Star Wars Fans Defend Chewbacca After Pro-Trump Mob Sends Him Trending

Even with the investigation still underway into Wednesday’s attack on the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump’s supporters, there’s one thing you can be sure about: Chewbacca had nothing to do with it.

Photos of the rioters that appeared online showed a reported QAnon enthusiast named Jake Angeli wearing a strange Viking-like getup that inspired jokes the outfit was a Chewbacca bikini.

Soon, the Star Wars character was trending on social media.

Plenty of people loved it, apparently thinking Chewbacca bikini was appropriately demeaning for a member of the mob.

However, as Uproxx points out, Star Wars fans had a different take.

Many Star Wars fans defended Chewie on Twitter, not wanting the lovable, furry-faced hero from a galaxy far, far away to be linked to Trump-supporting rioters and mayhem that left four people dead.

The overall message was simple: “Stop calling that Trump terrorist ‘Chewbacca.’”

See the tweets below: