Wedge Antilles was one of the pilots with Luke Skywalker during the attack on the first Death Star. He was "Red Two" whose X-Wing gets a damaged engine. Because of that he leaves the battle instead of getting blown up by "covering" Luke like Biggs.
After that Wedge was in a Snowspeeder on Hoth and was the first one to take down an AT-AT with his tow cable.
In Return of the Jedi Wedge's X-wing takes down the north cooling tower of the second Death Star. He escapes along with Lando and the Millennium Falcon. He was at the celebration in the Ewok village then with the other main characters.
So along with all the main characters: Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie, C3PO, and R2D2, Wedge was the only one who appeared in and survived all three movies.
After that he became the commander of Rogue Squadron in the books. He was eventually promoted to General and used in various ways in some of the lame books. None of that is canon anymore. There's supposed to be a Rogue Squadron movie that's probably not based on the books and video games at all.
The actor who plays Wedge didn't want to appear in the sequels, but he does have a very brief cameo at the end of Rise of Skywalker as a gunner on the Millennium Falcon.
A young Wedge appears in a couple of episodes of Rebels before he went off to join the main Rebel cell.
Anyway, he finally got a Black Series figure made of him:
I'm sure my brother wouldn't mind if they made a prequel movie focusing on Wedge or if he showed up on The Mandalorian or something since Wedge is his favorite supporting character for...reasons.
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I have his black series figure :)
I always liked that he was a pilot and he survived all the major events of the movies, he worked his way up to be a leader, he wasn't a Jedi and didn't have anything about him other than his own skills...kind of the "everyman" that is always fun to see succeed. In a world full of over-the-top heroes and villains and events, Wedge just goes about his job like so many others in the Rebel Alliance that we don't see too often.
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