Stan Pines

Stanley Pines, also known as Stan Pines, Grunkle Stan, Great-Uncle Stan, Stanford Pines, Steve Pinington, Stetson Pinefield, Hal Forrester, Andrew "8-Ball" Alcatraz, S618 and The Guy I'm Gonna Vote For, is one of the main characters from the Gravity Falls series.
== Charactah Account ==
Stan Pines, also known as Great-Uncle Stan and Grunkle Stan, is Mabel and Dipper's humorous, sly, money-loving great-uncle. He runs the Mystery Shack, a tourist trap full of questionable oddities.
Grunkle Stan is at first sight a cunning salesman, running a tourist trap in a town with enough unsuspecting customers to sell worthless knickknacks to and take on tours of so-called "mysteries." He conducts his business with surprising flair and wit. When not planning or executing money-making schemes (both legal and illegal), he's usually at home watching television. His preferred shows include Cash Wheel, Duck-tective and period dramas. He also enjoys fishing.
Stan is also manifestly greedy and selfish, even stating once that his greatest desire in life is to "possess riches". He sees tourists as easy cash and nothing more. However, this obsession seems to stem from his father's words when he kicked him out of the house, and by the harsh, poverty-stricken life he led after being disowned.
== Appearance ==
=== Cartoons ===
* Gravity Falls
* Gravity Falls Season 2
=== Video Games ===
* Gravity Falls: Legend of the Gnome Gemulets
* Gravity Falls: Mystery Shack Attack
== Trivia ==
* The name "Stanley" means "Stony Clearing." "Stanford" means "Stony Meadow."
* It is strongly implied that Stan, as well as the rest of the Pines, are Jewish:
** "Pines" is a common Ashkenazic jewish surname.
** At the entrance to Stan's father's store and family home, Pines Pawn's, was an attached mezuzah.
** There is also the fact that series creator Alex Hirsch (who is also Stan's voice) and his sister Ariel, the inspirations for Dipper and Mabel respectively, are Jewish on their father's side.
*** According to Hirsch, Stan, Ford, and Shermie were raised Jewish, but Stan now identifies as atheist. However, for him it is just his own headcanon, leaving it up to the fans to interpret it as they want.
* Stan is called "Grunkle Stan" by Dipper and Mabel because he believes "Great Uncle" takes too much time to say, and, according to him, time is money.
** "Grunkle" was chosen because Hirsch's great aunt, Lois, used to insist on being called "Graunty Lois."
* Beginning with the episode "Bottomless Pit!," Stan gets a new fez design.
** At the end of the previous episode, "Boss Mabel," Stan's fez falls off and Gompers tries to eat it. Although the fate of the hat isn't revealed, it's not unlikely that Gompers won the battle and made off with the fez, forcing Stan to get a new one.
* In some countries, the first symbol on Stan's fez is removed.
** This was initially the version that was seen on Disney+, which caused controversy among fans and Hirsch. The symbol was restored sometime later.
** Excluding Waddles, Stan is the only main protagonist not to be turned into something that isn’t human; Dipper and Mabel were turned to wood, Ford turned to gold and Soos and Wendy were turned into banners.
* Stan owns 10 guns.
* Stan has been sent to jail in Colombia. As Revealed later in Soos and the Real Girl, this is due to a Heist gone wrong.
* Stan is often seen running away with various items.
* Stan is similar to Scrooge McDuck from Ducktales and Eugene Krabs from SpongeBob as he has an obsession with money like them.
* When dressed in his typical outfit, Stan's appearance is simular to British comedian and magician Tommy Cooper, who also wore a fez, black suit and bowtie.
* Stan, Mabel, and Dipper have been to the county jail due to them making counterfeit money during one of Stan's "family fun days."
* In "A Tale of Two Stans," it was revealed that Stan has a sibling, Shermie, who is Dipper and Mabel's grandfather. Although it isn't stated outright, it can be inferred from the fact that Stan shares last names with Dipper and Mabel that Shermie is the latters' paternal grandfather.
* Toffee Peanuts are Stan's favorite treat.
* In "Gideon Rises," it is shown that Stan wears a hearing aid.
* Bob Odenkirk of "Breaking Bad" fame was originally going to be cast as Stan, but he turned the offer down.
* Stan wears the same necklace as Sheriff Blubs, Sergei, and the carney who gives Wendy the Stuffed creature of indeterminate species, but they wear them under their shirts.
* In "Bottomless Pit!," Stan admits to the police that he has violated the Lacey Act.
* In "Dreamscaperers," it is revealed that Stan's belly button is an innie.
* Stan's appearance has not changed in at least a decade.
* Stan is banned from airplanes.
* Every depiction of Stan (wax sculpture, puppet, photo, or otherwise) has been "killed" in some way and most deaths have been related to fire or melting.
* The 'deaths' of Stan's depictions may have foreshadowed his showdown in the mindscape with Bill.
* Stan was born 15 minutes after Ford, making him the youngest twin, however he is taller than his twin.
* Stan was revealed to know swear words in "Not What He Seems", making him and Old Man McGucket the only characters to ever swear for real. Additionally, Stan only uses phrases like "Hot Belgian waffles!" when he's not alone.
* Stan's real name was hinted in the episode "The Legend of the Gobblewonker" on his cars license plate which is 'STNLYMBL' which is a disemvoweling (i.e. vowels removed) version of "Stanley-Mobile".
* Stan has a box of fake IDs and passports. Some of said IDs are:
** Hal Forrester. Idaho ID. His appearance is slightly altered, including the presence of a mole. The number on the card is 2145152831545
** Andrew "8-Ball" Alcatraz. Mississippi ID. His appearance is altered, including a scar on the left side of his face, and a soul patch. He is wearing the gold necklace. He also doesn't wear glasses. The number on the card is 231188111289.
** Stetson Pinefield. United States passport. His appearance is slightly altered, including different hair style and white shirt. Visa stamps include London, Seattle.
** Steve Pineington. He advertised the Rip Off, a non-sticky bandage that gave you rashes, in Pennsylvania.
* All the fingerprints on Stan's right-hand exhibit a double loop whorl pattern.
* "Northwest Mansion Mystery" is the only episode in which Stan doesn't appear.
* According to Bill Cipher, Stan's burn mark means "watch your step." It is revealed in "A Tale of Two Stans" that Stan got this mark after being kicked by Ford and stumbling backward into hot metal.
* In the original pilot, Stan is in his eighties. In the series, he is in his sixties.
* Stan was divorced from a woman named Marilyn only six hours after being married.
* Stan has no children.
* "Stan legal," "Precise Legal."
* Stan has been practicing the same coin trick since 1982 and still can't master it.
* In "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls," it is revealed that Stan can do a perfect vocal impression of Ford.
** Stan has used Ford's identity twice, with Ford using his only once.
* Stan wants his body taxidermied and placed like it's about to pounce on the Mystery Shack when he dies.
* Stan got into a fist fight with Stan Lee in 1973 according to Lost Legends.
* When he was twelve, Stan wore Groucho Marx Glasses at his Bar Mitzvah, which upset his father.
* During the "ULTIMATE CROSSOVER FUNDRAISER!" charity livestream, where Alex Hirsch, Dana Terrace, Rebecca Sugar, and Ian Jones-Quartey drew and sang for The Trevor Project, when asked what Dipper, and Mabel would be as Gems, they answered the following (and then did Stan's too):
** Mabel - Cherry Tugtupite. On her chest, where her heart would be.
** Dipper - Larimar. On his head, possibly in the shape of his birthmark.
** Stan - Pyrite (also known as fool's gold). Mirrored to Stan's tattoo on his back, which indicates vulnerability. This was actually suggested by the chat, which was wholeheartedly agreed upon by everyone else.
* The design of Stan's glasses and tuxedo was based off of Neil Hamburger, a character portrayed by Gregg Turkington (the voice of Toby Determined).
* Stan's appearance of his face changed between season 1 and season 2. In season 1 his face, most notable his chin is much longer then it appears in the second season. His ears also appear bigger in season 2.
* Alex Hirsch owns a realistic Stan head made of wax created by KreatureKid.
* Alex Hirsch mentioned in the episode commentary that Ford and Stan are identical twins.
** Polydactyly, or having extra fingers, is caused by genetic mutation. Since identical twins share exact genomes, and since Ford is polydactyl and Stan is not, it is possible that Ford's polydactyly is not genetic.
* Curator Ponds, a character from Gravity Falls' storyboard artist Matt Braly's Disney Channel show Amphibia, is a direct homage to Stan and hinted by Braly and Hirsch to be a Stan from another dimension. Mr. Ponds (a pun on "Pines") is a frog voiced by Hirsch and accompanied by Frog Soos.
* Eda Clawthorne from The Owl House is implied to be Stan's ex-wife Marilyn through an in-character episode commentary for "Land Before Swine" by virtue of her being described with a sharp tooth, large hair, and a shirt that reads "over thirty and flirty," matching a mug Eda uses in The Owl House and one of her original designs. Later, The Owl House episode "Yesterday's Lie" confirmed that Eda used the name "Marilyn" when she visited the human realm.
** Eda's staff and wanted poster also appears in the background of Gravity Falls: Lost Legends.
* The name "Grunkle Stan" is a reference to the common national personification of America, "Uncle Sam".
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Stan Pines at Gravity Falls Wiki
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