Anthony

"*I know guys like you. You come through here, but you don't really care about Port Oswego. You're just passing through. You don't care that our history is being erased.*"
—Anthony to Nathan[src]
**Anthony** is a main character on The CW's superhero drama *Naomi*. He is portrayed by Will Meyers.

Anthony is a handsome teen and a proud "townie" who has a crush on Naomi and will do anything to help her on her journey.

## Biography

### Breaking into the dealership

Anthony meets up with Naomi in school after failing to attend Nathan's party. The reason for this being that Nathan intentionally gave Anthony the wrong address. Military brats like him hate townies like Anthony, to which Naomi replies that it's a two-way street. Not to mention, she's a military brat and doesn't hate him.

Anthony helps Naomi and the others break into Zumbado's dealership in search of the disk he stole from her in the woods. Inside, they discover a locked safe, but they are forced to leave when Zumbado returns.

### The UFO crash of 2004

As the school day comes to an end, Anthony approaches Naomi at her locker with some coffee and nervously asks her out on a date to the new pizza place, to which she agrees. He later joins Naomi, Annabelle, and Jacob after learning that they've been investigating the UFO crash from 2004, which Anthony happens to have some insight on, as his dad used to work with a guy named Steve O'Brien, who not only saw the UFO in the sky but also went into the woods to look for the crash site. From Steve, they learn that something strange happened to him and his friends in the woods and that the crash wasn't at Falls Creek, as they had initially suspected. So, using a Pacific Logging map, they find the abandoned mill Steve went to many years before and decide to investigate for themselves. Inside, they discover markings on the wall but leave in a hurry when Zumbado comes looking for Naomi.

Anthony and Naomi are dropped off by Lourdes, and on their way home, they discuss their pizza date, which Naomi agreed to, not knowing it was a date. She has a lot going on and wants to stay friends. She's not saying no to him, she's just saying not right now, which Anthony accepts.

### College week

Anthony participates in college week, where he speaks with college reps and reveals his plan to get a degree in architecture to revitalize Port Oswego. Later, while on a tour of Central Oregon, he sneaks off with Naomi and the others to run tests on the disk she stole back from Zumbado in the geology lab. However, they are apprehended and taken to the principal's office when the machine malfunctions and sets the alarm off. Naomi is prepared to take the blame, but Anthony reminds her that they all came along willingly and that they should all be okay, as none of them have been in trouble before.

### Escape room

Anthony and Jacob pressure Naomi into running for Class President after Esme replaces all the snacks in the school's vending machines with fruits. Later, he joins Naomi and the gang in participating in an escape room in order to use it's Turing machine to crack the code on the disk that Naomi got back from Zumbado.

### Camp Shadow Ridge

Anthony and the entire junior class go on a camping trip to Camp Shadow Ridge, where that night, he sneaks out of his cabin to look at Venus in the sky, but then he hears something or someone before seeing a light, as the rocks and trees begin glowing blue. Whatever it is, it makes him feel dizzy. He gets turned around and ends up running into Nathan and Naomi in the woods, who take him to the nurse's cabin, who are claiming that he suffered an allergy attack, but Anthony would beg to differ and asks for Naomi's help in uncovering what really happen. They begin asking questions and learn of an old researcher named Belinda that used to work at the camp. So, as a group, they sneak out and break into Belinda's old cabin, where they find an old camcorder and more of the glowing blue substance before being caught by Director Richard.

Anthony and Naomi go over the information they have on Belinda, including a schematic of Shadow Ridge that reveals they excavated the area below the main cabin three years ago and built some kind of room under it. Before going any further, Naomi tells Anthony about her relationship with Nathan. He assures Naomi that it's not weird and that while he accepts her decision, she should know that Nathan's not the only thing out there. When everyone else decides that they no longer wish to investigate after watching a video of Belinda being attacked, Anthony continues on his own. However, at the main cabin, he runs into Naomi, and they decide to investigate together. In the basement of the main cabin, they find a box full of blue rocks labeled "Dilustel," which seems to only have an effect on Anthony, who is carried out by Naomi.

### Homecoming week

Anthony attends the Homecoming committee meeting. Unfortunately, the architecture club is losing to Nathan and the soccer team in regard to the school fundraiser. When Anthony arrives at school the following day, he finds that his float has been destroyed and immediately accuses Nathan of being the culprit despite having no evidence. Homecoming has been going on in Port Oswego for 100 years and it's means something to townies such as himself, but Nathan insists that he's innocent. However, Anthony doesn't believe him and this leads to a fight, ultimately resulting in the two of them being given detention.

While in detention, Nathan questions if this animosity is about Naomi, which Anthony swears it isn't, even if he doesn't think Nathan is good enough for her. Nathan recalls his first day at the school and how Anthony was assigned to show him around, but ditched him by third period, referring to Nathan as just another army brat. While he doesn't know Nathan personally, Anthony knows guys like him; they come through town but they don't really care about the people or history of Port Oswego, but Nathan is all too familiar with erasure of history. Still, he repeats that he didn't mess up Anthony's float and offers to help him find out who did. So, they break into Mrs. Varady's to steal the keys to the security room and review the footage, which exposes Esme as the culprit.

### Volunteering at Lourdes's shop

Anthony and Nathan have signed up to help at the comic book shop to fulfill 40 hours as student volunteers, where they are to assist Lourdes with running the store. They are initially hopeful that Lourdes will simply sign the papers and let them go since they're friends, but she needs the help. While looking through the "for sale" pile, they find Lourdes' personal collection of comics and ask why she's selling them, given their value. Lourdes embarrassingly reveals that business is slow and that she has to sell them in order to keep the business going. Anthony and Nathan offer to come up with a plan to help bring in more customers, but she declines their offer. However, this doesn't deter them from arranging a Lord of the Rings trivia session at the shop to bring in money. Despite their good intent, Lourdes ends the trivia session, tells Anthony and Nathan that they aren't friends, and forces them to leave. However, she finds them at Naomi's parents' anniversary party and apologizes.

### The anniversary party

Anthony, Nathan, Lourdes, and Esme play a game of "Never Have I Ever" with Naomi, Annabelle, and Jacob, unaware that they're being tested by their friends to determine which of them is the alleged alien who stole Naomi's disk. They ask if any of them were on Naomi's block three nights ago. Anthony reveals that he's been pet sitting for the Millers, who live on Naomi's block. He spends the rest of the night taking photos of the party. At some point, Commander Steel arrives and invites himself in.

### Uncovering Naomi's secret

After attempting to cheer Naomi up with his upcoming article on the Superman stunt, which she doesn't seem too enthusiastic about despite her love for Superman, Anthony goes to Lourdes for an interview to get her perspective on the stunt. This leads to a broader discussion of how Naomi has been acting strange lately. And so, the duo decide to further investigate the stunt together, starting with Dee, who claimed responsibility in order to gain publicity for his shop. As they inquire further, Zumbado interjects and tells them to stop asking questions and to never come back. After hitting a dead end with Dee, they go into the woods in search of evidence, where they stumble open Naomi's birth rock. While Anthony takes photos, they are confronted by Julian, who launches a blue saber at the kids until Dee swoops in and shields them with his wings. Zumbado follows his lead and sends Julian flying to the ground. Lourdes and Anthony then head back to the tattoo shop, where Zumbado and Dee explain that they're aliens.

Anthony is paintballing with Nathan, Lourdes, and Jacob when Naomi and Annabelle arrive unexpectedly and bring them to Dee's shop, explaining that they're being targeted by Naomi's enemies in order to lure her out. With Jacob's alien tracking device, they learn the location of Naomi's abducted guardians. Initially, she tries to rescue them alone, but they insist that they're a team and join Naomi on her mission, where they shoot Julian with paintballs while shutting down the power to the warehouse and the dampening technology, allowing them to rescue Naomi's guardians. With their enemies defeated, they attend a party at Nathan's.

## Appearances

### Season 1

* "Don't Believe Everything You Think"
* "Unidentified Flying Object"
* "Zero to Sixty"
* "Enigma"
* "Shadow Ridge"
* "Homecoming"
* "Fellowship of the Disc"
* "Keep Your Friends Close"
* "Ready or Not"
* "Who Am I?"

## References

1. ↑ Season 1, Episode 1: ***"Don't Believe Everything You Think"***
2. ↑ Season 1, Episode 2: ***"Unidentified Flying Object"***
3. ↑ Season 1, Episode 3: ***"Zero to Sixty"***
4. ↑ Season 1, Episode 4: ***"Enigma"***
5. ↑ Season 1, Episode 5: ***"Shadow Ridge"***
6. ↑ Season 1, Episode 6: ***"Homecoming"***
7. ↑ Season 1, Episode 8: ***"Fellowship of the Disc"***
8. ↑ Season 1, Episode 9: ***"Keep Your Friends Close"***
9. ↑ Season 1, Episode 12: ***"Ready or Not"***
10. ↑ Season 1, Episode 13: ***"Who Am I?"***