History TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter / StarWars

* Poe Dameron got much less screen time than the other two leads. This was because originally his character died in the beginning, but after filming many films that involved killing his characters off, Creator/OscarIsaac requested him to survive.

* DJ. Built up to be a mysterious and menacing galactic criminal, DJ ultimately has extremely little involvement in the plot except to just get Finn and Rose on Snoke's flagship, betray them, and effectively disappear from the film.

* Luke's Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru from ''Film/ANewHope'' first appear here chronologically, but they're barely in the film. Owen is introduced as Anakin's stepbrother, but the story doesn't allow them to form any sort of bond (much less establish a reason as to ''why'' Owen and Beru would be willing to take care of Luke later on) considering their only interactions with Anakin are informing him that his mother's been kidnapped and grieving briefly with him at her funeral. This also [[ContinuityDrift contradicts]] Obi-Wan's account in ''A New Hope'', where it seems like the two had a long history together, since this appears to be the ''only'' time they ever actually meet and there's no evidence that Anakin kept in any sort of contact with his stepbrother during the Clone Wars.

* Rey's father is revealed to be the child of Palpatine, the BigBad of the whole series, who possibly inherited his immense Force powers and gave up a position as his potential heir to be a junk trader. Just who is this person? When and where was he born, what was his relationship with Palpatine like and why did he choose to go into hiding? What about Rey's mother? Well, keep guessing, because beyond some brief cameos, we find out squat about Palpatine's previously never-mentioned kid and the person he loved, not even their names.

* Do you remember Maz Kanata, the cool old pirate lady who is Force-sensitive, has useful contacts for the Resistance, knew Han, Chewie and Leia personally (and possibly knows Lando too), was a bit of a mentor to Rey and somehow got hold of the Skywalker lightsaber? You'd be forgiven for forgetting she even exists in this film, as she only has a handful of short, plot irrelevant appearances. Maz doesn't even go to Exegol with the fleet, despite having previously demonstrated herself to be handy with a blaster. The fact that she has knowledge of the Force and related artifacts, which is directly central to this film's plot, and was actually around before, during and after the rise of the Sith, makes her miniscule role even more baffling for some viewers.
* Due to the absence of Creator/GwendolineChristie, the film more or less confirms Captain Phasma did indeed die during the events of ''The Last Jedi''. After her lackluster usage in the previous films, this choice denies the character any final opportunity she could have used to finally have her story told. Essentially reducing the entire character and performance to just a fancy suit of armor. Many have referred to Captain Phasma as the Boba Fett of the sequel trilogy, since he had an equally lackluster ending. But many are quick to acknowledge that Boda Fett at least got to be effective and intimidating in one film before his unceremonious defeat, the same cannot be said for Phasma.

* Luke's Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru from ''Film/ANewHope'' first appear here chronologically, but they're barely in the film. Owen is established as Anakin's stepbrother, but the story doesn't allow them to form any sort of bond (much less establish a reason as to ''why'' Owen and Beru would be willing to take care of Luke later on) considering their only interactions with Anakin are informing him that his mother's been kidnapped and grieving briefly with him at her funeral. This also [[ContinuityDrift contradicts]] Obi-Wan's account in ''A New Hope'', where it seems like the two had a long history together, since this appears to be the ''only'' time they ever actually meet and there's no evidence that Anakin kept in any sort of contact with his stepbrother during the Clone Wars.

* Darth Maul likewise has an overall lack of screentime and character development; more than one fan has argued that the trilogy would have been overall stronger if he'd survived and remained TheHeavy throughout all three films, essentially absorbing Dooku and Grievous' roles, as [[YouKilledMyFather Maul killing Qui-Gon]] gives him a personal connection to Obi-Wan and Anakin that the latter two lacked, and the shared desire for revenge against Maul could have tested both Obi-Wan and Anakin, with their decisions further setting them as {{Foil}}s for each other. Perhaps in compensation, he returns and receives a fleshed out AscendedExtra role in ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' since ''Lucas'' realized how much he messed up and how much potential he wasted.

* In the wake of this film, there have been quite a number of articles arguing that the most wasted character in the trilogy is Finn. There's been plenty of Jedi drama since the beginning of the franchise, but Finn offered the most unique perspective in the films yet: a viewpoint stormtrooper character, and one who abandons the First Order for the Resistance. There was so much they could have done with that, from exploring what exactly made him rebel against the indoctrination he had probably been subjected to since childhood, to what it was like for him to fight his former comrades, to the possibility he might try to convince other stormtroopers to join him in rebelling, and they just didn't do ''any'' of that. ''The Rise of Skywalker'' actually hints (and J.J Abrams confirmed) that Finn is intended to be Force-sensitive, potentially setting him up to become a Jedi like many had hoped he would be from the ''Force Awakens'', but this aspect of Finn's character is never explored in any depth, never really has any significance to the plot (besides him being able to guess which ship to blow up based on "a feeling"), and isn't even made explicit in the film. Creator/JohnBoyega admitted to being disappointed by how Finn was used in the trilogy, to the point of feeling like Disney used him as an AdvertisedExtra TokenMinority, especially compared to Rey.

* Samuel L. Jackson as Mace Windu is criminally underused, appearing in very few scenes. This was fixed in the sequels.

* Christopher Lee as Count Dooku is one of the few characters who could be as imposing as Darth Vader without scary armor, makeup, sound effects or dubbing...and he's kept off-screen for most of the film, and barely has anything to work with when he ''is'' on screen. Worse, he's killed at the beginning of the following film.

* One reason why many feel that ''Return of the Jedi'' is a weak climax is that there is very little for Han and Leia to do in the climax of the story; Lando is the one who flies the Millennium Falcon whilst leading the Rebels against Death Star II, while Han, Leia, Chewie, and Ewoks fight a land battle entirely separate from Luke's confrontation with Vader and Palpatine in the throne room.

* Captain Phasma. Gwendoline Christie in a suit of awesome chrome armour, and what do they do with her? Throw her in a trash compacter off-screen. According to WordOfGod, she'll have a bigger role in the next films. Made all the more frustrating by the fact that she could easily have taken the place of the random riot control trooper who demolishes Finn in hand-to-hand combat and demonstrated her badass credentials, but doesn't even participate in the raid on Maz's castle.
* Poe Dameron got much less screen time than the other two leads. This was because originally his character died in the beginning, but after filming many films that involved killing his characters off, Oscar Isaac requested him to survive.

* Similar with the Guavian Death Gang. A fiery youth with large dark ominous eyes in black leather with a huge gun and an awesome brogue leading a bunch of SuperSerum-infused cyborg warriors described in the ''Visual Dictionary'' as "Utterly Inhuman"... and they get wasted by tentacle monsters and easily blasted by Han wielding Chewie's bowcaster. To their credit, they got to fight a bit and Bala-Tik was a snitch for the First Order... while the guys from ''Film/TheRaid'' just got eaten or ran off in terror.

* Snoke. Although Snoke's death sequence is an impressive bait and switch that helps develop Kylo Ren's character, it nonetheless comes at the cost of completely erasing any storylines they could have tackled with the character, especially after Snoke's origins and motivations were such a longtime source of speculation (Many people even speculated he was ''Darth Plagueis'' reborn). None of that is even remotely resolved either; we still don't know his origins. Creator/AndySerkis has [[http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/03/07/star-wars-snoke-was-kept-mysterious-to-allow-for-possible-prequel?read addressed this]], stating that they decided to keep his backstory mysterious for any prequels.
* Captain Phasma. She gets to actually ''do'' something, unlike last film, but when all is said and done she really doesn't have that much more screentime compared to ''The Force Awakens'' and likewise seemingly dies. It didn't help matters that in a deleted scene, Finn calls out Phasma for her ChronicBackStabbingDisorder, causing her to kill the nearby Stormtroopers and attempt to finish off Finn to cover her tracks; while she still dies, that scene would've brought in aspects of her personality that have been previously relegated to the books and comics. On the other hand, Phasma's death in the final film leaves her fate far more open-ended than the deleted one (with the official Youtube clip of the deleted scene even titled "Phasma's End"), raising hopes that she [[HesJustHiding may have survived]]. These hopes were dashed when Rise of Skywalker confirmed she did in fact die.

* Rose Tico gets no further development and is in fact DemotedToExtra, barely ever sharing any screentime with the other protagonists. This was supposedly due to the intent for her to serve as an anchor between the other protagonists and Leia at the Resistance base, but technical limitations regarding the footage of Carrie Fisher forced those scenes to be cut. However, several scenes involving just her and Rey were ''also'' cut, so make of that what you will. Viewers have found that Rose has approximately ''seventy-six seconds'' of screentime in the entire film (compared to ''The Last Jedi'', where she had about eleven minutes of screentime).

* Due to the absence of Gwendoline Christie, Rise of Skywalker more or less confirms Captain Phasma did indeed die during the events of Last Jedi. After her lackluster usage in the previous films, this choice denies the character any final opportunity she could have used to finally have her story told. Essentially reducing the entire character and performance to just a fancy suit of armor. Many have referred to Captain Phasma as the Boba Fett of the sequel trilogy, since he had an equally lackluster ending. But many are quick to acknowledge that Boda Fett at least got to be effective and intimidating in one film before his unceremonious defeat, the same cannot be said for Phasma.

* The trooper Finn fights is seen as a great unexpected character, but sadly Han quickly kills him.

* Miltos Yerolemou, best known as Syrio Forel in ''Series/GameOfThrones'', only briefly shows up in Maz's bar. It's especially disappointing to those hoping he could spend some screentime with Gwendoline Christie after their kickass sword fighter characters never got to meet on the show, and/or that the actor who played [[MasterSwordsman Forel]] would get to swing a blade again.

* Vice Admiral Holdo. Despite being played up as Poe's opposition in the Resistance and getting a beautiful HeroicSacrifice, her character wasn't fleshed out much in the film itself.

* BB-9E, BB-8's EvilCounterpart, who only appears in a couple of scenes before disappearing and doesn't even confront BB-8 directly.

* In the wake of this film, there have been quite a number of articles arguing that the most wasted character in the trilogy is Finn. There's been plenty of Jedi drama since the beginning of the franchise, but Finn offered the most unique perspective in the films yet: a viewpoint stormtrooper character, and one who abandons the First Order for the Resistance. There was so much they could have done with that, from exploring what exactly made him rebel against the indoctrination he had probably been subjected to since childhood, to what it was like for him to fight his former comrades, to the possibility he might try to convince other stormtroopers to join him in rebelling, and they just didn't do ''any'' of that. ''The Rise of Skywalker'' actually hints (and J.J Abrams confirmed) that Finn is intended to be Force-sensitive, potentially setting him up to become a Jedi like many had hoped he would be from the ''Force Awakens'', but this aspect of Finn's character is never explored in any depth, never really has any significance to the plot (besides him being able to guess which ship to blow up based on "a feeling"), and isn't even made explicit in the film. Creator/JohnBoyega admitted to being disappointed by how Finn was used in the trilogy though he still enjoyed his time on it.

** The novelization tries to clear this up by stating his "son" was actually just an imperfect clone, though this doesn't do much to help most fans, as it so obviously wasn't Abrams' intention in the film itself.
** Some people are particularly dismayed by the bare-bones role of Rey's mother, as they went to the effort of casting talented Emmy winner Creator/JodieComer and yet give her next to nothing to do.

* C-3PO ends up staying on Tatooine with Shmi instead of going with Anakin. Regardless of who built him, C-3PO still has the same programming and personality and is every bit the droid we knew and loved, and acceptable comic relief, as opposed [[TheScrappy the terminally unfunny Jar Jar]]. Maybe it would've helped if C-3PO went with Anakin and started his friendship with R2-D2.

* Dexter Jettster apparently lived a long and exciting life as an adventurer and Obi-Wan's buddy before settling down to run his restaurant. His one scene is certainly adequate for this movie, but it's surprising that the Expanded Universe hasn't done more with him.

* In the wake of this film, there have been quite a number of articles arguing that the most wasted character in the trilogy is Finn. There's been plenty of Jedi drama since the beginning of the franchise, but Finn was the one truly new idea in the film: a viewpoint stormtrooper character, and one who abandons the First Order for the Resistance. There was so much they could have done with that, from exploring what exactly made him rebel against the indoctrination he had probably been subjected to since childhood, to what it was like for him to fight his former comrades, to the possibility he might try to convince other stormtroopers to join him in rebelling, and they just didn't do ''any'' of that. ''The Rise of Skywalker'' actually hints (and J.J Abrams confirmed) that Finn is intended to be Force-sensitive, potentially setting him up to become a Jedi, but this aspect of Finn's character is never explored in any depth, never really has any significance to the plot (besides him being able to guess which ship to blow up based on "a feeling"), and isn't even made explicit in the film.
* Temiri Blagg, the "broom boy" on Canto Bight who was shown to be Force-sensitive at the end of ''The Last Jedi'', does not appear again in this film.

* Captain Phasma. She gets to actually ''do'' something, unlike last film, but when all is said and done she really doesn't have that much more screentime compared to ''The Force Awakens'' and likewise seemingly dies. It didn't help matters that in a deleted scene, Finn calls out Phasma for her ChronicBackStabbingDisorder, causing her to kill the nearby Stormtroopers and attempt to finish off Finn to cover her tracks; while she still dies, that scene would've brought in aspects of her personality that have been previously relegated to the books and comics. On the other hand, Phasma's death in the final film leaves her fate far more open-ended than the deleted one (with the official Youtube clip of the deleted scene even titled "Phasma's End"), raising hopes that she [[HesJustHiding may have survived]].

* Snoke. Although Snoke's death sequence is an impressive bait and switch that helps develop Kylo Ren's character, it nonetheless comes at the cost of completely erasing any storylines they could have tackled with the character, especially after Snoke's origins and motivations were such a longtime source of speculation. None of that is even remotely resolved either; we still don't know his origins. Creator/AndySerkis has [[http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/03/07/star-wars-snoke-was-kept-mysterious-to-allow-for-possible-prequel?read addressed this]], stating that they decided to keep his backstory mysterious for any prequels.

* One reason why many feel that ''Return of the Jedi'' is a weak climax is that there is very little for Han and Leia to do in the climax of the story; Lando is the one flies the Millennium Falcon whilst leading the Rebels against Death Star II, while Han, Leia, Chewie, and Ewoks fight a land battle entirely separate from Luke's confrontation with Vader and Palpatine in the throne room.

* Snoke. Although Snoke's death sequence is an impressive bait and switch that throws the audiences' expectations for a loop, it nonetheless comes at the cost of completely erasing any storylines they could have tackled with the character, especially after Snoke's origins and motivations were such a longtime source of speculation. None of that is even remotely resolved either; we still don't know his origins. Creator/AndySerkis has [[http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/03/07/star-wars-snoke-was-kept-mysterious-to-allow-for-possible-prequel?read addressed this]], stating that they decided to keep his backstory mysterious for any prequels.
* Captain Phasma. She gets to actually ''do'' something, unlike last film, but when all is said and done she really doesn't have that much more screentime compared to ''The Force Awakens'' and likewise seemingly dies. It didn't help matters that in a deleted scene, Finn calls out Phasma for her ChronicBackStabbingDisorder, causing her to kill the nearby Stormtroopers and attempt to finish off Finn to cover her tracks; while she still dies, that scene would've brought in aspects of her personalty that have been previously relegated to the books and comics. On the other hand, Phasma's death in the final film leaves her fate far more open-ended than the deleted one (with the official Youtube clip of the deleted scene even titled "Phasma's End"), raising hopes that she [[HesJustHiding may have survived]].

* Jannah has the potential to be an interesting character; she's an ex-stormtrooper who defected like Finn and now leads a tribe of warriors on an ocean moon (many of whom are also ex-stormtroopers); she also expresses an interest in finding out who she was before being kidnapped by the First Order. In the film itself however, she not only doesn't appear until near the third act, her main role is apparently just to be Finn's ImpliedLoveInterest as she barely interacts with anyone else. Her role on Kef Bir ends up being [[TrappedByMountainLions pretty irrelevant to the plot]] because Rey gets to the Wayfinder by herself; the only plot significant thing Jannah does is help Finn take down a First Order flagship in the final battle (which at least gives her a better track record than Zorii) and some argue that even then she could easily have been substituted with Poe or Rose. It's hinted in the ''[[AllThereInTheManual Visual Guide]]'' that she could be Lando's long lost daughter, but this is never explicitly brought up in the film (their sole interaction is a brief conversation right at the end as the plot is winding down). As for the rest of her tribe, they're just nameless extras who pop up in the background from time to time.

* In the wake of this film, there have been quite a number of articles arguing that the most wasted character in the trilogy is Finn. There's been plenty of Jedi drama since the beginning of the franchise, but Finn was the one truly new idea in the film: a viewpoint stormtrooper character, and one who abandons the First Order for the Resistance. There was so much they could have done with that, from exploring what exactly made him rebel against the indoctrination he had probably been subjected to since childhood, to what it was like for him to fight his former comrades, to the possibility he might try to convince other stormtroopers to join him in rebelling, and they just didn't do ''any'' of that.

* Obi-Wan Kenobi, who arguably ''should'' have been the main character of the theatrical film considering that he is TheMentor of both Anakin and Luke Skywalker - spends most of the movie just sitting things out beyond a few fight scenes, relegated to the background while Qui-Gon goes out and does all the work, creating a huge ContinuitySnarl in the process.

* Luke's Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru from ''Film/ANewHope'' first appear here chronologically, but they're barely in the film. Owen is established as Anakin's stepbrother, but the story doesn't allow them to form any sort of bond (much less establish a reason as to ''why'' Owen and Beru would be willing to take care of Luke later on) considering their only interactions with Anakin are informing him that his mother's been kidnapped and grieving briefly with him at her funeral. This also [[ContinuityDrift contradicts]] Obi-Wan's account in ''A New Hope'' where it seems like the two had a long history together, since this appears to be the ''only'' time they ever actually meet and there's no evidence that Anakin kept in any sort of contact with his stepbrother during the Clone Wars.

* Christopher Lee as Count Dooku is one of the few characters who could be as imposing as Darth Vader without scary armor, makeup, sound effects or dubbing...and he's kept off-screen for most of the movie, and barely has anything to work with when he ''is'' on screen. Worse, he's killed at the beginning of the next movie.

* An odd retroactive example that needs RewatchBonus. When you watch this movie again after you watched ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', it's easy to get the feeling that many Jedi are killed in spectacularly unceremonious DroppedABridgeOnHim kinds of ways during Order 66. ''Especially'' Kit Fisto and Plo Koon, who are a couple of ''The Clone Wars''' {{Ensemble Darkhorse}}s.
* Aayla Secura is a bigger example, and a non retroactive example given her major presence in the Dark Horse comics series since prior to the release of ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''. She Doesn't even get a DyingMomentOfAwesome, or an UncertainDoom!
* General Grievous, Separatist military leader and TheDreaded, gets little screentime to show off what he's made of before his sole opponent defeats him. This can be especially frustrating as when he first appeared in the franchise through Genndy Tartakovsky's ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars Clone Wars]]'' series, his fearsome reputation was ''[[HeroKiller far]]'' from an InformedAttribute

* Particularly glaring is Leia's treatment; retconned into a Skywalker solely to tie up a loose plot thread, she doesn't get any screentime with Darth Vader in the movie and barely any time to process the earth-shattering revelations that Luke is her brother and Vader [[note]] the man who helped destroy her homeworld and everything she ever knew [[/note]] is her father. This increases especially in the wake of the Sequel Trilogy where Leia is haunted by her father's legacy, and Creator/CarrieFisher's untimely death means that a major part of her character's arc will never be dealt with on-screen.

* The production team snags the stars of ''Film/TheRaidRedemption'' and ''Film/TheRaid2Berandal'', three noted martial arts performers, but they don't engage in an actual fight scene before getting taken out by monsters. From interviews with the trio, it appears that they pitched a physical fight scene to Creator/JJAbrams, but Abrams deemed it too violent for the movie.

* Captain Phasma. She gets to actually ''do'' something, unlike last film, but when all is said and done she really doesn't have that much more screentime compared to ''The Force Awakens'' and likewise seemingly dies. It didn't help matters that in a deleted scene, Finn calls out Phasma for her ChronicBackStabbingDisorder, causing her to kill the nearby Stormtroopers and attempt to finish off Finn to cover her tracks; while she still dies, that scene would've brought in aspects of her personalty that have been previously relegated to the books and comics. On the other hand, Phasma's death in the final movie leaves her fate far more open-ended than the deleted one (with the official Youtube clip of the deleted scene even titled "Phasma's End"), raising hopes that she [[HesJustHiding may have survived]].
* Vice Admiral Holdo. Despite being played up as Poe's opposition in the Resistance and getting a beautiful HeroicSacrifice, her character wasn't fleshed out much in the movie itself.

* The Knights of Ren ''finally'' make their appearance, and overall are only utilized as just grunts. Although they are introduced with awe and dread, their actual on-screen duty is to march in step with Kylo Ren or stand around menacingly without actually interacting with any other character until the very end. The one scene that hinted at a major role, where they covertly pursue the main trio to Kijimi ([[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack a la Boba Fett chasing the Falcon]]), is seemingly forgotten, since the heroes fulfill their mission unmolested and although Kylo Ren's flagship arrives, the Knights themselves appear to still be looking for them. They get no focus or characterization beyond being Kylo's mooks before getting easily killed by him when he returns as Ben Solo, making their inclusion after two movies of build up incredibly anti-climatic, especially after the battle between Rey, Ren, and the Praetorian Guards in ''The Last Jedi'' showed that there was potential to make an interesting team fight. The possibility that they are Force users, and believed to be some of the Jedi Luke was training years ago, stands out as disappointing.

* Something of a retroactive example with Snoke. It's explained at the start of the movie that Snoke is apparently a cloned puppet of Palpatine's, which some people felt was a wasted opportunity to have a dangerous and intriguing new ''Star Wars'' villain that wasn't Palpatine (or directly connected to him). It doesn't help that the reveal creates some inconsistencies with how Snoke has been portrayed and described in previous installments (and thus can come off as an AssPull). Snoke is subsequently never mentioned again for the rest of the film, not even to clarify how exactly he factored into Palpatine's plan.

* In the wake of this movie there have been quite a number of articles arguing that the most wasted character in the trilogy is Finn. There's been plenty of Jedi drama since the beginning of the franchise, but Finn was the one truly new idea in the movies: a viewpoint stormtrooper character, and one who abandons the First Order for the Resistance. There was so much they could have done with that, from exploring what exactly made him rebel against the indoctrination he had probably been subjected to since childhood, to what it was like for him to fight his former comrades, to the possibility he might try to convince other stormtroopers to join him in rebelling, and they just didn't do ''any'' of that.
* Temiri Blagg, the "broom boy" on Canto Bight who was shown to be Force-sensitive at the end of ''The Last Jedi'', does not appear again in this movie.

* Do you remember Maz Kanata, the cool old pirate lady who is Force-sensitive, has useful contacts for the Resistance, knew Han, Chewie and Leia personally (and possibly knows Lando too), was a bit of a mentor to Rey and somehow got hold of the Skywalker lightsaber? You'd be forgiven for forgetting she even exists in this movie, as she only has a handful of short, plot irrelevant appearances. Maz doesn't even go to Exegol with the fleet, despite having previously demonstrated herself to be handy with a blaster. The fact that she has knowledge of the Force and related artifacts, which is directly central to this movie's plot, and was actually around before, during and after the rise of the Sith, makes her miniscule role even more baffling for some viewers.

* Hux, who's been a major villain for the first two films and is revealed to be a mole for the Resistance in an attempt to bring down Kylo Ren, gets [[DroppedABridgeOnHim killed off pretty quickly]] less than halfway through the film and nobody comments on it.

* Do you remember Maz Kanata, the cool old pirate lady who is Force-sensitive, has useful contacts for the Resistance, knew Han, Chewie and Leia personally (and possibly knows Lando too), was a bit of a mentor to Rey and somehow got hold of the Skywalker lightsaber? You'd be forgiven for forgetting she even exists in this movie, as she only has a handful short, plot irrelevant appearances. Maz doesn't even go to Exegol with the fleet, despite having previously demonstrated herself to be handy with a blaster. The fact that she has knowledge of the Force and related artifacts, which is directly central to this movie's plot, and was actually around before, during and after the rise of the Sith, makes her miniscule role even more baffling for some viewers.

* Anakin Skywalker briefly shows up, but only as a disembodied voice. Not having him appear as a Force ghost to offer advice or help to either Rey, Kylo, or both seems a bit of a wasted opportunity, especially seeing as he's one of the central characters of the whole franchise. This also goes for all of the other Jedi whose voices encourage Rey before she takes down Palpatine, as their voice-only appearances contribute to what many people felt was a [[AntiClimaxBoss lackluster final battle of not only the film, but the entire saga]]. According to unverified claims and speculation, the original plan ''was'' for them to have the Jedi show up in person, and they allegedly even filmed them in costume, but it was removed for some reason.