20 Things You Somehow Missed In Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

10. Finn's Number Is A Tribute To A New Hope

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Returning to those harder to notice nods to the Original Trilogy during The Force Awakens, one-time stormtrooper Finn's First Order number of FN-2187 actually connected him to the galaxy's favourite princess.

Those digits that following the letters that inspired his new name were actually the very same ones called out by Han Solo in A New Hope when the gang discovered which cell Princess Leia was locked inside of on the Death Star.

And that number popping up in Episode IV was also an intentional reference to Arthur Lipsett's short film 21-87, a flick that inspired the mind behind the galaxy far, far away George Lucas' eventual flick by the name of THX-1138.

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