10 More Star Wars Fan Theories That Became Fact
6. Han Solo Dies At The Hands Of His Son
After trying to get his loveable smuggler killed ever since the days of the original trilogy, Harrison Ford finally getting his Han Solo death wish in Episode VII - The Force Awakens did feel a bit inevitable.
Exactly how that death would go down, though, was still something many fans enjoyed theorising about.
As revealed in this The Guardian piece published before the film's release in 2015, some even felt that Solo could actually be murdered by his old pal Luke Skywalker in the first entry into the sequel trilogy.
In this theory, Luke would strike down Solo as a way of saving someone else. That certainly would have made for a quite heartbreaking visual, witnessing one icon being forced to cut down another on the big screen. But while that shocking theory obviously never made it into theatres, the same couldn't be said for the one found directly underneath it.
That rumour/theory involved Solo being dispatched by his own "alleged" son Kylo Ren.
And what do you know, a whole eight months after that article was published that's precisely what went down within Starkiller Base, with Adam Driver's former Ben Solo stabbing his paps with a lightsaber.