Greg Heffley (The Talented Mr. Heffley)

**Greg Heffley** is the villain protagonist of the *Diary of a Wimpy Kid/The Talented Mr. Heffley* fanfiction, *The Talented Mr. Heffley*. He is a pyschopath who is friends with Rowley Jefferson. After a falling out between the two, Rowley stops taking Greg to his country club so Greg devises a scheme to get back in the club.

## What Makes Him Magnificent?

* While he still is arrogant like his canon counterpart, he is a lot smarter and doesn’t make stupid mistakes based on his arrogance.
* His falling out with Rowley is slightly sympathetic as Rowley decided to just cut him out without explaining why and was rude on their last hangout. He also makes a valid point that Rowley wasn’t that faithful to his girlfriend, Abigail Brown, since he ogled ladies and has a NSFW magazine in his bedroom. This is a downplayed point though since Rowley also had a valid reason to be mad at Greg since he put on his clothes and mocked him and still went to the country club despite that fact their friendship was over.
* When his dad has been trying to convince him to get a summer internship at his job, Greg decides to lie and say he has a summer job at the country club. This was a clever way of having an excuse to go to the country club while also getting his parents off his back.
* When the country club receptionist asks him for his name, he gives it as “Rowley Jefferson” so he could not only get into the club, but so he could send it to the Jefferson’s tab so he doesn’t have to pay for it.
* He is very careful to avoid Rowley and goes undetected for a week.
* When Rowley spots him at the club, Greg, instead of harming, decides to talk through with him and only kills him when it doesn’t work and when Rowley threatened to tell the manager.
* He manages to perfectly dispose of Rowley’s body and the evidence without a trace. He also feels half sad over his death showing he did care somewhat about Rowley.
* When talking to the Jefferson family, he tells them that Rowley wanted to run away and was depressed. They didn't believe him but Greg tried to convince them but failed. Despite this mistake, it doesn’t cause his plans to fail.
* He says the same thing to Abigail and it seems to actually fool her.
* When Rowley’s friend, Chirag Gupta, discovers that Greg has been impersonating him at the country club, Greg decides to leave the club rather than kill him and only does so when he confronts him. He also does a much better job of cleaning his traces then with Rowley.
* When he realizes that he can’t put the drinks on the Jefferson’s tab anymore as it is under Rowley’s name but still has to go to the country club so his parents still think he has a job, he decides to steal Rowley’s money so he could pay in cash which not only would prevent the Jefferson’s from getting billed, but also so he wouldn’t have to pay with his own money.
* He breaks into the Jefferson’s house to steal the money when they aren’t home so he wouldn’t get caught. When Abigail spotted him leaving the house, he fooled her by claiming he was just there to talk to them, which Abigail also planned on doing.
* When one of the country club workers was curious about why he didn’t put a smoothie he ordered on his tab, he claimed that his parents wanted him to pay for it with his own money which managed to fool the worker.
* When the cops came to his house to interrogate him about Rowley’s disappearance, he fools the lie detector they used. He ends up having a villainous breakdown but not only does he end up regaining his composure in the next page, he even uses his breakdown to get the police to back off for a while.
* To get the police and the Jeffersons to quit the investigation, he forges a suicide note where Rowley committed suicide because of a (false) belief that Abigail is cheating on him. The note also says that he was a bad friend to Greg and to give all his possessions to him. This plan actually works which makes Greg a Karma Houdini.
* When Greg collects Rowley’s possessions, Rowley’s parents apologize and forgive him. Greg in turn decides to forgive them for showing that he doesn’t hold unnecessary grudges.

## What Makes Him a Baddie?

* He pretended to be Rowley Jefferson and got free drinks under his name.
* He killed Rowley and Chirag Gupta for discovering his fraud.
* He broke into the Jefferson house to steal Rowley’s money.
* He wrote a suicide note where he lied that Abigail cheated on Rowley which cause her family to get into a whole lot of trouble. He also used the note to get Rowley’s possessions.

## Triva

* He is currently the only *Diary of a Wimpy Kid* character to be a MB, canon or fanon otherwise.
	+ He is also currently the only *The Talented Mr. Heffley* character to be a MB, canon or fanon.