Tina Cohen-Chang
General Information
Gender:	Female
Age:	16
Hair Color:	Black w/ Spots of Light Brown (Season 3) Black w/ Blue Streaks (Season 2) Black w/ Pink/Blue/Purple Streaks (Season 1)
Eye Color:	Brown
Birthday:	1995
Address:	Lima, Ohio
Occupation(s):	Student New Directions Member
Aliases:	Asian, Tina Cohen-Loser, Cohen-Chang, Asian No.1 (Sue) Blue Eyes (Rachel) Self-Hating Asian (Mike) Girl Chang (Santana) Woman (Artie) Tina Blohen-Wang (Sebastian) The Girlfriend (Mike Chang Sr.) Happy Girl Drunk (Finn) Asian Horror Movie (Roz Washington)
Family & Friends
Family:	Unnamed Parents
Relationships:	Mike Chang (boyfriend; sexual,in love with) Artie Abrams (ex-boyfriend; ended; friends) Kurt Hummel (fake; ended; friends)
Friends:	Mike Chang Artie Abrams Mercedes Jones Kurt Hummel Blaine Anderson Matt Rutherford Rachel Berry Finn Hudson Quinn Fabray Brittany Pierce Santana Lopez Noah Puckerman Rory Flanagan Joe Hart Sugar Motta Sam Evans Lauren Zizes
Enemies:	Vocal Adrenaline Figgins Jacob Ben Israel
Other Information
Interests:	Expressing herself Goth wear Lady Gaga Singing Tap dancing
Clique:	Glee Club, Football Team (One episode), The Brainiacs
Education:	William McKinley High School
Talent:	Singing Acting Tap dancing Piano playing
Strengths:	Drama Singing Tap dancing
Weaknesses:	Shyness Over-emotional while performing Jealousy Rosacea
Awards:	Lima 2010 Sectionals trophy for show choir Lima 2011 Sectionals trophy for show choir Lima 2011 Regionals trophy for show choir
Series Information
First appearance:	Pilot
Portrayer:	Jenna Ushkowitz Lea Michele (Tina's Dream)

Tina Cohen-Chang is a central character on Glee. She is presently a junior at William McKinley High School, where she actively participates in the glee club. She pretended to have a stutter when she was younger to push people away from her due to her extreme shyness. Now, she appears to get along with most of the other members in the Glee Club. In season two, her character seems to become more confident and outgoing.

Tina dated fellow glee club member Artie Abrams, but she starting seeing Mike Chang before breaking up with Artie (whom she later dumped in the lunch line at school), as they fell in love at Asian Camp. The relationship between Tina and Mike has been the longest-lasting relationship of any to appear on the show to date, lasting over an entire season.

Tina is portrayed by Jenna Ushkowitz.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Season One 1.2 Season Two 1.3 Season Three 2 Appearance and Fashion 3 Personality 4 Relationships 4.1 Mike Chang 4.2 Artie Abrams 4.3 Kurt Hummel 5 Songs 5.1 Solos 5.2 Duets 5.3 Solos (In A Group Number) 5.4 Unreleased Songs 5.5 Backup Singing 5.6 Playing a instrument 6 Trivia 7 Pictures 8 Quotations 9 References 10 Comments

BiographyEdit

Tina auditions for Spanish teacher William Schuester's new Glee club with a brash rendition of Katy Perry's I Kissed a Girl. Offstage though, Tina is timid and insecure. Using her stutter as an excuse, Tina withdraws from people, preferring to stay in the background. Tina and teammate Artie Abrams develop a relationship, and, during a date, Tina kisses Artie and tells him how impressed she is with him. Then she reveals a secret: her own disability—her stutter—isn't real. As a child, she faked having a stutter to get out of an oral report in the sixth grade, and then stuck with it when she realized she could use it to keep people at arms' length because she was shy. Tina tells Artie that her positive experiences with Glee have shown her how much she's been missing and she doesn't want to push people away anymore. Tina's dramatic Goth style of dressing gets her in trouble with Principal Figgins when he fears a "Twilight"-inspired vampire takeover at the school. Tina's cleverness wins out when she convinces Figgins that her father is an actual vampire who'll attack Figgins if he doesn't let her dress how she wants.

Season OneEdit

In Pilot, Tina auditions for the Glee Club with the song I Kissed a Girl by Katy Perry, in which she finishes the performance with a thigh slap. She makes it into the club, along with everyone else who auditioned and moves

on to watch Vocal Adrenaline perform a show-stopping rendition of Rehab, which leaves the club speechless. She even stutters by saying: "We're d-d-doomed." After Mr. Schuester attempts to quit Glee, Tina performs along with her fellow glee club members in Don't Stop Believin' which convinces him to stay.

In Showmance, she first appears practicing runs with Mercedes and Artie. She later rehearses Le Freak with the Glee Club and performs Push It in front of the whole school.

In Acafellas, Tina and the girls go in search of Dakota Stanley. She and Rachel tell Mercedes not to pursue a romantic relationship with Kurt because he is gay and Mercedes will very likely be disappointed, but Mercedes rejects their advice. She is seen at the glee club car wash wheeling Artie around.

In the beginning of Preggers, Tina dances to Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) with Kurt and Brittany, but Kurt's dad catches. Kurt attempts to hide his sexuality by saying that Tina is his girlfriend and he told him that he auditioned for the Football Team and now he's already in, he also told his dad that their dresses are actually the costumes for the football team.

Later in the episode, Mr. Schue awards Tina her first solo, Tonight, from West Side Story, because she hasn't had a solo yet. Later in the auditorium, when she performs the song, she is flighty on the last high note and insists that Mr. Schue give Rachel the solo. Mr. Schuester points out that her stutter is getting better from her boosted confidence. In the end, Mr. Schuester sticks with Tina, causing Rachel to leave the club.

In The Rhodes Not Taken, April Rhodes wins the trust of the club, and teaches Tina and Mercedes how to shoplift. Tina worries that Quinn doesn't like them (referring to her sickness), but Puck instead reveals she is pregnant. Tina sings Last Name and Somebody to Love with the club.

In Vitamin D, Mr. Schuester proposes a mash-up competition, pitting the girls against the boys, and promises that the winning group will get to choose the opening number for the upcoming Sectionals competition. It is also shown that Mercedes is giving Tina a manicure and they are both laughing at a joke that Brittany told them. When time comes for the boys to perform their mash-up performance, the girls were all shocked at the amazing performance and will be a tough performance to beat. Terri Schuester gives Tina and the other New Directions girls a pseudoephedrine, enabling them to perform a hyper version of Halo/Walking on Sunshine, like what the boys did. In the end, Mr. Schuester finds out that Terri gave them pills and is furious with both of the teams.

In Throwdown, Tina is chosen by Sue to be part of her "elite" glee club, Sue's Kids, along with the other 'minority' students in Glee: Santana, Artie, Kurt, Mike, Mercedes and Matt. Sue refers to Tina as "Asian," but is somewhat confused with Mike because they're both Asian; however, Sue then calls over "Other Asian," ending any confusion. Sue and Will have a argument and when the whole club heard Sue's insults about them, Tina leaves behind Mercedes. Finally, they all return to be a single group and perform Keep Holding On for Quinn. Tina is also present in the performance Hate on Me in which she gets a very miniscule solo and dances with the glee club members.

In Mash-Up, at the beginning of the episode Tina along with Kurt, Mercedes, and Rachel are afraid to be slushied by Karofsky, but Finn is the one who ends up being slushied. Tina, Mercedes, and Artie wore raincoats to protect them from being slushied. Tina is one of the girls who defended Kurt from Finn along with Mercedes, Rachel, and Artie. She opens the door of the girl's bathroom when Kurt slushied himself. Tina later watches, happily, as Puck sings Sweet Caroline, and is later disappointed when Finn briefly quits the club.

In Wheels, Tina later takes an interest in Artie and his disability, and admits to Artie after rehearsal: "I really admire you, Artie. How did it happen?" Artie then confesses to Tina that he was caught up in a car accident

when he was eight, and that was how he got in a wheelchair; Tina is probably the first person he told. He also adds "But i still have full use of my penis," which causes Tina to blush out of embarrassment and leave. Eventually she goes on a date with him in the hallways of McKinley after the school closes. They have a wheelchair race which Artie wins. She kisses him and reveals that she has been faking her stutter in order to avoid talking to people due to her shyness, starting in the sixth grade. Artie is hurt, as he finds it offensive to fake a disability, and comments that as while Tina can just go back to normal, he can't, and out of rage and shock, he leaves Tina. She later sings in the performance dedicated to Artie, Proud Mary, where she is given a small solo, during the performance, and she smiles at Artie sadly.

In Ballad, the students draw names out of a hat to pick partners for their ballad assignment. Tina is paired with "Other Asian," i.e. Mike Chang. However, instead of singing their ballads, they end up singing Lean On Me with the rest of the club to Finn and Quinn. In this episode, Tina reveals that she has rosacea, which is currently "acting up" in this episode during all the "baby drama," as Tina puts it.

In Hairography, Tina and the rest of the club watch the Jane Addams Academy girls perform. She receives lessons in "hairography" from Brittany, and then performs Hair/Crazy in Love with New Directions, and is partnered up with Mike chang. Finally, she gets her first complete solo when the club performs True Colors, with the rest of the club on back up vocals. This is the second solo Mr. Schuester has given her, but the first with the entire club present.

In Mattress, at the beginning of the episode Kurt is showing the whole club the Thunderclap (McKinley High's yearbook) and telling them that they don't need to be in it due to all previous years' photos being defaced by the whole school, and it will also save the from hours of countless ridicule. Tina along with the rest of the club, (except for Rachel) is scared of the yearbook photo because photos of unpopular kids/groups always end up being defaced. In the end, she poses for the yearbook photos with the glee club, but is defaced by Karofsky. She also helps (along with the whole of the glee club) with the mattress land advert, providing backup vocals and dancing with Brittany, Mike, Artie, Finn and Mercedes.

In Sectionals, Tina and the club discover that that father of Quinn's baby father is really Puck. At Sectionals, she, along with the rest of the club, finds out that the other teams have stolen their set-list. She can be seen in the background crying and Artie comforting her. Along with the rest of New Directions, she creates a new set list and performs You Can't Always Get What You Want (in which she gets a reasonably small solo) and wins the competition. Finally, dedicates to Mr. Schue My Life Would Suck Without You, in which she receives a small solo.

In Hell-O, after winning Sectionals, Tina and the club set their sights on Regionals. When Rachel sings Gives You Hell Tina sings with club contributing background vocals. She later threatens

Rachel alongside Kurt, Artie, and Mercedes for the risk she is taking dating Jesse St. James. Tina later sings in Hello, Goodbye.

In The Power of Madonna, Tina and the other Glee girls discuss their boy problems, and she tells them about her troubles with Artie, in which Artie states he forgives Tina for faking her stutter, but wants her to wear tighter/seductive clothes if she wants him to be her boyfriend, which angers and shocks her. Later in a Glee rehearsal, when Will talks about the Glee Club boys not treating the girls nicely, she looks pointedly at Artie. She and other glee girls perform Express Yourself (where she gets a four line verse to herself), and she attends the rehearsal in which Jesse joins the club. Artie's misogynistic attitude leads her to confront him angrily, but Artie later apologizes and the two mend their relationship- after Artie admits he'd propose to her if he could. Tina then kisses Artie.

In Home, Mercedes, now a member of the Cheerios, begins to starve herself due to pressure from Coach Sylvester to lose weight. Tina and Artie, concerned for Mercedes' health, express their unwanted concerns. In a hungry haze, Mercedes imagines Tina as a cupcake. When kicked out of

the auditorium, Tina and the club practice at April Rhodes' new roller rink. She also watches and harmonizes during Mercedes' performance of Beautiful. Later, Tina and the rest of the club sing backup to April during the song Home.

In Bad Reputation, when Mr. Schuester later interrogates Tina over a "Glist", she insists Puck posted it. She also attempts to gain a bad reputation by singing U Can't Touch This in the library with Kurt, Brittany, and Artie, and she blushes and looks embarrassed when the librarian claims their performance is "cute".

In Laryngitis, Tina is seen through the episode in the background, She also performs background vocals in One.

In Dream On, Bryan Ryan visits the club and tells them that their dreams will never come true, greatly upsetting Tina, who cries because performing is the career she wants to pursue. She later confronts Artie on his dream to dance and attempts to make a dance routine with him. She tries to tap dance with him, and Artie feels more confident, leading him to try and walk using a pair of crutches. However, he stumbles and falls in front of Tina, causing him to shout tearfully "Go away!" Which upsets Tina, but she leaves. The next day she apologizes, and tells him she's been doing research on cure's for broken spines. She says she believes one day their will a cure for his condition, saying "If you can dream it, it's real." She then kisses him again and goes with him to purchase tap shoes. After Artie realizes his dream won't come true for a long time; On Artie's request, Tina dances lead with Mike during Dream a Little Dream of Me. She is also present during the performance "Safety dance", although she does not provide vocals, she does back-up dance. In Theatricality, Principal Figgins orders Tina to lose her goth look or

be suspended, as he believes her style of dress encourages vampires. Tina goes into a slump, not knowing how to dress. She comes into school the next day dressed plainly, which causes concern for Mr. Schuester, and for the rest of ND to stare at her. The glee club then suggest different styles for her to wear, none of which she approves of. She becomes inspired by Lady Gaga and, along with the other Glee girls and Kurt, sings Bad Romance, in which she gets 2 lines to sing by herself. She is wearing Lady Gaga's bubble dress. She is also picked on by two bullies but is defended by Kurt. Despite this, she still gets pushed up against the lockers, and it is heavily implied Karofsky and Azimio beat up her and Kurt. Sick of the Gaga look, Tina pretends to be a vampire and scares Figgins into letting her dress the way she wants. She claims that her father is a vampire, and that Asian vampires are the worst. She is then able to wear the clothes she likes again. She announces this in Glee club, and the whole club cheers for her as she takes a bow. She also confronts Karofsky and Azimio with the rest of the Glee Club when they harass Kurt.

In Funk, Tina then goes into yet another slump when Jesse leaves the club and returns to Vocal Adrenaline but soon gets over it and performs Give Up the Funk to scare her competitors. While performing she pauses and looks at Artie. She says that when Vocal Adrenaline toilet-papered the choir room that "It feels like someone invaded our home."

In Journey, just before Regionals, the club learns that Sue will be a judge and is planning on destroying them, causing Tina to cry. She tells the club that before joining, she had two Facebook friends—just her parents—and expresses her belief that being a part of the glee club made her special. She sings the medley of Faithfully, Any Way You Want It/Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' and Don't Stop Believin' with the rest of the club and is confident of their upcoming success. Tina accompanies Quinn to the hospital and waits for her to give birth before returning to Regionals and discovering that they have lost. On returning to school, Tina and the New Directions tearfully sing to To Sir, With Love to Mr Schue (In which she harmonizes with Artie), fearing that because they didn't place at Regionals the club will be disbanded. She also confesses that before glee club "I had a stutter". Artie stares at Tina as he admits that before glee club he never kissed a girl before. However, Sue allows the club an extra year and Tina happily listens as Mr. Schue, overjoyed, sings Over The Rainbow to them. She is holding hands with Artie during this performance.

Season TwoEdit

At the beginning of Audition, Jacob Ben Israel aggressively questions the Glee Club members about their summer activities. He asks Tina and Mike, "What can you say about the rumors that you two are dating?" and Tina replies, "Because we're both Asian? That's racist!" The camera catches them holding hands as they walk away, passing by Artie who is looking on in dismay. Artie wants to impress Tina by joining the football team, and goes to Finn for help. He tells Finn that Tina and Mike fell in love over the summer at Asian Camp, where they taught Asian kids about the arts. In a flashback, Tina sings Getting To Know You from The King and I while Mike dances, and they spontaneously begin kissing in the middle of the song. In another flashback scene, Tina breaks up with Artie, explaining that she was tired of his lack of attention as well as repeatedly watching the film Coming Home when they did spend time together. (In contrast, Tina and Mike share a mutual interest in Mike's abs.) Later, Tina and Mike discover through their connections in the Asian community that Rachel sent Sunshine to a crack house, and they alert Will. Disappointed, Will says that Rachel is better than such tactics, but Tina says, "No, she's an ambitious little freak who'll do anything to hold onto her power". At the end of the episode while Rachel sings What I Did For Love, Artie sadly watches Tina and Mike dance in the classroom happily. She also performs backup vocals in Empire State of Mind.

In Britney/Brittany, when Mr. Schuester tells the Glee Club that he wants them to do a song from Christopher Cross for an assembly, Tina says quietly to Mike, "Never heard of him, don't wanna hear about him," and Kurt instead proposes singing a Britney Spears song, which Tina looks excited about.

At Mr. Schuester's suggestion, Emma's new boyfriend Carl, a dentist, visits the Glee Club to talk about oral hygiene. Carl gives each of them a chewable capsule which will turn any plaque on their teeth blue. Tina and Mike have no blue on their teeth and proceed to kiss in celebration. Tina later appears in Artie's nitrous-oxide-induced Britney Spears hallucination, in which Artie sees Tina, Brittany, and Britney Spears talking about ranch dressing on pizza. Then Britney chastises Tina for breaking up with Artie, and Tina says, "I know, Britney. Artie, I'm sorry." Artie replies, "And I'm stronger", then gives Spears a high five. Tina is left looking sad. At the end of Artie's performance of Stronger, Tina is seen looking angry on a bleacher behind a sign reading "Loser". During Rachel's performance of The Only Exception, Tina and Mike sit together with Mike's arm around Tina, while Artie watches them sadly. Tina also provides backup vocals (and raunchy dance moves) in New Directions' (and Mr.Schue's) performance of Toxic. She is not seen to be partnered with anyone.

In Grilled Cheesus, when Tina and the rest of the Glee members find out about Burt's heart attack, Tina gives Kurt a hug. Mercedes tells Mr. Schue that she wants to sing a spiritual song (I Look To You) to express to Kurt what she wants to say to him, with Tina and Quinn for back-up. When Kurt tells Mercedes that she did a great job, he admits to not believing in God. Tina says, "Wait, what?", which suggests that Tina believes in God. At the hospital, Tina is one of the people praying for Burt.

After Sue intervenes to stop the club from singing religious songs during school, Tina says to Mr. Schue, "Last week we were too sexy, this week we're too religious? We can't win!" At the end of the episode, Tina sings the first and final solo parts in One of Us, standing next to Mike.

In Duets, when Mr. Schuester tells the Glee Club that Puck is in juvenile hall, Tina says, "It really was just a matter of time." Later, Tina and Mike have a loud argument in the library about the duets competition and their relationship. Mike doesn't want to sing in a duet and would prefer to dance only. Tina has been to dim sum too many times with Mike and his mom, and wants to go to BreadstiX, where she can get a salad without chicken feet in it. Mike tells Tina that they should go to Asian Couples Therapy to deal with their frequent arguing, and Tina asks rhetorically, "Why does the couples therapy have to be Asian?" Because Mike is reluctant to sing, Tina approaches Artie to be her duet partner, but he is already paired with Brittany, which Tina looks unsettled about. Tina and Mike remain duet partners, and though Mike is scared to sing in front of the group for the first time, Tina reassures him, and they perform Sing!. When it is time to vote for the best duet, Mike votes for himself and Tina by writing "Tina" inside a heart. Unfortunately, Tina and Mike do not win the competition.

In The Rocky Horror Glee Show, Mr. Schuester impulsively decides to have the Glee Club perform The Rocky Horror Show for the school musical in order to impress Ms. Pillsbury. When Mike says he wants to be Frank-N-Furter, Tina asks him if he is serious and he tells her that he is confident with his singing voice thanks to their duet, which makes Tina smile and hold his hand proudly. Tina and Brittany play Columbia. Tina and Mike dance together with the other couples during Carl's audition song, Whatever Happened to Saturday Night?. During the performance, Carl puts Mike's arm around Tina as he sings, "Your arm around your girl, you'll like to sing along!" In Sweet Transvestite, Tina plays one of the party-goers, wearing a tuxedo with a blue wig, a blue hat, and a blue vest. At the end of the episode, they all sing Time Warp. Tina and Brittany split Columbia's part, each having solo lines and a brief tap dance sequence.

In Never Been Kissed, Tina and Kurt are walking down the hall (talking about sweater trends) together when Karofsky shoves Kurt into the lockers, and Tina asks him if he is okay. When Mike and Tina are in the hallways alone, Mike tells Tina that one way to "cool off" while making out is by picturing Shannon Beiste. When Tina gets turned on during their subsequent makeout session (during which she refers to Mike as her "Situ-Asian"), she imagines Beiste and says Beiste's name out loud. Mike is startled, and Tina runs out of the room. When Will tells the glee club that Coach Beiste quit after hearing about their cool-off technique and that they should be ashamed, Finn clarifies that it was only the boys (and as Mike points out, Tina) who did it. Tina is present during the "glee girls meeting" and performs Start Me Up/Livin' On a Prayer with the girls for the mash-up competition.

In The Substitute, Will gets sick during school and hallucinates the entire Glee club, including Tina, as small children. Before glee club starts, the students plan to play pranks on the substitute teacher; Tina, Artie and Mercedes decide to all swap their names. However their substitute, Holly Holliday, wins most of them over with her performance of Forget You, in which Tina is partnered up with Sam, who she playfully pushes away. She also provides backup vocals. When Will returns to his job after recovering from his illness (as well as being fired, then re-hired, by Sue), Tina tells him, "Don't get us wrong Mr. Schue, we always want you as our teacher. She was just kind of a nice break." Tina performs back up vocals in Singing In The Rain/Umbrella.

In Furt, Rachel gathers the Glee girls with boyfriends on the football team (Tina, Quinn, and Brittany) to propose that they tell their boyfriends to defend Kurt from Karofsky's bullying. Tina asks Brittany if she and Artie are officially dating, and Brittany coolly replies, "Deal with it." Later in Glee the guys are recounting their fight with Karofsky in the locker room, and Tina explains to Mr. Schuester that all the guys present, except Finn, helped take on Karofsky. Tina, paired with Mike and performs in Marry You at Burt and Carole's wedding. During this performance, she gets a small dance and vocal duet with Mike. She even gets a line to sing by herself. At the reception, Tina and Mike sit together while Mr. Schue performs Sway, and she performs with the rest of New Directions in Just the Way You Are. When Kurt informs the club that he is transferring to Dalton Academy, they are shocked and upset; Tina tells him he can't leave, but Kurt has made up his mind.

In Special Education, Mr. Schuester tells the Glee Club that they are going to feature Mike and Brittany's dancing at Sectionals in order to stand out from their competition, and then announces that Rachel and Finn will not be singing

the leads. This information makes Tina smile. Finn tries to object, reasoning that "you don't take the star quarterback out before the big game," but Tina replies, "Easy to say when you're the star quarterback." While the group discusses their low expectations for Sectionals, Tina says that that they shouldn't clap if the Warblers win, because it would only be because Kurt left McKinley and joined the Warblers. Later, Tina warns Artie about her suspicions that Mike and Brittany are cheating on them with each other. She is suspicious because Mike is wearing the same Lip Smackers Brittany does. Out of insecurity that Mike prefers cheerleaders to goths, she dresses as a (gothic) cheerleader to try and impress him. Artie however taunts her dress sense, saying she looks like a "cheerleader zombie corpse," and ignores her advice.

At Sectionals, tensions are high among the Glee Club members; Tina tells Mike that he is a jerk and joins Rachel and Artie in threatening to not perform. After Mr. Schuester steps in, they all go onstage to perform their songs, and it is revealed that Mike and Brittany were not having an affair. The club ties for first place with the Warblers, and when Mr. Schuester offers Rachel a celebratory solo in Glee, she defers to Tina and Mercedes, whom she calls "unsung heroes." Together, Tina and Mercedes sing Dog Days Are Over.

In A Very Glee Christmas, the Glee Club tries to get into the Chr

istmas spirit, though Mercedes says that everyone still says that they are losers. (In a flashback, Mercedes, Tina, and Mike get hit with neon green slushies.) After Brittany tells Artie that she still believes in Santa Claus, Artie, Santana, Brittany, Quinn, Sam, Mike, Tina and Mercedes all go visit the Santa at the mall. When it is Tina's turn to sit on Santa's lap, she asks, "When does Asian Santa arrive?" Later in Glee, Tina tells Mr. Schue that someone took everything that the Glee Club was going to give to the homeless, not knowing that Sue had secretly taken all of the presents back and ransacked the club's Christmas decorations. To make up for the loss, the club decides that the boys will sell their watches, and the girls will cut their hair for money. Tina unhappily says that she will look like Jackie Chan once she cuts her hair, and criticizes Quinn for complaining, as according to Tina she can "pull off that look". When the Glee Club comes back from singing Welcome Christmas to the teachers, Tina becomes emotional at the sight of Artie standing up with the aid of a ReWalk. In The Sue Sylvester Shuffle, when Artie enters the choir room after a heavy slushying by the football jocks, Tina is shocked and exclaims, "Oh my God, Artie!" When the football team don't have enough players, Rachel then tells Coach Beiste and Mr. Schuester that

the Glee girls want to join the football team. Tina tells Mr. Schuester that they convinced their parents to sign permission slips allowing them to play. The girls' plan is that they will lie down on every play in order to avoid being hurt; unfortunately, this allows the other team to score easily. During a huddle, Tina says that she is tired of lying down on the ground and wants to play. On the very next play, she picks up a fumbled ball and heads down the field with it, but is tackled hard by an opposing player and appears to have been knocked unconscious. Mike and the others hover over her, concerned. Mike is the most concerned and fusses over her immensely asking "Is she breathing?" She slowly wakes up and asks if they won, and Mike smiles with relief and helps her up. Tina performs in the halftime show with New Directions and the football team, singing Thriller/Heads Will Roll.

In Silly Love Songs, Finn sets up a kissing booth to help raise money for the Glee club. Santana mocks Finn about it, but the others push back against her habit of insulting people; Tina says, "Last week, you said Mr. Schue belonged in a twelve step program". When Mr. Schuester assigns the club to sing love songs, Artie and Mike decide to sing P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) to Brittany and Tina. Tina sings My Funny Valentine to Mike, but is overwhelmed by her love for him and cries through the entire song, eventually collapsing on the floor in tears as Mike runs to her side and the rest of the club watches awkwardly. At the end of the episode, Tina, Mike, Mercedes and Rachel sit together at Breadstix, watching Kurt and the Warblers sing Silly Love Songs.

In Comeback, Sam sings Baby to Quinn in Glee Club, and Tina comments, "This is actually a really good song." The boys are mostly skeptical, but after seeing the girls' reactions, Mike, Artie and Puck want to join Sam's Justin Bieber cover band. Mike explains that all of their relationships are in a lull after Valentine's Day; in a flashback, Tina is more interested in playing "Angry Birds" than in kissing Mike or admiring his abs. Shortly after in Glee club, Tina asks Finn why he's dressed like Justin Bieber. Like Finn, Tina also ends up imitating the fashions of her fellow glee club members; she, Quinn, and Santana dress in plaid skirts and carousel horse sweaters after Brittany popularizes Rachel's style. However, Tina and the others point out that Rachel's reindeer sweater is definitely not in fashion, and they are very disappointed in Rachel when she tries to take credit for the trend. Tina and Brittany sing and dance backup for Lauren's first solo, I Know What Boys Like. At the end of the song, Lauren gives Brittany and Tina choreographed shoves to the floor, but they are both quickly on their feet to be the first to congratulate Lauren on her performance.

In Blame It on the Alcohol, Tina's goth-gear is back, as she no longer follows the "librarian chic" trend. Tina and the Glee members all attend Rachel's party, but they find it boring until Puck convinces Rachel that the party needs more alcohol. During the party, Finn identifies Tina as "The Happy Girl Drunk", along with Mercedes Jones. At school on Monday, everyone is still suffering from lingering hangovers; Tina leaves her locker open because closing it will "sound like a gunshot", and pleads with Santana, Mike, and Mercedes to talk about anything else but barf. Later they perform Blame It (On The Alcohol) and Tina is shown dancing with Puck. Tina performs in TiK ToK, the Glee Club's number for the school's alcohol awareness assembly.

In Sexy, Brittany thinks she's pregnant and reveals this to Santana, asking that it be kept secret (especially from Artie), but Santana immediately turns around and tells Tina, who tells Puck, who tells Lauren, who tells Artie. During Holly Holliday's performance of Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah), Tina joins in the dancing with the rest of New Directions.

In Original Song, Rachel proposes that the club write original songs for Regionals, so Tina and Santana write a song called Trouty Mouth, about Sam's mouth. Tina plays the piano while Santana sings the song, but Sam is offended by the song and Mr. Schuester feels it isn't epic enough. Mr. Schuester is also skeptical about Puck's song, Big Ass Heart, and Mercedes' song, Hell To The No (for which Tina and the other girls sing backup vocals). He prompts them to write about times when they felt hurt—specifically, times Sue had hurt them. Mercedes tells him that Sue literally throws sticks at her, Santana tells him that Sue filled Santana's and Brittany's lockers with dirt, and Tina says that Sue called the Ohio Secretary of State saying that she was Tina and that she wanted to change her name to "Tina Cohen-Loser". These events become the inspiration for the song Loser Like Me. Meanwhile, Rachel writes Get It Right, inspired by a discussion with Quinn. At Regionals, Tina and Brittany sing backup for Get It Right, and Tina and the rest of New Directions perform Loser Like Me. New Directions wins, and Tina and Brittany are prominently shown celebrating. Tina is part of the unanimous vote for Rachel for Regionals MVP.

In A Night of Neglect, Mr. Schuester tells the Glee Club that they need $5,000 to pay for their trip to Nationals, and will raise the money by selling saltwater taffy.

(He throws a piece to Mike, who hands it to Tina.) The students complain that the Glee club is unpopular and will never be able to sell that much candy. Mike gets sick of the Glee Club's whining, and he says that he, Tina, Artie and Brittany are on The Brainiacs (the Academic Decathlon team), and they are even more ignored than Glee. The Brainiacs need $250 to go to their finals in Detroit, so Mr. Schuester decides they will sell more taffy to cover the Brainiacs' costs as well. However, Holly Holliday tells Mr. Schuester that a benefit concert would be a better way to raise money, and Mr. Schuester agrees, specifically saying that the Glee Club must do songs by neglected artists.

Tina says that she wants to do Lykke Li. She sings I Follow Rivers, but is booed out by The Heckling Club and Sandy Ryerson, who are part of Sue's plan to take down the Glee Club. In the green room, Tina says it is the worst she's ever felt in her life, and Holly later says Tina spent a whole hour crying. However, Mercedes' performance of Ain't No Way causes Sandy to have a change of heart, and he funds the Brainiacs' trip to Detroit. The Brainiacs go to the Academic Decathlon finals, and it is implied that they win.

In Born This Way, during glee club practice, Santana says that she's sure that Tina has been trying to get her eyes de-slanted, and Tina replies, "That's extraordinarily racist. Sorry Santana, I'm a beautiful person, I'm in love with myself and I would never change a thing." However Mike calls her out, asking her if that's why she's wearing blue contacts, and mutters under his breath, "self-hating Asian." She protests that there aren't many Asian sex symbols and she's only trying to be in fashion. After Rachel shows the Glee Club photos of what she'll look like with Quinn's nose, Tina tells Rachel that they all think her nose job is a terrible idea. Rachel says that Tina is a hypocrite, and Tina admits that she doesn't like the shape and the color of her eyes sometimes, but Rachel's self-hatred has made Tina see the light.

Her new goal is to "be the change you want to see in the world" – if she doesn't see many Asian sex symbols, she'll have to become one. Mike then says "I love you so much right now" and they passionately make out. Later at the mall, Tina dances along with Mike, the rest of New Directions, and dozens of mall-goers as they all try to convince Rachel to not get a nose job with a flash mob performance of Barbra Streisand. The week's Glee assignment is about self-acceptance, and for their final performance, they all wear white shirts saying something about themselves they're uncomfortable with. Tina's shirt says "Brown Eyes". Tina, has a solo in Born This Way.

In Rumours, Tina and Mercedes are Brittany's first guests on her new internet talk show Fondue For Two, where she introduces them as "the school's biggest gossips". Tina asks Brittany, "Shouldn't it be 'Fondue for Three'"? Brittany begins the show with a rumor about the janitor drinking vodka from a teapot. Tina adds that the janitor is a "hot mess" and then changes the subject, saying, "the rumor about Asian men: not true." Tina and Mercedes are both shocked when Brittany says that she can confirm a rumor that Santana "plays for the other team," evidently thinking that Brittany has just outed Santana as a lesbian. However, they are distracted by the arrival of Lord Tubbington, and then react with disgust when Brittany allows him to eat directly from the fondue pot. Later, Tina is at The Lima Bean with several other Glee Club members discussing the rumors about Sam. Tina wonders about his background and speculates that Sam could very well be a serial killer given what they know of him, though Quinn insists he is not having any secret affairs. At the end of the episode she sings background vocals in Don't Stop.

In Prom Queen, Tina tries on prom dresses with Santana, Brittany, and Lauren, and they get Kurt to come with them. Tina explains that getting a thumbs up from Kurt is like getting a thumbs up from Joan and Melissa Rivers. In home economics Tina and Brittany sit together and make cupcakes. Brittany doesn't want to crack her egg because she doesn't understand the difference between an egg with a baby chicken in it and an egg with an egg in it. Frustrated, Tina says that there is no difference, confusing Brittany even more. Artie goes into the classroom and sings Isn't She Lovely to Brittany to ask forgiveness for what he did in Rumours. Tina and the rest of the students are surprised and charmed by the performance, but Brittany declines Artie's invitation to go to the prom. On prom night, Mike escorts Tina to the prom and they dance together throughout, though during Friday Tina has to pull Mike away from an overenthusiastic Brittany. Tina and Mike are shown kissing passionately while slow-dancing along with other couples to Rachel's performance of Jar of Hearts. Later at prom, Tina sings I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You with Brittany and Blaine. Tina whispers to Mike that she feels bad for Kurt when he gets elected prom queen. During Dancing Queen, Rachel and Tina start to dance and Tina invites Mike to dance. Tina and Mike have their prom picture taken, and they are shown enjoying themselves with the rest of New Directions as the song ends and balloons drop onto the crowd.

In Funeral, during Jean's funeral, the glee club perform Pure Imagination. Tina begins the song with the spoken words from the film: "Hold your breath. Make a wish. Count to three." Tina also has a solo in the song, along with Finn, Kurt, and Artie.

In New York, the whole club has lunch in Times Square and discusses their plans for New York City. Tina says that she wants to go to Central Park and get her frolic on, but Finn reminds them that they still have to write two songs for Nationals. At the hotel, Mr. Schuester likewise tells them they need to stay in the room and write. Tina asks Mr. Schuester if he'll help them write the songs, but he makes excuses and leaves. Not long after, the whole club watches Brittany and Artie's performance of My Cup in confusion and disbelief. Tina asks Brittany if they are singing about a cup, and when Brittany says yes, an exasperated Quinn says they need to find inspiration outside of their hotel room. They go out into the city, and Tina is shown pushing Artie in his wheelchair as New Directions runs around singing I Love New York/New York, New York. Afterward in the girls' bedroom, Tina joins in a pillow fight with the other girls (and Kurt) while Rachel tries to write a song. At Nationals, Finn and Rachel sing a duet (Pretending), then New Directions performs Light Up the World, in which Tina has a brief duet with Artie. After the song, the whole crowd cheers for them and Tina hugs Mike and Brittany. But to everyone's disappointment, the club doesn't place in the top ten, and consequently does not move on in the competition. Back in Lima, Brittany is philosophical about the club's loss and explains to Santana that she loves everyone in the club like family; for example, she knows that she'll be a bridesmaid at Mike and Tina's wedding, and will be anxiously waiting to see if their babies will also be Asian. At the final Glee Club meeting of the year, Tina cheers and applauds with the rest of New Directions when Mr. Schue shows off their tiny 12th-place trophy from Nationals.

Season ThreeEdit

In The Purple Piano Project, Tina is no longer goth. In Jacob's interview, Tina explains that she and Artie are juniors. She also says Mike is a senior. When Tina starts to sing a song while playing the piano, Sue rips out the piano strings. Later, Tina performed with New Directions in We Got the Beat and at the end of the song a food fight occurs. In the end, Tina and the others receive Blaine Anderson's arrival at the club and everyone sings You Can't Stop the Beat, where Tina gets a solo.

In I Am Unicorn, Tina encourages Artie to be a co-director of the play and he accepts.

In Asian F, we see that Tina has joined the Booty Camp. Principal Figgins says that Tina is a bad influence. At the same time we remember that she, disguised as a vampire, forced him to make her pass sport. During Mercedes's solo, Tina sings in the background with Brittany. Tina then asks Mike if he is ready to audition for the role of Riff. Mike says he will not make the audition, even though Tina has been helping with his voice. At that time, Mike says he got an A-, which Tina calls an "Asian F". Tina encourages Mike to tell his father that his real dream is dancing and not to lie anymore, but Mike reminds her that she pretended to stutter in Season 1. Mike leaves and Tina stares at her boyfriend, with a sad expression. Tina dances with Brittany, during Run the World (Girls). While Mike is practicing his dancing, he imagi

nes that Tina is with him. She tells him she loves him because of who he is, and tells him to follow his dreams, they share a hug. After Mercedes gets angry with Mr. Schuester, she resigns from the Glee Club, and imagines that she's singing It's All Over in which Tina is present however she does not get any lines. In the tie-breaker between Mercedes and Rachel, Tina and New Directions are present. Finally, when it is revealed that Mike has won the role of Riff, Tina happily hugs her boyfriend. At the same time, she sings along with New Directions and Will, during Fix You.

In Pot O' Gold, she is shown crying because Mercedes left the glee club. She said she's sad because Mercedes is one of the original members of New Direction and she feels naked without her, so Santana tells her to suck it up. She also blamed Artie for not giving the role of Maria to Mercedes. Later in episode, she, Artie, and Kurt are visiting Mercedes while The Troubletones practicing. Tina also sings Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) with Blaine and New Directions. In the end of the episode, Tina watch the audition of Rory Flanagan to be part of New Directions.

In The First Time, Tina reveals that she lost her virginity to Mike over the summer and tells Rachel it was one of the best things that has happened to her. She also plays Consuela in the school production of West Side Story.

In Mash Off, when Will Schuester and Shelby Corcoran call both groups to inform you that should compete with each other, while sing You and I/You and I. Finn had agreed to play dodgeball against The Troubletones, in which all members of New Directions compete and sing Hit Me With Your Best Shot/One Way or Another

. New Directions presents a mash-up of I Can't Go For That/You Make My Dreams, in which Tina gets a solo sings a duet with Rory. During the speech of candidates for class president, you can see that Tina is with Mike. When The Troubletones finish their presentation, all are surprised when Santana slaps Finn.

In I Kissed A Girl, when Santana gets mocked by a guy in the hallway, Tina, along with Rachel, Mercedes, Quinn, Brittany, and Sugar all come and defended Santana. Later they started to sing I Kissed A Girl and dancing from hallway to choir room, in which she partnered with Quinn. Later in episode, she asked Quinn if she's alright.

In Hold on to Sixteen, Tina and the remaining members of New Directions disscussed which band members they should recruit to fill the 12 members requirement. Sam came back to McKinley and rejoins glee club, where Tina and the others happily greet him back, and the club then sing along with Sam in Red Solo Cup. Later, she encouraged Mike to send application to dance school. Mike reveals that he planned to study pre-med and become a doctor to please his dad. Tina didn't agree and told Mike to follow his dream and don't be a coward. Then, she came to Mr. Chang's office and gives him a bootleg of McKinley's performance of West Side Story. She told him that Mike is doing something he hates just to please his dad. She also said she wanted to be a performer, because that's what she was born to do, same as Mike. Mr. Chang rejects the bootleg,

but before leaving the office, Tina asked Mr. Chang to honor his son's gift. Before sectionals, Tina and the others prepared at the choir room. Mike's angry because Tina talked to his father, making things worse. Then they performed ABC, which Tina leads. Mike's dad walks in to watch the performance. After the performance, he talked to Mike and Tina, and said he's proud of him and now will support him to follow his path. After Mike said that he missed the deadline, Tina said she had already sent applications to a dancing school for Mike, just in case. At the announcement of the winner, she is standing front and held Artie's shoulder. At the end, the glee club performs We Are Young. She along with the rest of the club greeted Mercedes, Santana, Brittany, and Sugar back in ND.

In Extraordinary Merry Christmas, Tina is present at the glee rehearsal, where she reminds her fellow club members of the less-than-ideal Christmas the year prior. She attempts to say that this year's Christmas will be better, but is interrupted by Mr. Schuester as he announces that the glee club has been selected to star in the Christmas special for the local television station. She later stars in the Christmas special, acting as one of the three star dancers in Christmas Wrapping, alongside Brittany and Santana. Following the Christmas special, Tina and the other glee club members join Sue, Sam, and Quinn at the homeless shelter, where they join in Do They Know It's Christmas? (Feed The World)

In Yes/No Tina is seen with several others pressuring Mercedes to tell them what has happened over her summer break. They then

proceed to perform Summer Nights. She is later seen in the choir room when Will announces he is planning on proposing to Emma. She is next seen with Santana, Mercedes, and Rachel with their idea for how Will should propose to Emma. They then sing The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face. After which Mercedes runs out. Tina, Santana and Rachel follow Mercedes to the bathroom where she is crying and ask her why she is. Tina is last seen with New Directions during We Found Love.

In Michael Tina is seen during Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' as back up vocal and back up dancer. She is next seen dancing during Bad. She is last seen with the rest of New Directions questioning if there is a some sort of Show Choir Council they can complain to due to the Warblers stealing their idea. She is not seen in Black or White for some unknown reason.

In The Spanish Teacher, Tina is absent because of some bird flu (as stated by Sebastian).

In Heart, Tina and Mike perform a duet of L-O-V-E. When Rachel and Finn announce their engagement, Rachel expresses her sadness that she wouldn't

see Quinn or Kurt as bridesmaids. Tina interjects that she'd be happy to be a bridesmaid for her. She says she may not be ready to get married, but she does know what love is, as she looks to Mike and takes his hand.

In On My Way when Mr. Shue had to tell everyone what they want, Tina said she would like to sing a solo. Then she sang at the Regionals with New Directions, backing up. Before the wedding Finn and Rachel, when he entered Mercedes told him to go because he can't see the bride before the wedding, Finn said that he saw her, and Tina said it was bad luck. Her absence, possibly from the ending of Michael to The Spanish Teacher was explained in the Lima Bean when Sebastian confronted Rachel and Kurt. It seems she had a bird flu.

In Big Brother, Tina cries when Quinn discusses her accident, and Quinn said that she doesn't need to cry. Later, she sits between Mike's leg when

the seniors discuss ideas for Senior Skip Day. Tina is the only junior present. Later, she is happy when Cooper Anderson will teach the glee club about acting, and she sings the last refrain of Hungry Like The Wolf/Rio with the other member of the glee club. She later attends Cooper's "Master Class" on acting, and is seen to take several notes. Tina is used as the dead body for the groups NCIS scene, and joins the seniors during Senior Skip Day at Six Flags.

In Saturday Night Glee-ver, Tina asks who won the John Travolta white suit replica, and then she performs Stayin' Alive and Night Fever with the rest of the club.

In Dance With Somebody, Tina is seen consistently with Mike. She is upset when Mr. Schue tells the group that they are leaving each other. She gives much applause to Brittany and Santana's rendition of I Wanna Dance With Somebody.

In

Choke, Tina is seen in the hallway with the girls (excluding Rachael and Quinn) She laughs when Santana makes a comment about Beiste looking like she's been beaten up based on her black eye, she is present when Roz tells them off because domestic violence isn't a laughing matter. She acts the role of Christine in Kurt's performance of The Music of the Night which he is considering for his NYADA audition. Sue and Roz tell the girls about how serious and how abuse is such a threat, they assign the girls a number to perform about women who have become weak due to being in a relationship where they feel trapped. Tina performs solo lines in Cell Block Tango, with the girls but their performance makes Beiste uncomfortable, giving her no oth

er choice to leave, they are also told how they misinterpreted their assignment in which Sue and Roz are disappointed. Tina seems hurt when Beiste confesses to being beaten by Cooter. The girls perform Shake It Out in honor of Beiste, because they owe her a song, which leaves Beiste in tears.

In Prom-asaurus she is there when Brittany announces the theme. She later walks in to prom with Mike, excited. Tina performs backup to Santana for Love You Like a Love Song with Brittany. She is seen enjoying the guys performance of What Makes You Beautiful. She pours some punch into a cup and Sue accuses her of spiking her annual prom punch but she re-assures her, she was just getting a drink because she was dehydrated from all the crying, but Sue doesn't listen. As she dances with Mike, she starts crying saying she doesn't want the year to end. She and Mike kiss, and take a picture together to remember the year.

Appearance and FashionEdit

She has long black hair with purple, blue, or shocking pink streaks, and brown eyes (except for the episode where she had blue contacts). Her style is a mixture of punk, emo, goth and lolita styles. She prefers colors such as black, blue, gray, and occasionally red, lurid yellow or purple. She is frequently clothed in chains, skulls, locks, cameos, studs, and other things with gothic nature. In Theatricality, Principal Figgins bans her from wearing goth clothing, as a result of his fear of vampires. However, she gets back at him by convincing him that her father is a vampire and will hurt him if the principal bans her fashion anymore. She occasionally wears hats and she sometimes uses vibrant eyeshadow such as a lime green or a orange.

Whilst through the first two seasons, her style is generally considered "Emo" or "Goth", her styles alter slightly throughout the seasons;

In season 1, her style is considered "Punk Rocker". This would be better described as a rebellious and dark twist on tom-boy style. It mainly consists of studs, arm warmers, black, fish nets, beanies, converse, spiked shoes, rips/tears and more vibrant/neon colors in her hair (Like neon pink, red and purple). It is a quite aggressive form of goth, sometimes compared to a emo-"skater chick" look. Tina has also been shown in one episode sporting an altered silver cross on her necklace.

In season 2 however, her style dramatically changes as Tina goes from casual-emo to a more feminine "Victorian goth" style. This is a lot more elegant and "lady like" look, although it is still genuinely considered part of goth fashion. This style usually involves veils, fish-nets, dresses, frills black, and more discreet colors in her hair (namely dark blue). It is not similar to real Victorian fashion, only slightly more bohemian and dark. It is also a little more modern. There are two episodes in Season 2 where the above does not apply. In Comeback, Tina briefly takes a break from her typical outfits, and replaces them with "librarian chic" clothes, to follow Brittany's trend. This short style Tina used is basically a more tight and seductive version of Rachel's clothes. In the next episode, her goth-wear is reinstated without a mention of what happened to the trend she was following.

In Blame It on the Alcohol, Tina wore shorts and sleeveless tops during the song TiK ToK and in the song Blame It (On the Alcohol) were all members are wearing leather and it is her usual style but she wore shorts and sleeveless which is not her usual clothing.

In Season 3, Tina appears to have abandoned the goth look in favor of retro '60s fashion, wearing bright colors and polka dots. She has also used many surprisingly optimistic accessories (e.g. ties and jumpers). She appears to have replaced her hair-highlights with curls.

PersonalityEdit

Tina is very much the awkward outsider. Shy, soft spoken, and meek, Tina has spent most of her life doing her best to stay under the radar of everyone else around her, whether it be social or academic. Her fears of being noticed were so great that when she was still in elementary school, she devised a fake stutter to aid her in getting out of doing an oral presentation. Seeing how effective the stutter was on that specific occasion, Tina began to use it in order to protect herself from having to interact with anyone who she didn't feel comfortable with. As a result Tina's only friend for a long time was Artie, who felt they shared a connection through their mutual disabilities. The only time that Tina seems to allow herself to come out of her shell is when she sings. When on stage, she is bold, brash and without fear, even going so far as to sing I Kissed a Girl in a surprisingly

aggressive manner at Glee auditions. Upon joining Glee, Tina has slowly started to relax her defenses, to the point where she has formed other friendships with Kurt, Mercedes, Brittany and a few other members of the Glee Club. She has even 'lost' her stutter, which was her greatest social defense. Her brief romantic relationship with Artie was the final step in over-coming her anxiety, as she admitted to him for the first time that her stutter was fake. Unfortunately, this admission resulted in an abrupt end to the relationship, which could have possible sent her back into her shell. According to Tina's Facebook profile, she enjoys listening to emo-core and speed metal music, cutting the hair off her dolls, and spending time with her speech therapist, by the name of Judy (due to the fact she admitted to Artie her stutter is a lie, this could very well be a lie as well).

In Season 2, Tina has become much more bold and open about her feelings. However, she is not without her personal insecurities, as seen when she suspects Mike of cheating on her with Brittany during Special Education. Tina feels that she is not good enough to be with Mike, a popular football player, which causes her to go so far as to dress like a cheerleader for him. Tina has always been open about being Asian and is proud of it but on many occasions she has also shown annoyance at being stereotyped as one. Her insecurities have gotten the best of her on several other occasions as well, most notably during her performance of My Funny Valentine for Mike and her performance of I Follow Rivers when she was heckled by the audience.

RelationshipsEdit

Mike ChangEdit

Main article: Tina-Mike Relationship

In season 2, Tina started becoming attracted to Mike during the summer at Asian Camp, where both of them were counselors teaching tech-savvy Asian kids about the arts. Tina found herself attracted to Mike, due in large part to his amazingly cut abs, which he revealed during a song and dance number. It resulted in them making out in front of their own students. When they returned to school, blogger Jacob Ben Israel attempted to confirm their relationship, but they called him racist for implying that they were only dating because they were both Asian. However, as they walked away, they clasped hands, unaware that they were still being filmed, and thus confirming the relationship. In the end of the episode (Audition) they are seen dancing together in the music room.

In Duets Mike doesn't want to sing in a duet but prefer to dance because he is really not confident with his voice. When it's time to show their duet song Tina comforts Mike because he is still scared to sing. In their duet song they sang Sing!, the result was successful and they hugged after the song. In Never Been Kissed, they are making out in the empty classroom Tina is imagining Coach Beiste and saying the name out loud, Mike is a little bit confused and Tina ran quickly ran out of the empty classroom, implying that Tina may be bisexual. In Furt they attended the wedding of Carole Hudson and Burt Hummel. They also had a short duet in the group number Marry You. In The Sue Sylvester Shuffle, Tina joined the Football Team with Mike, because the other players left. When they began to play, Tina picks up the ball and ran for the goal but is hardly tackled leaving her unconscious, Mike was so worried for Tina but after a few seconds, Tina woke up and Mike was very happy. In Silly Love Songs, Artie sings P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) while Mike is dancing to it, they dedicate it to Brittany and Tina. After the song Tina sang My Funny Valentine to Mike to show him how much she loved him. In Blame It on the Alcohol, Tina and Mike both attended Rachel's party. In A Night of Neglect, they are both in the The Brainiacs. When Tina performs I Follow Rivers but is booed out by the The Heckling Club, Mike comforts her when she is crying because of the result of her performance. In Born This Way, Mike calls Tina a "self-hating Asian" because she's wearing blue contacts but in the end of the episode it is shown that they're kissing and Mr. Schue stops them. In Prom Queen, Mike escorted Tina to the dance and they are both caught again kissing in the song Jar of Hearts. In The First Time, she reveals that she lost her virginity to Mike over the past summer.

Tina and Mike are known as "Chang Squared" or "Team Asian", Tike or McTina Cohen-Chang Chang.

Artie Abrams Edit

Main article: Tina-Artie Relationship

Tina and Artie were friends long before joining Glee. Upon seeing the notice board, it was Tina who helped Artie sign up, due to his being unable to reach the sign-up sheet in his wheelchair. After joining, Artie and Tina began to show a mutual attraction to one another, with Tina having immense respect for Artie being handicapped and yet not letting it stop him from living his life. Artie meanwhile feels a kinship with Tina, because of her stutter. When the Glee is forced by Mr. Schuester to use wheelchairs, Tina's respect grows and at last the two go on a date, which culminates with a kiss. After the kiss, Tina admits that her stutter is fake, which disappointed and angers Artie, who breaks off the relationship. Afterwards, it appears the two of them have remained friends, as there has been no obvious ill-will between the pair. Later, Artie becomes a bit sexist and doesn't treat her well, which leads to her "going over the edge", but the two make up and kiss for a second time.

In Season 2, it's revealed that Tina broke up with Artie over the summer, during which time she started dating Mike Chang. She says that he was a bad boyfriend who only wanted to watch Coming Home whenever they hung out. She also stated that he didn't call her for several weeks, to which Artie weakly defends was because there was a Halo marathon. Hating the fact he lost Tina, Artie has sworn to find a way to win her back, however Artie has moved on, started dating Brittany, but later they broke up.

This pairing is often referred to as "Tartie" or "Artina".

Kurt HummelEdit

Tina pretended to be Kurt's girlfriend in Preggers to hide Kurt's homosexuality from his father. Though it was not an actual relationship, the two appear to be friends. Kurt also stands up for Tina in Theatricality. In Never Been Kissed, they walk through the hallway while they talk about sweater trends.

SongsEdit

SolosEdit

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Season Two:

Season Three:

DuetsEdit

Season Two:

Season Three :

L-O-V-E (Mike) (Heart)

Flashdance... What A Feeling (Rachel) (Props)

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Solos (In A Group Number)Edit

Season 1
Song	Episode	Solos with
Push It	Showmance	Rachel, Artie, Finn & Mercedes
Proud Mary	Wheels	Mercedes & Artie
My Life Would Suck Without You	Sectionals	Rachel & Finn
Express Yourself	The Power of Madonna	Rachel, Quinn, Mercedes & Santana
Bad Romance	Theatricality	Kurt, Quinn, Santana & Mercedes
To Sir, With Love	Journey	Rachel, Mercedes, Kurt, Finn, Artie & Santana
Season 2
Song	Episode	Solos with
Toxic	Britney/Brittany	Brittany, Rachel, Will, Santana & Quinn
One of Us	Grilled Cheesus	Finn, Rachel, Kurt, Quinn & Mercedes
The Time Warp	The Rocky Horror Glee Show	Kurt, Quinn, Finn, Santana, Artie & Brittany
Start Me Up / Living on a Prayer	Never Been Kissed	Rachel, Mercedes & Santana
Marry You	Furt	Finn, Rachel, Sam, Quinn, Artie, Brittany & Mike
The Most Wonderful Day of the Year	A Very Glee Christmas	Artie, Sam, Quinn & Brittany
We Need a Little Christmas		Mercedes & Kurt
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen		Mercedes, Quinn, Santana & Rachel
Deck the Rooftop		Mercedes, Santana, Finn, Artie & Rachel
Born This Way	Born This Way	Kurt & Mercedes
Pure Imagination	Funeral	Kurt, Finn & Artie
Light Up the World	New York	Santana, Artie, Brittany, Rachel & Finn
Season 3
Song	Episode	Solos with
You Can't Stop the Beat	The Purple Piano Project	Rachel, Finn, Kurt, Artie & Mercedes
America	The First Time	Santana, Puck, Rory & Mike
I Can't Go For That/You Make My Dreams	Mash Off	Finn, Quinn & Rory
ABC	Hold on to Sixteen	Kurt, Mike & Quinn
Do They Know It's Christmas? (Feed The World)	Extraordinary Merry Christmas (Episode)	Finn, Mercedes, Rachel, Kurt, Blaine, Artie, Brittany, Puck & Santana
Summer Nights	Yes/No	Sam, Mercedes, Rory, Sugar, Puck, Kurt, Finn & Santana
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face		Rachel, Mercedes & Santana
Cell Block Tango	Choke	Mercedes, Brittany, Sugar & Santana
Shake It Out		Santana & Mercedes
Edge of Glory	Nationals	Santana, Mercedes & Quinn

Unreleased SongsEdit

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Season Two:

Backup SingingEdit

Season 1
Song	Episode	Sung by	Backup with
Take a Bow	Showmance	Rachel	Mercedes
Hate On Me	Throwdown	Mercedes	Santana, Mike, Kurt, Artie, & Matt
Season 2
Song	Episode	Sung by	Backup with
I Look to You	Grilled Cheesus	Mercedes	Quinn
I Know What Boys Like	Comeback	Lauren	Brittany
Get It Right	Original Song	Rachel
I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You	Prom Queen	Blaine Anderson
Season 3
Song	Episode	Sung by	Backup with
Spotlight	Asian F	Mercedes	Brittany
Red Solo Cup	Hold On To Sixteen	Sam and Finn	Quinn
Man In The Mirror		Finn, Artie, Blaine, Puck, Sam and Mike
Not the Boy Next Door	Choke	Kurt	Brittany & Mercedes
Love You Like a Love Song	Prom-asaurus	Santana	Brittany
It's All Coming Back To Me Now	Nationals	Rachel	Quinn, Sugar, Mike, Blaine & Rory

Playing a instrumentEdit

Song	Episode	Sung by	Playing
Trouty Mouth	Original Song	Santana	The piano
Chopsticks	The Purple Piano Project	None

TriviaEdit

• Tina often sings or dances in the background with Brittany. Examples include Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) with Kurt; I Know What Boys Like with Lauren; Get It Right with Rachel; I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You with Blaine; Spotlight with Mercedes.
• Is a very shy type of person in Season One, but in Season Two she becomes bolder and more open with her feelings and emotions.
• She likes listening to emo-core and speed metal music and she also likes to cut the hair of her dolls.^[1]
• In Pilot, she wrote Artie's name on the sign up sheet, but instead of "Artie" she wrote "Arty"; this could simply be a misspelling on Tina's part.
• Her best friends are Mike Chang, Mercedes Jones and Kurt Hummel
• Faked a stutter (revealed and stopped in Wheels).
• Reveals that she faked a stutter for 3 years as she didn't want to give a book report in sixth grade (Wheels).
• She auditioned for Glee Club with I Kissed a Girl by Katy Perry.
• Tina has rosacea, as stated in Ballad.
• During numbers, her dance partner is usually Mike.
• Is a "happy drunk" (shown in Blame It on the Alcohol).
• Knows how to play piano as shown in Original Song.
• Occasionally wears eye contacts as stated in Born This Way.
• Tina's "Born This Way" T-shirt says "Brown Eyes", because she wears contact lenses.
• In "Fondue for Two", Brittany's talk show in Rumours, she makes a comment that suggests she's had sex with Mike or had at least seen him naked. Along with Mercedes she is one of the first guests shown on the show.
• She got her first onscreen slushy facial in A Very Glee Christmas.
• Takes Home Economic class with Mercedes, Brittany and Kurt.
• Before she joined Glee Club, she had two Facebook friends - her parents.
• She had never heard of Michael Bolton or Christopher Cross.
• Has only had one solo that she wasn't scripted to ruin.
• Is the only girl to be in a relationship that has lasted an entire season.
• Likes to play Angry Birds.
• She has one older sister, as stated in Glee: The Beginning.
• Her speech therapist is called Judy, as stated on E4.com
• It is implied she is Christian.
• Is one of Amber Riley's favorite voices on the show.^[2]
• Tina is the only female member of New Directions to never leave the club.
• Tina has always had a solo when New Directions performs a song by Lady Gaga, along with Mercedes and Kurt.
• She scared Figgins into excusing her in P.E. all year.
• Cries a lot.
• Lost her virginity to Mike over the summer between her Sophomore-Junior year. (The First Time) but is hinted by Tina that Mike is well-endowed in Rumours. Is possible she has seen him naked before rumours.
• She has always had part in a song from each sectionals episode.
• She is able to do "Ribbon Twirling" as seen in Christmas Wrapping.
• If Shelby had let Quinn into The Troubletones, Tina would have been the only girl in the Glee Club during Hold On To Sixteen.
• Of the main cast in Season One, she and Kurt are the last one's to be featured in a released song. Which was in the episode Wheels.
• Did not appear in the episode The Spanish Teacher because she had the asian bird flu (On My Way).
• All three episodes, in which she had a released solo, were written by Ian Brennan.
• Is the only member of Glee Club to have her solos been re-sung by other members of the glee club in different contexts and arrangements. This has happened twice.The first was Tonight sung originally sung in Preggers as a solo in glee club, then sung by Rachel and Blaine in First Time for their performance in West Side Story. The second was I Kissed A Girl sung originally in Pilot as her audition song for New Directions and then sung by Santana and Rachel and the other New Direction Girls in I Kissed a Girl, when they were standing up for Santana.
• She only wished to have a Standing ovation, and she got it in the 20th episode of Season 3, Props.
• She (Tina's Character) technically didn't have a solo in Season 3, and the only one who doesn't have a solo for this season AMONG the central characters, because Because You Loved Me doesn't count. She portrayed as Rachel PLUS it was all just a dream, meaning no one in the members of the glee club has shown her perform, because the performance was a hallucination.

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QuotationsEdit

Main article: Tina's Quotations

ReferencesEdit

1. ↑ Official Character Bio
2. ↑ 'Glee' Amber Riley, Jenna Ushkowitz interview: 'Adele should be a guest star'

Main Characters

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