Characters / Gravity Falls – Adults

Gravity Falls Main Character Index
The Mystery Shack (Dipper and Mabel Pines) | The Author | Main Antagonists | Adults of Gravity Falls | Youth of Gravity Falls | Creatures and other Oddities

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General

• Adults Are Useless: Good luck trying to find an adult who isn't a complete idiot.
• And I Must Scream: A majority of the town became a statue throne for Bill, with some of them still being awake throughout the ordeal.
• Cerebus Retcon: The Society of the Blind Eye's constant removal of memories contributed to the townspeople's poor thinking abilities by giving them severe brain damage.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: The general population is... strange, to say the least. This stems from brain damage due to constant memory erasing.
• The Ditz: Even ignoring their eccentricity, the majority of the town's population isn't that bright. In one "Dipper's Guide to the Unexplained" short, Grunkle Stan claims that, "The people of this town are literally the dumbest on Earth. Literally." Again this stems from the Blind Eye Society's methods, causing brain damage to the residents.
• Horrible Judge of Character: The whole town looks up to a crazed, selfish child con artist, at least until Stan outs him as a fraud. They also idolize the Northwest family in spite of their snobbery and who in reality have been cheating and scamming them for a century and-a-half.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Practically every single resident is suffering from this due to the actions of the Blind Eye Society. It hasn't done their mental capability any favors.
• Quirky Town: Gravity Falls is a small town full of some downright weird people, even without The Reveal in a certain Wham Episode.
• Recurring Extra: Chances are, if they're not part of the plot, they're part of the background.
• Taken for Granite: Once Weirdmageddon rolls around, a number of the townsfolk are turned to stone by Bill's Eye-Bat army.

Old Man McGucket

Fiddleford Hadron McGucket

"Aw, donkey spittle!"

^{Click here to see him 30 years ago.}

Voiced By: Alex Hirsch

Fiddleford Hadron McGucket, better known as Old Man McGucket is (self-) described as the town's "local kook." The description is... apt, but limited. He represents the spectacles on the Zodiac for being scholarly.

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• Ambiguously Evil: He's usually harmless and even friendly towards Dipper and Mabel, but he has admitted that he's gone on homicidal rampages before without being caught.
• Ancient Conspiracy: Founded the Society of the Blind Eye as a way to help people forget their terrible memories, and invented the Society's Memory Gun.
• Acquired Poison Immunity: His immunity to the Memory Gun is due to him using it on himself so much. Played With in that it has already done all the damage it could.
• The Atoner: He established the Society of the Blind Eye and invented the Memory Gun as an attempt to atone for his hand in whatever horrible event happened thirty years ago. Instead, he just made things even worse.
• Attention Whore: Created a robotic Gobblewonker to get attention.
• Back for the Finale: He fled from the town during "Not What He Seems", but returns in "Weirdmageddon 2: Escape From Reality", as one of the surviving townspeople hiding in the Mystery Shack.
• Badass Bookworm: Is one awesome genius.
• Barefoot Loon: He is the self-proclaimed "local kook", and goes around in nothing but foot wraps.
• Bestiality Is Depraved: Has a raccoon wife.
• Beware the Silly Ones: He's gone on murderous rampages in giant robots many times before and hasn't been caught.
• Brainy Brunette: He used to have brown hair and turns out to be a Gadgeteer Genius.
• Break the Cutie: His entire tragic backstory is made even sadder by how cheerful and good-natured he always was.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: During Weirdmageddon; sure he's a bit of a loon, but he's a mechanical genius.
• Cerebus Retcon: Like the Ice King, his madness becomes less funny after we learn his tragic backstory. Likewise, his son's reserved nature and ill treatment of him becomes rather sad when it's revealed McGucket's rapid, embarrassing mental breakdown was mocked by the townsfolk, driving a wedge between them.
• Chekhov's Gunman: During his first appearance, he seems to be just a standard village kook making up crazy legends until it turns out that he doesn't make them up - he builds them with his own hands. He then returns to being mostly a Bit Character again until "Society of the Blind Eye", where it is revealed that he used to be a brilliant engineer who worked with the author, until a glimpse into Bill's Nightmare Realm drove him to invent a memory eraser and found the titular society in an attempt to forget what he had seen, and repeated usage of the device drove him mad as a hatter.
• Chekhov's Skill: His aforementioned ability to build gigantic robots becomes a Call-Back when he's the one who built Gideon's gigantic robot. He also built the memory-wiping device used by the Society of the Blind Eye, not to mention that he upgraded the Mystery Shack into the Shacktron.
• Cool Old Guy: McGucket is presently somewhere in his sixties however he's still able to singlehandedly create gigantic robots and revolutionary technology. He also single handily defeated Blind Ivan, leader of the Blind Eye Society.
• Crazy Homeless Person: Lives in a ramshackle hut in the Gravity Falls Dump, and is shown sleeping on one of the holes at the Putt Hutt in "The Golf War".
• The Cuckoolander Was Right: In "Headhunters", his fears about the wax statues being alive turn out to be all too true.
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: After regaining his sanity in the end, he became a millionaire by patenting all of his inventions and bought the Northwest Mansion.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: 30 years ago, McGucket caught a glimpse into Bill's nightmare realm, and created a device to erase his memories of the sight. Come present day, it's revealed that the Memory Gun is perfect for combating Bill himself while he's possessing someone, and is ultimately the thing that destroys him.
• Disability Immunity: Old Man McGucket is immune to the memory eraser's effects because he's fried his brain with the thing so many times that it can't really do any more damage.
• Dramatic Irony: A twofer involving the memory gun.
  • He created the memory gun because he wants to forget what he saw through the portal Ford built. Although as "Day ???" shows, Bill never left his memories and the one-eyed triangle still haunts his memories.
  • Then it's revealed in the finale that said memory gun that couldn't even erase the memory of Bill from his mind, just so happens to be the device that could actually destroy him.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: The Grand Finale shows McGucket's sanity mostly restored, and he sells his inventions while buying the Northwest Mansion. He then reconnects with his son, as they're seen fishing together in the credits.
• Foreshadowing: Surely an old hillbilly kook can't possibly create and run the mechanical Gobblewonker by himself. But he's not your standard old hillbilly kook either...
• For Want Of A Nail: He stood a good chance of beating Steve Jobs to creating the personal computer if Stanford hadn't called him.
• Gadgeteer Genius:
  • He's the one who made the mechanical Gobblewonker in "The Legend of the Gobblewonker" and it turns out it's not the first time he's built something like this to get attention from a family member. He also made a homicidal pterodactyl when his wife left him and an 80 ton 'shame bot' when his friend Ernie didn't come to his retirement party. In addition, his work with Stanford led to the development of the machine in Stan's basement and a device capable of erasing selective memories from one's mind. In the finale, he draws up the plans to the Shacktron and helps cannibalize the mechanical Gobblewonker to build it.
  • In "Northwest Mansion Mystery", he was able to repair his old laptop after Bill smashed it to pieces.
  • If that wasn't enough he could have actually been able to beat Steve Jobs in the creation of personal computers if he didn't choose to get involved with Stanford.
• Gag Nose: One of the longest noses in the series.
• Genius Ditz: He may be insane, but he's also a Gadgeteer Genius. Although ironically his current insanity was caused by one of his own inventions.
• Go Mad from the Revelation: He witnessed something horrifying (involving "the beast with one eye") after being sucked into Ford's portal. This drove him to quit and erase his memories. According to Hirsch, the real-life Journals, McGucket saw and still sees Bill Cipher in the middle of shedding his "exoskeleton" to feed.
• Handwraps of Awesome: Wears a cast around his right hand constantly and wears foot wraps instead of shoes, and despite being a kook he's a Gadgeteer Genius Ditz They're leftovers from a car crash he was in 30 years ago, which he eventually forgot courtesy of his own memory gun.
• I Was Quite the Looker: His younger self looks rather attractive but the constant use of the Memory Gun made him age badly, physically and mentally.
• I'm a Humanitarian: Expresses an interest in eating Soos after he switches back to his regular body in "Carpet Diem".
• Insane Equals Violent: Uses his engineering skills to build murderous machines out of a warped need to get attention.
• Insanity Immunity: His overuse of his Memory Gun on himself makes him immune to any further mind wipes.
• Interspecies Romance: Is married to a raccoon, though left up for debate if the "marriage" lasted after regaining his sanity.
• Karma Houdini: He's gone on murderous rampages in giant robots many times before and hasn't been caught.
• Madness Makeover: He went from a respectable-looking young man to the bandaged and bearded nutcase we know now over a two-year process of self-inflicted brain damage.
• Mad Scientist: In addition to his multiple robots, Dipper's story in "Bottomless Pit" has him tinkering with various voice changing serums- which, while possibly fictional, is not unbelievable. Not to mention the work he did with Stanford and the Society of the Blind Eye...
• Madness-Induced Omnivore: He's a Crazy Homeless Person who is shown to be an Extreme Omnivore on a few occasions. In one episode, he is shown eating books while informing some children around him that pioneers also ate books for sustenance. When Swallowed Whole by a pterodactyl in another episode, he survives by eating his way through it. Additionally, a picture in a newspaper shows him eating a (possibly live) raccoon.
• Meaningful Name: Pre-, and post-, insanity, he's a scientist (and one smart enough to almost beat Bill Gates and Steve Jobs in revolutionizing home computing, and to help Ford with his interdimensional portal on equal footing. He is also the Second Fiddle to Ford). Rather appropriately, his middle name brings the Large Hadron Collider to mind.
• My God, What Have I Done?: While working with Stanford on the portal into the parallel "weird" dimension, an accident causes McGucket's head to be sucked inside for a moment; terrified of what he's seen, he angrily quits the project, warns Ford of the potential for disaster, and begins to erase his own memories to remove the lingering fear from his mind. Later, when he learns he created the Society of the Blind Eye and accidentally drove himself insane, he resolves to help the kids in their investigations as a way of showing his gratitude.
• Nice Guy: In spite of his kookiness, McGucket is actually very nice and friendly.
  • He left his family and promising business venture to help Ford with his research. Following the numerous traumatic events that happened to him, he even took it upon himself to write Ford's thesis himself, begging him to give up on building the portal.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Unfortunately, he has a bad habit of building killer robots for attention.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: His younger self before joining Stanford Pines in creating the portal is based off of Steve Wozniak.
• Obfuscating Insanity: Subverted. Dipper thought his insanity was an act. In reality, it was genuine and self-inflicted after enduring a terrible accident while working with Stanford. After the Society of the Blind Eye is shut down and his memories are returned to him, it's played straight. He keeps up the kook facade even though he's regained enough of his sanity to speak seriously if he needs to. Downplayed later on, as revealed in "Northwest Mansion Mystery" despite being well on the road to recovery McGucket still pretends to be same as before for the public.
• Pointless Bandaid: On his beard, no less! A picture of his is used for an example at the trope page. He himself lampshades the notion in "Society of the Blind Eye". Wherein it's also revealed that the reason it's there is that he left it there from when he was clean shaven and the beard grew from under it.
• Prehensile Hair: He learned to operate a stick-shift with his beard.
• Prematurely Grey-Haired: Timestamps in his Apocalyptic Log revealed he achieved his wizened old look within two years after the first entry some 30 years ago.
• Properly Paranoid: In "Headhunters", he asks if the wax figures are alive. He couldn't be closer to the truth.
• Rags to Riches: After Bill is defeated, McGucket is able to sell off his patents and becomes wealthy enough to purchase the Northwest Manor after Preston is forced to declare bankruptcy.
• Red Herring:
  • There were numerous hints, such as his age, hand bandages which could obscure a sixth finger, technical expertise, and ownership of the laptop which implied he was the Author. However, this is not the case. He did work for him though.
  • In fact Alex Hirsch actually enforced this trope, by trying to keep the fandom on it's toes by having one of the artist's draw up a fake scene of a younger McGucket writing on the journal with six fingers. All in order to create a "leak" so that fans would be mistakenly believed that Fiddleford actually was the author.
• Restoration of Sanity: After getting his memories back at the end of "Society of the Blind Eye", McGucket is shown to have quickly gained a much better mental space, even if he does still act like a Mad Scientist.
• Sanity Slippage: Self-inflicted through frequent use of his Memory Gun, as detailed in a Petrikov-esque Apocalyptic Log... although a brief shot near the end shows him forming a triangle around one of his eyes with his fingers, suggesting that one Bill Cipher may have had some influence on the process or that despite the fact that he created the thing to forget about Bill, it didn't even achieve it.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: Does not stick around in "Not What He Seems".
• Shorter Means Smarter: Post-insanity, he's not exactly the tallest person out there. He's also a genius scientist who helped Ford create an interdimensional portal, almost pioneered home computing, and created what can be accurately-described as an Amnesia Ray.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Not these days, but Non-Crazy McGucket in his video logs is a dead ringer for his son, minus the hat.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: Used to wear them before he drove himself insane, and later takes a fancy steampunkesque brass coloured pair with green lenses (of which one is missing) that he finds in the Society of the Blind Eye's secret lair and keeps them, it is one of the main signs that he is managing to overcome his insanity and get his life back on track. By the time of the finale, they've been fully repaired, along with most of his mind.
• Smarter Than You Look: Capable of engineering giant robots, and worked with Stanford to conduct research into the paranormal and related technological applications.
• Southern-Fried Genius: He's smart enough to make complex robots, as well as the Society of the Blind Eye, and he speaks with an Appalachian accent even before he went insane. In fact he was actually close to being the first person to create personalized computers before Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, until Stanford called for his help.
• Spanner in the Works: Almost getting pulled into the Universe Portal and his reaction afterwards is what made Stanford suspicious of the Portal's true purpose and destination, causing him to work out Bill's intentions. Furthermore, the Memory Gun he built for the Society of the Blind Eye turns out to be the only thing that can destroy Bill in finale.
• Wacky Parent, Serious Child: There could not be a bigger difference between McGucket and his son Tate McGucket.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: 30 years ago he built (or helped build) the device in Stan's basement for the benefit of mankind, but he ended up almost being pulled in, the things he saw on the other side haunting him. He later created the Society of the Blind Eye to help himself and others erase their bad memories. The continuous mind-wiping drove him insane and may have caused the general stupidity and insanity of the townsfolk.
• Walking Spoiler: He is more than your everyday average old hillbilly. In fact, it's hard to about him without talking about his past.
• Younger Than They Look: He's not exactly "young" - he's old enough to have an adult son - but he's around the same age as Stan and yet looks much older than him. Justified, since it's mostly on account of his Madness Makeover.

Sheriff Daryl Blubs and Deputy Edwin Durland

Sheriff Daryl Blubs and Deputy Edwin Durland

That's Blubs on the right and Durland on the left.

Voiced By: Kevin Michael Richardson and Keith Ferguson

Sheriff Blubs: "City boy thinks he's gonna solve a mystery with his fancy computer phone!"

Deputy Durland: "Woooo! I got a bell! Ring, ring! Ring, ring!"

The law of Gravity Falls. True to the tradition of fictional small town cops, they are mostly useless.

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• Action Survivor: Sheriff Blubs manages to avoid getting captured by Bill, surviving three days into Weirdmageddon and reaching the Mystery Shack alongside the other survivors. He later took part in the attack on the Fearamid to rescue Ford and the people of Gravity Falls.
• Ambiguously Gay: Some of the comments Blubs makes directed at Durland in "Irrational Treasure" may lend themselves to one side of ambiguous. Then there's the vacation they go on at the end of the episode... together. The finale gleefully discards any and all ambiguity.
• Big Ol' Unibrow: Durland's got a unibrow.
• Cool Shades: Blubs is never seen without his shades except for when he dressed up as Durland for Halloween. He lifts them momentarily when he reunites with Durland after Bill's throne is dismantled.
• Clueless Deputy: Deputy Durland is not the smartest guy. It's implied in "Irrational Treasure" and apparently confirmed in "Bottomless Pit!" that he doesn't know how to read. Not that Blubs is too bright either.
• Deadpan Snarker: Blubs typically reacts to Dipper explaining the weird stuff about Gravity Falls with sarcasm.
• The Ditz: Both of them have a tendency to completely ignore crime of any kind whenever an opportunity to have fun arises. Blubs is often shown to be slightly smarter than Durland, though. Like the rest of the town, this is most likely due to the result of the Society of the Blind Eye's frequent mind-erasing.
• Everyone Has Standards: In "Irrational Treasure", when they catch Dipper and Mabel uncovering a national secret and Mabel asks if they're going to kill them, they both seem pretty appalled by the idea. Even Durland seems terrified that it might be the case until Blubs calms him down. It doesn't stop them from trying to ship the Pines twins off to Washington, however.
• Fat and Skinny: Blubs is fat, while Durland is skinny.
• Flanderization: In early episodes like "Headhunters" and "Irrational Treasure" they're at least doing their jobs as policemen, even if they don't do them very well. In most of their later appearances, they don't even bother.
• For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself: Inverted in "Summerween"; they dress up as each other for Summerween.
• Gag Nose: Durland's nose in enormous. It's not as big as McGucket's, but definitely a runner up.
• Hidden Depths: Durland has an eloquent existential crisis at the end of "Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons," though Blubs quickly snaps him out of it.
• Homoerotic Subtext: A lot of their interactions lean in this direction. Turns out it wasn't subtext.
• Jerkasses: Both take a lot of pleasure out of mocking Dipper's hopes to solve the mystery. To the point where they actually specifically go round to visit just to do so.
• Just Following Orders: They didn't really want to haul Dipper and Mabel to Washington, but they had their orders.
• Manchild: Both of them are pretty immature, although Deputy Durland more than Sheriff Blubs.
• Never Learned to Read: Deputy Durland can't read. However, it's not clear whether this was always the case, or whether this is the result of the Society of the Blind Eye repeatedly mind-wiping him.
• Noodle Incident: Durland was apparently the Mystery Shack's handyman before Soos. Why exactly he got fired is never explained.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: While they're still relatively incompetent, they manage to track down and arrest Dipper and Mabel in "Irrational Treasure" and the very fact that they're involved in a Government Conspiracy automatically makes them more dangerous than first assumed. Even if they completely blow it.
• Official Couple: As confirmed in the finale.
• Police Are Useless: Considering all the crazy stuff that goes down in Gravity Falls, not even getting into everything that Gideon gets away with... And then we find out about the Society of the Blind Eye, and their stupidity suddenly makes a lot of sense given that citizens' first reactions to all of the town's oddities is implied to be to call the cops.
• Police Brutality: Implied to have beaten up Sev'ral Timez manager after arresting him, for missing a rear license plate. Durland also gets a little too excited whenever there's a chance he might get to use his nightstick or taser.
• Punny Name: Sheriff Blubs is quite blubbery indeed.
• Put on a Bus: They went on vacation for a few episodes. It didn't take them long to return in "Summerween".
• Queer Establishing Moment: Sheriff Blubs and Deputy Durland share plenty of subtext-y moments together, with the former reacting in distress when he sees the latter frozen by Bill Cipher. However, it's only in the series finale when they declare that they "are mad with power... and love", confirming that the duo are more than just really close friends.
• The Sheriff: Sheriff Blubs.
• Shorter Means Smarter: While neither are exactly the sharpest tool in the shed, the shorter Blubs is not quite as idiotic as Durland.
• Sickeningly Sweethearts: Among other things, they dressed as one another for Summerween.
• Straight Gay: Confirmed to be in a relationship in the final episode.
• Sunglasses at Night: Blubs always wears sunglasses.
• Taken for Granite: Durland becomes one of the first victims of the Eye-Bats in "Weirdmageddon".
• Those Two Guys: Can often be seen goofing off in the background or in short scenes featuring them.
• Took a Level in Kindness: They get a lot more friendly moments as the series goes on.
• Twofer Token Minority: Blubs is black and gay.

Manly Dan Corduroy

Manly Dan Corduroy

"I'll show you how a real man fishes!"

Voiced By: John DiMaggio

A lumberjack and fisherman. Also Wendy's father.

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• Always a Bigger Fish:
  • He flees from the Manotaurs, who are even more manly than he is.
  • The opening of "Weirdmageddon Part 1" shows him visibly frightened by the arrival of Bill Cipher, although he does join the town in threatening him in their initial push back.
• Badass Normal: He's a blue collar worker with immense physical power. When handling Stan's bear, it breaks free, and Dan responds by putting it in a headlock. Mabel thinks he's giving it a hug.
• Berserk Button: It's not hard to set this guy off, but calling Sev'ral Timez overrated would make him go ballistic.
• Big Damn Heroes: An inadvertent one in "Not What He Seems" - his enraged ramming of Agent Trigger's humvee saves Dipper and Mabel.
• Big Ol' Unibrow: That stretches the width of his face.
• Boisterous Bruiser: More-or-less always looking for a fight, shouting all the way.
• Carpet of Virility: To complete his overly masculine nature and appearance.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Frequently makes odd choices, including living in a house where the roof is too low for him to stand all the way, and celebrating Christmas by having his children undergo apocalypse training camp.
• Crazy Survivalist: Every Christmas, he trained his kids on how to survive the apocalypse. This comes in handy when his daughter Wendy has to survive Bill's Weirdmagaddeon all by herself. Ironically, he gets captured, though considering he'd apparently gone four days without seeing any of his kids by then, it may have just been that he didn't care anymore.
• Despair Event Horizon: Weirdmageddon really did a number on him. By Day 4, he's reduced to cutting a stop sign into a triangle shape in an attempt to appease Bill. The fact that he's alone, meaning the boys may have already been caught and he has no idea where Wendy is, probably had a lot to do with it, since for all his oddities, he's a Papa Wolf.
• Disproportionate Retribution: His reaction to Mabel writing on a fogged-up window that Sev'ral Timez is overrated was to ram the humvee off the road!
• Dumb Muscle: Is certainly not the brightest spark (though he doesn't do too bad for the town's standards) but is certainly powerful.
• Fiery Redhead: Has one hell of a temper.
• Hidden Depths: A huge fan of the boy band Sev'ral Timez. Also enjoys quiet pancake breakfasts in the diner with his daughter.
• I Got Bigger: Journal 3 mentions he was called "'Boyish' Dan" back in the 1980s, and the Author heard he'd "grown quite a bit" while he was gone.
• Like Father, Unlike Son: Unlike his daughter, Dan is very serious and irritable. However, she has been shown to actively suppress her more fiery attributes as a way to calm her nerves, and can be quite the firecracker when her facade breaks down.
• Meaningful Name: Manly Dan. After the Manotaurs, he's the most aggressively masculine character in the show.
• Mighty Lumberjack: Dipper's card for him in "The Hide Behind" labels him as Lumberjack/Punching Enthusiast.
• No Indoor Voice: Is rarely ever not shouting.
• Papa Wolf: His first instinct upon bearing witness to the beginning of Weirdmageddon is to grab his kids and hold them close.
• Real Men Eat Meat: Displayed in "Dipper vs. Manliness".
• Real Men Wear Pink: For Summerween, while his sons dress as vikings, he dresses as a Valkyrie, complete with blond pigtails. He's also revealed to be a big Sev'ral Timez fan.
• Recurring Extra: He's tangentially connected to Wendy, but beyond that he's most used for one-off gags.
• Red Herring: In "Headhunters". He didn't kill Wax Grunkle Stan, he was punching the clock at the time.
• Stout Strength: When Dipper fails to win a manliness tester game in "Dipper vs. Manliness", Dan effortlessly wins it using his pinky finger.
• Taken for Granite: Turned into stone by an Eye Bat in "Weirdmageddon 2: Escape From Reality."
• Testosterone Poisoning: Again. Manly Dan. The name ain't just for show.
• Those Two Guys: With Tyler the Cute Biker.
• Top-Heavy Guy: His chest is easily three times as wide as his body below the waist.

Tyler Cutebiker

Tyler Cutebiker

"Get 'em, get 'em!"

Voiced By: Will Forte

A guy seen hanging around Manly Dan a lot, though generally he seems to show up whenever a fight breaks out.

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• Ambiguously Gay: He often hangs around Manly Dan and seems overly fond of him, and could be seen screaming along with a bunch of girls at a Sev'ral Timez concert. He's also one of the Love God's groupies.
• Badass Biker: Hilariously subverted. Even when hanging out in a biker bar, he keeps an absurdly cheerful demeanor.
• Character Catchphrase:
  • "Get 'em! Get 'em!". A flashback in "A Tale of Two Stans" shows that he inherited this catchphrase from his mother.
  • He manages to turn this into a campaign slogan in "The Stanchurian Candidate."
  Tyler: Education? Get it! Prosperity? Get it! A Gravity Falls we can be proud of? Get it.
  • And then he changes it beautifully when he wins.
  Tyler: (tearfully) Got it.
  • His attempt to make Bill leave starts with the word "Get."
  Tyler: As mayor, I strongly urge you to get... Get on outta here!
• Cuteness Proximity: Had this to the concept of an earthquake after Lazy Susan described a small one as "a baby earthquake."
• Dark Horse Victory: This guy managed to win the mayoral election.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Despite suspecting how out of his league he is, when Weirdmageddon starts, he steps up to be a leader of the town, demanding that Bill Cipher "Get on out of here."
• The Ditherer: "Dipper vs. Manliness" starts with him unable to decide between two different shirts.
  Tyler: "Puma shirt... Panther shirt? Puma shirt... Panther shirt? Puma shirt... ... ... Panther shirt?"
• Fanboy: Of Manly Dan. 'Deep End' and 'Boyz Crazy' would suggest that he's a fan of random violence. Which usually happens around Dan.
• Hidden Depths: Turns out to be a pretty effective mayor, which is no small feat given what a Weirdness Magnet the town generally is.
• Keet: Shandra describes him as an "enthusiasm enthusiast".
• Let Us Never Speak of This Again: Passes the 'Never Mind All That' act after Weirdmageddon is resolved, which dictates the Gravity Falls citizens by law not to reveal anything about what has passed to the outside world.
• Meaningful Name: Tyler Cutebiker is... well... a cute biker.
• No Name Given: Up until "Gideon Rises", where it's revealed his name is Tyler. He's always credited as "Cute Biker" even after that episode. In "The Stanchurian Candidate", it's revealed that his last name is Cutebiker (though it's pronounced "Cutebicker").
  • In some dubs, he is never named.
• Recurring Extra: Appears somewhat frequently, but never for more than a moment.
• Take a Third Option: A Continuity Nod moment in season 2 reveals that Tyler solved his shirt dilemma by sewing half of each shirt together into a single one.
• The Thing That Would Not Leave: At the start of "Dipper Vs Manliness", he won't leave the shop because he can't decide which shirt to buy. Stan, Dipper and Mabel deal with it by locking him in the store without him noticing.
• Those Two Guys: With Manly Dan.
• Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: How he became mayor of Gravity Falls. Stan was disqualified for his criminal record, Bud for trying to kill the Pines family, and Soos because he didn't do his paperwork. Tyler was the only person left in the race.

Toby Determined

Toby "Bodacious T" Determined

"Toby Determined, Gravity Falls Gossiper."

Voiced By: Gregg Turkington

The journalist, editor, and manager for a newspaper called the Gravity Falls Gossiper.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: Shandra considers him this.
• Action Survivor: Manages to survive 3 days in Weirdmageddon and manages to reach the Shack by day 5 by himself.
• Adrenaline Makeover: He tries to invoke this in "Weirdmageddon" by giving himself a blue mohawk and dressing like a teenage punk, but he's just as incompetent as always. At least it seems to do something for his self-confidence, as he chooses to keep his new look and the self-styled nickname of "Bodacious T" after everything else returns to normal.
• Ancient Conspiracy: A member of the Society of the Blind Eye.
• The Chew Toy: Is constantly suffering and being put down by the other townsfolk for his oddness.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: On top of his using household items as props for his reporting, he occasionally says something that makes you wonder. A doctor telling him his birthmark is indeed disgusting? "Hooray!" And when Mabel presents him with his CATICATURE^note (Guitar riff), he thinks it looks like him, right down to his cat-like whiskers the doctors can't explain. Then he hugs the drawing and meows.
  Mabel: You're always weirder than I remember.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Finally worked with Shandra Jimenez as "Bodacious T".
• Gonk: When compared, a Summerween monster mask looked better than his real face. He was also mistaken for a zombie in "Scary-oke", and Wendy shot him in the arm with a crossbow thinking he was a monster in "Weirdmageddon Part 1".
  Agent Trigger: Aah! Another zombie!
  Agent Powers: Drop your weapon! Drop your weapon!
  Agents: Oh, it's just- Who is that guy?- Just a very ugly man.
• Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: When seen in the past in "Blendin's Game" and "A Tale of Two Stans", he has a full head of hair. What little of it is left in the present day is constantly covered by his hat.
• Hopeless Suitor: For Shandra Jimenez. A cipher implies that her constant rejections are what led him to join the Society of the Blind Eye.
• Hypocritical Humor: After the twins falsely accuse him of decapitating Wax Stan, Toby says "Boy, I'd be pretty embarrassed if I was you two!" Behind him, the footage of him loudly making out with the Shandra Jimenez cardboard cutout plays as he smiles.
• Intrepid Reporter: Or at least trying to cultivate that image.
  Stan: Your camera is a cinderblock, Toby.
  Toby: I just want to be a part of things...
• Punny Name: On "To be determined", a common line in news reports.
• Red Herring: In-universe. In "Headhunters", the twins assume he's the one who cut off wax Stan's head due to a number of plausible deductions, but he could vouch for his alibi. He was making out with a cardboard cutout of Shandra during the time the crime was committed, which Blubs judges to be weird, but not breaking any laws.
• Self-Applied Nickname: When Toby dons a punk rocker look during Weirdmageddon, he insists on being called "Bodacious T". Wendy instantly shoots down that notion, saying, "no one will ever call you that." After the events of Weirdmageddon, news reporter Shandra Jimenez actually refers to him as Bodacious T. during a televised news report.
• Stalker with a Crush: To TV news reporter Shandra Jimenez. He has a life-size cardboard cutout of her which he once made out with. In "The Hand That Rocks the Mabel", he once helped Lil' Gideon in exchange for her phone number.
• Straw Loser: Toby is a hopelessly pathetic individual - pretty much everyone in town mocks and/or is creeped out by him.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: After Weirdmageddon, he gets to appear next to Shandra on the news leading the sports segment.

Bud and Mrs. Gleeful

Bud and Mrs. Gleeful

Voiced By: Stephen Root (Bud) and Grey DeLisle (Mrs. Gleeful)

The parents of Gideon Charles Gleeful. Bud runs a used car lot right behind the family's house. Mrs. Gleeful is a stay-at-home mother.

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• Affably Evil: Bud, as evidenced by the picture of Stan on his (and/or Gideon's) Dartboard of Hate. There is also his membership in the Society of the Blind Eye.
• Ancient Conspiracy: Bud is a member of the Society of the Blind Eye.
• Badass Boast: Bud gives one to Stanley Pines when he ran against him in "The Stanchurian Candidate".
  Bud: I was gonna let bygones be bygones, Stan, but you just made a powerful enemy. I'll win either way, and when I do you may not like the Gravity Falls you wake up in!
• Bald of Evil: Punch-Clock Villain or not, Bud is still clearly on the wrong side (and proves he can be quite mean, underhanded and spiteful in his own right if pushed), likewise he has no hair on the top of his head.
• Big Fun: Bud is very cheerful and affable, in stark contrast to his son. He's also a big enough guy to make the barrel-chested Grunkle Stan look short by comparison◊.
• Dartboard of Hate: Bud has one with Stan's picture. Though it's possible that it might belong to Gideon, or even both.
• Doting Parent: Bud is one to Gideon.
• The Dragon: Bud is this to Gideon's Big Bad in Season 1. In Season 2, he attempted to run for mayor so he could pardon Gideon. Now, the position is held by Ghost Eyes.
• Dysfunctional Family: An extreme example, to the point that Gideon's tantrums have left Mrs. Gleeful a nervous wreck and drove Bud to have them periodically erased from his memory as a member of the Society of the Blind Eye.
• Everyone Has Standards: While his personal beef with Stan escalates in "The Stanchurian Candidate", Bud balks at the idea of Gideon using "spooky spells" to obtain a better electoral outcome. Said exchange happened before Gideon specified that he was talking about using spooky spells on Bud himself, indicating that it's been a long-standing principle the latter has held.
• Honest John's Dealership: "...Engine 'possum at no extra charge!"
• Housewife: Mrs. Gleeful.
• It's Personal: He has a lot of heat with Stan.
• Meaningful Name: Played straight by Bud.
• Non-Indicative Name: Mrs. Gleeful is a nervous wreck who is terrified of her son.
• Prematurely Grey-Haired: Mrs. Gleeful's hair is all gray despite being young enough to have a ten-year-old son, presumably from all the stress he puts her under.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Bud occasionally provides minor assistance in Gideon's schemes, but he really doesn't care about most of his son's plans. By the time of "The Stanchurian Candidate", things got personal for him.
• Pushover Parents: Gideon's behavior has turned his father into an abused sidekick and his mom into a drone who can only talk about housework.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Bud wears a Hawaiian pink t-shirt.
• The Quiet One: Mrs. Gleeful spends most of her time in terrified silence.
• Stepford Smiler: Bud might be this. He is suspiciously cheerful for a guy who has a nervous wreck for a wife and a power-hungry sociopath for a son. He's been using the Memory Gun to forget about everything bad. However, despite not approving of his son's use of the supernatural, it's shown that Bud can be mean and spiteful, such as when he threatened Stan when he decided to run against him to be Gravity Falls' mayor.
• Survival Mantra: Mrs. Gleeful. "Just keep vacuuming, just keep vacuuming..."
• Unnamed Parent: Mrs. Gleeful's first name was never revealed.

"Lazy" Susan Wentworth

"Lazy" Susan Wentworth

Voiced By: Jennifer Coolidge

Waitress at the local Greasy Spoon, "Greasy's Diner". Not exactly the brightest crayon in the box, even for Gravity Falls.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: Made Grunkle Stan flee their first date, then left 36 voice messages on his phone.
• Cerebus Retcon: Having her mind wiped is probably what made her crazy. Similarly, her lazy eye is revealed to have been caused by one of Stanford's machines zapping her eye during Grunkle Stan's first "tour" of his house.
• CloudCuckooLander: Pours coffee in her omelets.
  "The secret to my Coffee Omelet is coffee!"
• Crazy Cat Lady: Makes her cats meow over the phone when leaving messages.
• Dub Name Change: In the Spanish dub her nickname is changed to "Linda Susan" (Pretty Susan), which comes off as an Ironic Nickname.
• Elderly Blue-Haired Lady: Has the hair, and is somewhere around Stan's age.
• Greasy Spoon: She works at the local one.
• Named After the Injury: Gets her name from her lazy eye, which was injured by an electric shock from a faulty device in the Mystery Shack.
• Non-Indicative Name: The real medical term for her drooping eyelid is "ptosis", however, it does cause amblyopia, a condition where the brain favors one eye over the other and results in decreased vision in the affected eye, which is what the term "lazy eye" actually refers to.
• Punny Name: Her nickname refers to both her lazy eye, and the Lazy Susan pie rack in the diner that she can never get to work.
• Spectacular Spinning: When she goes to check if the Hide-Behind is behind her, she begins spinning and goes into an infinite loop (much to the consternation of a nearby customer).
• Taken for Granite: Shown to have been one of the townsfolk to suffer this fate in "Weirdmageddon Part 1", with Bill's friends using her as the bottle in a game of "Spin the Human".

Shandra Jimenez

Shandra Jimenez

"Shandra Jimenez, a real reporter."

Voiced By: Kari Wahlgren

The female news reporter of Gravity Falls, and unwilling target of Toby Determined's secret affection.

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• Badass Normal: It's downplayed, but when Bill takes over the town and causes the Weirdmageddon, Shandra keeps right on going, surviving a few days into the end of the world, still reporting the news, and very bravely breaks into Bill's lair to show the citizens of Gravity Falls what's going on. And when she gets turned to stone, she takes it with dignity. Hard not to respect her after that.
• Character Catchphrase:
  • "Shandra Jimenez, a real reporter". (glances in Toby's direction)
  • "I'm Shandra Jimenez, and I'm (insert whatever she's doing or happening to her at the moment.)" Heard only in parts 1 and 3 of the finale.
• Consummate Professional: A rather lovely-looking reporter for a local news channel that seems far more professional than the Gravity Falls Gossiper. She is a real reporter, you know.
• Deadline News: In "Weirdmageddon Part 3", Shandra manages to report on the devastation of the Weirdmageddon and gets turned to stone by one of Bill Cipher's eye-bats, finishing her report with "I'm Shandra Jimenez, and I'm being turned into stone by a flying eyeball!" before freezing completely.
• Determinator: Even in the midst of Weirdmageddon, she insists on doing her job, including reporting that she ate a rat for dinner.
• Fanservice Extra: For a minor character, she has a rather attractive design.
• Kent Brockman News: Unlike Toby, who seems content reporting everything he comes across, including the strange happenings of the town, Shandra would rather focus on more believable news such as the passing of an important figure. Problem is, she's stuck on a place notorious for its rampant paranormal activity.
• Off Screen Moment Of Awesome: How she got inside the Fearamid must have been quite a story.
• Older Than They Look: Looks to be within the range of 30-40 years old, maybe even in her late 20s, but a cameo near the end of the flashbacks in "A Tale of Two Stans" seem to place her as a teenager 30 years ago, making her in her mid-40s at earliest in present day.
• Recurring Extra: Appears several times, but at best only plays a minor role in events.
• Reduced to Ratburgers: Shandra mentions she ate a rat for dinner in the middle of the apocalypse.
• Skewed Priorities: She starts crying on air while reporting Mayor Befufftlefumpter's death. Not because of the sadness of the story, but because this is the first real news she's reported in a long time.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: After Bill gets defeated and the world is saved, Shandra puts Toby (in his "Bodacious T" alter ego) in charge of the sports section of her news program. In return, Toby decides not to hit on her anymore, which is rather considerate on his behalf.
• Tuckerization: Her name is based on Sean Jimenez, Gravity Falls' Background Design Supervisor, who also attended the California Institute of Arts School of Film/Video like creator Alex Hirsch.
• Villainous Cheekbones: Averted. Shandra has noticeable cheekbones, but is far from villainous.

Abuelita Ramirez

Abuelita Ramirez

"I go vacuum my face now."

Voiced By: Matt Chapman

Soos' elderly grandmother, a very calm and soft-spoken woman who takes things in great stride, which is impressive considering she lives in Gravity Falls.

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• Ambiguously Christian: Mentions Heaven, implies Hell, and has a bunch of porcelain angels.
• Awful Wedded Life: Implied to be the case with Soos' grandfather. Abuelita is apparently quite certain that she won't be reuniting with him in Heaven.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": "Abuelita" is just the Spanish diminutive of "grandmother". Her given name has yet to be revealed.
• Forced Transformation: Turned into a recliner in "Weirdmageddon Part 1". She isn't bothered by it at all, even reclining herself to take a nap.
• Good Parents: She's Soos' grandmother, but she seems to have done most of the work raising him. She adored Soos when he was a child, tried to make him feel better about his Parental Abandonment, and encourages him as an adult to find someone special.
• Gratuitous Spanish: She uses a bunch of Spanish words when she speaks. Justified, since she's confirmed to be Hispanic (and a lot of the words she uses are actual Mexican slang ^note  like when she calls Soos "mijo", a contraction of the phrase "mi hijo", meaning "My son", and usually meant as an endearing term for younger family members). At one time, she even blurts out a full sentence in Spanish cursing Soos's deadbeat dad.
• Granny Classic: Somewhat. After the Pines family were kicked out of the Mystery Shack she took them in, but this proved difficult when she couldn't afford to keep feeding everybody.
• Last Episode, New Character: She is introduced in the first season finale, and starts making more appearances in Season 2.
• Mama Bear: Is heartbroken when Soos' father doesn't show up again, and threatens in Spanish to tear him limb from limb if he does show up.
• Miniature Senior Citizens: She looks to be about as tall as the twins.
• Neat Freak: When someone spilled something on her wall, she whipped out a vacuum and started cleaning without batting an eye. The above quote was her reaction to Stan kissing her on the lips.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Only known as "Abuelita". In the Journals revealed that her name is Dolores Ramirez.
• Spicy Latina: Has shades of this in the flashback to Soos' childhood in Blendin's Game. After Soos' Disappeared Dad promised to attend, and then missed, Soos' birthday for the eighth year in a row, she swore to herself (in Español) to tear him limb from limb if she ever saw him again.
• Stalker without a Crush: She makes it a habit of reading Soos' diary, and at the end of Soos and the Real Girl, we find out she'd been following Soos and the twins all day, even on Soos' date with Melody. Not even Giffany's rampage seemed to deter her.
  Abuelita: Soos' life is my soap opera.
• Unfazed Everyman: Unusually calm in the face of the dangers of Gravity Falls. She doesn't even seem very fazed when Bill Cipher turns her into a talking armchair during "Weirdmageddon". The only thing that actually manages to faze her is receiving a Smooch of Victory from Grunkle Stan.
  Abuelita: I go vacuum my face now.

Melody

Melody

"Being an adult is the worst. Skewering meat, remembering to pay bills... I just wanna ride tiny trains all day."

Voiced By: Jillian Bell

A girl from Portland who is visiting Gravity Falls for a while, and working at the "Meat Cute" stall at the mall. She ends up dating Soos after she sees him riding a toy train just outside her work. Unbeknownst to them, however, is that it resulted with inciting the wrath of Giffany.

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• Action Girl: There's no indication she's ever brushed with the supernatural, and yet when faced with murderous animatronics, she picks up a chair and smashes one over the head with it before being overwhelmed.
• Ambiguously Brown: Her skin is light brown, but it's unclear if she's just tanned or if she's of a non-white ethnicity.
• Big Beautiful Woman: She's definitely a plus-size girl, but this has no effect on her natural beauty, and she wears clothes that flatter her build. Plus, obviously, Soos thinks she looks nice enough to date.
• Birds of a Feather: With Soos. She’s also childish for her age, enjoys a good meal, and is very nice, friendly, and loyal. She first steps up to talk to him after seeing him riding a toy train, finding it awesome.
• Closer to Earth: She has a childish sense of humor, dislikes adulthood, and is quite carefree for her age, much like Soos, but she's clearly a little more adept at the whole "being a grownup" thing than he is. It's implied she lives on her own (she mentions paying bills, so even if she lives with someone like Soos does, she's clearly financially responsible for herself), and she has what is probably the most realistic and reasonable reaction to the idea of Mabel and Dipper protecting her.
  Soos: Dipper and Mabel will look after you! It's the only way!
  Melody: Soos, these are children.
  Soos: THE ONLY WAY!
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: An odd case; in comparison to most of the cast, she's more on Mabel and Soos' tier of oddity, but also points out to Soos (when he leaves her in Dipper and Mabel's care in a crisis) that the twins are children and won't necessarily be able to protect her.
• Distaff Counterpart: To Soos.
• Early-Bird Cameo: She can be already seen at the mall the first time Soos and the kids go there much earlier before Giffany came into focus.
• Long-Distance Relationship: Reveals at the end of her introductory episode that she's only visiting family in Gravity Falls, and will have to go back to Portland soon. She and Soos decide to keep dating via Skype calls.
  • At least until the series finale, where she's moved to Gravity Falls to work with Soos at the Mystery Shack after he takes over.
• Meet Cute: Her first conversation with Soos. Fittingly, she works at a "Meat Cute" food stand.
• Nice Girl: Forgives Soos for nearly being killed by a bunch of robots, and happily accepts his invitation to his cousin's wedding.
• Noodle Incident: She mentions that she's had worse dates than the one she's had with Soos, a date which involved a psychotic Yandere character, and killer animatronics.
  Melody: Never date a magician.
• Womanchild: Much like Soos, she's pretty childish. While managing to stay normal, she's outright introduced bemoaning being an adult.

Mayor Eustace "Huckabone" Befufftlefumpter

Mayor Eustace "Huckabone" Befufftlefumpter

Voiced By: Alex Hirsch

The reclusive mayor of Gravity Falls; Eustace Hucklebone Befufftlefumpter is 102 years old, and, consequentially, is "not long for this earth".

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• Been There, Shaped History: Allegedly started World War I.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: Has thick eyebrows.
• Character Death: In "The Stanchurian Candidate", but he lives on as a zombie.
• Creator Cameo: The Mayor is yet another character voiced by the creator of the series.
• Creepy Crows: After he enters the party at the Northwest Manor, a few vultures (or other scavenging birds) surround him, but before they can be shooed off, he says that they're with him.
• Improbable Hairstyle: The top part (what's left of) his hair stands up by itself.
• Life Will Kill You: In the end, he does exactly what you'd expect a man over 100 years old to do.
• Mayor Pain: A very light example of the incompetent variety. Due to his extreme age and decrepitude, he's largely retreated from the public eye, and seems incapable of handling any administrative duties beyond appearing at social functions or ribbon-cutting ceremonies.
• Mellow Fellow: The Mayor seems to take everything in stride with a calm attitude — even death.
• Miniature Senior Citizens: He's smaller than most of the other adults.
• Mythology Gag: His appearance (at least from the neck down) bears a strong resemblance to Stan's early design in the first pilot.
• Nice Guy: He's a real mellow and polite man.
• Noodle Incident: Apparently, he possibly started World War One.
• Not Afraid to Die: Has been awaiting death for years, and he dies in "The Stanchurian Candidate". When the Lumberjack Ghost shows up to the mansion and everyone else is petrified, the Mayor's response is perfectly nonchalant:
  "Ah, the Grim Reaper, I've been wondering when you would arrive—"
• Raised by Wolves: He was raised by bears in the wilderness.
• Symbol Motif Clothing: Every outfit he's ever shown wearing has featured a tartan or plaid pattern, from the blanket covering his legs, to the jacket he sported as a middle-aged man, to even his diaper as a baby.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Made minor appearances in only two episodes before his off-screen death.
• Writers Cannot Do Math: Allegedly, he fought in World War I. Since he's 102, he would have been only 4 years old when the war started in 1914; if he was at least 18 in the same year, the show would need to take place at 1998 at the earliest, which is clearly not the case.

Tad Strange

Tad Strange

"Hi guys. Tad's the name, and being normal's my game!"

Voiced By: Cecil Baldwin

The most normal guy in Gravity Falls.

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• Bit Character: According to Alex Hirsch, he's in the show mostly because of a joke about his Ironic Name. His surprising popularity, and voice actor's fanbase on the internet netted him another appearance in Weirdmageddon.
• The Cameo: His voice actor is the voice of the main character of Welcome to Night Vale.
• Dissonant Serenity: He smiles as he says that the experience of being Taken for Granite and put on Bill's throne will scar him forever.
• Expy: Like Cecil, Tad is a cheerful and generic Unfazed Everyman in a Town with a Dark Secret.
• The Generic Guy: Played for Laughs. The main thing that sets him apart from the other townsfolk is his blandness.
• Ironic Name: As Soos pointed out.
• Perpetual Smiler: He keeps the same expression at all times. Even as he admits to feeling quite traumatized by the events of Weirdmageddon.
• Ridiculously Average Guy: In a town full of weird people, Tad is so utterly nondescript that he ironically comes off as one of the weirdest.
• Oxymoronic Being: He's an extremely bland and unremarkable man who stands out among the locals of Gravity Falls, who range from mildly eccentric to outright loonies due to just how profoundly normal he is.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Bread.
• Unfazed Everyman: The supernatural strangeness in Gravity Falls hasn't seemed to affect him in anyway. At least until he becomes part of Bill's throne in Weirdmageddon.
  "This experience will forever scar Tad Strange."

Farmer Sprott

Farmer Sprott

Voiced By: Dee Bradley Baker

A farmer and the original owner of Waddles.

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• Absurd Phobia: Is deeply afraid of witches.
• Ancient Conspiracy: A member of the Society of the Blind Eye.
• Apocalypse Cult: He starts worshipping Bill during the events of Weirdmageddon, declaring that any object with more than three sides is sinful in Bill's eyes and encouraging bystanders to make everything into triangles to try and appease him. He is, of course, just as wrong about what Bill wants as Preston Northwest.
• Comedic Sociopath: He’s usually a bit too eager to be rallied into an act of violence such as gathering a mob to go after Mabel, or sadistically waxing about how he’s going to eat his mutated cow.
• The Ditz:
  • He held a "Guess the Pig's Weight" carnival attraction to earn from people paying to try and failing to guess the weight of his pigs, but he names them after their weight, rendering his whole scheme moot.
  Sprott: Ah, ol' Fifteen-Poundie. So, how much you guessin' he weighs?
  • Not to mention that he was willing to eat an obviously mutated cow.
• Torches and Pitchforks: He gathers a few of the townspeople to hunt down Mabel after she tells him she's a witch in "The Time Traveler's Pig."
  Farmer Sprott: [lighting a torch] Well, time to round up the mob.
• Villain of the Week: Played for Laughs. In one short he’s the primary antagonist since he wants to eat a mutated cow and tries and fails to stop the Pines family from escaping with it.

Free Pizza Guy

Free Pizza Guy

Voiced By:

An obese resident of Gravity Falls who always struggles to get a free meal.

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• Big Eater: He's so rotund that he makes Soos, who already is considerably heavyset, look a bit smaller in comparison.
• Butt-Monkey: Tries and often fails to get a meal in peace.
• Establishing Character Moment: His introduction in "Headhunters" shows him having donned a shirt that said "Free Pizza" in celebration of the free pizza being promised by Stan, only for him to sigh sadly and walk home crushed when it turns out to have been a lie.
• Fat Comic Relief: It's played for laughs that such a heavyset guy is always lamenting having missed out on a free meal.
• Fat Idiot: He’s often tricked into becoming a victim of the latest scheme enacted by Stan or Gideon. Most of his processing power seems to be directed towards his belly.
• No Name Given: Only known as "Free Pizza Guy", or "that fat guy".
• Non-Action Guy: By virtue of being so incredibly fat, he's helpless whenever something goes wrong in town.
• Older Than He Looks: "A Tale of Two Stans" reveals he was a child about 30 years ago, making him in his 40's in the present day, when he looks pretty similar to Soos, who is explicitly confirmed to be in his 20’s.
• The Quiet One: Only has one throwaway line in "The Time Traveler's Pig".
• Recurring Extra: He never has a prominent role and is simply a background extra for the entirety of the series besides his brief spotlight introduction.
• Serious Business: He evidently takes free pizza seriously, since when he heard of the free pizza being promised at the Wax Museum’s reopening, he puts on a shirt that specifically says "Free Pizza" for the occasion. When it turns out to have been a scam, he’s the only resident who isn’t angry or annoyed, but instead reacts like he just got rejected by someone he loves. It’s to the point he becomes a suspect for the "murder" of Wax Stan since the twins speculate he did it out of revenge for no free pizza.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Pizza. He always wears a shirt of it.

Ghost Eyes

Ghost Eyes

Voiced By: Kevin Michael Richardson

A local inmate who becomes the second-in-command of Gideon's prison gang.

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• Affably Evil: He's a convict, but he's a true friend to Gideon, even consoling him when one of Gideon's schemes falls apart.
• Blood Knight: He and the other convicts lose focus on the twins and assist Gideon in opposing Bill Cipher. Partly due to Undying Loyalty, partly due to excitement at fighting a "chaos god".
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: Acts this way toward Gideon, who he's very gentle toward.
• The Brute: Becomes Gideon's main muscle.
• The Dragon: He's Gideon's top henchman and most loyal follower.
• Dumb Muscle: Subverted. He looks like one, but majored in philosophy and invokes He Who Fights Monsters towards Gideon.
• Early-Bird Cameo: His first appearance in the show was in one of the TV Shorts. He had some screentime in "The Stanchurian Candidate" and makes his first major appearance in "Weirdmageddon Part 1".
• Genius Bruiser: Who would've expected this prison thug to have once been a philosophy student?
• Hidden Depths: Ghost Eyes may be a violent and seemingly simple-minded thug, but he also majored in philosophy. Also seems to really enjoy the friendship bracelet classes.
• I Minored in Tropology: One of the most intimidating characters on the show and he majored in philosophy.
• Intergenerational Friendship: He looks like he is in his late thirties or early forties, and is friends with Gideon, who is a child.
• Made of Iron: Even Wendy pulling a move that should have broken (or at least dislocated) his arm only momentarily stuns him. And he's back to using his arm again in seconds.
• Meaningful Name: His Monochromatic Eyes look like that of a ghost, hence his nickname.
• Monochromatic Eyes: He has blank-white eyes that look like that of a ghost, hence his nickname.
• Muscles Are Meaningful: A giant thug who is strong enough to punch through solid glass.
• Real Men Wear Pink: He enjoys the friendship bracelet classes in jail.
• Tattooed Crook: He has tattoos on his arms.
• Undying Loyalty: He and the other goons are completely loyal to Gideon, even assisting him in defying Bill Cipher.
• Villainous Friendship: He's not just a henchman, but also a loyal friend of Gideon.
• Villainous Valor: He and his fellow prisoners don't hesitate to oppose Bill Cipher, but it's more because they want a real challenge.

Agents Powers and Trigger

Agents Powers and Trigger

Powers: "We're here to investigate reports of mysterious activity in this town." Trigger: "Activity!"

Voiced By: Nick Offerman ^note (credited as Key Vigenére) and Brad Abrell (Trigger)

Two agents of a vague yet menacing government agency who come investigating the town's various oddities.

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• Agent Scully: The both of them investigate paranormal occurrences, but have never actually witnessed one. Almost getting eaten by zombies brings them to the Agent Mulder side.
• Anti-Villain: They're not bad people by any definition — they're just doing their jobs, and they do have good reason to believe Stan is a dangerous criminal. Of course, we know Stan's not a bad guy, but Powers and Trigger have every right to attempt to arrest him.
• Arc Villain: Of the first half of Season 2 after Gideon in Season 1 and Bill taking centre stage in the later half.
• Big Brother Is Watching: As of "Sock Opera," it's revealed in a Freeze-Frame Bonus that they've planted listening devices in the Mystery Shack. A live-action interview with Stan reveals that the agency has been watching the entire Pines family (on Earth anyway) "for years" and that Powers and Trigger are just an extension of that.
• Bulletproof Vest: They seem to have some sort of armor under their clothing. Whatever it is, it was enough to save them from zombie bites.
• Butt-Monkey: Agent Trigger has been used as a human shield against zombies, stuck in a car wreck pinned down by a tree branch thanks to two kids, and forced to dress up as a girl.
• The Comically Serious: Both to different degrees. Powers is the more practical, but his inability to understand humor is played for laughs, while Trigger does several silly and erratic things with a straight serious face.
• Hero Antagonist: Despite working against our heroes, they do so because they believe Stan is a world-class supervillain, and while they're (partially) wrong about his supposed doomsday machine, they turned out to be not that far off when the Rift opened, and Stan has committed an extremely long list of genuine crimes.
• Highly-Visible Ninja: Darkly played straight. They're not disguised very often or very well, so you know that you're being followed, but if you turn around and actually try to see if anyone's there, they won't be.
• Knight of Cerebus: The events of "Not What He Seems" wouldn't have happened if they didn't show up.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Thanks to the Memory Gun, they forget about their pursuit of Stan and what he's hiding.
• Like an Old Married Couple: In The Stinger of "Northwest Mansion Mystery", they're arguing in the closet about where Trigger left Powers' phone.
  Trigger: "Oh, so I'm just supposed to hold onto everything for you?"
  Powers: "I asked you when we were in the car!"
  Trigger: "WHY DO WE ALWAYS HAVE TO FIGHT AT PARTIES?!"
  (Tambry walks in, sees them arguing and Trigger in a dress.)
  Tambry: (Walks out) "Not even gonna ask."
• Made of Iron: Agent Trigger has been used by Powers as a shield against zombies and stuck in a crashed Humvee with a tree branch pinning him down thanks to Mabel and Manly Dan. He survived both of these situations off-screen.
• Manly Facial Hair: Powers seems to be the more physically capable of the two, having crushed a Zombie Skull with a rock when it got too close, and not even Animation can deprive Nick Offerman of a mustache.
• The Men in Black: They work for the government, investigating weird stuff and wear black suits.
• Mistaken for Gay: In the "Northwest Mansion Noir" episode, Powers and Trigger disguise themselves as a married couple and even after they drop the act they continue to bicker like one. This attracts Tambry and when she sees this, combined with the fact that Trigger was wearing a dress, she walks out immediately and tells them that she is "not even gonna ask". Tambry doesn't know that Powers and Trigger are actually agents working for a vague government.
• No Sense of Humor: Agent Powers said he's born without an ability to experience humor and doesn't understand the noise (nervous laughter) that Stan is making.
• Not Now, Kiddo: Played With. While they don't believe Dipper's journal is actual proof, they do take the time to look at said journal before dismissing it, and take Dipper seriously when he first says he may be able to help their investigation, which is certainly more than adults on other kids' shows can say.
• Not So Stoic: They do their best to be calm and professional, but definitely have their limits.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: We see them dragged off into the woods to certain doom by zombies. They emerge in The Stinger no worse for the wear. Turns out Powers used Trigger as a human shield.
• Put on a Bus: After having their memories and records of the Pines family erased, they buy Ford's Bavarian Fire Drill and appear to abandon investigation of Gravity Falls entirely.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: The both of them. They just happen to live in an unreasonable world.
• Seen It All: Not the paranormal per se, but they're terribly familiar with more mundane felonies. Even the often-hapless Trigger tries to warn the Twins that Stan is in fact a fraud because he's seen this situation play out before. And as it turns out, Trigger's (mostly) right; while he does love Dipper and Mabel, the Stanford Pines Dipper and Mabel knew was in fact his brother Stanley posing as him.
• Those Two Guys: Of a slightly more sinister bent; in both "Sock Opera" and "Soos and the Real Girl," they can be seen in the background keeping an eye on the Pines family.

Mr. Poolcheck

Mr. Poolcheck

Voiced By: Michael Rianda

The head lifeguard of the Gravity Falls Public Pool. He takes his job very seriously.

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• An Arm and a Leg: He lost his right hand to a pool filter.
• Badass Normal: He's one of the last few un-petrified townspeople outside the Mystery Shack in "Weirdmageddon Part 3", meaning that he's managed to survive marauding eye-bats, hungry monsters, and wandering madness bubbles for several days.
• Barrier-Busting Blow: He plows clean through a chain-link fence in pursuit of Soos.
• Berserker Tears: He's crying with rage after someone (namely Mabel) damages the pool's only skimmer.
• Early-Bird Cameo: He first appears in "Bottomless Pit!"; he's one of the guys at the Skull Fracture who chase Dipper for making prank calls.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: He can go from calm to raging at the flip of a coin. Dipper lampshades it.
  Dipper: He seems emotionally unstable.
• Hidden Depths: He's surprisingly good at Irish stepdance, as seen in "Scary-oke".
• Mean Boss: He doesn't seem to be particularly incompetent, but he tends to get upset easily and berates Dipper over the damaged pool supplies. That said, his firing Dipper and Wendy is justified; Dipper didn't keep his promise to protect the pool's equipment, and Wendy was stealing food from the snack bar and otherwise finding ways to break the rules she was supposed to enforce.
• Metal Muncher: He eats Dipper's whistle in a fit of anger after firing him.
• Muscle Beach Bum: He's the buffest character in the show, he manages the pool, and he's a bit of a psycho.
• Noodle Incident: Exactly how did he lose his hand to a pool filter?
• The Nose Knows: He's able to tell what SPF Dipper's sunscreen is just by smelling him.
  Mr. Poolcheck: SPF 100? Good. I like you.
• Pet the Dog: Despite being overly strict and short-tempered, he's surprisingly nice to Dipper until things start to go sideways, approving of his choice in sunscreen and telling him to have a good night.
• Prosthetic Limb Reveal: He pulls his right hand off, startling Dipper.
• Punny Name: He's a lifeguard, so his job description is basically to check on the pool.
• Red Is Violent: He wears a red polo in all his appearances and is one of the most hot-tempered characters on the show.
• Sand In My Eyes: He refuses to acknowledge that he's crying when Dipper asks him about it.
  Mr. Poolcheck: [with visible tears in his eyes] THAT'S NOT IMPORTANT RIGHT NOW!
• Serious Business: The pool and everything to do with it. He threatens to fire Dipper just because someone bent the pool skimmer and completely loses his mind when he sees Soos tossing the duck inflatables over the fence.
• Suddenly Shouting: In keeping with his Hair-Trigger Temper. "Can you handle THIS?!"
• Treasure Chest Cavity: He keeps the pool keys inside his artificial hand.

Pines Family (SPOILERS UNMARKED)

Filbrick Pines and Caryn Pines

Voiced By: Jonathan Banks (Filbrick) and Kari Wahlgren (Caryn)

The parents of Stanley and Stanford Pines and the great-grandparents of Dipper and Mabel. The former owned a pawn shop and the latter worked from home as a "phone psychic" while raising Stan, Ford, and their brother Shermie.

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Tropes applying to both

• Aerith and Bob: Caryn is an alternative spelling of Karen, a pretty common given name, especially during her time. Filbrick, on the other hand, is practically unheard of.
• All There in the Manual: Their full names (Filbrick Elmer Pines and Caryn Romanoff Pines) are only available on Page 8 of the secret online content for Gravity Falls: Lost Legends. It also reveals that "Pines" is not Filbrick's ancestral last name, having only come about during immigration to the United States.
• Ambiguously Jewish: Like the rest of the Pines family, especially since Alex Hirsch confirmed on Twitter that "Stan was raised Jewish but is now an atheist". Also, since "Pines" is not Filbrick's ancestral last name, it's probably the Americanized form of a traditional Jewish/Yiddish-sounding name.
• Dysfunctional Family: Their mother was a pathological liar and their dad was emotionally distant, and both of them were money-grubbing jerks.
• Joisey: More apparent in their mother than their father, but both sport pretty thick Jersey Shore accents.

Tropes applying to Filbrick

I'm not impressed.

• Abusive Dad: He was particularly rigid with Stan, and was hard to impress. Before Filbrick kicked Stanley out for accidentally breaking Stanford's science fair project, he scolded Stan with a blunt "The Reason You Suck" Speech and stated that he wasn't welcome in the household until he compensated the "potential millions" lost. His treatment towards Stan left long-lasting emotional scars on him for decades: he became a Snake Oil Salesman to try to earn money, and became obsessed with it. According to a cryptogram, he wasn't even expecting twins, and was too uncreative to give either of them a different name other than Stan.
• Ancestral Name: Ford's full name is Stanford Filbrick Pines.
• The Corrupter: An indirect one towards Stanley and Dipper. Filbrick acted very harshly towards Stanley when the latter was a little kid. Stanley, seeing it as Tough Love, decides to follow his methods in order to toughen Dipper up. Whether it was bossing Dipper around or teasing him. As for Dipper, because Filbrick indirectly caused Stanley to be rude towards Dipper, he also indirectly caused Dipper to be resentful towards Stanley.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Filbrick refused to believe that Stan had broken Ford's perpetual motion machine on accident, and immediately disowned and kicked Stanley out of the house until he earned a fortune. It's made worse, as Stanley hadn't even graduated from high school.
• Hypocrite: Filbrick claims Stanley "rode on his brother's coattails", he then proceeded to berate him for costing the family millions.
• Hypocrite Has a Point: There's one thing that he is correct about and that is that Stan did slack off and have his brother doing work for him. That being said, it's still not a good reason to kick his son out.
• I Have No Son!: To the degree that the twins don't even have an inkling that they really have two great-uncles.
• Irony: Filbrick kicked Stanley out for ruining his chance at millions of dollars Stanford could have made. But when Stanford received a large sum of money for his research, neither of them seem to have gotten any of that money. To clarify, the money Stanford got was in the form of a grant, which can only legally be used for research, meaning they would have never gotten the money anyways. And by the time Stanley had a thriving business, he wasn't exactly in the position to re-enter the family and give them the money, as he was by then legally deceased. So their very attempts to gain money deprived them of it.
• It Runs in the Family:
  • Both his younger son and great-grandson inherited his Brutal Honesty.
  • While not as bad as him, Ford and Mabel used to have a tendency to throw their own relatives under the bus for their own benefits prior to their Character Development.
  • Also averted as he is the only Pines^note Aside from Shermie, who we don't know a lot about. to not be imaginative and creative. In a family of Phony Psychics, Eccentric Artists and Mad Scientists he stands out as a man who famously named his sons Stanford and Stanley.
• Jerkass to One: Much like his oldest son later on, he is a much bigger asshole towards his youngest son than anyone else including his wife, seeing him as nothing more than a failure who rides on his older brother's coattails to the point of fully disowning his youngest son after he screwed up his older's brothers chance of going to a pristine college. Notably, while Ford doesn't hide his contempt for his younger brother, he never seemed to speak negatively about his own father, neither the series nor in the journals, demonstrating a more blatant case of favoritism between his sons.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk:
  • Stan follows his parenting style, thinking it was Tough Love, but considering Stan's methods involve mocking Dipper and making him do difficult chores, it’s safe to assume Filbrick was just being an Abusive Parent.
  • He kicked his son Stanley out, not for ruining his brother's chance to go to his dream school, but because he ruined their chance to make millions. He also spent time as a censor for Comic Books, who's professional duty was to "ruin jokes"; and enjoys westerns that end with everyone dead.
• Karma Houdini: Filbrick suffers no on-screen comeuppance nor gets called out for his treatment towards Stanley.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: However with one son gone and another running a tourist trap (see Irony above), it's highly unlikely he ever saw enough money to allow him to leave Jersey, and probably spent the rest of his life in that "dump."
• Knight of Cerebus: Not as destructive as the other antagonists of course, but Filbrick's disownment of Stanley was played realistically straight.
• Moral Myopia: Accuses Stanley of riding his brother's coattails while using Ford as a Meal Ticket.
• Not So Stoic: Filbrick smiles when he learns Stanford could go on to make the family millions, and is visibly enraged when Stanley accidentally ruins his chance to do that.
• Perpetual Frowner: Almost never smirks. His Perpetual Frowner attitude is even lampshaded by Stanley as the latter states that the former is tough as a cinder block and not easily impressed. The only time he smiles is when he hears that Stanford could possibly become a millionaire that could give him money.
• Real Men Eat Meat: The Lost Legends bonus pages note he enjoys "putting steak as a condiment on steak."
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: He lands a pretty brutal on Stan when he kicks him out of the house.
  Filbrick: You ignoramus! Your brother was gonna be our ticket outta this dump! All you ever do is lie and cheat and ride on your brother's coattails. Well this time you cost our family potential millions! And until you make us a fortune, you're not welcome in this household.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Filbrick only had a few minutes of screen time in A Tale of Two Stans, but damn were those minutes important.
• So Proud of You: In one of Stan's memories in "Dreamscapers", he is seen nodding his head in approval when Stan begins to fight back during boxing lessons. In "A Tale of Two Stans", he tells Ford that he is impressed after being informed of Ford potentially to get into the best college in the country and potentially make millions.
• The Stoic: Filbrick was often described as a man who is not easily impressed "with all the personality of a cinderblock." The one time he was impressed was when he was told about Stanford's potential college prospects, and the possibility it could make the family millions, which is possibly why he reacted so badly to Stanley ruining said prospects.
• Tough Love: Deconstruction with Filbrick. His rough treatment of Stanley and Stanford did make them stronger, but it also left emotional scars that were so deep they carried them into their sixties.

Tropes applying to Caryn

Yeah, I predicted you were gonna hang up.

• Chekhov's Skill: Due to Stan's experience with her fake psychic job, he directly knew Gideon was a fake.
• Consummate Liar: She was a pathological liar, a skill she put to good use as a phone psychic.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite being a habitual liar who duped people out of cash via psychic readings, Caryn does hold a soft spot in her heart for Stanley, calling him "her little free spirit." Unlike her husband, who saw Stanley as a coattail-riding screw-up, she holds genuine affection for her sons. Filbrick's bio in the Lost Legends bonus pages refers to her as a caring mother.
• Like Parent, Like Child: Filbrick's bio in the Lost Legends bonus pages mentions that she’s a kleptomaniac, which is probably where Stan gets his knack for stealing from.
• Phony Psychic: The perfect job for a pathological liar like her.
• Stealth Pun: She is a phone psychic and a phony psychic.

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Shermie Pines

The brother of Stanley and Stanford, and the grandfather of Dipper and Mabel.

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• Cain and Abel and Seth: After establishing the relationships and role between Stanley and Stanford, Shermie is brought up to show the lineage of the protagonists and nothing else. Complications arise due to the mentioned issue of Writers Cannot Do Math below, and there's no easy answer to the baby in the image being him.
• Practically Different Generations: If he is the baby in Caryn's arms, then he was born approximately when his older brothers were seniors in high school.
• Satellite Character: He has no role in the series beyond being related to the main characters. The above baby is the only image we see of him, assuming that it's him at all^note as below, some suspect it's Shermy's child.
• Writers Cannot Do Math: The narrative and statements from the crew imply he was intended to be the baby shown when Stan was kicked out. Since "more than ten years" passed before Stan met up with Ford, and another thirty before the main events of the series, he should be about forty, which is an incredibly young age to have twelve-year-old grandkids. Even if you assume that "more than ten years" was closer to twenty, he'd still be only fifty, which, again, is a pretty young age to be a grandfather to preteens. Fan speculation hypothesizes that Shermie is actually an older brother, and the baby is Stan and Ford's nephew/Dipper and Mabel's father.

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Dipper and Mabel's Parents

The unseen parents of the main characters responsible for sending them away to Gravity Falls, as well as assumed (based on shared last name indicating paternal relation) Shermie's son and daughter-in-law, and Stan & Ford's nephew and niece-and-law.

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• Aerith and Bob: Invoked as, according to the Hirsch, they gave the twins such unusual names to stand out in the class.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Dipper seems his mom's fascination with a lamb dance as the case of this.
• Ambiguously Jewish: Same as the rest of the Pines family. Hirsch claims that they raised twins irreligious, and one of them is all but stated to be at least half-Jewish due to Shemie and his brothers' implied upbringing.
  • Dipper and Mabel are based on the show creator Alex Hirsch and his twin sister Ariel, who are half-Jewish on their father side.
• Ambiguous Situation: Mabel frequently writes them about her adventures in Gravity Falls but it's never revealed if they ever actually believed her.
• Ancestral Name: Hirsch states that Dipper's (well, Mason's) & Mabel's middle names are their parents' first ones. Not like that tells us a lot.
• Good All Along: Played for Laughs. Prior to Dipper revealing to Wendy that he is Only Known By His Nickname she believed his parents were terrible for giving him an Embarrassing First Name.
  Wendy: That's how you got your nickname! I thought your parents just hated you or something.
• The Faceless: More of a downplayed case of The Ghost trope as the only we see of them are the arms and the cropped photo.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Stan is undoubtedly a good and caring man, however he isn't the best man to take care of the two preteen children he barely even knew personally.
  Grunkle Stan: This seems like the kind of thing a responsible parent wouldn't want you doing. (Beat) Good thing I'm an uncle!
• It Runs in the Family:
  • A rather downplayed example contrasting the other relatives, but they show common Pines traits such as being careless about their children safety (namely getting Stan to look after them of all people?) or vivid imagination.
  • Dad's computer-related job is quite fitting for a father of a Teen Genius and a nephew of a Mad Scientist and a Book Dumb yet surprisingly capable in repairing interdimensional portals man.
• Parents as People: Their clear and undoubted love for Dipper & Mabel doesn't prevent them from sending kids to their crazy great-uncle for the whole summer.
• Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: Because of Rumble Comically Missing the Point in ""Fight Fighters", the fact that Dipper's father hadn't been killed by Robbie comes as a big surprise to him.
• Shared Family Quirks: Implied. Not only did they name the twins Mason and Mabel, indicating their counter-culture personality, Mrs. Pines also seems to share some of her daughter's quirks.
• Small Role, Big Impact: The Ghosts who sent their kids away to a sleepy town called Gravity Falls, Oregon kickstarting the show's plot.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In a way. Haven't he arrived to Gravity Falls, Dipper wouldn't have found a Journal 3, Stan couldn't have opened a portal, and the Weirdmageddon wouldn't have happened. Everything turned out fine though.

Bus Driver

Bus Driver

Voiced By: Kyle MacLachlan

A local Speedy Beaver bus driver who shows up to drive Dipper and Mabel home by the end of the summer.

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• The Cameo: He is voiced by Kyle MacLachlan, who starred in Twin Peaks, which was one of the inspirations for Gravity Falls.
• Last Episode, New Character: He arrives at the very end of the show's Grand Finale to pick Dipper and Mabel up to bring them home. In fact, he is the last new character in the show.
• No Name Given: He is only referred to as "Bus Driver" in the credits.

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