Poe Dameron is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise.
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30 Facts About Poe Dameron
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Poe Dameron is an X-wing fighter pilot for the Resistance who inadvertently brings renegade stormtrooper Finn and Jakku scavenger Rey into battle against the sinister First Order.
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Poe Dameron'scharacter was first seen in the 88-second The Force Awakens teaser trailer released by Lucasfilm on November 28,2014, piloting an X-wing fighter.
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The name Poe Dameron was revealed by Entertainment Weekly in a Lucasfilm-designed Topps-style trading card mockup in December 2014.
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He's a hero, but in a world where there is absolute good and absolute evil, Poe Dameron is a bit gray.
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Poe Dameron feels a lot of responsibility—to his parents' legacy, mainly—and that doesn't always mix well with his own youthful curiosity and desire for adventure.
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Poe Dameron's arc is one of evolving from a heroic soldier to a seasoned leader, to see beyond the single-mindedness of winning the battle to the larger picture of the future of the galaxy.
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Poe Dameron is saved by the renegade stormtrooper Finn, and they escape in a TIE fighter.
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Poe Dameron later reappears, having been thrown from the crash, now leading a squadron of X-wing pilots in an assault on the First Order at Maz Kanata's castle.
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Poe Dameron helps Naka outrun a team of pirates, and in turn Naka helps Poe Dameron get to Blowback Town.
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Poe Dameron leads a counterattack on the First Order to give the last Resistance fighters more time board the transports.
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Poe Dameron leads an offensive against the invading First Order, but is unable to stop their assault.
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On Kijimi, Poe Dameron's backstory is explored: Zorii reveals that he used to be a spice runner and abandoned his friends and crew when he decided to fly for the Resistance.
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Zorii still maintains much resentment toward Poe Dameron for having left and nearly kills him upon meeting him again in Kijimi, but decides to help when Rey defeats her in combat.
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Zorii, reconnecting with Poe Dameron, tells him that she plans to travel the galaxy, and invites Poe Dameron to join her.
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Poe Dameron is deeply shaken and nervous about the pressure of leading the Resistance, but receives guidance from Lando, who shares that he was able to survive because of his reliance on his friends.
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Poe Dameron makes Finn his co-general and, upon learning the location of Exegol, gives a rousing speech to the rest of the Resistance that they have a cause that the rest of the galaxy believes in, and that good people will fight as long as they are able to lead them.
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Poe Dameron is first mentioned in the young adult novel Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure by Cecil Castellucci and Jason Fry, set between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi .
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Poe Dameron is featured in Star Wars: Before the Awakening by Greg Rucka, an anthology book for young readers about the lives of Poe Dameron, Rey and Finn before the events of The Force Awakens.
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Star Wars: Poe Dameron: Free Fall by Alex Segura, released on August 4,2020, explores Poe's early life and connection to Zorii Bliss.
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Yavin 4, the moon on which the Rebel base was located in the 1977 film Star Wars, was established as Poe Dameron's homeworld in the comic series Star Wars: Shattered Empire after the Guatemalan-born Isaac learned that the shooting location for Yavin 4 had been Tikal, Guatemala.
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Marvel comic book series titled Star Wars: Poe Dameron, written by Charles Soule and illustrated by Phil Noto, was published between April 2016 and September 2018.
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Poe Dameron is a playable character in the 2015 Force Awakens add-on to the Disney Infinity 3.
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Robbie Collin of The Telegraph called Poe Dameron "a dashing, dry-humoured swashbuckler—in short, he's like Han Solo was 40 years ago".
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Some critics believed that the revelation in The Rise of Skywalker that Poe Dameron spent time as a spice smuggler in his youth did not fit with what audiences already knew about the character from his film, television, novel, and comics appearances.
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