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"Being there felt like old times, but it’s new times now. This is my home and, you’re my Mom."
— Andi taking to her mother, Bex, referencing any home isn't one without family
Andi Mack is the titular main protagonist of the Disney Channel series of the same name. She turned 13 at the beginning of the series when her world turns upside down after discovering a huge secret. She is the daughter of Bex Mack and Bowie Quinn, and the granddaughter of Celia and Ham Mack and Cookie Quinn. She navigates the world with her best friends Buffy, Cyrus and Jonah.
She was portrayed by Peyton Elizabeth Lee.
Personality
Andi is a creative and artistic person. She makes art, mostly bracelets, from pretty much anything, including scarfs that Bex used to send to her. Andi sometimes comes off as awkward, especially in boy-crush situations. Andi is curious and inquisitive and always trying to learn more. Andi is comfortable in her skin and sometimes overly trustworthy and naïve, although she's not afraid to confront people including her parents for lying to her. She seems to be very intelligent as well because Bex states that Andi is so much smarter than her and Celia in Shhh! and in the season 2 episode "I Wanna Hold Your Wristband", Jonah says Andi is very smart.
Andi can also be very controlling at points in the show. Andi tries to force the relationship between Bex and Bowie even getting mad at Bex when she doesn’t want to get married to Bowie. She also can be self-centered and selfish, particularly when she doesn't get what she wants or when she feels people aren't paying attention to her, such as in Buffy in a Bottle when she gets mad at Bex for focusing on her business as opposed to Andi's boy troubles or when she assumed Buffy didn't care about her when she was having fun at the Color Factory and didn't text to see if she was okay. However, when it comes to her friends and family her heart is always in the right place.
Biography
Andi Mack was born by a teen mom, Bex, but was raised by her grandparents, Ham and Celia as their own after Bex left home. Andi was raised under the impression that Ham and Celia were her parents and that Bex was her cool older sister who traveled the world and would visit home every few years with different gifts from her adventures for Andi. Despite Bex being away so often, Andi loved her and looked up to her.
Why She's Ready for Tomorrow and With Us All the Way
- Andi is a very likable character as she's a caring, sweet, and also an artistic and creative girl who's facing some tough issues in life that we all can relate to.
- She is deep, flawed, and relatable, and her own personal struggles and arcs are shown greatly, like after discovering her "sister", Bex, is actually her mother, she eventually accepted it and got closer to her in the process, calling her "Mom", which was heartwarming.
- Speaking of which, she has a great bond with her family, calling her grandma by her nickname, Cece, and there's also her grandpa, Ham, as well as her other grandma, Cookie, and especially her parents, Bex and Bowie, who she successfully gets them married, and reunite all of her family.
- She also has a great friendship with her friends, Cyrus, Buffy, and Jonah, and is always there for them. Even though her relationship with Jonah didn't work out, they still remain good friends, which is a good thing to know.
- She has a pretty interesting culture, as the great Chinese New Year episode and the series shows, her mother is Chinese, and her father is Caucasian, making Andi a Chinese-Caucasian.
- She is also able to stand up to bad people like Miranda, Morgan, and Kira. She even befriends mean characters later in the show like TJ and Amber and understands their struggles once she learns about them.
- She is very talented at art, so much that she got into SAVA, which she will need an art studio, and she will use the shack as the studio, which is awesome.
- She was at her best in the finale, "We Were Here", as she got her family together fully, had a fun party with them, told her friends about her getting into SAVA, and had an emotional goodbye with all of them, and hangs 2 of her pictures with her friends inside the shack, which was heartwarming.
- Peyton Elizabeth Lee did an amazing job playing as Andi despite her age, as she portrayed her with tons of emotion and realism.
- She along with Lizzie McGuire is the best character created by Terri Minsky, as well as one of the best Disney Channel characters in Disney history.
Bad Qualities
- She can be boring occasionally.
- She can be annoying at times.
Trivia
- Her number is 13 on the Space Otters Team. (However, Andi's not a part of the Space Otters Frisbee Team anymore.)
- She tends to wear a hair barrette on the right side of her head.
- She has made bracelets out of many things including soda tabs, comic books, a shoelace, and a straw, and her old retainer.
- She's left-handed. Left-handed individuals are typically very creative and good at art.
- Her birthday is on September 28th, which means that she is a Libra. Libras tend to be highly creative with an eye for art and beauty.
- There is some confusion over her birth year. According to Andi's hospital bracelet, she was born in 2003. However, a statement by Cyrus in We're on Cloud Ten implies that she was born in 2004.
- During Chinese New Year, it was the year of the dog, implicating that it was 2018. Because of this, it seems more likely that Andi was born in 2004.
- Andi and Jonah were a couple until they decided they were better off as friends.
- Andi and Cyrus both had a crush on Jonah.
- Andi made a bed canopy out of scarves that her mom sent her.
- At the beginning of season one, Andi made a bracelet for Jonah. Jonah then gave it to Amber who gave it back to Jonah. Jonah, feeling guilty, returned it to Andi. Andi gives it back to Jonah, and when it falls apart, Andi repairs it. Jonah gives back the bracelet to Andi after he says that he doesn't like labels. Then, Andi threw the bracelet away and Bex finds it and puts it into a box dedicated to Andi. Bex gives the bracelet back to Andi, who places the bracelet on Jonah's wrist. Later on, Jonah loses the bracelet during summer camp. That makes this bracelet probably the most passed around a piece of jewelry in Disney history. In the series finale, Jonah reveals he had the bracelet all along.
- Andi now calls her former "parents," now grandparents, CeCe and Pops.
- Andi is the first Chinese American lead character and fourth Asian-American Disney main character after London Tipton from The Suite Life franchise, Tiffany Chen from Bunk'd, and Frankie Wong from Bizaardvark.
- She is the only Asian-American main character to be the titular main character.
- According to The Perfect Day 2.0, she has known Buffy and Cyrus since second grade. (It's been 5 years since they visited the alpine slide.)