Alex Standall

***Note: This pertains to information about Alex Standall from the Netflix Incarnation and not any information about his novel version which as of writing this doesn't show any of the similar actions that could make him a Fallen Hero. Therefore, information on his Netflix Incarnation should be put onto here.***

**Alexander "Alex" Dean Standall** (born March 15th, 2000) is a major character in the 2007 novel *Thirteen Reasons Why* and it’s 2017 Netflix adaptation. He is a student at Liberty High and the son of the town's local police department Deputy Standall.

Alex is one of the thirteen reasons Hannah Baker chose to end her own life after he created a list objectifying the girls at Liberty High and put Hannah down as the one with the "best ass". This caused Hannah to be a victim of constant sexual harassment and even sexual assault, as she was spanked one day walking through the corridor and her rear was grabbed by Bryce Walker in a local shop. Upon hearing the tapes Alex feels strong remorse for what he did to Hannah.

### Debated Validations

* He can be somewhat seen as an anti-hero and a potential redeemed villain who shed away his villainy. However, due to the grey area he is in. He has way too many corrupting qualities which further on discredits the possibility of his redemption arch. Such as him making a "Hot or Not" list because Jessica didn't want to have sex with him which the list he added onto indirectly caused Hannah and Jessica to become Bryce's potential rape victims, and the fact that Alex takes the laws into his own hands as he murders Bryce, threatens to murder Monty, and vandalizes Liberty High.
* He has a problem with his friends lying and being rude to each other when Alex reacts the similar way making him hypocritical as he threatened Clay as he speeding really fast in the car, and threatened to kill Monty although it was somewhat justified. The point is, he has questionable morals that makes some of his standards with his friends and peers at Liberty incredibly hypocritical.
* One notable standard is how Alex calls out Monty for merely running him over and tries to fight Monty which gets Alex injured and gets him let off with a warning while Monty gets suspended. Alex has extreme lengths of vigilantism which isn't entirely justified.
* He calls out Bryce for ruining a child's life when his standard is hypocritical. As he has inadvertently ruined Hannah and Jessica's life with the "Hot or Not" list that caused Hannah and Jessica and other females to become targeted sexual assault victims of Bryce Walker.
* He yells to Bryce "F-ck you! You f-cking rapist!" To Bryce after the remarks Monty and Bryce says to Alex. Although, he has made some unwanted sexual advances towards Jessica and did a "Hot or Not" list that caused Bryce to victimize Hannah and Jessica. Which makes Alex somewhat hypocritical for encouraging and unintentionally enabling Bryce Walker's perverted behavior. Especially for his unwanted advances he made with Jessica that she did not want at all from Alex that could make him hypocritical as he didn't respect Jessica's wish and made the "Hot or Not" list because of Jessica not wanting to have sex with him.

## What made him heroic?

* He was great friends with Jessica and Hannah.
* He spent some time with Jessica and told Hannah to back off when she asked Alex why he's being with Jessica.
* He was one of if ever so one of the few first members of the Baker's Dozen to respect Clay and even defend Hannah many times calling others out for their hypocritical nature.
* Him and Clay were one of the only two members of the Baker's Dozen who did insisted to Justin to tell the truth.
* He told Monty to leave Tyler Down alone.
* He saved Justin's life.
* Although he did work along Bryce to rob what it seemed his Dad's jail turning out to be the wrong house. He called out Bryce for scaring a kid's life having some standards against what Bryce has at least done.
* Even though he threatened to stab Monty in season 3, he was doing this to simply protect Tyler Down again.
* Although he did murder Bryce Walker, Bryce said he was going to wreck Zach's knee.
* He was one of the members of the Baker's Dozen to be there for Tyler during his difficult times.
* He felt some remorse for his actions and insisted he would at least turn himself in. Although, he chooses not to and hide a lot of secrets.

## What made him villainous?

* Alex made unwanted sexual advances towards Jessica.
* Due to this, he did a "Hot or Not" list which inadvertently caused some chain of events that made up of the series' conflict.
* Not only does he keep speeding to scare Clay and teach him a lesson as well as be an accomplice to a kidnapping and (conspired thief), but he keeps speeding when Justin and Zach tells him to stop and slow down. Had the Police not show up the three would have died.
* He is hypocritical as he called out Monty for driving a recklessly even though he himself drove very wrecklessly almost killing Clay, Justin, and Zach.
* He works as an accomplice for Bryce to rob a house and ends up robbing a wrong house.
* He does have some standards against Bryce scarring a Child's life. But it is hypocritical since he chose to willing work along Bryce, and to add onto the many times Alex worked on the "Hot or Not" list which causes Bryce to rape Jessica and Hannah.
* He was juicing [taking athlete drug steroids] which he seemed somewhat more concerned with getting caught and tried to hide away the fact that he had been doing so from those like Jessica.
* He is incredibly uncooperative with Clay and Ani who were simply trying to find out any information that can help Clay and Ani find out who murdered Bryce Walker.
* He tells them off as they were simply just asking him questions. And Alex has even made remarks towards the two which Clay pushed aside and chose to be okay with because Alex is recovering.
* Although he threatened to kill Monty if he bothered Tyler again. He took extreme measures that don't entirely justify his extreme vigilantism.
* Him and Zach gets into a lot of trouble or mischief of some sort like trespassing, vandalizing Liberty High, Alex himself evades the authorities.