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"Grunkle" Stan Pines

"Grunkle" Stan Pines

"Sounds like something a responsible parent wouldn't want you doing... Good thing I'm an uncle!"

Voiced By: Alex Hirsch, Stuart Allan/Declan J. Krogman (young)

"When life gives you lemons, you call them 'yellow oranges' and sell them for double the price."

Stan Pines, also known as Great-Uncle Stan and Grunkle Stan, is Mabel and Dipper's humorous, sly, money-loving great-uncle. He runs the Mystery Shack, a tourist trap full of questionable oddities. He represents the fish-shaped symbol on the Zodiac.

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• Abusive Dad: About the worst thing you can say is that he occasionally overworks and frequently mocks Dipper (partly because he feels the need to toughen him up and make him capable of fighting his own battles, but mostly because child labor has low overhead). But he still shows them a lot of affection, even if he is cheap. However, come "A Tale of Two Stans", and in hindsight there's something deeply unsettling about Stanley basing his treatment of Dipper off how his father treated him (most likely down to him misinterpreting Filbrick's abuse as simply trying to toughen him up).
• Adults Are Useless: Subverted. When he's first introduced he's set up as your classic useless comedic cartoon adult who seems practically blind to all the Weirdness going on in Gravity Falls. Later on, he would prove himself a lot more shrewd that you'd expect when dealing with Gideon, and even assist the kids on a few adventures like in "Boys Crazy" or "A Land before Swine"(where he ends up kicking major ass). In season 2, it's all revealed to be an act he put up to discourage the kids from investigating the supernatural for their own safety, in part because of what happened to his brother. Turns out he knew all along, has his own share of dangerous secrets, and is generally more of a complex multidimensional character than you'd ever have expected from him.
• Affectionate Nickname: Inverted. His brother, Ford, is the only person who primarily calls Stan by his full name, Stanley. But, considering the fact that Stan went by a fake name for thirty years, Ford referring to him by his real name actually emphasizes their closeness.
• Agent Scully: He adamantly doesn't believe that there is anything weird going on in Gravity Falls, telling Dipper that it's all drummed up by guys like him to sell merchandise to gullible tourists. Despite this he is willing to accept the existence of living dinosaurs, with the caveat of insisting that they "don't count" as supernatural because they're just big lizards. However, this is just a ruse to hide his knowledge of the journals and all of the oddities related to it. As of the start of season 2, he's dropped the ruse and admitted to the twins that he knows about the supernatural things going on. But he still hasn't told them about his secret room or his ultimate plans, although in "Not What He Seems", the twins discover the room on their own and Stan begins to confide in them.
• All Jews Are Cheapskates: Deconstructed and partially justified. When first introduced, Stan appears to be a greedy miser who uses his own family to make an extra buck. By the time the Author is introduced, we learn that he's so preoccupied with money because he was homeless for much of his life and had to turn to crime to survive, and now that he owns the Mystery Shack, he has to pay the mortgage on it to have a chance of seeing his brother again. Notably, we don't get any hints that he's Jewish until "A Tale of Two Stans", when a mezuzah is seen on his childhood home. Contrast his actions in the finale with the archetypal Greedy Jew, Shylock, who cares more for money than his own daughter. Stan responds to Bill's offer of money and power with a Megaton Punch, proving he puts his family first.
• All of the Other Reindeer: Was a victim of bullying in his youth, which, along with his father's mistreatment, contributed to the insecurities he carries to this day.
• Always Save The Boy: Has a history of going great lengths to assure that he and his brother stay together, or get reunited, at great personal costs but also at the expense of everything else, including what said brother himself might want. Stan even spent 30 long years working to repair a portal that could destroy the universe. Unlike most examples, this winds up having serious repercussions as the portal's reactivation ends up creating a dangerous rift in spacetime that gets his whole family targeted by Bill and is ultimately used to unleash Weirdmageddon. Ironically, said brother is very much a The Needs of the Many person and as such, absolutely furious at Stan for reactivating the portal. It's later revealed that Stanford also finds this trait of Stan's unbearably smothering. In the finale he stops thinking like this as when Ford is prepared to let Bill know how to break the barrier around Gravity Falls just for a chance to save Dipper and Mabel, Stan convinces him to try another way.
• Ambiguously Evil: It does not help that one of the cryptograms in the show's opening reads "STAN IS NOT WHAT HE SEEMS." It only gets even more ambiguous in "Gideon Rises", where his underground lab, equipped with a large portal generator, is finally shown. "Scary-oke" implies he's using it to search for something, and feels confident that he won't "get caught", implying questionable safety/legality at best (which is standard for Stan) or outright villainy at worst. "Society of the Blind Eye" leans towards the former in a Well-Intentioned Extremist kind of way, as both a symbol substitution cipher in the Journals and McGucket's video logs reveal the Author of the Journals believed that the portal could benefit all of mankind, while Stan acknowledges that the risks of activating the portal mean little to him in light of the possible rewards for doing so—specifically, seeing his brother again. Exaggerated in (the admittedly non-canon) "Little Gift Shop of Horrors" — he apparently drugs a customer and put him on display in the shack because he didn't buy anything.
• Ambiguously Jewish: Like the rest of the family. Eventually made relatively less ambiguous by Alex Hirsch: after having originally stated that the Pines family is not canonically Jewish, and later being questioned about Journal 3 stating that Stan had a Bar Mitzvah, he suggested that Stan was raised Jewish and became an atheist later in life. It also helps that he's a big-nosed miser who speaks with a Jewish American dialect, including the occasional "Oy!" and "Holy Moses!".
• Annoying Younger Sibling: He's the younger twin by fifteen minutes, and the older they got, the more Ford viewed Stan as a worthless screwup who sabotaged his future.
• Anti-Hero: He may be a greedy jerk and con artist, but he does have a soft spot in his heart for the twins.
• Appliance Defenestration: Stan threw his TV through the window after he was angry how a movie ended.
• Arbitrary Skepticism: In "Bottomless Pit!" Grunkle Stan still states that everyone's stories are far-fetched, even though he is falling through a bottomless pit even as he speaks, and even lived through one of the stories. In "Scaryoke", it's made clear that this is an act, and he's very much aware of the strange goings-on around Gravity Falls.
• Art Evolution: His head is differently shaped in Season 2.
• Attention Whore: As seen in "Headhunters". The below quote is also the page quote!
  Grunkle Stan: But enough about me. Behold, me!
  • Also, in "Boss Mabel" when he's on Cash Wheel. In fact, he got on the show by using his "old man powers" to fake a heart attack.
• The Atoner: Spent thirty years working to bring his brother Ford back from the portal, which Stan himself accidentally knocked him into during a fight.
• Badass Normal: He's just a normal guy with no special powers or cool tech, but he still punches pterodactyls in the face and kills zombies by punching them with brass knuckles like it's nothing.
• The Barnum: Most of his revenue seems to come from swindling rubes in really obvious ways.
• Beat Them at Their Own Game:
  • In an epic moment of his career as a shyster he gives Bill Cipher a lousy deal of his own.
  • Very literal when he defeats Probabilitor in "Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons".
• Berserk Button:
  • "Irrational Treasure" shows that he really doesn't like Pioneer Day.
  • Also he doesn't like being questioned about the tattoo on his back that he keeps denying, and will go nuts if someone tries to uncover it and video record it. It's revealed it's actually from a burn on his back that he got in a fight with his brother, ending in his brother being sent into another dimension, which goes a long way towards explaining why he's so angry about it.
• Beware the Honest Ones: Turns out Stan is much harder to deal with when he can only tell the truth as seen in "Bottomless Pit!".
• Beware the Silly Ones: He may be a goofy grunkle who runs a tourist trap with absurd attractions, likes to slack off, joke around, and lie down in a seat when he's not running the shack, and has committed what is likely hundreds if not thousands of petty crimes and has been arrested multiple times for said petty crimes. But let's remember, he's a convict and professional conman who runs a successful business with said tourist trap and who can throw a nasty punch with all the boxing lessons he's taken, who has stolen radioactive waste from a government facility, operated a powerful interdimensional portal to summon his brother back to their home dimension, and conned Bill Cipher into going into his burning mindscape before punching him out of existence.
• Big Brother Instinct: Although the younger twin, he's shown to care a great deal about his twin just like Dipper for Mabel. The last half of Season 2 reveals that he invested a lot of time into bringing Ford back from another dimension.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: Has a practically huge grey pair.
• Book Dumb: Academically miles behind his brother, considered useless by his father, no college education…still a brilliant scammer who can wring money out of anyone and managed to fix the portal on his own. In the finale, this trope ends up working to his advantage, because he literally had nothing Bill wants, which is what made his mind the perfect vessel to defeat Bill in.
• Boxing Battler: His father made him take boxing lessons as a child, and he's shown to still have some moves in "The Land Before Swine" and "Scary-oke".
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He comes across as rather bumbling, silly and over-the-top at times, but make no mistake, he's actually very sharp when he puts his mind into it, particularly as a salesman (and Con artist).
• Brains and Brawn: Was the Brawn to his brother Ford's Brains when they were children. Downplayed in the present, as although Stan is still the stronger of the two, he's also pretty bright in his own right and Ford is no push-over in a fight.
  Stan: "Good thing you got your smarts, Poindexter. I got the other thing. What's it called? Oh, right. Punching!"
• Break the Cutie: "A Tale of Two Stans" shows how he went from a cheerful and optimistic kid to a disillusioned wreck.
• Briefcase Full of Money: His savings are stuffed inside a duffelbag hidden behind a painting in the Shack.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Stan isn't stupid. He is, however, very good at making things up as he goes along, and managed to pick up enough know-how to repair the portal in his basement. "A Tale of Two Stans" shows him being able to sell several of his con-products and later hold his own business, which is basically just one big con, which shows that he is an amazing salesman. If he had gotten a legitimate sales job he'd probably gotten rich a lot sooner.
• Brotherhood of Funny Hats: Stan's fez vaguely resembles those worn by the Shriners. He also remarks how "the boys from the lodge" won't go fishing with him.
  • Journal 3 reveals that it's his father's fez, from "The Royal Order of the Holy Mackerel".
• Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: In the Series Finale, Stan manages to destroy Bill, but he’s only able to do so when he’s being inflicted with Laser-Guided Amnesia which effectively destroys his mind. However, this is ultimately subverted as Ford, Dipper and Mabel are able to help him recover his memory.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: Stan is a bruiser; when he needs to throw down, his weapons of choice are some sort of bludgeon or brass knuckles, he's fast on his feet, hits like a Mack Truck, and he's also very loud. However, he's as soft as a marshmallow when it comes to his family... not that he wouldn't threaten to punch you for pointing it out.
• Carpet of Virility: Shown off at the end of Dipper Vs Manliness. Mabel attempts to trim it as part of her makeover for him to impress Lazy Susan, but it immediately grows back.
• Cerebus Retcon: It's hard to look at him the same way again when you learn that his love of money is the result of being disowned by his family after accidentally sabotaging his brother's future.
• The Charmer: How he manages to get customers into the Shack despite it being nothing but junk. He's a fast-thinker, and can make a joke about just about anything, and the crowds love it.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: While certainly not as spacey as other examples on the show, you can tell where Mabel gets it from.
• Collector of the Strange: He invokes this as the owner of the Mystery Shack, but it's all a sham - every single one of his exhibits are either fake (like "cryptids" made from random animal parts or Dipper in a bad costume), or nonsense junk passed off as rare artifacts, like Rock That Looks Like a Face Rock, or The World's Most Distracting Object (a hypnosis wheel). This is because Stan knows how dangerous the supernatural really is, and his fake exhibits are at least harmless.
• Combat Pragmatist: His fighting advice to Dipper is along these lines.
  Stan: Just bonk him over the head. It's nature's snooze button!
  • And when outnumbered by zombies, he's got no problems using a grandfather clock to even the odds.
  • Best demonstrated by his method of taking on and defeating three government agents in "Not What He Seems".
• Comical Overreacting: Ties into Cloudcuckoolander - he's known to frequently engage in Large Ham actions, and he apparently considers having a mullet to be incredibly horrifying.
  Stan: You think you've got problems? I've got a mullet, Stanford!
• Companion Cube: He becomes a bit overly attached to a wax statue of himself in "Headhunters", and the end credits of "Soos and the Real Girl" show him marrying the Old Goldie statue in Las Vegas. His concern over the wax statue took a bit of a darker turn when we learn it was because Stan had lost his real twin to the Portal.
• Con Man: Not only does Stan fool tourists with the fake attractions at the Mystery Shack, but he also has a long record of financial crimes. However it comes in handy in the finale when he manages to out-con Bill.
• Consummate Liar: He's an inveterate shyster and proud of it. This trait comes back to bite him hard in "Not What He Seems". Only Mabel, who bases her decisions primarily off emotions instead of facts, is willing to trust him still after the extent of exactly how much he's lied to everyone is revealed. Even Soos, who sees Stan like a father, doesn't trust him anymore. This is also apparently one of the reasons his father threw him out of the house as a teenager. Eventually, however, this is subtly proven to be a subversion—even though Stan is excellent at lying, even he has his tells: in situations that involve his missing brother or him trying to hide something he knows a lot about, Stan crosses his arms and looks up to the side.
• Cool Uncle: He didn't start out this way, but once he and the twins spent more time together, he gradually began to fill this role. For starters, he punched a pterodactyl in the face to rescue his great-niece's pet pig.
• Counterfeit Cash: Has been shown paying for merchandise with "Stan Bucks", crudely drawn fake dollar bills with his face on them. A cutaway gag shows that he also roped in Dipper and Mabel into hand-painting actual counterfeit bills.
  Mabel: The county jail was so cold.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: A silly and lazy conman he may be. But, in "The Land Before Swine" he punched a pterodactyl in the face. Repeatedly. Come Season 2, he continues to show how much of a badass he is by fighting off an entire horde of ravenous zombies, half of them with his bare hands. In "Not What He Seems", he takes out three government agents while he's handcuffed to a chair, using a gravitational anomaly to get the drop on the agents, and manages to steal one of their wallets in the process. He's even the one that deals the final blow to Bill in the finale of the show.
• Cutting Corners: How Stan operates all his business ventures. Especially his carnival.
  Stan: There she is, the cheapest fair money can rent! I spared every expense. (cable car falls from the sky with Dipper inside)
• Curtains Match the Windows: Before his hair became gray. Due to the art style it's usually impossible to tell the characters' eye colors, but Stan's are brown as confirmed by Alex Hirsch.
• The Cynic: Much like Dipper, Stan is somewhat cynical and not up for idealism and wonder, which makes his conflicts with the similarly cynical Dipper and bonding with the upbeat Mabel especially humorous. It's later revealed in "Dreamscaperers" that he's harder on Dipper because Dipper reminds him of himself.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Bullied during his early childhood, was an academic failure, accidentally cost his brother a scholarship to his dream school, was disowned by his parents, and was forced to go on the road to fulfill the impossible task of making up for what the Pines family lost because of his horrible mistake. He spent time as a Con Man and failed at it miserably, getting run out of towns all over the country - and possibly in more countries, considering he claimed to have been thrown in jail in three countries. He was also forced to somehow chew his way out of a car trunk, and before going to the Mystery Shack to meet his brother, he was in a rathole apartment with only a peso to his name, and he was behind on his rent. Then he accidentally threw his brother into another dimension and spent 30 years trying to get him back. Oops.
• Dark Is Not Evil: He wears an all-black suit, and while he may be a crook, he's one of the good guys and is ultimately responsible for Ford's return and the defeat of Bill.
• Deadpan Snarker: Much like Dipper, Stan possesses a quick wit and never misses a chance to mock the silliness of those around him.
• Dead Person Impersonation: The real Stanford Pines, AKA The Author, has been trapped on the other side of a portal for 30 years. The Stan Pines we've been following is actually his twin brother, Stanley Pines. However, see "Faking the Dead" for more. After Weirdmageddon was foiled, it's implied he's going by Stanley again, as the news refer to him as such.
• Dented Iron: He can throw some mean punches and is quite spry, but age has impaired his senses and a lifetime of bad eating habits has turned his body into a hot mess from the shoulders down.
• Determinator: When Stan puts his mind to it, nothing can stand in his way, be it pterodactyls, government agents, child psychos, or his own lack of knowledge of physics. The best example being how he spent thirty years working on bringing his brother back from the other dimension he accidentally knocked him into. For this he completely self-taught himself how to maintain and work the Portal (all from his brother's Journal, with a third of the instructions) and went as far as stealing toxic waste from the Government to pull it off.
• Did Not Get the Girl: And trying to get her back didn't work out so well either, since according to him, he deliberately ran his rival's car off a cliff.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: In the Series Finale, he punches Bill in the eye while they're both inside his mind, causing him to shatter into a million pieces.
• Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: How he and Ford defeat Bill Cipher. While Bill was chasing Dipper and Mabel, they switched out clothing so Stan would become Ford. After Cipher gets caught in Stan's mind, Ford erases them with his memory gun.
• Dirty Business: The Mystery Shack is a tourist trap in the sleepy town of Gravity Falls, filled with an assortment of hand-made oddities in both the attractions and overpriced merchandise. It turns out that the Mystery Shack is actually his twin brother's cabin: he was determined to bring his brother back to the extent where he ran out of money. The residents of the town had mistaken Stan for his brother, and he was utterly shamefaced at the realization that he had no choice but to take his brother's name, convert the cabin and some of Ford's research into an attraction in order to continue paying the mortgage and work on repairing the portal.
• Disco Dan: He still uses vinyl, doesn't understand texting and the interior of the Mystery Shack is straight out of the 1970s/early 80's.
• DreamWorks Face: During the main title theme, he makes one in the group photo that falls atop a pile of other photos before the series logo appears.
• Drives Like Crazy: "Road safety laws, prepare to be ignored!" He also has cataracts and broken headlights. And then there's the time he let a bear drive the car... though he had a prescription from Doctor Medicine for that.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Hot Belgian Waffles, did he! After 10 years living on the streets, 30 years of working on the Portal, and Weirdmageddon, Stan finally reconciles with Ford, is named the town hero, and the two decide to travel the world together on the Stan-o-War II.
• Easily Forgiven: Despite the fact that Stanley outright lied to them about his intentions and deliberately witheld information from them, as soon as Dipper, Mabel, and Soos heard his story, they immediately forgave him without any signs of distrust towards him. This is especially the case for the former considering that Dipper isn't really the type to let go of a grudge easily, both shown with Pacifica and previous altercations with Stan like in "Dreamscaperers" or "Scary-oke".
• Exact Words: Stan says he doesn't have a tattoo. He's not lying. It's actually a brand burned into his back by accident.
• Eyepatch of Power: Wears one while in-character as Mr. Mystery, even though both of his eyes are fine, and he sometimes switches which side the patch goes on.
• Faking the Dead: Stanley faked his own death and is the Stan Pines the headline "Stan Pines Dead" was about.
• Family Theme Naming: Stanley and Stanford, due to their father being not very original in his baby naming.
• Fan Disservice: Rips off his shirt in "Dipper vs. Manliness". Not pretty. Lampshaded by Dipper moments after.
• Fat Slob: Played for Laughs in "Dipper vs. Manliness". After telling Mabel she had to marry Gideon in "The Hand That Rocks the Mabel", to which she ran out of the room screaming, he assumed she was upset by his appearance.
  Stan: [calling after her] Bodies change, honey! Bodies change...
• Fatal Flaw:
  • In a way surprisingly similar to Dipper, it becomes apparent that Stan has issues with trust and confiding in others. He often lies to avoid having to do so, which comes back to bite him in Not What He Seems. If he had trusted the twins with the truth earlier, the episode probably would have been far less traumatic for all of them.
  • Stan's temper also proved to be another one, it led to him accidentally destroying his brother's science project, ruining his chance of getting into his dream college, and severely damaging their relationship. It was this again which caused him to accidentally knock his brother into the Portal, meaning the two didn't see each other for thirty years. And this again very nearly led to Bill winning after Stan broke a magic circle to attack Ford over his grammar being corrected.
  • The flashbacks in "A Tale of Two Stans" shows that he has (or had) a familiar problem with oblivious selfishness. He automatically assumed that his brother wouldn't want to go to the best college in the country, so they would stay together as they did as children, completely oblivious to what his brother actually wanted. When he finally realized Stanford was seriously considering the offer, he felt extremely threatened and hurt because he saw this as his brother choosing to leave him behind. His acting out over this is what started the collapse of their good relationship, and being reminded of this old pain is what causes his fits of anger listed above.
• Flat-Earth Atheist: Almost literally. According to Alex Hirsch, Stan does not believe in God, despite having been raised Jewish, seeing the supernatural on a regular basis, using a interdimensional portal to bring back his twin brother, and even punching out the very god-like Bill Cipher in the series finale.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Adding more parallels with Dipper and Mabel, flashbacks to their youth show that Stan was the foolish to the Author's responsible, showing The Author studying diligently on a test while Stan kicks his feet up on the desk one over. It's a bit more complicated in the present; Stan recognizes that the weird stuff in town is highly dangerous, and that the kids should stay away from it. However, his method to do this was to put on an act of Selective Obliviousness, shrugging any claims of monsters as imagination, while at the same time tinkering with the Portal, the most dangerous thing in Gravity Falls. Ford actually calls Stan out on his recklessness.
• Four-Philosophy Ensemble: The Cynic. Stan is a reasonably cynical man, not one up for wonder and idealism, he prefers to focus on practical matters. It's down to his experiences he is like this, as a "Tale of Two Stans" shows he used to be lot more optimistic before he lost his relationship with his brother.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Choleric: Ambitious with a hair-trigger temper.
• Freudian Excuse: He's greedy for a reason, namely that he got kicked out of the house before graduating high school, told he couldn't come back until he made his family a fortune, and left to fend for himself.
• Friendless Background: The only friends he seems to have made in life are his twin brother and two Colombian criminals who hoped he died. Which might explain some of his Jerkass behavior.
• Gag Nose: His nose looks like it belonged to a Muppet.
• Genius Bruiser: Although old, Stan is still a powerful figure and likewise proves he can tangle with the best of them, being a brilliant fighter. He's likewise very strong and very quick for his age. However Stan also shows on multiple occasions he's highly intelligent, being an incredibly shrewd and cunning man, able to match wits with the likes of Gideon and Dipper, and win. Business skills aside, he's also clearly got a pretty good understanding of advanced science considering how well he was able to operate and maintain the portal. Made all the more impressive with the reveal he is completely self taught, in both science and showmanship.
• Glasses of Aging: He didn't wear glasses until after he moved to Gravity Falls.
• Gosh Darn It to Heck!: Suddenly having to hang around with two kids has forced him to tone down his language. This is addressed and parodied in a scene in "Not What He Seems".
  Stan: Gah! Hot Belgian waffles! Wait. I'm alone! I can swear for real! (Deep inhale) SON OF A-!
• Gotta Catch Them All: Stan's got Journal #1, and he's been looking for #2 and #3 for years to complete the set. He finally got all 3 at the end of Gideon Rises.
  Stan: After all these years... Finally, I have them all.
• Greed: His desire to make money is the driving force behind his work ethic.
  "My one and only dream - which was to possess money - has come true!"
  • Played with in that it's revealed that a lot of the money he makes goes toward repairing the portal in order to save Stanford. And he spent about ten years in continuous poverty. Then again, Stan is still a complete money-grubber even after Ford comes back, so he may have become the mask at some point.
• Grumpy Old Man: Very fond of complaining.
• Gun Nut: We never see them, but he claims to own ten guns due to his fear of ladders.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Stan has a quick temper, to the point he near ruined his commercial over him constantly mispronouncing a word. It is not a good idea to be on the receiving end of his temper.
• Hates Being Alone: Thoughout certain points in the series it was strongly hinted that Stan dosen't like being left alone.
  • In "Legend of the Gobblewalker", after Dipper and Mabel left Stan to find the titular creature, Stan went through great lengths to interact with people during his fishing trip. All attempts went nowhere.
  • In Stan's flashback in "A Tale of Two Stans", after he accidentally broke his brother Ford's science project, Stan was kicked out of the house by his father and Ford would not even speak to him. This led to Stan spending years with no one to talk to. When Stan managed to meet his brother again, it led to a huge fight that led to the latter getting sucked into another dimension. This caused Stan to feel that he might be left all alone again.
• Heroic Build: Had one as a younger man and uses a dapper suit to make it look like he still does. He still has some broad shoulders and thick arms for a man pushing 70, but his gut shows how far he is from his prime.
• Heroic BSoD: Had one after he accidentally flung his brother into another dimension. He could have been in the shack for anywhere from weeks to months.
• Heroic Comedic Sociopath: His greed verges on this now and then, but his Refuge in Audacity on-screen criminal behavior and his Would Hurt a Child tendencies (toward Gideon - not his family) place him firmly in this territory.

  Stan: "Yes, yes... Burn the child..."

• Heroic Sacrifice: He sacrifices his mind in the finale in order to trap and weaken Bill enough to destroy him. Thankfully, as shown with McGucket and having not been mindwiped long, he managed to regain his memory just due to being reminded of it thanks to various stimulation such as home videos and Mabel's scrapbook.
• Hey, You!: He often addresses Dipper and Mabel as "kid", apparently simply due to his gruff personality.
• Hidden Depths: Despite being considered an idiot by his parents and teachers, he was able to secretly repair Ford's dimensional portal by himself with nothing but his brother's journals to aid him.
• Honest John's Dealership: Most of the exhibits in his House of Mystery are fake. It's deconstructed, as "Boss Mabel" implies that while he could get real oddities for the Mystery Shack like Dipper did, they would be difficult (if not impossible) to control and would terrify and/or hurt customers.
• Idiot Ball:
  • Handles this quite a bit in "The Stanchurian Candidate"; you'd think that a con artist would be able to use his silvery forked tongue to con his way into public office, but oh, no! Instead, he can't even open his mouth without revealing his amoral nature and telling it like it is.
  • He handles it even worse in "Roadside Attraction", where he falls for Darlene's flattery and doesn't even realize that she's a gigantic man-eating spider in disguise until it is almost too late.
• I Have No Son!:
  • After it becomes clear that Ford has no interest in reconciling with his brother and won't even say "thank you" for bringing him back to our dimension, Stan point blank tells him that Mabel and Dipper are the only family he has left as far as he is concerned, even if he's very obviously not proud of it.
  • Stan himself was also disinherited by his own father because he accidentally ruined Ford's chance to get into his dream college.
  • Played for laughs when Stan warned the twins that if they started talking like pioneers on Pioneer Day, then he would disown them.
    Stan: If you come back to the Shack talking like these people, you're dead to me! (the twins do exactly that and run off laughing) DEAD TO ME!!!
• I Just Want to Be Loved: Stan's family disowned him when he accidentally broke Stanford's science project, so he treasures the relationship he has with Dipper and Mabel. He initially wanted to reconcile with Ford, but their combative behavior and mutual stubbornness makes it impossible for now. This is a driving force behind many of his decisions, such as announcing his candidacy for mayor.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: In "The Legend of the Gobblewonker", he spends most of his time looking for fishing buddies. As implied through dialogue in that episode, and confirmed throughout the series, Stan suffered from a Friendless Background, and the closest he got to friendship until his arrival in Gravity Falls were criminal accessories who could barely stand him.
• Indy Ploy: Stan is almost preternaturally good at this. He survived for years with nothing but his wits and a baseball bat, has apparently escaped by the skin of his teeth (perhaps literally, given that he somehow chewed his way out of a car trunk) multiple times, and managed to turn his brother's house into a passable tourist trap and thriving business by making it up as he went along.
• Informed Deformity: The Legend of the Gnome Gemulets video game has Wendy claim that "you can clearly see [Stan's] bald spot" when he takes his fez off. Yet Stan himself is never shown to have a bald spot of any kind.
• Informed Judaism: Exaggerated. Despite having been raised Jewish, as noted by the mezuzah on the Pines pawn shop in New Jersey, Stan doesn't even believe in God, let alone keep kosher.
• I Need to Go Iron My Dog: Parodied in the episode "Dreamscaperers" where the main crew see a memory of Stan escaping a date with Lazy Susan.
  Stan Pines: Nonspecific excuse! (slaps food off the table and runs out the door)
• In-Series Nickname: He's refered to as "Grunkle" Stan from the first episode, as he is the grand-uncle of Dipper and Mabel, who are the grandchildren of "Shermy" Pines, his youngest sibling who only appears for a single scene as an infant in "A Tale of Two Stans". It's not clear who came up with it, but the twins use the term from day one, implying their parents might have come up with it.
• I Was Quite a Looker: Here's a flashback to him in the 70's. Hello, Handsome◊. The fandom sometimes refer to his younger self as "Hunkle Stan".
• Iconic Outfit: Grunkle Stan is usually seen in a fez and a black tuxedo. When sitting around the house, he is almost always dressed in nothing but a tanktop, blue-striped boxers, slippers, and the fez.
• It Makes Sense in Context: In-Universe, he claims the picture in "Gideon Rises" of him in a devil suit in front of a wall of fire is this.
  Stan: That picture's taken out of context.
• Jacob and Esau: Downplayed. His father seemed cold and resentful toward his "wimpy" sons in general but valued Stanford as his talents might make the family money, while his mother - possibly because of their similar personalities - seemed at least somewhat fond of Stanley, calling him her "little free spirit", but ultimately didn't lift a finger when her husband decided to throw him out of the house.
• Jerkass Has a Point: In "Boss Mabel", it is shown that his iron handed rule over the Mystery Shack, use of fake exhibits in the museum and strict no-refunds policies are in fact necessary to run the Shack properly. When Mabel attempts to run things her way, Soos and Wendy either take advantage of her lax attitudes or screw up their jobs, putting real monsters in the Shack proves to be a disaster that hospitalizes two visitors, and Mabel's liberal refund policies end up costing them nearly all their earnings.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Even though he's a greedy con artist and is Ambiguously Evil, it's very unsutbly made clear by him personally that he cares about Mabel and Dipper's safety above all else even before "Scary-Oke" reveals that he always knew about the supernatural goings-on in the town. Come season 2, after it's revealed the Author is his brother, it turns out that everything he has done was really for his family, for their safety, their love, and their protection.
  • In "Double Dipper", he claps for Mabel when everyone was voting for her via applause. Granted, the other candidate, Pacifica, is a rich Alpha Bitch, but it goes to show that he really cares for Mabel and wanted to support her, even if he usually doesn't show it.
  • And in "Dipper vs. Manliness" he's the one to tell Dipper that standing up for what he believed in even though he alienated every single one of the Manotaurs in doing so was a manly thing to do.
  • And in the very first episode, he let Mabel and Dipper choose something from the shop to cheer them up. Before he changes his mind notwithstanding.
  • Really shows through in "Boyz Crazy", where he not only immediately agrees to help Dipper expose Robbie's mind control of Wendy through subliminal messaging in music (even if partially motivated by his own experiences as a young man), but also tells Dipper, after Wendy angrily brushes him off, that he can just hang out with him until things sort out with Wendy. This is the best father figure moment for Stan in the series thus far. Plus, he was more than willing to give Dipper The Talk in "Carpet Diem", when you'd think he'd be the kind of character to avoid doing that. Even if it was Mabel in Dipper's body. It's an odd show.
  • In "Land Before Swine" he saves Waddles from a pterodactyl out of sheer love for Mabel.
  • "Dreamscaperers" shows that even though Stan is tough on Dipper by making him do terrible chores like cleaning the toilet and chopping firewood, he does it to toughen him up so he learns to fight back.
  • In "Gideon Rises", when he feels like he finally lost to Gideon, he's very disheartened that the kids have to suffer with him too, and while down on his luck and almost out of money, with what little he has left he buys bus tickets to send the twins home. Thankfully though, it got better, but still.
  • "Not What He Seems" and his back story show his conman career was ten years in barely surviving poverty without even a high school diploma trying to earn his way back into his family, and that the only reason he's even been living in Gravity Falls for the last thirty years is to fix the portal his brother built and bring him back to atone for accidentally sending him through it in the first place.
  • In "Weirdmageddon Part 3: Take Back The Falls", he, a selfish con man, has saved dozens of humans and monsters that aren't family. And then there's his Heroic Sacrifice.
• Jerkass Realization: After his petty grudge with Ford ended up ruining the chance to truly stop Bill, Stan realizes just how much of petty jerk he is to Ford and blames himself for it. The latter, having the same realization, reassures him that it's not entirely his fault and in the end, they finally decide to bury the hatchet in order to stop Bill in the process.
• Kleptomaniac Hero: Stan will gleefully and shamelessly steal anything he wants or needs. Often while outright saying it straight to the rightful owner's faces.
  Man: "These wax statues come at a terrible price!"
  Stan: (looking around for a price tag) "20 dollars??" "I'll just steal them while you're not looking".
  Man: "What?"
  Stan: "I said I was gonna rob you."
• La Résistance: Though he only gets one brief scene in "Weirdmageddon", in "Weirdmageddon Part 2" it turns out Stan was alive and well, hiding out in the Shack and leading a holdout against Bill.
• Lantern Jaw of Justice: Though the "Justice" part is definitely in question.
• Large Ham: Part-and-parcel of being a showman, he tends to ham it up during tours of the Mystery Shack... of course, not that he doesn't display similar tendencies outside of that.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Despite the reveal of him knowing all about the general weirdness of the town, he still seems to have no idea of Bill Cipher's existence, or that it's why Ford was so angry at him for turning the portal back on. Stan chose not to care because of personal grievances against his brother.
• Lovable Rogue: While immoral, shady and sometimes outright criminal, Stan remains a beloved character, and makes it clear to the audience that he is good at heart. The people in-universe are far less lenient; it's stated as early as the second episode that Stan has no friends ("The guys at the lodge don't 'like' or 'trust' me."), due to his dishonest business practices. His campaign for mayor was torpedoed by his own criminal record, and "A Tale of Two Stans" strongly implies that his amoral tendencies were the reason he got disowned by his family, with the accidental ruining of Ford's college admissions being the last straw. His attempts to get rich through various scams and swindles all ended in failure. The only place a blatant criminal like Stan can operate more-or-less unhindered is Gravity Falls with its stupid populace.
• Made of Iron: In "Not What He Seems", he gets slammed into a metal pipe hard enough to buckle the metal and crack the stone wall behind it, and he's completely unharmed. Its shown in "The Tale of Two Stans" he's had this from childhood, as he didn't even notice the multiple splinters in his hands (from breaking a plank) until he saw them. Eagle-eyed viewers can probably attest to where/who Dipper got his durability from...
• Mad Scientist: Played With. While Stan himself isn't actually a scientist, his brother, Ford, was. In an effort to rescue his brother, Stan is forced to rebuild Ford's interdimensional portal in an underground lab, despite how dangerous it is.
• Manipulative Bastard:
  • Literally how he runs the Mystery Shack. He creates fake supernatural creatures and uses his own charisma and showmanship to profit off of dumb tourists and even dumber townspeople.
  • Season 2 takes it up to eleven in a darker way. It turns out he's been Obfuscating Stupidity for decades, as well as lying to Dipper and Mabel so his experiments will go undetected.
• Mean Boss: He yells at his employees a lot, but his strictness is how he can keep things in order. When Mabel acted as the Benevolent Boss, she was taken advantage of by Wendy and run up the wall by Soos' ineptitude.
• Meaningful Name: His real name of "Stanley" roughly translates from Old English to "stony clearing". The "stony" part can be seen in his obnoxious, cheerfully rude demeanor (albeit belying his softer side), and the "clearing" part is an allusion to his family's last name of "Pines" (along with possibly serving as Foreshadowing for how he preforms a Heroic Sacrifice through getting his own mind temporarily erased to eliminate Cipher once and for all).
• Messianic Archetype: He sacrifices himself to save everyone from the resident Satanic Archetype, and he gets better soon after, but he will forever be remembered for it.
• Mirror Character: invoked To Bill Cipher. Both are theatrical conmen with tons of charisma and guided by a ruthless personal objectivity, to the point where in the Weirdmageddon version of the show's intro, Stan is replaced by Bill predominantly. It's this very shared trait that spells the end for Bill. Notably, Alex Hirsch has even noted that part of the reason why Bill is such a sociopath is because he had an even worse relationship with his parents than Stan did.
• Miser Advisor: Stan sometimes takes this role with the twins, especially Dipper.
• Misery Builds Character: Stan's belief in this is why he's so tough on Dipper. It's also why Stan's father had him take boxing lessons. Starting to move towards a deconstruction, as it's shown that his father's treatment of him gave him huge and long-lasting emotional scars. Not only that, but him singling Dipper out to give him this treatment made their relationship crash so badly Dipper was convinced Stan legitimately hated him and it nearly drove him to stop caring about Stan completely. Despite Dipper now knowing that Stan is trying to invoke this, it still causes major underlying emotional tensions that haven't been entirely dealt with.
• Money Fetish: Stan's love of money, sometimes borders on obsession, he shamelessly (and unnecessarily) strips when he get an opportunity to go in the money shower.
• Mysterious Past: He claims to be from the East Coast originally, and that Gravity Falls is the only town where the police don't know where he is. "Not What He Seems" shows that he's accrued a number of false IDs over the years. It's revealed later on that he's from New Jersey, in "[[Joisey the lead paint district.]]" That said, there's still things we don't know, like how he was jailed in three countries and escaped, what he did when he "went around the world", and why he escaped a car trunk by chewing his way out.
• My Greatest Failure: He accidentally sent his twin brother through an interdimensional portal during the middle of a nasty fight. He had spent years living with that memory on his mind. He had been collecting the Journals, hoping to one day be reunited with his long-lost brother.
• My Sibling Will Live Through Me: After losing his twin brother Stanford to an alien dimension 30 years prior to the series, Stan took on his name and identity so as not to arouse suspicion. As of the real Stanford's return, he has been given until the end of the summer to return his identity to its rightful owner.
• Never My Fault: Shows shades of this in Land Before Swine when he claims "It's not my fault your pig's potentially delicious!". That said, it's still an improvement over how he used to be, with him unable to even recognize how badly ruining his brother's chances of going to a good college affected the latter, and account for being a Lazy Bum. He's grown out of this as the show's progressed, being fully willing to acknowledge that he's screwed up. As proof of this, he currently blames no one but himself for his own misfortunes in "A Tale of Two Stans". At that present time, anyway; he did accuse Ford of causing The End of the World as We Know It with the portal, though he himself went into reparing it fully ignoring that its existence was a huge mistake to begin with and that it was just waiting to be a recipe for disaster, and disregarding every single written instruction by Ford not to use the portal for any reason including trying to save him, naturally leading to a rift that Bill was able to open. That said, Stan finally and actively defies the trope during Bill's Near-Villain Victory, when he accuses himself of being a screw-up and makes things right with a Heroic Sacrifice.
• Nerd Glasses: Although Stan didn't start wearing glasses until he was elderly, Alex Hirsch confirmed that he has always needed them, but refused to wear them because he thought they made him look lame.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
  • He manages to get enough material to re-power the portal and bring his brother back into the main dimension. But unwittingly created a dimensional rift in the process which is why Ford was angry at him upon returning as he knows Bill needs the rift to cross over. However Stan is never told this.
  • In the finale, Ford manages to make a destiny circle that could potentially defeat Bill. However Stan was needed for it and, just as it was being powered up, got into an argument with Ford over grammar. This gave time for Bill to return and stop them, nearly costing everyone. Luckily Stan made up for it.
• Not in Front of the Kid: As revealed in a security tape from "Not What He Seems", his frequent use of "Gosh Darn It to Heck!"-style swearwords actually stems from him making an effort to watch his language whenever Dipper and Mabel are around. He's quite gleeful when he gets a chance to actually cuss when he's alone.
  Stan (drops a barrel of radioactive waste on his foot) Gah! HOT BELGIAN WAFFLES! (beat) Wait... I'm alone! I can swear for real! (takes deep breath) SON OF A— [Dipper pauses the tape while Mabel covers her ears]
• Obfuscating Stupidity: "Boss Mabel" hints that Grunkle Stan might know more than he lets on. "Gideon Rises" confirms it. Stan has had Journal #1 the whole time, and in this episode manages to obtain #2 from Gideon and #3 from Dipper. He uses them to activate some sort of machine, which began to use to search for his brother as of "Scary-oke".
• Older Hero vs. Younger Villain: Stan, a man old enough to be a great uncle, vs Gideon, a psychopathic child, though admittedly Stan usually takes a unwitting backseat to the twins when fighting Gideon.
• One-Man Army: Wipes the floor with the zombies attacking the Mystery Shack.
• One-Steve Limit: Subverted - his name is actually Stanley (see Dead Person Impersonation) and his brother's name is Stanford, though his brother has thankfully dispelled any confusion by preferring to be known as Great-Uncle Ford. The show chalks this up to his father being unimaginative.
• Only Sane Man: He's the only one in Gravity Falls who recognizes that all of the weird and supernatural happenings are highly dangerous, which is why he tries to dissuade Dipper from investigating them.
• Out of Focus: Rather jarringly too considering he is one of the main characters, but after "A Tale of Two Stans", most of his appearances aren't tied to the Myth Arc of the series and his two focus episodes are Filler at best. Averted in the series finale where he gets a ton of focus regarding his resentment of his brother. He is even the one who comes up with the plan that ultimately defeats Bill by performing a Heroic Sacrifice.
• Papa Wolf: Despite having very questionable morals and standards, he does obviously care about Mabel and Dipper. Enough to drop some heavy, extensive research it took him years to find, in order to protect the twins from a group of hungry zombies, and winning. He also tells his brother Stanford to stay away from the Twins, mainly because his research could put them in danger.
  • In the series finale he pulls the old Twin Switch with Ford on Bill, allowing him to trap the demon in his mind when Bill enters his head while Ford uses the Memory Eraser gun to delete both Stan's mind and Bill. He even manages to deliver a punch that destroys Bill before his mind is fully erased. Why? Because Bill made the mistake of messing with his family.
• Parental Favoritism:
  • Was at the less fortunate end of this as a child.
  • Subverted with Dipper and Mabel. Because he's more permissive and openly affectionate toward the latter, both kids assume that Mabel is his favorite, with Dipper even doubting whether Stan cares about him at all at one point. The truth is a lot more complicated as Stan's own father figure was emotionally distant and Dipper strongly reminds him of both his estranged brother and his own younger self, leading Stan to be harder on him to toughen him up and spare him both his and his brother's mistakes. He has actually got a real soft spot for the boy as we see whenever he tries to give him advice, or when Mabel (in Dipper's body) tries to annoy him to assure Dipper doesn't get the new room, only for Stan to react with fondness and praise "Dipper" for finally standing up to him.
• Parental Substitute: After Soos realized that his father ran away from his family, Soos began working for Stan so that he can have a new father figure in his life.
• Perma-Stubble: Never grows a beard but never seems to shave.
• Pet the Dog: Grunkle Stan gets a moment like this after feeling guilty for insulting Dipper and Mabel and lets each of them take anything they want from the Mystery Shack. In true Grunkle Stan fashion, he tells them to do it before he changes his mind. He also saves Waddles because he wants Mabel to talk to him again and in "Dreamscaperers" when we find out why he's so tough on Dipper.
• Polar Opposite Twins: Stan is a greedy shyster, contrast his super-genius brother, Ford, who appears to be well-intentioned.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Delivers a fantastic one in the series finale to Bill.
  Stan: You're a real wise guy, but you made one fatal mistake. You messed with my family.
• Properly Paranoid: His claim to have denied the existence of the supernatural in Gravity Falls was because he believed it to be dangerous. Considering how many of the strange things and oddities have tried to hurt the twins, he's got a point.
• Rage Breaking Point: He goes through one when Gideon takes the best pool chair in "The Deep End".
  Grunkle Stan: GIDEON! GET OUT OF MY CHAIR, KID!!
• Real Men Wear Pink: After the Big "NO!", Stan gets really into a movie called The Duchess Approves (think Downton Abbey as a black-and-white 1940s melodrama) in "The Inconveniencing" (to the point of throwing the TV out the window out of rage at one of the plot elements).
• Regretful Traitor: While he refuses to give Ford the satisfaction of resurfacing his life without lunking to him, it's clear that Stan knows Ford's iciness goes beyond simply refusing to thank him for saving him, and that he took advantage of Ford trusting and confiding him to hide the Journals the one time there was nothing preventing him from not doing that, regardless of whether he was right to have a beef with Ford or not. While he knows he can't ever really make it up to Ford in a way that can make them both happy, he's still willing to sacrifice as much as he possibly can for him by letting him bond with the kids and tend to whatever he thinks should be tended to while he runs for mayor. He does owe him that much, and Stan sees no reason to weasel his way out of it, even if Ford never ends up forgiving him. Luckily for him...
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red to his twin brother Ford's Blue.
  • As kids, this is even reflected in the color of their shoes.
• Reflective Eyes: Variation. Actually more like reflective glasses.
  • In "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls", when Weirdmageddon ends, Stan's glasses reflect the rift on his glasses (which has the shape of an X), making him to look like he has his eyes crossed. Similar to Gideon's picture from "Dreamscaperers".
  • In "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls", when Mabel is trying to get her Grunkle to remember her, we have a close up of Stan's face, while we see Mabel's scrapbook reflecting on his glasses.
• The Reveal: His real name is Stanley, and he has a twin brother named Stanford, who is the author of the journals. When Stanford got flung into the portal, Stanley faked his death and took on Stanford's name and identity.
• Rock Bottom: Has ended up at this three times that we've seen in the show - the first was when he was disowned and kicked out of the house while he was still in high school, the second was when he threw his brother into Another Dimension, and the third was when Gideon kicked him out of his own house. invoked
  • It is hard to say whether the Colombian jail sentence was one of those, as he seemed pretty chipper about something that would be the low point of anybody else's life.
• Sad Clown: Stan certainly admired the portrait of the sad clown, and he's quite the funny guy that's seemingly nonchalant about all the shady business he does. It's not a coincidence: he's actually emotionally burdened for decades after he overheard his principal literally refer to him as a clown and spoke with Brutal Honesty about Stan's bleak future—the moment where Stan's entire life crumbled. It's made more evident when Stan makes a spontaneous dour response while wearing the truth telling teeth about life during a certain juggling clown's act on the TV in "Bottomless Pit!" invoked
  Bud: It's imported! All the way from Colombia!
  Stan: Wow... I went to jail there once. [whistles] Some digs you got here. [sees the clown painting] Oh, this... this is beautiful.
• Sand In My Eyes: Three of the times we've ever seen Stan get teary-eyed (once during the funeral for his wax replica, the other when Mabel knit him an "Our Hero" sash, and a bonus one in "Lost Legends" regarding his love of comic books), Stan has the tendency to say he's got something in them rather than admit he's crying.
• Scars Are Forever: His tattoo is actually a burn scar he received during a scuffle with his brother Ford 30 years ago.
• Schemer: Stan is a very cunning man, and normally concocts a variety of schemes, normally to help him make more money.
• Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: He's rude, grumpy and money-grubbing and makes no secret of it. He's also old, so he can get away with it...sometimes, at any rate.
• Self-Made Man: Was disowned by his father before he even graduated high school, he spent years trying to enter personal sales himself, and after many failures finally found one that worked, namely the Mystery Shack.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The Manly Man to Dipper's Sensitive Guy. Of the two Stan's more gruff and unfeeling, preferring to focus on more practical matters, also when working or doing something serious he is highly dedicated and a no nonsense figure. Unlike Dipper, he's also far better at hiding his fears and concerns, though he has his tells.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: His default outfit.
• Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: In "Not What He Seems", Dipper and Mabel discover that Stan has been hiding a lot from them. He has acquired multiple fake IDs, assumed the identity of a dead man, stole radioactive waste from the government, been in possession of Journal #1 the entire time they've known him, and both constructed and activated the Universe Portal, a device capable of annihilating the entire planet. For the first time, the kids have to fight Stan himself. However, when Mabel chooses to trust Stan and allow the device to activate, his motives are quickly made clear.
  Stan: I wanted to say that you're gonna hear some bad things about me, and some of them are true, but trust me. Everything I've worked for, everything I care about, it's all for this family!
• Shoot the Shaggy Dog: If Dipper and Ford actually managed to seal the rift which directly prevents Bill from unleashing Weirdmageddon, Stanley would have surely suffered this fate. Basically, the entire reason he worked for 30 years in the Shack is that he hoped that he could bring back his brother from the other dimension, after he accidentally sent him to it following a fight. He hoped to make up with his brother after all he had done. What he gets instead is Ford greeting him with a punch and outright refusing to forgive, thank or even reconcile with him, completely ignoring the fact that he wasted 30 years just to save him. Instead Stan is demanded to relinquish ownership of his identity and house and abandon the whole Mystery Shack forever. As a result, everything Stanley had done felt like a complete waste of his time and he disowns his brother in the process. Weirdmageddon helps subverts this by having Stan finally reconcile with his brother, the very thing that he strived to do in the first place and go out into the sea with Ford as his childhood dream.
• Signature Headgear: He's never seen without his fez, except in "Little Dipper" and when he goes on vacation in "Boss Mabel". In the end, he gives the hat to Soos and replaces it with a different hat.
• Silver Fox: Very subtle, but Stan still is considered good-looking at some points:
  • Lazy Susan fell in love with Stan once in "Dipper vs. Manliness".
  • Mabel said he has some kind of charisma when Stan wanted to run for mayor.
  • Tad Strange and Sheriff Blubs said he looked good in the outfit he was wearing ("The Stanchurian Candidate")
    • If you don't believe that fans joke over thinking that Stan is handsome, be aware of this: a group of fans created a video game named Swooning Over Stans: A Grunkle Dating Sim, where you can choose if you want to date Stan or Ford. Can you believe Alex Hirsch played this game and the fans chose Stan's route?
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis:
  • With Gideon; until the events of "Gideon Rises", Stan never treats Gideon as a serious threat (except to his bottom line), but rather an irritating little pest who has to be occasionally swatted out of the Shack with a broom. Whenever they meet casually in public, they're shown to antagonize one another in exceedingly petty ways, and Stan's dialogue in "Dreamscaperers" implies that he's been foiled off-screen as well.
  • Bud, as Stan's direct business competitor when it comes to scamming the townspeople, also gets this treatment; when their "truce" falls apart, Stan even steals a velvet clown painting from Bud's home and runs off. It only gets worse in "The Stanchurian Candidate", when both run for mayor and Bud immediately resorts to cheap shots.
• Skyward Scream: In "Irrational Treasure" after going through a Humiliation Conga:
  Stan: PIONEER DAY!!!!
• Small Name, Big Ego: Generally not liked among the town beyond his Mystery Shack persona, despite playing himself up as this grand mysterious figure. The town eventually warms up to him a bit after the events of "Gideon Rises".
• Smarter Than You Look: Managed to outwit Gideon in "Little Dipper", Dipper in "Dipper's Guide to the Unexplained: Stan's Tattoo", and even Bill in the finale. He also managed to teach himself enough about theoretical physics and the fringe science Ford was working on to restore the portal to working use. He only really needed the journals in order to figure out how to turn it back on when he had done so.
• Smoke Out: He employs smoke bombs in his showmanship with the Mystery Shack, to further entertain and con the masses into giving him money. Using them is also his preferred escape method after he's done something shady.
  • In "Summerween", Stan uses a smoke bomb to rob a store after the clerk asks security to escort them out.
  • Subverted in "The Stanchurian Candidate", where Stan attempts to flee a store with a smoke bomb just like he did in "Summerween" after confessing his plans to shoplift in front of the clerk. The smoke bomb is long past its expiration date, however, and Stan is effortlessly tackled by security.
• Snake Oil Salesman: Once tried to market shards of broken glass as rare and valuable crystals, and sells spray-painted rocks under the guise of them being gold nuggets. It's later revealed that he spent a lot of time as this before he came to run the Mystery Shack. It went horribly wrong, with him managing to become Banned from Argo in almost every state in the country.
  • It's this quality that makes Ford believe Stan would've seen right through Bill Cipher's trickery at the very first moment.
• So Hideous, It's Terrifying: Stan is often considered this by younger characters, particularly in Season 1:
  • In "Headhunters", after walking into a room full of wax figures, Dipper points out one that doesn't look as lifelike as the others. It turns out to be Grunkle Stan, whose appearance scares the kids and Soos out of the room even after they realize it's him.
  • In "Summerween", the thing that finally scares the Bratty Half-Pint trick-or-treaters is Stan's (almost) naked body.
• Solid Cartoon Facial Stubble: Grunkle Stan has practically half his face covered in a solid-colored grey color to indicate stubble.
• Spanner in the Works: The one Pines Bill never took interest in was the one Pines he should have always watched out for.
• Stealth Mentor: Deconstructed. Making Dipper do difficult chores is Stan's sneaky way of preparing him to fight back as revealed in "Dreamscaperers". However, while it seems to be working, Dipper, even after learning why Stan is so hard on him, is still bitter towards this treatment, leading him to gravitate to the much more kind and supportive Stanford.
• Stepford Smiler: A minor case; Stan seems to genuinely love most aspects of his life, such as scamming people and spending time with his young charges, "A Tale of Two Stans" hints that underneath it all is a man who's haunted by the guilt of sending his brother into another dimension. After Ford comes back and makes clear his intent to take back his house and name after the summer, Stan covers it up with his usual gruff nature.
• Street Smart: As expected of any self-respecting carny, Stan is shrewd, has a knack for deception, and is good at thinking on his feet. It's discussed in the end during Weirdmaggedon, as a contrast to Stanford being Book Smart, Stanford sees Stan as smarter then him. Sure, he could build a dimensional portal for Bill, but Stan would have easily been able to tell Bill's true colours and avoided the whole plot.
• Strong Family Resemblance: "Dreamscaperers" shows that Stan looks a lot like his father. Kid Stan even looks a little like Dipper. Stan and his brother also look extremely similar to each other, to the point where in the past it was possible to confuse them. And, as Bill discovers to his chagrin, even in the modern day after a clothes swap.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
  • Stan gets away with A LOT of crime, mostly due to Rule of Funny, but the buck decidedly stops at stealing toxic waste from the United States Government. Theft of government property NEVER goes unnoticed.
  • Also, his criminal record gets him disqualified from the election of Gravity Falls' new mayor.
  • Despite Stan's good intentions, his treating Dipper as The Unfavorite to toughen him up (by mocking Dipper whenever the opportunity hits, making Dipper do most of the hard and dangerous work around the Shack, and refusing to express any positive feedback towards him lest he "get a big head") drove Dipper to dislike him immensely and almost destroyed their relationship entirely.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Believe it or not (though he does admittedly slouch often, making him look shorter than Ford). It's more noticeable in "Little Dipper", when he's seen without his fez.
• Technologically Blind Elders: He mistook a CD for a record player, and doesn't know what "texting a photo to someone" is. When Gideon claims to have kidnapped Dipper and Mabel in "Little Dipper" and offers to send him proof, Stan can't even understand him.
  Gideon: I have them in my possession! You don't believe me? I will text you a photo!
  Stan: "Text me a photo?" Now you're not even speakin' English!
  Gideon: But-
  Stan: [hangs up]
• Teen Hater: Zig-zagged. Grunkle Stan is in most cases no fan of teenagers, openly dreading the annual outdoor music festival that attracts them to the town. That is, until Soos points out he can make lots of money if he can attract their business. Although he does get along with Wendy pretty well and Soos spent his entire teenage years working for Stan.
• Theme Twin Naming: He and his twin brother (The Author) are named Stanley and Stanford, respectively. This is because, as the puzzle after the credits in "A Tale of Two Stans" reveals, their not-too-creative Father Filbrick didn't plan to have twins.
• Thicker Than Water: Stan would risk causing the apocalypse to bring back his brother.
• Took a Level in Badass: In his youth, he was severely picked on; Stan's dad had him take boxing lessons, and in his senior years, he still knows how to fight.
• Took a Level in Kindness: He becomes a much nicer person in season 2, which must be due to his confession knowing about all the weirdness in Gravity Falls all along.
• Top-Heavy Guy: Cuts quite a triangular figure while wearing his tux; even without it on, he's been shown to have a very broad chest and shoulders, thick arms, and skinny legs◊ (it all just happens to get a little overshadowed by his gut).
• Tough Love: A Deconstruction. Stan's father, Filbrick Pines, was an emotionally abusive Jerkass. Stan, however, seems to have read his actions as tough love even if it most definitely wasn't, and decided that following dad's example was the best way to toughen up Dipper. It made their relationship crash so badly Dipper became convinced Stan hated him and wanted him gone. Even with knowing Stan does care, there are still signs Dipper's keeping a lot of bad feelings about this bottled up.
• Trademark Favorite Food: He's shown in one episode to like Toffee Peanuts. It's to the point where, in the very same episode, in a flashback to back when he and Ford were in high school, a bag of Toffee Peanuts at the scene was all Ford needed to incriminate Stan for sabotaging his science experiment.
• Tritagonist: Stan gets the third largest amount of focus, after Dipper and Mabel.
• Tsundere: Shows shades of a platonic form of this towards the kids at times. He tries to continue this act during the series finale (in a gut wrenching kind of way). invoked
  Stan Pines: [tearfully] You kids were nothing but a nuisance and I'm glad to be ridda ya.
• The Unfavorite: Was this in his family since he apparently didn't contribute to them as a teenager. And really got strengthened when his father threw him out of the house after he accidentally broke Stanford's machine and ruined his chances to go to his dream college. His father even accused him of riding on his brother's coattails.
• Unreliable Narrator: In a number of his flashbacks, he's designed to look like a composite between himself and Ford (not to mention his memories painting his dad as being not a heartless jackass).
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: All of Stan's efforts to bring his brother back (after having set in motion the chain of events that trapped him offworld in the first place) created a chain of bad events that lead up to the End of the World as We Know It. His efforts to bring Ford back left behind an unstable dimensional rift, every subsequent event related to that MacGuffin slowly created tension between Dipper and Mabel, especially with Dipper spending more time with Ford. Mabel's broken emotional state over the idea of being apart from Dipper made her vulnerable to Bill Cipher's manipulations. It doesn't help that Stan disregarded every warning against using the portal, and now everyone, including himself has to suffer the consequences of his foolishness. He also agitated the first signs of an emotional rift between Mabel and Dipper by joining with and at times even encouraging Mabel to pick on Dipper for the sake of "humorous" jokes. This alienated Dipper emotionally from both Stan and Mabel, adding to the reasons Dipper would choose to spend most of his time with Ford when he arrived—since not only was Ford his idol, but he also didn't pick on Dipper like the rest of the family. It's this choice that convinced Mabel her paranoia over their relationship was legitimate, which built until she reached her breaking point in "Dipper and Mabel Vs. The Future".
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: As a kid, he was nice and cheerful. However, getting disowned by his family forced him to become a criminal just to survive, resulting in the bitter old man that he is today.
• Vanity License Plate: If you look closely, the plate on Grunkle Stan's car says "STNLY MBL." Which is odd, since according to Gideon, his full name is 'Stanford'. His real name is actually Stanley, but he faked his death and took up his brother's name Stanford while he went missing in the portal.
• Voice Changeling: In the series finale, he is able to imitate Ford's voice perfectly after they do a Twin Switch to trick Bill.
• Wanting Is Better Than Having:
  • He used to have a crush on Lazy Susan. But when he finally went out on a date with her, he decided that she looked "weird up close", and quickly bailed.
  • He spent thirty years desperately trying to rescue his brother from the portal, only to be reminded of how strained their relationship was once Stanford was back. It's not a total loss however, as Stan does want Dipper's happiness, and if his brother can make that happen, he won't stand in their way.
• Weirdness Censor: Subverted. If the end of "Gideon Rises" tells us anything, he knew about all the weird stuff. In "Scaryoke" he all out admits to knowing, but claimed otherwise in an attempt to keep Dipper and Mabel from getting too close and being in danger.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Disowned by his father for accidentally ruining their chance at a fortune, Stan spent years trying and make money to be accepted back. Fittingly, one of the books he owns is called ''Daddy Issues''.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: "Trust me. Everything I've worked for, everything I care about, it's all for this family!" And that "everything" includes committing various felonies, deceiving and endangering his own family, deliberately causing gravitational anomalies that at the very least destroy a good chunk of the town, and gambling the entirety of the human race on the off chance that the Portal in his basement, despite all evidence to the contrary, won't end the universe. His actions in Not What He Seems in particular are so extreme that even Soos is temporarily against him by the end of the episode, if only to protect Dipper and Mabel.
• We Used to Be Friends: In their childhood, Stan and his brother Stanford were each other's Only Friend and did everything together. Because of an accident and their father throwing Stan out for costing their family a fortune and Stanford his dream school, their relationship was strained. Over 10 years later, Stanford called Stan to Gravity Falls. It wasn't to reconcile, but to ask him to hide the last of his journals and he still blames him for ruining his chances, despite Stanford managing to still gain a Ph.D. and a large amount of money. Their fight landed Stanford in another dimension that Stan has been trying to free him from 30 years, only to receive no thanks and a demand that Stanford get his life back at the end of the Summer. As shown near the end of "A Tale of Two Stans", it seems the two want to reconcile (particularly Stan), but are too bitter over how their lives have gone, and Stanford being trapped in another dimension, have made this near impossible. Luckily, they eventually manage to repair this.
• What the Hell, Hero?: In "Not What He Seems", Dipper comes to his breaking point when Stan begs them to trust him about the Portal despite having lied to them about everything else.
  Dipper: And I should trust you why?! After you stole radioactive waste? After you lied to us all summer?! I don't even know who you are!
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He was afraid of heights, though he has since been cured.
• Would Hurt a Child:
  • He has no compunction with trying to punt Gideon, blind Gideon, or smack him around with a broom, although Gideon more than deserves it.
  Stan: Soos, broom.
  Gideon: Oh no, not the broom!
  • He also planned on punching Robbie in the face when he and Dipper manage to confirm that the emo teen guitar player was brainwashing Wendy with a song.
  Stan: (gleefully) Finally a good reason to punch a teenager in the face!
  • He's also stated a desire to physically harm Pacifica Northwest in "The Golf War".
  Stan: Soos, is it wrong for me to punch a child?
• Younger Than He Looks: Mild example. He's improbably (but not impossibly) 58 or, at most, in his mid-sixties. Darlene mistakes him for over seventy. It's only that noticeable as he has an identical twin brother who is in significantly better shape^note  though it is possible that time moves differently beyond the portal and that Stanford is actually younger, while Stan wound up with a lot more grey hair and health issues due to a life of stress, on-and-off poverty, and the resulting bad habits. On top of that, he has Fat Slob tendencies and has a tendency to be extremely lazy around the Shack.
• You Can't Go Home Again: Grunkle Stan's situation in his youth after being kicked out becomes even more tragic given the fact that he had gotten himself banned from New Jersey, his own home. Even if by some miracle he had managed to get out of destitution and made the money to get his parents' approval and forgiveness, his own mistakes means that he cannot ever come back home without the risk of being arrested.

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Mystery Shack Employees

Soos Ramirez

Jesus "Soos" Alzamirano Ramirez

"My wisdom is both a blessing and a curse."

Voiced By: Alex Hirsch

"I have a new mission now. Protecting these kids!"

Handyman at the Mystery Shack. Soos often accompanies Dipper and Mabel on their adventures. He's goofy and acts much like One of the Kids, though you'll find he's actually quite intelligent. He represents the question mark on the Zodiac.

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• Acrofatic: "The Legend of the Gobblewonker" shows that Soos is capable of running faster than the Gobblewonker while carrying Dipper and Mabel without even breaking a sweat or going out of breath.
  • His agility may be explained by the fact that he practiced martial arts (apparently Karate) when he was younger, as seen in a picture at Abuelita's home.
• Action Survivor: As evidenced in "The Legend of the Gobblewonker" and later during Weirdmageddon.
• A Day in the Limelight: He's the Tagalong Adult / Token Adult in most episodes, but "Soos and the Real Girl" and "Blendin's Game" focus on him specifically.
• Affably Evil: Even when he's temporarily turned into a zombie with a hunger for human flesh, he's still as cheerful and laid-back as ever.
  Zombie!Soos: Braiiiiins! Braiiiiiiins!
  Mabel: SOOS! Cut it out!
  Zombie!Soos: Heh, heh! Sorry, dude.
• Agent Mulder: Quick to believe the supernatural happenings in Gravity Falls when Dipper raises his own suspicions, such as believing the local Mailman to be a werewolf.
• Amazon Chaser: If the drawing of his dream woman from the "Mailbox" short is any indicator.
• Ambiguously Brown: Averted; he was this at first when Alex Hirsch stated that his real first name was Jesus (which is a Hispanic name), but in season 2, his full name is confirmed to be Jesus Alzamirano Ramirez, which makes it pretty obvious that he's Latino. According to Alex Hirsch, he's half Mexican, with a white father and a Mexican mother.
• Ascended Fanboy: Loves working for the Mystery Shack and Stan, and he even makes fan fiction about the crazy mysteries that happen around Gravity Falls while also living them. In the Grand Finale, he becomes the Mystery Shack's new owner with Melody working with him.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: He's easily distracted by a laser pointer in "Double Dipper."
• Awesome Moment of Crowning: Post-Weirdmageddon, he succeeds Stan as Mr. Mystery. This includes receiving the hat.
• Badass Driver: He comes in clutch on multiple occasions when the twins need to escape from or head towards the mystery of the week, be it with his truck, boat, or bus.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: The reason he's so loyal to Stan is because Stan unintentionally stepped up as a Parental Substitute by hiring Soos as his handyman after Soos had realized his real dad was never going to come home.
• Berserk Button: He very rarely gets angry, but he's rather sensitive to people pointing out his weight, as alluded to in "Fight Fighters" and displayed more clearly in "The Land Before Swine."
• Beware the Silly Ones: Despite being an overall ditz and Cloudcuckoolander, he has proven himself to be very useful on occasion. And as "Not What He Seems" can attest, he was willing to fight Stan, whom he viewed as a father figure, to protect the kids.
• Big Beautiful Man: In-Universe, Mabel scores every man in Gravity Falls on a scale of 1 to 5. Soos gets a 12.
  Soos: My grandma was right all along. I am the world's most perfect man. (Light falls upon him as three birds land on him)
  Voice: TOTAL HUNK
• Big Eater: Soos is, more often than not, seen eating something, whether he's doing maintenance at the Mystery Shack or adventuring with the twins. The scene where he's first introduced features him eating a chocolate bar.
• Big Fun: He's plus sized and always willing to spend time with Dipper and Mabel.
• Birds of a Feather:
  • He and his date (and eventual girlfriend) Melody are both overweight, lighthearted, fun-loving goofballs. They hit it off effortlessly.
  • A platonic version with Mabel—while he's close with both of the twins, he's much more similar to her. They both have Cloudcuckoolander tendencies that sometimes inconvenience those around them, but are also intelligent in their own ways and quite competent when necessary. They both also eat a lot, love to hug, and don't always recognize sarcasm.
• Birthday Hater: He doesn't "hate" his birthday exactly, but having a party does bring back the painful memory from when he was twelve and realized his father, who had left him when he was four years old, was never coming back. However, after seeing how much Dipper and Mabel care about him, he stops dwelling on his father and accepts the twins as his real family.
• Break the Comedian: Usually the amiably goofy, kind-hearted Cloud Cuckoo Lander of the Mystery Shack. However, in "Blendin's Game," he finds himself uncharacteristically depressed on his birthday and unable to join in any of the party games. It turns out that his dad continuously promised to return and spend time with him on his birthday, only to remain a no-show except for a postcard. Thankfully, Dipper and Mabel are able to cheer him up at the end of the episode by using the wish they won in Globnar to give him a happy birthday.
• Breakout Character: His role has increased substantially as the show has gone on.
• Broken Pedestal: Even he was horrified by Stan's duplicity, and was willing to stop him from carrying out his plan.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He might not be the brightest, but he seems to be a pretty good handyman. "Fixin' It With Soos" shorts show him pimping out a broken cuckoo clock and augmenting a golf cart with illegal rocket boosters that give it enough power to go airborne.
• Butt-Monkey: Frequently the butt of slapstick shenanigans.
• Cannot Talk to Women: Incredibly awkward on the dating scene, mostly due to freezing up and saying whatever absurd thing pops into his head when he's nervous. Only Melody, who's almost as shy as he is, can manage to coax him into a full conversation.
• Captain Obvious: He often points out the blatantly obvious.
  Soos: In my opinion, this is an axe.
• Chuunibyou: He displays traits of this in the first episode, acting like a guardian of esoteric knowledge. This gets exaggerated in the shorts "Fixin' It With Soos."
• Cloudcuckoolander: Much like Mabel, he often goes off on odd tangents. In "Soos and the Real Girl," he admits that he usually just says whatever pops into his head.
• The Conscience: Surprisingly often, as seen in "Legend of the Gobblewonker" and "The Time Traveler's Pig."
  Old Man McGucket: You just don't know the length us old-timers go through for a little quality time with our family.
  (Dipper and Mabel look at the fishing hats Grunkle Stan gave them and sigh)
  Soos: Dude, I guess the real lake monster is you two. Heh, heh! Sorry, it just like, boom, just popped into my head there.
  • In "Time Traveler's Pig"
    Soos: And here we have Miserable Mabel, the girl whose dreams were shattered by a heartless jerk. Oh, hey, Dipper!
• The Constant: If a cryptogram in Amphibia is to be believed, there's a Soos in every dimension, displayed in the show itself with its rather aptly named Frog Soos.
• Crazy-Prepared: He gives Dipper a baseball bat in "Tourist Trapped" just in case he sees a piñata.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Soos may be wacky and seemingly dumb, but he is always ready to rise when the situation calls for it.
  • Epitomized in Weirdmageddon where he has been traveling the countryside helping other survivors.
    Soos: Apparently there are, like, folk songs about me now.
• Cuddle Bug: He's quite the huggable dude. He hugs the twins often, and attempts to initiate an unwanted group hug in "Dreamscaperers," admitting that he never knows when the time is right. In Gravity Falls: Dipper's and Mabel's Guide to Mystery and Nonstop Fun!, Mabel says of Soos, "Soos is like a giant anime panda creature that makes the forests grow and lets you sleep on his tummy."

  Soos: Guys, if I die, I wanna die hugging.

• Disappeared Dad: "Blendin's Game" reveals that Soos's dad left when he was four.
• Family of Choice: How he sees the Pines family, and vice-versa.
• Fan Disservice: He's been shown shirtless a few times, like in the "Stan's Tattoo" short and "The Golf War". And in one of the "Fixin' It With Soos" shorts, he is at one point shown wearing nothing except boxers while saying "Hey, you" to the camera and winking.
  Stan: Soos, I will pay you to put your shirt back on.
• Fat Idiot: Most of the time. It's downplayed, though. He isn't unintelligent so much as ditzy and socially awkward.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Phlegmatic: Observant, reliable, and reactionary.
• Friend to All Children: He gets along pretty well with Dipper and Mabel. He even wants to have seven kids himself, just so he can have one to love every day of the week.
• Genius Ditz: At first glance you would think he's a Fat Idiot, and he kind of is. But he's also very observant and knows more about the Gravity Falls's weirdness than most other characters. "Fixin' it With Soos" shows that he's also a very good handyman, modifying a broken golf cart into a rocket car and a broken cuckoo clock into...a really awesome thing that wasn't a clock anymore. This is on top of still retaining some sentience when zombified.
• Gentle Giant: Tall and stocky, with strength to match, and one of the kindest characters in the show.
• Gleeful and Grumpy Pairing: The lovable goofball Soos usually pals around with Dipper, who tends to quite snarky and serious most of the time.
• Handyman: His official job and position at the Mystery Shack.
  • Even after Weirdmageddon begins, Soos's commitment to his work is so strong that he vows to fix the ruins of the town with his bare hands. Two days later, he's already became a folk hero to the ravaged Gravity Falls as "The Handyman of the Apocalypse," where he was seen "wandering the plains like a desperado, helping strangers" while trying to find his friends.
  Soos: I guess there are some... folk songs about me now?
• Hidden Depths: One of the cryptograms in the online game Rumble's Revenge states that he knows more than he lets on. Bill Cipher, after he and the twins defeat him, outright states this about him.
• Inconsistent Spelling: His name is often misspelled as "Zeus," especially in close captioning. Journal 3 shows that both Dipper and Ford upon meeting him made this exact same mistake.
• Intergenerational Friendship: With Dipper and Mabel.
• Kavorka Man: Somehow managed to get a 12 on Mabel's relationship test in "Mabel's Guide to Dating," despite the ratings scale only going from 1 to 5, giving him the rating of Total Hunk. However, it's subverted in "Soos and the Real Girl" where he has a lot of trouble talking to women until he meets Melody, who he turns out to have a lot in common with.
  • It seems that while Soos knows how to treat a woman on paper, in real life, he finds actually talking to them extremely intimidating. On the same note, Soos is inexperienced with flirting and when he would initiate a conversation, he starts a little too directly or awkwardly.
• Kids Love Dinosaurs: He wore a T-Rex shirt as a child, and his grandma made him dinosaurs cookies to cheer him up.
• Kindhearted Simpleton: Soos can come off as somewhat stupid, but he's kind to everyone.
  • Played with. He may be quite slow or oblivious in some areas, but he really knows his way around repairs. He even fixes up the golf cart with illegal rocket boosters in "Fixin' It With Soos." Though his "repairs" are often eccentric or missing the point, it does prove he's far smarter than his general behavior would indicate.
• LARP: Soos and some of the men in town are into "FCLORP" (Foam and Cardboard Legitimate Outdoor Role-Play).
• Let's Get Dangerous!: When the Gobblewonker attacks, Soos immediately gets serious, grabs Dipper and Mabel, and runs to get them to safety.
• Living Legend: During Weirdmageddon he becomes a beloved folk hero while Walking the Earth and helping anyone he comes across.
• Manchild: Disney's promotions even use that exact word to describe him. In "Gideon Rises," Grunkle Stan compliments him with the phrase "You're a good man...child, Soos."
• Masked Luchador: He dresses up as one in "Summerween." It helps that he's Hispanic.
• Meaningful Name: Although Jesus is a common name in Hispanic countries influenced by Catholicism, it also means "He saves" in Hebrew. Soos has definitely saved the day more than once. Also, the fact that his great respect for the children resembles traditional Christian teaching about Jesus and the little children helps.
• Meta Guy:
  • At one point, when Dipper notes that side characters in horror movies don't usually survive, Soos questions whether he's a side character.
  • He also breaks the fourth wall to comment on fan reactions to plot twists.
• Mundane Object Amazement: Easily impressed by things like laser pointers and battery-operated talking skulls.
• Never Bareheaded: Until "Little Dipper"◊, people thought he was bald.
• New Job as the Plot Demands: After the Mystery Shack closes in "Gideon Rises," Soos starts taking other jobs, including cooking at the diner and driving the bus taking Dipper and Mabel back home. It is implied that he isn't very good at them.
• Nice Guy: He's really nice, especially towards the kids as well as hanging out with them a lot, often shifting into Big Fun.
• Nom de Mom: His father has been confirmed to be Caucasian and his mother Latina, so given his Hispanic last name, this is most likely the case. And with how distant Soos's father is, it's not hard to see why.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Despite his Manchild persona (or perhaps because of it), Soos is more perceptive of the presence of the supernatural in Gravity Falls than many other adults in town. He also understands the dangers of making wild accusations without hard proof and encourages Dipper to carefully investigate the strange goings-on before taking any action.
• Obsessed with Food:
  • In "Dreamscaperers," one of his big questions about chasing Bill through Stan's mind is whether or not he can bring his snacks with him.
  • In "Blendin's Game," he uses the Time Wish to get an infinitely regenerating slice of pizza.
• Older Sidekick: He's a 22-year-old man, but hangs out with 12-year-old kids.
• Omniglot: As well as English and Spanish, he apparently knows Japanese, as he was able to read the kanji on the back of Romance Academy 7.
• One of the Kids: He spends more time hanging out with Dipper and Mabel than he does doing his actual job, and he treats them as genuine equals.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Storyboards from "The Legend of the Gobblewonker" confirm that Soos is short for Jesus (pronounced the Spanish way, "hay-SOOS", after his namesake Jesus Chambrot), and then outright shown in "Blendin's Game" after the twins look at one of his licences.
• Only One Name: Usually just referred to as "Soos," although it's revealed in "Blendin's Game" that his full name is Jesus Alzamirano Ramirez.
• Our Zombies Are Different: When he was zombified, he retained a surprising amount of his sentience.
• Out-of-Character Moment: Soos is generally very hard to annoy, but when Wendy literally throws his favorite song out of a moving car, he gives her a very stern "what the hell" look.
• Papa Wolf: A mild example but, when Dipper and Mabel are in trouble, Soos knows to drop the act and be an adult.
  • In "Little Dipper", he actually tries to stop Stan and Mabel from making fun of Dipper; he's much more on the ball than people think.
  • Shown again in "Soos and the Real Girl" when he is having to defend Melody, Dipper, and Mabel from the .GIFfany-controlled animatronics. He outright takes it upon himself to go into the fray so that the others can get away and sacrifices a life spent in .GIFfany's game where she will unconditionally love him by melting the disc. Say what you will about the man, but he can nut up when he has to.
  • Easily the most shining example of this is in "Not What He Seems." The second it becomes clear Grunkle Stan's plans are genuinely dangerous and that he may not even be Stan Pines, despite his own Undying Loyalty, Soos steps in and physically stops the closest thing he has to a father figure to protect Dipper and Mabel. Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass indeed.
  Soos: Sorry, Mr. Pines - if that is your real name - but I have a new mission now. Protecting these kids!
• Parental Neglect: His father abandoned Soos with his abuelita when he was four and has thereafter only communicated with him via the occasional birthday postcard, which, combined with the never-realized promises to return, eventually made Soos hate his own birthday.
• Passing the Torch: Receives the title of the new Mr. Mystery in the Grand Finale, when Stan leaves to reconnect with Ford.
• Person as Verb: He does it to himself in one episode. "Guess I kinda Soos-ed that one up, huh?"
• Raised by Grandparents: Abuelita has been raising Soos since he was at least nine years old, in the absence of his mother and neglectful father.
• Scars Are Forever: According to Journal 3, Soos still has a scar that Ford easily identified as a zombie bite.
• Sarcasm-Blind: A lot of characters, Stan in particular, tend to make snarky comments at his expense. Not that he notices. This is a trait he shares with Mabel.
• Serious Business: Soos deems Old Man McGucket's ignorance of anime a pressing need to be remedied during the construction of the Shacktron; teaching the old inventor about anime is nestled into a Hard-Work Montage that also includes reanimating a t-rex and punching out a tree with a mech arm.
• Sibling Rivalry: With his older cousin Reggie; it doesn't seem to be outright hostile, but Soos acknowledges openly that the guy's a jerk. The fact that Reggie's dated more women than he has (and is engaged to be married) is also an uncomfortable blow to his self-esteem.
• Signature Headgear: Soos is always seen wearing a brown cap. He trades it in for Stanley's trademark fez.
• Smarter Than You Look: Soos is definitely smarter than his Cloudcuckoolander personality and disposition would suggest.
  • He's a mechanical genius, having designed an Applause-O-Meter and turned a broken golf cart into a rocket car. His mechanical finesse shines in the Fixin' It with Soos shorts.
  • In "The Love God," he convinces Stan that it'd be more financially sensible to make profits off the Woodstick Festival's "kale-munching" hippies (Stan's words) than to shoot them down. He also points out that Stan's hot air balloon has the flame too close to the kerosene, which winds up causing it to crash.
  • He apparently possesses at least some knowledge about pterosaur biology. In "The Land Before Swine," his advice to the twins to follow him in a straight line, as the pterodactyl's eyes are "so far apart" that it cannot see directly in front of itself, winds up saving them.
• Stout Strength: He has a fairly physically-demanding job, but doesn't seem to struggle, despite his weight.
• Tagalong Kid: Inverted. It's the three kids, Dipper, Mabel and Wendy, who are in control. Soos just comes along for their adventures. Later deconstructed when Dipper is reluctant to let Soos go on an adventure because he's accident-prone.
• Token Adult: As stated above, he fills this role whenever he goes on adventures with Dipper, Mabel, and Wendy.
• True Companions: With the Pines family. He's been working for Stan ever since he was 12 and states that he would do anything for them. He even gives up on seeing his deadbeat father once he hears everything Dipper and Mabel did for him, even calling them family.
• Tuckerization: Soos' middle name and surname are a reference to storyboard artist Alonso Ramirez Ramos.
• Verbal Tic: Soos says the word "Dude" a lot.
• Vocal Dissonance: He sounds very adultlike like as a child.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: Famously in "The Legend of the Gobblewonker" when he fears he might be a side character and will die in the first five minutes. In reality, he gets the fourth-most focus out of all characters.
• Younger Than They Look: He could be mistaken for being in his late twenties or early thirties, but is only in his early twenties, being 22.

Wendy Corduroy

Wendy Blerble Corduroy

"Later, dorks."

Voiced By: Linda Cardellini, Amory Watterson (young)

"We're women, and we take what we want!"

A teenager who works at the Mystery Shack. Dipper happens to have a crush on her. She relishes the chance to go on adventures with the twins. She represents the bag of ice on the Zodiac for being cool in the face of danger.

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• Action Girl: The biggest one on the show next to Mabel. Her signature weapon is an axe, but she's also quite skilled with a crossbow.
  • In "Into the Bunker," she scales a tree using her belt and fights a shapeshifting monster.
  • In "The Last Mabelcorn," Wendy leads the girls into a brutal fistfight with the unicorns.
  • The Weirdpocalypse finds her having survived by herself through her father's rigorous apocalypse survival training. Among her actions are utilizing Badass Driver skills to escape angry inmates cornering her and Dipper in the junkyard and jumping on the back of an eye-demon to shoot its eyebeams at Bill's Henchmaniacs.
• Action Survivor: In "Weirdmageddon," she's the only one of her friends besides Dipper to not be captured or missing, and helps Dipper steal a car, beat up Gideon's goons, and go to rescue Mabel. Justified, because her father made her and her brothers train for the apocalypse.
• Ambiguously Absent Parent: We've seen her dad and brothers, but her mom isn't even mentioned. Someone asked Alex Hirsch about this and he responded "Alas Wendy's mom is no longer with her."
• Apathetic Clerk: Spends more time slacking off with her friends and lazing about than working the register.
• Artistic Age: She's quite tall despite being 15. Her friends (one of which has an arm covered in tribal tattoos) make things more confusing. Stan actually calls her as tall as a grown woman because of her "freak lumberjack genes." Given how much of a burly giant her father, Manly Dan is, it's clear Wendy's height is from his side of the family.
  • In "Double Dipper", she's shown to have always been tall for her age, being a good three heads taller than her three brothers until they hit the pubescent growth spurt. They're now as tall as most teenagers despite being her younger brothers and it's likely they'll grow to be as large as Dan himself.
• The Baby of the Bunch: Of her friend group. She's explicitly stated to be 15, whereas her friends are strongly implied to be somewhere in the 16-18 range (Nate has tattoos and Thompson can drive without supervision). Unusually for this trope, she's also more or less the de-facto leader of the group, as she's usually the one who leads whatever shenanigans they get into, and is The Face with her outgoing personality.
• Badass Boast: Flat-out tells Gideon during Weirdmageddon that his plans for the imprisoned Mabel aren't going to work because "after I break Ghost-Eyes' arm and steal that key from your neck, I'm gonna wear your butt on my foot like a rhinestone slipper." And then she immediately delivers on it.
• Badass Normal: Wendy may be laid-back, but she's "a flippin' CORDUROY!" She has hand-to-hand combat skills and is an expert with an axe. It's best shown in "Into the Bunker" where she climbs up a tree effortlessly with her belt and beats up the shapeshifter, and during the events of "Weirdmageddon," where she survives on her own and can use a crossbow, quickly breaks free and armlocks the muscular Ghost-Eyes, and fearlessly jumps atop a Floating Eyeball monster and petrifies a henchmaniac's head.
• Beauty Equals Goodness: She's physically attractive, and one of the nicest and most laid-back characters of the series.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted; whenever there's a skirmish, Wendy (like the other female characters) will sustain as much injury or damage as the show's male characters. Instances include "Into the Bunker," during "Weirdmageddon," and "The Last Mabelcorn," the latter episode having her sport a full-on black eye after a fight. She also uses the bathroom (off-screen) in "Double Dipper."
• Better as Friends: With Dipper as of "Into the Bunker".
• Beware the Nice Ones: She can be quite confrontational when she needs to be, especially when it comes to aiding Dipper or Mabel, as shown in episodes like "Into the Bunker" and "The Last Mabelcorn".
• Big Eater: The girl can put it away. She's frequently seen eating (usually junk food of some sort) while working at the Mystery Shack, she takes more snacks than is authorized while working temporarily as a lifeguard in "The Deep End", and in "Double Dipper", when Dipper asks her what her favorite snack food is, she replies that she can't pick just one.
• The Big Girl: As of Season 2 — she packs the biggest punch of the heroes.
• Big Sister Instinct: While she is a big sister, she's more often seen in this role with the Pines twins. She regularly helps and protects the twins. In "The Last Mabelcorn," she goes into full-blown attack mode when she sees Mabel get mistreated by a scheming unicorn, and in "Into the Bunker," she shields Dipper from a malevolent shapeshifter.
• Blood Knight: Her reaction to Mabel punching the charlatan unicorn in "The Last Mablecorn," paired with her enthusiasm for getting in on the action, show that she loves a good brawl. In the story "Comix Up" from Gravity Falls: Lost Legends: 4 All-New Adventures!, she's overjoyed about going into a comic book dimension due to the opportunity to be violent with no consequences.
• Boots of Toughness: As part of her standard attire, she wears perpetually muddied boots, and if "The Last Mablecorn" is any indication, she doesn't like taking them off.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: She slacks on the job and is apathetic to it, but when things get serious ("Into the Bunker") her Badass Normal side comes out in full-swing; she becomes quick-witted, flexible, and utterly relentless until she and her friends win.
• Broken Ace: Wendy is an attractive young lady with semi-surprising amounts of strength who's very popular and friendly. However, her dysfunctional family life is a massive source of stress and may explain why she takes any opportunity to hang out with the rest of the gang at the Mystery Shack.
• Character Development: At the beginning of the pilot episode ("Tourist Trapped"), she is entirely apathetic to her job at the Shack and doesn't hesitate to show it. She also has to be bribed by Stan in "Headhunters" to participate in a Mystery Shack event. By the second season, in "Scary-oke", she's willingly and enthusiastically promoting the Mystery Shack's Re-Opening party to the townsfolk. It seems Dipper and Mabel have brought out her more playful and enthusiastic side.
• Childhood Friends: She and Tambry have been friends at least since they were five.
• Cool Big Sis: A surrogate one to Mabel, most notably seen in "Society of the Blind Eye" when she comforts Mabel about her failed romances. It has been said by Alex Hirsch that when he created Wendy, everyone just took the coolest person they knew and mixed them all together.
  • Subverted with Dipper given how their friendship is one of equals (and one can say he's the mature one of the two).
  • Wendy is also a surrogate version of this trope when she interacts and goes on adventures with Mabel's friends, Candy and Grenda, such as in "The Last Mabelcorn."
    Wendy: Honestly, I stopped believing in unicorns when I was like, five years old. I'm just coming along to keep you kids from walking into a bear trap.
• Crazy Survivalist: Instead of celebrating Christmas, she and her family train for the Apocalypse every year. Given the Apocalypse literally happens in "Weirdmageddon", it's a case of Properly Paranoid.
• A Day in the Limelight: "The Inconveniencing," "Into the Bunker," and the Weirdmageddon trilogy give us the biggest glimpses into her character and personal life.
• The Determinator: No matter how tough things get, Wendy refuses to throw in the towel. This is most apparent during Weirdmageddon, where she has not given up on surviving the apocalypse despite her friends and family being petrified. Dipper finds her holed up in the mall, using her survival training to fend for herself.
• Dude Magnet: Heavily implied. Wendy has a long list of ex-boyfriends and she was Dipper's first crush. Though technically, he was her first crush too. Heck, even Bill Cipher (while inside of Dipper's body) hits on her at one point, though whether he's attracted to her or just trying to razz Dipper isn't certain.
• Dysfunctional Family: It is revealed in "Society of the Blind Eye" that Wendy's family causes her to be stressed, underneath her outwardly calm and cool personality.
• Embarrassing Middle Name: Half-jokingly confirmed by Alex Hirsch to be Blerble.
• Farmer's Daughter: Or rather, a lumberjack's daughter, but she fits the trope aptly enough; she's an attractive young woman pined after by more than one male character, who grew up in the backwoods and is resultantly handy with an axe, proficient in activities associated with her father's profession, and able to spit with the best of them. Not to mention that her attire includes boots, and she sported overalls and Girlish Pigtails when she was younger.
• Fiery Redhead: Zig-Zagged; she's the only redhead and the calmest and most laid-back character of the main cast, but with how stressed she actually is underneath her relaxed exterior, some fire leaks out from time to time.
• Forgotten First Meeting: According to Alex Hirsch, Wendy first met Robbie at a birthday party during the fifth grade. He pulled one of her pigtails, and she punched him in the face, chipping a tooth. While Wendy does not remember this, Robbie does. She also very briefly met a time-traveling Dipper when she was five, and thought he was cute.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Phlegmatic: Calm and collected, but lazy.
• Girlish Pigtails: Wore them when she was◊ younger.
• Girls Like Musicians: Part of why she liked Robbie was because he can play guitar. She ends up dumping him when a song he claimed to have written for her turned out to be a hypnotizing track written by someone else.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Is excited when Dipper tries to win her a plush panda/duck hybrid at the Mystery Shack Fair, and has a few stuffed animals in her room.
• Good Bad Girl: A G-rated (probably) version. She's a mischievous, rebellious teenage girl with an outgoing, Ladette-ish personality. She's open about having dated more guys than she can count on one hand, and is also very kind, protective, humble, and by far one of the nicest characters on the show.
• Good Is Not Soft: Wendy's a Nice Girl, but mistreat her or her friends and all bets are off.
  • When a shapeshifter deceives her, Dipper, Mabel, and Soos in "Into the Bunker," Wendy states, "He took us into his home, tricked us, and tried to destroy us. I say we return the favor," right before devising a plan to do so.
  • In "The Last Mabelcorn," she also doesn't take kindly to a unicorn stringing Mabel along, and likewise comes up with a plan "the Wendy way" to get what they came for.
• Hidden Depths: She's normally very passive, though she can be quite insightful. She's also very opinionated when it comes to the music industry, believing groups like Sev'ral Timez to be vapid, meaningless cash-grabs.
  • She also may be more ambitious than expected. When Alex was asked which character would be into which Hogwarts house, Wendy would be sorted into Slytherin. Whether or not Alex was being serious is a different matter, though.
• Hipster: Shows shades of this. She expresses an interest in up-and-coming indie bands in "The Love God," voices a disdain for what she refers to as the "bloated corporate music industry" in "Boyz Crazy," and is frequently seen reading a magazine called Indie Fuzz.
• Huge School Girl: As Grunkle Stan described in this podcast: "Wendy, the fifteen-year-old who's tall like a grown woman 'cause of freak lumberjack genes."
• Humble Hero: Wendy has all the traits of an Ace—she's friendly, popular, talented, athletic, and highly competent during a fight or on an adventure. Both of the twins look up to her. Still, she's a laid-back girl who isn't one to brag. In "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back the Falls," when Ford says he needs someone who's cool in the face of danger to step into the Zodiac wheel, Wendy's friends start chanting her name and she responds with a nonchalant smirk and "Shut up, you guys." When Dipper tells her she's the coolest person he knows, she just says, "I know, dude. Tell me about it later." She also seems pretty humble about her appearance.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: In "The Inconveniencing," she hits Thompson directly in the belly button with a jellybean from numerous paces away.
• Indifferent Beauty: She's apparently a looker (as evidenced by the fact that she's a Dude Magnet), yet she's very kind, down-to-earth, and seems rather humble about her appearance, as we never see her focus on it or use it to her advantage.
• Jerkass Ball: She takes extreme advantage of Mabel's selflessness during the latter's temporary tenure as boss in "Boss Mabel" by letting her friends completely trash the Mystery Shack and refusing to help Mabel at all. Given how consistently supportive and protective Wendy is of Mabel, her behavior in this episode is quite out-of-character.
• The Lad-ette: A Disney-friendly version sans the sex and alcohol (maybe—she does mention a long list of ex-boyfriends and another time talks about attending a Wild Teen Party). She loves a good brawl, sits with her legs apart, gives friendly arm punches (especially to Dipper) quite often, and is thrilled in "Weirdmageddon: Part 1" at the prospect of driving a tank.
• Lazy Bum: She has no work ethic and spends most of her time lazing out around the Mystery Shack.
• The Leader: She's this to her friend group of other teens. She tends to be very outgoing and it's implied that she's the one who plans the group's mischief.
  Wendy: [about going to the abandoned convenience store)] Let's hurry it up, guys. I got big plans for tonight!
• Lesser Star: Wendy is part of the main cast although she does have less episodes and even story focus than the other characters. While she has a solid character, most of the episodes that have her center around Dipper's summer romance arc.
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl: A very downplayed example and one that's zig-zagged all over the place, but her dynamic with Dipper has some shades of this. Wendy, who starts off as a Satellite Love Interest for Dipper, is very rebellious and outgoing, and both intentionally and inadvertently brings out Dipper's more daring side, by doing things such as encouraging him to bend the rules (e.g., in "Scary-oke," she encourages a hesitant Dipper to break into Stan's room to get something he needed, and states that the possibility of getting caught is part of the thrill). Dipper's desire to appear cool around her also causes him to break out of his normally introverted and cautious personality. Interestingly, it's Wendy who tells Dipper in "Into the Bunker" (after he confesses his feelings to her) that it's him who has livened up her life.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy:
  • The Masculine Girl to Robbie's Feminine Boy; she's a Lad-ette who's implied to get over relationships fairly quickly while he's more melodramatic and also something of a Dandy.
  • She's likewise the Masculine Girl to Dipper's Feminine Boy, albeit to a lesser degree; she's more boisterous, athletic, and reckless than the generally reserved, nerdy, and cautious Dipper (though he does become more outgoing as the series goes on and has displayed athletic feats more than once). All things considered however, Dipper is a Guile Hero who tends to use violence as a last resort whereas Wendy is an Action Girl who likes to fight.
• Meaningful Name: Her name, when short for the Welsh name Gwendolen/Gwendolyn, means "white, fair, blessed"—pretty fitting given Wendy's pale complexion and (seeming) status as the show's Ace. It's also the name of a major character in Peter Pan, and in this context it came from "fwendy", which was a mispronunciation of the word "friendy" (friend) by a child whom the author was close with. A friend is what Wendy ultimately tells Dipper she wants to stay with him.
• Mighty Lumberjack: Not to the extent of her father, but she can hold her own with an axe and she excelled at lumberjack games when she was younger.
• Missing Mom: Wendy isn't often seen with her family but appears in several photos alongside her father and brothers. In these instances her mother is always mysteriously absent. Whilst Alex Hirsch states that Wendy's mother is no longer with her, it has never been confirmed what really happened to her.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: She breaks the arm of a guy three times her size. Because she's "a flippin' Corduroy".
• Nerves of Steel:
  • During "The Inconveniencing," Wendy is the only character who doesn't panic once (she's scared, but she can still think straight).
  • Displayed again in "Into the Bunker," where she remains relatively calm the entire time she is under the attack of the Shapeshifter, even taking the time to tend to one of her injuries.
  • To drive it home, during "Weirdmageddon," she winds up representing the ice pack on the Zodiac due to her ability to be cool in the face of danger.
• Nice Girl: Despite her flaws in being The Slacker and a troublemaking personality, she's a good person at heart.
  • She doesn't look down on the twins for being younger, she's quick to comfort them when they're down, and she always jumps at the chance to lend them a hand, whether it's playing look-out for Dipper or accompanying Mabel and friends on a potentially dangerous journey to obtain a unicorn hair. There's no implication that she aids the twins out of anything other than pure altruism, which is saying something considering Wendy's unapologetic slackerness.
  • She's well-aware that Dipper is completely infatuated with her and would likely do anything she wants or asks, but she never takes advantage of the situation. Being the lover of mischief that she is, she'll occasionally encourage Dipper to bend the rules for fun, but never for her own benefit. When Dipper accidentally confesses because of the situation, she is not bothered. While she initially tries to play it off, when she sees how much he's distressed, she lets him down gently and is shown to be genuinely flattered by it.
  • She's the first to verbally give Soos a shot of confidence in "Soos and the Real Girl" when he's feeling down about the state of his love life.
  • She may bend Stan's rules and shirk her responsibilities towards him, but she cares for the old guy. In "Soos and the Real Girl," she spends the entire episode snarking at him, but after seeing him incredibly stressed out, she asks him with genuine concern if he needs to talk.
  • In "Society of the Blind Eye," she defends Lazy Susan when Soos makes a joke about the latter's mascara.
• Not So Stoic: Wendy is usually defined by her chill and mellow response to most of the things that come her way, but there are several instances that show that there's plenty of things that can get under her skin.
  • In "Boyz Crazy," when Wendy learns that Robbie stole a song with subliminal messages from another musician she is more angry to learn that he lied to her about writing the song for her in the first place than the thought that the music was brainwashing her. When Dipper tries to talk to her, she points out to Dipper and Stan how all their actions came from selfishness rather than actual concern for her and then she storms off - in tears - to be alone.
  • In "Society of the Blind Eye," the usually mellow Wendy becomes irritated by a summer hit song that she complains about, and later even tosses Soos' CD featuring that song out the window of his truck when she could no longer stand to hear it anymore. To be fair, she almost immediately realized what she did was uncool and told Soos she'd buy him a new one.
  • In "The Love God," she becomes so angered that her long-time friend she's known since at least age five has begun to date her ex that she threatens to tear Tambry's highlights out then refuses - along with Nate and Lee, similarly incensed to learn Tambry and Robbie dating - to attend Woodstick in blind anger against the pleas of Dipper and Thompson. She calms down at the end of the episode when Thompson uses his Butt-Monkey status to bring his friends back together again. On a minor note, in The Stinger to the episode, in one of the photos of Waddles and Gomper's "wedding", Wendy looked visibly irked after Soos shoved into her face while she was eating a piece of the wedding cake in order to catch the bouquet.
  • In "The Last Mabelcorn," Wendy decides to use force to get the badly needed unicorn hair after the unicorn refuses on the grounds that Mabel isn't pure of heart, and later opens up a can of whoopass on them.
• One of the Boys: She's best friends with a girl named Tambry (whom she's known since childhood), but most of her other friends are guys, and she has a Ladette personality to boot.
  • Wendy is actually a Deconstruction of this trope. At the beginning of "Boyz Crazy," she smugly agrees with Dipper when he scoffs at Mabel and her friends' FanGirl behavior over Sev'ral Timez—yet at the end of the episode, after finding out that Robbie brainwashed her and when Dipper tries to take advantage of the situation, she reacts very emotionally and accuses guys of only thinking about themselves, showing that despite her tomboyishness, she's a girl nevertheless with stereotypically feminine feelings. She's also stated that she works at the Mystery Shack to avoid her family, and reveals in "Society of the Blind Eye" that being the only girl in a family of hypermasculine lumberjacks has had devastating effects on her stress levels, which is why she constantly puts on a relaxed front. Interestingly enough, this may explain why she's drawn to guys not "traditionally masculine" such as her brief relationship with Robbie and her close friendship with Dipper.
• One of the Kids: Not as much as Soos, but she has some traits of it. Either Downplayed or Justified in that she's only a few years older than the twins. She seems to resent growing up to some degree. When Mabel runs into her at her school registration in "Dipper and Mabel vs. the Future," she rants about how awful high school and puberty are, and remarks that she'd rather be 12 again.
• Only Sane Woman: To an extent. She's sometimes the voice of reason among her peers (which gives her a commonality with Dipper) while other times, she is just as crazy as the rest of them.
  • In "Society of the Blind Eye," she's quick to explain to Mabel why the latter using a memory-erasing device to erase memories of failed relationships isn't a good idea.
  • In "Soos and the Real Girl," she spends the whole episode snarking at and attempting to deflate Stan's crazy obsession with an animatronic badger from a local pizzeria, a device that she tries (and fails) to dissuade him from stealing.
• Outdoorsy Gal:
  • Befitting a lumberjack's daughter, she's proficient in and seems to enjoy outdoor activities. In "The Inconviencing," she slides down two trees effortlessly to get down from the Mystery Shack's roof. "Into the Bunker" shows that she's just as good at climbing trees as she is at getting down them, and in "Fight Fighters," she mentions going camping with her family.
  • Her bedspread also has pine trees on it, and her bedroom is filled with outdoorsy decor.
• Out of Focus: Of the five main characters, she has the least amount of screen-time of all. This is becoming remedied with her joining the twins on more adventures in Season 2, but even then, she is not showcased with the rest as much.
• The Prankster: While not displayed on-screen very often, it's implied that she loves a good prank. We see her and Dipper play pranks on pool patrons during their stints as lifeguard and assistant lifeguard, respectively. In "Weirdmageddon 2: Escape from Reality," while in Mabeland, she lets her desire to prank her school principal get the best of her.
  Nate: Wanna drive this truck to the high school and glue this plunger to the principal's head?
  Wendy: (Eyes sparkling) Yes. Yes I do. Sorry, guys, I've always wanted to do that. I'll be back in just a few minutes. [gets in truck]
• Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: "'Cause I'm a flippin' CORDUROY!" precedes a beatdown of a hulking inmate three times her size.
• Precocious Crush: The subject of one from Dipper. Also had one when she was five years old, on...Dipper, thanks to time travel.
• Pubescent Braces: She had them when she was younger, as shown here◊.
• Raised by Dudes: Alex Hirsch never stated exactly how long Wendy's mom has been gone, but it's safe to assume that it's been a while since she was never mentioned even once on the show. We do see that in the picture of Wendy with her pigtails and braces that her youngest brother is in diapers, and given the average young age of braces is 9, she was likely near the end of grade school when her mother was gone. It would also explain how Wendy developed her Ladette-ish personality with only her father and three younger brothers.
• Really Gets Around: A G-Rated version; Wendy has a hefty list of old boyfriends, including one she isn't even sure if she's broken up with or not.
• Redhead In Green: Her standard attire includes a green flannel shirt. Dipper also imagines her wearing a form-fitting green dress during his Imagine Spots in "Double Dipper."
• Resentful Outnumbered Sibling: Wendy has three brothers and is stressed about being surrounded by hypermasculine lumberjacks. The names of her brothers from oldest to youngest are Marcus, Kevin, and Gus.
• Rousing Speech: Gives one in "The Last Mabelcorn" when she, Candy, and Grenda decide to implement a secret plan to obtain a unicorn hair:
  Wendy: Look, it's time we stop trying to be so "perfect" and be who we really are. We're crazed, angry, sweaty animals! We're not unicorns, we're WOMEN! AND WE TAKE WHAT WE WANT! (punches a tree)
• Satellite Love Interest: Downplayed as Wendy does have a solid personality. However, most of her screentime and story involvement centers around Dipper's summer romance arc. This does change a bit in the last couple episodes after Wendy tells him that she kinda already knew about his crush on her and the two start to form a more solid partnership/friendship together, especially in the Weirdmageddon episodes.
• Servile Snarker: Wendy is often this to Grunkle Stan.
• Signature Headgear: Rarely seen without her trapper hat. She gives it to Dipper in the finale as something to remember her by; in exchange she now owns Dipper's hat.
• Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: Due to the art style it's usually impossible to tell the characters' eye colors, but Wendy's are green as confirmed by Alex Hirsch.
• The Slacker:
  • She states in "The Inconveniencing" that she "may or may not" sneak up onto the Mystery Shack's roof during her work hours...all the time, every day.
  • In Gravity Falls: Dipper and Mabel's Guide to Mystery and Nonstop Fun!, she writes this:
    Hey, guys. So Dipper asked me to write about relaxing, but what he calls "relaxing" is what I call "slacking." The first rule of slacking is not doing work. And writing something for someone else sounds a lot like work. So I'm taking the day off instead and accepting Stan's bribe to let him have the next few pages so he can write...
• Statuesque Stunner: Is stated to be tall for her age, and has had no shortage of boys interested in her.
• Stepford Smiler: Despite her upbeatness and apparent confidence, she states in "Society of the Blind Eye" that her laid-back demeanor is a facade she puts on to hide the stress from dealing with her boisterous family.
• Stepford Snarker: Downplayed. Wendy is passively snarky, lazy, and has an apathetic outward attitude. This may be a front since she's actually very stressed underneath it all.
• Super-Strength: Mentioned above in Muscles Are Meaningless. Clearly, she got it from her dad.
• Take That!: She hates the modern music industry, especially boy bands, for their engineered business-dominated practices.
• Tank-Top Tomboy: Lad-ette Wendy sports this look in "The Last Mabelcorn," "Into the Bunker" (when she fights the Shape-Shifter), and during Weirdmageddon.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl:
  • The Tomboy to Mabel's Girly Girl. Wendy's into things like tree climbing, pranking, indie rock bands, and zombie flicks, while Mabel likes knitting, bejeweling, boy bands, and teen romance movies. Though the two of them have some notable things in common—they both adore stuffed animals, enjoy the outdoors, and love to brawl. Hanging out with Mabel tends to bring out Wendy's girlier side.
  • She's also the Tomboy to her friend Tambry's Girly Girl. While not immediately obvious, Wendy wears flannel shirts and tends to be as rowdy and mischievous as the guys, whereas Tambry wears a skirt, dyes her hair and spends almost all of her time texting.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She revels in pranking and mischief, has a One of the Boys demeanor and manner of speech, is very experienced in outdoors- and lumberjack-related activities, and loves to brawl. She also loves cute things, as evidenced by how she lets out a Squee when Dipper does the Lamby Lamby Dance in "The Inconveniencing," and by the fact that she likes stuffed animals. Not to mention that she has extremely long hair and wears makeup (as stated in "Boyz Crazy"). And despite her One of the Boys vibe, she does get quite emotional, especially about relationships. Her girlier side tends to come out when she's around Mabel, as the two of them do things together like engage in random dance parties ("The Inconviencing") and angrily defend Lazy Susan's make-up when Soos makes fun of it ("Society of the Blind Eye").
• Took a Level in Badass: Wendy is understandably caught off-guard by her first encounter with the supernatural (that she remembers) in "The Inconveniencing" but comes far more prepared in her later adventures.
  • In "Into the Bunker," she brings an axe as a weapon, climbs up a tree trunk using a belt, takes on the Shapeshifter without any hint of fear, protects Dipper, and calmly stops her bleeding by ripping her shirt and using it as a bandage.
  • Later, she helps kick the ass of the unicorns who were scamming Mabel.
  • She moves into full Action Survivor status in "Weirdmageddon Part 1," leading a resistance against Bill Cipher and even breaking Ghost Eyes' arm.
• Totally Radical: She includes "dude" and "man" in almost every sentence she utters, and sometimes uses cheesy slang.
  Wendy: This is so, stupid cool!
• Town Girls: The athletic, axe-wielding, Ladette-ish Butch to Pacifica's vain Alpha Bitch Femme and Mabel's hardy, adventurous Girly Bruiser Neither.
• The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: Her father◊ is a giant of a man, but as far as Dipper is concerned, she's a babe.
• Unabashed B-Movie Fan: In the opening of "Into the Bunker," she and Dipper enjoy a cheesy, clearly low-budget zombie movie called Nearly Almost Dead But Not Quite! It's a fitting choice of film for them both given her affinity for indie things and Dipper's nerdy, eccentric interests.
• Walking Swimsuit Scene: During "The Deep End", when she's working as a lifeguard.
• Younger Than They Look: As stated by Stan, she's a fifteen-year-old who's tall like a grown woman, courtesy of her "freak lumberjack genes." Her father and brothers are the same.
• Youthful Freckles: The only thing about her appearance that is remotely childish. Without them, she could easily pass for an adult.

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Animals

Waddles

Waddles

"Greetings, friends. It is I, Waddles the pig."

Voiced By: Dee Bradley Baker, Neil Degrasse Tyson (As Genius Waddles)

Mabel's beloved pet pig. She wins him at the Mystery Shack's fair after guessing his weight (which was blatantly given away by his name, Ol' 15-Poundie).

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• Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: In "Summerween" at least, where Mabel dresses him up like a businessman. This later becomes the subject of a Credits Gag involving lolpigs. Also used in one of the Life According To Mabel shorts, where she dresses him in exercize clothes as part of her Jog Hog segment.
• Big Eater: As is typical of cartoon pigs, he's capable of eating quite a lot.
• Black Bead Eyes: His most common trait, along with a few other animals in Gravity Falls. When Soos ends up in his body in "Carpet Diem," his eyes become large with sclera around the pupils. The same thing happens with Dipper, and later, Mabel.
• Cuteness Proximity: He has this effect on Mabel, causing her to Squee frequently about him.
• Dub Name Change: The Latin American dub changed his name to "Pato" (Duck).
• Evil-Detecting Dog: In an alternate time line in "The Time Traveler's Pig," Pacifica wins him, but he refuses to go with her, a sharp contrast to how he usually acts towards everyone else.
• Extreme Omnivore: Like with real-life pigs, Waddles often attempts to eat anything he comes across, such as Mabel's shirt, playing cards, a table, a book, napkins...
• Gluttonous Pig: VERY, though it isn't portrayed as a negative trait, except to Stan, when Waddles once ate one of the Mystery Shack's exhibits Stan had built out of corncobs.
• Housepet Pig: He is Mabel's pet pig and lives indoors for his own safety.
• Interspecies Romance:
  • When he temporarily stuck in Soos's body, he ends up romancing and proposing to a woman who came into the Mystery Shack while Soos/Waddles was flailing around, trying to figure out how to move on two legs. Soos is understandably confused when returned to his own body.
  • The episode "The Love God" reveals that thanks to Mabel, Waddles is now married to Gompers, the Mystery Shack's goat.
  • Although the consent of that relationship is debatable, considering they had shown no actual romantic interest in each other and Mabel formed the relationship by duct-taping them together.
• Meaningful Name:
  • "I call him that cause he waddles!"
  • His original name was "Old Fifteen Poundie." Keep in mind that the man who owned him ran a weight-guessing game with the pigs as prizes.
• Messy Pig: Averted; he's shown rolling in mud briefly in "Land Before Swine," but other than that, he's typically clean, as most real-life pigs usually are.
• Pet Heir: Mabel intends to leave everything to Waddles.
• Team Pet: He's Mabel's pig, but the whole cast interacts with him in this way, more or less.
• Spanner in the Works: Had Waddles not jumped out of Mabel's backpack in the Lost Legends story, Don't Dimension It, Mabel would never have realized how bothersome her obnoxious behavior could be at times, and her alternate universe counterparts would have been stuck in Dimension MAB-3L.
• Suddenly Voiced: Builds a combined motor cart/voice modulator for himself while he is a genius in "Little Gift Shop Of Horrors", and he's voiced by Neil deGrasse Tyson, of all people.
• Talking Animal:
  • Mabel thinks he is, since she thought he either said "Mabel" or "Doorbell" when first encountering him. He's really just making pig noises.
  • He actually does speak in "Little Gift Shop of Horrors" when he temporarily becomes a super-genius.
• Uplifted Animal: He becomes a genius for a short while in "Little Gift Shop of Horrors" after eating a magic mushroom.

Gompers

Gompers

A goat usually found on the Mystery Shack property.

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• All There in the Manual: The reason he's at the Shack at all, as a cut scene from "Blendin's Game" would've revealed, is that a tourist to the Mystery Shack attempted to use a baby Gompers as payment, and the goat just stayed there ever since.
• Ambiguously Evil: Bill Cipher claims in his Reddit AMA that Gompers is something more ancient and eldritch than even him. That said, we can never really trust what Bill says, and the show doesn't depict him doing anything particularly malicious, at least directly.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Bill's weirdness wave in "Weirdmageddon Part 1" turns him into a giant version of himself who tramples through the area around the Mystery Shack, forcing Stan to flee for his life.
• Chekhov's Gunman:
  • Plays a very minor but substantial role in the episode "Boyz Crazy," in which him eating Ergman Bratsman's license plate gets the manager arrested.
  • In "Weirdmageddon Part 1", after being turned giant, he eats part of the prison wall, freeing Gideon and his fellow inmates.
• Extreme Omni-Goat: While not as pronounced as other goats in cartoons, Gompers has been seen chewing on things like Mabel's sweater, Stan's fez, license plates, and other random things. In "Weirdmageddon Part 1", as a giant, he even chomps on a prison wall!
• Funny Background Event: Gompers typically does not contribute much to the plots of episodes.
• Interspecies Romance: In "The Love God" Mabel gets him and Waddles the pig married...by duct-taping their bodies together, rendering the relationship somewhat questionable.

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