When life gives you lemons, draw faces on those lemons and wrap them in a blanket. Ta-daaa! Now you have lemon babies.
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~ Mabel Pines
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Dipper, you don't need that book! Don't you see? On your own you defeated a giant robot with nothing but your bare hands! You're a hero whether you've got that journal or not!
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~ Mabel encouraging her brother Dipper after their great-uncle Stan Pines took Journal 3.
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We’ll miss you too, Grunkle Stan.
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~ Mabel's last words in the series before she leaves Gravity Falls with Dipper.
Mabel Pines is one of the two main protagonists (alongside her brother Dipper) of Disney’s Gravity Falls franchise.
She is the older fraternal twin sister of Dipper Pines and the great-niece of both Stanley and Stanford Pines. Energetic, bouncy, and optimistic, Mabel makes the best of every situation. A lover of arts, crafts, and animals, Mabel is a hyperactive 13-year-old teenage girl and is the brawn to her brother's brains. She is also the best friend of Candy Chiu and Grenda Grendinator and the former rival of Pacifica Northwest.
She was voiced by Kristen Schaal, who also voiced Trixie in the Toy Story films, Barb in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 and Louise Belcher in Bob's Burgers.
Mabel is a short girl who is exactly one millimeter taller than her twin brother. She has long brown hair that reaches her hips and curls towards the bottom, a little tuft of hair on the back of her head, and brown eyes just like Dipper's. She also has silver-colored braces and round blushing cheeks.
Her clothing constantly changes way more than any other character, which usually consists of a sweater, undershirt, skirt, headband, black ballerina flats, white anklet socks, and occasionally earrings. Her signature sweater being a short-sleeved pink undershirt underneath a slightly darker warm pink sweater with a shooting star, accompanied by a purple, teal and orange-striped tail falling toward the left, a matching warm pink headband, a loose purple pencil skirt, coupled with black ballerina flats and white socks.
Personality[]
Mabel Pines is an energetic girl with a very positive attitude. She is an extrovert while her brother is an introvert. As first introduced with "Norman", Mabel's romantic life remains quite central for her. She falls for boys frequently, quite often regardless of their feelings for her. Dipper is very important to Mabel and the two are emotionally inter-woven. Though Mabel often disagrees with her brother over his methods, morally they are very in-sync, and when one of the two deviates from what they know is right, the other often acts as the other's extended conscience.
Mabel tries to become popular, and though she never truly succeeds, she does make four major friends: the two local outcasts, Grenda and Candy, Wendy, a teenage employee at the Mystery Shack, and a pig she wins at the town fair, Waddles. Her quest to become popular is opposed by local debutante, Pacifica Northwest, whom Mabel tries to reach out to, but instead becomes a rival, though eventually the two do become at least tolerant of each other. Mabel is also shown to be pretty sensitive when Pacifica used to tease her about her personality and everything she does. In particular, Mabel becomes fiercely protective of Waddles, being willing to fight monsters to save him without a second thought.
She has a deep obsession with Unicorns, as she taped a traffic cone on a horse's head to look like one, which cause her to be banned from petting zoos. One of her fears is not being cute, as seen when she was in Stan's mind, when Bill Cipher turned her cuteness to ugliness.
By the end of the series and after getting stranded in an in-between world full of alternate versions of herself, Mabel has become matured to know when to put the needs pf others ahead of her own, and even knowing when it's time to accept the changes in her life.
Abilities[]
Mabel claims to be an arts and crafts master, which is supported by the skills she's shown so far. These include knitting, sewing, scrapbooking, bejeweling, wood carving, wax sculpting, and origami. Just like her brother, Mabel is shown to be a quick-thinker and can be observant, she also tends to solve problems in rather creative ways and is quite capable of picking locks.
Appearances in other media[]
Unaired Pilot[]
In the pilot, Mabel's role pretty much plays out pretty much like in the first episode which begins with Stan revealing to Dipper and Mabel a sculpture of London Tower Bridge made out of popsicles, but the sculpture collapses, so Stan, Dipper and Mabel decide to eat them all. As they do so, the three read the jokes & riddles printed on the popsicle sticks. Dipper finds one with the question; "What is a ghost's favorite ice cream flavor?", with Mabel thinking "booberry", Grunkle Stan thinking "corpse melon" and Dipper thinking "cookies & scream". But the stick does not have an answer, which Grunkle Stan claims is bad luck, which is when Mabel introduces them to Norman.
The episode continues relatively the same, until the climax The Gnomes, in this version, are defeated, not by a leaf blower, but rather Dipper and Mabel meeting the Gnome King, who gives them a riddle; "What is a ghost's favorite ice cream flavor?" Mabel asks Dipper to trust her, by using her answer "booberry", which is correct, and it causes all the Gnomes to turn to stone.
When the two return to the Mystery Shack, Grunkle Stan gets up to answer the door, but all the popsicles have given him a brain freeze, and he hurts his leg getting up, so when he answers the door, Dipper and Mabel think he's a zombie, and throw rocks at him.
The characters in the cartoon that Lord Dominator from Wander Over Yonder watches are modeled after Dipper, Mabel, Grunkle Stan, and Soos. The Mystery Ship also has its "S" slightly off just like the Mystery Shack. Jason Ritter, Kristen Schaal, and Alex Hirsch all voice their respective parody counterparts. This is actually the first time Gravity Falls did a crossover with Wander Over Yonder.
Future-Worm![]
Make makes a cameo appearance in the final episode as he briefly appears alongside her brother and Stan as Danny & Future-Worm travel on the time deer across the multiverse to save their universe from destruction.
Quotes[]
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It's getting closer!
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~ Mabel's first lines in the series as she & Dipper escape the Gnomes.
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This attic is amazing. Check out all my splinters!
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~ Mabel as she & Dipper move into the attic.
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Do you like me?
Yes.
Definitely.
Absolutely!!!
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~ Mabel's letter to her latest "crush of the week".
~ Mabel as she properly introduces "Norman" to everyone.
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Look... I'm sorry, guys. You're really sweet, but... I'm a girl and you're gnomes, and it's like, "what?!" Yikes...
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~ Mabel after finding out that Norman is a bunch of Gnomes before she's taken against their will.
Trivia[]
Mabel is based on Ariel Hirsch, Alex's twin sister. Mabel's pet pig, Waddles is also based off the fact that Ariel wanted a pet pig after watching the movie "Babe: Pig in the City".
Mabel and her brother were born on August 31, 1999, making their zodiac sign Virgo.
Throughout the series, Mabel has worn 107 different sweaters, with her most worn sweater being the one depicting a floppy disk that appears to be her pyjamas.
Interestingly, Alex Hirsch has revealed that this sweater wasn't knitted by Mabel and is instead a gift from her father when he attended a computer convention.
In the episode "The Deep End," Mabel claims that she has encountered a couple of vampires.
Mabel shows a sophisticated attitude when it comes to art.
Dipper's and Mabel's middle names are their parents' first names.
Mabel went to the hospital once for eating scratch and sniff stickers.
Mabel once fed baby birds with her mouth.
Whenever Mabel has nightmares, she meows herself back to sleep.
Mabel's first word, according to her, was "unicorn."
Mabel has been banned from a petting zoo for taping a traffic cone to a horse's head and pretending that it was a unicorn.
Mabel became pen pals with a pizza delivery man in the 60 seconds he was at the door.
Mabel had a crush on Alexander Hamilton, specifically his portrait found on the $10 bill.
Mabel and Dipper have allergies that act up around the same time.
After the events of "Gideon Rises", wherein Mabel uses the grappling hook to save herself and Dipper, she keeps it with her at all times. If Mabel is on screen and the grappling hook can't be seen, it's because she's hiding it in her sweater.
In "Mabel's Scrapbook: Petting Zoo", she says that Dipper and herself once won a dogsled race against a space lizard.
Mabel has accidentally spray-painted her eyes multiple times. She's also used this on Bill Cipher to blind him.[1]
Mabel has watched the anime movie "The Cranky Girl Who Did Chores in Spirit Town" 82 times, said movie being a parody of the Studio Ghibli film "Spirited Away".
In one of the Mabel's Guide to episodes of Gravity Falls Shorts, Mabel is seen eating inedible items.
Despite her family's mostly Jewish background, Mabel apparently celebrates every single holiday.
Unlike her brother, Mabel is left-handed.
With the reveal that the Smile Dip Pups hallucinated were actually real, extradimensional creatures in The Book of Bill, it's possible that Bill's remark that Mabel can astral project from eating too much sugar is true.
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