Star Wars Explains Why Han Solo Would NEVER Shoot Greedo First
Warning: spoilers ahead forHan Solo and Chewbacca #3!
Perhaps the most controversial change made to Star Wars in its seemingly endless additions and alterations is Han Solo shooting Greedo in A New Hope. While the original movie had Han shoot first, underlining his status as a dangerous rogue, edits later made it so that he opens fire only after dodging Greedo's shot. Now, an early adventure for Han and Chewbacca sheds new light on which version is more in character.
It's no secret that Han Solo is a smuggler with a big bounty on his head. This plays a key part throughout the original Star Wars trilogy. Now, Marvel's Han Solo and Chewbacca is exploring Han's smuggler career, and the events that put him on the wrong side of Greedo and Jabba the Hutt.
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In the comic Han Solo and Chewbacca #3 by Marc Guggenheim and David Messina, Han and Chewie are hired by Jabba the Hutt to find an urn with his dead rival’s ashes. After a series of failed attempts, they find the urn and debate how to steal it. Han immediately rules out breaking in and stunning the woman who owns it, saying, «I don't like shooting people if I can help it.” This mindset ties directly into his later encounter with Greedo, as Han makes it clear he wouldn’t shoot him if the situation could still be resolved peacefully. Here, modern canon doubles down on the idea that even before meeting Luke and Leia, Han wasn't the kind of person to kill if he could help it.
Besides the fact that Disney understandably wants to tone Han Solo down and not have him be a cold-blooded killer, there's a practical character reason for establishing that Han Solo didn't or (more importantly) wouldn't shoot
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