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The lifelong strife Chewbacca has experienced serves as justification, perhaps, for barely ever acknowledging his family — okay, we’ve stressed it enough. Like many characters in the Star Wars universe, Chewbacca has known and seen galactic conflict for pretty much his entire existence, only savoring brief periods of peace between some movies. Although he spent some of this galactic tension-filled time as a smuggler, and presumably, a child — Chewbacca was front and center during the Battle of Kashyyyk, the Clone Wars, the Galactic Civil War, the First Order-Resistance War, the Other One, the One with Stars, That Fight With Mom, etc. He’s also been imprisoned and witnessed the enslavement of his people. Plus, as we explained before, he lives with the knowledge that he almost ate his closest friend. Basically, Chewbacca — like thousands of other sci-fi and fantasy characters — is in serious need of trauma therapy.
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