Fisher pokes fun at herself with the line, "Yeah, I was up for the part of Princess Leia. But who gets it? The girl who slept with George Lucas!"

A slaver was a person who bought, sold, or managed slaves.

The name of this organization was redacted from the text of one of the in-universe letters that made up Death Troopers: Recovered Messages from Purge, a tie-in to the novel Death Troopers.

Manohla Dargis of the New York Times stated that "The big news about “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is — spoiler alert — that it’s good!"

studied drama at the University of Bristol and wrote his undergraduate thesis on "A Marxist overview of popular 1970s cinema and hegemonic discourses".

Skywalker's intention was that the reactivated protocol droid would function as a servant to his mother, helping her with chores around the house while he worked at a nearby junk shop.

«No, I'm not the Wookiee you're looking for.»
―Rorworr attempts to fool a bounty hunter.

Ponda Baba was a fearsome, ill-tempered thug who enjoyed bullying those whom he considered to be an easy target.

Components of what would become C-3PO were originally manufactured on the world of Affa over a century before the Invasion of Naboo. In an early incarnation, C-3PO served as a protocol droid to the chief negotiator for the Manakron system. Additionally, he later claimed that his first job was programing binary…

* Attichitcuk
* Bacca
* Bowdaar
* Chewbacca
* Chuundar
* Dewlannamapia
* Fahraark
* Freyyr
* Grakchawwaa
* Groznik
* Gungi
* Hanharr
* Lowbacca
* Lumpawaroo
* Quagga
* Rorworr
* Salporin
* Tarfful
* Tojjevvuk
* Tyvokka
* Vryyr
* Yarua
* Yubookoo
* Zaalbar
* Jakarro

The 3PO-series protocol droid was a Human-cyborg relations protocol droid produced by Cybot Galactica.

Evazan tried to use his medical knowledge to replace Baba's arm, but the surgery was a failure, almost resulting in Baba's death. The two parted ways, with Baba swearing to impart vengeance on his former partner.

Two typefaces were used in the crawl: News Gothic bold for the main body of the crawl and Episode number, and Univers light ultra condensed for the title of the film.

Bossk, a Trandoshan bounty hunter, had cannibalistic tendencies, as he had not only eaten his siblings before they could hatch, but he devoured his own father, as well.

Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens, marketed simply as Star Wars: The Force Awakens, is the first film of the Star Wars sequel trilogy.

An oddly-shaped brown object, its appearance was similar to that of the planetoid Kessel.

Mehdi Sahmi co-wrote the roleplaying adventure Le facteur X (The X factor) in the French magazine Casus Belli 115.

The use of both "Sister" and "Mother" as forms of address is similar to what happens in the hierarchy of Roman Catholic nuns.

Shesharilian vodka was an alcoholic beverage produced in the Shesharile system.

The Winter Palace is a real palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia.