10 Star Wars Deaths That Should NEVER Have Happened

10. Val

Introduced during the spin-off tale known as Solo: A Star Wars Story, Val was a rather spiky criminal seen working alongside the likes of Tobias Beckett and Han Solo early on in the flick.

But then, just as viewers were beginning to warm to the initially quite cold but undeniably cool scoundrel, Val suddenly sacrificed herself in order to give her team the best chance of completing the mission to steal some Coaxium off a transport.

This wasn't actually the original plan, though.

According to the terrific Thandiwe Newton (via Inverse), the star bringing Val to life on-screen, her character actually survived in the script, instead just falling away and disappearing after the aforementioned explosion so she could potentially show up in another Star Wars story.

In the end, the fact that moment was "too huge a set-piece to create" resulted in a change of plan. It was simpler to just have Val die in the scene, as Newton recalled.

But it's hard to argue with the actor's opinion of the entire thing being a "big, big mistake" after Star Wars finally opted to introduce the first Black woman with a "real role" in one of these movies, only to stupidly kill her off within the first 40 minutes.