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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
The Batman comparison is a good one but you have it backwards. Not killing is been a core part of the Batman character with a ton of canonical stories backing that up over the years.
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Not in the DC extended film universe, whatever it's called. Nothing was canon except for Man of Steel.
The same way that none of the original canon material for Star Wars was canon except the 6 movies (maybe some other media).
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When it comes to Luke, not only is the part of his character less defined than killing is for Batman, but we also have only 3 movies as canon. What integral and key tenet of the "Luke" character did they betray in TLJ? Not giving up? Not having regret? Not becoming a hermit? Being a hero for all his life no matter what horrible things happen along the way?
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Trying to kill his nephew. Sure, it's not stated explicitly that Luke doesn't kill his family, but you know I hope that goes without saying for most fictional characters. But the whole Luke not killing Vader and giving into the darkside is pretty much the climax of 8 hours of movie. So to have it happen to him in a flashback with no real reason was certainly betraying his character.
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BvS wasn't supposed to be some elseworlds Batman character where he's lost his sense of self and Snyder was showing us a world where Batman kills using guns. It was betraying a key tenet of the character for many years in order to make a movie with 'splosions and marketable toys. They did absolutely nothing to establish why all of a sudden we had murderer Batman instead of the Batman we all knew.
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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
To me the change they made to the Batman character for those awful, awful movies is more akin to if they had Luke turn on Han and Leia and join Kylo in ruling the galaxy. That would be a betrayal of the character we all knew. Simply removing himself from the fight because of the damage he did in helping create the galaxy's new dark side villain seems like a sensible character arc.
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Going on a Jedi sabbatical seems to be par for the course. Again, it's not where Luke ended up. It's how they got there.
You said it yourself. "If they had Luke turn on Han and Leia...that would be a betrayal of his character" I have a feeling that Han and Leia might have considered Luke turning on them if they killed their completely innocent child. But I'm not a parent.
Even a retcon of Luke being influenced heavily by some external force (Snoke being the obvious) in the next movie would do a lot to change this.
But why didn't they just tell Poe their plan?