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Originally Posted by Cyclopswc

She’s not even a likable villain, I think they overestimate her popularity.

Let's be brutally honest here: If she wore a helmet, everybody would freak out about this character and call it the modern Jesus of Star Wars villains.

She capable, she's ambitious, she's ruthless, she's competent. She’s a perfect Star Wars villain in how one-sided she is. We didn’t love Darth Vader for being a "likable" villain when he first waltzed on screen. We loved him because he was scary and evil as hell. Same with Darth Maul: He had two lines of dialogue. He wasn’t likable. He was a badass with a fantastic design.

The lack of depth for Reva as a character is to be expected, it's her first appearance after all. I personally think she's great. Very well acted out, obviously with a personal agenda so intense that it makes her act outside of her own system and wants you to understand where it originated, and the conflict she causes within her group is so fun. She’s too hardcore for the bunch of people going around murdering Jedi, that's awesome.

I love Star Wars for a long time, and I have seen enough of the Star Wars fandom to know what the problem is here. It’s not the character; it’s how the character looks. And I understand it, I truly do, masks and /or aliens look cool and sell more action figures. With some fans I can safely say it's also the actress they don't want in this, but that's not the kind of thing I want to throw around lightly or point at anyone present.

But as far as Hasbro goes, whenever they do introduce a new bad guy with a red lightsaber you kind of have to throw out as much merchandise out there as you possibly can. If that was a good decision is always to be seen later. Probably why that saber is a Haslab project instead of actually at retail too.