History Characters / StarWarsTheResistance

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: {{Subverted}}. Admiral Holdo, from Poe's perspective, is portrayed as a somewhat incompetent leader who doesn't understand the gravity of the situation at hand. Poe hopes that Leia will wake up from her coma and save the Resistance from Holdo's poor leadership and stages a mutiny to do so himself. However, when Leia wakes up, she sides with Holdo and stuns Poe for being insubordinate. Poe later comes to realize that Holdo was doing everything she could to save the Resistance just like him, but both of their lack of clear communication about their concerns and what information they had caused conflict between them.

* TheWonka: While highly intelligent and competent, she is known for [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} her eccentricity]] and [[FreakyFashionMildMind peculiar fashion taste]] (such as dyeing her hair wild colors, [[BarefootLoon frequently going barefoot]], and wearing a dress that looks like a ballroom gown onboard a military ship). Her unconventional leadership style and [[LockedOutOfTheLoop her tendency to be secretive about her plans]] results in confrontation between her and her subordinate Captain Poe Dameron, who accuses her of incompetence and even of [[spoiler:treason, and eventually starts a mutiny against her. Eventually it's revealed that Holdo knew all along what she was doing, and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Poe's mutiny foiled her plans]].]]

* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: She won't tell Poe anything about her plan to save the Resistance besides "We're maintaining our current speed". She does have a plan, but her petty attitude and vagueness lead Poe to understandably interpret her inaction as "We have no plan", leading to a lot of [[HeadbuttingHeroes conflict between them]].

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: {{Subverted}}. Admiral Holdo, from Poe's perspective, is portrayed as a somewhat incompetent leader who doesn't understand the gravity of the situation at hand. Poe hopes that Leia will wake up from her coma and save the Resistance from Holdo's poor leadership and stages a mutiny to do so himself. However, when Leia wakes up, she sides with Holdo and stuns Poe for being insubordinate. Poe later comes to realize that Holdo was doing everything she could to save the Resistance just like him, which he would have helped if she just told everyone of her true intentions to some extent.

* HeroicSacrifice: Once everyone has been evacuated, she stays aboard the ''Raddus'' and rams Snoke's gigantic starship at lightspeed to buy time for the Resistance remnants to shelter themselves on Crait.

* InformedAttribute: The narrative of ''The Last Jedi'' portrays her as a selfless and wise figure. Considering how she kept on berating Poe for simply asking her intent in a desperate situation, worsened crew morale significantly, as well indirectly caused the death of several crew members, this seems hard to believe. It also should be noted that even with Holdo's plans, the Resistance would have been defeated by the First Order had Luke Skywalker not intervened in time, with their escape only made possible because Rey somehow became powerful enough to lift the entire rubble blocking their paths.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: She causes PoorCommunicationKills by not only not telling Poe and the others that what her plan is, but acts as if she doesn't have a plan ''at all,'' thus leading Poe and the others to rebel against her and causing hundreds of deaths. Her petty and uncharismatic behavior wasn't doing any favors either.

* RetroactiveIdiotBall: In ''The Rise of Skywalker'', it's revealed that Holdo's ramming her command ship at Snoke's starships only had a "one in a million chance" of success. This means that her plan basically worked from sheer dumb luck, and would have realistically been the death of everyone instead.

* StillTheLeader: Late in ''The Last Jedi'', she orders Poe off "her" bridge, even though she's seemingly done nothing to help the Resistance besides fueling up a few transports for an evacuation, with Poe being more proactive. It's subverted, however, when it turns out she actually does have a plan to save them and just didn't tell them about it.

* TheWonka: While competent when needed, she is known for [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} her eccentricity]] and [[FreakyFashionMildMind peculiar fashion taste]] (such as dyeing her hair wild colors, [[BarefootLoon frequently going barefoot]], and wearing a dress that looks like a ballroom gown onboard a military ship). Her unconventional leadership style and [[LockedOutOfTheLoop her tendency to be secretive about her plans]] results in confrontation between her and her subordinate Captain Poe Dameron, who accuses her of incompetence and even of [[spoiler:treason, and eventually starts a mutiny against her. Eventually it's revealed that Holdo had a plan all along, and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero her poor decisions as a leader hampered it]].]]

* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: She won't tell Poe anything about her plan to save the Resistance besides "We're maintaining our current speed". She does have a plan, but her vague statements lead Poe to interpret her inaction as "We have no plan", leading to a lot of [[HeadbuttingHeroes conflict between them]].

* BoringButPractical: Her plan after evacuating D'Qar is to simply flee the First Order until they reach Crait, sneak off their capital ships, and signal for help once the First Order fleet has left, contrasted with Poe's failed plan to sneak onto the First Order mothership and disable its tracking system. Poe himself admits that the plan is actually a really damn good one when he learns of it.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Downplayed. She's rather eccentric, with bright purple hair and clothes that look better suited to a party than a battleship, but she's actually a good strategist and a lot more competent than she looks.
* CassandraTruth: She tells Poe that his plan is far too dangerous and unpredictable. Poe refuses to listen... Unfortunately, Holdo is soon proven right, as just about everything that can go wrong with his plan does.

** Within the film itself, Holdo is set against Supreme Leader Snoke. For the majority of the film, they're the ones in charge of their respective movements, and the two of them are presented as notably extravagant in their dress, with Holdo's elegant dress, hair, and tiara, and Snoke's golden robe, ring, and slippers. Their contrasts come with their portrayals. Snoke appears to be powerful and with great direction and authority, and Holdo appears to be clueless and weak, which causes her crew to mutiny. In the end, however, it becomes clear that Snoke has little motivation beyond advancing his image, and he dies from arrogance when interpreting Kylo Ren's intentions in his favor, and Holdo proves to have been doing everything for the Resistance, with her final act devastating the First Order fleet. To cap it off, their signature colors (purple and gold/yellow) are direct complements.
* ForegoneConclusion: Anyone that's read ''Leia: Princess of Alderaan'' before viewing ''The Last Jedi'' would know that she's genuinely good, helpful, and loyal, despite whatever her exterior may lead you to think.
* GeneralFailure : Zigzagged. Her plan to evacuate to an abandoned base is a sound idea yet her leadership has hampered its execution. She refuses to reassure the crew of her ship despite morale being at an all-time low and her refusal to disclose her plan to Poe Dameron ultimately leads to mutiny. Even if she is right that Poe is a loose cannon for disobeying orders and challenging her authority, one has to wonder why she didn't throw him in the brig or taken any form of disciplinary action. The only reason Poe's actions were a threat was that she was so secretive that a significant portion of the crew was convinced she had no plan whatsoever. In short, while she is a good strategist, she has questionable leadership that only hinders her plans.

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: {{Subverted}}. Admiral Holdo, from Poe's perspective, is portrayed as a somewhat incompetent leader who doesn't understand the gravity of the situation at hand. Poe hopes that Leia will wake up from her coma and save the Resistance from Holdo's poor leadership and stages a mutiny to do so himself. However, when Leia wakes up, she sides with Holdo and stuns Poe for being insubordinate. Poe later comes to realize that Holdo was doing everything she could to save the Resistance just like him, she simply had a different method of going about it.

* TheLeader: She temporarily takes command of the Resistance after Leia is left in a coma. She's mostly types Mastermind and Levelheaded. She is remarkably calm in the face of danger and seems unfazed by the highly-stressful and increasingly bleak situation the Resistance are in; she also spends much of her time coming up with and executing an escape plan that will save the most lives possible, whilst keeping it closely under wraps. She frequently clashes with [[LeaderWannabe Poe]] throughout the film, who wants to take more direct action against the First Order and mistakes her secrecy and aloofness for incompetence and cowardice.

* MeanBoss: {{Invoked}} and {{Deconstructed}}. Holdo actually cares for the Resistance greatly, even being willing to [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice herself]] to save them. However, she invokes this trope after taking command, deciding to leave most of the crew in the dark of her plans. This causes Poe and the rest of the crew to think she's a coward and a traitor after they see her lack of openess on display several times, leading to Poe going behind her back to try and save the crew however he can. When she realizes this, she [[OhCrap tries to stop him]] but by then it is too late.

* MistressAndServantBoy: She and Poe Dameron have a bit of this dynamic between them. She is an eccentric older woman who acts condescendingly towards her younger subordinate (with a hint of flirtatiousness, which is especially prominent when she jokingly calls him "flyboy"), and he is a young and impulsive pilot who is annoyed that he has to obey Holdo's orders. The flirtatious subtext was more prominent in the original version of the script, but was significantly toned down in the final version.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: She causes PoorCommunicationKills by not only not telling Poe and the others that what her plan is, but acts as if she doesn't have a plan ''at all,'' thus leading Poe and the others to rebel against her and causing hundreds of deaths.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Holdo [[LockedOutOfTheLoop doesn't tell Poe and several other Resistance members about her plan to evacuate them on transports]], resulting in Poe assuming she has ''no'' plan and going rogue to try and save them. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero This backfires badly]], as Poe's actions inadvertently cause the First Order to learn of the plan, nearly getting the entire Resistance wiped out. The novelization explains that Holdo was trying to keep the plan secret in case of information leaks, due to being unaware of how the First Order was tracking them, but she doesn't make this very clear to Poe and the others.

* StillTheLeader: Late in ''The Last Jedi'', she orders Poe off "her" bridge, even though she's seemingly done nothing to help the Resistance besides fueling up a few transports for an evacuation, with Poe being more proactive. It's subverted, however, when it turns out she actually does have a plan to save them and was merely being secretive about it.

* TheWonka: While highly intelligent and competent, she is known for [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} her eccentricity]] and [[FreakyFashionMildMind peculiar fashion taste]] (such as dyeing her hair wild colors, [[BarefootLoon frequently going barefoot]], and wearing a dress that looks like a ballroom gown onboard a military ship). Her unconventional leadership style and [[LockedOutOfTheLoop her tendency to be secretive about her plans]] results in confrontation between her and her subordinate Captain Poe Dameron, who accuses her of incompetence and even of [[spoiler:treason, and eventually starts a mutiny against her. Eventually it's revealed that Holdo knew all along what she was doing, and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Poe's mutiny foiled her plans]].]]

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* BewareTheSillyOnes: Leia at first dismisses her as too bizarre to be helpful, but soon discovers her eccentricities lend themselves to very shrewd thinking. Perhaps best seen when they have to evade an Imperial scan which would show them on a known rebel planet: while Leia is nearly caught, Amilyn comes up with a perfect lie on the spot then deliberately annoys the man into letting them pass.

* BoringButPractical: Her plan after evacuating D'Qar is to simply flee the First Order until they reach Crait and signal for help, contrasted with Poe's failed plan to sneak onto the First Order mothership and disable its tracking system. Poe himself admits that the plan is actually a really damn good one when he learns of it.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Downplayed. She’s rather eccentric, with bright purple hair and clothes that look better suited to a party than a battleship, but she’s actually a good strategist and a lot more competent than she looks.

* {{Cloudcuckoolanguage}}: She tends to speak cryptically and [[TalksLikeASimile in weird metaphors]]; Leia calls this "Holdo speak".

* GeneralFailure : Zigzagged. Her plan to evacuate to an abandoned base is a sound idea yet her leadership has hampered its execution. She refuses to reassure the crew of her ship despite morale being at an all-time low and her refusal to disclose her plan to Poe Dameron ultimately leads to mutiny. Even if she is right that Poe Dameron is a loose cannon for disobeying orders and challenging her authority, one has to wonder why she didn't throw him in the brig or taken any form of disciplinary action. The only reason Poe's actions were a threat was that she was so secretive that the entire crew was convinced she had no plan whatsoever. In short, while she is a good strategist, she has questionable leadership that only hinders her plans.

** If only very loosely, she's one to Winter, Leia's fellow adopted sister in ''Legends''. Both are similar-aged allies and long-time friends of Leia, also having experience in the political field and being more feminine than the princess herself... and that's about as far as the similarities go. While Winter was TheStoic[=/=]StraightMan to Leia, Amilyn is a Cloudcuckoolander (to the point that Leia thought she was weird when they initially met), with also Winter being more traditional[=/=]finicky while Amilyn is a CulturalRebel. And of course, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers they have strange-colored hair]], but Winter's was naturally white while Amilyn just likes to dye her hair.

* StarfishAliens: He is a Trodtome, who are large slug-like creatures with no arms, which calls into question exactly how he performs his duties as a mechanic.

* BarefootLoon: She [[DoesNotLikeShoes has a penchant for going barefoot onboard spaceships]], as can be seen in ''Age of Resistance Special 1'', most likely to illustrate her eccentricity.

* TheStrategist: She is responsible for ensuring the Resistance's survival and escape from the First Order following the evacuation of D'Qar. She keeps her plan secret from the majority of the Resistance and it's only [[TheReveal fully revealed]] near the end of the film: fuel up small transports fitted with cloaking devices and evacuate everybody onto them once they're in range of Crait, a planet containing an old Rebel base that's defendible and has equipment that will allow them to contact their allies for help. Holdo, meanwhile, will remain on the main cruiser as a distraction, with the transports slipping by unnoticed. Even Poe, who had been at odds with Holdo the entire film, admits he thinks this a good plan. It very ''nearly'' works; unfortunately, DJ informs the First Order about the transports when he's captured, putting the whole operation in jeopardy. Holdo improvises by ramming the cruiser into the ''Supremacy'' at ''lightspeed'' to protect the remaining transports.

* SuicideAttack: She stays onboard her command ship once everyone else has been evacuated to Crait, and rams Snoke's starship with it at lightspeed. The result is ''devastating'' for the First Order's fleet.
* SupportingLeader: She is a supporting character in ''The Last Jedi'' who leads the Resistance when Leia is left comatose.

->'''Appearances:''' ''Literature/LeiaPrincessOfAlderaan'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsAgeOfResistance Age of Resistance]]'' | ''Literature/CobaltSquadron'' | ''Film/TheLastJedi''

** {{Invoked}}. She doesn't tell anyone about her plan to save the Resistance, and indeed doesn't even inform them that she ''has'' a plan other than "run away and try not to die". In the film it isn't explained why, [[AllThereInTheManual but the novelization]] states that she did so because she has no idea how the First Order are tracking them, and that there could be a spy onboard.
** Poe and some of the others don't tell her about their plan to sneak aboard the ''Supremacy'' and shut down the hyperspace tracker, as Poe believes her to be incompetent and untrustworthy, saying the plan is "need to know".

* PoorCommunicationKills: Holdo [[LockedOutOfTheLoop doesn't tell Poe and several other Resistance members about her plan to evacuate them on transports]], resulting in Poe assuming she has ''no'' plan and going rogue to try and save them. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero This backfires badly]], as Poe's actions inadvertently cause the First Order to learn of the plan, nearly getting the entire Resistance wiped out. The novelization explains that Holdo was trying to keep the plan secret in case of information leaks, but she doesn't make this very clear to Poe and the others.

* EasilyForgiven: She doesn't appear to receive any consequences or reprimantion for her role in the mutiny in ''The Last Jedi'', though in fairness Leia knows her heart was in the right place, she was following Poe's orders and the Resistance ''really'' can't afford to be cutting off any of their membership following the Battle of Crait.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: She is quick to surrender when Leia stuns Poe.