'Andor' ends with one of my favorite tropes | The Mary Sue
'Andor' has come to an end and the final moments of the Disney+ series brought to life one of my all-time favorite tropes.
There are certain tropes that we, as consumers of media, cling to. Whether it be one you enjoy or one that makes you angry, we all have those trends in storytelling that have our attention. And one of my favorites played a big part in Andor season 2.
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**Spoilers for Andor season 2 lie ahead**
A trope known as a “Consolation child” is not a new thing to media. When a man is our protagonist, often we see his love interest either leave him and we don’t know why to suddenly find that she is pregnant or if a man dies, she has a child to have a piece of him with her. Call me old fashioned or just a single gal who loves a tragic story but I tend to really love this trope.
Movies like Destroyer surprised me with its use of it. We have seen countless stories of a woman who protects herself and the well-being of her child or doesn’t know she’s pregnant when the man she loves dies and I love it. Probably because the alternative trope is the “dead wife” trope and that means a woman has to die for a man. Sorry, I think a man dying and a woman having his child is just the better choice. But with Andor, the series did something new and original with the trope.
Bix Caleen (Adria Arjona) sacrificed her own happiness to try and make sure the rebellion lived on. That meant leaving Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) and not telling him about their child. I think that is a selfless sacrifice and one that should be applauded. She knew that the Rebel Alliance needed him and clearly had hope that he’d come and find her and their child later. Which is why I love it.
(Disney+)Part of what I love about the “Consolation child” trope is that the male character gets to live on in some sense. With Bix and Cassian’s baby, it was devastating to see because this entire show had the dark cloud of Cassian’s death looming over it. We knew that he was going to end up dead on Scarif with Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) because of the Death Star.
Those facts colored his relationship to other characters, made us afraid of what would happen with the ones we came to love, and put a darkness on his love for Bix. That was a relationship that was doomed and we knew it. And yet it ends with a beautiful bit of hope, which is fitting for a character like Cassian.
Rebellions are built on hope and Star Wars loves to remind us that part of that hope comes from the younger generation. They’re people who want to make the world a better place and so ending Andor with Cassian’s child being the next generation of the galaxy is a beautiful footnote for the series.
I don’t know that we’ll ever see Bix and Cassian’s child out in the world, maybe fighting the First Order, but it is nice to know that his legacy lives on and that Bix was saving herself, her child, and the Rebellion with her sacrifice.
(featured image: Disney+)
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