rodrick heffley

who is rodrick

Rodrick Heffley is the semi-aggressive older brother of Greg and Manny Heffley and the drummer, founder and leader of the rock band Löded Diper. He is the oldest brother of the Heffley family. He acts as one of the main antagonists of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series overall, serving as Rodrick Rules' main antagonist and Diper Överlöde's protagonist. In the first three Diary of a Wimpy Kid films, he is played by Devon Bostick, and the role passes to Charlie Wright in the film adaptation of The Long Haul. In the Disney+ animated films, he is voiced by Hunter Dillon.

rodrick heffley as a baby

Rodrick Heffley was born to Susan and Frank Heffley in Plainview. When Greg was younger, Rodrick liked to mess with his head and tell lies. The first lie he told Greg was that if they untied your belly button (when you were a newborn), your butt would fall off. Greg told his entire preschool class, which caused quite a stir. Another lie was that the toilet seat was only used by girls. Greg believed this, until he accidentally left the door open and Susan found him. She once told Greg that, if someone wears camouflage, they are invisible to others. That incident got Greg banned from the pool for the rest of the summer, due to him looking at naked women. Sometimes Rodrick's lies even end up costing him money. Greg once believed that if you put money in the ground, it will grow into a money tree. Rodrick took the money and Greg lost much of his birthday money until his mother stepped in to help him.

teenage years

Rodrick Heffley attended Westmore Middle School and became friends with Drew and Ward and together they created the band Löded Diper. He also wrote a commission called One Hundred Years Ago; This task was the reason Frank started doing the task for him. He used to be a troublemaker at school and he didn't like some of the teachers very much, one of those people was Mr. Huff. During this time, Rodrick tried football, but gave it up because of Mr. Litch.

how rodrick met bill

One summer later, Rodrick and his friends went camping overnight in search of concert tickets; During that time, they met Bill Walter. Rodrick became friends with him and admired him, because in high school he was voted "most likely to be a rock star." Rodrick attended Crossland High School, but the school has not been mentioned for a while. Either he graduated or the school was simply not mentioned, since the series is in a floating timeline.

personality

Like Greg, Rodrick is not described as possessing any exceptional talents, and is only shown to be passionate about a few interests, clearly heavy metal music, as it occupies most of his free time and he frequently pursues it. away from his schoolwork. Rodrick would rather sleep than do anything productive, an attribute that is visually prominent throughout the series. He loves to sleep a lot, once sleeping 36 hours straight, and whenever Frank forces him to wake him up, he always tries to find a way to override it. As an avid fan of heavy metal music, Rodrick is the founder and lead drummer of the band Löded Diper. The band's lead singer, Bill, is a 35-year-old unemployed man who still lives with his grandmother. This, combined with Rodrick's fixation on heavy rock music, causes his parents to fear that he will follow a similar path to Bill in the future due to his laziness. Rodrick has a rebel, carefree attitude and constant search for fun.

Rodrick's laziness

Rodrick is extremely lazy and careless, especially when it comes to school, which makes it clearer where Greg learns from. He almost never gets a grade higher than a C-, except for his book reports (where Frank does most of the work due to Rodrick's supposed inability to type). Greg believes that Rodrick is lazy and unintelligent in all other areas, but there are signs that show that Rodrick is not as dumb as everyone perceives, which probably means that his lack of intelligence probably comes from his laziness (aka lack of motivation or refusal to learn) and possible dyslexia since he has an inability to spell (although he could have refused to learn to spell). On the one hand, he is able to con people into rewarding him more by setting the bar so low that he can end up surprising anyone by doing the tiniest thing; For example, Frank asks Rodrick to clean his dirty underwear off the table.

Rodrick's laziness

Additionally, he manages to get away with not doing chores and homework by irritating his parents to the point that they obey his wishes and lie that he has to go to the bathroom to avoid doing chores. While Rodrick is clearly still not the most academically smart in the family, he is still portrayed as a bit bright and just isn't applying it in the school department, as he would rather get good grades by cheating than doing schoolwork. very similar way. Greg does it sometimes. In Hard Luck, it is stated that Rodrick's first quarter did not go well, hinting that his father may have stopped assisting him.

Rodrick's laziness

While Rodrick is somewhat brilliant, he still struggles in other areas. For example grammar; In Dog Days, when Sweetie was brought in, Frank forced Rodrick to buy a dog bowl, however, he ended up devouring it as "Sweaty". Also common sense; In The Long Haul, he thought that a safe is a microwave and that bacon comes from pigs the same way eggs come from chickens.

Rodrick's laziness

Although Rodrick is usually lazy, petty, careless, and irresponsible, he is sometimes shown to have a softer side, as seen when he is occasionally able to treat Greg well and get along with each other. In the more recent books, he tends to be more responsible and treats his family with respect.

antagonistic role

Rodrick's somewhat antagonistic role throughout the series is due in part to a case of unreliable narrator, as Greg has a less than ideal relationship with his older brother due to their sibling rivalry and thus Greg represents Rodrick from a highly antagonistic point of view. . If one looks at Rodrick's behavior from a more neutral point of view, one can see that, while Rodrick is still not the best-behaved teenager (as he is still somewhat mean and very lazy), he is not that bad. as Greg describes it what the books are like from Greg's perspective. In fact, Rodrick is one of the best-behaved teenagers in the series. While Rodrick pulls pranks and scams his parents, it's mostly harmless (i.e. putting fake vomit in someone's car and getting his parents to reward him more) and isn't outright vandalism like most people do. other teens in the series (i.e. goading and recording someone). house and harass small children on Halloween). In some ways, Rodrick may be a better person than Greg and perhaps better than his parents and his younger brother. In particular, Greg uses and manipulates his friends such as Rowley and Chirag (and even people he doesn't know well) often, while Rodrick is never seen doing so with his friends and engages in normal activities with them (such as watching television and practice with them). his band). In the animated film Diary of a Wimpy Kid, he said that he did his best work on the science project when he didn't and lied to Greg about what he did after Greg helped him with it so he could pass the class and get a good grade. in that.

appearance

Rodrick usually sports a white shirt and black jeans, however, he is shown to change into a black tank top with ripped shorts and black shoes whenever he heads to a concert or performs a show. When Jeff Kinney starts drawing Rodrick, he starts off as if he were drawing Greg because he looks so similar to him. The only facial appearances that make Rodrick stand out are his thick black eyebrows and five short strands of hair. In the live-action films, Rodrick has black hair that covers his head and occasionally wears makeup, however, in The Long Haul he has long hair, as the directors thought it was suitable for a rock band. In the animated films Rodrick is precisely the appearance of the books with little or no change, the actor who plays him in the first three films is Devon Bostick.

curiosities

Given estimates based on his illustrations, Rodrick Heffley is most likely between 5' 6" (167.64 cm) and 5' 8" (172.72 cm) tall. However, this is completely conjecture, as his height has never been definitively stated within the series. Despite annoying his brother in both films, he treats him very well in Dog Days. He is the only main character who always has eyebrows in the CGI animated books and films. His science project and his SAT scores have never been revealed. In the online version, however, Rodrick did not receive any awards for his science project. He once slept for 36 hours and didn't realize until he saw that Monday Night Football wasn't on because it was Tuesday. Ironically, most real people can't do that. He also had a bad habit of falling asleep in the hot tub and one time Susan forgot to wake him up, which made his skin look like a prune for two weeks during which his high school took his yearbook pictures. Although the fans like the second actor but they feel sorry for him and know that he does not fit in as the new Rodrick because of the hatred of everyone and the directors. His room is located in the basement of the house. In the film, however, he moved into the attic, since the house where the producers filmed all of the Heffley house scenes had no basement.

curiosities

Most of the characters in the book only show their eyebrows when they are angry. However, in keeping with his antagonistic behavior, he always seems angry because he has eyebrows all the time. It is hinted in the online book that he has never had a legitimate girlfriend as Greg has never seen him with a girl. However, in The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book, he hints in a letter that he was associated with a girl named Lyndsey, who seemed to break his heart in some way. This may explain why she acts incredibly rude and immature. Rodrick did have a brief relationship with an unnamed girl he met at the Isla de Corales resort in the book The Getaway. Rodrick is a major antagonist of all three series; Book, movie and online version. However, he is not an antagonist in The Third Wheel, Hard Luck, Big Shot, and Diper Överlöde. In The Third Wheel, he is mentioned only a few times and is a background character; He doesn't tease or prank Greg at all (except in flashbacks), same in Hard Luck. In Big Shot, he only appears on two pages and is mentioned once. In Diper Överlöde, it can be argued that he is the protagonist, since most of the book focuses on him, Bill, Mackie, and maybe Drew.

curiosities

In the online book, Rodrick drives a van while the van belongs to Bill Walter, however in the books and movies the van belongs to him. It is believed that he likes jokes. In the movie Rodrick Rules, he takes Greg to a mall and throws fake vomit on cars. This ends with the kids being chased through a dumpster and through the mall by an angry gym teacher. He is also shown playing pranks on Greg, other adults and teenagers in many of the books, for example putting fake vomit on cars, shooting spitballs at a man and it is mentioned that he pranked people with US dollar bills. dollar under the boardwalk. However, the first one with fake vomit in cars in the Rodrick Rules book happens, but Greg is not involved. His social media account has likely been Myspace, Facebook, or even Twitter since The Ugly Truth was published in 2010.

curiosities

Despite appearing on the first page of every book (which usually has all of the books' protagonists), Rodrick is only a main character in Rodrick Rules, The Long Haul, The Getaway, and Diper Överlöde, with all other appearances being Minors (less than 30 pages). . He is shown to be taken advantage of for the first time in Old School. This is also the first time that he does not escape a situation from his father, Frank. In Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, he saw that Sweetie's name was wrong on the water bowl, and spelled it "Sweaty". He is usually the main antagonist in Diary of a Wimpy Kid, minor antagonist and antihero in Rodrick Rules and Old School. His voice from the CGI animated films sounds feminine and hoarse due to the third actor who voices him. It is unknown if he was fired from his job at Old-Timey Ice Cream Parlor after Old School. It is assumed that he has mild dyslexia since he has problems with writing and spelling. It's possible that he also has narcolepsy, which would explain his sleeping habits.

curiosities

He is said to not know how to type, so he gets Frank to write his essays for him (and at the same time rewrites Rodrick's entire essay from scratch in the process). However, Rodrick has been seen texting without any problem, proving that he does know how to write and is simply pretending not to manipulate Frank into doing all of Rodrick's chores for him. He is based on Jeff Kinney's older brother named Scott Kinney. He appeared in a Happy Meal commercial created by McDonald's along with The Pig, Gammie and Sweetie. It is unknown whether he is at Double Down University or not, although his mother has tried to persuade him to apply to numerous universities, where he eventually applied (although she did not know it) to dog schools. . In the online version, Greg claims that Rodrick has a bee sting allergy. Like Greg and Manny, he is rarely seen smiling (sometimes when he makes jokes). In Hard Luck it is implied that his bushy eyebrows come from his mother's side of the family, as his maternal aunt Gretchen also has bushy eyebrows, which are always shown.

curiosities

Rodrick has one of the largest fan bases of any character, especially for teenagers, mainly due to the lead actor's performance. It's very possible that Rodrick read Greg's diary because he knows that Greg has a crush on Holly Hills, he tried to steal it in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, and the "of a wimpy kid" on the cover looks similar. to his letter. While he still isn't the friendliest person, Rodrick has become noticeably less mean and antagonistic throughout the series (particularly towards Greg). Additionally, despite his rebellious/punk-rocker personality, as well as his generally antagonistic behavior, many fans consider Rodrick to be the most "normal" of the Heffleys. In the script of the first film, Rodrick is revealed to be 16 years old. Rodrick, Frank, Greg, and Jeremy Mitchell are the only people in the series who are not shown the inside of their ears. The casting of Charlie Wright as Rodrick received several criticisms, which also began with the hashtag #NotmyRodrick. Wright also received hate messages and death threats. In response to the hate and threats against Wright, original Rodrick actor Devon Bostick expressed his dismay at the smear and urged fans not to resort to such acts, but to give the new actor and cast a chance, before to give Wright his blessing.

curiosities

Rodrick really likes snacks, as stated in "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules." This is because he was excited and woke up when Susan mentioned snacks. There was a mistake in one of the books where Rodrick's eyebrows disappeared, looking like Greg but with 5 strands. Rodrick has a double, Rodrigo, who appeared in The Getaway. Gallery