What If Finn Was The Main Character In The Star Wars Sequels?

Regardless of how you feel about the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, most people who loved the Finn character thought he deserved better by the end. In our longest FanScription yet, we place Finn at the center of the new films as its main character. How would things have been different? What would have changed? Find out here!

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[shippouma]

A stormtrooper who sees the errors of his ways and becomes a Jedi over the course of 3 movies. Yeah that would have been amazing.

[chillpill]

Fin was the first face we had seen since the last star wars movie. Not to mention he was holding the iconic first lightsaber in the posters. They drew so much importance to him only to toss him aside. Broke my nerd heart

[SkyKingAzure]

Finn: *making a purple lightsaber*
Samuel L Jackson: My man~

[bon]

A stormtrooper becoming a Jedi would have been one hell of a story.

[dumdummcstupid]

The "I am Spartacus" moment where all the Stormtroopers remove their helmets and join Finn would have been Iconic and worth more than the price of admission.

[KoyMcCloud]

What If Finn was the main character in the Star Wars Sequels - Short Answer:
Disney would have a stroke.

[oneupnerd]

It really seems like Finn was supposed to be the main character from the start. Not to mention his chemistry with Poe made the duo that much more enjoyable.

[wyattwilson]

This was so much better. Shows how having consistent direction throughout the sequel trilogy would have been so much better than what we got. Great plot overall and having Finn convince his former brothers and sisters in arms to defect with him is a really beautiful message that the original missed out on (Phasma should've lived tho).

[Arany-Csillag]

Yo imagine if Finn wore like a customized stormtrooper armor while using the force/saber as like a statement it would be soooo badass

[NightHao]

I MOSTLY like this take. What I would change is Finn's ease with killing stormtroopers and Phasma. Whenever he fights them, I think it would be more congruent for him to go for stun and ion only, no blaster, no destroying tie fighters. He states he sees them as brothers and even if Phasma tries to kill him, the cold blooded nature in which he disposes her just doesnt jive with his arc. Other than that, superb take, this is what I expected to see in the sequel trilogy.

[fumarc]

I had so much hope for Finn. Why Rey wasn’t just a Solo made me confused, and then forcing Palpatine on us when they have a whole Lost Tribe of Sith they could have deused on us instead.

[kommiekoathanger]

We were so close to a film where the main Jedi character wasn’t a flat out good guy but instead a person with a good heart forced to do horrible things, and redeeming himself by going against the empire he once served and fought under. This also could’ve been a chance to explore the force and how a persons emotions and past can affect their use of the force.

[jmb]

Even from Force Awakens I wanted Finn to be the main character. Not that I had any problem with Rey, I just always thought that Finn was a more interesting character. He definitely has a better potential character arc.

[nobillismccaw]

Finn could have been a great protagonist if he wasn’t treated like a joke.

[chrislorin]

A well-made storyline that actually gives all three mains a good arc? I never thought I'd see the day where that happens for the Sequel trilogy

[nateriver]

Imagine if Skywalker told Finn that he was a Windu. The fans would have went nuts in the movie. Finn was the ultimate bait and switch character in Star Wars movie history

[yatespmx]

This sort of breaks my heart. Realizing how good these movies could have been.

[zynergx]

Honestly, I don't mind this at all.
Finn not only has a good backstory(being a cold/heartless soldier of the empire), he keeps showing to have massive potential throughout the movies. Not to mention he's more interesting to watch than Rey.
The guy's so criminally underrated

[markmetz]

So much better than what the “professionals” screwed up. Thank you for effort. I very much enjoyed this version.

[valinn]

Watching Finn become a growing legend whispered among the ranks of the stormtroopers resulting in a massive defection at the end would have been awesome! But I would have liked to see Captain Phasma used to much better effect. This plotline short changes her just as badly as the movies did. She should have been Finn's recurring nemesis leading up to an emotion-fueled conflict in the third movie.