10 Major Movie Characters Given Nothing To Do In The Sequel

While many fans will argue that Finn (John Boyega) wasn't given enough to do in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, at least his role in that film felt like a continuation of his Stormtrooper-turned-Rebel arc from The Force Awakens.

The Rise of Skywalker, though, reduces Finn to unambiguous supporting character capacity, far from his status as basically a co-lead in The Force Awakens.

Here he feels purely along for the adventure with Rey (Daisy Ridley), enough that even a promising arc about his Force sensitivity was bizarrely curtailed during editing.

And right alongside Finn there's Rose Tico (Kelly Marie Tran), who after being introduced as a prominent Resistance member and love interest for Finn in The Last Jedi, gets barely a minute of screen time in The Rise of Skywalker.

Naturally many fans complained that the historically very-white Star Wars franchise took prominent characters played by Black and Asian-American actors respectively and made them feel insultingly irrelevant.

Boyega in particular has been vocal about his disappointment with how Finn was sidelined after The Force Awakens, bluntly telling British GQ:

"What I say to Disney is do not market a Black character as important and then push them aside."