The latest addition to the Star Wars galaxy of films may have underwhelmed at the box office, but it did shine a light on a couple new spots of the canon, and established a deeper thread to the Empire with the introduction of Crimson Dawn. It also reunited the two biggest troublemakers the Rebels in the Galaxy.

In a coming-of-age origin story that jumps off a cliff into the emotional baggage of Han Solo, the standout story thread was the genesis of his friendship with Lando Calrissian.

The two are introduced when Solo and one of his first crews has to put together a heist. Business tints their friendship from the moment Han spots that Lando’s a card cheat. With the solid performances from Alden Ehrenreich and Donald Glover, who play Han and Lando respectively, the pair’s friendship is never in doubt. In this case, it feels fated rather than forced, so when they’re taking their place in the Millennium Falcon, alongside Chewie, all the pieces are just falling into place.

Whether they’re the galaxy’s best Odd Couple or just a more conniving Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, a reunion between these two actors is the best reason for a Solo sequel. If the studio has any chance of throwing good money after bad and running a referendum experiment on their spin-offs, a follow up movie could chase the two to Tatooine, and trace the ways the Empire divides the fan-favorite friendship.

To argue the point, here are 25 Han Solo and Lando Calrissian Memes.

Ice Bucket

The ice bucket challenge has nothing on carbonite, but the sensation is probably right up there. There’s nothing else that could quite approximate the sensation of having your entire body frozen, dropping your core temperature to zero degrees, for about a year, and then being thawed. If you don’t have a really good towel, the ice bucket challenge is kind of like that.

The betrayal of Lando Calrissian in Empire Strikes Back, leading to Han and Leia’s capture and return to Jabba the Hutt, is one of the all time double crossings between these two friends.

Even after saving his life, relations between Han and Lando are a little bit better than they should be.

When You Hear About Donald Glover

The skepticism about a Han Solo prequel movie started from the beginning. No one knew how the movie would recapture the magic of Harrison Ford’s original portrayal.

There was no doubt when fans heard that Lando had been added to the movie and would be portrayed by Donald Glover. 

The fan favorite, jack-of all-trades, writer/producer/actor from Atlanta, lobbied hard to land the role of Star Wars’ primary black icon. In response to the body of work that Glover has produced, when he was finally confirmed, audiences were ecstatic.

The Falcon Deal

The center of the movie led Han through his first mission with the Millennium Falcon, where he’s able to break records on the Kessel Run. All through those sequences, the Falcon sadly felt a little small, more like a plot device than a character.

The movie tries to solve this in the end, when she gains her own form of consciousness, but the emotional bond with the ship never quite gets there.

Even though fans didn’t see enough of the ship in this opening movie, it’s unlikely they’ll ever see more of how the Falcon got those years of battle scars.   

Buckle Up, Baby

This scene didn’t actually appear in the movie like it seems in this meme. Han didn’t meet Lando’s line with a classic, Harrison Ford eye roll, but just imagine the conversations that would take place on an extended road trip between these two. Stories that could go on for warp cycles.

Before one is so quick to agree with Han and roll their own eyes at the capes and costumes and jewelry that comes along with Lando Calrissian’s trademark phrases, keep in mind that a touch of class is bound to come in handy in plenty of situations where a softer negotiating touch is needed.

Then and Now

Billy Dee Williams and Harrison Ford were the original actors behind Lando Calrissian and Han Solo. Their performances reinforced one of iconic traits of alternative personalities: a wanderlust.

By their appearance in Star Wars, the audience is reassured. It’s alright that there are these radical forces in society. It exists at every level of the universe - just look at Han and Lando.

If these two can make it, any person with a kernel of good can get there too.

Let this meme celebrate the characters who run away from the black and white. And let it forgive the toll that life takes after thirty years.

Two Finger Wave

Glover made several noticeable attempts to line his performance up with Williams’. His speaking cadence was definitely slower, with more of a drawl to it.

Billy Dee Williams, renowned for his Colt 45 campaign, is one of the Hall of Fame TV pitchmen. Glover even attempted taking on some of the eyebrow movements and twinkling stares Williams has perfected as well.

This stands in sharp contrast to Ehrenreich’s performance behind the titular protagonist. He’s begun to form the makings of a bratty smirk, but is still lamentably far from Ford’s roguish grin.

Disney Watching the First Cut

Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the brilliant visionaries behind The Lego Movie and the rebooted 21 Jump Street franchise, were initially signed on to captain this film through the Star Wars galaxy. Unfortunately, early in the production schedule, they were dismissed from the project and Ron Howard, gracious friend of George Lucas, finished the movie.

Sources say that the root dysfunction between the directors and the studio was in the amount of comedy that they thought should be in the film.

Even if Solo had come out to be as good as Superbad, it would have had a hard time fitting in alongside the rest of the franchise.

Smuggler Swagger

For more sequences like this in Star Wars, the franchise would have to shift away from operatic battles, and more into its space western fringes.

A Deadwood-like town on the Outer Rim is a Star Wars story that could feature every type of card game imaginable.

Or a Cheers based in Naboo might shine a new light on the galactic capital and its society.

So many Star Wars movies are consumed by dire circumstances, missions filled with life or death stakes, and impending doom, that it’s nice to see scenes like this one where the members of this town, or whatever corner of the Galaxy, are existing outside the Jedi/Sith coin flip.

With Friends Like These

The characters in this movie have heard of the Force, but they’re ordinary people living in a world far larger than any one of us could ever imagine. The possibilities for a person to just go to another planet and start their lives over, carry massive implications for the flexibility and unreliability of this community.

All of this is to say that Star Wars space is a lonely place, and the friends that one surrounds themself with are the only way to get through it.

A Friendly PSA

For everyone’s safety, truer words were never spoken. It’s not  a good idea to even presume that any pet-related activities are appropriate for any Wookiees in your life.

If this meme is clicking on any level, take a couple steps and redirect.

The two stars behind Han Solo and Lando Calrissian are behind the scenes here, but for sure these two aren’t going to be filming any PSAs. In fact, if any group of people are taking public safety advice from Han and Lando - good buddies from the smuggling racket - they need to take a couple more steps and keep redirecting.

Ron Howard the Legend

When Disney decided they wanted to move on from its first team of directors, the studio definitely made the right choice in calling in Ron Howard.

Howard rarely relies on actor/comedians to stumble upon the right lines. Howard’s shot and performed a lot of comedy, but he is an actor’s director first, since he started as an actor. He’s also become an amazing technician, in league with Stephen Spielberg, so he’s totally comfortable working with huge studios to pull off $100 million behemoths.

However, there were no themes that flourished, there was never an “aha”, and its ability to draw tears was disappointingly muted. It's especially surprising for a Ron Howard film.

Ocean’s 14

Ocean’s 8 just came out, reminding fans how much they love that franchise and the entire concept of a ensemble heist movie. Donald Glover and Alden Ehrenreich, as shown in this meme, more than look the part for a sequel, or even prequel, to Clooney and Damon’s Ocean’s Eleven, but a Star Wars version would be just as entertaining.

There are plenty of things to steal and reasons to steal them in the Star Wars galaxy.

If knocking over an intergalactic casino is too much of a direct lift, why not make Jabba the unlucky Andy Garcia, and stage a multilayered robbery of his palace?

Road To Kessel

These alternate movie posters present two alternate version of Han Solo movies that take pretty different directions. Both focus on the main obstacle of the movie, the Kessel Run, but either of these two premises might do a better job of explaining the concept than the real movie did, and they do it with radical genre twists.

This first one, “The Road to Kessel” doesn’t let on much, but makes it clear that the whole movie is going to focus on. While the Kessel Run was featured heavily in the real movie, the relationship between Han and his old girlfriend overshadowed almost everything else.

The Kessel Run

“The Kessel Run” is about 95% a chase scene. This one sounds much more like a Smokey and the Bandit take off, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

Smokey and the Bandit also highlighted a primary vehicle, just like this movie would have had to with the Millenium Falcon. This “Kessel Run” movie also looks like a little bit more fun than the Solo fans saw, maybe it also borrows from some of the bank robbery hijinks in the Ocean’s Eleven movie.

Modifications

Han did, in fact, make several modifications to the Millennium Falcon, but they were all in the name of keeping himself and the ship out of the wrong hands. It was miraculous to see the fresh-off-the-line Falcon, clean and white, free from the decades of wear and tear it was boasting when it first debuted in front of audiences, back in the 1977.

New movies have a way of making things that are supposed be old seem anachronistic, but in this story construction, telling a story about a shiny new spaceship - now that they have the effects to make it look better - makes the nostalgia pay off.

Poker Face

Can you imagine how difficult it must be to play any kind of card game, where you have to tell if someone is bluffing, on an interplanetary playing field? Some alien could sit down to the table, they could be impossible to read.

This jab by Lando is probably meant in jest, since the movies imply that Han is the better card player.

Fans see evidence of Han’s abilities when he blocks Lando from cheating.

So which one is harder to read? Maybe part of their partnership is that Lando is going to be a little bit more emotional and bombastic, with Han keeping a cooler head. It's makes them perfect for Rounders-like gambling scams.

Beautiful Friendship

Casablanca in space aside, Lando is actually the more likely club owner of the two.

The relationship that gets lost almost as soon as it’s started is Han’s friendship with Chewie. The two formed a quick bond, but it came across as pretty thin in the movie, which makes sense, since it was their skill sets and not their personalities being what brought them together.

It’s important to keep in mind, in the face of this meme’s suggestion, that Chewbacca will always be Han’s best friend -  otherwise Chewie might start wearing capes and combing his hair all weird.

Dangerous Situations

The irony in this lost piece of protective advice goes as deep as the rabbit hole can. Of course Han can’t help but take the Falcon into dangerous situations.

Han's whole life is a dangerous situation that he carries with him.

Once he walks into that Millennium Falcon, he’s just a smuggler chasing himself around in circles. All of this is probably a way of life Lando already knows, but he says those words anyway, just in case there’s a chance he’ll see either his ship or his friend again.

General Lando

The journey from card cheat to general in the Rebel Alliance is still a long one that audiences would love to see played out on screen. It seems like Lando has one more opportunity to double cross Han before their relationship will break, as of the closing events of Solo.

It’s nice that most of Lando’s deceptions are followed up quickly by grand, good deeds.

If there’s another Star Wars Story that can feature his unique character traits, that arc will simultaneously reinforce the themes of new and old Star Wars.

Leia and Lando

This meme seems to imply that Leia was a little creeped out by Lando’s forward gesture, but she’s a princess.

The future General Organa is certainly capable of being diplomatic around visitors.

Even though that move seems archaic and sexist now, in a distant galaxy that looks like ours, a long time ago in the future, that gesture could have a completely different connotation. Like "I trust you so much I’ll put your hand by my mouth. Out of respect."

You never really know how it’s going to go when the spheres collide and the different sides of the story meet each other; for Han, his character is just coming full circle here.