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Quote1 If you want something bad, you have to fight for it. Step up your game, Scott. Break out the "L" word. Quote2
Wallace Wells

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (film)

Wallace Wells (b. July 1979)[2] is Scott Pilgrim's cool gay roommate and is one of the seven main characters in the Scott Pilgrim franchise.

Wallace acts as Scott's voice of reason, with the two meeting each other in college when Wallace asks him a question during a lecture. He and Scott now live together, sharing a double bed as they are unable to afford two separate mattresses. While living together, nearly all of the furniture in their apartment is owned by Wallace. While he jokingly shows interest in Scott on several occasions, Wallace is almost always seen to be in a relationship with many other male characters throughout the series.

Wallace is very open about his homosexuality, and almost always displays a snarky yet easy-going personality. While Wallace does often make fun of his friends, mainly Scott, he is shown to have a genuine sense of care towards them, expressed most prominently through his hatred of Envy Adams on Scott’s behalf. When his and Scott’s landlord gave them notice to move out, Wallace encouraged Scott to take his relationship with Ramona Flowers to the next level of maturity.

Later, he reveals that he has already signed a lease with his boyfriend Mobile so he is not available to be Scott's roommate any longer even if Scott can't mature.

His character is based on real-life Beguiling Manager Chris Butcher, who was Bryan Lee O'Malley's former roommate.

History[]

Scott Pilgrim graphic novels[]

Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life[]

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Wallace flirts with Jimmy at Club Rockit.

Wallace is introduced as Scott's cool gay roommate in Volume 1. He meets up with Scott's girlfriend, Knives Chau, to which he proclaims that she is too good for him. After Scott meets Ramona for the very first time at Julie's party, Wallace directs him to Amazon.ca, to let Scott rent a video in the hope of meeting Ramona again. After Scott bragged about spending the previous night with Ramona, he tells Scott that he should break up with Knives. Wallace attends Sex Bob-omb's gig at Club Rockit and starts shouting at the members of Crash and the Boys. He eventually meets Jimmy, Stacey Pilgrim's boyfriend, and starts kissing him as Stacey looks on angrily.

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World[]

In Volume 2, Wallace continues to put pressure on Scott to break-up with Knives, and tells him that if he doesn't do so, he would tell Ramona all about Knives. Scott angrily tries to dismiss that they are in a relationship and he begins to rant at Wallace as he leaves the bus. Later, Ramona arrives at Scott and Wallace's Apartment and meets Wallace. Scott tells Wallace to leave which he does.

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Wallace gets shouted at by Scott after he tells him to break up with Knives.

The next day, Wallace asks Scott if he is alright as he has a weird ominous feeling of something, which is revealed to be Stacey meeting Ramona. Wallace reads out his dossier on Lucas Lee to Scott, who is not paying attention. After Scott asks if he can go back to "training", Wallace tells him to do five hundred push-ups. Wallace later gets a phone call from Knives who asks if he knows where Scott is. Knives arrives at the apartment and Wallace promptly asks her to leave.

Later, Scott and Wallace visit Casa Loma and meet Lucas Lee, who attacks Scott after Wallace swiftly walks away. After being thrown into Casa Loma, Wallace, Kim, Young Neil and Lucas look over Scott's body, with Wallace asking Scott if he was ok. Wallace watches Lucas get defeated after Scott tricks him into demonstrating his skateboarding skills on the rails. Wallace tells Scott to "suck it up" when he starts complaining about how his fight with Lucas was the "worst fight ever!"

Wallace keeps getting calls from Scott who is playing Sonic 3, to which he asks Wallace if he knows the cheat code for the game. He tells Scott to stop calling him, to which Scott pleads him not to hang up. Wallace ends the call after asking Scott if he has anything else better to do. Wallace returns home from work, seeing Scott laying on the floor where he figures out that Envy has called Scott, which resorts to Scott panicking on the floor.

Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness[]

In Volume 3, Wallace meets up with Scott and Ramona in Pizza Pizza where he is with Other Scott. Wallace learns about Scott and Envy meeting backstage, to which Wallace replies "that unbelievable bi*ch". Wallace stops mid-way through the conversation by asking Scott if he is wearing his shirt, to which Ramona interrupts by bringing up Envy again. Wallace tells Scott that he has met someone, Mobile, to which he claims is "slightly intense". Wallace tells Ramona that they should be friends based on mutual hate.

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An angry Wallace eats pizza after finding out about Scott's encounter with Envy.

Wallace makes his way back to his apartment after dropping Mobile off at the bus stop, where he finds Scott sleeping outside having forgot his keys. Wallace tells Scott that Mobile is psychic, to which Scott immediately asks Wallace if he could get training from Mobile to which he dismisses.

In a flashback scene, Wallace can be seen hanging out with Scott, Stephen and Envy. After getting a wrong impression of her, Wallace tells Scott that he expects to break up with her. Later, Envy asks how he met Wallace to which Scott explains that they met in university and started to hang out.

Wallace continues to try to make Scott feel better following his encounter with Envy by making bacon and telling him that the past is the past and that he should get over Envy.

Wallace attends Scott and Todd's skirmish at Honest Ed's where he calls Envy an "unbelievable b*tch" after she tells Wallace that Scott's handicap is that "he isn't a survivor". After Honest Ed's collapses and the skirmish results in a draw, Wallace sarcastically asks Envy if she had any more bright ideas. Wallace later witnesses Ramona and Envy's fight to which he tells Ramona to "break her horsey ol' face" which Envy responds to in anger - and tells Ramona that Envy has a small brain. After Envy leaves Toronto, Wallace proclaims to Scott that her exit is good riddance to bad rubbish. Wallace tells Scott that the world loves him and that he should look to the future with positivity.

Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together[]

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Wallace phones Scott.

In Volume 4, Wallace and Scott go shopping, where he tells Scott that they need to go and visit Peter, the landlord of their apartment in regards to the rent payment, to which a reluctant Scott tries to avoid. Wallace then asks Scott how his relationship with Ramona where he asks him if they have got around to using the "L" word, which Scott believes is "lesbians" but after failing to let him guess, Wallace says "love".

Wallace phones Scott on a very hot day, and tells him that there is a heat wave warning in effect, Wallace tells Scott to get out of his bed and go out. Wallace later returns home and sees Scott in the apartment, thinking he stayed there all day despite going to the mall and reuniting with Lisa. Wallace then pours a glass of cold water for himself whilst Scott, scorching in sweat tries to get a glass but to no avail.

Wallace again rings Scott to remind him that they should go and see Peter about the rent, Scott again tries to duck out of it by asking Wallace if he could do it by himself. Scott asks Wallace if there were any jobs going at his workplace, Wallace replies by asking Scott if he even knows where he works, Scott then attempts to lie saying it was for a friend, Wallace then hangs up.

Scott returns home to find that Wallace is hosting a house party, he toasts Scott and asks him if he wants to tag along with his friends to which Scott declines in favour of meeting Ramona. Later, Scott and Ramona return to Scott's apartment to find that Wallace never left after getting drunk. He tells Scott and Ramona that they "can all means cuddle" after Scott tells Wallace that they were planning on making out. Ramona leaves the apartment after Scott tries to take Wallace's advice.

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Wallace tells Scott to act serious as they meet their landlord.

The next day, Wallace and Scott visit Peter in regards to the rent for the apartment who tells them that their one-year lease is up for renewal and that they should now pay on a monthly basis. Peter orders Wallace and Scott to leave by the end of the month if they can't make a decision. Scott and Wallace leave silently and both tell each other that they'll see them later. They both briefly discuss about the apartment but later divert to talking about Scott's relationship with Ramona.

After Scott walks in on Wallace having a fling, he kicks Scott out and gives him money for a taxi and tells him that he was fired from his job at The Happy Avocado after he confronted Roxie. Scott then promptly leaves and stays with Lisa at her sister's apartment.

Wallace and Scott ultimately decide to move out of their apartment, with Scott moving in with Ramona, and Wallace signing a lease on a new place with Mobile. Wallace is later seen at Lisa's leaving party as she prepares to leave for California.

Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe[]

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Wallace giving Scott some eggs.


In Volume 5, after Ramona kicks Scott out, he temporarily moves in with Wallace and Mobile at their place after Ramona tells him that she needs time to herself following Scott's battle with the Katayanagi Twins. Wallace makes bacon and eggs for himself and Scott as the latter flicks through a photo album which Wallace finds after Scott asks him if he could get more intel on Ramona's evil exes. The photo album has pictures of Gideon Graves, Ramona's seventh evil ex.

Scott once again stays with Wallace after he is locked out of Ramona's apartment. There, he meets Wallace's new roommate, Mobile, who mistakes him for Gideon.

Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour[]

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Wallace greets Scott at the Chaos Theatre.

In Volume 6, after Scott gets a new apartment, Wallace comes to visit and reminds Scott that he will inevitably have to face Gideon in order to date Ramona. Scott doesn't listen and continues to play video games. He encourages Scott to get out of the house and meet women.

Wallace later meets up with Scott at a store where he tells Wallace about meeting Envy again. Wallace tells Scott that she's a devil. Wallace then later tells Scott that Envy was 25, not 24 as he thought, and that she hosted a party with David Bowie in attendance, which he read about in Italian Vogue. Wallace then later buys Scott sushi.

Wallace later forces Scott to go to further in the "Great White North" on what he described as a "wilderness sabbatical" to cleanse his mind and then train.

Scott sees Wallace and Other Scott as he arrives at Chaos Theatre as Scott prepares to fight Gideon. Wallace encourages Scott to stay a while and have a drink. After Gideon confronts Scott, Wallace sarcastically shouts to Scott that the guy he is confronting "might be Gideon". Wallace watches on as Gideon stabs Scott during the battle, which is in complete shock by.

When Scott gains an extra life, Wallace watches on as the fight continues and looks in shock as Gideon reveals his ex-girlfriends who are cryogenically frozen. As Scott continues to fight Gideon and exchanges words and insults to him, Wallace shouts at Scott, telling him to have better comebacks. Wallace is once again in shock after Gideon stabs Ramona.

Wallace watches on as Scott and Ramona defeat Gideon once and for all and tells them both that they are meant to be.

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World[]

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Kieran Culkin as Wallace Wells in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

Quote1 Step your game, Scott. Break out the L-word.
Lesbian?
No, the other L-word.
Lesbians?
Quote2
Wallace Wells

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (film)

Wallace Wells is portrayed by Kieran Culkin, the younger brother of Macaulay Culkin. Kieran has been featured in many works such as Succession, Home Alone, The Cider House Rules, Igby Goes Down, The Dangerous Lives Of Altar Boys, The Mighty, Lymelife, and Paper Man. In the film, Wallace exhibits the uncanny ability to text information at high speed, informing Stacey about Scott Pilgrim's dating problems (Pilgrim calls him a gossipy bitch) in an instant, even while barely conscious. He also eavesdrops on Scott's phone conversations on occasion. He does not train Scott nor does he prepare Intel on his roommate's potential adversaries, but rather provides emotional support and advice from the sidelines, comforting Scott when his problems become difficult.

In the movie, his desire to throw Scott out of their apartment is more apparent and immediate, although in deleted scenes he offers to let him sleep on the floor (with blinkers and earplugs to avoid seeing Wallace with his boyfriends). Wallace seems to have an 'open' relationship with Other Scott as well as with Jimmy and another unnamed boyfriend (named Chris in the deleted scenes). When Ramona disappeared during Scott’s fight with Lucas Lee (Chris Evans) (Ramona's 2nd evil Ex) and refused to call Scott back, Knives came to see if Scott was home, leading to Wallace (attempting) to hide Scott from Knives (Scott just ended up jumping out the window).

Similarly to how Wallace acts within the comic book series, he despises Envy Adams in the film for her treatment of Scott and has forbidden the use of her name in his home. He drops his snarky and dry personality for a more kind and considerate persona after Envy calls Scott, attempting to offer genuine comfort to him.

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game[]

Wallace is one of the many background characters in the game. You can also find him manning a secret shop found in World 1 that can sell you expensive items ($100 and up) which can massively boost your stats. His shop is the most useful as he sells Bionic Arms (Bionic Commando reference) which increase your power by half, and Speedy the Porcupine (Sonic the Hedgehog reference) which increases your speed by half, both items can be purchased twice. Playing the level over and over again four times is a surefire for easy bionic arms if you use the hidden Subspace routes.

Wallace was added as a playable character in the March 13, 2013, DLC pack "Wallace Wells + Online Multiplayer." As a playable character, Wallace is a simple reskin of Stephen Stills, using almost all of Stephen's attack animations with slight differences (the most notable ones being a rainbow special effect in his uppercut and him kissing the enemy he grabs instead of headbutting the enemy). Wallace even uses the same Knives striker as Stephen, in which Knives jumps upwards and diagonally throws large sais at all opponents. However, Wallace has different animations while walking, celebrating a stage clear and taunting. He is the only playable character whose ending, showing him sitting on a fancy armchair, is textless. It is a parody of the "Bad Ending" in Streets of Rage, where the hero becomes the new crime lord after beating the final boss.

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off[]

Quote1 I decided the only thing better than being me, was getting paid to be me. Why be Wallace Wells for free? Quote2
Wallace's interview in Scott Pilgrim Takes Off'

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Wallace pitched an idea to the film’s director in Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off begins similarly to the two major previous adaptations of the Scott Pilgrim story, featuring Wallace as Scott's snarky cool gay roommate- however, as the story branches off when Scott goes missing, Wallace's life heads in new directions too.

Wallace finds himself cast as himself in Young Neil's film adaptation of Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life, due to him heckling the previous actor tasked with playing Wallace (Who would later return as one of Wallace's stunt doubles). Todd Ingram, playing Scott in the movie, and his co-star Envy Adams (playing Ramona) repeatedly ruin takes due to their frequent make-out sessions, inspiring Wallace to advise the film’s director to allow his and Todd's characters to kiss instead. This leads to Wallace and Todd having an on-set fling behind Envy's back, with the two repeatedly “running lines in Todd’s trailer”. Todd ends up gaining genuine feelings for Wallace (Todd even sports a tattoo of him), whereas Wallace declares to not believe in "sparks" between two people, considering the majority of his off relationships to be nothing more than hook-ups. This breaks Todd's heart (and his vegan edge), and the movie is scrapped due to unrelated budgetary reasons.

Wallace continues to support Ramona from the sidelines in her search for Scott Pilgrim, and attends Matthew Patel's musical adaptation of Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life, sitting among other familiar faces such as Stephen, Knives, and Kim. After the ordeal with Scott's disappearance is solved, Wallace is seen touring Paris, where he meets Mobile. The two kiss and Wallace remarks that he has felt "sparks" towards another person for the first time ever, and pursues a genuine relationship with Mobile.

In the distant future, Wallace is shown as a 39-year-old, sporting glasses and grey-white hair. He lives in a lavish house with his husband (who is implied to be Mobile), and houseguest Scott Pilgrim. When we see Wallace in the future, he and Mobile appear to be in the midst of a break from talking to each other, with Mobile staying late at work for the past few weeks; however, Wallace ends up calling his husband thanks to Scott and Old Ramona’s advice and the two seemingly work through their differences, remaining happily married. Wallace kicks out Scott at some point after this and remains on good terms with Scott's then ex-wife Ramona.

Personality[]

Wallace is very easy going and calm, filling the role of Scott's voice of reason. He is also very cocky, often walking around his and Scott's apartment in his boxers while repeatedly declaring his "hotness". He occasionally ribs Scott by joking that he’s attracted to him - calling Scott hot and saying that he’s "totally [his] bitch forever." However he never genuinely intends to pursue a relationship with Scott.

Although he often finds Scott annoying, Wallace trusts and understands him extremely well. Knowing that, while Scott has mooched off of Wallace in the past, he’ll be able to fix things on his own without Wallace’s help, leading him to plan his future without taking care of Scott in mind. At the same time, his care for Scott is quite evident (he was the most horrified looking when Scott was impaled by Gideon.)

His ability to establish relationships and make friends stands out among the rest of the characters, since he appears to have the most friends in the series (most of whom Scott "isn't allowed to meet", according to him). This is demonstrated in Volume 3 when the reader is shown that Scott and Wallace became friends when Wallace asked Scott a single question during a lecture in college, leading to Wallace showing up at Scott's house unannounced so often that he became a fixture in Scott's life and eventually one of his closest friends and roommates.

Wallace is a heavy drinker. In Volume 6, he is shown to have gotten drunk at the Chaos Theatre minutes after entering the building. He has a habit of fixing himself drinks in the middle of the day and even during work. On one occasion in Volume 4, he drinks at home with some friends before going out to dance, however Wallace gets so drunk before leaving that he falls asleep and forgets to go out altogether, with his friends leaving without him (Prompting Ramona to question if he has some form of Narcolepsy). Afterward, the first thing he does once he woke up from his drunken nap is fix himself another drink. He is very commonly shown holding a martini glass in official art and in the comic itself reflecting this personality trait.

Generally being catty and easy-going, he usually isn't the type to get mad. However, we learn he is capable of doing so, as seen with his open and seething contempt for Envy Adams. While never going past sniping, the genuine anger he has for her for breaking Scott's heart is notable since this the only time he has ever been seen as such.

Wallace has a habit of stealing people’s boyfriends, such as Stacey Pilgrim's boyfriend Jimmy, during the first concert in the Battle of the Bands at The Rockit, and Todd Ingram in the Animated Series, after having an on-set fling with him during the production of their film. He also disapproved of Scott dating Knives and further disapproved of him cheating on her, reminding Scott that knew what it was like to be cheated on himself, he then pressured Scott to break-up with Knives.

Appearance[]

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Wallace as he appears in the graphic novels

Wallace is a young man of a little bit above average height (being slightly taller than Scott). He has short, slightly messy dark hair and narrow eyes. In contrast to his roommate's "slacker" look, Wallace normally appears wearing more formal clothes such as buttoned-up shirts and sweaters. Wallace wears a black coat with a scarf whenever he's outside in cold weather.

Relationships[]

Main article: Wallace Wells/Relationships

Abilities[]

Psychic Chi user[]

Wallace was taught the use of chi by his psychic boyfriend Mobile. After returning home from a rainy day with Scott, he demonstrates a move in which he spreads his chi all over the surface of his body and shakes the water off of him.[3]

Trivia[]

  • Born in 1979, Wallace is the oldest of the seven main characters of the series, being born eight years before Knives Chau, the youngest of the seven main characters.
  • Wallace seems to have a "thing" for guys with glasses. In Volume 1, when Knives asks him if he wants to know about someone in her class who's gay, Wallace jokingly agrees and asks if he has glasses. Later on, he was quickly attracted to Stacey's then-boyfriend, Jimmy, who also wears glasses. Additionally, his current boyfriend, Mobile, wears glasses as well.
    • It's also implied that Jimmy is not the first guy he has stolen from Stacey; after she sees them kissing, Stacey tells Wallace off and says "You're not stealing another guy from me!".
  • Wallace used to be one of the main characters in the story whilst he was Scott's roommate (in Volume 4, Wallace is the third character to be introduced in the 'Keep-Up!' section), but after Wallace kicked Scott out, his status decreased so that he just became a supporting character as he was no longer as prominent in Scott’s life (he was one of the last characters in the 'Keep-up!' section in Volume 6).
  • Wallace owns nearly everything in the apartment. Additionally, anything he buys at the store is mostly for him and him alone.
  • In a deleted scene of the movie, Scott sees Wallace naked again (after using the Extra Life) and states that Wallace was his mentor. Moments afterward Scott calls Gideon after asking Wallace to put on a robe and hand him the phone. Unfortunately, when Wallace encourages Scott to "Kick (Gideon's) ass!" his robe flies open exposing him to Scott once more, the viewer is shown Wallace’s backside. Storyboards still exist of this scene.
  • Wallace is on one side of Scott and his friends, which only includes him and Stacey. They don't know much about his other friend group and are rarely shown interacting with them, however Wallace and Ramona do form a friendship later on in the series.
  • Kieran Culkin (Wallace’s actor) estimates having eaten roughly 16 sprigs of parsley during takes of his scene with Scott (played by Michael Cera), when the two discuss Ramona’s hair (Mary Elizabeth Winstead).
  • In the comics, Wallace is shown to work at a computer with a headset (The job itself isn’t specified), however in Free Scott Pilgrim, Wallace mentions that he works at a cinema candy bar.
  • In Volume 1, the mailbox in front of Scott and Wallace's apartment lists Wallace's last name as 'Weldon'. Bryan Lee O’Malley admits that this inclusion was a mistake as Wallace’s name was Wallace P. Weldon during early draft-work on the series, and was later changed to Wallace Wells. Weldon is the name of the main campus library at Western, where Bryan Lee O'Malley went to university before dropping out of classes and working in their library system.
    • Interestingly, "Weldon" is the last name of Dave Weldon, from Bryan Lee O'Malley's first book, Lost at Sea (published eight months before Scott Pilgrim). Bryan explained that he wanted to insinuate that Wallace and Dave were related, but changed his mind about, changing Wallace's last name to "Wells." Bryan explained that he had forgotten to removed "Weldon" from the mailbox, but decided to keep it there as an Easter egg.[4]
    • Dave also bears similarity to Wallace, with similar attire, a tall frame, and black hair.
  • Wallace is "a little taller than Scott" – roughly 6'0'', the color edition reveals – making him average or slightly above average height for a male of his age (shown by Scott's height in comparison to other characters).[5]
  • It isn't known how Scott ended up living with Wallace, but in Volume 2, he tells Kim that it was a "really gay story".
  • In the video game, many of Wallace’s art sprites depict him holding a cocktail glass, always with his pinky finger extended.
  • In Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Wallace is shown taking a vacation in France and he meets Mobile, who jokes about Wallace's French being just as poor as his own. This might actually be in reference to Canada's bilingual status because it has both English and French as its native language. With the difference from Metropolitan-French being in its pronunciation and vocabulary. This has been historically divisive in Canada, with most provinces having English as the official language, while only Quebec and New Brunswick have French as their official language (albeit N.B. is both English and French).
  • An image of Wallace appears on the spine of the slip cover for the Chinese edition of the Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World DVD, an image of Ramona can also be seen along this spine.
  • In Volume 4 it is revealed that broccoli is the only vegetable Wallace eats (The same list states that he buys 2 bottles of 2 liter diet coke per day)
  • Wallace is frequently seen not wearing pants in volume 4 as reflected on the cover reflect.
  • According to Scott, Wallace snores "like a jackhammer" and kicks a lot in his sleep.
  • In Volume 3, Scott states that Wallace enjoys getting "a bazillion sushis" that he can barely afford.
    • Wallace's favorite sushi is California Rolls.[6]
  • In Volume 6, its revealed that Hooters is Wallace's favorite restaurant.

Quotes

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