Alex Standall

Alexander **"Alex" Standall** is a main character in the Netflix Original series *13 Reasons Why*, appearing as a supporting protagonist in the first two seasons and an anti-villain in the third season. He is portrayed by Miles Heizer.

## Personality

Alex, despite having a minor reason for being on the tapes, is greatly emphasized throughout the series. He is a bright, kind and caring person who is willing to accept responsibility for his actions. However Alex is somewhat selfish as he deliberately helped make a list in order to get revenge against Jessica for refusing to have sex with him, and in the process destroyed Hannah's friendship with Jessica and completely humiliated her and led her to be sexually harassed by the jocks in the school. He even appeared to enjoy the popularity he received as a result of making the list and becoming liked by the more popular crowd. When she was alive, Alex appeared to show little remorse for what he did to Hannah and never attempted to rectify the situation between her and Jessica, nor did he apologize for the humiliation he caused her.

After Hannah's suicide, however, Alex is shown to be well aware that his actions are indeed part of what led to her suicide and is shown to be completely devastated over her death and hates himself for destroying his friendship with Hannah, her friendship with Jessica and his relationship with Jessica. Unlike a majority of the others on Hannah's list, Alex shows genuine remorse and is willing, to tell the truth about his actions and claims that Hannah was his friend and that they should not lie about her. While he helps to intimidate Clay once along with Zach and Justin, Alex tells the others on the list to leave Clay alone numerous times and does not agree with plans to silence him and claims that he and the others deserve what is coming to them. He is also disgusted at the group's willingness to hide the tapes and lie about their actions and to also suggest hiding behind Bryce in order to escape punishment for their actions and he claims that the one thing that is worse than being a rapist is hiding behind one. Despite his remorse, Alex still does not choose to expose the truth of Hannah's death to the public and maintains his loyalty to the others on Hannah's list possibly due to being afraid of reprisals by them.

As a result of Hannah's death, Alex is shown to be filled with complete rage as seen when he gets into a brutal fight with Montgomery and is shown to now be suicidal himself as he nearly drowns himself in Bryce's pool and later shoots himself in the head as a result of his immense guilt.

Alex Standall's personality is insecure like Tyler Down but more wrathful, making him capable of starting violent fights with people like Monty de la Cruz. Alex Standall would go out his way to protect any of his closest friends in Liberty High. Even if it meant merely going out their way to threaten another student (Monty) with a knife to protect Tyler from Monty. Alex Standall has become more upset with Jessica Davis liking Justin Foley more than him and had eventually got into getting juiced up (like with Justin Foley when still becoming an addict during the second and third seasons) taking certain drugs in the process and working out and doing boxing with Tony Padilla. Alex Standall deals with a lot of troubles with mental health that he broke down at his own birthday party and went on a loud outbursting rant contemplating suicide before being interrupted by Jessica Davis for Alex Standall being an 'a\*\*hole'. Alex Standall was suicidal for the time being and wanted to kill himself after going through the evaluation and therapy for his physical and mental health. It would eventually lead to Alex feeling so vengeful against Bryce and Monty.

After killing Bryce, Alex clearly felt remorse for what he did as shown when he and the rest of the group watched Bryce's type to Jessica. Despite this, he still goes through with framing Monty instead of confessing to his crime, showing little to no guilt while doing so. Overall, Alex is a kind yet insecure and wrathful young man who will do anything to protect his friends even if it means murder.