Greg Heffley

**Gregory "Greg" Heffley** is the protagonist of *Diary of a Wimpy Kid.*

## Backstory

Greg claims to remember being in utero, although that is highly doubtful, if anything because he claims to have understood English while in utero.

He was born prematurely, and used to sleep in the drawer when he was a newborn. All of his items as a baby, even his pacifier, were hand-me-downs from his brother Rodrick. He would also hate the TV shows his parents put on when he was a baby and change the channel, but take the batteries out of the remote. Gerald, a relative who lived with the Heffleys for the first few months of Greg's life, helped change his diapers.

At age one, he had a walker, but had trouble learning to walk without it.

On his first day of preschool, a boy named Quinn told him, "Do you love ice cream? Do you *love* ice cream? Then why don't you *marry* it!?". This scared him since he thought Quinn was serious, but when his mother Susan explained it was a joke, he tried to tell the joke back, but said, "You're gonna grow up and get married to some ice cream! Ha!" instead.

When he was about three, his father Frank scared him out of getting out of bed at night by claiming he would run into Shel Silverstein in the hallway (because Greg thought Silverstein looked scary).

When he was in preschool, he was a bit behind (though he had no learning disabilities) and tried to set his classmates back by feeding them bad information, but that backfired when they thought he really *didn't* know that information. Also in preschool, he got temporarily sent to kindergarten and had a bully named Bradley. When he was asked to clean up, he never did, but he sang along with his classmates.

When he was a preschooler, he got scratched by his grandmother's cat and his mother tried to turn it into a "teaching moment" and spelled out "cat".

When he was around four, a man named Mr. Harkin walked in on him accidentally in the bathroom.

At some point in his early childhood, his grandfather took him to a water park, but he wasted most of his trip because he thought the sign about "under 48'' must ride with an adult" was referring to an age limit.

When he started kindergarten, he had trouble acclimating to the lack of naps.

At some point in his early elementary school days, he had trouble pronouncing his "R"s (he sounded like Elmer Fudd) and so he took diction classes with a group called the Champs. He wanted to stay there despite learning how to enunciate, so he faked his speech impediment, but then got busted asking his classmate Randy for a red ruler.

At some point in his childhood, he would throw away his apples instead of eating them and told a very detailed lie about a thieving bully named Curtis Litz, even forging a letter from him complete with a rude drawing.

In the past, he had a toy monkey named Tickles, who his mother secretly replaced every time it went missing or was destroyed.

At age eight, he was babysat by his crotchety aunt Cakey who made him take a nap despite his age and told him not to touch the iron, without realising that it only made him want to touch it, and he ended up burning his hand.

At nine, Greg wondered if his baby brother Manny was a puppet, then when Manny learned to crawl, wondered if he, or his whole family, were robots.

At ten, Greg had a pet inchworm named Squirm, who was unfortunately killed by Manny when the latter was learning to walk. The first time Manny dobbed Greg in was for throwing a rock at a window when Manny was one (about a year prior).