History Characters / GravityFallsBillCipher

'''Bill Cipher''': You're making a mistake! I'll give you anything: money, fame, riches, infinite power, your galaxy, PLEASE!!

* NiceHat: A skinny topper. In contrast to his body, it's three-dimensional. [[ClothingAppendage It's not really clothing, though, it's part of his body.]]

** It's small, but when he takes physical form, he insults humanity for our "ONE-LIFESPAN". If his absolute terror at being erased in Stanley's mind is any indication, he also only has a single lifespan, which [[ImmortalsFearDeath he's just as, or in some cases, even more terrified by the end of]] as the humans he thinks he's superior to.

* BeenThereShapedHistory: We don't get to see the full extent of his impact on the world, but he's been around for a long time, and he has been busy. What we ''do'' know is that he contacted the ancient Egyptians, UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington, and Creator/StanleyKubrick to build a portal to the Nightmare Realm. When they failed, [[KickTheDog Bill cursed them with intense nightmares]], which led to numerous historical events. The pyramids? Tributes to Bill by the Egyptians to appease him after their failure, with time eroding the arms, eye, bowtie, and top hat off. Washington's wooden teeth? He ground up his teeth because of the nightmares. Some of Kubrick's movies were inspired by the nightmares he was plagued with. Wherever you see the Eye of Providence or a similar symbol, that's a sure sign that Bill has been involved. Also, given the heavy use of triangles in their architecture and necessity of parts from their ship to build the dimensional portal Bill is heavily implied to have influenced the aliens who crashed in Gravity Falls.

* {{Hypocrite}}: He hates deals that ended up being broken, yet he almost never sticks up to his end of his bargains and always backstabs anyone whom he makes deals with.

** Bill's reaction to [[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice Stan letting both their minds being erased]]]] is to [[YouFool call him an idiot]]. Bill tries to beg mercy by offering Stan personal gain, only for an angry Stan to refuse [[NiceJobFixingItVillain by stating that Bill (despite his high intelligence) was stupid himself for making a foolish mistake in messing with the Pines family in the first place]].

** By unleashing Weirdmageddon, he inadvertently saved the crumbling relationship between the Pines family, allowing them to [[EarnYourHappyEnding earn their happy ending]] in the first place.

* NearVillainVictory: In the series finale, Bill has countered and played wise to all of his enemies' moves; even managing to have minions recapture all of the freed citizens and trapping the Pines family (including Dipper and Mabel), all just to coerce Ford into giving the equation into breaking down the barrier that would allow him to take Weirdmageddon globally by threatening to kill both Dipper and Mabel. However, this all went moot as he never anticipated the idea that the captured Ford and Stan would switch identities with each other at the last minute so that Stan could fool Bill into entering his mind and that Ford can use the memory-erasing weapon to erase Stan's mind and destroy Bill for good.

** Bill's reaction to [[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice Stan letting both their minds being erased]]]] is to [[YouFool call him an idiot]]. Bill tries to beg mercy by offering Stan personal gain, only for an angry Stan to refuse [[spoiler:NiceJobFixingItVillain by stating that Bill (despite his high intelligence) was stupid himself for making a foolish mistake in messing with the Pines family in the first place]].

** Bill's reaction to [[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice Stan letting both their minds being erased]]]] is to [[YouFool call him an idiot]]. Bill then offers Stan only personal gain, only for an angry Stan to flat-out refuse [[spoiler:by stating that Bill was foolish for making a fatal mistake in messing with the Pines family in the first place]].

** Completely averted in Weirdmageddon, where he loses with no grace or dignity, begging Stan for a chance to save himself.

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:He finally gets his comeuppance at the end of [[GrandFinale "Weirdmageddon"]]. While his last backwards message is invoking the Axolotl to revive him, the Axolotl has no intention of letting him shirk the consequences of his actions and intends that resurrection to force him to 'absolve his crime.']]

** Bill's reaction to [[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice Stan letting both their minds being erased]]]] is to [[YouFool call him an idiot]]. Bill then offers him only personal gain even after being explicitly told [[spoiler:by Stan that his mistake was "messing with [Stan's] family"]].

* BeenThereShapedHistory: We don't get to see the full extent of his impact on the world, but he's been around for a long time, and he has been busy. Wherever you see the Eye of Providence or a similar symbol, that's a sure sign that Bill has been involved. Also, given the heavy use of triangles in their architecture and necessity of parts from their ship to build the dimensional portal Bill is heavily implied to have influenced the aliens who crashed in Gravity Falls.

* BeenThereShapedHistory: We don't get to see the full extent of his impact on the world, but he's been around for a long time, and he has been busy. Wherever you see the Eye of Providence or a similar symbol, that's a sure sign that Bill has been involved.
** Also given the heavy use of triangles in their architecture and necessity of parts from their ship to build the dimensional portal Bill is heavily implied to have influenced the aliens who crashed in Gravity Falls.

* BizarreAlienBiology: His eye doubles as his ''mouth''. Also, in his Reddit AMA one user asked him about the length of the sides on his body, prompting him to respond with "[[SickAndWrong THATS A SICK QUESTION]] [[AccidentalPervert YOU PERVERT]]".

* EyeOfProvidence: His design is based off the the Eye of Providence. Appropriate, considering it represents Divine Omniscience (Bill being all-seeing while in the Nightmare Realm) and conspiracies (being the one responsible for the Author's disappearance and all of the weirdness surrounding it).

* EarlyBirdCameo: he appears briefly in the intro of episode 1 as well as many other off-hand cameos before making his debut in the season 1 finale

* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: The things Bill considers funny or 'rewards' tend to be bizarre and gruesome, like [[TheToothHurts telekinetically yanking all of a deer's teeth out]] ''(Deer teeth! For you, kid! Ahahaha!)'' or gifting Dipper with [[LosingYourHead "a head that's always screaming"]] Oh, and when he briefly possesses Dipper's body, he states that he [[Sadist finds pain 'hillarious' too]].

* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: The things Bill considers funny or 'rewards' tend to be bizarre and gruesome, like [[TheToothHurts telekinetically yanking all of a deer's teeth out]] ''(Deer teeth! For you, kid! Ahahaha!)'' or gifting Dipper with [[LosingYourHead "a head that's always screaming"]].

** In the cut song:

* TheCameo: He makes an appearance on the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons]]'' episode “Bart’s In Jail”, introduced as an alternate form of the Norse god Loki giving financial advice.

* {{Determinator}]: Bill tried to find a way into the physical realm for what could have been as long as ''one trillion years.'' He's attempted manipulating humans into building him a portal for as long as humanity has existed, but it was only with Ford when he finally succeeded.

* DiscardAndDraw: [[spoiler:His entrance to the physical world. He gains near omnipotent power, but because his omniscience came from watching the physical world from the Nightmare Realm, he loses his ability to keep an eye on everything at once (since both worlds are now the same thing). Because he is now physical, he can ([[FightingAShadow unlike before]]) be directly confronted and destroyed.]]

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* BerserkButton:
** It seems that he really hates his deals being broken. In his first appearance, Mabel's interference caused him to be unable to fulfill his end of the deal, which resulted in him lashing out at them in rage ("Do you have any idea what I'm like '''when I'm MAD?'''"). In the flashback between him and [[spoiler: Ford]] where the latter called him out, he's visibly annoyed while saying that "A deal's a deal".
** Bill has a ''special'' kind of hatred for Time Baby, whom in his Reddit Q&A session he promised to see murdered in quite a horrible fashion. [[spoiler: Come Weirdmageddon Part 1, ''he makes good on his word.'']]
** Bill seems to get ''really'' angry when his [[EyeScream eye is damaged.]] [[spoiler:He had plans to ''kill'' Mabel because she sprayed him in the eye.]]
** Not only does he hate his deals being broken, he also hates them being disrespected in any way. Saying his deals are bad is exactly that, as well as essentially telling him he doesn't know how to negotiate.
** Bill brushes off claims he's insane, but he ''really'' doesn't take childish insults well, which funnily enough fits with his [[PsychopathicManchild true state of mind]]. The first time Mabel does this in "Dreamscaperers", when he's confident that he's in control of the situation, he manages to keep his composure and hide his anger behind his SmugSnake persona. The second time she does this [[spoiler:in "Weirdmageddon Part 3" when his mask has crumbled and he's at his wits end with her, he goes ''ballistic'' and rampages after her and her brother [[OneWingedAngel in his most monstrous form in the series]], outright ''screaming'' his intentions to kill them horribly.]]

->''Remember, reality is an illusion, the universe is a hologram, buy gold, bye!''

* {{Hypocrite}}: He hates deals that ended up being broken yet he almost never stick up to his end of his bargain and always backstab anyone whom he made deals with.

* LouisCypher: One of his namesakes.