Jade West

Jade West

Jade West (Elizabeth Gillies) is Beck Oliver's ex-girlfriend. Although considered popular, she has a very sarcastic and grouchy personality and preference for gothic merchandise. ^[2] Sometimes she is referred as a gank or a grunch. Jade has a bad relationship with her father, who is very cold to her, as seen in "Wok Star". She explains to Tori that he "hates her guts" because he does not empathize with her and thinks that aspiring to be a performer is "stupid". Sometimes, she serves as the main antagonist of the episode, such as in "Tori Gets Stuck" and "Prom Wrecker", in which she tries to sabotage Tori repeatedly, though the latter was out of hurt for a broken promise rather than spite. Jade was Beck's girlfriend and the two were together for almost 4 years. Despite their opposite personalities, they love each other deeply. Jade's cautious personality makes her very territorial and overprotective of Beck and gets easily jealous when she sees him with other girls. However, she also has a generous side, as in the episode "Jade Dumps Beck", when she decides to get him a dog he wanted, as an apology for breaking up with him. In the episode, "The Worst Couple," Jade and Beck break up because Beck says he does not want to fight any longer. Jade gives Beck an ultimatum at the end of the episode where she walks out of the door and gives him ten seconds to leave with her, otherwise they would be over and she would leave. Beck contemplates leaving, but decides to let her go.
She is intimidating to others, who stay out of her way and try to avoid getting her mad. A running gag in the show is that she often mimics what Tori says with the accent of a Southern belle, to which Tori vehemently insists she doesn't have. Jade and Tori get off to a rocky start, though Tori's consistent kindness to her and Jade's frequent underestimation of Tori's vindictiveness at first later compels Jade to warm up to her, leading to a loose friendship within their group. Jade will sometimes come to Tori for help and Tori is consistently nice to her no matter how snarky Jade is, as demonstrated in "Wok Star" when Tori helps Jade put together her play to impress her cold-hearted father, and in the end, the two are shown hugging, rekindling their on-off friendship or to get even with someone like in "Freak the Freak Out" when Tori totally humiliates the girls who cheated on Jade and Cat at their dad's karaoke bar, Karaoke Dokie. Jade, along with Tori, is frequently annoyed by Sinjin, who has a desperate crush on her to the point that he even broke into her house as seen in the episode "Wi-fi in the Sky". He constanly pines for Jade despite her relationship, although she can't stand him, and constantly threatens him to leave her presence. Jade's friends are not usually bothered by her comments or behavior, as it is her nature. She knows Spanish, along with Tori (She and Tori sing "Forever Baby" in Spanish for Festus in "The Wood").