Diary of a Wimpy Kid/Characters

Greg Heffley



 * Adorkable: Sure, he's a jerk, but he's very much a woobie, and just wants to fit in with the others. D'aww.
 * Anti-Hero: And how. Type III/IV, sometimes bordering on Type V.
 * Butt Monkey
 * Cain and Abel: Abel to Rodrick's Cain.
 * Can't Get Away with Nuthin': Except in one incident in a flashback when he wrote mean Valentine's Day cards to everyone in his class and the teacher never found out he did it.
 * Charlie Brown Baldness: How he draws himself.
 * Companion Cube: One Christmas, Mom got him a baby doll named Alfrendo which he became extremely attached to until he lost it. Then he replaced it with a grapefruit that he took care of in the same manner for the next three months.
 * The Chew Toy
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Good Is Not Nice: In stark contrast with Rowley.
 * The Hero
 * He Who Fights Rodrick
 * Jerkass
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He has his moments, notably in Cabin Fever where when Rowley anonymously snitches on Greg for accidently vandalizing the school, he doesn't pull Rowley into it and takes the punishment by himself.
 * Kids Are Cruel
 * Large Ham
 * Loser Protagonist
 * Middle Child Syndrome: The absolute king of this trope.
 * Not So Different: From Rodrick.
 * Ordinary Middle School Student
 * Perpetual Frowner: Almost.
 * Poisonous Friend: To Rowley.
 * Sweet Tooth: Justified, as he falls asleep in class if he doesn't get a sugary snack in his lunch.
 * Vitriolic Best Buds: With Rowley.
 * Unreliable Narrator: He often clearly twists facts to make him look better. But a lot of the crap he goes through seems plausible.

Rodrick Heffley



 * Adaptational Attractiveness
 * At Arm's Length: He does this to Greg in the second movie.
 * Big Brother Bully
 * Big Brother Mentor: When he feels like it.
 * Big Ol' Eyebrows
 * Black Sheep
 * Book Dumb
 * Cain and Abel: Cain to Greg's Abel.
 * Cool Big Bro: For most of the second movie.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Delinquent
 * Dreadful Musician: According to Greg.
 * Estrogen Brigade Bait: In the movies.
 * For the Evulz: Why he messes with Greg.
 * Flanderization: Roderick went from Book Dumb and brilliant at getting out of work and prancing Greg to an illiterate moron who at one point mistakes dough for his brain.
 * Heavy Sleeper: "The only person I know who's better at sleeping than me is Rodrick."
 * Hey, It's That Guy!: In the movies, he is played by Devon Bostick, whom horror fans may know as Brent or Boy.
 * Jerkass
 * However, he can be a Jerk with a Heart of Gold in the second movie, when he wants to be.
 * Karma Houdini: Not babied like Manny but do we ever see him get his just deserts for how he treats Greg?
 * Mean Character, Nice Actor
 * Perpetual Frowner
 * Shirtless Scene: "Three days. No shower. Smell the love."
 * Troubled but Cute: In the movies.
 * The Unfavorite: Even moreso than Greg. Come to think of it, that's probably why he's such a Jerkass.

Rowley Jefferson



 * Adaptational Attractiveness: Inverted. Yowch...
 * Adult Child: Teenager, but close enough.
 * The Ditz
 * Fat and Skinny: With Greg.
 * Fat Best Friend
 * Fat Idiot
 * Foil: To Greg.
 * Gentle Giant
 * Gonk
 * Kavorka Man: He gets a lot of girls to like him over the course of the books. Including Holly Hills.
 * Kiddie Kid
 * The Lancer
 * Nice Guy
 * Perpetual Smiler
 * The Pollyanna
 * Status Quo Is God: No matter how deep the rift between him and Greg gets, they always come back together in the end.

Manny Heffley



 * Annoying Younger Sibling: No kidding.
 * Baby Talk: "Wipe my heinie, Ploopy!"
 * Companion Cube: The remains of his old knit blanket, which he calls "Tingy."
 * Enfant Terrible: Played for laughs in book 6, where he.
 * Karma Houdini: He can get away with messing with Greg's stuff solely because Mom and Dad baby him.
 * This gets ridiculous in book 6. He gets away with the events described in the above trope. That's right, he and didn't get punished.
 * Non-Standard Character Design
 * Parental Favoritism

Mom (Susan Heffley)



 * Flanderization: Susan started out as a stern but fair mother, who was somewhat oblivious to what teenagers like and only taking away electronics when the situation called for it. Now she’s a Moral Guardian who petitioned to take electronics away from the town for a weekend, and is oblivious to anyone else’s feelings and bulldozes over them.
 * Moral Guardian
 * Nerd Glasses: Without being a nerd.
 * Hot Mom: In the movies.
 * Parental Favoritism: Towards Manny.
 * Parental Obliviousness
 * The Pollyana

Dad (Frank Heffley)



 * Bumbling Dad: Averted in the books, but played straight in the movies.
 * Perpetual Frowner
 * Jerkass: At times. He's a bit of an asshole to his sons.
 * Large Ham: In the movies, he's pretty hammy.
 * Serious Business: His toy American Civil War battlefield. Respect it.
 * The Stoic
 * Took a Level In Kindness: In the films. He's actually less strict on his sons than Susan is.
 * The Un-Reveal: It's never shown what he does for a job.

Chirag Gupta



 * Ascended Extra: In the movies.
 * Funny Foreigner: The movie states that he is from India.
 * Mr. Exposition: Tells Greg and Rowley about the Cheese in the first movie and Holly Hills in the second.
 * The Napoleon
 * Stalker with a Crush: "What? I Googled her."
 * Token Minority
 * Wholesome Crossdresser: Briefly in the second movie.

Holly Hills



 * The Ace: Female version. Summed up by Chirag - "She is an all-star soccer player, has done professional modeling and was her sixth grade class president. ...What? I Googled her!"
 * All Love Is Unrequited: Greg's crush on her.
 * Hair of Gold
 * Nice Girl
 * Shallow Love Interest: More so in the books. In the second movie, she gets more personality.

Fregley



 * Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny
 * Cloudcuckoolander
 * Eye Glasses
 * Nerd Glasses
 * Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant
 * Non-Standard Character Design
 * Perpetual Smiler
 * Potty Dance: In the books. Accompanied with his cry of "JUUUUUICE!"

Angie


A movie-only character.


 * Big Sister Mentor: Tries to be this to Greg and Rowley, but Greg won't listen to her.
 * Deadpan Snarker: "This place is an intellectual wasteland."
 * Hey, It's That Guy!: She is played by Chloe Grace Moretz, best known as Hit Girl.
 * Or Abby.
 * Or Rachel.
 * Hot Scoop
 * Middle School Is Hell: Seems to have this view.
 * School Newspaper Newshound