15 years later, Star Wars fans are still fighting over The Force Unleashed

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15 years after the launch of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, franchise fans are once again at war - this time, it's over whether the game's protagonist is actually cool or just a vessel for overpowered fanservice.

The debate stems from a clip that went viral on Twitter, showing Starkiller - the game's protagonist - exploding with Force energy and causing a battalion of stormtroopers to disintegrate. The user who posted the clip, dyingscribe, added that "I'd be way more into Star Wars if they did more shit like Starkiller in the movies."

I'd be way more into Star Wars if they did more shit like Starkiller in the movies pic.twitter.com/9qlfwhNSaqMay 20, 2023

These days pretty much everyone has a strong opinion about Star Wars, whether they're a fan of the series or not, and an opinion as basic as 'Starkiller was cool' kicked up a whole lot of varied opinions. As one commenter says, "people are still debating whether Kylo Ren stopping a phaser blast with the force or Leia surviving in a vacuum for a few seconds was too OP for Star Wars; nerds would probably burn down theaters if you put this guy in a movie."

Or, to put it a more sarcastic way, "right because using the Force to disintegrate legions of stormtroopers is exactly what Star Wars is all about and totally not the antithesis of what they preach in the films." On a similar note, another comment argues "every day it becomes more obvious that George Lucas was the goat precisely because he didn’t listen to fans."

The Force Unleashed, originally released in 2008, lived up to its title by giving you an array of Force powers far more powerful than anything that had been depicted in the movies up to that point. The game's most heavily-marketed scene had you ripping a Star