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Zachary[1] "Zack" Martin (played by Dylan Sprouse) is a main character on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and its spin-off The Suite Life on Deck. Zack has also appeared on cross-over episodes of other Disney Channel series, such as That's So Raven, Wizards of Waverly Place, Hannah Montana, I'm in the Band, and So Random!
He was born ten minutes before his twin brother, Cody, at St. Joseph's Hospital in Seattle, Washington at 6:30 on a Saturday.[2] The year of his birth is not clear. In The Suite Life on Deck episode, "Das Boots", it is said to be 1993.[3] However, in the The Suite Life of Zack & Cody episode, "Poor Little Rich Girl", a baby video of him and his brother is date-stamped September 23, 1992.[4] He is typically the insecure, unstudious, outgoing and often lazy twin, who usually dresses in skater clothes. Zack also bullies his brother due to him feeling intimidated by his more intellectual twin brother, Cody. At school, he is a straight "D" student,[5] although it has been indicated that if he applied himself, he could do much better as shown when he was the smartest kid in summer school. Although he does not do well in school, Zack loves wood shop (a class in which he actually does well). In an episode of The Suite Life on Deck, it is shown that he and Cody have ancestors from Sweden.[6]
[edit] The Suite Life of Zack & Cody
Zack has an obsession with women, and has always had a crush on Maddie Fitzpatrick, who works at the candy counter. He always calls her "Sweet Thang". Zack usually picks on Cody, but becomes very protective of his brother when other people do it. He wants to be like his dad, Kurt, who is a rock star.
Although he mocks his brother often (most notably for being intellectual, showing emotion to their mother and for being bacillophobic), Zack is himself a momma's boy. In "Ghost of Suite 613" after being frightened he ran to his mother for comfort. On another occasion he was seen refusing to let go of his mother before attending Seven Seas High - a moment which Cody used to his advantage in an e-mail to their friends.[7][8]
Zack also frequently gets into trouble sometimes along with Cody. He also is the lazier of the two, often bossing Cody around. He is the charming, cool, funny, and greedy twin, but can also have a soft spot, and caring spot, for example in the episode: "Election" the two brothers run for president, and Zack almost beats him unfairly, but then helps Cody win. Also in the On Deck episode "Shipnotized" Zack stands up for Cody after Harvard's dean of admissions makes him cry, telling him he'd be lucky to get into clown college. Zack is also known to put Cody down a lot, though he is quick to stand up for him when other people do it. Most of the time he receives no retaliation for these actions although he seems to be intimidated by Cody when Cody stands up to him. Zack does not have as much knowledge but has as much common sense as his brother. Rarely seen is Zack's emotional side, but when we do it is usually Cody or Maddie who's brought it on. Although he and Cody are often shown arguing and even fighting, they both share a close platonic relationship with each other. In "Cody Goes To Camp", Zack misses Cody so badly that he convinces London to drive him to Camp Knock-A-Number where Cody is having a great time with other, as Zack would put it 'nerds'. When Cody realizes Zack is lonely without his brother, he sends everybody away so the brothers can have a private talk about their relationship.[9]
One of Zack's skills is his musical ability. He was the lead singer of the band Rock Squared and won an airband contest with Woody, singing a parody of "November Rain" by Guns N Roses. This was possibly inherited from his father or mother.[citation needed]
[edit] The Suite Life on Deck
In the spin-off, Zack still maintains the same general personality he had on the Suite Life of Zack & Cody, but shows signs of maturity. While on the ship, he works at the juice bar and lived alone in a cabin, until Marcus Little boarded the ship and became his cabin-mate, and enjoys the freedom sea school grants him. He also had a crush on Bailey, but stopped liking her because she had too much "baggage." Even though he flirts with other girls, he's never forgotten Maddie, as displayed in "Maddie on Deck." On The Suite Life of Zack & Cody Zack is usually pulling Cody into his schemes; on The Suite Life on Deck he often involves London.[citation needed]
[edit] The Suite Life of Zack & Cody
- Maddie Fitzpatrick (Ashley Tisdale) - He calls her "sweet thang" and despite flirting with other girls, Zack had a crush on Maddie throughout all three seasons. Throughout the series, he frequently flirts with her and tries to impress her, though is constantly rejected due to the 3-year age difference between them. Zack expresses genuine love for her and believes that she loves him in return but 'just doesn't know it yet'. Though he has a huge crush on her in the whole series, it is the most major in season 1. In seasons 2 and 3, he still has feelings for her, but he also flirts with other girls. In "A Prom Story", where he eventually gets to dance with her. In "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Hotel", it is revealed that his greatest dream is to marry Maddie (as well as have a game room where Maddie can feed him popcorn and candy). Zack expresses jealousy whenever Maddie is shown to fall for another boy, such as in "Maddie Checks In" and "Rumors". He seems to love Maddie more than his own mother as shown in "Pilot Your Own Life". He always performs kind actions towards Maddie, such as being the only one to show up at her 16th birthday party in "Not So Suite 16" (despite London's bribery of big screen TVs) and ensuring that her work in Lip Syncin' in the Rain is given credit for. Throughout the show, his love for her is expressed in many subtle nuances. In the On Deck episode "Maddie on Deck," Maddie kisses Zack for confidence.[citation needed]
- Max (Alyson Stoner) - Zack and Cody became friends with Max and 'Tapeworm' in the first aired episode and second produced episode. Later in the episode, Zack and Cody ditch them but soon get back with them. In "Kisses and Basketball", Max kisses Zack on the lips and this annoys Zack. Zack and Max stop speaking to each other and stop passing the ball to each other in Basketball. Because Cody, 'Tapeworm' and some other kids wanted the team to win, they made Zack ask Max on a date. Max accepts. Zack then finds out he actually likes her. Then when he tells Max that he originally didn't want to go but found out it was fun, Max gets angry and leaves. They later make-up and become friends again. In "Club Twin", Zack asks Max to help the club get money, and Zack offers $10 and a kiss. Max agrees for the money but not the kiss.[citation needed]
- Jessica and Janice (Rebecca and Camilla Rosso) - Zack and Cody have gone on double dates with these two several times during the second season.[citation needed]
- Darlene (Nicki Prian) - Zack had a crush on her in the episode, "Ask Zack". He manages to use the Ask Shirley advice column in the school newspaper (which Cody appointed him in the position) to get Darlene to go out with him, though his scheme gets found out by Darlene later in the episode, when letters from those needing advice from 'Shirley' accidentally spill out of his backpack, and she breaks up with him. Zack later apologizes to Darlene in the school paper, and manages to win her over.[citation needed]
- Gwen (Selena Gomez) - In "A Midsummer's Nightmare," she is Cody's girlfriend originally, though Zack and Gwen kiss while running lines during rehearsals for the school production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and it was revealed that Gwen started to like Zack and she breaks up with Cody. Gwen's crush on Zack ended with the episode; otherwise they are very good friends.[citation needed]
- Betsy (Raini Rodriguez) - Zack told London that she was a "rat-roach" exterminator in "Sleepover Suite". He later kissed her so that she wouldn't be able to tell London that she wasn't. After he kisses another girl, she gets angry and slaps him.[citation needed]
- Abby (Amanda Gallo) - Zack went out with her twice during the episode, "A Tale of Two Houses". Abby found out that Zack lied to her, but she forgave him.[citation needed]
- Sabrina Bryan (Sabrina Bryan) - In the episode "Doin' Time in Suite 2330", Zack subdues her by saying she's his favorite amongst the members of the music group The Cheetah Girls.[citation needed]
- Kiely Williams (Kiely Williams) - In the episode "Doin' Time in Suite 2330", she hugs Zack because he says she's his favorite amongst the members of The Cheetah Girls. When he says this to the other cheetahs she gets angry.[citation needed]
- Adrienne Bailon (Adrienne Bailon) - In the episode "Doin' Time in Suite 2330", Zack tells her she's his favorite amongst the members of The Cheetah Girls.[citation needed]
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- Bailey Pickett (Debby Ryan) - She was Zack's roommate in the first episode of the series, "The Suite Life Sets Sail", and also Cody's current girlfriend. Both brothers were previously interested in her, but Zack decided to give her up when Mr. Moseby reveals that she was still interested in her ex-boyfriend, Moose, in the second episode, "Parrot Island."
- Violet Berg (Christa B. Allen) - She and Zack had a romance in "Kidney of The Sea".[10]
- Maddie Fitzpatrick (Ashley Tisdale) - When Maddie returned in "Maddie On Deck", Zack resumed the crush he had on her throughout all three seasons of the previous series. This time, she started responding to his crush by kissing him. This was the last appearance of Maddie in The Suite Life series.[citation needed]
- Olivia Cabot (Gilland Jones) - The daughter of Harvard's Dean of Admissions, Monroe Cabot. She and Zack dated in "Shipnotized" but Cabot has to approve of boys Olivia dates and Cabot didn't approve of Zack but he approves of Cody so Zack makes it look like Cody is dating Olivia. In the end, Cabot finds out and Zack and Olivia stop dating. Though Olivia's outrageous behavior after being hypnotized might have also contributed.[citation needed]
- Marissa (Allie Gonino) - In the episode "Splash and Trash", Zack finds a girl floating in the ocean and believes she's a mermaid, before learning that she is actually a competitive swimmer and after learning that she has no time to relax because her father wants her to work harder to win the gold, Zack teaches Marissa how to relax and act like a normal teenager. Zack later convinces her to go after her dreams but live a normal life, after she tells her dad on the phone that she is quitting swimming. She says that he is a 'really great friend', but they will be just friends only until she wins the gold medal in the Olympics, and then she will be looking for someone (Zack) to celebrate with her.[citation needed]
- Alex Russo (Selena Gomez) - In the On Deck episode "Double Crossed" (part of the "Wizards on Deck With Hannah Montana" special), Zack is seen flirting with Alex. His obsession comes in handy when she needs to hide in his room, to which he responds by looking up to the sky, putting his hands together and saying, "Thank you!" Later on, when he discovered that Alex used him to cover up a prank, he insults her by calling her cunning, sadistic, and cold-hearted, but this was immediately followed by, "Where have you been all my life?" Alex then showed a temporary interest, but then was dragged away by her brother to be punished for the prank.[citation needed]
- Becky (Staci Pratt) - In "Smarticle Particles", Zack pretended to like Becky and goes out with her so she wouldn't beat him up. He later asks Woody to flirt with her and when he catches them in each other's arms after Woody slips, he breaks up with her. He later sees her and becomes attracted to her, but she is already going out with Woody.[citation needed]
- Capri (Brittany Ross) - Zack flirts with her after he sets up a fake beauty pageant to get the attention of a bunch of girls in "Beauty and the Fleeced." She is very stupid. Zack unfairly gives her high scores as a judge in the beauty pageant even though she truly does terribly.[citation needed]
- London Tipton (Brenda Song) - Zack and London work together for a marriage simulation project in "Marriage 101", danced at the 80's dance, and are frequently seen sharing a chair, or working together alone in Zack's cabin. Zack often has his arm around her.[citation needed]
- Maya Bennett (Zoey Deutch) -appears in "My Oh Maya", "Das Boots" and others. Zack flirts with her but Maya ignores his motives. Later, Zack looks in Cody's 6 month plan book and fails to impress due to the plan being designed for Bailey. Cody tells Zack to treat Maya as a friend, therefore Zack becomes Maya's friend. In "Das Boots" when Zack, Woody, London and Maya almost die by running out of oxygen in London's shoe submarine, Zack admits his love for Maya. Maya reciprocates that she feels the same way, but when they get saved by Cody, Maya resents the idea of becoming Zack's girlfriend. In the episode, "Party On!" Zack and Maya shared their first kiss.[11] In the episode, "Love and War", it is shown that the two have become a couple. In Graduation On Deck Zack attempts to break up with Maya because he can't handle a long distance relationship. Maya later breaks up with him because she can't handle one either, despite his attempts to persuade her it can work.[citation needed]
- Aralyn, Adelaide and Tiffany (All unseen) - Ex-girlfriends of Zack's, mentioned in the episode "Snakes on a Boat" when Maya asks him how many girls he's dated before.
[edit] The Suite Life Movie
- Nellie Smith (Katelyn Pacitto) - An evil twin who works for Dr Olsen. She only appears in "The Suite Life Movie". She pretended to fall in love with Zack so she could help Dr Olsen succeed with his plan.
- Max (Alyson Stoner) - One of Zack and Cody's first friends. Her first appearance was in "Hotel Hangout". Max kissed Zack once by accident in "Kisses and Basketball" and went on one date with him but left then went back to being friends[citation needed]
- Tapeworm (Dennis Bendersky) - One of Zack and Cody's first friends. His first appearance was in "Hotel Hangout".[citation needed]
- Bob (Charlie Stewart) - One of Zack and Cody's best friends, who has dyslexia. He appeared in numerous episodes. He runs along with Zack and his schemes, and flirts with girls just like Zack. He starts dating Barbara after she and Cody broke up when Zack and Cody left to go aboard the S.S. Tipton.[citation needed]
- Barbara (Sophie Oda) - Cody's ex-girlfriend. She appeared in numerous episodes, romancing with Cody. She can tend to be competitive. She once kissed Zack, thinking it was Cody, but Cody never knew about it. She started dating Bob as revealed in the Suite Life on Deck episode "Flowers and Chocolate", stating they started dating once Zack and Cody boarded the SS Tipton.[citation needed]
- Maddie Fitzpatrick (Ashley Tisdale) - Zack and Cody's friend, who is a candy counter girl at the Tipton Hotel, and usually at some point is able to help Zack and Cody with their schemes. But Zack has a huge crush on her.[citation needed]
- Woody Fink (Matthew Timmons) - Zack's messy friend and Cody's cabin-mate who appears in numerous episodes of "The Suite Life on Deck".[citation needed]
- Bailey Pickett (Debby Ryan) - Cody's girlfriend, who resides from Kettlecorn, Kansas.[citation needed]
- Marcus Little (Doc Shaw) - Zack's cabin-mate, former singing sensation, previously known as 'Lil' Little', who leaves the ship to star in a Broadway show in New York City.[citation needed]
- Addison (Rachael Kathryn Bell) - The group's eccentric classmate.[citation needed]
- London Tipton (Brenda Song) - One of Zack and Cody's close friends, was their occasional babysitter at The Tipton Hotel and is their classmate on the SS Tipton.[citation needed]
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