Star Wars fans horrified by shaved Wookie: 'I can't unsee that'

Ever wondered what a Wookie would look like if it had no hair? Well, regardless of your answer to that question, you’re about to find out.

The first Star Wars film dropped in 1997. Since then we’ve had countless comics, TV shows, films, games, books– there are probably thousands if not tens of thousands of unique, official Star Wars stories out there by now.

And yet, even though this is a question I’ve seen asked a million times, it was actually weirdly difficult to find an official interpretation of a bald Wookie… but I did find one.

A few years ago, in a decade that feels far, far away, someone posed a very simple question on the r/StarWars subreddit.

“What does a Wookiee look like, completely shaven (well, shorn?),” asked user isshun-gar, “I guess I think to think of Wookiees as sapient sheep who are not so timid. Sheep get shorn so that wool can be made into clothes and maybe carpets.”

“Wookiees are like walking carpets. What WOULD a Wookiee look like after being completely shorn of their fur / hair / whatever?”

So there’s a bunch of answers in this thread, which are mostly non-canon.

User TheDidact118 shared an image of a Wookie with its hair removed from Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, but this is a behind-the-scenes kind of thing so, not a truly canon answer.

Then another user shared an image from the series Aqua Teen Hunger Force, which obviously isn’t canon but… look if I had to look at a picture of a hairless Chewbacca with udder nipples today, then so do you.

However, I think I have actually, sort of found a legitimate answer to this question.

Mosey on over to the Star Wars Wookiepedia page for the Stereb. Notice anything familiar?

Well, that might be because author John Jackson Miller has said that he told Brian Ching, who designed the Stereb, to draw them like "big hairless wookiee guys”.

That makes it an official interpretation to me. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to clear my browser history.