Star Wars Black Series Finn

Finn is the sequel trilogy’s most original premise executed with variable consistency — a stormtrooper who deserts, whose defection is the first significant crack we see in the First Order’s personnel from the inside, and whose four Black Series figures cover the configurations of his Force Awakens and Last Jedi appearances. The Galaxy Collection TFA update is the definitive modern version; the earlier Red Line figures cover the specific costume details of his arc across the first two films.

Finn in Star Wars

Finn is human — FN-2187, a First Order stormtrooper trained from childhood who refuses to participate in a civilian massacre on Jakku and defects. His desertion is the sequel trilogy’s most genuinely interesting premise because it examines the stormtrooper from the inside for the first time in the franchise’s main saga. The Original Trilogy shows stormtroopers as anonymous Imperial soldiers; the prequel era established that clone troopers had individual identities beneath the helmets. Finn is the first stormtrooper protagonist — the person inside the armour, what put him there, and what made him leave.

His defection sequence is The Force Awakens’ strongest opening gambit: a trooper who cannot follow the order, who is immediately marked as deviant by his commanding officer, and who escapes by releasing a Resistance pilot who he initially intends to use for help getting away. The decision to help Poe Dameron and then to help Rey isn’t heroism in the traditional sense — it’s a sequence of choices made under pressure by someone who doesn’t have a framework for what he’s doing yet. He’s not joining the Resistance because he believes in the cause. He’s running from the First Order because he can’t be what they made him.

His arc across the trilogy was meant to develop that premise further — the outsider who gradually finds the cause worth fighting for — but the sequel trilogy’s production discontinuities meant his character development was uneven across three films. The Force Awakens establishes the premise compellingly; The Last Jedi gives him a significant side mission; The Rise of Skywalker gives him a Force sensitivity implication that was never developed. The Black Series figure range, concentrated in the first two films, covers the era when his character work was most focused.

His relationship with Rey and his friendship with Poe are the sequel trilogy’s best interpersonal dynamics — the found family of the Resistance taking shape across TFA and TLJ in ways that the ensemble handled more effectively than the protagonist arcs.

The Figure Range

The Red Line Finn Jakku from 2015 is the original Black Series Finn — released at The Force Awakens Force Friday launch, in the Jakku configuration that is his film introduction. Pre-Photo Real, the 2015 production quality shows on a human face at close inspection, but as a launch figure it represents the line’s first commitment to the character.

Finn FN-2187 from 2016 covers his stormtrooper-era appearance — the specific look of the character before he sheds the armour, in the Resistance uniform he acquires from Poe. The FN-2187 designation in the name acknowledges his First Order identity specifically, and the figure captures the transition costume that marks his defection.

Finn (First Order Disguise) from 2017 is the Last Jedi undercover configuration — Finn infiltrating the First Order aboard the Supremacy in disguise. It’s the most story-specific of the three Red Line figures, covering a single arc of a single film rather than a general character configuration.

The Galaxy Collection TFA Finn from 2021 is the definitive modern version — Photo Real John Boyega likeness at current production standards, the TFA configuration at the quality the Red Line original couldn’t provide. For any display involving the Force Awakens cast alongside similarly updated Rey, Poe, and BB-8 figures, the Galaxy Collection version is the recommended Finn.

The Collecting Context

Finn’s figure range reflects the sequel trilogy’s specific collecting challenge: a protagonist whose arc was planned across three films but whose development was compressed and disrupted by behind-the-scenes production changes. The Black Series committed to him across the first two films thoroughly, with three Red Line configurations and a Galaxy Collection update, but the Rise of Skywalker era didn’t produce a sequel-era Finn to match the updated Rey and Kylo releases.

For collectors building the Starkiller Base display, the Galaxy Collection Finn is the correct figure — matched in production quality to the updated Rey, Poe, and First Order Stormtrooper releases from the same TFA sub-line. The Red Line First Order Disguise remains the only Last Jedi era Finn configuration in the line.

Finn and the Stormtrooper Tradition

Finn’s existence as a named, protagonist stormtrooper changes what the anonymous First Order Stormtrooper figures mean on a shelf. The soldiers who form the army-building backbone of the First Order displays are, in the narrative, people like Finn — individuals with conditioning and histories and the theoretical capacity to make the same choice he made. Building a display with Finn alongside First Order Stormtroopers is making an argument about what those anonymous figures contain.

That’s the specific thing his story does that no other sequel trilogy character’s does — the stormtrooper protagonist whose existence reframes the troops around him. The First Order Stormtrooper figures and the Finn figures belong in the same display context precisely because his story is about what’s behind the helmet.

All Finn Figures in the Black Series

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Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Characters. Related: Human | Starkiller Base | Rey | Poe Dameron.