Wallace Fennel

Wallace Fennel
Percy Daggs III as Wallace Fennel
First appearance	"Pilot"
Last appearance	"The Bitch Is Back" (TV series) Veronica Mars (film)
Created by	Rob Thomas
Portrayed by	Percy Daggs III
Information
Gender	Male
Occupation	Student
Family	Alicia Fennel (mother) Nathan Woods (biological father) Hank Fennel (father, deceased) Darrell Fennel (half-brother)
Significant other(s)	Jackie Cook Jane Kuhne

"The Bitch Is Back" (TV series)

Wallace Fennel is a fictional character on UPN/The CW television series Veronica Mars, which debuted during the fall 2004 season on UPN. He is portrayed by actor Percy Daggs III.

Wallace has become Veronica's best friend; they first met when Veronica cut him down from the Neptune High flagpole after he was duct-taped to it by Eli "Weevil" Navarro. Deciding that Veronica was a better friend than any of the 09ers or jocks at Neptune High who simply laughed while he was taped to the flagpole, he began sitting with her at lunch. The two became fast friends when Veronica helped get him out of trouble with the PCH biker gang.

Wallace is a Sagittarius and his hometown is Chicago, Illinois. He lives with his single mother, Alicia, and his brother. After befriending Veronica, he starts helping her in many cases. Because he is an office aide at Neptune High, Veronica often asks for "favors" in order to see school records and gain information on other students. He also gives her tardy slips and occasionally provides bits of key knowledge which helped Veronica in her investigations. When not working as her liaison into the school files, he is most often seen driving the getaway car (literally), providing distractions so Veronica could sneak around unseen, or planting bugged items around Neptune.

He is, arguably, the best basketball player on the Neptune Pirates basketball team. This becomes the focal point of the episode "Betty and Veronica." One of his teammates steals the team mascot in an attempt to keep Wallace from playing so he could be a starter instead.

Wallace usually helps Veronica out of feelings of friendship, although on occasion she needs to promise a little something extra — perhaps the answers to a test. Typically, he does not ask why she needs his help or what she is doing with the information he passes on to her. He trusts her almost unquestioningly. But he is always there for her, and Wallace is the one person Veronica truly opens up to about her rape in the episode "A Trip to the Dentist."