Part of this is deliberate: the movie goes to lengths to have Rebel characters muse gravely about the awful things they've had to do for The Cause, although any sustained reflection is obscured by ratcheting up the combat scenes and ratcheting down any attempt at character development.
The Hasbro website states the game includes "2 Rebel, 2 Empire" character tokens, and draws from the Star Wars "legacy", along with the latest film.
As Petty writes of a man in "Rebels," his characters are "a little rough around the edges, inside a little hollow".
In "The Rebels," stock characters — the invalid mother, the poor boy with ambition, the fruity actor, the wounded veteran back from the front, the merciless Jewish pawnbroker — pulse with life.
The scene below sees Jack Nicholson's character rebel against the dictator Nurse Ratched.
And so often the rebel, as a character in music or film, is sold to us by the establishment to make a profit out of you.
The Times editorial captured the Confederate sentiment at the time: "His death is a tremendous and irreparable loss to the secession cause, as no other rebel of like character has been developed during the war.
Tisdale had a recurring role in ABC's sitcom Super Fun Night as Jazmine, the sister of Rebel Wilson's character, and guest starred on CBS's The Crazy Ones in 2013.
Certainly in popular culture, many female characters rebel against the ma'am tag.
In both stories, the characters rebel against the unbearable myth of attainable perfection, substituting for it an alternative one of transcendent, authentic, freedom-giving destruction.
