Tyler Adams is the tritagonist in Mean Girls 2. He is portrayed by Diego Boneta.
Tyler is the step brother of Mandi Weatherly and the current boyfriend of movie's protagonist, Jo Mitchell. Much like Aaron Samuels from the first movie, Tyler is well known for his good looks and is considered to be one of the hottest guys in North Shore High School.
Early Life[]
Tyler's past was not deeply explored in the movie, aside from the fact that his father married Mandi's mother at some point during his childhood.
High School Relationships[]
- Jo Mitchell is Tyler's girlfriend. The two first met during one of their workshop classes, where they were partnered up to build a birdhouse. Throughout the first part of the movie, they have a rocky relationship, and after Tyler found out that Jo was paid to be Abby's friend, he was extremely disappointed and decided to break up with her. However, after Mandi's devious plan to ruin Jo's life was finally exposed, Tyler realized that he made a mistake and the two rekindle their relationship.
- Mandi Weatherly is Tyler's step sister. Even though they're 'related', Tyler's aware of Mandi's true nature and tries to avoid her as much as possible. Mandi made fun of him on multiple occasions, which caused Tyler's hatred towards her to grow. However, Mandi seems to have genuine brotherly feelings for him and is protective of him, such as not allowing her friend Chastity Meyer to date him as she had multiple boyfriends as it were and would probably get more, and Mandi seems to view Tyler’s dad as her dad as well.
- Abby Hanover is one of Tyler's friends. At first, Abby had a bad feeling about Jo's relationship with Tyler, as she knew that something wasn't right. However, as the story proceeded, the two grew pretty close and remained friends till the very end of the movie.
- Nick “Big Z” Zimmer” was previously best friends with Tyler, both being popular boys on the Soccer team, and being members of the Varsity Jocks. Besides that, Nick was dating Mandi so he was often at their house, giving the pair a chance to hang out as well. However, after Nick planted a camera to record the conversation between Tyler and Jo on their date in the car he lent Tyler (under the orders of Mandi) they fell out and became enemies. After Nick sided with Mandi when Jo started a new clique called the Anti-Plastics against Mandi’s bullying, Tyler still didn’t make up with Nick. However, the last straw was when it was proven Mandi and Nick had framed Jo for stealing money going to a charity, meaning any chance of Tyler renewing his friendship with Nick was gone. Nick and Mandi both got arrested and sentenced to community service, and Mandi’s mother, along with Nick’s parents, donated money to build a new library for the school, which persuaded Principal Ron Duvall to keep them at North Shore High; however, because of their extreme cruelty, for the rest of the school year Nick and Mandi became unpopular and found themselves being bullied by the students whom they’d previously picked on (which possibly included Tyler).