53 Facts About Rose Tico

Rose Tico is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise, first appearing in the simultaneously released Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Cobalt Squadron .

Rose Tico was created by The Last Jedi writer and director Rian Johnson after he decided a subplot originally involving Finn and Poe Dameron needed a different dynamic.

Rose Tico's backstory was revealed in the novel Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Cobalt Squadron, in which Rose Tico is the protagonist along with her sister Paige, a minor character in the film.

The character of Rose Tico serves as a relatable audience surrogate, an everywoman, a positive influence on Finn, and the personification of real-life Star Wars fandom.

Johnson originally planned for Rose Tico to be sarcastic and irritable, but the character was changed to match Tran's personality after she was cast, becoming more positive.

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Rose Tico returned in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the final installment in the sequel trilogy, in which she has risen in the ranks of the Resistance and has taken on a greater leadership role.

The Rose Tico sisters join the Resistance, a paramilitary organization led by General Leia Organa fighting against the First Order.

The four escape Canto Bight with the help of some of the enslaved children there; Rose Tico gives one of them Paige's Rebel Alliance ring to inspire his trust.

Finn attempts a suicide attack against the cannon, but Rose Tico saves his life by crashing her speeder into his, knocking him off course and seriously injuring herself in the process.

Rose Tico tells Finn the only way they will defeat the First Order is by fighting for what they love, rather than fighting what they hate; she then kisses him before passing out.

Rose Tico receives medical attention as they flee Crait and escape from the First Order.

Rose Tico has been featured in several Star Wars comic books.

The knowledge Rose Tico obtains from her research of the Raddus ultimately helps her in assisting Poe when his squadron is attacked by First Order TIE fighters.

Rose and Paige Tico were the protagonists of the final issue of Star Wars: Forces of Destiny, a five-issue comic book miniseries based on an animated web series of the same name.

General Leia Organa is seeking methods to collect natural resources, and Rose Tico conceives an idea to build rechargeable vehicles form junk parts.

Rose Tico was the protagonist of one of four announced installments in Age of Resistance, a comic book miniseries that chronicled different characters and time periods from the Star Wars chronology.

The issue, entitled Age of Resistance: Rose Tico, was released in September 2019, and focused on Rose Tico's relationship with her sister Paige during the First Order's invasion of Hays Minor.

Rose Tico appeared in "Shuttle Shock", a second season episode of the Star Wars: Forces of Destiny animated web series, created by Lucasfilm Animation and released through Disney's YouTube channel.

In early 2018, Rose Tico was added as a playable character in the mobile collectible RPG game Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes.

Rose Tico'scharacter had special moves such as "Courageous Shot" and "Dauntless Idealism", and was able to stun characters with her shock prod, just as she did to Finn in The Last Jedi.

Rose Tico played a supporting role in the four-issue comic book miniseries Star Wars: Allegiance, the first issue of which was released on October 9,2019.

When Leia and her party are threatened by potential enemies, Rose Tico is quickly prepared to help defend them, though Leia attempts to defuse any hostilities.

Rose Tico ends up arrested along with Rey, Chewbacca, and C-3PO after they get into a dispute with protestors from the Quarren species.

Rose Tico appeared in Lego Star Wars: All-Stars, a series of Lego Star Wars animated short films set in different time periods of the Star Wars chronology.

Rose Tico has a smaller part of in Resistance Reborn, a novel by Rebecca Roanhorse released on November 5,2019, which details the efforts by General Leia Organa and the other Resistance members to rebuild their forces immediately following the defeats sustained in The Last Jedi.

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Rose Tico was an excellent and highly imaginative mechanic, as seen by her design of the baffler system.

For example, most characters in The Last Jedi reacted with shock that the First Order was tracking the Resistance through hyperspace because it was believed to be impossible, but Rose Tico deduced how it is being done and helped develop a solution.

Rose Tico was passionate, loyal, and committed, with a great deal of enthusiasm and intelligence, and a strong moral code.

Rose Tico had a great deal of fascination with the galaxy around her, and a sense of awe about the Resistance and the heroes that serve it.

Rose Tico strongly believed in the cause of the Resistance, to which she dedicated her life, and she placed that cause ahead of all things, including herself.

However, the example Rose Tico set for Finn inspired him, leading him to capture some of her idealism and place the mission of the Resistance ahead of himself.

Rose Tico was very close with her family, and a strong sense of right and wrong was instilled in her by her late parents and her sister Paige.

Rose Tico particularly looked up to Paige, and the two had an extremely strong emotional connection; according to the Cobalt Squadron novel, the two had never been apart for more than a couple of days, and they shared "a bond that would have been extraordinary even between twins".

However, Rose Tico was very empathetic, as demonstrated by the kindness she showed the children on Canto Bight, and the way she rescued Finn at the end of The Last Jedi.

Rose Tico was created by Rian Johnson for the film Star Wars: The Last Jedi, which he wrote and directed.

Johnson conceived Rose Tico as a relatable audience surrogate, and said he "wanted someone who 10-year-old me would truly be able to relate to, someone who was a genuine nerd, someone who it would be a little surprising that they were front and forward in a Star Wars movie".

Name Rose Tico was originally used for the character Maz Kanata during the pre-production of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Costume design for Rose Tico was being developed for The Last Jedi before the actress was cast.

The original script called for Rose Tico to wear a beautiful gown during the Canto Bight scenes, so she would blend in with the other wealthy clientele.

Costume designer Michael Kaplan said the scene was "going to be a big reveal for Rose Tico, going from this frumpy-dumpy coverall to a beautiful gown".

Rose Tico was illustrated by Nicoletta Baldari in Forces of Destiny, with covers portraying the two title characters by Baldari, penciller Elsa Charretier and colorist Matt Wilson.

Artist Derek Charm illustrated the "Rose Tico Knows" comic and one of its covers, while Tim Levins illustrated an alternative cover.

Dawson was excited to write about the Rose Tico sisters because she was a "huge fan" of the characters and she considered them a strong role model for children, as well as "a study in finding people who lift you up and believe in you and in using that belief to do what you can't do alone".

Age of Resistance: Rose Tico was written by Tom Taylor, who specifically requested to write an issue about Rose because she was his son's favorite character.

The Stranger writer Andrew Wright said Rose Tico "makes a strong bid for MVP" among the new Star Wars characters introduced in The Last Jedi.

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Dominic Griffin of Spectrum Culture wrote that Rose Tico "emerges as a compelling lead equal to the others in emotional resonance".

Pam Powell of the San Francisco Daily Journal said Rose Tico shines with personality, with a wonderful sense of humor and timing, and that she pleasantly anticipated seeing her with each scene.

Salon writer Matthew Rozsa, who disliked the film and particularly criticized the Canto Bight sequence, nevertheless noted: "the chemistry between Finn and Rose Tico makes them easily the most likable and sympathetic characters in the film".

The character of Rose Tico was defended by the official Star Wars page on Facebook.

Several examples of shirts, trading cards, and other memorabilia surfaced in which Rose Tico was not only excluded, but was originally included and later removed.

Rose Tico received one minute and sixteen seconds of screen time in the 142-minute film, much shorter than the ten minutes and fifty-three seconds she received in The Last Jedi, and a shorter amount of time than Rose Tico's sister Paige received in her single scene in The Last Jedi.

An early scene in which Rose Tico opts to stay on the Resistance base while Rey, Finn, and Poe go on adventure together was taken by many as a direct response to the audience reception of The Last Jedi and Rose Tico's arc within the film.

Actor Jimmy Wong tweeted that he was "livid" with the treatment of Rose Tico, pointing out that newly introduced background characters received more dialogue than her.