8 Star Wars Moments You Never Got To See (But Are Canon)

8. Chewbacca Actually Got A Medal Too - A New Hope

The issue of Chewbacca's medal - specifically the lack thereof it in A New Hope - has been the subject of fan discussion and general memery in the Star Wars fandom for quite some time.

Chewie did just as much as Luke Skywalker and Han Solo during the Battle of Yavin, so why wasn't he too presented with a Medal of Bravery at the ceremony? Does the Rebellion secretly have something against wookiees? Either way it's a weird oversight on their behalf, and you do have to feel for poor Chewbacca as his other pals soak up the spotlight behind him. (No wonder he lets out a big scream at the end.)

Chewbacca's missing medal was even addressed in The Rise of Skywalker, where Maz Kanata gives Chewie Han's own, seemingly righting one of the great big injustices of the galaxy far, far away.

But (and this is sort of true to form for Episode IX, given the other things it contradicts throughout the Star Wars timeline), Chewie WAS given a medal after the Yavin ceremony back in Episode IV, which was first established in Legends material and then brought into the new canon with Smuggler's Run: A Han Solo & Chewbacca Adventure, which released in 2015.