Ray Wilkins is one of the main characters of the Scary Movie franchise. He was played by actor Shawn Wayans.
Bio
Character
Ray seems to be a stereotypical closeted homosexual or bisexual. Despite the fact he is attracted to his girlfriend Brenda Meeks, he is often making several homosexual references, sometimes wearing his clothes in a feminine way, making Brenda dress up like a footballer during a make-out session, admiring a male classmate's butt and calling Brenda "Brandon." He was also changed his mind on supporting Cindy Campbell's decision to take responsibility after hitting a drifter when Greg mentions his fear of prison rape. Ray is also athletic; he plays football in high school. It is implied he has a habit of playing practical jokes after Greg accuses him of photographing his genitalia.
Family and Friends
Not much is known about Ray's family. He is the boyfriend of Brenda Meeks and a friend of Greg Phillipe and Bobby Prinze, later becoming friends with Cindy Campbell and Buffy Gilmore by association. His relationship with Brenda continues into college after being complicated by the Stevenson County Massacre, but they seem to drift apart afterward as he no longer a part of her life afterward.
History
Scary Movie
Ray is a student at B. A. Corpse High School and the boyfriend of Brenda Meeks. He attends school with Cindy Campbell, Bobby Prinze, Greg Phillipe and Buffy Gilmore. After partying one Halloween, the six of them accidentally struck and injured a figure while Greg was driving his father's car. Although Ray was briefly excited about going to jail over what they thought was a murder, he helped them to dump the body in the local lake.
The following year, Cindy received a note from the murderer of Drew Decker claiming to know about the man dumped in the lake. Despite the fact that Greg Phillippe and Buffy Gilmore disappear on them, Ray eventually took Brenda to the movies where he was seemingly slain in a restroom stall as The Killer went after Brenda. Unfortunately, Cindy later learned that Greg and Buffy were dead, and that Bobby was the real killer with Ray helping him, implying that that Ray had staged his death. He eventually confessed to Cindy they were posing as the murderer of Drew Decker in order to become famous after killing Cindy and setting themselves up as survivors. However, Ray didn't trust Bobby to "kill" him, and as they argued over their plan, Drew's killer showed up and stabbed Ray, leaving him in an disturbing position straddling Bobby's body.
In Between
Following these events, Ray turned up alive and somehow managed to elude prosecution for the murders, likely by implicating Bobby and going through mandatory psychiatric counseling and possibly brief jail time. He eventually gets to attend college with Cindy Campbell, Shorty Meeks and Brenda Meeks on the West Coast.
Scary Movie 2
In college, Ray is still making covert sexual advances to his male classmates. When he runs into Cindy and Brenda, they are shocked to see he is still alive and not in prison. Brenda decides to start seeing him again as well as entering a sleep study run by Dwight Hartman and Professor Oldman. The study is actually a pretense to investigate the paranormal activity at Hell House haunted by the ghost of Hugh Kane. During his first night in the house, Ray is attacked by a possessed clown in his bedroom, but he manages to turn the table on his attacker by raping the clown under the bed. As the activity escalates, Ray ends up carrying the injured Dwight on his back (as Dwight's wheelchair was destroyed during a wheelchair joust with the ghost). Cindy tries to lure Kane's ghost onto a device that will dissipate its energies, but Ray risks his life to pull her out of the range of the device as it is activated. Ray ends up a hero to Cindy as a result.
It is not revealed what happens to Ray. It appears his relationship with Brenda doesn't continue after college.
Relationships
- Brenda Meeks (girlfriend)
- Cindy Campbell (friend)
- Shorty Meeks (best friend)
- Bobby Prinze (friend/accomplice)
- Buffy Gilmore (friend/classmate)
- Greg Phillipe (friend/classmate)
- Doofy Gilmore (associate)
- Theo Keyoko (classmate)
- Buddy (friend)
- Alex Monday (classmate)
- Tommy (classmate)
Trivia
- Although a running gag in the first movies is that Ray is heavily implied to be a closeted homosexual, he outwardly claims that he is straight (after Bobby Prinze "outs" him after a series of "alleged misunderstandings") near the end of Scary Movie after confessing to Cindy Campbell that he and Bobby were copying Drew Decker's killer to become famous. However, it is also revealed in the same scene that he allowed Bobby to perform oral sex on him once before at Bobby's insistence. It can only be presumed that although Ray refuses to be considered homosexual, he is actually bisexual (getting turned on after Brenda Meeks dresses as one of his teammates in the original Scary Movie.)
- It is not clear just who Ray and Bobby Prinze murdered in their copycat murders. Going by their whereabouts during their murder spree, it's possible Ray was responsible for the deaths of Greg Phillipe and Tina before killing Bobby himself.
- Although Ray is eventually attacked and killed by the original killer, Ray turns up still alive for the events of Scary Movie 2 as one of the students chosen to investigate Hell House. The circumstances between the two movies are unknown, but it is possible he worked with the police, perhaps even finding away to deflect the charges on him and received a minimal sentence as a result. However, it still strains credibility that he would still end up at the same college as Cindy and Brenda unless he was following Brenda to restart their relationship.
- Due to a change in creative teams, Scary Movie 3 and Scary Movie 4 end up focusing more on Cindy and Brenda than the Wayans-era entries, ignoring or moving on from the first two movies. Therefore, he and Shorty Meeks no longer are a part of Cindy and Brenda's lives. However, some fans of the series claim the Wayans characters no longer exist in the universe of the latter films; instead considering the third and fourth movies as part of a "rebooted franchise" rather than a continuation of the franchise.
- Another fan theory concerns whether or not Ray Wilkins and Shorty Meeks could be half-brothers, mainly because the two have similar appearances to each other, and Brenda revealing that she and Shorty have different fathers. (In reality, Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans are brothers; Shawn is the older brother of Marlon Wayans.)