Originally posted by: marioxb
See that's what I don't understand. How did anyone NOT always know that deep down Han was a good guy? I knew that from the very beginning. If he was a bad guy, he wouldn't have helped Chewie (before the movie), Luke and Obi-Wan, no would he? No, he wouldn't have. So, duh, he's good. It's easy.

The Chewie thing is EU. Despite that, saving someone from slavery is far different from shooting someone in self-defense (you don't have to wait to be shot at to consider it self-defense). Luke and Obi-Wan were paying him originally. Sure, they didn't get to Alderran, but Han got them back to Yavin on the condition that he would be paid. Yeah, he's a good guy at heart, but he needs to go through some sort of character arc. Without that, he's just a flat good guy character. If he started as plain old good guy, he wouldn't have demanded to be paid to begin with. He would've just said "Nah, it's cool. I'll take you guys back and we'll call it even". There'd be no point to that since there's no character development. He needs to start off as a smuggler/mercenary and then transition to a full blown Rebel.