54 Facts About Spencer Hastings

Spencer Jill Hastings is a fictional character, one of the five main characters who appear in the Pretty Little Liars novel series and its Freeform television adaptation.

Spencer Hastings is part of the very wealthy, powerful Hastings family; Spencer's parents, Veronica and Peter, are both linked to politics and her sister, Melissa is an equally accomplished grad student.

Spencer Hastings is one of four primary protagonists in all sixteen of the Pretty Little Liars novels, starting with 2006's Pretty Little Liars.

Spencer Hastings is portrayed as a competitive girl who strives for perfection in everything she does.

Spencer Hastings is willing to do whatever it takes to win, often to the detriment of herself and others.

Spencer Hastings is known to have a dark side and suffers from rage-induced black outs, which leads her to question whether she had anything to do with the death of her friend Alison.

In later books, Spencer Hastings is briefly addicted to drugs, which she takes to help her improve her grades at a University of Pennsylvania summer school.

Spencer Hastings has an ongoing rivalry with her older sister, Melissa, who is equally competitive.

Spencer Hastings is similar to her book counterpart: she is portrayed as a highly ambitious, intelligent young woman from a wealthy family who frequently competes with her older sister Melissa for accolades and the approval of their parents.

However, in the show, Spencer Hastings is portrayed as more emotional and sentimental, and more humorous than her book counterpart.

Spencer Hastings is on the Rosewood Day field hockey team, and plays tennis at her family's country club.

Spencer Hastings was the only one who could ever stand up to Alison, although she still deferred to Alison.

Ian and Spencer Hastings kissed and Alison saw them together, and later she threatened to tell Melissa.

Spencer Hastings ends her engagement with Wren and refuses to speak to him or Spencer.

Spencer Hastings is initially suspicious of Toby Cavanaugh's role in Alison's death and they begin a friendly relationship in the second half of the first season, which eventually becomes romantic Their relationship is stable until A threatens Toby's life to Spencer Hastings and she decided to end things to keep him safe.

Spencer Hastings then has a fling with Colin when she is visiting London with Melissa.

Spencer Hastings has a pregnancy scare and she and Toby realize they want different things in their lives, leading to their break up.

Spencer Hastings is a preppy, ambitious, and competitive student who strives for perfection due to her parents' high expectations.

Spencer Hastings is resentful of her older sister Melissa, to whom she is always compared to.

Spencer Hastings is attracted to her sister's fiance, Wren, whom A warns Spencer Hastings to stay away from.

Spencer Hastings feels especially guilty because years earlier, she flirted with Melissa's boyfriend Ian and he kissed her, culminating in his break up with Melissa.

Spencer Hastings starts dating Alex Santiago who works at her family's country club.

Spencer Hastings is the most suspicious and paranoid of the group, and she opposes Emily's friendship with Toby.

Spencer Hastings's family disapproves of their relationship and "A" conspires to keep them apart.

Spencer Hastings becomes concerned when Melissa and Ian suddenly elope and Melissa becomes pregnant, especially after it is revealed that Alison had a secret relationship with Ian, making him a suspect in her murder.

Spencer Hastings sends anonymous text messages to Ian, threatening to expose him.

Spencer Hastings reveals that he knows Spencer is behind the messages and attempts to kill her but he is then attacked by a mysterious figure, who then kills Ian.

The rest of the Liars join Spencer Hastings and call the police but when the police arrive, Ian's body is gone.

Spencer Hastings learns that someone has been texting Melissa from Ian's phone, pretending that he is still alive.

Spencer Hastings is concerned for Melissa, especially after her miscarriage, but Melissa is distrustful of Spencer Hastings.

Spencer Hastings becomes suspicious and after doing some further investigating, she reads Alison's autopsy results and finds that she was struck in the head with an object similar to a field hockey stick.

Spencer Hastings discovers that Peter did something illegal for the DiLaurentis family and worries that her father covered up her involvement in Alison's murder.

Spencer Hastings tries to remain friends with him but he rebuffs her attempts.

Spencer Hastings becomes suspicious of Jason DiLaurentis, especially when she and Emily break into his shed and find pictures of Aria.

Spencer continues to investigate A and thinks the Black Swan from the episode "UnmAsked" is A In the season finale, she discovers A's lair and learns that Mona is A She is attacked by Mona and they get into a struggle in which Spencer accidentally pushes Mona off of a cliff, almost killing her.

Summer has passed since the unveiling of A but Spencer Hastings is determined to uncover the Black Swan, whom she believes is another A still working with Mona.

Spencer Hastings eventually discovers it was Melissa, who claims that she was blackmailed into showing up at the masked ball.

However, Spencer Hastings begins to suspect that Toby is not on their side.

Spencer Hastings catches him trying to steal it while wearing A's signature jacket, proving he is a member of the A-Team, conspirators who are aligned with A Spencer Hastings breaks up with him, but doesn't tell her friends why.

Spencer Hastings gives the key to a private investigator and gives him a picture of Toby and her, before ripping it in half.

Spencer Hastings becomes obsessed with finding A and the mysterious person in the red coat.

Mona visits her in the sanitarium and offers to let Spencer Hastings join the A-Team.

Spencer Hastings sees a helicopter land in the woods and the Red Coat step off.

Spencer and her friends continue to be tormented by A Ashley Marin is arrested for Wilden's murder and Spencer's mother Veronica Hastings is her defense attorney.

Spencer Hastings gives Hanna and her mother emotional support in the lead up to the trial.

Spencer Hastings and the others search the apartment and deduce the owner is a male.

Spencer Hastings comes across A and tries to unmask him but is knocked out.

Spencer Hastings eventually ends up being sent to rehab by her parents, and upon getting out, she meets Alison in New York.

Alison assures her that while they did argue on the night of her disappearance, Spencer Hastings went back to sleep and had nothing to do with the murder.

Spencer Hastings starts to investigate who's behind the Carissimi Group and who Charles is.

Spencer Hastings finds out that Charlotte was killed in a copycat manner off a murder she wrote an essay about in college, leading her to start thinking that the police could blame her for Charlotte's death.

In "The Darkest Knight", Spencer Hastings is shot by Uber A during the attack by Jenna and Noel.

Alex, jealous of Spencer Hastings, wanted to have everything she never had, a family, friends, and even Toby, who she had "fallen in love with", so she kidnapped the real Spencer Hastings, pretending to be her all the time.

The real Spencer Hastings responds with the correct response and Alex is arrested along with Mary Drake.