[Some mild
spoilers for The Last Jedi,
if that still matters right now.]
To be clear:
I don't want him to have a redemption arc per se. I adore Hux for
what he is and what he is happens to absolutely despicable. I love how
awful he is and never more so than in that little moment when he finds Snoke dead and Ren unconscious and just casually reaches for his
sidearm. Sadly for him, Ren wakes up and you can see the exasperation
on Hux's face.
Hux hates
everyone. He hates the Republic, he hates the Resistance and he
absolutely despises Kylo Ren.
He obviously
needs to betray Ren sometime in the future and the funniest version
of this would be him defecting to the Resistance. Not because he has
any sort of change of heart or positive character development. No!
Out of spite. Pure, unadulterated spite because that's why Hux runs
on. Well, spite and daddy issues.
No,
seriously, just listen to how Domhnall Gleeson delivers the line
about receiving his orders directly from Supreme Leader Snoke at the
beginning of TLJ. Daddy
issues, you don't even need to read any of the Eu stuff about his
abusive father.
Now
imagine him working with the Resistance. Imagine him standing at a
holo-table with Finn, Rey and Poe as he describes how to take out the
latest First Order superweapon. He starts off reasonable “As you
can see the weak spot is here at the base of the power converter
array,” but he can't quite keep old habits out, “and so if your
MONGREL REBEL SCUM FIGHTER SQUADRONS focus fire on the...” and then
he trails off as he sees the looks everyone is giving him. Then he
delicately clears his throat and very, very quietly apologises.
And
of course there'd have to be compulsory scene where he and Poe are
trapped together in a ship arguing about an immediate life or death
situation.
In
desperation for that sense of power he misses so much he starts
drilling the Millennium Falcon's porg population into an elite fighting
force.
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