6) “I Have A Bad Feeling About this”
You might know that the oft-used phrase “I have a bad feeling about this” has been recited in every single Star Wars movie to date. Luke and Han both said the line in A New Hope, before Leia, Threepio and Han repeated it in Empire and Return respectively.
The prequels and Force Awakens kept the tradition alive, where it was said by Obi-Wan, Anakin, Obi-Wan again and finally Han. To fit the spinoff nature of Rogue One, the line is given a twist in the movie. It’s K2SO’s turn to say the phrase this time, as he, Jyn and Cassian enter a lift on Scarif. The twist, though, is that he’s interrupted before he completes it.
While Rogue One paid lip service to this tradition, it surprisingly eschewed the usual moment when a character would lose a limb, which had previously happened in every Star Wars film. While this event does not happen on screen, at least one character is missing a leg. Namely, Saw Gerrera, who’s seen sporting a robotic leg along with his Vader-esque life-support cybernetically-enhanced body.
Another fixture of the series that made it into the film is Warwick Davis. Davis has appeared in several Star Wars movies to date, from his role as Wicket the Ewok in Return of the Jedi to one of the patrons in Maz Kanata’s castle in The Force Awakens. In Rogue One, he plays a member of Saw Gerrera’s rebels.