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Aliases are fine, but often stories use really bad ones. The classic is the Sdrawkcab Alias (especially looking at you, Alucard), but there are other lazy aliases, and themed aliases such as always using the same initials. The whole point of an alias is to make it hard to figure out who you are, yet so many characters in fiction choose obvious ones.
Of course this means in a game you can go either way, depending on your sense of drama or realism.
Commentary by memnarch (who has not seen the movie)
Okay..... everyone's still not panicking or otherwise acting excited..... Not a betrayal by Babu then? I still can't think of any reason for Evil Threepio though, so there's probably something in the movie dialogue that I'm missing that would explain things. Or at least make some sort of sense for the movie. That could just be wishful thinking though; we've already had a number of seemingly nonsensical things show up already. Neat that the character managed to come back from the Sarlacc though!
Hang on. Why would Boba Fett care about any of the PCs here? None of them have met Boba Fett before, or had anything to do with Obi-Wan. Maybe that's how the comic scene is going to play out? Perhaps one of the players realizes that same thing, questions the GM/Boba on it, some more discussion happens, and then Threepio goes back to normal. Mind you, that still wouldn't explain the currently evil eyes or the droid surgery, but that wouldn't be anywhere close to the largest unexplained thing in the last 20 comics.
Transcript
GM: Sally, a note for you.
BB-8: What the hell is going on?
C-3PO: {robotic voice} I am under Babu’s control. My databanks are his to plunder. My mind is his plaything!
Finn: But... why??
Babu Frik: I. Am. Glad. You. Asked.
Rey: Oh, that’s not good.
Babu Frik: Allow us to introduce ourselves. Zorii?
Zorii: <sigh> My name is Zorii Wessel. My sister’s name was Zam.
Poe: Cool!
Zorii: Yeah, hold the applause.
Babu Frik: And “Babu Frik” is but an alias. Zam was my mother. My name is...
Babu Frik: Boba Fett.
Rey: Oh crap...
Finn: Yeah, this feels bad.
Rey: Babu Frik... B.F. ... Boba Fett!
Rey: We fell for the most obvious alias in history!
GM: I just put tasty breadcrumbs out there. It’s up to you to eat glue instead.