Poll: Worst/Most Hated Star Wars Character
gugulug5000
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So with The Last Jedi now coming out on Blu Ray and DVD it's reignited the controversy of the film. I thought it would be fun to discuss which characters are now the most hated, as I've personally seen a shift in that hierarchy since the new movie came out. I'm curious about opinions, so feel free to share different opinions, but be civil! Feel free to include characters from any of the canon works. EDIT: MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!
So which character do YOU hate the most?
So which character do YOU hate the most?
- Poll: Worst/Most Hated Star Wars Character37 votes
- Jar Jar Binks62.16%
- Rose5.41%
- Holdo8.11%
- C3-PO0.00%
- Ewoks0.00%
- Other (Specify)24.32%
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Jar Jar was annoying, but he was supposed to be annoying, so... meh?
Rose was pointless, but being a pointless character isn’t as bad as taking an established character and ruining him.
Holdo is a minor character who died. Again, meh?
C3-PO is like Jar Jar. He’s meant to be annoying.
Ewoks were more hilarious than rage-inducing to me.
Honestly, Anakin was the biggest letdown in my opinion.
Jar Jar: Like you said, he's annoying, but that's how he was supposed to be. To me, he's very bad, but to a point that it's fun to hate him.
Rose: Kind of annoying, pretty pointless character. Her crashing into Finn at the end and telling her she loves him after knowing him for 18 hours is horrible writing. Talk about cringe.
Holdo: Pointless character, has no personality, her only point is to make Poe look dumb. She bobs her head annoyingly when she talks, her purple hair is distractingly stupid. Her staying behind to pilot the ship is dumb (no autopilot? really? or why don't they just leave the ship floating in the direction it is? Why does it need to be piloted?). Her whole 'plot' should have been given to Leia or Akbar. She seems like an obvious and overbearing example of feminism (I'm not anti feminist, I just like well made characters and she was not well made). I could go on but I think i said enough.
C3-PO: You nailed it. Some people really hate him though oddly enough.
Ewoks: The original 'worst part of Star Wars.' I grew up after the original trilogy was already released so I didn't mind them.
I like the young Anakin choice though. Totally agree he's bad.
I vote Rose, simply because she felt pointless. Holdo at least had a purpose in the story I realize. I'm too mature to be angry at Jar Jar. I never found C3-PO especially annoying. So yes, Rose it is.
I haven’t seen the latest movie so I don’t know who Rose or Holdo is. I will say that I disliked The Force Awakens so much that when I went back to watch the first 3 in the trilogy I was like, to @Nimran ‘s point, “You know, in comparison, Hayden Christensen actually didn’t do too bad!”
But talk about manchild... freaking Kylo Ren! I liked the concept of a failed Sith Lord, but it just came off as trying TOO hard to appeal to “millennialis” by embodying the incorrect assumption that others perceive as whiny, have-it-all children on a hormonal rampage, with a wannabe-evil-doers complex and too much time and ambition on their hands.
So don’t feel bad spoiling The last Jedi for me as I may not even watch it.
EDIT: I added a possible spoiler warning in case there are people who are concerned about spoilers.
One of my favorite Boondocks strips is a parody of Jar-Jar, making him out to be a "non-threatening submissive black slave" stereotype.
"Jar-Jar sho nuff likes to shuffle" is one of my favorite quotes.
I don't hate any Star Wars characters, so I guess I'll just say that I don't find Chewie very interesting.
I liked a couple characters on this list. Rose was sweet and I found her fangirling over the rebellion very charming. Holdo was a welcome example of an experienced rebel commander who was intelligent and portrayed positively, instead of just serving as a foil for a young pilot who rushed in and saved the day by acting without thinking. Poe Damaron was a more realistic portrayal of how people like Han Solo operate in the real world. I completely expected the exact opposite to happen: I thought Holdo was just going to be some stuffy old lady who only existed to be proven wrong so Poe would look smart and heroic.
It was a welcome subversion of a very old trope that youth and confidence trump experience and wisdom. It's a message that naturally appeals to kids, and I can't complain about that, but the trope is so ubiquitous that I've gotten kind of tired of seeing it everywhere. It's nice to see a realistic character like Holdo instead of an old fogie straw person.
Kylo Ren is my favorite character in the entire saga. He's extremely intense, temperamental but not whiny, and he consistently defies expectations, vacillating between good and evil without following the normal patterns. His attack on Rey after killing Snoke was a good example of a brilliant subversion: he slew the bad guy but did not redeem himself in the process. Killing Han Solo was another surprise; normally the power of love wins out in scenes like that. In almost any other movie, Han Solo would have survived that encounter.
The new movies subvert as many tropes as they follow. Han Solo, Kylo Ren, Luke Skywalker, Finn, Poe, and Holdo all break out of the traditional molds and do something new. If they didn't, the plot would be predictable and boring. Instead, they broke with convention and made something new and interesting.
"It was a welcome subversion of a very old trope that youth and confidence trump experience and wisdom. "
Which never appeared and never existed in Star Wars.
Perhaps Johnson should have remembered occasionally which films he was attempting to subvert?
And strange you should say that because I have rarely seen a film where so little respect has been shown towards older characters and their "wisdom and experience" than The Last Jedi.
Or did Rey have immense "wisdom and experience" compared to Luke when she knocked him out with a stick, or Han and Chewie when she mended then flew the Falcon?
And how about the way a "young but obviously more wise and more experienced" Kylo managed to triumph over Snoke with little more than a parlour trick?
And lets not forget of course the way the "experienced and highranking" Plasma was killed by the inexperienced young janitor.
And Poe tricking the "high ranking and experienced" commander Hux with a yo Mama joke?
"A realistic character like Holdo"
Oh what the character who had the rank of Admiral in a small tight knit community of rebels on a single ship who nobody recognised even though she had stupid hair and wafted around in evening dress?
That Holdo, of course, ultra realistic portrayal.
Of course no high ranking officer who led the squadrens of pilots would have ever crossed her path or know anything about her.
Maybe she had been on annual leave?
Rose, AKA Shrek.
(the likeness is uncanny)
Died so many times, and then "it starts", it's branded on my subconscious.
Will this be a new thing?
Perhaps they could remake Casablanca with Ilsa not getting on that plane but have some random running up at the last moment and taking her away from it all. And then having it explained in the accompanying book that in fact this was her true love that she just hadn't mentioned to anyone before.
I think if we are all honest and if could imagine upgraded episodes 4-6 with a new star cast and new high quality graphics but kept the writing all the same, they wouldn’t stand the test of time like they do now.
Nobody judges books, paintings, music by what has been created since the originals were created.
Why should films be seen differently?
And games for that matter.
After the travesty of watching TLJ, we came home and were on the net letting off steam and happened across a scene from A New Hope.
Alec Guiness telling Luke about his father, about the Jedi, about the lightsabre. I'm sure you all know the scene. It was superb cinema, acting, music, lighting, shots, pacing ect.
That will always be superb cinema and it exists and no amount of pointing at people and saying "oh look at you nostalgia junkies" will change it.
And what negative trope was it portraying?
Somebody please explain how Obi Wan and his interaction with Luke displays the "negative trope" of young brash know it all winning out against the wisdom of his/her older mentors.
Luke loses because he doesn't listen.
Rey in TLJ knocks Luke out with a stick.
Han and Chewie with all their experience can't fix the Falcon.
Rey can and does with none.
And from the sequel trilogy there are moments like Rose telling Fin that we need to save what we love, literally as the giant cannon thingy is blowing up the gate, and FIn could have prevented it. Or Luke milking that things udder-balls. There are so many it's hard to choose! Haha
@tbone1 I have tried numerous times to watch the Christmas Special to try and at least say that I've seen it, and I can't make it through the first ten minutes. As divisive as the Prequels and the Sequels have been, I think everyone can agree that the Christmas Special is rock bottom.
Take for example the scene: “I was going to go to hitachi station to get some power converters!” Whiny farm-boy turned chosen one due to ancestry trope had been used and abused for years before the Skywalkers came around with their own unique flare.
Or the scene: “Use the force, Luke...” *deathstar explodes from incalculably “lucky” shot that no one else could make and at the last minute just as all was lost due to mythical powers*
Just the idea that the deathstar has only one exploitable weakness that results in its downfall is a trope as old as Achilles.
From the revelations of Darth Vader being the protagonist’s blood relative to the Empire being the “bad guys” with no redeemable qualities and the Rebel Alliance being the “good guys” unworthy of criticism, the whole first trilogy is filled with references to ancient and modern tropes and borrows from works as old as religion: I mean, come on, a group of celibate old men who have mystical powers that can alter reality?
Not criticizing the movies. I’m just saying that many criticisms leveled against episodes 1-3 and even the newer ones can be applied to the originals from the 70s.