is still a murderous Sith with mood problems.

* [[Time Skip]]: When it comes to the franchise's timeline, the films range from being set several months to a decade from each other. ''The Force Awakens'' breaks the trend by taking ''thirty years'' after the events of ''[[Return of the Jedi].]''

* [[Tyke Bomb]]: Hux mentions that very quickly, but his Stormtroopers were raised from early childhood to serve the First Order, to the point he is caught off-guard by a desertion and thinks there is something more than just one of them growing a conscience.

* [[Vestigial Empire]]: The First Order is essentially the continuation of the Galactic Empire after they've been hiding on the outskirts of the galaxy for around 30 years.

* [[Weapon of Mass Destruction]]: In a nutshell, Starkiller base is the new Death Star. Except that it can destroy several planets at once from a remote location and it gets most of its energy from absorbing stars.

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** Early on in the film, one of Finn's squadmates takes a blaster bolt to the chest and reaches out to Finn as he takes his final breath. It's worth noting that the previous ''[[Star Wars]]'' film never placed this level of emphasis on a random soldier and shows that the new Stormtroopers aren't the emotionless warriors of the Galactic Empire.

** Finn, himself, is a Stormtrooper without a notable combat record and is visibly shaken by the death of his aforementioned comrade and the massacre on Jakku. And he wastes no time freeing Poe because, "it's the right thing to do."

*[[You Are Number Six]]: How the First Order names their Stormtroopers. In Finn's case, it's FN-2187, and his squadmates were FN-2199, FN-2000, and FN-1999.

* [[You Are Number Six]]: How the First Order names their Stormtroopers. In Finn's case, it's FN-2187, and his squadmates were FN-2199, FN-2000, and FN-1999.