About Young Neil himself

Young Neil is the #1 fan of sex bob omb. Easiest way to put it. He's first introduced as Scott's friend and Stephen;s roommate to knives, and he supports them (and Kim) in their band, always being there when they practice. He's been their biggest fan since before they even played their first note!

He's often seen playing videogames on a DS or Gameboy (depending on the adaptation). He gets this trait from Scott, as he looks up to him and tries to be like him in a lot of ways. It's better seen in the movie, where most of his lines are either him being stupid, or him repeating things Scott says.

He's very quiet and aloof, often just observing everyone around him. He's pretty easy going and gentle, but during volume 5 hes seen to have grown more hostile and bitter. He proves to be quite a sensative boy despite the guise he puts up. He's quite immature when it comes to most things, but he finally matures when scott calls him just Neil for the first time. He seems to have some sort of a dependancy on the band/Stephen, seeing his degradation when they "abandon" him. He's often seen as a loser, but he has "half-decent" attributes according to Scott.

Him throughout the timeline of the comics

please note that a lot of this section is taken directly from the wiki.

In the start, He is depicted as a somewhat passive character who hangs around his and Stephen's house, often seen playing video games or watching the band practice. His nickname "Young Neil" is given by Scott because he's younger than the other band members.

Throughout the next few issues, Young Neil appears to stay relatively the same personality wise as he's not shown to be much of an important character. However, after Scott and Knives break up, Knives ends up dating Young Neil as a way to get back at Scott and try to make him jealous. She also just dates him because he's a lot like Scott.

In volume 4, Knives breaks up with Young Neil. It's implied they've broken up before (taken from Knives ranting to Tamara), but this time it was permenant. Young Neil takes this kind of hard, seeing as he starts acting more hostile and passive towards all of his friends. This comes from a mix of the breakup, and the fact that Stephen and the band dont really hang around him anymore due to them actually recording an album rather than just practicing.

Young Neil is still harbouring that hostile and passive attitude in the last few issues, having picked up smoking. He's seen stuck in his room a lot of the time, lamenting about thinking Stephen is mad at him and questioning why they don't hang out anymore. We even see him talk at a party with Ramona, where he seems sour towards her and Stephen, calling him "Captain Homo". The only somewhat positive interaction we hear about Young Neil is when Scott is talking about how Young Neil gifted him a game console, when in reality Scott just bought it off of him for 200 bucks. They also end up conversating at a party, this time about Envy Adams, Young Neil giving the advice that Scott should "Preemptively be a dick to her."

Things really look up for Young Neil when we finally see him again in the Chaos Theatre, playing bass for sex bob-omb after scott left the band. When Scott is introducing him to his sister Stacey, he drops the "Young" from his name, and referes to him as just Neil, which causes nei lto believe this is the greatest day of his life. We end with seeing Neil and Knives watching the newly formed "Shatterband" (basically sex bob-omb under a new name) play an extremely bad cover of "I'm a believer" by the Monkees.

MOVIE STUFF!!

In the Movie, Young Neil is a kind of roadie/fanboy to Sex Bob-omb, going to rehearsals and hanging out with the band despite not actually being in it. Neil strives to be just like Scott as he often repeats what Scott says, dresses in similar ways to Scott, knows how to play bass exactly like Scott, and ends up dating Knives just like Scott did. When Gideon wants to sponsor Sex Bob-omb, Scott refuses and leaves the band, and Neil takes his position and his bass (but ends up just getting a new one that is black and similar to the old one), officially becoming Sex Bob-Omb's new bass player. In Scott's second life he apologizes to all the members of the band and Scott tells Young Neil that the band sounds better with him on bass and that from this day on he will be known as ... "Neil". Similar to Kim and Stephen Stills, Young Neil has a somewhat weak friendship with Scott before the scene in the Chaos Theatre.

He is played by the actor Johnny Simmons, who's known for movies like Jennfiers Body, The To Do List, Evan Almighty and more.

sorry theres not much else to say about him in the movie. I took a paragraph straight from the wiki for this.... sory

The game!!

okay well, the new game since theres nothing about him in the 2010 game.

In the up and coming Scott Pilgrim game, Scott Pilgrim EX, Young Neil is vaguly seen to be a zombie-vampire thingy in the trailer. Nothing else known so far as this is before the game comes out!! 6/13/2025

(brians recent art of him) --> the art