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The [[spoiler: invisible ink coated]] entry states that that Author had been "deceived" as to the [[spoiler: true nature of the portal he was building]]. Who could have deceived the Author? Bill, who has proven to be a notorious trickster. Remember, he features prominently throughout the Journal, and his image can be seen all over Gravity Falls. The Author met Bill, who told him all the great wonders of the town, and gave him the information needed to [[spoiler: construct the portal]]. When the Author learned of Bill's true nature, he [[spoiler: tried to shutdown the project, and bury the information]]. Bill, however, is not someone to be crossed, not something you would know [[BewareTheSillyOnes from a first impression]]. So he either [[spoiler: sabotaged the project, trapping the Author in the portal]], or had someone do it for him.
The [[spoiler: invisible ink coated]] entry states that that Author had been "deceived" as to the [[spoiler: true nature of the portal he was building]]. Who could have deceived the Author? Bill, who has proven to be a notorious trickster. Remember, he features prominently throughout the Journal, and his image can be seen all over Gravity Falls. The Author met Bill, who told him all the great wonders of the town, and gave him the information needed to [[spoiler: construct the portal]]. When the Author learned of Bill's true nature, he [[spoiler: tried to shutdown the project, and bury the information]]. Bill, however, is not someone to be crossed, not something you would know [[BewareTheSillyOnes from a first impression]]. So he either [[spoiler: sabotaged the project, trapping the Author in the portal]], or had someone do it for him.
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[[WMG: Bill Cipher will end up playing the role of [[Discworld/Thud the Summoning Dark]].]]
Bill is the creature of wits to the Summoning Dark's creature of rage; neither of them are evil, just extremely powerful and unconcerned about mortals, and both have a mortal bearer with skills similar to theirs. The Summoning Dark's bearer managed to [[spoiler:impress it with his ability to bottle his rage and unleash it when necessary, because he's Sam Freaking Vimes. Sam, in later books, ends up getting aid from the Summoning Dark.]] Similarly, Bill's bearer, [[spoiler:Dipper, will manage to impress him with his wits and intelligence, and end up getting his own supernatural aid from Bill.]] Whether or not Bill will leave a symbol remains to be seen.
Bill is the creature of wits to the Summoning Dark's creature of rage; neither of them are evil, just extremely powerful and unconcerned about mortals, and both have a mortal bearer with skills similar to theirs. The Summoning Dark's bearer managed to [[spoiler:impress it with his ability to bottle his rage and unleash it when necessary, because he's Sam Freaking Vimes. Sam, in later books, ends up getting aid from the Summoning Dark.]] Similarly, Bill's bearer, [[spoiler:Dipper, will manage to impress him with his wits and intelligence, and end up getting his own supernatural aid from Bill.]] Whether or not Bill will leave a symbol remains to be seen.
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Bill is the creature of wits to the Summoning Dark's creature of rage; neither of them are evil, just extremely powerful and unconcerned about mortals, and both have a mortal bearer with skills similar to theirs. The Summoning Dark's bearer managed to[[spoiler:impress impress it with his ability to bottle his rage and unleash it when necessary, necessary[[spoiler:, because he's Sam Freaking Vimes. Sam, Sam,]] in later books, ends up getting aid from the Summoning Dark.]] Dark. Similarly, Bill's bearer, [[spoiler:Dipper, bearer[[spoiler:, Dipper,]] will manage to impress him with his wits and intelligence, and end up getting his own supernatural aid from Bill.]] Bill. Whether or not Bill will leave a symbol on his arm remains to be seen.
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Bill is the creature of wits to the Summoning Dark's creature of rage; neither of them are evil, just extremely powerful and unconcerned about mortals, and both have a mortal bearer with skills similar to theirs. The Summoning Dark's bearer managed to [[spoiler:impress it with his ability to bottle his rage and unleash it when necessary, because he's Sam Freaking Vimes. Sam, in later books, ends up getting aid from the Summoning Dark.]] Similarly, Bill's bearer, [[spoiler:Dipper, will manage to impress him with his wits and intelligence, and end up getting his own supernatural aid from Bill.]] Whether or not Bill will leave a symbol remains to be seen.
Bill is the creature of wits to the Summoning Dark's creature of rage; neither of them are evil, just extremely powerful and unconcerned about mortals, and both have a mortal bearer with skills similar to theirs. The Summoning Dark's bearer managed to [[spoiler:impress it with his ability to bottle his rage and unleash it when necessary, because he's Sam Freaking Vimes. Sam, in later books, ends up getting aid from the Summoning Dark.]] Similarly, Bill's bearer, [[spoiler:Dipper, will manage to impress him with his wits and intelligence, and end up getting his own supernatural aid from Bill.]] Whether or not Bill will leave a symbol remains to be seen.
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Their character designs are VERY similar, and like the Love God, Thompson seems to know instinctively what to do to improve people's relationships.
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[[WMG: Bill Cipher is in control of the time baby.]]
The Time Baby is omnipotent but has no real awareness of the world being only a baby, by contrast Bill Cipher is omniscient but has no physical ability to interact with the world. The Time Baby likely lacks even the awareness to percieve a difference between being posessed by Bill and not being possesed and as such its awakening is Bills ticket to godhood. Bill created modern capitalism in order to cause global warming so that the Time Baby would awaken but he was imprisoned by The Author in such a way that he could never escape and the time baby would have just stayed there forever unless Bill were to be summoned.
The Time Baby is omnipotent but has no real awareness of the world being only a baby, by contrast Bill Cipher is omniscient but has no physical ability to interact with the world. The Time Baby likely lacks even the awareness to percieve a difference between being posessed by Bill and not being possesed and as such its awakening is Bills ticket to godhood. Bill created modern capitalism in order to cause global warming so that the Time Baby would awaken but he was imprisoned by The Author in such a way that he could never escape and the time baby would have just stayed there forever unless Bill were to be summoned.
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* Maybe he died at some point in the past and his parents brought him back in some different way than a zombie, making him still ''technically'' undead, but something else. He himself doesn't even know this because his parents kept it from him, wanting him to have a "normal" life.
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* Giffany speaks perfecbtly fluent English, and there appear to be no other typos. Plus, "anthyding" and "hadplen" are not real Englesh words, which makes it unlikely that they could just be unintended transration mistakes. Therefore, those words must be some sort of code (I know, right? A secret code, in Gravity Fallls? Perish the thought!), perhaps similar to the one in ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents, where the errors spell out a message.
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* Giffany speaks perfecbtly fluent English, and there appear to be no other typos. Plus, "anthyding" and "hadplen" are not real Englesh words, which makes it unlikely that they could just be unintended transration mistakes. Therefore, those words must be some sort of code (I know, right? A secret code, in Gravity Fallls? Falls? Perish the thought!), perhaps similar to the one in ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents, where the errors spell out a message.
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* By that logi, we then have to ask what could be spelled with an''thyd''ing and ha''dpl''en?
* By that logi, we then have to ask what could be spelled with an''thyd''ing and ha''dpl''en?
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* Never mind. As for 'Not What He Seems', I guess this was spectacularly Jossed.
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** You're wrong. You're welcome.
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** The fact that his body shows images like Blendin's cloaking suit does reinforces the hipothesis that he is a construct of the time travellers. His ability to break into minds, and posess peoples would make him an exelent device to repair timeline distortions caused by leaked informations about the future. If the Author of the Journals had such informations, it's elucidate why he didn't hadn't let Dipper find the notes on the Author laptop. But his character, especially his complete unpredictability, suggests that even if he was once supposed to work to protect the integriy of time, he had became rouge, and now he has his own plans. (Maybe he now want to mix up the past, present, and future? If he have hard feelings on his old masters, then that would be a crowning moment of revenge for him, and doing so on a way that he would benefit from it, he could become the ruler of all existence.)
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[[WMG: Bill was once a person]]
He said himself that he had been in a body before,but perhaps only for a short time, or is unused to it due to it being such a long time since he was a person.
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** I'm sorry, who regularly scams people with cheesy tourist traps, repeatedly lies to incompetent law enforcement, and bribes construction officials?
*** Actually, I'm pretty sure [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]] has done every one of those things at one time or another; so it wouldn't exactly be unprecedented for a BigGood.
*** Actually, I'm pretty sure [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]] has done every one of those things at one time or another; so it wouldn't exactly be unprecedented for a BigGood.
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* Okay, I'm just going to settle the score and take a couple quotes from [[http://41.media.tumblr.com/0c24148b7911f0dd70433d974dd30217/tumblr_nd24565Dn91sbotlno1_1280.jpg Dipper and Mabel's Guide to Mystery and Nonstop Fun]] and let you decide whether or not that they're the words of a WellIntentionedExtremist:
--> '''Bill:''' [Dipper's] simpleminded codes and supernatural tips won't help him when [[ApocalypseHow the rise of my nightmare realm brings forth a...]] Well, I'm getting ahead of myself. [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/gravityfalls/images/7/70/S2e10_bill_banner.png/revision/latest?cb=20150218042752 Let's just say that it's going to be a real party!]]
--> '''Bill:''' [[NoodleIncident Remember that thing that your parents told you?]] The thing they said was really important, and would make you feel safe and secure at night? [[NightmareFuel They were lying. Pleasant dreams!]]
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** Cryogenics ''have'' been shown to be possible in universe...
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with heaping doses of good is not nice, and manipulative bastard. he frequently makes comments about people being useful and one of his last comments before disappearing is to warn them of a great evil coming, also once they best him he comments on them being impressive and useful he may be planing on using them to hold off the great evil, but he thinks in cosmic scales and geological time so a our lives are small and insignificant, his issues with Stan come in that Stan actually values human life will bill views them as a pawns in is cosmic war against evil.
with heaping doses of good is not nice, and manipulative bastard. he frequently makes comments about people being useful and one of his last comments before disappearing is to warn them of a great evil coming, also once they best him he comments on them being impressive and useful he may be planing on using them to hold off the great evil, but he thinks in cosmic scales and geological time so a our lives are small and insignificant, his issues with Stan come in that Stan actually values human life will bill views them as a pawns in is cosmic war against evil.
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with With heaping doses of good is not nice, and manipulative bastard. he frequently makes comments about people being useful and one of his last comments before disappearing is to warn them of a great evil coming, also once they best him he comments on them being impressive and useful he may be planing on using them to hold off the great evil, but he thinks in cosmic scales and geological time so a our lives are small and insignificant, his issues with Stan come in that Stan actually values human life will bill views them as a pawns in is cosmic war against evil.
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[[WMG: Alternatively, the ghost is an ancestor of the Pines family.]]
* Adding a whole level of stuff to that episode, especially Pacifica's and Dipper's interactions.
[[WMG: Alternatively, the ghost is an ancestor of the Pines family.]]
* Adding a whole level of stuff to that episode, especially Pacifica's and Dipper's interactions.
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[[WMG: Bill is an AI that has gained free will ]]
Perhaps Bill is an AI created to enter a person's subconscious, but he learned that he can travel between minds and into the metaphysical realm and decided to disobey his masters.
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As [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13368380110A17360000&page=174#4337 this forum post]] points out, Giffany manages to do things that a disc-based program wouldn't be able to do, such as interacting with things even when the disc isn't connected to anything. It's not that she just copied her own code, either, as she dies when the disc is destroyed. As a result, she can't actually be ''just'' an AI, and is some other form of supernatural being who either thinks she's an AI or was masquerading as one for some reason. My theory is this:
* Giffany is a ghost who's possessing the game. Most of the powers she manifests are standard for haunting-type shenanigans. In life she was a somewhat over-possessive, but not fully {{Yandere}} girl who was in a relationship with a game designer. She died for whatever reason, and because she couldn't let go of her boyfriend, she began to haunt the game he was working on, functionally possessing the main character in order to interact with him. Unfortunately the guy didn't realize this and thought he had inadvertently created a rogue AI. Due to a combination of death and not being able to fully communicate with him, Giffany becomes progressively more unhinged and {{Yandere}} towards him. Eventually, he gets so freaked out by what he thinks is an AI that he decides to just delete it, but she takes this as a horrible betrayal and snaps completely, effectively melding her identity with the character in the game.
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In the same vein "Little Gift Shop of Horrors" was hosted by Stan. Because it'd be great. And if you thought TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou ''before'', just imagine what Bill can do to the audience.
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I don't have any proof so this might be ignored, but I got an idea from reading-not seeing-that axolotl's pictures are used whenever a spoilery question is asked. Maybe the Axolotl, if it does appear, is benevolent and is on par with Bill Cipher on intelligence, which means he knows everything too, and wants to help Gravity Falls survive the Darkness that approaches. If it's malevolent though, then it will be a minion or possible messenger from Bill Cipher, whose appearence shall be the first clue that whatever Darkness Bill was talking about is about to arrive.
[[WMG: The Butternut Squash with a human face and emotions will turn out to be the BiggerBad]]
Because how could something like that not be super evil and powerful?
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* Gnomes are villains here, and a video game character brought to life turned against Dipper. A possible sign of magic being evil there?
* All "good" supernatural creatures are the result of sensible people being brought into the world.
* Bill mentions that something is coming that will change everything they care about. Nothing changes your life more than finding that many things that we take for granted (Halloween, logical thinking, rock and roll) will send you to hell.
* The reason the human residents of Gravity Falls are otherwise normal is because they lived there before Bill turned it into a Chick Tract.
* Bill isn't actually a demon. He only pretends to be one because he acts in ways that one could call evil, and to hide the fact that he's not part of the universe.
* The writer of the journals didn't know that the reason for all these supernatural things was because he/she was in a Chick Tract, and went insane when he/she found out (around the abrupt ending).
* Why is Bill doing this? To drive humans insane, of course! And besides, if the plan fails he could always just destroy the universe by mentioning a biblical contradiction or something.
* Gnomes are villains here, and a video game character brought to life turned against Dipper. A possible sign of magic being evil there?
* All "good" supernatural creatures are the result of sensible people being brought into the world.
* Bill mentions that something is coming that will change everything they care about. Nothing changes your life more than finding that many things that we take for granted (Halloween, logical thinking, rock and roll) will send you to hell.
* The reason the human residents of Gravity Falls are otherwise normal is because they lived there before Bill turned it into a Chick Tract.
* Bill isn't actually a demon. He only pretends to be one because he acts in ways that one could call evil, and to hide the fact that he's not part of the universe.
* The writer of the journals didn't know that the reason for all these supernatural things was because he/she was in a Chick Tract, and went insane when he/she found out (around the abrupt ending).
* Why is Bill doing this? To drive humans insane, of course! And besides, if the plan fails he could always just destroy the universe by mentioning a biblical contradiction or something.
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[[WMG: Bill Cipher is not evil. It's all a misunderstanding. And there's also an unseen BiggerBad.]]
I might make some huge mistakes here (I just finished Season 1 -also, English is not my first language...), but I think that Bill is not really a villain.
First of all, let's just assume that [[spoiler: Stan, his brother (?) and the Author]] were all part of a secret society ([[spoiler: Stan's tatoo would be this society's symbol]]) located in Gravity Falls. The members of this society were not evil; instead, they were some kind of scientists. They eventually discovered that GF is a "bridge-like" place for another dimension. Being curious scientists, they quickly theorized a way to open a portal ([[spoiler: Stan's portal-like machine in the Mystery Shack?]]) so they could visit/study this unknown dimension. During all of this, the Author was taking notes in his books, as every kind of supernatural "thing" arrived in GF through the portal. Things started to change when a powerful being, Bill Cipher, emerged from the portal. As the books seem to indicate, the triangle-shaped demon was friendly at first, but not for long. The demon wanted the society to leave and close the portal once and for all as "a darkness was coming". As they refused, Bill mentally scarred almost every member of the society (including [[spoiler: the Author]], who continued to update his books though). [[spoiler: Stan's brother]] eventually pulled off an HeroicSacrifice at some point and he and Bill were both sent in the other dimension. Years pass, the books were hidden, etc. etc.
So, what's the point? First of all, Bill is not a villain (heck, there is *no* real villain at all). He is the guardian of the barrier/portal between our dimensions. He acts crazy, but he's not evil. He's protecting our world by any means possible (including possessing the body of a 12-years old kid, yes): in the other dimension, there's in fact a war-like scenario going on. A war against a BiggerBad, a darkness-like EldritchAbomination who would destroy our entire world and Bill (and his... "people"?) is the only thing that stands between that thing and us. The "big plans" that Bill mentions is the "war" finally ending and the ultimate defeat of this darkness. The last thing that the triangle-demon needs is a group of curious humans who could inadvertently "free" this BiggerBad from his dimension, bringing the supernatural-sized war in our silly world.
[[WMG:Bill is WaltDisney's soul.]]
* He knows "Lots of things" because he still has all of Walt's memories of when he was alive, as well as everything that happened to his company since he died.
** He has become insane and vengeful after all the years of [[Disney/ChickenLittle bad]] [[WesternAnimation/TheWild CGI]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Planes}} movies]], [[Disney/TheLittleMermaidIIReturnToTheSea needless direct]] [[Disney/CinderellaIIDreamsComeTrue to DVD sequels]], and [[DogWithABlog horrible]] [[HighSchoolMusical tween]] [[ShakeItUp programing]] that were soiling [[Creator/{{Disney}} his company's]] good name.
*** The release and popular success of ''GravityFalls'' should at least provide some measure of relief to his anger...
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This is just a theory of what the symbols on Bill's circle represent.
* Pine tree - Dipper; Confirmed
* Shooting star - Mabel; Confirmed
* Question mark - Soos; Confirmed
* Pac-man symbol - Stan; It is on his hat after all.
* Pentagram - Gideon; This is the symbol that's on his Tent of Telepathy.
* Bag of ice - Wendy; She does have a cool personality and her first major episode took place in a convenience store.
** Don't forget the ice at the fair and the cooler on the roof!
* Stitched heart - Robbie; This symbol does appear on his sweat shirt.
* Six fingered hand - The author of the books; It's obviously him, since the symbol is on the books, we just don't know who he is.
* Llama - Wendy's dad or some one equally tough; Larry King's head did say llamas were nature's greatest warriors, so it would have to be someone powerful.
** Maybe Grenda could be the llama...
** It could be Gompers the goat. See theories below.
** Wax Larry King is a strong candidate for this one. The llama on the wheel is mirror-reversed from the one on Mabel's sweater. Mabel was holding the sweater up to the mirror when Wax Larry endorsed it, thus identifying himself with that version of the image. Expect to see more of Larry in the next season.
** Lebam, a mirror doppelganger of Mabel created by Gideon from a sample of her hair (and her llama hair sweater). There is considerable evidence for the existence of this character. See theories by "The Sqoou" on You Tube.
** Pacifica. We've only seen the sweater, but not anyone wearing it. If Mabel and Pacifica do eventually become friends, maybe Mabel will reward her with the sweater for doing something brave?
* Sunglasses - I dunno, maybe Blubs; He's the only character with sunglasses. Blendin could also be an option since his goggles cover his eyes.
** ...and Candy could be the glasses.
** I'd like to point out that when Gideon summoned Bill to go into Stan's mind, there was a little arrow pointing at the glasses.
*** That was a big X ''over'' his eyes, basically symbolizing "Kill Stan."
*** Well yes, on the picture in the middle of the summoning circle the glasses on Stan's face where crossed out, but what the other troper was referring to is probably the fact that Gideon's book on summoning Bill had an arrow pointing to the glasses symbol in the circle.
** There is currently a popular fan theory (with a surprising amount of evidence) that Grunkle Stan has a twin brother, and that the glasses represent said brother.
** The glasses look like they have a frame line on top but not the bottom, like the Stan they disturbed when time-traveling (and the glasses in the secret room with the carpet). It could be the hypothetical twin of Stan.
** Since Stan wears the glasses when younger, the glasses could mean him and the symbol on the fez could mean someone else. Stan does mention "other people" from the lodge.
[[WMG: That pyramid thing's name is Bewarb.]]
You know that pyramid thing that shows up at the end of the show's intro? The mosquitoes in the first episode were trying to warn Dipper about him, hence Bewarb.
* Jossed. It's Bill Cipher
[[WMG: the pyramid guy (aka Bill Cipher) is the big bad/big good]]
Come on, he seems to be the center of the whole mess. Maybe he'll help the others out. He's important anyway.
Or...
[[WMG: there's an even bigger bad behind the scenes.]]
In the opening credits picture of the pyramid, there's a bunch of letters somewhere on the left. It's binary code for " the word smuggler lives." Also, if you take a look at the whole picture from the out takes (the one with the crossed out eye) there's a bunch of numbers which have been covered in the red paint used to cross out the eye. Pretty sure its in the other journal pages and maybe in the other important bits of the show. So maybe the big bad isn't actually Bill Ciphers, but actually the word smuggler, as he seems to be terrifying the socks off the author. Or he'll just be another big bad in the later seasons. He'll be really important, anyway.
[[WMG: The bowtie, top-hat wearing pyramid EasterEgg in the opening will be the BigBad]]
If you pause just right, you can see a bowtie, top-hat wearing pyramid with one eye. Given that you can find a lot of pyramids lying around in the show and that he seems pretty important, I'd say he's the BigBad who conjured up all the mysteries in Gravity Falls.
** Confirmed minus the BigBad part [for ''now''].
[[WMG: The pyramid guy is summoned when all items in the circle are brought together]]
He can clearly be seen in the trailer for the new episode "Dreamscapers", and this trooper thinks he saw Mabel in the same sweater as in the first ep.
* Jossed. However, Gideon drew an arrow pointing at the glasses when summoning Bill to invade Stan's mind.
[[WMG: The pyramid guy has something to do with alchemy]]
My sister came up with this. Alchemy is from ancient Egypt, right? He's a pyramid, which is a triangle, which is the alchemist symbol for fire. (As Dipper pointed out in "Irrational Treasure")
* If combined with the idea of ice being a bad omen for Dipper, as mentioned above, this might indicate the pyramid guy will be of help to Dipper in the future, since ice can be seen as an opposite to fire.
[[WMG: Bill is the big good of the series]]
with heaping doses of good is not nice, and manipulative bastard. he frequently makes comments about people being useful and one of his last comments before disappearing is to warn them of a great evil coming, also once they best him he comments on them being impressive and useful he may be planing on using them to hold off the great evil, but he thinks in cosmic scales and geological time so a our lives are small and insignificant, his issues with Stan come in that Stan actually values human life will bill views them as a pawns in is cosmic war against evil.
** I'm sorry, who regularly scams people with cheesy tourist traps, repeatedly lies to incompetent law enforcement, and bribes construction officials?
*** Actually, I'm pretty sure [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]] has done every one of those things at one time or another; so it wouldn't exactly be unprecedented for a BigGood.
[[WMG: Bill Cipher is [[HPLovecraft Nyarlathotep]].]]
[[WMG: Bill will fight the Time Baby]]
How epic would that be?
[[WMG: Bill will turn out to be a morally gray character.]]
Sometimes he does bad things, but he's not completely evil.
[[WMG: The gnomes are somehow connected to Bill Cipher.]]
Book 3 makes note of their hats' shape and according to the manotaurs they live in the trees. Book 2 makes note of Bill's connection with birch trees.
[[WMG: The Illuminati are a cult that worships Bill Cipher]]
Hence why the pyramid eye is so prevalent in their symbology
[[WMG: Bill has been watching the entire time.]]
You can spot images resembling him everywhere, all throughout the series. Since Bill can only manifest in the dreamscape, he uses these little areas as sort of a way to see what's going on at the Shack and other areas of Gravity Falls.
* His dramatic exit ''heavily'' implies this. "I'll be watching."
* Near the end of "Gideon Rises," the shot pans down after the twins chase Soos out of the attic, and there is a cryptogram written on a pipe in the house walls. Once decoded, it reads "BILL IS WATCHING."
* [[spoiler: He's been watching Dipper. (At least since the end of season 1. But it's sort of implied he's been watching Dipper for a while now.)]]
[[WMG: Bill does not have a physical form, and exists only as a mental or symbolic construct.]]
* When Gideon first summons Bill, he does the thing with the deer teeth, agrees to invade Stan's mind, and departs. The camera cuts to Gideon, and then to Mabel and Soos; they open their eyes and jump slightly, as if awakening from a startling dream. Thereafter, we only really see Bill inside Stan's mind.
** This happens again when he contacts Dipper, both times we see him fall asleep first (as indicated by the head nod and closing eyes). However! At the end of Sock Opera we see Bill possess a puppet and start moving it. This is the only time we've seen him interact with the physical world without using a human host. This is also the only time a meeting with Bill didn't end in the participants jolting awake immediately afterwards. So this might imply he does exist outside the mental plane. That and you see his shadow following Dipper in the same episode.
* Dipper, who has presumably read about him in the journal, refers to him as a "brain demon" and a "dream demon" on separate occasions. Bill may be the master of the mind, but could it be that he only exists IN the mind? Note that his summoning scene shifts to black and white--Stan's mindscape is mostly grayscale as well.
* The warning "whatever you do, don't let him into your mind" implies that he can cause the most destruction from within a person, but what if the meaning was more "don't let him into YOUR mind"?
* Since he is literally a symbol, perhaps the drawings of him in the journal aren't merely depictions, but dwelling places. He exists only in conceptual space, and can do nothing to the real world--except watch.
* Finally, though this is most certainly an aesthetic choice on the part of his voice actor, what made me begin to think about Bill's nature was his voice. He constantly seems to shout, but his voice is no louder than the other characters'--like he is shouting through a wall.
** Because we only see him from the front, I like to think Bill exists in 2D space. It just seems like an impossibility only he could achieve.
* [[spoiler: Confirmed.]]
[[WMG: Playing off the above theory, Bill wanted Gideon's help to manifest himself into a physical form.]]
Once Bill has physical form, he can use all his dream world powers in the real world. Perhaps he wants to cause damage or get revenge on Stan for something. His request to Gideon would've been something extreme, such as wanting to use Gideon's body as his own.
* I'm the troper who submitted that theory, and I think you're on to something here. I was suspecting that "something I've been working on" was meant as an ongoing project, and every time someone summons him, he gets them to complete the next step. Perhaps that would have involved possessing Gideon.
** Especially considering that Bill didn't even say what he wanted Gideon to do for him, just that they'd work out the details later. This ''strongly'' suggests that Bill was going to ask something that Gideon never would've agreed to if he knew.
* [[spoiler: Confirmed in Sock Opera. Verdict is still out on WHY though.]]
[[WMG: Bill Cipher drove the original writer of the book to madness.]]
Assuming the leaked screenshots showing [[spoiler: Old Man Mc Gucket as the writer of the books]] are accurate, and assuming that [[spoiler: he was the only one writing the books]], Bill Cipher was the one who drove him to madness. The second book talks about how to summon him while the third book talks about how to stop him. What's more, the third book's entry on Bill is initially written on a positive note, talking about how he's such a nice guy. It's all crossed out, and replaced with a warning about how dangerous he is. This might indicate that the writer trusted him for a while but was betrayed and saw his true power.
** Partly Jossed. [[spoiler: Old Man Mc Gucket was driven insane by using the memory-erasing device too often, but he also didn't write the journals]] so this WMG could still fit, just not for him.
[[WMG: The red marks on Bill Cipher's page in the third book is really all just red ink.]]
* Aww, but that's no fun.
* It's animation, so it doesn't necessarily make a difference, but in real life, blood dries to a brown color and the stuff all over the page is FAR too red to accurately represent old, dried blood (or, hell, even blood that had spilled on the page earlier that day, much less weeks/months/years ago).
[[WMG: Bill Cipher can see everything.]]
Anything resembling his image or inscribed with his eye will allow him to see what's going on everywhere. [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou This may include the audience]].
[[WMG: Bill Cipher is Lucifer]]
Based on a real thing, this troper was watching the show when my Uncle (an ex military codebreaker) walked by stopped and asked "What kind of cartoon has lucifer in it?"
Bill Cipher is a coded version of LUCIFER. (Cipher = Cifer). Bill is harder to explain, basically if you but the alphabet in two rows I is across ( / in this direction) from U. Double L means keep it and the B is a fake letter in the name. The "joke" is the meaning of the word Cipher, to decode. Its normally used in reference to a code that makes no sense or ultimately has no answer/is untranslatable. Its also used to confuse the enemy with nonsense terms. Because Lucifer's thing is confusing or out right converting the righteous to evil through lies....
* His name is a reference to the Beale Cipher, though it doesn't disprove your theory.
[[WMG: The town of Gravity Falls connects to the world of Chick Tracts, thanks to Bill Cipher.]]
* Gnomes are villains here, and a video game character brought to life turned against Dipper. A possible sign of magic being evil there?
* All "good" supernatural creatures are the result of sensible people being brought into the world.
* Bill mentions that something is coming that will change everything they care about. Nothing changes your life more than finding that many things that we take for granted (Halloween, logical thinking, rock and roll) will send you to hell.
* The reason the human residents of Gravity Falls are otherwise normal is because they lived there before Bill turned it into a Chick Tract.
* Bill isn't actually a demon. He only pretends to be one because he acts in ways that one could call evil, and to hide the fact that he's not part of the universe.
* The writer of the journals didn't know that the reason for all these supernatural things was because he/she was in a Chick Tract, and went insane when he/she found out (around the abrupt ending).
* Why is Bill doing this? To drive humans insane, of course! And besides, if the plan fails he could always just destroy the universe by mentioning a biblical contradiction or something.
[[WMG: Bill Cipher is a robot constructed by the Time Baby organization]]
The two main interfering entities in Gravity Falls are connected. Bill is a construct of the time travelers, only posing as an all-knowing demon. He works for the Time Baby. His bow-tie is his equipment logo, the triangular infinity symbol of the Baby. The time slow-downs and reversals around his summoning in "Dreamscaperers" look a lot like the first operation of the tape-measure time machine in "The Time Traveler's Pig." One of the things Bill revealed in "Dreamscaperers" as one of the "lots of things" that he knew about was the crashed Gideon-bot. Blendin was there and could have taken the picture that Bill displayed.
[[WMG: Bill Cipher can influence people through gold. Stan knows there's a connection, but not what it is.]]
[[WMG: The "blindeye" is a ritual to stop Bill's omniscience.]]
It's done by defacing currency, specifically putting an X mark across the Eye of Providence on the dollar bill. Bill is, literally, ''the almighty dollar''! That's why Bill has to be reminded of Stan when he seems perfectly aware of everyone else: Grunkle Stan has more money pass through his hands than almost anyone else in Gravity Falls, and he's extremely reluctant to spend it ''in'' Gravity Falls. He has Soos mark out the Eye and then spends as much as possible on things not within the town in order to keep anyone from catching on!
[[WMG: When Bill made his deal with Gideon, he wanted [[GrandTheftMe his body]] in return.]]
Of course, we don't know what for exactly in that particular case since he failed his end of the bargain, [[spoiler:but he eventually succeeds in making this deal with Dipper under different circumstances.]] His jokingly calling Gideon a "ventriloquist dummy" when they met might've been a hint to this.
** Which adds to FridgeHorror when "Bideon" would've looked up and down for Stan's device, unleashing possible horrors onto the town and the world...
[[WMG: Bill Cipher wants to use the power of Stan's machine to turn Gravity Falls, and perhaps the rest of the world, into a WorldOfChaos.]]
''Something'' is [[WeirdnessMagnet drawing supernatural weirdness to the Gravity Falls area]], and the machine in Grunkle Stan's basement is tapping into that source for whatever reason. Bill plans to hijack the machine and turn up the strange happenings even further.
The messages that have been appearing at the end of the first few episodes of season two appear to be from Bill Cipher, especially the one at the end of "Sock Opera":
->NO PUPPET STRINGS CAN HOLD ME DOWN\\
SO PATIENTLY I WATCH THIS TOWN\\
ABNORMAL SOON WILL BE THE NORM\\
ENJOY THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM
If it is a message from Bill, it seems to suggest as to the nature of the "big things" that are coming: he wants to increase the levels of weirdness in Gravity Falls, or spread them further. Why would he do this? Perhaps Bill believes stirring up strangeness in the mortal world will increase his own influence as a "dream demon", or perhaps he's just doing it [[ItAmusedMe because he thinks it would be funny]].
[[WMG: The order of the symbols on the Bill Cipher wheel indicates what side of the coming conflict they'll be on.]]
It goes by every other symbol, dividing the wheel between two "teams".
Team A: Dipper (tree), Six-Fingered Hand (probably [=McGucket=]), Mabel (shooting star), Stanley (glasses), and Wendy (ice),
Team B: Stanford (fez symbol), Gideon (pentagram), Llama (Lebam?), Robbie (stitched heart), and Soos (question mark).
Team A is all the people who will become (or already are) invested in discovering the truth about Gravity Falls for one reason or another, but ultimately they'll have good intentions. Team B is all the people who already know all about what's going on in Gravity Falls, but are trying to keep the truth hidden in order to gain or maintain their own power. This notably puts Stanley and Stanford against each other...
[[WMG: Bill Cipher comes from the Bermuda Triangle.]]
[[CrazyEnoughToWork Because this show is just weird enough for that.]]
[[WMG: As an alternative to the above, Bill Cipher IS the Bermuda Triangle.]]
He says it's good to be back in Gravity Falls. Maybe the Bermuda Triangle is what happens when there are puppet strings to hold him down.
[[WMG: The Bill Cipher Wheel represents people who have, or will make, contracts with him.]]
So far, we know Dipper and Gideon have both made deals with him at this point. The others are foreordained to do the same thing until Bill's power in the real world is strong enough to let him come into the waking reality without anyone else's help.
* Alternately, the symbols represent Bill's checklist: A list of people he ''has'' to make contracts with, or or else he won't be able to achieve his goal. There's nothing foreordained about it, but it does mean that Bill will be trying to manipulate the people represented by the symbols into making deals with him; now that the first one (Gideon) partially summoned him, Bill is able to more directly influence events in the real world. This could be why Season 2 has generally been darker and more dangerous than Season 1, as Bill is upping the ante in hopes of forcing them into a corner, where they have no other choice but to deal with him.
[[WMG: The Head That's Always Screaming that Bill "gifts" to Dipper is actually the head of Robbie's father.]]
That head clearly belongs to a dark-haired vampire.
[[WMG: The laptop was never going to erase itself, it was an illusion on Bill's part]]
Bill appears to Dipper twice in the episode when he gets tired. Both times are preceded by Dipper yawning. The first time it happen, Bill makes the wind blow, turns the moon into his eye and forms his body around his eye, with everything still in color. This is oblivously an illusion as Bill cannot directly affect the physical world as he is now. However, it shows that Bill is able to project illusions or alter perceptions before everything turns into a dreamstate grey. The second time Bill shows up, Dipper yawns and then the laptop states that Dipper has entered into too many false passwords, and the laptop will erase itself in five minutes if Dipper doesn't enter the correct password on the next try. Now Dipper has been entering passwords for a better part of a week, trying hundreds if not thousands of passwords. Why would the laptop have such a high, arbitary number of password retries? Most secure computers will lock you out after three or ten failures. The answer is that the laptop countdown is fake, an illusion created by Bill to pressure Dipper into accepting his deal. Dipper's yawning is a signal that Dipper is drowsy enough to interact with Bill. After the yawn, nothing outside of the characters themselves can be really trusted, as it could be a trick from Bill. It would also explain why Bill destroyed the laptop instead of just waiting for the time to run out.
** I like this WMG a lot, but there is one problem: Dipper (Bipper?) doesn't wake up after he makes the deal with Bill. Dipper's body is still standing up and functioning as if he was awake when they shook hands. However, it could be that what Bill really wanted was a chance to destroy the journal, and setting up the fake countdown and destroying the laptop was just cleaning up a loose end.
*** That could be explained with Dipper being just in such a sleep deprived state that he couldn't tell Bill's dreamworld from reality. Perhaps Bill doesn't need deep REM to affect someone's mind- just someone in light non-REM that's perceptible enough to his illusions.
[[WMG: The town of Gravity Falls worships Bill Cipher as a cult.]]
This isn't exactly a serious WMG, but it's a nice idea for fanart or something.
Also explains why he's on windows and doors and such.
[[WMG: Bill Cipher is some kind of demon - a la BartimaeusTrilogy.]]
Think about it. He's only able to be summoned through ominous Latin, he has vague powers and an even more vague alignment, he doesn't seem to care about much besides doing things that will help him, and he spends most of his time in a vague "Dreamscape."
Bartimaeus, while maybe not the best example, can only be summoned through ominous Latin (and a pentacle), has vague powers and an even more vague alignment, doesn't care much for doing things that won't benefit him (he only saved [[spoiler:Nathaniel from the fire in order to save himself from Indefinite Confinement]]), and spends the time he's not summoned in a vague "Other Place."
The similarities are uncanny.
* To be fair, that describes a ''lot'' of fictional demons.
[[WMG: The Bill Cipher Wheel is actually a sort of zodiac.]]
Each of the symbols represents a person ''and'' a constellation. Dipper's symbol is a pine tree, but he also has his birthmark. All the other people represented on the wheel also have a corresponding constellation, and at the center is Bill Cipher. When Gideon first summons him, his eye appears inside a triangle made of ''outer space''. The Wheel is a zodiac chart that doubles as a map to where Bill really comes from.
[[WMG: In a future episode, Bill will possess Gideon]]
He did describe him as "some kind of living ventriloquist dummy" when he first met him, and we all know how much the show loves its foreshadowing. On top of that, the idea of those two working as one being is just [[RuleOfAwesome too awesomely]] [[RuleOfScary terrifying]] to pass up.
[[WMG: Somewhere, there is some underground cult who worships Bill]]
Or, at the very least, one person who does. Maybe they have something to do with the author.
[[WMG: At some point, Bill will force a character through crippling psychological torment.]]
His motive - oh, just pick one: revenge, interrogation, just ForTheEvulz. His method - probably exposing them to visions and hallucinations that exploit their deepest and darkest fears. I think the "[[NightmareRetardant nightmares]]" he gave the characters in "Dreamscaperers" was only the tip of his metaphorical iceberg, and as we saw in the end, he basically let them win anyway. His victim - my money is on one of the twins, but who knows. It'd make sense for him to result to psychological trauma anyway, since it's been proven he has no power in the physical realm. Just imagine the surrounding dialogue: "You promised me you wouldn't hurt her! You ''promised''!" "No, I promised you I wouldn't ''touch'' her. 'Not a hair on her pretty little head', remember? There's more than one way to skin a cat, and this is a lot more more fun anyway! I won't even need to worry about cleanup!"
[[WMG: Not only is Bill aware that he's in a show, but he's purposefully not revealing his goals to mess with us fans.]]
Tell me I'm wrong.
[[WMG: In the Mental Realm, things only exist as long as they are remembered by someone.]]
Just like it said. Bill was trapped there, but was in kind of a nebulous "sleep" mode when inside the portal. That's why he can appear at will now when he could only be summoned before; people remember him now, so he continues to be able to act. That's also why Grunkle Stan is so confident in his using the portal; he remembers his twin, so he's certain that his twin can still be saved.
** That might explain how Bill knows '''lots of things'''.
[[WMG: A brief history of the pyramid guy.]]
The Pyramid Guy was fighting the Time Baby for some AppliedPhlebotinum in the other dimension. They then got knocked into our dimension by the {{Phlebotinum}}'s effect. The Pyramid Guy then landed in Washington DC. After forming a secret society, he took the body of Quentin Trembley. Although all his actions had meaning (like making peace with the Time Baby by appointing babies to the supreme court), they were thought to be silly, so he left with his Phlebotinum for Gravity Falls. His Phlebotinum had unusual effects on the area, so he needed something to clean it up. He tried using Old Man [=McGucket=] to clean the mess up, but failed, so he recruited another society, consisting of Stan and Gideon's relative. He required them to go and get the items seen around him in the mysterious image of the Pyramid Guy at the end of the opening, and wrote Book 1 about the quest. The objects would heal Gravity Falls.
However, during their next mission to battle the creatures, Gideon's ancestor came up with an idea to battle them with other mystical artifacts and wrote it in Book #2. Stan didn't like that idea, so he kicked Gideon's ancestor out. Stan then wrote Book #3, but the hid it because Gideon's relative tried to stop him with his idea. The Pyramid Guy, fearing something similar might happen to Stan, brainwashed him and gave the secret identity of a con man , and used his merchandise to heal Gravity Falls. The Pyramid Guy created Soos to make sure it went perfect, hence Soos being a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} like [=McGucket=] and Trembley. However, when it came time to intrust the secrets to someone else, the Pyramid Guy exited Soos and told Stan somebody must inherit the books and then hid in a vending machine. So Dipper and Mabel came, and their mission became successful. To make sure that Dipper and Mabel stuck with each other, The Pyramid Guy created Waddles. This enabled Dipper to stick with Mabel instead of Wendy. Eventually, the Time Baby escaped, and the Pyramid Guy, after being freed by Dipper and Mabel, time traveled back as Blenidin Blandin to check on Dipper, Mabel, and Waddles.
[[WMG: Bill has fourth wall peering powers.]]
According to Bill in Rumble's Revenge, "Your reality is a game to me. And I like games...". And, who am I kidding, I really want to see this show break the fourth wall.
[[WMG: Bill Cipher has relatives]]
Bear with me. Bill Cipher may seem like the demon version of an annoying sibling. He's weird, makes bad jokes, and has a high-pitched voice. The demons could be different colors, or perhaps they can change colors at will. Also, the apocalypse that keeps getting mentioned- it could come from his 'relatives.' Beings that are more powerful than him, or can exist outside of the mind/dreamscape. Additionally, as shown with his talk with Gideon, he may want more power- or help with getting rid of them. Finally, the secret society mentioned in the "Stan's Tattoo" short had some constellations: Vesta, and a second one that I can't remember. It's a stretch, but what if those stars are the names of Bill's relations?
[[WMG: Bill Cipher is using the goat to spy on the Mystery Shack.]]
* Because 1) the goat is often around when something supernatural is happening, and 2) it has yellowish eyes with black slits for pupils much like [[spoiler:Bill!Dipper]]
** But goat eyes are like that naturally.
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[[WMG:There will be an episode with giant vampire bats.]]
Its obvious, in the opening while the caracters are around a campfire a face of a bat flashes by and one of the entries of the book was about vampire bats,so far most of the monsters were forshadowed like the gnomes, gideon, the time traveller ect. why not bats?
* Apparently jossed: in "Scaryoke" [[spoiler: Dipper discovers messages in Journal #3 written in invisible ink. The page on giant bats is covered in invisible scrawls indicating that the giant bats in Gravity Falls are giant ''fruit'' bats, and are harmless despite their intimidating appearance.]]
[[WMG:Decapitated Wax Larry King's head will be a ChekhovsGunman.]]
Mostly because the episode's secret code translates to HE'S STILL IN THE VENTS.
[[WMG:Gravity Falls' nefarious undead will appear later in the series.]]
Dipper initially misidentifies them as gnomes.
* Or it would be a goth chick who will lure HIM into woods.
** [[spoiler:Confirmed in "Scary-Oke", but it's [[NiceJobBreakingItHero by Dipper's own hand that they come]].]]
[[WMG:Waffle with big arms is real.]]
He's one of the weirdest monsters in Gravity Falls and at some point Mabel met him.
[[WMG:Jeff the gnome ''will'' come back and try to get back at the twins.]]
I mean, come on, you don't send a character flying over the horizon screaming "I'll get you for this...!" in a show with a story arc and not have him come back.
* He and Gideon will team-up at some point. But will end up turning against each other due to their affections for Mabel.
** On the contrary, Jeff teams up with the ''twins against'' Gideon. Though Gideon does end up turning the gnomes against them.
[[WMG:Robbie is a Zombie.]]
* The undead are often mistaken for Teenagers.
** And why is that? Because of their bad skin and attitude, both of which he definitely has.
* He is the only teen besides Wendy who isn't transformed or imprisoned by the ghosts.
* The broken heart symbol on his shirt can be seen in the Book that appears in the credits.
** [[RobZombie I see what you did there.]]
* If you pay attention to the graffiti in Thompson's car, one of them reads "Zombies Rule!"
* In Fight Fighters, Robbie's band is called The Tombstones and their song is called You're Dead.
* In the Summerwean Trickster it is mentioned by Wendy that Robbie ate a single piece of candy and got sick--Maybe because it wasn't flesh?
** Actually it was because he ate the lollipop stick. Still support this theory though.
* ''The Love God'' shows that his parents run a mortuary. There aren't many professions more zombie-friendly than mortician. I would point out, though, that Robbie doesn't seem to have much in common with the living dead that we've seen on the show so far.
* Word of God said that there is a reason for not disclosing the last name of Robbie past the letter V, so I think that it stands for Vampire. This fits his appearance better than a zombie, but so far there has been no mention of vampires(except for Mabel's boyfriend), although the bleeding heart suggests vampire as well.
** Jossed in "The Love God". His last name is [[spoiler:Valentino]], which fits perfectly with his heart motif.
** In support of the vampire argument, someone online suggested he was originally bitten by a blind vampire who missed his neck. The red spots on his chin are therefore his bite scar.
* A fan from the SDCC 2014 panel mentioned that in "The Inconveniencing", when Dipper looked into the convenience store door, all the kids were turned into skeletons ''except'' for Robbie. Mr. Hirsch acted a little suspiciously to that question.
[[WMG: An upcoming episode will feature the merpeople of Gravity Falls.]]
There's a picture in the opening credits that could be a mer... thing, and we already know that some- if not all- of the pictures are significant, from Gideon and the Gnomes appearing.
Merpeople 'living in the water' where mentioned in Dipper vs Manliness by one of the Manotaurs.
* Stan is aware of the merpeople. You can see one on display in the Mystery Shack in some shots (like in episode 1 when Dipper is complaining about having to go out into the woods & hang up signs), and also, when Stan first appears, he scares Dipper by wearing a merperson mask!
** The thing on display is actually a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji_mermaid famous hoax.]] Also, now that we've met Mermando, we can see that actual Gravity Falls merpeople look nothing like the mask Stan wore.
* Merpeople: check.
[[WMG: There is going to be a time traveler in an upcoming episode.]]
Aside from the obvious--episode 9 is called 'The Time Traveler's Pig'--there's a man who keeps popping up repeatedly in the background, as one of Dipper's suspects in episode 3, and in one of the photo's in the intro.
* Confirmed.
[[WMG: The Multibear was testing Dipper.]]
TookALevelInBadass or not, Dipper being able to defeat the Multibear that easily seems implausible, even by the standards of this show. The Manotaurs were bigger, stronger and more well-trained than Dipper. How likely is it that they should fail to defeat a physically stronger enemy where Dipper succeeded? Upon realizing that its latest challenger was a human child, the Multibear decided that Dipper might still be redeemable, and [[ILetYouWin let him win]] just to test his moral fiber.
What the Multibear would've done if Dipper had failed the test, is anyone's guess. But it's unlikely that it would've allowed itself to get killed.
[[WMG: Marginally related to that, EVERYTHING that is, all the supernatural stuff will be connected somehow, perhaps in the finale of the first season.]]
It kinda jumps around all over the place--Gnomes! Ghosts! A time traveler! Living waxed figures to the extent that a troper can't help but feel something will come out of it.
* Jossed, most of these were just {{Monsters of the Week}}.
[[WMG: There will be an episode dealing with an alien invasion.]]
And it will have tons of references to famous sci-fi movies like ''[[Film/TheWaroftheWorlds1953 War of the Worlds]]'' and [[InvasionoftheBodySnatchers Invasion of the Body Snatchers]].
* One of the pictures in the intro had a pair of flying saucers, so its likely that aliens would appear.
* They'll also reference InvaderZim somehow.
* In an interview Alex Hirsch mentions he won't do aliens until one of the final episodes. He says something like "Once you do aliens you're done. Talking to aliens is like talking to god. You can't go much further than that" (that may or may not be exactly what he said). Obviously this means he has considered the concept of aliens, and hopefully plans to use them eventually.
[[WMG: The ''Gravity Falls'' world has its own pantheon of deities.]]
We have Bill Cipher (god of the mind), Time Baby (god of time), and a Love God (obvious).
[[WMG: The Love God's throwaway line about a being higher in the heavens that can stop him is actually Foreshadowing about Stan.]]
The Love God episode is actually an InnocuouslyImportantEpisode, which appears to be a lighthearted romp, but actually foreshadows Stan's importance, or at least his aspirations to be higher than mere mortals.
[[WMG: Female Minotaurs are called Womanotaurs.]]
Considering what [[JerkJock kind of guys]] that [[RatedMForManly the Manotaurs]] are, it must also be part of their culture to be [[StrawMisogynist openly sexist]] towards their own women, hence why we didn't see the two sexes socialize.
* Considering the fact that Manotaurs allegedly have three Y chromosomes, that seems unlikely. Unless they're an entirely separate species, and, I'll admit, a tribe of [[StrawFeminist misandristic]], AlphaBitch half-woman-half-cow creatures would be pretty darn hilarious.
** I think at least ''one'' of the Manotaurs stated that he had three Y chromosomes; he could mean that he's ''X''YYY. He could have something similar to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XYY_syndrome XYY syndrome]]. Or he just could've been lying to exaggerate his manliness.
*** Why do I get the feeling that there may be an episode where Mabel meets some Womanotaurs? It would be like when Dipper met the Manotaurs.
*** That'd be pretty redundant lesson-wise, assuming it'd be to teach a gender-swapped version of the lesson Dipper learned in "Dipper vs. Manliness". Unless it would be to teach some other lesson, like maybe something along the lines of the episode "Equal Fights" from ThePowerPuffGirls... which does seem like the kind of situation Mabel might get wrapped up in, knowing her and her history with guys.
* Oh no, Manotaurs don't discriminate. The females of the species are called Manotaurs and go around shirtless and smelly just like everyone else.
** Well, that would be a very strange twist!
[[WMG: There will eventually be an episode featuring the return of many monsters and villains from past episodes.]]
It's bound to happen in a cartoon like this.
[[WMG: Mostly every villain faced in the show will team up to make a Legion of Doom in the season finale.]]
Many villains of the individual episodes vow revenge, and imply that they'd be back.
[[WMG:The Giant Caterpillar that Dipper accidentally expands will make a comeback in the season finale.]]
It's gonna happen, you'll see.
* Jossed, it's not seen again.
* Seriously, why are there theories for ''everything'' on this show? This is just a one-time joke.
[[WMG: Time Baby will be the series' BigBad.]]
In addition to being shown twice in "The Time Traveler's Pig" with destructive psychic powers (and doing so in an apocalyptic future), the "Northwest Coverup" document from "Irrational Treasure" mentions, among other things, a time-devouring baby from another dimension who is frozen in the Antarctic.
* Directly afterwards, the document says "It's okay though, since glaciers never melt." Impending GreenAesop regarding global warming, perhaps?
* Or alternately...
[[WMG: Mermando will return, running away from his arranged marriage.]]
Dipper and Mabel will have to come up with a way to stop the undersea civil war.
[[WMG: An invisible wizard will appear in a later episode.]]
Episode 11: THE INVISIBLE WIZARD IS WATCHING.
* And remember the message in the book. "I'm being watched!"
[[WMG: The Wax figures murdered Wax UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln because he didn't want to go through with the murder plot.]]
* Stan did say Lincoln was his favorite...
[[WMG: The brain creature seen in the ice machine in "The Inconveniencing" is somehow part of the greater mystery of Gravity Falls. It has some sort of connection to ice, cold places, or even ice machines.]]
* It doesn't seem to have much to do with the other ghosts that inhabit the convenience store.
* It would explain the ice bag included with the symbols in the opening.
[[WMG: Merfolk can change shape.]]
The merfolk seen in "The Deep End" (Mermando and his family) look very different from the mercreature seen in one of the [[http://images.wikia.com/gravityfalls/images/d/df/Made_Me_Realize_Polaroids.jpg pictures in the opening.]] There could either be subcategories of mercreatures, or they can perhaps make themselves look humanlike, and the more grotesque "creature from the black lagoon" look is their ''actual'' appearance. ...could cause Mabel to go through some FridgeHorror if that's the case.
[[WMG: The shapeshifter can read invisible ink.]]
Our evidence is the Hide-Behind. When boasting about the new forms it can take thanks to the journal, one of the forms Experiment 210 takes is that of the Hide-Behind. However, as shown in "Dipper's Guide to the Unexplained", Journal 3's page on the Hide-Behind doesn't have a picture.
How does this figure in with invisible ink? Simple: The Hide-Behind can be caught on unattended camera. At one point, the Author left a camera unattended and the Hide-Behind followed him. This was after the Author switched to invisible ink, so the sketches are only visible under black light. And since Experiment 210 was able to become the Hide-Behind, we must conclude that it can see the invisible ink.
[[WMG: The members of Sev'ral Timez will make brief appearances in future episodes.]]
Mostly them doing silly stuff in the background.
[[WMG:The Invisible Wizard is real.]]
And Grenda was kissing him during the sleepover.
[[WMG: Human-sized hamsters exist in Gravity Falls.]]
That's why the magazine in "Legend of the Gobblewonker" was offering human-sized hamster balls.
[[WMG: When you've lived in Gravity Falls for a certain period of time, you become one of its creatures.]]
This might be a long shot, but it fits when you think about it. Wendy is a Siren (explaining why everyone is so attracted to her), Robbie is a zombie or a vampire, Soos is Bigfoot, et cetera. Peoples' outward appearances stay the same to everyone, including themselves. No one realizes what's going on except Stan (and/or possibly Gideon). This is the secret of Gravity Falls, and if Dipper and Mabel stay for too long, the same will happen to them.
* I was unaware that "two" was the new definition for "everyone".
** I (the original poster) don't actually believe this myself, but it seemed worth it to put it here.
[[WMG: It ''wasn't'' the summer heat that melted the dinosaur out]]
If it was, they would all have gone on a rampage during "The Deep End". Clearly something (or maybe some''one'') else released them.
[[WMG: The ''T. rex'' and possibly the other dinosaurs trapped in the amber in "The Land Before Swine" will come to life.]]
Obvious SequelHook is obvious.
[[WMG: There will be a BiggerBad.]]
Near the end of Dreamscapers, Bill warns us and the characters of a mysterious darkness that is approaching and that will change everything. It will probably be a being more dangerous than even Gideon is.
[[WMG: The Society of the Blindeye is entirely made up of gnomes in disguise.]]
Let's consider the evidence here:
* Firstly: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojhqieZhpbU&feature=youtu.be the latest trailer]] for the episode, which is only five seconds long, features [[spoiler: a set of gnomes holding one of Lazy Susan's pies, while at the lake, presumably having chased after her.]]
* Secondly: look at the faces of the Blind Eye society members as seen [[http://puu.sh/cpBrz/c20e7d448c.jpg here]]. Notice how their facial structures don't match any of the characters previously introduced in Gravity Falls. One or two new characters being a member of a secret society is one thing, but surely you'd think that there would be a couple of people whose faces at least looked like members of the town.
* Thirdly: [[http://puu.sh/cpBxH/0448bba9f1.jpg Note the hoods]]. They have drawstrings on them, much like a hoodie. [[spoiler: Much like the hoodie a certain set of gnomes in disguise wore when trying to court a certain twin.]] Granted, this could simply be a joke, but if this is the end result, it will be the greatest example of trolling in TV history.
** Jossed! The Society is all human. [[spoiler:They're mostly regulars (Toby Determined, Bud Gleeful, the guy who married the woodpecker...), and one new guy we hadn't met until now, and whose memory has been erased.]]
[[WMG: There was no BlindIdiotTranslation.]]
* Giffany speaks perfecbtly fluent English, and there appear to be no other typos. Plus, "anthyding" and "hadplen" are not real Englesh words, which makes it unlikely that they could just be unintended transration mistakes. Therefore, those words must be some sort of code (I know, right? A secret code, in Gravity Fallls? Perish the thought!), perhaps similar to the one in ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents, where the errors spell out a message.
[[WMG: Giffany will return.]]
And Bill Cipher or another copy of her game will have something to do with it.
%%* Does every other damn theory have to involve Bill? Sometimes it seems like people are just thinking of every random idea in their head and putting it into this WMG page. [[HypocriticalHumor Stop wasting time over-speculating about a kids' cartoon!]]
[[WMG: We will see some kind of mutant monster piñata thing at some point in the future.]]
Maybe Soos knows something about it. He ''did'' give Dipper a baseball bat in case he ever saw a piñata, but then again, this could just be Soos being Soos...
[[WMG: The battle between humanity and the Time Baby only happened in timelines where Mabel never got Waddles.]]
The Time Baby's seat of authority may have to do with the timeline being changed back to normal.
[[WMG: The author of the books is Bigfoot.]]
[[WMG: There is a lizard monster coming up in a winter-like episode]]
A new short from Italy shows a couple of snapshots of a new monster in Mabel's album. He looks like a human-sized lizard and wears clothes like those in a Dickens novel, with a top hat and a monocle. The background shows snow. Mabel will win a dogsled race against him. (The short is called "Visiting the Petting Zoo.")
[[WMG:Mermando will return]]
Along with his family. The episode will dive deeper into the Mermando x Mabel relationship. It will involve a parody of ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' in which Mermando magically develops legs to get closer to Mabel.
* Or alternatively, a inversion of said parody where Mabel becomes a mermaid. The episode will be titled "The Little Mermabel".
** Accoding to a Reddit thing from Hirch, his home is undergoing pollution and he seems to be falling ill...
** In ''Society of the Blindeye'' he did not physically return, but he did send a message to Mabel telling her that he was getting married.
[[WMG: Quentin Trembley is SantaClaus]]
In the same document revealing that Quentin Trembley was [[spoiler: the 8th 1/2 president who never officially resigned, making him technically still the president of the United States, it said that SantaClaus is the current and forever president of the United States. Wouldn't that also make Quentin Trembley SantaClaus?]]
[[WMG: The author of the journals, whose name begins with "F", is Franz the Lilliputtian.]]
Try to prove me wrong.
* Okay: Franz doesn't have six fingers.
[[WMG: There used to be aliens living in Gravity Falls.]]
Sometime long ago, a race of [[spoiler: shapeshifting]] aliens set up a small colony in Gravity Falls, choosing there to find ways to integrate with the local human population for whatever reason. They weren't malicious - at the very least not any more than humans are - and would interact with the population while setting up their base camp in the underground caverns that would later be used as [[spoiler: the Author's bunker]]. However, slowly things began taking a turn for the worse; as the aliens tried to blend in, some of them became aware of the paranormal activity around the town and how dangerous it could be. Even worse, some of them were slowly going crazy, starting to babble on and on about strange visions in their sleep, almost always involving a laughing pyramid. Then, they fled. Left behind were their tunnels and an egg, [[spoiler:later found by the Author of the journals.]]
* Still the OP, posting a sub theory: because the aliens [[spoiler: were shapeshifters]], they were capable of reproducing with the humans, with the offspring being more likely to develop higher intelligence, albeit with a higher chance of physical deformities. [[spoiler: Say, for instance, polydactyly...]]
[[WMG: The journal already had a weakness listed for gnomes.]]
Dipper just didn't see it due to it being written over the blank space in invisible ink.
[[WMG: Quentin Trembley can see the future, and was trying to use it to make the world a better place.]]
Here is a point-by-point breakdown of nearly every action he takes, and the "evidence" that proves my theory.
* His landslide victory was no accident. Trembley foresaw the landslide, and carefully arranged things so that he would be standing in the only safe place. The only reason why he did not sacrifice his own life was because he had foreseen himself as the President.
* The "Depantsipation Proclamation" was the result of a vision of a more tolerant future, one in which skirts and shorts were condoned and one did not need to employ fifteen slaves to keep cool in the summer. Trembley had meant to invent such fashions years ahead of their time, but the ignorance of his time period's tailors forced Trembley to outlaw pants, since necessity is the mother of invention.
* Having foreseen the division of gluten and gluten-free foods, Trembley declared war on pancakes. As the war progressed, he had plans to frame various gluten-rich foods for being allies to the pancake enemy. The result would have been a brilliant marketing campaign that eliminated gluten from the American diet, allowing future generations to live under the belief that they did not have the diseases that those backwards foreigners claimed were so abundant.
* Trembley foresaw the future corruption of the Supreme Court's powers, and attempted to forestall this by injecting a wide-eyed, idealistic and innocent perspective into the Supreme Court. Hence the babies. When the idea proved to be detrimental to the efficient running of the Court, Trembley refused to revoke his decision. He had foreseen that those six babies would soon be tasked with a decision that would change America forever. And as we saw in TheStinger of 'Irrational Treasure', that decision was the decision to remove Trembley from office.
* The quote that "The only thing we have to fear is gigantic, man-eating spiders!" was a BadassBoast taken out of context. Trembley had foreseen every possible threat that America might run up against, and had developed counter-attacks for every single one of them. The only threat he did not have a foolproof plan for was giant spiders, a reassuring thought since such things clearly had no military tactics, or even a concept of teamwork.
* His unusual resignation was a carefully orchestrated tactic so that, if his authority as President were needed in the future, it would still be available to him. And to prevent any official resignation being forced upon him, Trembley had a horse waiting underneath the window he jumped out of. This was the same horse which carried him to Gravity Falls.
* The treasure hunt that led the twins to his body wasn't designed to be solvable by a very silly person; it was designed specifically for Mabel. The clues were tailored around her actions, right down to Trembley using peanut brittle to live forever.
* He used peanut brittle because he foresaw that it would work.
* The [[SkeletonKey President's Key]] was made by Trembley himself. He had learned how to control his visions, and used his powers to see the mechanisms of every key-based lock that would ever be made. He then made the key in such a way that it would trigger all of these mechanisms. We only see so much detail; there are actually flaws and dents on a near-microscopic level, designed to catch on just the right mechanism in just the right way. Some keyholes are only openable once the President's Key is worn down by age and use, just as it was meant to be.
* He rode horses backwards because he had no need to direct where he would end up. He already knew.
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[[folder:Bill Cipher]]
[[WMG: Bill Cipher is not evil. It's all a misunderstanding. And there's also an unseen BiggerBad.]]
I might make some huge mistakes here (I just finished Season 1 -also, English is not my first language...), but I think that Bill is not really a villain.
First of all, let's just assume that [[spoiler: Stan, his brother (?) and the Author]] were all part of a secret society ([[spoiler: Stan's tatoo would be this society's symbol]]) located in Gravity Falls. The members of this society were not evil; instead, they were some kind of scientists. They eventually discovered that GF is a "bridge-like" place for another dimension. Being curious scientists, they quickly theorized a way to open a portal ([[spoiler: Stan's portal-like machine in the Mystery Shack?]]) so they could visit/study this unknown dimension. During all of this, the Author was taking notes in his books, as every kind of supernatural "thing" arrived in GF through the portal. Things started to change when a powerful being, Bill Cipher, emerged from the portal. As the books seem to indicate, the triangle-shaped demon was friendly at first, but not for long. The demon wanted the society to leave and close the portal once and for all as "a darkness was coming". As they refused, Bill mentally scarred almost every member of the society (including [[spoiler: the Author]], who continued to update his books though). [[spoiler: Stan's brother]] eventually pulled off an HeroicSacrifice at some point and he and Bill were both sent in the other dimension. Years pass, the books were hidden, etc. etc.
So, what's the point? First of all, Bill is not a villain (heck, there is *no* real villain at all). He is the guardian of the barrier/portal between our dimensions. He acts crazy, but he's not evil. He's protecting our world by any means possible (including possessing the body of a 12-years old kid, yes): in the other dimension, there's in fact a war-like scenario going on. A war against a BiggerBad, a darkness-like EldritchAbomination who would destroy our entire world and Bill (and his... "people"?) is the only thing that stands between that thing and us. The "big plans" that Bill mentions is the "war" finally ending and the ultimate defeat of this darkness. The last thing that the triangle-demon needs is a group of curious humans who could inadvertently "free" this BiggerBad from his dimension, bringing the supernatural-sized war in our silly world.
[[WMG:Bill is WaltDisney's soul.]]
* He knows "Lots of things" because he still has all of Walt's memories of when he was alive, as well as everything that happened to his company since he died.
** He has become insane and vengeful after all the years of [[Disney/ChickenLittle bad]] [[WesternAnimation/TheWild CGI]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Planes}} movies]], [[Disney/TheLittleMermaidIIReturnToTheSea needless direct]] [[Disney/CinderellaIIDreamsComeTrue to DVD sequels]], and [[DogWithABlog horrible]] [[HighSchoolMusical tween]] [[ShakeItUp programing]] that were soiling [[Creator/{{Disney}} his company's]] good name.
*** The release and popular success of ''GravityFalls'' should at least provide some measure of relief to his anger...
[[WMG:Bill's circle.]]
This is just a theory of what the symbols on Bill's circle represent.
* Pine tree - Dipper; Confirmed
* Shooting star - Mabel; Confirmed
* Question mark - Soos; Confirmed
* Pac-man symbol - Stan; It is on his hat after all.
* Pentagram - Gideon; This is the symbol that's on his Tent of Telepathy.
* Bag of ice - Wendy; She does have a cool personality and her first major episode took place in a convenience store.
** Don't forget the ice at the fair and the cooler on the roof!
* Stitched heart - Robbie; This symbol does appear on his sweat shirt.
* Six fingered hand - The author of the books; It's obviously him, since the symbol is on the books, we just don't know who he is.
* Llama - Wendy's dad or some one equally tough; Larry King's head did say llamas were nature's greatest warriors, so it would have to be someone powerful.
** Maybe Grenda could be the llama...
** It could be Gompers the goat. See theories below.
** Wax Larry King is a strong candidate for this one. The llama on the wheel is mirror-reversed from the one on Mabel's sweater. Mabel was holding the sweater up to the mirror when Wax Larry endorsed it, thus identifying himself with that version of the image. Expect to see more of Larry in the next season.
** Lebam, a mirror doppelganger of Mabel created by Gideon from a sample of her hair (and her llama hair sweater). There is considerable evidence for the existence of this character. See theories by "The Sqoou" on You Tube.
** Pacifica. We've only seen the sweater, but not anyone wearing it. If Mabel and Pacifica do eventually become friends, maybe Mabel will reward her with the sweater for doing something brave?
* Sunglasses - I dunno, maybe Blubs; He's the only character with sunglasses. Blendin could also be an option since his goggles cover his eyes.
** ...and Candy could be the glasses.
** I'd like to point out that when Gideon summoned Bill to go into Stan's mind, there was a little arrow pointing at the glasses.
*** That was a big X ''over'' his eyes, basically symbolizing "Kill Stan."
*** Well yes, on the picture in the middle of the summoning circle the glasses on Stan's face where crossed out, but what the other troper was referring to is probably the fact that Gideon's book on summoning Bill had an arrow pointing to the glasses symbol in the circle.
** There is currently a popular fan theory (with a surprising amount of evidence) that Grunkle Stan has a twin brother, and that the glasses represent said brother.
** The glasses look like they have a frame line on top but not the bottom, like the Stan they disturbed when time-traveling (and the glasses in the secret room with the carpet). It could be the hypothetical twin of Stan.
** Since Stan wears the glasses when younger, the glasses could mean him and the symbol on the fez could mean someone else. Stan does mention "other people" from the lodge.
[[WMG: That pyramid thing's name is Bewarb.]]
You know that pyramid thing that shows up at the end of the show's intro? The mosquitoes in the first episode were trying to warn Dipper about him, hence Bewarb.
* Jossed. It's Bill Cipher
[[WMG: the pyramid guy (aka Bill Cipher) is the big bad/big good]]
Come on, he seems to be the center of the whole mess. Maybe he'll help the others out. He's important anyway.
Or...
[[WMG: there's an even bigger bad behind the scenes.]]
In the opening credits picture of the pyramid, there's a bunch of letters somewhere on the left. It's binary code for " the word smuggler lives." Also, if you take a look at the whole picture from the out takes (the one with the crossed out eye) there's a bunch of numbers which have been covered in the red paint used to cross out the eye. Pretty sure its in the other journal pages and maybe in the other important bits of the show. So maybe the big bad isn't actually Bill Ciphers, but actually the word smuggler, as he seems to be terrifying the socks off the author. Or he'll just be another big bad in the later seasons. He'll be really important, anyway.
[[WMG: The bowtie, top-hat wearing pyramid EasterEgg in the opening will be the BigBad]]
If you pause just right, you can see a bowtie, top-hat wearing pyramid with one eye. Given that you can find a lot of pyramids lying around in the show and that he seems pretty important, I'd say he's the BigBad who conjured up all the mysteries in Gravity Falls.
** Confirmed minus the BigBad part [for ''now''].
[[WMG: The pyramid guy is summoned when all items in the circle are brought together]]
He can clearly be seen in the trailer for the new episode "Dreamscapers", and this trooper thinks he saw Mabel in the same sweater as in the first ep.
* Jossed. However, Gideon drew an arrow pointing at the glasses when summoning Bill to invade Stan's mind.
[[WMG: The pyramid guy has something to do with alchemy]]
My sister came up with this. Alchemy is from ancient Egypt, right? He's a pyramid, which is a triangle, which is the alchemist symbol for fire. (As Dipper pointed out in "Irrational Treasure")
* If combined with the idea of ice being a bad omen for Dipper, as mentioned above, this might indicate the pyramid guy will be of help to Dipper in the future, since ice can be seen as an opposite to fire.
[[WMG: Bill is the big good of the series]]
with heaping doses of good is not nice, and manipulative bastard. he frequently makes comments about people being useful and one of his last comments before disappearing is to warn them of a great evil coming, also once they best him he comments on them being impressive and useful he may be planing on using them to hold off the great evil, but he thinks in cosmic scales and geological time so a our lives are small and insignificant, his issues with Stan come in that Stan actually values human life will bill views them as a pawns in is cosmic war against evil.
** I'm sorry, who regularly scams people with cheesy tourist traps, repeatedly lies to incompetent law enforcement, and bribes construction officials?
*** Actually, I'm pretty sure [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]] has done every one of those things at one time or another; so it wouldn't exactly be unprecedented for a BigGood.
[[WMG: Bill Cipher is [[HPLovecraft Nyarlathotep]].]]
[[WMG: Bill will fight the Time Baby]]
How epic would that be?
[[WMG: Bill will turn out to be a morally gray character.]]
Sometimes he does bad things, but he's not completely evil.
[[WMG: The gnomes are somehow connected to Bill Cipher.]]
Book 3 makes note of their hats' shape and according to the manotaurs they live in the trees. Book 2 makes note of Bill's connection with birch trees.
[[WMG: The Illuminati are a cult that worships Bill Cipher]]
Hence why the pyramid eye is so prevalent in their symbology
[[WMG: Bill has been watching the entire time.]]
You can spot images resembling him everywhere, all throughout the series. Since Bill can only manifest in the dreamscape, he uses these little areas as sort of a way to see what's going on at the Shack and other areas of Gravity Falls.
* His dramatic exit ''heavily'' implies this. "I'll be watching."
* Near the end of "Gideon Rises," the shot pans down after the twins chase Soos out of the attic, and there is a cryptogram written on a pipe in the house walls. Once decoded, it reads "BILL IS WATCHING."
* [[spoiler: He's been watching Dipper. (At least since the end of season 1. But it's sort of implied he's been watching Dipper for a while now.)]]
[[WMG: Bill does not have a physical form, and exists only as a mental or symbolic construct.]]
* When Gideon first summons Bill, he does the thing with the deer teeth, agrees to invade Stan's mind, and departs. The camera cuts to Gideon, and then to Mabel and Soos; they open their eyes and jump slightly, as if awakening from a startling dream. Thereafter, we only really see Bill inside Stan's mind.
** This happens again when he contacts Dipper, both times we see him fall asleep first (as indicated by the head nod and closing eyes). However! At the end of Sock Opera we see Bill possess a puppet and start moving it. This is the only time we've seen him interact with the physical world without using a human host. This is also the only time a meeting with Bill didn't end in the participants jolting awake immediately afterwards. So this might imply he does exist outside the mental plane. That and you see his shadow following Dipper in the same episode.
* Dipper, who has presumably read about him in the journal, refers to him as a "brain demon" and a "dream demon" on separate occasions. Bill may be the master of the mind, but could it be that he only exists IN the mind? Note that his summoning scene shifts to black and white--Stan's mindscape is mostly grayscale as well.
* The warning "whatever you do, don't let him into your mind" implies that he can cause the most destruction from within a person, but what if the meaning was more "don't let him into YOUR mind"?
* Since he is literally a symbol, perhaps the drawings of him in the journal aren't merely depictions, but dwelling places. He exists only in conceptual space, and can do nothing to the real world--except watch.
* Finally, though this is most certainly an aesthetic choice on the part of his voice actor, what made me begin to think about Bill's nature was his voice. He constantly seems to shout, but his voice is no louder than the other characters'--like he is shouting through a wall.
** Because we only see him from the front, I like to think Bill exists in 2D space. It just seems like an impossibility only he could achieve.
* [[spoiler: Confirmed.]]
[[WMG: Playing off the above theory, Bill wanted Gideon's help to manifest himself into a physical form.]]
Once Bill has physical form, he can use all his dream world powers in the real world. Perhaps he wants to cause damage or get revenge on Stan for something. His request to Gideon would've been something extreme, such as wanting to use Gideon's body as his own.
* I'm the troper who submitted that theory, and I think you're on to something here. I was suspecting that "something I've been working on" was meant as an ongoing project, and every time someone summons him, he gets them to complete the next step. Perhaps that would have involved possessing Gideon.
** Especially considering that Bill didn't even say what he wanted Gideon to do for him, just that they'd work out the details later. This ''strongly'' suggests that Bill was going to ask something that Gideon never would've agreed to if he knew.
* [[spoiler: Confirmed in Sock Opera. Verdict is still out on WHY though.]]
[[WMG: Bill Cipher drove the original writer of the book to madness.]]
Assuming the leaked screenshots showing [[spoiler: Old Man Mc Gucket as the writer of the books]] are accurate, and assuming that [[spoiler: he was the only one writing the books]], Bill Cipher was the one who drove him to madness. The second book talks about how to summon him while the third book talks about how to stop him. What's more, the third book's entry on Bill is initially written on a positive note, talking about how he's such a nice guy. It's all crossed out, and replaced with a warning about how dangerous he is. This might indicate that the writer trusted him for a while but was betrayed and saw his true power.
** Partly Jossed. [[spoiler: Old Man Mc Gucket was driven insane by using the memory-erasing device too often, but he also didn't write the journals]] so this WMG could still fit, just not for him.
[[WMG: The red marks on Bill Cipher's page in the third book is really all just red ink.]]
* Aww, but that's no fun.
* It's animation, so it doesn't necessarily make a difference, but in real life, blood dries to a brown color and the stuff all over the page is FAR too red to accurately represent old, dried blood (or, hell, even blood that had spilled on the page earlier that day, much less weeks/months/years ago).
[[WMG: Bill Cipher can see everything.]]
Anything resembling his image or inscribed with his eye will allow him to see what's going on everywhere. [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou This may include the audience]].
[[WMG: Bill Cipher is Lucifer]]
Based on a real thing, this troper was watching the show when my Uncle (an ex military codebreaker) walked by stopped and asked "What kind of cartoon has lucifer in it?"
Bill Cipher is a coded version of LUCIFER. (Cipher = Cifer). Bill is harder to explain, basically if you but the alphabet in two rows I is across ( / in this direction) from U. Double L means keep it and the B is a fake letter in the name. The "joke" is the meaning of the word Cipher, to decode. Its normally used in reference to a code that makes no sense or ultimately has no answer/is untranslatable. Its also used to confuse the enemy with nonsense terms. Because Lucifer's thing is confusing or out right converting the righteous to evil through lies....
* His name is a reference to the Beale Cipher, though it doesn't disprove your theory.
[[WMG: The town of Gravity Falls connects to the world of Chick Tracts, thanks to Bill Cipher.]]
* Gnomes are villains here, and a video game character brought to life turned against Dipper. A possible sign of magic being evil there?
* All "good" supernatural creatures are the result of sensible people being brought into the world.
* Bill mentions that something is coming that will change everything they care about. Nothing changes your life more than finding that many things that we take for granted (Halloween, logical thinking, rock and roll) will send you to hell.
* The reason the human residents of Gravity Falls are otherwise normal is because they lived there before Bill turned it into a Chick Tract.
* Bill isn't actually a demon. He only pretends to be one because he acts in ways that one could call evil, and to hide the fact that he's not part of the universe.
* The writer of the journals didn't know that the reason for all these supernatural things was because he/she was in a Chick Tract, and went insane when he/she found out (around the abrupt ending).
* Why is Bill doing this? To drive humans insane, of course! And besides, if the plan fails he could always just destroy the universe by mentioning a biblical contradiction or something.
[[WMG: Bill Cipher is a robot constructed by the Time Baby organization]]
The two main interfering entities in Gravity Falls are connected. Bill is a construct of the time travelers, only posing as an all-knowing demon. He works for the Time Baby. His bow-tie is his equipment logo, the triangular infinity symbol of the Baby. The time slow-downs and reversals around his summoning in "Dreamscaperers" look a lot like the first operation of the tape-measure time machine in "The Time Traveler's Pig." One of the things Bill revealed in "Dreamscaperers" as one of the "lots of things" that he knew about was the crashed Gideon-bot. Blendin was there and could have taken the picture that Bill displayed.
[[WMG: Bill Cipher can influence people through gold. Stan knows there's a connection, but not what it is.]]
[[WMG: The "blindeye" is a ritual to stop Bill's omniscience.]]
It's done by defacing currency, specifically putting an X mark across the Eye of Providence on the dollar bill. Bill is, literally, ''the almighty dollar''! That's why Bill has to be reminded of Stan when he seems perfectly aware of everyone else: Grunkle Stan has more money pass through his hands than almost anyone else in Gravity Falls, and he's extremely reluctant to spend it ''in'' Gravity Falls. He has Soos mark out the Eye and then spends as much as possible on things not within the town in order to keep anyone from catching on!
[[WMG: When Bill made his deal with Gideon, he wanted [[GrandTheftMe his body]] in return.]]
Of course, we don't know what for exactly in that particular case since he failed his end of the bargain, [[spoiler:but he eventually succeeds in making this deal with Dipper under different circumstances.]] His jokingly calling Gideon a "ventriloquist dummy" when they met might've been a hint to this.
** Which adds to FridgeHorror when "Bideon" would've looked up and down for Stan's device, unleashing possible horrors onto the town and the world...
[[WMG: Bill Cipher wants to use the power of Stan's machine to turn Gravity Falls, and perhaps the rest of the world, into a WorldOfChaos.]]
''Something'' is [[WeirdnessMagnet drawing supernatural weirdness to the Gravity Falls area]], and the machine in Grunkle Stan's basement is tapping into that source for whatever reason. Bill plans to hijack the machine and turn up the strange happenings even further.
The messages that have been appearing at the end of the first few episodes of season two appear to be from Bill Cipher, especially the one at the end of "Sock Opera":
->NO PUPPET STRINGS CAN HOLD ME DOWN\\
SO PATIENTLY I WATCH THIS TOWN\\
ABNORMAL SOON WILL BE THE NORM\\
ENJOY THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM
If it is a message from Bill, it seems to suggest as to the nature of the "big things" that are coming: he wants to increase the levels of weirdness in Gravity Falls, or spread them further. Why would he do this? Perhaps Bill believes stirring up strangeness in the mortal world will increase his own influence as a "dream demon", or perhaps he's just doing it [[ItAmusedMe because he thinks it would be funny]].
[[WMG: The order of the symbols on the Bill Cipher wheel indicates what side of the coming conflict they'll be on.]]
It goes by every other symbol, dividing the wheel between two "teams".
Team A: Dipper (tree), Six-Fingered Hand (probably [=McGucket=]), Mabel (shooting star), Stanley (glasses), and Wendy (ice),
Team B: Stanford (fez symbol), Gideon (pentagram), Llama (Lebam?), Robbie (stitched heart), and Soos (question mark).
Team A is all the people who will become (or already are) invested in discovering the truth about Gravity Falls for one reason or another, but ultimately they'll have good intentions. Team B is all the people who already know all about what's going on in Gravity Falls, but are trying to keep the truth hidden in order to gain or maintain their own power. This notably puts Stanley and Stanford against each other...
[[WMG: Bill Cipher comes from the Bermuda Triangle.]]
[[CrazyEnoughToWork Because this show is just weird enough for that.]]
[[WMG: As an alternative to the above, Bill Cipher IS the Bermuda Triangle.]]
He says it's good to be back in Gravity Falls. Maybe the Bermuda Triangle is what happens when there are puppet strings to hold him down.
[[WMG: The Bill Cipher Wheel represents people who have, or will make, contracts with him.]]
So far, we know Dipper and Gideon have both made deals with him at this point. The others are foreordained to do the same thing until Bill's power in the real world is strong enough to let him come into the waking reality without anyone else's help.
* Alternately, the symbols represent Bill's checklist: A list of people he ''has'' to make contracts with, or or else he won't be able to achieve his goal. There's nothing foreordained about it, but it does mean that Bill will be trying to manipulate the people represented by the symbols into making deals with him; now that the first one (Gideon) partially summoned him, Bill is able to more directly influence events in the real world. This could be why Season 2 has generally been darker and more dangerous than Season 1, as Bill is upping the ante in hopes of forcing them into a corner, where they have no other choice but to deal with him.
[[WMG: The Head That's Always Screaming that Bill "gifts" to Dipper is actually the head of Robbie's father.]]
That head clearly belongs to a dark-haired vampire.
[[WMG: The laptop was never going to erase itself, it was an illusion on Bill's part]]
Bill appears to Dipper twice in the episode when he gets tired. Both times are preceded by Dipper yawning. The first time it happen, Bill makes the wind blow, turns the moon into his eye and forms his body around his eye, with everything still in color. This is oblivously an illusion as Bill cannot directly affect the physical world as he is now. However, it shows that Bill is able to project illusions or alter perceptions before everything turns into a dreamstate grey. The second time Bill shows up, Dipper yawns and then the laptop states that Dipper has entered into too many false passwords, and the laptop will erase itself in five minutes if Dipper doesn't enter the correct password on the next try. Now Dipper has been entering passwords for a better part of a week, trying hundreds if not thousands of passwords. Why would the laptop have such a high, arbitary number of password retries? Most secure computers will lock you out after three or ten failures. The answer is that the laptop countdown is fake, an illusion created by Bill to pressure Dipper into accepting his deal. Dipper's yawning is a signal that Dipper is drowsy enough to interact with Bill. After the yawn, nothing outside of the characters themselves can be really trusted, as it could be a trick from Bill. It would also explain why Bill destroyed the laptop instead of just waiting for the time to run out.
** I like this WMG a lot, but there is one problem: Dipper (Bipper?) doesn't wake up after he makes the deal with Bill. Dipper's body is still standing up and functioning as if he was awake when they shook hands. However, it could be that what Bill really wanted was a chance to destroy the journal, and setting up the fake countdown and destroying the laptop was just cleaning up a loose end.
*** That could be explained with Dipper being just in such a sleep deprived state that he couldn't tell Bill's dreamworld from reality. Perhaps Bill doesn't need deep REM to affect someone's mind- just someone in light non-REM that's perceptible enough to his illusions.
[[WMG: The town of Gravity Falls worships Bill Cipher as a cult.]]
This isn't exactly a serious WMG, but it's a nice idea for fanart or something.
Also explains why he's on windows and doors and such.
[[WMG: Bill Cipher is some kind of demon - a la BartimaeusTrilogy.]]
Think about it. He's only able to be summoned through ominous Latin, he has vague powers and an even more vague alignment, he doesn't seem to care about much besides doing things that will help him, and he spends most of his time in a vague "Dreamscape."
Bartimaeus, while maybe not the best example, can only be summoned through ominous Latin (and a pentacle), has vague powers and an even more vague alignment, doesn't care much for doing things that won't benefit him (he only saved [[spoiler:Nathaniel from the fire in order to save himself from Indefinite Confinement]]), and spends the time he's not summoned in a vague "Other Place."
The similarities are uncanny.
* To be fair, that describes a ''lot'' of fictional demons.
[[WMG: The Bill Cipher Wheel is actually a sort of zodiac.]]
Each of the symbols represents a person ''and'' a constellation. Dipper's symbol is a pine tree, but he also has his birthmark. All the other people represented on the wheel also have a corresponding constellation, and at the center is Bill Cipher. When Gideon first summons him, his eye appears inside a triangle made of ''outer space''. The Wheel is a zodiac chart that doubles as a map to where Bill really comes from.
[[WMG: In a future episode, Bill will possess Gideon]]
He did describe him as "some kind of living ventriloquist dummy" when he first met him, and we all know how much the show loves its foreshadowing. On top of that, the idea of those two working as one being is just [[RuleOfAwesome too awesomely]] [[RuleOfScary terrifying]] to pass up.
[[WMG: Somewhere, there is some underground cult who worships Bill]]
Or, at the very least, one person who does. Maybe they have something to do with the author.
[[WMG: At some point, Bill will force a character through crippling psychological torment.]]
His motive - oh, just pick one: revenge, interrogation, just ForTheEvulz. His method - probably exposing them to visions and hallucinations that exploit their deepest and darkest fears. I think the "[[NightmareRetardant nightmares]]" he gave the characters in "Dreamscaperers" was only the tip of his metaphorical iceberg, and as we saw in the end, he basically let them win anyway. His victim - my money is on one of the twins, but who knows. It'd make sense for him to result to psychological trauma anyway, since it's been proven he has no power in the physical realm. Just imagine the surrounding dialogue: "You promised me you wouldn't hurt her! You ''promised''!" "No, I promised you I wouldn't ''touch'' her. 'Not a hair on her pretty little head', remember? There's more than one way to skin a cat, and this is a lot more more fun anyway! I won't even need to worry about cleanup!"
[[WMG: Not only is Bill aware that he's in a show, but he's purposefully not revealing his goals to mess with us fans.]]
Tell me I'm wrong.
[[WMG: In the Mental Realm, things only exist as long as they are remembered by someone.]]
Just like it said. Bill was trapped there, but was in kind of a nebulous "sleep" mode when inside the portal. That's why he can appear at will now when he could only be summoned before; people remember him now, so he continues to be able to act. That's also why Grunkle Stan is so confident in his using the portal; he remembers his twin, so he's certain that his twin can still be saved.
** That might explain how Bill knows '''lots of things'''.
[[WMG: A brief history of the pyramid guy.]]
The Pyramid Guy was fighting the Time Baby for some AppliedPhlebotinum in the other dimension. They then got knocked into our dimension by the {{Phlebotinum}}'s effect. The Pyramid Guy then landed in Washington DC. After forming a secret society, he took the body of Quentin Trembley. Although all his actions had meaning (like making peace with the Time Baby by appointing babies to the supreme court), they were thought to be silly, so he left with his Phlebotinum for Gravity Falls. His Phlebotinum had unusual effects on the area, so he needed something to clean it up. He tried using Old Man [=McGucket=] to clean the mess up, but failed, so he recruited another society, consisting of Stan and Gideon's relative. He required them to go and get the items seen around him in the mysterious image of the Pyramid Guy at the end of the opening, and wrote Book 1 about the quest. The objects would heal Gravity Falls.
However, during their next mission to battle the creatures, Gideon's ancestor came up with an idea to battle them with other mystical artifacts and wrote it in Book #2. Stan didn't like that idea, so he kicked Gideon's ancestor out. Stan then wrote Book #3, but the hid it because Gideon's relative tried to stop him with his idea. The Pyramid Guy, fearing something similar might happen to Stan, brainwashed him and gave the secret identity of a con man , and used his merchandise to heal Gravity Falls. The Pyramid Guy created Soos to make sure it went perfect, hence Soos being a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} like [=McGucket=] and Trembley. However, when it came time to intrust the secrets to someone else, the Pyramid Guy exited Soos and told Stan somebody must inherit the books and then hid in a vending machine. So Dipper and Mabel came, and their mission became successful. To make sure that Dipper and Mabel stuck with each other, The Pyramid Guy created Waddles. This enabled Dipper to stick with Mabel instead of Wendy. Eventually, the Time Baby escaped, and the Pyramid Guy, after being freed by Dipper and Mabel, time traveled back as Blenidin Blandin to check on Dipper, Mabel, and Waddles.
[[WMG: Bill has fourth wall peering powers.]]
According to Bill in Rumble's Revenge, "Your reality is a game to me. And I like games...". And, who am I kidding, I really want to see this show break the fourth wall.
[[WMG: Bill Cipher has relatives]]
Bear with me. Bill Cipher may seem like the demon version of an annoying sibling. He's weird, makes bad jokes, and has a high-pitched voice. The demons could be different colors, or perhaps they can change colors at will. Also, the apocalypse that keeps getting mentioned- it could come from his 'relatives.' Beings that are more powerful than him, or can exist outside of the mind/dreamscape. Additionally, as shown with his talk with Gideon, he may want more power- or help with getting rid of them. Finally, the secret society mentioned in the "Stan's Tattoo" short had some constellations: Vesta, and a second one that I can't remember. It's a stretch, but what if those stars are the names of Bill's relations?
[[WMG: Bill Cipher is using the goat to spy on the Mystery Shack.]]
* Because 1) the goat is often around when something supernatural is happening, and 2) it has yellowish eyes with black slits for pupils much like [[spoiler:Bill!Dipper]]
** But goat eyes are like that naturally.
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[[WMG:There will be an episode with giant vampire bats.]]
Its obvious, in the opening while the caracters are around a campfire a face of a bat flashes by and one of the entries of the book was about vampire bats,so far most of the monsters were forshadowed like the gnomes, gideon, the time traveller ect. why not bats?
* Apparently jossed: in "Scaryoke" [[spoiler: Dipper discovers messages in Journal #3 written in invisible ink. The page on giant bats is covered in invisible scrawls indicating that the giant bats in Gravity Falls are giant ''fruit'' bats, and are harmless despite their intimidating appearance.]]
[[WMG:Decapitated Wax Larry King's head will be a ChekhovsGunman.]]
Mostly because the episode's secret code translates to HE'S STILL IN THE VENTS.
[[WMG:Gravity Falls' nefarious undead will appear later in the series.]]
Dipper initially misidentifies them as gnomes.
* Or it would be a goth chick who will lure HIM into woods.
** [[spoiler:Confirmed in "Scary-Oke", but it's [[NiceJobBreakingItHero by Dipper's own hand that they come]].]]
[[WMG:Waffle with big arms is real.]]
He's one of the weirdest monsters in Gravity Falls and at some point Mabel met him.
[[WMG:Jeff the gnome ''will'' come back and try to get back at the twins.]]
I mean, come on, you don't send a character flying over the horizon screaming "I'll get you for this...!" in a show with a story arc and not have him come back.
* He and Gideon will team-up at some point. But will end up turning against each other due to their affections for Mabel.
** On the contrary, Jeff teams up with the ''twins against'' Gideon. Though Gideon does end up turning the gnomes against them.
[[WMG:Robbie is a Zombie.]]
* The undead are often mistaken for Teenagers.
** And why is that? Because of their bad skin and attitude, both of which he definitely has.
* He is the only teen besides Wendy who isn't transformed or imprisoned by the ghosts.
* The broken heart symbol on his shirt can be seen in the Book that appears in the credits.
** [[RobZombie I see what you did there.]]
* If you pay attention to the graffiti in Thompson's car, one of them reads "Zombies Rule!"
* In Fight Fighters, Robbie's band is called The Tombstones and their song is called You're Dead.
* In the Summerwean Trickster it is mentioned by Wendy that Robbie ate a single piece of candy and got sick--Maybe because it wasn't flesh?
** Actually it was because he ate the lollipop stick. Still support this theory though.
* ''The Love God'' shows that his parents run a mortuary. There aren't many professions more zombie-friendly than mortician. I would point out, though, that Robbie doesn't seem to have much in common with the living dead that we've seen on the show so far.
* Word of God said that there is a reason for not disclosing the last name of Robbie past the letter V, so I think that it stands for Vampire. This fits his appearance better than a zombie, but so far there has been no mention of vampires(except for Mabel's boyfriend), although the bleeding heart suggests vampire as well.
** Jossed in "The Love God". His last name is [[spoiler:Valentino]], which fits perfectly with his heart motif.
** In support of the vampire argument, someone online suggested he was originally bitten by a blind vampire who missed his neck. The red spots on his chin are therefore his bite scar.
* A fan from the SDCC 2014 panel mentioned that in "The Inconveniencing", when Dipper looked into the convenience store door, all the kids were turned into skeletons ''except'' for Robbie. Mr. Hirsch acted a little suspiciously to that question.
[[WMG: An upcoming episode will feature the merpeople of Gravity Falls.]]
There's a picture in the opening credits that could be a mer... thing, and we already know that some- if not all- of the pictures are significant, from Gideon and the Gnomes appearing.
Merpeople 'living in the water' where mentioned in Dipper vs Manliness by one of the Manotaurs.
* Stan is aware of the merpeople. You can see one on display in the Mystery Shack in some shots (like in episode 1 when Dipper is complaining about having to go out into the woods & hang up signs), and also, when Stan first appears, he scares Dipper by wearing a merperson mask!
** The thing on display is actually a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji_mermaid famous hoax.]] Also, now that we've met Mermando, we can see that actual Gravity Falls merpeople look nothing like the mask Stan wore.
* Merpeople: check.
[[WMG: There is going to be a time traveler in an upcoming episode.]]
Aside from the obvious--episode 9 is called 'The Time Traveler's Pig'--there's a man who keeps popping up repeatedly in the background, as one of Dipper's suspects in episode 3, and in one of the photo's in the intro.
* Confirmed.
[[WMG: The Multibear was testing Dipper.]]
TookALevelInBadass or not, Dipper being able to defeat the Multibear that easily seems implausible, even by the standards of this show. The Manotaurs were bigger, stronger and more well-trained than Dipper. How likely is it that they should fail to defeat a physically stronger enemy where Dipper succeeded? Upon realizing that its latest challenger was a human child, the Multibear decided that Dipper might still be redeemable, and [[ILetYouWin let him win]] just to test his moral fiber.
What the Multibear would've done if Dipper had failed the test, is anyone's guess. But it's unlikely that it would've allowed itself to get killed.
[[WMG: Marginally related to that, EVERYTHING that is, all the supernatural stuff will be connected somehow, perhaps in the finale of the first season.]]
It kinda jumps around all over the place--Gnomes! Ghosts! A time traveler! Living waxed figures to the extent that a troper can't help but feel something will come out of it.
* Jossed, most of these were just {{Monsters of the Week}}.
[[WMG: There will be an episode dealing with an alien invasion.]]
And it will have tons of references to famous sci-fi movies like ''[[Film/TheWaroftheWorlds1953 War of the Worlds]]'' and [[InvasionoftheBodySnatchers Invasion of the Body Snatchers]].
* One of the pictures in the intro had a pair of flying saucers, so its likely that aliens would appear.
* They'll also reference InvaderZim somehow.
* In an interview Alex Hirsch mentions he won't do aliens until one of the final episodes. He says something like "Once you do aliens you're done. Talking to aliens is like talking to god. You can't go much further than that" (that may or may not be exactly what he said). Obviously this means he has considered the concept of aliens, and hopefully plans to use them eventually.
[[WMG: The ''Gravity Falls'' world has its own pantheon of deities.]]
We have Bill Cipher (god of the mind), Time Baby (god of time), and a Love God (obvious).
[[WMG: The Love God's throwaway line about a being higher in the heavens that can stop him is actually Foreshadowing about Stan.]]
The Love God episode is actually an InnocuouslyImportantEpisode, which appears to be a lighthearted romp, but actually foreshadows Stan's importance, or at least his aspirations to be higher than mere mortals.
[[WMG: Female Minotaurs are called Womanotaurs.]]
Considering what [[JerkJock kind of guys]] that [[RatedMForManly the Manotaurs]] are, it must also be part of their culture to be [[StrawMisogynist openly sexist]] towards their own women, hence why we didn't see the two sexes socialize.
* Considering the fact that Manotaurs allegedly have three Y chromosomes, that seems unlikely. Unless they're an entirely separate species, and, I'll admit, a tribe of [[StrawFeminist misandristic]], AlphaBitch half-woman-half-cow creatures would be pretty darn hilarious.
** I think at least ''one'' of the Manotaurs stated that he had three Y chromosomes; he could mean that he's ''X''YYY. He could have something similar to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XYY_syndrome XYY syndrome]]. Or he just could've been lying to exaggerate his manliness.
*** Why do I get the feeling that there may be an episode where Mabel meets some Womanotaurs? It would be like when Dipper met the Manotaurs.
*** That'd be pretty redundant lesson-wise, assuming it'd be to teach a gender-swapped version of the lesson Dipper learned in "Dipper vs. Manliness". Unless it would be to teach some other lesson, like maybe something along the lines of the episode "Equal Fights" from ThePowerPuffGirls... which does seem like the kind of situation Mabel might get wrapped up in, knowing her and her history with guys.
* Oh no, Manotaurs don't discriminate. The females of the species are called Manotaurs and go around shirtless and smelly just like everyone else.
** Well, that would be a very strange twist!
[[WMG: There will eventually be an episode featuring the return of many monsters and villains from past episodes.]]
It's bound to happen in a cartoon like this.
[[WMG: Mostly every villain faced in the show will team up to make a Legion of Doom in the season finale.]]
Many villains of the individual episodes vow revenge, and imply that they'd be back.
[[WMG:The Giant Caterpillar that Dipper accidentally expands will make a comeback in the season finale.]]
It's gonna happen, you'll see.
* Jossed, it's not seen again.
* Seriously, why are there theories for ''everything'' on this show? This is just a one-time joke.
[[WMG: Time Baby will be the series' BigBad.]]
In addition to being shown twice in "The Time Traveler's Pig" with destructive psychic powers (and doing so in an apocalyptic future), the "Northwest Coverup" document from "Irrational Treasure" mentions, among other things, a time-devouring baby from another dimension who is frozen in the Antarctic.
* Directly afterwards, the document says "It's okay though, since glaciers never melt." Impending GreenAesop regarding global warming, perhaps?
* Or alternately...
[[WMG: Mermando will return, running away from his arranged marriage.]]
Dipper and Mabel will have to come up with a way to stop the undersea civil war.
[[WMG: An invisible wizard will appear in a later episode.]]
Episode 11: THE INVISIBLE WIZARD IS WATCHING.
* And remember the message in the book. "I'm being watched!"
[[WMG: The Wax figures murdered Wax UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln because he didn't want to go through with the murder plot.]]
* Stan did say Lincoln was his favorite...
[[WMG: The brain creature seen in the ice machine in "The Inconveniencing" is somehow part of the greater mystery of Gravity Falls. It has some sort of connection to ice, cold places, or even ice machines.]]
* It doesn't seem to have much to do with the other ghosts that inhabit the convenience store.
* It would explain the ice bag included with the symbols in the opening.
[[WMG: Merfolk can change shape.]]
The merfolk seen in "The Deep End" (Mermando and his family) look very different from the mercreature seen in one of the [[http://images.wikia.com/gravityfalls/images/d/df/Made_Me_Realize_Polaroids.jpg pictures in the opening.]] There could either be subcategories of mercreatures, or they can perhaps make themselves look humanlike, and the more grotesque "creature from the black lagoon" look is their ''actual'' appearance. ...could cause Mabel to go through some FridgeHorror if that's the case.
[[WMG: The shapeshifter can read invisible ink.]]
Our evidence is the Hide-Behind. When boasting about the new forms it can take thanks to the journal, one of the forms Experiment 210 takes is that of the Hide-Behind. However, as shown in "Dipper's Guide to the Unexplained", Journal 3's page on the Hide-Behind doesn't have a picture.
How does this figure in with invisible ink? Simple: The Hide-Behind can be caught on unattended camera. At one point, the Author left a camera unattended and the Hide-Behind followed him. This was after the Author switched to invisible ink, so the sketches are only visible under black light. And since Experiment 210 was able to become the Hide-Behind, we must conclude that it can see the invisible ink.
[[WMG: The members of Sev'ral Timez will make brief appearances in future episodes.]]
Mostly them doing silly stuff in the background.
[[WMG:The Invisible Wizard is real.]]
And Grenda was kissing him during the sleepover.
[[WMG: Human-sized hamsters exist in Gravity Falls.]]
That's why the magazine in "Legend of the Gobblewonker" was offering human-sized hamster balls.
[[WMG: When you've lived in Gravity Falls for a certain period of time, you become one of its creatures.]]
This might be a long shot, but it fits when you think about it. Wendy is a Siren (explaining why everyone is so attracted to her), Robbie is a zombie or a vampire, Soos is Bigfoot, et cetera. Peoples' outward appearances stay the same to everyone, including themselves. No one realizes what's going on except Stan (and/or possibly Gideon). This is the secret of Gravity Falls, and if Dipper and Mabel stay for too long, the same will happen to them.
* I was unaware that "two" was the new definition for "everyone".
** I (the original poster) don't actually believe this myself, but it seemed worth it to put it here.
[[WMG: It ''wasn't'' the summer heat that melted the dinosaur out]]
If it was, they would all have gone on a rampage during "The Deep End". Clearly something (or maybe some''one'') else released them.
[[WMG: The ''T. rex'' and possibly the other dinosaurs trapped in the amber in "The Land Before Swine" will come to life.]]
Obvious SequelHook is obvious.
[[WMG: There will be a BiggerBad.]]
Near the end of Dreamscapers, Bill warns us and the characters of a mysterious darkness that is approaching and that will change everything. It will probably be a being more dangerous than even Gideon is.
[[WMG: The Society of the Blindeye is entirely made up of gnomes in disguise.]]
Let's consider the evidence here:
* Firstly: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojhqieZhpbU&feature=youtu.be the latest trailer]] for the episode, which is only five seconds long, features [[spoiler: a set of gnomes holding one of Lazy Susan's pies, while at the lake, presumably having chased after her.]]
* Secondly: look at the faces of the Blind Eye society members as seen [[http://puu.sh/cpBrz/c20e7d448c.jpg here]]. Notice how their facial structures don't match any of the characters previously introduced in Gravity Falls. One or two new characters being a member of a secret society is one thing, but surely you'd think that there would be a couple of people whose faces at least looked like members of the town.
* Thirdly: [[http://puu.sh/cpBxH/0448bba9f1.jpg Note the hoods]]. They have drawstrings on them, much like a hoodie. [[spoiler: Much like the hoodie a certain set of gnomes in disguise wore when trying to court a certain twin.]] Granted, this could simply be a joke, but if this is the end result, it will be the greatest example of trolling in TV history.
** Jossed! The Society is all human. [[spoiler:They're mostly regulars (Toby Determined, Bud Gleeful, the guy who married the woodpecker...), and one new guy we hadn't met until now, and whose memory has been erased.]]
[[WMG: There was no BlindIdiotTranslation.]]
* Giffany speaks perfecbtly fluent English, and there appear to be no other typos. Plus, "anthyding" and "hadplen" are not real Englesh words, which makes it unlikely that they could just be unintended transration mistakes. Therefore, those words must be some sort of code (I know, right? A secret code, in Gravity Fallls? Perish the thought!), perhaps similar to the one in ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents, where the errors spell out a message.
[[WMG: Giffany will return.]]
And Bill Cipher or another copy of her game will have something to do with it.
%%* Does every other damn theory have to involve Bill? Sometimes it seems like people are just thinking of every random idea in their head and putting it into this WMG page. [[HypocriticalHumor Stop wasting time over-speculating about a kids' cartoon!]]
[[WMG: We will see some kind of mutant monster piñata thing at some point in the future.]]
Maybe Soos knows something about it. He ''did'' give Dipper a baseball bat in case he ever saw a piñata, but then again, this could just be Soos being Soos...
[[WMG: The battle between humanity and the Time Baby only happened in timelines where Mabel never got Waddles.]]
The Time Baby's seat of authority may have to do with the timeline being changed back to normal.
[[WMG: The author of the books is Bigfoot.]]
[[WMG: There is a lizard monster coming up in a winter-like episode]]
A new short from Italy shows a couple of snapshots of a new monster in Mabel's album. He looks like a human-sized lizard and wears clothes like those in a Dickens novel, with a top hat and a monocle. The background shows snow. Mabel will win a dogsled race against him. (The short is called "Visiting the Petting Zoo.")
[[WMG:Mermando will return]]
Along with his family. The episode will dive deeper into the Mermando x Mabel relationship. It will involve a parody of ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' in which Mermando magically develops legs to get closer to Mabel.
* Or alternatively, a inversion of said parody where Mabel becomes a mermaid. The episode will be titled "The Little Mermabel".
** Accoding to a Reddit thing from Hirch, his home is undergoing pollution and he seems to be falling ill...
** In ''Society of the Blindeye'' he did not physically return, but he did send a message to Mabel telling her that he was getting married.
[[WMG: Quentin Trembley is SantaClaus]]
In the same document revealing that Quentin Trembley was [[spoiler: the 8th 1/2 president who never officially resigned, making him technically still the president of the United States, it said that SantaClaus is the current and forever president of the United States. Wouldn't that also make Quentin Trembley SantaClaus?]]
[[WMG: The author of the journals, whose name begins with "F", is Franz the Lilliputtian.]]
Try to prove me wrong.
* Okay: Franz doesn't have six fingers.
[[WMG: There used to be aliens living in Gravity Falls.]]
Sometime long ago, a race of [[spoiler: shapeshifting]] aliens set up a small colony in Gravity Falls, choosing there to find ways to integrate with the local human population for whatever reason. They weren't malicious - at the very least not any more than humans are - and would interact with the population while setting up their base camp in the underground caverns that would later be used as [[spoiler: the Author's bunker]]. However, slowly things began taking a turn for the worse; as the aliens tried to blend in, some of them became aware of the paranormal activity around the town and how dangerous it could be. Even worse, some of them were slowly going crazy, starting to babble on and on about strange visions in their sleep, almost always involving a laughing pyramid. Then, they fled. Left behind were their tunnels and an egg, [[spoiler:later found by the Author of the journals.]]
* Still the OP, posting a sub theory: because the aliens [[spoiler: were shapeshifters]], they were capable of reproducing with the humans, with the offspring being more likely to develop higher intelligence, albeit with a higher chance of physical deformities. [[spoiler: Say, for instance, polydactyly...]]
[[WMG: The journal already had a weakness listed for gnomes.]]
Dipper just didn't see it due to it being written over the blank space in invisible ink.
[[WMG: Quentin Trembley can see the future, and was trying to use it to make the world a better place.]]
Here is a point-by-point breakdown of nearly every action he takes, and the "evidence" that proves my theory.
* His landslide victory was no accident. Trembley foresaw the landslide, and carefully arranged things so that he would be standing in the only safe place. The only reason why he did not sacrifice his own life was because he had foreseen himself as the President.
* The "Depantsipation Proclamation" was the result of a vision of a more tolerant future, one in which skirts and shorts were condoned and one did not need to employ fifteen slaves to keep cool in the summer. Trembley had meant to invent such fashions years ahead of their time, but the ignorance of his time period's tailors forced Trembley to outlaw pants, since necessity is the mother of invention.
* Having foreseen the division of gluten and gluten-free foods, Trembley declared war on pancakes. As the war progressed, he had plans to frame various gluten-rich foods for being allies to the pancake enemy. The result would have been a brilliant marketing campaign that eliminated gluten from the American diet, allowing future generations to live under the belief that they did not have the diseases that those backwards foreigners claimed were so abundant.
* Trembley foresaw the future corruption of the Supreme Court's powers, and attempted to forestall this by injecting a wide-eyed, idealistic and innocent perspective into the Supreme Court. Hence the babies. When the idea proved to be detrimental to the efficient running of the Court, Trembley refused to revoke his decision. He had foreseen that those six babies would soon be tasked with a decision that would change America forever. And as we saw in TheStinger of 'Irrational Treasure', that decision was the decision to remove Trembley from office.
* The quote that "The only thing we have to fear is gigantic, man-eating spiders!" was a BadassBoast taken out of context. Trembley had foreseen every possible threat that America might run up against, and had developed counter-attacks for every single one of them. The only threat he did not have a foolproof plan for was giant spiders, a reassuring thought since such things clearly had no military tactics, or even a concept of teamwork.
* His unusual resignation was a carefully orchestrated tactic so that, if his authority as President were needed in the future, it would still be available to him. And to prevent any official resignation being forced upon him, Trembley had a horse waiting underneath the window he jumped out of. This was the same horse which carried him to Gravity Falls.
* The treasure hunt that led the twins to his body wasn't designed to be solvable by a very silly person; it was designed specifically for Mabel. The clues were tailored around her actions, right down to Trembley using peanut brittle to live forever.
* He used peanut brittle because he foresaw that it would work.
* The [[SkeletonKey President's Key]] was made by Trembley himself. He had learned how to control his visions, and used his powers to see the mechanisms of every key-based lock that would ever be made. He then made the key in such a way that it would trigger all of these mechanisms. We only see so much detail; there are actually flaws and dents on a near-microscopic level, designed to catch on just the right mechanism in just the right way. Some keyholes are only openable once the President's Key is worn down by age and use, just as it was meant to be.
* He rode horses backwards because he had no need to direct where he would end up. He already knew.
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