Stanley Pines

### MEH or Most Evil Actions

Opening the portal, knowingly placing the entire universe in danger of annihilation.

### Kill Count

1
Countless (indirectly attempted)

### Crimes

Con artistry
Counterfeit
Forgery
Identity theft
Indecent exposure
Kidnapping
Animal cruelty
Abuse (physical and of power)
Fraud
Conspiracy
Pseudocide
Vandalism
Endangerment
Sabotage
Scamming
Theft
Embezzlement
Assault
Extortion
Drugging
Attempted mass murder (indirectly)
Smuggling
Impersonation
Trafficking
Multiple other offenses

### Type of Villain

Manipulative Businessman

**Stanley Pines**, also known as **Grunkle Stan** and under the false identity **Stanford Pines**, is the anti-heroic tritagonist of the Disney XD cartoon *Gravity Falls*.

He is the great-uncle (or 'grunkle') of Dipper and Mabel Pines, the boss of Soos Ramirez, and the estranged brother of Stanford Pines. Stan is also a conman who runs the Mystery Shack, which is a tourist trap where he tries to get as much money as possible by scamming the customers.

He was voiced by series creator Alex Hirsch.

## His Cool and Evil Rankings

### What Makes Him a Guile Villain?

* It is hard not to enjoy him as a character as he is considered the best character in Gravity Falls and for good reasons, as he balances great comedy with coolness and genuine tragedy, as well as a rich character arc.
* He is very comedic as he is a joy to watch every time he appears, which is only helped by Alex Hirsch's hysterical performance as him.
* He has manipulated many people into buying money from him and he got away with it for decades through incredible charisma and showmanship.
* He has a very tragic backstory. He was being bullied for being a loser as a child which cause him to learn martial arts in order to defend himself. Even worse, he unintentionally ruin his brother's project after he rants about it which caused him to be kicked out, no longer being a family anymore and now he has to survive on his own without anyone's help causing him to commit crimes for money.
* He also has a very understandable and sympathetic motive. After meeting with his brother again, he ends up getting sucked into the portal which leads to him trying to figure out how to save him for decades until he collected all the journals.
* Although he was stupid in earlier episodes being manipulated and making dumb decisions, this was just a façade to make him more deceptive, and if things get serious, he loses his act of being a bumbling idiot and can be ruthless and cunning man in the situation.
* Although he pretended to be oblivious to it, he was actually aware of the oddities of the town of Gravity Falls all along.
* While he can be very mean to Dipper, it has always been to toughen up the boy, with good results. While a still somewhat questionable approach, it should be condoned that Stan isn't nearly being as hard on Dipper as his father was with him.
* In order to get his brother, Ford, back, he spent years studying the Book and physics (as indicated by books in the background) so as to be able to work the portal.
* He successfully disappeared off the radars by faking his death and stealing Stanford's name and identity.
* At the end of "Dipper vs. Manliness", he comforts Dipper saying that it was manly of him to stand up for what he thought was right.
* In "Boss Mabel", he quickly becomes one of the most successful and beloved contestants of the Quiz show "Cash Wheel", only losing because the final question was the word "please", which Stan was pretty much unable to say.
* In "Boyz Crazy", he assisted Dipper in saving Wendy from her brainwashing inflicted by Robbie's music.
* In "Land Before Swine", he faces off against a pterodactyl to save Mabel's pet pig Waddles so as to regain her affection.
* At the end of "Gideon Rises", he eventually realized that Lil' Gideon actually had recording bugs in his badges, as they interacted with his earing aid, and exposed Gideon as a fraud, getting him to imprison and obtaining the Mystery Shack back.
* In "Scary-oke", he protected Mabel and Dipper from zombies.
* In "Not What He Seems", he escapes from the Agents like a badass after the gravity from the portal activate in a perfect timing and even tricks them into thinking he was in a taxi which leads to a goose chase to save his brother.
* At the end of the same episode, he provides a very heart-wrenching scene when trying (and eventually succeeding) to have Mabel trust him and let the portal bring Ford back home. He even asks her "please", showing he learned to say that word since "Boss Mabel".
* In "The Stanchurian Candidate" he interrupts his interview to become mayor of Gravity Falls to save Dipper and Mabel, who were about to be killed by dynamite Gideon had set up through his possessed dad. This ends up making Stan the winner of the elections, only being disqualified later when his endless criminal record is revealed.
* In "Weirdmaggedon: Take Back the falls", he manipulated Bill Cipher into entering his mind thinking he was Ford when he really swapped places with his brother, impersonating him perfectly. While Ford used the memory erasing gun on him so as to destroy Stan's mind with Bill Cipher in it, Stan delivered the demon one last epic speech on his family, pulled the killing blow with a punch in his eye and sacrificed his memories in the process, saving many lives in the process as he contributed greatly to the end of Bill and Weirdmaggedon.
* While he was reluctant through most of the revolution against Bill and almost caused Bill to win with a petty squarrel with Ford that ruined the ritual, he made up for all of that with his cunning sacrifice that stopped Bill for good.
* He lets Mabel take Waddles back home with her, threatening a bus driver to make sure of it.
* He wished Mabel and Dipper goodbye when they left Gravity Falls due to Summer being over.
* In the end, he succeeded in his childhood dream of sailing across the world with his brother Ford, as the two go around the Earth in search of anomalies on a boat called the Stan-o-War 2.
* Despite having a criminal record, he loves his family, especially his brother Ford and great-nephew and great-niece Dipper and Mabel, dearly even though he has moments where he can be a jerk at them for some time.
* "Not What He Seems" implies he stops himself from swearing for the sake of the kids.
* He unwittingly became a father figure to the Mystery Shack's handyman, Soos Ramirez, cared deeply for him in spite of his gruff exterior towards him and eventually left the Mystery Shack to Soos, fulfilling the boy's life dream.

### What Makes Him Evil?

* After he was kicked out of his house by his family after accidentally breaking his brother Stanford's science fair project, he turns to a life of crime and becomes a conman. This means he has committed many crimes, including scamming people with the Mystery Shack at any opportunity, regularly shoplifting and committing many thefts, among many others.
* He apparently murdered a llama in the past for knowing about something that it could have ratted him out on.
* He graphically and sadistically scares a bunch of kids trick-or-treating during Summerween just because he doesn't want to give them any candy, possibly traumatizing some of them in the process.
* He refuses to check on Waddles, the pet pig of his grand-niece Mabel, leading Waddles to be captured by pterodactyls.
* In order to bring his brother Stanford back, he opened a portal which put the entire universe in danger, despite warnings given to him by his brother Stanford and his grand-nephew Dipper, meaning he knew that it could destroy the universe but prevented it from being deactivated in order to save Stanford.

## Trivia

* Stanley Pines is currently the only *Gravity Falls* character to be a Guile Villain.

## External Links

* Stanley Pines on the Inconsistently Admirable Wiki
* Stanley Pines on the Villains Wiki
* Stanley Pines on the Heroes Wiki
* Stanley Pines on the Disney Wiki
* Stanley Pines on the *Gravity Falls* Wiki
* Stanley Pines on the Inconsistently Heinous Wiki