History Characters / StarWarsResistanceHeroes

* CuteMachines: He's ''one of'' the most adorable machines in fiction. There's some debate as to whether or not BB-8 or R2-D2 is the cuter droid.

* CuteMachines: He's ''one of'' the most adorable machines in fiction. Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment invoked as to whether or not he's cuter than his predecessor.

* {{Hypocrite}}: She explains to Finn that true victory comes from saving what they love, not fighting what they hate. This is despite the fact that they met when Finn was trying to bail out of fight with the First Order (i.e. not fighting what he hates) to keep Rey safe (saving someone he cares about) and Rose tased him into unconsciousness to stop him.

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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I made a choice. I wasn't gonna kill for them."'']]

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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I can fly ''anything''."'']]

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[[caption-width-right:300:''"That's how we'll win. Not by fighting what we hate, by saving what we love."'']]

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!![=D-0=], "Dio"
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* ChekhovsGunman: When he's first introduced, [=D-0=] just seems to be a cute yet insignificant droid, primarily there as a KidAppealCharacter. Then Finn finds out [=D-0=] has highly sensitive information about Exegol and the Sith Fleet, which is essential to the Resistance's plan in the climax.

* BreakTheHaughty: He's very cocky and maverick in ''The Last Jedi'', constantly rushing off against orders to get things done the way he wants. For this, he gets demoted, reprimanded multiple times, and his hot-headed attitude shoots the Resistance's escape plan in the foot. By the end of the film, he's learned his lesson.

* TraumaCongaLine: Given the brief timeframe between ''The Force Awakens'' and ''The Last Jedi'', Poe endures a lot of hardships without adequate time to cope. Altogether, he gets paralyzed by Kylo Ren; gets punched and frisked by Stormtroopers; witnesses the execution of war prisoners; gets physically and mentally tortured; has a near-fatal crash with a concussion and temporary amnesia; learns the New Republic was destroyed; loses comrades during an attack on Starkiller Base; sees Finn injured and comatose; leads a mission that causes the deaths of all his teammates; gets smacked, berated and demoted by General Leia; almost dies in an explosion that kills several more members of his squadron; gets belittled and dismissed in public by Admiral Holdo; gets shot by Leia; watches the First Order destroy numerous escape pods while he's powerless to stop it; and leads ''another'' mission where ''most'' of the soldiers die. Miraculously, he's still going strong by the end.

* VitriolicBestBuds: He and Rey have this dynamic; they tend to get on each others nerves and in their first scene in ''The Rise of Skywalker'' they start arguing about what the other did to BB-8 and the ''Falcon'', respectively, but they do care about each other.

* WhatTheHellHero: {{Downplayed}}. He calls out Rey in ''The Rise of Skywalker'' for spending all her time training, as he believes she's their best fighter and thinks she should be on the front lines. He's also dismayed when Rey flies off by herself following her duel with Kylo on Kef Bir, though in this case Finn gently chastises him, saying Poe doesn't understand what Rey is fighting against (not just physically but within herself).

* CharacterizationMovesOn: His status as a hot head who plays by his own rules is central to his role in the second installment, but his portrayal in the first film doesn't really hint at anything like that, with Poe being very agreeable and perfectly following the orders given to him. Then the last film plays up his confrontational side, with Poe indulging in quite a bit of bickering in contrast to being an exceedingly NiceGuy in he first film.

* WhatTheHellHero: {{Downplayed}}. He calls out Rey in ''The Rise of Skywalker'' for spending all her time training, as he believes she's their best fighter and thinks she should be on the front lines. He's also dismayed when Rey flies off by herself following her duel with Kylo on Kef Bir, though in this case Finn gently chastizes him, saying Poe doesn't understand what Rey is fighting against (not just physically but within herself).

* AdvertisedExtra: In ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', he helps Finn (and gives him his name), but then spends a sizable amount of the film as ChekhovMIA, only to come back meaningfully for three scenes. He has more to do in ''Film/TheLastJedi''.

* DecoyProtagonist: While he's TheHero for most of the movie and a co-lead alongside Rey by the time he crosses blades with Kylo Ren, he gets heavily injured, leaving Rey to take Kylo on and claim her role as the main protagonist. Also notable in the advertising of the movie, which shows Finn with the lightsaber and makes him out to be the new lead character/protagonist of the series. He's not. Rey is. But he is still much more heroic than her.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Twice in ''The Last Jedi'', both to tragic results. At the start of the film, he ignores General Leia's direct orders to call off an attack on a dreadnought: while the attack manages to eventually take out the dreadnought, the entire bombing fleet dies in the attempt. The second time is equally tragic: despite being demoted, Poe takes it upon himself to question Vice-Admiral Holdo's plan, and when he is rightfully LockedOutOfTheLoop, he creates his own secret plan and then further stages a mutiny. When he ''does'' learn of Holdo's plan, he blabs about it to Finn over the radio, which DJ overhears, which leads to the First Order learning Holdo's plan (which is to evacuate the entire alliance on transport ships with cloaking devices while Holdo herself acts as a distraction) when DJ sells them out. Armed with this knowledge, the First Order begins slaughtering the defenseless rebels onboard the transport ships until Holdo's HeroicSacrifice - which she would never have had to make if Poe hadn't inadvertently given her plan away to the enemy. Poe's interference and insubordination leads to even more deaths. It's clear he learns this the hard way, at the very moment he realizes what Holdo [[SuicideAttack intends]] [[HeroicSacrifice to do]]: the horror on his face says it all.

* GeneralRipper: He is willing to stage an all-costs rebellion that will jeopardize the lives of his subordinates.

* KnowNothingKnowItAll: He thinks he's the only one who has a brain and plan in the Resistance, and often times disobeys direct orders, in favor of doing something more heroic. In ''The Last Jedi'' his "heroism" ends up costing the Resistance the entirety of their Bombers, and his mutiny towards the "Cowardly" Admiral Holdo ruins the Resistance plan to sneak out under the First Order's nose, as Finn and Rose's mission fails and their trusting of a traitor alerts the First Order of the escape pods headed to Crait, turning their fire off of the cruiser and to the escape pods, nearly decimating the very few last survivors in the Resistance.

* AmbiguouslyRelated: To Lando. According to the ''Visual Dictionary'' Lando had a daughter who was taken by the First Order in 15 ABY when she was two years old, and it further states Jannah is in her twenties in 35 ABY. The timelines match up, but aside from Lando quickly forming a bond with her and deciding to help her discover where she came from, nothing is ever elaborated on.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: {{Implied|trope}}. After defecting from the First Order, she [[MeaningfulRename took the name]] Jannah, but it can be inferred this wasn't her birth name as she doesn't remember where she came from before.
* QuestForIdentity: It's {{implied|trope}} this will be her next goal at the end of the film. After the Resistance's victory, Jannah remarks to Lando that she doesn't really know who she is, as she was taken by the First Order as a very young child. Lando smiles and says "Lets find out" and she smiles back, indicating Lando is [[SequelHook going to help her uncover her past]].

'''Voiced by:''' Annie Rojas (Latin American Spanish dub), Ainhoa Martín (European Spanish dub), Kelly Marot (European French dub)\\

* WhatTheHellHero: She is ''furious'' with Finn when she realizes he's trying to abandon ship, wordlessly stunning him and angrily rebuffing his attempts to explain. Although Finn's motivation isn't completely self-centered as he's trying to prevent Rey from being captured, Rose still calls him a selfish traitor and scathingly points out that her sister just died defending the fleet, so her reaction is understandable.

->'''Portrayed by:''' Naomi Ackie

* TheConfidant: Acts as this to Rey in ''The Rise of Skywalker''; she confides her fears and worries to him several times, while he tries to offer her advice and comfort.

* {{Adventure Duo}}: He is this with Rey in The Force Awakens and once again with Rose in The Last Jedi.

* {{Adorkable}}:
** He tends to be pretty nervous and uncertain in a very endearing way. How does he answer when Rey asks if he's with the Resistance? Dust himself off and say "Obviously. Yes, I am. I'm with the Resistance, yeah. ''I am with the Resistance.''" Then he asks BB-8 where the base is in hushed tones.
** Later while fighting stormtroopers on Takodana, he cheers while watching Poe in his X-Wing shoot down TIE fighters when the Resistance forces arrive.

* {{Adorkable}}: Just try not to smile at the cuteness of Rose's eager excitement and glee at meeting her hero, Finn.

* TheCutie: She can be downright {{Adorkable}} at times and is generally [[NiceGirl very friendly and sweet-natured]].

* FromNobodyToNightmare: A heroic example. Goes from being a simple defective stormtrooper to a very capable Resistance hero.

* AmbiguouslyRelated: To Lando. Lando had a daughter who was taken by the First Order in 15 ABY. According to the ''Visual Dictionary'', Jannah is in her twenties in 35 ABY. The timelines line up, but aside from Lando quickly forming a bond with her and deciding to help her discover where she came from, nothing is ever elaborated on.

* ThirdOptionLoveInterest: To Finn. In the first two films, Finn gets a bit of ShipTease with Rey (though they're mostly presented as PlatonicLifePartners) and ''The Last Jedi'' sets up a romance between him and Rose; he then meets Jannah in ''The Rise ofSkywalker'' and soon becomes close with her, while Rey is paired with Ben Solo and Rose decided they were BetterAsFriends offscreen.

'''Appearances:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]'' [[note]] voice only [[/note]] | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsAgeOfResistance Age of Resistance]]'' | ''Literature/BeforeTheAwakening'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsAdventures Adventures]]'' | ''[=C-3PO=]'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsPoeDameron Poe Dameron]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance Resistance]]'' | ''Literature/JoinTheResistance'' | ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' | ''Film/TheLastJedi'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsResistanceReborn Resistance Reborn]]'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsAllegiance Allegiance]]'' | ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker''