Chad Charming

### Likes

Getting what he wants, manipulating others (formerly), Audrey (formerly), being good looking, Carlos' 3D printer, the idea of being king of Auradon. villains (currently)

### Dislikes

Villains (formerly), chemistry, homework, manipulating others (currently), Audrey (currently)

## Family information

### Parents

King Charming (father)
Cinderella (mother)

### Other relatives

The King (paternal grandfather)
The Queen † (paternal grandmother)
Unnamed maternal grandfather †
Unnamed maternal grandmother †
Lady Tremaine (maternal step-grandmother)
Anastasia Tremaine (maternal step-aunt)
Drizella Tremaine (maternal step-aunt)
Anthony Tremaine (maternal step-cousin)
Dizzy Tremaine (maternal step-cousin)
Unnamed maternal step-cousins

### Partner(s)

Evie (former admirer)
Audrey (ex-girlfriend)

**Prince Chad Charming Junior** is a character in the Disney Channel Original Movie, *Descendants*. Chad is the son of Queen Cinderella and King Charming. As noted by him, when Ben will get into harm, the royal family lineage of kings will go to Chad and he will become the new King of Auradon.

## Appearances

### Descendants

In the first *Descendants* film, Chad is an all-star player on Auradon Prep's tourney team and Chad uses his charm and good looks to get what he wants. He begins dating Princess Audrey, Aurora and Philip's daughter, after Prince Ben declares his love for Mal.

Despite being labelled as a "hero", Chad is often a spoiled bully, as evidenced by him manipulating Evie, who had a crush on him, into getting her to do his homework. During the Family Day event at the school, Chad gangs up on Ben and the VKs when Queen Leah, who is Audrey's grandmother, blames Mal for what happened to Aurora simply due to Mal's resemblance with Maleficent.

He is shown again at Ben's coronation, where he witnesses all the drama on the sideline with Doug, Audrey, and Lonnie. When Maleficent casts a freezing spell upon the entire hall, Chad is holding onto a frightened Doug. At the end of the movie, he is seen dancing with Lonnie to celebrate Auradon's new king, seems to have established peace with the villain kids.

According to Doug, "Chad inherited the charm, but not a lot of their *there*.", implying that Chad is actually quite dense. This would explain why he manipulated Evie into doing his homework and had trouble remembering where his cellphone was.

### Descendants 2

Chad once again reappears in the sequel film. He still remains the all-star player on the Tourney Team, but becomes jealous when Jay says is selected to become the captain of the school's Swords and Shields team, due to Jay's athleticism.

In this film, Chad is on decent terms with the villain kids but still acts annoying and inconvenient to Carlos and Jay by constantly using Carlos's 3D printer without their permission. Also, he is even more blatantly misogynistic due to his remarks on Lonnie not being allowed to do fencing because of the "rules".

Chad appears mainly in scenes where he sneaks into Carlos's room more than once in an attempt to use Carlos's 3D printer. When caught by Carlos, he claims that his printer works better than his. Which he uses to make copies of various objects such as room keys and an action figure of himself. In the end, he is preparing for the Cotillion, when he receives a call from Audrey, who struck a tire in Sherwood Forest. Although it is six hours away, Chad is ready to help her and goes to her, which is why he is absent at the Cotillion.

### *Descendants 3*

Chad becomes a minor antagonist in the third movie

When Audrey took Maleficent's wand and became influenced by its evil, she started to cause mayhem around the kingdom and Chad cowardly aligns with her to avoid her wrath. Later Chad celebrates as Mal takes down the Isle's barrier and creates a bridge from it to Auradon, singing and dancing with Audrey.

### *Descendants: The Royal Wedding*

Chad appears in the special as one of the guest at Mal and King Ben's royal wedding.

## Printed media

### *Return to the Isle of the Lost: A Descendants Novel*

Chad feigns friendliness with Jay, then flips him over, causing him to fall hard on the ground and bruise his face. After hearing about it, Ben confronts him about it and asks him to stop giving the villain kids a hard time. Ben drags Chad up in the early morning to travel to his home, Charmington, in order to investigate the incidents occurring around Auradon (unseasonal weather occurrences, earthquakes, spotting of a dragon, and a snake). However, because the mission is secret, he merely lets Chad think it was to go over plans with the Grand Duke about the upcoming ball.

He later apologizes to Jay.

## Trivia

* Chad has supposedly dated and flirted with Ariel's niece and Rapunzel's daughter.
* In the first film, during the croquet scene, Chad's accusations to the villain kids were vague, stereotypical and inaccurate from the actual truth (While also having some factual details at the same time).
	+ He accused Mal of stealing Ben from Audrey when Ben was the one who chose Mal at the end, even after the love spell placed upon him was removed during the lake scene, which took place before the croquet scene. However, Chad still was right that she stole Ben from Audrey.
	+ He accused Jay of enjoying hurting others when Jay himself eventually stopped doing so. (Though Chad saw Jay pushing when on the field)
	+ He accused Evie of being a gold digger when he was the one who took advantage of Evie in the first place. Not to mention Evie had given up on marrying into royalty after seeing how terrible a person Chad really was, and how much in common she had with the non-royal Doug.
	+ However, he did not accuse Carlos of anything. (He was most likely just saw Carlos as a wimp but knew he couldn't make an insult).
* Despite being what could be called a playboy, Chad ironically seems to be genuinely in love with Audrey after she declared they were dating. However, Chad is determined to win her back, not accepting the fact she told him that they were over.
* Karma finds a way to come back at Chad, such as getting knocked out by a sleeping spray, being frozen in time by Maleficent, Audrey dumping him, etc.
* Chad's style of bullying may be inspired by several debates around his mother's original story. Cinderella did not have to do anything beyond showing up at the ball and relying on the work and talents of others.
	+ Similarly to how Chad got Evie to do his homework and then turned against her when she was no longer of any gain to him. Chad apparently did not inherit (or wasn't taught) any of his mother's kindness.
* Chad is the only known Auradon Kid to have a last name.

1. ↑ Will appear in *Descendants: The Rise of Red*.