Clyde McBride is one of the main characters from the Nickelodeon animated series The Loud House. He is a nerdy, intelligent 11-year-old (later 12 years old from the fifth season onward) African-American boy who is the adopted only child of same-gender couple Howard and Harold McBride. Clyde is Lincoln Loud's best friend and shares a lot of the same interests as him, such as comic books, video games, and science fiction movies. Together, he and Lincoln often refer to themselves collectively as 