BioEdit

Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Chang, who is currently known as Kevin, was a former teacher, student and security guard at Greendale Community College. He has a twin sister he claims to have eaten in utero and a brother known only as Rabbi Chang. It's revealed he learned Spanish from Sesame Street which he used to fake his way to a career as a Spanish teacher at Greendale. He was once married to Latina lady named Alessandra but they divorced when she learned he had an affair with Shirley Bennett. Chang lived briefly with Jeff Winger, then secretly in the vents of the school with Annie's Boobs, and also in a storage closet next to Hot & Brown. Chang's hobbies include paintball, playing keytar, and riding his scooter; he used to swim regularly at the local YMCA. He currently claims to have amnesia and wants to be called "Kevin". Chang is portrayed by actor Ken Jeong.

PersonalityEdit

He is a very unbalanced man whose growing mania becomes worse over the course of his time at the school. Often delusional, he once gave himself the nickname "El Tigre Chino" (Spanish for "The Chinese Tiger") claiming that his "knowledge will bite your face off."

Character historyEdit

Season OneEdit

“	So I did what any man would do. I faked my way into a job teaching Spanish at a community college using phrases from Sesame Street.	”
–Ben Chang, "English as a Second Language"

Ben Chang taught at Greendale for six years and was a very passionate Spanish teacher. He was an outgoing teacher who often got into the faces of his students. Chang was not well-liked by other Greendale faculty, most notably Dr. Ian Duncan; it was said that other Greendale faculty had been trying to get him fired for years but were unable to find anyone to replace him. He was not viewed favorably by his students either, as he chose to torment them as he taught them, going so far as faking his own death and returning after his students were given news of his death. Chang claims that he can never die but it is difficult to tell if he is delusional enough to believe this or merely trying to intimidate his students. Chang was finally fired after it was discovered that he didn't have a teaching degree. Dean Pelton then said to him that it is not racist to ask if an Asian man has qualifications to teach Spanish. Chang is particularly disturbing towards Annie, who he always gets uncomfortably close to and at one stage kisses her on the forehead (against her will). Significant episodes:

"Spanish 101": Chang is first introduced in this episode. "Advanced Criminal Law": Chang discovers a crib sheet Britta made for an exam and later sits on a tribunal along with Ian Duncan and Dean Pelton to determine her academic fate. "The Science of Illusion": Jeff takes Chang out in order to get his mind off his seperation from his wife and also in hopes he will ease up on the course workload he had been heaping onto the class. "Basic Genealogy": Chang's brother Rabbi Chang visits him on Grendlae's "Family Day" event. "Modern Warfare': Chang is brought into the campus Painabll assasination game as a ringer by Dean Pelton to prevent the students from winning the prize. "English as a Second Language": Chang fradulent credentails as a Spanish teacher are exposed and he is fired from his position "Pascal's Triangle Revisited": Chang gets into a fight with Ian Duncan at the end of the year Tranny Dance.

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Season TwoEdit

“	Consider yourself Chang-ed!	”
–Ben Chang, "Anthropology 101"

After being fired, Chang chose to enroll at Greendale to obtain a degree in music theory, so he could pursue a career with his keytar. He has tried on numerous occasions to get into Jeff's study group but with little success. Despite this, he still hangs out with members of the group and attends anthropology class with them. On Halloween, Chang ended up having sex with Shirley, and though it briefly seemed she might be pregnant with his child, it turned out to be her husband Andre's. (No one remembers Halloween other than Abed, who recalls Britta and Jeff having secret sex.) Chang also lived with Jeff for a short stint after his wife kicked him out due to him having sex with Shirley. Chang relentlessly tried to become a study group member all through the second year. Significant episodes:

"Anthropology 101": Chang joins the same Anthropology class as the study group in the hopes of joining them. "Accounting for Lawyers": Chang participates in the Pop-and-Lock-toberfest competition in order to join the study group. "The Psychology of Letting Go": Ian Duncan uses the restraining order he has on Chang to his advantage. "Epidemiology": With a horde of infected students bearing down on them in the library restroom, Chang and Shirley share a moment and have sex before being infected themselves. The incident is erased form everyones memories due to government agents. "Asian Population Studies": Chang learns that he and Shirley hooked up on Halloween and might be the father of her child. "Early 21st Century Romanticism": A homeless Chang tries to trick his way into roof over his head by scheming his way into Jeff's apartment. "Custody Law and Eastern European Diplomacy": Chang tries to prove to Shirley he can be a respionsible parent with disasterous results. "Paradigms of Human Memory": Chang goes into the air vents in the study room and discovers Annie's Boobs secret cache of stuudy group related items. "Applied Anthropology and Culinary Arts": Chang helps Shirley through the delvery of her baby and learns he is not the father adter it's born. He has the child named after him by Shirley for his assistance. "A Fistful of Paintballs": Chang tries to survive the latest paintball assasination game by making and then breaking various alliances with various campus cliques.

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Season ThreeEdit

After being kicked out by his wife, he resorted to living in the school's air vents, where monkey gas slowly poisoned his mind. He got a job as a security under officer but annoyed students with his weird behavior. In return for his "services," Dean Pelton gave him the closet in the cafeteria as a place to live. Chang burnt it down by accident while trying to "solve a mystery"("Competitive Ecology"). Pelton didn't want anyone to find out he allowed Chang to live in the cafeteria wall as it was a health code violation; he allowed Chang to stay as a security guard, resulting in the official security officer quitting and Chang being promoted. Chang briefly had a scuffle with Britta; thanks to a friend of hers being imprisoned in Syria, she was becoming needlessly defiant once again. After taking Britta down, his brother got him a job as a security guard at a Bar Mitzvah, where he recruited a group of young boys to be his personal bodyguards by promising them college credit. He also spotted a DJ who closely resembled Dean Pelton at the party.

After the death of Star-Burns, he created a contract which would allow him to enforce very strict rules and use weaponry on the campus, but Dean Pelton refused to sign it. With Star-Burns' memorial turning into a trashing of the school led by the "Greendale Seven", Pelton quickly signed Chang's contract, and Chang brought out the heavy artillery with his child soldiers equipped with pepper spray and all. Pelton did not respond well to Chang's insanity and tried to blame the fight on him- something he had thought up together with the "Seven"- but Chang retaliated by tranquillizing Pelton and replacing him with the look-alike DJ. Proceeding to involve the Imposter-Dean in his plans, Chang had the "Greendale Seven" expelled and made a psychiatrist convince them that Greendale was a mental asylum and that all their adventures had taken place in their minds.

The "Seven" only believed it for a few seconds before catching on to the lie. Abed had already deduced that the Dean was an imposter, which the fake psychiatrist, Dr Heidi, confirmed.

Season FourEdit

Chang is claiming to have Changnesia and wants to be called "Kevin", possibly as a reference to the Restaurant brought up in S3 E16 "Senor Kevin's". Chang is brought into Greendale by the faculty board and while Dean insists that Chang is faking Changnesia, the board will get the money either way. Dean believes that he's not faking Changnesia when Chang turns himself in after all he has done to the school, because "the real Chang would never have remorse for what he's done." Dean now believes him and is introduced to the study group, which causes them all to scream. In "Advanced Filmaking Documentary", Greendale tries to recieve a grant for $40,000 to further understand Changnesia. All the study group tries to help except Jeff who is also doubting Changnesia. Throughout the episode, it seems that Chang would slip up but covers himself up well enough for everyone to believe it. It is also revealed that the name Kevin comes from a dog at the trout industry after, Chang worked there for two months, unpaid. Despite Jeff's attempts to get Chang to confess that he's faking Changnesia, he is unsuccesful and Greendale does get the grant. Chang now seems like a hero to Greendale, and Jeff seems like Chang, but later Chang and Jeff make friends and Jeff believes that he is Kevin. In the ending tag, it is revealed that Chang is faking Changnesia and he is working for an unknown source and is "awaiting further instructions", no one at Greendale is aware of this. In Heroic Origins after Abed realizes that it was because of Chang that the Study group all went to Greendale and tells him he as always been apart of the Group and hints that he knows that "Kevin" was faking "Changnesia". He then calls Dean Spreck, and tells him that he is out of the plan to destroy Greendale and then goes back to join the Study Group for Frozen Yogurt.

Class historyEdit

Semester	Course	Instructor	Classmates
Spring 2010	Critical Media Literacy and Politics of Gender	unknown	none, enrolled in order to compete in paintball game
Fall 2010	Anthropology 101	June Bauer; Ian Duncan	Abed, Annie, Britta, Jeff, Pierce, Shirley, Star-Burns, Troy
Spring 2011	Anthropology 102	Ian Duncan	Abed, Annie, Britta, Fat Neil, Jeff, Pierce, Rich, Shirley, Star-Burns, Troy, Vicky
	Introduction to Italian Wines	unknown	Jeff, Pierce, Wu Mei (not actually enrolled)

TriviaEdit

• Ben loves Latin culture and salsa - dancing and the dip, especially Colombian timba and spicy mango, respectively.("[[1]]")
• Ben uses his last name in place of regular words as a running gag; for example, "change the subject" becomes "Chang the subject."
• Ben is afraid of hamsters as revealed in Epidemiology and In The Science of Illusion it's revealed he also has a trembling fear of frogs.
• As revealed in Modern Warfare, Ben plays paintball three times a week and owns his own equipment, consisting of a full automatic with a tiger camo print and two golden pistols.
• Ben is of Chinese heritage.

In season one “Investigative Journalism” it is shown that Ben is born in 1969 but in season three “First Chang Dynasty it is said that he is 25 years of age. This, of course, is obviously false, as that would mean he was 16 or 17 years old when he began teaching at Greendale.

Characters e
The study group	Jeff Winger • Pierce Hawthorne • Abed Nadir • Britta Perry • Troy Barnes • Shirley Bennett • Annie Edison
Pairings	Jeff and Britta • Troy and Abed • Jeff and Annie Troy and Britta • Annie and Abed • Troy and Annie • Britta and Annie • Jeff and Shirley • Shirley and Pierce Pierce and Annie • Jeff and Pierce
Relatives	William Winger • Willy Jr. • Pierce's mom • Cornelius Hawthorne • Gilbert Lawson • Amber • Gubi Nadir • Abra • Nana Barnes • Andre Bennett • Shirley's children • Rabbi Chang • Alessandra Chang • Marcus
Greendale Students	Alex "Star-Burns" Osbourne • Vaughn Miller • Fat Neil • Buddy Austin • Vicki Cooper • Quendra • Magnitude • Leonard Rodriguez • Garrett Lambert • Todd Jacobson • Paradox • Doreen • Sabrina • The High Schoolers (Mark • Kelly • Scott) • Eric Wisniewski • Rich Stephenson • Pavel Iwaszkiewicz • Mike Chilada • Joey • Annie Kim • Subway • Wu Mei • Harry Jefferson • Page • Lukka • The Greendale Gooffaws (Derek • Linda • Mark • Buzz) • Meghan • The Germans (Juergen • Reinhold • Karl • Lukas) • Gary • Stoner friend • MC Dan Harmon • Angela • The Hipsters • Archie DeCoste • Campus cliques
Greendale Faculty	Dean Craig Pelton • Vice Dean Robert Laybourne • Dr. Ian Duncan • Cory Radison • Dr. Patrick Isakson • Professor June Bauer • Professor Whitman • Professor Michelle Slater • Professor Sean Garrity • Admiral Lee Slaughter • Dr. Escodera • Professor Marian Holly • Madame LeClair • Professor Sheffield • Professor Cligoris • Coach Bogner • Professor Marshall Kane • Professor Noel Cornwallis • Coach Jason Chapman
Greendale Staff	Ben Chang • Greendale Human Being • Lunch Lady • Nurse Jackie • Nicole • Mariah • Gail • Rachel • Custodial Staff (Jerry • Crazy Schmidt • Joshua) • Campus Security (Sgt. Nunez • Troy and Abed look-a-likes) • The Changlourious Basterds (Joshua) • Board of Governors (Carl Bladt • Richie Countee • Chuck Saccardo)
City College	Dean Stephen Spreck • Jeremy Simmons • Robati Eneki • Billy • The Black Rider • City College Storm Troopers
Miscellaneous	Officer Cackowski • Agent Robin Vohlers • Blade • Alan Connor • Ted • Mark •Toby the pizza guy • Faux-by • Dr. Heidi • Vinnie • Lt. Colonel Norbert Archwood • Toby Weeks • Lauren • Chantelle Cahill • Ken Kedan • Jesus • Rick • Balloon guide • Mountain man • Brian • Señor Kevin's manager • Mysti • The An-Her-Chists
Metafictional characters	Kickpuncher • Inspector Spacetime (The Inspector • Constable Reggie • Minerva • Blorgons • Thoraxsis) • Hilda • Hawkthorne NPCs • Urbana Champaign • George Takei • Luis Guzman • LeVar Burton • Sophie B. Hawkins
Animals and Pets	Annie's Boobs • Britta's cats • Billy • Fievel • Turtle • Frog • Dean Pelton's kittens
Imagined and Invented	Tiny Man • "Pierce Hawthorne" • Christmas Toys (Britta Bot • Ballerannie • Jeff-in-the-box • Baby Doll Shirley • Teddy Pierce • Troy Soldier • Christmas Wizard) • Evil Study Group (Evil Abed • Evil Jeff • Evil Annie • Evil Troy • Evil Shirley • Evil Britta • Evil Pierce ) • Greendale Babies (Baby Abed • Baby Annie • Baby Troy • Baby Shirley • Baby Britta • Baby Jeff • Baby Pierce) • Boob-A-Tron • Pillow Man •

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    In the episode "English As a Second Language" Ben Chang says he was 32 years old bagging groceries when he decided to become a Spanish teacher... 2013-03-04T21:04:39Z

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