About

Stephen Stills is the lead singer, guitarist, and "talent" of Sex Bob-omb. He is 23 years old and went to college with Scott Pilgrim at the University of Toronto, where he played in the band Kid Chameleon with Scott, Envy Adams, and others. He is currently employed at The Happy Avocado vegetarian restaurant as a cook and later helps Scott get a job there as a dish-washer. Stephen was in a tumultuous relationship with Julie Powers, who at one point suspects that he and Knives Chau may have a mutual attraction to one another, though he breaks up with Julie in Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe and had been dating Joseph for a while by Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour. Whilst typically laconic, Stephen is known for rare fits of neurosis, (typically over the quality of his band's music compared to others), as well as irritability (usually over Scott's absentmindedness). He is named after musician Stephen Stills of the group Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. For reasons unknown, Scott always refers to him by his full name.

Stephen is refered to as "the talent" of the group by most everyone and acts as the group's lead vocalist and guitarist. In Volume 4 however, things change as while helping Kim Pine move into her new apartment with Hollie Hawkes and Joseph, and we learn Joseph has a vast array of recording equipment. Stephen is amazed by this and instantly asks Joseph to help them record an album which he agrees to, only because he finds Stephen attractive. The group eventually does record an album which spans several months of work, both volumes 4 & 5, though the end product is only 17 minutes long.

Stephen and Julie have a constant on-again-off-again relationship throughout the series. The two argue a lot over a variety of petty things, and when apart, Julie will do things to spite Stephen and everyone else such as booking Sex Bob-omb to unwanted shows, and dating Kyle & Ken Katayanagi of Ramona's Evil Exes. Despite this, the two always seem to patch things up, only to fall apart again, then to patch things up. Whenever the two break up, everyone seems to respond to this with the line "For the fiftieth time?" Stephen even wrote a song about his and Julie's relationship which she can't stand, despite pointing how the song's underlying tenderness and message of love. Julie spent most of volume 4 being mad at Stephen, believing him to be attracted to Knives. Later on, the immense hate in the relationship caused Stephen to turn gay in the fifth Volume and revealed in the final volume

In the Final Volume, Stephen reveals he's in a relationship with Joseph, who had produced Sex Bob-omb's album. He tells Scott that he came out in Volume 5 but Scott seemed busy so he never mentioned it to him. Scott freaks out a moment while trying to stay cool before asking "So, Julie turned you gay?" to which Joseph suggests Stephen gets new friends.