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Many believe these changes are rooted in a broader agenda within Lucasfilm and Disney to reshape the franchise's narrative landscape. Han Solo's character arc in The Force Awakens is often cited as a prime example; critics argue that he is portrayed as a failure and a deadbeat father, undoing the personal growth shown in Return of the Jedi. The depiction reset Han in a way that erased his heroic journey, resetting his character to a version closer to his beginnings, which many fans found unsatisfying and disrespectful to the original portrayal.
Such character demolitions appear to serve a pattern: taking characters that fans hold dear and rewriting their histories to fit new narratives that focus on diversity and inclusion in a way that some see as tokenistic or agenda-driven.