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Who Is The Most Overrated Star Wars Character?


For me it's anyone of these guys:

Rey
Kylo Ren
Han Solo
Darth Vader
Boba Fett
Luke Skywalker
Leia Organa

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Princess Leia

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Why, you stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herder!

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Just the kind of retort you'd expect from a drug addled spoiled rotten Hollywood brat.

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Haha, indeed.

But boy, could she write! I've never been a Star Wars fan but I've read all her books and have a great deal of respect for her talent as an author. She was whip-smart with a fascinating mind, all her family/drugs drama aside. While most of the world mourned Princess Leia when she died, I just felt sad that I'd lost one of my favourite writers.

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Clever woman no doubt and a good writer but I never took to her as an actress or as an interviewee. She always had an air of superiority about her it seemed to me. It's a character flaw I can identify with but it's undeniably unattractive.


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In Star Wars (1977): The Emperor. Literally phones it in.

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Yoda. He's old and speak proper English he can't.

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Why Rey? She is one of the best characters in the series.

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Never underestimate the glower of the dork side of the farce.

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She was more compelling and well rounded than Luke.

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Yes I agree that Rey was the best character Star Wars has ever had.

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I guess it's hard to see the humour in things from your mother's basement.

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Something about "Woke" I believe. That explains everything people don't like about movies today, or at least they think it does.

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I put it down to the irrational seething rage of the butthurt incel cheeto dust covered mother's basement dwellers who fixated on Rey ( Daisy Ridley ) for being the living embodiment of everything they can neither have nor achieve in their miserable worthless lives. But maybe I am overstating things.



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Clean your mother's basement bucko !

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Well I don't pretend to represent Star Wars fans, that would be completely disingenuous, but I have seen most of the films and Rey seemed like a perfectly agreeable character to me, and Daisy's acting was superior to most of the hammy antics in the original series or the prequels.

I don't think you should be calling people idiotic names like SJW and retard because they like an actress or character though. It's a space opera series after all, let's not overstate its importance or be spiteful towards each other over nothing. Anyway, would be boring if we all agreed wouldn't it?

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Pretty much all of the characters are overrated. And I'm not saying that to knock Star Wars. I actually like Star Wars.

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Yeah, Star Wars movies were Special Effects first, eveything else are just bonus. They are kid movies (or bringing the kid-side in our adult bodies out). And there is nothing wrong with it, but let's not pretend they were known for the deep and complex characters.

Pretty much all of the characters are overrated is exactly what I feel.

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The entire cast of the Disney Trilogy, Rey and Crylo Ren in particular.

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Chewbacca. He doesn’t talk. He just sounds like a dog chewing a bone.

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Boba Fett is certainly a contender. He gets TONNES of love for a few seconds of screentime. He's got cool armour, he's a pretty sly and powerful bounty hunter, but he doesn't have a personality for cryin' out loud.

But I'm gonna have to go with Darth Maul on this one. Maul was heralded as being AWESOME! even before the movie came out. Then we saw him and he can do cool flips and stuff, but he's got the personality and characterisation of a wet plank. He's Generic Sith Villain personified. They made him look like Satan and gave him a lightstaff instead of a lightsabre. Yet people still insist he's all that and a bag of chips.

Maul for SURE.

Rey gets dumped on so much I can't see how she's overrated. The character's not that interesting and is poorly written, but almost everybody seems to hate on her, so as much as I don't care for the character (although I don't mind her as much as some people do) I wouldn't say overrated.

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Maul might be a terribly written character, but Ray Park was the most awesomest in Star Wars history.

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Ray Park is awesome; I've got nothing against Mr. Park. But in a comparison of a character's love received to how good of a character they are, Maul's ratio is waaaaaay off.

The OP cited Darth Vader, but unless we're including whinging Anakin in there, Vader earns every drop of applause he has received over the years. Darth Vader is a great, nuanced, impressive character from archetype (The Black Knight!) to execution (James Earl Jones!)

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I was going to suggest Boba Fett as well.

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Fett's cool looking and has some neat weapons and all, but yeah, he's not a well-crafted three-dimensional character.

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