History Characters / GravityFallsYouth

* TenderTomboyishnessFoulFemininity: Wendy and Tambry. Wendy is a tomboy who wears flannels and likes to act like OneOfTheBoys while Tambry is a downbeat and apathetic PhoneaholicTeenager who wears a skirt and spends all her time texting. Downplayed though in that Tambry isn't nessicarily a bad person. She's just your typical [[PhoneaholicTeenager phone-obsessed teenage girl]], is all.

* ButtMonkey: Has shown shades of this trope in his appearances in season 2 thus far.

* ThrowTheDogABone: He finally stops acting like a poor sack mourning for Wendy's break up with him by [[spoiler:moving on and falling in love with Tambry in "The Love God" and also seemingly makes amends with Wendy and the rest of their gang]].

** Her parents would rather go to a party than stay and cheer on their daughter, and Mr. Northwest's idea of words of encouragement is "Don't lose."

** FrivolousLawsuit: Parodied in "The Golf War" when she threatens to sue the Lilliputtians after they call her a "dumb hugeling", and again in "Weirdmageddon Part 3" when she grumbles that if she dies, she's suing everyone.

* LovableAlphaBitch: Through character development and more focus on her "parents" in Season 2, Pacifica moves into this trope.

[[caption-width-right:180:"You were right about me, I am just another link in the world's worst chain."]]

* ActionSurvivor: Never the less she's more able at keeping herself alive when facing the supernatural, than actually fighting it. [[spoiler:She's also one of the few citizens who manages to avoid being captured by Bill, and is part of Stan's army.]]

* BeingEvilSucks: Pacifica discovers this the HARD WAY after discovering that [[spoiler:her entire family have always been liars, cheaters, and sociopaths]]. After this discovery, she's willing to put an end to [[spoiler:her family's legacy]].
* BerserkButton: She has the following.

* BreakTheHaughty: His appearances in the first season collectively amount to this, and culminate in [[spoiler: Wendy finally dumping him after he tries brainwashing her into staying with him]].

** In the final part of [[spoiler: "Weirdmageddon"]], Pacifica freaks out when her hair catches fire (in a manner mocking her vanity), and Robbie then freaks out in a similar fashion when his also catches fire.

* EmoTeen: He meets all criteria of the stereotype: Dark clothing, makeup, and he's in a band. Furthermore, the creators state that [[spoiler: after the breakup]] he's been taking angsty selfies in the cemetery (one such example seen in "Into the Bunker"), and he has angsty poetry written on the walls of his room.

--> "It's eye paint for men."

** "Gideon Rises" shows him genuinely upset that [[spoiler: Wendy dumped him]]. He's a little obsessive and he ''definitely'' deserves it, but...
** Furthered in "The Love God" where [[spoiler: after starting to date Tambry, he starts to become nicer, even thanking Mabel for hooking them up]].
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: In "Boyz Crazy", he tells Dipper--as he's on his date with Wendy--"Catch you on the rewind". This, and Grunkle Stan, gives Dipper the EurekaMoment to figure out that there's backmasked subliminal messaging in the song he wrote for Wendy. That--and the fact that he lied about ripping it off some other band--was enough for Wendy to break up with him.]] Furthermore, she was on the verge of breaking up with him anyway due to him being a terrible boyfriend.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler: His memories of "Fight Fighters" were completely erased by the Society of the Blind Eye.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: He used mind controlling music to manipulate Wendy into dating him while Mabel used a love potion to make him date Tambry.

* NeverMyFault: Blames Dipper for his [[spoiler: break up with Wendy]] in "The Love God", yet seems to not realize a good chunk of that was from his own selfishness. By the end of the series, while [[spoiler: both Gideon and Pacifica]] have been shown to recognize and regret their failings and try to be better people, Robbie has not had any on-screen moment of him admitting his own failings. All he does is move on and forgive Dipper for things the latter didn't do.

* OddFriendship: With Mabel. The two of them make friends by the end of "The Love God", after Robbie expresses his appreciation to Mabel for her [[spoiler: hooking him up with Tambry]]. A scrapped animated Polaroid was supposed to play in the credits of the series finale that shows [[https://youtu.be/5MY9dnCMLKE Mabel painting Robbie's nails]]. Robbie is a pessimistic {{Jerkass}} (at least initially) who wears dark clothes and is quite moody, whereas Mabel is an optimistic AllLovingHeroine who wears bright clothes and is almost always smiling.
* PhoneaholicTeenager: Implied. Clearly not to the same extent as Tambry, but Dipper mentions that Robbie posts a "really annoying" amount of status updates, and during [[spoiler: "Weirdmageddon"]], Wendy states that he would have [[spoiler: avoided being captured by Bill Cipher in the cemetery]], had he not have stopped to take a selfie.

* TakenForGranite: [[spoiler: Stated to have been captured by the Eye-Bats during "Weirdmageddon Part 1", in part due to his own narcissism and stupidity.]]

* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: "Weirdmageddon Part 1" has Wendy reveal that Robbie could have escaped Bill's Eye-Bat army, but decided to take a selfie when all his friends had been captured, leading to them getting him too.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: Time will tell if this change is permanent, but during the events of "The Love God", he [[spoiler: starts a relationship with Tambry. As a result, he becomes much happier and more pleasant. He even sincerely thanks Mabel for helping him move on from his breakup with Wendy. Part of this, however, is due to the love potion that Mabel administered. He doesn't however, lose his angsty attitude. Given that he and his crew were kind enough to attend Dipper and Mabel's birthday celebration and even sign Dipper's farewell card, it's safe to say he has changed for the better]].

* AllGirlsLikePonies: In "Weirdmageddon 3" she is seen reading a magazine called "Pony Fancy". [[spoiler: When Preston Northwest is forced to sell their mansion to uphold their family's wealth, Priscilla tearfully informs her daughter that she will only be able to keep one pony from now on - much to Pacifica's dismay.]]

* BigScrewedUpFamily: [[spoiler: Oh yes.]]
* BlueBlood: Her great-great grandfather founded Gravity Falls. [[spoiler: Except he didn't.]]
* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler: When Dipper revealed to Pacifica his and Mabel's findings about the history of Gravity Falls in "Irrational Treasure". This was only one of many lies she's about to find out.]]

** Finally happens completely in [[spoiler: "Northwest Mansion Mystery". When she discovers just how evil her family legacy really is, and gets accused of being just as bad as them, she goes into a total breakdown (see VillainousBSOD), not even caring that she'll probably die in the ghost's rampage until Dipper snaps her out of it]].
* BrokenAce: The only reason why she acts like an AlphaBitch is to please her parents, and they wanted to mold her into something worse.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: She enters the show as a one-note villain for Mabel in Season 1. By Season 2, she goes through a lot of change (mostly brought about by [[BreakTheHaughty humiliation]]) and gets a reasonable FreudianExcuse for the way she acts. [[spoiler: When the facade of her pompousness finally breaks, it breaks HARD.]]

* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Upon finding out about her family history, she has a VillainousBSOD and possibly even considers suicide by allowing the ghost to find her (by flashing her light from the hidden room) and kill her in order to end the bloodline, but she is comforted and reassured by Dipper before the ghost can do so.]]

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: [[spoiler: In Season 2, when she starts to rebel against her parents' conditioning, her bangs gain a slight part.]]
* ExtremeDoormat: To her parents. She stops rebelling against them as soon as they ring a bell, like she's a dog bound to obey her masters at the drop of a hat. [[spoiler: She eventually breaks this pattern and allows herself to be who she is inside.]]

--> '''Mabel''': You walking, one-dimensional, bleach-blonde valley girl stereotype!

** An Easter egg from ''Lost Legends'' reveals [[spoiler: Pacifica is [[ClosetGeek a skilled player of an online shooter]] called ''Bloodcraft: Overdeath'', has a weakness for puns, and secretly loves [[DeepFriedWhatever deep-fried foods]]]].
* IAmNotMyFather: Or in her case, her entire family.

-->'''Priscilla:''' (Reading young Pacifica a bedtime story) And the ugly duckling never made any friends, because his face was weird. The end.
-->'''Pacifica:''' Wait, aren't there more pages?
-->'''Priscilla:''' ([[StepfordSmiler Smiling]] while tearing out the rest of the pages) Nope! Enjoy your beauty sleep- you've got a pageant tomorrow!

--> '''Pacifica''': Now who wants to hear more about me?
* {{Jerkass}}: {{Invoked|Trope}}. A standard bully to the protagonists (mostly to Mabel), but it's later revealed that her parents, especially her father, were molding her into one, and then something worse.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Happened in "Irrational Treasure" and "The Time Traveler's Pig". In the former, she learns that her ancestor Nathaniel Northwest was not the founder of Gravity Falls, but was really [[spoiler: a waste-shoveling village idiot]]. In the latter, she is seen being repeatedly pecked by a chicken by the end of the episode. Both can be considered fitting punishments for her rude and disrespectful behavior.

* ManipulativeBitch: Downplayed. In her debut appearance she tries this, but proves not to be very good at it, so afterward just sticks to solving her problems with money. Full-on manipulation (i.e. lying and cheating) however, is beneath her.
* MeaningfulName:

---> And Mabel, I can't believe I'm saying this, but... I had fun.
** Pacifica gains a healthy amount of respect for Dipper in "Northwest Mansion Mystery", not to mention that she saves his life at least a few times and fulfilled her ancestor's promise to the Lumberjack Ghost, something no other Northwest ever did.
** To top it all off, [[spoiler:she bought and wrapped presents for Dipper and Mabel, and signed Dipper's farewell card]].

* RefuseToRescueTheDisliked: Defied. Pacifica knows her parents are bad, but doesn't think her parents deserve a fate of being [[spoiler:cast in stone by Bill, despite the fact that her father got himself into that mess]].
* RescueRomance: Downplayed to ShipTease, but Pacifica is much nicer to [[spoiler: Dipper]] after he saves her from the Lumberjack ghost, even wanting him to stay afterwards.

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: [[spoiler: In "Northwest Mansion Mystery", she ignores her father's order not open the gates, so that the ghost's victims can return to normal.]]

* SitcomArchnemesis: To Mabel, though after "The Golf War" that might be moving towards friends, or at the very least [[VitriolicBestBuds more respectful rivals]]. She's more or less pulled a complete HeelFaceTurn on this trope as of "Northwest Mansion Mystery" [[spoiler: after she discovered her family's ''extremely'' shady and duplicitous past, and vowed to fix their broken family name by saving Dipper, Mabel, Candy, Grenda, and the party guests from the Lumberjack's vengeance]].

* TokenGoodTeammate: [[spoiler: Eventually becomes one for the Northwest family.]]
* TookALevelInBadass:

* TrophyChild: It turns out that Pacifica's haughty attitude and being great at a variety of hobbies and interests is because her parents had taught her to do so, or invested for her to be "perfect" in favor of their social lives and status at Pacifica's expense, including [[spoiler: conditioning her to obey when a bell is rung, scolding her for small mistakes, and disregarding her personal wants in favor of their own]].
--> '''Preston''': Oh, and whatever happens, just remember one thing. You're a Northwest. Don't lose.
* {{Tsundere}}: Her way of being nice. She's clearly trying, but she's still a little rough while doing so (like calling Soos a "servant" even when she's giving him a genuine compliment). ''VideoGame/GravityFallsLegendOfTheGnomeGemulets'' makes her even more of one, as she keeps ''trying'' to act egotistically superior to the Pines twins like she used to but keeps slipping and exposing or even outright admitting that she "doesn't totally hate them" ([[ShipTease an understatement as far as Dipper is concerned.]]) [[spoiler: She shows more of this in "Weirdmageddon 3", accepting Mabel's llama sweater while saying "Fine, I'll wear it, but I won't like it!", plus insulting Mabel's fashion sense earlier, but at the end not only attending Dipper and Mabel's birthday, but getting them presents and going through the trouble of gift-wrapping them herself as well as signing a farewell card for Dipper. Also, she was the ''only'' one who kept wearing Mabel's sweater on the day of the battle, despite her previous statement about it.]]

* UptownGirl: Pacifica, who is the daughter of the richest family in Gravity Falls, has a lot of ShipTease with the middle class boy [[spoiler: Dipper]], to the point of being an ImpliedLoveInterest.

* VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler: After discovering her family's terrible history and the curse brought about by it, she drops her snooty demeanor (for the most part) and becomes a lot more friendly towards Dipper and company.]]

* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: [[spoiler: One of the townsfolk to actively stand up to Bill during the opening sequence of "Weirdmageddon Part 1".]]

--> '''Candy''': There is no escape from music camp.

* TheSmartGirl: She's good at thinking on her feet, as shown in "Roadside Attraction" when she saved she, Grenda, and the Pines family from being [[spoiler: either captured by Darlene or falling to their death]].

* NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: In "Northwest Mansion Mystery", Candy and Mabel leave Grenda out of their attempts to flirt with a young Austrian baron due to this trope seeming to be in effect. [[spoiler: Subverted when Grenda's aggressive style of flirting ends up [[AmazonChaser winning the Baron over]].]]

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Lee and Nate seem to be closest to each other compared to the rest of the group. It's most apparent in "The Love God" where [[spoiler: Lee becomes upset about Nate telling Robbie and not him about his crush on Tambry]].

* TakenForGranite: [[spoiler: Captured by Eye-Bats during the events of "Weirdmageddon Part 1."]]
* TeensAreMonsters: Averted. They're snarky, subject each other to a lot of good-natured ribbing, dare each other to do stupid things, play pranks, love mischief, etc.--but it's all in good fun, and they never intend to seriously harm anyone. The most serious kind of trouble any of them ever get up to is graffitiing here and there, and maybe some drinking, as a party at Tambry's house is advertised with a flyer reading, "No photos better end up online!".
** Their debut episode "The Inconveniencing" can be seen as a TakeThat to this trope. The abandoned convenience store Dusk 2 Dawn is haunted by the ghosts of Ma and Pa Duskerton, its former owners who didn't like teenagers hanging around the store when they were alive, "with their boomy boxes and disrespectful short pants", so they banned them. However, the teens retaliated... by playing incredibly tame rap music with lyrics like "Homework's whack, and so are rules! Tuckin' in your shirt's for fools!", and dancing in the parking lot. Additionally, the "offenses" that Tambry, Thompson, Lee, and Nate get taken hostage for are texting, playing video games, being sarcastic, and yelling.

* WhenSheSmiles: Tambry is usually shown with an apathetic frown on her face. After [[spoiler: getting together with Robbie in "The Love God", however, we see her smile several times. It's rather adorable.]]

* RememberTheNewGuy: {{Parodied}}. As he is eaten he shouts, "Remember me!" but doesn't play a big part in the story after that.

* CampStraight: If it weren’t for the fact he shows some interest in Mabel, he could easily be considered AmbiguouslyGay due to his stereotypically effeminate mannerisms and tone of voice.

* CompanionCube: Treats his puppets as if they were alive. [[spoiler: Including making out with them.]]

[[folder: Marius von Fundshauser]]

* InsecureLoveInterest: {{Implied}}. When asking out Grenda, he thinks ''she's'' out of ''his'' league.

[[folder: Jeffy Fresh, Byrone, and R-R-Rosie]]
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A trio of teenagers who lived in Gravity Falls during the 90's. They were eventually killed by the Summerween Trickster as revealed in the online game "Pinesquest".

* BlueBlood: A baron. ArtisticLicense applies here, as in RealLife, aristocracy of all kind is outlawed in Austria ever since the end of World War II.

* RequisiteRoyalRegalia: Is visibly dressed like a noble, with a fancy coat, cravat, and epaulets. The cravat and the epaulets are particularly justified in this case because, according to his guestbook profile, he inherited a factory that makes them.

* EverythingsBetterWithLlamas: She is associated with the llama on the Zodiac wheel, as a painting of one can be seen during "Northwest Mansion Mystery". During "Weirdmageddon 3", [[spoiler:she grudgingly [[GoodCostumeSwitch accepts Mabel's llama hair sweater]] ]], and [[spoiler: confirms her spot on the Cipher Wheel and the bigger prophecy]].

* {{Jerkass}}: Even before ultimately rejecting Mabel, Gabe displays a lot of red flags. He basically gaslights Mabel into putting on her show, keeps MovingTheGoalposts to make her meet his expectations for a puppet enthusiast, and outright says he will be interested in a date IF her show ends well.

* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Blonde-haired and the most popular girl in town. Notably, she is the only [[BlondeBrunetteReadhead blonde]] of her GirlPosse in which she is the AlphaBitch.

* NiceHat: Nate wears a dark aqua green and white cap.

* BlindingBangs: Marcus (the tall one with the hat) has his eyes hidden by his long hair. The only time his eyes have been shown is in a photo of himself and his siblings when they were young.

* BrawnHilda: PlayedWith. She generally comes across as this, but Marius sees her as more of an AmazonianBeauty, in spite of Mabel and Candy's expectations.

* NeverMyFault: Blames Dipper for his [[spoiler: break up with Wendy]] in "The Love God", yet seems to not realize a good chuck of that was from his own selfishness. By the end of the series, while [[spoiler: both Gideon and Pacifica]] have been shown to recognize and regret their failings and try to be better people, Robbie has not had any on-screen moment of him admitting his own failings. All he does is move on and forgive Dipper for things the latter didn't do.

* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Blonde-haired and the most popular girl in town. Notably, she is the only blonde of her GirlPosse in which she is the AlphaBitch.

* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: During "Northwest Mansion Mystery", Pacifica begins being nicer and ultimately fulfills this trope.

-->'''Priscilla:''' (Smiling while tearing out the rest of the pages) Nope! Enjoy your beauty sleep- you've got a pageant tomorrow!

* VagueAge: He doesn't look quite as young as the twins, and Mabel thinks he's old enough to drive. Granted, she also thought biscotti was a type of car, and Gabe flirts with Mabel, which implies they are similar ages. (In a storyboarded scene that didn't make it into the episode, he refers to himself as thirteen.)
* YoungerThanTheyLook: When first introduced, he could be mistaken for an adult, though his short stature shows he's somewhere around Mabel's age.

* RapunzelHair: Might be even longer than Mabel's.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Very, ''very'' passionate about and obsessed with puppets--[[spoiler:to the point of kissing them as if they were living lovers. Even Mabel suddenly realizes she likely dodged a bullet there.]]

* {{Meganekko}}: An AsianAndNerdy girl with large glasses.

* SpockSpeak: Her English is slightly broken.

Wendy's brothers who roughhouse with their father, Manly Dan.

* AllThereInTheManual: Their names aren't spoken in the show, but are revealed in storyboards.