Greg Heffley

**Gregory "Greg" Heffley** is the titular main protagonist of the *Diary of a Wimpy Kid* book series. He is an American student at Westmore Middle School starting out as a 12-year-old whose constantly bullied by his older brother Rodrick Heffley and schoolgirl Patty Farrell and feel outcasted by both of his brothers and his parents with the exception of his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, even though he is often critical and been manipulative towards him and others.

## His Good Ranking

### His Heroic Deeds

* He takes the blame for eating the Cheese in order to save Rowley's reputation.
* He helps Rodrick with organizing his science project.
* He seals his grandmother's diamond ring away so no one in the family would fight over it.
* He shovels other people's snow in their front yards.
* He takes Rowley’s defense after the teacher gave him a D, pointing out that Rowley was the only one to study. Although he later tried to gain from this by wanting Rowley to pay the debt, his intentions when defending him were genuine.
* He took the blame for accidentally vandalizing the school and decides to not says the name of “accomplice” to spare Rowley, even saying that he didn’t want to get him in trouble for something that was his idea.
* He tries to play with Manny to The Floor is Lava since he remembered having fun when playing it with Rodrick as a kid.
* Even if he treat him badly at times, he deeply cares for Rowley even admitting to getting choked up with Rowley's going away gift.
* He was upset that he and Rowley weren't going to the same school and tried to cheer him up. He also was sad when Rowley couldn't hang out with him.

### Why He Doesn't Stand Out?

* He is very bog standard as all of his actions are standard heroism as he only does nice things for others rather than actually saving lives, thus failing to cross the Goodness Zone. It doesn't help that the *Diary of a Wimpy Kid* series is pure slice-of-life, meaning that hardly anyone would perform a grand scale of heroism that would easily pass the admirable baseline.
	+ Come *The Deep End*, he also fails the admirable standards to his younger brother Manny (who has far less resources due to being a toddler) who saved everybody from an island.
	+ His most admirable act of hiding his great-grandmother’s ring to keep united his family relies on fridge brilliance, as it’s unclear how bad it would have been the break-up. Even if was confirmed to be admirable, that is still too standard because he didn't actually save lives and is just solving a family issue.
* He is an anti-hero since he mostly acts for selfish reasons than doing heroic acts and acts like a jerk way too often, such as playing a prank on Chirag consisting in ignoring his presence, constantly tricking Rowley into doing bad stuff, cheating to get good grades and manipulating people into helping him become famous.
* He is very arrogant and narcissistic, as he affirm to be one of the best people he knows, is convinced that he will become famous and when reading Rowley’s story he’s more interested in the character inspired to him.
* He is lazy, as he hates to put in any effort in any sort of working and would usually have other people like Rowley, his dad or his mom do most of his work while he tries his best to find a way out of them. He even said in *Double Down* that he wants to be a video game tester when he grew up and drew his future self as out of shape and addicted to the games, but when his mom said that’s not good and he’ll end up as a trash collector if he continues this path, he claims that the job of taking out trash is amazing.
* He is too incompetent and reckless to be PG or NPG, as he plays a dangerous game with Rowley about throwing a football at the Big Wheel (which causes Rowley to break his hand), tears down the wall on Isla de Corlares, and starts the giant snowball fight.
* He's on & off because some of his actions (i.e. scaring kindergarteners, injuring Rowley with a dumbbell and football, etc,) are legitimately presented as malicious and antagonistic and he puts the blame on other people most of the time. *Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid* also further shows his antagonism towards Rowley.

## External Links

* Greg Heffley on the Heroes Wiki
* Greg Heffley on the *Diary of a Wimpy Kid* Wiki