Minutemen is perhaps the highlight of Braun’s children’s TV career because he actually gets to be the cool guy for once (with a cool guy name, Zeke, to prove it). The film is also surprisingly still as good as I remember from watching it everyday before school when I was 10. Zeke is roped into a group of time-traveling vigilantes who save all the dorky kids from bullying by saving them from embarrassing situations. Why don’t the teachers do anything? Because they don’t want to. Aside from the time travel, Minutemen is a bit. Too. Real.

Braun’s short time on the Disney Channel would also allow him to cross paths with Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato, though he departed from the network more unscathed by comparison. His second DCOM, Princess Protection Program, follows budding documentary filmmaker Ed as he attempts to make a movie about the heated race to be crowned homecoming queen. It’s definitely not about a top secret government agency that provides refuge for endangered royalty. Ed’s sole purpose in life is to stick a camera in front of people’s faces at every opportunity, but because he’s played by Nicholas Braun, this is endearing, never annoying.

Ed’s Greg-ish qualities come to the forefront in the very haphazard throwaway storyline that is his unrequited crush on his best friend Carter (played by Selena Gomez). Do Ed and Carter get together in the end? NO. She grabs some random nerd to dance with at homecoming right in front of him! Ed, I’m so sorry sweetie. But at least Braun gets third billing behind Gomez and Lovato—that’s my number one boy. (It’s also at this point where I realize Nicholas Braun does not age. Again, range, he has it.)

Capping off Braun’s deeply eccentric Disney run is 2011’s unfortunate misfire Prom which no one remembers. Prom is the outlier in the fact that it is undoubtedly a bad movie. Prom is the fun setting for that couple you’d like to kiss, finally, or for the school outcast to murder all of her classmates when they dump pig’s blood on her—it should never be the focus of an entire movie. But alas, Disney loves a film with a climax set at a prom, or a homecoming, or at anything where teenagers can dress up and be awkward. (Fun fact: all of Braun’s Disney movies feature a school dance.)

Braun plays Lloyd, who Wikipedia describes as being “invisible” despite the fact that he’s a foot taller than everyone else. Lloyd can’t find a date to prom, so he concocts increasingly elaborate promposals as he racks up rejections from every girl at school. One of them involves leaving a note on a locker, but the girl bursts into tears because the letters are cut out from magazines like a serial killer’s ransom letter. I don’t know why this didn’t work, because some kid has since definitely done the same thing to his girlfriend who is obsessed with Mindhunter.

Prom is an ensemble comedy, so there are other storylines besides his, but they are annoying and, frankly, I don’t care. Like Zack Attack in a vent, Nicholas Braun is the one source of light in the pit of darkness that is Prom. I imagine this is what Greg himself would’ve been like in high school, aimlessly wandering around asking everything that moves if they would like to go to prom with him.

Braun’s star-making turn in Succession may be considered his breakout role, but while films like Sky High and Minutemen lack the prestige of an awards-y HBO drama, his Disney career is much bigger than a footnote. His idiosyncratic characters were the foundation of millions of childhoods, whether those kids were aware of it or not. Nicholas Braun has always displayed the characteristics of an actor who is impossible not to love. Put some respect on his name.

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