History WMG / GravityFallsTownsfolk

* One of the most curious facts of the last episode is that the family knew for a fact that the events of the episode would happen, and the curse had been passed throughout their family for generations and they believed it. This may hint that this theory is true (in some way at least)

[[WMG: Pacifica keeps the lumberjack ghost's axe]]

Assuming that Bill's Zodiac thing has to do with Stan, it's strange that Robbie's broken heart on his hoodie is on the wheel. Considering that Stan in 'Little Gift Shop of Horrors' implies [[spoiler: that he is a deadbeat dad, maybe she left him for another man]]. Fast forward 30 years and their son or daughter got married and have a son of their own. So Stan may have a grandson he either doesn't know about or doesn't want to know about.

[[Robbie is related to Stan Pines in some way]]
Assuming that Bill's Zodiac thing has to do with Stan, it's strange that Robbie's broken heart on his hoodie is on the wheel. Considering that Stan in 'Little Gift Shop of Horrors' implies that he is a deadbeat dad, maybe she left him for another man. Fast forward 30 years and their son or daughter got married and have a son of their own. So Stan may have a grandson he either doesn't know about or doesn't want to know about.

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** My little theory is that he wrote the books, and when he figured out Bill was watching him, hid them all. However, because Bill can invade the mind, the information still wasn't safe, so he used some sort of LaserGuide****esia to strip himself of his memories. [[spoiler: That's why he acts so...well, crazy.]] Makes the most sense to me. -IFoundAWhale

[[WMG: The Society of the Blind Eye [[spoiler:will return in some form.]]]]
In "Search for the [=BlindEye=]": [[spoiler: Maybe the main characters didn't notice in the heat of the moment (or simply "forgot"), but the audience can clearly see ''ten'' robed members of the society doing their duties. At the end of the episode, we see ''seven'' of the revealed members leave the museum after getting their memories wiped - what happened to the unaccounted ''three''? Did they flee in the midst of the action, or were they simply on the other side of the column when they were ironically tied down? Either way, one must admit it is highly unusual for the series' animators to forget such a detail unless there were time contraints or other development pressures involved, so perhaps the remaining members of the Blind Eye will be important in the future.]]

[[WMG:Relatedly, the Society served a bigger purpose than just erasing memories.]]
By erasing peoples' memories of the paranormal, they enforced a [[MageTheAscension Consensus-style]] skepticism that prevented the supernatural from gaining more of a foothold. Lack of belief prevents the paranormal from manifesting, or robs them of their power, which is why it generally shows up around the main cast, who either believe in the paranormal, know about it, or are open-minded enough to believe. When others get pulled in, like Wendy, Robbie, and Pacifica, it's because their interaction with the main cast has 'contaminated' them, weakening the ambient skepticism around them until the paranormal can manifest for them directly.

[=McGukett=] had some idea of how it works as a result of apprenticing with the "researcher," strongly suspected to be the author of the Journals. Erasing the memories of the paranormal, in addition to soothing those who would have been troubled by it, also helped to prevent the ambient skepticism from fading, preserving the protective wall between Gravity Falls and the supernatural. The rest of the Society might not have known of this, though, either because they were never told of it or because they'd forgotten it from repeated mindwiping; [=McGukett=] himself might not have forgotten his dual purpose after using the memory-erased multiple times. With the Society no longer erasing the memories of the town's strangeness, the local disbelief in the paranormal weakens, allowing it to manifest more strongly and likely making it easier for Bill to enter the physical world.

[[WMG: The Society's destruction will play into Bill's hands]]
Looking at the ending card for "Sock Opera", "Abnormal soon will be the norm". Without the Society to erase people's memories, Gravity Falls will start to remember more of the paranormal incidents, making the abnormal "the norm". Perhaps this is what Bill wants; a population willing to believe in things like him.

[[WMG: Pacifica will team up with Gideon.]]
Pacifica could be considered Mabel's SitcomArchNemesis, while Gideon is one to Dipper (Although less sitcom-y, with all this attempted murder and stuff). Of course this would take some MotiveDecay for Gideon to team up with Mabel's enemy, but hey - dude's crazy. He and Pacifica can even start a relationship - two rich sociopathic narcissists.
* Jossed, now that [[spoiler: Gideon is in jail]].

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[[WMG: The whole town is in on it.]]
The whole town, or most of Gravity Falls knows about at least some of the supernatural occurrences:
* Manly Dan apparently knows about the Manotaurs.
* Wendy's friends don't seem to go ballistic over the idea that ghosts exist. They canonically know about the existence of ghosts now.
* Old Man [=McGucket=] probably had to see the Gobblewonker to make a robot look so close to the real deal. He also might know about living wax figures.
* Gideon has the second volume.
* Gideon's dad probably knew about Gideon's abilities.
* Grunkle Stan we all know is in on something.
* Soos apparently is aware on some level.

[[WMG: Double Pacifica.]]
When Wendy is waiting for the bathroom, we see Pacifica still on the dance floor, but then Pacifica comes out of the bathroom. This isn't a continuity error. Pacifica found and used the copier, and the Pacifica that came out of the bathroom was a clone. Note how she has duller colours than normal.
* Wouldn't she melt from the urine or hand washing?
** She could have just been re-applying make-up.

[[WMG: The Northwest family has a history of [[ToiletHumor constipation problems]].]]
This is why Pacifica was looking so frustrated when she came out of the bathroom. It's also the reason why her forefather tried eating a tree - He was desperate for a source of more fiber.

''(The Double Pacifica theory fits into this, with one small modification: It was the real Pacifica who went to the bathroom. She knew that she might have to spend some time there, so she made a clone of herself to keep people's attention on the dance floor)''

[[WMG: Pacifica might team up with the Pines Siblings.]]
How many episodes, I am not sure.

[[WMG: Toby's tap-dancing dream would've gone somewhere]]
He would've been a hit on Broadway as Toby "The Razz Dazzler" Determined and would've been married to star reporter, Shandra Jimenez. And it would've happened if [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Mabel didn't tell the practicing Past Toby the dream went nowhere]].

[[WMG: Even without the LovePotion [[spoiler:Tambry and Robbie would have fallen in love with each other eventually.]]]]

[[WMG: Pacifica isn't friends with Tiffany anymore.]]
Whichever one of her friends Tiffany is, she fell out with Pacifica over that text the Lilliputtians sent from Pacifica's phone.

[[WMG: The Society of the Blind Eye [[spoiler:will return in some form.]]]]
In "Search for the [=BlindEye=]": [[spoiler: Maybe the main characters didn't notice in the heat of the moment (or simply "forgot"), but the audience can clearly see ''ten'' robed members of the society doing their duties. At the end of the episode, we see ''seven'' of the revealed members leave the museum after getting their memories wiped - what happened to the unaccounted ''three''? Did they flee in the midst of the action, or were they simply on the other side of the column when they were ironically tied down? Either way, one must admit it is highly unusual for the series' animators to forget such a detail unless there were time contraints or other development pressures involved, so perhaps the remaining members of the Blind Eye will be important in the future.]]

[[WMG: The message "The handyman knows more than you think" wasn't referring to Soos.]]
It was referring to Stan's previous handyman, Deputy Durland.
* Durland is very, very stupid, which makes his current job unusual. It's possible that his memory was erased so many times that it had a disastrous effect on his intelligence, but that his lost memories - presumably in a tube with all the others - might hold the information referred to by the code. Since he was Stan's handyman, he may have witnessed something involving Stan's project, and had his memories of the event erased; Stan, realizing that Durland had seen something but that he'd somehow "forgotten" having seen it, fired Durland anyway, just to be safe.

[[WMG:Relatedly, the Society served a bigger purpose than just erasing memories.]]
By erasing peoples' memories of the paranormal, they enforced a [[MageTheAscension Consensus-style]] skepticism that prevented the supernatural from gaining more of a foothold. Lack of belief prevents the paranormal from manifesting, or robs them of their power, which is why it generally shows up around the main cast, who either believe in the paranormal, know about it, or are open-minded enough to believe. When others get pulled in, like Wendy, Robbie, and Pacifica, it's because their interaction with the main cast has 'contaminated' them, weakening the ambient skepticism around them until the paranormal can manifest for them directly.

[=McGukett=] had some idea of how it works as a result of apprenticing with the "researcher," strongly suspected to be the author of the Journals. Erasing the memories of the paranormal, in addition to soothing those who would have been troubled by it, also helped to prevent the ambient skepticism from fading, preserving the protective wall between Gravity Falls and the supernatural. The rest of the Society might not have known of this, though, either because they were never told of it or because they'd forgotten it from repeated mindwiping; [=McGukett=] himself might not have forgotten his dual purpose after using the memory-erased multiple times. With the Society no longer erasing the memories of the town's strangeness, the local disbelief in the paranormal weakens, allowing it to manifest more strongly and likely making it easier for Bill to enter the physical world.

[[WMG: The Society's destruction will play into Bill's hands]]
Looking at the ending card for "Sock Opera", "Abnormal soon will be the norm". Without the Society to erase people's memories, Gravity Falls will start to remember more of the paranormal incidents, making the abnormal "the norm". Perhaps this is what Bill wants; a population willing to believe in things like him.

[[WMG: Gorney, from "Summerween" is Grenda's little brother.]]
Think about it. When Gorney was supposedly eaten by the Summerween Trickster, she was the only one who said his name. Luckily, Gorney was all right in the end.
* I'm not sure. She yells his name once, yes, but she wasn't really that broken up about it afterwards. If that was her little brother she just saw get eaten by a monster, she probably would have flown into a rage and tried to him or fainted on the spot.
* Really, ''anyone'' should have freaked out significantly more than the cast did upon seeing a small child eaten alive in front of them. Plot dictates that everyone keep their cool enough to go trick-or-treating. But Grenda ''was'' significantly more freaked out by the Trickster's attack on Gorney than anyone else was. They also both have unusual 'G' names and voices that don't match their apparent genders.

[[WMG:Pacifica will become a RivalTurnedEvil in a future episode.]]
It will involve Pacifica coming across an ArtifactOfDoom and she uses it to get revenge on the Pines for disproving her family's heritage. It ends with an epic battle between Mabel and Pacifica that spoofs ''Anime/SailorMoon'' or just anime in general. Also, Pacifica will invoke EvilIsSexy.

[[WMG: Robbie has a very difficult home life.]]
Maybe he's had a HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood, something that may or may not serve as a FreudianExcuse that explains why he's such a jerkass, and is so fiercely defensive about Wendy when it comes to Dipper's interest in her.
Jossed in "The Love God". His parents are, shall we say, the polar opposite of him in terms of personality.

[[WMG: Robbie has one of the books]]
It would definitely explain how he was able to create that mind control song in the first place.
* Is that what happened? I thought he just took it off of the Internet or something. Like Stan said, "Music has subliminal messages all the time."
* He does mumbles "hope this works" when he takes the CD out of the evil-looking CD case, and the look he gives right after that should indicate he knows, or at least suspects, what the song will do to Wendy. Let's also consider that the CD case does have a cobweb, so we can deduce the following: IF Robbie does have one of the books, then he might have read of the location of the CD case and what was the use of the CD it contains; therefore, he used the knowledge in the book to locate and retrieve the case and then he hurried to have Wendy hear it.
** "Hope this works" could just as easily mean "I hope thinking I wrote a song for her will convince Wendy to give me another chance". Who knows, maybe the place he got it from advertised it as "the ultimate way to win back your girl".
*** Eh, it seems more like he made it specifically for Wendy. If you listen to the beginning of the song when Dipper plays it backwards, you hear "Listen to me, Wendy".
**** Or maybe, the book had instructions on how to do it, only he inserted his own words in?
* Did the subliminals in the song even work? Wendy didn't look like she was shaking off mind control when Dipper played the message forwards, she was just upset that Robbie's seemingly romantic gesture was actually a sleazy trick. And adding a backwards vocal track to a song wouldn't be hard for a kid with his own band, there's no need for it to be supernatural.

[[WMG: There is an unspoken agreement among the town's residents not to discuss the things that go on there.]]
A lot of the people in the town seem aware that paranormal things happen, but most don't make them out to be a big deal. But Dipper, an outsider, reacts to these things with surprise, indicating that people outside the town aren't aware of those things. For whatever reason, the townsfolk have decided not to make a big deal about these things to the rest of the world. Maybe out of some sort of respect for the supernatural, or they don't want people crowding over and messing things up.

[[WMG: When you've lived in Gravity Falls for a certain period of time, you become one of its creatures.]]
This might be a long shot, but it fits when you think about it. Wendy is a Siren (explaining why everyone is so attracted to her), Robbie is a zombie or a vampire, Soos is Bigfoot, et cetera. Peoples' outward appearances stay the same to everyone, including themselves. No one realizes what's going on except Stan (and/or possibly Gideon). This is the secret of Gravity Falls, and if Dipper and Mabel stay for too long, the same will happen to them.
* I was unaware that "two" was the new definition for "everyone".
** I (the original poster) don't actually believe this myself, but it seemed worth it to put it here.

[[WMG:The mayor of Gravity Falls may die soon, possibly from assassination.]]
Bill's writing in the Gravity Falls book mentions that the mayor is "not long for this world" suggesting that there may be plans to destroy him.

[[WMG: The author of the journals is Manly Dan.]]
The author of the journals has six fingers. Other than [=McGucket=], only Manly Dan has his right hand concealed at all times, because he always wears gloves. He could have lost that finger and be hiding the scar, or have two fingers in one glove finger. The biggest clue is that it requires lumberjack skills to open the author's secret bunker. He isn't a "nerd" now but his personality may have changed, since he "hasn't been himself for 30 years."
** The personality change could be the result of Manotaur training, and his terrified reaction to Chutzpah's approach might be due to a line he crossed. Like, say, challenging Leaderaur.

[[folder: Fiddleford "Old Man" [=McGucket=]]]
NOTE: Please type [=[=McGucket=]=] when writing any entry about him.

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