Alexander Cooper

Alexander Cooper is the titular protagonist of Disney's 2014 live-action adaptation of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
==Role in the film==
Alexander doesn't exactly have an easy life, as he always has bad days every day.
After waking up with gum in his hair, Alexander gets an e-mail about his friend Phillip Parker's expensive birthday party being on the same day as his own. He tells his family that he can't compete, but they don't listen. On his way to school, Elliot, Becky's brother, is seen photoshopping his face onto the bodies of women in photos, and then posting them online.
By the time Alexander gets to school, not only is he humiliated, but he learns that his best friend, Paul, is going to Phillip's party. He tries to ask his crush, Becky Gibson, but she refuses as well. Afterwards, he accidentally burns down the periodic table with her notebook and gets blamed for it. While waiting for a long time outside school, he is put in charge of Mel, the class guinea pig.
Later that night, Alexander tries to talk to his older brother, Anthony, about his bad luck. While he thinks that Anthony loves him as a brother, he is actually talking to his girlfriend, Celia Rodriguez, on the phone. While he is talking to Alexander, Celia, thinking that he is trash-talking to her, abruptly hangs up, and Alexander hears Anthony calling him an "idiot brother". At midnight, he makes himself a birthday sundae and wishes that his family would see what it's like to have a "terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day".
The next day, Alexander sees that his older sister, Emily, has a cold, and then wakes up his parents, Ben and Kelly, who are oversleeping. As he leaves the bathroom, Anthony comes in, and reacts in horror when he looks in the mirror and sees a zit on his forehead, which Ben covers with Band-Aid.
At school, Alexander hears from Paul that Phillip's birthday party was cancelled, as he has the chicken pox, which meant that Alexander's is back on ("His pox is your gain"). Becky even mentions showing up. He even hears that Elliot got suspended for text bombing the whole school of the mean photoshops of him.
Throughout the day, while convincing them that their bad luck is his fault, Alexander learns that his baby brother, Trevor, got green ink from a highlighter all over his face. The Coopers later see Anthony accidentally trashing their minivan, which results in him failing his driving test. Emily gets drunk due to drinking too much cough syrup and ruins her school's production of Peter Pan.
By the time the Coopers picks Celia up for the prom, most of them are playing music into their fists with their mouths. At Nagamaki, Alexander sees Ben catching food in his mouth eight times in a row, and then accidentally setting his sleeves on fire at the grill (which he puts out in a lobster tank). While he walks out feeling disappointed (and trying to hide it), Alexander follows, along with the rest of the family. After realizing that they got to spend the worst day together, they began kicking trash cans around.
After getting home, the Coopers discover a alligator in their living room. In the backyard, Alexander discovers that Ben and Kelly have rented an Australian petting zoo for his birthday party. During it, he learns that Paul and Becky have shown up. During the closing credits, they are seen pretending to surf.
==Trivia==
*Alexander appears to be fond of Australia, as he has Australian stuff in his room. He is also seen eating a spread that was originally made there.
**This could be a reference to two things: The fact that throughout the book the movie is based on repeatedly drops the line "I'm going to Australia" and also how Alexander's actor, Ed Oxenbould, is Australian himself.
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