Finn (Star Wars)
Finn is a male film character who features in Star Wars.
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Biography
FN-2187 was a boy born in the years after the Battle of Endor where he was taken by his family by the First Order when he was a young boy. He was never given a name but rather a designation where he was conscripted to serve as a Stormtrooper with him spending his entire life training. Despite training as a soldier, primarily he served in maintenance and operated as a janitor in the First Order military. At some point, he was placed under the command of Captain Phasma who directed the numerous Stormtroopers under her command. They were deployed on assignment on General Hux's Star Destroyer with them being sent to support Kylo Ren as their vessel reached the planet Jakku.
FN-2187 was deployed along with 4 elite First Order squadrons of Stormtroopers, to the village of Tuanul. The First Order assaulted the village where the man was in hiding, and during the fighting his friend FN-2003 was killed by Resistance pilot Poe Dameron, wiping his blood on FN-2187's helmet. This incident affected the Stormtrooper deeply, and when ordered by Kylo Ren to kill the villagers, he refused to fire, of which Ren took note. Returning to the Finalizer, Eight-Seven felt significant stress from the mission, and Captain Phasma noticed his distress. She told him to submit his blaster to be checked, making sure he fired a shot. Knowing he would be discovered and subjected to reconditioning for not firing on the villagers, and with his faith severely shaken in the First Order, he decided to desert. He freed the captured Poe Dameron from his cell, and the two stole a Special Forces TIE Fighter. FN-2187 manned the guns, killing several of his former comrades in the hangar, and then disabling the Finalizer's turbolasers. Returning to the Finalizer, Eight-Seven felt significant stress from the mission, and Captain Phasma noticed his distress. She told him to submit his blaster to be checked, making sure he fired a shot. Knowing he would be discovered and subjected to reconditioning for not firing on the villagers, and with his faith severely shaken in the First Order, he decided to desert. He freed the captured Poe Dameron from his cell, and the two stole a Special Forces TIE Fighter. FN-2187 manned the guns, killing several of his former comrades in the hangar, and then disabling the Finalizer's turbolasers. During the escape, Dameron asked the Stormtrooper his name, to which he replied with his number. Not content with calling a man a number, Dameron named the trooper Finn, from the FN in his number. Finn liked the name and went on to use it. Dameron also told him that the map vital to the Resistance was located in his white and orange BB-series astromech droid, BB-8. Finn demanded not to return to Jakku, insisting that they would be killed, but Dameron pressed on, revealing to Finn that the map led to Luke Skywalker. The TIE was hit immediately afterward by a missile, sending it spiraling down to a crash landing in the Goazon Badlands.
Finn ejected from the TIE when Dameron triggered the ejector seat. Unfortunately, Dameron's jacket was caught in the ejector mechanism for the ship, which prevented him from escaping. Left with no choice, Dameron piloted the TIE to a crash landing in the aftermath of which he was thrown clear of the crash and knocked unconscious. Making his way to the crash, Finn found Poe's jacket, but no other sign of the man, and the fighter sank into the sand. Believing Dameron to be dead, he discarded his armor and eventually arrived at Niima Outpost, looking for BB-8 to carry on Poe's mission. Once at the settlement, he found BB-8 along with a scavenger named Rey, after witnessing her and the droid be attacked by a pair of thugs. He attempted to aid them but stopped when the young woman was able to defeat them with her quarterstaff. Soon after, BB-8 pointed him out to Rey, identifying Dameron's jacket, prompting the woman to chase after him. Finn attempted to outrun her but Rey caught up to him and smacked him with her quarterstaff. Held under questioning and accused of stealing Dameron's jacket, while also being on the receiving end of a couple of electric shocks from BB-8's arc welder, Finn explained that he and Dameron had escaped from the Finalizer, and falsely claimed to be with the Resistance to get them to trust him. The three were immediately targeted by the First Order and fled, initially hoping to commandeer a quadjumper, but after the quadjumper was destroyed by orbital fire from First Order TIE fighters, decided to commandeer an old freighter: the Millennium Falcon. Finn operated one of the Falcon's quad laser cannons while Rey piloted the ship. Despite the cannon getting stuck in forward position, Finn managed to destroy one of the pursuing fighters after Rey managed some clever maneuvering. Once in space, the Falcon was in need of major repairs, so Rey and Finn attempted to fix the aging ship. Finn then confessed to BB-8 that he wasn't with the Resistance and tried convincing the droid to tell him where the Resistance base was. After some consideration, BB-8 revealed that the Resistance base was in the Ileenium system. Just after Rey had completed the repairs, the ship was caught in a tractor beam. Finn initially believed them to be captured by the First Order, and thus had Rey undo her repairs to flood the Falcon with poisonous gas, explaining that stormtrooper helmets filter out smoke, not toxins. Putting on breather masks, Finn, along with Rey and BB-8, hid in the maintenance duct.
Instead of the First Order, the Millennium Falcon was boarded by the smuggler Han Solo and his Wookiee co-pilot Chewbacca, who reclaimed their vessel after it had been stolen from them years earlier. Solo initially mistook Finn and his companions for thieves and questioned them. Finn and Rey quickly recognized Han Solo as the Rebellion general and the famous smuggler and owner of the Falcon. Having found his stolen ship, Solo told Chewbacca to put Finn and his traveling companions in an escape pod and drop them off in the nearest inhabited system. However, Finn and Rey convinced Solo and Chewie not to do so by explaining that they needed his help to take BB-8 to the Resistance because the droid had a map that would lead them to Luke Skywalker. Unfortunately, Han's freighter, the Eravana had been boarded by two notorious criminal factions, the Guavian Death Gang and Kanjiklub, whom Solo was indebted to. Not wanting Rey and Finn to be involved, Han placed both of them in the lower corridors of the freighter while he and Chewie went to meet with the criminals, with BB-8 accompanying them. The smuggler tried but failed to convince both parties that he would fix things eventually. The Guavian Death Gang negotiator Bala-Tik recognized the BB-8 astromech droid from a First Order bounty placed on it and demanded that Han hand over the droid and any stowaways he might have on board. As the scuffle continued, Rey accidentally released three rathtars that Solo had been transporting for King Prana while trying to separate the gangs from the smugglers using the blast doors. Finn was briefly captured by one rathtar and dragged off, but Rey managed to sever the rathtar's tentacles by closing a blast door on it. They successfully escaped the gangs and jumped into hyperspace in the Falcon. Bala-Tik then ordered his men to inform the First Order that Han Solo and the droid unit had fled aboard the Falcon.
Upon entering hyperspace, Finn tended to Chewbacca's injuries but the Wookiee proved a challenging patient to treat. During the journey, Solo got BB-8 to display the map that he was carrying. However, the map was incomplete and turned out to be a portion of a much larger map. Finn and Rey learned from Solo that Luke Skywalker had been trying to restore the Jedi Order. However, a male apprentice had turned against Skywalker and undone his efforts. Skywalker had since vanished from the galaxy completely. Solo believed that Luke had gone to find the legendary First Jedi Temple. Not wanting to deliver Finn, Rey, and BB-8 to the Resistance directly, Solo planned to take them to the planet Takodana where he could find suitable transportation for them. On the trip to Takodana, Finn stayed with Chewbacca while Rey worked with Solo in the cockpit. At some point during the trip, the Millennium Falcon suddenly sputtered out of hyperspace. As Rey ran to Finn and Chewbacca, Finn asked Rey what was happening. She explained that there was a potential tracking device somewhere on the ship and conversed with Chewbacca on where the tracker may be located. Finn asked what Chewbacca was saying and Rey clarified that Chewbacca believed that the tracker could be near the active sensor pulse generator but Finn was confused and apologized for asking. Finn then followed Rey and Chewbacca to the generator with the latter discovering the tracker hidden behind a panel. Finn rushed over and removed the tracker, unknowingly beginning a countdown on the tracker's self-destruct mechanism. Rey quickly exclaimed that the tracker was rigged with an explosive and they had to expunge it through the airlock as Finn asked how much time they had. Chewbacca suddenly grabbed the tracker out of Finn's hands, running for the airlock as Rey explained that the tracker had only twenty seconds until detonation. Finn now realized how fast they had to move and ran to the cockpit to warn Solo. As Finn entered the cockpit, Solo informed him that the hyperdrive was back online but was quickly interrupted by Finn telling him that there was a bomb aboard the ship and he needed to get the hyperdrive ready for a quick jump. Rey and Chewbacca managed to remove the tracker and as the Millennium Falcon entered hyperspace, the tracking device exploded behind. Shortly after reentering hyperspace, Finn joined Solo, Rey, Chewbacca, and BB-8 in the cockpit as Rey turned to everyone and remarked at how great of a team they made.
After landing on Takodana, Finn and his companions visited the pirate and tavern keeper Maz Kanata's castle, which served as an inn and bar for space. Finn also managed to meet Maz herself, who counseled him to stop running and fight. Finn was then asked to join the Resistance in its struggle against the First Order, but Finn initially refused, believing the First Order to be too powerful. He then confessed to Rey his true identity as a stormtrooper and stated that he was never going back to the First Order. After she declined his offer to join him in escaping the conflict, he wished her well. He planned to leave with pirate Captain Sidon Ithano, who offered him transportation to the Outer Rim Territories in exchange for work. While loading the Meson Martinet for his departure with Captain Ithano, Finn looked up and witnessed the Hosnian Cataclysm, realizing that the First Order had finally launched its attack on the New Republic. After he ran back to the castle and reunited with Han, Chewbacca, and BB-8, Finn and his companions went to find Rey. Venturing into the basement of Maz Kanata's castle, they found Maz, who gave Finn the lightsaber that had once belonged to the Jedi Knights Anakin and Luke Skywalker, which she had been holding on to. She instructed Finn find his friend Rey, who had previously discovered the object and fled into the surrounding forest after experiencing a Force vision. Shortly later, Maz Kanata's castle was attacked by the First Order, who had been alerted to the presence of BB-8 by the spy Bazine Netal. During the ensuing battle, Finn questioned himself having a weapon, but was reminded by Maz that he had one. Finn wielded the lightsaber, killing at least one stormtrooper and engaging in a duel with FN-2199, who brandished a Z6 riot control baton. He was unable to defeat Nines, his old friend, who was shot by Han Solo wielding Chewbacca's bowcaster. Finn, Solo, and Chewbacca were then captured by First Order Stormtroopers, but made an escape when the Resistance's X-Wings arrived across Nymeve Lake and counterattacked. Finn witnessed Kylo Ren carrying off Rey into his command shuttle and ran to rescue her, but could do little to help as Ren left the battlefield.
During this time, he continued to operate with the Resistance where they continued to battle the First Order that controlled the galaxy. It was then that the galaxy received a transmission seemingly from the deceased Emperor Palpatine. The Resistance then looked for intelligence on the incident with them receiving this from an informant within the First Order. Thus, Finn along with Poe travelled in the Falcon to rendezvous with a courier that carried the information from the spy. From there, they learnt that the Emperor was indeed alive and had built up a massive army on the hidden Sith world of Exegol with this force being known as the Final Order. With this fleet, he intended to conquer all the galaxy and bring it under his control.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Finn was a young man of athletic build, with close-cropped black hair, brown eyes, and a determined expression that reflected his resilience. He often wore scavenged or Resistance-issued gear, including Poe Dameron’s leather jacket in his early adventures.
Finn was initially defined by fear and survival instincts, but also by a strong conscience that refused to accept the atrocities of the First Order. Compassionate, loyal, and often humorous, he became a source of heart within the Resistance, balancing moments of levity with deep courage in the face of overwhelming odds. His loyalty to his friends, particularly Rey and Poe, was unwavering, and he demonstrated a readiness to put himself in harm’s way for them. Over time, his journey revealed a man not merely running from the First Order, but one determined to stand against it.
He remained concerned for her until they were reunited on Crait, hugging her tightly upon their reunion. Finn was also able to feel her death and subsequent revival through the Force because of their bond. After the end of the war against the First Order, Finn was reunited with his two best friends and embraced them both tightly as they celebrated the Resistance's victory.
Powers and abilities
Finn was human with no inherent superpowers, but his First Order stormtrooper training made him proficient in blaster combat, hand-to-hand fighting, and battlefield tactics. As a stormtrooper, Finn consistently scored top marks in his training and was seen as someone who could become an ideal First Order trooper. His First Order training made him an effective marksman with a high kill rate.
His quick adaptability allowed him to pilot starfighters, improvise strategies under fire, and wield a lightsaber in desperate circumstances.
Unknown to him, he was actually Force-sensitive with Finn able to have a 'feeling' about certain things. This allowed him to learn when Rey was ever in danger.
Originally, Finn was one of many humans in the galaxy that had been abducted by the First Order where he was trained to serve within the ranks of the Stormtrooper Corps.
Notes
- Finn was created by Lawrence Kasdan, J. J. Abrams and Michael Arndt where he was portrayed by actor John Boyega.
In other media
Video games
- In Star Wars: Battlefront 2, Finn appeared as a playable hero within the 2017 fighting video game's multiplayer modes where he was voiced by actor John Boyega.
Appearances
- Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens:
- Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi:
- Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker:
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