The portrayal of an ex-Stormtrooper: The Finn poll

And yet it was clear she was the inferior sidekick and Anakin and Obi-Wan were the real leads. Plus, she's exclusive to the PT era so there's less reason to dislike her because she's dead and in the past.


And yet this is what Rey was expected to be.

For the sheer gall of being a replacement hero for Luke.


Make him a boring, generic badass, he gets complaints for being a badass. Make him not a badass, he gets complaints for not being a badass.

You just can't win. You really can't.


Give that to Rey, she just gets ripped apart even WORSE.

Steve Trevor, compared to her.

Yeah, and give Rey any explanation for not being an incompetent sidekick and she gets ripped into. And yes, Ares did act VERY stupidly in the final battle.

And any explanation given why Rey isn't some incompetent sidekick would be derided. The thought of her being a replacement hero for Luke was just too disgusting.

You bring up stuff about character arcs and competent enemies. Look at Batman's first Burton movie, he was totally competent the whole way from the start there and Joker was never a physical threat to him. And people LOVED that.