Star Wars fans heartbroken over brutal death of fan-favourite

Star Wars fans are once again talking about the travesty of Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker, and landed on an interesting point about Chewbacca’s “death.”

Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker is not a good film, and while I’m open to hearing differing opinions I’m adamant that nothing will ever convince me otherwise.

To say it was the end of the trilogy you’d expect big things from it, but it simply didn’t deliver a satisfying conclusion

My biggest issue with the ninth Star Wars film is it relied far too heavily on cheap shock-factor moments like Chewbacca getting blown up on a ship, only for him to be fine moments later.

In a Reddit thread talking about the film one fan said “Rise of Skywalker had a lot of scenes I would consider fan service, but those scenes ended up p****** fans off more than bringing them joy. There were some beautiful shots in the film though.”

This was followed up with a comment saying “Chewbacca dies, everyone! Just like the EU! JK” which launched a separate conversation about an extended universe comic where Chewie gets killed off.

Apparently, he “gets crushed by a moon”, not the fate I’d expect for the character and it sounds like it rubbed a lot of people the wrong way.

“Lots of people STILL complain about Chewie's death in Vector Prime” said one commenter, going on to say “and it's been over 25 years.”

You just can’t mess with comfort characters I guess, like when I played the Endor DLC for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and felt genuinely bad for killing Han, Chewie and Leia as part of the mission.

That said I honestly would have preferred it if Chewie actually did die in Rise Of Skywalker, and have Rey deal with the aftermath and disgust from her allies for losing control and making it happen.