Many fans had an insane number of questions about Rey’s parentage in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and the film threw all of those theories of her as the Chosen One and Poe (Oscar Isaac), Rey is the hero of the new Star Wars trilogy because she chooses to be, and that’s arguably a far more compelling and organic framework that lines up with the broader ethos of the franchise.
Arguably the most prominent example of this phenomenon is also one of the most recent.