History Film / TheForceAwakens

* CurbStompBattle: Call him FN-2199 or TR-8R, but he's clearly an experienced and battle-hardened stormtrooper who knows how to fight, is an expert with his weapon, and isn't intimidated by lightsabers. Finn gets his ass thoroughly handed to him and is on the defensive for the entire fight. The only reason Finn doesn't get killed is because Han and Chewbacca literally show up ''right before 2199 finish him.''

* CurbStompBattle: Call him FN-2199 or TR-8R, but he's clearly an experienced and battle-hardened stormtrooper who knows how to fight, is an expert with his weapon, and isn't intimidated by lightsabers. Finn gets his ass thoroughly handed to him and is on the defensive for the entire fight. The only reason Finn didn't get killed is because Han and Chewbacca literally showed up ''right before 2199 finished him.''

* CurbStompBattle: Call him FN-2199 or TR-8R, but he's clearly an experienced and battle-hardened stormtrooper who knows how to fight, is an expert with his weapon, and isn't intimidated by lightsabers. Finn gets his ass thoroughly handed to him and is on the defensive for the entire fight. The only reason Finn didn't get killed is because Han and Chewbacca literally showed up ''right before too late.''
* CurbStompCushion:

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: You have the six major players from the original movies (Luke, Leia, Han, Chewbacca, R2-D2, and C-3PO), characters aligned with the Resistance (Finn, Rey, Poe, BB-8, and Maz Kanata), and characters aligned with the First Order (Kylo Ren, Captain Phasma, General Hux, and Supreme Leader Snoke). That's already ''15'', and that's before even getting to several cast members with minor roles, including Max Von Sydow, Warwick Davis, Miltos Yerolemou, Greg Grunberg, Crystal Clarke, Pip Andersen, Christina Chong, Jessica Henwick, Billie Lourd, and Maisie Richardson-Sellers, which brings the total up to '''25'''.

** A new DarthVaderClone in Kylo Ren.

* AdultFear: Having a child who... does a Kylo.

* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Zig-zagged. For the most part, Rey uses a SimpleStaff, and Finn uses a blaster. However they don't use those weapons exclusively, since Rey does use a blaster later on and they both, at different points, use Anakin's lightsaber, which Rey ends up with. That said, while Finn does a decent job with the saber against Kylo, he is a ''much'' better shot than he is a swordsman, and Rey is a much better duelist than she is a a shot.

* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Zig-zagged. For the most part, Rey uses a SimpleStaff, and Finn uses a blaster. However they don't use those weapons exclusively, since Rey does use a blaster later on and they both, at different points, use Anakin's lightsaber, which Rey ends up with.
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** Also, blink and you'll miss it, but the Stormtrooper Finn stands by as he dies and who leaves a BloodyHandprint on Finn's mask has a moving death scene -- it's the only Stormtrooper death we've ever seen that was more than simply falling over.

* AdultFear:
** Han and Leia's son going over to the Dark Side reads very much like your child joining a cult or criminal organization. The novelization goes into more detail, and [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything makes it sound an awful lot like child grooming]].
** The First Order is very reminiscent of iron-fist fanatical dictatorships from real life, including [[PuttingOnTheReich one that those who have studied 1930's-40's Germany will be very familiar with]].

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''The Force Awakens'' is the second ''Star Wars'' movie to take on a PG-13 rating in the United States, and it shows. The movie has more intense violence (with some blood) and less kid-oriented humor than either of the previous trilogies; it ''opens'' on a [[ObligatoryWarCrimeScene village being invaded by the First Order at nighttime as its inhabitants are slaughtered]], and BB-8 is the only new KidAppealCharacter.

* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: Our introduction to the First Order has them massacre a peaceful village.

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Maz Kanata offhandedly refers to Chewbacca, who's at least a meter taller than her, as her "boyfriend". There's also the First Order informer in the bar, a quite slender female who is apparently hooked up with the very big guy with the tusks.

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Maz Kanata offhandedly refers to Chewbacca, who's at least a meter taller than her, as her "boyfriend".

* MadeOfExplodium: The TIE fighter Poe and Finn steal sinks into the sand after the crash, then explodes for no adequately explained reason.

* ContemplativeBoss: Hux has such a moment on the bridge of his ship, looking toward the sun through the window.

* BodyHorror: This is the first ''Star Wars'' film to graphically show the damage blasters can do to a human body, as illustrated by the dying Stormtrooper shot by Poe that Finn encounters in the opening sequence; the soldier is hit center-mass, nowhere near his arms, however the blast is enough to blow off part of the Stormtrooper's glove and render his hand bloodied (a similar effect, in fact, to that reported by some people who have been struck by lightning).

* MohsScaleOfViolenceHardness: It rates a 4, with a few lightsaber impalings. Blood also makes several appearances.

** Luke has a full beard, overlapping with BadassBeard.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Has enough for [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome/StarWars its own page]].