It starts with stolen plans (a map) being entrusted to a droid.
Bad guy shows up and captures the first main protagonist that we meet.
Torture ensues.
Protagonist escapes with the help of another protagonist.
Main protagonist has a mysterious past, but somehow has powers that she must learn about.
Bad guy is motivated by a mysterious internal struggle.
Bad guy is trained by a mysterious overlord of some sort, whom we only see via hologram message.
Bad guys have a super weapon, which is a giant laser that blows up planets.
Super weapon has a weakness that is exploited, causing its destruction.
Main protagonist leaves at the end of the film to seek out a mentor, potentially for training.
C'mon man. That's point-for-point, basically, just with new window dressing and bigger weapons. The only difference is that Kylo Ren isn't an established badass the way Vader was, and that Rey doesn't meet a true mentor figure.
Otherwise, that is literally the entire plot of "A New Hope," and not just in the sense that "all movies with good guys versus bad guys will share similar traits."
