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Stanford Pines is a fictional character and one of the lead characters in the Disney Channel animated series Gravity Falls. He is voiced by Alex Hirsch, the series creator, of which the show is primarily based on his childhood.
Background Stanford Pines was born to two unknown residents of the town of Gravity Falls, Oregon. As a child, he was a wimp, the "loser whom everyone wanted to get rid of." However, his father, noticing this, signed him up for boxing lessons, to which he found rough but learned a lot. When going to watch his favorite movie called Grandpa The Kid, he noticed that a woman named Carla Jenkins was being robbed of her purse. Stan, with the lessons that he learned from the boxing lessons, left-hooked the thief and Carla accepted Stan as her boyfriend. The two would often go to a place called Juke Joint, a fifties-themed bar. However, Carla left Stan for a hippie, whom Stan blamed had hypnotic music for he claimed that the music the hippie played to attract Carla made him hallucinate.
Stan's Further Life Stan set up businesses at first as an honest man in which he sold vacuums called StanVac but made the mistake of using the catchphrase "sucks more than anything." He then spent some time in Columbia where he did illegal things to gain money which ended up forcing him to spend time in jail before being released (while finding solace in his two prison mates who did not feel equally as warmed to his presence). Stan was eventually released from jail and returned to Gravity Falls, Oregon.
Stan's Mysteries At some point in his life, Stan came across a journal with a six-fingered gold hand on the cover with the number "1" inscribed onto it. He learned that there were two other journals and that if brought together, they would help lead the one who possessed all three journals to a gateway of unimaginable power. Stan purchased a shack in the middle of the woods and built a laboratory under it. Following the blueprints on the end of the page of the journal, he constructed a machine that would help in leading to this power. However, an input code was needed and the first journal had merely but a part of the input code. Stan needed to find the other two journals in order to receive the rest of the input code that would help lead him to ultimate power.
The Mystery Shack In the meantime, Stan turned the shack which he bought as a home into a bizarre museum which he dubbed "The Mystery Shack." His great-nephew and series protagonist Dipper Pines explained that "the real mystery was why people even came." He included fake exhibits such as a painting of a horse riding another horse, a unicorn made completely out of corn and a gorilla stuffed in his underpants which he dubbed the "Sascrotch" (a parody of Bigfoot). He hired a man-child by the name of Jesus (often called Soos) and a fifteen-year old high school girl named Wendy Corduroy to work as a cashier at the gift shop of the Shack. However, a child named Gideon Gleeful and his parents moved into town and set up a business called the Tent o' Telepathy. Gideon claimed to be a psychic and his father Bud sold used cars for unfair prices. Both Gideon and Stan despised each other. Gideon, meanwhile, had gotten his hands on a journal identical to the one Stan had but with the number "2" inscribed on the hand on the front cover.
Tourist Trapped Stan's niece-in-law and nephew decided that their son and daughter, Dipper and Mabel Pines, were spending too much time in doors and could use a bit of fresh air. Stan offered to take them in for the summer. He forced them to work at the Shack, however. Stan made signs, advertising the Shack and asked Dipper to post them in the forest (after Wendy was too lazy to do it). While posting the signs, Dipper finds a journal identical to the one Stan has but with the number "3" inscribed on to the gold six-fingered hand and not knowing of its capability of leading to unimaginable power, reads through it and learns of strange creatures and paranormal events and artifacts of strength in Gravity Falls. He shows the journal to Mabel but does not show it to Stan. Once, Stan asked him what he was reading and he put the journal up, pretending to be reading a magazine about gold chains for old men. Mabel finds a boyfriend named Norman whom Dipper suspects might be a zombie. He tries to tell Stan about this but he is too busy showing everyone a rock that looked like a face, getting frustrated by the comments of the tourists.