Starkiller was a shitty, overpowered character whose existence breaks the setting, and I cringe every time someone talks about how they wish those games were canon. There’s a big fucking difference, though, between having that happen in a game of dubious canonicity that no movie, show, or book ever references and having acts on the same scale of settling breaking happen in the primary source for the media.
Also, again, Starkiller had YEARS of training and Rey had NONE.
And despite being a shitty, over-powered character that beaks the setting, they still had no issue having his shit get utterly wrecked as need be. Which atleast puts him one-up on Rey.
Otherwise, that entire discussion about how Star Wars fans somehow don't like female characters beings badasses is just pathetic normies trying to wear being a Star Wars fan as a skinsuit, now that it's the cool new thing.
I've heard there's a novelization of the games (or some other media that tells Starkiller's story) that makes it clear that what you seen in those games is embellished from the "true story"
He wasn't the first to drastically force a Star Destroyer in any particular direction. Though he received no blowback for it, while the first one to do it DIED, being a conduit channeling the wills of less than a dozen students to push away a whole fleet of them.
It's not just drastically forcing a star destroyer around (although yes, that is one of the things). It's beating Vader multiple times, beating Sidious, providing the symbol of the rebel alliance, meeting and rescuing a bunch of major names without ever being mentioned by any of them, etc. The second game (and the "alternate timeline" DLC for the first) much more openly come down on the side of "yeah, this was never going to fit into canon," which does make it more forgivable when talking about the game itself, but in turn only exacerbates the foolishness of anyone who uses him to defend the decisions Disney did make for their canon, as well as making it more ridiculous when people talk about how much they wish Starkiller himself was canon.
For the record, I think a lot of the higher-end EU force stuff is too drastically out of scale with the movies. I know Starkiller isn't the only one who has a crazy showing like that (Palpatine's fleet-killing force storms also come to mind, for instance), and I think almost all of them are stupid.
Starkiller was a shitty, overpowered character whose existence breaks the setting, and I cringe every time someone talks about how they wish those games were canon. There’s a big fucking difference, though, between having that happen in a game of dubious canonicity that no movie, show, or book ever references and having acts on the same scale of settling breaking happen in the primary source for the media.
Also, again, Starkiller had YEARS of training and Rey had NONE.
And despite being a shitty, over-powered character that beaks the setting, they still had no issue having his shit get utterly wrecked as need be. Which atleast puts him one-up on Rey.
Otherwise, that entire discussion about how Star Wars fans somehow don't like female characters beings badasses is just pathetic normies trying to wear being a Star Wars fan as a skinsuit, now that it's the cool new thing.
I fucking hate this timeline.
I've heard there's a novelization of the games (or some other media that tells Starkiller's story) that makes it clear that what you seen in those games is embellished from the "true story"
He wasn't the first to drastically force a Star Destroyer in any particular direction. Though he received no blowback for it, while the first one to do it DIED, being a conduit channeling the wills of less than a dozen students to push away a whole fleet of them.
It's not just drastically forcing a star destroyer around (although yes, that is one of the things). It's beating Vader multiple times, beating Sidious, providing the symbol of the rebel alliance, meeting and rescuing a bunch of major names without ever being mentioned by any of them, etc. The second game (and the "alternate timeline" DLC for the first) much more openly come down on the side of "yeah, this was never going to fit into canon," which does make it more forgivable when talking about the game itself, but in turn only exacerbates the foolishness of anyone who uses him to defend the decisions Disney did make for their canon, as well as making it more ridiculous when people talk about how much they wish Starkiller himself was canon.
For the record, I think a lot of the higher-end EU force stuff is too drastically out of scale with the movies. I know Starkiller isn't the only one who has a crazy showing like that (Palpatine's fleet-killing force storms also come to mind, for instance), and I think almost all of them are stupid.