Star Wars Finally Fixed & Made "Fake Wedge" Canon 40 Years Later
The fan-favorite Rebel pilot Wedge Antilles has a strange doppelganger in Star Wars, nicknamed “Fake Wedge” by fans, who was brought into the ongoing canon 40 years later. Wedge Antilles is a minor reoccurring character in the original Star Wars trilogy, famous for surviving the Battles of Yavin and Hoth and later proving instrumental to the Rebellion’s victory in the Battle of Endor. The humorous “Fake Wedge” issue is explained two different ways by the canon and Legends Star Wars continuities.
In A New Hope, Yavin IV’s Rebel pilots attend a briefing before their attack on the Death Star, where their seemingly doomed mission of maneuvering down the battle station's trench and firing proton torpedoes into a thermal exhaust port is explained. One pilot complains that the shot is impossible even with the Alliance crafts’ sophisticated targeting systems, prompting Luke Skywalker to reassure him by comparing it to shooting womp rats on Tatooine. The pilot, played by Colin Higgins, is intended by the script to be Wedge Antilles, yet he’s played by Denis Lawson during the battle mere minutes later in the film. Lawson continues to play Wedge throughout The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, and content exclusive to canon or Legends, such as Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader.
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Observant Star Wars fans humorously began calling Colin Higgins’ character “Fake Wedge,” though the Legends-era explanation for the discrepancy is that Higgins and Lawson both played Wedge. The Disney-owned modern canon, however, opted to address the joke and explain it with a bit of meta-humor. In the 2017 anthology book, From a
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