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| Character Statistics | |
| Gender: | Male |
| Age Group: | 10 (Season 1) 11 (Season 2) 12 (Season 3) 13 (Season 4) |
| Birthday: | February 16, 1994 |
| Height: | 2.6. |
| Eye Color: | Green |
| Hair Color: | Bald |
| Ethnicity: | Caucasian |
| Occupation: | Student (formerly) |
| Affiliation: | Pacific Coast Academy |
| Nickname: | Little D (by everyone) D-Man (by Michael) Kid (by Logan) Dude (by Chase) |
| Hometown: | Louisiana |
| Relationships | |
| Sisters: | Zoey Brooks (older sister) |
| Mother: | Mrs. Brooks |
| Father: | Mr. Brooks |
| Ex-Girlfriend: | Trisha Kirby |
| Date: | Sandy Baldwin (one date) |
| Crush: | Katie Valasquez (one-sided crush on his side) Lola Martinez (possible crush) |
| Children: | 4 unnamed children (Zoey 102) |
| Grandparents: | Grandmother Grandfather |
| Aunts: | Morris (great-uncle, deceased) |
| Cousins: | Unnamed cousin (Disc Golf) |
| Pets: | Dog, Cat |
| Owners: | Zoey Brooks |
| Friends: | Jack (best friend) Chase Matthews Michael Barrett Logan Reese (occasionally) Lola Martinez Quinn Pensky James Garrett Dana Cruz Nicole Bristow Malcolm Reese |
| Nemesis: | Keith Finch Trisha Kirby (ex-girlfriend) Logan Reese (occasionally) |
| Employment: | Riding a Bike |
| Production Info | |
| Portrayed by: | Paul Butcher |
| First Appearance: | Welcome to PCA |
| Last Appearance: | Chasing Zoey |
| Reason: | Series Discontinued |
Dustin Brooks (born February 16th, 1994) is a character and one of the main characters in the Nickelodeon TV series, Zoey 101. It was revealed years later in Zoey 102 that he has two children and a set of twins on the way. He is portrayed by Paul Butcher.
Character history
Personality
Dustin Brooks is Zoey Brooks' younger brother. He's the type of person that's always there for everyone, especially his sister, Zoey. He is also known to be a bit shy. Besides being his fiercest protector and closest confidante, Zoey has more recently become her brother's classmate at the newly coed PCA. A child prodigy, Dustin enjoys sharing an 8th grade geometry class with his equally savvy elder sister. He also enjoys helping Quinn Pensky with her scientific experiments, when he is not talking his way in and out of assorted sticky situations.
Whenever he gets in over his head, Zoey is always the first one to rush to her kid brother's aid. Although her playing 'bodyguard' gets on Dustin's nerves from time to time, he loves Zoey too much to hold that against her. By Season 3, not only is Dustin friends with all of the main characters, but he also spends much time socializing with kids his own age, though he admits that he misses the days where it was just him and Zoey. When Zoey and his parents move to London, he stays at PCA. In Season 4, however, he started to become a little more rude, likely due to puberty, such as in the movie Chasing Zoey, when he made fun of Quinn about her falling off his bike. Despite this, he is still maintaining his kind persona and is always willing to help out.
Relationships
Trisha Kirby
Dustin started dating the troublemaker, Trisha, in the episode, Bad Girl, when they became science partners, and she wrote her number on his arm. Trisha is a year older, and a lot of trouble. Dustin begins to act "bad" to fit in and be liked by his girlfriend. Zoey finds out about Trisha, and wants Dustin to stop dating her, because she is a bad influence. Zoey tells Chase to tell Trisha to stop dating Dustin, but she then starts to "date" Chase. Dustin becomes infuriated, and "beats" up Chase for stealing his girl, but then turns her down after, claiming he is too good for her.
Sandy Baldwin
Dustin's date in Lola Likes Chase. She was the sister of Tracy Baldwin, who was in Logan's History class. Logan after transforming Dustin into "Little Logan" had been training Dustin how to get a date, but his methods of trash-talking was too much for Tracy. Dustin, on the other hand, was more successful with Sandy, and the two were still together at the end of the episode. It is unknown what happened to her after that.
Quinn Pensky
Dustin's date to prom. Logan picked Dustin as Quinn's date and Quinn picked Stacey as Logan's date so no one would be aware the two were dating. Dustin said yes because he knew Quinn was one of Zoey's best friends. Dustin took her to prom on his bike. Dustin laughed at her when she fell off, so she used her nerve pinch on him, rendering him unconscious. When Quinn and Logan revealed that they loved each other, Dustin, realizing that Quinn had used him, left in a huff.
Lola Martinez
Dustin's possible crush throughout Seasons 3 and 4. Several episodes, most prominently Favor Chain and Walk-a-Thon hint that he has a crush on Lola. However, this crush isn't mutual and is very much one-sided on Dustin's part. Lola can be somewhat hostile and unfriendly towards Dustin from time to time, although in a playful and light-hearted manner. An example of this can be seen in the episode Anger Management, where Dustin is trying to figure out a way to make money to buy a webcam for his mother, and Lola responds by saying "Yeah if she wanted to see you she wouldn't have sent you to boarding school" implying that Mrs. Brooks sent Dustin away to boarding school because she didn't want to see him. Also, in Favor Chain, when Zoey told Lola that Dustin wanted her to be his talent show assistant, Lola said she didn't want to and added "Eww." Despite all of this, Dustin and Lola get along just fine and seem to be well acquainted with each other most of the time.
Appearances
- Welcome to PCA
- New Roomies
- Defending Dustin
- The Play
- Quinn's Date
- Spring Fling
- Little Beach Party
- Back to PCA
- Haunted House
- Bad Girl
- Girls Will Be Boys
- Lola Likes Chase
- Spring Break-Up (Parts 1 & 2)
- Surprise
- Hot Dean
- Chase's Grandma
- Quarantine
- Favor Chain
- Drippin' Episode!
- Goodbye Zoey (Part 1)
- Anger Management
- Walk-a-Thon
- Chasing Zoey (Parts 1 & 2)
Trivia
- Despite being a main character across all four seasons, Dustin appears in only 23 of the show’s 65 episodes, making him the least featured main character aside from Dana and James, who were only series regulars for one season each. He appears in fewer episodes than recurring characters Mark and Stacey.
- Despite being a main character in all four seasons, Dustin appeared in 23 episodes. This means that he appeared in three episodes less than Nicole Bristow, who appeared in 26 episodes despite her only appearing in the first two seasons.
- Dustin is introduced as approximately 10 years old in Season 1 and is depicted as a teenager by the later seasons. By the end of Season 4, he is around 14 years old.
- In Robot Wars, it is revealed that Dustin and Zoey are from a small town in Louisiana.
- The whiteboard on the door to Dustin's room has his name on it, as well as three other stick figures that say Dad, Mom, and Zoey, as seen in Quinn's Date.
- As shown in Welcome to PCA, and all throughout Quinn's Date, Dustin has a phobia of animals.
- Dustin apparently doesn't have very good eyesight, as mentioned in Bad Girl. He also mentions possibly getting glasses in the future. However, he was never seen wearing glasses on-screen after this episode.
- When he was in fourth grade, he found out he can imitate the sounds of animals underwater. (Chasing Zoey)
- Several episodes, most prominently Favor Chain, hint that he has a crush on Lola Martinez.
- He has very ticklish feet, as seen in The Play.
- He is the only main character that knows about Quinn and Logan being a couple, with everyone else (Zoey, Chase, Michael, Lola) being elsewhere when the two dramatically announced it.
- He is the only main character who Logan made his "Mini-me."
- His birthday is February 16th, and his zodiac sign is Aquarius.
- Dustin is in 5th grade in Season 1, 6th grade in Season 2, and 7th grade in Seasons 3 and 4.
- Dustin is the only main character that has never left the lower school during the show’s 3-year run (all of the other main characters were never seen in the lower school). However, it is presumed that after Season 4 had concluded he finished his 8th grade year and went to the upper school the following semester.
- Dustin's favorite color is red.
- Dustin does not appear in Zoey 102 as his actor disliked the idea, but he was mentioned.
