Respect Chewbacca (Star Wars Canon)

[u/mikhailnikolaievitch]

Respect Chewbacca

WHRAAAARGH!

The famed warrior and smuggler Chewbacca proved an integral piece in galactic history throughout his 200+ years of life. Serving as the trusted partner and co-pilot to his lifelong friend Han Solo, Chewie aided the Rebel Alliance during several crucial moments in liberating the Galaxy from the Empire. Chewie continues to fight for the side of good even against the Empire's successor The First Order, his loyalty to his friends remaining even when his friends themselves do not.

Chewbacca is greatly aided by his considerable physical strength, his trusty bowcaster, and his witty remarks.

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Source Key:
Main series films: = IV-VIII
Solo: A Star Wars Story = Solo
Star Wars Comic = SWC
Clone Wars "Wookie Hunt" =WH
Chewbacca mini = CH
Age of Republic Princess Leia = PL
Han Solo mini = HS
Star Wars Adventures = SWA
Galaxy of Adventures = GoA
Forces of Destiny = FoD
Last Shot = LS
Life Debt = LD
Pirate's Price = PP
Star Wars Ultimate Guide = UG

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Strength

• Striking
  • Knocks out a man with a punch that sends the man across a room ^IV
  • Breaks a metal beam, then yanks Han's full body weight ^Solo
  • Slams a man up into the ceiling to incapacitate him ^Solo
  • Punches a man a distance away, then moves cargo Han was struggling with ^Solo
  • Knocks a metal door out of its frame and across a room where it bounces around ^VIII
  • One shots a large alien ^WH
  • Crumbles a chunk of stone ^SWC
  • Shatters a boulder while punching out another Wookie ^SWC
  • Hits a man into a reactor hard enough to kickstart it ^SWC
  • Knocks out several Stormtroopers simultaneously ^SWC
  • Easily sweeps away two attackers to save Han ^LS
  • Shoves a staff into a droid ^CH
    • And again
  • Caves in a Stormtrooper's helmet, punching him a distance away ^CH
  • Punches off a droid's head and dismantles it while overpowering Stormtroopers ^CH
• Throwing
  • Grabs a tentacle monster and throws him into others, toppling them over ^SWC
  • Throws someone overhead ^WH
  • Throws two people out a bar window simultaneously ^SWC
  • Lifts a man overhead and throws him off a building ^SWC
  • Bashes apart a droid, scoops it up, and throws it ^LS
  • Knocks over an assassin droid with a thrown object ^SWA
• Tearing
  • Rips a droid apart ^SWC
  • Pulls apart a train coupling ^Solo
  • Pulls the arms off a droid ^Solo
  • Yanks machinery apart ^WH
  • Tears another droid's arms off ^SWC
  • Snaps steel restraints binding his hands ^LD
• Lifting
  • Holds a man by the leg with one arm ^SWC
  • Holds up a collapsing tunnel until a brace can be put into place ^CH
  • Holds another alien upside down by the leg ^HS
  • Han Solo looks like a child in his arms as Chewie picks him up and swings him around in a hug ^LD
• General
  • Overpowers Lando Calrissian to strangle him ^V
  • Yanks Han around on a chain ^Solo
  • Overpowers an alien who can overpower two people and fling one a considerable distance away ^WH
  • Slams a Wookie into the ground hard enough to crater it ^SWC
  • Overpowers several Stormtroopers and hits someone "like a crashing ship" ^LD
  • Can chop wood faster, if not more sexily, than Han Solo ^SWC

Durability

• Takes a blaster bolt to the torso and is up and moving after a moment ^VII
• Electrocuted an keeps fighting, but put down temporarily after taking a small explosion and stone-busting blows ^SWC
• A toxin puts him out andhas him staggering for awhile ^SWC
• Takes hits from a Wookie who overpowers him ^SWC
  • Overpowering him again ^DV
• Takes a jolt of electricity without more than annoyance ^GoA
• Takes jolts of energy multiple times that immediately incapacitate two others, but is clearly in no fighting shape ^PL
• It takes stun batons longer to put him down than Han ^PP

Speed

• Ducks behind a snowbank before a droid can fire on him ^V
• Dodges a speeder charging him down ^Solo
• Dodges several strikes ^WH
• Dodges blaster bolts ^SWA
  • Even while charging the shooter
  • And while running and carrying another person ^SWA
• Closes the distance to KO a shooter before they can shoot ^CH

Accuracy

• Shoots a Stormtrooper right in the visor, shattering the armor ^LD
• Hits a support structure ina volatile environment to collapse a tunnel ^CH
• Hits the pilot of an AT-STfrom an impressive distance away ^CH

Equipment

• Bowcaster
  • General info ^UG
    • Stormtrooper rifle info for reference
  • Blows crates apart ^PP
  • Blasts send men flying down a hallway ^VII
  • Blows apart a speeder ^VI
  • Creates a large explosion that flings away two Stormtroopers ^VII
  • One shots Stormtroopers and injures Kylo Ren ^VII
  • Blasts away two Stormtroopers ^SWC
  • Has an attachment to fire a grapnel that can hold several hundreds pounds ^LS
  • Shreds through steel ^LS
• Armor
  • Briefly wears armor as a disguise ^CH
    • The armor is impervious to blaster fire
    • Still prefers the free range of movement without it

Misc

• The fiercest foe the bad guys have ever seen ^GoA

[u/Agile_Association427]

Downvoted for being Disney Fanon exclusive. Chewie was much more legendary in true Star Wars. Dude was kicking ass before the Invasion of Naboo occurred.

[u/shmewbacca → u/Agile_Association427]

Im always looking for more chewie legends stuff. What can you recommend? Especially the pre taboo invasion? That'd be cool to see. Books or comics?

[u/Agile_Association427 → u/shmewbacca]

Honestly? The Vong series has Chewie at his best. Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds involves a campaign where Chewie leading a wookiee army in a colonial war prior to the Invasion of Naboo on Alaris Prime against Trade Federation industrialists. In the same game, there's another where he fights and leads a revolution to liberate his home planet from the Empire and Trandoshan slavers.

[u/shmewbacca → u/Agile_Association427]

Doesn't chewie die in the first book of the Vong series?

[u/Agile_Association427 → u/shmewbacca]

He dies kicking ass