Chad Charming

Chad Charming is the secondary antagonist in the 2015 Disney Channel Original Movie, Descendants.

He is played by Jedediah Goodacre.

He is the son of Prince Charming who manipulated Evie so that he could become popular, successful and wealthy.

Overview
Chad is the son of Cinderella and King Charming, and the head jock at Auradon Prep. However, despite being a prince, he is a jerk and a bully who frequently uses his charm and good looks to get what he wants, which is evidenced throughout the film. He takes advantage of Evie's crush on him by making her do his homework, and winds up going out with Audrey (Ben's girlfriend at the time) when Ben publicly and musically declares his love for Mal. A little later on, he has Evie's mirror confiscated, forcing her to take a test without its aid; however, this backfires on him as she gets a B on the test. At the Parents' Day celebration, after Queen Leah (Audrey's grandmother) blames Mal for her mother's actions purely based on the resemblance, Chad worsens the situation when he lays into Ben for inviting the villains' kids in the first place, and even blames Mal for doing to Ben what he (Chad) did to Evie. After Evie heard that, she used the magic mirror to expose him as the biggest jerk in the land. Angry, he grabs Evie's mirror, almost causing a fight with Jay, before the latter sprays on him some sleeping potion. When he wakes up, he makes an angry stare at Ben. This action had also left Lonnie, Doug & the rest of the campus upset of the villain kids. Notably, after the villain kids were ignored after the incident, he persuaded Doug to avoid having lunch or contact with Evie.

During the coronation, Chad's true colors are revealed when Maleficent, now freed from the Isle of the Lost (unintentionally by Jane), gate crashes and interrupts the coronation, intent on claiming the wand and bending all of good and evil to her will. He is shown to be terrified of Mal's mother and her incredible power, cowardly throwing Audrey away from him and trying to hug Doug. Maleficent freezes everyone except for the villain kids, including Chad in his ridiculous position.

At the end of the film, Maleficent is turned into a small lizard, saving Auradon, and Chad winds up dancing with Lonnie during the closing number, but then he gets left alone.

Personality
As he revealed his true nature when taunting Mal, it is seen he was manipulating Evie for money, power, and popularity. He also manipulates other girls so his plans with Evie won't fail. He is also seen near the end to be abusive towards Ben, as he tries to prevent him from marrying Mal, and get Mal humiliated as his act of revenge.

He is shown by the magic mirror to be the biggest jerk in the land, however he is nowhere near as dangerous as Maleficent.

Trivia

 * Chad is similar to Justin and Alejandro from Total Drama, Gaston from Beauty and the Beast, and Prince Hans from Frozen; despite being good-looking, they're really selfish jerks who use their looks to get what they want and wind up paying for it in the end.
 * Chad's real name is Prince Charming Jr.
 * Chad (ironically) is very similar to his father's negative incarnations, particularly the Shrek incarnation of the latter.
 * Although Chad is the son of a Disney Princess and a Disney Prince, he is an antagonist because of his behavior. This also makes him the first offspring of a Disney Princess to be an antagonist.
 * A small fanbase have heavily questioned whether or not Chad is really Cinderella's son as his behavior makes him more similar to the Tremaines than her mother's.