History Characters / GravityFallsMabelPines

** 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 tried to get over it after "Weirdmageddon".

** In "Little Dipper", Mabel responds to her brother rubbing his victories in her face by making jokes about him being 1 millimeter shorter than her for the rest of the episode, deciding that this height difference is indicative of her evolving into being superior to him, and [[UpToEleven proclaiming herself the "Alpha Twin".]] She doesn't even have a JerkassRealization at the end like the other examples, instead justifying her actions by claiming he made her feel bad first.

** In "Little Dipper", Mabel responds to her brother rubbing his victories in her face by bragging about being 1 millimeter shorter than her for the rest of the episode, deciding that this height difference is indicative of her evolving into being superior to him, and [[UpToEleven proclaiming herself the "Alpha Twin".]] She doesn't even have a JerkassRealization at the end like the other examples, instead justifying her actions by claiming he made her feel bad first.

* 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.]]

* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Why she bullies Dipper in "Little Dipper". His tendency to brag after winning when playing games with her makes her feel insecure, so she responds by picking on him about being 1 millimeter shorter than her for the rest of the episode, joking that it was proof she was evolving into the "Alpha Twin".

** In "Little Dipper", Mabel responds to her brother rubbing his victories in her face by bullying him about being 1 millimeter shorter than her for the rest of the episode, deciding that this height difference is indicative of her evolving into being superior to him, and [[UpToEleven proclaiming herself the "Alpha Twin".]] She doesn't even have a JerkassRealization at the end like the other examples, instead justifying her actions by claiming he made her feel bad first.

* UngratefulBitch: Dipper often sacrificed for Mabel, and she never returned the favor until Bill calls out her selfish tendencies in "Sock Opera". This reached its peak in [[spoiler:"Dipper and Mabel vs. the Future", where despite everything Dipper has done for her, the moment when she realizes that Dipper is leaving her for what he wants, she outbursts from emotional stress with "it's a horrible opportunity for ''me''!" However, in "Weirdmageddon 2: Escape From Reality", once she comes to her senses, she tells Dipper she's okay with his decision of becoming Ford's apprentice, implying [[CharacterDevelopment she's starting to grow out of it]].]]

![[center:[[Characters/GravityFalls Index]]: [[Characters/GravityFallsMysteryShack The Mystery Shack]] ([[Characters/GravityFallsDipperPines Dipper Pines]] | Mabel Pines | [[Characters/GravityFallsGrunkleStan Grunkle Stan]]) | [[Characters/GravityFallsMysteryShackTheAuthor The Author]] | [[Characters/GravityFallsMainAntagonists Main Antagonists]] | [[Characters/GravityFallsBillCipher Bill Cipher]] | [[Characters/GravityFallsAdults Adults of Gravity Falls]] | [[Characters/GravityFallsYouth Youth of Gravity Falls]] | [[Characters/GravityFallsCreaturesAndOtherOddities Creatures and other Oddities]]]]

!!Mabel Pines

* BrainyBrunette: Mabel doesn't give herself enough credit, but she is smart in her own way.

** 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.]]

* KarmaHoudini: Mabel never does anything outright malicious, but she has occasionally teamed up with Stan to make fun of her brother throughout the series, and often uses Dipper's dedication to making her happy to get him to do what she wants, even if it's at great inconvenience to him. All of these flaws have been known to negatively effect her brother but rarely result in negative consequences for Mabel herself (and while Dipper has done things like this too, he usually [[HumiliationConga pays dearly]] [[YankTheDogsChain if he does]]).

* 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 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.]] It's kind of played with, actually, [[spoiler:because while she didn't intend for the Apocalypse, her intention to freeze time and force everyone to stay the same in Gravity Falls is pretty doom-worthy in and of itself if she couldn't reverse it]].
* UngratefulBitch: Dipper sacrificed everything just for her and with the sole exception of ''one'' single moment where Bill straight up calls her a selfish person, Mabel never returns the favor. [[spoiler:This reached the peak in "Dipper and Mabel vs the future" where despite everything Dipper has done for her, the moment when she realizes that Dipper is leaving her for what he wants, she decides to selfishly force him to stay, completely ignoring any lesson in maturity in the process. However, in "Weirdmaggedon 2: Escape From Reality", once she comes to her senses, she tells Dipper it's okay if he becomes Ford's apprentice, implying [[CharacterDevelopment she's starting to grow out of it]].]]

* {{Hypocrite}}:
** In "Blendin's Game", Mabel calls Dipper a "creep" for his former 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.
** In "Roadside Attraction", she tells Dipper he needs to move on from Wendy - yet both "Society of the Blind Eye" and "The Love God" showed that Mabel is still holding onto ''all'' of the crushes she's had over the summer.

* KarmaHoudini: Mabel frequently team up with Stan to make fun of her brother throughout the series and often uses Dipper's dedication to making her happy to get him to do what she wants, even if it's at great inconvenience to him. All of these flaws have been known to negatively effect her brother but rarely result in negative consequences for Mabel herself (and while Dipper has done things like this too, he usually [[HumiliationConga pays dearly]] [[YankTheDogsChain if he does]]). Also, no one found out that [[spoiler:she (unknowingly) gave the rift to Bill and she never learned that it's because of her own selfishness that she gave it to him in the first place]].

* KarmaHoudini: Downplayed, and a rare protagonist example. Mabel never does anything outright malicious, but she does frequently team up with Stan to make fun of her brother throughout the series and often uses Dipper's dedication to making her happy to get him to do what she wants, even if it's at great inconvenience to him. All of these flaws have been known to negatively effect her brother but rarely result in negative consequences for Mabel herself (and while Dipper has done things like this too, he usually [[HumiliationConga pays dearly]] [[YankTheDogsChain if he does]]). Also, no one found out that [[spoiler:she (unknowingly) gave the rift to Bill]].

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Her name is often misspelled as "Mable", even though her name appears in the opening credits.

* MeaningfulName: Mabel means "lovable", and pretty much everyone in the show adores her. Too much, in the case of Gideon.

* FlowerInHerHair: She wears a pink flower hairpin in "The Time Traveler's Pig". [[spoiler: It falls out of her hair while she was time-traveling and being chased by Dipper, and becomes one of the time anomalies Blendin has to pick up.]]

* FriendToAllLivingThings: Hugs a cat during the HowWeGotHere moment of "Tourist Trapped", allows Gompers to chew on her sweater, saves a lobster from a restaurant, happily owns a pet pig named Waddles, and has let caterpillars crawl on her face.

* GlurgeAddict: Mabel loves anything cute and/or 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.

* GrapplingHookPistol: One of her iconic items, gained as a gift from Stan.
* HairDecorations: She usually wears a different colored hairband to match the sweater she is wearing. On some occasions, she wears a hairpin during outings, or an oversized bow for parties.

* 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 by Interdimensional Rift to a Bill-possessed Blendin Blandin, who that breaks the rift and causes a [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Pandora]]-level catastrophe.]]

* 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 had her surrounded.]] In "Scary-Oke" she uses a Karaoke machine.

* LargeHam: 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.

* 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.

* LoveMakesYouEvil: It should be noted that many of Mabel's worst {{Jerkass}} moments are when there's a cute guy on the line. It starts in "Boyz Crazy", when she basically decides 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 him. 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 gets HeelRealization usually at the end, but still.
* MagicSkirt: For some reason her skirt stays in place despite the crazy stunts she does.

* TheNoseKnows: Mabel has sensed Robbie coming in "The Time Traveler's Pig" due to smelling a gallon of body spray and "Fight Fighters" due to smelling anger and hormones.

* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: She has the habit of punching and poking other people when she's being friendly, mostly Dipper.

[[caption-width-right:200:''"Check it out Dipper, I successfully bezazzled my face! Blink! Ow..."'']]

** 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 scenery, had written the script and at least 36 musical numbers.
** She 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", used attack glitter to get around Soos in "Not What He Seems", [[spoiler: sprayed spray paint at Bill's eye during his spiel and broke through the Fearamid's wall using Dipper's height altering flashlight in "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls".]]

* FlowerInHerHair: In "The Time Traveler's Pig".

* GirlyBruiser: Very girly and energetic, but she packs a mean punch. She gave Dipper two black eyes in "Tourist Trapped" (accidentally, while trying to get a viscous gnome off his face) and even made a gnome throw up after she kicked him in the stomach. It comes in full force in "Headhunters". Also, as Stan learned in "Little Dipper", Mabel high fives HARD. A conversation with Stan in ''VideoGame/GravityFallsLegendOfTheGnomeGemulets'' reveals that her very first act as a newborn was to punch the doctor who delivered her.
* GlurgeAddict: Mabel loves anything cute and/or colorful, no matter how sickening other characters 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 and populated by cute little creatures and walking, talking stuffed animals. Ironically, when she breaks free from the world's trance, she ''complains'' about the colors and the overly repetitive songs.
* GoodIsNotDumb: Mabel may be the goofy, energetic one between her and Dipper, but she has her own brand of intellect that's just as useful as his.

* HairDecorations: She wears a different colored hairband depending on what sweater she's wearing. During parties, like in "Double Dipper" and "Scaryoke", she wears an oversized bow instead.
* HalfIdenticalTwins: With Dipper. Downplayed, as they dress and act differently and have different hair cuts.

** In "The Hand That Rocks The Mabel" [[spoiler: Mabel hides 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 been lying to them all summer, most notably her blank stare when she realizes the real Stan might have died over thirty years ago, and that the Stan they live with is an imposter]].
** As noted above, when Mabel is told by Celestebellebethabelle that she's far from pure of heart, she falls into a deep depression, complete with TroubledFetalPosition.
** Goes right back 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]].

* HistoryRepeats: [[spoiler:In "A Tale of Two Stans", we learn that the rift in Stan and Ford's relationship began when Stan, fearing being abandoned, messed with one of his brother's things and ended up causing much more disaster than he intended. In "Dipper and Mabel Vs. The Future", out of fear of being abandoned, Mabel also messes with her brother's things in a big way to keep him from leaving her. She ends up causing a [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Pandora]]-level catastrophe.]]

* UngratefulBitch: Dipper sacrificed everything just for her and with the sole exception of ''one'' single moment where Bill straight up calls her a selfish person, Mabel never returns the favor. This reached the peak in "Dipper and Mabel vs the future" where despite everything Dipper has done for her, the moment when she realizes that Dipper is leaving her for what he wants, she decides to selfishly force him to stay, completely ignoring any lesson in maturity in the process. However, in "Weirdmaggedon 2: Escape From Reality", once she comes to her senses, she tells Dipper it's okay if he becomes Ford's apprentice, implying [[CharacterDevelopment she's starting to grow out of it.]]

* BrainyBrunette: She doesn't give herself enough credit, but she is smart in her own way: Mabel is better at making split-decisions than her brother (whom often doesn't bode well without planning in advance.): She has used a nyarf gun to make Bill drop the door with the safe's combination in "Dreamscaperers", saved herself and Dipper with her grappling hook in "Gideon Rises", [[spoiler: sprayed spray paint at Bill's eye during his spiel in "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back the Falls"]], crafted a high quality wax statue of Stan, coordinated a complex puppet show in the span of a week, and has knitted various sweaters daily in different designs, a few of them being electric sweaters that can light up or play music.

* {{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 BigSisterBully 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.]]

** In "Little Dipper", Mabel responds to her brother's rubbing his victories in her face by bullying him about being 1 millimeter shorter than her for the rest of the episode, deciding that this height difference is indicative of her evolving into a being superior to him, and [[UpToEleven proclaiming herself the "Alpha Twin".]] She doesn't even have a JerkassRealization at the end like the other examples, instead justifying her actions by claiming he made her feel bad first.

* BlitheSpirit: To both Stan and the townsfolk, though sometimes for her own selfish gain.

* BookDumb: In contrast to her nerdy twin. She is uninterested in playing the titicular "Dungeons, Dungeons and More Dungeons" board game with Dipper, saying that "this is like Homework: The Game" after he explains that rolling a die and graph paper is required.

* BrainyBrunette: She doesn't have Dipper's book smarts and strategic tactics, but Mabel has proven to be a lot more clever than she lets on.

** 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 is quietly and somberly lying awake.

* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:Bill Cipher, possessing Blendin Blandin, offers to put a time bubble around Gravity Falls if Mabel would give him the mysterious orb in her brother's backpack. Mabel, unaware of the importance of the item, under copious amounts of stress, and having spent the entire day convinced of how awful her future is going to be, agrees. She hands it over and Bill breaks it, starting [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Weirdmageddon]], and encases an unconscious Mabel in a bubble.]]

* ExtremeOmnivore: Inferred in "Fight Fighters", Mabel's drinks contain a strange cyclops Troll Doll and several dice in a green fluid. An episode in the next season represents the drink as pink and with plastic dinosaurs in it.

* FriendToAllLivingThings: Is seen hugging a cat during the HowWeGotHere moment of "Tourist Trapped", allows Gompers to chew on her sweater, saves a lobster from a restauraunt and happily owns a pet pig named Waddles.

* GirlyBruiser: Very girly and energetic, but she packs a mean punch. She gave Dipper two black eyes in "Tourist Trapped" (accidentally while trying to get a viscous gnome off his face) and even made a gnome throw up after she kicked him in the stomach. It comes in full force in "Headhunters". Also, as Stan learned in "Little Dipper", Mabel high fives HARD. A conversation with Stan in ''VideoGame/GravityFallsLegendOfTheGnomeGemulets'' even reveals that her very first act as a newborn was to punch the doctor who delivered her.
* GlurgeAddict: Mabel loves anything cute and/or colorful, no matter how sickening other characters 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 and populated by cute little creatures and walking, talking stuffed animals. Ironically, when she breaks free from the world's trance, she ''complains'' about the colors and the overly repetitive songs.

** Not to mention in "The Hand That Rocks The Mabel" [[spoiler:when Mabel hides in her sweater and refuses to come out, saying she's "in Sweater Town".]]

** Goes right back 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]].

* JerkassBall: In "Sock Opera", where she breaks her promises to her brother and walks all over him in order 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.

** She has one during "Sock Opera", realizing that the combination of Dipper's relative passiveness and her own [[InnocentlyInsensitive oblivious]] [[FatalFlaw 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, resulting in the AesopAmnesia noted above.

* KarmaHoudini: Downplayed, rare protagonist example. Mabel never does anything outright malicious, but she does frequently team up with Stan to make fun of her brother throughout the series and often uses Dipper's dedication to making her happy to get him to do what she wants, even if it's at great inconvenience to him. All of these flaws have been known to negatively effect her brother but rarely result in negative consequences for Mabel herself (and while Dipper has done things like this too, he usually [[HumiliationConga pays dearly]] [[YankTheDogsChain if he does]]). Also, no one found out that [[spoiler:she (unknowingly) gave the rift to Bill]].

--> '''Dipper''': Mabel, you know that's not true. I just felt like I was getting a little to old to go trick-or-treating.\\

** 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 insensitive treatment is what drove him away to Ford to start with, which she had briefly acknowledged in "Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons".]]
** Perhaps a bit of RealityEnsues 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 any, either.

* AllTakeAndNoGive: This, along with being InnocentlyInsensitive, 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]], if at all) that what she's doing is manipulative or damaging. This is subverted in "Sock Opera" [[spoiler:when she sacrifices her sock puppet performance to defeat Bill]] and in "Weirdmageddon 2: Escape From Reality", where [[spoiler: she tells Dipper it's okay if he becomes Ford's apprentice]].
* AmbiguouslyJewish: Mabel occasionally uses Yiddish phrases such as "Mazel tov!", and "sweet Moses!". It puts a rather interesting spin as she adopted a pet pig and refused 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, 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 fairly non-religiously]], though both Christian and Jewish holidays are celebrated at Mabel's insistence.

* BerserkButton: Mabel has this happen in "Tourist Trapped". It is not a good idea to get between her and a boy she likes. [[LoveMakesYouEvil She still has problems with this]], but after this instance she stops reacting as violently.

* BewareTheSillyOnes: More than capable of backing Dipper up, but she will also bedazzle her entire face for kicks. "Irrational Treasure"'s plot is that she was able to solve the mystery because of how she approached it in a silly, unorthodox way.

* BookDumb: In contrast to her more academically gifted twin.

** In "The Time Traveler's Pig", Mabel wins a pig she names Waddles. She spends five minutes 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 and 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 a 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's in, and the stress of having to choose to listen to Stan or Dipper.]]

** 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: unintentionally causes the apocalypse by giving the Interdimensional Rift to a Bill-possessed Blendin Blandin]].

* BrotherSisterTeam: She has a refreshing one with Dipper, as they are not constantly bickering and make quite a remarkable duo. [[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]].

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Mabel has an... interesting way of thinking. This is deconstructed in "Irrational Treasure" when Pacifica chastizes her for being silly, and Mabel tries to be more serious thereafter. Her Cloudcuckoolander tendencies end up saving the day.

* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:Bill Cipher, under the guise of Blendin Blandin, offers to freeze time in Gravity Falls if Mabel would give him the mysterious orb in her brother's possession. Mabel, having spent the entire day being convinced of how awful her future is going to be, agrees. She hands it over, he breaks it, [[WhamEpisode and the world promptly]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt begins to end]].]]

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Emotional and energetic, Mabel rarely, if ever, re-considers her actions before doing them. She just throws herself, sometimes literally, in whatever weird and wacky thing that pops into her head, a stark contrast to Dipper and his tendency to over-think things. This, typically, causes more than a fair share of problems. In "Soos and the Real Girl", her random decision to just eat candy, wrappers and all, nearly causes her to choke. When Wendy tried to point out that using LaserGuidedAmnesia to forget failed romances might not be a good idea, Mabel declared, "All ideas are good ideas!" [[spoiler: Ultimately, it's her thoughtlessness that causes Weirdmageddon; When Blendin Blandin offers to freeze time in exchange for a weird thing her brother has, so Mabel won't have to grow up and face the future, she doesn't pick up on the warning signs or consider the implications and only learns after the fact that Bill was playing her like a violin.]]

* 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 there supernatural adventures will play out in a way she would like.

* GlurgeAddict: Mabel loves anything cute and/or colorful, no matter how sickening other characters 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 and populated by cute little creatures and walking, talking stuffed animals. Ironically, when she breaks free from the world's trance, she ''complains'' about the colors and the overly repetive songs.

* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Though she is ignorant of a lot of the complexities of others and often accidentally offends without meaning to, WordOfGod says she understands that Dipper's desire to grow up fast is inherently childish.

* GlurgeAddict: Mabel loves anything cute and/or colorful, no matter how sickening other characters 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 and populated by cute little creatures and walking, talking stuffed animals.

* AffectionateNickname: Soos occasionally calls Mabel "Hambone". Stan calls her "sweetie" or, more rarely, "pumpkin".
* AllLovingHeroine: She tries to cool down her rivalry and get on good terms with Pacifica, as well as help Robbie with his love life, even though he'd been threatening to her brother all summer. She was even still willing to overlook Gideon's creepy tendencies and remain friends with him [[spoiler:until he tried to murder Dipper with a pair of lamb shears]]. In general, she tries to be nice and friendly to everyone.
* AllWomenAreLustful: A non-sexual example (sort of). She's crazy about boys, a huge fangirl of Sev'ral Timez, likes to read trashy romance novels ("[[ShoutOut Wolfman Bare Chest"]]), plays dating board games and practiced kissing with a leaf blower. Need we go on?
* AllTakeAndNoGive: This, along with [[InnocentlyInsensitive Innocent Insensitivity]], 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]], if at all) that what she's doing is manipulative or damaging. This is subverted in "Sock Opera" [[spoiler:by sacrificing her puppet show performance to defeat Bill]] and in "Weirdmaggedon 2: Escape From Reality", where she tells Dipper it's okay if he becomes Ford's apprentice.
* AmbiguouslyJewish: This is mostly due to the fact that Mabel occasionally uses Yiddish phrases like "mazel tov" and lines like "sweet Moses!" Puts a rather interesting spin on the fact that she adopted a pet pig and refused to eat 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 stated that the Pines Twins probably had a similar upbringing to his own, with [[https://twitter.com/_AlexHirsch/status/758547032554344448 Stan being raised Jewish while Dipper and Mabel were raised fairly non-religiously]], though both Christian and Jewish holidays are celebrated at Mabel's insistence.

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Not as bad as Soos but chances are she will be distracted by something, the more shiny, unusual, or animal the better.
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: [[ItMakesAsMuchSenseInContext After the 8 1/2th President was released from his Peanut Brittle-caused hibernation]], he dubbed her a Congresswoman.
* BadassAdorable: A cutey patooty with a mean right hook.

* BalloonBelly: In "The Inconveniencing" after eating too much Smile Dip.

* BerserkButton: In episode 1, getting between her and a cute boy was one. [[LoveMakesYouEvil She definitely still has problems with this]], but after this instance she stops reacting so violently to it.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Mabel is the sweetest person you could hope to meet, but she's something else whenever she gets angry.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: More than capable of backing Dipper up, but she will also bedazzle her entire face for kicks. The point of "Irrational Treasure"'s plot is that she was able to solve the mystery because of how she approached it in a silly, unorthodox way.

* BrainyBrunette: Not Dipper's book smarts and strategic tactics, but Mabel has proven to be a lot more clever than she lets on.

** In "The Time Traveler's Pig", Mabel comes into possession of a pig she calls Waddles. She spends about five minutes with him, then has to re-win him over and over again as her brother attempts to correct a poorly-done throw from his past. The attempt where he succeeds [[spoiler:involves her not getting her pig, and she spends what is implied to be a month standing in the same place banging her head against a totem pole before he fixes it.]]
** In "Not What He Seems", she finally breaks down in tears over [[spoiler: the secrets uncovered, the life-threatening situation everyone's in, and the stress of having to choose to listen to Stan or Dipper. There was practically a fandom revolt because the episode made Mabel cry. She eventually chose Stan.]]
** In "A Tale of Two Stans", she's visibly afraid of the idea that she and Dipper will grow apart, despite his reassurances that they won't. Even after he falls asleep, she's shown lying awake, still thinking about it.
** In the next episode, she becomes visibly upset at the realization that she may have already caused the start of this by [[InnocentlyInsensitive jokingly picking]] on Dipper with Stan all summer.
** In "The Last Mabelcorn", she is told by Celestebellebethabelle that she is not "pure of heart" enough to be given some of her 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, after which Mabel 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 is, Candy and Grenda are going to be unavailable for her 13th Birthday, Dipper [[spoiler: has accepted a position as Ford's apprentice that will mean she's going alone at the end of the summer]], and to top it all off she [[spoiler: causes the apocalypse by giving a time-space rift to a Bill-possessed Blendin Blandin]].

* BrotherSisterTeam: A rather refreshing one with Dipper, in that they're not constantly bickering and actually make quite a remarkable team. [[spoiler:This lack of bickering is deconstructed in the latter half of the second season, as them ceasing to discuss their problems with each other results in PoorCommunicationKills]].
* CheerfulChild: Rare are the moments when she doesn't have a smile on her face.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Mabel has an... interesting way of thinking. Deconstructed in Irrational Treasure. Pacifica makes fun of her for being silly, so she tries to be more serious. However, her {{Cloudcuckoolander}} tendencies end up saving the day.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: In "Irrational Treasure". Justified, because the mystery was set up by [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike another]] {{Cloudcuckoolander}}.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: And when it happens, ''watch out''. In the pilot alone [[spoiler:she takes down a hundred gnomes using nothing but a leaf blower.]]
* CurtainsMatchTheWindows: Due to the art style it's usually impossible to tell the characters' eye colors, but Mabel's are brown as [[https://twitter.com/_AlexHirsch/status/260514979969646592 confirmed by Alex Hirsch.]]
* CuteAndPsycho: Mabel is a mild version of this trope, but she's definitely a high-intensity-low-stability kind 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: Cute kid. Will beat you up in without the need for WaifFu, thank you very much.

* EveryoneHasStandards: She tries to be friendly with everybody and tolerant of the eccentricities of others, but there's only so much bad behavior (Gideon, [[spoiler:formerly]] Pacifica, etc.) and weirdness (Toby Determined, Poolcheck, etc.) she can take.
* ExposedToTheElements: Inverted. She regularly wears sweaters even though the show takes place during the summer. The only time the weather bothers her is in "The Deep End" when there's 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: Inferred in "Fight Fighters" when we see one of Mabel's drinks contain a strange cyclops Troll Doll and several dice, all in a green fluid. An episode in the next season represents the drink as pink and with plastic dinosaurs in it.
** She also once ate a whole tube of toothpaste just because it was sparkly.
** She once had to go to the hospital because she ate [[http://www.reddit.com/r/gravityfalls/comments/1kgq85/i_am_alex_hirsch_creator_of_gravity_falls_ask_me/cbotn79 scratch and sniff stickers]]. However, this didn't stop her from eating a sticker in "The Golf War" in an attempt to stop the Lilliputtians from fighting over it. Of course, it was only one sticker and wasn't a scratch-and-sniff.

** 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.

* {{Foil}}: To Dipper, 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, on the other, tends to look on the bright side, has an inflated view of her own importance, and can totally lose it when things don't go her way.
* 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 through the potential consequences and implications. In essence, she's 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 tendency for extensive planning and preparedness.
* FourPhilosophyEnsemble: Optimist, Mabel is highly optimistic and tries to be near constantly cheerful. She always expects the best out of others and often hopes that there supernatural adventures will play out in a way she would like.

* FriendToAllLivingThings: She saved a lobster that was going to be eaten at a restaurant, allowed the goat that lives by the shack to chew on her sweater, and owns a pet piggy named Waddles. She's also hugging a cat at the beginning of the HowWeGotHere moment of the pilot.
* FunPersonified: A very cheerful and silly character, warm welcomes and excitement typically follow her everywhere she goes.

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Dipper's twin sister. Energetic and optimistic, Mabel makes the best of every situation, with a big goofy smile, while at the same time annoying her twin.

** In "Little Dipper", Mabel sees her brother's slightly cocky behavior after winning a board game as him rubbing his victories in her face. She responds by bullying him about being 1 millimeter shorter than her for the rest of the episode, deciding that this height difference is indicative of her evolving into a being superior to him, and [[UpToEleven proclaiming herself the "Alpha Twin".]] She doesn't even have a JerkassRealization at the end like the other examples, instead justifying her actions by claiming he made her feel bad first.

* UngratefulBitch: Dipper sacrificed everything just for her and with the sole exception of ''one'' single moment where Bill straight up calls her a selfish person, Mabel never returns the favor. This reached the peak in "Dipper and Mabel vs the future" where despite everything Dipper has done for her, the moment when she realizes that Dipper is leaving her for what he wants, she decides to selfishly force him to stay, completely ignoring any lesson in maturity in the process. However, in "Weirdmaggedon 2: Escape From Reality", once she comes to her senses, she tells Dipper it's okay if he becomes Ford's apprentice, implying she's starting to grow out of it.

* AllTakeAndNoGive: This, along with [[InnocentlyInsensitive Innocent Insensitivity]], 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]], if at all) that what she's doing is manipulative or damaging. This is subverted in "Sock Opera" [[spoiler:by sacrificing her puppet show performance to defeat Bill]].

* UngratefulBastard: Dipper sacrificed everything just for her and with the sole exception of ''one'' single moment where Bill straight up calls her a selfish person, Mabel never returns the favor. This reached the peak in "Dipper and Mabel vs the future" where despite everything Dipper has done for her, the moment when she realizes that Dipper is leaving her for what he wants, she decides to selfishly force him to stay, completely ignoring any lesson in maturity in the process.

!Mabel Pines

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''(audience boos and leaves)''