Fans have always liked villains due to rule of cool. Fett, Maul, Maw, Jerec, Thrawn, Malgus, Grievous, and so on. Disney fumbled Phasma hard, showing just how badly you have to mess up to lose rule of cool.
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In fairness disney has a real problem with og villains most of them that arnt one offs like the elder from visions or are imported from the EU thrawn pellaeon are terribel
aug 20, 2025, 5:26 pm • 1 0 • view
They gave Phasma a cool backstory in a novel after FA, only for her to be killed off in TLJ without using the backstory at all. She’s evil Conan the Barbarian. Backstabbed to queen of her tribe, backstabbed the tribe to get on a Star Destroyer, backstabbed to third in charge of everything.
aug 25, 2025, 4:51 am • 1 0 • view
Plasma was supposed to be the new generation’s Boba Fett but they fumbled so hard with that one that FN-2199 made more of an impact in the two minutes of screen time he had.
aug 20, 2025, 5:58 pm • 2 0 • view
They literally put out a novel retroactively giving her a really cool backstory as a traitor Conan the Barbarian type who flags down a Star Destroyer to nuke the tribes of her homeworld and joins the Empire in its final days, then…does nothing with it. She burns in an explosion. No barbarian for us.
aug 25, 2025, 4:46 am • 1 0 • view