Which Ones the Space Bar Again? Wimpy Kid

"	Don't be expert at something yous don't want to do!	"
	— Rodrick to Greg Heffley

Rodrick Heffley is the semi-ambitious older blood brother of Greg and Manny Heffley and the drummer and founder of the rock band Löded Diper. He is a major graphic symbol in the Diary of a Wimpy Child serial, acting every bit a third antagonist in the serial overall and serving as the main antagonist of Rodrick Rules.

In the first three Diary of a Wimpy Kid films, he is played by Devon Bostick, with the role being passed on to Charlie Wright in the film accommodation of The Long Haul. He is voiced by Hunter Dillon in the animated Diary of a Wimpy Kid picture show for Disney+.

i Background
- 1.1 Birth and Childhood
- one.2 Teen Years
2 Personality
3 Trivia
4 Gallery
5 References

Background

Birth and Childhood

Rodrick Heffley was born to Susan and Frank Heffley in Plainview on the 10th of November 2005.

When Greg was little, Rodrick liked to mess with his caput. The commencement lie he told Greg was that, if your belly button got untied (as a newborn), your barrel would fall off. Greg told his whole preschool class, which caused a big stir. Some other lie was that the toilet seat was only used for girls. Greg believed this, until he accidentally left the door unlocked, and Susan found him. Once he told Greg that, if someone wears camouflage, they are invisible to everyone else. That incident got Greg banned from the puddle for the rest of the summertime, due to him looking at naked women. Sometimes Rodrick'south lies even end upward costing coin. Greg once believed that, if you lot put money in the ground, it will grow into a money tree. Rodrick took the coin, and Greg lost a lot of his birthday money until his mom stepped in to help him.

Teen Years

Rodrick Heffley attended Westmore Eye Schoolhouse and became friends with Chris and Ward and they together created the band Löded Diper. He likewise wrote an assignment called A Hundred Years Ago; this assignment was the reason Frank started to practise his homework for him. He used to be a trouble maker in school and was greatly disliked by some of the teachers there, 1 such person being Mr. Huff. During this time, Rodrick tried out soccer, but quit considering of Mr. Litch.

A summertime later, Rodrick and his friends were going camping overnight looking for concert tickets; during that time, they meet Bill Walter. Rodrick became friends with him and looked up to him, because in high school he was voted, "Most Likely To Be A Stone Star".

Rodrick attended Crossland Loftier Schoolhouse, just the schoolhouse has non been mentioned for a while. He either graduated or the school has simply not been mentioned, since the series is on a floating timeline.

Personality

Like Greg, Rodrick is shown to take no existent talents, and is merely skilful at a few things, mainly stone music, and spends nearly of his time on it, which drafts him abroad from schoolwork. He would much rather sleep for hours over doing annihilation else. Fitting with his love for heavy metal music, Rodrick is the founder and atomic number 82 drummer of a band called "Löded Diper", a metallic band. Its lead vocalist is a homo whom Rodrick's parents are afraid he will plow into: Neb Walter.

Rodrick is extremely lazy and careless when information technology comes to schoolhouse, which explains where Greg gets his laziness. He almost never gets a class above C-, except for his book reports (where Frank does nearly all the work due to Rodrick's inability to type). Greg believes that Rodrick is lazy and unintelligent in all other areas, though there are clues that show otherwise. Rodrick conspicuously isn't the smartest in the family academic wise equally he hardly makes an effort at school and constantly asks his parents to do his work for him, as already mentioned. Sometimes he tin can even go rewarded for bad grades. When Greg was invited to a café by his parents as a reward for his great one-half-year study card with A's and B's on it, Rodrick was allowed to come up too despite of his report card being as terrible as usual. Although Rodrick is portrayed in this way, he is actually quite manipulative and intelligent in conning other people.

Rodrick is said by Greg to exist a terrible speller (though he spelled everything right too band names on his activity page in The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book) and is said to be completely ignorant about how to use any electronic device (although this may be more than manipulation to get things done for him; he is conspicuously seen using a music player in Rodrick Rules and a jail cell phone in a flashback in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, and in The Ugly Truth it is shown that he uploads photos online and he is once more seen using a music actor over again in Hard Luck. He as well messages his friends as shown The Deep Cease). Rodrick did terribly back in simple and heart school.

The merely reason Rodrick is doing slightly amend at loftier school is that he cheats by having his dad practice all the work for him, but in Hard Luck, it is said his beginning quarter didn't go well, pregnant that his father might accept stopped helping him. In the online book, Rodrick gets into a big fight with his dad in seventh form, so he had to do a history paper himself. Greg buys that paper and flunks information technology. He is shown to misspell a lot of words fifty-fifty in the contempo books, like for case, in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days and the online book, when they got Sweetie (the dog), Rodrick went and got the dog a basin that says "Sweaty". In The Long Booty, he thought a safe is a microwave and bacon comes from pigs in the aforementioned way that eggs from chickens.

Even though Rodrick is ofttimes lazy, hateful, careless, and irresponsible, he is shown to take a softer side at times, as seen where he can occasionally care for Greg nicely and the brothers become along. They also do some stuff together.

In the about contempo books, he tends to be more responsible and treats his family nicely with respect.

Trivia

Rodrick's science project and his grades for his Sat exams have not nonetheless been revealed and so far, though there is a possibility it may come in future books. In the online version, nonetheless, Rodrick got no ribbons for his science project.
Rodrick in one case slept for 36 hours and didn't notice until he saw that Monday Dark Football wasn't on, considering it was Tuesday. He as well had a bad habit of falling asleep in the hot tub and one time Susan forgot to wake him up, resulting in his peel looking like a clip for two weeks during which his high school did their yearbook photos.
Rodrick'due south room is located in the basement of the house. In the film, however, information technology was relocated to the attic equally the house the producers used to film all the Heffley household scenes had no basement.
Most of the characters in the book only show their eyebrows when they are mad. Plumbing equipment with Rodrick's combative behaviour, notwithstanding, he e'er looks aroused due to him having eyebrows all the fourth dimension.
It's hinted in the online volume that Rodrick has never had a legitimate girlfriend since Greg has never seen him with a daughter. However, in The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book, it is hinted in a letter of the alphabet that he was associated with a girl named Lyndsey, who seemed to break his heart in some manner. This may explicate why he acts incredibly rude and immature.
- Rodrick did have a brief human relationship with an unnamed girl that he met at the Isla de Corales resort in the book The Getaway.
Rodrick is a major antagonist of the 3 series; book, flick, and online version. However, he isn't an antagonist in The Third Bicycle, Hard Luck, and Large Shot.
- In The Third Wheel, he is mentioned just a few times and is a background character; he doesn't bother or prank Greg at all (except for flashbacks), the same in Difficult Luck. In Big Shot, He only appears on two pages and is mentioned once.
He has had a minor role in the recent books, since Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, with the exception of The Long Haul.
In the online book, Rodrick drives a pickup truck while the van belongs to Bill Walter, still in the books and films the van belongs to him.
He is thought to have a love for pranks. In the Rodrick Rules moving-picture show, he takes Greg to a mall and throws fake vomit on cars. This ends with the boys being chased through a dumpster and the mall by an aroused gym teacher. He is as well shown pulling pranks on Greg, other adults and teenagers in many of the books, for example putting faux vomit on cars, shooting spitballs on a man and mentioned to have pranked people with dollar bills underneath the boardwalk.
- However, the beginning one with fake vomit on cars in Rodrick Rules book does happen, but Greg isn't involved.
It is most probable he has a social network account because co-ordinate to Greg in The Ugly Truth, he uploads pictures of his band. But after when Susan told him that people will wait at his social media contour earlier giving him a task, in order to make him cease posting pictures of his band.
- Information technology's probable that his social media business relationship could take been a Facebook account since The Ugly Truth was published in 2010.
Despite appearing on all the books' first page (which generally has all the books' protagonists) Rodrick is only a major character in Rodrick Rules and The Long Haul with every other appearance being minor (under thirty pages).
Rodrick is shown to be taken advantage of for the first time in Sometime School. This is also the first fourth dimension he doesn't squeeze out of a situation from his Dad, Frank.
Rodrick cutting off some of his hair and one of his eyebrows in the online version when he grew a slap-up moustache.
In Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, Rodrick got Sweetie's proper noun wrong on the water basin, which he spelled "Sweaty".
Rodrick is usually the main antagonist in Diary of a Wimpy Kid, modest antagonist, and anti-hero in Rodrick Rules and Old School.
Information technology remains unknown if Rodrick got fired from his job at Sometime-Timey Ice Cream Parlour after One-time Schoolhouse.
It is assumed that he has pocket-sized dyslexia every bit he has trouble with writing and spelling.
Rodrick is based on Jeff Kinney's older brother named Scott Kinney.
Rodrick made an appearance in a Happy Repast Commercial created past McDonald'due south aslope with The Pig, Gammie, and Sweetie.
It is unknown if he is in college as of Double Downward or not, even though his mother has tried to persuade him to apply for numerous ones, where he somewhen applied (fifty-fifty though he didn't know) for canis familiaris schools.
In the online version, Greg states that Rodrick has a bee sting allergy.
Like Greg and Manny, Rodrick is also rarely seen smiling (sometimes when pranking)
It is implied in Hard Luck that he gets his thick eyebrows from his mom'due south side of the family, as his maternal aunt Gretchen also has thick, e'er shown eyebrows.
Rodrick has one of the biggest fanbases out of all the characters particularly for teenagers more often than not because of the portrayal past Devon Bostick.
It is very possible that Rodrick has read Greg'south diary as 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 Rodrick'south handwriting.
Many fans considers him as the nearly normal out of the family because all the bad things he has done is usually harmless.
Although Rodrick was portrayed as the mean older brother in the showtime books, he is portrayed much less mean in recent books.