Films Wedge Antilles appears towards the end of
Star Wars as "Red Two", an
X-wing pilot and a member of Red Squadron. His considerable dogfighting prowess is shown during the
Battle of Yavin when he saves
Luke Skywalker from being shot down by a
TIE fighter pilot that he could not shake off, picking off the hostile with a
point blank, high deflection angle shot. Along with Skywalker and Biggs Darklighter, Antilles is one of only three X-wing pilots to survive until the final attack runs along the Death Star's trench. However, his X-wing is damaged, and he is forced to disengage before the Death Star is destroyed. He and Luke are the only two X-wing pilots to survive the battle, along with a Y-wing and the
Millennium Falcon. Antilles appears in
The Empire Strikes Back as a member of the newly formed Rogue Squadron. He flies a snowspeeder under the callsign "Rogue Three" against the
Empire's
AT-AT ground assault with
Wes Janson as his harpoon gunner. Their snowspeeder inflicts the first casualty against the AT-AT attack group by firing a harpoon trailing a tow cable into one of the walker's legs and circling the walker several times, causing it to trip and fall and allowing Rebel forces to destroy the walker. After the battle, Antilles is seen and heard wishing Luke a safe trip. Antilles appears towards the end of
Return of the Jedi as the leader of Red Squadron in the
Battle of Endor. Along with
Lando Calrissian, who pilots the
Millennium Falcon with
Nien Nunb, he leads the fighter attack on the second Death Star. His dogfighting prowess is shown again in this battle, as Antilles personally shoots down a number of Imperial
TIE fighters, and appears to easily navigate the narrow and treacherous flight spaces inside the Death Star that lead to its core. When he and Calrissian reach the Death Star's core, Antilles destroys the power regulator on the core's north tower, while Calrissian destroys the core itself. He later appears at the victory celebration at the Ewok village on Endor, apparently the only surviving member of his fleet. Antilles appears, once again played by Denis Lawson, in the final installment of the
Star Wars sequel trilogy,
The Rise of Skywalker. He is seen manning a gun turret on the
Millennium Falcon during the battle between the
Resistance and the
Sith Eternal, shortly after the death of his stepson Snap. Lawson had previously been asked to appear as Wedge Antilles in
The Force Awakens, in the narrative role the character
Poe Dameron was ultimately created for, but declined due to scheduling conflicts. Antilles is not seen on screen in the spinoff film
Rogue One, but his voice is briefly heard over the intercom in the Rebel base on
Yavin 4. He was intentionally omitted from the film's climactic battle in order to avoid a continuity error with the first
Star Wars film, which takes place immediately after
Rogue One. In that film, he utters the phrase "Look at the size of that thing!" which would have made less sense if he had already seen the Death Star at Scarif.
Television In the television series
Star Wars Rebels, Wedge Antilles is voiced by
Nathan Kress. He first appeared in the episode
The Antilles Extraction, the fourth episode of the third season. The episode establishes Antilles's canon backstory as an Imperial TIE fighter pilot who with the help of Sabine Wren defected from the Empire, and joined the Rebel Alliance. Antilles later appeared in the episode "Double Agent Droid," the nineteenth episode of the third season, and again in both parts of the third-season finale
Zero Hour, the twenty-first and twenty-second episodes, respectively. Antilles' last appearance in
Rebels was in the first part of "In the Name of the Rebellion", the third episode of the fourth season.
Novels Wedge Antilles is featured in the
Star Wars: Aftermath trilogy by
Chuck Wendig, consisting of the novels
Aftermath (2015),
Life Debt (2016), and ''Empire's End'' (2017). In this series, Antilles establishes a new unit called Phantom Squadron, which sees action on the planets Kashyyyk and Jakku. Following the Battle of Jakku, which ends the Galactic Civil War, Antilles relocates to Hosnian Prime, where he serves as a flight instructor. Antilles makes a brief appearance in
Claudia Gray's 2015 novel
Star Wars: Lost Stars, in which he recruits Thane Kyrell, one of the novel's protagonists, into the
Rebel Alliance. Antilles later moves to the planet Akiva where he retires with
Norra Wexley. The two appear in the 2019 novel
Star Wars: Resistance Reborn where they join a Resistance mission to save some political prisoners on
Corellia. He is the stepfather of Resistance fighter pilot
Snap Wexley, played in the sequel trilogy by
Greg Grunberg.
Legends In April 2014, most of the licensed
Star Wars novels and comics produced since the originating 1977 film
Star Wars were rebranded by Lucasfilm as
Star Wars Legends and declared non-canon to the franchise. Wedge Antilles appears in the 1983
Marvel Star Wars comic "Hoth Stuff!", in which it is revealed that he went missing during the Battle of
Hoth. Aboard his ship, Luke and
Leia listen to his log tape recounting how he survived the Imperial invasion by hiding with Janson in the AT-AT Luke took down. They were later prevented from contacting the Rebellion by orbiting TIE fighters and had to face
wampas and other dangers. Janson was eventually killed by scavengers; Antilles then stole one of their ships to escape the planet and contact the Rebellion. He suddenly appears outside one of the windows, after working on the ship from space. Leia also states that he and Luke grew up together on
Tatooine, which Antilles seems to confirm in his log by mentioning a girlfriend he had there.
Star Wars Legends literature explains that Antilles' parents were killed when their
starship-refueling depot exploded. He piloted a freighter before joining the
Rebel Alliance as a
starfighter pilot. Antilles is the lead character in most of the
Star Wars: X-Wing novels by
Michael A. Stackpole and
Aaron Allston, set in the
Star Wars expanded universe. Several
Dark Horse Comics series focus on Antilles and Rogue Squadron, and the character also appears in other expanded universe works including
The New Jedi Order and
Legacy of the Force novels. Antilles is one of two main
player characters in the
Rogue Squadron video game series (Luke Skywalker is the other), and Antilles appears as a minor character in
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, helping the player during one mission. He is also a playable character in
Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars. ==In popular culture==