Needles

Needles was a Corellian male who lived as a drag racer in Corellia. Needles was known as the best street drag racer and was a friend of Han Solo. At one point of his life, Needles attempted to pull a move while driving a vehicle but it failed and the subsequent crash killed him. Ten years before the Battle of Yavin, Solo and the Wookiee Chewbacca performed the same move while escaping from the Galactic Empire forces at the Maw Cluster and succeeded, unlike Needles, as Han recalled.

Behind the scenes
Needles was mentioned in the 2018 Star Wars Anthology film Solo: A Star Wars Story. Writer Jon Kasdan revealed on his Twitter account that Needles' name is a reference to Dougles J. Needles, a character who appeared in the second and third films of the Back to the Future trilogy.

Appearances

 * Solo: A Star Wars Story