The
second lynchpin in our new Star Wars
trio. Finn is a definite “unlikely hero”
type, but even as some of the nuts and bolts of his character feel trope-ish,
he himself manages to stay grounded and relatable. I really enjoy seeing him begin to come into
his own in The Force Awakens
(Finn-related spoilers.)
As I
said in my Rey write-up, all three new trio characters have some similarities
with members of the original trio. While
Rey (obviously) leans heavily on the Luke vibes, Finn has a little Han going
on. Now, from a character standpoint,
I’d say Poe hits the Han resemblance a lot harder, but for Finn, it’s more in
the setup of how the character is positioned within the story. It ties into the “unlikely hero” description
because, like Han, Finn doesn’t start out with any intention of helping the
resistance, but it winds up happening, anyway.
Anyone in the story that knows who Finn is and where he’s come from
assumes he’s not the hero type, and Finn wouldn’t be in any hurry to disagree
with that sentiment. I really don’t
think he would buy that he has it in him, but because he has reason to like the
way it looks on him, he thinks he has to fake it.
Pretending
his motivations are more heroic/admirable than they really are is a bit of a
common thread with Finn. When he’s sent
out on his first hot mission as a stormtrooper and realizes just how completely
he needs to get out of there, he frees the captured Poe as a prelude to his
escape. But although he talks a good
game about releasing Poe because it’s the right thing to do, Poe twigs his
actual reason right away: he needs to
run away, and to do that, he’s gonna need a pilot. Similarly, Finn ends up spinning the whole
story about being a member of the resistance after Rey infers a connection
between him and BB-8 and figures he must be in on the action. He wants to impress her, he doesn’t want to
contradict the much more flattering image she’s just painted of him, and he really doesn’t want to admit to being an
ex-stormtrooper on the run, so he goes along with the lie.
But
that’s the thing. Due to the intense,
crazy, dangerous situation in which Rey makes this false assumption, Finn gets
swept up in a daring-escape-turned-desperate-mission, crossing the galaxy in a
stolen ship to get BB-8 (and the vital information he’s carrying) back to the
resistance. Any time Rey or someone else
makes a reference to Finn being a resistance member, he acts shifty and doubles
down on his story because he knows that’s not who he is, but in the midst of
all this, he’s starting to become an actual hero, almost despite himself. Maintaining his cover helps him become what
he’s pretending to be: braver, quicker,
more strategic, a better fighter, and someone who puts the good of others
before himself. In a situation like
this, at what point do you cease to be “playing a part” and just become the
actual thing you’re masquerading as?
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