Saga Most Overhyped/Overrated Star Wars Character

It's not your fault. How you perceive other people is often hidden by your actual love for them, sometimes so you can continue to experience more of them in your life. You are a great Star Wars fan. Sometimes Han and Lea, like in Empire Strikes Back, would always scold C3P0, but he ended up being a major figure in leadership in the Rebellion and The Resistance, as well as R2D2.

 

While I still consider Obi-Wan the most overrated character, I think an honorable mention would have to go to Rey. I feel like the Force Dyad concept was created so they could explain why she was so good with little to no training right off the bat. "She got like that from being Force bonded to Kylo." It never felt like she earned anything she received. Being related to someone exceptionally strong in the Force doesn't automatically mean anything. Luke was the son of the Chosen One and he still had to train and get his behind handed to him many times before he became the Jedi he did.

 

Where is Han Solo in this poll? Hands down it would be him. Literally jerk with heart of gold, who's full arc was started and completed in ANH and then he stalled and revolved around romantic relationships. Ford is obviously charismatic but i dont think the character is that well written and interesting for Ford to pull him into legendary status.

Same problem with Leia. Taking off nostalgic glasses and Leia didnt even have a character arc. She only developed in terms of romantic relationships.

OT really had a pass from people when it came to characters. They are solid archetypes but it was really LUKE trilogy and only Luke (and Vader) had character development and growth through all three movies. Han and Leia had their time in ANH, and then they are somewhere there with their romantic plot line.

 

Anakin for me. The whole messiah aspects of the story overshadow his humanity at times. Plus I find it weird how so many descriptions of him sort of compartmentalize Vader/Anakin Skywalker as if they are split personalities.

 

I don’t disagree about Leia, but Han’s romantic relationship development in TESB affected his growth continuing into ROTJ. In the latter film, he showed he was willing to risk his life for the Rebellion even though he didnt plan on bringing his friends with him (yes, I know that they all volunteered). He went from not caring to a leadership role.
Of course, from there, he regressed into the next trilogy.

That’s just my opinion of course.

 

Well they said Lucas felt Maul was ''underused'',

Spoiler

--- Star Wars - Age Of The Republic - Darth Maul 001 (2017)


''Criminally'' part was my exaggeration, but they definitely didn't use him enough.

 

I'd say most of the OT cast in a way besides Luke and Lando.

Characters like Nien Nunb, Lord Jerjerrod and Admiral Ackbar get more respect for barely being in the films, while others complain that we needed more screen time for Count Dooku, Jango Fett, etc. To connect or understand them.

Han is pretty overrated. He is more of a jerk in ESB than ANH imo, and then he gets promoted after being comatose for six months. Even though people think him saying "he wont get in the way" between Luke and Leia when he assumes they have a romantic relationship is character development, he comes off as a bit petulant to me than accepting. And I never liked how "matter of fact" Leia is when she reveals her brother relationship with him. Its almost like she is like "Duh. Of course he is my brother. Oh right, I didnt tell ya." Especially since she just found out last night that Luke and Vader are related to her, and she is already completely accepted it.

 

Leia - Beyond her cute romance with Han there's not much there. When her sassiness is absent she's kind of cringy too ("Hold me!")
Jabba - Just kind of unpleasant to watch

 

For me, it's Kylo. There's a huge insistence that Kylo and Ben are two different people yet both get woobified every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

 

I agree.

 

Anakin is easily the most overrated or over-hyped character. In the OT, Vader was a brooding, imposing, intimidating figure. The personification of evil. Obi-Wan spoke of his alter-ego with reverence and respect, and of someone who was an honorable man. Combining the two, painted a picture of an almost larger than life character. Of someone who was looked upon with a level of nobility, and as a result couldn't stop his fall to the dark side. And in the prequels, we got whiny, impish, insolent Anakin. We got a character who had a 10 year boner for Padme, which goes beyond creepy and stalkerish, and ventures deep into the levels of psychotic. We got a greedy, petulant character who had a tantrum every time he didn't get his way and was wholly responsible for his own fall to the dark side. Yes, this is on Lucas for how he wrote Anakin, but the portrayal in the prequels undercuts the picture Lucas painted in the OT.

 

Yeah, I agree. Plus, she was always overshadowed by Han and Luke in OT. They tried to fix that problem a little in ST, though I say it still didn't work.

Leia was considered to be in Luke's role in one of the alternative scenarios for OT. She could easily be the Rey of OT.

 

I would have said either Boba Fett or Maul but neither where present so I say Thrawn. Always find it hard to see how people say he is one of the most important EU characters when litterally all he does is lead a campaign against the New Republic than in the end completly fails and achieves nothing. Paelleon and Daala do so much more for the remnant.

 

Darth Vader without Anakin Skywalker or the PT. An overglorifed cyborg Terminator-esque serial killer whos main purpose in comics/media is to kill Jedi/people and say cool lines for people who were upset that Vader's bodycount isn't higher in the films. A boring character that is more liked for his aesthetics. The PT, ROTJ, and the EU that focuses on how Vader's past effects his present is more interesting. Vader chopping someone's head off and saying some corny line like "Don't get ahead of yourself, Captain" doesn't impress me.

 

Boba Fett

 

Sith Lords, most overrated they are.

 

It’s probably Boba Fett, although, of the characters listed, I’d have to go with Mace Windu.

 

Yoda.
While Yoda is a sage of his time, Yoda's vision was greatly clouded not only by the dark side, but most importantly his hubris and a conservative stance regarding to the Republic, the Jedi & the Force. Both in universe and in reality, Yoda's wisdom is sometimes overly boasted and revered, and his fellow comrades and adherents seldom doubt that.

 

BB-8. And Tarkin. Not so much for the character's place in ANH, but for setting the aristocratic evil Imperial template.

 

They've had less time to get overrated, but I think Captain Phasma is the winner from the pack. To me at least she stepped into the Boba Fett role of looking cool but not getting enough action. She was kind of a dodgy villain too, trusting the defenses of Starkiller Base enough to drop the shields rather than go down for the cause. I suppose we can assume Finn saw through her in this regard, and knew she would cave.

I don't think she wins the jackpot though because she never attained the crazy fan excitement Boba Fett did. Boba Fett was cool, and he mattered, but his fan following outstripped his actual importance by many miles. So proportionately I think he has been the most overrated character over time.

 

Darth Vader. In terms of formidability once he gets in the suit he is not really impressive and loses all his potential while diminishing his mobility.

 

Dislike Anakin but love the Darth Vader persona

 

Just use CAPITALS for names (Dooku not dooku, Yoda not yoda etc.) and get them right, then I might even be interested in such surveys.

 

Of those on the list I chose Thrawn for reasons Anedon brought up above.
More generally I would choose Han Solo hands down. I never really got the appeal of his character.