The Multiplex 10’s largely absent assistant manager, Allen, was known to frequently surf for porn on the Multiplex's computers and delegate much of his work to the other managers below him.
When the truth came out about Brian stealing from the Multiplex, Allen covered up the amount of Brian's theft in order to make it look less serious.
Some months later, Gretchen wrote a sensationalized article about Franklin organizing a video game tournament after-hours using the theater's new digital projectors, in violation of company policy, whereupon Allen convinced Franklin that the Multiplex's corporate owners considered this breach of policy theft and fired him. Allen even tried to use the opportunity to (illegally) take money from Franklin's last check, however Neil put a stop to this by alerting the local projectionist's union.
Allen had filed a different termination form with corporate than the copy they'd kept on file at the Multiplex 10 — one with a much less serious reason for termination, presumably (as with Brian's termination) so that it wouldn't be scrutinized as closely by corporate. Unfortunately for Allen, Neil was onto him. After Neil learned that Allen had covered up the amount of Brian's theft in order to withhold his last paycheck for himself (in the same way he had done later with Franklin), he alerted the Multiplex 10's corporate parents' accounting department, and an investigation revealed other "irregularities."
Sometimes called “Angry” behind her back, Angie gets flustered easily under pressure, but is generally soft-spoken and keeps to herself. Since her introduction, she and Kurt seem to have bonded somewhat, perhaps due to a mutual love of zombie and horror movies. After her ex-boyfriend Midnight broke up with Angie because, as a Christian, she chose not to have sex with him, Angie began hanging out with the rest of the staff more, particularly Sunny, a fellow Christian.
While filming the gang's zombie movie, Duncan and got engaged to be married. When Jason seemed evasive about congratulating her, she confronted him and in the ensuing argument, he confessed that he didn't think it was a good idea for them to marry at their age, which Angie took offense to.
At the same time, she was upset with the cowardly nature of her role in the film, which she thought was stupid and cliché. Not realizing that Kurt had written most of the script, not Jason, insult combined with injury to bring out another argument between Jason and Angie.
In the end, she quit from both the movie and the theater, but seems to have quickly found new employment as a receptionist for Hagen Animal Clinic, but she remains on good terms with Kurt, Sunny, Chase and the rest of the Multiplex staff.
Recently, Angie 2 has made Rookie the target for some pranking of her own, and he has tried — and failed — to get even, with his frustration eventually leading to a workplace accident. Sadly, nearly getting her eye poked out caused Angie's mother to forbid her from working at the Multiplex 10, and she was forced to quit.
She still keeps in touch with the Multiplex gang, and helped out with their movie by appearing as the first zombie in it.
Little is known about Ariela save that her… healthy figure proved a distraction for more than oneman at the theater.
She hung out with Whitey/Dub for a while, and although he considered them to be dating, she claimed that they were only friends — despite a less-than-purely-platonic relationship. She did consider herself to be dating Max Cardeñas, then the assistant manager at the Multiplex 10, who was none too pleased when he learned about her relationship with Dub.
They evidently stopped seeing each other, as Ariela was soon accusing Max of picking on her at work, and she angrily quit.
Brian was first introduced to the staff of the Multiplex when he provided Franklin his winning entry in the Stupid Question of the Year Awards for 2005, but soon after began working at the theater and began dating Sunny. By all appearances, they were a happy, if slightly horny couple, but we soon learned that Brian cheated on her with Gretchen.
After Sunny and Brian break up, he professed his love to Gretchen, who rebuffed him, calling him "an idiot." Brian denied this, and to prove it, he revealed that he had been pretending to be stupid since he started at the Multiplex 10, in order to steal from the theater without suspicion. Gretchen sold him out, though, and he was fired. According to the December 2007 Multiplex Examiner, Brian was arrested and likely to be charged with a misdemeanor.
Devi is known to have worked at the Multiplex 10 prior to her first appearance in the strip. At that time, she was dating someone and shared a minor flirtation with Jason. Back at the Multiplex the following summer, except single, they recommenced their flirtation and eventually began dating.
When Devi returned to school at the SVA in New York City in the fall, they continued seeing each other long distance. Devi returned to the Multiplex 10 again, in the summer of 2007, but Devi and Jason had a rocky transition back to a same-city couple and soon broke up, whereupon Devi quit the Multiplex 10 and decided to finish the rest of her summer back in New York.
Recently, after graduating from the SVA, Devi decided to move back to Chicago, to be near her family. Apparently single now, her and Jason started hanging out again… not entirely platonically, but called things off when Jason decided he wanted to see where things were headed with another girl.
They've remained close friends, however, occasionally hanging out or visiting classic movie theaters so she can photograph them. She gave Jason her old camera for Pancha Ganapati in 2009, in order to help foster his burgeoning interest in old theaters.
She is employed as the assistant to a wedding photographer.
Whitey's father is a former funk & soul musician who married into a wealthy family with ties to the pharmaceutical industry. One of his former bandmates is the daughter of James Harris, the Multiplex 10's security guard. Apparently this love for Black music was passed on to Whitey, who plays bass and is studying Music at Northwestern University. Whitey might take it a bit far, though.
"Whitey" is also a nickname of sorts; it's short for "Whitman." Whitey apparently wants to go by “Dub,” although no one besides Neil and Ariela ever did so… until the rest of the Multiplex 10 gang learned that Whitey was in a funk & soul cover band called Higher Ground with three of his classmates from Northwestern — and that they were, apparently, extremely good.
Dub and two of the members of the band — Clyde and Hatterman — recently kicked out their lead singer/guitarist Dominic for being too lazy to learn new (or original) songs. They started a new band, Yo Mamma, which is now Dub's full-time job.
Jillian and Letizia (a.k.a. Jailbait and Tease) both attended the same local high school until they graduated in Spring, 2011. They are collectively referred to as The Twins.
Although she was planning on attending Chicago's Columbia College in the fall(as a default, since it has open admissions), Jillian learned in April that she was accepted into the UCLA Film School.
Josh Hutchens Occupation: Bartender First Appearance: Multiplex #224
Keith found himself drawn to the Multiplex 10's resident goth girl, Angie, initially just being unreasonably jealous of her friendship with the other male staff workers, particularly Jason (whom she dated for a few months before they broke up amicably). He became increasingly unhinged until he finally passed the tipping point and roughly pushed Jason during one of the gang's horror-movie-style pranks, nearly breaking Jason's nose.
The same evening, Keith also told Jason's then-girlfriend Lydia somewhat distorted information about Jason's caddish attitude about her when they had first started dating, prompting her to break up with him. Jason roughly confronted Keith about it, during with Angie overheard the two and angrily gave her would-be suitor a piece of her mind — but Norma, one of the assistant managers overheard enough of the conversation to feel justified in terminating Keith.
SHOW HISTORY
Angie Kurokami Yun
Devina (“Devi”) Trivedi
Jillian (“Jailbait”) Adams
