Characters / Sonny with a Chance

The characters of the Disney Channel TV Show Sonny with a Chance:

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Main Characters

Allison "Sonny" Munroe

Played by: Demi Lovato

• Ambiguously Bi: She's part of an official relationship with Chad, but has tons of Les Yay with Tawni.
• Attractive Bent-Gender: Tawni took an obsession with Eric, Sonny's fake number one fan, with Sonny in disguise as Eric.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: She and Chad have at least one Aw Look moment an episode. After becoming an Official Couple. And they've "broken up" three times in the past three episodes. Yet it's been made very clear that they care about each other, and for every second that they snark at each other, there's another second or two where they are completely adorable.
• Bad Liar: Sonny is a terrible liar. When she lies, her voice usually goes up an octave, and she stammers.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Chad. Sonny is definitely, with her tsuntsun side only triggered by Chad and occasionally Tawny. As Chad was only introduced in the 2nd episode, Sonny and Tawni actually came first for this. As of the end of Season 1, it looks like some movement in the Chad/Sonny relationship is happening, a remarkably quick Relationship Upgrade for this type of couple (assuming they don't muck around for another season or 2 denying their obvious feelings for each other).
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: She's quite goofy and tries to crack jokes all the time even in situations where it isn't warranted. She also feels the need to meddle in other people's romantic interests who then reprimand her for invading their privacy.
• Dating What Daddy Hates: She starts dating Chad, much to the chagrin of the other Randoms who still maintain resentment to Mackenzie Falls.
• Disappeared Dad: Although, he's mentioned once in the pilot.
• The Ditz: Though not as dumb as Grady, Sonny is still noticeably air headed.
• Fish out of Water: She was a normal girl that suddenly became part of the So Random cast.
• Genki Girl: Her high energy and general perkiness annoys her co-workers.
• Meaningful Name: To exaggerated lengths; her friends admit that they depend on her for guidance much like planets depend on the sun. This is debated in the "Falling for the Falls" two-parter where Nico and Grady were lazily waiting on Sonny to make their solar system project for them calling Sonny the center of their universe before growing jealous of Chad for taking Sonny's attention away from them. "Chad Without a Chance" shows the other Randoms all rely on Sonny for helping them out with their problems no matter how trivial.
• Nice Girl: Occasional selfish moments aside, she otherwise is a very good hearted person.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Sonny's real name — Allison — is rarely mentioned.
• Perpetual Smiler: She always has a smile on her face.
• Punny Name: She is a bright and perky, or "sunny", character.
• Sweet Polly Oliver: She disguised herself as her number one fan Eric in "You Got Fan Mail".
• Token Minority: Demi Lovato as Sonny counts as this since they're of Hispanic descent.
• Tomboyish Name: Well, her nickname, anyway.
• Tsundere: Type B towards Chad. She's nice to everyone except her love interest.

Tawni Hart

"You know what I love about me? I'm always something and pretty!"

• Ambiguously Bi: She's crushed on several guys, but also has tons of Les Yay with Sonny.
• Attention Whore: Tawni's big weakness is if someone else, like Sonny, gets more attention or better criticism by the media. It can really eat away at her and can, in turn, cause her to do something drastic to herself.
• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Blonde to Sonny's brunette and Zora's redhead.
• Dartboard of Hate: A flashback in the pilot episode shows Tawni throwing darts at a picture of Sonny with a goatee drawn on it.
• Disappeared Dad: Despite her mother being mentioned, has not had her father mentioned.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: In the episode 'Poll'd Apart' Tawni shaves her head, symbolically. She actually just wears a bald cap. Also serves as a Shout-Out to Britney Spears during her own perceived breakdown.
• Expy: Several people have spotted similarities between Tawni Hart and Blair Warner.
• Hair Flip: Does that a lot, in "You've Got Fan Mail" she does it when mentioning her hair having more glow than Sonny's and before picking up a call from her.
• I Have This Friend: In the episode "Sonny With A Chance of Dating", Tawni is jealous of Sonny dating a Mackenzie Falls co-star and claims that her best friend once dated him and ended up wearing poliester pants. Sonny correctly deduces that Tawni is that her "friend".
• It's All About Me: She is a self-absorbed, diva-type teenager who wants to have the spotlight to herself.
• Jerkass: Tawni is egocentric and spends a majority of her time thinking about how she looks.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She is likely to come through for her fellow cast members in a real time of need, though.
• Lovable Alpha Bitch: Tawni overlaps as one in the first season, especially when she prevents Sonny and Chad's Ten Minutes in the Closet moment from being broadcast live.
• Pet the Dog:
  • In Sonny With a Choice, Tawni treated Sonny like her best friend and comforted her after her break up with Chad.
  • In Sonny With a Secret, Tawni believed Sonny when Sonny said she wasn't lying about the stuff she was framed for.
  • In Sonny So Far when Gilroy Smith tries to show the audience Sonny and Chad's private conversation, Tawni closes the TV because she remembered all that Sonny did for her and didn't want her to be embarrassed on tv.
• Proud Beauty: Extremely, she's always boasting about how beautiful she is. Then again, few would disagree.
• Smarter Than You Look: She has shown being very perceptive, seeing quite easily that Chad Dylan Cooper had "other motives" for wanting to stop Sonny and James' date, among other things.
• Smug Smiler: A lot of her smiles, especially those to Sonny, are cocky and condescending.
• Spell My Name With An S: It's Tawni not Tawny.

Nico Harris

• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Grady, even with their own 'breakup' episode where they try to replace one another with Sonny.
• Those Two Guys: With Grady.
• Token Minority: As the only African American member of the main cast.

Grady Mitchell

• Butt-Monkey: Out of all the cast members Grady gets this the worst.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Grady tends to be the weirdest one right after Zora.
• The Ditz: by far the dumbest of the main cast.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Nico, even with their own 'breakup' episode where they try to replace one another with Sonny.
• Large Ham: Grady can get hammy when he's excited or frustrated.

Zora Lancaster

• Cloud Cuckoolander: In the pilot episode, she actually thought Sonny's presence meant she wasn't the weird one anymore. It didn't work out that way. Zora is strange even by Sonny's standards. Example from "The Legend of Candy Face":
  Sonny: Zora, go get your camera.
  Zora: But I covered it in dew. You know, to attract the bats.
  Sonny: Okay, just go get the camera, you little freak.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: She has stuffed animals in her girly room.
• Hidden Depths: She might be mature but she isn't ready to become a teenager just yet. And her room is surprisingly girly.
• Sadist: It's quite clear she likes seeing others in pain.

Chad Dylan Cooper

Played by: Sterling Knight

• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: He and Sonny have at least one Aw Look moment an episode. After becoming an Official Couple. And they've "broken up" three times in the past three episodes. Yet it's been made very clear that they care about each other, and for every second that they snark at each other, there's another second or two where they are completely adorable.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Sonny. As of the end of Season 1, it looks like some movement in the Chad/Sonny relationship is happening, a remarkably quick Relationship Upgrade for this type of couple (assuming they don't muck around for another season or 2 denying their obvious feelings for each other).
• Catchphrase: To the extent of, "Do they, Sonny? Do they really?"
• Crazy Jealous Guy: Whenever it involves Sonny with another guy.
  • Hilariously shown in an episode where Sonny and Tawni's date Hayden kiss at a basketball game — because they are both shown on the "kiss-cam" and they do it to ease the nagging audience — and Chad finds out.
  Chad: [to Sonny] Who is this guy?!
  Tawni: The love of my life!
  Chad: THEN WHY IS SHE KISSING HIM?!
  Tawni: I DON'T KNOW!
• Large Ham: Apparently, Chad is a Large Ham in-universe, as apparent by this quote (over the seasons he calms down):
  Chad: "You smell like ham."
  Sonny: "I've seen your acting... so do you."
• Second Episode Introduction: Doesn't appear until the second episode
• Sixth Ranger: Then became Sonny's replacement in So Random!.
• Villain with Good Publicity: He is adored for his role in the highly popular tragedy drama Mackenzie Falls which does great in the ratings and easily crushes the ratings of its production studio sibling So Random!

Others

Penelope

• Disproportionate Retribution: When she finds out Sonny and Chad are in love, she sets out to ruin her career, reputation, and relationships and plots to assassinate her. When everyone finds out of her plans she still expects Chad to like her. When he rejects her, she leaves them die on an abandoned airplane.
• If I Can't Have You…: Leaves Chad to die after he rejects her.
• Knight of Cerebus: Is one of the few Disney Channel villains to actually try to kill people.
• Murder the Hypotenuse: She tries to have Sonny killed by giving her a cheese bomb so she can have Chad all to herself.

Mr. Condor

• Disproportionate Retribution: If you annoy him he will fire you, and if you're an actor, he will cancel your show
• Jerkass Hired a man to steal a dog for his daughters birthday.

Dakota Condor

• Spoiled Brat: Even worse, she will fire anyone on a whim if she doesn't get what she wants from the person.

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