Full Series Rebel Pilots in Rebels

Which fighter Jockeys would you want to see the most?

Discuss and vote!

 

I want to see Wedge for sure. And having some female pilots would be nice as well.

 

Everyone.

 

Plot Twist: Jek "Tono" Porkins is actually Ahsoka "Tano" in disguise and that's how she dies.

SOMEONE DIAL FILONI IMMEDIATELY! !!!

 

Porkins ate Ahsoka more likely and the extra weight brought his ship down.

 

Porkins, Dreis, and Vander. I've always loved them.

 

Rebel pilots piloting rebel ships in rebels. Sounds good!

 

Red Leader, Gold Leader, and Porkins....the rest might be too young.

 

Wedge, Biggs hold on is that fair just to select one of them?

 

Biggs - might be a bit too early. He was on Tatooine a year before ANH:

"It's only one more season"
"That's what you said last year when Biggs and Tank left"

And in the deleted scenes, and the novelization, he's returned for a short time - and tells Luke he plans to jump ship and join the Rebellion.

 

I want to see some sweet moves.

 

Red and Gold leader. Biggs is around Luke's age so he is probably still on Tatooine during this time. I'd wager that Wedge isn't a rebel pilot yet either, because if he was, he would have a higher rank than Luke during the OT.

 

All of this is very true.

Most of the ANH pilots many of us want to see are likely a way's-off, yet.


But that doesn't mean I didn't still vote for Wedge Antilles.

I definitely await the day when we'll see him again. And hopefully, we'll even get to see him out of his pilot gear at some point.

I think it would be really, really great to see Antilles sporting civilian wear. Maybe even using a blaster:



It was one of the more surface things I liked about Wedge's depiction in the EU. As much as I love the iconic orange Rebel flight suit (and I do), the fact that Antilles wasn't kept tied to just the one look he boasted in the films was awesome. Seeing Wedge in his 'civvies' was like being introduced to a brand new character; one with a whole world of new possibilities.

And I really hope that if we ever see Wedge (or Biggs, or anyone else we're looking forward to seeing) in Rebels, the same will be true there. I know this means additional character models (so, more money), but I really think it pays off big time when animated shows go to the effort of putting their characters in more than just one outfit. Especially in a case like Wedge, where his classic look is based upon a get-up only worn during combat missions. I mean, what pilot regularly wears their flight suit away from the ship?

But you know what? The same is true of the Lothal rebels (give 'em some new gear!). Other than Sabine, I see no reason why the gang needs to continually be seen wearing the same thing, each - and - every - time - we - see - them?

And if we can't hope to see some variety in their outfits, what hope might we ever have of seeing more periphery characters given some love? I'm barking up the wrong tree, here, I know.

Anyway, yes -- I'd like to see some Antilles action.

 

I think Red and Gold leaders from ANH, being veteran pilots would make the most sense. I could see Wedge coming in a middle season. (Season 3 late, or early season 4) Biggs would be cool, but considering he left shortly before Luke he would have to be brought in late... VERY LATE like season 5 or 6.

 

Wedge, Red Leader, and Porkins. Only characters from A New Hope who were noticeably older and/or higher ranking; not everyone possible just for the sake of it.

 

I would like to see Gold Leader (Nervous Y-wing pilot) though.

 

Well, that's what I get for being too lazy to look him up. Should have voted for him too! Thanks for catching that sarlaccsaurs-rex.

 

Red and Gold Leaders; should have included "other" to account for Pops (Gold 5).

 

Yes!!! I forgot about Davish "Pops" Krail.

 

The novelization even calls him "a teenaged pilot with the unlikely name of Wedge Antilles".

 

Well damn, looks like I royally screwed up my vote. I always thought Wedge was older than Luke, but obviously if he wasn't, he doesn't fit my criteria. I actually took his questioning of the Death Star attack plan as a sign of extensive experience with X-Wings and their capabilities, but that doesn't make much sense if he was a teenager.

 

This.

So much 'this' that I will now be thoroughly disappointed if we don't ever see it happen.

 

Why is it that the only characters people seem to want to see in Rebels are the ones we've seen already? With the exception of "other," all the choices are for established characters (and I'm sure that even the "other" is just there to represent established characters that no one thought to include in the list). It reflects a failure of imagination on our parts that we're not excited to see characters we've NEVER seen before. Instead, people are just talking about wanting to see everyone we've ever seen wearing a pilot's helmet before stick their head in to say hi. At best, the storyline of Rebels could only accommodate ONE character of that level of prominence, because if one showed up, you'd want him/her to talk and interact with the cast, you'd want to learn more about them - and isn't Ahsoka already doing that job as a supporting character? To want more than that only risks crowding out the characters that we're MEANT to be following.

One of the things that Disney/LFL has been doing right so far is creating new characters, people that to us are complete strangers but eventually become as familiar as the characters of old. It's been doing that with Rebels, and is planning to do that with the Journey to the Force Awakens book line and, of course, with the ST. And that's what needs to be encouraged, not some pointless fan-wankery meant to appeal to a subgroup of a subgroup of the fanbase. I don't want to see Wedge, Biggs, Porkins, Dak, Zev, or the Leaders Red or Gold - not a damn one of them. I want to see NEW characters, and I want them to be depicted in a way that makes me like them and/or root for them as much, if not more, than we learned to root for Wedge or any of the other choices that have been listed. This show has proven to me that it's absolutely possible to create new characters. And yet all we can think of is the same-old, same-old? Is that the best we can do? Isn't it better for us to want new things that are just as memorable?

Somebody needs to be able to say, "You know what, Disney/LFL? SURPRISE ME."

 

He also seems to be a bit of a dandy, as Wedge is described as "rakishly uniformed".