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Stanley "Stan" Pines (commonly known as Grunkle Stan) is one of the main characters of the Disney animated series ''Gravity Falls'', created and voiced by series creator Alex Hirsch. Stan is an older man with tenacious stubble, who wears a red fez (and its sometimes-changing symbol). For daily attire, he wears a black suit, white shirt and red bolo tie, along with a cane topped by a billiard 8-ball. He often affects an eye patch when working. When at home he generally wears slippers, blue and green-striped boxer shorts, a white sleeveless shirt and a gold necklace. He's very well known in the town and reasonably well-liked, for all that most people think he's a poor man's P.T. Barnum. As revealed in "A Tale of Two Stans", Stan grew up in New Jersey. ==Role in series== Grunkle (short for "Great Uncle") Stan is watching his great-nephew Dipper Pines and great-niece Mabel Pines, 12-year-old twins, for the summer. This does not always sit well with him and he sometimes argues with Dipper. Lately, in private moments, Stan admitted to himself that Dipper is headstrong and stubborn... like he is. He likes Mabel tremendously and indulges her as much as he can, but doesn't care as much for her pig Waddles. Because of his loud scoffing at Dipper's investigating Gravity Falls, Dipper, Mabel, and Stan's employees (handyman Soos and Wendy Corduroy, his teenage part-timer) thought he was unaware of the town's weirdness. However, in the Season 2 premiere episode ("Scary-Oke"), it was revealed that Grunkle Stan knew quite a bit about the town's strange secrets; he claimed he had been trying to keep Dipper and Mabel safe. Though grouchy by nature, he's fiercely protective of his family—he leaped into battle against zombies armed with a baseball bat and brass knuckles to save them—but keeping secrets from the twins has ended up putting them at risk, mostly because Dipper won't give up trying to find answers. He promised Dipper not to keep any more secrets if Dipper would stop investigating; both were lying. Although presumably old enough to be retired, Stan works nearly every day. He's the cheapskate proprietor of "The Mystery Shack," a cheesy tourist trap he created by building additions onto his own home in the woods near the town. Its notable features: the "S" in the Shack's rooftop sign never stays attached, there's a tall totem pole in the side yard and the roof has a weathervane whose four letters spell out WHAT beneath a question mark. A combination of local "weirdness museum" and gift shop, the Shack offers tours of its exhibits (which most people ''think'' are fake) and has a number of truly unusual objects presumably for sale. Stan is always on the lookout for a sucker, a great deal or loose change he can pry from its owner. Uncommonly lazy apart from his zeal to make money, Stan often foists his mundane chores off on Dipper or his handyman Soos. He also keeps "contraband" (that is, anything he confiscates from his family or from troublesome visitors) in his room behind a painting. One secret Stan keeps is that there is a passageway behind the "broken" vending machine in the Shack's main room. Stan uses this to go underground to a hidden laboratory, where a strange machine exists. This machine required input from all three of the weird journals in Gravity Falls. Stan owned the first, Gideon owned the second and Dipper found the third, presumably by accident. Stan acquired all three and used them to activate the machine, the function of which remains unknown. He later returned the third journal to Dipper. Most recently, it was revealed that the machine is a teleportation device, and that Stan's brother, Stanford, the author of the journals, was trapped in the destination at some point; Stan's main motivation in operating the device is to allow his brother to return to Earth, which he eventually succeeds at in the mid-season 2 finale, "Not What He Seems". Keeping secrets seems to have made Stan slightly paranoid. He became furious with Dipper when the boy wanted to work with federal agents to figure out the town's biggest mysteries. It's becoming an open question how much of his public "fast-talking conman" persona is real. No matter how much he might scratch himself inappropriately or haggle over flea market junk, there's much more to Stan than meets the eye. Stan and his six-fingered twin brother Stanford (nicknamed Ford) were born in Glass Shard Beach, New Jersey to Filbrick Pines and his unnamed wife. They also have a brother named Shermy (Dipper and Mabel's paternal grandfather). Stan and Ford were incredibly close as children. When they were children, they were bullied in the playground, but get toughened up when Filbrick signs them up for wrestling classes, which Stan makes good use of. Stan was tougher, hard-fisted and didn't care about getting splinters when he punched through wood, while Ford was intelligent, hard-working and had an intense love of the science fiction genre. Despite these differences, the two were inseparable. Whenever Ford was bullied (usually for his extra finger), Stan always stood up for him. As children, Stan and Ford would wander the beach, in search of "treasures". One time, they found a boarded up cave and in it, an abandoned ship which they claimed and called the "Stan-O-War." As Stan grew up, his wrestling skills helped him save a woman named Carla "Hotpants" McCorkle from getting robbed while waiting in line to see his favorite movie, "Grandpa the Kid." Stan and Carla start dating but this relationship ends at their favorite 50s-themed bar called Juke Joint, when she leaves him for a hippie playing hypnotic music through the guitar. When they were in high school, Ford was recognized by West Coast Tech due to his above average grades and outstanding science projects while Stan was a goofball and always slacked in class (usually being forced to copy from his brother's test papers just to make it to the next grade). When Stan overhears Ford's acceptance outside the principal's office, he becomes devastated about the departure of his brother and the principal saying that Stan on the other hand, while praising Ford, would be "lucky to graduate high school." Stan was worried that he might lose his brother forever and when he was wandering in the hall where Ford kept the invention he planned to show the judges coming from West Coast Tech, he throws a temper tantrum and accidentally destroys Ford's invention. As a result, Ford is not accepted to West Coast Tech and forced to attend Backupsmore University. When Ford and his family find out that Stan vandalized his invention, Stan and Ford's sibling bond becomes incredibly strained and Ford refuses to speak to Stan. Filbrick, angrily, tells Stan that all he does is "lie, cheat and ride on Ford's coattails," and disowns him, telling him that he is unwelcome in his household until he makes real money. Stan traveled across New Jersey and eventually gives up his childhood dream of searching for treasure, setting up his own company called Stan Co. Enterprises. He produced towels called "Sham Total" and also produced pitchforks. However, these products were terrible and so he was chased out of the state by an angry mob (barely escaping because the pitchforks the mob had were Stan Co. Pitchforks and the tops fell off, allowing Stan to escape). He reset his business in Pennsylvania under the alias "Steve Pinington" and sold Band-Aids called the "Rip Off." However, the Rip Off gave its users rashes and Stan was once again chased out of the state. Once, he even sold his own brand of vacuums called Stan-Vac but made the mistake of using the catchphrase, "sucks more than anything." To avoid authorities, he takes up fake identities and continues his business but he gets kicked out of 32 states (once going to jail in Colombia, according to "The Hand That Rocks The Mabel" and "Dreamscaperers" where he befriended criminals Jorge and Rico). He was eventually forced to move to Dead End Flats, New Mexico, and rent a room in a motel coincidentally owned by his former prison-mate Rico but was forced to pay Rico's goons to stay, which he struggled to do. Ford calls his brother to his new house in Gravity Falls, Oregon and reveals that he moved there to study anomalies due to his fascination with his anomalous sixth finger. He spent six years studying the paranormal and supernatural secrets of Gravity Falls, documenting his findings in three journals (One time, he found an egg which hatched, causing the birth of a creature called the Shape Shifter that Ford became fascinated with, but when the Shape Shifter started to show signs of hostility, Ford built an underground laboratory to keep it contained there). He planned to find out where this weirdness came from and assumed that it came from another dimension of unreality. He had contacted his college mate from Backupsmore, Fiddleford Hadron McGucket (later to be known in his senior years as the local kook of Gravity Falls, Old Man McGucket) to help him build a portal in a secret lab underneath his house to access this dimension. However, Fiddleford grows fearful of the machine, after being accidentally sucked into it before being rescued by Stanford during a test run, and quits the project (after getting pulled out of the machine, he had recited, "When gravity falls and earth becomes sky, fear the beast with just one eye", a possible reference to the dream demon Bill Cipher). Ford realizes that Fiddleford is right but cannot bear to destroy his life's work. He writes the code to activate the machine, dividing them into each of the three journals and hides two of the journals. He calls Stan to Gravity Falls and into his secret lab to entrust him with the remaining journal and take it far away. However, Stan misunderstands and believed his brother had called him to reconcile. Angry that Ford still hasn't forgiven him, Stan fights with Ford (Stan gets burned on the shoulder which Dipper mistakes for a tattoo in the Dipper's Guide to the Unexplained short "Stan's Tattoo") but Ford gets sucked into the portal to the unknown dimension of weirdness and the portal deactivates. Stan searches the journal for information on how to reactivate the portal but the remaining information is continued in the other two journals. Stan heads into town to buy food where the locals mistaken him for the guy with weird lights flashing in his house (the "weird lights" were merely the result of Ford and Fiddleford testing the machine from under their lab) and request for a tour. Stanley, who is out of money, agrees and charges the locals money for the tour. He then lies that his name is Stanford, even though the real Stanford is in an unknown location in the universe. The old Stan was dead and to prove it, he fakes his death in a car crash in another state to get the cops off his scent. He shows the locals some of his brother's inventions but they are not impressed (Susan Wentworth's eye gets burned by a small electric box and closes permanently, thus earning her the name "Lazy Susan"). So Stan comes up with fake attractions and the locals are impressed. Stan then converts the house into a tourist trap called "The Mystery Shack" (originally called "The Murder Hut"). At day, he would make money off of fake attractions when at night, he would head down to the lab, which he hides behind a broken vending machine in order to try and reactivate the portal to get his brother back to Earth. But he needs information from the other two journals to activate it. Stan activates the portal in "Gideon Rises" after obtaining the other two journals and his brother returns to Earth in "Not What He Seems." Ford and Stan make a deal, Stan could watch Dipper and Mabel for the rest of the summer, but after that, he would disclose the truth to the public, close the Mystery Shack and return his brother his home, as long as Ford stays away from the twins, whom Stan cites as the only family he has left, not wanting them in any more danger. Ford, however, seems to fail to keep his end of the deal as Dipper is excited to finally meet the author of the journals and finds that he and Ford have lots in common. Stan feels like he is losing respect and in "The Stanchurian Candidate", tries running for mayor to be noticed by the kids. He wins the election but is disqualified due to his criminal record (Tyler the Cute Biker gets elected instead), but gets some respect from the kids. In "Roadside Attraction", Stan reveals that he married and divorced once, which was also hinted at in "The Legend of the Gobblewonker". Stan is based on Alex Hirsch's own grandfather, also named Stan. Both share the characteristics of being big, barrel chested guys whose clothes have popped-undone buttons; both also wear a gold chain and gold rings. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Grunkle Stan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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