Cland Ann (character)

"Whoa, man!"

- Cland

Cland Matthew Ann is the main protagonist of the animated series of the same name. He is voiced by Jason Marsden.

Biography
Coming soon!

Personality
Cland is a 15-year-old teenage boy who is best friends with Japper McJapps. He has an immutable sense of heroism, friendliness, and has a fiery personality. He has little concern for his own safety and can be irresponsible at times, being extremely curious and hardly ever cautious, which usually results in him getting into trouble.

Appearance
Cland is shown wearing a green sweater consisting a smiley face sticking its tongue out, blue pants, and green shoes. He has dark red hair, with freckles on his face.

Japper McJapps
Japper McJapps is Cland's best friend and sidekick.

Character Development
Cland was created by Mala Miles. Development on Cland's character began in mid-1998. The first sketches of Cland depicted a young man who wore an orange scarf and one fingerless glove.

During the development of the show, Cland originally had red hair, blue sweater, green pants, and blue shoes, but the creators thought he looked too similar to Japper, so they decided to change Cland's appearance, giving him dark red hair, green sweater, dark blue pants and green shoes.

The role of Cland was originally offered to Tom Kenny who turned it down, a move he later admitted regretting.

Name
Cland's original names were "Lucas", "Ken", and "Brandon." He was named "Lucas" in the early treatment, "Ken" in one of the early sketches of the character, and "Brandon" in the early animation test for the show. In an original storyboard for the show, another name for Cland was "Julio."

Later, the creators finally named the character "Cland", a combination of two words "clan" and "land."

Quotes
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Trivia

 * He is homeschooled.
 * Cland is renamed "Clan Ann" (クランアン) in the Japanese dub.
 * Cland was originally going to be a Brazilian boy who lost his family in one early version of the show. This was changed for unknown reasons.
 * One prototype drawing of Cland showed him with black hair, while another showed him with long pointed ears, and a third showed him smoking a cigarette. The reason for Cland to not be a heavy smoker for his final design is due to the fact that the animators didn't think it was right for a teenage boy to smoke cigarettes.
 * It is revealed in "Japper Whatishisname?" that Cland was born on May 17, 1986.
 * For some reason his name is often misspelled as "Claud".
 * Cland was originally supposed to wear a scarf around his neck, but it was removed.
 * According to the original treatment from the seasons 1 and 2 DVD, one of Cland's working names was Brandon and instead of being clever, smart, brave and curious as seen in the actual show, he was a shy and clumsy boy who would always lose his focus.
 * In another early draft, one of his original names was Julio, and instead of being a prisoner at Human Jail Enterprises, he was a guitarist (which was later reused for Life of a Teenage Rockstar).
 * In the early concept for the show, Cland was going to be a female character but the creators don't want him to be a girl so they decided to change Cland to a male.
 * In one of Cland's early designs, he was going to have earrings.