8 Ways Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Changed The Franchise Forever

6) No One Is Safe

While it’s possible that at least some of the characters survived in an earlier version of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the fact that Disney and Lucasfilm killed off pretty much the entire cast by the end points to no one being safe in the future.

The franchise has admittedly never shied away from some big deaths (just look at Obi-Wan Kenobi and Han Solo, for example), but it’s never killed off characters to this extent and it goes a long way in proving that any new additions to this world could meet their maker regardless of how marketable they may be.

After all, it would have been easy for Disney to keep the Rogue One team alive and shove them into an animated spinoff or something similar (considering the fact that it’s made so much money, a Rogue Two could have even been considered), especially as the characters proved to be quite popular among fans. The studio made the bold decision to kill them all off though and seeing as they weren’t afraid to do so makes us even more excited for future films, now that we know no one – not even main characters – are safe.