Biggs and Wedge (Final Fantasy VI)

Biggs and Wedge, also known as Vicks and Wedge in the SNES translation, are temporary playable characters in Final Fantasy VI. They are soldiers of the Gestahlian Empire, and accompany Terra Branford on her mission to Narshe at the beginning of the game. Upon reaching the frozen Esper, however, they disappear and are never seen again.

Ted Woolsey, the game's original translator, translated them as Vicks and Wedge. Vicks was changed back to Biggs in subsequent re-releases. Their names are derived from two Star Wars characters, Wedge Antilles and Biggs Darklighter, both of whom were wingmen and friends to Luke Skywalker at the Battle of Yavin. Both FF6 characters die: Wedge firs, then Biggs. In the movie, Wedge was forced to leave the battle early after sustaining a crippling hit, shortly thereafter, Biggs was shot down. So the order in which the two 'leave' is the same, but the difference being that Star Wars' Wedge didn't die.

Battle
Biggs and Wedge are temporary characters, and have no normal ability. However, because they are always seen riding Magitek Armor, they have access to the Magitek command in place of the Fight command. They come equipped with a Mythril Blade and Buckler, as well as Leather Hats and armor, but they can never be removed.

Dissidia Final Fantasy
Biggs and Wedge make a small cameo in Dissidia Final Fantasy as tutors from the in-game manuals. Biggs jokes about his name being mistranslated as Vicks, but assures the player that it is Biggs.

Trivia

 * Two soldiers called Vicks/Biggs and Wedge appear in Chrono Trigger, as employees in Norstein Bekkler's Tent of Horrors. A V-Jump issue in Japan humorously state that after Valigarmanda made them disappear in Final Fantasy VI, they ended up in the Chrono Trigger dimension and were found by Norstein, who gave them their new jobs.
 * Biggs seems to be a higher ranking officer than Wedge: all but a few of his stats are superior to Wedge's, Biggs is more knowledgeable about monsters, and destroys the barrier blocking the mines. This is reflected in other games such as Final Fantasy IV: The After Years and Final Fantasy VIII, where the Biggs of those games is higher ranking than Wedge. This continued until their cameo in Final Fantasy XII where under the names of Gibbs and Deweg, Deweg appears to be the higher ranking soldier.
 * Early screenshots of the game's Japanese version call Biggs and Wedge, レオ (Reo) and バナン (Banan), respectively. Interestingly, these are the Japanese names of Leo and Banon.