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Ranking 10 Disney Channel Couples From Least to Most Likely to Still Be Together
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From Hannah Montana to Austin & Ally, anyone who grew up watching Disney Channel’s original TV shows knows that they are full of iconic love stories. While everyone has a favorite couple from their years spent watching Disney Channel after a long day at school, maturing is realizing that not every Disney Channel couple is made to last.
Back in April, we ranked High School Musical‘s Troy (Zac Efron) and Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens), Camp Rock‘s Mitchie (Demi Lovato) and Shane (Joe Jonas), and other fan-favorite DCOM couples from least to most likely to still be together. Now, we’re heading back to Disney to rank couples from classic Disney Channel shows.
While Disney Channel has endless couples to choose from, we’ve chosen one couple from 10 of Disney’s most romantic shows, based on how we think they’d fare as a couple after their season finale.
Do you agree with our ranking? Comment below with your favorite Disney Channel couple, and let us know why they’re in it for the long run!
10. Raven & Devon from That's So Raven
Status: Canonically Divorced
From high school sweethearts to coparents, Raven (Raven-Symoné) and Devon (Jonathan McDaniel) may be Disney Channel’s longest-running relationship. However, when it comes to who’s most likely to stay together after their original show, it’s confirmed in Raven’s Home that while the That’s So Raven power couple ended up together, they have since gotten divorced. Even so, we maintain that there is a lot to love about the couple, specifically, the way they moved past their differences and stayed friends beyond their (vague) breakup.
9. Justin & Juliet from Wizards of Waverly Place
Status: Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve Been Endgame
It physically pains us to put Justin Russo (David Henrie) and his vampire girlfriend, Juliet van Heusen (Bridgit Mendler), a.k.a. his Shnoogly-Boo-Boo McCuteykins, at the bottom of this list, but when we say we love an age gap romance, this is NOT what we are talking about. While the adorkable Wizards of Waverly Place couple gave us a whirlwind forbidden romance arc in Season 2’s “Wizards vs. Vampires” saga, their relationship ended tragically in Season 3, when Juliet is scratched by a werewolf, causing her to lose her vampiric powers and revert to her human age: 2,193. Despite a brief reunion at the end of the series, we know that Justin and Juliet broke up sometime before the plot of Henrie’s current reboot, Wizards Beyond Waverly Place. As one of Disney Channel’s greatest love stories, Justin and Juliet definitely deserved a more satisfying ending.
8. Cody & Bailey from Suite Life on Deck
Status: Only a Boatmance
Sorry, Suite Life fans, but we just don’t see Cody (Cole Sprouse) and Bailey’s (Debby Ryan) worldly high school romance making it off the S.S. Tipton. Our main reason? At the end of the series, Bailey gets into Yale and Cody doesn’t. While they agree to try long-distance, we fear that Cody’s pent-up academic jealousy would do this couple in, no matter how hard they try. It’s also important to note that many fans believe they end up married. However, Cody and Bailey only appear as an old married couple in London’s imagination during “A London Carol.” It’s nice to know that London ships it, but we’re sorry to say we’re not on board.
7. Riley & Lucas from Girl Meets World
Status: Should Stay in the Past
No one does a meet-cute like Girl Meets World couple Riley (Rowan Blanchard) and Lucas (Peyton Meyer). During the first episode of the Boy Meets World spinoff, Riley both literally and figuratively falls for Lucas when she lands in his lap on her first subway ride. Beyond their adorable meet-cute, this relationship gives us a divisive love triangle (including Sabrina Carpenter‘s Maya), butterfly-inducing will-they-won’t-they moments, and all of the other staples of a classic first love. However, Riley and Lucas share the same fate as Gilmore Girls‘ Rory and Dean (Season 1 Dean, that is) in teaching us that the right person during one phase of your life may not be the right person for the rest of your life. For us, Lucas telling Riley, “No matter whatever happens to me in my whole life, you will always be my first girlfriend,” was the perfect ending to their love story.
5. Lilly & Oliver from Hannah Montana
Status: Time to Move On
When it comes to a main character’s two best friends secretly falling in love, we’ll stand by the fact that iCarly‘s Sam (Jennette McCurdy) and Freddie (Nathan Kress) did it better. Don’t get us wrong, we adore both couples and would love to have a relationship built on shared history and endless banter. However, we’ve been burned once, so if Sam and Freddy can’t make it, it’s safe to say Hannah Montana‘s Lilly (Emily Osment) and Oliver (Mitchel Musso) definitely won’t either.
6. Liv & Holden from Liv and Maddie
Status: The One That Got Away
While their relationship may have been brief, we could never forget what could have been for Liv (Dove Cameron) and Holden (Jordan Fisher). And, if we’re being honest, we’re pretty convinced they would say the same. Similar to the plot of one of our favorite Disney Channel Original Movies, Starstruck, Liv and Maddie featured a relationship ending at the hands of an A-lister lying about having a significant other. While Liv and Holden’s relationship could not stand the pressure of Liv’s stardom, the two commit to staying in touch across state lines, which is a pretty hopeful ending in our book.
4. Austin & Ally from Austin & Ally
Status: Currently in Couples Counseling
In 2016, fans were delighted to find out during the finale of Austin & Ally that the iconic music duo ended the series married with children. However, balancing their individual music careers and their relationship has always been an issue for the young couple, and we’re not too sure we see that difficulty going away. As Ally puts it, “No matter how much we love each other, we always seem to be headed in different directions.” While Austin suggests joining creative forces so they can move in the same direction, we know that nothing in show business lasts forever, and Austin and Ally’s relationship will take work. Here’s to hoping their love is strong enough to last.
3. Lizzie & Gordo from Lizzie McGuire
Status: Right Person, Finally the Right Time
Lizzie McGuire (Hilary Duff) consistently gives us Bridget Jones’s Diary realness, through the lens of animated Lizzie, who spends most of the show trying to place the strange feelings she has for her best friend, David ‘Gordo’ Gordon (Adam Lamberg). This duo’s romance is as close to a slow burn as middle schoolers can get, finally kissing at the end of The Lizzie McGuire Movie. While fans were thrilled to find out where Lizzie and Gordo currently stand, the show’s Disney+ revival never saw the light of day. Either way, we’re convinced that Lizzie and Gordo’s love was strong enough to become endgame a little bit down the road. Maybe the two reunite after college or on another trip to Rome. They’ll share a laugh over an Isabella and Paolo deep cut playing off in the distance and realize that being together is truly what dreams are made of.
2. Candace & Jeremy from Phineas and Ferb
Status: Definitely Endgame
Have you ever had a crush so wildly all-consuming that it seemed impossible that they would like you back? For Candace Flynn (Ashley Tisdale) in Phineas and Ferb, at least, when she isn’t tattling on the shenanigans of her two younger brothers, having a crush on Jeremy Johnson (Mitchel Musso) is a full-time job. But don’t worry because it’s abundantly clear that Jeremy feels the exact same way. Hopefully, in the upcoming revival, the duo will finally get it together and make things official because we see them lasting long beyond the 104 days of summer vacation.
1. Sonny & Chad from Sonny With a Chance
Status: Together Forever
You can’t convince us that Disney Channel’s most perfect enemies-to-lovers romance ended in a breakup, so don’t even try. Sonny Monroe (Demi Lovato) and Chad Dylan Cooper (Sterling Knight) star in rival teen shows filming at the same studio. However, after a long road of romantic tension, Sonny begs Chad for “answers to how it all ends,” asking him “how long it’s going to be before [he asks out] the girl [he’s] destined to be with.” Of course, Sonny is asking about his character on Mackenzie Falls, but everyone (including Chad) knows that the only girl he is destined to be with is standing right in front of him. When he used that moment to ask her out, we were rattled to our core, and we’re clearly not over it because the reverb is still going strong. While we know that Sonny Monroe left So Random! when Lovato left Sonny With a Chance, we’re certain that her romance with Chad Dylan Cooper had only just begun.
