Frank Heffley

**Frank Heffley** is a major character in the *Diary of a Wimpy Kid* book series, as well as its film adaptions. He is the eccentric but well-meaning father of Rodrick, Greg, and Manny Heffley and the husband of Susan Heffley.

In the first three movies, he is played by Steve Zahn. In the film adaptation of *The Long Haul*, he is played by Tom Everett Scott. In the Disney+ animated movies, he is voiced by Chris Diamantopoulos.

## His Good Ranking

### His Heroic Deeds

* As a child, alongside kids, he helped stop the bully known as Billy Staples by complaining to his parents, which would force Billy to publicly apologize to everybody.
* He regularly supports his family as the patriarch of his home and while sometimes going to extremes, does his best to raise his sons to be well-mannered and responsible men.
* After finding out that Spag Union is filled with phonies, he has a heart-to-heart with Greg and rescinds sending him there, much to his happiness.

### Why Doesn't He Stand Out?

* He is very bog standard as all of his actions are standard heroism as he only does nice things for his family and others rather than actually saving lives. It doesn't help that the *Diary of a Wimpy Kid* series is pure slice-of-life, meaning that hardly anyone would perform a grand scale of heroism that would easily pass the admirable baseline.
	+ Come *The Deep End*, he fails the admirable standard to his son, Manny, who saved multiple lives by driving a truck during a flood to make a bridge, something accomplished with far less resources due to him being a toddler who shouldn't even be able to drive, unlike him.
* He is sometimes extremely strict towards Rodrick and Greg by giving them harsh punishments for being disobedient (an example being that he will throw whatever object he is holding when they act up, whether it's a soft newspaper or hard tool) and tries to force them to do activities like sports, civil war reenactments or even in *The Last Straw* (or the *Dog Days* movie), he will try to have Greg sent to a military school much to his dismay.
* He can be neglectful towards his family at times and prefers to distance himself in his basement to play with his figurines. He also makes very little effort to mediate the egotistical and sometimes outright harmful behaviour of his youngest son, Manny, allowing him to use his superficial charm to get away with many nasty pranks towards Greg and Rodrick, leaving them unable to leave a finger on him in return.
* He shows wrathful tendencies when anybody gets near his figurines.
* He refused to let Greg wear a coat during his soccer game, which resulted in him freezing.
* Like Greg, he can show little concern with how his actions affect others. At Hardscrabble Farms, in order to have his own space, he created the legend of the serial killer Silas Scratch to scare away other campers, resulting in decades of students being terrified of their awaited field trips.
* He is extremely spiteful towards teenagers and takes every opportunity to prank or spite them, as he will throw water at them on Halloween, call the "dag nab teenagers", scare them away with music or other things. Although they were causing problems, his reasons for why he hates them aren’t altruistic at all.

## External Links

* Frank Heffley on the Heroes Wiki
* Frank Heffley on the *Diary of a Wimpy Kid* Wiki

## Navigation

Animated Features
Crane

Live-Action Features
Rowley Jefferson

Animated Television

See Also
*Diary of a Wimpy Kid* Heroic Benchmarks
*Star Wars* Heroic Benchmarks