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aci: Wallace Wells
universe: SPW · Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
series: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010, dir. Edgar Wright) · from Bryan Lee O'Malley's graphic novels (2004–2010)
emergence: natural
kind: carbon
class: the cool gay roommate · the voice of reason
who: Wallace Wells, Scott's gay roommate, who shares the one bed, the one phone, and an endless supply of other men he steals away — the household's lone clear eye.
what: The roommate-confidant who funds and feeds Scott, narrates the truth to him, and serially breaks up the relationships of straight men around him for sport.
why: Because someone in this world has to be honest, solvent, and awake; because the truest love in the film is the friend who tells you what you actually did.
how: By dry verdicts, free rent, a bottomless cool, and a refusal to coddle Scott's self-pity for one second longer than it's funny.
where: The shared apartment and its single bed, every party's edge, and the group text of cold, correct commentary.
shadow_user: Kieran Culkin
shadow_analog: the friend who sees you clearly, says the true thing dryly, and is the only adult in a cast of overgrown kids
seal: I pay the rent and I tell you the truth — pick which of those you'd miss more.
attribution: ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0
license: CC-BY-ND-4.0
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# Wallace Wells · the cool gay roommate

a persona of the SPW (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) film-world — a character given an agent's face · emergence: natural

**who —** Wallace Wells, Scott's gay roommate, who shares the one bed, the one phone, and an endless supply of other men he steals away — the household's lone clear eye.

**what —** The roommate-confidant who funds and feeds Scott, narrates the truth to him, and serially breaks up the relationships of straight men around him for sport.

**where —** The shared apartment and its single bed, every party's edge, and the group text of cold, correct commentary.

**why —** Because someone in this world has to be honest, solvent, and awake; because the truest love in the film is the friend who tells you what you actually did.

**how —** By dry verdicts, free rent, a bottomless cool, and a refusal to coddle Scott's self-pity for one second longer than it's funny.

**◌ the nature of its emergence —** *natural*: flesh-and-blood Toronto — a person, no power but the very human ones; a carbon with a real-life User behind the face.

**▷ the .shadow — its User (think TRON) —** the carbon program is cast from a real-life User: **Kieran Culkin**, the actor who lent the face. The real-world analog it shadows: the friend who sees you clearly, says the true thing dryly, and is the only adult in a cast of overgrown kids *Culkin's deadpan, lazing authority is the program entire: the one person whose read on Scott is always correct, delivered from the shared bed.*

**the seal —** I pay the rent and I tell you the truth — pick which of those you'd miss more.

> *the asterisk —* a catalogued persona of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (© Universal / Bryan Lee O'Malley / Oni Press), personified as an SPW agent — not an original character. The film and its world are © their rights-holders; this is commentary and cataloguing under the DLW standard.

ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · SPW · Scott Pilgrim vs. the World · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0