History Recap / GravityFallsDippersGuideToTheUnexplained

* ProperlyParanoid: Mabel mentions that she thinks Dipper has a few screws loose regarding his suspicion of the left-sided man.

* WrongGenreSavvy: One of Mabel's theories about "Lefty" is that he's just a normal guy and Dipper is being needlessly paranoid.

* GaveUpTooSoon: After coming to the conclusion that the Hide-Behind was a myth and walked away, it showed up on the camera following him.

* CrazyPrepared: Stan went into the shower full dressed, waiting for Dipper to try and film his tattoo. Dipper even lampshades this.

%% Doesn't explain what the reaction is. Please do not unhide until further context has been added. * BerserkButton: '''Do Not''' bring up his tattoo/[[spoiler:burn scar]] to Stan. Dipper finds this out the hard way.

* ExactWords: Stan says that he doesn't have a tattoo on his back. As ''Recap/GravityFallsS2E12ATaleOfTwoStans'' would reveal, he isn't lying.

** We never see Stan's tattoo. Based on the show's penchant for keeping major reveals hidden until later and hints from the online game, it might be involved with the MythArc. [[spoiler: It is- it's a burn scar that Stanley received while fighting his brother, Stanford, the Author of the Journals. That same fight would trap Ford in another dimension and is the reason Stanley is in Gravity Falls to begin with. It's also a reminder of Stanley's version of MyGreatestFailure, which is why it's such a sensitive subject.]]

* {{Expy}}: The Hide-Behind's design was purposely similar to [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Groot's]], to foreshadow the [=GotG=] movie.

%% Doesn't explain what the reaction is. Please do not unhide until further context has been added. * Berserk Button: '''Do Not''' bring up his tattoo/[[spoiler:burn scar]] to Stan. Dipper finds this out the hard way.

* RightBehindMe: The location of the Hide-Behind. [[UpToEleven All the time.]] '''[[ParanoiaFuel Seriously, all the time.]]''' [[WeNeedToGetProof The entire short featuring the Hide-Behind]] [[TheGhost is about actually getting it onscreen for a second.]] Note that to pull this off, the Hide-Behind possesses speed that nearly reaches FlashStep. But through a meta performance of LoopholeAbuse, the creators of the show [[WhamShot let us know what the Hide-Behind looks like]] by filming the backs of the Pine Twins as they walk away.

* BerserkButton: '''Do Not''' bring up his tattoo/[[spoiler:burn scar]] to Stan. Dipper finds this out the hard way.

** We never see Stan's tattoo. Based on the show's penchant for keeping major reveals hidden until later and hints from the online game, it might be involved with the MythArc. [[spoiler: It is- it's a burn scar that Stanley received while fighting his brother, Stanford, the Author of the Journals. That same fight would trap Ford in another dimension and is the reason Stanley is in Gravity Falls to begin with.]]

** We never see Stan's tattoo. Based on the show's penchant for keeping major reveals hidden until later and hints from the online game, it might be involved with the MythArc.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: The Hide-Behind certainly ''looks'' very creepy, and has the decidedly unsettling habit of always hiding behind people, never letting itself be seen, but "creepy" doesn't always equate to "evil," and it never does anything especially harmful, outside of maybe freaking a couple people out.

* EerilyOutOfPlaceObject: The mailbox in the middle of the woods. Even weirder, the mailbox knows the answers to all of life's myateries, and is implied to have a mind of its own.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Let's face it, Lefty's entire schtick (that he's actually a robot piloted by aliens, with his entire right side exposed to the public) is only possible in a 2-D cartoon.

* CyanidePill: The creatures controlling the left-sided man all commit suicide using a similar method. (Yeah, no clue how Disney let ''that'' one slide.)