Gary King

Gary King
Gary King
Occupation:	Unemployed
Gender:	Male
Family:	Unnamed Mother
Nickname(s):	The King
Born:	7 June 1973 England
Status:	Alive
Appeared in:	The World's End
Portrayed by:	Simon Pegg

Gary King is one of the main protagonists in The World's End. He is portrayed by Simon Pegg.

Background

Gary was born on the 7th of June 1973 and attended high school from 1984 to 1990. While at school he became friends with Andrew 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 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 passing out and injuring himself getting drunk and high 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.

The Pub Crawl

After the accident Gary didn't see Andy or the others again until he was convinced to organize a reattempt of the "Golden Mile" during a rehabilitation session in October 2013, however although the others accepted to join him Andy refused to attempt it again leading Gary to lie about his mum death from cancer to trick him into joining out of sympathy an repay him £600 he had been owing him.

After convincing them Gary arrived late to pick them up from the train station and half way there stopped so he could go the toilet only to get distracted and end up playing Need for Speed in an arcade. Just as they entered Newton Haven Gary was pulled over by a police officer due to a faulty brake light, when asked for his license he claims he left it in his gym bag at his flat and when asked for his name and address he gives Peter's instead, much to the annoyance of Peter who is told by Gary that he used his name because he registered the car under Peter's name when he bought it from him.

Upon arriving at their B&B, Gary immediately sets of on the crawl and arrives at The First Post, where he is confused at the fact that the bartender doesn't recognize them and is shocked to learn that Andy has been sober since their car wreck in 1997.

After their first pints Oliver receives a call from his sister Sam, who is at the next pub with her friends the twins, upon hearing this Gary immediately heads for The Old Familiar where he finds and attempts to have sex with Sam due to Gary believing she gave him the signal by saying she was going to the bathroom.

They then proceed on to The Famous Cock only to be kicked out after being told they were barred during their first crawl in 1990, although told they should give up Gary manages to continue by drinking several left over beers on a outside table.

When they get to The Cross Hands, Gary orders shots for everyone. His friends, however, are already tired and want to go back to the hotel room, much to Gary's disappointment. He goes to the bathroom to relieve himself and tries to talk to a teenager that he saw earlier. Annoyed that the teenager is ignoring him, Gary puts a hand on his shoulder and gets into a scuffle with him, culminating in the teenager accidentally being beheaded when he hits his head on a urinal, revealing himself to be a robot. At that moment, Gary's friends arrive in the bathroom, furious that Gary had lied about his mum dying. Much to everyone's shock, the decapitated teenager gets back up as his friends enter the bathroom as well. Gary's group gets into a fight with the teenagers, emerging victorious. The group decides to continue their pub crawl so as to not arouse suspicion.

They do their best to pretend everything is normal, though the entire town stares at them as they make their way to The Good Companions. They enter the pub and quickly down their beer before moving on. Gary also thinks the drinking will help them if there is a fight against the robots.

They get the The Trusty Servant and order drinks. Gary tries to purchase marijuana from The Reverend Green, but to no avail as the former drug dealer is now serving the robots. The group discuss how to differentiate between humans and the robots- which they dub "blanks". They are surprised to see Sam once more, who is spending a night out with her friends. Gary pulls her away to the bathroom to explain the situation. Sam is annoyed, thinking Gary is trying to have sex with her once more. Gary assures her this is not the case and explains the situation, though Sam doesn't believe him. This culminates in Sam slapping Gary once more when he tries to seduce her again. Once O-Man returns from the bathroom, the group moves on to the next pub.

At the Two Headed Dog, Gary saves Sam from The Twins. Before he can explain what's going on, Steven arrives and pours his heart out to Sam. The remaining twin attacks once more but the trio manage to defeat her. The group leaves the pub, now accompanied by Sam.

They arrive at The Mermaid and are surprised to find the three girls from their youth the nicknamed The Marmalade Sandwich (because two of them were blonde and the third was a redhead). Gary, Andy and Peter dance with the three, with Gary making out with his dance partner. Unbeknownst to them, this was a ploy by the blanks to get their DNA. They are dragged away by Sam and Steven, who obtained more information about the blanks from Basil.

Trivia

• Simon Pegg also portrayed Shaun in Shaun of the Dead and Nicholas Angel in Hot Fuzz.

Gallery

A young Gary King rides on the shoulders of a young Andy Knight.