Envy Adams
Natalie V. "Envy" Adams is Scott's ex-girlfriend who devastates Scott by breaking up with him in college previous to the events of the book. Initially a quiet, mousey girl, she decides to change herself and her image, becoming more callous and aggressive, eventually taking over Scott's band and dumping him. She later reappears, introduced in the series as the lead singer and keyboardist for the popular emerging band "The Clash At Demonhead". Scott describes her original personality as being "nice" and does not understand what she has since become. Envy was in a relationship with Ramona's ex-boyfriend Todd Ingram and claims to know about Ramona's past. She later begins a relationship with Gideon, who helps promote her new solo album in Chaos Theatre. She tries to help Scott remember the real reason for why they broke up (an argument he started with her that night) and prepare for the fight with Gideon. Despite Gideon supporting her career, Envy is dissatisfied with his lack of true affection for her. Gideon later revealing he has no true interest in her. After his defeat, Envy reconciles with Scott.
O'Malley drew inspiration for Envy from several sources, including the "character" of Emily Haines as a performer. O'Malley used images of Haines as references for drawings of Envy in Volume 3. He stated that he did not entirely base Envy on Haines. He stated that he does not personally know Haines and is not aware of what her personality is like, and so Envy's personality did not originate from Haines.
Envy is played by Brie Larson in the film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. In the film, Envy does not have a relationship with Gideon, she was originally intended to replace Ramona's fourth Evil-Ex, Roxie. In the film, Envy has blond hair instead of red hair. Edgar Wright originally read the volumes unbound, so he did not see the color covers until later. He envisioned Envy being blonde. When discussing Envy with Bryan Lee O'Malley, he identified her as a blonde. O'Malley said that while he had colored her hair red at one time, the character may have a good appearance with blonde hair. During initial costume tests, the red wig was applied, but O'Malley said "nobody was super into it." During the blond hair test, "obviously we all loved it." O'Malley said that therefore, "we all liked the platinum blonde better on Brie, so we went with that." O'Malley added that "Anyway, her hair in the movie is clearly bleach-blonde, so you can imagine for yourself that Envy was a redhead in college and dyed it for her big rock star makeover." For the colored versions of the comic books, O'Malley continued giving Envy red hair because "Red on a cartoon character just has a completely different look and feel."
In a draft script, her middle name is "Veronica."
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