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[[Characters/GravityFallsMysteryShack The Mystery Shack]] ([[Characters/GravityFallsDipperPines Dipper Pines]] | Mabel Pines | [[Characters/GravityFallsGrunkleStan Grunkle Stan]]) | [[Characters/GravityFallsTheAuthor The Author]] | [[Characters/GravityFallsMainAntagonists Main Antagonists]] | [[Characters/GravityFallsAdults Adults of Gravity Falls]] | [[Characters/GravityFallsYouth Youth of Gravity Falls]] | [[Characters/GravityFallsCreaturesAndOtherOddities Creatures and other Oddities]]-]]]

!!Mabel Pines
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[[caption-width-right:200:''"Don't worry, brother. Whatever happens, I'll be right here, supporting you every step of the–[[AttentionDeficitOohShiny OH MY GOSH A PIG!!!!!]]"'']]
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/KristenSchaal

->''"When life gives you lemons, draw faces on those lemons and wrap them in a blanket. Ta-daaa! Now you have Lemon Babies."''

Dipper's quirky, intuitive, creative, energetic, and optimistic twin sister. Mabel makes the best out of every situation with a big smile while also playfully annoying her brother. She represents the shooting star on the Zodiac.
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* AbsurdPhobia: In the "Little Gift Shop of Horrors" segment "Clay Day", Mabel is shown to have an irrational fear of claymation. [[spoiler:Fortunately, Mabel managed to overcome her fear at the climax when she had to save her family from actual claymation monsters]].
* AesopAmnesia: A case of realistic outcome given her age, and that real people can struggle with these kinds of problems for decades even while fully aware of their tendencies. Her lack of forethought doesn't help much, either.
** In "Sock Opera" she learns not to push aside important people in her life for a guy and to appreciate her brother's efforts to make her happy. However, she backslides in "Northwest Mansion Mystery", again pushing aside important people in her life for a guy and talking her brother into taking a potentially dangerous job offered by people they know are corrupt so she and her friends can go to a fancy party. Her respect and appreciation for her brother continues to be a work in progress in future episodes, but the "not chasing after a guy at the expense of others" aesop seems to have stuck the second time, as she doesn't repeat this mistake again.
** Downplayed in "Roadside Attraction". Despite proclaiming that she has a plan to set up Candy and Dipper (clearly going against her lesson from "The Love God") she doesn't much act on this plan besides making them share a seat and her forgetting the previous Aesop is neither the driving force nor the focus of the conflict that occurs.
** In "Dipper and Mabel Vs. The Future", [[spoiler: this is deconstructed. Despite her acknowledging the two Aesops of "if I love it set it free" ("Boyz Crazy"), or that she shouldn't always expect Dipper to give up everything he cares about for her sake ("Sock Opera"), neither of the two seem to have stuck in Mabel's head. Mabel becomes distraught after learning how hard growing up is going to be and can only take solace in knowing Dipper is going to be there for her, so she flips out when learning he might pursue his dreams away from her--while also not understanding that her often [[BigSisterBully insensitive treatment]] is what drove him away to Ford to start with, which she had briefly acknowledged in "Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons".]] This ends up actively causing those she loves more problems because she shows no awareness for the very applicable lessons she'd previously learned that could have helped her avoid contributing to them.
** It also gets {{Deconstructed}} in the comic story "Don't Dimension It". [[spoiler:The story deals with Ford, Dipper and Stan sealing some remaining rifts, and they find out Mabel helped Bill cause the apocalypse out of misguided selfishness. They don't blame her, apart from Dipper jokingly calling one of the rifts "Mabel's Fault," but they tell her to be careful. Mabel's ItsAllAboutMe attitude comes to the forefront just a few days after defeating Bill where she brings Waddles on the mission to seal the rifts, against Dipper's protests. Sure enough, Mabel chasing Waddles causes her to get sucked into the Multiverse...where she counters millions of her parallel selves stuck on a barren planet due to making a similar decision. Mabel starts getting horrified on realizing most of her cutesy flaws are annoying in a dire situation and that each Mabel is too self-centered to focus on returning to their dimensions]]. At the end of this story at least, [[spoiler:she vows to work on that so time will tell if that sticks]].
* AffectionateNickname: Mabel has both received some and given some.
** Soos occasionally refers to Mabel as "hambone".
** Stan calls her "sweetie" or, more rarely, "pumpkin".
** Mabel is fond of calling Dipper "[=DipDop=]".
** She also nicknames them "Mystery Twins". Dipper initially dislikes it, but it soon grows on him.
* AllLovingHeroine: Mabel tries her best to be nice and friendly with everyone. She was willing to overlook Gideon's creepy tendencies and remain friends with him [[spoiler:until he tried to murder Dipper with lamb shears]], attempted to ease her rivalry and befriended Pacifica, and aided Robbie with his love life despite his conflicts with her brother.
* AllTakeAndNoGive: This, along with [[InnocentlyInsensitive Innocent Insensitivity]] and AesopAmnesia, is her FatalFlaw. Mabel has a problem with selfishness and often takes advantage of her brother's love to try to get him to put aside his own wishes and goals and do what she wants, usually without realizing (until [[HeelRealization far later]]) that what she's doing is manipulative or damaging. But while she does suffer from AesopAmnesia and thus repeats this mistake often, she also [[SubvertedTrope tries to subvert this flaw]] and genuinely make amends during moments of [[JerkassRealization greater self-awareness]]. In "Carpet Diem" she [[spoiler: gives Dipper the key after understanding that he was having a rough time]], in "Sock Opera" [[spoiler: she sacrifices her sock puppet performance to defeat Bill]], in "Weirdmageddon 2: Escape From Reality", [[spoiler: she tells Dipper she's okay with his decision of becoming Ford's apprentice]], and in ''ComicBook/GravityFallsLostLegends'' [[spoiler: Mabel gives Dipper a pine tree journal and apologizes to him for her selfishness during the summer after nearly getting stuck in a different dimension.]]
* AllWomenLoveShoes: Somewhat {{Downplayed|Trope}}. While Mabel doesn't make a big deal about them, she does own at least four pairs of shoes.
** Her basic black dress shoes which she wears throughout the series.
** Pink light-up sneakers (''The Time Traveler's Pig'')
** Pink cowgirl boots (''Scary-oke'')
** Pink golf shoes (''The Golf War'')
* AmbiguouslyBi: Constantly calls her female friends beautiful and is curiously earnest in her attempts to get closer with Pacifica. She also wears a rainbow sweater in "The Love God", which Creator/AlexHirsch did intentionally in response to not being allowed to have explicitly gay characters in the show.
* AmbiguouslyJewish: Mabel occasionally uses Yiddish phrases such as "Mazel tov!", and "sweet Moses!", but also owns a Christmas sweater and depicts her puppet self getting married by a priest in "Sock Opera". It puts a rather interesting spin on her adopting a pig meant for food and refusing to eat a lobster. Creator/AlexHirsch originally stated that [[https://twitter.com/_AlexHirsch/status/547218052178145280 the Pines family is not canonically Jewish]], but after the release of Journal 3, which mentioned Stan having a bar mitzvah and therefore canonized the kids as being Jewish on the Pines side at least, he responded that the Pines twins probably had a similar upbringing to his own, with [[https://twitter.com/_AlexHirsch/status/758547032554344448 Stan raised Jewish while Dipper and Mabel were raised non-religiously]], though both Christian and Jewish holidays are celebrated at Mabel's insistence.
* ApologyGift:
** In "Golf War", after Dipper, Mabel and Pacifica escape from the golf course, Mabel gives to her former rival a sticker of "A-Paw-logize" to apologize to her about the Lilliputians. Pacifica accepts, claiming it's just because it looks good on her.
** After Mabel returned from Dimension MAB-3L in "Don't Dimension It", [[spoiler: she gave Dipper a brand new journal as an apology for all of the trouble she caused over the summer]].
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Not as bad as Soos, but chances are she will be distracted by something. The more shiny, unusual, or an animal, the better. There's this moment from "The Time Traveler's Pig":
--->'''Mabel:''' Don't worry, brother. Whatever happens, I'll be right here, supporting you every step of the '''OH MY GOSH, A PIG!!!'''
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: [[ItMakesAsMuchSenseInContext After the 8 1/2th President was released from his Peanut Brittle hibernation]], he dubbed her a Congresswoman.
* BadassAdorable: A cutey patootie with a mean right hook.
* BadassDriver: As seen in "The Legend of the Gobblewonker" when she takes up driving Soos' boat.
* BadassNormal: Like Dipper, except her wits are a lot more...unconventional.
* BalloonBelly: Happens to Mabel in "The Inconveniencing" after she eats too much Smile Dip.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:
** Subverted in Society of the Blind Eye. Mabel spends the episode distraught over how poorly her love life has gone and realizes she can use the memory wiping gun to forget about it. Wendy warns her against it by pointing out how messed-up everyone else became after erasing their memories, but is tempted by the prospect of forgetting an annoying song. However, just as the girls are about to go through with it, they come to their senses and decide forgetting things won’t solve their problems.
** In "Dipper and Mabel Vs. The Future", [[spoiler:she makes a wish for time to stop so she wouldn't have to face her problems and Dipper wouldn't leave her so soon. [[DemonicPossession "Blendin"]] offers her a "Time Bubble" to do just that, if only she'd hand over a [[SealedEvilinACan mysterious item]] in her brother's possession. She does, is immediately sealed inside a bubble, and gets her wish fulfilled [[ApocalypseHow in the most brutal way possible]]. Even more in line with this trope, she's then trapped in a LotusEaterMachine that creates her idea of the perfect paradise, making it simply ''too hard'' for [[WeakWilled Mabel]] to reject]].
* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: The Beauty (The emotionally connected leader of the trio) to Candy's Brains and Grenda's Brawn. Also the Beauty to Dipper's Brains and Soos's Brawn.
* BenevolentBoss: Mabel starts out this way when she gets to run the Shack in "Boss Mabel". Ultimately deconstructed as she can't bring herself to say no to Soos' ridiculous mascot idea, [[TheSlacker Wendy]] takes advantage of Mabel's niceness to go goof off with her friends, and Dipper's attempt to liven up the Shack with an actual monster, the Gremoblin, goes horribly wrong (first by no one believing it's a monster and then it escaping in part of Mabel's attempt at being nice). After the twins scare the Gremoblin away, Mabel ends up snapping at Soos and Wendy after the two try to get out of fixing the damage done to the Mystery Shack, and she ends up barking orders like Stan to get things done.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Mabel is the sweetest person one can meet, but she's something else when she gets angry. She'll stand up for herself and others when she has to, and she [[GoodIsNotSoft goes absolutely ballistic]] against unambiguously evil people like [[spoiler: Gideon (pre-HeelFaceTurn) and EldritchAbomination Bill Cipher]].
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Mabel comes off as (and mostly is) a jovial {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, but she's more than capable of keeping up with Dipper on an adventure, she's a [[GirlyBruiser capable]] and [[BloodKnight enthusiastic]] combatant, and she isn't afraid to [[GoodIsNotSoft step up or put someone in their place when necessary]].
* BigEater: It's a trait [[DownplayedTrope that's never pointed out]] directly, but she's shown eating on-screen more often than any other character besides Soos. Pick an episode and she more than likely eats something in it. She especially loves [[SweetTooth junk food]] and...[[ExtremeOmnivore things that aren't traditionally eaten]]. In "Dungeons, Dungeons & More Dungeons", Mabel made a contraption that lets her eat all of her favorite snacks at once.
* BigStupidDooDooHead: She tends to use insults that fall into this category, like "butt-faces" or "poop-heads".
-->'''Mabel''': ''(To Bill Cipher)'' Oh, yeah? Well, you're a...a stink face!
-->'''Xyler''': Awesome comeback, Mabel!
-->'''Mabel''': Don't treat me like a child, Xyler.
* BigSisterBully: Played with. While she thinks of it more as lighthearted teasing than outright bullying, she does like to poke at Dipper's insecurities at times, often alongside Stan, because she genuinely thinks she's being funny and charming while doing so. This becomes {{Deconstructed|Trope}} as the show has long hinted, and "Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons'' confirms, that it isn't very lighthearted to Dipper and he's been genuinely hurt by her teasing, which has resulted in damage to their relationship.
* BigSisterInstinct: Not as protective of Dipper as he is of her, but comes fairly close. The "big sister" aspect is also played straight in that she is five minutes older and a millimeter taller than Dipper.
* BigThinShortTrio: With Grenda and Candy, Mabel is the thin one, Grenda is the big one, and Candy appears as the shortest of the trio.
* BirdsOfAFeather: A platonic version with Soos—while both of the twins are close with him, it's clear that he has a lot more in common with Mabel. They both have {{Cloudcuckoolander}} tendencies that sometimes inconvenience those around them, but are also [[GeniusDitz intelligent in their own ways]] and [[LetsGetDangerous quite competent when necessary]]. They both also [[BigEater eat a lot]], [[CuddleBug love to hug]], and [[SarcasmBlind don't always recognize sarcasm]].
* BlitheSpirit: To both Stan and the townsfolk, though sometimes for her own personal gain.
* BloodKnight: She enjoys kicking butt and takes any opportunity to do so.
-->'''Mabel''': Alright, here's the plan. I'll take out those two guard guys, you karate chop the other dude in the neck and then we'll back flip through the front door!
* BlowingARaspberry: Befitting her fun-loving personality, she [[https://giphy.com/gifs/gravity-falls-mabel-pines-24X0WIkGu4bm likes doing this]]. She does it to Dipper in "The Legend of the Gabblewonker," for example.
* BlushSticker: Seems to have perpetually rosy cheeks.
* BookDumb: In contrast to her studious twin. Though she is uninterested in content such as the titicular "Dungeons, Dungeons and More Dungeons" board game, citing it as "this is like Homework: The Game", she has great interpersonal skills and is highly creative.
* BrainsAndBrawn:
** Usually the brawn to Dipper’s brains. She is a CuteBruiser who cheerfully walks around with axes, grappling hooks and random blunt objects, while her brother is physically wimpy but usually the one who does the planning or utilizes the various supernatural objects they come across to their advantage. Eventually deconstructed as we see that both of them have become pretty fixated on their respective roles to the detriment of their individuality: Mabel is still very imaginative and by no means stupid, and Dipper once took down a HumongousMecha unarmed while deprived of his usual source of arcane knowledge.
--->'''Dipper:''' I mean, I'm supposed to be the smart guy! If I'm not [[TheSmartGuy the smart guy]], then who am I?
** Both she and Dipper function as the Brains to Soos's, Wendy's, or Stan's Brawn, depending on who's with them at the time.
* {{Brainwashed}}: Downplayed. [[spoiler:In ''Weirdmageddon II: Escape From Reality'', it's lightly implied Mabel's perception was messed with to help disguise the less positive qualities of Mabel Land; after Mabel agrees to return to reality with her brother, she exhibits [[{{Glurge}} a far less positive opinion]] of [[SugarBowl the qualities she herself imbued in Mabel Land]].]]
* BrainyBrunette: Mabel may not be as academically agile as Dipper, but she is smart in her own way:
** She's ''extremely'' artistically-inclined, which she seems to be aware of, given that she once referred to herself as an "arts and crafts master".
*** Throughout their entire summer vacation, she regularly knits sweaters with different designs and patterns, and a few of them are electric sweaters that can light up or play music.
*** In "Headhunters", Mabel crafted a lifelike wax figure of Stan by herself.
*** She's also very skilled at wood carving (having a collection of very intricate, painted wooden figurines of her friends and the townspeople of Gravity Falls in "The Love God").
*** In "Irrational Treasure", she makes an origami hat out of a map in a few seconds.
** In "Sock Opera", she coordinated a puppet show in a span of a week complete with an opera theater, crafted some of the sock puppets and props, had written the script and at least 36 musical numbers.
** Mabel is better at making split-second decisions than her brother, whom often doesn't bode well without planning in advance: She used a Nyarf gun to make Bill drop the door with the safe's combination in "Dreamscaperers", saved Dipper and herself with her grappling hook in "Gideon Rises", [[spoiler: sprayed spray paint at Bill's eye during his spiel, and broke through the Fearamid's wall using Dipper's size altering flashlight in "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls".]]
** Mabel can also pick locks with hairpins, as seen in "The Deep End" and "Boyz Crazy".
* BreakTheComedian: Throughout the series, Mabel is by far the funniest and most exuberant member of the Pines family, delighting in bad jokes, madcap schemes, and luridly colorful art projects. Though a few episodes hit her with a HeroicBSOD, she always manages to bounce back. However, in the episode "Dipper And Mabel vs The Future," she finds herself facing a few too many misfortunes at once: summer is almost over, [[GrowingUpSucks high school is just around the corner]], her friends admit that they won't be able to make it to her birthday party, and she's out of contact with Dipper all day, leaving her deeply depressed. Then she finds out that [[spoiler: Grunkle Ford]] has offered to take Dipper on as an apprentice — meaning that Mabel will be at home without her twin brother for the first time. This discovery sends her running out of the Mystery Shack in tears. [[spoiler: Worse still, Bill Cipher is able to exploit her depression by tricking her into giving him the Rift in exchange for "just a little more summer" — allowing him to break free of the Nightmare Realm and begin Weirdmageddon. When Dipper sees Mabel again, she's in much better spirits, but she's retreated into the Lotus-Eater Machine Bill has built for her, and needs to be given a lot of coaxing before she's willing to leave and regain her old sense of exuberance.]]
* BreakTheCutie:
** In "The Time Traveler's Pig", Mabel wins a pig she names Waddles. She spends some time adoring and playing with him, then has to repeatedly re-win Waddles while her brother tries to correct a poorly-aimed ball throw from the past. The attempt where he succeeds [[spoiler:required her help, and ends with her not getting Waddles. Mabel becomes conflicted between making Dipper happy or losing Waddles to Pacifica that she spends what is implied to be a month standing and banging her head against the totem pole before he reverts his win.]]
** In "Not What He Seems", she breaks down in tears over [[spoiler: the secrets uncovered, the life-threatening situation everyone is in, and the stress of having to choose to listen to Stan or Dipper.]]
** In "A Tale of Two Stans", she's visibly afraid of the idea that she and Dipper will grow apart and have a poor relationship with each other, and lightheartedly asks him if they would end up the same as [[spoiler: Stan and Ford]]. Despite her brother's reassurances that they won't and after he falls asleep, Mabel quietly and somberly lies awake.
** In "Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons", she is visibly upset at the realization that she may have already caused the start of this from [[InnocentlyInsensitive jokingly picking]] on Dipper with Stan on a few occasions.
** In "The Last Mabelcorn", she is told by Celestebellebethabelle that she is not "pure of heart" enough to be given some of the unicorn's hair. It gets worse when Mabel performs good deeds to try to make herself more pure, and Celestebellebethabelle tells her that performing good deeds just to look good isn't pure of heart at all. Mabel then spends most of her time [[HeroicBSOD curled up and struggling to list reasons why she might be considered impure of heart]].
** The entirety of "Dipper and Mabel vs. The Future" is this for her: Wendy breaks it to her how awful high school can be, Candy and Grenda are unavailable for her and her brother's 13th birthday, Dipper [[spoiler: has accepted a position as Ford's apprentice, which will mean she's returning home alone at the end of the summer]], and to top it all off, she [[spoiler: gets tricked into giving the Interdimensional Rift to a Bill-possessed Blendin Blandin, whom starts Weirdmageddon.]]
* BrilliantButLazy: Alex Hirsch has stated that Dipper and Mabel are of equal intelligence, but since Mabel's main concern [[ForHappiness is having fun and enjoying life]], she doesn't apply herself like her brother does.
* BrokenPedestal: Mabel loved unicorns all her life and the word "unicorn" was even her first word. Then she actually met one [[spoiler:and soon realized what awful, pretentious and judgmental creatures they actually are.]]
* BrotherSisterTeam: She has a refreshing one with Dipper, as they are not constantly bickering and make a remarkable duo. They frequently work together to face the various supernatural creatures in the titular town. Mabel provides support and improvises while Dipper often comes up with the plan. [[spoiler: This lack of arguing is deconstructed in the latter half of the second season, as them ceasing to discuss their problems with each other results in PoorCommunicationKills.]]
* BuffySpeak: She slips into this at times.
-->"This is some kind of magicky thing, isn't it?"

-->"That's it! We can melt them with hotty, melty things!"

-->"Ghosty sounds! Cemetery ghosty sounds!"
* ButtMonkey: Not as much as Dipper, but she has her fair share.
** She usually does plenty of foolish stuff, like when she uses a leaf blower to hold up a picture of Norman so she can practice kissing him, [[EpicFail which leads to her mouth being sucked in sticking to her face]].
-->'''Mabel''': That was fun.
** This is not in a comical sense, but it's when she meets the GuyOfTheWeek and unfortunately [[DidNotGetTheGuy doesn't hook up with one of them at the end]].
* CheerfulChild: It is rare when she doesn't have a smile on her face.
* ChildishOlderSibling: She likes to playfully annoy Dipper from time to time. She's the older twin, having been born five minutes before Dipper. She never lets Dipper forget this.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Mabel has an... interesting way of thinking. She is enthusiastic about everything ("Yay, grass!"), prone to outbursts of silliness (like folding an encoded map into a paper hat), and full of [[EccentricArtist ridiculous ideas for arts and crafts projects]] (from her hundreds of hand-knitted sweaters to stuff like "caticatures" or a drawing of "a waffle with big arms"), but she and her brother Dipper are savvy enough to cope with the weirdness endemic to the eponymous town. This is deconstructed in "Irrational Treasure" when Pacifica chastises her for being silly, and Mabel tries to be more serious thereafter. Her Cloudcuckoolander tendencies end up saving the day, resulting in her proudly embracing her oddness.
--->'''Stan:''' Oy! You are never gonna make sense, are you, kid?
--->'''Mabel:''' No, I'm not, Grunkle Stan. No, I'm not. Mabel, away! (Jumps backward and a crashing sound is heard)
--->'''Mabel:''' I'm okay!
* ConsistentClothingStyle: Mabel's various outfits always consist of a colourful hand-made sweater, a skirt, and a headband, coupled with the same white socks and black shoes.
* ControlFreak: A trait she shares with Dipper, though each tends to express it differently. While Dipper often feels he needs rigid self-control and massive planning to compensate for his lack of self-confidence socially, Mabel generally has less self-control and directs her need for control outwards onto others. While Mabel's generally very relaxed in regards to others' behavior, in the instances wherein Mabel's friends or family do something that goes against Mabel's own priorities, Mabel manifests her control issues in ways arguably more extreme than Dipper does. When Dipper gets controlling over others, he tends to hold them to the same rigid steps, plans, and standards he holds to himself--especially in the first season, during which he slowly develops out of this. Mabel displays a far more frequent tendency to undermine people's basic autonomy and free will for the sake of her own priorities. This most often comes up regarding romance, in which she considers herself an expert, but her unwillingness to let Dipper (or the rest of the town) make independent life choices due to how these choices upset her personally actually causes a significant portion of the finale's conflict. While this flaw of Mabel's isn't addressed in the finale despite its key role in the plot, it is thematically touched on in earlier episodes, such as "Boyz Crazy," "Love God," and "The Stanchurian Candidate" (the latter being an aesop she shares with Dipper), among others. Also, a plot point in "Sock Opera" uses a direct visual metaphor for this: [[spoiler:Bill is only able to take control of Dipper through a deal because Dipper offers Bill one of Mabel's puppets--and due to how Mabel treats Dipper, Bill considers ''Dipper'' one of Mabel's puppets.]] Mabel usually expresses regret over this behavior once the conflict is over.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: When it happens, ''watch out''. In the pilot alone [[spoiler:she takes down a hundred gnomes using only a leaf blower.]]
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: In "Irrational Treasure", [[GenkiGirl Mabel]] is helping [[SeekerArchetype Dipper]] uncover a historical conspiracy, in order to prove that she's not "silly" like [[AlphaBitch Pacifica]] said. However, throughout their quest she keeps unconsciously doing goofy things (like folding a map they find into a paper hat) which help them solve the clues. Ultimately, it's revealed that the person who laid the clues [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike was just as big]] of a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} as Mabel is.
* CuddleBug: Big time. She's shown giving bear hugs and tackle hugs, especially to Dipper and Stan, quite often. In "Society of the Blind Eye", when she is listing cool things about herself, she mentions that she hugs a lot. She also loves cuddling with her pet pig, Waddles. She's been known to cuddle and fall asleep on Soos's belly as well, according to ''Gravity Falls: Dipper and Mabel's Guide to Mystery and Nonstop Fun!''.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindows: Due to the art style, it is impossible to tell the characters' eye colors. [[https://twitter.com/_AlexHirsch/status/260514979969646592 Alex Hirsch confirmed that]] Mabel's eyes are brown.
* CuteAndPsycho: Mabel is a mild version of this trope. She's a high-intensity-low-stability type of girl. [[http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/358/300/83a.gif Who else could wield an axe with a great big grin on her face?]]
* CuteBruiser: A cute kid. Will beat you up in without the need for WaifFu.
* TheCutie: She's so cute because of how cheery, imaginative, friendly, playful, and bright-eyed she is.
* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:Bill Cipher, possessing Blendin Blandin, offers to put a time bubble around Gravity Falls if Mabel would give him the strange snowglobe in her brother's backpack. Mabel, unaware of the importance of the item and having spent the entire day convinced of how awful her future is going to be, agrees, believing that "Blendin" is a friend returning a favor. She hands it over and Bill breaks it, starting [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Weirdmageddon]], and encases an unconscious Mabel in a bubble.]]
* DeconstructedTrope: Mabel is a deconstruction of AesopAmnesia.
** In "Dipper and Mabel Vs. The Future", [[spoiler: despite Mabel acknowledging the two Aesops of "if I love it set it free" ("Boyz Crazy"), or that she shouldn't always expect Dipper to give up everything he cares about for her sake ("Sock Opera"), neither of the two seem to have stuck in Mabel's head. Mabel becomes distraught after learning how hard growing up is going to be and can only take solace in knowing Dipper is going to be there for her, so she flips out when learning he might pursue his dreams away from her—while also not understanding that her often [[InnocentlyInsensitive insensitive treatment]] is what drove him away to Ford to start with, which she had briefly acknowledged in "Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons".]] This ends up actively causing those she loves more problems because she shows no awareness for the very applicable lessons she'd previously learned that could have helped her avoid contributing to them.
** It also gets deconstructed in the comic story "Don't Dimension It". [[spoiler: The story deals with Ford, Dipper and Stan sealing some remaining rifts, and they find out Mabel helped Bill cause the apocalypse out of misguided selfishness. They don't blame her, apart from Dipper jokingly calling one of the rifts "Mabel's Fault," but they tell her to be careful. Mabel's ItsAllAboutMe attitude comes to the forefront just a few days after defeating Bill where she brings Waddles on the mission to seal the rifts, against Dipper's protests. Sure enough, Mabel chasing Waddles causes her to get sucked into the Multiverse...where she counters millions of her parallel selves stuck on a barren planet due to making a similar decision. Mabel starts getting horrified on realizing most of her cutesy flaws are annoying in a dire situation and that each Mabel is too self-centered to focus on returning to their dimensions.]] At the end of this story at least, [[spoiler: she vows to work on that so time will tell if that sticks.]]
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:In "The Inconveniencing" by the convenience store ghosts.]]
* TheDeterminator: Being the bubbly [[ThePollyanna Pollyanna]] that she is, she stops at nothing to do something once her mind is set on it.
** This is especially the case when she plays matchmaker.
*** In "The Love God", she doesn't give up trying to find Robbie a new girlfriend even when Wendy tells her he's a hopeless case.
*** In "Dipper vs. Manliness", she tries relentlessly to make Stan attractive to women, even after seeing the ineffectiveness of her efforts.
** After Grunkle Stan lost his memories after Bill Cipher's defeat, Mabel was determined to get Stan to remember by showing him photos of their adventures in her scrapbook. [[spoiler: Which fortunately worked]].
** In the Lost Legends story "Don't Dimension It", After Mabel ends up in Dimension MAB-3L, her main goal was to find a way back home.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Emotional and energetic, Mabel rarely reconsiders her actions before doing them. She often favors impulsiveness and silliness, which on some occasions backfired on her.
** In "Soos and the Real Girl", her random decision to eat candy still in its wrapper nearly causes her to choke.
** In "Society of the Blind Eye", Wendy tried to point out that using LaserGuidedAmnesia to forget failed romances might not be a good idea, and Mabel declared, "All ideas are good ideas!"
** At the end of "Dipper and Mabel Vs. The Future", [[spoiler:it's her thoughtlessness mixed with emotional turmoil that lets Bill initiate Weirdmageddon. She gives a possessed Blendin Blandin the Interdimensional Rift under the assumption that he was a friend returning a favor.]]
* DorkInASweater: A sweet {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who regularly wears hand-made sweaters.
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* EccentricArtist: A self-proclaimed "arts and crafts master" and one of the biggest [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Cloudcuckoolanders]] on the show. Her creations are often as unconventional as her personality, and include things like novelty sweaters that can light up or play music, drawings of muscled waffles, and "caticatures"--cat-like caricatures of people. In "The Hand That Rocks the Mabel", she bedazzled her entire face with sequins.
--> "I'm unappreciated in my time..."
* EmotionallyTongueTied: Since Mabel is FunPersonified and prefers seeing people happy, [[RealMenDontCry she struggles]] whenever she thinks she will disappoint or upset someone. Any time she is put into a moment where she has to deny ("Norman's" proposal, Gideon's initial advances) or confront someone with the truth or a personal worry (apologizing to Candy and Grenda that she [[spoiler: didn't win the party crown]], attempting to admit to Stan that [[spoiler: he's unlikely to win the election]], deciding to [[spoiler: let the portal activate despite Dipper's warnings]], confronting Dipper about [[spoiler: her fears of possibly having a poor relationship with him]]), she tends to look away and fidget, fumbling with her words and/or tries to phrase her replies lightly.
** She seems to be growing out of it after the events of [[spoiler: Weirdmageddon, as she gradually looks at Candy and tells her that they have to leave Gravity Falls (without Dipper helping), and tried to tell Waddles that he couldn't come back home with her.]]
* EnmityWithAnObject: One of Mabel's entries in [[Literature/GravityFallsJournal3 Journal 3]] strongly hints that she has disdain over the [[FreakyFridayFlip Electron Carpet]] from ''Carpet Diem'', and hopes that she never sees it again. [[note]] As luck would have it, Dipper told Grunkle Stan to get rid of the Electron Carpet at the end of the episode. [[/note]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: She tries to be friendly with everybody and tolerant of the eccentricities of others, but there is only so much bad behavior (Gideon, [[spoiler:formerly]] Pacifica, etc.) and weirdness (Toby Determined, Mr. Poolcheck, etc.) she can take. In "Sock Opera", when Gabe Bensen (the boy she had been trying to impress throughout the whole episode) [[spoiler: passionately makes out with his puppets]], she states that she "might have dodged a bullet there."
* ExposedToTheElements: Inverted. She regularly wears sweaters despite it being summer. The only time the weather bothers her is in "The Deep End", when there is a heat wave. Though to be fair, the town does appear to be in a mountainous area of the state, meaning that the temperatures usually stay moderate even during the peak of the season.
* ExtremeOmnivore: Implied in "Fight Fighters" when we see one of Mabel's drinks contains a strange cyclops troll doll and several dice, all in a green fluid. In the later episode "Sock Opera" she offers her brother a drink from a blenderful of the same vivid liquid, referred to as "Mabel juice", which also contains plastic dinosaurs. A few shots of Mabel juice gives her the energy to outrun that episode's villain hours later, and Stan describes the taste as [[TastesLikeFeet "if coffee and nightmares had a baby"]].
** Mabel's list of snacks also includes an entire tube of sparkly toothpaste, an industrial-sized can of sprinkles of the sort you put on ice cream labelled "not for individual consumption", several lone sugar packets, and enough expired (and banned) Fun-Dip–style candy to make her catatonic [[MushroomSamba and hallucinating]]. She's been seen projectile-coughing up a handful of sequins. She also swallowed a holographic sticker in "The Golf War" (for plot reasons in that case, since [[spoiler: she was trying to get the Lilliputtians to stop fighting over said sticker)]], and in "Blendin's Game" she attempted to eat a bunch of candy from the vending machine without taking any of the wrappers off, but just ended up choking and having to whack herself in the stomach to cough it out. Also, according to a Reddit discussion with series creator Alex Hirsch, she was once sent to the hospital after attempting to eat scratch-and-sniff stickers.
** One of the unseen example segments of "Mabel's Guide to Life" supposedly taught the viewer about "eating non-foods". All we see is Mabel shoving a leaf into her mouth and shrugging aggressively.
** An [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] example in "Blendin's Game" where after being given a lot of candy from the vending machine, she declares her intent to eat it all with the wrappers still on. Seconds later, she's choking on the still-wrapped candy, calling her plan a mistake, and whacking herself in the gut in order to cough it all back out.
* FatalFlaw:
** Selfishness. Mabel often gets so wrapped up in her intense feelings about her own creative ideas, wants, needs and emotions that she neglects to consider the needs, ideas and emotions of others around her, which causes a lot of her conflicts throughout the show. This flaw is portrayed throughout the series but not openly discussed as a problem until "Sock Opera", and it takes many more plot-heavy episodes for Mabel to start growing out of it.
*** [[spoiler:This comes to a head in "Dipper and Mabel Vs. The Future", when she puts her misery and fear of growing up over Dipper's desire to make decisions for his own future, throwing a fit over it. She attempts to make a deal with Blendin Blandin using [[SealedEvilInACan the mysterious orb in Dipper's backpack]] to freeze Gravity Falls in time so she wouldn't lose Dipper and could have a little more time for Summer. The deal doesn't work, but only because Blendin was actually possessed by Bill, who takes advantage of Mabel's various weaknesses to jumpstart the Apocalypse]].
*** Her self-centered tendencies is thoroughly addressed in ''ComicBook/GravityFallsLostLegends'', where she puts up with [[spoiler: alternate Mabels that are too caught up with their own interests to help or return to their own dimensions, and comes to a JerkassRealization on her selfish tendencies before rallying the Mabels with a RousingSpeech, admitting that she caused an "entire apocalypse just to get one more day of summer" and promising to never be selfish again if she can return to her dimension.]]
** Both "Little Dipper" and "Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons" point out that Mabel's [[InnocentlyInsensitive insensitivity]] crosses into this. Mabel loves picking on Dipper with Grunkle Stan to get a laugh whenever the situation arises and often even builds on those jokes [[RunningGag for long periods]] at Dipper's expense ("Alpha Twin", anyone?), which (since Dipper is a [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] ButtMonkey) alienates Dipper from the both of them and damages his trust in her. Oddly, she never really apologizes for this in either episode despite recognizing how much this hurts her brother, instead trying to justify her actions in the former and simply going silent in the latter.
** It's less directly addressed than the other above flaws, but underlying both is Mabel's [[ControlFreak tendency towards excessive control of others]] when their priorities differ from hers. This is highlighted in many episodes, particularly "Boyz Crazy," "The Love God," and the plot of the Weirdmaggedon finale. [[spoiler:Mabel's lack of awareness towards boundaries in this matter is why she accepts [[DemonicPossession Billendin's]] offer to freeze Gravity Falls in time and doesn't seem aware of just how much of a moral wrong that is against others' free will and autonomy]]. It's also a plot point in "Sock Opera": [[spoiler:Dipper makes a deal with Bill--Bill gives him the laptop's password, and in exchange, Bill gets one of Mabel's puppets. But because of how Mabel treats Dipper, [[ExactWords Bill considers Dipper to be one of Mabel's puppets.]]]]
* {{Foil}}: Is this to Dipper, as the two heavily contrast in personality, maturity, goals and philosophical outlook. While Dipper is cynical and struggles with self-confidence issues, he can be very determined when push comes to shove. Mabel tends to look on the bright side, has an inflated view of her own importance, and can lose it when things don't go her way.
* ForHappiness: Mabel's fun-loving and optimistic outlook means she loves seeing others be happy too. She genuinely can't bear seeing people be upset, and has occasionally sacrificed her own happiness in exchange:
** In "The Hand That Rocks The Mabel", she had a rotten time declining Gideon's advances, as she favored keeping their friendship. When Mabel tried to tell him the truth in a restaurant, she ends up not doing so after being pressured by overzealous patrons.
--->'''Mabel:''' Oh, Gideon, I'm sorry, but I'm gonna have to say-\\
'''Blubs:''' I'm on the edge of my seat!\\
'''Tyler:''' This is gonna be adorable.\\
'''Old Woman:''' If she says no, I'll die from sadness.\\
'''Doctor:''' I can verify that that will indeed happen.
** Mabel ''literally'' has a happiness chart in "The Love God", which depicts Dipper, Wendy, and her friends with happy stickers. When she notices that Robbie is stickerless and has been sulking in a grave. Mabel's so determined to help him get over it that during a failing set-up date between Robbie and Tambry, she asks the Love God for help, and [[spoiler: ends up stealing the love potion when he refuses.]]
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The foolish to Dipper's responsible. Of the two, Mabel is the more interested in having fun, and often rushes into things without fully thinking of the potential consequences and implications. She is the 'small-picture' kind of girl, focusing on what's directly in front of her rather than the big picture or future, in direct contrast with Dipper's generally big picture concerns and tendencies for extensive planning and preparedness.
* FourPhilosophyEnsemble: The Optimist: Mabel is highly optimistic and tries to be constantly cheerful. She always expects the best out of others and often hopes that their adventures will play out in a way she would like.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Sanguine: Outgoing, optimistic, and a bit of a space case.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: She's got one heck of a soft spot for them! There's various photos of her hugging animals. She's also hugged a cat during the HowWeGotHere moment of "Tourist Trapped", allows Gompers to chew on her sweater, saves a lobster from a restaurant, owns (and happily spoils) a pet pig named Waddles, and has let caterpillars crawl on her face.
** She also bluntly states in "Land Before Swine" that Waddles should be kept inside like a person, and that maybe it's people who should be put outside.
** In the Mystery Shack Mystery web game, Dipper's letter to their parents mentions that Mabel has actually fed baby birds in the attic—with her mouth.
** The "Mabel's Scrapbook: Petting Zoo" short has Mabel fawning over all the animals in the petting zoo, and insists on saving Octavia, a mutated eight-legged[[note]](actually has nine legs)[[/note]] cow. After TheReveal that Octavia has ''more'' than just extra sets of limbs, she still takes a moment to take a photo of the cow even when everyone else ran off.
* FriendToBugs: Her fondness for animals extends to the creepy-crawly variety. As stated above, she happily let a group of caterpillars crawl all over her face in "Into the Bunker". Another time she adoringly referred to a group of moths as butterflies.
* FunPersonified: A very cheerful and silly character. Warm welcomes and excitement typically follow her everywhere she goes. She evidently sees herself as this trope as well:
--> '''Mabel''': What? I'm delightful to live with! Get ready to be poked by the fun stick! Boop! ''(takes a stick and pokes Dipper with it)''
* GamerChick: She's been shown playing a video game with Dipper, and beating him at it.
* GargleBlaster: Mabel is shown to make a strange concoction called [[https://gravityfalls.fandom.com/wiki/Mabel_juice?file=S2e4_mabel_juice.png "Mabel-Juice"]], which is a very sweet tasting drink that makes one who consumes it have a burst of energy. Apparently, one of the ingredients is plastic toys.
* {{Gasshole}}: Never demonstrated such tendencies on screen, but in "Society of the Blind Eye" she claims she can burp the alphabet. She does burp once in the book ''Dipper and Mabel and the Curse of the Time Pirates' Treasure!'', but this is non-canon.
* GeniusDitz: Mabel's an [[GenkiGirl energetic]] {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who has trouble keeping her feet on the ground, but when she focuses, she's just as intelligent as her brother (being skilled at improvising a plan versus his careful planning) and has a number of artistic skills. For example, [[UnlimitedWardrobe all those colorful sweaters Mabel wears]] are knitted by her, and some of them have embedded technology, such as one with a light-bulb on it that actually lights up when pressed (as seen in "Into the Bunker"). She also is capable of solving a puzzle others have been trying to solve for centuries, though admittedly most of the clues were discovered on accident while she was goofing off and is capable of keeping up with [[BrainyBrunette Dipper]] when they're investigating what happened to Grunkle Stan's wax statue.
* GenkiGirl: Mabel is a very excitable and outgoing ball of energy whose [[MotorMouth mouth runs a mile a minute]]. Justified, since the show has frequent references to her [[SweetTooth sugar intake]].
-->'''Wendy''': What is she talking about?
-->'''Dipper''': Nothing! Mabel's just been eating raw sugar packets again.
-->'''Mabel''': ''(Eating sugar packets)'' Om nom nom...that's beside the point!
* GirlyBruiser: Mabel loves [[GlurgeAddict kittens and glittery stickers]], but she also packs a mean punch and she'll take any opportunity available to use her GrapplingHookPistol. She's the [[BrainsAndBrawn Brawn]] to Dipper's [[BrainsAndBrawn Brains]] and is always up for kicking some butt.
** In "Tourist Trapped", she made a gnome throw up after she kicked him in the stomach, and accidentally gave Dipper two black eyes in while trying to get a vicious gnome off his face.
** It comes in full force in "Headhunters", [[spoiler: where she swings a decapitated wax Coolio's head at the wax figures that surrounded her.]]
** Stan learned in "Little Dipper" that Mabel high-fives HARD.
** A conversation with Stan in ''VideoGame/GravityFallsLegendOfTheGnomeGemulets'' reveals that her first act as a newborn was to punch the doctor who delivered her.
* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: Mabel is extremely girly. She likes kittens, [[TextileWorkIsFeminine knitting]], makeup, and bedazzling her face, and ''adores'' [[GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals stuffed animals]]. But beneath that [[LongHairIsFeminine long-haired]], {{pink|MeansFeminine}}-wearing, [[GlurgeAddict cuteness-obsessed]] exterior is a very rough-and-tumble GirlyBruiser who [[BloodKnight loves to fight and get dirty]], opting for a GrapplingHookPistol instead of a doll as a gift (much to Stan and Dipper's surprise), can apparently [[{{Gasshole}} burp the alphabet]], and [[GamerChick enjoys beating her brother at video games]]. She also has a pet pig named Waddles, and she gets down on the ground with him quite frequently.
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: The girl ''adores'' them. Stuffed animals can usually be seen on her bed and side of the bedroom, and they often feature in her ''Mabel's Guide to Life'' shorts, including ''Mabel's Guide to Dating'', where she has several of them as guests sitting in front of a talk show-like table. A figure in [[spoiler:Mabeland]], is the Stuffed Animal Tree, which is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a tree that has a myriad of stuffed animals hanging from it]].
** In "Society of the Blind Eye", she reveals her deepest, darkest secret:
--->"I only love some of my stuffed animals, and the guilt is killing me!"
* GleefulAndGrumpyPairing: The perpetually happy Mabel normally hangs out with her serious and snarky twin brother Dipper.
* GlurgeAddict: Mabel loves anything cute, sparkly and colorful, no matter how sickening others find it. It comes out in full force in "Weirdmageddon Part 2: Escape From Reality", where her imaginary world [[spoiler:that Bill Cipher has trapped her in]] is brightly colored, constantly blaring cheerful 80's style music, populated by walking, talking stuffed animals and cute little creatures. Ironically, when she breaks free from the world's trance, she ''complains'' about the colors being too bright and the overly repetitive songs, proving that Mabeland is too much [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth even for]] ''[[TooSpicyForYogSothoth her]]''.
* GoodIsNotDumb: Mabel may be the goofy and energetic sibling compared to Dipper, but she has her [[GeniusDitz own brand of intellect]] that's just as useful as his.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Mabel tries to see the best in people and treat everyone nicely regardless of how they treat her (i.e., continuously being amiable to [[AlphaBitch Pacifica]] even when the latter was a complete snob to her), but when her [[BewareTheNiceOnes buttons are sufficiently pushed]], she's downright scary. For example, in "The Last Mabelcorn", she's manipulated and tricked by a rotten unicorn who then rubs it in Mabel's face—and is shocked when Mabel responds by punching her in the snout and instigating a fight. Mabel also [[BigSisterInstinct goes into attack mode]] when she sees [[EnfantTerrible Gideon]] hurting her brother.
** The episodes "Boss Mabel" and "The Last Mabelcorn" both deal with Mabel coming to terms with the fact that being a nice, good person doesn't equate to being a pushover.
* GrapplingHookPistol: One of her iconic items, in “Tourist Trapped”, Great Uncle 'Grunkle' Stan Pines allows his niece and nephew Mabel and Dipper to take whatever they want from the Mystery Shack gift shop. While Dipper chooses a hat with a pine tree emblem, Mabel pulls out a GRAPPLING HOOK! [[spoiler: [[ChekhovsGun It actually comes in handy]] in the season one finale. At the end of "Gideon Rises", Mabel uses the grappling hook to save Dipper and herself from certain death.]]
* GuileHero: Mabel's mostly a GirlyBruiser who prefers to shoot now and ask questions later, but she has her occasional moments of cunning. For example, she pulls a BatmanGambit in "Tourist Trapped" when she tricks a gnome into separating from his fellow gnomes by offering to kiss him, and then [[spoiler: uses a leaf blower when he's close enough to suck him in and shoot him into the forest]].
* HalfIdenticalTwins: Downplayed with Dipper. Dipper and Mabel, are twins with identical bodies and faces with the exception of small skin details (rosy cheeks for Mabel, eyebags and a red nose for Dipper); Mabel also has braces. The resemblance isn't generally brought up, as their clothes and personalities are closer to PolarOppositeTwins. In the defictionalized Gravity Falls: Journal 3, Dipper writes that Mabel looks like him but with "girl hair."
* HasAType: Mabel definitely has a thing for [[PrettyBoy Pretty Boys]], especially [[LongHairedPrettyBoy long-haired ones]]. No fewer than three of the guys she develops crushes on can be called a [[LongHairedPrettyBoy Long-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Mermando, Gabe Bensen, and Marius von Fundshauser. She's also attracted to Xyler and Kratz, in addition to the members of [[BoyBand Sev'ral Timez]], whom Stan refers to as "bright and radical young men" and "darn beautiful men", respectively. She also mentions a previous crush on "the guy on the $10 bill" -- the pompadoured and powdered UsefulNotes/AlexanderHamilton. Meanwhile the two random boys she's invading the personal spaces of in the music video of the parody song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI2btzM13NM "Call Me Mabel"]] seem to be [[{{Megane}} boys with glasses]].
* HatesBeingAlone: It is shown in various points in the series that Mabel doesn't like being lonely or the idea of loneliness in general. During the second half of season 2, Mabel notices that her brother Dipper was spending more time with the Author, making Mabel worried that she'll wind up alone without her brother.
* HehHehYouSaidX: In the episode "Irrational Treasure", Mabel gets a laugh out of Dipper's use of the phrase "booby traps".
* HeroicBSOD:
** [[spoiler:After losing Waddles, her pet pig in "The Time Traveler's Pig", Mabel goes through one that lasts ''at least'' a month.]]
** In "The Hand That Rocks The Mabel" [[spoiler: Mabel becomes overwhelmed when Stan says she should marry Gideon. Mabel screams and runs off to hide in her sweater and refuses to come out, saying she's "in Sweater Town".]]
** Spends much of the later half of "Not What He Seems" freaking out over [[spoiler: feeling betrayed by Grunkle Stan when she and Dipper find out he's an imposter. She has a blank stare when she realizes the real Stan might have died over thirty years ago.]]
** In "The Last Mabelcorn", Mabel is told by Celestebellebethabelle that she's far from pure of heart, she falls into a deep depression, complete with TroubledFetalPosition.
** Returns to Sweater Town at the end of "Dipper and Mabel vs. The Future", where after a full day of nothing going right for her, Dipper tops it all off by [[spoiler: choosing to stay in Gravity Falls as an apprentice to The Author.]]
* HiddenDepths: Alex Hirsch has stated in an interview that this was the reason for having her pick the grappling hook from the gift shop in the first episode: to show that Mabel, in addition to loving boys, sweaters, and pink, is more than willing to take a "crazy ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' gadget" when she gets the chance.
** Being boy-crazy, Mabel has a long list of crushes, including Xyler and Kraz, a pair of TotallyRadical dudes from her favorite movie, ''Dream Boy High''. In addition to being pretty, they have law degrees and can quote Jean-Paul Sartre. Considering they're her idea of the perfect boys, Mabel has very high standards. On that same note, considering that both the Dream Boys and the Judge cat quote philosophical lines, this implies that Mabel is a very philosophical person.
** In both "Scary-Oke" and "Into The Bunker", Mabel’s sweaters light up and in the former, play music. Because she hand knits all of the sweaters seen on the show, Mabel also seems to possess skills in electrical wiring, sound machinery and safely installing them in knitted garments.
* HistoryRepeats: [[spoiler:In "A Tale of Two Stans", the disconnect in Stan and Ford's relationship began when Stan, fearing his future and the thought of being separated from his brother, accidentally broke Ford's science fair project while under emotional distress and ended up getting kicked out of his home and estranged from his brother. In "Dipper and Mabel Vs. The Future", Mabel also suffers from the same fears. She accidentally takes Dipper's backpack instead of hers, and while emotionally distraught, she gets tricked into giving the rift to a Bill-possessed Blendin Blandin, whom breaks it to trigger Weirdmageddon and traps her in a bubble.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** In "Mabel's Guide to Dating", she wholeheartedly states "If love doesn't work, force it!" - even though she herself is greatly uncomfortable with Gideon's attempts to force a relationship between them.
** In "Blendin's Game", Mabel calls Dipper a "creep" for his PrecociousCrush on Wendy -- despite the fact that she's had crushes on older boys herself, most notably Sev'ral Timez, whom she tried to keep to herself by locking up in the attic.
* IconicOutfit: Mabel almost always wears one of her [[HomemadeSweaterFromHell self-crafted turtle-neck sweaters]]. One of the most (if not the most) popular ones is the one that starred in the season one premiere, of hot pink color and with a shooting star. [[spoiler: It is {{Foreshadowing}} about her role on a prophecy.]]
* ImprobableWeaponUser: When she's not kicking and punching, she tends to [[ImprovisedWeapon grab whatever's handy]]. She uses a leaf blower [[spoiler:to blow away a hundred gnomes back into the woods]] in "Tourist Trapped" and in "Headhunters", uses [[spoiler:candles and wax Coolio's head to take down a group of wax statues that surrounded her.]] In "Scary-Oke", she uses a Karaoke machine.
* InconsistentSpelling: Her name is often misspelled as "Mable", even though her name appears in the opening credits. Even the back cover of ''VideoGame/GravityFallsLegendOfTheGnomeGemulets'' made this mistake. InUniverse, Soos confesses in "Society of the Blind Eye" that he thought her name was "[[AccidentalMisnaming Maple, like the syrup]]" for a while because no-one corrected him.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Implied. In Journal 3, it states that Gideons amulet [[ArtifactOfDoom corrupts its users soul]], yet she remained a hero even after using it to save Dipper.
* InLoveWithLove: One of her goals is to have an "epic summer romance" in the pilot and spends some time flirting with every unrelated male of approximately compatible age she can find. [[TheMatchmaker She's also very keen on helping other people get their own romance as well]]. However, she seems to have a pretty poor idea of how love works, considering how often she tries to force love when it isn't there. In one of the shorts, she exclaims that if love doesn't work, "force it."
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Why she brags about being one millimeter taller than Dipper in "Little Dipper" and jokes that it was proof she was evolving into the "Alpha Twin". She feels as if Dipper is better at her at everything, and his tendency to brag after winning when playing games with her made her feel insecure. Alex Hirsch also states that Mabel is secretly envious of Dipper for being academically better than her, in contrast to Dipper being jealous of Mabel's social skills.
* InnocentlyInsensitive:
** Can sometimes be this, like in "The Deep End" when it came to Mermando's heritage and inability to walk.
** Comes up again in "Sock Opera" when she realizes that her expecting Dipper to just roll with whatever her new-found obsession may be is actually quite selfish of her and causes Dipper to sacrifice a lot more for her than she does for him.
** [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] briefly by Dipper in "Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons". Despite Mabel honestly believing her quips are funny and charming, many of the jokes she and Stan make at Dipper's expense have actually hurt him deeply over the series. Dipper directly confesses this to Mabel within the episode, explaining that he prefers spending time with Ford because he doesn't treat Dipper like Stan and Mabel do. Mabel deflects this with a "joke" about how Dipper should just give Ford time with that. Hurt from this to the point of disappointed silence, Dipper's only response is to turn away from her, and Mabel is left [[HeelRealization upset by what she herself has just said, miserably mumbling "you got me."]]
* InstantExpert: She was able to use Gideon's mystic amulet to save him and Dipper after both fell down a cliff, even though she got it mere seconds earlier.
* {{Irony}}: At the end of "A Tale of Two Stans", [[spoiler: Mabel is extremely worried about Dipper and her growing distant or even antagonistic to each other like Stanley and Stanford. She makes Dipper promise he won't "get stupid" like they did, and he jokingly replies, "Not stupider than you." The very next episode has distance developing between them, largely because Mabel's AnnoyingYoungerSibling tendencies throughout the series start catching up to her--when Dipper gets someone to play with who shares his interests (Ford), he admits the best thing about Ford is that he doesn't make fun of him like Stan or Mabel.]]
** [[spoiler:In "Not What He Seems", Dipper is afraid of what will happen when the Portal opens and wants to shut it down, but Mabel decides to trust in Grunkle Stan despite his seemingly evil actions and opens it anyways. At the end of the very next episode, Dipper seems content with what happened and trusting in the future, and Mabel is afraid of what will happen, since this is her first episode realizing the future may hold consequences she won't like.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Shares this flaw with [[spoiler: ''Ford'']], of all people. Like him, she has a problem with selfishness and a tendency not to consider the value of other people's opinions or desires if they differ from her own. She usually considers her way of doing things to be 100% correct (even at one point proclaiming to her brother that she "do[es] everything right, all the time!") and has to go through tough [[JerkassRealization Jerkass Realizations]] to even consider that whatever she's done maybe wasn't the best thing after all. Unfortunately, she also shares [[spoiler:Ford's]] tendency towards [[AesopAmnesia forgetting hard-learned lessons]], so she slips back into this just as often.
** Dipper possibly [[spoiler:leaving to become the Author's apprentice and chase his dreams by himself]] actually scares her into admitting that she doesn't care if it's a good opportunity for Dipper, what matters is if it's a good opportunity for ''her''. This was, of course, after she had a really awful day, and she gets over it during "Weirdmageddon".
** Discussed and addressed in ''ComicBook/GravityFallsLostLegends'' wherein [[spoiler: after realizing her bad traits and returning to her dimension, she gives Dipper a pine tree journal she received from an alternate Mabel and apologizes to Dipper for being selfish.]]
--->'''Mabel:''' It's time for us to start some new adventures! And this time I won't always hog the spotlight.
* JerkassBall: In "Sock Opera", where she breaks a promise to help her brother to impress her guy of the week, and in "Northwest Mansion Mystery", where she breaks her promise with Grenda not to hit on another cute boy in order to conspire with Candy to get said boy's attention.
** Pretty much any time Mabel's given an object of affection to adore, actually. See LoveMakesYouEvil.
* JerkassRealization:
** She has one during "Sock Opera", realizing that the combination of Dipper's relative passiveness and her own [[InnocentlyInsensitive oblivious selfishness]] often results in her own desires being put before her brother's. Mabel appears to be trying to correct for this by the end of the episode, but she still tends to forget this lesson when she gets extremely emotional or excited.
** She has another during "Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons" Dipper, when talking about [[spoiler: Ford]], mentions that one of the best things about him is that he doesn't make fun of him like Mabel and Stan do. When Mabel laughs and says he should just give [[spoiler:Ford]] time with that, Dipper simply turns his head away from her in disappointment. Mabel's face shows she realizes how hurtful what she's said actually is, the most she can do is give a little "you got me there" and turn over in bed.
** Mabel has one in ''ComicBook/GravityFallsLostLegends'', where she's in the middle of an angry outburst at [[spoiler: the alternate Mabels for being easily distracted and self-centered, realizing that they are mirroring her own flaws.]]
--->'''Mabel''': What's ''wrong'' with you guys! This is an ''important mission'' and you're all just being ''totally self-center—'' ''[shocked realization]'' Ohhh... ''[covers her face]'' Oh, Mabel, you gotta work on yo'self.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Downplayed in ''ComicBook/GravityFallsLostLegends''' comic, "Don't Dimension It." In this comic, it's stated that Mabel confessed to [[spoiler:making the selfish deal with who she'd thought was Blendin Blandin and subsequently accidentally starting Weirdmageddon, leading to Dipper placing a sign next to the initial crack in reality labelling it [[NeverMyFault "Mabel's Fault."]]]] In the comic proper, Mabel is sucked into a dimension portal and ends up in Dimension MAB-3L, where she has to deal with numerous alternate versions of herself. Unfortunately, the other Mabels aren't willing to help "Mabel Prime" get back home due to their own [[SkewedPriorities personal quirks]]. [[spoiler:The only one who ''seems'' willing is Anti-Mabel, an evil Mabel who ''intentionally'' caused the damage Mabel Prime caused by ''accident.'' Dealing with these conflicts leads Mabel to have a JerkassRealization, and she vows to become a better person once she retuns home. However, she still faces little to no consequences for her selfish wish that started Weirdmaggedon outside of the jab about "Mabel's Fault," and Dipper still returns to Piedmont with her, so she still keeps her benefits from accidentally causing that disaster.]]
* KidDetective: Same case as Dipper, often accompanying him in his investigations.
* KidHero: She's twelve like her brother and one of the heroes.
* KiddieKid: Mabel is a more balanced, realistic example of this trope. She's almost 13, yet still loves unicorns, stickers, light-up sneakers, and owns a [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/3ded95703218132323024842ebf74c86/tumblr_pvjbwzivqX1uk5pr5o7_500.png very childlike bicycle]], complete with a flower basket and handlebar streamers. She also likes plenty of things preteens are expected to like, including and especially [[InLoveWithLove romance]]/[[SerialRomeo boys]].
* KissingWarmUp: She attempts this in the pilot episode with a photo of Norman and a leaf blower set to reverse. [[GoneHorriblyWrong Naturally, it gets stuck to her face]].
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* TheLancer: Secondary character to Dipper and more than willing to put Dipper in his place if he needs it.
* LargeHam: You take a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, [[GenkiGirl feed her a bag of sugar]], give her a massive collection of home-made sweaters and a CuteButCacophonic voice that seldom [[NoindoorVoice goes below 75 decibels]], and you've got Mabel Pines. Sometimes she can be really over the top. [[http://www.reddit.com/r/gravityfalls/comments/1kgq85/i_am_alex_hirsch_creator_of_gravity_falls_ask_me/cbosagy The creator even describes her as this.]] She's especially like this around her pet ''pig'', Waddles.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: During Weirmageddon, it is implied that Bill Cipher wiped Mabel's memory of [[spoiler: her unknowingly giving the dimensional rift to him]].
** However, the Lost Legends story "Don't Dimension It" heavily implies that [[spoiler: Mabel regained that memory after Bill's defeat]].
* LaughOfLove:
** In "Tourist Trapped", after Mabel flirts with a boy whom she has a crush on and inadvertently knocks him over, she laughs happily.
** In "The Hand That Rocks the Mabel", Lil' Gideon is attracted to Mabel (who sees him as just a friend) and they tend to laugh when they hang out together, at least until Gideon reveals himself to be utterly psychotic in his attraction to Mabel.
** In "The Deep End", Mabel laughs and says "You're so funny!" when Mermando, a merman she develops a crush on, jokingly compliments her on her lack of water wings. Soon afterwards, Mermando laughs as she combs his hair, which causes her to think that he likes her.
* {{Leitmotif}}: She is musically represented by a theme that sounds similar to Music/CyndiLauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun". Notably heard during the credits of "The Hand That Rocks the Mabel", when they turn Soos into a human disco ball.
* LethalChef: Literally. Her "Mabel Juice" has plastic dinosaurs in it.
* LetsGetDangerous: Whenever something pushes her too far, such as her brother being put in danger or someone manipulating her, she'll always step up, and often the results aren't pretty.
* LittleMissBadass: Mabel's a twelve-year-old girl who loves nature, animals and everything feminine. She's also quite capable against the calamities that Gravity Falls throws at her on a regular basis.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: To Dipper. While it doesn't reach unhealthy standards like Mabel, Dipper relies on Mabel for emotional support whenever he is upset over blunders.
* LivingMacGuffin: Her importance is revealed in the finale: [[spoiler:She is one of ten who can defeat Bill Cipher]].
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Mabel was never told about the dimensional rift and [[ApocalypseHow what it could do]]. [[spoiler: Bill Cipher used this to his advantage to jump start Weirdmageddon.]]
* LongHairIsFeminine: Her hair reaches down to her waist and she's quite girly.
* LoonWithAHeartOfGold: She's a quirky girl with strong, sometimes troublesome {{Cloudcuckoolander}} tendencies, as well as the tendency to [[WellIntentionedExtremist inadvertently hurt people]] when [[UnwantedAssistance trying to help them]]. She's still an [[AllLovingHero All-Loving Heroine]] whose heart is nonetheless in the right place.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Many of Mabel's worst {{Jerkass}} moments are when there's a cute guy on the line. It starts in "Boyz Crazy", when she decided to keep Sev'ral Timez oblivious prisoners. In "Sock Opera" she breaks her promise to help Dipper so she can obsess over Gabe Benson, even [[MomentOfWeakness momentarily]] giving into Bill Cipher's demands to have a shot at Gabe [[spoiler: despite knowing that doing so would enable Bill to continue endangering Dipper]]. And then [[AesopAmnesia despite supposedly learning from this in "Sock Opera",]] she knowingly and willingly isolates Grenda to hit on a cute rich guy because she thinks Grenda will get in her way of flirting with him. She usually gets a HeelRealization at the end.
* MagicSkirt: For some reason, her skirt stays in place despite the crazy stunts she does. In Irrational Treasure, Mabel lies on a bench UPSIDE DOWN. Her skirt stays defiantly upright. Gravity must work differently in Gravity Falls.
* MagneticHero: Lampshaded by [[spoiler: Ford]], who claims he once watched her become pen-pals with a pizza delivery man in the span of a minute.
** In "Headhunters", she quickly befriends a biker (that had aggressively growled at her) with a paper fortune teller.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: A non-romantic example. Despite her love of sweaters, glitter, and unicorns, Mabel Pines is adventurous and aggressive (her gift of choice from Grunkle Stan is a grappling hook) while her twin brother Dipper is so nerdy and intellectual that it takes the help of mythical creatures to help him become manly (and Dipper ultimately decides he wants nothing to do with the Manotaurs and their [[TestosteronePoisoning ideas of masculinity]]).
* TheMatchmaker: She really wants to be this, but her attempts to pair people (and animals) up usually fail due to her rather... forceful methods. The only successful match she's made thus far is [[spoiler:Robbie and Tambry]], and it's debatable as to whether it was a genuinely good match or morally unethical {{Squick}}, [[spoiler:since she drugged them both with a Love Potion]].
** One of the ''Mabel's Guide to Life'' shorts is ''Mabel's Guide to Dating'', where Mabel describes herself as a dating expert. She sets up a dating quiz that Soos, Dipper, and Grunkle Stan partake in, and also matches up some animals, including two toads, two squirrels, and an owl statue with a real owl.
* MeaningfulName: Mabel means "lovable", and pretty much everyone in the show adores her. [[StalkerWithACrush Too much, in the case of Gideon]]. Her name also means "loving", which makes sense since Mabel is driven by her heart, as she tries to find the perfect summer love for herself and be a matchmaker for Robbie and her friends.
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* MoralityPet: To Stan, even before his CharacterDevelopment. He genuinely adores her, and treats her incredibly well, comforting her when she's upset and calling her by affectionate nicknames. [[spoiler:It's her and Dipper's teamwork that makes Stan and Ford realize just how petty their antagonism towards each other is and work together to stop Bill.]]
* MotiveDecay: Suffers this in both "The Love God" and "The Last Mabelcorn". In both episodes, she started out wanting to do something good for others (helping Robbie to be happy in the former, and protecting the Mystery Shack in the latter), but her goals quickly descended to bolstering her own ego (by proving herself "the greatest matchmaker ever" and of being "pure of heart").
* MotorMouth: Downplayed. She's loud, chatty, opinionated, and has no trouble saying whatever comes to mind no matter how strange or unsettling, but it's not the extreme example common for this trope.
* MsImagination: Is prone to wild and vibrant flights of fancy, ranging from sparkling, glittery rainbows to Aoshima the dolphin and waffles with muscular, humanlike arms. [[spoiler: In "Weirdmageddon 2: Escape From Reality", these come to life in Mabeland.]]
* {{Nephewism}}: Her and Dipper's summer caretaker is their great uncle aka "Grunkle Stan". Their parents are known to be alive and well, they just sent them there to get them out of their hair for the summer. Stan is more like a surrogate grandfather than anything else, so would it be called "Great-Nephewism?"
* NiceGirl: Although she can be [[InnocentlyInsensitive insensitive]] at times, Mabel is a very compassionate person and generally tries to help others, though her methods don't always produce the ideal results.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In "Dipper and Mabel Vs. The Future", [[spoiler:Ford talks Dipper into becoming his apprentice, which would require Dipper to stay in Gravity Falls after the summer is over. Mabel, freaking out already over how terrible everyone older than her says growing up is, tries to freeze Gravity Falls in time with Blendin Blandin's help so Dipper can't leave her to grow up alone. Only problem is, Blendin was possessed by Bill and used Mabel's desperation to get [[SealedEvilInACan the Rift]], which he then used to start the Apocalypse.]]
* NoodleIncident:
** Mabel had dated a couple of cute vampires without mentioning it to Dipper.
--->'''Mabel:''' ''[to Mermando]'' Same here. Except for a zombie, a gnome, and a couple of cute vampires.\\
'''Dipper:''' I don't remember the vampires.\\
'''Mabel:''' I don't tell you everything.
** In "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls", she states that she's accidentally gotten spray paint in her eyes... several times.
* TheNoseKnows: Mabel has sensed Robbie coming in "The Time Traveler's Pig" from smelling a gallon of body spray, and "Fight Fighters" due to smelling anger and hormones.
* NoIndoorVoice: She tends to get loud when she's excited--[[ThePollyanna which is nearly always]].
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: She has a habit of playfully punching, poking, bear hugging, and tackle hugging people she is especially fond of. Dipper, Stan and occasionally Soos are usually on the receiving end of these.
** In "Gideon Rises", she couldn't resist touching Soos's Abuelita's face.
--->'''Mabel:''' Oh, Soos, your grandma is so adorable! And her skin is old lady soft. ''[touches Abuelita's skin with one hand, then both]'' Haaahhh!
* OccultDetective: Not as much as her brother, but she's perfectly comfortable investigating the strange occurrences in Gravity Falls.
* OddFriendship: With Robbie. The two of them make friends by the end of "The Love God", after Robbie expresses his appreciation to Mabel for her [[spoiler: hooking him up with Tambry]]. A scrapped animated Polaroid was supposed to play in the credits of the series finale that shows [[https://youtu.be/5MY9dnCMLKE Mabel painting Robbie's nails]]. Mabel is an optimistic AllLovingHeroine who wears bright clothes and is almost always smiling, whereas Robbie is a pessimistic {{Jerkass}} (at least initially) who wears dark clothes and is quite moody.
* OnlyFriend: Heavily implied to be Dipper's closest and most trusted friend pre-series. Which is sad, considering Alex Hirsch has stated they weren't as close then as they are in Gravity Falls.
* TheOnlyOneITrust:
** In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', the journal Dipper finds has an entry that says, "Remember, in [[TownWithADarkSecret Gravity Falls]], there's no one you can trust." By the end of the episode, he realizes that there ''is'' someone he can trust: his twin sister, Mabel.
-->"...But when you battle a hundred gnomes side-by-side with someone, you realize that they've probably always got your back."
** In "Not What He Seems", [[spoiler: both Stan and Mabel have betrayed Dipper's trust in them - Stan when the twins learn that he may not even be their Great-Uncle and that he's been hiding crucial information from them of possibly apocalyptic proportions, and Mabel when she chooses to trust Stan's judgment over Dipper's in the matter of letting the portal under the Mystery Shack reach its fully active state.]]
** [[spoiler:In the following episode, "A Tale of Two Stans", Stan regains Dipper's trust after the boy learns that his entire motivation in opening the portal was rescuing his own twin brother, Ford. While Mabel possibly regains Dipper's trust as well, their relationship as siblings becomes slightly more distant.]]
* OtherMeAnnoysMe: In the ''ComicBook/GravityFallsLostLegends'' storyline "Don't Dimension It", [[spoiler:she quickly becomes annoyed with the alternate Mabels' self-centredness and inability to focus on what's important.]][[spoiler: However, Mabel does warm up to them towards the end of the story.]]
* OutdatedName: "Mabel" was a popular name during the late 19th century and early-to-mid 20th century, but is now largely considered to be old-fashioned. It's [[LampshadedTrope lampshaded]] by Pacifica, who says it "sounds like a fat old lady's name", but Mabel [[IllTakeThatAsACompliment decides to take that as a compliment]].
* OutdoorsyGal: A rare GirlyGirl example. She enjoys being out in nature considerably more than Dipper.
* ParentalFavoritism: Is obviously shown this from Grunkle Stan, who is far more familial with her than with nearly anyone else at the Shack.
* PerpetualSmiler: It takes a lot to wipe the smile off her face.
* PinkMeansFeminine: She's a GirlyBruiser whose IconicOutfit consists of a pink turtleneck sweater and headband.
* PluckyComicRelief: Not always, but she has no problems fulfilling this role.
* PluckyGirl: Although wacky, Mabel is very resourceful and will use whatever is available to help with the situation at hand.
* PolarOppositeTwins: While both of them are good-natured, they contrast in personality. Mabel is a CloudCuckooLander Pollyanna while Dipper is serious and snarky. Dipper often seeks validation and acceptance, while Mabel does her own thing regardless of what anyone else says. Both of these outlooks on life have their virtues and flaws. [[spoiler: These differences become more pronounced after Ford comes to stay with them.]]
* ThePollyanna: Mabel has been described as a "glass half full" kind of girl. No matter how sad she is or how dire a situation she's in is, Mabel's recourse is to make the best of it.
** Dipper lampshades her tendency to bounce back quickly in the episode "The Time Traveler's Pig" when he says to Mabel, "I know you. You're gonna forget about this in a day!" regarding her [[spoiler: despair over losing Waddles when Dipper changes circumstances via a time travel device. He turned out to be wrong, however]].
** In "Gideon Rises", when Gideon has [[spoiler: seemingly succeeded in taking over the Mystery Shack, resulting in the twins having to be sent home, Dipper is completely devestated while Mabel tries to lighten the mood and cheer herself up by playing a game involving finding hidden items under the bus seat]].
** Best shown in "Not What He Seems", when, despite Dipper imploring her to [[spoiler: shut down Stan's portal on the grounds that Grunkle Stan's duplicitous nature could endanger the universe]], she instead chooses to [[spoiler: let the portal activate completely, trusting that Stan loves her and only wants what's best]].
** [[spoiler:Subverted when she finally begins considering her and Dipper's possible future and begins growing paranoid over it. Notably, this paranoia [[SelfFulfillingProphecy causes]] a good portion of the emotional conflict that develops between Dipper and Mabel, because she's so hysterical by the time Dipper learns about her concern that she refuses to actually talk with him about it, instead yelling at him and running away]].
** This gets [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]] in the second season, where her attempts to see the best of any bad situation, despite all evidence to the contrary, can lead to BreakTheCutie moments (such as [[spoiler:when the possibility of Stan being a criminal imposter seemed like an actuality]]), or even full-fledged [[IRejectYourReality denial]]. Her belief that everything will work out in the end also regularly gets challenged and hit with realism, like in "Sock Opera" and "The Love God", where her actions don't result in entirely positive outcomes like she thinks they will.
* ProperlyParanoid: [[spoiler: Her fears that she and Dipper will eventually drift apart like Ford and Stan, which Dipper brushes off, begin to become legitimate as Dipper starts to spend most of his time with Ford, while Mabel spends even more time with Stan, Grenda, and Candy. But rather than any dislike towards each other, it's more a case of PoorCommunicationKills—neither of them are talking to each other about their deeper concerns due to outside forces and inner issues, so when problems between them arise, they both internalize it rather than discuss it, and thus aren't made aware of what bothers the other. See SelfFulfillingProphecy, however, for how she caused some of these fears to happen herself.]]
* ProudBeauty: A very mild example, but Mabel does seem to be aware of and prize her beauty. In "Gideon Rises", she refers to herself as beautiful, and in "Dreamscaperers", when Bill Cipher turns her into an ugly, green monster while she's [[spoiler:inside Stan's mind]], she flips out and exclaims, "My cuteness! What did you do to my cuteness?". Downplayed considerably given that she isn't stuck up, and that she gives her female friends boosts of confidence all the time by complimenting their appearances.
* PsychicPowers: For a brief instance in "The Hand That Rocks the Mabel", while she was holding [[spoiler:Gideon's amulet]].
* PubescentBraces: Mabel and Dipper are 12 years old during the summer when the show takes place, though only Mabel wears braces which, according to Dipper in "Carpet Diem", whistle when she breathes. Mabel is less concerned than Dipper is about "acting mature" (though she does show a lot of emotional maturity for her age). (Also: a photo flashback reveals she's had braces at least since she was 9 years old.)
* QuirkyCurls: She is shown to have distinctive curls on the ends of her hair. Which reflects her Cloudcuckoolander personality quite well.
* ReconstructedTrope: Along with Dipper, she reconstructs FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling. Instead of their differences pulling them apart, it makes them stronger: Mabel’s social skills and quick thinking help them out as much as Dipper’s smarts and planning do.
* RedOniBlueOni: Dipper is the (usually) calm and collected Blue, as opposed to Mabel's off-the-wall, wacky Red. Coincidentally, Dipper wears a navy-blue vest, whereas Mabel wears red (or any different shade of the color) on several occasions.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Non-romantic example: Mabel is the Energetic Girl to Dipper's Savvy Guy. Mabel's cheerful and upbeat personality makes a contrasting pairing with Dipper's cynical and stern one.
* SarcasmBlind: Sarcasm sometimes goes over Mabel's head. It's a trait she shares with Soos.
-->'''Stan''': Look, you guys got a problem with how I run the Shack, take it up with the complaints department. ''(holds up a trash can.)'' Zing!
-->'''Mabel''': I am going to write them ''such'' a letter! ''(Starts writing a letter, covering what she's writing with her arm.)''
* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: Mabel does this on a fairly regular basis. WOMP WOMP!
-->"Check it out, Dipper. I successfully bedazzled my face. Blink! ''(Blinks as she says this and some of the sequins fly off her face)'' Ow."
* SecurityCling: While both Pines twins do this when they are both frightened, Mabel does this more so, frequently reaching for [[https://i.imgur.com/DtVoFBD.gif Dipper's hand, shoulder, or vest when she is scared.]]
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Mabel's fear that [[spoiler:her relationship with Dipper will become more distant actually does start to manifest in reality; however, one of the major reasons Dipper stops spending as much time with her is because he gains the option to spend time with someone who doesn't [[BigSisterBully make fun of his hobbies, interests and quirks like she does]]. Also, when Dipper's ''finally'' made aware of Mabel's fear of drifting apart and tries to talk to her and work things out, Mabel's so upset at him for unknowingly forcing her to confront this fear that she refuses to talk with him, instead yelling at him and running away crying, which quite literally causes the Rift between them to go from manageable and controllable to uncontainable and unpredictable.]]
* SerialRomeo: Unlike Dipper, who had a crush on Wendy for all the first season and [[spoiler:got a ShipTease with Pacifica in Season 2]], Mabel has the largest amount of {{Temporary Love Interest}}s, as it's her goal to have an "epic summer romance." She flirts a lot trying to find "the one" and when things don't go well she moves on to another boy. But unlike other examples, she remembers her affections for every boy she took a shine to, as seen by the illusions made by the Love God.
* ShipperOnDeck: A self-proclaimed matchmaker.
** Mabel helped Soos find a girlfriend.
** She "married" Waddles the Pig with Gompers the Goat.
** "The Love God" shows that she ships Dipper with her friend Candy, and Grunkle Stan with Soos's grandmother.
** Mabel and Candy agree to be "co-bridesmaids" at Grenda and Marius' future wedding.
** ''VideoGame/GravityFallsLegendOfTheGnomeGemulets'' reveals she knows about Dipper and Pacifica hugging in "Northwest Mansion Mystery" and teases them about it. In ''Lost Legends'' Pacifica accidentally texts Mabel a message for Dipper and Mabel quickly assumes she has a crush on him, which Pacifica vehemently denies.
* SmallNameBigEgo:
** In "Tourist Trapped", she believed she was "irresistible" to guys, in spite of the {{Montage}} showing her heavy-handed attempts at flirting failing miserably.
** In "The Love God", she considered herself "the world's greatest match-maker", even though she has a very poor idea of how love works.
** In "The Last Mabelcorn", she fully believed she was of "pure, perfect heart."
** In "Don't Dimension It", she [[spoiler:finds herself in a dimension filled with other versions of herself. When asked which Mabel she is, she replies that she's "The ''best'' Mabel, obviously!" She is instead labelled "Slightly Arrogant Mabel" (which she awkwardly tries to deny)]].
* SpannerInTheWorks:
** [[spoiler:Ford doesn't seem to have considered how badly Mabel would take his offer to essentially raise Dipper (''[[ParentalFavoritism just]]'' Dipper) through his teenage years in Gravity Falls. Her ItsAllAboutMe response and subsequent desperate deal with Blendin Blandin to try to freeze time (thus preventing her ''or'' Dipper from growing up for as long as she wanted) screwed over Dipper and Ford's hard-won solution to the slowly cracking Rift ''and'' led directly to the start of the Apocalypse they were trying to prevent, because as it turns out, Blendin was possessed by Bill.]]
** [[spoiler:However, had Mabel not unknowingly gave the dimensional rift to Bill, Stan and Ford would never have rekindled their friendship.]]
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: In "Double Dipper", she urges Dipper to throw away his long-winded plan to win Wendy's heart, and just talk to her like a normal person.
* StrongGirlSmartGuy: With Dipper. Mabel's strength is rarely brought up, but she is a lot stronger than most girls her age and she is the one more accustomed to fighting. Dipper is obsessed with the titular town's mysteries and secrets, he is the logical twin who is a GuileHero.
* StunnedSilence: In the EstablishingSeriesMoment in the pilot, this was her reaction to finding out that her new boyfriend was actually a bunch of gnomes standing on top of each other. [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Notably, this is the only time in the whole series that Mabel's rendered speechless.]] (Though it makes sense, considering this was her first-ever encounter with the supernatural. After ''that'', it's safe to assume not much would shock her anymore.)
* SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: Mabel sometimes feels at odds with her brother Dipper due to the latter having more academic finesse.
** In "Little Dipper", she spends most of the episode teasing Dipper about being slightly shorter than her. She eventually reveals that the reason why is because he bests her at most activities--chess, checkers, ping pong, etc., and that her being taller meant she "finally felt like [she] was winning at something for once."
* SweetTooth: She's a twelve-year-old girl, so there are plenty of indications that she has this:
** One piece of promo art shows her lying on the floor with a popsicle stuffed in her mouth.
** In "The Inconveniencing" she eats [[EleventyZillion "bleventeen"]] packages of Smile Dip.
** In "The Time Traveler's Pig" she has two cones of cotton candy and is pissed when Robbie takes a chunk out of one of them. Though she dropped them when she was distracted by the "win a pig" sign.
** In "Mabel's Guide to Stickers" she trades Stan a "Baby on Board" sticker for an ''industrial-sized'' bucket of sprinkles. We don't see her eat the whole thing, but she definitely plans to.
--->'''Mabel''': ''[grinning]'' I'm gonna get ''so sick''.
** In "Little Dipper", she ate a gummy bear the size of a large teddy bear (except for the head, which she saved for later).
* SympathyForTheDevil: Mabel feels this way toward Pacifica at the end of "The Golf War", and even Dipper concedes that she really is just a kid like them... except utterly, ridiculously rich, in which case sympathy is mixed with envy.
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* TalkingInYourSleep: In ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3'', one of Dipper's notes mentions that Mabel sings in her sleep.
* TextileWorkIsFeminine: She's very much a GirlyGirl and knitting cute, colorful sweaters is one of her hobbies.
* TheyJustDontGetIt: In "The Last Mabelcorn". Despite being informed that doing good deeds just to look good isn't good at all, she goes right back to trying to think of a good enough deed to make her "pure of heart."
* ToiletHumor: Mabel loves this type of humor. In "Society of the Blind Eye," she scribbles "BUTTS" on [[spoiler: Blind Ivan]]'s phrenology-map skull tattoo, and in "Fight Fighters", she gets Rumble [=McSkirmish=] to shout, "POOP! POOP AND BUTTS!". She's also very amused (as is Stan) by the DD&MD rule-book's use of the word "buttress" in "Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons".
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl:
** Mabel is the GirlyGirl to Wendy's {{Tomboy}}. She's into things such as knitting, bejeweling, boy bands, and teen romance movies, while Wendy likes tree climbing, pranking, indie rock bands, and zombie flicks. Though the two of them have some notable things in common--they both [[GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals adore stuffed animals]], [[OutdoorsyGal enjoy the outdoors]], and [[BloodKnight love to brawl]]. Hanging out with Mabel tends to bring out [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak Wendy's girlier side]].
** Conversely, Mabel is the {{Tomboy}} to Pacifica's GirlyGirl. Mabel is an unapologetic goofball with no qualms about eating an old taco from behind a car seat, whereas Pacifica is a vain AlphaBitch (later LovableAlphaBitch) who's repulsed by the idea of eating in a car, period. While Mabel does love makeovers and bejeweling her face, she isn't nearly as interested in looks as Pacifica is. She's also a rough-and-tumble GirlyBruiser who looks forward to adventure, while Pacifica (despite being a capable GirlyBruiser when necessary) seems to view adventuring and fighting purely as a means to an end.
* TookALevelInBadass: In "Headhunters", she beats the majority of the evil wax figures mostly by herself.
* TookALevelInJerkass:
** In "Little Dipper", Mabel responds to Dipper's smug and open glee at his multiple game victories against her by continuously mocking him for being 1 millimeter shorter than her and claiming that this indicates she's "evolv[ed] into the superior sibling" and is now the "Alpha Twin," using this to cheerfully deride Dipper for supposedly being inherently inferior to her for the rest of the episode--all of this to the point where others around join in, with Stan gleefully calling Dipper the "object of ridicule" [[{{Troll}} and of course doing his best to make it worse]]. Even after Dipper uses magic to make himself taller in an attempt to get everyone to stop making fun of him, Mabel has the gall to say that it doesn't matter because she'll certainly ''end up'' taller--and thus is still superior to him. Mabel doesn't even have a JerkassRealization at the end like the other examples, instead justifying her actions by claiming Dipper made her feel bad first.
** In "Boyz Crazy", she keeps Sev'ral Timez prisoner in her bedroom until Candy and Grenda can talk her out of it.
** In "Sock Opera", she puts her desire for her BoyOfTheWeek over her promise to help her brother decrypt the laptop password, pushes Dipper into promising to help her construct a puppet show on the fly to impress said boy, and steals Journal 3 to use as a prop in her play, almost giving it to Bill Cipher for the play's success before having her JerkassRealization.
** In "Weirdmaggedon Part 2," [[spoiler:Mabel creates [[ReplacementGoldfish Dippy Fresh]] to be, according to her, a better and more supportive replacement for her brother. With the exception of basic physical features, Dippy Fresh is absolutely nothing like Dipper in any way, ultimately demonstrating, in that moment, Mabel's complete rejection of value in the real Dipper's traits and personality--''[[KickTheDog directly to Dipper's face.]]'' To her credit, Mabel was implied to be under light brainwashing and rescinds her preference for Dippy Fresh in the resolution of the episode after choosing to return to the real world with the real Dipper.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: After her experience dealing with the alternate universe Mabels and realizing her own self-centered behavior, Mabel ultimately vowed to become a much better person. Once she returned to her home dimension, Mabel's first act of kindness was giving Dipper a brand new journal. Stating that the journal will have all of their new adventures in it, and Mabel promising that she won't hog the spotlight.
* TownGirls:
** The GenkiGirl Femme to Candy's AsianAndNerdy Neither and Grenda's [[BrawnHilda Brawn Hilda-ish]] Butch. Mabel is the most feminine of her friend group, practically personifying a GirlyGirl.
** She's also the hardy and adventurous GirlyBruiser Neither to Pacifica's vain AlphaBitch (later LovableAlphaBitch) Femme and Wendy's athletic, axe-wielding, [[TheLadette Ladette-ish]] Butch.
* ThemeTwinNaming: M[[spoiler:ason]] and Mabel Pines. Both names begin with the letter M, are five letters long, and are [[OutdatedName somewhat old-fashioned]].
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Became so frightened by the idea of growing up and being separated from her brother that she [[spoiler:gave [[SealedEvilInACan the Rift]] her brother and great uncle tried so hard to protect over to Blendin Blandin, who promised he would use it to freeze time for her so she and the rest of Gravity Falls would stay the same as long as she wanted. Instead, Blendin revealed himself to be possessed by Bill, who promptly broke it and began the Apocalypse.]]
* UnlimitedWardrobe: Mabel seems to have an infinite amount of custom sweaters, and wears a different one every episode, and sometimes more than one in the same episode. Though she always wears turtleneck sweaters, they all have different patterns. Mabel switches sweaters every episode and if the episode takes place over the course of a few days she'll switch. She wears at least 6 sweaters in "The Hand That Rocks The Mabel" alone. Justified since Mabel knits the sweaters herself. Apparently she just owns a lot of yarn. This is in stark contrast to her brother's LimitedWardrobe.
* UnwantedAssistance: She frequently tries to "help" people by coercing others into taking up her methods. While she does this in many areas, it's most prominent in romance, where she's gone to extreme lengths to "support" others in relationships that she approves of.
** In "Into the Bunker", she locks her brother into a closet with Wendy and refuses to let them out until Dipper confesses his love to her, after he told her he was giving up on his crush and asked her to leave it alone. This nearly gets them killed, because it wasn't a closet, it was the chamber of a very deadly (and now loose) experiment.
** In "Roadside Attraction", when Dipper's still not over his rejection, she supports the idea that Dipper should get into a rebound relationship and tries to hook him up with her friend Candy, only to blame him when he was uncomfortable with Candy's ''really'' forward advances and gets angry at him for [[MistakenForCheating "betraying"]] Candy by talking to other girls before Candy even asked him out.
* VampiresAreSexGods: She certainly thinks so.
-->'''Mabel''': ''(To Dipper)'' I'm obsessed? Look at you! You look like a vampire! And not the hot kind!


-->'''Norman''': Uh, Mabel, now that we’ve gotten to know each other, there’s... ''(exhales)'' ...there’s something I should tell you.
-->'''Mabel''': Oh, Norman, you can tell me anything! ''(Thinking:)'' Please be a vampire, please be a vampire!

-->'''Mermando''': Mabel, I have never met anyone like you.
-->'''Mabel''': Same here. Except for a zombie, a gnome, and a couple of [[NoodleIncident cute vampires]].
-->'''Dipper''': I don't remember the vampires.
-->'''Mabel''': I don't tell you everything.
* WeakWilled: Her focus and dedication to a matter can easily be broken if she sees something she wants (especially if it's a boy).
** In "The Love God", when the titular Love God is trying to [[spoiler: take the Anti-Love potion away from Mabel and Dipper]], he summons "Visions of Heartbreak Past," a spell that causes visions of all of Mabel's ex-crushes to appear, to trick Mabel into handing the [[spoiler: Anti-Love potion]] over. Dipper punches one of these visions in the face and asks who would fall for it. Cut to Mabel surrounded by her exes...
--->''(Giggles)'' Sure you can all marry me. Oh, guy from the $10 bill, I forgot I had a crush on you.
** In "The Time Traveler's Pig", Mabel tells Dipper she'll stick with him all day to help him keep Wendy away from Robbie, but then sees a pig (Waddles when he was still Ol' 15 Poundie) and runs frantically to win him.
* WeirdnessMagnet:
** Possibly moreso than her brother. Weird stuff is always gravitating toward her (the gnomes and Gideon, for instance). In "The Inconveniencing", [[spoiler:she was possessed, rather than "punished" by the ghosts.]]
** Ironically, Mabel missed out on the first four days of Weirdmageddon, [[spoiler: due to being trapped inside a LotusEaterMachine]].
** In the "Lost Legends" story ''Don't Dimension It'', After Mabel got sucked into a dimensional rift, she was transported to Dimension MAB-3L, where if any Mabel in the known multiverse got sucked in, they all end up in the same spot.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Bringing Stan up to the water tower to cure his fear of heights, shoving Dipper and Wendy into a closet to make Dipper confess his crush, shouting at women to leave the bathroom and talk to Soos to get him a date, that sort of thing. The first two end up accidentally putting people in life-threatening peril.
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:''[[BlueAndOrangeMorality Bill]]'']] of all people gives this to her in "Sock Opera", after she brushes off her promises to Dipper, makes him put his own plans on hold to help her win over her guy of the week, and even takes Journal 3 without permission to use as a prop.
-->[[spoiler:'''Bill''']]: How's about you hand that book over?\\
'''Mabel''': No way! This is Dipper's! I'd never give it away!\\
[[spoiler:'''Bill''']]: [[VillainHasAPoint Hmm, you didn't seem to have a problem taking it for your own play or ditching him when he needed you.]] So come to your senses. Gimme the book or your play is ruined. ''[Mabel sighs and begins to hand over the journal]'' [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame There it is. I mean, who would sacrifice everything they've worked for just for their dumb sibling?]]\\
'''Mabel''': ...''[[JerkassRealization Dipper]]'' [[HeroicResolve would]].
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: She has a phobia of Claymation that she realizes is perfectly rational in "Little Gift Shop of Horrors", though it's unknown if she really has this fear or if it was just part of Stan's story.
* WideEyedIdealist: Tends to believe the best of everyone and that any situation will have a happy outcome. It's put to the test in "Not What He Seems".
** In "Boss Mabel", she and Stan arrange a bet involving her being the Mystery Shack's boss for three days. In keeping with her [[AllLovingHero all-loving]], [[ThePollyanna Pollyanna]] personality, prior to and at the beginning of the arrangement, she honestly believes that just being nice and letting the Shack's employees [[ExtremeDoormat do absolutely anything they want]] will yield positive results. It doesn't work out as planned, and she eventually realizes that [[GoodIsNotSoft sometimes in life, you have to put your foot down]]. She spends the first half of the episode looking [[https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Mabel%27s_the_Boss_Now literally wide-eyed]].
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Though Mabel is ignorant of a lot of the complexities of others and often accidentally offends without meaning to, Alex Hirsch says she understands that Dipper's desire to grow up fast is inherently childish. This is shown in "Summerween" when she admits that she knows that she and her brother would inevitably grow out of trick-or-treating.
--> '''Dipper''': Mabel, you know that's not true. I just felt like I was getting a little too old to go trick-or-treating.\\
'''Mabel''': That's exactly why we need to go trick-or-treating, Dipper! We're getting older, there's not that many Halloweens left! I guess I didn't realize it was already our last one.
* WrongGenreSavvy: In "Sock Opera" towards the end:
-->'''Mabel''': Don't worry, I have seen enough movies to know this is the part where the audience thinks this was AllPartOfTheShow and loves it. Cue applause!\\
''[audience boos and leaves]''
* YaoiFangirl: About as blatant as one can possibly be in a Disney show. She enthusiasthically takes a picture of her own brother's CPR with Mermando and the original storyboards for "The Love God" have her sweater be a more blatant pride flag.
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!!Mabel Pines
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[[caption-width-right:200:''"Don't worry, brother. Whatever happens, I'll be right here, supporting you every step of the–[[AttentionDeficitOohShiny OH MY GOSH A PIG!!!!!]]"'']]
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/KristenSchaal

->''"When life gives you lemons, draw faces on those lemons and wrap them in a blanket. Ta-daaa! Now you have Lemon Babies."''

Dipper's quirky, intuitive, creative, energetic, and optimistic twin sister. Mabel makes the best out of every situation with a big smile while also playfully annoying her brother. She represents the shooting star on the Zodiac.
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* AbsurdPhobia: In the "Little Gift Shop of Horrors" segment "Clay Day", Mabel is shown to have an irrational fear of claymation. [[spoiler:Fortunately, Mabel managed to overcome her fear at the climax when she had to save her family from actual claymation monsters]].
* AesopAmnesia: A case of realistic outcome given her age, and that real people can struggle with these kinds of problems for decades even while fully aware of their tendencies. Her lack of forethought doesn't help much, either.
** In "Sock Opera" she learns not to push aside important people in her life for a guy and to appreciate her brother's efforts to make her happy. However, she backslides in "Northwest Mansion Mystery", again pushing aside important people in her life for a guy and talking her brother into taking a potentially dangerous job offered by people they know are corrupt so she and her friends can go to a fancy party. Her respect and appreciation for her brother continues to be a work in progress in future episodes, but the "not chasing after a guy at the expense of others" aesop seems to have stuck the second time, as she doesn't repeat this mistake again.
** Downplayed in "Roadside Attraction". Despite proclaiming that she has a plan to set up Candy and Dipper (clearly going against her lesson from "The Love God") she doesn't much act on this plan besides making them share a seat and her forgetting the previous Aesop is neither the driving force nor the focus of the conflict that occurs.
** In "Dipper and Mabel Vs. The Future", [[spoiler: this is deconstructed. Despite her acknowledging the two Aesops of "if I love it set it free" ("Boyz Crazy"), or that she shouldn't always expect Dipper to give up everything he cares about for her sake ("Sock Opera"), neither of the two seem to have stuck in Mabel's head. Mabel becomes distraught after learning how hard growing up is going to be and can only take solace in knowing Dipper is going to be there for her, so she flips out when learning he might pursue his dreams away from her--while also not understanding that her often [[BigSisterBully insensitive treatment]] is what drove him away to Ford to start with, which she had briefly acknowledged in "Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons".]] This ends up actively causing those she loves more problems because she shows no awareness for the very applicable lessons she'd previously learned that could have helped her avoid contributing to them.
** It also gets {{Deconstructed}} in the comic story "Don't Dimension It". [[spoiler:The story deals with Ford, Dipper and Stan sealing some remaining rifts, and they find out Mabel helped Bill cause the apocalypse out of misguided selfishness. They don't blame her, apart from Dipper jokingly calling one of the rifts "Mabel's Fault," but they tell her to be careful. Mabel's ItsAllAboutMe attitude comes to the forefront just a few days after defeating Bill where she brings Waddles on the mission to seal the rifts, against Dipper's protests. Sure enough, Mabel chasing Waddles causes her to get sucked into the Multiverse...where she counters millions of her parallel selves stuck on a barren planet due to making a similar decision. Mabel starts getting horrified on realizing most of her cutesy flaws are annoying in a dire situation and that each Mabel is too self-centered to focus on returning to their dimensions]]. At the end of this story at least, [[spoiler:she vows to work on that so time will tell if that sticks]].
* AffectionateNickname: Mabel has both received some and given some.
** Soos occasionally refers to Mabel as "hambone".
** Stan calls her "sweetie" or, more rarely, "pumpkin".
** Mabel is fond of calling Dipper "[=DipDop=]".
** She also nicknames them "Mystery Twins". Dipper initially dislikes it, but it soon grows on him.
* AllLovingHeroine: Mabel tries her best to be nice and friendly with everyone. She was willing to overlook Gideon's creepy tendencies and remain friends with him [[spoiler:until he tried to murder Dipper with lamb shears]], attempted to ease her rivalry and befriended Pacifica, and aided Robbie with his love life despite his conflicts with her brother.
* AllTakeAndNoGive: This, along with [[InnocentlyInsensitive Innocent Insensitivity]] and AesopAmnesia, is her FatalFlaw. Mabel has a problem with selfishness and often takes advantage of her brother's love to try to get him to put aside his own wishes and goals and do what she wants, usually without realizing (until [[HeelRealization far later]]) that what she's doing is manipulative or damaging. But while she does suffer from AesopAmnesia and thus repeats this mistake often, she also [[SubvertedTrope tries to subvert this flaw]] and genuinely make amends during moments of [[JerkassRealization greater self-awareness]]. In "Carpet Diem" she [[spoiler: gives Dipper the key after understanding that he was having a rough time]], in "Sock Opera" [[spoiler: she sacrifices her sock puppet performance to defeat Bill]], in "Weirdmageddon 2: Escape From Reality", [[spoiler: she tells Dipper she's okay with his decision of becoming Ford's apprentice]], and in ''ComicBook/GravityFallsLostLegends'' [[spoiler: Mabel gives Dipper a pine tree journal and apologizes to him for her selfishness during the summer after nearly getting stuck in a different dimension.]]
* AllWomenLoveShoes: Somewhat {{Downplayed|Trope}}. While Mabel doesn't make a big deal about them, she does own at least four pairs of shoes.
** Her basic black dress shoes which she wears throughout the series.
** Pink light-up sneakers (''The Time Traveler's Pig'')
** Pink cowgirl boots (''Scary-oke'')
** Pink golf shoes (''The Golf War'')
* AmbiguouslyBi: Constantly calls her female friends beautiful and is curiously earnest in her attempts to get closer with Pacifica. She also wears a rainbow sweater in "The Love God", which Creator/AlexHirsch did intentionally in response to not being allowed to have explicitly gay characters in the show.
* AmbiguouslyJewish: Mabel occasionally uses Yiddish phrases such as "Mazel tov!", and "sweet Moses!", but also owns a Christmas sweater and depicts her puppet self getting married by a priest in "Sock Opera". It puts a rather interesting spin on her adopting a pig meant for food and refusing to eat a lobster. Creator/AlexHirsch originally stated that [[https://twitter.com/_AlexHirsch/status/547218052178145280 the Pines family is not canonically Jewish]], but after the release of Journal 3, which mentioned Stan having a bar mitzvah and therefore canonized the kids as being Jewish on the Pines side at least, he responded that the Pines twins probably had a similar upbringing to his own, with [[https://twitter.com/_AlexHirsch/status/758547032554344448 Stan raised Jewish while Dipper and Mabel were raised non-religiously]], though both Christian and Jewish holidays are celebrated at Mabel's insistence.
* ApologyGift:
** In "Golf War", after Dipper, Mabel and Pacifica escape from the golf course, Mabel gives to her former rival a sticker of "A-Paw-logize" to apologize to her about the Lilliputians. Pacifica accepts, claiming it's just because it looks good on her.
** After Mabel returned from Dimension MAB-3L in "Don't Dimension It", [[spoiler: she gave Dipper a brand new journal as an apology for all of the trouble she caused over the summer]].
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Not as bad as Soos, but chances are she will be distracted by something. The more shiny, unusual, or an animal, the better. There's this moment from "The Time Traveler's Pig":
--->'''Mabel:''' Don't worry, brother. Whatever happens, I'll be right here, supporting you every step of the '''OH MY GOSH, A PIG!!!'''
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: [[ItMakesAsMuchSenseInContext After the 8 1/2th President was released from his Peanut Brittle hibernation]], he dubbed her a Congresswoman.
* BadassAdorable: A cutey patootie with a mean right hook.
* BadassDriver: As seen in "The Legend of the Gobblewonker" when she takes up driving Soos' boat.
* BadassNormal: Like Dipper, except her wits are a lot more...unconventional.
* BalloonBelly: Happens to Mabel in "The Inconveniencing" after she eats too much Smile Dip.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:
** Subverted in Society of the Blind Eye. Mabel spends the episode distraught over how poorly her love life has gone and realizes she can use the memory wiping gun to forget about it. Wendy warns her against it by pointing out how messed-up everyone else became after erasing their memories, but is tempted by the prospect of forgetting an annoying song. However, just as the girls are about to go through with it, they come to their senses and decide forgetting things won’t solve their problems.
** In "Dipper and Mabel Vs. The Future", [[spoiler:she makes a wish for time to stop so she wouldn't have to face her problems and Dipper wouldn't leave her so soon. [[DemonicPossession "Blendin"]] offers her a "Time Bubble" to do just that, if only she'd hand over a [[SealedEvilinACan mysterious item]] in her brother's possession. She does, is immediately sealed inside a bubble, and gets her wish fulfilled [[ApocalypseHow in the most brutal way possible]]. Even more in line with this trope, she's then trapped in a LotusEaterMachine that creates her idea of the perfect paradise, making it simply ''too hard'' for [[WeakWilled Mabel]] to reject]].
* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: The Beauty (The emotionally connected leader of the trio) to Candy's Brains and Grenda's Brawn. Also the Beauty to Dipper's Brains and Soos's Brawn.
* BenevolentBoss: Mabel starts out this way when she gets to run the Shack in "Boss Mabel". Ultimately deconstructed as she can't bring herself to say no to Soos' ridiculous mascot idea, [[TheSlacker Wendy]] takes advantage of Mabel's niceness to go goof off with her friends, and Dipper's attempt to liven up the Shack with an actual monster, the Gremoblin, goes horribly wrong (first by no one believing it's a monster and then it escaping in part of Mabel's attempt at being nice). After the twins scare the Gremoblin away, Mabel ends up snapping at Soos and Wendy after the two try to get out of fixing the damage done to the Mystery Shack, and she ends up barking orders like Stan to get things done.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Mabel is the sweetest person one can meet, but she's something else when she gets angry. She'll stand up for herself and others when she has to, and she [[GoodIsNotSoft goes absolutely ballistic]] against unambiguously evil people like [[spoiler: Gideon (pre-HeelFaceTurn) and EldritchAbomination Bill Cipher]].
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Mabel comes off as (and mostly is) a jovial {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, but she's more than capable of keeping up with Dipper on an adventure, she's a [[GirlyBruiser capable]] and [[BloodKnight enthusiastic]] combatant, and she isn't afraid to [[GoodIsNotSoft step up or put someone in their place when necessary]].
* BigEater: It's a trait [[DownplayedTrope that's never pointed out]] directly, but she's shown eating on-screen more often than any other character besides Soos. Pick an episode and she more than likely eats something in it. She especially loves [[SweetTooth junk food]] and...[[ExtremeOmnivore things that aren't traditionally eaten]]. In "Dungeons, Dungeons & More Dungeons", Mabel made a contraption that lets her eat all of her favorite snacks at once.
* BigStupidDooDooHead: She tends to use insults that fall into this category, like "butt-faces" or "poop-heads".
-->'''Mabel''': ''(To Bill Cipher)'' Oh, yeah? Well, you're a...a stink face!
-->'''Xyler''': Awesome comeback, Mabel!
-->'''Mabel''': Don't treat me like a child, Xyler.
* BigSisterBully: Played with. While she thinks of it more as lighthearted teasing than outright bullying, she does like to poke at Dipper's insecurities at times, often alongside Stan, because she genuinely thinks she's being funny and charming while doing so. This becomes {{Deconstructed|Trope}} as the show has long hinted, and "Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons'' confirms, that it isn't very lighthearted to Dipper and he's been genuinely hurt by her teasing, which has resulted in damage to their relationship.
* BigSisterInstinct: Not as protective of Dipper as he is of her, but comes fairly close. The "big sister" aspect is also played straight in that she is five minutes older and a millimeter taller than Dipper.
* BigThinShortTrio: With Grenda and Candy, Mabel is the thin one, Grenda is the big one, and Candy appears as the shortest of the trio.
* BirdsOfAFeather: A platonic version with Soos—while both of the twins are close with him, it's clear that he has a lot more in common with Mabel. They both have {{Cloudcuckoolander}} tendencies that sometimes inconvenience those around them, but are also [[GeniusDitz intelligent in their own ways]] and [[LetsGetDangerous quite competent when necessary]]. They both also [[BigEater eat a lot]], [[CuddleBug love to hug]], and [[SarcasmBlind don't always recognize sarcasm]].
* BlitheSpirit: To both Stan and the townsfolk, though sometimes for her own personal gain.
* BloodKnight: She enjoys kicking butt and takes any opportunity to do so.
-->'''Mabel''': Alright, here's the plan. I'll take out those two guard guys, you karate chop the other dude in the neck and then we'll back flip through the front door!
* BlowingARaspberry: Befitting her fun-loving personality, she [[https://giphy.com/gifs/gravity-falls-mabel-pines-24X0WIkGu4bm likes doing this]]. She does it to Dipper in "The Legend of the Gabblewonker," for example.
* BlushSticker: Seems to have perpetually rosy cheeks.
* BookDumb: In contrast to her studious twin. Though she is uninterested in content such as the titicular "Dungeons, Dungeons and More Dungeons" board game, citing it as "this is like Homework: The Game", she has great interpersonal skills and is highly creative.
* BrainsAndBrawn:
** Usually the brawn to Dipper’s brains. She is a CuteBruiser who cheerfully walks around with axes, grappling hooks and random blunt objects, while her brother is physically wimpy but usually the one who does the planning or utilizes the various supernatural objects they come across to their advantage. Eventually deconstructed as we see that both of them have become pretty fixated on their respective roles to the detriment of their individuality: Mabel is still very imaginative and by no means stupid, and Dipper once took down a HumongousMecha unarmed while deprived of his usual source of arcane knowledge.
--->'''Dipper:''' I mean, I'm supposed to be the smart guy! If I'm not [[TheSmartGuy the smart guy]], then who am I?
** Both she and Dipper function as the Brains to Soos's, Wendy's, or Stan's Brawn, depending on who's with them at the time.
* {{Brainwashed}}: Downplayed. [[spoiler:In ''Weirdmageddon II: Escape From Reality'', it's lightly implied Mabel's perception was messed with to help disguise the less positive qualities of Mabel Land; after Mabel agrees to return to reality with her brother, she exhibits [[{{Glurge}} a far less positive opinion]] of [[SugarBowl the qualities she herself imbued in Mabel Land]].]]
* BrainyBrunette: Mabel may not be as academically agile as Dipper, but she is smart in her own way:
** She's ''extremely'' artistically-inclined, which she seems to be aware of, given that she once referred to herself as an "arts and crafts master".
*** Throughout their entire summer vacation, she regularly knits sweaters with different designs and patterns, and a few of them are electric sweaters that can light up or play music.
*** In "Headhunters", Mabel crafted a lifelike wax figure of Stan by herself.
*** She's also very skilled at wood carving (having a collection of very intricate, painted wooden figurines of her friends and the townspeople of Gravity Falls in "The Love God").
*** In "Irrational Treasure", she makes an origami hat out of a map in a few seconds.
** In "Sock Opera", she coordinated a puppet show in a span of a week complete with an opera theater, crafted some of the sock puppets and props, had written the script and at least 36 musical numbers.
** Mabel is better at making split-second decisions than her brother, whom often doesn't bode well without planning in advance: She used a Nyarf gun to make Bill drop the door with the safe's combination in "Dreamscaperers", saved Dipper and herself with her grappling hook in "Gideon Rises", [[spoiler: sprayed spray paint at Bill's eye during his spiel, and broke through the Fearamid's wall using Dipper's size altering flashlight in "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls".]]
** Mabel can also pick locks with hairpins, as seen in "The Deep End" and "Boyz Crazy".
* BreakTheComedian: Throughout the series, Mabel is by far the funniest and most exuberant member of the Pines family, delighting in bad jokes, madcap schemes, and luridly colorful art projects. Though a few episodes hit her with a HeroicBSOD, she always manages to bounce back. However, in the episode "Dipper And Mabel vs The Future," she finds herself facing a few too many misfortunes at once: summer is almost over, [[GrowingUpSucks high school is just around the corner]], her friends admit that they won't be able to make it to her birthday party, and she's out of contact with Dipper all day, leaving her deeply depressed. Then she finds out that [[spoiler: Grunkle Ford]] has offered to take Dipper on as an apprentice — meaning that Mabel will be at home without her twin brother for the first time. This discovery sends her running out of the Mystery Shack in tears. [[spoiler: Worse still, Bill Cipher is able to exploit her depression by tricking her into giving him the Rift in exchange for "just a little more summer" — allowing him to break free of the Nightmare Realm and begin Weirdmageddon. When Dipper sees Mabel again, she's in much better spirits, but she's retreated into the Lotus-Eater Machine Bill has built for her, and needs to be given a lot of coaxing before she's willing to leave and regain her old sense of exuberance.]]
* BreakTheCutie:
** In "The Time Traveler's Pig", Mabel wins a pig she names Waddles. She spends some time adoring and playing with him, then has to repeatedly re-win Waddles while her brother tries to correct a poorly-aimed ball throw from the past. The attempt where he succeeds [[spoiler:required her help, and ends with her not getting Waddles. Mabel becomes conflicted between making Dipper happy or losing Waddles to Pacifica that she spends what is implied to be a month standing and banging her head against the totem pole before he reverts his win.]]
** In "Not What He Seems", she breaks down in tears over [[spoiler: the secrets uncovered, the life-threatening situation everyone is in, and the stress of having to choose to listen to Stan or Dipper.]]
** In "A Tale of Two Stans", she's visibly afraid of the idea that she and Dipper will grow apart and have a poor relationship with each other, and lightheartedly asks him if they would end up the same as [[spoiler: Stan and Ford]]. Despite her brother's reassurances that they won't and after he falls asleep, Mabel quietly and somberly lies awake.
** In "Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons", she is visibly upset at the realization that she may have already caused the start of this from [[InnocentlyInsensitive jokingly picking]] on Dipper with Stan on a few occasions.
** In "The Last Mabelcorn", she is told by Celestebellebethabelle that she is not "pure of heart" enough to be given some of the unicorn's hair. It gets worse when Mabel performs good deeds to try to make herself more pure, and Celestebellebethabelle tells her that performing good deeds just to look good isn't pure of heart at all. Mabel then spends most of her time [[HeroicBSOD curled up and struggling to list reasons why she might be considered impure of heart]].
** The entirety of "Dipper and Mabel vs. The Future" is this for her: Wendy breaks it to her how awful high school can be, Candy and Grenda are unavailable for her and her brother's 13th birthday, Dipper [[spoiler: has accepted a position as Ford's apprentice, which will mean she's returning home alone at the end of the summer]], and to top it all off, she [[spoiler: gets tricked into giving the Interdimensional Rift to a Bill-possessed Blendin Blandin, whom starts Weirdmageddon.]]
* BrilliantButLazy: Alex Hirsch has stated that Dipper and Mabel are of equal intelligence, but since Mabel's main concern [[ForHappiness is having fun and enjoying life]], she doesn't apply herself like her brother does.
* BrokenPedestal: Mabel loved unicorns all her life and the word "unicorn" was even her first word. Then she actually met one [[spoiler:and soon realized what awful, pretentious and judgmental creatures they actually are.]]
* BrotherSisterTeam: She has a refreshing one with Dipper, as they are not constantly bickering and make a remarkable duo. They frequently work together to face the various supernatural creatures in the titular town. Mabel provides support and improvises while Dipper often comes up with the plan. [[spoiler: This lack of arguing is deconstructed in the latter half of the second season, as them ceasing to discuss their problems with each other results in PoorCommunicationKills.]]
* BuffySpeak: She slips into this at times.
-->"This is some kind of magicky thing, isn't it?"

-->"That's it! We can melt them with hotty, melty things!"

-->"Ghosty sounds! Cemetery ghosty sounds!"
* ButtMonkey: Not as much as Dipper, but she has her fair share.
** She usually does plenty of foolish stuff, like when she uses a leaf blower to hold up a picture of Norman so she can practice kissing him, [[EpicFail which leads to her mouth being sucked in sticking to her face]].
-->'''Mabel''': That was fun.
** This is not in a comical sense, but it's when she meets the GuyOfTheWeek and unfortunately [[DidNotGetTheGuy doesn't hook up with one of them at the end]].
* CheerfulChild: It is rare when she doesn't have a smile on her face.
* ChildishOlderSibling: She likes to playfully annoy Dipper from time to time. She's the older twin, having been born five minutes before Dipper. She never lets Dipper forget this.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Mabel has an... interesting way of thinking. She is enthusiastic about everything ("Yay, grass!"), prone to outbursts of silliness (like folding an encoded map into a paper hat), and full of [[EccentricArtist ridiculous ideas for arts and crafts projects]] (from her hundreds of hand-knitted sweaters to stuff like "caticatures" or a drawing of "a waffle with big arms"), but she and her brother Dipper are savvy enough to cope with the weirdness endemic to the eponymous town. This is deconstructed in "Irrational Treasure" when Pacifica chastises her for being silly, and Mabel tries to be more serious thereafter. Her Cloudcuckoolander tendencies end up saving the day, resulting in her proudly embracing her oddness.
--->'''Stan:''' Oy! You are never gonna make sense, are you, kid?
--->'''Mabel:''' No, I'm not, Grunkle Stan. No, I'm not. Mabel, away! (Jumps backward and a crashing sound is heard)
--->'''Mabel:''' I'm okay!
* ConsistentClothingStyle: Mabel's various outfits always consist of a colourful hand-made sweater, a skirt, and a headband, coupled with the same white socks and black shoes.
* ControlFreak: A trait she shares with Dipper, though each tends to express it differently. While Dipper often feels he needs rigid self-control and massive planning to compensate for his lack of self-confidence socially, Mabel generally has less self-control and directs her need for control outwards onto others. While Mabel's generally very relaxed in regards to others' behavior, in the instances wherein Mabel's friends or family do something that goes against Mabel's own priorities, Mabel manifests her control issues in ways arguably more extreme than Dipper does. When Dipper gets controlling over others, he tends to hold them to the same rigid steps, plans, and standards he holds to himself--especially in the first season, during which he slowly develops out of this. Mabel displays a far more frequent tendency to undermine people's basic autonomy and free will for the sake of her own priorities. This most often comes up regarding romance, in which she considers herself an expert, but her unwillingness to let Dipper (or the rest of the town) make independent life choices due to how these choices upset her personally actually causes a significant portion of the finale's conflict. While this flaw of Mabel's isn't addressed in the finale despite its key role in the plot, it is thematically touched on in earlier episodes, such as "Boyz Crazy," "Love God," and "The Stanchurian Candidate" (the latter being an aesop she shares with Dipper), among others. Also, a plot point in "Sock Opera" uses a direct visual metaphor for this: [[spoiler:Bill is only able to take control of Dipper through a deal because Dipper offers Bill one of Mabel's puppets--and due to how Mabel treats Dipper, Bill considers ''Dipper'' one of Mabel's puppets.]] Mabel usually expresses regret over this behavior once the conflict is over.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: When it happens, ''watch out''. In the pilot alone [[spoiler:she takes down a hundred gnomes using only a leaf blower.]]
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: In "Irrational Treasure", [[GenkiGirl Mabel]] is helping [[SeekerArchetype Dipper]] uncover a historical conspiracy, in order to prove that she's not "silly" like [[AlphaBitch Pacifica]] said. However, throughout their quest she keeps unconsciously doing goofy things (like folding a map they find into a paper hat) which help them solve the clues. Ultimately, it's revealed that the person who laid the clues [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike was just as big]] of a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} as Mabel is.
* CuddleBug: Big time. She's shown giving bear hugs and tackle hugs, especially to Dipper and Stan, quite often. In "Society of the Blind Eye", when she is listing cool things about herself, she mentions that she hugs a lot. She also loves cuddling with her pet pig, Waddles. She's been known to cuddle and fall asleep on Soos's belly as well, according to ''Gravity Falls: Dipper and Mabel's Guide to Mystery and Nonstop Fun!''.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindows: Due to the art style, it is impossible to tell the characters' eye colors. [[https://twitter.com/_AlexHirsch/status/260514979969646592 Alex Hirsch confirmed that]] Mabel's eyes are brown.
* CuteAndPsycho: Mabel is a mild version of this trope. She's a high-intensity-low-stability type of girl. [[http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/358/300/83a.gif Who else could wield an axe with a great big grin on her face?]]
* CuteBruiser: A cute kid. Will beat you up in without the need for WaifFu.
* TheCutie: She's so cute because of how cheery, imaginative, friendly, playful, and bright-eyed she is.
* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:Bill Cipher, possessing Blendin Blandin, offers to put a time bubble around Gravity Falls if Mabel would give him the strange snowglobe in her brother's backpack. Mabel, unaware of the importance of the item and having spent the entire day convinced of how awful her future is going to be, agrees, believing that "Blendin" is a friend returning a favor. She hands it over and Bill breaks it, starting [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Weirdmageddon]], and encases an unconscious Mabel in a bubble.]]
* DeconstructedTrope: Mabel is a deconstruction of AesopAmnesia.
** In "Dipper and Mabel Vs. The Future", [[spoiler: despite Mabel acknowledging the two Aesops of "if I love it set it free" ("Boyz Crazy"), or that she shouldn't always expect Dipper to give up everything he cares about for her sake ("Sock Opera"), neither of the two seem to have stuck in Mabel's head. Mabel becomes distraught after learning how hard growing up is going to be and can only take solace in knowing Dipper is going to be there for her, so she flips out when learning he might pursue his dreams away from her—while also not understanding that her often [[InnocentlyInsensitive insensitive treatment]] is what drove him away to Ford to start with, which she had briefly acknowledged in "Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons".]] This ends up actively causing those she loves more problems because she shows no awareness for the very applicable lessons she'd previously learned that could have helped her avoid contributing to them.
** It also gets deconstructed in the comic story "Don't Dimension It". [[spoiler: The story deals with Ford, Dipper and Stan sealing some remaining rifts, and they find out Mabel helped Bill cause the apocalypse out of misguided selfishness. They don't blame her, apart from Dipper jokingly calling one of the rifts "Mabel's Fault," but they tell her to be careful. Mabel's ItsAllAboutMe attitude comes to the forefront just a few days after defeating Bill where she brings Waddles on the mission to seal the rifts, against Dipper's protests. Sure enough, Mabel chasing Waddles causes her to get sucked into the Multiverse...where she counters millions of her parallel selves stuck on a barren planet due to making a similar decision. Mabel starts getting horrified on realizing most of her cutesy flaws are annoying in a dire situation and that each Mabel is too self-centered to focus on returning to their dimensions.]] At the end of this story at least, [[spoiler: she vows to work on that so time will tell if that sticks.]]
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:In "The Inconveniencing" by the convenience store ghosts.]]
* TheDeterminator: Being the bubbly [[ThePollyanna Pollyanna]] that she is, she stops at nothing to do something once her mind is set on it.
** This is especially the case when she plays matchmaker.
*** In "The Love God", she doesn't give up trying to find Robbie a new girlfriend even when Wendy tells her he's a hopeless case.
*** In "Dipper vs. Manliness", she tries relentlessly to make Stan attractive to women, even after seeing the ineffectiveness of her efforts.
** After Grunkle Stan lost his memories after Bill Cipher's defeat, Mabel was determined to get Stan to remember by showing him photos of their adventures in her scrapbook. [[spoiler: Which fortunately worked]].
** In the Lost Legends story "Don't Dimension It", After Mabel ends up in Dimension MAB-3L, her main goal was to find a way back home.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Emotional and energetic, Mabel rarely reconsiders her actions before doing them. She often favors impulsiveness and silliness, which on some occasions backfired on her.
** In "Soos and the Real Girl", her random decision to eat candy still in its wrapper nearly causes her to choke.
** In "Society of the Blind Eye", Wendy tried to point out that using LaserGuidedAmnesia to forget failed romances might not be a good idea, and Mabel declared, "All ideas are good ideas!"
** At the end of "Dipper and Mabel Vs. The Future", [[spoiler:it's her thoughtlessness mixed with emotional turmoil that lets Bill initiate Weirdmageddon. She gives a possessed Blendin Blandin the Interdimensional Rift under the assumption that he was a friend returning a favor.]]
* DorkInASweater: A sweet {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who regularly wears hand-made sweaters.
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* EccentricArtist: A self-proclaimed "arts and crafts master" and one of the biggest [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Cloudcuckoolanders]] on the show. Her creations are often as unconventional as her personality, and include things like novelty sweaters that can light up or play music, drawings of muscled waffles, and "caticatures"--cat-like caricatures of people. In "The Hand That Rocks the Mabel", she bedazzled her entire face with sequins.
--> "I'm unappreciated in my time..."
* EmotionallyTongueTied: Since Mabel is FunPersonified and prefers seeing people happy, [[RealMenDontCry she struggles]] whenever she thinks she will disappoint or upset someone. Any time she is put into a moment where she has to deny ("Norman's" proposal, Gideon's initial advances) or confront someone with the truth or a personal worry (apologizing to Candy and Grenda that she [[spoiler: didn't win the party crown]], attempting to admit to Stan that [[spoiler: he's unlikely to win the election]], deciding to [[spoiler: let the portal activate despite Dipper's warnings]], confronting Dipper about [[spoiler: her fears of possibly having a poor relationship with him]]), she tends to look away and fidget, fumbling with her words and/or tries to phrase her replies lightly.
** She seems to be growing out of it after the events of [[spoiler: Weirdmageddon, as she gradually looks at Candy and tells her that they have to leave Gravity Falls (without Dipper helping), and tried to tell Waddles that he couldn't come back home with her.]]
* EnmityWithAnObject: One of Mabel's entries in [[Literature/GravityFallsJournal3 Journal 3]] strongly hints that she has disdain over the [[FreakyFridayFlip Electron Carpet]] from ''Carpet Diem'', and hopes that she never sees it again. [[note]] As luck would have it, Dipper told Grunkle Stan to get rid of the Electron Carpet at the end of the episode. [[/note]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: She tries to be friendly with everybody and tolerant of the eccentricities of others, but there is only so much bad behavior (Gideon, [[spoiler:formerly]] Pacifica, etc.) and weirdness (Toby Determined, Mr. Poolcheck, etc.) she can take. In "Sock Opera", when Gabe Bensen (the boy she had been trying to impress throughout the whole episode) [[spoiler: passionately makes out with his puppets]], she states that she "might have dodged a bullet there."
* ExposedToTheElements: Inverted. She regularly wears sweaters despite it being summer. The only time the weather bothers her is in "The Deep End", when there is a heat wave. Though to be fair, the town does appear to be in a mountainous area of the state, meaning that the temperatures usually stay moderate even during the peak of the season.
* ExtremeOmnivore: Implied in "Fight Fighters" when we see one of Mabel's drinks contains a strange cyclops troll doll and several dice, all in a green fluid. In the later episode "Sock Opera" she offers her brother a drink from a blenderful of the same vivid liquid, referred to as "Mabel juice", which also contains plastic dinosaurs. A few shots of Mabel juice gives her the energy to outrun that episode's villain hours later, and Stan describes the taste as [[TastesLikeFeet "if coffee and nightmares had a baby"]].
** Mabel's list of snacks also includes an entire tube of sparkly toothpaste, an industrial-sized can of sprinkles of the sort you put on ice cream labelled "not for individual consumption", several lone sugar packets, and enough expired (and banned) Fun-Dip–style candy to make her catatonic [[MushroomSamba and hallucinating]]. She's been seen projectile-coughing up a handful of sequins. She also swallowed a holographic sticker in "The Golf War" (for plot reasons in that case, since [[spoiler: she was trying to get the Lilliputtians to stop fighting over said sticker)]], and in "Blendin's Game" she attempted to eat a bunch of candy from the vending machine without taking any of the wrappers off, but just ended up choking and having to whack herself in the stomach to cough it out. Also, according to a Reddit discussion with series creator Alex Hirsch, she was once sent to the hospital after attempting to eat scratch-and-sniff stickers.
** One of the unseen example segments of "Mabel's Guide to Life" supposedly taught the viewer about "eating non-foods". All we see is Mabel shoving a leaf into her mouth and shrugging aggressively.
** An [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] example in "Blendin's Game" where after being given a lot of candy from the vending machine, she declares her intent to eat it all with the wrappers still on. Seconds later, she's choking on the still-wrapped candy, calling her plan a mistake, and whacking herself in the gut in order to cough it all back out.
* FatalFlaw:
** Selfishness. Mabel often gets so wrapped up in her intense feelings about her own creative ideas, wants, needs and emotions that she neglects to consider the needs, ideas and emotions of others around her, which causes a lot of her conflicts throughout the show. This flaw is portrayed throughout the series but not openly discussed as a problem until "Sock Opera", and it takes many more plot-heavy episodes for Mabel to start growing out of it.
*** [[spoiler:This comes to a head in "Dipper and Mabel Vs. The Future", when she puts her misery and fear of growing up over Dipper's desire to make decisions for his own future, throwing a fit over it. She attempts to make a deal with Blendin Blandin using [[SealedEvilInACan the mysterious orb in Dipper's backpack]] to freeze Gravity Falls in time so she wouldn't lose Dipper and could have a little more time for Summer. The deal doesn't work, but only because Blendin was actually possessed by Bill, who takes advantage of Mabel's various weaknesses to jumpstart the Apocalypse]].
*** Her self-centered tendencies is thoroughly addressed in ''ComicBook/GravityFallsLostLegends'', where she puts up with [[spoiler: alternate Mabels that are too caught up with their own interests to help or return to their own dimensions, and comes to a JerkassRealization on her selfish tendencies before rallying the Mabels with a RousingSpeech, admitting that she caused an "entire apocalypse just to get one more day of summer" and promising to never be selfish again if she can return to her dimension.]]
** Both "Little Dipper" and "Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons" point out that Mabel's [[InnocentlyInsensitive insensitivity]] crosses into this. Mabel loves picking on Dipper with Grunkle Stan to get a laugh whenever the situation arises and often even builds on those jokes [[RunningGag for long periods]] at Dipper's expense ("Alpha Twin", anyone?), which (since Dipper is a [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] ButtMonkey) alienates Dipper from the both of them and damages his trust in her. Oddly, she never really apologizes for this in either episode despite recognizing how much this hurts her brother, instead trying to justify her actions in the former and simply going silent in the latter.
** It's less directly addressed than the other above flaws, but underlying both is Mabel's [[ControlFreak tendency towards excessive control of others]] when their priorities differ from hers. This is highlighted in many episodes, particularly "Boyz Crazy," "The Love God," and the plot of the Weirdmaggedon finale. [[spoiler:Mabel's lack of awareness towards boundaries in this matter is why she accepts [[DemonicPossession Billendin's]] offer to freeze Gravity Falls in time and doesn't seem aware of just how much of a moral wrong that is against others' free will and autonomy]]. It's also a plot point in "Sock Opera": [[spoiler:Dipper makes a deal with Bill--Bill gives him the laptop's password, and in exchange, Bill gets one of Mabel's puppets. But because of how Mabel treats Dipper, [[ExactWords Bill considers Dipper to be one of Mabel's puppets.]]]]
* {{Foil}}: Is this to Dipper, as the two heavily contrast in personality, maturity, goals and philosophical outlook. While Dipper is cynical and struggles with self-confidence issues, he can be very determined when push comes to shove. Mabel tends to look on the bright side, has an inflated view of her own importance, and can lose it when things don't go her way.
* ForHappiness: Mabel's fun-loving and optimistic outlook means she loves seeing others be happy too. She genuinely can't bear seeing people be upset, and has occasionally sacrificed her own happiness in exchange:
** In "The Hand That Rocks The Mabel", she had a rotten time declining Gideon's advances, as she favored keeping their friendship. When Mabel tried to tell him the truth in a restaurant, she ends up not doing so after being pressured by overzealous patrons.
--->'''Mabel:''' Oh, Gideon, I'm sorry, but I'm gonna have to say-\\
'''Blubs:''' I'm on the edge of my seat!\\
'''Tyler:''' This is gonna be adorable.\\
'''Old Woman:''' If she says no, I'll die from sadness.\\
'''Doctor:''' I can verify that that will indeed happen.
** Mabel ''literally'' has a happiness chart in "The Love God", which depicts Dipper, Wendy, and her friends with happy stickers. When she notices that Robbie is stickerless and has been sulking in a grave. Mabel's so determined to help him get over it that during a failing set-up date between Robbie and Tambry, she asks the Love God for help, and [[spoiler: ends up stealing the love potion when he refuses.]]
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The foolish to Dipper's responsible. Of the two, Mabel is the more interested in having fun, and often rushes into things without fully thinking of the potential consequences and implications. She is the 'small-picture' kind of girl, focusing on what's directly in front of her rather than the big picture or future, in direct contrast with Dipper's generally big picture concerns and tendencies for extensive planning and preparedness.
* FourPhilosophyEnsemble: The Optimist: Mabel is highly optimistic and tries to be constantly cheerful. She always expects the best out of others and often hopes that their adventures will play out in a way she would like.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Sanguine: Outgoing, optimistic, and a bit of a space case.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: She's got one heck of a soft spot for them! There's various photos of her hugging animals. She's also hugged a cat during the HowWeGotHere moment of "Tourist Trapped", allows Gompers to chew on her sweater, saves a lobster from a restaurant, owns (and happily spoils) a pet pig named Waddles, and has let caterpillars crawl on her face.
** She also bluntly states in "Land Before Swine" that Waddles should be kept inside like a person, and that maybe it's people who should be put outside.
** In the Mystery Shack Mystery web game, Dipper's letter to their parents mentions that Mabel has actually fed baby birds in the attic—with her mouth.
** The "Mabel's Scrapbook: Petting Zoo" short has Mabel fawning over all the animals in the petting zoo, and insists on saving Octavia, a mutated eight-legged[[note]](actually has nine legs)[[/note]] cow. After TheReveal that Octavia has ''more'' than just extra sets of limbs, she still takes a moment to take a photo of the cow even when everyone else ran off.
* FriendToBugs: Her fondness for animals extends to the creepy-crawly variety. As stated above, she happily let a group of caterpillars crawl all over her face in "Into the Bunker". Another time she adoringly referred to a group of moths as butterflies.
* FunPersonified: A very cheerful and silly character. Warm welcomes and excitement typically follow her everywhere she goes. She evidently sees herself as this trope as well:
--> '''Mabel''': What? I'm delightful to live with! Get ready to be poked by the fun stick! Boop! ''(takes a stick and pokes Dipper with it)''
* GamerChick: She's been shown playing a video game with Dipper, and beating him at it.
* GargleBlaster: Mabel is shown to make a strange concoction called [[https://gravityfalls.fandom.com/wiki/Mabel_juice?file=S2e4_mabel_juice.png "Mabel-Juice"]], which is a very sweet tasting drink that makes one who consumes it have a burst of energy. Apparently, one of the ingredients is plastic toys.
* {{Gasshole}}: Never demonstrated such tendencies on screen, but in "Society of the Blind Eye" she claims she can burp the alphabet. She does burp once in the book ''Dipper and Mabel and the Curse of the Time Pirates' Treasure!'', but this is non-canon.
* GeniusDitz: Mabel's an [[GenkiGirl energetic]] {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who has trouble keeping her feet on the ground, but when she focuses, she's just as intelligent as her brother (being skilled at improvising a plan versus his careful planning) and has a number of artistic skills. For example, [[UnlimitedWardrobe all those colorful sweaters Mabel wears]] are knitted by her, and some of them have embedded technology, such as one with a light-bulb on it that actually lights up when pressed (as seen in "Into the Bunker"). She also is capable of solving a puzzle others have been trying to solve for centuries, though admittedly most of the clues were discovered on accident while she was goofing off and is capable of keeping up with [[BrainyBrunette Dipper]] when they're investigating what happened to Grunkle Stan's wax statue.
* GenkiGirl: Mabel is a very excitable and outgoing ball of energy whose [[MotorMouth mouth runs a mile a minute]]. Justified, since the show has frequent references to her [[SweetTooth sugar intake]].
-->'''Wendy''': What is she talking about?
-->'''Dipper''': Nothing! Mabel's just been eating raw sugar packets again.
-->'''Mabel''': ''(Eating sugar packets)'' Om nom nom...that's beside the point!
* GirlyBruiser: Mabel loves [[GlurgeAddict kittens and glittery stickers]], but she also packs a mean punch and she'll take any opportunity available to use her GrapplingHookPistol. She's the [[BrainsAndBrawn Brawn]] to Dipper's [[BrainsAndBrawn Brains]] and is always up for kicking some butt.
** In "Tourist Trapped", she made a gnome throw up after she kicked him in the stomach, and accidentally gave Dipper two black eyes in while trying to get a vicious gnome off his face.
** It comes in full force in "Headhunters", [[spoiler: where she swings a decapitated wax Coolio's head at the wax figures that surrounded her.]]
** Stan learned in "Little Dipper" that Mabel high-fives HARD.
** A conversation with Stan in ''VideoGame/GravityFallsLegendOfTheGnomeGemulets'' reveals that her first act as a newborn was to punch the doctor who delivered her.
* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: Mabel is extremely girly. She likes kittens, [[TextileWorkIsFeminine knitting]], makeup, and bedazzling her face, and ''adores'' [[GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals stuffed animals]]. But beneath that [[LongHairIsFeminine long-haired]], {{pink|MeansFeminine}}-wearing, [[GlurgeAddict cuteness-obsessed]] exterior is a very rough-and-tumble GirlyBruiser who [[BloodKnight loves to fight and get dirty]], opting for a GrapplingHookPistol instead of a doll as a gift (much to Stan and Dipper's surprise), can apparently [[{{Gasshole}} burp the alphabet]], and [[GamerChick enjoys beating her brother at video games]]. She also has a pet pig named Waddles, and she gets down on the ground with him quite frequently.
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: The girl ''adores'' them. Stuffed animals can usually be seen on her bed and side of the bedroom, and they often feature in her ''Mabel's Guide to Life'' shorts, including ''Mabel's Guide to Dating'', where she has several of them as guests sitting in front of a talk show-like table. A figure in [[spoiler:Mabeland]], is the Stuffed Animal Tree, which is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a tree that has a myriad of stuffed animals hanging from it]].
** In "Society of the Blind Eye", she reveals her deepest, darkest secret:
--->"I only love some of my stuffed animals, and the guilt is killing me!"
* GleefulAndGrumpyPairing: The perpetually happy Mabel normally hangs out with her serious and snarky twin brother Dipper.
* GlurgeAddict: Mabel loves anything cute, sparkly and colorful, no matter how sickening others find it. It comes out in full force in "Weirdmageddon Part 2: Escape From Reality", where her imaginary world [[spoiler:that Bill Cipher has trapped her in]] is brightly colored, constantly blaring cheerful 80's style music, populated by walking, talking stuffed animals and cute little creatures. Ironically, when she breaks free from the world's trance, she ''complains'' about the colors being too bright and the overly repetitive songs, proving that Mabeland is too much [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth even for]] ''[[TooSpicyForYogSothoth her]]''.
* GoodIsNotDumb: Mabel may be the goofy and energetic sibling compared to Dipper, but she has her [[GeniusDitz own brand of intellect]] that's just as useful as his.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Mabel tries to see the best in people and treat everyone nicely regardless of how they treat her (i.e., continuously being amiable to [[AlphaBitch Pacifica]] even when the latter was a complete snob to her), but when her [[BewareTheNiceOnes buttons are sufficiently pushed]], she's downright scary. For example, in "The Last Mabelcorn", she's manipulated and tricked by a rotten unicorn who then rubs it in Mabel's face—and is shocked when Mabel responds by punching her in the snout and instigating a fight. Mabel also [[BigSisterInstinct goes into attack mode]] when she sees [[EnfantTerrible Gideon]] hurting her brother.
** The episodes "Boss Mabel" and "The Last Mabelcorn" both deal with Mabel coming to terms with the fact that being a nice, good person doesn't equate to being a pushover.
* GrapplingHookPistol: One of her iconic items, in “Tourist Trapped”, Great Uncle 'Grunkle' Stan Pines allows his niece and nephew Mabel and Dipper to take whatever they want from the Mystery Shack gift shop. While Dipper chooses a hat with a pine tree emblem, Mabel pulls out a GRAPPLING HOOK! [[spoiler: [[ChekhovsGun It actually comes in handy]] in the season one finale. At the end of "Gideon Rises", Mabel uses the grappling hook to save Dipper and herself from certain death.]]
* GuileHero: Mabel's mostly a GirlyBruiser who prefers to shoot now and ask questions later, but she has her occasional moments of cunning. For example, she pulls a BatmanGambit in "Tourist Trapped" when she tricks a gnome into separating from his fellow gnomes by offering to kiss him, and then [[spoiler: uses a leaf blower when he's close enough to suck him in and shoot him into the forest]].
* HalfIdenticalTwins: Downplayed with Dipper. Dipper and Mabel, are twins with identical bodies and faces with the exception of small skin details (rosy cheeks for Mabel, eyebags and a red nose for Dipper); Mabel also has braces. The resemblance isn't generally brought up, as their clothes and personalities are closer to PolarOppositeTwins. In the defictionalized Gravity Falls: Journal 3, Dipper writes that Mabel looks like him but with "girl hair."
* HasAType: Mabel definitely has a thing for [[PrettyBoy Pretty Boys]], especially [[LongHairedPrettyBoy long-haired ones]]. No fewer than three of the guys she develops crushes on can be called a [[LongHairedPrettyBoy Long-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Mermando, Gabe Bensen, and Marius von Fundshauser. She's also attracted to Xyler and Kratz, in addition to the members of [[BoyBand Sev'ral Timez]], whom Stan refers to as "bright and radical young men" and "darn beautiful men", respectively. She also mentions a previous crush on "the guy on the $10 bill" -- the pompadoured and powdered UsefulNotes/AlexanderHamilton. Meanwhile the two random boys she's invading the personal spaces of in the music video of the parody song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI2btzM13NM "Call Me Mabel"]] seem to be [[{{Megane}} boys with glasses]].
* HatesBeingAlone: It is shown in various points in the series that Mabel doesn't like being lonely or the idea of loneliness in general. During the second half of season 2, Mabel notices that her brother Dipper was spending more time with the Author, making Mabel worried that she'll wind up alone without her brother.
* HehHehYouSaidX: In the episode "Irrational Treasure", Mabel gets a laugh out of Dipper's use of the phrase "booby traps".
* HeroicBSOD:
** [[spoiler:After losing Waddles, her pet pig in "The Time Traveler's Pig", Mabel goes through one that lasts ''at least'' a month.]]
** In "The Hand That Rocks The Mabel" [[spoiler: Mabel becomes overwhelmed when Stan says she should marry Gideon. Mabel screams and runs off to hide in her sweater and refuses to come out, saying she's "in Sweater Town".]]
** Spends much of the later half of "Not What He Seems" freaking out over [[spoiler: feeling betrayed by Grunkle Stan when she and Dipper find out he's an imposter. She has a blank stare when she realizes the real Stan might have died over thirty years ago.]]
** In "The Last Mabelcorn", Mabel is told by Celestebellebethabelle that she's far from pure of heart, she falls into a deep depression, complete with TroubledFetalPosition.
** Returns to Sweater Town at the end of "Dipper and Mabel vs. The Future", where after a full day of nothing going right for her, Dipper tops it all off by [[spoiler: choosing to stay in Gravity Falls as an apprentice to The Author.]]
* HiddenDepths: Alex Hirsch has stated in an interview that this was the reason for having her pick the grappling hook from the gift shop in the first episode: to show that Mabel, in addition to loving boys, sweaters, and pink, is more than willing to take a "crazy ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' gadget" when she gets the chance.
** Being boy-crazy, Mabel has a long list of crushes, including Xyler and Kraz, a pair of TotallyRadical dudes from her favorite movie, ''Dream Boy High''. In addition to being pretty, they have law degrees and can quote Jean-Paul Sartre. Considering they're her idea of the perfect boys, Mabel has very high standards. On that same note, considering that both the Dream Boys and the Judge cat quote philosophical lines, this implies that Mabel is a very philosophical person.
** In both "Scary-Oke" and "Into The Bunker", Mabel’s sweaters light up and in the former, play music. Because she hand knits all of the sweaters seen on the show, Mabel also seems to possess skills in electrical wiring, sound machinery and safely installing them in knitted garments.
* HistoryRepeats: [[spoiler:In "A Tale of Two Stans", the disconnect in Stan and Ford's relationship began when Stan, fearing his future and the thought of being separated from his brother, accidentally broke Ford's science fair project while under emotional distress and ended up getting kicked out of his home and estranged from his brother. In "Dipper and Mabel Vs. The Future", Mabel also suffers from the same fears. She accidentally takes Dipper's backpack instead of hers, and while emotionally distraught, she gets tricked into giving the rift to a Bill-possessed Blendin Blandin, whom breaks it to trigger Weirdmageddon and traps her in a bubble.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** In "Mabel's Guide to Dating", she wholeheartedly states "If love doesn't work, force it!" - even though she herself is greatly uncomfortable with Gideon's attempts to force a relationship between them.
** In "Blendin's Game", Mabel calls Dipper a "creep" for his PrecociousCrush on Wendy -- despite the fact that she's had crushes on older boys herself, most notably Sev'ral Timez, whom she tried to keep to herself by locking up in the attic.
* IconicOutfit: Mabel almost always wears one of her [[HomemadeSweaterFromHell self-crafted turtle-neck sweaters]]. One of the most (if not the most) popular ones is the one that starred in the season one premiere, of hot pink color and with a shooting star. [[spoiler: It is {{Foreshadowing}} about her role on a prophecy.]]
* ImprobableWeaponUser: When she's not kicking and punching, she tends to [[ImprovisedWeapon grab whatever's handy]]. She uses a leaf blower [[spoiler:to blow away a hundred gnomes back into the woods]] in "Tourist Trapped" and in "Headhunters", uses [[spoiler:candles and wax Coolio's head to take down a group of wax statues that surrounded her.]] In "Scary-Oke", she uses a Karaoke machine.
* InconsistentSpelling: Her name is often misspelled as "Mable", even though her name appears in the opening credits. Even the back cover of ''VideoGame/GravityFallsLegendOfTheGnomeGemulets'' made this mistake. InUniverse, Soos confesses in "Society of the Blind Eye" that he thought her name was "[[AccidentalMisnaming Maple, like the syrup]]" for a while because no-one corrected him.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Implied. In Journal 3, it states that Gideons amulet [[ArtifactOfDoom corrupts its users soul]], yet she remained a hero even after using it to save Dipper.
* InLoveWithLove: One of her goals is to have an "epic summer romance" in the pilot and spends some time flirting with every unrelated male of approximately compatible age she can find. [[TheMatchmaker She's also very keen on helping other people get their own romance as well]]. However, she seems to have a pretty poor idea of how love works, considering how often she tries to force love when it isn't there. In one of the shorts, she exclaims that if love doesn't work, "force it."
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Why she brags about being one millimeter taller than Dipper in "Little Dipper" and jokes that it was proof she was evolving into the "Alpha Twin". She feels as if Dipper is better at her at everything, and his tendency to brag after winning when playing games with her made her feel insecure. Alex Hirsch also states that Mabel is secretly envious of Dipper for being academically better than her, in contrast to Dipper being jealous of Mabel's social skills.
* InnocentlyInsensitive:
** Can sometimes be this, like in "The Deep End" when it came to Mermando's heritage and inability to walk.
** Comes up again in "Sock Opera" when she realizes that her expecting Dipper to just roll with whatever her new-found obsession may be is actually quite selfish of her and causes Dipper to sacrifice a lot more for her than she does for him.
** [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] briefly by Dipper in "Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons". Despite Mabel honestly believing her quips are funny and charming, many of the jokes she and Stan make at Dipper's expense have actually hurt him deeply over the series. Dipper directly confesses this to Mabel within the episode, explaining that he prefers spending time with Ford because he doesn't treat Dipper like Stan and Mabel do. Mabel deflects this with a "joke" about how Dipper should just give Ford time with that. Hurt from this to the point of disappointed silence, Dipper's only response is to turn away from her, and Mabel is left [[HeelRealization upset by what she herself has just said, miserably mumbling "you got me."]]
* InstantExpert: She was able to use Gideon's mystic amulet to save him and Dipper after both fell down a cliff, even though she got it mere seconds earlier.
* {{Irony}}: At the end of "A Tale of Two Stans", [[spoiler: Mabel is extremely worried about Dipper and her growing distant or even antagonistic to each other like Stanley and Stanford. She makes Dipper promise he won't "get stupid" like they did, and he jokingly replies, "Not stupider than you." The very next episode has distance developing between them, largely because Mabel's AnnoyingYoungerSibling tendencies throughout the series start catching up to her--when Dipper gets someone to play with who shares his interests (Ford), he admits the best thing about Ford is that he doesn't make fun of him like Stan or Mabel.]]
** [[spoiler:In "Not What He Seems", Dipper is afraid of what will happen when the Portal opens and wants to shut it down, but Mabel decides to trust in Grunkle Stan despite his seemingly evil actions and opens it anyways. At the end of the very next episode, Dipper seems content with what happened and trusting in the future, and Mabel is afraid of what will happen, since this is her first episode realizing the future may hold consequences she won't like.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Shares this flaw with [[spoiler: ''Ford'']], of all people. Like him, she has a problem with selfishness and a tendency not to consider the value of other people's opinions or desires if they differ from her own. She usually considers her way of doing things to be 100% correct (even at one point proclaiming to her brother that she "do[es] everything right, all the time!") and has to go through tough [[JerkassRealization Jerkass Realizations]] to even consider that whatever she's done maybe wasn't the best thing after all. Unfortunately, she also shares [[spoiler:Ford's]] tendency towards [[AesopAmnesia forgetting hard-learned lessons]], so she slips back into this just as often.
** Dipper possibly [[spoiler:leaving to become the Author's apprentice and chase his dreams by himself]] actually scares her into admitting that she doesn't care if it's a good opportunity for Dipper, what matters is if it's a good opportunity for ''her''. This was, of course, after she had a really awful day, and she gets over it during "Weirdmageddon".
** Discussed and addressed in ''ComicBook/GravityFallsLostLegends'' wherein [[spoiler: after realizing her bad traits and returning to her dimension, she gives Dipper a pine tree journal she received from an alternate Mabel and apologizes to Dipper for being selfish.]]
--->'''Mabel:''' It's time for us to start some new adventures! And this time I won't always hog the spotlight.
* JerkassBall: In "Sock Opera", where she breaks a promise to help her brother to impress her guy of the week, and in "Northwest Mansion Mystery", where she breaks her promise with Grenda not to hit on another cute boy in order to conspire with Candy to get said boy's attention.
** Pretty much any time Mabel's given an object of affection to adore, actually. See LoveMakesYouEvil.
* JerkassRealization:
** She has one during "Sock Opera", realizing that the combination of Dipper's relative passiveness and her own [[InnocentlyInsensitive oblivious selfishness]] often results in her own desires being put before her brother's. Mabel appears to be trying to correct for this by the end of the episode, but she still tends to forget this lesson when she gets extremely emotional or excited.
** She has another during "Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons" Dipper, when talking about [[spoiler: Ford]], mentions that one of the best things about him is that he doesn't make fun of him like Mabel and Stan do. When Mabel laughs and says he should just give [[spoiler:Ford]] time with that, Dipper simply turns his head away from her in disappointment. Mabel's face shows she realizes how hurtful what she's said actually is, the most she can do is give a little "you got me there" and turn over in bed.
** Mabel has one in ''ComicBook/GravityFallsLostLegends'', where she's in the middle of an angry outburst at [[spoiler: the alternate Mabels for being easily distracted and self-centered, realizing that they are mirroring her own flaws.]]
--->'''Mabel''': What's ''wrong'' with you guys! This is an ''important mission'' and you're all just being ''totally self-center—'' ''[shocked realization]'' Ohhh... ''[covers her face]'' Oh, Mabel, you gotta work on yo'self.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Downplayed in ''ComicBook/GravityFallsLostLegends''' comic, "Don't Dimension It." In this comic, it's stated that Mabel confessed to [[spoiler:making the selfish deal with who she'd thought was Blendin Blandin and subsequently accidentally starting Weirdmageddon, leading to Dipper placing a sign next to the initial crack in reality labelling it [[NeverMyFault "Mabel's Fault."]]]] In the comic proper, Mabel is sucked into a dimension portal and ends up in Dimension MAB-3L, where she has to deal with numerous alternate versions of herself. Unfortunately, the other Mabels aren't willing to help "Mabel Prime" get back home due to their own [[SkewedPriorities personal quirks]]. [[spoiler:The only one who ''seems'' willing is Anti-Mabel, an evil Mabel who ''intentionally'' caused the damage Mabel Prime caused by ''accident.'' Dealing with these conflicts leads Mabel to have a JerkassRealization, and she vows to become a better person once she retuns home. However, she still faces little to no consequences for her selfish wish that started Weirdmaggedon outside of the jab about "Mabel's Fault," and Dipper still returns to Piedmont with her, so she still keeps her benefits from accidentally causing that disaster.]]
* KidDetective: Same case as Dipper, often accompanying him in his investigations.
* KidHero: She's twelve like her brother and one of the heroes.
* KiddieKid: Mabel is a more balanced, realistic example of this trope. She's almost 13, yet still loves unicorns, stickers, light-up sneakers, and owns a [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/3ded95703218132323024842ebf74c86/tumblr_pvjbwzivqX1uk5pr5o7_500.png very childlike bicycle]], complete with a flower basket and handlebar streamers. She also likes plenty of things preteens are expected to like, including and especially [[InLoveWithLove romance]]/[[SerialRomeo boys]].
* KissingWarmUp: She attempts this in the pilot episode with a photo of Norman and a leaf blower set to reverse. [[GoneHorriblyWrong Naturally, it gets stuck to her face]].
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* TheLancer: Secondary character to Dipper and more than willing to put Dipper in his place if he needs it.
* LargeHam: You take a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, [[GenkiGirl feed her a bag of sugar]], give her a massive collection of home-made sweaters and a CuteButCacophonic voice that seldom [[NoindoorVoice goes below 75 decibels]], and you've got Mabel Pines. Sometimes she can be really over the top. [[http://www.reddit.com/r/gravityfalls/comments/1kgq85/i_am_alex_hirsch_creator_of_gravity_falls_ask_me/cbosagy The creator even describes her as this.]] She's especially like this around her pet ''pig'', Waddles.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: During Weirmageddon, it is implied that Bill Cipher wiped Mabel's memory of [[spoiler: her unknowingly giving the dimensional rift to him]].
** However, the Lost Legends story "Don't Dimension It" heavily implies that [[spoiler: Mabel regained that memory after Bill's defeat]].
* LaughOfLove:
** In "Tourist Trapped", after Mabel flirts with a boy whom she has a crush on and inadvertently knocks him over, she laughs happily.
** In "The Hand That Rocks the Mabel", Lil' Gideon is attracted to Mabel (who sees him as just a friend) and they tend to laugh when they hang out together, at least until Gideon reveals himself to be utterly psychotic in his attraction to Mabel.
** In "The Deep End", Mabel laughs and says "You're so funny!" when Mermando, a merman she develops a crush on, jokingly compliments her on her lack of water wings. Soon afterwards, Mermando laughs as she combs his hair, which causes her to think that he likes her.
* {{Leitmotif}}: She is musically represented by a theme that sounds similar to Music/CyndiLauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun". Notably heard during the credits of "The Hand That Rocks the Mabel", when they turn Soos into a human disco ball.
* LethalChef: Literally. Her "Mabel Juice" has plastic dinosaurs in it.
* LetsGetDangerous: Whenever something pushes her too far, such as her brother being put in danger or someone manipulating her, she'll always step up, and often the results aren't pretty.
* LittleMissBadass: Mabel's a twelve-year-old girl who loves nature, animals and everything feminine. She's also quite capable against the calamities that Gravity Falls throws at her on a regular basis.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: To Dipper. While it doesn't reach unhealthy standards like Mabel, Dipper relies on Mabel for emotional support whenever he is upset over blunders.
* LivingMacGuffin: Her importance is revealed in the finale: [[spoiler:She is one of ten who can defeat Bill Cipher]].
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Mabel was never told about the dimensional rift and [[ApocalypseHow what it could do]]. [[spoiler: Bill Cipher used this to his advantage to jump start Weirdmageddon.]]
* LongHairIsFeminine: Her hair reaches down to her waist and she's quite girly.
* LoonWithAHeartOfGold: She's a quirky girl with strong, sometimes troublesome {{Cloudcuckoolander}} tendencies, as well as the tendency to [[WellIntentionedExtremist inadvertently hurt people]] when [[UnwantedAssistance trying to help them]]. She's still an [[AllLovingHero All-Loving Heroine]] whose heart is nonetheless in the right place.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Many of Mabel's worst {{Jerkass}} moments are when there's a cute guy on the line. It starts in "Boyz Crazy", when she decided to keep Sev'ral Timez oblivious prisoners. In "Sock Opera" she breaks her promise to help Dipper so she can obsess over Gabe Benson, even [[MomentOfWeakness momentarily]] giving into Bill Cipher's demands to have a shot at Gabe [[spoiler: despite knowing that doing so would enable Bill to continue endangering Dipper]]. And then [[AesopAmnesia despite supposedly learning from this in "Sock Opera",]] she knowingly and willingly isolates Grenda to hit on a cute rich guy because she thinks Grenda will get in her way of flirting with him. She usually gets a HeelRealization at the end.
* MagicSkirt: For some reason, her skirt stays in place despite the crazy stunts she does. In Irrational Treasure, Mabel lies on a bench UPSIDE DOWN. Her skirt stays defiantly upright. Gravity must work differently in Gravity Falls.
* MagneticHero: Lampshaded by [[spoiler: Ford]], who claims he once watched her become pen-pals with a pizza delivery man in the span of a minute.
** In "Headhunters", she quickly befriends a biker (that had aggressively growled at her) with a paper fortune teller.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: A non-romantic example. Despite her love of sweaters, glitter, and unicorns, Mabel Pines is adventurous and aggressive (her gift of choice from Grunkle Stan is a grappling hook) while her twin brother Dipper is so nerdy and intellectual that it takes the help of mythical creatures to help him become manly (and Dipper ultimately decides he wants nothing to do with the Manotaurs and their [[TestosteronePoisoning ideas of masculinity]]).
* TheMatchmaker: She really wants to be this, but her attempts to pair people (and animals) up usually fail due to her rather... forceful methods. The only successful match she's made thus far is [[spoiler:Robbie and Tambry]], and it's debatable as to whether it was a genuinely good match or morally unethical {{Squick}}, [[spoiler:since she drugged them both with a Love Potion]].
** One of the ''Mabel's Guide to Life'' shorts is ''Mabel's Guide to Dating'', where Mabel describes herself as a dating expert. She sets up a dating quiz that Soos, Dipper, and Grunkle Stan partake in, and also matches up some animals, including two toads, two squirrels, and an owl statue with a real owl.
* MeaningfulName: Mabel means "lovable", and pretty much everyone in the show adores her. [[StalkerWithACrush Too much, in the case of Gideon]]. Her name also means "loving", which makes sense since Mabel is driven by her heart, as she tries to find the perfect summer love for herself and be a matchmaker for Robbie and her friends.
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* MoralityPet: To Stan, even before his CharacterDevelopment. He genuinely adores her, and treats her incredibly well, comforting her when she's upset and calling her by affectionate nicknames. [[spoiler:It's her and Dipper's teamwork that makes Stan and Ford realize just how petty their antagonism towards each other is and work together to stop Bill.]]
* MotiveDecay: Suffers this in both "The Love God" and "The Last Mabelcorn". In both episodes, she started out wanting to do something good for others (helping Robbie to be happy in the former, and protecting the Mystery Shack in the latter), but her goals quickly descended to bolstering her own ego (by proving herself "the greatest matchmaker ever" and of being "pure of heart").
* MotorMouth: Downplayed. She's loud, chatty, opinionated, and has no trouble saying whatever comes to mind no matter how strange or unsettling, but it's not the extreme example common for this trope.
* MsImagination: Is prone to wild and vibrant flights of fancy, ranging from sparkling, glittery rainbows to Aoshima the dolphin and waffles with muscular, humanlike arms. [[spoiler: In "Weirdmageddon 2: Escape From Reality", these come to life in Mabeland.]]
* {{Nephewism}}: Her and Dipper's summer caretaker is their great uncle aka "Grunkle Stan". Their parents are known to be alive and well, they just sent them there to get them out of their hair for the summer. Stan is more like a surrogate grandfather than anything else, so would it be called "Great-Nephewism?"
* NiceGirl: Although she can be [[InnocentlyInsensitive insensitive]] at times, Mabel is a very compassionate person and generally tries to help others, though her methods don't always produce the ideal results.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In "Dipper and Mabel Vs. The Future", [[spoiler:Ford talks Dipper into becoming his apprentice, which would require Dipper to stay in Gravity Falls after the summer is over. Mabel, freaking out already over how terrible everyone older than her says growing up is, tries to freeze Gravity Falls in time with Blendin Blandin's help so Dipper can't leave her to grow up alone. Only problem is, Blendin was possessed by Bill and used Mabel's desperation to get [[SealedEvilInACan the Rift]], which he then used to start the Apocalypse.]]
* NoodleIncident:
** Mabel had dated a couple of cute vampires without mentioning it to Dipper.
--->'''Mabel:''' ''[to Mermando]'' Same here. Except for a zombie, a gnome, and a couple of cute vampires.\\
'''Dipper:''' I don't remember the vampires.\\
'''Mabel:''' I don't tell you everything.
** In "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls", she states that she's accidentally gotten spray paint in her eyes... several times.
* TheNoseKnows: Mabel has sensed Robbie coming in "The Time Traveler's Pig" from smelling a gallon of body spray, and "Fight Fighters" due to smelling anger and hormones.
* NoIndoorVoice: She tends to get loud when she's excited--[[ThePollyanna which is nearly always]].
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: She has a habit of playfully punching, poking, bear hugging, and tackle hugging people she is especially fond of. Dipper, Stan and occasionally Soos are usually on the receiving end of these.
** In "Gideon Rises", she couldn't resist touching Soos's Abuelita's face.
--->'''Mabel:''' Oh, Soos, your grandma is so adorable! And her skin is old lady soft. ''[touches Abuelita's skin with one hand, then both]'' Haaahhh!
* OccultDetective: Not as much as her brother, but she's perfectly comfortable investigating the strange occurrences in Gravity Falls.
* OddFriendship: With Robbie. The two of them make friends by the end of "The Love God", after Robbie expresses his appreciation to Mabel for her [[spoiler: hooking him up with Tambry]]. A scrapped animated Polaroid was supposed to play in the credits of the series finale that shows [[https://youtu.be/5MY9dnCMLKE Mabel painting Robbie's nails]]. Mabel is an optimistic AllLovingHeroine who wears bright clothes and is almost always smiling, whereas Robbie is a pessimistic {{Jerkass}} (at least initially) who wears dark clothes and is quite moody.
* OnlyFriend: Heavily implied to be Dipper's closest and most trusted friend pre-series. Which is sad, considering Alex Hirsch has stated they weren't as close then as they are in Gravity Falls.
* TheOnlyOneITrust:
** In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', the journal Dipper finds has an entry that says, "Remember, in [[TownWithADarkSecret Gravity Falls]], there's no one you can trust." By the end of the episode, he realizes that there ''is'' someone he can trust: his twin sister, Mabel.
-->"...But when you battle a hundred gnomes side-by-side with someone, you realize that they've probably always got your back."
** In "Not What He Seems", [[spoiler: both Stan and Mabel have betrayed Dipper's trust in them - Stan when the twins learn that he may not even be their Great-Uncle and that he's been hiding crucial information from them of possibly apocalyptic proportions, and Mabel when she chooses to trust Stan's judgment over Dipper's in the matter of letting the portal under the Mystery Shack reach its fully active state.]]
** [[spoiler:In the following episode, "A Tale of Two Stans", Stan regains Dipper's trust after the boy learns that his entire motivation in opening the portal was rescuing his own twin brother, Ford. While Mabel possibly regains Dipper's trust as well, their relationship as siblings becomes slightly more distant.]]
* OtherMeAnnoysMe: In the ''ComicBook/GravityFallsLostLegends'' storyline "Don't Dimension It", [[spoiler:she quickly becomes annoyed with the alternate Mabels' self-centredness and inability to focus on what's important.]][[spoiler: However, Mabel does warm up to them towards the end of the story.]]
* OutdatedName: "Mabel" was a popular name during the late 19th century and early-to-mid 20th century, but is now largely considered to be old-fashioned. It's [[LampshadedTrope lampshaded]] by Pacifica, who says it "sounds like a fat old lady's name", but Mabel [[IllTakeThatAsACompliment decides to take that as a compliment]].
* OutdoorsyGal: A rare GirlyGirl example. She enjoys being out in nature considerably more than Dipper.
* ParentalFavoritism: Is obviously shown this from Grunkle Stan, who is far more familial with her than with nearly anyone else at the Shack.
* PerpetualSmiler: It takes a lot to wipe the smile off her face.
* PinkMeansFeminine: She's a GirlyBruiser whose IconicOutfit consists of a pink turtleneck sweater and headband.
* PluckyComicRelief: Not always, but she has no problems fulfilling this role.
* PluckyGirl: Although wacky, Mabel is very resourceful and will use whatever is available to help with the situation at hand.
* PolarOppositeTwins: While both of them are good-natured, they contrast in personality. Mabel is a CloudCuckooLander Pollyanna while Dipper is serious and snarky. Dipper often seeks validation and acceptance, while Mabel does her own thing regardless of what anyone else says. Both of these outlooks on life have their virtues and flaws. [[spoiler: These differences become more pronounced after Ford comes to stay with them.]]
* ThePollyanna: Mabel has been described as a "glass half full" kind of girl. No matter how sad she is or how dire a situation she's in is, Mabel's recourse is to make the best of it.
** Dipper lampshades her tendency to bounce back quickly in the episode "The Time Traveler's Pig" when he says to Mabel, "I know you. You're gonna forget about this in a day!" regarding her [[spoiler: despair over losing Waddles when Dipper changes circumstances via a time travel device. He turned out to be wrong, however]].
** In "Gideon Rises", when Gideon has [[spoiler: seemingly succeeded in taking over the Mystery Shack, resulting in the twins having to be sent home, Dipper is completely devestated while Mabel tries to lighten the mood and cheer herself up by playing a game involving finding hidden items under the bus seat]].
** Best shown in "Not What He Seems", when, despite Dipper imploring her to [[spoiler: shut down Stan's portal on the grounds that Grunkle Stan's duplicitous nature could endanger the universe]], she instead chooses to [[spoiler: let the portal activate completely, trusting that Stan loves her and only wants what's best]].
** [[spoiler:Subverted when she finally begins considering her and Dipper's possible future and begins growing paranoid over it. Notably, this paranoia [[SelfFulfillingProphecy causes]] a good portion of the emotional conflict that develops between Dipper and Mabel, because she's so hysterical by the time Dipper learns about her concern that she refuses to actually talk with him about it, instead yelling at him and running away]].
** This gets [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]] in the second season, where her attempts to see the best of any bad situation, despite all evidence to the contrary, can lead to BreakTheCutie moments (such as [[spoiler:when the possibility of Stan being a criminal imposter seemed like an actuality]]), or even full-fledged [[IRejectYourReality denial]]. Her belief that everything will work out in the end also regularly gets challenged and hit with realism, like in "Sock Opera" and "The Love God", where her actions don't result in entirely positive outcomes like she thinks they will.
* ProperlyParanoid: [[spoiler: Her fears that she and Dipper will eventually drift apart like Ford and Stan, which Dipper brushes off, begin to become legitimate as Dipper starts to spend most of his time with Ford, while Mabel spends even more time with Stan, Grenda, and Candy. But rather than any dislike towards each other, it's more a case of PoorCommunicationKills—neither of them are talking to each other about their deeper concerns due to outside forces and inner issues, so when problems between them arise, they both internalize it rather than discuss it, and thus aren't made aware of what bothers the other. See SelfFulfillingProphecy, however, for how she caused some of these fears to happen herself.]]
* ProudBeauty: A very mild example, but Mabel does seem to be aware of and prize her beauty. In "Gideon Rises", she refers to herself as beautiful, and in "Dreamscaperers", when Bill Cipher turns her into an ugly, green monster while she's [[spoiler:inside Stan's mind]], she flips out and exclaims, "My cuteness! What did you do to my cuteness?". Downplayed considerably given that she isn't stuck up, and that she gives her female friends boosts of confidence all the time by complimenting their appearances.
* PsychicPowers: For a brief instance in "The Hand That Rocks the Mabel", while she was holding [[spoiler:Gideon's amulet]].
* PubescentBraces: Mabel and Dipper are 12 years old during the summer when the show takes place, though only Mabel wears braces which, according to Dipper in "Carpet Diem", whistle when she breathes. Mabel is less concerned than Dipper is about "acting mature" (though she does show a lot of emotional maturity for her age). (Also: a photo flashback reveals she's had braces at least since she was 9 years old.)
* QuirkyCurls: She is shown to have distinctive curls on the ends of her hair. Which reflects her Cloudcuckoolander personality quite well.
* ReconstructedTrope: Along with Dipper, she reconstructs FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling. Instead of their differences pulling them apart, it makes them stronger: Mabel’s social skills and quick thinking help them out as much as Dipper’s smarts and planning do.
* RedOniBlueOni: Dipper is the (usually) calm and collected Blue, as opposed to Mabel's off-the-wall, wacky Red. Coincidentally, Dipper wears a navy-blue vest, whereas Mabel wears red (or any different shade of the color) on several occasions.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Non-romantic example: Mabel is the Energetic Girl to Dipper's Savvy Guy. Mabel's cheerful and upbeat personality makes a contrasting pairing with Dipper's cynical and stern one.
* SarcasmBlind: Sarcasm sometimes goes over Mabel's head. It's a trait she shares with Soos.
-->'''Stan''': Look, you guys got a problem with how I run the Shack, take it up with the complaints department. ''(holds up a trash can.)'' Zing!
-->'''Mabel''': I am going to write them ''such'' a letter! ''(Starts writing a letter, covering what she's writing with her arm.)''
* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: Mabel does this on a fairly regular basis. WOMP WOMP!
-->"Check it out, Dipper. I successfully bedazzled my face. Blink! ''(Blinks as she says this and some of the sequins fly off her face)'' Ow."
* SecurityCling: While both Pines twins do this when they are both frightened, Mabel does this more so, frequently reaching for [[https://i.imgur.com/DtVoFBD.gif Dipper's hand, shoulder, or vest when she is scared.]]
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Mabel's fear that [[spoiler:her relationship with Dipper will become more distant actually does start to manifest in reality; however, one of the major reasons Dipper stops spending as much time with her is because he gains the option to spend time with someone who doesn't [[BigSisterBully make fun of his hobbies, interests and quirks like she does]]. Also, when Dipper's ''finally'' made aware of Mabel's fear of drifting apart and tries to talk to her and work things out, Mabel's so upset at him for unknowingly forcing her to confront this fear that she refuses to talk with him, instead yelling at him and running away crying, which quite literally causes the Rift between them to go from manageable and controllable to uncontainable and unpredictable.]]
* SerialRomeo: Unlike Dipper, who had a crush on Wendy for all the first season and [[spoiler:got a ShipTease with Pacifica in Season 2]], Mabel has the largest amount of {{Temporary Love Interest}}s, as it's her goal to have an "epic summer romance." She flirts a lot trying to find "the one" and when things don't go well she moves on to another boy. But unlike other examples, she remembers her affections for every boy she took a shine to, as seen by the illusions made by the Love God.
* ShipperOnDeck: A self-proclaimed matchmaker.
** Mabel helped Soos find a girlfriend.
** She "married" Waddles the Pig with Gompers the Goat.
** "The Love God" shows that she ships Dipper with her friend Candy, and Grunkle Stan with Soos's grandmother.
** Mabel and Candy agree to be "co-bridesmaids" at Grenda and Marius' future wedding.
** ''VideoGame/GravityFallsLegendOfTheGnomeGemulets'' reveals she knows about Dipper and Pacifica hugging in "Northwest Mansion Mystery" and teases them about it. In ''Lost Legends'' Pacifica accidentally texts Mabel a message for Dipper and Mabel quickly assumes she has a crush on him, which Pacifica vehemently denies.
* SmallNameBigEgo:
** In "Tourist Trapped", she believed she was "irresistible" to guys, in spite of the {{Montage}} showing her heavy-handed attempts at flirting failing miserably.
** In "The Love God", she considered herself "the world's greatest match-maker", even though she has a very poor idea of how love works.
** In "The Last Mabelcorn", she fully believed she was of "pure, perfect heart."
** In "Don't Dimension It", she [[spoiler:finds herself in a dimension filled with other versions of herself. When asked which Mabel she is, she replies that she's "The ''best'' Mabel, obviously!" She is instead labelled "Slightly Arrogant Mabel" (which she awkwardly tries to deny)]].
* SpannerInTheWorks:
** [[spoiler:Ford doesn't seem to have considered how badly Mabel would take his offer to essentially raise Dipper (''[[ParentalFavoritism just]]'' Dipper) through his teenage years in Gravity Falls. Her ItsAllAboutMe response and subsequent desperate deal with Blendin Blandin to try to freeze time (thus preventing her ''or'' Dipper from growing up for as long as she wanted) screwed over Dipper and Ford's hard-won solution to the slowly cracking Rift ''and'' led directly to the start of the Apocalypse they were trying to prevent, because as it turns out, Blendin was possessed by Bill.]]
** [[spoiler:However, had Mabel not unknowingly gave the dimensional rift to Bill, Stan and Ford would never have rekindled their friendship.]]
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: In "Double Dipper", she urges Dipper to throw away his long-winded plan to win Wendy's heart, and just talk to her like a normal person.
* StrongGirlSmartGuy: With Dipper. Mabel's strength is rarely brought up, but she is a lot stronger than most girls her age and she is the one more accustomed to fighting. Dipper is obsessed with the titular town's mysteries and secrets, he is the logical twin who is a GuileHero.
* StunnedSilence: In the EstablishingSeriesMoment in the pilot, this was her reaction to finding out that her new boyfriend was actually a bunch of gnomes standing on top of each other. [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Notably, this is the only time in the whole series that Mabel's rendered speechless.]] (Though it makes sense, considering this was her first-ever encounter with the supernatural. After ''that'', it's safe to assume not much would shock her anymore.)
* SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: Mabel sometimes feels at odds with her brother Dipper due to the latter having more academic finesse.
** In "Little Dipper", she spends most of the episode teasing Dipper about being slightly shorter than her. She eventually reveals that the reason why is because he bests her at most activities--chess, checkers, ping pong, etc., and that her being taller meant she "finally felt like [she] was winning at something for once."
* SweetTooth: She's a twelve-year-old girl, so there are plenty of indications that she has this:
** One piece of promo art shows her lying on the floor with a popsicle stuffed in her mouth.
** In "The Inconveniencing" she eats [[EleventyZillion "bleventeen"]] packages of Smile Dip.
** In "The Time Traveler's Pig" she has two cones of cotton candy and is pissed when Robbie takes a chunk out of one of them. Though she dropped them when she was distracted by the "win a pig" sign.
** In "Mabel's Guide to Stickers" she trades Stan a "Baby on Board" sticker for an ''industrial-sized'' bucket of sprinkles. We don't see her eat the whole thing, but she definitely plans to.
--->'''Mabel''': ''[grinning]'' I'm gonna get ''so sick''.
** In "Little Dipper", she ate a gummy bear the size of a large teddy bear (except for the head, which she saved for later).
* SympathyForTheDevil: Mabel feels this way toward Pacifica at the end of "The Golf War", and even Dipper concedes that she really is just a kid like them... except utterly, ridiculously rich, in which case sympathy is mixed with envy.
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* TalkingInYourSleep: In ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3'', one of Dipper's notes mentions that Mabel sings in her sleep.
* TextileWorkIsFeminine: She's very much a GirlyGirl and knitting cute, colorful sweaters is one of her hobbies.
* TheyJustDontGetIt: In "The Last Mabelcorn". Despite being informed that doing good deeds just to look good isn't good at all, she goes right back to trying to think of a good enough deed to make her "pure of heart."
* ToiletHumor: Mabel loves this type of humor. In "Society of the Blind Eye," she scribbles "BUTTS" on [[spoiler: Blind Ivan]]'s phrenology-map skull tattoo, and in "Fight Fighters", she gets Rumble [=McSkirmish=] to shout, "POOP! POOP AND BUTTS!". She's also very amused (as is Stan) by the DD&MD rule-book's use of the word "buttress" in "Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons".
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl:
** Mabel is the GirlyGirl to Wendy's {{Tomboy}}. She's into things such as knitting, bejeweling, boy bands, and teen romance movies, while Wendy likes tree climbing, pranking, indie rock bands, and zombie flicks. Though the two of them have some notable things in common--they both [[GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals adore stuffed animals]], [[OutdoorsyGal enjoy the outdoors]], and [[BloodKnight love to brawl]]. Hanging out with Mabel tends to bring out [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak Wendy's girlier side]].
** Conversely, Mabel is the {{Tomboy}} to Pacifica's GirlyGirl. Mabel is an unapologetic goofball with no qualms about eating an old taco from behind a car seat, whereas Pacifica is a vain AlphaBitch (later LovableAlphaBitch) who's repulsed by the idea of eating in a car, period. While Mabel does love makeovers and bejeweling her face, she isn't nearly as interested in looks as Pacifica is. She's also a rough-and-tumble GirlyBruiser who looks forward to adventure, while Pacifica (despite being a capable GirlyBruiser when necessary) seems to view adventuring and fighting purely as a means to an end.
* TookALevelInBadass: In "Headhunters", she beats the majority of the evil wax figures mostly by herself.
* TookALevelInJerkass:
** In "Little Dipper", Mabel responds to Dipper's smug and open glee at his multiple game victories against her by continuously mocking him for being 1 millimeter shorter than her and claiming that this indicates she's "evolv[ed] into the superior sibling" and is now the "Alpha Twin," using this to cheerfully deride Dipper for supposedly being inherently inferior to her for the rest of the episode--all of this to the point where others around join in, with Stan gleefully calling Dipper the "object of ridicule" [[{{Troll}} and of course doing his best to make it worse]]. Even after Dipper uses magic to make himself taller in an attempt to get everyone to stop making fun of him, Mabel has the gall to say that it doesn't matter because she'll certainly ''end up'' taller--and thus is still superior to him. Mabel doesn't even have a JerkassRealization at the end like the other examples, instead justifying her actions by claiming Dipper made her feel bad first.
** In "Boyz Crazy", she keeps Sev'ral Timez prisoner in her bedroom until Candy and Grenda can talk her out of it.
** In "Sock Opera", she puts her desire for her BoyOfTheWeek over her promise to help her brother decrypt the laptop password, pushes Dipper into promising to help her construct a puppet show on the fly to impress said boy, and steals Journal 3 to use as a prop in her play, almost giving it to Bill Cipher for the play's success before having her JerkassRealization.
** In "Weirdmaggedon Part 2," [[spoiler:Mabel creates [[ReplacementGoldfish Dippy Fresh]] to be, according to her, a better and more supportive replacement for her brother. With the exception of basic physical features, Dippy Fresh is absolutely nothing like Dipper in any way, ultimately demonstrating, in that moment, Mabel's complete rejection of value in the real Dipper's traits and personality--''[[KickTheDog directly to Dipper's face.]]'' To her credit, Mabel was implied to be under light brainwashing and rescinds her preference for Dippy Fresh in the resolution of the episode after choosing to return to the real world with the real Dipper.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: After her experience dealing with the alternate universe Mabels and realizing her own self-centered behavior, Mabel ultimately vowed to become a much better person. Once she returned to her home dimension, Mabel's first act of kindness was giving Dipper a brand new journal. Stating that the journal will have all of their new adventures in it, and Mabel promising that she won't hog the spotlight.
* TownGirls:
** The GenkiGirl Femme to Candy's AsianAndNerdy Neither and Grenda's [[BrawnHilda Brawn Hilda-ish]] Butch. Mabel is the most feminine of her friend group, practically personifying a GirlyGirl.
** She's also the hardy and adventurous GirlyBruiser Neither to Pacifica's vain AlphaBitch (later LovableAlphaBitch) Femme and Wendy's athletic, axe-wielding, [[TheLadette Ladette-ish]] Butch.
* ThemeTwinNaming: M[[spoiler:ason]] and Mabel Pines. Both names begin with the letter M, are five letters long, and are [[OutdatedName somewhat old-fashioned]].
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Became so frightened by the idea of growing up and being separated from her brother that she [[spoiler:gave [[SealedEvilInACan the Rift]] her brother and great uncle tried so hard to protect over to Blendin Blandin, who promised he would use it to freeze time for her so she and the rest of Gravity Falls would stay the same as long as she wanted. Instead, Blendin revealed himself to be possessed by Bill, who promptly broke it and began the Apocalypse.]]
* UnlimitedWardrobe: Mabel seems to have an infinite amount of custom sweaters, and wears a different one every episode, and sometimes more than one in the same episode. Though she always wears turtleneck sweaters, they all have different patterns. Mabel switches sweaters every episode and if the episode takes place over the course of a few days she'll switch. She wears at least 6 sweaters in "The Hand That Rocks The Mabel" alone. Justified since Mabel knits the sweaters herself. Apparently she just owns a lot of yarn. This is in stark contrast to her brother's LimitedWardrobe.
* UnwantedAssistance: She frequently tries to "help" people by coercing others into taking up her methods. While she does this in many areas, it's most prominent in romance, where she's gone to extreme lengths to "support" others in relationships that she approves of.
** In "Into the Bunker", she locks her brother into a closet with Wendy and refuses to let them out until Dipper confesses his love to her, after he told her he was giving up on his crush and asked her to leave it alone. This nearly gets them killed, because it wasn't a closet, it was the chamber of a very deadly (and now loose) experiment.
** In "Roadside Attraction", when Dipper's still not over his rejection, she supports the idea that Dipper should get into a rebound relationship and tries to hook him up with her friend Candy, only to blame him when he was uncomfortable with Candy's ''really'' forward advances and gets angry at him for [[MistakenForCheating "betraying"]] Candy by talking to other girls before Candy even asked him out.
* VampiresAreSexGods: She certainly thinks so.
-->'''Mabel''': ''(To Dipper)'' I'm obsessed? Look at you! You look like a vampire! And not the hot kind!


-->'''Norman''': Uh, Mabel, now that we’ve gotten to know each other, there’s... ''(exhales)'' ...there’s something I should tell you.
-->'''Mabel''': Oh, Norman, you can tell me anything! ''(Thinking:)'' Please be a vampire, please be a vampire!

-->'''Mermando''': Mabel, I have never met anyone like you.
-->'''Mabel''': Same here. Except for a zombie, a gnome, and a couple of [[NoodleIncident cute vampires]].
-->'''Dipper''': I don't remember the vampires.
-->'''Mabel''': I don't tell you everything.
* WeakWilled: Her focus and dedication to a matter can easily be broken if she sees something she wants (especially if it's a boy).
** In "The Love God", when the titular Love God is trying to [[spoiler: take the Anti-Love potion away from Mabel and Dipper]], he summons "Visions of Heartbreak Past," a spell that causes visions of all of Mabel's ex-crushes to appear, to trick Mabel into handing the [[spoiler: Anti-Love potion]] over. Dipper punches one of these visions in the face and asks who would fall for it. Cut to Mabel surrounded by her exes...
--->''(Giggles)'' Sure you can all marry me. Oh, guy from the $10 bill, I forgot I had a crush on you.
** In "The Time Traveler's Pig", Mabel tells Dipper she'll stick with him all day to help him keep Wendy away from Robbie, but then sees a pig (Waddles when he was still Ol' 15 Poundie) and runs frantically to win him.
* WeirdnessMagnet:
** Possibly moreso than her brother. Weird stuff is always gravitating toward her (the gnomes and Gideon, for instance). In "The Inconveniencing", [[spoiler:she was possessed, rather than "punished" by the ghosts.]]
** Ironically, Mabel missed out on the first four days of Weirdmageddon, [[spoiler: due to being trapped inside a LotusEaterMachine]].
** In the "Lost Legends" story ''Don't Dimension It'', After Mabel got sucked into a dimensional rift, she was transported to Dimension MAB-3L, where if any Mabel in the known multiverse got sucked in, they all end up in the same spot.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Bringing Stan up to the water tower to cure his fear of heights, shoving Dipper and Wendy into a closet to make Dipper confess his crush, shouting at women to leave the bathroom and talk to Soos to get him a date, that sort of thing. The first two end up accidentally putting people in life-threatening peril.
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:''[[BlueAndOrangeMorality Bill]]'']] of all people gives this to her in "Sock Opera", after she brushes off her promises to Dipper, makes him put his own plans on hold to help her win over her guy of the week, and even takes Journal 3 without permission to use as a prop.
-->[[spoiler:'''Bill''']]: How's about you hand that book over?\\
'''Mabel''': No way! This is Dipper's! I'd never give it away!\\
[[spoiler:'''Bill''']]: [[VillainHasAPoint Hmm, you didn't seem to have a problem taking it for your own play or ditching him when he needed you.]] So come to your senses. Gimme the book or your play is ruined. ''[Mabel sighs and begins to hand over the journal]'' [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame There it is. I mean, who would sacrifice everything they've worked for just for their dumb sibling?]]\\
'''Mabel''': ...''[[JerkassRealization Dipper]]'' [[HeroicResolve would]].
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: She has a phobia of Claymation that she realizes is perfectly rational in "Little Gift Shop of Horrors", though it's unknown if she really has this fear or if it was just part of Stan's story.
* WideEyedIdealist: Tends to believe the best of everyone and that any situation will have a happy outcome. It's put to the test in "Not What He Seems".
** In "Boss Mabel", she and Stan arrange a bet involving her being the Mystery Shack's boss for three days. In keeping with her [[AllLovingHero all-loving]], [[ThePollyanna Pollyanna]] personality, prior to and at the beginning of the arrangement, she honestly believes that just being nice and letting the Shack's employees [[ExtremeDoormat do absolutely anything they want]] will yield positive results. It doesn't work out as planned, and she eventually realizes that [[GoodIsNotSoft sometimes in life, you have to put your foot down]]. She spends the first half of the episode looking [[https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Mabel%27s_the_Boss_Now literally wide-eyed]].
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Though Mabel is ignorant of a lot of the complexities of others and often accidentally offends without meaning to, Alex Hirsch says she understands that Dipper's desire to grow up fast is inherently childish. This is shown in "Summerween" when she admits that she knows that she and her brother would inevitably grow out of trick-or-treating.
--> '''Dipper''': Mabel, you know that's not true. I just felt like I was getting a little too old to go trick-or-treating.\\
'''Mabel''': That's exactly why we need to go trick-or-treating, Dipper! We're getting older, there's not that many Halloweens left! I guess I didn't realize it was already our last one.
* WrongGenreSavvy: In "Sock Opera" towards the end:
-->'''Mabel''': Don't worry, I have seen enough movies to know this is the part where the audience thinks this was AllPartOfTheShow and loves it. Cue applause!\\
''[audience boos and leaves]''
* YaoiFangirl: About as blatant as one can possibly be in a Disney show. She enthusiasthically takes a picture of her own brother's CPR with Mermando and the original storyboards for "The Love God" have her sweater be a more blatant pride flag.
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* BigSisterBully: Played with. While she thinks of it more as lighthearted teasing than outright bullying, she does like to poke at Dipper's insecurities at times, often alongside Stan, because she genuinely thinks she's being funny and charming while doing so. This becomes {{Deconstructed|Trope}} as the show has long hinted, and "Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons'' confirms, that it isn't very lighthearted to Dipper and he's been genuinely hurt by her teasing, which has resulted in damage to their relationship.
* BigSisterInstinct: Not as protective of Dipper as he is of her, but comes fairly close. The "big sister" aspect is also played straight in that she is five minutes older and a millimeter taller than Dipper.


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* BigSisterBully: Played with. While she thinks of it more as lighthearted teasing than outright bullying, she does like to poke at Dipper's insecurities at times, often alongside Stan, because she genuinely thinks she's being funny and charming while doing so. This becomes {{Deconstructed|Trope}} as the show has long hinted, and "Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons'' confirms, that it isn't very lighthearted to Dipper and he's been genuinely hurt by her teasing, which has resulted in damage to their relationship.
* BigSisterInstinct: Not as protective of Dipper as he is of her, but comes fairly close. The "big sister" aspect is also played straight in that she is five minutes older and a millimeter taller than Dipper.

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