Line #46 ComicBook/GravityFallsLostLegends


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2	''Gravity Falls: Lost Legends'' is a graphic novel set within the universe of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''. Written by series creator Creator/AlexHirsch, it consists of three stories that take place during the final season, as well as a fourth taking place during Grunkle Stan's childhood. The comic was released on July 24, 2018.
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4	Bewarb, there may be '''unmarked spoilers''' ahead.\
5	'''Proceed with caution.'''
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7	In the gnome village deep in the woods of Gravity Falls, tonight is the one night in every thousand years that Shmebulock, cursed to normally be unable to say anything but his name, can speak freely. And speak he does, as he regales his guests (the readers) with four stories about the Pines Family and their friends:
8	* '''Face It:''' Pacifica, feeling insecure about an upcoming family photo shoot for ''Better Families Than Yours Magazine'', steals Journal 1 in order to look up some magical beauty treatments. Instead, she summons a face-stealing monster that nabs Mabel's face, forcing Dipper and Pacifica to team up and retrieve it from Gravity Falls' supernatural underground.
9	* '''Comix Up:''' After confiscating Soos's comic book collection, Stan is trapped in the world of comic books, forcing the rest of the Pines family to go after him.
10	* '''Don't Dimension It:''' While helping Ford patch up dimensional rifts after the events of the series finale, Mabel is accidentally pulled into another dimension. There, she encounters hundreds of alternate Mabels from across the Multiverse... including one with an ulterior motive.
11	* '''The Jersey Devil's in the Details:''' Back in the days of Stanley and Stanford's youth, the young "Kings of New Jersey" must track down the thief who stole their father's favorite gold necklace, butting heads along the way with a pair of rival investigators, circus freaks, their own sibling rivalry, and the Jersey Devil.
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13	!!''Gravity Falls: Lost Legends'' provides examples of:
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17	[[folder:General]]
18	* AndTheAdventureContinues: There is a Journal 4 underneath the shelf that has Dipper's original hat, implying that Ford has written about his adventures with Stan after the end of ''Gravity Falls''.
19	* BreakingTheFourthWall: Shmebulock is talking directly to the reader throughout the graphic novel.
20	* ContinuityNod: Dipper's original hat that he lost in "Tourist Trapped" is on one of Shmebulock's bookshelves.
21	* ADayInTheLimelight: Serves as this for Schmebulock.
22	* FramingDevice: The four stories are presented by Schmebulock telling them to the viewer.
23	* GoshdangItToHeck: Averted, as the comic clearly has looser language restrictions than the show. For instance, Dipper plainly says "Oh, thank God." and an attraction at a New Jersey amusement park is called "Satan's Hellhole".
24	-->'''Young Stan:''' Hey, look, '''hell'''! We'll be safe in there!
25	* HisNameIs: Shmebulock's curse returns as he's in the middle of explaining the secret contained in the book.
26	* {{Interquel}}:
27	** The first two chapters take place after the episode, ''A Tale of Two Stans'', but before ''Weirdmageddon''.
28	** ''Don't Dimension It'' is set after the final battle with Bill Cipher, but before Dipper and Mabel's birthday.
29	** ''The Jersey Devil's In The Details'' is set after Stan and Ford find their boat but before they enter high school.
30	* LateArrivalSpoiler: [[SpoilerCover The cover gives away the existence]] of Ford Pines, arguably ''the'' biggest WalkingSpoiler on the show.
31	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Part of Shmebulock's StringTheory board is the word "Shermie?" (Dipper and Mabel's grandfather on Stan's side of the family), above a cryptogram which decodes to "Age paradox? Time travel connection?" and a picture of [[TimePolice Blendin]]. All of which lampshade the [[WritersCannotDoMath improbable timeline]] of Shermie apparently appearing as a baby in "A Tale of Two Stans" only about forty years ago.
32	* LiteralMetaphor: Shmebulock displays a table with books of each story, along with summaries and citing it as a "table of contents".
33	* SequelHook:
34	** One of the cryptograms on a hidden page, once decoded, spells out "[[spoiler:CIPHER LIVES!]]".
35	** Another mentions [[spoiler: Agents Power and Trigger are looking for the President's Key]]. However, it doesn't seem likely this will lead them anywhere.
36	* ShipperOnDeck: Both Schmebulock and Mabel are ''very'' supportive of the idea of some Dipper/Pacifica romance.
37	* SmarterThanYouLook: Shmebulock proves himself quite intelligent, and his PokemonSpeak is actually a CurseOfBabel.
38	* TakeThatAudience:
39	** Shmebulock's obsession with the Pines family and their friends is a playful rib at the devoted fans of ''Gravity Falls''.
40	** At the end, Shmebulock begins asking for more Gravity Falls adventures. He even asks for a new ''season''.
41	* WhamLine: One of the cryptograms on a hidden page, once decoded, spells out "[[spoiler:CIPHER LIVES!]]"
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44	[[folder:"Face It"]]
45	* ActorAllusion: Pacifica, while in the Crawlspace, uses the alias "Jackie the Elf-Bandit". Her voice actor in the series was Jackie Buscarino.
46	* AlternateAesopInterpretation: Invoked by Pacifica's mother. She retells the story of ''Literature/TheUglyDuckling'' and ends it by saying that the duckling was forever alone due to his looks. Telling Pacifica that people only want perfection and beauty. When Pacifica notices the remaining pages, Priscilla promptly tears them out.
47	* AscendedMeme:
48	** A page on Journal 1 is titled "Paranormal Rashes", and depicts a rash that looks like Bill and is called "Zodiacne". It's a play on how some of the fans have asked if Dipper would get a tattoo or have depicted an older Dipper with the Zodiac on his arm as a consequence of making a deal with Bill Cipher.
49	** Pacifica lampshades the "hunkle" term when she comments about Ford.
50	---> '''Pacifica:''' Hey, why is [[IdenticalTwinMistake Stan]] suddenly ''hot'' now?
51	** [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man's]] cameo in the comic might also be this to the long-standing UrbanLegend claiming that he appeared in the show proper.
52	* AuctionOfEvil: As soon as Dipper and Pacifica are revealed to be humans, a monster starts auctioning them off. Mr. What's-His-Face ends up winning.
53	* BigBad: Mr. What's-His-Face, a face-stealing demon that Pacifica accidentally summons and who promptly takes Mabel's face.
54	* BlandNameProduct: Pacifica's phone has service from "[=GraviT=]&T". Might be justified, it's highly unlikely that the actual AT&T (or its predecessor the Bell System) would have wanted to establish communications services in the area, so someone (possibly the Northwests?) did it themselves.
55	* TheBlank: Mabel, and [[spoiler:later Dipper]], are left with blank slates on the heads thanks to Mr. What's-His-Face stealing both of their faces.
56	* CallForward:
57	** In the flashback, young Pacifica sleeps with a plush llama toy, in reference to her role on the Cipher Zodiac as "the llama".
58	** In one panel, Mabel shows up to give Pacifica a sweater to cheer her up. In [[Recap/GravityFallsS2E20WeirdmageddonPart3TakeBackTheFalls Weirdmageddon Part 3]], Pacifica was given a llama sweater.
59	* ContinuityNod:
60	** Dipper insists that he's never kissed anyone before. Apparently, he doesn't count his KissOfLife to Mermando in "The Deep End".
61	** Dipper ''[[ChekhovsGun finally]]'' uses the President's Key he received from Quentin Trembley in "Irrational Treasure" to unlock a mysterious door.
62	** A crow has Gideon's taped up amulet from "The Hand That Rocks the Mabel" in its beak.
63	** The candy monster from the "Candy Monster" short is chomping on a banner.
64	** A pirate Lilliputtian from "The Golf War" is running off with a question quail egg.
65	** The Hand Witch from "Little Gift Shop of Horrors" is trying to sell severed hands in the paranormal black market.
66	** A stray Blind Eye Society member is selling repressed memories of Tad Strange, Tambry, Wendy's mom, Soos's Abuelita, Gideon, and Rick Sanchez. Also, one of Mr. What's-His-Face's faces on his bag is Blind Ivan.
67	** A geodite, question quail and its egg, and a plaidypus are wandering in the paranormal black market—-all of these are creatures that [[Literature/GravityFallsJournal3 Ford has written about in Journal 3]].
68	** The gnome that was dealing out fairy dust in "The Last Mabelcorn" is seen dealing some to a unicorn.
69	** Pacifica mentions that Dipper has an "abnormally large head". Although Dipper strongly interjects the comment, [[Recap/GravityFallsS1E7DoubleDipper he himself had admitted that he has a big head when he saw his first clone]].
70	** The Summerween Trickster's mask is one of the faces in Mr. What's-His-Face's bag.
71	** Stan at one point asks Mabel if he’s seen his World’s Most Distracting Object from "Tourist Trapped".
72	* CreatorCameo: Alex Hirsch's face is one of the many adorning Mr. What's-His-Face's wall.
73	* DamnedByFaintPraise: After Dipper assures Pacifica [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre she's not just a pretty face]], she hugs him and takes back (or at least tempers) an insult about his head being big. Dipper reluctantly accepts the "compliment".
74	* ExactWords: Mr. What's-His-Face offers to give Pacifica a face that's "completely blemish free... forever" -- by which he means he'll remove her face entirely, leaving [[TheBlank blank skin]] behind.
75	* ExpressiveShirt: The smiley face on Mabel's sweater inexplicably changes its expression in various panels.
76	* FaceStealer: Mr. What's-His-Face steals faces and can transform his face into others.
77	* GreaterScopeVillain: Pacifica's insecurity over her appearance stems from her [[AbusiveParents parents']] [[SarcasmMode usual A-plus parenting]], with her mother essentially telling her to her face that people will only love her if she looks good.
78	* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: After the story's plot is concluded, Pacifica sent a text message telling Dipper that the hug she gave him didn't mean anything. Unfortunately for her, she actually sent the text to Mabel, and unconvincingly claims the text is just a joke.
79	* IdenticalTwinMistake: When Pacifica first saw Ford, she assumed he was Stanley, though she notices that he looks very different (and "[[SilverFox hot]]"). The comic ends before we see if anyone explained the truth to her.
80	* {{Interquel}}: The first three stories are set between Ford's reappearance and the series finale.
81	* InventionalWisdom: The phrase to summon Mr. What's-His-Face is literally written into the description about him in the journal.
82	--> ''"To summon him, simply finish reading this sentence - yes, this sentence, the one you're reading riiiiight now."''
83	* LiteralMetaphor: Pacifica refers to her mom as a "trophy wife", and then states her dad quite literally won her at a yachting competition.
84	* MakeUpIsEvil: When he tempts Pacifica into letting him keep the Pines Twins' faces, Mr. What's-His-Face shows her a vision of the "beautiful" face he could give her. This vision has a lot more make-up than Pacifica usually wears.
85	* MythologyGag: The Paranormal Rashes page is also a reference to Alex Hirsch's high school friend that had inspired Dipper's birthmark, whom once had a cluster of acne in the shape of the Big Dipper constellation.
86	* PrecociousCrush: Downplayed, when Pacifica first sees Ford, she mistakes him for Stan and asks why he's suddenly "hot".
87	* ProductionForeshadowing: Three easter eggs from the then-upcoming Disney series ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' are featured: Eda appears on a wanted poster; her staff is shown in a cart of junk; and two mostly-obscured Journal 1 entries are on the Boiling Isles, which is where that show is set.
88	* SeriousBusiness: For Pacifica, having ''one'' wrinkle. At first PlayedForLaughs, given how much she's overreacting because of it. Then PlayedForDrama when it's revealed that her obsession is caused by her AbusiveParents.
89	* ShaggyFrogStory: Pacifica's parents are obsessed with beauty and perfection. As a child, Pacifica was told the story of ''The Ugly Duckling'' by her mother but instead of the duckling turning into a beautiful swan, the duckling stayed ugly and alone. Pacifica did comment on the story change but Priscilla ripped out the remaining pages.
90	-->'''Priscilla:''' ''[reading young Pacifica a bedtime story]'' And the ugly duckling never made any friends, because his face was weird. The end.
91	-->'''Pacifica:''' Wait, aren't there more pages?
92	-->'''Priscilla:''' ''[smiles and rips out the rest of the pages]'' Nope! Enjoy your beauty sleep— you've got a pageant tomorrow!
93	* ShipperOnDeck: When Pacifica accidentally texts Mabel about hugging Dipper and typing "As if I'd actually hug you on purpose!", Mabel immediately assumes that Pacifica has a crush on him and asks about the wedding. Much to Pacifica's chagrin as she threatens to have her butler break Mabel's legs. Shmebulock's ending summary seems to give the impression that he considers their adventure a date and mockingly describes the text conversation as "sketchy".
94	* ShipTease: Dipper and Pacifica bond some more, and even end up hugging.
95	* ShoutOut:
96	** One of the pages on Journal 1 is titled, "Defense of the Dark Warts", and has "Expecto Psoriasis!" as an endnote. Both are word puns referencing ''Franchise/HarryPotter''.
97	** There is a wanted poster with a silhouette of Larry King in the paranormal black market.
98	** The Blind Eye Society member at the black market seems to have repressed memories of [[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty Rick Sanchez]]. Note that [[Recap/RickAndMortyS3E8MortysMindBlowers one episode]] of said show had vials that were similarly implied to be from Ford and Bill.
99	** Bigfoot is trudging on the black market's bridge with a cart of legs. One of the legs is [[Franchise/ToyStory Woody's]].
100	** A sign post points to several parts of the market, including places called [[Series/TwinPeaks The Black Lodge and The Non-Exist-Tent]].
101	** Mr. What's-His-Face briefly carries around a [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask big bag with faces on it, and also has a face in his collection that is eerily reminiscent of the Happy Mask Salesman]].
102	** [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man]] has a panel where he is hastily rummaging for his wallet to bid for Dipper and Pacifica.
103	** One of the faces in Mr. What's-His-Face's collection is ''Art/{{The Scream\|Munch}}'', by Creator/EdvardMunch.
104	* SpoofAesop: Shmebulock surmises that while Pacifica learned TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside, Dipper's lesson was that the best place for romance is [[BagOfKidnapping inside a burlap sack]].
105	* ThereWasADoor: At the start of "Face It", Ford breaks an attic window by somersaulting through it instead of leaving through a door, much to Stan's annoyance.
106	-->'''Stan:''' ''[shakes his fist at Ford]'' '''Use the door next time, show-off!'''
107	* TrophyWife: Pacifica tells Dipper that her mom is ''[[LiteralMetaphor literally]]'' a trophy wife, stating that her dad [[LostHimInACardGame won Priscilla in a yachting competition]].
108	* {{Tsundere}}: Pacifica gives Dipper a hug, then later tries to claim [[ImplausibleDeniability she was using him to wipe the monster drool off her sleeve]].
109	* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Pacifica is obsessive over her looks because she [[spoiler:worries she doesn't have anything else]] ''and'' because her parents made it pretty clear that people would only love her if she looked pretty, but Dipper says otherwise. She clearly [[ShipTease appreciates this and hugs him]].
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112	[[folder:"Comix Up"]]
113	* {{Animesque}}: One of the comic-book worlds is based on ''shoujo'' manga.
114	* ArcNumber: ''The Indestructi-Buddies!'' is "Issue #618: Overextended Universe".
115	* ArtShift: The crew traverses through the pages and transits into various styles: classic comics, manga, superhero, adult/sci-fi, a ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' spoof, and [[spoiler:the original ''Gravity Falls'' art style when they are outside of the panels and during a flashback]].
116	* BigAnimeEyes: Everyone has this when they travel through the manga pages... [[spoiler:and Stan is almost stuck with them at the end of the story.]]
117	--> '''Soos:''' '''KYAA!!''' My eyes are gratuitously large!
118	* BitingTheHandHumor: The Creator/{{Disney}} logo is mocked:
119	--> '''Soos:''' Oh, man. This is confusing. A "D" that looks like a "G"? Where am I?
120	* BreakingTheFourthWall:
121	** Soos ends up falling in between the margins and crawling over a wall to find Stan, Wendy uses her ax to rip into the page, and Mabel uses [[spoiler:white-out to get rid of the yellow box]].
122	** Earlier, when in the Superhero comic and faced with superpowered opponents, Soos quickly grabs the recap box on top of the page, and alters the text to [[DeusExMachina give himself and the others superpowers]].
123	* ChekhovsGun: The bottle of white-out Mabel carried on hand.
124	* ClosetGeek: [[spoiler:Stanley was a big fan of comics growing up, but grew embittered with the hobby after trying and failing to publish his own comic as a kid.]]
125	* DisproportionateRetribution: The cursed trunk's reaction to Stanley considering it pretentious to call comic books "graphic novels".
126	-->'''Trunk:''' Just for that, this world will be your tomb!
127	* InsistentTerminology: Ford's cursed trunk insists on calling comic books "graphic novels".
128	* {{Interquel}}: Set an unspecified time between Ford's reappearance and the series finale.
129	* LawyerFriendlyCameo: A sarcastically inclined canine that has absolutely no relation to [[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} another sarcastically inclined feline]] makes an appearance.
130	--> '''Stanley:''' I'm gonna poison your lasagna, Sarcastipup!
131	* MakeMyMonsterGrow: Soos' superpower in the superhero comic is being able to grow gigantic whenever he says "Dude". Pretty effective considering it's his VerbalTic.
132	* MediumAwareness: Stan gets cursed with a malevolent yellow box narrator that everyone can see and interact with.
133	--> '''Yellow Box:''' LATER, DOWN IN THE LAB...\
134	'''Stan:''' ''[points at the yellow box]'' This dumb box won't stop narrating me! And it keeps using obnoxious words like '''"ZOUNDS"''' and '''"MEANWHILE"'''!
135	* MyBrainIsBig: Dipper, upon getting PsychicPowers in the superhero comic, grows a massive cranium.
136	* MythologyGag: One of Stan's favorite comics is ''Captain Nazi-Puncher''. Alex Hirsch had once tweeted that [[https://twitter.com/_alexhirsch/status/897609281519763456 he'd be very cool with drawings of Grunkle Stan punching Nazis]].
137	* NoodleIncident: Back in 1973, Stan apparently got into a fistfight with [[Creator/StanLee another famous old guy named Stan]].
138	* PoseOfSupplication: During the ''shoujo'' sequence, Mabel runs into a ''bishonen'' version of Gideon, who goes into the pose when Mabel shoots him down.
139	* ShoutOut: The story is basically a smorgasbord of references to various comics and comic-esq mediums.
140	** Wendy can be seen reading a "[[ComicBook/ArchieComics Blarchie]]" comic.
141	** The first comic they enter is in the ''Creator/HarveyComics'' style.
142	** The second comic they enter is "Shmad Shmagazine", a blatant nod to ''Magazine/{{MAD}}''. The shady purple "creature" with a big, pointed nose and trenchcoat that first appears there is reminiscent of the title characters in ''ComicStrip/SpyVsSpy'', one of MAD Magazine's most well known strips.
143	** The third comic they enter is "Heart Captor Dokidoki Nekochan", a blatant nod to ''shoujo'' manga, and references are made to both ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' and ''Manga/SailorMoon''.
144	** The fourth comic they enter is "The Grimdark Chronicles", very obviously done in the style of Mike Mignola's ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'', with Dipper even being seen with a giant fist almost identical to Hellboy's.
145	** The fifth comic they enter is "The Indestructi-Buddies!", a nod to the ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends''. Several of the powers the gang gets are likewise nods to other superhero comic characters.
146	*** Dipper's enlarged brain as "Overthinker" is reminscent of the Marvel villain ''[[Characters/IncredibleHulkCentralRoguesGallery The Leader]]''.
147	*** Ford wears ''[[Characters/MarvelComicsCyclops Cyclops]]'' visor as "Six-Shooter", and his use of twin {{BFG}}s brings to mind Cyclops's son ''ComicBook/{{Cable}}''.
148	*** Wendy becomes the BadassNormal "Plaid Widow", a rather blatant nod to Marvel's ''ComicBook/BlackWidow''.
149	** The [[spoiler:Lil' Stanley]] pages are a spoof of the ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''. A certain Sarcasti-pup that appears in it is [[BlatantLies clearly not]] a reference to a [[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} sassy feline]].
150	** When [[spoiler:admitting to Soos that he loves comics, Stan]] references reading "Captain Nazi-Puncher", "Skimparella", and "The X-cessive Force", all references to Marvel related properties: ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Stripperella}}'', and ''ComicBook/XForce''.
151	* SymbolSwearing: Grawlixes appear in a few scenes.
152	* TrappedInTVLand: A comic in this case.
153	* WhamLine: If you decipher the ciphers, the graveyard scene will give you this utterly terrifying message.
154	-->'''Gravestones:''' [[spoiler:[[BigBad BILL]] LIVES]]
155	* WhatBeautifulEyes: While in the manga universe, Mabel is transfixed by a pair of beautiful eyes... until she realises that they belong to [[AbhorrentAdmirer Gideon]]. She looks away, only to find ''everything'' in this universe has similarly alluring eyes.
156	* TheWorfEffect: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] and [[ParodiedTrope parodied]] when Dipper and the gang face the "Indestructi-buddies", managing to overpower them largely due to Soos forming a DeusExMachina messing with the caption box to write a line where they immediately gain powers. It's not like they ''didn't'' have the exact same armor class of the buddies, though, so managing to pull a CurbStompBattle on them is still pretty impressive.
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159	[[folder:"Don't Dimension It"]]
160	* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Mabel for her part doesn't mind that Dipper labeled one of the rifts "Mabel's Fault" and seems to find it amusing.
161	* AnAesop: Mabel gets a hard lesson that if she keeps denying her faults cause problems, then she's going to never grow up or change. There will always be a part of her that wants to be selfish and she has to defeat it by confronting it first hand rather than finding excuses for her behavior.
162	* AesopAmnesia: Deconstructed. Mabel, it seems, didn't learn everything from saving the world when she insists on bringing Waddles along for the rift clean-up missions. Chasing Waddles leads to her getting stranded on a barren planet in the Multiverse, where thousands of her alternate counterparts are there, having made a similar decision. Mabel tries to get her smarter selves to work together, only to get frustrated by their AttentionDeficitOohShiny and ItsAllAboutMe attitudes. She's quite horrified to realize that she comes off this way to other people, especially when her EvilCounterpart Anti-Mabel deceives her. Anti-Mabel, [[spoiler:before she's tossed into Multiverse space, claims that our Mabel will never change and there will always be a part of her wanting to make selfish, inconsiderate decisions]]. Mabel acknowledges that she caused the apocalypse out of selfishness and decides to try harder to be a better person so that her faults will not get her in this much trouble again.
163	* AlternateSelf: Mabel meets dozens, possibly hundreds, of alternate versions of herself that all ended up stuck in a corner of the [[VoidBetweenTheWorlds Nightmare Realm]].
164	* AndThisIsFor: As Mabel launches Anti-Mabel out of the space ship, Mabel says this in honor of one of her alternate counterparts.
165	-->'''Mabel''': This is for Military Expert-Mabel!
166	* AnthropomorphicTypography: One of the many alternate versions of herself Mabel meets (and who helps defeat [[EvilTwin Anti-Mabel]]) is Threebel, a light pink, sweater-wearing talking number 3.
167	* ApologyGift: The new journal that Dipper showed off in [[Literature/GravityFallsJournal3 Journal 3]], turned out to be [[spoiler: a gift from Mabel, as an apology for all of the trouble she caused over the summer]].
168	* ArcNumber: 6-18 is tattooed on Military Expert Mabel's arm.
169	* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Anti-Mabel admits that she's evil after [[spoiler:locking up Prime Mabel in the outhouse]]. But she says that Prime Mabel is even worse because Prime Mabel can't even see her own faults and a part of her will always want to make selfish decisions while justifying them. [[spoiler:Our Mabel decides to take that to heart and learn from her past mistakes]].
170	* BitchInSheepsClothing: Anti-Mabel. When she first appears, she pretends to be Mabel's friend in need and helped her make a distress signal to Stan and Ford. But Anti-Mabel shows her true colors when [[spoiler: she locks the real Mabel in an outhouse, then tricks Stan and Ford into taking her to their dimension. Which then, Anti-Mabel plans to eject the Grunkles from the airlock, then proceed to wreak havoc in Mabel's home dimension]].
171	* BobRossRib: One of the many incarnations of Mabel in Dimension MAB-3L is one that resembles Bob Ross, donning his clothes, hair, mustache and [[SkewedPriorities prioritizes painting a landscape over trying to stop Anti-Mabel from stealing Prime Mabel's ship and escaping]].
172	* BrickJoke: A subtle one; as Mabel flees the "60-foot ball of fingers and teeth" in a panic, she screams "Flail, Mabel! Flail!" Later on, when she and a motley crew of Mabels catch up with the ship containing the Grunkles and Anti-Mabel, Mabel is riding on Mabel-dactyl holding...a Mabel flail.
173	* ContinuityNod:
174	** Ford asks Stan "what's Dipper's real name?", lampshading that [[Literature/GravityFallsJournal3 he knows Dipper's real name]].
175	** The finger monster that attacks Mabel in the Nightmare Realm resembles the description of the "60-foot ball of fingers and teeth" that Bill sicced on Ford when he first arrived there in ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3''.
176	** Mabel and Anti-Mabel point back and forth at their foreheads, just like Dipper has done with Tyrone in "Double Dipper".
177	** The alien trucker initially refused to let Stan and Ford hitch a ride because [[Literature/GravityFallsJournal3 one of them is a known criminal with wanted posters scattered all over the dimensions. The trucker even mentions Lottocron 9]]. Stan's reaction and Ford's explanation behind this echoes what Ford wrote in ''Journal 3''.
178	** Stan and Ford shout, "PINES! PINES! PINES!" just like they have during a childhood flashback in "A Tale of Two Stans".
179	** Dipper receives a pine tree journal from Mabel as a souvenir from her meeting with the other lost Mabels. He has drawn such a journal on his last entry in the defictionalized ''[[Literature/GravityFallsJournal3 Journal 3]]''.
180	* DemotedToExtra: Unlike the previous two entries, Dipper mainly has a minor role. Only appearing in the beginning and ending of the story.
181	* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:After Military Expert-Mabel seemingly died from her wounds at the climax, Anti-Mabel blasted everyone with the alien adhesive. Some of the adhesive landed on Military Expert-Mabel's wounds. Which ultimately revived her.]]
182	* ElementalEmbodiment: Flamabel's body is entirely made of fire, and she can shoot flames from her hands.
183	* EveryoneHasStandards: The alternate Mabels are stunned into listening to Prime Mabel when she admits that she caused the apocalypse to have one more day of summer.
184	* EvilCounterpart: Naturally, Anti-Mabel is this to Mabel.
185	* EvilGloating: Anti-Mabel does this after she [[spoiler:tricks and locks Mabel in an outhouse, as well as at Stan and Ford when she incapacitates them with Ford's alien adhesive]].
186	* EvilTwin: Mabel meets Anti-Mabel, "the most '''evil''' Mabel in the multiverse", who tries to leave Dimension MAB-3L, [[spoiler: take over Mabel's life, and intends to wreak havoc on her dimension]].
187	* TheExile: Anti-Mabel was run out of her own dimension for her wicked deeds.
188	* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Anti-Mabel is as cute as Mabel, but she's evil to the core.
189	* ForWantOfANail: It seems that none of the other Mabels, except maybe Anti-Mabel, caused an apocalypse in their home dimensions. When Prime Mabel confesses what she did, the others are so stunned that they actually listen to her.
190	* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Implied with Bill and his Henchmaniacs. While Mabel falls through dimensions, we see Keyhole and 8 Ball (whose head was healed after being petrified by Wendy in the finale) standing next to a statue of Bill that says "HE WAS THE WORST!". It's unknown if these two are the only who loathe him or if it's a common feeling for all the Henchmaniacs. It might even be a case of BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad, and they're genuinely mourning him in their own way, for all we know.
191	* GoodHairEvilHair: Anti-Mabel's hair is distinctly pointed, whereas Mabel and all the other alternate Mabels have curly, rounded hairstyles.
192	* InnocentlyInsensitive: Mabel tries to tell a lightbulb joke but is interrupted because one of the other Mabels is a lightbulb.
193	* {{Interquel}}: Set during the finale, between Stan recovering his memory and three days before Dipper and Mabel's birthday.
194	* {{Irony}}:
195	** Stan apparently doesn't know Dipper's real name. However, since [[VideoGame/GravityFallsLegendOfTheGnomeGemulets he was present for Dipper and Mabel's birth]], he ''has'' to know Dipper's real name. It's possible that he forgot or was just being sarcastic.
196	** [[spoiler:Stan and Ford go to the multiverse to rescue Mabel and she ends up rescuing them from Anti-Mabel.]]
197	* JerkassRealization: [[spoiler:Mabel FINALLY sees exactly how frustrating her self-centeredness, CloudCuckooLander tendencies, and short attention span can be when struggling to rally her alternate selves.]]
198	* LaserGuidedKarma:
199	** Even though she was brainwashed by Bill Cipher, it was still insensitive of Mabel to create a more radical copy of her brother Dipper, which greatly annoyed him. Here, Mabel has to deal with numerous alternate versions of herself, which got her so annoyed that she discovered how difficult she could be at times.
200	** After Anti-Mabel tried to replace the real Mabel, and attempted to throw Stan and Ford out of the space ship, Anti-Mabel herself was quickly defeated and the real Mabel threw ''her'' out of the ship to parts unknown.
201	* LightBulbJoke: Mabel asks how many Mabels does it take to change a lightbulb but she's told it's offensive to Lightbulb Mabel.
202	* MediumShiftGag: The last dimension Mabel falls through before landing in Dimension MAB-3L shows a live-action photo of a cat.
203	* MythologyGag:
204	** There's a crack in the earth leftover from Weirdmageddon which Dipper has named "Mabel's Fault". A deleted scene from "Scary-oke" has a shot with Stan next to a similar crack called "Gideon's Fault" after the Gideon-bot attack in "Gideon Rises".
205	** Stanbel was originally a doodle [[https://twitter.com/_alexhirsch/status/898431942441418752 Alex Hirsch had uploaded on his Twitter]] to "give you nightmares"... Stanbel makes an appearance on Dimension MAB-3L with every Mabel staring on with discomfort.
206	--->'''Stanbel:''' ''HEYYY!'' Stanbel is single and ready to mingle!
207	** According to the artist, one of the alternate Mabels is based on a fan AU called "Drifting Stars", where Mabel goes through the Portal and meets Ford.
208	* NeverMyFault: {{Downplayed\|Trope}} with Dipper at the beginning of the story, where it was shown that he placed a sign next to a huge crack called "Mabel's Fault". Signifying that Mabel alone caused Weirdmageddon to happen. Even though Dipper withheld information about the dimensional rift, albeit reluctantly on Ford's orders after Ford saw Mabel smashing similar-looking snowglobes on purpose.
209	* NotSoDifferentRemark: [[spoiler:Anti-Mabel tells Mabel that every time she makes a selfish decision, it's because she's being like her.]]
210	* OnlySaneWoman: Ironically, Mabel herself. As she is the only one in Dimension MAB-3L who's focused on finding a way back home while her alternate counterparts are too immersed with their various quirks (likely due to her previous CharacterDevelopment during Weirdmageddon).
211	* OtherMeAnnoysMe: Mabel is quickly frustrated with how none of the other Mabels seem to be all that concerned with getting back to their home dimensions. [[spoiler:However, Mabel began to warm up to them towards the end of the story.]]
212	* RiddleForTheAges: Just how did all of the alternate universe Mabels end up in Dimension MAB-3L in the first place?
213	* ShadowArchetype: [[spoiler: Anti-Mabel herself says that every selfish choice Mabel makes, that’s her being Anti-Mabel.]]
214	* ShoutOut:
215	** One of the dimensions Mabel phases through is the [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1 Mystery Shack Zone]].
216	** The alternate Mabels from "Don't Dimension It" include ones who resemble characters such as [[Franchise/RickAndMorty Morty Smith]], [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Marty McFly]], Franchise/SherlockHolmes, WesternAnimation/RainbowBrite, [[Literature/WheresWally Wally/Waldo]], [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Alphys]], [[VideoGame/PacMan Pac-Man]], and [[Series/TheJoyOfPainting Bob Ross]].
217	* ShutUpHannibal: [[spoiler: After being defeated, Anti-Mabel says to Prime-Mabel that there will still be a part of her that will be stubborn and self-centered. But Prime-Mabel just responds with ejecting Anti-Mabel out of the Spaceship, and declaring, "This is for Military Expert-Mabel".]]
218	* SkewedPriorities: The main reason why Mabel's alternate counterparts couldn't figure out a way back home is that they are too preoccupied with their own personal quirks. The only one who can build a rocket is distracted by her sticker collection. It takes Mabel revealing her apocalypse mistake for her counterparts to pull themselves together.
219	* SmallNameBigEgo: When asked what kind of Mabel she is, Mabel responds that she's "the ''best'' Mabel, obviously!" This gets her labelled as "Slightly Arrogant Mabel" (to her chagrin).
220	* SpannerInTheWorks: Had Waddles not jumped out of Mabel's backpack, [[spoiler:Mabel would never have realized how bothersome she could be at times, and her alternate universe counterparts would have been stuck in Dimension MAB-3L]].
221	* SpeakIllOfTheDead: In the Nightmare Realm, a memorial statue of Bill Cipher is captioned "He was the WORST". Given [[OurDemonsAreDifferent the realm inhabitants]], it's unclear if this is a condemnation for being a BadBoss, or an [[BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad exaltation]].
222	* SpotTheImposter: Stan and Ford are at a loss at which Mabel is the real Mabel, with Ford calling both of them "equally adorable" and musing why this "always happens" with doubles. It's only when Mabel pulls off Anti-Mabel's sweater, revealing an [[spoiler:"I hate cats" shirt]], that they know for sure and eject Anti-Mabel out of the vehicle.
223	* SymbolSwearing: The alien trucker spouts grawlixes after getting knocked out of the vehicle.
224	* TakeThatAudience: Mabel's harsh criticism of her alternate universe counterparts is a clever jab at the fans who've criticized Mabel for her obnoxious behavior.
225	* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Anti-Mabel attempted to do this with Stan and Ford, but was thrown out herself by the real Mabel.
226	* TookALevelInKindness: After realizing how bothersome she could be, Mabel vowed that she will be a better person when she returns home. As such, Mabel's first random act of kindness was giving Dipper a new journal. Which Mabel states will have all of their new adventures in it. And Mabel vowing that she won't hog the spotlight.
227	* UnexplainedRecovery: The last time we saw 8-Ball (one of Bill's Henchmaniacs), his head was petrified by Wendy during the Shacktron battle in the finale. Here his head is recovered without explanation.
228	* VillainHasAPoint: Anti-Mabel tells Mabel, [[spoiler:there will always be a part of her that wants to make selfish, inconsiderate decisions. While Mabel responds by sending her out of the airlock, she promises Dipper that she will do her best to be less selfish]].
229	* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "Oh, Mabel, you gotta work on yo'self."]]
230	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The alien truck driver who picked up Stan and Ford is last seen getting knocked out of his vehicle during the fight between Mabel and Anti-Mabel. We don't know what happens to him afterward or if someone thought to pick him up, as the Mabels take his ship to return to their dimensions.
231	* WholePlotReference: Mabel encounters thousands of parallel selves on a lonely planet, some of whom exaggerate her worst characteristics, and one who is pure evil. Are we talking about ''Gravity Falls'' or an episode of ''Rick and Morty'', specifically "Close Encounters of the Rick Kind"?
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234	[[folder:"The Jersey Devil's in the Details"]]
235	* TheSixties: Takes place at some point in the decade, presumably in the early years.
236	* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Alongside Stan and Ford, we have Dickie and Ascot, who are even more identical than the Pines.
237	* ArcNumber: 618618 is the ticket number on the taped ''Grandpa the Kid'' ticket.
238	* CreatorCameo: Creator/AlexHirsch and Creator/DanaTerrace can be seen in the FreakShow's crowd, the latter as a sort of CatGirl with sharp teeth.
239	* ContinuityNod:
240	** In ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3'', a cryptogram has Stanford mention hunting the Jersey Devil with his brother one summer.
241	** There is a ''Grandpa the Kid'' ticket in Stan's old scrapbook. This was the movie that Stan watched on TV and had waited in line for as a teenager in "Dreamscaperers".
242	** The [[Literature/GravityFallsJournal3 shrunken head Ford once brought to a show-and-tell]] is sitting on top of a shelf in the pawnshop.
243	** Stan's original fez, the framed picture of a ship at sea, and a yellow diving helmet are on display in the Pines Pawns shop.
244	** Dickie and Ascot, the Sibling Brothers, are cracking mysteries and had their stories published on papers during their youth. In "Carpet Diem", Dipper was shown to have read a book titled ''The Sibling Brothers in The Case of the Caper-Case Caper''.
245	** A ''Lil' Stanley'' comic is on the floor of Stanley and Stanford's room.
246	* DirtyKid: When looking around a penny arcade, Stan takes the opportunity to look at a ([[OurNudityIsDifferent very old-fashioned]]) peep show.
247	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
248	** [[spoiler:Ford confronting Stan with the evidence that he stole the chain chillingly echoes their fight about the broken science project years later as teenagers. The difference this time is that Stan gets to properly explain what happened, Ford forgives him and Stan isn't disowned, just grounded for the summer. It's also echoed how both ultimately end with them reconciling, flashing forward to them sailing on the Stan-O-War II.]]
249	** When the brothers steal Dickie and Ascot's clothes to get into the lighthouse, the combination of the red sweater and brown jacket Ford wears is a child version of his main outfit when he's an adult.
250	* FreeRangeChildren: Stan and Ford are allowed to roam all over Glass Shard Beach, as long as they're home for dinner.
251	* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler:After Stan confesses to stealing the chain and explaining why he did it, Filbrick grounds Stan...but he does allow Ford to stay with him, despite him not having anything to do with the incident. It's also shown that he did appreciate both Stan's honesty and the "#1 Dad" message on it, as he and their mother are shown looking at it with proud smiles.]]
252	* MuggedForDisguise: At one point, Stan and Ford steal the clothes of the Sibling Brothers to enter the town's lighthouse. It works because the guardian is Horrible Eyesight Hawkins.
253	* NoodleIncident: According to Stan and Ford's reactions when Filbrick calls for them, it's far from the first time that he referred to both of them as Stan.
254	** When Filbrick is accusing Stan of stealing the gold chain, he lists off other things he's done, including stealing Mrs. Crampleter's glass eye and setting up a "crab fighting ring."
255	* NotMeThisTime: Discussed; Ford insists to his father Filbrick that Stan didn't steal his favorite gold chain. [[spoiler:Subverted when it turns out that it really ''was'' him, though Stan was actually [[StolenGoodReturnedBetter planning to get it engraved]].]]
256	* ParentalHypocrisy: Filbrick calls out Stan for lying and scamming people...despite the fact that he and his wife make money scamming people and lying.
257	* PersecutionFlip: When the Pines Brothers run into a FreakShow, they get heckled with cries of "Normies!" until Ford shows off his ExtraDigits.
258	-->'''Stan:''' I'm being ''made fun of'' for ''fitting in''! I'm so confused!
259	* TheRival: While living in Glass Shard Beach, the Pines Boys were rivals to the Sibling Brothers, a pair of stuck up Literature/HardyBoys parodies named Ascot and Dickie.
260	* TakeThat: Dickie and Ascot are clearly ones of 1960s child detectives, specifically ''Literature/TheHardyBoys''.
261	* TeamPet: Shanklin The Stab Possum!
262	* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: Although, the story being ''Gravity Falls'', it is of course played for BlackComedy. Stanley's first reaction after he may have caused the deaths of the Sibling Brothers is to suggest to his brother to [[MuggedForDisguise steal their clothes]] to be able to sneak in a location in which they are forbidden to enter. Ford agrees that it seems the most logical option.
263	* VillainyFreeVillain: The Sibling Brothers are only antagonists in the sense that they are the Pines Twins' rivals to solve the current mystery (and act like jerks towards Ford and Stan).
264	** However, their bio in the bonus online content says that their hobbies nowadays are "going to jail" and "finishing each other's life sentences", meaning ''[[NoodleIncident something]]'' must've happened since then....
265	** Also, they briefly state that they "solve" every mystery in the town by [[SinisterSurveillance having paid photographers stationed everywhere]]. Gee, no way ''that'' could be exploited, now could it?
266	* WholeEpisodeFlashback: Set during Stan and Ford's childhood, with a DistantFinale of them exploring the world together as adults after the series finale.
267	* YoungFutureFamousPeople: In the article about the Jersey Devil that Stan and Ford read, there's a comment by a ten year old Music/BruceSpringsteen.
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271	-->'''''[[TheStinger BY LUCIFER'S BEARD, WHAT WOULD IT TAKE FOR MORE GRAVITY FALLS?!]]'''''

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