Kyle Valenti
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| Kyle Valenti | |
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 Nick Wechsler as Kyle Valenti |
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| First appearance | "Pilot" |
| Last appearance | Roswell: Turnabout |
| Created by | Jason Katims; Melinda Metz(book creator) |
| Portrayed by | Nick Wechsler |
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| Gender | Male |
| Age | 24 (18 in 2002 at the end of the series) |
Kyle Valenti is a fictional character from the television show Roswell. He was played by Nick Wechsler.
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[edit] Biography
Kyle is used regularly as comic relief in serious situations. He has the most developed sense of humor of the group, and is always looking for the joke in a situation. He does, however, have a very serious and caring side, becoming very protective of those he cares about. Kyle's Buddhism is often used as joke fodder, with him often quoting philosophical texts to help in serious situations, to the exasperation of his father and friends.
Kyle is a good athlete. Although he is mostly shown as being a football star at his high school, he is also shown on the basketball team, and reveals in one episode that his true passion is baseball and he wants to play for the Houston Astros.
[edit] Season 1
Kyle is initially an antagonist, albeit a reasonably sympathetic one, at the beginning of the show. He is introduced as being the casual boyfriend of protagonist Liz Parker. A sophomore at West Roswell High, he is a renowned school athlete and son of the town sheriff, Jim Valenti. When Liz starts hanging around Max Evans, and soon dumps Kyle, he becomes jealous of Max and begins a rivalry with him. This rivalry is only fueled by the fact that his father seems obsessed with Max, and warns Kyle to stay away from him, as he may be dangerous. Although Kyle's feelings for Liz were only casual and he is soon able to get over them, he continues find himself in tense conflict with Max. At the end of the first season, his father doesn't return home and an FBI man is put in front of his house to keep a watch out. When Max comes to his house, knocks out the agent, and tells Kyle to stay put, Kyle is furious, thinking Max is putting his father in danger. He takes a gun from his father's cabinet and follows Max to the UFO center, where he finds Agent Pierce, whom he believes to be the innocent Deputy Fisher, tied up. When he frees him, Pierce takes his gun and attacks the others. In the ensuing melee, Kyle is accidentally shot by his own father. Kyle is found by his father and the others,and Max heals his wound, saving his life. From then on, Kyle is entrusted with the secret that Max and his friends are actually aliens.
[edit] Season 2
In the second season, as he is now "in on the secret," Kyle is much more fleshed out as a character. It is revealed that, in order to come to peace with the presence of aliens in his life, he has found Buddhism. He wants nothing to do with the "little green men," and at first, does not partake in their main adventures, but finds one as a roommate when the orphaned Tess Harding moves in with him and his father. At first, Tess is annoying and hostile towards him, but the two soon become friends, with a heavy hinting of an attraction between the two. At any rate, Tess is shown as filling the gap left in Kyle's family life since, as is revealed, his mother left when he was six. She transforms the household from just being two guys into a real family again.
Kyle now has an understanding of those he was formerly pitted against, and becomes friendly with the entire group, now considering Liz to be a good friend. He begins to resent Max again, however, when his father loses his job protecting his secret. After this, Kyle is reluctant to help the group, but does so anyway when they are searching for a cluster of toxic crystals that could spell doom for the world. He and Alex end up trapped in a cave with the crystals, and he forms a kinship with Alex, who helps him appreciate the presence of the aliens in their lives. Kyle then finds a way to kill the crystals, and, upon escaping form the cave with Alex, exclaims that they just saved the world. After this encounter, Kyle once again grows friendly with the entire group, including Max, and becomes substantial member of the alien clique. When the eight of them travel to Las Vegas together for a vacation, he is seen hanging out primarily with Alex.
Kyle ends up confronting his feelings for Tess and asking her to the dance. When Maria asks him why they haven't hooked up yet, he says that he is, for some reason he can't put his finger on, resistant to do so. When a friend of his makes sexual comments about Tess, however, Kyle exclaims "Don't you talk that way about my sister!" thus realizing that he truly feels a sibling love, not a romantic one, toward Tess. Kyle is greatly affected by the death of Alex, as they were shown growing as friends earlier in the season, and he is one of the members of the group that supports Liz in her theory that Alex was not killed in a car accident, but was actually murdered. At the end of season 2, Kyle sees off Tess when she, Max, Michael, and Isabel are forced to go back to their home planet. Shortly afterward, however, Liz and Maria tell him that they think Tess has recently put a mind warp on him, and, through concentration, Kyle is able to remember what was stolen from his mind: That Tess killed Alex in front of him and made him carry his body into his car. Kyle, Liz, and Maria manage to get to the pod chamber and stop the aliens from lifting off, telling them the truth. Max, Michael, and Isabel exit the chamber as Tess flies off back to Antar, and Kyle stand with his five friends in the iconic closing moment of the season, having gone from being an antagonist to a trusted member of the group.
[edit] Season 3
With Tess gone and Alex dead, Kyle and Isabel are the only two members of the group of six that are not romantically involved with another, and as such, end up spending a lot of time together, becoming close friends. Kyle is the first to learn about her relationship with Jesse Ramirez, and, unlike others, supports her in it. After Isabel and Jesse's wedding, Kyle continues to be close friends with her, and forms a friendship with Jesse as well. But while at a New Year's party with Isabel, Kyle realizes that his feelings for Isabel are more than just platonic. An honorable man, he keeps these feelings inside, but is henceforth shown as deeply caring for Isabel, breaking down crying at her bedside when she is shot and almost killed.
When Liz begins manifesting powers as a result of Max healing her in the first episode, it becomes clear to Kyle that he too will probably gain some sort of alien powers in the future. In the series finale, when the rest of the group is forced to leave Roswell and live on the run, Kyle makes the decision to come with them, citing that he wants to be with his "own kind" when he starts to "snap crackle and pop like tin foil." He says a heartfelt goodbye to his father before boarding a van with the others and leaving Roswell. He is last seen in the series with the other five main characters as they celebrate the wedding of Max and Liz and once again board the van, continuing on their road trip across America.
[edit] Original Novels: Pursuit/Turnabout
In the concluding novels written by Andy Mangels and Michael A. Martin, Kyle's powers finally manifest themselves while the group is on the run from the government. He has the ability to communicate with people psychically, grouping numbers of people into a single virtual presence, or "psychic chatroom," where they all see and talk to each other. He uses these powers with the aid of Isabel, who he continues to be consistently protective of. Kyle's powers are lost, however, when he uses them along with Liz, Cal Langley, and Ava, to create a massive mindwarp, wiping all knowledge of aliens from the Special Unit's minds, and making them all safe. This injures Kyle, however, and Max is forced to heal him once again, alluding to the fact that he might develop other powers in the future. Kyle is last seen celebrating the legal wedding of Max and Liz in front of the Crashdown Cafe, forming a friendship with Ava and promising to help her adapt to her new life if she helps him cope with his future powers.
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