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This Magnificent Baddie was Headlined on July 2023. | ||
| “ | When there's no cops around, anything's legal! | „ |
| ~ Stanley Pines |
| “ | Sounds like something a responsible parent wouldn't want you doing... Good thing I'm an uncle! Avenge me, kids! Avenge me! | „ |
| ~ Stanley Pines to Dipper Pines and Mabel Pines. |
| “ | At the end of the day, Summerween isn't about candy or costumes. Or even scaring people. It's a day when the whole family can get together at one place and celebrate what really matters: pure evil! | „ |
| ~ Stanley Pines celebrating Summerween. |
| “ | Heh... guess I was good for something after all. | „ |
| ~ Stanley Pine's last words as he looks at a picture of his great niece and nephew before his memory is erased to stop Bill Cipher. |
Stanley "Stan" Pines, also known by his stolen identity Stanford Pines or his nickname Grunkle Stan, is the deuteragonist of the Disney Channel/Disney XD animated series Gravity Falls. He is Dipper and Mabel Pines' great uncle, Soos Ramirez and Wendy Corduroy's boss, Gideon Gleeful's business rival, and owner/proprietor of the Mystery Shack tourist attraction in Gravity Falls, Oregon.
He was voiced by series creator Alex Hirsch. As a child, he was voiced by Stuart Allan Bertman in the episode "Dreamscapers" and by Declan J. Krogman in the episode "A Tale of Two Stans". When his voice was altered into a female voice, he was voiced by Grey DeLisle, who also voiced Azula in Avatar: The Last Airbender and Ms. Chalice in The Cuphead Show!. When impersonating his brother Ford, he was voiced by Ford's voice actor J. K. Simmons. (though only very briefly when him and Ford swapped outfits in Weirdmageddon 3).
What Makes Him Magnificent?[]
- It is basically impossible not to enjoy him as a character as he is considered the best character in Gravity Falls (alongside Bill Cipher) For good reasons, he balances great comedy with coolness, genuine tragedy, and 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 caused him to learn martial arts to defend himself. Even worse, he unintentionally ruin his brother's project after he rants about it which causes 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 a ruthless and cunning man in the situation. Even Bill was never immune to his unmatched guile.
- Although he pretended to be oblivious to it, he was 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.
- To get his brother, Ford, back, he spent years studying the Book and physics (as indicated by books in the background) 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 "Little Dipper", he pretends to fall for one of Gideon's tricks just to toy with him.
- 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 to regain her affection.
- At the end of "Gideon Rises", he eventually realized that Lil' Gideon had recording bugs in his badges, as they interacted with his hearing aid, Stan exposed Gideon as a fraud, getting him imprisoned and confiscating Journal 2, and reclaiming the Mystery Shack.
- In "Scary-oke", he protected Mabel and Dipper from zombies. This episode showed him as a total badass and while he is initially against singing karaoke, he later joined the twins to stop them.
- In "Not What He Seems", he escapes from the Agents like a badass, perfectly timing when the portal activates and causes a gravity surge. He even tricks the Agents 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 "Dungeons Dungeons and More Dungeons" after Probabilitor uses the Impossibeast (a banned monster that can only be defeated by rolling a 38), Stan out-wits Probabilitor by rigging the 38-sided die with chewing-gun to roll a natural 38.
- In "The Stanchurian Candidate" he interrupts his interview to become mayor of Gravity Falls to save Dipper and Mabel, who was 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 swapped places with his brother, impersonating him perfectly. While Ford used the memory-erasing gun on him 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.
- 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 succeeds 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 an extremely large 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 despite his gruff exterior towards him and eventually left the Mystery Shack to Soos, fulfilling the boy's life dream.
- Although he threatened to assault an innocent bus driver with brass knuckles, it was the only way to make sure Waddles went home with Mabel, especially considering the extremely conscientious Stanford was in on it too without hesitation.
- He is kept likable by being pitted against much worse people, such as Gideon Gleeful and especially the childish, sadistic Pure Evil villain Bill Cipher.
- Whenever he does anything particularly horrible, such as neglectfully letting Waddles get abducted and pettily ruining the ritual during the climactic battle with Bill, he always regrets it and is willing to fix whatever he did and decipher how to avoid repeating such mistakes in his future.
- Not to mention, him tricking Bill into going into his own mind by disguising himself as Ford so Ford could erase Bill was not only successful, but more than forgave his earlier slip up.
What Makes Him A Baddie?[]
- He is a conman who scams people out for money in the mystery shack, and has a criminal record in many states in America, being banned in them and even having spent some time in a Colombian prison.
- He was willing to cause mass destruction and risks the annihilation of the universe in order to get his brother back. He is aware of the gravitational anomalies, using them to his advantage in order to escape the FBI, and a bit before the portal activates, he becomes aware of the danger but gets Mabel to not close it anyway.
- He has several instances of being surprisingly callous to Dipper and Mabel:
- Had Dipper not helped Mabel get Waddles back, she would have spent entire days outside sulking over it until literal plants and snails grew on her, implying Stan would be negligent enough to leave her outside alone for that long (and apparently even make her an attraction).
- He puts Mabel, a twelve year old, in charge of his business as part of a bet, which is very illegal.
- He recorded Mabel and Dipper (at the time possessed by Bill Cipher) fighting with the goal of selling the footage.
- This extends to Waddles, given that Stan put the pig on a leash and left him outside. On top of being animal neglect, this was a very dangerous thing to do as, even if there weren't monsters in Gravity Falls (like the pterodactyl which eventually snatches Waddles), the woods still have many predators, like wolves or birds of prey, which would've easily went for Waddles, a young pig.
- When Grenda presumably kills an ogre, Stan agrees with her to keep the murder a secret.
- Both "The Stanchurian Candidate" and "The Last Mabelcorn" show that Stan is involved in illegal animal trafficking.
- During Weirdmaggedon, Stan planned to eat the Gnomes once the Mystery Shack's supplies had run out, and nothing indicated he wasn't being serious.
- In his worst moment of pettiness, he wasn't worried that Ford had been captured by Bill, as he still resented him for never thanking Stan's efforts to bring him back.
Trivia[]
- He, alongside the Lumberjack Ghost and AnimationRewind's version of Bill Cipher, are the only Gravity Falls characters to be Magnificent Baddies.
- Of the three, Stan and the Lumberjack Ghost are the only ones to come from canon.
- He and John Silver from Treasure Planet are, so far, the only two Disney/Pixar MBs to be protagonists.
- Despite his magnificence, he has been trying to master a coin trick since 1982 but still can't do it.
- He, Midnight, Sylens and The Man with No Name are the five magnificent baddies to be in the Guile Heroes Wiki, Inconsistently Admirable Wiki, and Inconsistently Heinous Wiki at the same time.
External Links[]
- Stanley Pines on the Heroes Wiki.
- Stanley Pines on the Villains Wiki.
- Stanley Pines on the Inconsistently Admirable Wiki.
- Stanley Pines on the Inconsistently Heinous Wiki.
- Stanley Pines on the Disney Wiki.
- Stanley Pines on the Gravity Falls Wiki.
- Stanley Pines on the Guile Heroes Wiki.
- Stanley Pines on the VS Battles Wiki.
- Stanley Pines on the Love Exalted Wiki.
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