Chyna Parks

"We'll call it the ANTernet!"

- Chyna in ANTswers

Chyna (Dangé) Parks is the main protagonist of the show and Is a musical prodigy. Needless to say, she can play several instruments including the guitar, violin and piano. She is a talented singer and surprises people with her strong, beautiful voice. Her other talents are dancing, cheerleading, and drama. Never afraid of a challenge, she sees high school as an exciting place. Unfortunately, she needs to drag her new friends, Olive and Fletcher, out of their shells to experience it. However, Lexi puts a damper on her new adventure because she teases Chyna, mostly because Lexi sees Chyna as a threat. Chyna is usually playing instruments or being mischievous. She is portrayed by China Anne McClain.

Personality
Chyna is a musical prodigy who can play more instruments than most people can name, including guitar, piano, and bagpipes. She is an optimistic and outgoing girl who never gives up. Being witty and clever, she is always eager to help people out, but she also likes helping herself and can become selfish at certain times.

Most of the time, Chyna is shown trying to find a place where she feels she belongs, usually dragging Fletcher and Olive to join. Chyna usually gets Olive and Fletcher to join in with events, such as organizing prom and the ANTernet. She also does not like people feeling left out or upset when she can do something about it. She also does not like to let people down, however when she does this she tends to find out she Is being conned. Sometimes she can be intelligent, compared to Fletcher and she was smarter than Olive however this turned out to be a lie (IntelligANT). Often, she uses music to help her, during difficult times, and is known to sing too much (You're the One That I WANT), as stated by Olive and Lexi.

Season 1
In TransplANTed, she is immediately excited by the look of her new school, with a bonus of cute guys. At the A.N.T. Farm, Gibson welcomes her. Chyna then meets Olive, who immediately starts giving out facts on China's (the country) Dynasties. Chyna thinks her talent is talking but Olive says she has an eidetic memory. Chyna then meets Angus and almost launches a missle controlled by a joystick, thinking it's a game. She proceeds to see Fletcher carrying a human sculpture to her confusion. Fletcher explains that he's an artist, and is sculpting the class for an assignment. He also calls her "beautiful" but tried to cover it up. In music class, Chyna accidentally sits in Lexi's chair, so Lexi pushes her off of it to see if this ''"Chyna is breakable". ''Mr. Zimbaldi notices Chyna on the ground and helps her up, seeing that she's a new prodigy. He then asks her to play something on the violin, which Chyna wows everyone with. During signups, Chyna mocks Lexi. Olive then yells at Chyna to not mess with the big kids. During lunch, Chyna overhears Lexi and Paisley discussing Lexi's party tonight. Eager to go, Chyna invites Olive and Fletcher to join her. Upstairs, she has Fletcher make wax figures of themselves so they can sneak out. At the party, Cameron catches Chyna there, but she noticed he was supposed to be at church. Cameron explains that he paid Angus to rig the tracking device on his phone. She then finds a super hyper Olive who just drank a bunch of Red Viper that Lexi gave her. Olive then knocks into Fletcher who crashes the stereo, ruining the party. Chyna then plays guitar and performs, saving the party, and enraging Lexi. Then, her Dad shows up with Gibson and crashes the party. The next day, Chyna surprises Olive and Fletcher when she has a whole Music station set up, and says their gonna need a lot more wax figures if they want to have some more fun.

In ParticipANTs, Chyna and Olive search for extracurricular activities to join. Chyna and Olive come up to the Cheerleading table where Lexi is. Lexi thinks Chyna should tryout for Cheerleading, so she and Olive do. At tryouts, Olive fails when she uses a super long cheer on wolves, while Chyna accidentally launches her shoe at Paisley's face. Unbelievably, Chyna makes the squad, but Olive doesn't. At the A.N.T. Farm, since Lexi says Chyna needs to practice, she cheers everything she says, annoying Olive. She then takes a rain check to get a weave with the other Cheerleaders, leaving Olive looking for a new friend. At practice, Lexi wears Chyna out with several exercises, leading to Chyna losing her voice, which is exactly what Lexi wanted so she can't tryout for the school play. At tryouts for the school play, Chyna's injured and not looking her best, but she still tries. She gives a heartbreaking speech which lands her the lead role, which was the same speech by the Hunchback Of Notre Dame.

In The PhANTom Locker, Chyna has a crush on junior grade boy in the school. She later helps Olive get over her fear of her "haunted" locker, by tricking her into getting into her locker at night, but later finds out that Cameron was the ghost, after Olive moves into her locker and "organizes" it for her.

In StudANT Council, Olive tricked Chyna into running for student council because she didn't want to. Chyna this get's cross with Olive, and tricks her into running for student council. They then both try to not get elected by doing bad things. Later on, Cameron is named A.N.T. Farm representative, for all of his good ideas that the whole ANT program loves!

In Bad RomANTs, Fletcher and Chyna help Gibson get back together with his girlfriend, Sophie.

In The InformANT, Chyna digs through the trash to get a Free-Village bag, and is accused of shoplifting by her dad. So, she makes him think that as revenge when she finds out.

In ReplicANT, she begins to like Nigel, a new kid in the A.N.T. program, and Fletcher gets jealous.

In ClairvoyANT, she convinces Cameron he's psychic after he feels down about not having a talent. It doesn't work out in the end but Cameron learns that he's perfect just the way he is.

In ManagemANT, she almost becomes famous when Hippo, a record-producer sees her perform Soccer Ball on the Internet. He changes her name, makes her wear a ridiculous costume, and almost makes her film a music video for his song, Lunchtime before he comes to his senses and lets her perform Unstoppable.

In PhilANThropy, she saves Gibson from being fired by doing a Save Gibson web-a-thon.

In FraudulANT, she helps Fletcher retrieve a painting his idol, Zanko, stole and passed off as his own.

In The ReplacemANT, she gets Olive as her history teacher, and tries to get rid of her with the rest of the class after she becomes too mean.

In MutA.N.T. Farm, Chyna experiences her first day in the "MutA.N.T. Farm" and helps separate the barrier between the regular kids and the MutANTs.

In cANTonese Style Cuisine, Chyna meets Madam GooGoo (spoof of Lady Gaga), after Madam Goo Goo hears Chyna singing a new "Happy Birthday" song that Chyna wrote, and gets her phone number. However, when the A.N.T.s go to a fortune factory, Chyna realizes she lost Madam Goo Goo's phone number in the vat of dough. . But the problem is, she has to search all the fortune cookie, with the help of Olive, Fletcher and Angus, before anybody else finds it. To sneak in back to the fortune factory, Chyna and Olive disguise themselves as workers. Eventually they find the fortune cookie with Madam Goo Goo's phone number in it, after Madan Goo Goo apears in the fortune factory, and Chyna confesses to her that she lost her phone number, and Madam Goo Goo randomly opens a fortune cookie to write down her number again and finds her number already written on the paper. At the end of the episode Chyna and Madam Goo Goo perform the birthday song for one of the cheerleaders birthday. ("Born This Day by Madam Googoo and Chyna Parks, a parody of Lady Gaga's "Born This Way").

In IgnorANTs Is Bliss, Principal Skidmore makes Chyna write a speech for a Open House for the perspective A.N.T.'s and their parents. After Cameron accidently breaks her A.N.T. Pad, (which is where she kept her speech safe), Olive volunteers to help Chyna record her speech (since Olive remembers every word from what Chyna wrote on her speech, since she has a eidetic memory). But when a deafening noise (caused by Fletcher) makes Olive lose her memory, Chyna, Fletcher, and Angus go to great lengths to get her memory back before Principal Skidmore dismisses her from the A.N.T. Program and sends her back to kindergarten. At the end of the episode it is shown that Olive did lose her memory, up until the point when she got trampled in the hallway, then her memory came back. She doesn't want to leave kindergarten, but later feels bad when an angry Chyna finds out and leaves Olive's kindgarten class when she thanked her by making her re-write her speech again. Later at the Open House, Chyna's speech get's out of order when Fletcher knocks into Chyna, and she says some of the speech that didn't sound right. Olive steps into the A.N.T. Farm and helps her best friend deliever the speech. After the speech is done, Olive apologizes and they hug.

In Slumber Party ANTics, she and Olive overhear Paisley talking about Lexi having a slumber party. Chyna wants to go, but Lexi doesn't want to invite her. Chyna then tells them that she and Olive are having a slumber party, just so that Lexi can get jealous. Chyna invites every girl from the A.N.T. Farm, but while at the slumber party, she gets a video chat request from Lexi, and it turns out that all of the girls that Chyna invited, are at Lexi slumber party. Chyna then lies that her slumber party has a world famous stylest, and a sushi chef. But when everybody from Lexi's party shows up, at Chyna's house, Chyna tells them that Fletcher (who was at Chyna's house because he wanted to be at the slumber party, because it's an all girls party, and to get closer to Chyna) is the world famous stylest, and since Fletcher's talent is art, he shows them that he does do a good job on hair. So eveybody stays at the party, but when it is shown that Olive does some odd stuff in her sleep, everybody leaves.

In America Needs TalANT a reality show "America Needs Talent" arrives at Webster High, and everyone auditions to be on it; however Chyna and Lexi both get picked as finalists for the reality show. In the second half, Chyna arrives just in time before the show, after being trapped by a walrus, and later put in jail, with Olive, Fletcher, Darryl (her father), and Cameron (her older brother). While on the show, Lexi and Chyna are both put in the same hotel room. Chyna overhears Lexi talking to Paisley (who is put in the same hotel room as Olive), about stealing Chyna's song so that she can perform it on the show, and she can win. Chyna tricks her into singing "Sweet as a Sprinkle" on America Needs TalANT, and after Lexi finshed her performance, she realizes that Chyna tricked her, and Chyna sings "Beautiful", but ended up not winning.

In SANTa's Little Helpers, Chyna helps make jack in the boxes for the orphans along with Olive and Fletcher (which was Principal Skidmore's idea), but when they discover that Principal Skidmore is selling the jack in the  boxes for profit, they set booby traps in them, but later Principal Skidmore announces that she gave the last pack of toys to the orphans, so Chyna Olive and Fletcher have to get the jack in the boxes back, so Chyna dresses up like Santa and Olive and Fletcher dress up like Elf's. At the end, they save the jack and the boxes and they hug the orphans.

In Some EnchANTed Evening, after Chyna learns that Fletcher has a crush on her, she lies about having a boyfriend, then later finds a fake one, for a double date.



In PerformANTs, she with Olive, Fletcher, and Angus try to go to a Blood Butcher concert leading to having to make up a fake band because Roxanne wants to tag along.

In PatANT Pending, she gets left out from inventing a backpack with Olive and Fletcher.

In Ballet DANTser, she tries to calm Violet, the new A.N.T. down.

In Body of EvidANTs, Chyna tries to figure out who killed Olive's Flurbot, but learns she accidentily killed it by feeding it too much food.

Season 2
In Creative ConsultANT, she thinks Sequioa is stealing her life, but it's really just for her character.

In InfANT, she and Violet, Angus, Olive, and Fletcher tries to find a baby's talent for Skidmore, until they accidentally lose him in the school. Then, she learns that Skidmore was playing them so they could watch her nephew.

In FANTasy Girl, she plans the dance with Olive meaning that they have to lie to a cosmetics creator in order to raise enough money.



In Modeling AssignmANT, she disguises as a fashion designer to set Vanessa  and Cameron together.



In ANTswers, she accidentally causes the Internet to be shut down so she and the other A.N.T.s use their talents to make the ANTernet.

In The ANTagonist, Chyna gives Fletcher advice on how to make a better cartoon, but he makes fun of Olive in the cartoon, and in the end, he changes it to Chyna.

In EndurANTs, Chyna, Olive, and Tazmanian Neville look for Fletcher in the Outback Trek.

In AmusemANT Park, Chyna spends all of the money her mom gave her and Cameron, so she steals Olive's dolls and an orphan wins them in a fake game she made up. Olive doesn't get mad because one of her dolls won the doll beauty pagent.

In ContestANTs, Chyna teams up with Lexi to win a $1,000 prize.

In ConfinemANT, Principal Skidmore locks Chyna, Olive, Fletcher, and Angus in the Ant Farm because she didn't want them to go to the school board meeting which decides if they will cut the art and music programs, but she only locked them in because there was a copy of her birth certificate.

In IntelligANT, she competes in the Acadecathalon because she had the highest IQ.

In SignificANT Other, she agrees to go on a date with Fletcher to make him stop asking her out.

In MutANT Farm II, she falls in love with a human boy but accidentally turns him to stone along with her past boyfriends.

In Detective AgANTcy, she hides her brass instruments so her dad can find them, but Principal Skidmore steals them and melts them down to make a statue of herself.

In ScavANTger Hunt, she's on a team with Olive and Cameron, and they win, but the prize is Spring Break.

In ChANTs of a Lifetime, she joins Trifecta, but goes back to school because she misses her friends.

Olive Doyle (2011-present; Best friend)
Chyna's best friend is Olive. Olive is the first ANT to intentionally approach Chyna in TransplANTed. In ParticipANTs, Olive calls Chyna her best friend. They both tryout for cheerleading together. In The PhANTom Locker, Chyna encourages Olive to face her fear of her locker. In StudANT Council, Olive tricked Chyna into running for Student council, so Chyna does the same to her. In the end, they become friends again. In ReplacemANT, Chyna says that Olive is four months younger than her. Chyna and Olive may argue and fight sometimes, but they always work out the solution in the end. They both are problem solvers and aren't afraid to say what they think. (see Cholive)

Fletcher Quimby (2011-present; Best Friend/2012-present; Possible Crush/2012; Ex-boyfriend)
Chyna and Fletcher are really good friends. They appear to be very close. They both compliment each other in TransplANTed. Even though it looks as if Chyna knows that Fletcher has a crush on her, she hasn't responded to him about her liking him or not. In FANTasy Girl they went to the dance as friends together. In EndurANTs, Chyna saw Fletcher in a different shell when he tried to become a man for her. They shared a moment and hints are Chyna may like him too. (see Flyna)

Lexi Reed (2011-present; Frenemy)
Chyna attempts to fit in with Lexi in TransplANTed, but Lexi isn't giving in. In ParticipANTs, Lexi makes it worse for Chyna when she injures Chyna badly, to prevent her from auditioning for the school play, just so she herself can get the main role, instead of Chyna. Even though they disagree they can work together like in ContestANTs. (see Lyna)

Cameron Parks (Brother)
Chyna and Cameron have an average sister-brother relationship. In TransplANTed, Cameron is displeased that Chyna is going to his high school. In another episode, Chyna doesn't want everyone to know that they are both related. But they both seem to love each other. (see Chameron)

Darryl Parks (Father)
Darryl loves Chyna very much. He appears to prefer her over Cameron. She loves him too, obviously. (see Dyna)

Kennedy Van Buren (Frenemy)
Kennedy appears to hate Chyna due to her thinking she was trying to steal Fletcher from her but grew to like her until Chyna tried to warn her of Fletcher breaking up with her but when he did not go threw with it she thought Chyna was trying to sabotage their relationship and thus hated her again.

Background Information

 * Chyna can play 47 instruments. She plays guitar, piano, violin, trumpet, saxophone, flute, cello, harp, bagpipes, French horn, Theremin, drums, harmonica, and the spoons, she "sings a little", and much more.
 * She appears to be right handed.
 * She claims she thinks better with her guitar.
 * The triangle is one of the only instruments she can't play.
 * She is taller than Cameron even though Cameron is older than her.
 * In Season 1 she has fully black hair. But in Season 2 her hair is still black but with hard to see brown streaks which turn into noticable blonde streaks. She also has a red streak in Detective AgANTcy. In Season 3, she has black hair with a blond ombre.
 * She hates eating chicken.

​Trivia

 * Her locker is filled with sparkles and purple things as seen here.
 * Her favorite color is purple on the show and in real-life. MUTANT_CHYNA.jpgChyna_season_3.jpg
 * Chyna sings every time there is a problem.
 * She is mostly seen playing the guitar even though she can play 47 instruments.
 * She rejected Cameron's friend request on WolfPack.
 * Her dad doesn't let her say 'butter' because it has the word 'butt' in it.
 * She wants to be friends with Lexi.
 * Chyna as stated in ChANTs of a Lifetime is 13 which means she was born in 1999.
 * Her real-life sisters were supposed to be relatives of the character at China's request, but the script for the first episode couldn't be rewriten in time.
 * She and Paisley are very good friends.
 * It is stated by Lexi that Chyna is always trying to steal her spotlight.
 * She is a musical prodigy in the A.N.T. Farm.
 * Her favorite girl band is Trifecta as shown in chANTs of a lifetime.
 * She likes joining clubs with her best friends and is shown to be joining lots of them.
 * When Lexi broke her nose Chyna fills in for her in of a Lifetime ChAnts of a Lifetime
 * The first song she sings (Other than the theme song) is Dynamite.
 * Olive and Fletcher are her closest and best friends. They were the first ANTs to befriend Chyna.
 * She sweats when she eats apples.
 * She bites her toenails
 * She doesn't like watching staring contests.

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