Clyde McBride

**Clyde McBride** is one of the main characters from *The Loud House* series.

Lincoln's best friend and right-hand man, who always helps him out with his current problems.

In the XP4 fics, Clyde debuted in the XP4 Heroes Coalition - Neo-City Diaries.

## **Appearance**

Clyde has a dark-brown skin tone, wears circular glasses with thick black rims and blue-tinted lenses. He has freckles and black hair styled into an Afro. His hair has a bright outline. He wears black pants, and a yellow-and-blue striped shirt with a white-collar. He wears black tennis shoes with three white stripes, and white laces on each.

## **Personality**

Clyde is awkward, caring, nerdy, sweet, and supportive at the same time. Lincoln can always count on Clyde to help him with a plan. Like Lincoln, Clyde has a passion for comic books, video games, and science fiction movies. He is also a cat lover and owns two cats that he loves very much, even though his oldest cat Cleopawtra always misbehaves.

Clyde is quite intelligent beyond his years. He knows how to do taxes and about table manners as seen in "A Tale of Two Tables" and knows how to take care of babies because he learned about it from magazines in Dr. Lopez's waiting room. Besides, he seems mildly rich through his parents, given his nice house and lifestyle as shown in "Attention Deficit" and "Roughin' It". He is socially inept, but ultimately a very friendly and kind person. Clyde is patient and enjoys the company of all of Lincoln's sisters since he gets lonely with being an only child.

Clyde is very neurotic, cowardly, cautious, and worrisome. He has asthma, which requires him and his dads to carry an inhaler everywhere. According to his parents, he cannot consume meals with too much sugar or orange juice with pulp. Clyde is allergic to certain kinds of nuts, but not peanuts, however, as shown in "Snow Way Down", his dads are afraid he might later develop a peanut allergy. He is also sensitive to gluten (possibly non-celiac gluten sensitivity). "Dance, Dance Resolution" shows that he suffers from acrophobia, a fear of heights, and can show severe signs of altitude sickness because of it. Clyde often panics and overreacts; when he does, he hyperventilates into a paper bag that he carries with him at all times.

Clyde is a huge fan of Blarney, the show's version of Barney the Dinosaur as seen in "The Price of Admission". He knows all of Blarney's songs by heart. He also owns many stuffed animals that keep him company. Clyde has his laptop and a white noise machine in his room. "April Fools Rules" shows that he has a baseball trophy, possibly passed down from Harold (who used to be a baseball player). He also possesses both a humidifier and a de humidifier as shown in "Overnight Success" and "Pasture Bedtime".

A running gag on the show's first two seasons is Clyde's unhealthy and obsessive crush on Lori. Seeing, hearing, or even thinking about her causes him to freak out, bleeding profusely through his nose, and act like a malfunctioning robot in some cases. He occasionally faints as well. In his closet, Clyde has a shrine filled with candid pictures of Lori and treasures things she gives him or has touched or he has stolen from her. Clyde also sends Lori gifts, as seen in "Change of Heart", but Lori stores Clyde's gifts in a box. Sometimes, Clyde tries to sabotage Lori and Bobby's dates, but always fails and ends up making their love stronger. In the third season, this gag comes up a lot less frequently. Clyde may have finally managed to keep his excessive behaviors around Lori under control thanks to Leni's lessons. Despite this, Clyde still feels something for Lori, only that he does not prove it and does it now in a less obsessive way than in the past. After the third season, Clyde's crush on Lori seems to have disappeared definitively, as he has since had crushes on Stella in her introductory episode, and on Emma and later Chloe in "Brave the Last Dance". Meanwhile, Clyde and Lori seem to have become good brotherly friends, as shown in some later episodes and also in two official comic books "Loud and Proud" and "The Struggle is Real".

## **XP4 Fanfics**

Clyde is part of the Heroes Coalitions as a trainee. He also attends the Vanguard Academy as a student.

### **XP4 Heroes Coalition - Neo-City Diaries**

In Chapter 68, Clyde, alongside Lincoln Loud, Zach Gurdle, Liam Hunnicut, Rusty Spokes and Stella Zhau, just came out the Soldier's class, complaining how awful the class before making their way to find Marcus "The Kane" McGee to tutor them. He is later present at a party in the central park of Neo-City and he then witnessed Edwin "Ed" Horace Williams and Rolf Yrmi doing a bizarre dance.

In Chapter 70, Clyde, alongside Lincoln Loud, Zach Gurdle, Liam Hunnicut, Rusty Spokes, Stella Zhau, Randy Cunningham and Jake Long, took part in distributing ice cream all across the Vanguard Academy.

In Chapter 71, Clyde, alongside Lincoln Loud, Zach Gurdle, Liam Hunnicut, Rusty Spokes and Stella Zhau, are seen playing with motorized toy planes at one grassy part of the courtyard at the Vanguard Academy when they witnessed Lincoln getting caught in a mini-tornado and discovered that he gained powers, Gowther arrives and told Lincoln that he's a Blessed, much to their shock.

In Chapter 72, Clyde, alongside Lincoln Loud, Zach Gurdle, Liam Hunnicut, Rusty Spokes and Stella Zhau, are seen lying down the grass while staring at the sky in the Central Park of Neo-City having a conversation about Lincoln's new found abilities before taking notice of Hunter Isaac Rey.

In Chapter 80, Clyde, alongside Liam Hunnicut, Lincoln Loud, Rusty Spokes, Stella Zhau and Zach Gurdle, took part in a charity concert in a park somewhere in Neo-City.

In Chapter 81, Clyde is amongst the many newest trainees for the Heroes Coalitions.

In Chapter 85, Clyde, alongside Liam Hunnicut, Lincoln Loud, Rusty Spokes, Stella Zhau and Zach Gurdle, are seen running around the tracks in the training area of the Training Camp.

In Chapter 106, Clyde, alongside Liam Hunnicut, Lincoln Loud, Rusty Spokes, Stella Zhau and Zach Gurdle, are seen running around the tracks in the training area of the Training Camp.

### **XP4 Heroes Coalition - AKB0048**

In Chapter 29, Clyde is amongst the thousands of AKB-fans gathered around the concert hall in a city somewhere Kasumigastar and later witnessed the return of Atsuko Katagiri and the rest of the missing idols, and had a great time watching the performances afterwards.

In Chapter 32, Clyde took part of paying respects for Mace Wyndu's death by attending his funeral via burial at sea in Atamistar before witnessing the arrival of a fleet of Dimensional Defense Union ships whom paid their respects for Mace by gifting him with a Heroes' Tribute.

### **XP4 Heroes Coalition - Nanoha!**

In Chapter 1, Clyde is amongst the trainees working themselves inside the Training Camp.

## **Trivia**

* Clyde is allergic to gluten, but he can be seen eating things with gluten in a few episodes.
* According to the official *The Loud House* Instagram's segment "Ask Lincoln Loud", Lincoln and Clyde met by running into each other, dressed as Ace Savvy and One-Eyed Jack, respectively.
	+ This was then confirmed and incorporated into "Deal Me Out".
* Clyde has dressed similar to all the members of the Loud family: he used Lincoln's shirt in "Brawl in the Family", he used a diaper to be like Lily in "Changing the Baby", and he dressed up like the rest of the Loud family in "The Whole Picture".
* Whenever Clyde is shown from the front, the lenses of his glasses are the same size. When he is shown from the side, however, one appears to be larger than the other.
* Clyde has broken the fourth wall and talked to the viewers in two episodes: "Changing the Baby" and "One Flu Over the Loud House".
* Early in the show's development, when the Loud family was composed of anthropomorphic rabbits, Clyde was a beaver.
	+ This was later incorporated into "White Hare".
* Symbols frequently appear in Clyde's glasses to express his emotions. For example, his eyes are replaced by swirls when he is nauseous and by hearts when he is lovestruck.
* According to the Loud House Hairdo game, Clyde's hairstyle is called "Crispy Curls".
* Clyde's ideal superpower is to not get a nosebleed every time Lori walks near to him.
* "The Loudest Yard", "L is for Love", "Fool Me Twice", and "The Spies Who Loved Me" are the only episodes where he appears without any dialogue.
* In "A Tale of Two Tables", it is revealed that Clyde knows much about table manners and likes helping his parents do the taxes. It is also revealed that Clyde has been at the grown-up table for his entire life because his dads don't have a kids' table.
* As seen in the promotional short "Dinner Party", Clyde would probably sit between Lincoln and Lori at the Louds' feast table every Thanksgiving.
* In "Overnight Success", Clyde proves to be a very good hackysack player.
* In "Snow Way Down", it's revealed that Clyde is not allergic to peanuts, but that his dads are concerned that he will develop a peanut allergy in the future.
* In "Cheater by the Dozen", it is revealed that Clyde gets nauseous from the shaky cam.
* In "Out of the Picture", he stated, "I have nine years of therapy under my belt" to Coach Pacowski, indicating he began therapy when he was 2 years old.
* It has never been revealed who Clyde's biological parents are, or why they gave him up for adoption. It is also unknown if Clyde ever knew his biological parents, or if his adoptive fathers knew them.
	+ Also, Clyde McBride is not his birth name since he was adopted.
	+ In "ARGGH! You for Real?", Clyde mentions being born 1 month prematurely.
	+ In "Out of the Picture", Clyde tells Coach Pacowski that he has had nine years of therapy with Dr. Lopez. If Clyde followed Dr. Lopez's therapy for a long time, who was also Howard's therapist, this means that he probably was adopted when he was a very small baby (about 2 years old, or younger if Clyde began therapy after his adoption).
* The official Instagram page for *The Loud House* occasionally misspells Clyde's surname as "Clyde Mc*Bryde*" in their hashtags, such as on this video, and this image.
* It is revealed in "Change of Heart" that, despite having a crush on Lori, he hates the way he acts around her since he can't control himself when she's nearby.
* It is revealed in "Tricked!" that Clyde's nose bleeds when he's scared.
* It is revealed in "What Wood Lincoln Do?" that he can't blow up balloons because he loses consciousness whenever he tries.
* As revealed in "Absent Minded" that Clyde has a perfect school attendance.
* In "Antiqued Off", it's revealed that he has a love for antiques, and also that he doesn't like magic shows (and only goes to them because Lincoln likes them).
* Clyde is the second person to change voice actors due to his/her voice actor hitting puberty, the first being Lincoln.
* According to Living Loud: Surprise Party, he is allergic to dogs, hamsters, canaries, and bats. However, this information is dubious because the game also states that he is allergic to cats, which he is not, as evidenced by him owning two cats. Additionally, Clyde interacted with Charles in "Game Boys" and Walt in "Chore and Peace" and didn't have any allergy symptoms.
* "Pasture Bedtime" reveals that Clyde feels nauseated when he lies, and "Stall Monitor" reveals that chamomile tea alleviates this nausea.
* In "Tough Cookies", it's revealed that he started wearing striped shirts sometime after meeting Lincoln and that Lincoln convinced him to buy his first one.
* It is revealed in a *Listen Out Loud* episode that he wants to own a restaurant when he grows up.
* "Absent Minded" is currently the last episode where he had a moment where he thinks romantically about Lori.

## **External Links**

* Clyde McBride at The Loud House Encyclopedia