One Star Wars Death Proves The Biggest Problem With New Canon
Warning: contains spoilers forStar Wars #25!
The Star Wars sequel trilogy was a collective box office success, but fan response was rather tepid — and a key death in the final films proves exactly how Disney failed to understand or utilize their characters. The release of The Rise of Skywalker in 2019 ended the nine-film main series, retroactively labeled the Skywalker Saga — and ever since, no stories have been released that continue the narrative beyond that point. But Star Wars #25 includes the story of Snap Wexley — a pilot whom the Star Wars films completely glossed over.
The current Star Wars series of comics chronicles three eras: the Age of Republic, Age of Rebellion and the Age of Resistance (these labels were assigned by Disney to tie together the prequel, original trilogy and sequel eras). Out of all the eras, the sequel trilogy has seen the least development in the comics, perhaps owing to the truncated timeline of the films (there is virtually no time between The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, and the time between the latter and The Rise of Skywalker is canonically just one year long). Thus, the vast majority of sequel trilogy-chronicling comics depict this one unaccounted-for year.
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However in the final story in the anthology comic Star Wars #25, written by Charles Soule with art by Phil Noto, the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Exegol is finally seen. Snap Wexley, Resistance pilot and friend to Poe Dameron, dies after his X-Wing is hit by enemy fire and crashes into a Star Destroyer. When the battle is over, Poe and his fellow pilots mourn Snap; they discuss his accomplishments, his temperament, and his loyalty as a pilot
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