Wendy, Let's Talk About You

There are a few things that you'll never hear in this world. "I think our government is doing a splendid job" "Hitler may have had a few good points" "Brett Ratner is the best director of all time" and lastly "Wendy is my favourite character in Gravity Falls". Now that's not to say she's a bad character, but she's not as good as the others. When people talk about their favourite characters it's always Mabel, Soos, Grunkle Stan, or hell, even Old Man McGucket. But never Wendy (Or Dipper for that matter). So I decided to take a better look at Wendy and see if she's a good character or not, because personally, I think she is. Like most, she was the one that took the longest for me to like, mostly because she doesn't do much, but when they do make her a pivotal part of an episode, she's actually quite enjoyable. She's able to get a good laugh here and there, but there is more to it in that. Her character is a satire of the millennial teenagers, the ones obsessed with doing nothing and pretend to hate everything, they just wanna spend all day on their phones and breaking the rules...okay that could apply to teenagers of several generations, but it's down in the details of her dialogue that make her specifically a millennial. But then there is still a deeper layer to that, even though she pretends to hate everything, she does still really like Dipper and Mabel and the other characters, in fact I think it's pretty clear that she has more fun with these guys then the people she's supposed to be friends with. And unlike everything else in her life, she doesn't mock them or call them silly, Mabel & Soos are weird and don't always make sense, but she just goes along with it because they're just doing what makes them happy, rather than pretending to hate everything like her friends. She's adventurous, she's not afraid to get dirty and dangerous when solving a mystery, and she's empathetic towards the others, *Spoilers ahead* when Dipper finally confesses his feelings, she lets him down gently and reasonably, she doesn't see him that way, but that doesn't stop him from being one of her best friends. She's good to the people she cares about and has an entertaining and adventurous personality, sure she's also lazy and may not be the funniest character, but that doesn't make her bad, just not as good.

-Danny