Mabel Natasha Olivia Pines is one of the two main protagonists of the Disney Channel animated TV show Gravity Falls. She is the twin sister of Dipper Pines, being older than him by five minutes. Energetic, bouncy, and optimistic, Mabel makes the best of every situation. A lover of arts, crafts and animals, Mabel is a hyperactive 12-year-old (13 by the end of the series) girl and her brother's closest ally.
Portrayers[]
Mabel is voiced by Kristen Schaal.
Appearance[]
Mabel has brown hair, brown eyes, and fair skin[]
In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic IDW comic book titled Nightmare Rarity, Mabel is named to Maybelle with a purple coat and brown mane similar to her human form. Her cutie mark is a golden star leaving behind colors of red, green and purple.
Human Form[]
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 like Dipper's. She has silver-colored braces and round blushing cheeks.
Depiction In Gravity Falls[]
Season 1[]
Sometime during the month of June, Mabel and her twin brother, Dipper Pines, were sent from Piedmont, California to the small town of Gravity Falls, Oregon to visit their great uncle Stan Pines. Mabel decides to make the best of the situation, believing that it is her chance to have an epic summer romance. She shows her boy-crazy obsession when she agrees to date a very mysterious creature (Norman), who is disguising himself as a teenage boy. But little does she know that he is actually a group of gnomes (led by Jeff) posing as a teenage boy. Jeff and the gnomes try to kidnap her because she refuses, but Dipper rescues Mabel and brings her back to the Shack on a golf cart. Mabel then defeats Jeff and the gnomes using a leaf blower. Stan allows them to take anything from the Mystery Shack for free, and Mabel decides on a grappling hook.
Though it is not specified when this happened, Mabel and Dipper helped Stan make counterfeit money. From the context, it's implied that they got arrested and spent some time in a cold jail cell. On a second attempt to create family bonds, Mabel gets in Stan's car blindfolded and Grunkle Stan drives them to a place where she is supposed to go fishing with him and Dipper as a family bonding day. When she hears that there is a monster in the lake named the Gobblewonker, she and Dipper want to go find it and get the proof after hearing about a contest if they find proof of a mythical creature. Mabel wants to discover it so she can buy a giant hamster ball to roll around in. They ditch Grunkle Stan and go with Soos to find the monster. In the end, the Gobblewonker turns out to just be an old man looking for attention. Feeling bad, Mabel and Dipper soon go back to Grunkle Stan to have their family bonding day.
When Mabel and Dipper discover Grunkle Stan's old wax figure museum, Mabel creates her own wax statue of Grunkle Stan, to make up for a melted Abe Lincoln wax figure. When the opening ceremony turns sour and Wax Stan is found "decapitated" in the middle of the night, Mabel and Dipper search for the murderer. Failing to do so, they attend Wax Stan's funeral, attended by Soos and the other wax figures, only to realize the murderer wasn't a human at all. They fight off all the murderous Wax figures using decorative candles. Mabel throws their remains in the fire while Dipper deals with Wax Sherlock Holmes.
Mabel later learns of an alleged psychic in town, named Li'l Gideon, and goes to one of his shows alongside Dipper and Soos. The following day, she is greeted by Gideon and the two spend time together, ultimately leading to the boy asking her on a date, which she reluctantly agrees to do. After the first outing, however, Gideon incessantly invites her on more dates, and Mabel, driven by peer pressure and not knowing how to reject his offers, complies. Eventually, Dipper volunteers to end the relationship with Gideon for her, causing his sister great joy. When he carries out his promise, Gideon is enraged to the point of attempting to murder him, though he is saved when Mabel intervenes, breaks up with Gideon herself and destroys Gideon's amulet. Back at the Mystery Shack, the Pines talk about their days with their new enemy and mock him, while Gideon plots his revenge on them.
When Mabel goes to the Dusk 2 Dawn with her brother Dipper, Wendy and friends, she stumbles upon a banned candy called Smile Dip. She eats about half of the shelf, or "bleventeen" as she puts it then, and begins to hallucinate, for example, a fantasy of riding on a flying dolphin with fists saying, "The future is in the past. Onwards, Aoshima!" Soon the store is taken over by ghosts and Ma and Pa possesses Mabel to communicate with the teenagers. Afterward, Mabel becomes sick to her stomach and calls the Smile Dip evil.
Mabel immediately notices that Grunkle Stan has a "thing" for Lazy Susan, the waitress at Greasy's Diner, so Mabel works some of her awesome "Mabel magic" and decides that she should be the one to help Grunkle Stan become more attractive and appealing to Lazy Susan. After having Soos pretend to be Lazy Susan, and Grunkle Stan spitting on the ground asking if "she" has any money, she decides to try a different approach to it, by "bringing that inner beauty to the outside". The end product looks worse than the original, and Mabel finally gives up, until Wendy says that Stan is unfixable, just like the spinny pie thingy in the diner. Mabel has a sudden brainstorm. She marches Grunkle Stan down to the diner to see Lazy Susan. She ends up giving him her number, and Mabel is overjoyed.
When the Mystery Shack hosts a party, Mabel begs Grunkle Stan to let her mingle with other kids. He eventually says yes, and gives her work spot to Dipper. She than meets Grenda and Candy Chiu, who soon become her friends. They tell her about Pacifica Northwest, the most popular girl in Gravity Falls. They soon become enemies and compete in a competition to see who could "party-hardy" the most, engaging in activities like singing and dancing. Though Mabel initially receives the audiences boat, Pacifica intimidates the party-goers to cheer for her and bribes Old Man McGucket. Unlike the other guests, who go off to Pacifica's after party, Candy and Grenda stay at the Shack and have a sleepover with their new friend.
Later on Pioneer Day, she runs into Pacifica again. Pacifica says Mabel is too silly and not serious. This makes Mabel angry and embarrassed, so she goes with Dipper to find the true founder of Gravity falls, knowing that conspiracies are serious. After going though many "hard" puzzles, Mabel cracks them all using her silliness, like folding the secret map into a hat, looking at a painting upside down, and making a statue pick her nose. After finding the real founder, Quentin Trembley, they also find out that he was once the president. To their surprise, the Sheriff and Deputy find them and send them, along with Trembley's body, to Washington D.C. On the way there, they free Trembley and find out that he survived by encasing himself in peanut brittle. They free themselves and eventually return back to Gravity Falls. Mabel no longer wants to prove Pacifica wrong, but this does not stop Dipper and he tells Pacifica that her ancestor is a fraud.
When the Mystery Fair comes around, Mabel wins a pig at the fair, who she names Waddles. Later on, she and Dipper find a mysterious man from the future with a time travel device. Mabel wants to go back in time to remember her greatest moment in life, adopting Waddles, which she does again and again once they have the device, while Dipper keeps on going back to stop Robbie from dating Wendy. Eventually Mabel helps Dipper succeed, but this leads to Mabel not winning Waddles. They get in a huge fight and end up going through time, to the 1800's, the Jurassic period, the future, the Mystery Shack about 20 years ago, as well as to parts of the previous episodes "Tourist Trapped", "The Legend of the Gobblewonker", and "Headhunters." They finally end up in the timeline where Mabel doesn't have Waddles. She gives up and becomes miserable. Dipper gives in and reverses the timeline so she can have Waddles.
Season 2[]
In "Scary-oke", Mabel is excited for the after-party in celebration of Gideon Gleeful's defeat, mainly due to her desire to perform the "Karaoke Bonanza" she had planned with Dipper and Stan. Once the party clears out and she is informed by Dipper that he had raised the undead, the two dart towards the Mystery Shack, several zombies following after them. Luckily, Stan then comes in and begins beating the zombies down, giving Mabel and Dipper the time they need to escape and run into the attic. Panicking on what to do, Mabel discovers that some of text in the journals were written with invisible link, being seen under the black-light. Using this information and finding the zombies weakness, Mabel suggests that they sing all together and shatter the zombies skulls. The three then head out on top of the roof and begin singing "Taking Over Midnight", much to Stan and Dipper's dismay. After all the zombies are defeated, the Pines celebrate their victory and head inside to cure Soos and clean up the shack.
In "Into the Bunker", Mabel believes that Dipper had invited Wendy along on their mission purposely to confess to her, although Dipper tells her he had moved on. Mabel doesn't believe him, teasing him along the way about it. After finding an crumbled-up confession note in his vest, Mabel sticks by her statement and forces him to confess. With Dipper not cooperating, she locks the two into locked room, where they get attacked and tricked by Shape Shifter. After realizing that they were in the midst of danger, she and Soos head out to save them, running into them in a tunnel. After luring the Shape Shifter to them and escaping the bunker, Mabel spies on Dipper as he confesses his crush to Wendy, apologizing for pushing him to do so after. She and Soos then go home to have a "hero's breakfast:" syrup on cereal.
In "The Golf War", after finding out Pacifica had taken her spot in the front of the newspaper, Mabel is devastated. In order to cheer her up, Dipper, Stan, and Soos decide to bring her the golf course. After running into Pacifica and being one-uped by her yet again, Mabel returns the insults and the two decide to have a rematch. After she and Dipper discover that the golf course is run by the Lilliputtians, they agree to help Mabel win the competition in exchange for a sticker with a picture of a trophy on it to settle their own rivalry. Once Mabel realizes how out-of-hand and immature the Lilliputtians were acting, she eats the sticker and gives a speech about how rivalries are dumb. When the Lilliputtians miss the point and threaten to cut her open, she and Pacifica work together to battle them off. After apologizing and gaining better ground with Pacifica, Mabel offers her a ride home when her parents fail to show up, even sharing a taco with her. Pacifica then admits she had fun hanging out with them and thanks them for the ride.
In "Sock Opera", Mabel develops a crush on a local puppeteer named Gabe Bensen, and decides to put on a puppet show to impress him. After learning that Dipper had made a deal with Bill and had his body stolen, Mabel is forced to choose between her own happiness or saving her brother. After nearly giving in, Mabel acknowledges her mistakes and decides to battle Bill on-stage, ruining her puppet show, but saving her brother in the process. Gabe tells Mabel that she had made a mockery of his "art", and leaves. Upon seeing Gabe make out with his puppets, she admits that she "probably dodged a bullet."
In "Soos and the Real Girl", Dipper and Mabel try to help Soos find a date, and later get attacked by .GIFfany along with Melody and Soos.
Depiction In MLP: FIM x Jake and the Never Land Pirates[]
The Amber Crew's New Members[]
Dipper and Mabel make their debut in the film The Amber Crew's New Members as the pair are first seen approaching the Amber Crew HQ in Falmouth, Maine with their Ford F250 Super Duty Lariat pickup truck and BMW M5 F90. Upon arrival, Dipper gets his title as both pianist and backup vocals singer while Mabel only plays the banjo after joining the Amber Crew.
Throughout the film, Dipper and Mabel held an audition for David Hasselhoff's TV show in Detroit, Michigan with the Amber Crew performing the song Cool Kids by Echosmith until Hasselhoff approves their performance and proceeds to Ottawa, Canada for their performance onstage. Mabel is last seen riding on the bus back home and after the post credits, she, Dipper and the band showed up at the Mane 10's house and meets the Shadowbolts.