It’s no shock that the war depicted in the new Star Wars isn’t a workers revolution. George Lucas’s neverending sci-fi franchise has always centered on a sectarian conflict between factions of aristocrats and an elite caste of holy warriors. The intergalactic masses? They primarily function as cannon fodder.

That’s a point famously made by Randal, the pop-culture-obsessed video store clerk character from Kevin Smith’s original Clerks movie. He argues that when the Rebel Alliance blew up the half-finished Death Star during The Return of the Jedi, they (probably) mass murdered thousands of tradesmen toiling away on its construction.

“All those innocent contractors hired to do a job were killed — casualties of a war they had nothing to do with,” he says. “ . . . You didn’t ask for that. You have no personal politics. You’re just trying to scrape out a living.”