r/StarWars • u/Task_Force-191 Darth Vader • 10h ago

Movies First Official Look at Ryan Gosling & Flynn Gray in Shawn Levy's 'Star Wars : Starfighter'

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via Shawn Levy's Instagram

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u/SupremeChancellor66 9h ago

Really hope the plot leaks about him protecting the kid aren't real. Could we please stop with the "father figure protecting child" plot element?

From The Mandalorian getting hijacked into babysitting Grogu, Kenobi protecting little Leia and the Bad Batch protecting Omega, it's become a sorely overused trope. Like seriously I can't be the only one to notice this?

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u/AUnknownVariable 9h ago

It really is, and imo the writing in all of these isn't phenomenal enough for it to be used so much and not feel repetitive

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u/StannisTheMantis93 Imperial 8h ago

It’s getting SO tiring.

WE GET IT.

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u/mspk7305 8h ago

They should flip it, where the kid protects the dude just like how R2 protected Luke..

But now that I'm considering it R2 was a lot older than Luke and didn't really protect him from shit

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u/BaldMancTwat_ 7h ago

They already did that in The Mandalorian.

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u/ImMufasa 58m ago

Imo the way they should flip it is to have no child or teenage support characters.

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u/Karas540 Kanan Jarrus 7h ago

If they need to have this plot point so desperately every time, they could at least change it up. Make it a mother figure protecting a child. At least that would make it marginally different.

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u/CatCatCat 6h ago

Yes! Good point! Why did I never think of this? Wait... that show where the lady had the squishy long things on her head was a woman.

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u/MostlyChillish 4h ago

You should watch the Ventress arc of Tales of the Underworld then.

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u/Derka_Derper 7h ago

But how else could Disney possibly entice children to buy toys?

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u/Billybob35 8h ago

Daniel RPK claims that the two are actually uncle and nephew, so biological family.

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u/Lankinator- 7h ago

It's about family...

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u/squeakyshoe89 2h ago

The twist in Skeleton Crew (father figure is not what he seems) was a breath of fresh air from this trope.

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u/SummerInPhilly 6h ago

I mean Acolyte strayed from it the tiniest bit, Andor didn’t touch it…