Marc St. James - Connections

Connections

• Cliff St. Paul - Photographer and film buff, this un-trendy 'nice guy' is just what Marc's been looking for in a serious relationship. Although their relationship starts out a little rough as Marc cancels their date to go out with an underwear model, Marc eventually chooses Cliff over the model. The two are seen in the fifth episode of the second season watching Psycho together and holding hands. In the third season, Cliff asks Marc to move in with him which prompts Marc to sleep with someone else. Feeling guilty, Marc asks Cliff to marry him. Eventually, Marc tells Cliff the truth and they break up in the episode "Tornado Girl" (3.8).

• Wilhelmina Slater - Former creative Director at MODE then Editor-in-chief and the sole editor-in-chief of Mode magazine; Wilhelmina will usually confidently hand out orders to Marc, especially when it comes dealing with Daniel and Betty. When Marc accidentally stumbles onto Wilhelmina's plans to take over Meade Publications, he turns that around by forcing Wilhelmina into buying his silence with financial security and a new Hummer H2 in order to keep her secret from leaking out. In the end, it is Marc who persuades Wilhelmina to finally turn over a new leaf.

• Betty Suarez - Former features editor at MODE then co-owner of a London magazine; He constantly mocks Betty (he has captured her screw-ups on cellphone and then proclaims "I think I just found my new screen-saver!" after downloading it, and even dressed up as her for Halloween in which he almost got a raise from Wilhelmina, who then quickly changed her mind after saying she can barely stand seeing the "real" one), as long as he doesn't endure Betty's wrath since she has threatened him with a Queens-style beating. She has also threatened Marc that she'll expose his personal web page (with revealing images of himself) after she saw his screen-saver shrine to Betty and her mishaps; he deleted them immediately. Betty even once duped Marc into owing her a favor by giving him the coveted Gucci bag he wanted from the MODE closet. It actually turned out to be a knock-off and Marc wouldn't have admitted it was fake because it would have meant Betty tricked him. Marc and Betty, although initially hostile, came to love one another as friends.

• Justin Suarez - Betty's nephew; When Justin came to her workplace Marc seemed to like Justin, even giving him advice on dealing with bullies and complimenting him on his outfits. He also made Justin feel better about his father's death. However when pretending to date Betty, he couldn't remember who Justin was, and mistakenly thinking he was Betty's son, of which Justin has to correct him several times. In the fourth season they became particularly close, to the point where Hilda, Justin's mother, confronts him in the episode "The Butterfly Effect Part 1" because she feels like she is losing her son. Marc responds "You're his mother. In some areas... I have an edge." Marc continues to help Justin with bullying and his sexuality throughout the season.

• Amanda Sommers - Receptionist at MODE; a loyal ally; they share a dislike for Betty and enjoy humiliating her. In one episode Marc and Amanda were willing to work with Betty in an attempt to keep their jobs, even at the cost of lying to Wilhelmina, which got worse after he and Amanda make a prank call to the mystery woman while they were in Wilhelmina's office, but he used that to his advantage by telling Amanda it will cost her after Wilhelmina saw her text message pinning him as the culprit. In "Don't Ask Don't Tell" it is revealed Marc has pretended in the past Amanda was his girlfriend in order to fool his mother when she visited him. Marc later told his mother he had broken up with Amanda because of her sex and drug addictions.

• Christina McKinney - Seamstress at MODE; Christina has a love-hate rivalry with Marc, with whom she constantly bickers, mostly because of her work. In the tenth episode she told "Santa Claus" she wishes that Marc had "...Courage" because she knows how cowardly Marc is, especially concerning Wilhelmina. They formed a friendly truce during the fifteenth episode ("Derailed") when Christina needed help in designing an Oscar-worthy dress in one night, only to have the opportunity destroyed by a manipulative Wilhelmina. Marc ended up trying to comfort Christina over this incident by telling her it "Gets Easier". During this brief show of compassion he shows a side suggesting he doesn't like the things Wilhelmina makes him do either, thereby creating a link between himself and Christina.

• Alexis Meade - Co-Editor-In-Chief at MODE; It turned out when Alexis was Alex, Marc had a crush on him before Daniel's brother changed genders. He lost interest after Alexis' return. This revelation was featured in a deleted scene from the Season 1 DVD.

• Henry Grubstick - Accountant at Meade Publications; Along with Amanda, Marc likes to torture him, especially when it involves Betty or when they demand their paychecks...as long as they don't endure his wrath (as they did in "Betty's Wait Problem"). He also referred to Henry as having "body karate" in another episode, as he showed a cellphone picture he took of him to Amanda, assuring Betty he "so did not peek".