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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 scream 4 fanfic This is Making A Move. 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 Billy Loomis and Stu Macher orchestrated years ago just so Jill can become famous like her hated cousin Sidney Prescott.
He was portrayed by Rory Culkin like in the canon. 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[]
When he was a baby, he was adopted by Mr. Walker, who physically and sexually abused him for years as well, having photos of what he did in the house. The abuse Charlie took at home shattered his mental state, having a low view of himself and cut himself, and even leading to him to meeting Jill Roberts and being manipulated by her in order to start up the Woodsboro killings.
This Is Making A Move (2011)[]
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. Jill chased Jenny until she finally managed to kill her, while Charlie filmed the murder.
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 and stabbed Gale in the shoulder. The Stab-a-Thon is canceled as a result of the incident.
Back at the Roberts Residence, where Kate is to return from grocery shopping, Charlie has already driven the cops two blocks away and finished the job committed by Jill, stabbing Hoss and Perkins several times to make sure they are dead ((although Perkins probably already died from being stabbed in the forehead by Jill, probably Hoss was still alive and Charlie is indeed his killer). Sidney enters Jill's room, noticing a message to Kirby, a text stating that her mother is driving her crazy and asking to be picked up. Kirby picks Jill up after Jill has called Sidney from the back of the house, having told her as the Ghostface entity about Gale's attack. Kate returns from grocery shopping, to which Sidney informs her that Jill is not in her room. Then Charlie and Jill attack Sidney and Kate from both sides of the Roberts house. Charlie scares Sidney and Kate at the back door forcing them to run to the front door where they are attacked by Jill. Sidney slams the door on Jill's arm causing her to groan in pain. Jill angrily thrusts her knife through the mail slot, stabbing her mother Kate, who was sitting against the door in an attempt to keep it shut. Kate dies after asking Sidney to tell Jill she's sorry.
Later Charlie arrives 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 claims that Jill invited him to come over. Jill denies sending Trevor a text message to further arouse suspicion of him. She goes to upstairs to "look" for her cellphone, claiming she doesn't have it on her, and Trevor follows her. Robbie later excuses himself to do a podcast outside, in which he remarks that his buddy might get the girl. He is referring to Kirby and Charlie. Inside, Kirby knocks Charlie out of his Stab trance and, loopily tells him he should probably make a move. Charlie asks why doesn't she with the same slurred tone. She says she just did, telling him she always thought he was cute. She then kisses him. Suddenly, Trevor bursts in and ruins the moment, making Charlie furiously storm out of the house. After slipping past an unaware Kirby, he puts on his Ghostface costume where he kills 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 is 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 claims that the blood was from Robbie's body outside) and Jill dressed in her Ghostface costume, trailing behind him. He begs Kirby to let him in, but she readily refuses, for fear of her own life, and backs away. Soon, Jill as Ghostface attacks Charlie, and the patio lights turn off. When they turn back on, he is found tied up to a chair (reference to Steven Orth).
Jill calls Kirby as Ghostface and Sidney tells her to keep the killer on the phone while she goes to get Jill. They manage 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 makes the first blow, he mutters, "Kirby, this is making a move!" This refers to their previous talk back in the house, where Kirby tells Charlie he should make a move. He continues to speak, angrily rebuking her, "Four years of classes together and you notice me now?" This reveals his obsessive crush on her, and how he sought attention from her, but never received much. He then catches her as she falls into his arms and shouts, "You stupid bitch! It's too late!" and stabs 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, as he goes inside. Luckily, kirby managed to survive off-screen, which is revealed in Scream 5 easter-egg.
Charlie goes back inside and holds Sidney at knife point. They tussle, and she narrowly breaks free only to be stabbed by the oncoming second Ghostface that reveals herself to be Jill. During the revelations, Jill kills Trevor by shooting him in the head. Charlie states, that Trevor is the new generation's Billy, Jill is the new Sidney Prescott, and he is the new Randy Meeks.
After Charlie and Jill told Sidney about their plans, Jill kisses Charlie, leading him on into thinking that she loves him. Afterward, Jill asks Charlie if he's ready. He says yes, just like Billy and Stu, wanting her to stab him in the shoulder like they rehearsed. Instead, she brutally stabs him the chest. Shocked Charlie declares that's the "not the way they rehearsed it". Sidney informs Charlie that he's the Stu Macher to Trevor's Billy Loomis. Jill then claims 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 stabs Charlie in the stomach, as Charlie groans and slumps 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.
- Olivia Morris - Stabbed in her hand, thrown all over her room and gutted.
- Robbie Mercer - Stabbed in back, chest and stomach.
Differences between the canon Charlie and the This Is Making A Move Charlie[]
- This version was far more sympathetic than his canon version. He was physically and sexually abused by his own adoptive father for years, which was the same treatment that his adoptive father gave to his first son before him. It shows that the cuts he inflicted to his victims were only slightly deeper than the cuts he inflicted on himself.
- While the canon is considered as a deserving victim, even if he was a scapegoat, this version is a full-blown sympathetic victim who ultimately suffered just as much as his victims, if not more. On that aspect, he predated Audrey Jensen in her pre-retcon version and Jamal Elliot.
- His long sleeves were meant to hide his self-inflicted wounds, while his canon version just wore them as a personal choice with nothing special behind it.
- Jill was worse in this version than in the canon, and her manipulations towards him weren't limited to promising him her love. She also used the sexual abuse he had at home and rubbed it in his face in order to further make him subservient to her.
- Unlike the canon version, who's mostly infamous in-universe for traumatizing Kirby, this version has some of Kirby's sympathy due to his much bigger suffering.
Trivia[]
- This incarnation of Charlie suffered more than any of the canon Ghostfaces, and even more than some of the actual victims. If this version was canon, he would've been the single most sympathetic Ghostface in the cinematic universe.
- His adoptive father is the first non-Ghostface in any continuity to be pure evil due to the excessive physical, psychological and sexual abuse he inflicted both to Charlie and to his first son.
- Charlie is one of the most extreme cases of adaptational sympathy ever known in any Scream fanfic.
- In a way, the fact that this version of Charlie invoked some sympathy in Kirby after his death predicted the tensed relationship between Jamal Elliot and his brother Marcus.
- Since the fanfic was written in 2011, long before Scream (2022) and Scream VI, there's no telling if this version of Kirby would've turned out to be a cop in order to face her demons and prevent others from having to go through what she went through like in the canon. However, it's a likely scenario, given this version of Kirby got pregnant despite her abdomen injury and raised her child the best she could despite her depression.