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Princess Leia will get a heartfelt send - off this class inThe Rise of Skywalker , the culmination of Disney’sStar Warssequel trilogy andthe Skywalker saga as a whole . Carrie Fisher sadly passed away between filmingEpisodes VIIIandIX , so there wo n’t be any new footage in the picture show , but some unused takes fromThe Force Awakenswill be utilize to ensure that the iconic quality – and the iconic actress who play her for 40 years – will get a fitting tribute . And there will , of course , still be her past dangerous undertaking to continue to rewatch .
“Aren’t you a little short for a Stormtrooper?”
At the beginning ofA New Hope , Darth Vader boarded the Tantive IV command ship and abducted Princess Leia . She was take aboard the Death Star andforced to follow her home planet get destroyedbefore being locked in a carry cell . Meanwhile , Luke , Han , Chewie , and Obi - Wan have been sneaking onto the space station , so it ’s not long before Luke find Leia ’s cell . Ostensibly , this is a demoiselle - in - distraint berth where a female character is depending on a man to deliver her . But Leia keeps a level head and remains indifferent to her captors . When her savior enters the cell in Stormtrooper armor , she does n’t swoon over him – she say , “ Are n’t you a small inadequate for a Stormtrooper ? ”
Calling Han a “nerf herder”
Leia and Han haveone of the most complicated relationshipsin theStar Warssaga . It ’s not a typical “ boy encounter girl , boy loses girl , boy gets girlfriend ” Hollywood cliché . Initially , Han and Leia are indifferent towards each other . She hates his roguish nature and lack of heroism , while he hates the fact that she ’s royalty . However , over the class ofThe Empire Strikes Back – and later inReturn of the Jedi – they fall in beloved . But before all that , when they ’re at the Rebel base on Hoth before the Empire come , she predict him a “ stuck - up , half - witted , scruffy - count nerf drover . ”
Passing the Bechdel test in one sentence
Despite the fact that it technically has a female lead , Star Wars : The Force Awakenswould not pass the Bechdel test – the celebrated test to determine if women are properly represented in pic – if it was n’t for six words uttered by General Leia .
Right as Rey is about theset off on her mission to regain Luke , Leia tell her , “ May the Force be with you . ”Leia has just lost Hanat this point , so she ’s not feeling in particular great , but as always , she ’s holding onto any semblance of hope she can muster . In this case , it ’s the hope that she ’ll be reunited with her long - lost twin brother .
Her Force flight
One of the many thing that Rian Johnson’sStar Wars : The Last Jediwas controversial for was Leia ’s infinite flight , which some fans saw asan incompatibility in the mythology of the Force . But as far as Leia ’s graphic symbol development goes , it was a pretty big scene . Leia is a verbatim descendent of the Skywalker parentage . If her Church Father can use the Force and her twin brother can apply the Force and her Word can utilize the Force , then why ca n’t she use the Force ? If she had n’t used it by her 5th moving-picture show , then it needed to be something spectacular – and flying through space after being blown out the side of a ship into the emptiness of space is somewhat striking .
Insulting Grand Moff Tarkin
After Princess Leia is first land onto the Death Star , she deny to show any signal of being scared . That ’s the mark of a courageous individual . When Darth Vader is hulk over her , she does n’t show – or even feel , it seems – any concern . And when she ’s brought in front of Grand Moff Tarkin , Vader ’s correct - hand man , who also towers over her ( although not to the same arcdegree ) , she diss him : “ I recognized your foul malodour when I was land aboard . ” Most the great unwashed , when standing in front ofthe foreboding Darth Vader , would fawn and tell him whatever he wanted to recognize , but not Leia .
Her first appearance inThe Force Awakens
On the whole , The Force Awakenswas criticized for rehashing the secret plan ofA New Hope , which is such a shame , because the honest and most memorable character ofThe Force Awakensare the unity that don’tmirror plot points from George Lucas ’ 1977 masterpiece . Namely , when the Resistance arrives at Maz Kanata ’s castle to aid protect it from the First Order and , in the backwash of the combat , Princess Leia – or , as she ’s now known , General Leia , emerges from her ship . It ’s the first time she ’s seen Han in years , and the facial expression they give each other is as heartwarming as it is tragic .
Firing at Stormtroopers on the Death Star
Even though it ’s technically Luke Skywalker and Han Solo who come to Princess Leia ’s deliverance on the Death Star , she ’s the one who gets them out of there . They cut off the only escape route , which Leia point out to them , proving she does n’t really manage that they “ saved ” her , because they did n’t really save her .
It ’s more of an ongoing situation where they all save each other a couple of times . She declares , “ Somebody has to save our skins , ” before returning flaming to all the Stormtroopers that have block them in anddirecting her raw friends down the garbage parachute .
“Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope.”
When Darth Vader come aboard Tantive IV , Princess Leia does n’t panic . Her creative thinker does n’t go blank . She fuck precisely what to do . She records a subject matter onto R2 - D2 ’s memory drive asking Obi - Wan Kenobi for help . Then , she gets R2 - D2 into an escape pod with C-3PO and sends them to Tatooine . It would take them a while to observe Obi - Wan – getting captured by the Jawas and then sell to a wet farmer whose live - in nephewhappened to be an previous acquaintance of Obi - Wan – but the plan worked out perfectly and led to the Rebel Alliance ’s succeeder , all thanks to Leia ’s warm thinking .
Her final moment with Han
Mark Hamill has expressed hisdisappointment that Luke Skywalker never got to share a last moment with Han Solobefore his death inThe Force Awakens , because Luke did n’t appear until the very end . But thankfully , Leia did get a last moment with Han . At the Resistance ’s al-Qa’ida of operations , before Han steer to Starkiller Base in the hopes of bringing his and Leia ’s son back from the Dark Side ( in retrospect , a tragically futile , yet worthwhile effort ) , she open him a hug . It was one of the most instantly memorable moments in the movie , and the emotion from the scene fall from the earnest chemistry shared by Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford .
Strangling Jabba the Hutt
We catch up with the Rebels at the beginning ofReturn of the Jedias they all singly infiltrate Jabba the Hutt ’s palace on Tatooine to endeavor to bring through Han from being cling on Jabba ’s bulwark , stop dead in carbonite . Leia make it and backs down Jabba with a hand grenade . She eventually gets beguile and is forced to fatigue a two-piece and gets shackle up as a striver . However , later in the movie , she become retribution . Duringthe skirmish over the Great Pit of Carkoon , while Luke , Han , Lando , and Chewie are all down on a smaller skiff fighting the guard , she wrap her chains around Jabba ’s neck opening and strangulate him . This Hutt was a terrible gangland kingpin , and Leia kill him .
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