10 Most Insane Star Wars Fan Theories
3. Han Solo Sacrificed Himself
After the emotional death of Han Solo, some fans struggled to accept the fact that one of cinemas most iconic heroes was gone forever. Perhaps that is where this idea came from, trying to give Han's death more of a purpose and make it less of a tragedy that it was.
In The Force Awakens, Han's son Kylo Ren, is very conflicted and struggles between his dark side behaviour and the pull to the light. His questionable devotion to the dark side made fans speculate that Han's death was in fact a planned sacrifice in order to convince Supreme Leader Snoke that double-agent Kylo Ren was loyal to the First Order.
This idea meant that Kylo was secretly working for the Resistance and Han made the necessary sacrifice to conceal his son's secret. This theory was of course extremely far-fetched and was proven wrong in the later sequels.