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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[aprilonestt]

I had NO idea Dan Monaghan was in this movie. He looks good.

[whysogayprop8]

??

[aprilonestt]

They should replace Ewan McGregor with him.

[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

[aeromi]

of course they gave in to the ugly racist fanboys. This had been pissing me off for the last week. Im tired of woc being sidelined for the sake of dorito smelling neckbeards

[corgismiles]

I'm not really a committed Star Wars fan so maybe I don't totally get it but her character was so inoffensive and nice that I've genuinely been shocked at how much she pisses some of the SW fandom off.

[judgmental]

I think the problem is mostly that it was a rando character that got too much screen time when you could’ve had more time with Luke/Leia/Rey/Finn or anyone else who was actually interesting and is in a lead role. It was bad writing overall, so the valid criticism of that gets mixed up with the racist and misogynistic comments from some of the fanboys and creates an awful situation overall

That being said I did find her super annoying personally but I would never attack the actress of course, that has nothing to do with her

[bsfan]

Agreed. The five minutes with her sister at the beginning was 1000x more compelling than Rose as a whole character.

[darklitplanet]

if the leaks are to be believed, she doesn't have much of a role to play in this one, predictably. disappointing as fuck, kelly is so charismatic and i loved what she brought to TLJ. jj abrams is a coward

[hrhobo]

is she in the new movie at all?