Everybody’s favourite Star Wars character was actually killed off as soon as

I’m not saying I would like lovable characters to die or something, but it surely does really feel like Star Wars, a minimum of just lately, has an actual problem with being daring sufficient to kill its darlings. That wasn’t the case on this explicit Legends story, although, with an iconic fixture of the franchise assembly his maker for actual.

Star Wars stretches throughout a variety of various mediums as of late, from comedian books, to video video games, and every thing in between. So, if watching the Star Wars films so as doesn’t give you the form of kill rely you’re craving, I could have an answer for you. In actual fact, in the event you actually like the concept of the perfect Star Wars characters biting the mud, I’ve simply the story.

Within the Star Wars Legends timeline – which primarily covers the literary works of a galaxy far, far-off – none aside from Chewbacca is killed off in devastating style within the novel The New Jedi Order: Vector Prime. That’s proper, there’s a model of the Star Wars collection the place the great Wookiee not exists.

All of it occurs in 25 ABY (after the Battle of Yavin). Chewbacca, who’s on the planet Sernpidal, is mainly collateral injury when Dubido, one of many planet’s moons, crashes out of orbit.

Now, that sounds fairly grim, but when it helps in any respect, Chewie does die a hero’s demise. Earlier than he’s killed, Chewbacca manages to avoid wasting Han Solo and Princess Leia‘s son, Anakin. With the teenager caught in perilously excessive winds, Chewie doesn’t suppose twice in speeding out to avoid wasting what’s, in principle, his nephew (sure, I do know that doesn’t work biologically, however the concept of Uncle Chewie sounds too candy to disregard).

As soon as he returns younger Anakin to the Millennium Falcon, Chewie himself is swept away by the winds. Clearly, Han tries to avoid wasting his previous pal, but it surely’s not doable, and Anakin makes the tragic but comprehensible choice to fly the Falcon away to avoid wasting himself, his father, and the refugees they’d on board, understanding Chewbacca is a misplaced trigger.

Hear, I like Chewie as a lot as the following Star Wars fan, however actually, this storyline is fairly cool and reveals plenty of braveness from the author, R.A. Salvatore. It’s quite a bit higher than The Rise of Skywalker’s try and trick us into considering Rey had by accident killed Chewbacca, solely to disclose he was on a unique First Order ship that we didn’t see earlier than. Sure, I’m nonetheless offended about all of that Star Wars film.

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