Greg Heffley

Appearance 

Greg is usually depicted with black shorts, or black pants (sometimes black jeans, or, when he is fantasizing, a black tuxedo) and a white shirt. He is very skinny and does not seem to eat nor work out much. His father has tried to get him to work out and exercise, but he prefers playing video games. His nose is a simple oval but stops where the first eye is while his ears are circled. His head is a circle but stops where around the eyes. He also appears to wear contact lenses, which he mentioned in The Third Wheel and The Last Straw, and wears his backup glasses when he runs out. Greg also has a retainer as mentioned in Diary of an Awesome, Friendly Kid and a headgear as shown in The Ugly Truth. He also wears white shoes or white sandals (as shown in "Dog Days")

In the movie, he has brown hair and pale white skin. Like in the book, he's visually skinny and shorter than Rowley.

Trivia

• Greg likes soap operas.

• Greg is younger (or possibly older) than Rowley, as his birthday takes place during the summer, while Rowley's takes place during the first semester of the school year.
  • Greg was born in June (Dog Days) and Rowley was born in October (Rodrick Rules).
  • If calculated well enough, Greg is revealed to be born on June 18.
• Sweetie had to get his stomach pumped for nothing, due to the fact that Greg ate the whoopie pies, not Sweetie. (The Long Haul )
• Greg's birthday is in June in the book and movie series while it is in February according to the online book.
• As what has been stated by Greg's creator, Jeff Kinney, Greg is drawn almost completely bald. Additionally, he slightly resembles Charlie Brown in Peanuts since both of them have a few sprigs of hair.
• It is possible that Greg has hyperthymesia- a condition that lets the individual to recall almost everything in their life. However, in previous books, he is shown to have a bad memory. It is most likely that he is inventing memories and has simply been told by his parents about life before birth. He talks about his time in pre-school, but this is not unusual as most people's first memories occur age 1-2.
• Greg has went under detention three times:
  • First for sleeping in class. (The Last Straw)
  • Second is unknown
  • Third for giving a fake elevator pass card to kids new to his middle school. (Third Wheel)
  • Due to Greg having 3 detentions, he could not sign up as a school candidate for Student Council.
• Greg was only 5 pounds 7 ounces at birth with average being 7.5 pounds, though newborns may vary from 5.5-10 pounds, this may be as he was born 3 weeks premature, even though most children born up to 1 month premature are of normal weight.
• He is the only member of his family who did not serve as a main antagonist in any book. The other members of his family serves as a main antagonist in at least one book (Rodrick in Rodrick Rules, Frank in The Last Straw, Susan in Dog Days, and Manny in Cabin Fever).
• Greg tends to be very optimistic and full of himself, believing that he will be rich and famous, and that by the age of 12-13, he would have his own reality TV show.
• It is revealed in The Last Straw that Greg swears a lot, often swearing at school and even swearing in front of his toddler brother, Manny and also using "made-up" swears like "Raspberry Plastic Tickle Bear!", etc.
• In the second film when Greg finds out Manny put a cookie in his gaming console, you can see that it is an Xbox 360 Elite. In Dog Days, there are multiple times when you can see Greg playing a PlayStation Portable and an unidentified home-console.
• Greg is rarely seen smiling.
  • Also, none of the Wimpy Kid books' covers feature Greg smiling. However, The original Do-It-Yourself Book's cover has Greg smiling.
• Greg once fainted after seeing crickets in a box. Usually it is a childish habit of fainting at the sight of insects and arachnids, considering Greg is nearly a teenager.
• Greg is seen to have a high voice in the first and second films but in Dog Days his voice is deep. This is most likely due to his actor, Zachary Gordon, going through puberty. 
• Greg is the least popular kid in school in the first film after he got beaten up by Fregley in Wrestling Class, and by Patty in "The Wizard of Oz" play.
• Greg believes that he is the best person he knows. He also seems to be quite self-absorbed due to his thoughts about some people and how oblivious he is of his behavior sometimes.
• Greg still uses baby wipes, even if he is on the verge of teenage years, as shown in the book, Old School.
• Greg has contact-lenses, as mentioned in The Last Straw.
  • His sight must be very bad, as he wears thick glasses in The Last Straw when he lost his contact-lens.
• He is favored by his Grandpa according to Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules.
• Greg is based on Jeff Kinney's worst qualities as a kid.
• Greg appeared in an Igdoof comic, but he was called Buster.
• Greg is right-handed, as revealed in the 11th book.

Relationships

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Gallery

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  Greg Heffley

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  Greg as an unborn baby, listening to music

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  Greg as a newborn

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  Greg's at his 6th birthday party

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  Greg, Rowley and Abigail in their Midnight in Paris photo.

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  Greg in his room.

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  Greg walking to school.

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  Greg reading while on the toilet.

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  Greg in the movie.

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  The lunch message sent by Rodrick pretending to be Mom

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  Rowley's book.

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  Greg's autobiography.

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  This is Greg in color in Poptropica

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  Greg holds his cabinnate, Emilio, as Jeffrey is getting ready to perform a trust fall.

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  Greg watches in shock when he saw Jeffrey fall and bangs into Rowley and Gareth.

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  Greg and his cabinnates are struggling on a obstacle course made with ropes.

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  Greg didn't want to look at Mr. Jefferson because he has a lot of hair to check for any ticks in, so he said to him that it was clear.

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  Greg Heffley in a familiar pose

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  Greg runs together with Frew and Billy Rotner on the river as Girl Scouts chases them and one of the members holding a whistle, blows it.

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  Greg looks down at Frew who is crying, and the Girl scouts have angry looks on there faces

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  When Susan suggests that Greg be really nice to everyone in order to gain popularity, this sarcastic illustration is shown.

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  Greg trying to dance

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  Greg's front view in the Online Book.

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  Greg is being chased by the girls that if he use Rodrick's body spray which always advertising on TV.

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  Greg at the dance.

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  Greg in Wimpy Wonderland.

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  A Letter Greg and Mamadou wrote to eachother.

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  Greg and Rowley in the snow.

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  The Heffley Family in the hospital, taking a look at the new baby named Manny while Greg talks to himself on the mirror.

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  Greg uses the water hose to spray onto Frank Heffley.

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  Greg and Rowley being chased by Geese.

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  Erick Bickford dropping Greg's nuggets out of his big sweaty hands.

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  Greg Heffley in the online book.