Solo: A Star Wars Story - 52 Easter Eggs & References Explained

19. The Angry Gonk Droid

Star Wars Battlefront Gonk
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One of Solo's funniest moments sees L3 leading a robot slave rebellion on Kessel, after she removes the inhibitor chip from one of the droids and instructs it to start enacting every other droid's free will.

This leads to an increasingly chaotic droid rebellion sequence, intercut with the human and Wookiee slaves also staging an uprising, culminating in the glorious, prolonged shot of a Gonk droid stamping angrily on top of a computer console.

Considering the Gonk droids, which have appeared throughout Star Wars media ever since A New Hope, have been routinely mocked for their slow speed and general clumsiness, it was weirdly heart-warming to see one of them actually kicking some a**.

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