Star Wars Sequels: 11 Huge Surprises That Could Still Happen
2. The First Order Wins
The standard narrative of Star Wars is that, in the end, the good guys win. Sure, battles will be lost, people will die, but the Rebels - or now the Resistance - win the war. But what if they don't win this one? After all, we're expecting things to play out pretty similarly to the Rebels against the Empire, and if they really wanted to subvert things, then having the First Order defeat the Resistance at the end of Episode IX would be a major way of doing that. This really ties into the idea of Episode IX not being the end of Star Wars. We're going to get Episodes X, XI, and XII, and with that in mind are they going to want to get rid of the First Order by IX, and then have to rebuild another new, evil threat? A way around that is having the First Order win, and then continuing the battle in another trilogy.
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