ST Chewie really missed?

So... After Kylo kills Han and he's shot in the leg by Chewie could we understand this as a missed shot by Chewie or he couldn't really kill Kylo? I've been thinking over this a lot and it would be obvious to assume old Chewie had feelings for Ben.

 

It's the only plausible reason as to why Chewie's shot was not deadly.

 

I thought he was shot in the abdomen, no? Or at least to the side...

 

Thanks for confirming. So It probably would have been a deadly shot, had it hit a 'regular' person.

 

He shot him in the stomach, so I don't think it was a purposeful miss. Based on how powerful that gun was shown to be, the blow should have killed Kylo. But it didn't. So no. I don't think Chewie did it out of compassion.

Plus, he was also very far away. Wasn't an easy shot.

 

I thought it was very self explanatory.

 

It was a gut shot (I believe that the novelization mentions that straight up). And Kylo was definitely punching his gut/side later on (at least I thought so).

Frankly the fact that he was even still conscious after that is impressive (given that it not only killed everyone else who got shot with it, it destroyed them).

 

He went for the kill and caught him with a glancing shot.Chewie had just seen his best friend murdered he definitely wanted to take out Kylo.

 

Chewie has to kill Kylo now, it's part of his culture. The whole life debt thing.

 

I was assuming also that, whilst Kylo was distracted enough to be shot, he was just cognisant enough at the last moment to use the force to "absorb" some of the power of the bolt. In addition, he may well have some defense built into his robes/under armour - for instance they seem to offer some level of protection against lightsabre strikes, as does Vader's suit when Luke glances his arm in ESB. There is a bit of a parallel with Vader absorbing/deflecting Hans blaster shots in ESB as well. To what degree is this the force or Vader's armour/blaster resistant gloves?

 

Vader and Kylo are also able to mostly shrug off lightsaber strikes to their shoulders (which I think was a deliberate callback to ESB btw).

 

No longer canon, as far as I am aware.

Based on what we can deduce from the films, Chewie shot Kylo because Kylo just killed his best friend, not because of "life debt."

 

Yeah his reaction was more "blind grief-filled rampage" and less "deliberate choice."

 

His firing was an automatic reaction to seeing Han killed. We know Chewie is a deadly accurate shot, but this isn't just some random enemy this is Han's son who Chewie would have known since birth and was probably like a furry uncle to.

He was angry and grief stricken, but would have also had feelings about the boy he knew as Ben. His missing was probably a subconscious reaction. He was angry and grief stricken about Han's death, but found it difficult to shoot Ben, even if he was now Kylo.

 

He couldn't see through all his tears.

 

I'm sure there's a little bit of both in there.

 

I don't think there is a such a thing a mercy shot in the gut nor would such a shot from that distance be counted as a miss.

Almost anyone else would be dead even if it wasn't dead center of mass.

 

Considering the distance, it was an amazing shot. Hit almost center of mass. Anyone would die from that, Kylo had to use the Force to stay alive.

 

I think Chewie full on intended to kill Kylo in that moment, as an automatic reaction. However, having time to reflect he would probably be very conflicted. Probably relieved he did not kill Ben, but angry he did not at the same time. He HAD to love Ben Solo...

 

Yeah, that's the only plausible reason why Chewie didn't get to kill Kylo... Even if his aim was good and that shot was darn accurate, I suspect that Chewie was not willing to outright shoot Ben / Kylo dead because the villain was someone he loved and cared for, since a child!


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Surprised to not see this posted...

Spoiler

 

That is 1 sad comic strip.

 

I saw that in Facebook, still makes me tear up. Poor Chewie.

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