History YMMV / GravityFalls

** One theory that's been gaining traction is that Bill took over Dipper's body while he was turned to wood in "Northwest Mansion Mystery", and has been subtly arranging his master plan ever since. Alternatively, while not directly possessing him, Bill is also theorized to have a subtle influence on Dipper's thoughts.

* EstrogenBrigade: Dipper certainly has quite the fangirl base.

** While the series' main story is finished, the GrandFinale implies that both Dipper and Mabel's adventures are far from over, which leads to many fan third season ideas. Judging the existence of alternate timelines since "The Time Traveler's Pig" there's been ideas of ForWantOfANail scenarios such as [[spoiler: if Bill revealed that Mabel gave the Rift to him]].

** Oh good lord, the coloring book. Released at the tail end of pride month, it included a handful of gay and heterosexual crack ships. On one hand, people are upset that there are zero lesbian couples and the other half tries to argue that there aren't enough female characters within the same age range. Another complaint is that most of the ships are very poorly thought out, and the other side accusing them of being heterophobic or ungrateful of the content they were given. [[RuleOfThree And finally,]] there are people who have no strong shipping feelings that claim the gay couples were slapped in solely because Disney wanted to [[MoneyDearBoy get gay people/allies to buy it up in droves]].

* MagnificentBastard: [[spoiler:[[Characters/GravityFallsGrunkleStan Stanley "Stan" Pines]], the Pines twins' money-grubbing "[[CoolUncle Grunkle]]", gradually proves over the series to be far more driven and intelligent than anyone could ever initially assume. The twin brother of the genius [[Characters/GravityFallsTheAuthor Stanford Pines]], a long sibling rivalry between the two ended up with Stanley accidentally pushing Stanford through the latter's portal machine before they could reconcile. Desperate to save his brother, Stanley took Stanford's identity, turned his brother's isolated cabin into a tourist trap called "the Mystery Shack," and spends thirty years tracking down his brother's journals to reactivate the portal. A master of ObfuscatingStupidity, Stan pretends to be an oblivious {{conman}} to dissuade [[Characters/GravityFallsDipperPines Dipper]] and [[Characters/GravityFallsMabelPines Mabel]] from investigating the dangerous supernatural phenomena of Gravity Falls, before giving up the act and taking out half a horde of zombies with his bare hands to protect them. Stan outwits almost everyone in the series, from his nefarious rival Gideon Gleeful to federal agents, and pulls his ultimate gambit by tricking the near-omnipotent demon Bill Cipher by switching places with his brother and destroying Bill. Stanley Pines is a man utterly devoted to his family, even if he has to ruthlessly manipulate his loved ones to save them.]]

* CompleteMonster: Bill Cipher is an interdimensional demon and is, despite his [[BewareTheSillyOnes appearance]], his [[FauxAffablyEvil demeanor]], and his [[LaughablyEvil twisted sense of humor]], quite sadistic. [[spoiler:A being of chaos who killed his parents and destroyed his home realm to escape its limitations, Bill sought to escape his decaying realm by invading another world he could wreak havoc on, and set his eye on Earth's universe. A [[TheChessmaster chessmaster extraordinaire]], Bill exploited the desperation of [[Characters/GravityFallsTheAuthor Stanford Pines]], manipulating him into building a portal that would allow the fusion of the Nightmare Realm and the physical world so Bill could wreak chaos worldwide. In the present, Bill stalks the Pines twins after their initial meeting. At the turning point of Bill's plan, Bill goads a despondent [[Characters/GravityFallsMabelPines Mabel]] into handing him the means in which to break the gap between the real world and the Nightmare Realm—and, after doing so, traps Mabel in a LotusEaterMachine and unleashes "Weirdmaggedon" on Gravity Falls. Demonstrating his random cruelty by abominating Preston Northwest's face, Bill assaults the town, which sees almost all its citizens converted into a series of statues built into a "throne of human agony", and the rest living in hiding in a horribly-mutated EldritchLocation. Bill is dismissive of the fact that his influence could lead to the destruction of existence itself, and callously vaporizes Time Baby and the TimePolice squad once they point this out to him.]] A being who was motivated by a lust of chaos and random whims, Bill happily conducted torture and the attempted brutal murder of children to further his goals. Treating everyone like a pawn and life itself as a game, Bill Cipher devoted his entire existence to wreaking chaos and destruction on the world at large.

* CompleteMonster: [[Characters/GravityFallsBillCipher Bill Cipher]] is an interdimensional demon and is, despite his [[BewareTheSillyOnes appearance]], his [[FauxAffablyEvil demeanor]], and his [[LaughablyEvil twisted sense of humor]], quite sadistic. [[spoiler:A being of chaos who killed his parents and destroyed his home realm to escape its limitations, Bill sought to escape his decaying realm by invading another world he could wreak havoc on, and set his eye on Earth's universe. A [[TheChessmaster chessmaster extraordinaire]], Bill exploited the desperation of [[Characters/GravityFallsTheAuthor Stanford Pines]], manipulating him into building a portal that would allow the fusion of the Nightmare Realm and the physical world so Bill could wreak chaos worldwide. In the present, Bill stalks the Pines twins after their initial meeting. At the turning point of Bill's plan, Bill goads a despondent [[Characters/GravityFallsMabelPines Mabel]] into handing him the means in which to break the gap between the real world and the Nightmare Realm—and, after doing so, traps Mabel in a LotusEaterMachine and unleashes "Weirdmaggedon" on Gravity Falls. Demonstrating his random cruelty by abominating Preston Northwest's face, Bill assaults the town, which sees almost all its citizens converted into a series of statues built into a "throne of human agony", and the rest living in hiding in a horribly-mutated EldritchLocation. Bill is dismissive of the fact that his influence could lead to the destruction of existence itself, and callously vaporizes Time Baby and the TimePolice squad once they point this out to him.]] A being who was motivated by a lust of chaos and random whims, Bill happily conducted torture and the attempted brutal murder of children to further his goals. Treating everyone like a pawn and life itself as a game, Bill Cipher devoted his entire existence to wreaking chaos and destruction on the world at large.

* MagnificentBastard: [[spoiler:[[Characters/GravityFallsGrunkleStan Stanley "Stan" Pines]], the Pines twins' money-grubbing "[[CoolUncle Grunkle]]", gradually proves over the series to be far more driven and intelligent than anyone could ever initially assume. The twin brother of the genius [[Characters/GravityFallsTheAuthor Stanford Pines]], a long sibling rivalry between the two ended up with Stanley accidentally pushing Stanford through the latter's portal machine before they could reconcile. Desperate to save his brother, Stanley took Stanford's identity, turned his brother's isolated cabin into a tourist trap called "the Mystery Shack," and spends thirty years tracking down his brother's journals to reactivate the portal. A master of ObfuscatingStupidity, Stan pretends to be an oblivious {{conman}} to dissuade [[Characters/GravityFallsDipperPines Dipper]] and [[Characters/GravityFallsMabelPines Mabel]] from investigating the dangerous supernatural phenomena of Gravity Falls, before giving up the act and taking out half a horde of zombies with his bare hands to protect them. Stan outwits almost everyone in the series, from his nefarious rival Gideon Gleeful to federal agents, and pulls his ultimate gambit by tricking the near-omnipotent demon [[Characters/GravityFallsBillCipher Bill Cipher]] by switching places with his brother and destroying Bill. Stanley Pines is a man utterly devoted to his family, even if he has to ruthlessly manipulate his loved ones to save them.]]

** Downplayed with Preston Northwest. While he is a controlling scumbag of a father, he is never shown physically abusing Pacifica. Just about every fanfic with him has him hit her at some point in the story.

** Downplayed with Preston. While he is a controlling scumbag of a father, he is never shown physically abusing Pacifica. Just about every fanfic with him has him hit her at some point in the story.

** Nevertheless the hate that Priscilla and Preston receive is tame compared to [[HateSink Filbrick Pines]], at the point that a local joke in the fandom is that he's worse than Bill, who is supposed to be the main villain. If you don't believe this, Preston and Priscilla at least have some fans, but nobody in the fandom finds Filbrick likeable and all unanimously hate him for being an [[AbusiveParents abusive father]] to Stan and Ford and left both old men with plenty of psychological scars, above never caring about them.

* {{OT3}}: Mabel/Pacifica/Dipper. As Pacifica has become more friendly with the Pines twins, shipping her with one or the other has become incredibly popular. Still, Pinecest continues to be the fandom's favorite ship, so after episodes like "The Golf War" and "Northwest Mansion Mystery", shipping all three has become the "everyone is happy" compromise.

* FanonDiscontinuity: While it was never shown in the show, Alex Hirsch has said that the fan's idea of what Bill would look like if he were a human or chose to turn into one, which is usually some sort of PrettyBoy or {{Bishonen}}, is fairly different to what he would actually look like. He even drew it, and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/gravityfalls/comments/5ccxh1/here_he_is_folks_the_canon_human_bill_cipher_from/ it does not look pretty]]. Most fans continue to use their own designs instead.

** Grunkle Stan's parents crossed it when they [[spoiler:kicked him out of the house when he was about seventeen or eighteen, all because of a stupid mistake he made, refusing to even hear his side of the story. They told him not to return home until he was rich.]] That's just ''cold''. To be more specific, his father was responsible for all this, while his mother simply stood by and watched it happen. [[FridgeHorror Whether she]] [[ParentalNeglect didn't care too]] or actually [[DomesticAbuse couldn't]] is open to interpretation.

* {{Woolseyism}}: Dipper and Mabel's names are traditionally translated as "迪普/Dí-pǔ" and "梅宝/Méi-bǎo" in Chinese, however certain translations tend to twist their names into "弟宝/Dì-bǎo"[[note]](Younger) Brother-Child[[/note]] and "美宝/Méi-bǎo"[[note]]Pretty-Child[[/note]] in order to provide them a MeaningfulName ThemeNaming. This however causes the fact that Dipper has an actual name that already fits the ThemeNaming with Mabel (Mason) to become LostInTranslation.

** Pacifica's father controlling her with a bell is utterly horrifying, until he gets frustrated at her defying it longer than usual and says "Dingly dingly dingly! Is this bell broken?"

** Pacifica has some surprisingly adorable moments in Northwest Mansion Mystery.

** Pacifica's parents cross this in "Northwest Mansion Mystery" [[spoiler:when they would rather let all their guests, including four children '''die''' rather than swallow their pride and let in the common people of the town. Plus their survival plan depends on them cannibalizing their butler. They were also revealed to be extremely emotionally abusive towards Pacifica, up to and including having her trained to respond to a bell with contrition like one of ''Pavlov's dogs''.]]

* {{OT3}}: Mabel/Pacifica/Dipper, as Pacifica has become more friendly with the Pines twins, shipping her with one or the other has become incredibly popular. Still Pinecest continues to be the fandom's favorite ship, so after episodes like "The Golf War" and "Northwest Mansion Mystery" shipping all three has become the "everyone is happy" compromise.
* OneTruePairing: While there are a lot of ship wars between the fanbase, the one pairing just about everyone agrees on is [[BirdsOfAFeather Soos/Melody]], with the reason being that they are just so cute together and that Soos deserves someone nice.

** Wendy was derided in season one for being a generic "cool teen" character who didn't fit well with the rest of the main characters. Season two fixed it by leaps and bounds, first by having her join Dipper and Mabel's adventures and prove a very effective part of the team, and then having her admit the cool teen thing is [[StepfordSmiler just a facade]] and she's actually constantly stressed out.

** To a much bigger extent, very few people liked Pacifica Northwest in Season 1. She seemed to exist mainly as just the stereotypical "rich popular girl" and was a jerk to Mabel. Otherwise, she had few character traits and little to no relevance to the series' main plots. [[note]]Lampshaded in the episode "Golf War" where Mabel refers to her as a "one-dimensional-beach-blonde-valley-girl-stereotype."[[/note]] Then came the Season 2 episode "Northwest Mansion Mystery," where we learn more about Pacifica's family life and why she acts the way she does. The episode has Pacifica finally manage to overcome her family's manipulation, saving the day and promising to fix the family name, becoming a much nicer person in the process. Notable in that [[WordOfGod the creator admitted]] in one interview that this episode was written expressly to pull off this trope.

** Both Wendipper (Dipper/Wendy) and Dipcifica (Dipper/Pacifica) have split the base even without the shipping wars. The arguments for these ships ultimately boils down to whether or not Dipper has enough chemistry either girls. Wendipper supporters claim that Dipper and Wendy have more shared screentime while Dipcifica supporters claim that Dipper and Pacifica have a relationship that's more overtly romantic. Wendip and Dipifica were both canonly teased in the series; Wendip was essentially a subplot from season 1 until Wendy declined Dipper's feelings for her in season 2. Dipifica first received ShipTease in the episode "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E10NorthwestMansionMystery Northwest Mansion Mystery]]"; after that, the dipifica ship was instead teased outside of the TV series through the video game ''[[VideoGame/GravityFallsLegendOfTheGnomeGemulets Legend of the Gnome Gemulets]]'', the "Relationship Shipping" episode from Conspiracy Corner, [[Literature/GravityFallsJournal3 Gravity Falls: Journal 3]], the coloring book, and finally [[ComicBook/GravityFallsLostLegends Lost Legends]]. As the sibling bond remains core to the show and romance being a potential detractor from the main themes, dipcifica was never mentioned again in season 2 as the story focuses on building up to Weirdmagaddeon.

** Pyronica is easily the most popular of Bill's minions, despite her limited screentime, for [[EvilIsSexy obvious]] [[HourglassHottie reasons]].

* FanSpeak: There are technically only two blocks of episodes--seasons 1 and 2--but given that there was a major change in the status quo and main cast followed by a large hiatus and an arguable change in writing quality there on out, fans tend to divide season 2 into 2A and 2B, with 2A ending with "Not What He Seems" and 2B beginning with "A Tale of Two Stans."

* EvilIsSexy: [=.GIFfany=], who's more Evil Is Cute. Bill's friend Pyronica is garnering quite the fanbase.
** Bill Cipher is this as well. He even had this to say regarding his fangirls:
--->'''Bill:''' WHAT CAN I SAY, [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys CHICKS DIG PSYCHOPATHS!]]

** Both Wendipper (Dipper/Wendy) and Dipcifica (Dipper/Pacifica) have split the base even without the shipping wars. The arguments for these ships ultimately boils down to whether or not Dipper has enough chemistry either girls. Wendipper supporters claim that Dipper and Wendy have more shared screentime while Dipcifica supporters claim that Dipper and Pacifica have a relationship that's more overtly romantic. Wendip and Dipifica were both canonly teased in the series; Wendip was essentially a subplot from season 1 until Wendy declined Dipper's feelings for her in season 2. Dipifica first received ShipTease in the episode "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E10NorthwestMansionMystery Northwest Mansion Mystery]]"; after that, the dipifica ship was instead teased outside of the TV series through the video game ''[[VideoGame/GravityFallsLegendOfTheGnomeGemulets Legend of the Gnome Gemulets]]'', the "Relationship Shipping" episode from Conspiracy Corner, [[Literature/GravityFallsJournal3 Gravity Falls: Journal 3]], the coloring book, and finally [[ComicBook/GravityFallsLostLegends Lost Legends]]. It would appear that the creators were planning to use Dipcifica to fill in the gaps left by Wendip but it had to be saved for future installments instead due to time constraints and personal burnout from Alex Hirsch. The series' transition from Wendip to Dipcifica wasn't integrated that well due to the fact that the series was originally planned to have 3 seasons but it got reduced down to just two seasons. The creative team had to compress a 3 season long story into just one final season, which resulted in a rushed ending where some plotpoints were neglected or forgotten due to time constraints; as shown by [[Recap/GravityFallsS2E16RoadsideAttraction Roadside Attraction]] and the Weirdmaggedon Arc. This is why Dipcifica was never mentioned again in season 2 and why some plot revelations had to be saved for future installments.

* IncestYayShipping: The infamous [[PortmanteauCoupleName Pinecest]] between [[{{Twincest}} Dipper and Mabel]], obviously. Not even Stan and [[spoiler: Ford]] are safe from this.

** The ''entirety'' of "Not What He Seems". [[spoiler:Stan continues work on his mysterious portal project and counts down the hours until ''something'' happens, and throughout the episode, the gravity reverses (even recreating a scene from the opening). Stan is then taken into custody by the government agents for having stolen radioactive waste, and while the twins try to prove his innocence, they discover that the real Stan Pines ''is dead''. Whoever their great uncle is that they've been living with all summer, is an unknown, nameless criminal who has multiple fake identities to throw people off. The twins are both torn up over this, then they discover the portal and Stan comes back to confront them, telling them not to stop the portal. Mabel reluctantly trusts him, while an anguished Dipper and Soos try to stop Stan. And just to kick the episode into overdrive, the author of the journals emerges from the portal. And he's ''Stan's brother.'']] ''Holy shit''.

** It's also not uncommon for GF fans to have a liking for ''Franchise/SilentHill'' or vice versa, due to both works being horror-mysteries set in a town full of supernatural occurances.
* A lot of ''Gravity Falls'' fans tend to be fans of ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' due to Creator/KristenSchaal's work on both shows. Not to mention some fans find Tina to be similar to Mabel due to [[SmittenTeenageGirl obvious]] [[IJustWantToHaveFriends reasons]].

** Mabel more than qualifies, being an an absolutely [[GenkiGirl energetic]] and adorable CheerfulChild.

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%% ** Dipper can qualify for this, too, at times (particularly when doing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTbYN62YHR4 The Lamby, Lamby Dance]]).

** BigBad Bill Cipher is universally loved by the fandom, with many calling him one of the best characters on the show, despite his end goal being bringing about the apocalypse. By contrast, Preston and Priscilla are merely UpperClassTwit{{s}} and AbusiveParents to their daughter and are utterly loathed by the fanbase because of it, with Preston in particular often taking many fans's "worst/least favorite character on the show" spot. And as [[NightmareFuel utterly horrific]] as it was, not many fans felt bad when Bill Cipher [[BodyHorror shuffled the functions of every hole in his face]].

** In fanart, Wendy is often drawn brawnier ([[BoobsOfSteel and bustier]]) than canon due to her lumberjack heritage.

** Rumble [=McSkirmish=], a [[VideoGame/StreetFighter Ryu]] {{Expy}} is popular for his [[NonStandardCharacterDesign unique visual style]], being an AffectionateParody of video games of different genres and also being a DeconstructiveParody on [[RefugeeFromTVLand what would happen if such a character would end up in the real world]]. Being one of the few "monsters" to experience CharacterDevelopment helps.

* FanPreferredCutContent: There was originally a scene [[NeckSnap where Dipper snapped the much-hated Dippy Fresh's neck all the way around.]] For obvious reasons, the scene was rejected, but a lot of fans who know about it wish it was left in.

** Ford doesn't seem to be disturbed after having spent thirty years in what drove Fiddleford insane after five seconds. He barely reacts to being reunited to his home dimension, and besides a few quirks such as thinking it's okay to give children weapons, adjusts to its customs again very quickly. And with the way Stan and him bicker with each other, you'd think they were never separated.