Alan

“Your ass stinks!”

- Alan’s catchphrase

“Randy: Are you really that stupid?

Alan: Not as stupid as you, you little penis!”

“Mickey: Stay the fuck out of my freezer, or I'll cut your tiny little balls off!

Alan: They're not tiny. It just looks that way compared to your giant vagina.”

"I'm not going back, Michael! EVER! Everyone's always picking on me! I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.

- Alan in despair after he was assaulted by Mickey and yelled at by Frank

“Alan: [Talking about his pet frogs] They're my friends! They don't care if I was sick once. They like me, anyway.

Michael: Here we go, again. How long are you gonna milk this rheumatic fever bullshit?

Alan: The doctor said they'll always be effects.

Michael: Yeah, you'll always be an asshole.

Alan: At least I have an excuse.”

“Billy: Eat shit and die, Alan!

Alan: Eat shit and live, Bill.”

“I know I’ve made a lot of bad choices, but I really wanna do better. I’m just asking for a chance!”

- Alan

"They're all so mean! Why can't they leave me alone?! WHY, WHY, WHY?! I never did anything to them! Michael, please, Michael, don’t you start picking on me too, please! I’m your brother! I need your help!”

- Alan pleading with his brother about being abused before he got beat up with a mallet by Michael for being misunderstood, almost killing him until Angela prevented him from doing so by grabbing the mallet away from him and skinned him alive, killing him.

Alan Chambers is a misunderstood 14-year-old with learning disabilities and autism. He attended Camp Manabe with his abusive stepbrother who bullied him for being different from him. While Alan bullied some of the weaker kids, he was the constant victim of the older campers and some of the counselors cruel pranks. Angela Baker observed this and was enraged over how these teenagers and adults were treating a young teen with special needs, so she killed those who bullied him. Former Camp Arawak counselor Ronnie and a young woman named Petey would protect Alan and stand up for him.

Background
Alan shows characteristics of someone with learning disabilities, ADHD and autism. At some point in his childhood, Alan contracted rheumatic fever, and while he was cured, his doctor told him there would be lasting affects. All of this explains Alan's awkward social skills, his emotional, childlike behavior and why he was an easy target for bullies. His stepbrother, Michael, accuses Alan of using the rheumatic fever as an excuse for his behavior. Alan and Michael attended Camp Manabe at the same time, and while Alan admires his older stepbrother and looks to him as a role-model and a protector, Michael treats Alan with contempt and uses his brother's admiration to exploit him. Michael not only takes part in tormenting Alan, but inflicts some of the most cruel behavior towards him.

Personality
Alan is a naturally kind and happy-go-lucky kid who means well. He doesn’t always realize how he’s coming across to other people however. He has a difficult time understanding sarcasm and sometimes mistakes taunting from others as friendliness. It seems that his bitterness comes from being neglected by his family. He’s also frustrated and angry by the fact that he knows he’s different and he doesn’t know how to change. Being bullied by some of the counselors, the camp owner and some older campers, including his own step-brother Michael, also causes him to be bitter and to lash out and bully weaker campers. He develops a deep hatred towards all of his enemies. He seems to long for friendship with people however and to have a good relationship with his stepbrother, but Michael hates him and bullies him too. In short, Alan is a neglected special needs person with poor social skills and he has the mind of a child, not a teenager. He has a very kind heart and a love for frogs and is caring for them. Whenever people are nice to Alan, he is always polite back to them and gives them respect. He is also always sweet and gentlemanly to a popular blonde girl named Karen, who he has a crush on. He offers to defend her honor when she tells him about the time when the camp’s assistant cook Mickey disrespected her.

Return to Sleepaway Camp (2008)
He serves as the main protagonist of the film.

Character
Alan is almost the exact opposite of Peter/Angela Baker from the first Sleepaway Camp movie. He is also not only bullied by some of the older campers, but by the camp owner and two of the counselors as well, but while Angela was harassed for being shy and quiet, Alan is bullied mainly because of his unique personality, his weight and his slovenly appearance. He also sometimes picks on the younger, smaller campers out of frustration and bitterness and because it’s clearly a behavior he learned from being a victim to bullying himself. He never hesitates to use the words "Your ass stinks!".

He has a contentious relationship with his stepbrother Michael, who abuses Alan. Alan’s romantic interest is Karen, who despite not having any romantic feelings in return for Alan, is different from the other female campers as she doesn't participate in the teasing and bullying. In fact, Alan and Karen briefly bond over their mutual dislike for Mickey, the immature and cruel assistant cook. Alan has a large group of frogs he likes being with. He treats them like pets. When Alan brings Karen to the place in the woods near the lake where he eats food and watches frogs, they find that several of the frogs have been skinned alive or killed and Michael pridefully boasts that he and his friend were the ones responsible and just did it to emotionally hurt Alan.

Alan was almost killed by his stepbrother, Michael, when the latter suspects him of trying to kill Karen.

Ricky Thomas, Jenny, and Ronnie found him barely alive.

After almost being killed by his stepbrother Michael, Angela skinned Michael alive for all the cruel things he's done to him and his frogs and Ronnie, Ricky and Jenny found Alan barely alive. He learned that Angela was the one who committed all the murders at camp. He wished she had killed all the campers and camp staff that mistreated and tortured him, but was glad she killed some of them, as he hated them. He even learned about his step brother's death. It is unknown whether he and Karen made up after they learned that Angela was behind all the murders.

Behind the Scenes
Director Robert Hiltzik said that the Alan character was based off a compilation of people he experienced.

https://www.autismspeaks.org/

https://www.stopbullying.gov/