Wedge Antilles/Legends

Wedge Antilles is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe. He is a starfighter pilot who fought for the Rebel Alliance and who later served the New Republic.

Wedge is a pilot who joined the Rebellion at age 17 after the deaths of his parents. He flew against the Death Star at the Battle of Yavin, where he uttered the immortal words, "Look at the size of that thing!" Afterwards he founded Rogue Squadron along with Luke Skywalker, which he soon commanded. He led an assault group in the Battle of Endor against the second Death Star. Six years later, at age 27, he grudgingly accepted promotion to the rank of general.

Wedge Antilles appears in the films A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi, as well as in most of the books set after these events. Fans of the Star Wars series explain his popularity by describing him as a survivor: he is the one minor character to survive all three movies without the blessings of 'fate' (i.e. luck and destiny) that allow the major protagonists to survive constant peril and certain death. He is also the only known pilot to have survived each Death Star attack (the anonymous Y-wing pilot from A New Hope may have been in the second Death Star attack, but there is no way to know. Rumour has it that that Y-Wing pilot was Horton Salm, if it was, than he would have participated in both Death Star attacks. There is no real proof of this, so as far as most people are concerned Antilles was the only one).

Wedge took part in founding Rogue Squadron anew after the battle of Endor as commander. A major accomplishment of him, Corran Horn, and other of the newer Rogues was the capture of Coruscant.

Denis Lawson played Wedge in all three films. Coincidentally, he is the uncle of Ewan McGregor, the actor who played the young Obi-Wan Kenobi in the prequel films The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith.

Trivia: During the pre-battle briefing Luke briefly chats with a character seated next to him who scoffs at the idea of successfully hitting such a small target (the Death Star exhaust port). In the shooting script and novelization of the film, this character is identified as Wedge but given his skeptical attitude and the fact that he was not played by Denis Lawson in this scene, many assume that he was one of the other anonymous pilots.