Finn (Star Wars)

Finn, originally known as FN-2187, is the deuteragonist of the Star Wars sequel trilogy. He is a trained warrior who was desperate to escape his past and is plunged into adventure when he meets Rey.
He is portrayed by actor , who portrayed Moses in Attack the Block, Jake Pentecost in Pacific Rim: Uprising and Bigwig in the 2018 miniseries of Watership Down.
==History==
===Background===
The infant who would later be known as Finn was taken from his family by the First Order during infancy and given the designation FN-2187. As a result he was raised from childhood to be a loyal member of the First Order. FN-2187 grew up knowing nothing about his real family, something that haunted him for years.
Initially a sanitation technician, FN-2187 later became a Stormtrooper. He was seen as a promising officer candidate in the stormtrooper corps, however both General Hux and Captain Phasma felt he had empathy that was interfering with his training.
===Star Wars - Episode VII: The Force Awakens===
====Rebelling against the First Order====
FN-2187 was part of the First Order stormtrooper force that was sent to the Western Reaches on Jakku to retrieve information on the location of Luke Skywalker. Some of the villagers chose to fight and FN-2187's friend was killed in the skirmish. Many of the villagers were herded together into a small area. After Kylo Ren interrogated then killed village leader Lor San Tekka, Ren ordered Captain Phasma to kill all the villagers. The other stormtroopers except FN-2187 cut down the villagers without hesitation and later, put the village off the map.
The captured Resistance pilot Poe Dameron was taken onboard the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Finalizer along with FN-2187 and the other stormtroopers. Once on board, Captain Phasma ordered FN-2187 to submit his blaster to inspection so they could prove he did not fire on the villagers, and then to report for reconditioning. FN-2187 decided then to defect from the First Order. Breaking Poe Dameron out of confinement, the two took a TIE/sf fighter - Poe flew while FN-2187 took the blaster controls. FN-2187 was able to destroy the hangar and the fighters contained within before the TIE fighter broke free and made its escape. Poe then asked FN-2187 what his name was, and FN-2187 gave him his designation, the only name he ever had. Poe decided he didn't like the designation and said he was going to call the former stormtrooper Finn going forward. FN-2187 decided he liked that new name, and from that time forward he was known as Finn.
During the escape with TIE fighter, they argued whether they have to return for Jakku or not. Finn stated that it’s best for them to escape as far as possible, but Poe argued that they should go back for his droid due to it having the piece of map leading to Luke Skywalker. Suddenly, their ship was shot down and Poe and Finn were separated. Finn was unable to find Poe, as he only discovered his jacked just as the remains of the fighter sunk into quicksand. He then goes to the nearby village for water, which happened to be the same one where Rey and BB-8 were. Just as he drank some water, he spotted Rey whom dispatching Unkar’s men.
====Village Chase and Escape====
Just then, BB-8 spotted Finn, whom he noticed had Poe’s mantle, resulting in a brief chase where Rey and BB-9 finally catch up and interrogate him. Another chase ensues when First Order stormtroopers showed up and invade the village, with them briefly hiding inside one of the tents with Finn desperately searching for a laser gun. But their time for searching the weapons was up whenTIE/fo fighters gunned down the village. At first, Rey suggested that they use her quadjumper, only for that vehicle to be destroyed by stray bolts, forcing them to steal a ship that, little did they know, was the Millennium Falcon. 
A dogfight ensues when Rey brought the Falcon to the remains of Imperial Star Destroyers for gained advantages. Finn managed to shoot down their fighters’ pursuers before taking off to the space. Finn and Rey later celebrated their success before immediately going to repair the ship.
====Enlisting Han Solo and Chewie's Help====
During this point, Finn revealed to BB-8 that he's actually a rogue stormtrooper who's betrayed the First Order and a fugitive, which makes BB-8 feel that Finn is yet to be worthy of being trusted. But with him now on it and Rey’s side, BB-8 had little to no choice to reveal that the Resistance was now in the Ileenium System. Just then, their ship was pulled by a tractor beam of a large ship, which Finn believes was the First Order’s. But instead, when they hid inside the ship’s shaft, the ship’s true owners, Chewbacca and Han Solo, enter and find them. Han Solo and Chewie demand an explanation for how they stole the ship, which leads to them realizing that the ship they took and were now on was the Millennium Falcon.
With the revelation that they were piloting the legendary starship and meeting the war heroes it belongs to, Finn and Rey tries to convince Solo to help them look for Luke, to which Solo finally relents. The encounter was cut short by the Guavian Death Gang, who are loyal to the First Order, forcing Solo to have Rey and Finn hide in one of the cells with him securing BB-8. Their situation got even worse when the party from Kanjiklub, whom also have debts with Solo, showed up. Worse, they revealed their loyalty to the First Order by revealing that they were also ordered to hunt BB-8 and it’s allies. This prompts Rey and Finn to try to sabotage the doors to aid Solo, but they wind up releasing Solo’s confined rathtars.
Chaos ensues with both bad guys’ parties attacked by released rathtars, and one of them dragged Finn away from Rey, prompting her to go to the security cameras and shut the door on the rathtar's tentacle, releasing Finn from its clutches and freeing him. They, Solo, and Chewie then go aboard the Millennium Falcon and escaped by activating it’s hyperdrive, although the Guavian Death Gang’s leader and a handful of his men survived the chaos and immediately reported the mess that Rey and her allies caused to Snoke.
====Solo's Story About Luke's Disappearance====
Rey and Solo contended with even more damage to the ship once they were in hyperspace as Finn busily tended Chewie's wounds. There was an electrical overload and a coolant leak, so Rey suggested transferring auxiliary power to the secondary tank, which Solo had also come to the conclusion to do. Finally, Rey bypassed the compressor that Plutt had installed, solving the problem and ending their imminent danger. The group gathered in the ship's common area and BB-8 showed Solo the holographic map fragment that was in the droid's databanks. Solo, who pointed out that the map was not complete, explained the story of why Skywalker had disappeared in the first place. An apprentice—Kylo Ren—turned against the Jedi Master and destroyed Skywalker's attempt to rebuild the Jedi Order. Afterward, Skywalker vanished. Rumors floated around about where he had gone, but those closest to him correctly[8] guessed that he went off in search of the first Jedi Temple. Rey was surprised to hear that the Jedi were real, but Solo, who had once been skeptical of the existence of the Jedi himself, told her that the stories about the Jedi and the existence of the Force were all true.
===Star Wars - Episode VIII: The Last Jedi===
Finn awakens from his coma aboard the MC85 Star Cruiser Raddus, and immediately demands to know where Rey is, learning that Leia has a beacon that will lead Rey back to her when necessary. Later, following the attack on the cruiser that killed most of the Resistance's main leadership and rendered Leia unconscious, Finn takes the beacon and attempts to board an escape pod in the hopes of keeping both himself and Rey out of danger. Before he can board the pod, he is found by Rose Tico, a maintenance worker whose sister Paige, a bomber for the Resistance, has recently died in an attack on the First Order. Seeing Finn trying to escape, Rose stuns him and intends to turn him in for desertion, but stops when Finn tells her that the First Order has found a way to track the cruiser through lightspeed. She tells Finn that she might be able to disable the tracker, and Finn says that, having worked aboard a Star Destroyer, he would be able to find where the tracker is. Rose and Finn run their plan by Poe, who contacts Kanata for help, but she claims that she is too busy and instructs them to find a "master code breaker" on a casino on the planet Canto Bight. Operating against acting Resistance leader Vice Admiral Holdo’s wishes, Finn and Rose, along with BB-8, steal a ship and go to Canto Bight.
Finn is initially entranced by the lavish lifestyle of the casino, but becomes disillusioned when Rose tells him that most of the people there have become wealthy by dealing arms to the First Order. While they find the master code breaker, they are unable to recruit him as they are arrested and jailed for a parking violation. In their cell they meet DJ, a thief and codebreaker who offers to help them; they refuse, but he nonetheless breaks them out of their cell. Finn and Rose escape from the prison, where they set free a horde of horse-like racing creatures called Fathiers, escaping atop one of them. Outside the casino they are greeted by BB-8 and DJ, having stolen a ship together. DJ agrees to help them, despite Finn’s misgivings. Eventually, Finn, Rose, and DJ arrive aboard the Mega-class Star Dreadnought Supremacy and disguise themselves as First Order officers; Finn finds the location of the tracker and DJ breaks them in, but before Rose is able to disable the tracker they are caught by Phasma. Upon being captured, DJ, having overheard the Resistance's plan of escaping to Crait via transports, secretly tells the First Order of the plans in exchange for money and his freedom, and Finn and Rose are to be executed. Before they are, Holdo rams the Raddus into the Supremacy at lightspeed, damaging the ship and sending it into chaos. Finn has a one-on-one fight with Phasma, ending with him proudly declaring himself "rebel scum" before Phasma falls to her demise. BB-8, aboard a First Order AT-ST, rescues Finn and Rose from stormtroopers and the three of them very narrowly escape to Crait aboard a damaged shuttle.
As the First Order prepares an attack on the formerly abandoned Rebel base on Crait, Finn recognizes the weaponry that they plan to use to destroy the blast doors and leads a small strike on the First Order with the intention of disabling the cannon. The attack goes poorly, and Poe orders all fighters to retreat, but Finn is determined to destroy the cannon and flies directly into the blast, planning to sacrifice himself to defeat the First Order. At the last second, Rose stops him by ramming her speeder into his, pushing him out of the blast. Finn asks her why she stopped him, and she tells him that wars are won "not by fighting what we hate, but saving what we love;" she then kisses him before falling unconscious. Finn brings her body back to the Rebel base and summons a medic for her. When Luke appears on Crait, Finn's first instinct is to send forces to help him, but Poe realizes that Luke is stalling to give the Resistance time to escape. Finn and Poe lead the Resistance off the planet. Finn finally reunites with Rey, and embraces her before boarding the Millennium Falcon. Finn is last seen putting a blanket over the still unconscious Rose.
===Star Wars - Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker ===
Finn, along with Poe, intercepts a message from a spy in the First Order that Emperor Palpatine has come back to life and is planning an attack on the Resistance in the form of the Final Order, a massive armada of Xyston-class Star Destroyers designed by the Sith Eternal. Finn then leaves along with Rey, Poe, C-3PO, and Chewbacca to the desert planet of Pasaana, where with the help of Lando Calrissian, they locate a dagger that contains a clue to a Sith wayfinder, a compass to the Sith planet Exegol. Throughout the whole journey, Finn clearly has something he wants to tell Rey, but is unable to find the time to tell her. Their journey takes them to Kijimi, where the location of the wayfinder is extracted from C-3PO's memory files, and later to the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Steadfast, where Finn and Poe go to rescue Chewbacca, who was taken by the First Order. In the process, Finn and Poe are captured by Stormtroopers and set to be executed, but they are rescued by General Hux, who reveals that he is the spy. Going free, Finn and Poe rescue Rey aboard the Millennium Falcon and head to the Endor system, where the wayfinder is located among the wreckage of the second Death Star.
On Kef Bir, they encounter a group allied with the Resistance, led by a woman named Jannah. Finn gets to know Jannah, who reveals that she and the entire settlement on Kef Bir are former stormtroopers who mutinied after a battle. Finn tells her that he left the First Order as well, and suggests that the Force brought them together and caused them all to leave the First Order. Finn and Jannah follow Rey aboard the wreckage to try and stop her from confronting Ren, but she does so and nearly kills him before healing him and leaving aboard Ren's ship. Without Rey or the wayfinder, Finn, Poe, and Jannah return to the Resistance base, where they learn that Leia has died. Poe is named Acting General, and Poe appoints Finn as Co-General.
Finn learns of Exegol's whereabouts based on Rey's transmissions, and he and Poe lead a strike against the Sith Eternal forces, with Finn and Jannah specifically leading a ground attack on the surface of the Steadfast to take out their navigation signal. As the attack nears its end, Finn and Jannah are left on the surface of the damaged Resurgent Star Destroyer, but are ultimately rescued by Lando and Chewbacca in the Millennium Falcon and the citizens' fleet; Finn attributes his faith in his being rescued to a knowledge of the Force. Following the successful attack, Finn celebrates among the Rebels on the Resistance base, reuniting with Rey and Poe.
==Trivia==
*Director J.J. Abrams stated that not revealing a last name for Finn was a deliberate choice on his part.
*His original name was supposed to be Sam.
*J.J. Abrams revealed at the Academy screening of The Rise of Skywalker, that Finn wanted to tell Rey that he was too Force-sensitive.J.J. Abrams reveals what Finn wanted to tell Rey in 'The Rise of Skywalker'
*Jannah and Finn having a romantic interest in each other was confirmed by John Boyega on his twitter and by Naomi Ackie (Jannah's actress) in an interview after The Rise of Skywalker.John Boyega on twitter: This warrior stole Finn’s heart after 9. Had so many conversations with Naomi like ! When are we kissing like Han and Leia !!!Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: Naomi Ackie Knows What You’re Thinking About Jannah and Finn
*Finn is the second trooper to be friends with the main female Jedi after Rex.
*Although he is not a Jedi, Finn used a lightsaber in The Force Awakens. Other non Jedi characters that also wielded sabers were Han Solo, General Grievous, Sabine Wren, Pre Vizsla, Gar Saxon, Moff Gideon and several from Star Wars Legends.
==References==
==External Links==
*Finn at the Star Wars databank
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