Greg Heffley

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

"This is a JOURNAL, not a diary!"

Why He Rocks

1. He is a great writer and a decent artist.
2. He does a great job dealing with his family.
3. He does his best trying to survive middle school and gives tips to kids his age about surviving as well.
4. He has exaggerated but bright ideas for his future.
5. He has been shown to be very funny, such as when he wrote "facts" about the moose for his homework.
6. Despite showing a hatred for diaries, he is not afraid to share personal experiences in his journal.
7. He always gets himself into crazy and unpredictable adventures, such as when he camped outside a video game store just to enter a tournament.
8. He is willing to give himself to people he loves, such as Rowley.
9. 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.
10. Greg has amazing memory, since he can remember moments before he was born.
11. Greg was especially well portrayed in the films, even more so than his book counterpart.

Bad Qualities

1. He is often too narcissistic, egotistical and sociopathic to be considered a fully likable protagonist.
2. He often never takes responsibility for his own actions.
3. Most of the time, he abuses and exploits his best friend Rowley, and he at times only does good things for Rowley just so Rowley will pay him back rather than because since he's his friend.
4. Compared to his movie counterpart, Greg is rather often unsympathetic and can be seen as an unreliable narrator who tends to exaggerate his flaws to be viewed as more sympathetic, and constantly blames others for his mistakes.
5. He is incredibly vain, as he thinks is going to be "rich and famous one day", and he is doing nothing to make wishes like this come true, as he is very lazy and does not pay attention to his schoolwork, only paying attention to video games and comics.
6. He can be bright, but he can also be pretty dimwitted, and have bad opinions of things.
7. He is shown to be quite unloyal, and disrespectful to those around him. Especially his movie counterpart, who calls Angie a crazy freak job, and he states that every kid in his school is a bunch of morons.
8. He can sometimes be a huge weirdo. Like in The Third Wheel where he gets nostalgia from bubble baths because they feel like he's in his mother's womb from before he was born. Ew.
9. Greg was at his absolute worst in Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid, as he was flanderized into an unlikable and obnoxious jerk that it even made Rowley question why he's friends with him in the first place, and he even gained a scrappy status by fans.