Alan Powers

{{Character_infobox |character name = The Brain |imagesize=220px|image = Brain_promo.PNG |gender = Male |animal = Bear |portrayer = Luke Reid (s1 - s4)
Steven Crowder (s5 - s6, Arthur's Perfect Christmas)
Alex Hood (s7 - s9, PfB s1 - PfB s2)
Paul-Stuart Brown (s9 - s11)
James Buckholder (Arthur's Missing Pal)
Lyle Lettau (s12 - s15, PfB s3)
Siam Yu (s16 - present) |age = 8|cartoon last appeared="So Funny I Forgot to Laugh"|book last appeared=Arthur Turns Green |favorite color = Plaid.

Personality

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. His usual grade is an A that ranges between 100% and 90% as he is often considered the most intelligent student in Mr. Ratburn's class, and he often gets his work done faster than the other students.

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 Muffy. 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. In "The Wheel Deal", he suffered a leg injury and temporarily ended up in a wheelchair.

Biography

Past Life

He went to the preschool D.W. goes to and Arthur went to. He oddly enough had a rivalry with Binky that still lives on in the present.

Future Life

According to different episodes, he will become a ground-breaking scientist and invent teleportion. He will have an entire TV network named after him. If we assume the intro of the episode, "The Election" happens, he will also become a Supreme Court Justice. In "The Contest" episode, he along with the others are shown as teenagers. He essentially looks the same with a more relaxed outfit. He wears an olive shirt with a white undershirt, blue jeans, and red sneakers, similar in design to his friends' current shoes. 

Other Media

In the Living Books computer games, the Brain had a pale cream-colored complexion in Arthur's Teacher Trouble, which was changed to light brown in Arthur's Birthday, although the final page depicted him with a pale one. It was likely due to color and tone restrictions during the 16-bit era of computers and software. The Brain's voice sounded more mature in those two games and was voiced by Joey Edelman before the cartoon show replaced him with Luke Reid. In the later games during the 32-bit era of computers and software such as Arthur's Thinking Games, his appearance was the same as he looks in the cartoon show.

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 never before seen sibling or a cousin/other relative.
• Brain has a fear of water.
• He is very talented in soccer, on the cello, and academically, hence his name.
• In Brain's Shocking Secret from Season 11, it was revealed that Brain was actually supposed to be in the same grade as Prunella, but due to him being a "crier" he was held back a year. This could explain why he is slightly taller than most of his peers. It is also likely that he started kindergarten at the age of four, although he's currently eight years old in the third grade.
• 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 receives a C on his Magna Carta report; however, Mr. Ratburn allows him to redo his project, and it is implied that he receives a higher grade when he presents his report the second time.]
• Alan is called by his nickname quite often, and 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 and Mr. Haney referred to him by his nickname like his friends do, but in the later seasons, they referred to him by his real name Alan.
• The Brain is an African American, specifically of Senegalese descent as revealed in the episode "In My Africa"
• He is star forward and goalkeeper for the Lakewood Elementary Soccer Team and briefly played for the Elwood City All-Stars.
• He has a Martin Luther King Jr. poster in his room that says "I have a dream", as seen in "S.W.E.A.T."
• His initials are A.P., which is also the abbreviation for "Advanced Placement." An AP class is a high school class equal to an undergraduate class in college.
• In the episode Buster Spaces Out it is revealed Brain has family that lives in Texas.
• He is modeled after one of Marc Brown's friends with the same given name, and being nicknamed "the Brain" for his intelligence.
• Brain celebrates Kwanzaa, and that his family is African-American.
• The shoes he wears resemble the brown dress shoes that Arthur wears in episodes where there are special occasions.
• A running gag is that Brain will build robots such as the Robotic Cat and odd machines like the Tooth-Removing Machine.

Gallery

The full image gallery for Alan Powers may be viewed at Alan Powers/Gallery.