10 Times Star Wars Broke Its Own Rules (And You Didn't Notice)

The Holdo Maneuver was first seen in The Last Jedi, when Vice Admiral Holdo (Laura Dern) suicidally rammed the Raddus into Snoke's (Andy Serkis) flagship, the Supremacy, at near-lightspeed to buy the Resistance time to escape to Crait.

Yet this rubbed a lot of fans the wrong way, because even if you accept the science behind the move, if such an unorthodox move was possible, why haven't we ever seen it before in Star Wars canon?

Why, for instance, didn't the rebels perform a similar move on the Death Star, or the Resistance ram the Starkiller Base, and in turn save themselves a ton of hassle? It feels like space warfare would be totally different if this was always a possibility.

Even accepting that it's clearly a difficult move to pull off, The Rise of Skywalker made an unconvincing attempt to quell miffed fans, dismissing the Holdo Maneuver as a "one in a million shot."

Yet The Last Jedi didn't depict Holdo's act that way, so it basically felt like a limp attempt to sweep it under the rug and stop fans continually questioning it - which, of course, they still do.