YMMV / Gravity Falls: Lost Legends

• Alternative Character Interpretation: When Dipper placed the "Mabel's Fault" sign next to the giant crack caused by the dimensional rift, did he put it there to remind Mabel of the consequences of her impulsiveness? Or was it to reinforce the idea that it was definitely Mabel's fault and draw attention away from his withholding information about the rift from her in the first place? The diverging interpretations hinge on whether the reader thinks Mabel was entitled to know about the rift, whether they consider Dipper wrong for not telling her, and whether the reader believes Dipper would throw his sister under the bus to cover his tracks if he did think he himself was to blame. Complicating the debate over who was at fault for Mabel's ignorant mistake—and thus, the intentions behind the sign—is the fact that the disaster would also have been avoided had Mabel simply not been willing to trade her brother's possessions away for her own benefit and the fact that Mabel's confession occured offscreen, so we don't know how the characters themselves actually allocated responsibility for the disaster outside of that sign, which, given the characters don't treat Mabel that differently, may have been a joke. For all we know, Ford could have accepted blame for his decision not to tell Mabel or Dipper could have blamed himself but Mabel disagreed and convinced him otherwise. We didn't get to see the moment, so we don't know.
• Awesome Art: The ending panel of "The Jersey Devil's In The Details" is a very beautifully drawn shot of Ford and Stan on their boat together.
• Broken Base: Shares a page with the rest of the franchise.
• Can't Un-Hear It: It's easy to imagine hearing the character's voices when reading each chapter. Especially imagining hearing Kristan Schaal's voice doing all of the alternate Mabels in the multiverse.
• Crosses the Line Twice: It's been long since established how much of a horrible, greedy father Filbrick Pines really was, but it's revealed some of his other misdeeds include having an old job as a comic book censor who gets paid to ruin jokes, being too cheap to afford saltwater taffy, buying regular-water taffy instead, and enjoying cowboy movies where everyone dies. Looks like Stan isn't the only family member with a history of doing much more bizarre crimes.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Mr. What's-His-Face became the most popular monster introduced in the series due to his sinister appearance and his extremely creepy yet oddly affable personality.
• Fanfic Fuel:
  • "Don't Dimension It!" is full of possibilities for the alternate Mabels and the worlds they come from.
  • "The Jersey Devil's In The Details" expands more on Glass Shard Beach, giving potential for more stories about Stan and Ford’s childhood.
  • The CIPHER LIVES cryptogram.
  • Another cryptogram reveals the implication that Wendy's Missing Mom might be trapped in another dimension, like what happened to Ford. It flat-out confirmed she had her memories erased at least once. But how? And why?
• Genius Bonus: The Peanuts-esque comic is called Li'l Stan. Peanuts was originally known as Li'l Folks.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: In Journal 3, Dipper's last entry showed that he received a new journal. In Don't Dimension It, It was revealed that it was Mabel who gave him the new journal, as an apology for all the problems she caused during the summer.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Anti-Mabel will be the closest fans will ever get to a Reverse Mabel in the Gravity Falls canon. Especially when described as the most "evil" Mabel in the universe.
  • Pacifica's phone receiving service from "GraviT&T". The actual AT&T has since purchased Disney's greatest rivals, including shows fans love to crossover GF with.
• Moral Event Horizon: Anti-Mabel crosses this when she reveals her plan to throw Stan and Ford out of the airlock (essentially killing them) and lie to Dipper about their deaths.
• Salvaged Story:
  • Considering that we didn't see much of Pacifica post-Heel–Face Turn until the Weirdmageddon Trilogy, it was nice to see her get A Day in the Limelight in "Face It".
  • For the fans who were disappointed with Mabel's selfishness as a character never being properly addressed during the show's final season, "Don't Dimension It" has her finally acknowledging how detrimental her self-centered attitude is after witnessing similar behavior from all her alternate selfs. The story even ends with Mabel properly apologizing to Dipper for the problems she's caused, gifting him the Pine Tree book seen at the end of Journal 3, and promising to be less of an attention hog in the future.
    Mabel: Heck, I caused an entire apocalypse just to get one more day of summer!
  • On a smaller note, it's satisfying for many fans to see the President's Key finally get some use after its debut.
  • Also, the alien adhesive from "Dipper and Mabel vs. the Future" finally gets used in "Don't Dimension It".
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • Wendy, who never received her own episode during the show's run, still doesn't get one here.
  • In "The Jersey Devil's In The Details", there is some implication that Filbrick is closer to Parents as People than an Abusive Parent, but the expansion is limited.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: "Don't Dimension It" hints that Mabel confessed to her family her role in causing Weirdmageddon offscreen. We never learn their reaction to this beyond Dipper naming one of the remaining rifts caused by the event "Mabel's Fault".
• Unexpected Character:
  • Was anyone expecting Pacifica to be on the cover, heavily implying she is a major character over people like Wendy or Soos? Or Schmebulock for that matter?
  • Although it was only a cameo, no one expected that Slender Man would appear in the comic.

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