It's Triple Force Friday and a lot of fans are noticing that new Star Wars merchandise is leaving out one important character: Kelly Marie Tran's Rose Tico. ... Really bad look. A mechanic with the Resistance, she befriends Finn and works with him to try to help Resistance forces escape from the First Order.Rose is portrayed by Kelly Marie Tran, the first Asian-American woman and first woman of color to portray a leading character in a Star Wars film. When it comes to Star Wars movies, sometimes there are too many characters to count. Every word of what you just said was wrong. And we’re here to tell everyone that she’s one of the best characters. Rose Tico, her older sister Paige and her parents Hue and Thanya grew up on Hays Minor, a impoverished mining colony in the Otomok system. Rose is like that, too. spoiler. Character Development: So, I wanted to start off by saying, Character Development is always a big deal to these critical Star Wars fans, saying Rey is a Mary-Sue because she doesn’t experience failure and such. Star Wars: The Last Jedi has been killed off by PC culture. I wanted to unpack what it was about the character of Rose Tico that made people so angry. I assumed it would be bad and that it would make a lot of money anyway. Rose Tico is a character from Lucasfilm's 2017 Star Wars film The Last Jedi. Rose Tico Is Star Wars' Most Beloved (and Hated) Character - Here's Why. Rose Tico was a female human who served in the Resistance as a maintenance worker during their conflict with the First Order, whom Tico had hated since she was a child. When it comes to character studies, Rose in The Last Jedi is a fun one.Let's go over her arc and see what we can learn. Despite mourning the death of her sister, her ultimate presence in the film seemed to be reduced to a girl with a bad crush on Finn. She may not be flashy or full of legacy and pedigree, but Rose Tico is perhaps the best of Star Wars. "Rose Tico's character was useless. This time, specifically, I wanted to unpack what about the character of Rose Tico made people so angry. Tico's older sister, Paige, was a gunner in the Resistance. I really did not like the character of Rose. Rose Tico. Played by Kelly Marie Tran, many felt a connection to her and her story. Amazing. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker's Biggest Failure Is Rose Tico. Kelly Marie Tran, the actress who plays Rose Tico, has been harassed and threatened by angry internet men, so this seems like an obvious place to start. You cannot use the “sexism” argument whenever a member of 50% of the world’s population screws up. They're like the Nashville of space epics. Because let’s be clear, there has been an almost unbelievable amount of hatred directed towards her, and her portrayer, Kelly Marie Tran, and I genuinely do not understand why. I really did not care for her at all. The saga of Kelly Marie Tran’s Rose Tico is a sad one, and perhaps the controversy that best sums up the recent toxicity surrounding the new Star Wars films. Despite mourning the death of her sister, her ultimate presence in the film seemed to be reduced to a girl with a bad crush on Finn. She is a young maintenance worker who serves the Resistance and finds herself as Finn's ally in the midst of the conflict following the passing of her sister. So why do some people seem to hate her on the Internet? Character Development: So, I wanted to start off by saying, Character Development is always a big deal to these critical Star Wars fans, saying Rey is a Mary-Sue … In short, Rose Tico is played by a woman of color and isn’t constructed solely to please the men in the audience. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker completely fails Rose Tico, sidelining the character and validating the trolls that harassed Kelly Marie Tran. Despite Kelly Marie Tran’s boundless enthusiasm for her role, Rose Tico is ultimately underwhelming as a character. There is a lot of discussion about the character of Rose Tico in the Last Jedi. I just think she had literally zero relevance whatsoever and felt just shoehorned into the plot just to diversify the cast more. She is a young maintenance worker who serves the Resistance and finds herself as Finn's ally in the midst of the conflict following the passing of her sister. Rose fails as a character because her character does less in 2 hours than her sister does in 5 minutes as far as emotional impact, she fails as a character because the entire plot line she is integral to is bad, overly long and has 0 payoff.