Rodrick Heffley

* Bill Walter (formerly in the film)
* Ben Segal (film)
* Chris Merkle (film)
* Drew
* Ward (formerly)
* Mackie

**Rodrick Heffley** is the main antagonist of the *Diary of a Wimpy Kid* franchise. He is the older brother of Greg and Manny Heffley, the former whom he often times bullies and commits juvenile pranks towards.

He was portrayed by Devon Bostick in the first three films, and Charlie Wright in the fourth film, while later voiced by Hunter Dillon in the animated films.

## His "Evil" Ranking

### His Villainous Deeds

#### In General

* He is very abusive towards his brother Greg (even when he was very young), knowing he can't do anything about it since their parents only focus on Manny. This reaches the point where Greg feels that Rodrick is in complete control over his life and can't do anything about it without escaping the shadow of his thumb.
	+ One thing he would do is count down from 10 to get him to get out of his sight, implying he will do something bad if he takes too long.
	+ He also shows little to no regard for his parents' opposition to beating up Greg.
* He would purposefully pretend to be bad at chores just so his dad lowers his expectations of him. He also promoted this same behavior to Greg.
* Behaved badly pretty much all throughout school, which eventually also affects the teachers’ impression towards Greg.

#### Background

* He would tell a young Greg that if his belly button got untied as a newborn, his butt would fall off, which led Greg to tell the story to his preschool class, causing them to laugh at him.
* He told Greg that toilet seats are only used by girls, leading him to develop a fear of sitting on them.
* He was supposedly the worst student at Westmore Middle School and earned himself a reputation, causing Greg to end up being forced to deal with his brothers' reputation, thinking he would end up like him.
	+ He said that he set off fireworks in class once.
	+ He would regularly cheat on school papers or pretend he didn't know how to type so his father would do his work for him.
* One time he told Greg that camouflage made you completely invisible, which caused Greg to get kicked out of the pool for looking at naked women.

#### Live-Action Film Series

###### *Diary of a Wimpy Kid*

* He woke up Greg at 3:00 A.M. and pretended he was late for the first day of school, even dressing up just so Greg would go downstairs and start his morning so he would make a fool of himself.
* Shoves his stinky armpit into Greg's face. Also is shown in an animation sequence shoving one of his smelly socks into a sleeping Greg's mouth, causing him to choke.
* Gives bad advice to Greg on how to deal with middle school, among other things suggesting that he break up with Rowley.
* When Greg and Rowley were in his room, he chased them down, scaring Rowley away and leading Greg to hide himself in his room out of fear. While locked in his room, Greg needs to pee really bad and tries to bargain with Rodrick, who refuses and says he only gets death. When Greg did come out he was waiting for him in the bathroom and presented himself as the victim that Greg was urinating on (Greg accidentally did this after he attacked him).
* He is responsible for ruining the school play, as he threatens to film the play if Greg sings in it.
* He shows the invitation to the Mothers and Kids dance to Susan, even though Greg begs him to bring it to him directly.
* He refuses to apologize when Susan grabs his perverted magazine and mocks her for it in front of his band.

###### *Rodrick Rules*

* ruin Greg's date with Holly Hills on the dance floor while changing the romantic music to heavy rock, which leads to Greg and Rowley almost getting hurt by the dancers and prompts their mother to intervene in a way that embarrasses Greg. When Greg comes to get revenge on him he makes sure he falls right on a birthday cake for a girl who is mad at Greg because of the incident.
* When Greg sat on Manny's chocolate and had to cover it up with a towel, he purposefully removed it in front of everyone in the middle of church, causing him to be publicly humiliated.
* He misuses their mother's attempt to bring the two together by giving them fake money (which they later redeem with real money) to work for Greg and warns him not to ruin his success.
* Picks Greg up to sit in the back of his truck for receiving money from their mother's project. However, he forces Greg (and Rowley as well) into the back of his car and makes an extremely dangerous drive home while trying not to get hit by a loose drum or Rowley falling directly on Greg.
* When his parents go out of town, he immediately has a party, despite being told not to and invites dozens of his friends over to have a party and trash his house. During this, he locks Greg (and later Rowley) in his basement, intending to keep them there overnight. He only takes them out after their mother called and also threatened them not to ruin the party.
* The party that took place also caused graffiti on the bathroom door and in response, he and Greg replaced it with a basement door without a lock and preferred to lie rather than reveal the truth.
* Alongside Greg, he threw fake vomit on people's cars to test their reactions. He regularly does this with other friends too.
* After it turned out that Greg told their mother about the party (for which he was responsible), he wrathfully takes revenge on him, among other things, he consistently steps on his foot and purposefully spits milk in Gregs face when they are playing a board game with their grandfather and is stated to have done that before.
* He steals Greg's private diary to mock him and when the latter tries to catch him only with underwear, he was also about to embarrass him in front of Holly Hills, Greg's love interest. Even when he failed in this, he successfully uploads a video of Greg accidentally breaking into the women's bathroom at the retirement home, which could be seen as him blackmailing Greg.
* Sacrificing Greg after spilling milk on the couch.
* After Greg uploaded his band's video to YouTube, he yells at him: "You're so dead."

###### *Dog Days*

* Plays loud music in the municipal pool until Lenwood Heath turns it down (and it is implied that he was his friend for pranks before he was changed in the institution for criminals.).
* Grabs Greg's yearbook, just to make fun of the outdated photo his dad used.
* He forces Greg to sneak him into the country club, despite Greg being a guest who can't invite guests in.
* Causes sexual harassment to Heather Hills (despite her being a terrible jerk).
* He also ruins her 16th birthday and more on purpose to date with him.

###### *The Long Haul*

* He admits that he helped toilet-paper Mrs. Tuttle's house, prompting his mother to call her to apologize.
* He helps Greg escape their parents to Player Expo and more to proudly film for TV.
* Abandoned Greg when he was supposed to be guarding him from Mr. Beardo, who was vengeful towards Greg.

### Why Isn't He Actually Villainous?

* He is a bog-standard bully and mischief maker at worst and his abuse towards Greg doesn't even affect him. On top of that, Rodrick fails to escalate beyond basic bullying and his abuse towards Greg just amounts to beating him up in non-brutal ways and verbally bullying him (which, again, lacks lasting effects), making him extremely generic and unable to qualify as a true villain.
* He arguably fails the Heinous Standard to multiple other teenagers who are shown doing outright vandalism, while his crimes mostly resort to harmless pranks like putting fake vomit on people's cars.
* He is on & off, having multiple anti-heroic roles, especially in *Rodrick Rules*. This is especially notable in the recent series, where is mischief is seemingly toned down quite a bit.
* Like other characters, he is played almost completely for laughs, even when he is being a jerk.
* Even though his tragedy due to stealing the spotlight is fake, in several cases he comes across in some tragic way. For example, in the book "The Getaway" he was forgotten on the ship by his family and got severe sunstroke. He also received a major punishment following Greg's confession about the party they threw, on top of Bill trying to replace him, which presents him in a sympathetic way as he is shown with tears in his eyes.
* At times he shows care for his family, although this is more often shown in the movies than the books:
	+ Most notably in *Rodrick Rules*, he begins to bond with Greg and starts treating him as a best friend and letting him join his band when he helps him throw a party alongside him. He will also generally give him advice on his own way to live at times, such as teaching him to feign competence in chores to lower his parents' expectations or teaching him how to get popular with girls by being bad.
* He has several standards, such as being disgusted by Bill's attempted betrayal or trying to prevent his father from sending Greg to a criminal institution.
* He seems to genuinely care for his friends in his band.

## Trivia

* Despite being portrayed as the most immoral member of the Heffley family, many theory videos and/or memes depict him as actually being the sanest member of the Heffley family (although this likely wasn't Jeff Kinney's intention.)
	+ Greg is narcissistic and selfish, doing bad deeds for the sake of his own ego.
	+ Manny, despite being 3, is smart enough to manipulate his family and even nearly let them freeze to death (though it is ambiguous if he knew about this).
	+ Frank ignores his family. In addition, he is shown to be a bit deadly, such as throwing tools at Greg out of anger and trying to take Greg to an institution for young offenders.
	+ Susan enables her youngest sons' actions no matter how ridiculous they are and can often be very unreasonable.

## External Links

* Rodrick Heffley on the Heroes Wiki
* Rodrick Heffley on the *Wimpy Kid* Wiki