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    Chyna Parks 
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Portrayed by: China Anne McClain

    Olive Doyle 
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Portrayed by: Sierra McCormick

  • Awkward Kiss: She gets one from Fletcher at the end of unwANTed.
  • The Bore: She constantly bores everyone around her by telling “interesting” factoids which aren’t that interesting.
  • Character Catchphrase:
    • "What the heck?!" and "Interesting factoid" (and, to a degree, "Hollah!").
    • Season 3 introduces "Zazzow!".
  • Cloudcuckoolander: As seen in "The PhANTom Locker". She blow dries her hair in Chyna's locker. It barely makes sense in context.
  • Cunning Linguist: Olive is called upon by the principal to translate Japanese to a prospective Japanese Ant. She also says a few phrases in other languages in other episodes such as German and Danish, and speaks English in quite a few different foreign accents.
  • Cute, but Cacophonic: Olive speaks relatively loudly and with an overdone accent of sorts.
  • The Cutie: She is the youngest person ever inducted into Mensa and is a cute girl whith long blonde hair.
  • Ditzy Genius: While very book smart due to having super memory, she has very childish moments, such as believing Cameron's ghost story, having way more fun while the rest of the ANTs are playing musical chairs, and her overall naivete. At least somewhat justified in that the character is only 12 at the beginning of the series. Maturity comes with experience.
  • Dumb Blonde: Subverted since she has the greatest mental capacity on the show, but she rarely puts it to good use, as a result, she sometimes ends up looking dumb and childish at times. She begins to play with this trope in "intelligANT".
  • Endearingly Dorky: Not entirely the stereotypical dork, but she has a large brain capacity, which she fills with very advanced subjects such as physics and calculus, she finds homework and extra credit assignments fun and can be quite awkward and eccentric. She's still very pretty and Angus finds her attractive.
  • Fangirl: Of Professor Marcy McLaughlin.
  • Flanderization: She went from a mere cloudcuckoolander who can be Innocently Insensitive in the first season to a full-blown jerkass later on.
  • Gamer Chick: In "Replic ANT". She surpasses Cameron's high score in Donkey King and would have won a Donkey King competition had a blackout not happened. And while her proficiency in that game is attributed to her super memory, she also easily handled having to play a live-action of the game staged by Cameron and Wacky the Wolf, complete with barrels, ladders, hammers and an apple
  • Genki Girl: When she gets excited.
  • Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Chyna. They are very close best friends.
  • Innocent Prodigy: Despite her intellect, Olive is very much a child. Chyna is able to trick Olive into spending the night in the "haunted locker" (to prove it's not haunted) by leading her to the school blindfolded. Olive believes she's in Chyna's house playing a game of Pin The Tail on the Donkey.
  • Insufferable Genius: She can be a know-it-all, especially around Fletcher.
  • Jerkass: In her case, her over-analytical mind seems to give her a Lack of Empathy, plus she's a Cloudcuckoolander. Most of her moments are directed at Fletcher.
  • Little Miss Snarker: She’s pretty snarky and sarcastic, mainly towards Fletcher.
  • Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Olive's Masculine Girl and Fletcher's Feminine Boy. She's smart, but can get mean
  • Motor Mouth: At times she speaks fast, combined with her Genki Girl tendencies.
  • No Indoor Voice: Mostly in the first season, but it still shows up at times.
  • Photographic Memory: Her talent, and what landed her in the A.N.T. Farm to begin with.
  • Punny Name: On "olive oil", though it doesn't apply to her character at all.
  • Teen Genius: The ANTs are usually geniuses in their individual specialism but Olive is the only one who can be considered a genius in a more general sense. Her eidetic memory make her basically a human computer and she has the greatest mental ability on the show.
  • Token Evil Teammate: She can be a jerk, sometimes. In got to the point that there was an episode of season 3 where she was even worse than Lexi.
  • Tomboy and Girly Girl: Olive's Tomboy and Chyna's Girly Girl
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: From Season 2 onward Olive becomes bossier, more self-centred, and enjoys other people's pain (and doesn't hesitate to inflict pain on others either). In Season 3, it came to a point in one episode where she ended up being worse than Lexi.

    Fletcher Quimby 
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Portrayed by: Jake Short

  • Abusive Parents: Implied in several instances.
  • Book Dumb: He often says and does stupid things. However, this did not prevent him from being in the ANT program
  • Born Unlucky: He's the Butt-Monkey. Plus, his parents don't seem very supportive of his artistic ability.
  • Butt-Monkey: His talent is usually dismissed as useless, everyone treats him like an idiot, and he spends most of this show being in love with Chyna, who only sees him a friend. It gets even worse in Season 3, where most people treat him like he's nobody, Olive acts more aggressively toward him, and for some reason, the entire country hates him (In a later episode, that last thing is proven to most likely be false due to Kennedy being revealed to not be a debate prodigy this was probably fabricated, and this whole thing about everyone hating him either her being sadistic or she's venting her annoyance towards some of Fletcher's stupid moments.)
  • The Chew Toy: Evolves into this later on. If anyone is going to be hit, teased, thrown, slapped, yelled at, or receive dirty looks, it'll be Fletcher.
  • Deadpan Snarker: He has his moments. He could easily be the snarkiest character on the show but his ditziness keeps him in check.
  • The Dog Bites Back: Despite his status as the Butt Monkey, Fletcher proves in "feature presANTation" that he does have limits to how much he will endure. In the episode, Fletcher hasn't been able to sleep for days because Angus keeps having nightmares waking him up. He spends the episode helping him with this problem, while Angus acts like a total jerkass towards him. After his final plan to help him ends with them simulating being on a boat, causing Fletcher to still be awake and even fall in a bowl of fish, he finally snaps and, in a particularly impressive and gratifying moment, he not only stands up to Angus, but actually chases him around the school, leaving Angus able to do nothing but run and scream in terror.
  • Dogged Nice Guy: To Chyna. He serves just the same functions as Freddie did, but minus the tech support.
  • Dumbass Has a Point:
    • Fletcher points out in intelligANT that he doesn't like IQ tests as they don't measure other markers of success like work ethic or talent. Chyna, who is both talented and intelligent, even nods in agreement.
    • This exchange:
    Olive: "With no rules I feel like I'm slowly dying."
    Fletcher: "Technically we're all slowly dying, I believe it's called aging."
  • Flanderization: His Butt-Monkey status is so exaggerated by Season 3 that you're more likely to see him getting hurt and insulted than actually, well, making art.
  • Genius Ditz: Fletcher's great at art, but thinks snow angels are dead snowmen.
  • Horrible Judge of Character: At times, he ended up going along with the plans of villains, even when they admit their villainy. For example, he blindly agrees to paint Principal Skidmore even though she admitted to his face that she just uses the A.N.T. Farm as a sweatshop. Another example is when Lexi has Fletcher be the fall guy, so that she wouldn't get in trouble.
  • Idiot Savant: He’s gifted and knowledgeable when it comes to art, but otherwise, he’s a clueless doofus.
  • Keet: "Hey Lexi, it's Fletcher from school!"
  • Little Boy Seeks Big Girl:
    • Fletcher occasionally tends to forget about Chyna when he's around Paisley, especially whenever Paisley hugs Fletcher. One such example (from the pilot no less) happens to be the pictured example on said Tropes page. So far it happened twice in the show, but he implied about Paisley on "chANTs of a lifetime" when he said he's moving to his 2nd best choice (since Chyna is gone).
    • Does this again with Kennedy, and has a relationship with her, but it turned out to be a facade.
  • Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Fletcher's Feminine Boy and Olive's Masculine Girl. He's dumb, but friendly
  • No-Respect Guy: Except for Chyna, everyone pushes him around and calls hi stupid. And even Chyna disrespects him and calls him stupid, once in a while.
  • Pie in the Face: Gets one of these from Chyna in sANTa's little helpers.
  • Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Fletcher's Sensitive Guy and Angus' Manly Man
  • Stalker with a Crush: To Chyna.
  • Took a Level in Dumbass: Definitely lost more than a few IQ points from late Season 2 onward.

    Lexi Reed 
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Portrayed by: Stefanie Scott

  • Alpha Bitch: Lexi's a stereotypically bitchy and narcissistic popular high school girl. She either parodies or exaggerates most traits of an Alpha Bitch.
  • Attention Whore: To amazing levels. Lexi would do anything to be in the school paper, even if it means appealing to Olive, despite the fact that she generally dislikes the ANTs.
  • Beauty Is Bad: She’s a beautiful girl, but also an egotistical, selfish bully.
  • Best Friend: To Paisley.
  • Big Bad Ensemble: With Principal Skidmore, somewhat.
  • Catchphrase: "Shut up, Paisley!" and "You have got to be kidding me!"
  • Characterization Marches On: Becomes more of a comedic frenemy to the ANTs as the show progresses instead of a straight-up villain.
  • Cruel Cheerleader: The blonde bitchy type of cheerleader.
  • Diminishing Villain Threat: Though she was initially designated as the main antagonist, that gets usurped by Principal Skidmore overtime.
  • Dude Magnet: Several boys are attracted to her, despite her obnoxious personality.
  • Freudian Excuse: "america needs talANT" tells us that the reason Lexi makes fun of Chyna is because she's secretly worried that she isn't as good as Chyna. Season 3 also shows that she's something of an insecure closet geek, which actually explains a lot.
  • Good with Numbers: How she gets into the ANT Program.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: She’s jealous of Chyna for her musical talents.
  • Guilty Pleasure: Lexi had two of these: First for the Stinkles movie, and later for Glarcon, after taking a glance at the comic book.
  • Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Paisley. Lexi may be annoyed by the latter's stupidity but still sees her as her best friend.
  • Hidden Depths: The Season 3 premiere reveals that she is a math genius.
  • Hypocrite:
    • She provides a lot of Hypocritical Humor, such as in this exchange from “cANTonese style cuisine”.
    Lexi: "Now, just say what I say."
    Paisley: "My name is Lexi and I’m so pretty and perfect! Shut up, Paisley!"
    Lexi: "I don’t say that! Shut up, Paisley!"
  • If I Can't Have You…: A non-romantic version. In “You’re the one that i wANT”, when Chyna is chosen over Lexi the female lead in the school, Lexi keeps trying to sabotage the play, saying that if she can’t be the lead in the play, there won’t be a play.
  • Intergenerational Friendship: With Zoltan Grundy. She’s a teenage girl and he’s a middle-aged man.
  • Irony: She despised the ANTs early on, but becomes one herself in the third season.
  • It's All About Me: In "PatANT Pending", Paisley's broken arm gets all the attention and Lexi gets ignored and becomes jealous, and decides to pretend to have broken limbs in order to get noticed.
  • Jerkass: She's manipulative, selfish, conceited, and mean to nearly everyone.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She has her moments, showing genuine care toward Paisley at times.
  • Laughably Evil: While one of the main villains, her antics are just as much humorous such as turning in Olive's cheer for her biology project and getting an A+.
  • Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The vain and manipulative Dark Feminine to Paisley's sweet and naive Light Feminine.
  • Manipulative Bitch: In spades. In "ParticipANTs", she lets Chyna onto the cheerleading squad just to wear her out so she would be too tired to audition for the school musical. This actually ends up working to Chyna's advantage when she shows up to audition and inadvertantly delivers the best monologue the drama teacher has ever heard.
  • Ms. Fanservice: She’s a beautiful girl and she’s often wearing a cheerleading outfit with a short skirt.
  • Narcissist: She is always talking about how beautiful she is. In “ballet dANTser”, she can easily be distracted just by showing her a mirror. And at the end of "idANTity crisis", she has a dream where there are two of her, and she and her clone fall in Love at First Sight.
  • Odd Friendship:
    • With Paisley, since Lexi’s a nasty Alpha Bitch and Paisley is a really sweet Nice Girl.
    • With Cameron, at times, since she’s a popular cheerleader and he’s an unpopular nerd.
    • Out of all the ANTs, she’s the closest to Zoltan Grundy. This is probably the most odd of all her friendships, since she’s a beautiful, rude, fashion-obsessed teenage girl while Zoltan is chubby, balding, polite, middle-aged man and tech genius.
  • Popular Is Evil: Lexi Reed was unfair to the other ANTs long before Chyna came along, rearranging the student council policies to oppress them and basically treating them like trash.
  • The Rival: To Chyna. She was also the lead of all of the school musicals until Chyna showed up.
  • Screw Yourself: G-rated version of this at the end of "idANTity crisis", she has a dream where there are two of her and she and her clone fall in Love at First Sight.
  • Ship Tease: With Cameron in some episodes where they interact. It's implied Cameron may have a crush on her.
  • Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: To Chyna. Chyna always wins.
  • Wasted Beauty: She’s beautiful on the outside, but ugly on the inside.

    Cameron Parks 
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Portrayed by: Carlon Jeffery

  • Butt-Monkey: Shares the role with Fletcher. He's treated like an idiot by everyone, and he often strikes out with girls.
  • Casanova Wannabe
  • Childish Older Sibling: His sister Chyna is only 11 but she's smarter and more mature than he is.
  • Demoted to Extra: He's been replaced by Angus in Season 3.
  • The Ditz: He's not that smart. Still smarter than Paisley though.
  • Dumbass Teenage Son: Chyna's older brother and probably the third dumbest person on the show.
  • Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The Foolish Dumbass Teenage Son to Chyna's Responsible talented sibling.
  • Odd Friendship: With Lexi and Paisley. They are both popular cheerleaders while Cameron is pretty much a loser.
  • Put on a Bus: Though he returns in "feature presANTation".
  • Ship Tease: With both Lexi and Paisley, depending on the episode, although it's just a case of Odd Friendship (or odd frenemies, in Lexi's case). Cameron seems to be attracted to both.
  • The Un-Favourite: To his dad. Just look at this exchange below.
    Cameron: But, Dad, does she have to go to my high school? I mean, she's only 11.
    Daryl: It's not Chyna's fault that she's gifted, anymore than it's your fault that you're...not.
  • Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Shares this dynamic with Lexi and Paisley.

    Angus Chestnut 

Portrayed by: Aedin Mincks

Recurring Characters

    Paisley Houndstooth 
Portrayed by: Allie De Berry

  • Accidental Misnaming: At Cheerleader tryouts, Paisley mispronounces Chyna and Olives' names, and when they correct her, she assumes the names she mispronounced were entirely different people than Olive and Chyna and allows them to tryout since "Ca-hyna" or "A-live" didn't show.
  • Achievements in Ignorance: Sometimes to Reality Warper levels. She's made a helicopter out of balloons that worked and did a full body gift wrapping of herself!
  • All-Loving Heroine: Paisley is friendly, kind, and generous, she is practically the opposite of Lexi who is mean to just about everyone in the school. She's also very nice to the A.N.T.s, unlike most of the other teens.
  • Beauty Equals Goodness: In contrast with Lexi, Paisley is a beautiful girl and one of the nicest characters in the show.
  • Best Friend: To Lexi.
  • Brainless Beauty: "I don't even know my own strength! "Strength" means "address", right?"
  • Demoted to Extra: Unlike most of the other non-A.N.Ts, Paisley did appear in Season 3, but she had a very reduced role and was only in a few episodes.
  • The Ditz: She sometimes forgets that her name is Paisley.
  • Dumb Blonde: Easily the dumbest character on the show and she is blonde.
  • Dumb Is Good: She's much nicer than her Manipulative Bitch friend Lexi.
  • Expy: Of Cat Valentine, minus mentioning her brother.
  • Foil: Both her and Lexi are tall, blonde, beautiful cheerleaders. However, Lexi is an Alpha Bitch who's mean to everyone while Paisley is a Nice Girl that acts in a kind and generous to everyone, even the A.N.T.s, who most teenagers bully.
  • Friend to All Living Things: Paisley is shown to be an animal lover as seen when she kissed a frog and thought it was cute, and owns a giraffe (which she says is a long-necked horse) and two parrots as pets.
  • Genius Ditz: Paisley is apparently able to build a functioning helicopter out of balloons. Complete with a rope ladder. In two seconds.
  • Genki Girl: She is very perky and energetic.
  • Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Lexi. Lexi may be annoyed by Paisley's stupidity but still sees her as her best friend.
  • Innocent Beta Bitch: Despite being the Alpha Bitch's best friend and main accomplice, she is one of the sweetest and most innocent people in the entire show.
  • Kindhearted Simpleton: She’s not very smart, but she’s a real sweetheart.
  • Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The sweet and naive Light Feminine to Lexi's vain and manipulative Dark Feminine.
  • Ms. Fanservice: She's already gorgeous, but a lot of her outfits emphasize her legs.
  • Nice Girl: In contrast to Lexi, she's friendly and generally likes everyone and everything.
  • Odd Friendship: With Lexi. Paisley is a really sweet Nice Girl while Lexi is a nasty Alpha Bitch.
  • Popular Is Dumb: As to be expected from a pretty Dumb Blonde cheerleader.

    Susan Skidmore 
Portrayed by: Mindy Sterling

  • 0% Approval Rating: All the students hate her.
  • Alliterative Name: Susan Skidmore.
  • Big Bad Ensemble: With Lexi Reed. Well, not anymore, as of Season 3.
  • Dean Bitterman: Fits the role of the mean principal really well.
  • Evil Redhead: She's one of the main antagonists and has red hair.
  • Hollywood Old: She is supposed to be horrifically old. She is played by a 50-year-old woman.
  • Jerkass: She's greedy, self-serving, and corrupt.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Only on occasion.
  • Karma Houdini Warranty: She finally gets her comeuppance for mistreating her students in season 3, when the ANTs abandon her to to go Zoltan Grundy’s school, which causes Skidmore to get fired and become a hotel maid to make ends meat.
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: In the Season 3 Premiere, she made the school run down, hoping a billionaire inventor would fund the school for her own needs, but instead, he decided to make his own ANT boarding school and takes the ANTs under his wing, thus freeing the ANTs from Skidmore's tyranny.
  • Rank Scales with Asskicking: She was placed in a room with a live bear, but she singlehandedly defeated it!
  • Sadist Teacher: She uses the A.N.T. Farm as a sweathop, and once openly admitted to Fletcher that the entire purpose of the A.N.T. Farm is so she can exploit the kids' talents for her own benefit.
  • Small Name, Big Ego: She's firmly convinced that she's young and beautiful, to the point where she cannot believe her own reflection is her.

    Darryl Parks 
Portrayed by: Finesse Mitchell

  • Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop: He isn't necessarily a dirty cop, but he doesn't follow all of the rules and he definitely abuses being an officer of the law. He is more of the incompetent, played for laughs, Police Are Useless Disney version of this trope.
  • Big Eater / Fat Idiot: In "The ReplacemANT", he stuffs his face with ice cream and burritos out of boredom from a lack of crime.
  • Bumbling Dad: Like a lot of sitcom dads, he’s dumb and goofy.
  • Butt-Monkey: Mostly around Christmas.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: He locked Cameron out of the house because he broke Chyna's antPad and was having trouble finding the funds to fix it.
  • Hidden Depths: Working on his own, he's actually quite competent. When hired by Skidmore to find her missing phone, he does some solid investigative work to determine she stole her own phone to get a new one for free. While he was wrong he finds the real perpetrator seconds later and Skidmore breaks the phone anyways realizing she wanted a new one.
  • Police Are Useless: He's a sloppy, incompetent cop.
  • Police Code for Everything: Averted. He and his fellow officers only use code numbers for food sales such as 139 meaning a burrito sale going on for $1.39 and a 241 meaning 2 ice cream ones for only one cone's price. He doesn't have a code for catching a bad guy.

    Gibson 
Portrayed by: Zach Steel

    Wacky The Wolf 
Portrayed by: Christian Campos

  • Berserk Button: Being impersonated. When he caught Lexi doing it, he gave her a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: As you would expect from someone named Wacky.
  • Delusions of Doghood: In “ignorANTs is bliss”, he enters himself in a dog show and then chases a cat.
  • The Faceless: He’s never seen without his mask. In “fANTasy girl”, Fletcher pulls his mask off and finds that there’s nothing under it!
  • Meaningful Name: He’s definitely a wacky guy.
  • Nice Guy: He has a temper, but he sometimes helps the ANTs.
  • Put on a Bus: He stops appearing in season 3 when the kids switch schools.
  • Recurring Extra: He never has a big role in an episode, he just shows up now and then to provide comic relief.
  • The Voiceless: Wacky the Wolf never speaks. When Lexi impersonated Wacky, talking nearly blew her cover.
  • Would Hit a Girl: When he sees Lexi impersonating him, he gives her a beating. Granted, he didn’t know who was in the costume, but he heard her speak, so he had to know she was a girl.

    Violet 
Portrayed by: Claire Engler

    Zoltan Grundy 
Portrayed by: Dominic Burgess

  • Cloudcuckoolander: He tries to market phones to pets for one thing. And babies. No, we're serious.
    • Nonetheless, he is a genius in his own right.
  • Intergenerational Friendship: He’s a middle-aged man and he’s friends with Lexi, who’s a teenager.
  • Good Counterpart: To Principal Skidmore. He treats the ANTs much more nicely than she did.
  • Odd Friendship: With Lexi. She’s a beautiful, rude, fashion-obsessed teenage girl while Zoltan is chubby, balding, polite, middle-aged man and tech genius.

    Hashimoto 
Portrayed by: Tom T Choi

    Winter Maddox 
Portrayed by: Zibby Allen

    Kennedy Van Buren 
Portrayed by: Piper Curda

  • The Dragon: She eventually proved to be Hashimoto's daughter, although she came to care for most of the ANTS.
  • Status Quo Is God: The events of "finANTial crisis" (in which her true identity is revealed) are essentially ignored in "meANT to be?".

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