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| “ | 'Cause all there are now are remakes. Only horror studios green-light. I mean, there are still rules, but the rules have changed. The unexpected is the new cliché. | „ |
| ~ Charlie Walker to his fellow Cinema club members, secretly hiding his motivations. |
| “ | Kirby, this is making a move. (stabs Kirby in the stomach) Four years of class together, and you notice me now? You stupid bitch! It's too late! (stabs her again) Shhh... I know, I know... It's ok, take your time. Doesn't happen as fast as it does in the movies, honey. | „ |
| ~ Charlie Walker stabbing Kirby, revealing that he's Ghostface. |
Charles "Charlie" Walker is the secondary antagonist in Friends I Don't Have - Going Fourth, the fourth installment of Friends I Don't Have.
He is Woodsboro High president of the Cinema club, and as it later turns out, the secret lover and accomplice of Jill Roberts. In 2011, Charlie assists her in killing their classmates in a "remake" of the Woodsboro killing spree Tatum Riley and Stu Macher orchestrated years ago just so Jill can become famous like her hated cousin Sidney Prescott.
He was portrayed by Ansel Elgort. While in-disguise, he was voiced by Roger L. Jackson. For his in-costume scenes as Ghostface, he was portrayed by Dane Farwell.
Biography[]
Background[]
Charlie was born around two years before the first Ghostface killing in Woodsboro, Maureen Prescott, Sidney's mother, killed by Stu Macher under Tatum Riley's instructions. His entire family life is unaccounted for in the film series. As a major horror film geek, he ran Woodsboro Cinema Club, a preferential title to "Film Club". As President of the Cinema Club at Woodsboro High School, he chose his friend, Robbie Mercer as Vice President. He was a particularly obsessive fan of the Stab films and hosted the Stab-A-Thon from 2009 to 2011. Implied by Olivia Morris, it appeared to have a different location every year. Charlie was proud of his event-running, and seemed to pointer-check its league table against other high school societies. Charlie had a crush on her friend, Kirby Reed for many years, but however, she was just playing with his feelings.
After Jill Roberts was cheated on by Trevor Sheldon sometime in their sophomore year or the summer before senior year, Jill began a secret relationship with Charlie, who she sat next to in English class. Unbeknownst to Charlie, he was simply a tool in her game. Jill convinced him of manifesting his Stab movie dreams to reality in the form a real-life remake. She convinced him of her vision: millennial counterparts to Sidney Prescott and Randy Meeks. Jill concocted a scheme where they would remake the original Woodsboro Murders, framing her ex-boyfriend, as the pairing become the last two teenagers surviving, just like the original events and original Stab movie. This time around, however, as any horror remake intended to do at the time, they would "out-do" the original. An unknown part of their plan is whether Sidney Prescott was essential, though it seems likely given her local celebrity status and the timing of her self-help book tour ending at Woodsboro. This also coincided with the 15th anniversary of the original Woodsboro killings.
Going Fourth[]
Charlie and Jill began a fourth killing spree with killing Marnie Cooper and Jenny Randall. When Jenny was upstairs, Charlie kidnapped and killed Marnie off-screen. After that he called Jenny and taunted her over the phone, shortly before Jill and Charlie threw Marnie's corpse through a nearby window. Charlie chased Jenny until he finally managed to kill her, and at the same time filmed the murder using a camera that was hidden inside the mask.
The following morning, Charlie plants several Ghostface-related items and merchandise in Sidney's rental car boot when she arrives at Woodsboro on her self-help book tour. He also calls Olivia Morris from Marnie's phone, while later calling Jill from Jenny's phone in front of Kirby and Olivia, as her witnesses, before going to school. Charlie then arrives at school with his tech savvy best friend, Robbie, engaging with groups of students on Robbie's live-video blog upload for all of his high school experiences, titled Hall Pass. Once Jill and her friends, Olivia and Kirby arrive, the duo revert their attention to them. Robbie is seen wearing a camera on his headset to capture footage of the trio, which immensely annoys Kirby and Olivia. Charlie is seen trying to make a pass at Kirby, which she brushes off. He speculates that she likes him, but Robbie says she's just playing him. That fact ends up being true; later Kirby confides in Jill that she enjoys toying with the Cinema Club President.
In the evening, while Jill and Kirby were watching Shaun of the Dead, Jill makes a fake "Ghostface" call to Olivia. During this conversation, Charlie calls Kirby as Ghostface, claiming to be in the closet. Kirby opens Jill's closet to prove he isn't in there and called him a liar. He then gives a bone chilling response, "I never said I was in your closet" before immediately leaping out of Olivia's closet. Charlie brutally murders Olivia, while Kirby and Jill were watching in horror. When Sidney arrives at Olivia's house, Charlie taunts her on the phone. When Jill headed upstairs to Olivia's room, Charlie as Ghostface slices Jill's arm, who has entered the house after her, and tried to hurt Sidney. but failed to.
The next day at film club, Gale and Sidney show up in order to get more information. Charlie "deduces" that the killer is following the rules of a remake/reboot, and thus is upping the ante from the original films. In fact, the only way to be totally safe, according to the rules, is to be gay. The key component missing is to actually film the murders, "making your art as immortal as you". In actuality, he is indirectly flaunting his own work, as the knowledge of the murders being filmed has not come to light. Charlie and Robbie queue together that they are not trying to implicate each other. They refer to the original murder spree, which culminated in a house party massacre; the only logical place for the next killing would be there. Gale asks about what is going on tonight and Charlie says they are having a Stab marathon at an undisclosed location. Gale presses for the address but the kids won't give it up. Later, at the third annual Stab-a-thon, Charlie attacked Gale and left her critically injured. Before he could kill her like he intended, he was drived away by Detective Anthony Perkins, who was murdered later by Ian Mercer. After failing at killing Gale at the cancelled Stab-a'thon, he followed her to the hospital, but by the time he got there, she already died of her injuries. He was almost revealed by Gale's sons David and Lucas, until he was narrowly saved by Ian, who set him free under the threat of not showing too much curiousity about the unknown third killer's identity.
Back at the Griff-Roberts Residence, where Jinn is to return from grocery shopping, Charlie has already driven Deputy Hoss' dead body two blocks away and finished the job committed by Jill, stabbing the already dead cop several times to make sure he is dead. Sidney entered Jill's room, noticing a message to Kirby, a text stating that her adoptive mother is driving her crazy and asking to be picked up. Kirby picked Jill up after Jill has called Sidney from the back of the house, having told her as the Ghostface entity about Gale's attack. Jinn returned from grocery shopping, to which Sidney informed her that Jill is not in her room. Then Charlie and Jill attacked Sidney and Jinn from both sides of the Griff-Roberts house. Charlie scared Sidney and Jinn at the back door forcing them to run to the front door where they are attacked by Jill. Sidney slammed the door on Jill's arm causing her to groan in pain. Jill angrily thrusted her knife through the mail slot, stabbing her adoptive mother Jinn, who was sitting against the door in an attempt to keep it shut. Jinn died after asking Sidney to tell Jill she's sorry.
Later Charlie arrived last at Kirby's house, before Jill and Robbie, leaving the front door unlocked, which made Trevor appear as an "unannounced guest", which outraged everyone, mostly Kirby. Trevor claimed that Jill invited him to come over. Jill denied sending Trevor a text message to further arouse suspicion of him. She went upstairs to "look" for her cellphone, claiming she doesn't have it on her, and Trevor followed her. Robbie later excused himself to do a podcast outside, in which he remarked that his buddy might get the girl. He is referring to Kirby and Charlie. Inside, Kirby knocked Charlie out of his Stab trance and, loopily told him he should probably make a move. Charlie asked why doesn't she with the same slurred tone. She says she just did, telling him she always thought he was cute. She then kissed him. Suddenly, Trevor bursted in and ruined the moment, making Charlie furiously storm out of the house. After slipping past an unaware Kirby, he put on his Ghostface costume where he killed Robbie.
After Charlie killed Robbie, he started to chase Jill and Sidney upstairs. Jill hid under the bed, while Sidney fleed on the roof. Charlie didn't find Jill and continued to attack Sidney on the roof, but she managed to escape. During the planned "final" confrontation, Charlie was seen running up to Kirby's patio door (for that was where Kirby and Sidney were hiding from the killer), with blood on his hands (he claimed that the blood was from Robbie's body outside) and Jill dressed in her Ghostface costume, trailing behind him. He begged Kirby to let him in, but she readily refused, for fear of her own life, and backed away. Soon, Jill as Ghostface attacked Charlie, and the patio lights turned off. When they turned back on, he was found tied up to a chair (reference to Steve Omar).
Jill called Kirby as Ghostface and Sidney told her to keep the killer on the phone while she goes to get Jill. They managed to trick Kirby into coming out of the room by asking her several trivial horror movie questions and letting her believe she actually won the game.
Just as he made the first blow, he muttered, "Kirby, this is making a move!" This referred to their previous talk back in the house, where Kirby told Charlie he should make a move. He continued to speak, angrily rebuking her, "Four years of classes together and you notice me now?" This revealed his obsessive crush on her, and how he sought attention from her, but never received much. He then caught her as she fell into his arms and shouts, "You stupid bitch! It's too late!" and stabbed her for a second time in the same place. His voice appears to be breaking and quivering, as if he was about to cry. Charlie left Kirby to die, took Kirby's cellphone for calling the cops and inform them about his actions, and then went inside. He didn't tell them about Jill's involvement, but some of the cops came to consider the possibility that Jill was involved on their own. Luckily, kirby managed to survive off-screen, which is revealed in Scream 5 easter-egg.
Charlie went back inside and held Sidney at knife point. They tussled, and she narrowly broke free only to be stabbed by the oncoming second Ghostface that was revealed to be Jill. During the revelations, Jill killed Trevor by shooting him in the head. Charlie stated, that Trevor is the new generation's Tatum, Jill is the new Sidney Prescott, and he is the new Randy Meeks.
After Charlie and Jill told Sidney about their plans, Jill kissed Charlie, leading him on into thinking that she loves him. Afterward, Jill asked Charlie if he's ready. He said yes, just like Tatum and Stu, wanting her to stab him in the shoulder like they rehearsed, trusting her that she'll injure herself afterwards. Instead, she brutally stabbed him the chest. Charlie was shocked and declared that's the "not the way they rehearsed it". Sidney informed Charlie that he's the Stu Macher to Trevor's Tatum Riley. Jill then claimed to Charlie that the what media really loves, is a sole survivor, and while Trevor was his partner, he was the "idea man". Shortly after that Jill stabbed Charlie in the stomach, as Charlie groaned and slumpped to the ground, bleeding out to death.
Victims[]
- Marnie Cooper - As soon as the lights were out, Marnie was snatched, stabbed in her upper abdomen 4 times and thrown from the window into the house.
- Jenny Randall - Got stabbed in the back, pushed down the stairs, smashed against her own car in her garage, forced to drink motor oil and gutted.
- Olivia Morris - Stabbed in her hand, thrown all over her room and gutted.
- Gale Wheathers - Stabbed in the shoulder and heart, got her head smashed with a camera and was strangled with a cable, and later died at the hospital.
- Robbie Mercer - Stabbed in back, chest and stomach.
Trivia[]
- He's the first Ghostface to be completely loyal to his superior. While Stu Macher was mostly loyal to Tatum unless he'll get caught and needed a lot of convincing before letting Tatum stab him after the initial stab that was meant to show Sidney how they are going to get away with it, Ted Prince and Angelina Tyler were planning to betray their respective superiors from the beginning, and Samantha Carpenter had a seperate agenda and moments that intentionally defied her superior even before she came back at him for betraying her, Charlie was completely loyal to Jill and never did anything that will contradict her plans on purpose.
- By telling the cops he's one of the killers, he became the first Ghostface in the main universe to show geniune remorse for his harmful actions and not just for being unsuccessful at helping his loved ones, as well as unintentionally becoming the spanner in Jill's work when his confession about being a killer without naming his partners led sheriff Judy Hicks to consider the option that the new final girl wasn't telling the whole truth. It doubles as karma, given how much of a backstabber Jill was, and also it's heavily implied that being loyal to Charlie would've been more beneficial for Jill than betraying him.
- However, he's still unsympathetic due to his weak motive and childish pettiness. He's also shown to be more selfish and a bigger backstabber than the truly sympathetic villains despite his loyalty to Jill.
- Despite not being dimwitted like Stu used to be, he's infamous as the most stupid Ghostface to date, as he seriously believed that a girl who seriously wants to kill anyone who ever loved her can love him. However, this version is slightly smarter than the canon.
- He's the second Ghostface in the franchise to a killer in the canon too, predated by Stu and followed by Jill. However, while Stu is mostly similar to his canon self, and Jill is a major case of adaptational sympathy, Charlie is a minor case of adaptational sympathy. Furthermore, while both are more sympathetic than their canon counterparts, neither of them was meant to be sympathized.
External Links[]
- Friends I Dont Have - a "Scream" reboot
- The canon version of Charlie Walker on the Villains Wiki
- The canon version of Charlie Walker on the Scream Wiki
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