Stanley Pines

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

He is the great-uncle (or 'grunkle') of Dipper and Mabel Pines, the boss of Soos Ramirez and Wendy Corduroy, and the estranged twin brother of Stanford Pines. Stan is 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, who also voiced Curator Ponds in *Amphibia*, who is a direct parody of Stan.

## His Evil Rankings

### What makes him heinous?

* After being kicked out of his house, he became a conman selling faulty products like a towel that made stains worse and a bandage that gave people rashes.
* By the time he started the Mystery Shack, he had been in jail 3 times and banned from 32 states.
* He started the Mystery Shack and scammed people by making them pay to see fake merchandise.
* He apparently murdered a llama in the past for knowing about something that it could have ratted him out on.
* He once let bees loose in an elementary school.
* He once stole a bunch of wax figures from a sale.
* He once made Dipper and Mabel spend a day making counterfeit money, which got them arrested.
* He tricked people into coming to the opening of the wax museum by lying about free pizza.
* He tried to get Mabel to date Li'l Gideon just to make a deal with his father Bud that will make him money.
* He locked Toby in the Mystery Shack just because he annoyed him.
* He made a party where people had to spend 15 dollars just to leave, which meant Lee and Nate were trapped since they only had 13 dollars.
* He opened a fair where he spared every expense, making a poorly run sky tram and having Dipper and Mabel put fake safety inspection certificates over lawsuits, and rigging the dunk tank.
* He tricked Gideon into being attacked by termites.
* He graphically scared 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 made Dipper wear a costume that gave him hookworm and did not care when Soos was attacked by a bird.
* He put Mabel in charge of the Mystery Shack as part of his bet, which is very illegal. He then goes on a game show to gain money, faking a heart attack to get on.
* He tried to burn Gideon to get his pool chair.
* He neglected to check on Waddles, the pet pig of his grand-niece Mabel, leading Waddles to be captured by a pterodactyl.
* He initially tried to talk Dipper, Mabel and Soos from going to look for Waddles.
* He tried to punch Pacifica in the face just for mocking him, Dipper, Mabel and Soos, which is an overreaction.
* He breaks into the Golf Course late at night to help Dipper and Mabel practice for their competition with Pacifica.
* He filmed the fight between Bipper and Mabel saying he could sell the film at the shack.
* He tried to steal an animatronic badger from a pizza place.
* He tried to shoot a hot-air balloon which had people in it, just because he hated the Woodstick festival.
* He opened a portal to bring his brother Stanford back, despite the fact that Dipper warned him it could end the universe, meaning he knew that it could destroy the universe but prevented it from being deactivated in order to save Stanford.
* He was okay with Probabilitor eating Ford's brains, only stopping him because Mabel forced him to.
* He agrees with Grenda to keep the death of an orc a secret, lying to Mabel that he's alive.
* He was caught trying to shoplift a lightbulb and when tried to use a smoke bomb to get away.
* After announcing his run for mayor, his first action is to commit voter fraud.
* He claims that as mayor, he will make kids fight for dominance and teach them swears.
* During the final election, he says he wants to wage war on neighboring cities.
* He helped Dipper and Mabel vandalize Mayor Tyler's mansion.
* He went on a road trip to prank every tourist trap on the Redwood Highway.
* He tried to throw Gompers off the property just for eating his suit.
* During Weirdmageddon, he planned to eat the gnomes if the supplies had run out.
* He wasn't worried about Ford being captured by Bill.
* He threatened to assault the bus driver if he didn't take Waddles with Dipper and Mabel.
* While Bill Cipher did worse, Bill was way more powerful than Stanley and thus it's incredibly unfair to compare the two.

### What makes him inconsistent?

* He is very tragic, growing up poor, having a very stern father and being eventually kicked out of his home for ruining his brother's project, meaning he had to find his way through life on his own before accidentally throwing his brother into a portal which lead to another universe, leading to him spending 30 years trying to fix his mistake.
* He is an extremist and an anti-villain. Most of the stuff he does is for his family, whom he genuinely cares for.
* He was on-and-off, often helping Dipper and Mabel in defeating several monsters or villains, before eventually redeeming himself when he decided to sacrifice his memories in order to defeat and quite likely kill Bill Cipher.
* Pretty much none of his heinous acts are played seriously with few exceptions, with his greed, narcissism and laziness being way over the top.
* He is pretty affable towards the people he cares about, including his family, Soos and Wendy.
* He is honorable, as he was going to honor his deal with Mabel and make her boss.
* He is grey-zoned, as he has understandable motives for all his worst crimes.

## Trivia

* **Moral Event Horizon:**
	+ Opening the portal, despite being warned that it could potentially put the entire universe in danger of annihilation.