Fletcher Quimby

"Why can’t they cut something unnecessary, like the math and English programs? That would be a kagillion times more gooder!"

- confinemANT

Fletcher Pumpernickle Quimby is an 13 year old artistic genius and dilettante, gifted in all media including painting, sculpture, and drawing. He met Chyna on her first day at Webster High and soon became her friend. However, he deeply developed romantic feelings for her despite their friendship. Fletcher has trouble keeping his crush a secret when he constantly keeps adding her into his art. Fletcher also has an awkward relationship with fellow ANT Olive Doyle. Although she teases him quite often, he has no problem teasing her back, as they have somewhat of a "frenemy" relationship. He is portrayed by Jake Short.

Personality
Fletcher is an excitable, accident-prone, and imaginative boy with a cheeky sense of humor. He has the tendency to be slow-witted at times, such as when he does odd things for his friends such as diving into trash simply because they don't want to, and is often seen as stupid, however he can be quite cunning and devious at times. Whenever he is embarrassed or doesn't know what to say, he sometimes pretends to be frozen, thinking that no one can see him. He is also disliked by many teenagers for being an A.N.T., since he wasn't able to enter a club except the one with only Chyna's brother, Cameron, in it, the End Hunger Today Club. He is however friendly to next to next to every body, even those who don't like him. He is also often portrayed as timid.

History
In TransplANTed, Chyna thinks that Fletcher is carrying a dead body, which is actually a beeswax sculpture. Olive mocks him by saying he has to literally "make friends." Fletcher then explains that he's an artist and he's sculpting the entire class out of beeswax as a project. Chyna comments that they're beautiful, and Fletcher accidentally tells Chyna that she's beautiful, creeping her out. He then corrects himself saying her music's beautiful, even though he hasn't heard her play. So to escape an embarrassing moment, he pretends he's a statue. Later, when first period ends and Angus get caught in the flood of teens from the school, Fletcher says they should go back for him, so Olive slaps him straight. In music class, some big kids stuff his head into a tuba, so Chyna blows into it to shoot him out. At Chyna's house, Fletcher comes dressed in a business man getup, with a top hat and spectacle to match as an attempt to look older. When Chyna's dad comes home early, Fletcher creates wax figures of the three of them so they can sneak out and go to Lexi's party, but not before he practices hitting on Chyna's double. At the party, he pretends that he's a magician to impress Paisley, and later crashes into the stereo, almost ruining the party before Chyna performs. The next day, when Chyna says

they need more wax figures, Fletcher says they're already done, creeping Chyna out again, so he corrects himself saying they will be done and then acts like a statue again.

In ParticipANTs, Fletcher comes to the Activity Fair dressed in a suit of armor so that none of the big kids can hurt him, but then gets caught by a giant magnet. Trying to get into the chess club, he ends up getting pieces shoved up his nose, so he goes to the End Hunger Today Club. He notices that it's only Cameron and he's eating buffalo wings, so after hearing of the club's true purpose, (using school funds to buy buffalo wings) he wants in. He gets in by threatening Cameron he will tell Skidmore about his little scam, which allows him to be in. When they order some more buffalo wings he gets some super hot ones, causing him to want them out ASAP! When Susan Skidmore shows up at the same time as the delivery guy, Fletcher blows their cover saying, "Our wings are here!" This causes Principal Skidmore to want in.

In The PhANTom Locker, Principal Skidmore convinces Fletcher to draw her a self-portrait of her in a schoolgirl outfit, much to his displeasure. Taking Chyna's advice, he paints her exactly how she is on the inside but Skidmore isn't happy about it.

In SciANTs Fair, Fletcher is seen working on his science fair project. However, Chyna and Olive end up destroying it.

In StudANT Council, Fletcher tries to get closer to Chyna by making friends with her dad, Darryl. He also enlisted in the help of Angus.

In Bad RomANTs, Fletcher makes a sculpture of Chyna's head out of chewed up bubblegum. For the entire episode, he is seen doing nice things for her such as pulling out her chair and trying to feed her chocolate covered strawberries.

In The InformANT, Fletcher helps Chyna get her Free-Village bag by diving into the trash can to get pudding cups. He also helps teach Chyna's dad a lesson.

In ReplicANT, Fletcher gets jealous of Nigel and tries to ruin his date with Chyna.

In ClairvoyANT, Fletcher takes a stand against Principal Skidmore for removing the dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets in the cafeteria. He even dresses up as a dinosaur and gets featured in Cameron's video for Space Cadet.

In ManagemANT, Fletcher teams up with Paisley against Olive and Angus in a home economics challenge. He and Paisley end up losing.

In PhilANThropy, Fletcher helps to save Gibson's job by participating in the Save Gibson web-a-thon.

In FraudulANT, he gives his favorite artist Zanko one of his paintings and later, Chyna, Olive, Angus, Wacky, and himself try get his painting back after Zanko took the credit for making it.

In The ReplacemANT, he doesn't like Miss Doyle, but he really doesn't want Olive back either.

In MutANT Farm, he is hitting on Chyna like he did in the first episode.

In CANTonese Style Cuisine, he, Olive, and Angus help Chyna find Madam Goo Goo's phone number at the Chinese restaurant.

In IgnorANTs Is Bliss, he helps Chyna get Olive's memory back.

In Slumber Party ANTics, he draws a comic book for Cameron after declining once but only to hang with Chyna.

In America Needs TalANT, he, Cameron, and Darryl wait in line at a popular food truck.

In sANTa's Little Helpers, he teams up with Chyna and Olive to try and get the falty toys back from the orphanage when they find out Ms. Skidmore really gave the phony ones to them.

In You're the One That I wANT, he helps Lexi try to sabotage the school musical starring Chyna because he is jealous of the handsome leading man, Jared.

In PerformANTs, he, Chyna, Olive, and Angus pretend to be a kiddie band so that Roxanne will let them go to a rock concert with the older kids.

In Some EnchANTed Evening, he fakes a girlfriend after Chyna fakes her boyfriend after he asks her out.

In PatANT Pending, he and Olive work together against Chyna to design a new revolutionary kind of backpack.

In Ballet DANTser, Violet has a crush on him and he tries to avoid her as much as he can.

In Body of EvidANTs, Hagel calls him stupid, so he poisoned him, but wasn't the one who killed Hagel.

In Creative ConsultANT, he goes to the Stinkles movie with Cameron.

In InfANT, he helps get the baby back.

In FANTasy Girl, he pretended that Chyna was his date to the dance when Violet tricks Fletcher in asking her to the Dance.

In Modeling AssignmANT, he and Olive keep changing the themes of Hippo's restaurant to make Lexi miserable, but it never works.

In The ANTagonist, he creates a cartoon series of the A.N.T Farm as actual ants, taking Chyna's advice to write what he knows he ends up making fun of Olive and her feelings in the process.

In EndurANTs, he takes the outback trek to prove that he has manly skills.

In AmusemANT Park, he goes on the rollercoaster with Angus many times just to get a good picture.

In ContestANTs, he thinks the dragon stole his wallet, but it was in his back pocket.

In ConfinemANT, he wanted to draw a picture about why the art and music programs should continue, but nobody had anything to draw with, not even a pencil.

In IntelligANT, he calls Olive stupid because her IQ test results were lower than his.

In SignificANT Other, Chyna finally accepts to go on a date with him, however only to do it to get him off her back. Fletcher performs a written song for her, asking her to be his date to his cousin's wedding.

In MutANT Farm II, he finally loses all his vampire baby teeth.

In Detective AgANTcy, he helps Chyna's dad find the instruments.

In ScavANTger Hunt, he is on a team with Lexi and Paisley.

In ChANTs of a Lifetime, he goes to see Trifecta with Olive. He bounces a beach ball off Olive's head and it also hits Chyna while she is onstage.

Trivia



 * Although Olive jokes that Fletcher has difficulty making friends in TransplANTed, Fletcher easily befriends Chyna's dad in StudANT Council.
 * In Body of EvidANTs, it is revealed that all the students in the A.N.T program have deemed Fletcher as stupid due to his quirky nature.
 * Fletcher has a high pain tolerance for his age; as he was able to recover quickly when his neck was bitten by bloodthirsty bats (PatANT Pending), having his foot crushed by a cinderblock (Ballet DANTser), was thrown out of his desk (FANTasy Girl), was hit in the face by a football (FANTasy Girl), recovered from serious wounds following taking up Karate (Early RetiremANT), shoved 8 feet out of an elevator etc.
 * In EndurANTs, Tazmanian Neville reveals that Fletcher is a 9-year-old. However, he may have been lying to make himself seem more heroic. But even so, Fletcher didn't object to his said age, but rather to the made-up story Fletcherr.jpgle was telling.
 * He was mentioned to have been hypnotized to buy a hypnosis kit as mentioned in You're the One That I wANT.
 * His sensitive personality has earned him the unsolicited affection of Violet. See Fiolet.
 * His middle name was revealed to be Pumpernickel in InformANT.
 * It is revealed in ReplicANT that he has a freakishly long toe.
 * He enjoys baking and he hates Nigel for taking his girl
 * Fletcher is a very good hair stylist, as seen in Slumber Party ANTics.
 * Fletcher is part Danish, (about 1/16) as revealed in America Needs TalANT.
 * It is revealed in ParticipANTs that he collects chewed up gum, it is possible he collected the gum to make the sculpture of Chyna in Bad RomANTs.
 * His locker is filled with artistic things like paint as seen here.
 * His ant cartoon version is named Sketcher.
 * He cares deeply about art, and is annoyed when others don't.
 * In the episode SignificANT Other, his dream of Chyna finally accepting to go on a date with him comes true.
 * As of SignificANT Other, we know of his singing talent.
 * He is deeply in love with Chyna
 * Despite being called  and consdiered stupid by a lot of people, he is implied to be quite knowledgeable on several occasions, such as quite accurately mimicing (and mocking) Olives style of spurting out random facts. He also seems to have an in depth knowledge of artists and art history.
 * He does a lot of silly things as shown on Olive's quilt in InfluANTces
 * Fletcher may possible twin brother from Cleveland but unknown said by Chyna in FANTasy Girl.

Chyna Parks (2011-present; Best Friend / 2011-present; Crush / 2012; Ex-girlfriend)Flyna63.jpg
Fletcher has a crush on Chyna since the first time he met her. However she was oblivious to it until Some EnchANTed Evening, when he admitted it to her. They are occasionally seen smiling at each other, which is a sign they like each other. She may feel the same way because in EndurANTs, she was close to saying it. Ironically despite his feelings for her, Fletcher is always the first person to criticize her when she does something wrong or something that leads to something wrong.

Olive Doyle (unknown-present; Best friend; possible crush)
Olive and Fletcher are close friends, but they often have quarrels and insult each other. In PatANT Pending Fletcher  and Olive fake dated to cover up for their business idea that Olive didn't want  Chyna to join. Their friendship seems almost on/off since Olive implied that Fletcher is not her friend on some occasions however has referred to him as a friend in other episodes. They don't seem to like each other that much but they are still good friends.She may have a crush on him considering she made a quilt with him all over it but no one really knows. Also Fletcher may have a secretly crush on her( see here: )  (See Folive )

Violet (2011; friend)
Violet has a crush on Fletcher but Fletcher does not feel the same way. In Ballet DANTser, she revealed she had a crush on him. In InFANT they have been next to each other most of the time. Violet does not get too angry in this episode and in FANTasy Girl, they were dancing next to each other and Violet tricked Fletcher into asking her to the dance (she threw a football at him, told him there was a note and he read it and said "Will you go to the dance with me?" then she said yes as if he was really asking her to the dance. Fletcher may possibly like Violet but he has the strongest feelings for Chyna which makes Violet angry.

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