Star Wars Black Series Resistance

The Resistance is not the Rebel Alliance. It’s smaller, less resourced, and operating without the backing of an established government — Leia Organa’s paramilitary organisation, founded because the New Republic refused to officially acknowledge the First Order threat. Where the Rebellion had fleets and bases, the Resistance has conviction and a handful of X-Wings. That distinction runs through everything about this faction in the Black Series: it’s a tight cast of named heroes, almost no rank-and-file soldiers, and a display identity built around individual characters rather than military formations.

Rey is the faction’s most-released character by a significant margin, with versions spanning every major appearance across the trilogy. The rest of the core cast — Finn, Poe Dameron, BB-8, Rose Tico, and General Leia — are all represented, giving the faction good coverage of the sequel trilogy’s protagonist group.

Rey — The Faction’s Centre

Rey has been released in more configurations than any other Resistance character. TFA Jakku, TLJ Jedi Training, Island Journey, Dark Side Vision, the Archive repack, the Force FX Elite yellow lightsaber — her presence in the Black Series reflects her role as the trilogy’s lead. The Galaxy Collection TFA version (TFA 01) is the recommended starting point for most displays — current tooling, Photo Real face paint, the Jakku look that defines her introduction to the audience.

The TLJ Jedi Training version (TLJ 01) is worth having as a separate display piece — the different costume and lightsaber configuration make it a genuinely distinct figure rather than a recolour. The Dark Side Vision version from TROS is a more niche release, capturing the TROS cave sequence appearance, but it’s the most unusual Rey figure in the line for collectors who want the full version history.

Finn and Poe Dameron

Finn has four releases — the original Jakku Red Line figure, the FN-2187 variant, the TFA Galaxy Collection mainline, and a First Order Disguise version. The TFA GC (TFA 04) is the current standard, with the Photo Real update that the earlier figures lacked. The First Order Disguise version is a fun variant — Finn in the stormtrooper armour he escaped in — though it reads as a First Order figure at a glance rather than a Resistance display piece.

Poe Dameron has three releases covering his TFA and TLJ appearances. The TFA GC (TFA 05) is the recommended version — X-Wing pilot suit, current tooling, clean Photo Real paint on the face. The X-Wing Pilot Asty, from the same TFA wave, gives the Resistance its only non-named pilot presence.

BB-8 and the Droid Support

BB-8 arrived as a Deluxe release in the TFA Galaxy Collection wave — the rolling astromech came with a display arm, giving it a practical way to stand upright on a shelf without tipping. It’s the most recent and most detailed BB-8 in the line, and the Deluxe packaging format served the figure well. For a Resistance display, BB-8 alongside Poe and Rey captures the core trio’s dynamic efficiently.

The Last Jedi Characters

Rose Tico and Vice Admiral Holdo both have two releases each from the TLJ Galaxy Collection wave. Rose covers the Canto Bight and Crait appearances that defined her TLJ role; Holdo captures the Resistance’s quiet command presence before her sacrifice at the Battle of Crait. Both are figures that received less attention in the original Red Line era and are better served by the Galaxy Collection versions.

General Leia from the Red Line era is the faction’s oldest figure — the TLJ-era Leia in her Resistance leadership look. She’s never received a Galaxy Collection update, which is a gap for collectors wanting current tooling across the entire display, but the Red Line figure holds up reasonably well given the character’s costume is less armour-specific than many in the line.

The Rise of Skywalker

Jannah is the faction’s sole dedicated TROS addition — the former First Order trooper who joined the Resistance at Exegol. A single release from the Red Line era, she’s a solid figure that fills the faction’s TROS slot without having received a Galaxy Collection update.

The Resistance Trooper from the original TFA Red Line is the faction’s only generic soldier — a single figure covering the rank-and-file combatants. There’s no army-building potential here; the Resistance simply hasn’t been represented with troop-level figures beyond this one release.

Display Strategy

The Resistance faction is fundamentally a hero display. Rey, Finn, Poe, BB-8, and Rose Tico assembled together cover the core cast effectively, and adding Holdo and General Leia fills out the command structure. It’s a compact, coherent display that doesn’t need army builders to work — the faction’s identity is precisely that it’s a small group of individuals rather than a military formation.

For a complete sequel trilogy display, the Resistance faction pairs naturally with the First Order and Sith factions. The contrast between the Resistance’s worn, practical aesthetic and the First Order’s sleek military uniformity reads well across a shelf, and the Jedi faction’s Rey variants can bridge between the Resistance display and the Force-user context of the trilogy’s story.

The Galaxy Collection TFA and TLJ waves are the recommended versions for the core cast — Photo Real updates, current tooling, and consistent deco across the group make them the most display-coherent set. The older Red Line figures for General Leia, Jannah, and the Resistance Trooper are the weak points for collectors who want full tooling consistency, but the display works regardless.

Check off the figures you own with the Black Series Checklist.

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Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Factions. Related: Rey | Finn | Poe Dameron | First Order.