Changes: Greg Heffley

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Gregory "Greg" Heffley is an American middle school student and also the main protagonist of the book series Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

Barely surpassing stick figures — "This is a JOURNAL, not a diary!"

Why He Rocks

He is a great writer and a good artist. He even managed to make a spot-on replication of the art style of a Pac-Man arcade machine.
He does a great job dealing with his family, even more so in the films as he managed to get back at Rodrick by tricking Manny to read Rodrick's bikini magazine and getting Rodrick blamed for it and was grounded as a result.
He is sometimes willing to step up and do the right thing, such as when Rowley ate the cheese, and the school figured out that the cheese has gone missing, Greg lied to everyone that he threw the cheese in the trash so he could protect Rowley.
Greg was especially well portrayed in the films, even more so than his book counterpart.
Despite being bad with school work, he's pretty smart when it comes to coming up with ideas like getting Rowley to become the school's student council.

Bad Qualities

He can be sociopathic, abusive of Rowley, very vain considering he sees himself being rich and famous one day,
He can be very dimwitted, lazy, void of responsibility and strangely weird, getting nostalgic about something that reminds him of the womb.
- The exploration of his abusive actions towards Rowley is even worse in Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid. Presumably because since Greg tends to be an unreliable narrator, his general actions and behavior is presented as more accurate through Rowley since he's more honest than Greg.
Compared to his movie counterpart, Greg tends to exaggerate his flaws to be viewed as more sympathetic and blames others for his wrongdoings, and it tends to contradict his intended realistic portrayal.
He is shown to be quite unloyal and disrespectful to those around him. Especially his movie counterpart in the first film, who calls Angie a crazy freak job, and he states that every kid in his school is a bunch of morons.
In the Wrecking Ball, he conned people into buying useless items, and he celebrated one of his relatives' deaths.

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 == Why He Rocks ==
-# He is a great writer and a decent artist.
+# He is a great writer and a good artist. He even managed to make a spot-on replication of the art style of a Pac-Man arcade machine.
-# He does a great job dealing with his family.
+# He does a great job dealing with his family, even more so in the films as he managed to get back at Rodrick by tricking Manny to read Rodrick's bikini magazine and getting Rodrick blamed for it and was grounded as a result.
-# He does his best trying to survive middle school and gives tips to kids his age about surviving as well.
-# He has exaggerated but bright ideas for his future.
-# He has been shown to be very funny, such as when he wrote "facts" about the moose for his homework.
-# Despite showing a hatred for diaries, he is not afraid to share personal experiences in his journal.
-# He always gets himself into crazy and unpredictable adventures, such as when he camped outside a video game store just to enter a tournament.
 # He is sometimes willing to step up and do the right thing, such as when Rowley ate the cheese, and the school figured out that the cheese has gone missing, Greg lied to everyone that he threw the cheese in the trash so he could protect Rowley.
 # Greg was especially well portrayed in the films, even more so than his book counterpart.
+# Despite being bad with school work, he's pretty smart when it comes to coming up with ideas like getting Rowley to become the school's student council.
-# The way Greg describes his life and the way he is portrayed is easily relatable to most of his target audience and even most adult readers/viewers, and it makes him come off as more sympathetic and realistic.
 == Bad Qualities ==
-# A lot of his traits are less to be desired, with him being sociopathic, abusive of Rowley, very vain considering he sees himself being rich and famous one day, dimwitted, lazy, void of responsibility and strangely weird, getting nostalgic about something that reminds him of the womb.
+# He can be sociopathic, abusive of Rowley, very vain considering he sees himself being rich and famous one day,
+# He can be very dimwitted, lazy, void of responsibility and strangely weird, getting nostalgic about something that reminds him of the womb.
-## The exploration of his abusive actions towards Rowley is even worse in ''Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid''. Presumably because since Greg tends to be an unreliable narrator, his general actions and behavior is presented as more accurate through Rowley since he's more honest than Greg.
+#* The exploration of his abusive actions towards Rowley is even worse in ''Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid''. Presumably because since Greg tends to be an unreliable narrator, his general actions and behavior is presented as more accurate through Rowley since he's more honest than Greg.
 # Compared to his movie counterpart, Greg tends to exaggerate his flaws to be viewed as more sympathetic and blames others for his wrongdoings, and it tends to contradict his intended realistic portrayal.
 # He is shown to be quite unloyal and disrespectful to those around him. Especially his movie counterpart in the first film, who calls Angie a crazy freak job, and he states that every kid in his school is a bunch of morons.
+# In the ''Wrecking Ball'', he conned people into buying useless items, and he '''celebrated one of his relatives' deaths.'''
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