Talk:Chewbacca/Legends

Birthdate
Marvel Star Wars states that Chewie was 100 years old in 0 ABY: presumably this is overwritten by a newer source. &mdash; Silly Dan 21:39, 19 Aug 2005 (UTC)
 * Another reference to Chewie's birthdate. The Constancia Affair states that Chewie was born Sidereal Era AF-5076, meaning that Chewie is 613 years old as of the Battle of Yavin. Cull Tremayne 01:35, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Beef Curtains
Do we prefer this promo image from WOTC: ? --SparqMan 18:40, 10 Oct 2005 (UTC)
 * I personally prefer the WOTC one. -- SFH 18:47, 10 Oct 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, I actually prefer the one I uploaded. It's more dramatic and it's HUGE. --Master Starkeiller 20:43, 10 Oct 2005 (UTC)
 * I've scanned and cropped an image from Chewbacca 4 that is pretty dramatic, and avoids the cartoonish style of the current image. Thoughts: Image:Chew45.jpg
 * The current one is still bigger and better, I think. --Master Starkeiller 12:33, 30 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * Bigger doesn't matter when it's thumbed in the article. --SparqMan 20:31, 5 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Expansion
While Chewie's appearances were often supporting roles, this article is woefully incomplete. --SparqMan 20:47, 22 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Does anyone know how to handle the new Chewbacca info from Dark Lord? He escaped the slavery on Kash.

I feel that there should be a section in Chewie's page set aside for his life and times with the Solo family. Tales of his exploits with Han, or times when he saves the lives of the Solo children, this sort of thing. Anyone agree? --KeiranHalcyon 20:37, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Chewie's Name
It says his name come from a russian dog,

Is that true, a Japanese woman told me "Chewbacca" was Japanese for "Half Stupid". Double D 02:27, 12 Dec 2005 (UTC)
 * "Baka" IS the word for calling some one stupid. I suppose Chu means half. --Falmarin 20:03, 23 Dec 2005 (UTC)


 * Chew ing to bacco ;) --[[Image:BFguy.gif]]--Inmobilus 22:44, 13 Jan 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, you know chewie had to be rockin the gonj. just look at him, for christs sake. Yoda1300 18:16, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

His death
Why do fan types get all upset about this sort of thing, just engage in a little krypto revisionism, George Lucas has repeatedly broken the "rules" of the expnaded universe, why not do it yourself and just think of Chewbacca as still alive? Not sure if Chewie's death date is unknown, but at least can we have same dates on Chewbacca's main page? Wikipedia states he died in 25 BBY but here we end his life in 19 BBY, only to see the text under his pic saying he died in 25 BBY.
 * Or better yet, remind yourself Chewie is a fictional character - Kwenn 22:46, 13 Jan 2006 (UTC)
 * Blasphemy! -- Doo Doo 06:34, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Those types of fans are the types who just cannot accept the fact of life that living things eventually die at one point. And Chewie's death further strengthens the point that it is a dangerous war they are involved in, not some simple little conflict where all the bad guys diie, and all the good guys walk away laughing. Adamwankenobi 06:38, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
 * That's called reality. ;) -- Riffsyphon1024 06:59, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Good point, it's not really a drama (if you classify Star Wars as drama) if theres no threat to any major players. Doo Doo 10:40, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Indeed. I was getting tired of the 'Han Luke and Leia fight the Empire and walk away laughing' plots. When Vector Prime came out nobody was invincible anymore and there were some new bad@ss villains.
 * Which brings up anothe point. Lucas would have had to know about this, right? So, has he made arrangements for the future? Though I think Chewie went out nobly, who else has this feeling that a Comic Book Death is imminent? Rod
 * Most likely. Lucasfilm Limited has to approve everything published.  See Stackpole on Writing in Someone Else's Universe   -Finlayson

Chewbacca deserved better... OxfordScholar09 02:55, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Lol, to be honest I never really cared for Chewbacca. Now that I know he died I'm all like, "Noooooo." :'[


 * Don’t worry guys, it doesn’t matter what all those people say, I mean, it’s an expanded universe which gives you the opportunity to believe whatever you want to believe. For me, I just believe in the Star Wars Saga, the 6 movies. I don’t even care for the expanded universe. I just Believe in the star wars saga. The 6 movies. I Don’t care for the Expanded universe. I just Think of it as if it never happened. In my heart, Star Wars Ends with the fall of the empire on endor, I mean after all they’ve  been through, I think it’s enough. Who wants to believe in the Yunng vong war or whatever, I mean that’s like saying the receive all  this trouble after defeating the whole Galactic  empire. Chewbacca lives on, Anakin skywalker is redeemed and the emperor is dead. You believe in whatever you want to believe. No one wants to believe in death!
 * Just deal with it people. Canonically, he's dead. If you want to believe he didn't, go ahead. Just don't go adding fanon to articles and removing stuff you don't want to believe. Anyway, you can always go back and read the hundreds of publications in which he is still alive.-- Lord Oblivion Sith holocron[[Image:Oldsith.png|30px]] 23:30, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Agreed, like i said before, Belaive what you want. Thank you user Darth oblivion for helping me make this point to those chewbacca lovers out there.

I may be Yoda's friend but that doesn't mean that I can't like the coolest Wookiee of all time! I mean how could a bunch of low-tech coral brains send a moon to hurt my little fuzzy friend! -Derek Yoda's friend

Death threat
Removed the claim about a death threat until proven. SaintedLegion 17:47, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Itchy quote
I know there's a quote from the comic Chewbacca where Itchy says something along the lines of, "A mere moon couldn't kill my son!" Does anyone have access to that, because that would make an awesome quote for the section on his death or his legacy. Havac 01:40, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
 * "They told me he'd died in a quake... That a falling moon killed him... But, how can a quake kill a wookiee warrior?! How can a mere moon be a match for my son?!" from Chewbacca 1. the Ash lad 02:31, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Marriage
In the Han Solo Trilogy, By A.C.Crispin it states that Chewbacca married mallatobuck after the rise of the Empire. Where as the articles states it happened before the end of the clone wars. In the third book in the trilogy, Rebel Dawn, Chewbacca and Han go to Kashyyyk, after winning the Millennium Falcon from Lando Calrissian.
 * Indeed, that is when Chewie proposes to Mallatobuck. – Aidje talk 03:47, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Slavery canon check
Can anyone confirm the canon status of this, from the current article? I was under the impression Chewbacca himself was a slave.


 * Following the recent turn of events, Chewbacca often attempted freeing Wookiees slaves who had been captured by either the Empire or Trandoshan slavers. On one such endeavor, he became involved in a botched slave transfer between a Trandoshan crew and an Imperial commander named Nyklas. After Chewbacca orchestrated the escape of most of the slaves, Nyklas was infuriated and ordered a young officer named Han Solo to kill the Wookiee (who had been rendered unconscious), Solo refused and was drummed out of Imperial service.

Havac 20:45, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
 * That's what happens in Chewbacca, yes, but he was one of the slaves too, as I recall. - Lord Hydronium 21:01, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
 * No, the story where he is a slave is earlier, it's chapter 3. I believe its chapter 6 with nyklas and chewie rescueing wookiees of another clan. Fritzler 03:11, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

More expansion
Well, the improvement drive is about over. It helped some, but there is still more work to be done. This definitely needs more info from The Holiday Special, Shadows of the Empire, and Return of the Jedi, at least. -- Ozzel 04:21, 7 May 2006 (UTC)


 * SOTE and ROTJ are added. Havac

The beginning of the article says that his son's name is Lumpawaroo, but the rest of the article refers to him as Lumpawarump. I guess this is a typo that needs fixing?
 * Don't think so. His son was named Lumpawarrump until he passsed the rite of passage and was renamed Lumpawaroo.  Looks like this article handles this correctly.   -Finlayson 01:56, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Caption/Quote
I think this article should keep at least one quote [caption or something] by Chewbacca, like "Aaarrg!". -Finlayson 22:26, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * If we could find something he said that was translated into a human language, and that was significant, I'd agree. - Angel Blue 451 22:28, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I mainly meant a caption. But there are a few books that translate Wookie lanuage coments. - Finlayson 22:42, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm all for having a Chewbacca quote, but a caption that simply says "Aaargh!" strikes me as somewhat silly and not very encyclopedic. - Angel Blue 451 23:00, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * but wouldn't it make people smile...which isn't the point i know :P Jedi Dude 23:12, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * What we might consider unencyclopedic may not be so in universe. -Finlayson 23:25, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * But that's not really the point. In any universe, part of something that is "encyclopedic" is that is it is informative.  Readers in this universe can glean absolutely no information from "Aargh" other than the fact that they do not understand the language. - Angel Blue 451 23:30, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * to be honest, if we can find a translated one have it if not, a nice argh will do :P Jedi Dude 23:33, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * But having an idea of the sound IS informative. -Finlayson 23:35, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Still, what's the point if no one understands it? - Angel Blue 451 23:33, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Our Wookiee viewers will! :P Adamwankenobi 00:34, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Kessel Run
This article says their First Kessel run broke the 12 parsec record and their Second one was the cargo drop one. From what I remember from the HS trilogy, they did runs before that. And the record one was racing Salla (& saving her). Anybody know the details? -Finlayson 00:51, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Things to expand
Things to expand:


 * Star Wars comics
 * Dark Empire
 * Dark Empire II
 * Marvel Star Wars/Classic Star Wars
 * Marvel Star Wars 8: Eight for Aduba-3
 * Marvel Star Wars 9: Showdown on a Wasteland World
 * Marvel Star Wars 10: Behemoth from the World Below
 * Marvel Star Wars 46: The Dreams of Cody Sunn-Childe
 * Marvel Star Wars 52: To Take The Tarkin
 * Marvel Star Wars 54: Starfire Rising
 * Marvel Star Wars 59: Bazarre
 * Chewbacca

-- Jaina Solo ( Goddess Stuff )  16:20, 5 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Real good work. FYI: The Marvel comics were republished by Dark Horse Comics under the Classic Star Wars name, e.g. Classic Star Wars: A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and A Long Time Ago...). Fnlayson 21:24, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks Finalyson. Jaina Solo ( Goddess Stuff ) [[Image:Jainasolosig.gif |25px]] 21:29, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

200 BBY to 19 ABY
Why is it called his early life?--Herbsewell 01:25, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Don't know. Seem OK to me.  I can't think of a better term at the moment. Do you have a suggestion? -Fnlayson 01:54, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Well I just wanted to know why 88 percent of his life is considered the early part of it.--Herbsewell 01:14, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Wookiees are considered young their first 100 years or so. Chewbacca at 200 was still a young adult Wookiee.  Other articles use early life too.  Seems fine to me unless there's a better suggestion.  -Fnlayson 18:49, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

chewie a real boy?
did anybody hear that george lucas admitted that chewie was actually a really really really really hairy human and not a "wookie"?

Correction to Sernpidal section ?
I noticed in the Mission to Sernpidal and aftermath article that Han and Chewbacca were "managing to rescue millions of Sernpidalians, using both the Millennium Falcon and various other available freighters." While not attempting to discredit Chewbacca's sacrifice, it is worth noting that on page 235 of Vector Prime it says: "If they didn't find the source, and soon, tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands would die."

Therefore I hereby suggest that the page is edited to show the correct # of Sernpidalians saved through the actions of Chewbacca.
 * I'll check my other sources and see if any list 'millions'. -Fnlayson 21:18, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
 * The Chewbacca comic TPB and New Essential Chronology do not mention any numbers. Vector Prime mentions 111 ships in the convey from Sernpidal.  So probably saved several thousand.  Changing it to 'rescue many (or numerous)' would be better.  -Fnlayson 03:10, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Why is there a quote from Qui-Gon Jinn about Chewbacca? That makes no sense! He dies before anyone even sees a Wookie! Wookieisawesome 11:36, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Heh, apparently Qui-Gon worked with Chewy to colonize Alaris Prime... gotta love this site, u learn something new every day. --Azizlight 11:43, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Qui-Gon Jinn's quote
Why is a quote that Qui-Gon Jinn said on Chewbacca's article? By the way Qui-Gon was talking about Obi-Wan not Chewie.--Windu223 17:32, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
 * The quote is not from Phantom Menace, it's from Galactic Battlegrounds. You might have gotten confused there.  Stake black   msg 18:01, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Pic


Would th is be a good one? It's a portrait and it dosn't cut off any of the head. - Captain Majors