Rey Palpatine

Rey, known officially as Rey Skywalker but more appropriately as Rey Palpatine, and known in the PCW community as Wonder/WONDAR Rey, is a character in the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy and one of the most notable and explicit examples of The Bestest Evar in modern Pop Culture. She is based on, with some rumors claiming it may even be as far as a self-insert (thus cementing her nature as a Mary Sue), of Kathleen Kennedy, the feminist SJW who architected the Sequel Trilogy she starred in. She is portrayed by Daisy Ridley.

## As the Bestest Evar

Rey first appeared in the Force Awakens where she was able to do many things, like pilot the Millennium Falcon and handle herself against trained Kylo in a lightsaber duel, with little training. If you compare that to Luke, he was just learning how to use the Force by the end of the first movie, could do absolutely nothing against Darth Vader, and needed Han Solo to fly the Falcon and got proper training on how to fly the fighter X wing from the rebels before they launched for the Death Star.

In the next movie, The Last Jedi, she is there to put Luke Skywalker- now Jake Skywalker- in his place. Again with no explicit training (she was supposed to receive this from Luke but he mostly refused) she was able to lift tons of rocks that even Yoda would not be able to do (considering he struggled to lift the X wing from the swamp in Episode 5). In the Last Jedi, she is of course the titular Last Jedi since Luke dies at the end, making the story ALL ABOUT HER.

In The Rise of Skywalker, or Ruse of Soywoker, she is revealed to actually be Palpatine's granddaughter and manages to defeat his Force Lighting (he apparently has lightning incontinence since he can't stop firing lightning even when he knows it is killing him to do so) when earlier we see his lightning can affect hundreds of spaceships. In addition he mentioned if she killed him, his spirit would inhabit her, but this didn't happen of course. During this she claims she is "all the Jedi"- definitely goes well with the fact that the "Force is female" according to Kennedy. Fans of Reylo were then of course rewarded when she was brought BACK TO LIFE after this by Kylo Ren kissing her! Lastly, she went to Tatooine where a weird woman asked her for plot reasons what her last name is and she stole Skywalker's name! So in the end a Palpatine won and stole the name of the Skywalkers! And of course the promising character of Finn is reduced to bumbling and following her around and shouting "Rey!" and has absolutely nothing else to do but that.

In all, Luke Skywalker has a very dynamic character arc. He experiences the call to adventure, he experiences harships (like when he hand was cut clean off), he is faced with defining character moments (learning his enemy is actually his father and so on), and his arc gets a fulfilling completion at the end when his optimism saves the day by getting Vader to be redeemed and killing the emperor in the process. However, Rey has absolutely no character arc whatsoever. She just gets everything handed to her and her character, motivations, and so on change by absolutely ZERO throughout the whole trilogy. She just is kind of swept along, gets everything she needs, and then saves the day, the end. In this way Rey is not only a Mary Sue, she is also a terribly written character since Plot Writing 101 requires every primary character to undergo some substantial character arc which does not happen with Rey.