History Characters / StarWarsRogueOne

* SuicideMission: The mission to steal the Death Star plans is so suicidal that the Rebellion largely gives up to it, and the commando team has to undertake it on its own. [[spoiler:The Rebel Council turns out of to have been correct in their assessment of how suicidal the mission is. There are no survivors of the Rogue One team.]]

* SuicideMission: The mission to steal the Death Star plans is so suicidal that the Rebellion largely gives up to it, and the commando has to undertake it on its own.

** For all of his talk about the Force, [[http://www.starwars.com/databank/chirrut-imwe the databank states that Chirrut has no Force abilities]], but the movie presents his capability to operate effectively in spite of his blindness in an ambiguous way. While he's shown [[HyperAwareness acting on his hearing skills to handle himself in combat]], it's also implied that he ''might'' be able to tap into the Force to some degree, such as when he identifies Jyn's Force-resonant Kyber crystal pendant or Cassian's true intentions to kill Jyn's father. His ability to [[spoiler:reach the transmitter without being shot]] is similarly ambiguous, as it could be an innate Force sensitivity or simply his insurmountable trust in the Force's will, regardless of whether that will is [[spoiler:him reaching the transmitter or being shot down while walking across the battlefield (although, on the other hand, these are stormtroopers we're talking about).]]

* PunctuationShaker: His surname is spelled with an circumflexed "I" but is, persumably, pronounced as "Imwe".

* SarcasmMode: Perpetually, almost as if if it's a default setting. Cassian implies this goes with his reprogramming-induced BrutalHonesty.

* AllThereInTheManual: None of his basketry is the film itself.

The daughter of Galen and Lyra Erso, Jyn was taken in by Saw Gerrera and trained as a rebel after the death of her mother and kidnapping of her father at the hands of the Empire. After being abandoned by Saw, Jyn roamed the galaxy for several years as a petty criminal before being arrested and imprisoned by the Empire. Eventually she was broken out of prison by the Rebel Alliance, who wanted to use her as a means of contacting Saw, whose Partisans had captured a defecting Imperial pilot with critical information about an Imperial weapons project. While on the mission, Jyn learned the truth about her father's fate and formed a unit of rebels to strike at the Imperial archives on Scarif to steal the plans for the Death Star.

!!Captain Cassian Jeron Andor (formerly Kassa)

[[caption-width-right:300:''"Suddenly the Rebellion is real for you.\\
Some of us live it."'']]

!!!'''Homeworld:''' Kenari (original), Fest (forged)
!!!'''Callsign:''' Fulcrum

-->''"Light the place up. Make ten men feel like a hundred."''

A captain in Alliance Intelligence that was assigned to escort Jyn on her mission to make contact with Saw Gerrera's Partisans. After the Alliance refused to act on the information they gathered, Cassian recruited the bulk of Rogue One to join an unsanctioned mission to steal the Death Star plans.

Unwilling to give up on stopping the superweapon, the team led a crack squad of renegade Alliance soldiers, hastily codenamed "Rogue One," in an assault of the Imperial archive on Scarif, leading to one of the first major battles of the Galactic Civil War and the theft of the Death Star's schematics -- albeit at the cost of their lives...

After receiving a distress call from Galen Erso regarding a major superweapon test (specifically, the testing of the Death Star I's firing capacity) by the Galactic Empire, the Rebel Alliance at Yavin IV led by Senator Mothma broke Erso's daughter, Jyn Erso, out of Imperial custody. Assigned to a team with Captain Cassian Andor and reprogrammed Imperial droid K-2SO, they would journey to Jedha and would recruit Chirrut Imwe, Baze Malbus, and Bodhi Rook, with the help of the Onderon Partisans led by Saw Gerrera, before journeying to Eadu and Scarif in search of Jyn's father and eventually, the plans of the Death Star that would bring the battle station's downfall.

* KilledOffScreen: He's seen alive but too hurt to move when Self tries to run for the master switch, then is shown slumped over the next time the scene cuts there: either dead of his initial wound, shot again by one of the Death Troopers, or just passed out (in which case he would have almost certainly died during the Death Star's blast).

* SignificantWardrobeShift: Cassian starts out Season 1 of ''Andor'' wearing at least three layers of body-obscuring clothing plus a ''Star Wars'' version of a bulky Carhartt work coat on top, which give the effect that he is at once hiding and armoring his true self under his clothes. As the series goes on and he gets drawn more and more towards the Rebel hero we know from ''Rogue One'', he sheds layers until he finally loses his BadassLongcoat in the season finale, leaving him in a form-fitting jacket and shirt and his leanest silhouette yet.

The senior ranking member of Extraction Team Bravo, a military unit under the command of General Draven. He and the rest of Bravo Team would be sent to Wobani to retrieve Jyn Erso from Imperial custody. Melshi later joins Cassian in launching the assault on Scarif to capture the Death Star plans.

* AscendedExtra: After he was a glorified SpearCarrier in ''Rogue One'' with only a few lines, he's a major character in ''Andor'' where he's Cassian's closest friend inside the prison on Narkina-5.]]

* SignificantWardrobeShift: Cassian starts out Season 1 of ''Andor'' wearing at least three layers of dark-colored body-obscuring clothing plus a ''Star Wars'' version of a Carhartt work coat on top, as shown when [=B2EMO=] wakes him up the morning after his escapade on Morlana One and he gets dressed. The show's costumers wanted to show his messy beginnings in his outfit, but still needed him to have a bit of swagger as the show's lead, hence the layers he's hiding his true self under, and the big coat. He gradually loses layers over the course of the season as he undergoes CharacterDevelopment and gets closer to the Rebel hero we know in ''Rogue One'', until he ends the season committing himself to the Rebellion in a relatively form-fitting jacket and shirt.

* AntiHero

* EstablishingCharacterMoment

** The series opens with him flirting with a prostitute, and Maarva later namedrops several women he's previously been with.

** After fleeing to Niamos, we see him in a hotel room the morning after he’s hooked up with a new girlfriend.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment:

* ChildSoldier: According to the visual guides, he grew up on a Separatist world occupied by the Republic and was raised to hate the occupying forces. This is retconned in ''Andor''.

* PlotHole: While in Gerrera's holding cell, Andor tells Îmwe that this was his first time in a cell, but ''{{Series/Andor}}'' establishes that Andor had been imprisoned at least two times before.

* SignificantWardrobeShift: Cassian starts out Season 1 of ''Andor'' wearing at least three layers of dark-colored body-obscuring clothing plus a ''Star Wars'' version of a Carhartt work coat on top, as shown when Bee wakes him up the morning after his escapade on Morlana One and he gets dressed. The show's costumers wanted to show his messy beginnings in his outfit, but still needed him to have a bit of swagger as the show's lead, hence the layers he's hiding his true self under, and the big coat. He gradually loses layers over the course of the season as he undergoes CharacterDevelopment and gets closer to the Rebel hero we know in ''Rogue One'', until he ends the season committing himself to the Rebellion in a relatively form-fitting jacket and shirt.

* AntiHero:

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Observation is one of Cassian's keenest skills. On Aldhani, he's able to tell whether his squadmates are left- or right-handed just by watching how they stand. During his processing at Narkina 5, he silently assesses how well-armed and prepared the guards are, which proves pivotal for the eventual jailbreak.

** In ''Andor'', he also puts himself in significant danger to rescue his ex-girlfriend [[BrokenBird Bix]] in the Season 1 finale.

*** In ''Andor'', he also puts himself in significant danger to rescue his ex-girlfriend [[BrokenBird Bix]] in the Season 1 finale.