Rose Tico removed from 'Star Wars' merchandise

[queenursula]

With all the new #ForceFriday Star Wars merchandise released today, why was Rose left out? https://t.co/9od8HfpcwJ
- Nerdist (@nerdist) October 4, 2019
Fans have noticed that Rose has been removed from official Star Wars designs on merchandise. Her actress Kelly Marie Tran previously left social media after being harassed by racist and trolls.

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[gabzillaz]

This deserves to be called out

That said, I wonder why the removal of Finn in merch and ads compared to TFA is not making bigger waves

*checks that twitter* ah right

[aeromi]

what do you mean? Finn has been on a lot of merch

[gabzillaz]

Finn is the male lead of the new trilogy, or at least that's how SW sold it before TFA came out

After that he was sidelined for Kylo and even Poe. He remains the only one of the main trio without a spin-off, and sometimes whitewashed in official merch. #whereisfinn has been a thing since at least 2017

[fried_twinkie]

He has spin-off books and media tho? After TFA there was extra media about his Stormtrooper training days

[gabzillaz]

Compare to Rey or even Poe, we barely know anything about him. He's supposed to be the male lead.

[nightwing30]

Star Wars knew exactly what they were doing when they advertised Finn with the lightsaber in TFA.

[gabzillaz]

It was bait, idk why people have so much trouble realizing this.

[aeromi]

kylo is the main antagonist of course he has more merch than finn, just like darth vader had the most merch in the original trilogy. But the directors aint shit for baiting us with the finn lightsaber promo

[gabzillaz]

Compare the merch Han Solo or Obi Wan got back in the day. Finn was as important as Rey AND Kylo in the TFA ads. And you are ignoring my point about Poe.

[evangelion]

Daisy is great but I'm still kinda pressed that we didn't get a black man to lead the new Star Wars trilogy, esp with Rey's stuff having to be so dependent on Kylo's whiny ass. I just straight up hate Kylo though so would probably care less if they didn't build up a trio just to split them apart for shitty storylines the second movie. the whole casino/rose thing was so dumb ugh.

[gabzillaz]

I remember being so excited with that first shot of Finn in the TFA teaser. And his journey from brainwashed stormtrooper to hero was SO much interest that Kylo's entitled ass whining.

They really did him dirty.

[evangelion]

kylo is THE WORST. adam driver is fine but what they gave him to work with is a travesty. if i were anakin/darth, i'd be disappointed at my grandson being such a clown.

[winter_lace]

I actually cannot believe the people arguing with you on this. I thought the "demotion" of Finn was super obvious.

[gabzillaz]

and it wasn't just with the merch, he was basically turned into a joke in TLJ to make way for Kylo

[winter_lace]

I was so furious about how much of joke TLJ was (and how fucking racist it was with Finn, Rose AND Poe) that I never even bothered with any of it's merch.

I'm still mad tbh