10 Star Wars Deaths That Should NEVER Have Happened
Those Star Wars characters that were taken way too soon!
Though you could argue that, as Luke Skywalker himself once put it, no one's ever really gone in this galaxy far, far away, there are actually a number of awesome Star Wars characters who have seemingly bit the dust for good (at time of writing).
Admittedly, some deaths are definitely necessary along the way when telling such an epic tale, with the loss of powerful Jedi Masters, despicable villains, and loveable rogues helping to add emotional weight or delivering a much-needed win in various Star Wars projects over the years.
But then there are those sudden fatalities that just felt like a gigantic waste of some of the coolest and most intriguing figures this franchise has ever known.
Now sure, life and death are a natural part of life, even in this fantastical universe, and the following names will have all ultimately still perished at some point or another.
However, those inevitable ends coming later than they did on the small or big screen could have probably resulted in even more wonderful Star Wars moments and interactions down the road.
In short, this bunch had an awful lot more to give in the galaxy far, far away...
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.