--- title: This Car Has a Massive Star Wars Spoiler On It description: The Internet is not happy with a driver who plastered the back window of his car with a major plot point from the newest Star Wars movie. canonical: https://time.com/4179845/star-wars-spoiler-on-car-back-window/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-13T22:40:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:44:42.109Z og:title: People Are Freaking Out Over the Massive Star Wars Spoiler on This Car og:description: Spoilers ahead, obviously og:url: https://time.com/4179845/star-wars-spoiler-on-car-back-window/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: People Are Freaking Out Over the Massive Star Wars Spoiler on This Car twitter:description: Spoilers ahead, obviously twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # People Are Freaking Out Over the Massive _Star Wars_ Spoiler on This Car > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 13, 2016 10:40 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 13, 2016 10:40 PM UTC The Internet is not happy with a driver who plastered the back window of his car with a [major plot point](http://time.com/4156464/star-wars-force-awakens-spoiler-major-scene/) from the newest _Star Wars_ movie. Warning here, again, that major spoilers are below if you haven’t seen _The Force Awakens_. **Read More:** [Here Are the 91 Characters Who’ve Died in _Star Wars_](http://time.com/4112165/every-star-wars-death/) A photo of a black SUV emblazoned with the words, “[Han Solo](http://time.com/4169157/bad-father-han-solo-star-wars-parody-twitter/) dies in _The Force Awakens,_” was recently shared on [Imgur](http://imgur.com/h3PjuCD) and [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/40hqi7/this%5Fguy%5Freally%5Fwants%5Fto%5Fspoil%5Fstar%5Fwars%5Fspoilers/) with the caption, “This guy really wants to spoil Star Wars.” The posts have since been viewed thousands of times and have received a multitude of comments. **Several questioned how long the car would remain in its present condition.** **While others were upset by the tactless move.** **Some were impressed by the prankster’s ingenuity.** **And one person used it as an opportunity to share commentary about the film.** ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4179845/star-wars-spoiler-on-car-back-window/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4179845/star-wars-spoiler-on-car-back-window/"},"headline":"People Are Freaking Out Over the Massive Star Wars Spoiler on This Car","datePublished":"2016-01-13T22:40:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:44:42.109Z","description":"Spoilers ahead, obviously","url":"https://time.com/4179845/star-wars-spoiler-on-car-back-window/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","Star Wars","spoilers","star wars: the force awakens","The Force Awakens","Han Solo"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4179845/star-wars-spoiler-on-car-back-window/","name":"People Are Freaking Out Over the Massive Star Wars Spoiler on This Car"}}]}] ```