10 Best Times Star Wars Appeared In Other Movies

10. X-Men

The original X-Men movie hit cinemas in 2000, one year after Star Wars' long-awaited return in The Phantom Menace. As such, the timing couldn't have been better for X-Men to sneak in a Star Wars reference somewhere, and during the final battle between Halle Berry's Storm and Ray Park's Toad, that's exactly what happened.

Park had just played Sith apprentice Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace, a character whose insane lightsaber skills allow him to battle Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi - two trained Jedi - at the same time, and come out on top. Well, almost.

Jumping back to X-Men, Park paid homage to those lightsaber skills in that aforementioned fight against Storm, twirling his weapon in a very Maul-esque way shortly after kicking the weather-manipulating heroine down an elevator shaft (check out the clip at 1:20 in the video below).

Park is known for the great physicality he brings to his characters, and this moment worked as not only a cool tip of the hat to Maul, but as a way to make Toad feel even more skilled in the combat department.