10 Fan Service Movie Moments That Went TOO FAR

10. The Origin Of Han Solo's Name - Solo: A Star Wars Story

Though Solo: A Star Wars Story ultimately turned out decently enough for a Han Solo origin movie few were actually asking for, its attempts to nudge the fanbase with its elbow often ended up missing the mark.

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And this is never more apparent than in the laughably on-the-nose early scene where we learn the origin of Solo's (Alden Ehrenreich) surname. 

At the start of the film, Han signs up for the Imperial Navy as a flight cadet, and the recruiting officer asks for his surname - who his people are.

Han simply replies, "I have no people, I'm alone," to which the officer curtly replies, "Han... Solo."

It's a Movie Prequel Scene so absurdly spoon-feeding as to border on self-parody. 

Did we really need to know where Han got his surname? Couldn't Solo just be his family name? And did the reveal scene have be so corny? If the recruiting officer simply wrote the name down it wouldn't have come across quite so pandering.

Tellingly, though, this is apparently the very sequence which got the film greenlit by Disney's Bob Iger, which really tells you everything you need to know.

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