Palpatine’s Defeat In Rise Of Skywalker Looks A Whole Lot Like Thanos’ In Endgame
Quite a few people have pointed out the similarities between these two movies’ big showdowns. The villain on the left says, “I am blah blah blah,” and looks about to kill the hero. Then the bloodied hero on the right responds, struggling against the creeping electricity, “And I … am blah blah blah,” and wins using a hidden weapon:
Now, we’re not here to chart out reshoot schedules and determine whether one Disney movie really plagiarized another. But just check out how the Star Wars scene used the exact cadence of the Avengers one and yet somehow copied none of the aspects that made it work.
First, look at the dialogue. Endgame took the line “I am inevitable” (which doesn’t really mean a whole lot of anything) and strategically placed it in two spots in the film before the finale, driving it into our heads. “I am Iron Man,” of course, has been in our heads for more than a decade. Neither line, incidentally, has any significance to the other person in the scene, making this exchange of catchphrases utter nonsense as a conversation, but that’s not important. What’s important is that we feel meaning behind the lines and see each one as summing up one character.
The Star Wars lines, on the other hand? “I am all the Sith” and “I am all the Jedi,” mean “I’m bad” and “I’m good,” for what that’s worth. But this talk about each character somehow having the power of everyone on their side was an idea introduced just minutes ago, one we’re still puzzling over at this point. There’s nothing satisfying about hearing these lines.
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Then there’s the weapon reveal. Tony has the magic glowy things that characters spent this whole movie getting … and which characters spent the whole previous movie getting, and really the whole movie series getting. So yeah, we know that’s a big deal. On the other hand, Rey has a second lightsaber? Uh, not sure why we’re supposed to be excited about that. That evil robot from Revenge of the Sith had a whole collection of lightsabers on him, and that didn’t do him much good. This entire movie’s plot was about Rey hunting down a magical item, by the way, but they didn’t set it up so that item came into play in this fight.