Stanley Pines

Stanley "Stan" Pines, better known as Grunkle Stan, is the deuteragonist of Disney’s franchise.
He is Dipper and Mabel's great-uncle, Soos Ramirez and Wendy Corduroy's boss, Gideon Gleeful's business rival, and owner/proprietor of the Mystery Shack, a tourist trap full of questionable "oddities". While he's giving tours or sleeping on the couch, Dipper and Mabel are usually sneaking out to explore the town’s secrets, though Grunkle Stan may have some of his own mysterious secrets. He is eventually revealed to be the younger twin brother of Stanford Pines, whom he impersonated during his disappearance.
He was voiced by the series creator who also voiced Soos Ramirez and Old Man McGucket in the same show, as well as King and Hooty in The Owl House.
==History==
===Early life===
Stan was born on June 15th between 1952 and 1954, 15 minutes after his twin brother Stanford Pines. As a child, Stan was bullied frequently. To make matters worse, his father made him take up boxing. The boxing classes would pay off fortunately; while waiting in line to see "Grandpa the Kid," Stan left-hooked a man who attempted to steal the purse of a younger Carla "Hotpants" McCorkle, starting his relationship with her. In the 1970's, the two were frequent attendants of their favorite diner, the 50's-themed Juke Joint. However, their relationship soon ended when Carla instead fell for a hippie musician, Thistle Downe, and, according to Stan's "hallucinationy" reports, her shorts immediately transformed into bell bottoms, and she and her new boyfriend blasted off on a rainbow into the sky. Later, Stan drove Thistle's van off a ravine. He blames this loss on hypnotic messages hidden in Thistle's music.
During their youth, Stan and Ford dreamed of life of adventure on a boat, but near the end of high school, while Ford was a straight-A serious student who would be accepted into a college across the country, Stan was a slacker who would be lucky to graduate. After talking on the beach, Stan breaks into the school at night and vents his frustrations on Ford's machine, accidentally breaking it and causing Ford to be denied entry into West Coast Tech. Seeing this as an act of sabotage, Ford confronts Stan and accuses him of intentionally breaking his machine. This caused Stan's father to kick him out of the house, telling him not to come back until he could make back the money Ford's machine would've made. Embittered, Stan was determined to make millions to prove his family wrong about him. However, his products were faulty and they, along with Stan himself were banned in many states. Stan even expanded his business outside of America, including in a heist gone wrong in Columbia, which landed him in a prison alongside Jorge and Rico. He was later deported back to the United States, where he had already been banned in 32 of 50 states and reduced to living in a motel room. 
Stan's life had seemingly hit rock bottom, until he got a card from his brother to come to Gravity Falls, Oregon. It was the first time Stan had heard from his brother since he got kicked out of the house. Upon arriving at Ford's shack, he showed him his underground laboratory and the portal he had been working on. He tells him to take his last journal and sail as far away as he can to bury it. This angers Stan, as this was the first time in 10 years that he and his brother saw each other, and it was just to send him away again, which initiated in an argument and later a fight between the brothers. During the brawl, Ford caused Stan to burn his back and Stan accidentally turned the machine back on. Stan unintentionally pushes Ford into the portal, which shuts down due to a lack of fuel. Stan desperately tried to turn it back on, but without the other journals, it was worthless. 
Upon going into town after running out of food, Stan is mistaken for Ford by the townsfolk and they are willing to pay for a tour of the house. When being asked about his name, Stan adopts the name "Stanford Pines" as his own. Because he had to pay Ford's mortgage along with save him, Stan turned Ford's house into a tourist trap called the Murder Hut, later renamed the "Mystery Shack". In order to maintain his false identity as Ford, Stan faked his death as Stanley by faking a car crash. During the day, he would run the tourist trap but during the night, he would work endlessly trying to bring Ford back. 
===During the series===
====Season 1====
=====Tourist Trapped=====
One summer, Stan's great niece and nephew, Mabel and Dipper, were sent from Piedmont, California to stay with him for the summer. Stan immediately puts them to work in his house-turned tourist trap, the Mystery Shack. Stan's other employees include Soos and Wendy. At the end of the episode it's revealed that he has a secret door behind the vending machine in his house.
=====The Legend of the Gobblewonker=====
Grunkle Stan wants to take Dipper and Mabel to the Lake Gravity Falls to bond with them, and he states that the guys from the lodge won't go with Stan because they don't "like or trust him". Though he reveals in a way that he does love Dipper and Mabel, since he does make them fishing hats, meaning that he does want to spend time with them for once, Dipper and Mabel try to get away from Stan's fishing idea by going with Soos to catch the Gobblewonker so they can get a Grand in a photo contest. Stan gets upset that Dipper and Mabel would rather go on a monster hunt than go fishing with him, so he tries to find his own fishing buddies around the lake. This doesn't turn out right for Stan, since everyone just thinks of his jokes as annoying or creepy. Later when Dipper, Mabel and Soos return from their voyage, Dipper and Mabel ask if they can bond with Stan, feeling bad that they left him earlier. Stan accepts their request, and they all end up having the quality family time Stan had been waiting for.
=====Headhunters=====
After the twins and Soos discover several wax figures in an abandoned room, Stan tells them that he used to run the Gravity Falls Wax Museum, until he forgot all about it. Mabel uses some old wax to make a wax figure of Grunkle Stan, which he then shows to the town. When Stan's promised free pizza is revealed to be a lie, the crowd goes on a rampage. Later that night, Wax Stan is murdered and his head is gone. While Dipper and Mabel try to figure out the murderer, Stan prepares a funeral. After failing to find out the culprit, the twins, Soos, the wax figures and Stan hold the funeral. Stan tearfully leaves, and Soos follows him. It is revealed that the murderers are the wax figures themselves, who wanted revenge on Stan for forgetting about them for 10 years. Mabel and Dipper defeat them, even though they destroyed Stan's parlor.
=====The Hand That Rocks the Mabel=====
When the twins and Soos see a commercial for the psychic 'Lil Gideon, Stan tells them that he is his arch enemy and has been nothing but trouble for him since he arrived in Gravity Falls. He also says they're not allowed to see Gideon's show, but Dipper and Mabel find a loophole and go anyway. Later, Stan learns that Mabel and Gideon are dating, and disapproves. He goes to talk to Gideon's dad, Bud Gleeful, about it, but he changes his mind when Bud says that they can pool their profits. Stan even tells Mabel she has to marry Gideon. After Mabel breaks Gideon's mystic amulet, Gideon forces his dad to call off the deal. Stan then steals a clown painting and yells, "Try and catch me, suckers!"
In "The Inconveniencing," Stan falls in love with a classic romance film, The Duchess Approves, and becomes glued to the television as he watches it.
When Grunkle Stan takes the twins to Greasy's Diner in "Dipper vs. Manliness," Mabel learns that he has a crush on waitress Lazy Susan and tries to improve his appearance and behavior in order to appeal to his love. After nothing works, Mabel decides that she should present her uncle to Susan as is, and is successful. However, Susan's incessant phone calls make Stan regret ever expressing feelings for her.
He has a party at the Mystery Shack in "Double Dipper" to attract a younger audience for the Mystery Shack.
It is revealed that Grunkle Stan despises Pioneer Day in "Irrational Treasure," and he later gets trapped in a wooden stock for yelling at Steve, a mechanic. While Stan is locked up, Gideon throws tomatoes at his eyes, and he gets taunted by Pacifica Northwest.
In "The Time Traveler's Pig," Grunkle Stan opens up the Mystery Fair to earn more cash and rigged the Dunk Tank by making the target connected to the seat very stiff, causing Stan to not fall no matter how hard the people threw. When Dipper and Mabel time travel, the twins pass the Mystery Shack from which a younger Stan briefly emerges. Later, one of the members of the Time Paradox Avoidance Enforcement Squadron fires his blaster at the target, which causes Stan to fall off the seat and into the water, satisfying the crowd of people.
In "Fight Fighters," Stan is seen hanging out with Soos and the twins for a while before Robbie challenges Dipper to a fight, which Stan encourages. Later, Mabel learns that Stan is afraid of heights, despite his attempts to cover it up, and tricks him into letting her help him overcome his fear. When he and Mabel are attacked by Rumble McSkirmish, who is pursuing Robbie at the time, at the water tower, he is so relieved to have survived that he no longer fears high altitudes.
In "Little Dipper," a man is at Stan's door when Dipper, Mabel and him were watching TV. He answers the door and thinks that the tax collector is here for him, so he runs and gets a bag of full of cash behind the painting that he stole from a restaurant (Mystery Shack Mystery) and starts looking for a trap door on the stones on the wall. Soon learning that it wasn't them and that they are the "Winninghouse Coupon Savers Contest" and that they are there to give him $10,000,000, since his dream was to "possess money" had finally come true, so he signs. However, Gideon comes out saying that he just signed the Mystery Shack to him, only to then see that on the paper he signed "SUCK A LEMON LITTLE MAN" instead. Throughout the episode, Gideon tries taking the Mystery Shack away from Stan, but ultimately fails. So when Gideon has shrunken Mabel and Dipper and has them in his possession, he calls Stan saying that he has them and that he has to give up the Mystery Shack in order to get them back, but Stan doesn't believe him, so Gideon says that he would text Stan a photo of them, but Stan thinks Gideon isn't even speaking English and ends up hanging up the phone. Though Gideon goes to the Shack to shrink Stan and take it over, before Stan and Soos are setting up the mirror maze that is supposedly gonna bring him lots of cash, and that was Soos' idea that Stan is taking credit for. Once Gideon gets into the Mystery Shack, he finds Stan, but since Stan is in the maze, Gideon can't find him, but he then decides to break every single mirror he sees and finds him. He corners Stan and tries to zap him, but meanwhile, tiny Mabel and Dipper start tickling him and Stan says that he is a good enemy and that maybe their rivalry has gone too far, so he "rolls" Gideon out of the shack.
In "Summerween," Grunkle Stan steals items from the Summerween Superstore by using his Smoke Bomb, and tells the twins that the townspeople love Halloween so much they celebrate it twice a year. Later, a group of kids who are trick-or-treating rings the doorbell of the Mystery Shack, and Stan comes to the door with a skeleton mask. This scares the kids, who ran away, but two kids remained. Stan asks them why they weren't scared, and the kids reply they've been watching horror movies since they were two years old. For the rest of the episode, Stan tries to scare the two kids. He first pulls out "guts" from his stomach, but the kids weren't scared because the guts were just sausages. Then Stan had a pig come out of his stomach, but it was just tucked under his shirt the whole time. Stan feels shameful because he used to scare every children in the previous Summerweens, so he took a shower to wash off the shame. The two kids, who wanted candy from Stan, walked inside the Mystery Shack to find him. They finally get scared and run away after they saw Stan naked, satisfying Stan. When the twins come home from trick-or-treating, they were disappointed they couldn't eat any of the candy they collected (they all fell into a river). Stan shows them two big bags of candy he got, and the family, along with Soos, Wendy, Candy Chiu and Grenda, watch a horror movie at the Mystery Shack for the remainder of the night.
In "Boss Mabel," Stan's relentless attempts at making money and poor treatment of his employees get on Mabel's nerves, and she decides to confront him about it. The two make a bet that whoever makes more money in three days' time—Stan on vacation or Mabel running the Shack—is in charge for the rest of the summer. After heading out, Stan lands a spot competing on the game show Cash Wheel, and, despite doing very well at first, ends up losing all $300 thousand dollars he earns after failing to correctly guess the final puzzle. Consequently, Stan offers Mabel the chance to be the new boss in accordance with their bet, but she declines, although she still makes him perform the apology dance he promised to do if he lost the bet.
In "Bottomless Pit!," Grunkle Stan has his first major encounter with the supernatural side of Gravity Falls as he, Soos and the twins fall down a bottomless pit and tell stories to pass the time. In Dipper's tale, Stan makes fun of Dipper's frequently cracking voice and develops an obnoxious, female voice after his nephew dumps a voice-altering formula in his coffee. In his own tale, Stan wins a major football game with the help of his robotic sidekick, thereby teaching a group of football players a lesson and winning a gigantic trophy. In Mabel's story, Mabel observes his excessive lying habit and grows more and more annoyed by it to the point of forcing him to be honest, via a set of Truth Telling Teeth. Stan's truthfulness is unfiltered, however, and gets on the twins' nerves, and Mabel finally decides to remove the teeth from her uncle's mouth after he almost gets himself arrested. As the group nears the end of the pit, they simply come out the top, though Stan falls back in shortly afterwards.
On the hottest day of the year, Stan, Dipper, Mabel and Soos go to the town pool to cool off. When Stan tries to get his ideal lawn chair, he is horrified when he finds that Gideon has taken it from him. As he tries to reclaim his seat, he is put into pool jail for roughhousing, and Gideon foils his other attempts. At night, Stan decides to go to the pool extremely early to get the chair before Gideon shows up, but is enraged upon finding out that his young foe yet again anticipated and ruined his plan ahead of time, in this instance by gluing him to the pool chair.
When Dipper and Mabel are fighting over a new room they found in the shack, Stan takes the key and tells them that whoever sucks up to him the most will get the room. He makes them run around and do chores and make things for him, all the while rewarding them 'suck-up points'. Eventually though, after Dipper and Mabel switch bodies, he catches Dipper (Mabel) spying on the sleepover and thinks that Dipper is at 'that creepy age where you spy on girls' and drags Mabel over to a room where he tells her all about puberty. When she tries to sabotage Dipper by calling Stan a stupid old jerk, he decides that Dipper would get the room and gives Dipper (Mabel) the key and sends her out.
In "Boyz Crazy," Stan listens to Dipper talk about how Robbie got Wendy to go on the date with him and relates it to something that happened to him and his old sweetheart Carla "Hotpants" McCorkle. He helps Dipper uncover a hidden message in the song, and drives Dipper to Lookout Point to help him tell Wendy about it. When Wendy breaks up with Robbie, he calls it "a victory for every man who is either too weak or fat to play an instrument." After Wendy gets upset at Dipper for asking her to go bowling, Stan tells Dipper that he could always just go bowling with him, and that he was trying to do the right thing even if he destroyed a relationship.
In "Gideon Rises", Stan believes that Gideon has finally won and decides to send Dipper and Mabel back home. However, upon realizing that Gideon was a fraud and has him arrested, he earns the deed to the Mystery Shack back and takes his journal when he isn't looking. He also takes Dipper's journal and goes into a laboratory behind the vending machine where he finally has all three journals and starts to activate a portal.
====Season 2====
=====Scary-oke=====
Stan gives Dipper his Journal back, claiming that it was boring and he just made photocopies of it. When two government agents arrive and are here to investigate a strange phenomenon they caught on a radar, Stan insists that nothing is out of the ordinary, even attempting to bribe them. He discredits Dipper when he tries to interest the agents with the journal and confiscates the business card they gave him, hiding it in his room. Upon the start of a zombie apocalypse, Stan works together with Dipper and Mabel to defeat them by singing a pop song on karaoke.
=====Society of the Blind Eye=====
Stan continues to work in secret on the enigmatic machine beneath the Mystery Shack, accidentally cutting his hand on a flying pipe in the process. Bandaging his wound, he proclaims that he's come too far and that nothing will stop him.
==Personality==
Stan is a hardened person due to being rejected by his father and brother in his teens, then living 10 years with no family members to call on for help. As a result, he is very glad to have Dipper and Mabel at the Mystery Shack, although he often tries not to show it. Due to being rejected by his father due to the fact he blew the family potential millions, Stan has an obsession with money.
While his care for his family is true, he still treats them poorly from time to time, such as when he doesn't listen to Dipper, and Mabel when they tell him he will fail his election in The Stanchurian Candidate, and often pulls pranks and acts like a jerk towards them. Sometimes it is out of genuine care though, as seen in Dreamscapers when it is revealed Stan gives Dipper a lot of work to toughen him up, even stating he's proud of him when he succeeded at chopping fire wood.
==Quotes==
==Gallery==
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==Trivia==
*Stan is based on Alex Hirsch's grandfather, who was also named Stan.
*Similarly, his nickname “Grunkle Stan” is based on Hirsch’s great aunt Lois insisted on being called “Graunty Lois.”
*”Stanley” means “Stony Clearing”, whereas Stanford means “Stony Meadow”.
*He was raised Jewish but converted to atheism at an unknown time.
*Alex Hirsch owns a realistic wax head of Stan, created as a gift by KreatureKid.
*Stan appears to store a lot of his money in a red duffle bag hidden in a secret compartment in the Mystery Shack. As this bag appears to be the one his dad tossed him before disowning him, it's ironic that Stan is storing his riches in the bag from the day he was disowned for costing his family potential millions.
*Stan was married to a woman named Marilyn for less than a day, after which she stole his car and escaped through a mysterious door-shaped portal off a ravine. Based on her description, method of escape and numerous beforehand cameos in the series, it's heavily implied that Stan's ex-wife was none other than Eda Clawthorne.
*Stan has been banned from at least thirty two states in the USA. The known ones are: New Jersey, Montana, North Dakota, Nevada, Arizona, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee, Florida, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Texas, Maine, Massachusetts, Wyoming, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Colorado, Vermont, New York, Ohio, Missouri, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
*According to Bill Cipher, Stan's burn mark means "watch your step.", Ironically, Stan got this mark after being kicked by Ford during their fight and stumbling backwards into hot metal which caused the burn.
*There are only 3 episodes Stan doesn't appear in: Northwest Mansion Mystery, Weirdmageddon 1: Xpcveaoqfoxso, and Weirdmageddon 2: Escape from Reality.
*As revealed in the This Is Not A Website Dot Com ARG, Bill reveals certain secrets about Stan in an effort to shame him.
**Firstly, Stan has committed the following unreported crimes:
***Performing a hit and run on Toby Determined.
***Breeding multiple wolves in attempt to create a "Super Wolf".
***Pretending to be a veteran of a fake war in a fake country to get a discount on PEZ, forcing Stan to keep updating Wikipedia pages on said incidents to keep up his facade.
***Selling his heart medication to children as "metal-flavoured candy".
***Bursting the tires of the Mythbusters' van after they insulted his weight.
***Robbing himself and burying some of his money after inhaling too much taxidermy glue, creating an evil alter ego named "Glue Stan" in the process.
**As a baby, Stan was the mascot of a diaper rash brand, though he'd always tell others it was Ford.
**Stan has oddly small fingerprints, which he's insecure about.
**Stan lets Wendy off overtime because she beat him thrice in arm wrestling, giving her material to blackmail him with.
**When Stan staged his death, nobody except for his mom and a vengeful IRS agent turned up for his fake funeral.
**Stan considers his darkest thought to be considering framing Soos for all his crimes, which he despises thanks to his care for Soos.
**Stan tried to pitch a cartoon named "Welcome to Gravity Town", an obvious spoof of the cartoon he's in. This was rejected for its "blatant Illuminati references."
**Stan tried to invent a new soda called the "Drippy Stanley", made mainly of extremely toxic and inedible ingredients. Soos volunteered to taste it and lost all of his memories of the year 2000.
**While not revealed by Bill, one of Stan's doodles in the website have him claim that he managed to catch and seduce a mermaid on his Arctic trip with Ford.
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