Alan Powers


 * "Oh, thanks! You save my life! I'm really scared"
 * &mdash; Alan Powers, "The Water and the Brain"

Alan "The Brain" Powers is a 3rd grade student at Lakewood Elementary. He is the smartest kid in school, being called "The Brain" more than his real name, Alan. He is a bear, making Brain the only principal cast member that is a bear. In Arthur's Perfect Christmas, it is revealed that Brain celebrates Kwanzaa, and that his family is African-American. He was originally voiced by Luke Reid and is currently voiced by Lyle O'Donohoe.

Profile
Name: Alan Powers

Alias: The Brain

Age: 8

Parents: Mr. and Mrs. Powers

Siblings: None

Other: Keith Powers (uncle)

Likes: Ice cream, helping out with his mother, computers, soccer, skipping stones, Bionic Bunny

Dislikes: Insolence, envy, being called out of the spellathon

Appearance and Personality
Brain is an anthropomorphic bear who wears a gray sweater with olive green pants (according to the promotional art on the cartoon's official website, he had on khakis instead). On formal occasions Brain would wear a charcoal or black Tuxedo with two pockets on each side of the Tuxedo jacket and a white Tuxedo shirt with a black bow tie and matching trousers and black shoes.

He is mild-mannered and is one of the most polite characters in the series. He is an expert soccer player, despite Francine's jealousy that she was great in other sports. He is one of the few characters who are usually left-handed.

Despite being quite well mannered, Brain sometimes has a tendency to fantasize negative and sometimes dangerous things to happen to those who have wronged him, as seen when he was defeated in a science fair by Francine. He is also highly hydrophobic.

He tends to be called upon a lot when his friends have technical difficulties but also is great fun to hang out with.

Trivia

 * In "Arthur's Perfect Christmas", Brain's dad is seen carrying one of D.W.'s classmates. This has brought up that Brain has a neverbefore seen sibling or a cousin/other relative.
 * Brain has a fear of water, and is very talented in soccer, on the cello, and academically, hence his name.
 * Brain is actually suppose to be in the same grade as Prunella, but due to him being a "crier" he was held back a year.
 * Brain also works: He works in his family's ice cream store and teaches in summer school.
 * Brain's goal is to be an astrophysicist.
 * Brain tends to be a "report hog", meaning he has to do all the work for group projects.
 * His usual marks are either an A or an A+, but his lowest mark seen in the show was a B-, seen in the episode Breezy Listening Blues. [Note: In the episode "Brain Gets Hooked", Brain recieves a C on his Magna Carta report; however, Mr. Ratburn allows him to redo his project, and it is implied that he recieves a higher grade when he presents his report the second time.]
 * In seasons 3-4, the Brain's voice went through a drastic change due to the fact that Luke Reid was going through puberty at the time, although Marc Brown later decided the voice tone for the Brain was too deep, so he decided to assign new voiceovers to voice Brain who can sound like his original voice from season 1, and would again sign a new voiceover if that actor's voice goes into a drastic change.
 * Alan is called by his nickname too often, then Arthur has forgotten his first name at times; although his parents refer to him by his real name more than anyone else.
 * In the earlier seasons, Mr. Ratburn referred to him by his nickname like his friends do, but in the later seasons referred to him by his real name Alan.