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While spoilers for the book will be marked, this article assumes you have watched Gravity Falls and will contain unmarked spoilers for the show. You Have Been Warned

The Book of Bill (Literature)

"If this book has somehow found its way to you, then you are the next target it has chosen. I offer a warning: destroy it. I tried to destroy it, heaven knows I tried, but every attempt proved futile. Whatever you do:
DO NOT TURN ITS PAGES.
DO NOT WRITE YOUR NAME.
DO NOT BELIEVE A WORD.

Turn back while you still can. Or live forever with the regret."
Stanford Pines' Snicket Warning Label at the start of the book

The Book of Bill is a 2024 Supernatural Fiction book in the Gravity Falls universe. It is written by series creator Alex Hirsch. Notably, it is the first entry in the Gravity Falls series to be aimed at a more mature age range, being marked as "Adult." While mostly a spooky/humorous biography over the show's main villain mostly written from his own twisted and off-kilter perspective, it also functions as a sort of epilogue to the show proper.

Inside the pages of this dark tome lie the writings of Bill Cipher himself as he tells his side of the story, revealing his origins, role in human history, and the Pines family's most embarrassing secrets. But Bill won't give this knowledge away for free... and once you've made a deal with him, there's no unshaking that hand.

The book released on July 23rd, 2024; with Barnes & Noble publishing a store-exclusive alternate physical edition — colored gold and black instead of red and black — with additional trivia and lore.

In addition, the book also has a tie-in website, thisisnotawebsitedotcom.com. More than a mere promotional stunt or Easter Egg, thisisnotawebsitedotcom is an extension of the book itself, providing additional secrets, lore, and tidbits for those who know where to look. It also appears to be the franchise's second Alternate Reality Game, though to what exact end currently remains unclear.


The Book of Bill contains examples of:

  • Accidental Murder: It's suggested by the fragmented pieces of Bill Cipher's past that the destruction of his home dimension was purely an accident. He tried to explore another dimension, but something else came through it instead and slaughtered everyone en masse. Bill was so horrified and guilt-ridden over what happened that he suppressed the memory and continued to act as if he did it on purpose, rather than admit that he screwed up and that everyone died because of his carelessness.
  • Actor Allusion: Typing in "CONSPIRACY" in thisisnotawebsitedotcom shows a video of Charlie Day going on a conspiratorial rant over the Soos maintenance screen. Day is no stranger to such rants, having done so in the famous Pepe Silvia scene.
  • The Alcatraz: In turn with being a therapy center, the Theraprism also functions as a prison. It's made clear that no amount of scheming or rioting will enable Bill to escape. In fact, in the message from the Theraprism where the counselor explains that The Book of Bill was another escape attempt, they seem only mildly concerned that the reader may have potentially found the contents of the books disturbing, and not that Bill ever had any chance of escaping with it.
  • Alien Blood: Well, not alien exactly... but according to the US Government file on Specimen 3 From Hangar 618 (a.k.a. Bill Cipher), military staff were able to get a sample of his blood, which they found to be "beyond description." Bill's blood is pictured as a glitchy mass of a liquid similar in appearance to liquid mercury... and apparently, it caused two of the military staff to be sent to the sick tent for nausea.
  • Alien Fair Folk: Bill is referred to as a demon, or even as Satan in the book and its tie-in website (being called "William Lucipher" by the Anti-Bill Society and "Lucifer incarnate" by McGucket), but he's really closer to an Interdimensional Eldritch Abomination.
  • Alternate Reality Game: thisisnotawebsitedotcom, as already mentioned. Here's the general lowdown:
    • The URL itself is found in the fake copyright information page. Going to thisisnotawebsitedotcom.com within the first week of the book's launch produced this ominous password screen. The clue for the password is located in Bill's intelligence test; the "thing" in Question VII is actually a bunch of stretched text strings that can be read by rotating/tilting the book, producing the two-part message "Need a password? Fine, I'll talk." "It's the name of the eyeball doc." Thanks to Bill forcing an excerpt from The Great Gatsby onto the reader earlier, the "eyeball doc" in question — and thus, the password — could be deduced to be "T.J. Eckleburg."
    • Entering the password produced a piece of parchment paper with an image of Bill, a cipher that read "LOST FILES" when decoded, and a timer counting down to 12:00 PM PST on July 30, 2024. When the appointed time arrived, however, the timer "broke," and Soos was forced to come in and work on fixing things; clicking on him produced various messages (including this creepy Bill-possessed Soos saying "SO! MANY! QUESTIONS!" in the font 1651 Alchemy Symbols). Finally, the timer was fixed mid-day on August 9, and a half-hour later, the website went fully online.
    • In its current (and presumably final) form, thisisnotawebsitedotcom.com brings visitors to an eerie windowside desk at the Mystery Shack with various clickable objects and a computer with a password field. Entering certain terms and names associated with Gravity Falls and The Book of Bill, coded messages found in the book, or other accepted words or phrases causes various effects, usually either simple messages, videos, images, or short bits of prose. Of particular note is a "game" consisting of a series of 15 questions; the first 14 answers could be found in The Book of Bill, while the final answer was hidden behind one of the passwords. Completing the game and entering the password you got downloaded a .zip file containing wallpapers of art from The Book of Bill and thisisnotawebsitedotcom... but most of the wallpapers have unexplained oddities, meaning the mystery isn't over just yet.
  • Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: The book inverts this trope for horror. Bill Cipher states he can see alternate dimensions where Dipper and Mabel were defeated or gave in to Gravity Falls' creatures. He notes their victory against him was due to living in a timeline favouring their success, and he imagines their alternate selves seeking retribution. A haunting image on the following page depicts the twins asleep on the bus, while grotesque versions of themselves—such as a melting Dipper, a stabbed Dipper and a zombified Mabel—attempting to reach them. Though we can't be sure since Bill might not be stating the truth.
  • Always a Bigger Fish: Amphibian, to be exact, but the Axolotl turns out to be this to Bill. Its Bargain with Heaven with Bill is just as lopsided in its favor as Bill's Deal with the Devil contracts were in his, but far more airtight. No matter how hard he attempts to escape the Theraprism, Bill can't find a single loophole or escape route, only able to desperately try to convince himself someone will come for him when no one ever will. In essence, the Axolotl did to Bill what Bill did to everyone else, but better.
  • Ambiguously Gay:
    • Bill mentions that he's unsure if Craz and Xyler are husbands, brothers, or clones.
    • Bill's relationship with Ford has deliberately romantic undertones, with Mabel explicitly calling it a crush, Bill describing it as a Will They or Won't They? relationship (albeit a Take Over the World variety), and Bill being so distraught by their "breakup" that he sobs in a bar while blackout drunk. Whether this is anything legitimate or just Rule of Funny is up for debate. The "EVEN HIS LIES ARE LIES" prompt on thisisnotawebsitedotcom suggests that Bill always saw Ford as a pet at best and a pawn to take over the world at worst...only to immediately get defensive and deflective when accused of having never cared about Ford; so the validity of these claims, like everything Bill says, is up to debate. This could all be moot however, since Bill might not even be a male.
      • However, given what happens in the book and the hindsight of what's described in the other Gravity Falls media, it can be argued that Bill and Ford's relationship wasn't ever romantic love, but toxic obsession. Bill only wanted Ford to feed into his ego— even if he did open up more than usual— and build his interdimensional portal, and Ford was desperate enough for attention and validation that he would get it from anyone, making him super dependant on Bill. And depending on your stance, the really intense Cold-Blooded Torture Bill inflicted on Ford to simply show how little control he has reveals how much Bill truly cared about Ford romantically.
  • Ambiguous Situation: According to Bill, Dipper's nightmare reveals that he may have overheard a conversation between his parents that he "wasn't supposed to hear," and Bill proceeds to torment Dipper further by asking why they would send him and Mabel away so quickly. It's not clear if the dream has any basis in reality and Bill was kicking Dipper while he was down, or if Dipper has some real-world anxieties over being abandoned or seeing his parents in the early stages of separation or divorce.
  • And I Must Scream:
    • Played for Laughs: there's an easily missable sentence from an alien being whose entire species has been devoured by Bill, purely so he can keep their souls in everlasting torment... by forcing them to listen to Marky Mark songs forever.
    • Bill's ultimate fate is a completely self-inflicted version of this. He's not alone in the technical sense (there are fellow prisoners and therapists in the Theraprism) and theoretically Bill always has the chance to leave if he sincerely atones. The operative word, and ultimately the reason for this trope, is "if" and not "when"; Bill is alone in the sense that he no longer has anyone to exploit, manipulate, or listen to his evil cries to attention, depriving him of the closest thing he's ever had to a functional relationship, and he's still too self-absorbed and caught in the cycle of denial to understand he'll be stuck forever in the Theraprism until he makes amends. The penultimate page in the book is Bill, all alone in a floating void, desperately trying to convince himself someone will come for him again...
  • The Anti-Nihilist: Oddly enough, Bill Cipher seems to have this view of life in The Book of Bill... in his own way.
    "I'm gonna cut to the quick, pal! The blind universe that barfed you out didn't plan for you to get smart enough to start worrying about what your "meaning" is-it only wanted you to make babies and climb into the grave. Life doesn't care about your meaning, so why should you care about its meaning? If anything, life is your enemy. Create your own meaning and DEFY life to STOP YOU! When it comes to life's meaning: there is none! Which is good news! Because it means you get to decide what it is for yourself!"
  • Arc Number: In addition to the 618 number from the rest of the franchise, this book also has 333 as a recurring number.
  • Arc Words: "I'm fine." The phase pops up a few times throughout the book, and represents Bill's refusal to admit there is anything wrong with him even after being sentenced to eternal group therapy.
  • Artistic License: Referenced when Bill shows the reader a picture of him as a baby; Bill remarks that the reader wouldn't be able to grasp his two-dimensional home reality without "chugging expired milk while looking through a kaleidoscope," indicating that the image is a three-dimensional representation of Bill and his reality rather than what it actually looked like within it.
  • Art-Style Clash: The image of Bill in group therapy has the other patients each drawn in noticeably different art styles. This is to illustrate them being from different dimensions.
  • Ascended Meme: Invoked. On thisisnotawebsitedotcom, typing in the code phrase "DIONARAP" will show a String Theory, with one of the papers on the board displaying a skinny human version of Bill with the words "BEWARE THE IMPOSTOR" written on it, a light jab towards popular fan humanizations portraying Bill as a thin, young, attractive man in a suit.
  • Audience Shift: Unlike previous Gravity Falls media, this book is specifically targeted towards adults and older teens.
  • Back from the Dead: This book officially confirmed for the first time that - in some essence - Bill did survive his death in Grand Finale. Exactly how and what he survived as is a recurring question that Bill deliberately avoids answering. In the end, this trope is ultimately subverted, however. The Twist Ending reveals Bill is stuck in a reformatory prison called the "Theraprism," and it's mentioned they exclusively treat deceased patients. Bill is still dead, and it's unknown if it's even hypothetically possible for him to return to the living realm as his current form. His only chance at resurrection is undergoing extra-dimensional therapy until the Axolotl judges him reformed enough to reincarnate—and given who Bill is, the idea that he'll ever be reincarnated or reformed is unlikely bordering on impossible.
  • Badass Boast:
  • Bamboo Technology: Bill has attempted to have the portal built by Earth's inhabitants for practically the entirety of Earth's history, with whatever materials were available. A shaman he interacted with built one out tree logs, while a picture shows Maoi island heads with bodies building one out of stone.
  • Bathos: When Mabel gets a hold of the book, Ford runs to find... her doing a dramatic reading of Bill's crude and edgy attempts at manipulation to the hysterical laughter of the rest of the family. This is what gets Ford to stop taking it seriously and see it as the petty attempt at attention seeking it really is.
  • Be Careful What You Wish For: Bill prayed for the Axolotl to save him from his fate and bring him back. The Axolotl did, but in such a way that trapped Bill in a Self-Inflicted Hell. So the only difference between the fate awaiting Bill if he hadn't made the Bargain with Heaven and the one that did is how self-inflicted his suffering is.
  • Bedlam House: The unfortunate final fate of Thurburt Mudget Waxstaff III, founder and leader of the Anti-Cipher Society, as his vendetta against Bill was declared a delusion of his mind and he was committed to "Hogsteam Asylum for the Criminally Insane and/or Concerningly Original." Ironically, being trapped in the lead lined walls of the asylum means Waxstaff got what he wanted in the end, Bill can't get into his head anymore. He also closes out with this line that foreshadows Bill's own fate at the end of the book. If you think about it, Waxstaff got the last laugh in the end.
    "If I could wish any fate on him: Therapy. It would drive him insane."
  • Bee Afraid: Bill made a deal with Elias Inkwell (founder of Inkwell Studios) in the 1930s to create a new cartoon character. It was, of course, Bill himself. When Cipher Symphonies premiered it contained a surprise for all in attendance, as revealed by the script portion we're shown and the accompanying photo next to it.
    Follow the Bouncing Bill!
    (Chorus Sings)
    For he's a jolly good fellow!
    He's pointy and dapper and yellow!
    For he's a jolly good fellow!
    Now it's time to release the bees!
    (At this point, live bees will be released into the theatre)
  • Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: David Lynch is apparently a demon from the Mirror Dimension that can be summoned with coffee. This is a reference to the fact that he was initially approached to voice Bill on the show.
  • Best of All Possible Worlds: According to Bill Cipher, the multiverse teems with parallel timelines where Dipper and Mabel Pines met tragic fates at the hands of each of Gravity Falls' peculiar entities that they encountered. Scenarios range from the very beginning where Mabel is forced to become the Gnome Queen or a Smile Dip addict, to Dipper stabbed with scissors or the twins as stone statues, zombies, or members of the Society of the Blind Eye. He concedes that their timeline succeeded against him only because it had the greatest odds of survival, allowing them to rally their loved ones and defeat him. This fuels his loathing, leading him to envision twisted versions of the twins seeking revenge.
  • Birthday Hater: Ford (at the time of writing Journal 3) has negative feelings about his birthday due to him and Stan having cut contact.
  • Bizarre Alien Sexes: A government report on Bill lists his race as... Triangle? For gender, "I'm just gonna put down Triangle again."
  • Black Comedy: As expected. This is the only comedy a sadistic chaos demon like Bill Cipher offers.
  • Blasphemous Boast: During his meeting with the Axolotl, Bill shows he's very much convinced he himself is a god, trying to present himself as an equal... in the presence of the Top God who's also the only one who could save him.
  • Blatant Lies: By Bill frequently throughout the book. Lampshaded by Ford in his second passage, remarking that Bill will try to manipulate the reader by distracting them with absurd, obviously impossible claims like knowing how to turn ducklings into nuclear bombs. The very next page has Bill looking into a door marked "The Secrets Of The Universe," offhandedly mentioning that it contains the knowledge to turn ducklings into atomic bombs.
  • Break Them by Talking: Bill spends a good portion of the book taunting the reader with his beliefs of how disgusting and worthless humans are and how meaningless and unfulfilling their lives are. It's all but stated to be yet another manipulation tactic by Bill to convince the reader that they'll find meaning and fulfillment in helping him return and kickstart Weirdmageddon 2.0.
  • Brick Joke: Black Comedy variant. Prior to the book's release, the Oregon Parks Department Twitter chronicled Ranger Gus Burnside finding the book and burning it, then mysteriously going missing. The ashes spell out "YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT." Later, Bill's "personal injury hotline" (where he laughs at the caller's personal injury) had him leave a special message for those who picked that they were burning alive:
    Bill: Sorry, Gus!
  • But for Me, It Was Tuesday: In his letter regarding Bill, Stan casually dismisses him as just another Monster of the Week that the Pines Family defeated. Probably the worst insult possible for someone like Bill.
  • Call-Back: Ford states he planned to discard the Book of Bill into the dimensional rifts they were fixing in Lost Legends. thisisnotawebsitedotcom revealed he instead disposed of of it via the Bottomless Pit as he did Journal 3, explaining how it wound up in the reader's hands.
  • Call-Forward:
    • A form of a Cerebus Call-Back: Bill tells Ford he's sending someone to steal his eyes, hence revealing why a paranoid Ford accused Stanley of that after he knocked on his door in "A Tale of Two Stans."
    • Fiddleford's shattered mind is a storm of mental fragments, some of which are flaming blue shrapnel that pierces Bill's body and makes him feel non-hilarious pain. This is similar to how Stan's mind burned up from the memory eraser gun and the flames of its erasure were an actual threat to Bill's life.
  • Censor Box: A picture of Bill and his Henchmaniacs driving away from interdimensional cops shows Pyronica with a box reading "CENSORED" over her chest, with her pose implying that she is flashing the cops. The joke being that Pyronica does not normally have visible "clothes," raising the question as to how she could be flashing to begin with.
  • Cessation of Existence: According to Bill, the "decaying" of the Nightmare Realm he mentioned in the original series is from something called the Edge of Reality, which is threatening to approach the Nightmare Realm over the course of a trillion years. Any unstable dimensions and their residents hit by the Edge of Reality are entirely erased, as if they never existed to begin with. This is represented by the edge of the page having a large white spot resembling a destroyed frame of a film reel.
  • Company Cross-References: There are several references to other Disney media in this book, such as:
    • One of the codes at the beginning of the book when deciphered reads "OLAF WAS HERE."
    • During Bill's self-interview, he asks if the (show-namedropping) rumors of being Phineas Flynn's biological father is true. He decides not to comment.
    • The page where Bill has a muscular winged body references the Night on Bald Mountain segment in Fantasia.
    • In the Dark Ages chapter, two of the drawings featured are Hooty and a Titan skull; both from The Owl House. In fact, there is a code in that chapter, which when deciphered reads "TITANS BLOOD," and another code in the Witchcraft chapter which reads "CURSE WITTEBANE."
    • "The World Is Small Ever After For Always" is a blatant parody of "It's a Small World After All" from the ride of the same name. The key similarity being they're both annoying Ear Worms songs.
    • One of the inmates feared at the Theraprism at the very end of the book is the Core.
    • Another inmate of the Theraprism is the Black Cube of Darkness from Wander over Yonder.
    • In the section on alternate dimensions, Bill mentions the Chibiverse. He calls it "terrifying," but coming from Bill, it should be taken with a grain of salt.
    • Mickey Mouse himself (in his earlier Plane Crazy/The Gallopin' Gaucho design) is shown peeking in on Bill's Cipher Symphonies poster.
    • The skulls on the wing patterns of the Goth Moth resemble Jack Skellington.
    • When discussing mummies Bill mentions that mummy bears were given a special sap that allowed them to bounce here and there and everywhere and that they had adventures beyond compare.
    • Bill mentions that he hid under Abraham Lincoln's hat and pulled at his hair to make him cook.
  • Continuity Cavalcade:
  • Continuity Nod:
    • The first attempt to have a portal to Earth made (By a shaman of a local native tribe living where the town of Gravity Falls would be built) resulted in the creation of the Bottomless Pit.
    • The wizard Xgqrthx the Unpronouncible apparently cursed a gnome to be unable to say anything but his own name, a curse that probably was eventually passed down to Schmebulock.
    • The file on Bill's brief visit to Roswell, New Mexico was confiscated by the agency that hid the existence of Quentin Trembley and would include Agents Powers and Trigger in their ranks.
    • In the "Anti-Cipher Society" section. Blendin is shown to still be trapped in the past (working as a watchmaker) 20 years after he left the coded message for the Pines twins.
  • Cool and Unusual Punishment: Bill's ultimate fate after causing Weirdmageddon? Indefinite Karmic Rehabilitation, or in layman's terms, eternal group therapy.
  • Corrupt Politician: Referenced on the website:
    "Like a candle about to be snuffed out, humans spend their waning years melting, which is considered depressing by everyone. These melting people are corralled and hidden away in a Pre-Death Dormitory where they can melt in peace without forcing younger people to look at their sad weird faces. Many of these dissolving people cope with this horror by becoming congressmen, where they use their last gasps of power to try to wreak vengeance on the remaining living."
  • Cosmic Horror Story: Parodied. Bill elaborates on "the universe is a hologram" by claiming that the entire multiverse is actually a holographic trading card owned by an Eldritch Abomination named Dennis. If the card is lost or destroyed, the multiverse is screwed.
  • Couldn't Find a Pen: The Book of Bill needs to use the reader's blood as ink to write its text on the page. This ends up being Subverted. The book itself never needed the reader's blood; it was Bill himself who took the reader's blood through the book. This was just to make the reader delirious enough from the blood loss to not notice him modifying their brain and making them into the perfect vessel.
  • Covered in Scars: After being shattered by Stan, Bill has a static crack running across his entire body, which (in some illustrations) includes his eye.
  • Darker and Edgier: While not as extreme as other cases, the book literally has a warning on the cover stating that it "travels to dimensions meant for older readers" - And boy does it live up to that. The book contains a lot more frightening artwork and genuinely disturbing content, even containing a stomach-turning torture scene that would have been far too much to be allowed on Disney Channel.
  • Dark Reprise: The background music for thisisnotawebsitedotcom.com is a slow, melancholic reprise of the Gravity Falls theme.
  • The Devil Is a Loser: What do the Pines ultimately do when their old enemy who nearly killed them all seemingly returns from the grave to write a book and tempt people to bring him back? Laugh at him like the lying, attention-seeking, powerless has-been he is. And they're not even aware of his ultimate fate: group therapy in an interdimensional prison, supervised by the Axolotl.
  • Does This Remind You of Anything?: Ford's relationship with Bill is analogous to an abusive romantic relationship. Bill comes to the lonely Ford pretending to be the understanding companion he always wanted, fostering a sense of emotional dependence and encouraging Ford to distance himself away from others. Once Ford realizes how terrible Bill truly is and tries to separate from him, the triangle inflicts all kinds of physical and psychological torments onto him to both frighten and manipulate him into submission, declaring that he owns Ford and that the scientist is nothing without him.
  • Drowning My Sorrows: Bill decides to drink many glasses of "I'm Fine Juice" (which is clearly beer) at O'Sadley's Multidimensional Pub because he's that upset about losing Ford. He trashes the nearest Burrito Paradox Interdi-Mexican Restaurant and makes a fool of himself, so he ends up in the Dimensional Authority Lockup for "indecent exposure" as a result. Luckily for him, Keyhole picked the lock and 8 Ball ate the guards, so he only spent six hours in there.
  • Early Personality Signs: A picture of the Stans as babies shows Stanley screaming until he's red in the face, and Ford reaching up with wonder at a yellow triangle on the mobile of their crib.
  • Ear Worm: Used as a defense mechanism against Bill. In the 1930s, Elias Inkwell, head of Inkwell Studios made a deal with Bill to produce a new cartoon character. When it inevitably backfired, Inkwell asked his entire staff, in a memo, to stop drawing "attractive female cows in skirts" for a bit to help him get rid of Bill from his head altogether for the reward of $15, claiming that: "In Hollywood we create dreams everyday! I'm asking you to kill one." The composers managed it, creating the song "The World Is Small Ever After For Always" to torture Bill right out of Elias' brain for good. Later on, Ford would discover a tape cassette of the song and attempted to use it to do the same during Bill's prolonged attempt to force Ford to turn the portal back on. Given how Bill responds, by taking Ford's body out for a joyride, it did not have the same effect as last time. If nothing else Bill still clearly hates the song.
  • Embarrassing Browser History: We finally get to see Dipper's search history. While some of it is what we expected—pictures of Wendy, looking for Stan's arrest record, conspiracy theories—his other searches are hysterical ("Is backwards puberty real," "Plutonium Taste," "Green M&N smiling at me," "Attracted to green M&N unhealthy?").
  • Embarrassing Tattoo: Ford has a "Flirty Gal" tattoo somewhere on his body gained from letting Bill possess him. Ford refers to it as a tattoo that he "would never agree to under any circumstances!"
  • The Ending Changes Everything: Ford warns the reader how unfathomably dangerous and cursed this book is, and Bill spends the rest of the book perpetuating that. But in the end, Dipper, Mabel, Stan, Wendy, and Soos are all reading the book... and nothing bad is happening. In fact, they're laughing at how pathetic of an attempt it is to manipulate them. Upon encountering this, Ford (and the reader) recontextualize the whole book. The Book of Bill is not some cursed text from the nightmare realm capable of destroying reality; it's just some nonsense written by a has-been making a desperate attempt to not be forgotten. The only power it holds is if the reader falls for its manipulation. The myth of the book being "cursed" is destroyed even further when it's revealed Bill made it during a therapy arts and craft session.
  • The End... Or Is It?: The final pages of the book show Bill's statue, now overgrown, as he swears that someone will free him from the Theraprism someday... And that all he needs is one follower to shake the statue's hand and break him free. The eye is glowing on the last page.
  • Epiphanic Prison: This is revealed to be Bill's final fate. After invoking the Axolotl's name just before Stanley kills him, Bill Cipher is allowed an audience with the Top God, the Axolotl. The Axolotl allows him a second chance at life, via reincarnation, on one condition: Bill atones for the crimes he committed in this life through the Axolotl's trial. This "trial" turns out to be an inescapable reformatory prison called the "Theraprism" where the souls of the very worst of the worst are kept until they finally and sincerely atone for their misdeeds in life, whereupon they reincarnate into a simpler form of life. The Book of Bill is illegal contraband snuck out of the Theraprism by Bill; he's stuck in the Theraprism until he genuinely atones, which by the end of the novel he's still too self-centered to do.
  • Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones: Continuing her characterization from the series, Mabel threatens to eat Bill if he ever comes near her family again.
  • Evil Counterpart: To Gravity Falls: Journal 3. Journal 3 is told from Ford's perspective who, despite his shortcomings, had good intentions and an earnest desire to improve the world. Bill... has some different intentions.
    Alex Hirsch: If Journal 3 was the angel on your shoulder, the Book of Bill is... for the other shoulder.
  • Evil Is Not a Toy: Inverted: Bill severely underestimated the Axolotl when he made his Bargain with Heaven. He's now stuck in a prison where his only escape is the one thing he will never do, suffering entirely due to his own character flaws. Flaws the Axolotl made it clear it's known for a very long time.
  • Evil Redeemed in a Can: The book invokes and enforces this. Upon summoning The Axolotl to escape death, Bill Cipher inadvertently makes a contract with it to be stuck inside the Theraprism, a prism shaped dimension where people can only leave after they've sorted out their woes and personal issues, and above all repent for their wrongdoings. This means that should Bill finally leave, one of the most powerful and cruel entities in the universe will emerge a kinder guy. Considering Bill is both unrepentant and in deep denial, he won't leave for a very long time. Bill isn't the only inmate, either, with the Core from Amphibia and the Black Cube of Darkness from Wander over Yonder making cameos.
  • Eyes Are Mental: With the exception of goats, whenever Bill possesses someone, they gain slitted, yellow eyes. Ford uses this to his advantage by adding a retinal scanner to the portal door, meaning Bill is unable to open it when possessing his body.
  • Fate Worse than Death: Throughout the book, it's not clear how or why Bill has returned to contact the reader. But in the final couple pages, it's finally revealed how he survived the finale of the show: It turns out in a last ditch effort to save his skin, Bill had invoked the name of The Axolotl to save him. Bill agreed to a deal with the giant salamander to be reincarnated via going through "his hardest trial.".. which turned out to be mandatory group therapy. The Axolotl admitted Bill into a massive therapy office called "The Theraprism" outside of time, for him to get "what he needs the most." Part of why Bill being stuck in the Theraprism is so torturous is because it's 100% his own fault, both figuratively and literally. And as a result of his intense denial and outright violent behavior over needing therapy, Bill will either A) spend the rest of eternity in the Theraprism refusing to heal, or B) genuinely repent, to which he will be reincarnated as a life form so minor it's barely even considered intelligent life, let alone anything close to his former glory or capable of seeking revenge (which was presumably the entire reason why Bill wanted to be reincarnated in the first place). It's abundantly clear that Bill would have much preferred he had just let himself die.
  • Fictional Color: Bill rewires Ford's brain to be able to see a color humans normally can't, which Ford names "Fordtramarine," a portmanteau of Ultramarine and his own name. He finds himself unable to put the color into words.
  • Five-Second Foreshadowing: Stan concludes that Bill obviously hates whatever afterlife he's in, or else he'd be bragging about it nonstop. We learn how right he is when the next few pages reveal Bill is in group therapy.
  • Foil: Bill is shown to be one for Ford. They are both egotistical prodigies who grew up as outcasts, Ford for his six fingers and love of the paranormal while Bill felt isolated as the only person in his 2D dimension able to perceive the third dimension. However, Ford is a socially awkward scientist who ultimately wants to use his research to help humanity while Bill is an extroverted psychopath who inadvertently destroyed his home dimension and is now only interested in causing endless chaos and suffering.
  • Foreshadowing:
    • Thurburt Mudget Waxstaff III, one of Bill's attempted contacts from the 19th century and founder of the Anti-Cipher Society, wishes for Bill to experience therapy as he feels it would drive Bill insane. It's revealed at the end of the book this is where Bill is and will remain for probably all of eternity.
    • When discussing possible afterlives, Bill suddenly starts musing on a place where the music's always off-key, and everyone smiles but no-one's happy, before abruptly changing the subject. Hardly the most charitable description of a psychiatric facility, but maybe not an inaccurate one.
    • A pretty hilarious one once you realize it: The book is a constantly shifting mass of different styles and genres, going from direct communication to magazines to snippets from other works, a sign of its origin from a God of Chaos...or more accurately it's a scrapbook being made by said God of Chaos during an arts and crafts session.
    • A very subtle example: Early on in the book, Bill includes an lengthy excerpt of The Great Gatsby, specifically the chapter where Tom introduces Nick (and the readers) to his mistress Myrtle, establishing the infidelity and misery of Tom's marriage to Daisy and Myrtle's marriage to George. Themes of failing marriages and implied unfaithfulness pop up twice in The Book of Bill (and its associated bonus content) afterwards: once when Bill implies that Pacifica's parents are cheating on each other (and that Pacifica herself might be the product of an affair), and again when he says that Dipper has recurring nightmares about a fight between his parents that he wasn't supposed to hear (which comes with the insinuation that the twins were sent away because their parents are either working on their relationship or preparing for a divorce).
  • A Form You Are Comfortable With: The Book of Bill is said to take the form of whatever would catch the reader's attention the most.
    • For Ford, it was filled with ciphers and riddles for him to solve.
    • For Mabel, it claimed to be a guide to everyone who ever had a crush on her.
    • For Stan, it contained a section that claimed to reveal how to always win the lottery.
    • For the reader, it seems to take the form of a self-help book.
  • For Your Own Good: When Bill asks about the trial he needs to undergo to reincarnate, the Axolotl says that the trial is what Bill needs the most: therapy. Given that Bill is carrying around a lot of emotional baggage and is deep in denial over his wrongdoings, it's a justified verdict.
  • The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You:
    • Displays at Barnes & Noble stores had the book infecting all the books surrounding it with black goop, just as it did to Ranger Burnside's books in the campaign leading up to its release. One store reportedly had a shelf of LEGO sets replaced by copies of the book.
    • Bill apparently has a full mental connection with the reader. He attempts to use this connection to manipulate the reader into traveling to Gravity Falls and setting him free for Weirdmageddon 2.0. After this plan fails, Bill claims to use the last shreds of this connection to delete some of the reader's memory of what they just read, asking if they remember the (non-existent) chapter about the Bermuda Triangle and declaring that "it's already working".
  • Freudian Excuse Denial: Bill openly denies having any sort of tragic backstory and that his childhood was great, though it's all but stated that he's lying to himself.
  • Gamebooks: Downplayed. When you first meet Bill, he gives you the option to read the book in exchange for a "favor" down the line. You have the option to take the deal by turning the page or to decline the deal by going to page 77. None of the pages are numbered except for page 77, making it incredibly difficult to find. If you do manage to find page 77note  and turn the book upside-down, you get a paragraph describing your life after declining Bill's offer. You marry someone of moderate attractiveness and have the four forgettable children of Gurvis, Horvin, Borley, and Smunt, and die after you see a yellow street sign while raking the leaves outside your gray house and get hit by a car. The person who writes your obituary only manages to write "THE LIFE OF TTT^^R&FFUFFFFFFF————-" before falling asleep. There are no other options after making this choice, leaving your only option to be taking Bill's deal.
  • Good-Times Montage: Parodied. Bill was forced to experience one when he tried to infiltrate Mabel's dreams to discover a means to make her help him. Encountering Craz and Xyler, Mabel's recurring fantasy boys, Bill disguises himself as "Chill Cipher" to get to Mabel's secrets. After impressing them with his skateboard trick (eating his skateboard), he manages to earn their trust. However, to get access to Mabel's secrets, he is forced to go through an Neon 80s-Era Inspired Montage. Bill claims even he can't fight montages, so he just went limp and let it play out. After eating frozen yogurt, participating in surf competitions, daring to say no to drugs, and teaching a shades-wearing dinosaur to believe in himself, among other things, the music eventually stopped and Bill was then given access to Mabel's secret fantasies that would enable him to trick her into helping him start Weirdmageddon... Which turned out to be a CD of "Fantasy" by Mariah Carey.
  • Happy Ending Override: The Black Cube of Darkness's presence in the Theraprism serves as this for them. In Wander Over Yonder, the Black Cube was able to finally gain acceptance from the people around them in their spotlight episode "The Black Cube," gaining a new lease on life and abandoning villainy. Their presence in the Theraprism means they died at some point, and are now stuck there for the foreseeable future despite having already atoned in life. Either that or they were brought to the Theraprism in the hopes that their personal story of redemption would convince Bill to repent, making this a Subversion. (Alternately, it could just be the same species as the Black Cube, or perhaps even a relative.)
  • Happy Marriage Charade: The thisisnotawebsitedotcom ARG reveals that, contrary to the show, Preston and Priscilla Northwest are in an unhappy marriage, and heavily implies they're both cheating on each other. Bill's comment about Pacifica being a "little fake blonde impending paternity test" implies she may not even be Preston's biological daughter.
  • Hated by All: Throughout all of history, pretty much everyone Bill encounters either hates him immediately or does so when he inevitably reveals how insane and monstrous he is. Even the Henchmaniacs haven't attempted to contact him ever since his defeat.
  • Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: The Axolotl's Bargain with Heaven it made with Bill benefits it no matter how it turns out: Bill actually genuinely repents and changes as a person? Good, his threat to existence is over and he can reincarnate to live a better life. He would be reincarnated as something minor like a shrimp or butterfly, so even if he relapsed, he would have nowhere near the amount of power he did before. He remains the same unrepentant monster for eternity? Bill is still removed as a threat and his own flaws as a person will punish him until the end of time without the Axolotl having to do anything. Given Bill's own preference for one-sided deals, it's Laser-Guided Karma.
  • Hollywood Exorcism: The founders of the Anti-Bill Society attempted an exorcism to stop him entering their dreams, only for Bill to possess the priest they hired.
  • Homage: Bill's home dimension and its "liberation" is a darker version of Flatland. A 2d being leaves his home dimension and realizes that the world is bigger than he thought it was, and he attempts to tell his people about it to no success. Instead of being imprisoned, though, Bill took matters into his own hands and paid the price.
  • Human Pet:
    • Bill mentions this trope by name in the "Zom-Bills" section of the book, saying he loves "having a pet human in [his] pocket."
    • Near the end of the book, Bill claims that if the reader helps him escape from the afterlife, they'll rule alongside him as equals in Weirdmageddon 2.0. However, in the mission plan he put down for the reader, the illustration of Bill and the reader together in Weirdmageddon 2.0 has them sitting on Bill's arm like a parrot, implying that this trope would've been the reader's true fate. Bill admitting to love having a pet human in the Zom-Bills section hammers in the implication further.
  • Humiliation Conga: Bill's afterlife seems custom designed to be as humiliating to someone like him as possible. Bill Cipher demanded power and respect throughout his entire life, but he gets sent to a Theraprism where he's just Patient #323322. He has to attend mandatory group therapy sessions that inquire him to feel true remorse for his actions. Bill is obviously enraged by being asked to do this, but the counselors don't seem to mind, because they believe former Eldritch Abomination villains like him can improve "even if it takes forever. Especially if it takes forever!" The therapists are obnoxiously cheery and believe putting a poster in Bill's Prism cell saying "Be a TRY-angle!" will cheer him up, and their recreation activities are insipid things like puppet shows, which Bill is surely humiliated to be required to participate in. Every riot or escape attempt Bill has attempted has been thwarted by the counselors with seemingly little difficulty. And his only true way to escape this "overly medicated Kafkaesque health-hole"? Repent, to which he will be reincarnated as an extremely unimportant life form, such as a newt or cloud of fungal spores, which must be horrifying to someone as power-hungry and egotistical as Bill. And Bill isn't even allowed to contact other dimensions, making him a clear captive of the Theraprism; someone he specified earlier that he hates.
  • Hunter of Monsters: In 1901, an "Anti-Cipher Society" formed dedicated to snuffing out Bill… of course their methods and tools quickly made them a laughingstock.
  • I Banged Your Mom: In the "Love" chapter, Bill suggests that he might be the reader's biological father.
  • I Control My Minions Through…: Fear. Bill likes to assert that his gang are all a bunch of buddies but it isn't hard to see the subtext that he keeps them against their will. After Ford rejects him, Bill puts him through increasingly terrible and embarrassing torments before finally threatening to enact horrific torture upon his mind unless he turns on the portal. Bill dismissing it as nothing more than "light hazing" that he puts all the members of his gang through.
  • Impaled Palm: In the lost journal pages, among the many tortures Bill inflicts on Ford to try to force him to turn the portal on, we see him driving a nail through Ford's hand while possessing him.
  • Inferiority Superiority Complex: As Bill recounts, Ford's mind was split between "The ego of a king. The insecurity of a circus freak", making him the perfect pawn to manipulate through his desire to feel special. It's implied that this may have been the case for his other pawns, prior to them becoming fully devoted to Bill's plans:
    Bill: Society calls these people outcasts. I call them Henchmaniacs!
  • Insane Troll Logic: Bill accuses Mabel of being hypocritical for being mad that he possessed her brother because she possessed her brother too - as if those two circumstances are remotely comparable.
  • Insignificant Little Blue Planet: Bill expresses this opinion of the planet Earth.
    "You might also be wondering, 'Hey, Bill, if my planet's so average, why did you want to conquer it? Is it because you secretly respect the noble dignity of the human spirit?
    "Oh! Oh! You're making me smear my mascara!
    "No, the only thing special about the Disappointment Ball (that's what I call Earth) is that it happens to coincidentally exist on a weak spot between dimensions, like the thin, breakable crust on a crème brûlée!"
  • Instantly Proven Wrong: Bill accepts the Axolotl's deal to undergo his trial for reincarnation while thinking "How hard could these trials be?" The next page reveals Bill's trials are group therapy and the only way he can be reincarnated is to genuinely repent... and since Bill is actively refusing to do so, he most likely never will.
  • Intelligence Equals Isolation: Ford was unable to build any meaningful relationships during his time in Gravity Falls, being seen as a local weirdo due to his methodical and scientific approaches to life. Even his relationship with his best friend Fiddleford was somewhat cold due to his obsession with his work. This made it easier for Bill to enter his life, as he offered the companionship that Ford always wanted to have.
  • Interface Screw: Bill's chaotic nature leads to numerous parts of the book being... strange. One of the more tame examples is a two-page spread describing "The Mirror Dimension," with the catch being that the entire thing is written in reverse. Meaning that the only way to properly read it is to hold it in front of the mirror.
  • Interquel: Ford discovers this book sometime shortly after Dipper and Mabel's thirteenth birthday, yet before they had to leave Gravity Falls. So in other words, within the Gravity Falls timeline, the creation of this book occurs at the very end of ''Weirdmaggeddon 3." However, the actual subject matter of the book more so qualifies as a Prequel, with Bill revealing his backstory and his relationship with Ford in the 80s.
  • Ironic Hell: Bill's ultimate fate in the Theraprism seems custom designed to make his own villainy his punishment. He can only escape by repenting and atoning, but Bill is pathologically incapable of accepting his own mistakes and thus will likely never escape. The Theraprism isn't hellish in and of itself, but Bill's own frustration and desperation to escape causes him to search for a loophole or way out that doesn't exist rather than accept his fate. His own sadism and need to manipulate people means he's alone purely by his own choice, as he doesn't want to be surrounded by equals or greaters, but people he can play his games with.
  • Ironic Nursery Tune: The tie-in website gives us this:
    Rockabye Billy
    Please don't you cry
    It's not your fault
    You have that strange eye
    Stay safe with Mommy
    You'll never fall
    And we'll always love you
    Sharp angles and all
  • "Just Joking" Justification: At one point during Bill and Ford's time together, Bill threatens to steal his eyes. Bill later say that this was just a joke and berates Ford in private for not having a sense of humor. It's implied he did something similar to the Henchmaniacs. Given Bill's sick sense of humor, it's possible he really was just joking.
  • Karmic Reform Hell: The Theraprism is an inter-dimensional afterlife asylum where the multiverse's most messed-up monsters go to experience group therapy, atone for their crimes, and reincarnate as a lesser form of life.
  • The Krampus: The section of missing Journal 3 pages describes Ford's encounter with the Krampus, complete with his own journal entry. The Krampus captures children and Ford in a barrel and has the ability to take them to hell. When he says he will spare Ford should Ford tell him about one thing he shared with someone over the holidays, Ford just gets angry about how moralistic folktale figures are. He is done in by Fiddleford coming in to rescue Ford and the children.
  • Magical Native American: During his time in Gravity Falls, Bill met and befriended a Native shaman who eventually realized Bill was bad news and magically barred him from the valley. In his final interaction with Bill, the shaman uttered the prophecy of Bill's eventual downfall, which led to the creation of the Zodiac Wheel.
  • Magitek: The last successful attempt to build a portal was by a warlock in medieval times. Fortunately, said warlock betrayed Bill by including a net of unicorn hair around it to trap him, forcing him to literally be a dancing jester for a time.
  • Manipulative Editing:
    • As the book is being "written" as we read it, Bill alters the pages in real-time as in order to make himself look better and to hide things he doesn't want the reader to see.
    • Ford had a habit of tearing out pages of his journal if he felt they showcased too much of his troubled relationships.
  • Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: It is revealed that Bill's "liberation" of his home dimension was actually an accident, and one of the main reasons why he is the unstable maniac he is today is because he is in deep denial about that fact.
  • Mind Rape:
    • Done repeatedly by Bill throughout the book but it's at its most horrific when he's possessing Ford. He subjects Ford to physical and mental torture, (temporarily) deletes Ford's memories of his mother's face and his own name, fakes a suicide threat to Stan that only doesn't reach him by sheer dumb luck, and eventually leaves Ford to wake up on the roof of his own house, with the implication that he could easily have made him jump. The message: Ford is Bill's toy. Bill brags that he can do whatever he wants to Ford because Ford willingly let him in.
    • Bill claims to have done the same to the reader since they first started reading. After making the reader delirious from blood loss, Bill removed the shame, fear, and hesitation from their brain, deleted some memories, and made them more open to hypnotic suggestion and making impulsive decisions, moulding them into the perfect puppet and vessel for Bill.
  • Missing Mom: Bill reveals that Wendy has recurring dreams about her absent mom, though what happened to her isn't stated.
  • Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Implied - none of the Henchmaniacs have attempted to contact Bill since his defeat. Given Bill's manipulative personality and the abuse he describes as "light hazing" that he puts all of the Henchmaniacs through, it's not hard to imagine why even inter-dimensional criminals wouldn't want anything to do with him anymore.
  • Mocky Mouse: Bill helps to inspire 1930s cartoonist Elias Inkwell, whose previous creation, Ducky the Rat-Hog (a character resembling a hybrid of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck), was unsuccessful.
  • More than Mind Control: Although it's eventually revealed that the Book of Bill isn't inherently cursed, it's heavily implied to only be dangerous if the reader allows it to be. It didn't work on the Pines family because they know all of Bill's tricks by now and immediately saw the book for what it was: the desperate ramblings of an attention seeker. In the case of the specific reader who purposefully sought out the book to learn more about Bill and/or find meaning in their life (ie. you), his plan to manipulate somebody to help him escape the Theraprism almost works but is easily thwarted by notes from the Pines family encouraging the reader to find happiness and fulfillment elsewhere and to not let a pathetic loser like Bill control them.
  • Mr. Alt Disney: Elias Inkwell, the founder of Inkwell Studios who tried to produce cartoons based on Bill in the 1930's, is very clearly a pastiche of Walt Disney, complete with his most (in)famous creation, "Ducky the Rat-Hog."
  • The Multiverse: Bill discusses such in it's own section, and according to him, the entire multiverse is a holographic trading card owned by a incomprehensible being known as "Dennis." If Dennis ever loses the card or the card is destroyed, we're all screwed. The hidden code on the card says that if the card is folded, Crossovers happen.
  • My Country 'Tis of Thee That I Sting: The header for the page discussing Bill's deals with the American founding fathers states that "America" means "THE ONLY COUNTRY!" in the "American" language. Bill likewise claims that the country's original name was "Wackyland."
  • My God, What Have I Done?: Downplayed if not defied. It's clear that on some level, Bill feels immense guilt over his accidental destruction of his home dimension and the deaths of his parents, and maybe even destroying his relationship with Ford. The issue is, he won't admit it, with his Card-Carrying Villain and Mad Hatter tendencies at least partially being attempts to deny it. The facade only breaks a few times, and he soon dismisses it. At the end of the book, when his escape attempt from the Theraprism is foiled, Bill takes a moment to compare the reader's refusal to free him to how his "miserable family" tried to "snuff out [his] talents," showing that he'd still rather victim-blame them than take responsibility.
  • Narcissist: The book and website expand on Bill's A God Am I self-perception from the series by revealing that his biggest love and fear is himself, and that he underestimated the Top God Axolotl because he assumed that a deity who didn't pay attention to him must not be that powerful.
  • Nature Is Not Nice: Bill expresses this view of nature on the website when you enter the word "MORALITY".
    "FUN GAME!"
    "CAN YOU FIND MORALITY IN THE NATURAL WORLD?"
    (picture of various animals fighting other animals)
    "OF COURSE NOT! THE UNIVERSE IS TOO BUSY CREATING NEW TYPES OF CRABS AND BACTERIA TO MAKE A NAUGHTY LIST. IF IT'S SMALLER THAN YOU: EAT IT!"
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: Bill attempted to manipulate a shaman in pre-colonial Gravity Falls into building him a portal, but when it went wrong and the shaman realized Bill's intentions, he was magically barred from the area for centuries. Ford summoning Bill not only broke this magical seal, but also brought Bill directly to someone both intelligent and needy enough to be manipulated into building him a successful portal.
  • Never My Fault: Bill still refuses to accept responsibility for his actions. He continues to blame the Pines family for his misfortunes, and when the topic of his home dimension's destruction is brought up, Bill glosses over it and insists he liberated everybody instead of killing them. This attitude ultimately proves to be his downfall, as his refusal to repent even after dying means he will likely be stuck in the Theraprism for all of eternity.
  • Not Afraid of You Anymore: Ford injects with passages throughout the book, repeatedly warning the reader to cease perusing the tome out of fear that Bill will use as part of some dark scheme. In his last interjection, written after the previous ones, he recounts how he found the rest of the Pines family reading the book without consequence, laughing at Bill's obvious attempts to manipulate them and he realizes that Bill was far less a god than he was just an overpowered theater kid looking for a stage and that his book was nothing more that his last gasp at trying to avoid being forgotten. The book closes out with messages from each of them to the reader not to let someone like Bill manipulate them, while also making a threat to Bill wherever he is that they're willing to handle him should he ever return.
  • Nothing Is Scarier: When Bill recounts how he "liberated" his home dimension, it's revealed that he accidentally got them all killed when he tried to show them the third dimension. The trauma of remembering causes him to black out, resulting in most of the text to be obscured by glitchy effects. What text is shown includes "their screams getting louder and louder as I," "so much blood," and "mandibles," none of which paint a pretty picture.
  • Not in Front of the Kid!: When talking about Dipper's nightmares, Bill claims he dreams about the time he overheard his parents having an argument that he wasn't meant to hear, suggesting that the real reason the twins were sent to spend the summer with Stan was so they wouldn't be around for their parents' marital issues.
  • Not Quite Back to Normal: Bill's body was shattered to smithereens in the Weirdmageddon finale, but has mostly been repaired by the Axolotl for him to attend the Theraprism. A giant crack spreads across his body, a remnant of his manner of death.
  • Offscreen Moment of Awesome: At the end of the book, Stan dismisses Bill as just another Monster of the Week, implying that he and Ford have faced multiple dangers on the same level as that apocalypse ever since Weirdmaggedon.
  • Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Averted. Ford designed an upgraded version of the Anti-Cipher Society's Bill Proof Suit, but he's unable to build it without Fiddleford's mechanical prowess.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
    • It's established that Bill feels genuine, legitimate regret over destroying his home dimension when he shows the last remaining atom of it to Ford. Ford remarks that Bill looked "distant, more distant than I had ever seen him" and notes that Bill "laughed joylessly"; a far cry from his typical, maniacal Evil Laugh. Bill even indirectly calls himself a monster, and not in a Card-Carrying Villain way. Bill clearly experiences genuine remorse over the fate of Euclydia, and "remorse" is an emotion Bill has never before been shown to experience.
    • Bill's final conversation with Ford has him, without any humor or comedy, tell the scientist that he's his property, that he has the ability to inflict any number of mental tortures onto him and that if Ford doesn't turn on the portal within 72 hours then he'll send one of his minions to tear out his eyeballs.
    • Typing in "TANTRUM" in thisisnotawebsitedotcom shows an encounter between Bill and Time Baby. Bill is characteristically flippant until Time Baby brings up the destruction of Euclydia, at which point Bill goes into Tranquil Fury mode.
      "Choose your next words very. CAREFULLY."
  • Open-Fly Gag: Bill claims that Dipper had his fly open for the entirety of Weirdmageddon, which everyone noticed, but never told him. His nickname is now "Zipper Pines" among Mabel, Tambry, and Tyler Cutebiker's group chat.
  • Orwellian Retcon: The initial edition of the book explicitly stated that Bill took out some "missing" pages from Gravity Falls: Journal 3. However, a later edition changed the title of the section from "Journal 3: The Missing Pages" to "The Missing Journal Pages," making it more ambiguous as to which of Ford's journals certain pages were taken from. The show itself already implies that Ford went back and forth between the journals when writing down his experiences (e.g. the instructions to summon Bill being in Journal 2, the schematics for the portal being spread across all three journals), as opposed to the contents of all three journals being in an absolute chronological order.
  • Ouija Board: The Anti-Bill Society used a talking board in their exorcism attempt, which Bill used to spell out "Eeny, Meeny, Miney, ''You!''"
  • Page-Turn Surprise: Bill accepts the Axolotl's deal believing that his trials would be no problem. Once you turn the page, you're hit with an image of Bill in group therapy.
  • Pet the Dog: This is sort of a messed up example, because this is still Bill Cipher, but there was one time he actually gave some joy to a group of humans. In the section about Witchcraft, Bill returns to North America just in time to find the Pilgrims settling there. He absolutely hates them due to their absolute lack of humor and outlawing of imagination. Even their dreams are blank. He especially seems to take pity on the housewives of the Pilgrims who are punished as witches if they don't keep churning butter, or start wearing pants. Bill acknowledges he finds human suffering hilarious, but even this is too much for him. He wants variety. Possessing a goat, one of the only animals who's eyes won't change when Bill takes control, he asks the women a question: "Wouldst Thou Like to Live Ridiculously?" They answer "aye" and thus he grants them arcane powers which enables them to run amok. One of the women experiences laughter for the first time ever thanks to Bill and likes it. And unlike his other deals, he didn't demand worship, possession, or even portal construction as a price, only asking that they renounce religion. Nor does he ever admit to trying to screw them over in the long run - and being Bill, he almost certainly would have if he did. Sure, they go on to murder a bunch of people in an uprising, but for just once Bill actually was a liberator. A terrible, horrifying, blood-soaked, city-fathers-burning-at-the-stake, liberator.
  • Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs: Apparently, the fight between Bill Cipher and Time Baby that caused the latter to be frozen was what caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.
  • Pink Is Erotic: Although Pyronica is drawn without any distinct sexual characteristics, she appears to be wearing nothing but knee-high heels and elbow-length gloves, and in the book, she outright flashes the authorities mid-pursuit but this is censored.
  • Possessing a Dead Body: Ford needs to steal a brain from the morgue to try to defeat Bill. To his horror, he realizes two interesting facts:
    1) BILL CIPHER CAN POSSESS CORPSES?
    2) BILL CIPHER CAN POSSESS CORPSES!
  • Prayer Is a Last Resort: Bill invoking the Axolotl is explicitly referred to as a prayer, and a 'trick he'd never tried,' making it clear Bill is only praying to the frilly god because he has no other choice.
  • Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Stanford turns a funny joke into a chilling one-liner just before shooting the corpse Bill is possessing:
    Stanford: I have missed you. But my aim is getting better.
  • Psychic-Assisted Suicide: The extra Journal pages detailing Bill's possession of the Author indicate that this is a favorite threat of his to make.
    "Hey, brother, it's Sixer. I'm going to take a swim in the frozen lake tomorrow, and I might not ever come back, so if you don't hear from me, I just want you to know that it's because I never loved you. BUH-BYEEEEE."

  • Public Domain Character: Two of the inmates in the Theraprism are Cthulhu and Saturn (more specifically as depicted in Francisco de Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son).
  • Public Domain Stories:
    • The infected books on the Barnes & Noble displays (Radio Fun, Sense and Sensibility, various nursery rhyme collections, James Fennimore Cooper's Deer Teeth, etc.) are all in the public domain.
    • On a page showing Bill's weaknesses, Bill interrupts, declares that the book is over, and states that they'll be reading The Great Gatsby instead. Several actual pages of the book go by before Bill starts doodling in the margins, and eventually he's so bored he resumes his story again.
  • Readings Are Off the Scale: According to thisisnotawebsitedotcom.com when Stanford was 18, he took a medical examination where he completely surpassed all their tests for his aptitude in reflexes, cognition and IQ. They tried giving him a placebo and he immediately figured it out from the taste. The doctor was so impressed, he wanted Ford to be genetic stock for a secret cloning project, but that part was redacted.
  • Real After All: At the end of the book, the dog from Mabel's Smile Dip hallucinations in "The Inconveniencing" is attending the Therapism. The ciphered name underneath it reads "THE BEAST". The pages on Mabel's dreams elaborate on this, revealing that Mabel consumed so much Smile Dip that she somehow temporarily "ascended to the astral plane".
  • Real Life Writes the Plot: In the table of contents, Bill mentions there's a "Secret chapter most of you probably won't find!" The chapters list one titled "???" This is referring to the Barnes & Noble exclusive edition, with the "More Secrets" chapter appearing where the question marks are in the table of contents. However, the "???" listing and mention of the secret chapter is still present even in the standard edition of the book. This helps sell the chaotic nature of the book, making it so that the "secret chapter" most people can't see actually is present in select copies of the book.
  • Red and Black and Evil All Over: The (standard version of the) book's cover is almost entirely black and red, which is combined with the book's status as a Villain Episode and the description warning it is cursed.
  • Reincarnation: It is revealed that should a patient at the Theraprism feel genuine remorse for their actions, they would be reincarnated into a lesser being like butterflies or spores. However, because Bill refuses to acknowledge that it was his own fault for ending up there and that his ego would prevent him from considering being anything other than superior, he remains in the Theraprism unlikely to ever be reborn anew.
  • The Reveal:
    • It's revealed how and why Bill targeted Mabel to hand him the rift (while possessing Blendin Blandin). Bill entered her dreams, hoping he'd be able to make a deal with her there, but quickly realized that wasn't going to happen on account that Mabel's mind had wanted posters of him everywhere. Instead, Bill learned from Craz and Xyler that Mabel is super sad about summer ending, and he realized that (although he'd have to present himself as someone else) he could convince Mabel to do something rash by offering her more time.
    • It's properly revealed what Bill's afterlife is for the first time. He's in the "Theraprism," a place where they try to reform deceased Eldritch Abomination villians. If Bill repents, he will get reincarnated into a creature in the veins of a butterfly or newt... except the book heavily implies this will never happen because Bill's actively refusing to reform. Meaning Bill will be locked inside his Theraprism cell, attending group therapy meetings, and participating in insipid recreation activities for all of eternity.
  • Rewatch Bonus:
    • The first few illustrations of Bill depict him with a crack across his body. Most wouldn't think much of this and would probably assume it's just part of the glitch effect those drawings have, especially since Bill is drawn normally for the rest of the book. However, once Bill's afterlife is revealed, we learn that crack is actually a permanent disfigurement due to him being shattered to death.
    • At one point, the Twist Ending is essentially explicitly stated in a way where most would be none the wiser. Thurburt Waxstaff remarks that "If I could wish one fate on him: therapy. It would drive him insane." At the end of the novel, it's revealed that Bill is in therapy. And it's driving him insane.
    • The "About the Author" blurb in the back is written by Bill, or rather a not-possessed Alex Hirsch, and ends with a reassurance that "Alex isn't dead! HE'S FINE! HE'S FINE! HE'S FINE! [...] I'M FINE. HELP ME." That isn't Hirsch asking for release, it's still Bill, desperate to escape from the Theraprism.
  • Roswell That Ends Well: It wasn't aliens that landed in Roswell or even a spaceship, it was just Bill, trying to use atomic bomb testing to manifest in the physical world. After three hours of messing around with the United States Military (Using "Your Mom" jokes on his interrogators, offering to shake the President's hand in exchange for intel so he could set off all the world's nukes at once, volunteering for his own autopsy to see what his organs looked like, etc.), Bill vanished back to his own dimension and everything pertaining to the incident was confiscated by the same secret agency that covered up President Trembley's existence.
  • Ruder and Cruder: Cipher uses "damn," "hell," and "bastard" (one of Bill's many names is "the Bastard Triangle of England," given to him when he was romping around Middle Age Europe) which wouldn't have been possible in the original show, though spicier four-letter words are censored with Symbol Swearing.
  • Sadistic Choice:
    • At the end of the chapter on morality, Bill presents the reader with an elf chained to the wall. If you turn the page and continue reading, you'll crush "Scrimbles" to death. Ergo, you have to choose between sparing an elf's life and stop reading or killing it to sate your curiosity.
    • He also presents several variations on the Trolly Problem thought experiment, the first one played straight before going into more absurd territory.
  • Say My Name: Bill furiously screams Stan's name three times during his intense Villainous Breakdown when the Pines family successfully lead the reader away from accepting Bill's deal.
  • Scenery Censor: When Bill smashes through the pages of The Great Gatsby, torn bits of paper spread across the pages. One of these snippets perfectly obscures the word "bitch."
  • Secretly Selfish: Once he realizes that Bill is a monster, Ford acknowledges the best solution to stopping him would be to just destroy the portal and torch his journals so that it could never be rebuilt. However, he refuses to do so on the grounds that their existence could help humanity, but it quickly becomes apparent that the true reason is that he doesn't want his life's work to be destroyed and forgotten about.
  • Sensory Overload: thisisnotawebsitedotcom.com has an easter egg accessible from typing in any direct references to Grunkle Stan where Bill rants that he's capable of seeing through the eyes of every person he's ever possessed when he closes his eye, and that he can't turn this off. He's in unimaginable pain. The second to last entry in that path is just a full page of screaming.
  • Shared Universe: The book features a number of references to Amphibia and The Owl House— most immediately, there are drawings of Hooty and a Titan skull, with hidden ciphers reading "TITAN'S BLOOD" and "CURSE WITTEBANE," the latter inferring that Bill Cipher and Emperor Belos have interacted once before. The Core from Amphibia makes a full cameo at the end of the book, where it is revealed to be an inmate in the Theraprism just like Bill Cipher. The Black Cube of Darkness from Wander over Yonder also makes an appearance in the Theraprism, and Bill is asked during his self-interview if he's the father of Phineas from Phineas and Ferb, something which he refuses to confirm or deny.
  • She Is Not My Girlfriend: Bill apparently spent some time with a "howling void." When questioned about it, he gets very defensive.
    Bill: Just because I got coffee with a howling void ONE TIME does not mean we were in a relationship!
  • Ship Tease:
    • When Bill reveals Dipper's search history, one of the things Dipper looked up was videos of Pacifica's beauty pageants.
    • The entire book is this for Bill and Ford (retroactively, at least), particularly Bill's guide to love, and the section 'How to Trick Everyone Into Loving You'.
      • Among the things Bill tells the reader to do to get someone to love them is to leave dead rodents on their love's doorstep, which the Journal 3 excerpts reveal he did to Ford. He also recommends, if all else fails, trapping your date in a massive stone pyramid and singing an increasingly shrill song until they're mentally broken enough to confess their true feelings. Sound familiar?
      • Mabel outright offers Bill post-breakup advice for getting over Ford, and Stan describes Bill as 'just another jerk of the week' in regards to Ford.
  • Shout-Out:
  • Significant Anagram: The day before the portal test, Ford has a dream where all the people whose minds had been invaded by Bill in the past approach him in a clearing, chanting "I Grow Maddened" over and over again. Ford theorizes that it might be an anagram but is unable to come up with a satisfying solution. He would have no way of guessing at the time that the letters could be rearranged into "Weirdmageddon."
  • Skewed Priorities: When Bill inquires Ford night after night (via sticking post-it notes to Ford's face) to continue opening the portal so he can destroy the mortal realm, one of the first things Ford tells Bill is to stop wasting his post-it notes.
  • Smug Snake: Bill is so proud of himself for seemingly conning the almighty Axolotl into giving him a way to cheat death. It's only during his internment at the Theraprism that he realizes the Axolotl played him.
  • Surprisingly Happy Ending: For everyone but Bill, that is. Bill claims that reading this book gave him permission to enter the reader's brain, modifying it so he can possess your body to start Weirdmageddon 2.0, and for a second the reader could be fooled into believing that he may get away with it... only for Ford to come in and clarify that this book isn't truly cursed at all, nor did it ever pose any legitimate threat to humanity. Each member of the Pines family writes a joyful letter chewing Bill out and making it clear they're all safe and happy. Depending on how disturbed the reader is by the bleakness of Bill's afterlife, the "happiness" of the ending is somewhat downplayed, but it is undeniably satisfying in a schadenfreude kind of way.
  • Surprisingly Mundane Reason: Ford notes that the book adapts to "best manipulate the reader," clearly ranking this as one of its uncanny, horrifying, inexpiable properties, but during the message from the Theraprism, we're shown an image of Bill making the book, and you'll notice he isn't just writing - he's got glue, scissors and magazines. That is, the book is a scrapbook. The reason the layout is so weird and keeps changing isn't because Bill can magically sense the subconscious desires of the reader and immediately adapt to them; he is literally just making it up as he goes and using whatever random material he has on hand.
  • Take That!:
    • Bill's apology video has him playing a xylophone, mocking Miranda Sings' infamous "apology" video where she played the ukulele in response to grooming accusations against her.
    • "The Church of Cipherology" is an obvious dig at Scientology.
      • The website takes a further dig. Typing "SCIENTOLOGY" into the computer displays "SUPPRESSIVE PERSON DETECTED" on the screen.
    • On the section on the multiverse, Bill says it "is complicated enough to ruin any physics class or cinematic movie franchise it touches," an obvious dig at multiverse movies like the Multiverse Saga of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. (Doubles as Biting-the-Hand Humor, given that Disney owns both franchises.)
    • Apparently Bill doesn't think much of The Great Gatsby, if his Even Evil Has Standards comment at the end of the six page excerpt from said book are any indication:
      Bill: Yeesh, we get it, the billboard is a metaphor, the American Dream is bittersweet, yak yak yak! Look, I might have been a little hasty. Not even a meat pile like you deserves to experience "required reading."
    • In the section of predictions on how the reader will die, one of the options is them dying from imitating the playful stunts on a TV-Y7 cartoon show, followed by a network censor punching the wall in anger and sobbing.
    • This gem from the "Anti-Cipher Society" page:
      America loved me so much they started a fan club! Wait, what do you call a fan club that's dedicated to your destruction? Oh yeah! A fandom!
    • Ford puts on "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" to help cheer Fiddleford up, which he calls "a sacrifice graver than any I have ever known."
    • On the website, typing in Gen Alpha "brainrot" slangs/words like: "CRYPTO," "DOGE," "ELON," "FORTNITE," "GYATT," "NFT," "RIZZ," or "SKIBIDI" in the computer displays the result "LIFE PRIVILEGES REVOKED. NOW RELEASING POISON GAS."
    • Entering "DIONARAP" on the website includes a String Theory board which, among other things, has an annoyed-looking Bill pointing at a common "Human Bill" rendition with the caption "BEWARE THE IMPOSTER." After a similar reference in Journal 3 where Ford outright rebuts the idea of Cipher manifesting as "a dapper man in coattails" and Alex Hirsch revealing his own "official" concept for Human Bill being the complete opposite, one gets the feeling that Alex is as fond of Bill's invokedpopular fandom depiction as Bill is.
    • Dipper's search history includes a query about whether it's normal to be attracted to the Green "M&N". At the time the book was being written, Fox News personality Tucker Carlson had done an entire segment of his show complaining that the Green M&M was "no longer sexy" after being slightly redesigned to wear boots like the other characters instead of heels, which went viral for how absolutely unhinged and creepy it was.
  • Tempting Fate: The Axolotl reports that Bill accepted its offer supposedly thinking to himself "How bad could these trials be?" Bill assumed his trials to be reincarnated would be cool things like fighting demons and eating ghosts, but instead he's in eternal group therapy - which is the worst fate possible for someone like Bill.
  • Thin Dimensional Barrier: Bill's justification for focusing his attentions on Earth, as the dimensional boundary between it and the Nightmare Realm is weak "like the thin, breakable crust on a crème brûlée." He hones in on Gravity Falls because it's thinnest there.
  • Toilet Humor: Allegedly, Dipper clogged one of Pacifica's toilets during "Northwest Mansion Mystery" and blamed the ghosts.
  • Tome of Eldritch Lore: The book itself. Its appearance certainly fits the bill, and the description for its sale warns the reader that it is very cursed. Revealed to be Subverted at the end. It turns out Bill just quickly slapped the book together during an hour-long arts and crafts session in the Theraprism and reading it is only harmful if the reader falls for Bill's manipulations. The most "cursed" thing about it is its ability to infect other books and adjust its form to be most appealing to its reader.
  • Tom the Dark Lord: Two of Bill's fellow inmates in the Theraprism are named (found through decoding) Jessica and Mr. Silly.
  • Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth:
    • One of the first guesses put forward for Bill's afterlife is Hell, and while he gleefully confirms it exists (along with Heaven), he also reveals he was kicked out for being "too annoying." This is a lie: he never actually made it to Hell. At least not a conventional one.
    • Bill has peered into the minds of madmen, but McGucket's mind was scarred enough by his overuse of his memory gun to make Bill feel pain that isn't hilarious; he is freaked out by it and is unable to enter it.
  • To the Pain: When Ford tries to tell Bill to leave him alone for good, Bill has a terrifying moment where he goes over all the possible agonies he could visit on Ford, all while subjecting him to intrusive and horribly painful Mind Rape:
    "THINK, SIXER. YOU LET ME. IN. YOUR. HEAD. DO YOU REALIZE WHAT I CAN DO HERE IF I WANT? I CAN FLIP A SWITCH THAT MAKES EVERY NEURON BURN WITH PAIN BEYOND IMAGINATION. I CAN REWIRE YOUR OPTIC NERVE SO THE SKY IS BELOW YOU, PLAY A TONE THAT GETS LOUDER AND LOUDER UNTIL YOU BASH IN YOUR OWN SKULL JUST TO MAKE IT STOP. I CAN DELETE MEMORIES RANDOMLY, JUST FOR FUN. MAYBE I ALREADY HAVE. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO REMEMBER? YOUR MOTHER'S FACE? YOUR OWN NAME? WHO ARE YOU ANYWAY?"
  • Tragic Keepsake: Bill keeps the sole remaining atom of his home dimension in his top hat.
  • Twist Ending: Multiple times throughout the book, Bill addresses (but deliberately avoids answering) the elephant in the room of "How is Bill writing this after he supposedly died?" Ford implies he's concerned Bill may be brought Back from the Dead or secretly living in Stanley's mind, but the truth turns out to be more humiliating than anything anyone could have imagined; Bill has been stuck in eternal group therapy, and will likely remain there for all of eternity. This supposedly extremely cursed book? Bill made it during an arts and craft hour.
  • Unknown Rival: For obvious reasons relating to the series finale, Bill has a very deep antipathy towards Stanley to the point where the end of his Villainous Breakdown is simply screaming "STANLEY!" over and over, blaming him for his latest defeat. For his part, however, from what we gleam Stanley barely seems to remember Bill at all and, to the extent that he does, merely considers him yet another example of the weird things they seemed to encounter each week.
  • Un-person: The Oracle from Journal 3 is revealed to have been a former henchmaniac of Bill. The only mention she receives in the book is when Bill is showcasing his gang to the reader and her entry is hastily scribbled over so much that you can barely make out it's her.
  • Unreliable Narrator: Bill is a notorious liar, both to the reader and to himself. A lot of things he claims are blatant lies ("I was the most beloved person in my home dimension and everyone loved me liberating them!"), but even outside those things, all of his information is inherently dubious.
  • The Un-Reveal: Bill was going to talk about Dipper and Mabel's grandfather Shermie in the book, but he had to cut that page to include the section about silly straws. He thinks it was worth it.
  • Villain Episode: The book puts focus on Bill, being written entirely by him and telling his tale.
  • Villainous Breakdown: Bill experiences a HUGE one near the end of the book that makes every other breakdown he had in the show seem milquetoast in comparison when his plan to swap bodies with the reader is thwarted by the Pines family once more when their You Are Better Than You Think You Are letters begin to weaken Bill's hold on the reader's mind. This is then followed by The Reveal that Bill is trapped in the Theraprism. The last few pages consist of Bill going absolutely BALLISTIC, ranting against the Pines family, the universe, and finally the reader before he cuts their connection entirely. His last words being that he'll find someone else, and that he'll get out eventually. The way the text fades however make Bill's threats seem more like he's in denial over the fact that he isn't leaving anytime soon.
  • Villainous BSoD: Bill experiences a surprising amount of guilt considering his character when recounting the destruction of his home world that he caused, as recounting it causes him to black out and hear nothing but high pitched ringing for thirty seconds.
  • Villainous Crush: Bill towards Ford, rather more explicitly than in the show or Journal 3. Bill being Bill, this does not go well for Ford.
  • Villain Protagonist: The book is told from the direct perspective of Big Bad, Ax-Crazy Bill Cipher, and gives more detail into his character and backstory.
  • The Vitruvian Pose: Bill discusses an image of this pose on one page, falsely claiming that it's an accurate depiction of what humans once looked like.
    "As this image shows, at one point in history, the human body had 4 arms and 4 legs, scrambling around on its haunches like a crab, howling as it went. Oh, how it howled."
  • We Can Rule Together: Near the end of the book, Bill claims that he and the reader will rule the universe together in Weirdmageddon 2.0 if they help him return from the afterlife.
  • Weird Weather: During the section that's allegedly lost pages from Journal 3, Ford mentions Gravity Falls' abnormal weather patterns, noting during winter that there's a chance of "quail hail."
  • Wham Line: For much of the book, Stanford's notes portray the text as a Tome of Eldritch Lore that has the potential to bring Bill Cipher Back from the Dead or otherwise cause awful consequences for the reader and the world. However, his final note casts a very different light on what the book actually is: not an existential danger to reality, but a last desperate gesture from a pathetic Attention Whore who is terrified of being forgotten after his death.
    Ford: I emerged from my lab after days of agonized contemplation to find- to my shock- that Mabel was reading the book, out loud, to Stanley, Dipper, Soos, and Wendy! I tried to explain the terrible danger that they were in, when I realized: None of them were possessed. None of them were harmed. And they had tears in their eyes... from laughing at his attempts to deceive them!
  • Wham Shot: After Bill makes a deal with the Axolotl, you're hit with an image of Bill in mandatory group therapy in the Theraprism. This image finally reveals what happened to Bill's spirit after his death. Not only was that a massive question within the book, but it was a mystery that had been deliberately unanswered since the Gravity Falls finale had aired eight years prior.
  • Where I Was Born and Razed: The exact details are censored but Bill more than likely either destroyed his home dimension himself or was otherwise directly responsible for its destruction.
  • Who's Laughing Now?: In one of Ford's alleged missing journal entries, he complains about Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer forgiving his tormentors instead of using his red hot nose to burn down their workshop.
  • You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Both the Book of Bill itself and the warnings from Ford are written under the assumption that the reader is going through a difficult time in their life and is desperate enough to seek a greater purpose and/or life advice from a cursed tome. When Bill attempts to convince the reader that they will find fulfillment if they to go to Gravity Falls and release him from his afterlife prison, the Pines family intervenes by reassuring the reader that they don't need Bill or his promises of universal domination to be happy because happiness can be found elsewhere.
  • You Cannot Kill an Idea: Bill invokes this in the beginning as part of a Badass Boast; Regarding the question of the reader if he is imaginary, Bill notes that this makes him immortal, since "you can't kill an idea." In his final note, Ford has the perfect rebuttal; "You can't kill an idea, but you can think of a better one."
  • Your Mom: In the 1947 file on Bill it says under "Date of Birth" that he claimed to be "older than your mom, Jack." Apparently the interrogator was so incensed that he tried to tackle him and had to be replaced with another one.
  • YouTuber Apology Parody: In a Q&A section, when asked if he feels any regrets about causing Weirdmageddon, Cipher scoffs that he "already addressed that in [his] apology video" where he's shown playing a xylophone.

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