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| “ | There's only one Gary King! | „ |
| ~ Gary's catchphrase |
| “ | Hey! It is our basic human right to be f--k ups! This civilization was founded on f--k ups, and you know what? That makes me proud! | „ |
| ~ Gary to The Network |
Gary King is the main protagonist of the sci-fi comedy movie, The World's End. He is a childish alcoholic in his 40's whose main goal in life was to finish the Golden Mile, a pub crawl consisted of 5 guys, 12 pubs, 12 pints. However, later in the movie, it is revealed that Gary was in a mental hospital for quite some time, and had been trying to kill himself.
Background[]
Gary was born on the 14th of February 1973 and attended high school from 1984 to 1990. While at school he became friends with Andy Knightley ,Steven Prince, Oliver Chamberlain and Peter Page. During his high school years, Gary accidentally injured all of his friends (excluding Oliver) and gave them scars. At the 5th year ball, Gary fell of stage and dislocated his elbow, receiving a metal plate for his injury. After he finished at school on June 22 1990 he organized an attempt at the "Golden Mile" pub crawl in Newton Haven. However after getting banned from the third pub and leaving behind Oliver and Peter they decided to give up. He also had sex with Sam Chamberlain in the disabled toilet of The Two Headed Dog, though he dumped her in the next pub.
After this the group remained in contact with each other until December 1997 when, after overdosing, the also drunken Andrew attempted to drive him to a hospital only to roll the car and almost sever his femoral artery. Although Gary fled from the crash Andrew was left to be arrested after 12 hours of life saving surgery. Over the years, Gary grew despondent over the way his life turned out and eventually tried to kill himself. Afterwards, he checked himself into a psychiatric hospital and joined a support group. He was, however, disappointed in their methods and soon left, after he devised a plan to finally complete The Golden Mile with his childhood friends.
Personality[]
The leader of the group, who assembles his school friends in order to complete a failed bar crawl from their youth, thus setting the events of the movie in motion. While charismatic and persuasive, he's hedonistic and irresponsible, and unlike the rest of his friends never outgrew his teenage mentality.
Trivia[]
- Simon Pegg also portrayed Shaun in Shaun of the Dead and Nicholas Angel in Hot Fuzz.