| “ | When there's no cops around, anything's legal! | „ |
| ~ Stanley Pines's motto. |
Stanley Pines, also known as Grunkle Stan and under his false identity of Stanford Pines, is the deuteragonist of the Disney Channel/Disney XD animated series Gravity Falls.
He is the great-uncle (or 'grunkle') of Dipper and Mabel Pines, the boss of Soos Ramirez and Wendy Corduroy, and the estranged twin brother of Stanford Pines. Stan is a conman who runs the Mystery Shack, which is a tourist trap where he tries to get as much money as possible by scamming the customers.
He was voiced by series creator Alex Hirsch, who also voiced Curator Ponds in Amphibia, who is a direct parody of Stan.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Heinous?[]
In General/Background[]
- After being kicked out of his house, he became a con man selling faulty products, such as a towel that made stains worse and a bandage that gave people rashes, and by the time he started the Mystery Shack to scam people by making them pay to see fake merchandise, he had been in jail 3 times and banned from 32 states due to his criminal record.
- He apparently murdered a llama in the past for knowing about something that it could have ratted him out on.
- He once let bees loose in an elementary school.
- He once stole a bunch of wax figures from a sale while ignoring the salesman's warnings that the wax figures were cursed to come to life.
- He once made Dipper and Mabel spend a day making counterfeit money, which got them presumably arrested.
- Despite the heinous standard of Gravity Falls, he easily passes it for imperiling the entire universe on purpose.
Season 1[]
- He tried to get Mabel to date Li'l Gideon so that they will be married when they are old enough just to make a deal with his father Bud that will make him money, despite the fact that Mabel wasn't romantically interested in Gideon.
- He locked Toby in the Mystery Shack just because he annoyed him.
- He made a party where people had to spend 15 dollars just to leave, which meant Lee and Nate were trapped since they only had 13 dollars.
- He opened a fair where he spared every expense, such as making a poorly run sky tram and having Dipper and Mabel put fake safety inspection certificates over lawsuits.
- He tricked Gideon into being attacked by termites.
- He made Dipper wear a costume that gave him hookworm and did not care when Soos was attacked by a bird.
- He smuggled a bear and illegally tried to teach it to drive.
- He tried to burn Gideon with the reflection of his watch to get his pool chair though it backfired.
- He initially tried to convince Dipper, Mabel and Soos to not go look for Waddles so Mabel wouldn't find out he got Waddles taken by a dinosaur.
Season 2[]
- He filmed the fight between Bill and Mabel, saying he could sell the film at the shack.
- He tried to steal an animatronic named Willy Badger from Hoo-Ha Owl's Pizzamatronic Jamboree, only failing when .GIFfany took control of it and the other animatronics.
- He tried to shoot a hot-air balloon which had people in it just because he hated the Woodstick festival.
- He opened a portal to bring his brother Stanford back, despite the fact that Dipper warned him it could end the universe, meaning he knew that it could destroy the universe but prevented it from being deactivated in order to save Stanford.
- He agreed with Grenda to keep the death of an orc a secret, lying to Mabel that he's alive.
- After announcing his run for mayor, his first action was to commit voter fraud. He claimed that as mayor, he would make kids fight for dominance and teach them swears. During the final election, he said he wanted to wage war on neighboring cities.
- He helped Dipper and Mabel vandalize Mayor Tyler's mansion.
- He went on a road trip to prank every tourist trap on the Redwood Highway. Though it was mostly out of revenge for them pranking him in the past, it was still vindictive and petty.
- He was against fighting back at Bill, leaving all of the petrified Gravity Falls citzens in there, including his brother. While he is correct to point out the high risk of the mission, he was also quite bitter and even insulting towards Ford, and tried to convince the Shack people not to fight even when they figured out a plan and had a real chance.
- During Weirdmageddon, he planned to eat the gnomes if the supplies had run out.
- It was his screwup with fighting Ford over an insensitive comment over saving the world that prevented the entire group from defeating Bill Cipher using the circle and got them all turned to banners.
- He threatened to assault the bus driver if he didn't take Waddles with Dipper and Mabel.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- He is very tragic, growing up poor, having a very stern father and being eventually kicked out of his home for accidentally ruining his brother's project without being able to properly explain himself, meaning he had to find his way through life on his own before accidentally throwing his brother into a portal which lead to another universe, leading to him spending 30 years trying to fix his mistake.
- He is an anti-villain, as most of the stuff he does is for his family, whom he genuinely cares for.
- While he used to be an on-and-off villain who often helping Dipper and Mabel in defeating several monsters or villains, he later eventually redeemed himself when he decided to sacrifice his memories in order to kill Bill Cipher.
- He is extremely comedic, with his greed, narcissism and laziness being constantly played for laughs, such as at “Boss Mabel” with him taking his clothes off for a money shower, him ruining an engagement with his famous “aim is getting better” joke, and his montage of watching The Duchess Approves because he didn’t want to find the remote.
- Even his heinous acts are played for laughs, with him endangering the universe being his only crime that is played seriously.
- He is pretty affable towards the people he cares about, most notably his family, Soos and Wendy.
- He is honorable, as he was going to honor his deal with Mabel and make her boss.
- He is grey-zoned, as he has understandable motives for all his worst crimes.
- His memory wipe aftermath was the equivalent of a sympathetic death, as not only does he not recognize anyone, the people who know him can’t get through to him until Waddles licked his face.
Trivia[]
- Curator Ponds, a fellow Inconsistently Heinous character, is a parody of Stanley, to the point of being voiced by the same voice actor. In fact, it's been theorized by fans that their shows, Amphibia and Gravity Falls, take place in a shared universe (or rather multiverse, as both shows heavily feature alternative dimensions).
- This idea was actually implied by the Amphibia version of Soos, who asks Curator Ponds if he ever wonders if there are different versions of them in other universes.
- He, Midnight, The Man With No Name and Sylens are the only four Inconsistently Heinous characters to be on the Inconsistently Admirable Wiki, Magnificent Baddie Wiki, and Guile Heroes Wiki at the same time.
External Links[]
- Stanley Pines on the Inconsistently Admirable Wiki
- Stanley Pines on the Villains Wiki
- Stanley Pines on the Heroes Wiki
- Stanley Pines on the Disney Wiki
- Stanley Pines on the Gravity Falls Wiki
- Stanley Pines on the Magnificent Baddie Wiki
- Stanley Pines on the Guile Heroes Wiki
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