Characters / Austin & Ally

This is the cast of characters from the Disney Channel series Austin & Ally.

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Main Characters (in order of billing)

Austin Moon

Portrayed by: Ross Lynch

• Babies Ever After: It is revealed in the series finale that him and Ally end up having a son and a daughter together.
• Bad Liar: Just behind Dez as the 2nd worst at lying.
• Big Eater: Not to the extent of Dez, but whenever Dez has a wacky food moment, he immediately joins in. He is also very easily swayed with food.
• Borrowed Catchphrase: In "Tunes & Trials", Ally gives Austin a songbook to help him write his first song. When she reaches for it to show him something, he says "Don't touch my book."
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Austin can be too laid back, but yet can sing and play a variety of instruments, and can be a good mentor.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Austin, although not to the extent Dez does. Austin usually goes along with whatever crazy idea Dez comes up with.
• Cuteness Proximity: He loves animals, small children, and stuffed toys. He fawns over Ally's Dougie the Dolphin plushie, and is ecstatic when he wins a cute frog plushie at the arcade. His love for stuffed animals even becomes something of a Running Gag.
• Dumb Blonde: Downplayed. He's not as stupid as Dez, but can be very naive at times. Dez happens to make him the smart one by comparison.
• Embarrassing Middle Name: Monica.
• Establishing Character Moment: He runs into the store with Dez to play the drums with corn dogs.
• Everything Is an Instrument: Austin is first shown playing the drums with corndogs.
• Goofy Print Underwear: Austin is seen twice wearing boxers with trucks on them.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: He's sweet, a little naive and a genuinely Nice Guy.
• Hates Being Alone: When the 4th season starts, Austin doesn't take the news that Ally, Trish, and Dez aren't going to be with him in their senior year of high school. However, they decide that their business can wait.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Dez, they have been best friends forever since they were little.
• High-School Sweethearts: Double Subverted. They were revealed to have broken up for four years after high school when Austin realized what was supposed to be a break became longer and circumstances during that time kept driving them apart. At the end of it, they do reflect on it and decide to give their relationship one more chance, and they do end up married for almost a decade after.
• It's All About Me: All the time, even though he will figure out his mistake and right the wrong by the end of the episodes.
• Keet: "I'm Austin, and I like pancakes!"
• Nice Guy: Even if he screws up sometimes, he is nice to a fault. He's sweet, gentle and when he comes to understanding the feelings of others if he has hurt them, he will try his hardest to make up for it. Go look at the Heartwarming page for examples.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: He falls into this a couple of times:
  • In one episode, he borrows a guitar from the store to get it autographed by Bruno Mars for Ally, as a way of making up for the fact that he'd been late to rehearsal. Unfortunately, he gets caught on the security camera in Sonic Boom, making people think that he's the person responsible for the string of thefts in the mall.
  • Another episode features him being grounded because his grades are slipping. He sneaks out of the house in order to keep his promise to Ally to perform at her fundraiser. As you might expect, his parents find out and force him to do nothing but come home and study as punishment.
• Obliviously Evil: For a given value of "evil" in "Rockers & Writers". Stealing Ally's song was a pretty horrible thing to do, but in his defense, he didn't even realize he'd done it. He seriously believed the song was something he'd created. Even T-Fame even points this out to Austin, the former of whom ends up doing the same thing to him (though with full knowledge of what he was doing).
• Official Couple: With Ally, as if that wasn't gonna be obvious.
• One Head Taller: Austin is one head taller than Ally. The opening credits even show him bending down to meet her height.
• Pretty Boy: According to many female fans.
• Teen Idol: Since he's a 15-year-old kid, this is how he starts out.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Pancakes.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Has a crippling fear of umbrellas, after one got caught in his pants and ripped them off. It goes away by the end of "Filmmaking & Fear Breaking" though.

Ally Dawson

Portrayed by: Laura Marano

The other central protagonist of the story, Ally is a nerdy, Shrinking Violet singer-songwriter who tends to be the Straight Man to the constant shenanigans surrounding her. Ally is the brains behind Team Austin, and is responsible for writing Austin's songs and taking care of the Sonic Boom music store owned by her father.

• Ambiguously Bi: Although Ally publicly dated only guys, while rest of the group were on tour she had really close relationship with Kira. It was implying that they've had a fling that time.
• Babies Ever After: It is revealed in the series finale that her and Austin end up having a son and a daughter together.
• Bad Liar: While Dez is the worst and Austin is worse than her, Ally is still pretty terrible at lying.
• Berserk Button: She really doesn't like when people touch her song book.
• Brainy Brunette: Involved in book clubs, cloud watching clubs and wanted to learn calculus on her summer holiday. Also brainy in musical terms as she gives lessons in different instruments as well as being a great songwriter.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Ally is shy, neurotic and suffers from stage fright so badly she'll wreck a television studio to get away from the camera, but she writes amazing songs.
• Catchphrase: "Don't touch my book!"
• Character Tics: Ally chews her hair when she's nervous.
• Childhood Friends: With Trish.
• Cool Big Sis: Shows signs of being this to Nelson.
• Creative Sterility: Ally when she's being pressured to write a song.
• Cute Bookworm: She's part of a book club, and she spends most of her time reading books.
• Cute Clumsy Girl: Because of her shyness, she once wrecked a television studio to get away from the camera
• The Cutie: A cute and shy girl with a sweet personality.
• Dark and Troubled Past: She got nervous during her one chance to get into a music school and hallucinated the piano chomping at her. She got stage fright because of this.
• Deadpan Snarker: Ally probably beats Trish out for the biggest snarker. Trish will often just get angry, thus losing the deadpan.
• Deuteragonist: Despite Ally being the central character, the show revolves around for the purposes of the plot and comedy, Ally is the Deuteragonist to Austin's attempts to become famous because she hangs back and write the songs for him. It will likely remain unless she decides to step out from the song-writing shadow and becomes a performer in her own right.
• Embarrassing Middle Name: It is finally revealed in the series finale that Ally's middle name is Edgar.
• Establishing Character Moment: Ally is introduced reading her book, then tells Trish not to eat in the store.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: Throughout Season 1, her hair was solid and dark, referring to her shyness and also to hint toward her stage fright. By the time Season 2 came around, her hair became brighter with blonde highlights, which hints she's coming out of her shell, and shows that she conquered her stage fright in "Chapters & Choices". When Season 3 came, her hair become paler but with brighter highlights, which shows her full progression to performing onstage once more.
• Freudian Excuse: The reason she has stage fright is revealed in flashback in "Filmmaking & Fear Breaking" she was afraid of ruining her chance of getting into a music school (because of the strict headmaster) that she hallucinated the piano turning into a monster and the students laughing in return, and as a result, she ended up ruining her dream anyway. As a result, she refused to perform because she believed if she didn't perform, she wouldn't ruin her chances.
• First Girl Wins: She was the first girl Austin met in the series (and the first girl introduced in the series alltogether), and they end up becoming a couple for the rest of the show's run. By series' end, they're Happily Married with two kids.
• Geek Physiques: Ally is very short and skinny, but still manages to be somewhat lanky because of her long legs.
• Genius Book Club: Ally's part of one. It comes up in the plot as why it takes her so long to complete songs for Austin.
• Grammar Nazi: Being the smart girl of the group, Ally can dip into this every now and then. In Beauties & Bullies, she responds to a mean comment by correcting whoever misspelled beauty as "beautey". It wasn't supposed to be a Lame Comeback, she just did it out of habit.
• Happy Dance: Ally has at least two endearing bursts of these in "Soups & Stars".
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Trish, they have always been best friends.
• Humiliation Conga: Ally suffers a condensed one when she accidentally destroys a television studio.
• I Can't Dance: She hurts Austin's ankle when he tries to teach her to dance in "Club Owners & Quinceaneras".
• The Illegible: Ally's chicken-scratch leads to multiple misunderstandings in "Kangaroos & Chaos". Ally claims this is just due to being rushed, because she really went to calligraphy camp. Which if true would be an inversion.
• Jerkass Ball: Ally, of all people, can be really bossy when she's not in Shrinking Violet mode. She is Surrounded by Idiots though.
• Just Friends: With Austin. Not so much anymore, since in "Girlfriends & Girl Friends" she develops a crush on Austin.
• The Lancer: As the foil to Austin and in some cases Trish by being The Smart Girl to Austin's fun loving performer character, and to Trish's Spicy Latina character.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The meek and innocent Light Feminine to Trish's snarky Attention Whore Dark Feminine.
• Like Parent, Like Child: Ally's mother is also a Brainy Brunette who "loves love" and uses her catchphrase "Don't touch my book!"
• Loony Friends Improve Your Personality: Ally is helped to become more open and extroverted by the three other characters.
• Mad Libs Catchphrase:
  Ally: There's no eating in X! - Once in "Rockers & Writers", four times in "Bloggers & Butterflies".
  Ally: Don't touch my X! - Usually it is her book. In one case it became "Don't boop my nose."
• Nice Girl: While she has her flaws, Ally is mostly a really sweet, charming and kind-hearted person that it's very hard not to like and root for.
• Noodle Incident: Whatever it was that caused Ally to develop terrible stage fright. Revealed to be because of Ally freaking out during an audition for a prestigious music school, which caused a fear of rejection.
• Official Couple: With Austin. Subverted at first, eventually played straight.
• Performance Anxiety: Had a huge case of this in Season 1. She gets over it early on in Season 2.
• Shrinking Violet: Ally is this whenever she gets on stage. How bad is it? She accidentally destroys an entire TV studio while trying to get away when Austin gets her on a live TV show. Averted as of "Chapters & Choices" as she got over her fear.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Pickles.
• The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: Ally clearly takes after her mom.
• Waistcoat of Style: A major part of Ally's wardrobe.
• Woman Scorned: After she finds out that Austin read her book.
• Women Are Wiser: Compared to Austin... Dez... Trish... her father... well pretty much every other member of the cast. Even her song writing is wiser and more soulful that Austin, who is more extroverted and fun loving when he involves himself in the song writing process. Deconstructed in that these traits sometimes get in the way rather than helping. (For example, in "Songwriting and Starfish", Ally's wisdom and soulfulness prove to be decidedly less effective at writing a "Hot Summer Jam" than Austin's fun loving personality.)
• Young and in Charge: Ally's the head of the mall association at age fifteen.

Patricia "Trish" Maria De la Rosa

Portrayed by: Raini Rodriguez

Trish is a fashionista who becomes Austin's personal stylist and manager. She is also Ally's best friend since kindergarten.

• Attention Whore: She loves being in the spotlight.
• Bad Job, Worse Uniform: Approximately half of Trish's jobs. Her headbands seem to be deliberate. She could just be quirky.
• Beneath the Mask: Trish purposely puts up a front of not caring about anything or anyone else's opinions of her in order to seem strong and not get hurt. In reality, she lacks motivation and feels inadequate for just about everything, which is why she is so partial to people who praise her, such as Miss Suzie, her former teacher, who gave her gold stars for the littlest tasks. And, while the Running Gag of Trish being fired Once per Episode is Played for Laughs, it's occasionally hinted at that she is genuinely disappointed and distraught over this cycle, which is why being able to be Austin & Ally's manager is so important to her. Many episodes show that beneath the mask, she actually cares a lot about what other people think of her, and only acts like she doesn't because she doesn't want people to see her cry, the most notable instance being in "Beauties & Bullies", where she receives many hateful comments on her appearance and plays it cool in front of her friends, but then goes somewhere private to cry.
• Big Sister Bully: Apparently, she's quite mean to her younger brother. Trish also seems to boss him around in Boy Songs & Badges.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Trish is shown to be lazy and irresponsible, but has gotten Austin a concert and interview and actually does a good job in her role. Perhaps because it's the only one she cares about. Ironically, when she lands several more clients besides Austin, she actually has trouble handling them no matter how hard she tried, but she at least puts in more effort.
• Catchphrase: "Guess who got a job as/at the (insert name of job here)!" It even stems from her days in kindergarten. "Guess who got a job as the hall monitor!" This can be anything not concerning a job, but sometimes can be used to express an achievement (or disappointment) of some sort.
• Character Development: By Season 4, Trish learns to act more responsibly, even putting more effort into her clients. More importantly, she learns to be more proactive in achieving her goals and does get kinder as the season progresses.
• Childhood Friends: With Ally.
• The Confidant: She's just not very good at it.
• Deadpan Snarker: She's the second biggest snarker, after Ally.
• Establishing Character Moment: Trish is first shown announcing her newest job.
• The Fashionista: Fashion is one of the things she cares about the most.
• Fat Best Friend: Type A, the brash and extroverted overweight friend to the thin and quiet Ally.
• Genki Girl: Very loud, talkative, and energetic.
• George Jetson Job Security: Trish is invariably hired and then fired from a job that she holds for whatever reason.
• Good Is Not Nice: She may be a bit rude, but ultimately a good and loyal friend.
• Gratuitous Spanish: Trish is fluent in Spanish, and attempted to tutor Austin in the subject.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Ally, they have always been best friends.
• It's All About Me: The most selfish character in the cast, especially when it comes to money.
• Jerkass: For no known reason (other than his being a ditz), she seems to have it out for Dez. Although it's nowhere near as bad as some of the majorly Jerkass characters on some Nickelodeon shows. Of course, if she never became friends with Austin, she would be an even bigger jerkass than she is now.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's much nicer to Austin and Ally. In Season 4, she does become nicer and more mature.
• Lazy Bum: The reason why she's constantly fired.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The snarky Attention Whore Dark Feminine to Ally's meek and innocent Light Feminine.
• New Job as the Plot Demands: She's practically the personification of this trope, getting hired (and fired/quitting) a new job at least once an episode.
• Quirky Curls: Has curly black hair and quite a quirky personality.
• Shipper on Deck: For Austin and Ally.
• The Smart Girl: For her managerial skills.
• Spicy Latina: A feisty latina with a fiery temper.
• Street Smart: Her street smarts are what make her a good manager for Austin.
• Token Minority: The only latina in the main cast.
• Tsundere: Type A with Dez. She bickers with him a lot but sometimes she can be nice to him.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Dez. Sure she's mean to him, but it's their thing. Even Dez tried to step up for her by identifying the girl who bullied Trish. It was the wrong approach, but it really shows how great his loyalty is.

Dez Wade

Portrayed by: Calum Worthy

Dez is an aspiring director who films everything that he can. He filmed Austin singing Ally's song, "Double Take", and posted it online. Austin is his long time best friend.

• Ambiguously Bi:
  • When Ally's friend from camp shows up, Dez goes "Hunk alert!"
  • In the episode "Glee Clubs and Glory", he acts more flamboyant than usual and sings "Finally Me" during the final mashup which sounds an awful lot like a coming out song.
  • He often remarks how attractive Austin is. But he finally gets a girlfriend, Carrie, in "Cupids & Cuties".
• Bad Liar: Dez is the worst and will crack under the slightest bit of pressure.
• Bag of Holding: Dez's backpack contains whatever's relevant to the gag.
• Big Eater: Dez is known as "the guy who ate the twenty-pound hamburger".
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Dez is completely random, but from what we saw of the first music video he made, awesome at directing.
• Cloudcuckoolander: He always says completely random things.
• Comically Missing the Point: Too many examples to go into, but Dez fits this trope to a T.
• Deadpan Snarker: He gets some good ones during season 2 and 3.
• The Ditz: He thinks "BFF" stands for "Best Freckled Friend", he accidentally gave H8er Girl some advice on attacking Ally directly, nearly got them killed when he sank Shiny Money's boat, etc.
• Extreme Omnivore: Dez once deep-fried several objects, which he probably ate. One of these objects was his own shoe.
• Fiery Redhead: In the most innocent way possible.
• Fun T-Shirt: Dez's whole wardrobe consists of these.
• Genius Ditz: He does have his moments of brilliance.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Austin.
• Honor Before Reason: Dez is a man of his word.
  • When he leaves old, embarrassing pictures of Austin for H8r Girl to take as bait for a trap, he actually used real pictures because of this. If Dez wanted to continue keeping his word, it would've gone better had the gang acted sooner.
  • When he tried to get everyone to get out of line by telling everyone he'd hidden a horseshoe that could be redeemed for the MyTab the gang was standing in line for, it was also real and also resulted in them losing the MyTab. Since all employees of the store are bound by oath not to lie, Dez could've gotten away with lying, because he wasn't technically employed by the store that sold the MyTabs.
• I Gave My Word: If Dez makes any promises, he will always make good on them, as long as he knows he can. Dez did promise H8r Girl embarrassing photos of Austin and a free MyTab because he actually hid a horseshoe, but that ended up costing the gang. A rather astounding example was when he promised Lily that Santa will bring her her dad for Christmas, and everyone thought he was being dumb as usual, because he was comforting her with false hope. Turns out Dez really meant it, and made every effort to make that possible.
• Keet: He's even more energetic than Austin.
• Manchild: Is extremely immature and gullible for his age, to put it lightly.
• No Full Name Given: It was a Running Gag that people would be interrupted before saying his last name, until "Fanatics & Favors" revealed that it's Wade and yes, he's distantly related to Dwayne Wade.
• Obsessed with Food: One of his main personality traits.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In "Directors & Divas", he actually loses it and chews out an extremely childish and bratty actress when she refuses to cooperate in the filming of a movie. His anger is enough to make the actress realize he's dead serious, and she promptly apologizes (though she doesn't completely give up her childish behavior).
• Pair the Dumb Ones: He ends up with Brainless Beauty and equally strange Carrie. Their lack of intelligence causes them to go through a lengthy separation due to them both believing the other broke up with them. It requires a third party to explain they didn't.
• Plucky Comic Relief: He provides humor and funny moments with his stupidity.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: There's barely an episode where he isn't screaming at the top of his lungs.
• Shipper on Deck: For Austin and Ally. He really thinks they should date.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Trish. As he told Trent, nobody gets to be mean to Trish but him.
• Wacky Guy: Oh, and how! This is his main character trait, much to the frustration of characters like Trish and Ally.
• Youthful Freckles: He refers to himself as the group's "BFF" (Best Freckled Friend) and is the most immature of the four.

Recurring Characters

Nelson

Aww Nartz!

Portrayed by: Cole Sand

Nelson is an awkward young boy who takes music lessons from Ally. He tends to show up at the music store for one reason or another and turn out to have mixed up a word for a word that sounds alike, such as "oboe" and "hobo", resulting in him having done something difficult he didn't need to do.

• Adorably Precocious Child: Is learning to play multiple instruments, dresses up nicely, and when given a wish, he wishes for a mustache.
• Catchphrase: "Aww, nartz!" He usually follows this one up with "Do you know how hard it was to (insert strange thing here)?"
• Cheerful Child: Is upbeat and has a positive attitude.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He stops appearing after Season 2.
• Dreadful Musician: He isn't really good at playing the instruments as shown when he hits notes in the wrong order and key.
• No Full Name Given: His last name is never revealed.
• Quirky Curls: Is quite eccentric and has curly hair.
• Tagalong Kid: On occasion. For example, Austin chooses to take him to an awards show when he had Just One Extra Ticket because he didn't want to be forced to choose between his three friends.

Lester Dawson

Portrayed by: Andy Milder

Ally's father. He is the owner of the music store Sonic Boom, and is cheerfully disdainful of Ally's musical talents.

• Adults Are Useless: Ally's father regularly leaves her alone with her friends to run the store...
• Amicable Exes: With Ally's mom.
• Fantasy-Forbidding Father: ...he is also perhaps the only father in all of Disney to discourage his child from following her dream. However, by the beginning of Season 4, he leaves the store in her hands, allowing Ally and her friends to mentor a new generation of future performers.
• Hands-Off Parenting: Ally's dad often gives her the responsibility of taking care of the music store herself.
• Jerkass Ball: It's probably not on purpose, but he's very insensitive at times. He wouldn't even let Ally donate any instruments to Nelson's music class because he's very tight-fisted.
• Manchild: He doesn't like working or responsibilities, preferring to leave everything to Ally instead so he can do whatever he wants.
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: With Ally's mom.
• Wacky Parent, Serious Child: He's more immature than his daughter Ally.

Dallas

Portrayed by: Noah Centineo

Ally's crush and a former employee at a cell phone accessories cart.

• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He stops appearing after Season 1.
• I Can't Dance: Like Ally, he's aware to be a bad dancer.
• Only One Name: His last name is never revealed.
• Satellite Love Interest: He only appears to be a potential Love Interest to Ally.

Carrie

• Beware the Nice Ones: When she found out Austin wanted to be at prom with Ally instead of her sister, Piper.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Carrie is very quirky as well and takes interest in quirky things.
• The Ditz: She makes Dez seem smarter by comparison.
• Dumb Blonde: She's very clueless and has blonde hair.
• Pair the Dumb Ones: With Dez, who is idiotic and weird like her. Their lack of intelligence causes them to go through a lengthy separation due to them both believing the other broke up with them. It requires a third party to explain they didn't.
• Sixth Ranger: In season 3. She has more appearances than her sister and Jace.
• Statuesque Stunner: Although not actually brought up (partially cause Dez is very tall as well) Carrie is around the same height as Austin and Dez, and easily towers over every other female character on the show.

Jimmy Starr

Portrayed by: Richard Whiten

Owner of Starr Records, and signs Austin to his record label in "Successes and Setbacks". He has formally banned Austin from performing for the remainder of his contract, due to Austin revealing his relationship with Ally. However, "Mini-Me's and Muffin Baskets" sees him bringing Austin back into the music industry.

• Bad Boss: If his appearances in "Sports and Sprains" and "Relationships & Red Carpets" are any indication, it seems he couldn't care less about Austin's happiness. However, his concern in the former was quite legitimate.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Jimmy practically kills Austin's career because of Austin revealing his love for Ally. He lampshades his overreaction when he unbans Austin from performing in "Mini-Me's and Muffin Baskets".
• Jerkass Has a Point: Jimmy may be antagonistic towards Austin, not to mention selfish, but in at least three instances he had a point:
  • In "Sports and Sprains" he tells Austin to quit basketball because he can't risk Austin getting injured. Unfortunately, Austin tempted fate and did get injured, and it was before he was assigned an important performance.
  • While it is an invasion of Austin's personal life, he is right that Austin being single or at least being perceived as such does tremendous favors for his teen idol image and therefore increases sales.
  • A dual example in "Austin and Alias": While Ronnie Ramone is his competition, Jimmy isn't wrong to acknowledge that Ronnie has every right to prevent Ally from writing songs for Austin.
  • In "Relationships and Red Carpets", he tells Austin that he wouldn't have gone far without him. No argument there, because Austin would not have become famous had it not been for Jimmy signing him to his label.
• Jerkass Realization: He later admits to being at fault for taking away Austin's music career on the basis of his relationship with Ally.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Although stern and serious, he is on good terms with Team Austin and he genuine cares for and supports his daughter Kira.
• Kick the Dog: He was about to let Austin perform again, but after finding out Austin was performing at a karaoke joint in secret, he tells Austin that he can forget about performing, and ignores Austin's pleas that he was only satisfying his passion for music.
• Only in It for the Money: "Relationships & Red Carpets" implies this at least twice as being his attitude towards the music industry.
  • The first one is when he says that Austin can't have a girlfriend due to the fact that he has a lot of female fans. Ally asks Jimmy if making millions of dollars is better than Austin's happiness, and Jimmy says nothing, which Ally infers to mean "yes".
  • The second takes place at the end. Austin takes the stage, tells the world about his love for Ally, and then says that music would be nothing without love. Jimmy's scornful look after the declaration and subsequent barring Austin from any future performances for the next 10 years further implies his seeing the music industry as being a way to make a quick buck.
  • As of "Mini-Me's and Muffin Baskets", this is looking to be averted, as Jimmy says he overreacted about thinking that Austin having a girlfriend would flush his career down the toilet.
• Pet the Dog: One episode after his Kick the Dog, Jimmy lifts his ban on Austin's performances admitting he overreacted, along with signing a new talent from the A&A Music Factory, and gives the music factory his full support. He even compliments one of their students, believing that he has potential in the future.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: In Season 3's "Relationships & Red Carpets", where he bans Austin from performing just because he wouldn't end his relationship with Ally. He does admit that he overreacted in "Mini-Me's and Muffin Baskets" and gives Austin his career back.

Chuck McCoy

Portrayed by: John Paul Green

Dez's rival, always wanting to prove that he is better than him.

• Arch-Enemy: With Dez.
• Casanova Wannabe: Considers himself a ladies' man, but he's really just a nerdy geek.
• Catchphrase: "Not so fast, Red!"
• Competition Freak: He competes with Dez over anything and everything like finding out who is a better mall Santa or trying to win a chili cook-off.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Can get along with Dez sometimes.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Manly to Dez, being more competitive and less wacky.

Kira Starr

Austin's ex-girlfriend.

• Nice Girl: Normally kind in general and is on good terms with Austin after the break-up.

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