All the paranormal and supernatural characters in the show. Most of them are non-human creatures, along with some unusual humans.
- This may support the "The Northwests support Bill" theory, because, as we all know, the Northwests are all arrogant, selfish Consummate Liars. Now, you may point out that Pacifica isn't this, but that is the point! Pacifica is one of The Chosen Many because she let go of her pride. (And before you tell me that the "The Northwests support Bill" theory is jossed, I'll tell you this: what Bill did to Preston Northwest is not the first time Bill was cruel to someone who made a deal with him: it's a habit of his, as he pulled a Grand Theft Me on Dipper when the two made a deal. Furthermore, you should focus on the symbolism.)
- Axolotl
- My time has come to burn
- I invoke the ancient power
- That I may return
What we do know is that the average person's power in the Mindscape is seemingly limited only by their awareness of that power. Shapeshifting, space manipulation, levitation, anything one can imagine, it's possible to manipulate. If a normal human has so much power in the Mindscape, why is Bill granted the distinguishing term "demon?" It's possible Bill's just been in the Mindscape so long he's learned a lot more tricks to manipulating it, or become more connected to it somehow from the long duration. If this is true, then the only real difference between Bill and our protagonists is simply years of experience.
- More info to back this theory up and/or and a very interesting twist on it: during the AMA, a user called Archivemod asked "Do you know what spawned your existence?" Bill replied that "Edwin Abbott Abbott has a good idea." Edwin Abbott Abbott was a relatively obscure man, only made famous decades after his death by Albert Einstein's appreciation for his book, Flatland. Flatland is the story of a people that live on a 2D plane and are unable to comprehend 3D. In fact, their 2D nature makes them unable to properly understand 3D individuals when they come into contact with them, and therefore they never have to admit they exist because they cannot see them. One of these 2D people, however, is taken by a 3D individual into the realm of 3D, where he learns to comprehend what previously could not be understood by his kind. However, upon his return he no longer fits in among the 2D people, having seen the world through an extra dimension they could never comprehend. They, in turn, believe him insane. Abbott also wrote religious novels, in particular expressing a theory on what exactly evil was. In one of his many books he discusses the idea that external things cannot make men evil, but instead that impurities come "out of the heart of men," and mentions in particular that this creates "an evil eye." I wonder which parts Bill believes reflects his own origins? Either way, this seems to imply that Bill has some origin in humanity.
- This fits in with another idea of mine. It occured to me that Bill may have been acting so spazztic while possessing Dipper because he wanted Dipper to be freaking out. If Dipper was able to calm down and think logically, he may have realized that Bill normally has the same weaknesses Dipper did when he was disembodied, or that, since Dipper was in the Mindscape now, he now had access to the same abilities he used in Dreamscaperers, even if only Bill could see them.
- This theory appears to be partially Jossed, as Bill seems to be an ancient evil entity older than the world Gravity Falls takes place in. Though we don't know the scope of his powers of the mind, so some variety of Time Travel or dimension warping could always be in effect.
- However, Ford states that Bill is a being that is older than the physical universe.
- Never mind. As for 'Not What He Seems', I guess this was spectacularly Jossed.
- Definitely Jossed as of the events of Weirdmageddon. Not only has he spread chaos across the entire area of Gravity Falls, he's enjoying every bit of it.
- He knows "Lots of things" because he still has all of Walt's memories of when he was alive, as well as everything that happened to his company since he died.
- He has become insane and vengeful after all the years of bad CGI movies, needless direct to DVD sequels, and horrible tween programing that were soiling his company's good name.
- Cryogenics have been shown to be possible in universe...
- Jossed; according to his Reddit AMA, he's implied to be old enough that the pyramids were based on him. So either he's much older or Walt would need a reason to time travel back there.
- Pine tree - Dipper; Confirmed
- Shooting star - Mabel; Confirmed
- Question mark - Soos; Confirmed
- Pac-man symbol - Stan; It is on his hat after all.
- Confirmed
- Pentagram - Gideon; This is the symbol that's on his Tent of Telepathy.
- Confirmed
- Bag of ice - Wendy; She does have a cool personality and her first major episode took place in a convenience store.
- Don't forget the ice at the fair and the cooler on the roof!
- Confirmed
- Stitched heart - Robbie; This symbol does appear on his sweat shirt.
- Confirmed
- Six fingered hand - The author of the books; It's obviously him, since the symbol is on the books, we just don't know who he is.
- Confirmed
- Llama - Wendy's dad or some one equally tough; Larry King's head did say llamas were nature's greatest warriors, so it would have to be someone powerful.
- Maybe Grenda could be the llama...
- It could be Gompers the goat. See theories below.
- Wax Larry King is a strong candidate for this one. The llama on the wheel is mirror-reversed from the one on Mabel's sweater. Mabel was holding the sweater up to the mirror when Wax Larry endorsed it, thus identifying himself with that version of the image. Expect to see more of Larry in the next season.
- Lebam, a mirror doppelganger of Mabel created by Gideon from a sample of her hair (and her llama hair sweater). There is considerable evidence for the existence of this character. See theories by "The Sqoou" on You Tube.
- Pacifica. We've only seen the sweater, but not anyone wearing it. If Mabel and Pacifica do eventually become friends, maybe Mabel will reward her with the sweater for doing something brave?
- Confirmed
- Given the llama motif in "Northwest Mansion Mystery," particularly highlighted in this screenshot/official blog post, Pacifica is looking even more like a reasonable candidate.
- Sunglasses - I dunno, maybe Blubs; He's the only character with sunglasses. Blendin could also be an option since his goggles cover his eyes.
- ...and Candy could be the glasses.
- I'd like to point out that when Gideon summoned Bill to go into Stan's mind, there was a little arrow pointing at the glasses.
- That was a big X over his eyes, basically symbolizing "Kill Stan."
- Well yes, on the picture in the middle of the summoning circle the glasses on Stan's face where crossed out, but what the other troper was referring to is probably the fact that Gideon's book on summoning Bill had an arrow pointing to the glasses symbol in the circle.
- There is currently a popular fan theory (with a surprising amount of evidence) that Grunkle Stan has a twin brother, and that the glasses represent said brother.
- The glasses look like they have a frame line on top but not the bottom, like the Stan they disturbed when time-traveling (and the glasses in the secret room with the carpet). It could be the hypothetical twin of Stan.
- Since Stan wears the glasses when younger, the glasses could mean him and the symbol on the fez could mean someone else. Stan does mention "other people" from the lodge.
- The glasses could be Old Man McGucket. He has those ones from the Society of the Blind Eye and the ones he wore when he was younger.
- Confirmed
- Jossed. It's Bill Cipher
- Confirmed, he's the big bad
In the opening credits picture of the pyramid, there's a bunch of letters somewhere on the left. It's binary code for " the word smuggler lives." Also, if you take a look at the whole picture from the out takes (the one with the crossed out eye) there's a bunch of numbers which have been covered in the red paint used to cross out the eye. Pretty sure its in the other journal pages and maybe in the other important bits of the show. So maybe the big bad isn't actually Bill Cipher, but actually the word smuggler, as he seems to be terrifying the socks off the author. Or he'll just be another big bad in the later seasons. He'll be really important, anyway.
- Jossed.
- Confirmed he's most definitely the Big Bad.
- Jossed. However, Gideon drew an arrow pointing at the glasses when summoning Bill to invade Stan's mind.
- When everyone on the circle is brought together, they can kill Bill.
- If combined with the idea of ice being a bad omen for Dipper, as mentioned above, this might indicate the pyramid guy will be of help to Dipper in the future, since ice can be seen as an opposite to fire.
- I'm sorry, who regularly scams people with cheesy tourist traps, repeatedly lies to incompetent law enforcement, and bribes construction officials?
- Actually, I'm pretty sure the Doctor has done every one of those things at one time or another; so it wouldn't exactly be unprecedented for a Big Good.
- Okay, I'm just going to settle the score and take a couple quotes from Dipper and Mabel's Guide to Mystery and Nonstop Fun◊ and let you decide whether or not that they're the words of a Well-Intentioned Extremist:Bill: [Dipper's] simpleminded codes and supernatural tips won't help him when the rise of my nightmare realm brings forth a... Well, I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's just say that it's going to be a real party!Bill: Remember that thing that your parents told you? The thing they said was really important, and would make you feel safe and secure at night? They were lying. Pleasant dreams!
- Later episodes of season 2 show that Bill's intent is to bring about the apocalypse, all because he thinks it's fun. Not exactly Big Good material.
- Jossed
- The events of "The Last Mabelcorn" and "Dipper and Mabel vs. the Future" seem to suggest otherwise.
- Jossed
- His dramatic exit heavily implies this. "I'll be watching."
- Near the end of "Gideon Rises," the shot pans down after the twins chase Soos out of the attic, and there is a cryptogram written on a pipe in the house walls. Once decoded, it reads "BILL IS WATCHING."
- He's been watching Dipper. (At least since the end of season 1. But it's sort of implied he's been watching Dipper for a while now.)
- And Mabel, and Soos, probably through the Eye symbol in the Mystery Shack window◊, which we saw as early as S1E3. One wonders, if Stan knows about Bill and his connection to the triangle-and-eye symbol, why he'd leave that symbol intact in the window, or what it's even doing in the Shack in the first place...
- Confirmed, he can use pictures of himself as peepholes.
- When Gideon first summons Bill, he does the thing with the deer teeth, agrees to invade Stan's mind, and departs. The camera cuts to Gideon, and then to Mabel and Soos; they open their eyes and jump slightly, as if awakening from a startling dream. Thereafter, we only really see Bill inside Stan's mind.
- This happens again when he contacts Dipper, both times we see him fall asleep first (as indicated by the head nod and closing eyes). However! At the end of Sock Opera we see Bill possess a puppet and start moving it. This is the only time we've seen him interact with the physical world without using a human host. This is also the only time a meeting with Bill didn't end in the participants jolting awake immediately afterwards. So this might imply he does exist outside the mental plane. That and you see his shadow following Dipper in the same episode.
- However, this was also immediately after he'd jumped out of Dipper's mind: It's possible that once he acquired a physical presence, no matter how temporarily, it solidified his connection to the world enough that Bill could then affect it physically, allowing him to possess the puppet. We did see Bill's shadow before he possessed Dipper, but that could have just been a way of letting the viewer know Bill was there; alternately, being summoned by Gideon gave him enough of a foothold that he could manifest in the real world, but only very weakly, ex. casting a shadow without any physical substance behind it. Every time he gains another connection to the physical world, his ability to affect it directly expands in scope.
- This happens again when he contacts Dipper, both times we see him fall asleep first (as indicated by the head nod and closing eyes). However! At the end of Sock Opera we see Bill possess a puppet and start moving it. This is the only time we've seen him interact with the physical world without using a human host. This is also the only time a meeting with Bill didn't end in the participants jolting awake immediately afterwards. So this might imply he does exist outside the mental plane. That and you see his shadow following Dipper in the same episode.
- Dipper, who has presumably read about him in the journal, refers to him as a "brain demon" and a "dream demon" on separate occasions. Bill may be the master of the mind, but could it be that he only exists IN the mind? Note that his summoning scene shifts to black and white—Stan's mindscape is mostly grayscale as well.
- The warning "whatever you do, don't let him into your mind" implies that he can cause the most destruction from within a person, but what if the meaning was more "don't let him into YOUR mind"?
- Since he is literally a symbol, perhaps the drawings of him in the journal aren't merely depictions, but dwelling places. He exists only in conceptual space, and can do nothing to the real world—except watch.
- Evidently confirmed, as we see that when he gained physical form in Weirdmageddon his image was torn out of the journal.
- Finally, though this is most certainly an aesthetic choice on the part of his voice actor, what made me begin to think about Bill's nature was his voice. He constantly seems to shout, but his voice is no louder than the other characters'—like he is shouting through a wall.
- Because we only see him from the front, I like to think Bill exists in 2D space. It just seems like an impossibility only he could achieve.
- Confirmed. Bill is indeed some kind of incorporeal spirit, which is why he needs to possess humans, so he can eventually launch his plan to manifest in the physical world by himself.
- Ultimately confirmed. He gains a physical form in Weirdmageddon, which was his whole motivation for doing anything in Gravity falls, and the only way to destroy him is to erase a person's memory while Bill is inside their mind, because that's the only place he definitively exists.
- I'm the troper who submitted that theory, and I think you're on to something here. I was suspecting that "something I've been working on" was meant as an ongoing project, and every time someone summons him, he gets them to complete the next step. Perhaps that would have involved possessing Gideon.
- Especially considering that Bill didn't even say what he wanted Gideon to do for him, just that they'd work out the details later. This strongly suggests that Bill was going to ask something that Gideon never would've agreed to if he knew.
- Partially confirmed: he does eventually get a physical form through Dipper, but it's unclear whether this was also his plan for Gideon and it just didn't pan out.
- Partly Jossed. Old Man Mc Gucket was driven insane by using the memory-erasing device too often, but he also didn't write the journals so this WMG could still fit, just not for him.
- Aww, but that's no fun.
- It's animation, so it doesn't necessarily make a difference, but in real life, blood dries to a brown color and the stuff all over the page is FAR too red to accurately represent old, dried blood (or, hell, even blood that had spilled on the page earlier that day, much less weeks/months/years ago).
- It's jam.
- Jossed, it's Stanford's eye blood
- Confirmed in the AMA.
- His name is a reference to the Beale Cipher, though it doesn't disprove your theory.
- And in some symbolism, Satan has three faces, and his colors are red, black, and pale yellow.
- Actually, Bill shows all three of these colors throughout the course of Gravity Falls; red whenever he's furious or excited, black when he first arrives and when he dies, and yellow as his default.
- The fact that his body shows images like Blendin's cloaking suit does reinforces the hipothesis that he is a construct of the time travellers. His ability to break into minds, and posess peoples would make him an exelent device to repair timeline distortions caused by leaked informations about the future. If the Author of the Journals had such informations, it's elucidate why he didn't hadn't let Dipper find the notes on the Author laptop. But his character, especially his complete unpredictability, suggests that even if he was once supposed to work to protect the integriy of time, he had became rouge, and now he has his own plans. (Maybe he now want to mix up the past, present, and future? If he have hard feelings on his old masters, then that would be a crowning moment of revenge for him, and doing so on a way that he would benefit from it, he could become the ruler of all existence.)
- Ford states that Bill is older than the physical universe, so he actually pre-dates the Time Baby.
- Jossed
- Since Stan had access to the books, it's probably intentional on his part: Bill can see anything within eyesight of his image, including the Eye on the dollar, and defacing the money then spending it elsewhere creates a "blind spot" around Stan that lets him continue his work in secret.
- Jossed, it's a secret society.
- Which adds to Fridge Horror when "Bideon" would've looked up and down for Stan's device, unleashing possible horrors onto the town and the world...
The messages that have been appearing at the end of the first few episodes of season two appear to be from Bill Cipher, especially the one at the end of "Sock Opera":
SO PATIENTLY I WATCH THIS TOWN
ABNORMAL SOON WILL BE THE NORM
ENJOY THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM
If it is a message from Bill, it seems to suggest as to the nature of the "big things" that are coming: he wants to increase the levels of weirdness in Gravity Falls, or spread them further. Why would he do this? Perhaps Bill believes stirring up strangeness in the mortal world will increase his own influence as a "dream demon", or perhaps he's just doing it because he thinks it would be funny.
- (Sorta) Confirmed by "The Last Mabelcorn": Stanford reveals that he was tricked into a deal with Bill when he built the portal, only to learn that Cipher wanted to use it to take over Earth by merging it with his Nightmare Realm.
- Confirmed by the entirety of Weirdmageddon. Bill Cipher succeeds in doing this.
Team A: Dipper (tree), Six-Fingered Hand (probably McGucket), Mabel (shooting star), Stanley (glasses), and Wendy (ice),Team B: Stanford (fez symbol), Gideon (pentagram), Llama (Lebam?), Robbie (stitched heart), and Soos (question mark).
Team A is all the people who will become (or already are) invested in discovering the truth about Gravity Falls for one reason or another, but ultimately they'll have good intentions. Team B is all the people who already know all about what's going on in Gravity Falls, but are trying to keep the truth hidden in order to gain or maintain their own power. This notably puts Stanley and Stanford against each other...
- Jossed. However, during the Reddit AMA one of "Bill's" replies does contain the coordinates for the Bermuda Triangle, signifiying some potential connection.
- Probably Jossed. Though he may be behind the triangle somehow (this is implied in the fanmade animatic for his deleted villain song).
- Alternately, the symbols represent Bill's checklist: A list of people he has to make contracts with, or or else he won't be able to achieve his goal. There's nothing foreordained about it, but it does mean that Bill will be trying to manipulate the people represented by the symbols into making deals with him; now that the first one (Gideon) partially summoned him, Bill is able to more directly influence events in the real world. This could be why Season 2 has generally been darker and more dangerous than Season 1, as Bill is upping the ante in hopes of forcing them into a corner, where they have no other choice but to deal with him.
- Jossed, it represent the people who can stop Bill
- Jossed
- I like this WMG a lot, but there is one problem: Dipper (Bipper?) doesn't wake up after he makes the deal with Bill. Dipper's body is still standing up and functioning as if he was awake when they shook hands. However, it could be that what Bill really wanted was a chance to destroy the journal, and setting up the fake countdown and destroying the laptop was just cleaning up a loose end.
- That could be explained with Dipper being just in such a sleep deprived state that he couldn't tell Bill's dreamworld from reality. Perhaps Bill doesn't need deep REM to affect someone's mind- just someone in light non-REM that's perceptible enough to his illusions.
- I like this WMG a lot, but there is one problem: Dipper (Bipper?) doesn't wake up after he makes the deal with Bill. Dipper's body is still standing up and functioning as if he was awake when they shook hands. However, it could be that what Bill really wanted was a chance to destroy the journal, and setting up the fake countdown and destroying the laptop was just cleaning up a loose end.
- Jossed
- To be fair, that describes a lot of fictional demons.
- Jossed.
- You're wrong. You're welcome.
- Says Bill.
- You're wrong. You're welcome.
- That might explain how Bill knows lots of things.
However, during their next mission to battle the creatures, Gideon's ancestor came up with an idea to battle them with other mystical artifacts and wrote it in Book #2. Stan didn't like that idea, so he kicked Gideon's ancestor out. Stan then wrote Book #3, but the hid it because Gideon's relative tried to stop him with his idea. The Pyramid Guy, fearing something similar might happen to Stan, brainwashed him and gave the secret identity of a con man , and used his merchandise to heal Gravity Falls. The Pyramid Guy created Soos to make sure it went perfect, hence Soos being a Cloudcuckoolander like McGucket and Trembley. However, when it came time to intrust the secrets to someone else, the Pyramid Guy exited Soos and told Stan somebody must inherit the books and then hid in a vending machine. So Dipper and Mabel came, and their mission became successful. To make sure that Dipper and Mabel stuck with each other, The Pyramid Guy created Waddles. This enabled Dipper to stick with Mabel instead of Wendy. Eventually, the Time Baby escaped, and the Pyramid Guy, after being freed by Dipper and Mabel, time traveled back as Blenidin Blandin to check on Dipper, Mabel, and Waddles.
- According to the AMA, every picture of Bill is a peephole into our world.
- Semi-confirmed, sccording to the AMA he used to have a family.
- Later Word of God explains he had family back when he was just a random triangle in essentially the show's version of Flatland, but his first act when he ascended to all-powerful-demonhood was to set his entire dimension on fire, thereby killing his family and forcing him to escape, becoming a mutliversal conqueror.
- Because 1) the goat is often around when something supernatural is happening, and 2) it has yellowish eyes with black slits for pupils much like Bill!Dipper
- But goat eyes are like that naturally.
- Which is exactly why no one would suspect it.
- Goat pupils are horizontal, while those of Bill Cipher and whoever he possesses are vertical. One must also willingly shake Bill's hand for him to possess them, which the goat probably lacks the mental capacity to do in any way.
- But goat eyes are like that naturally.
- Now that Bill has entered the physical world, it would be interesting if he could somehow host a filler episode like this.
- Jossed. Season 2 shows he's an extradimensional being older than the physical universe itself.
- Partially confirmed. Ford notes that the memory gun would be effective in banishing Bill from a person he's possessed.
- Weirdmageddon Part 3: Caaaalled it!
- Confirmed by "The Last Mabelcorn"! Ford shut down the portal project when he learned Bill wanted to use it to merge Earth with his Nightmare Realm.
- Jossed
- Partially Jossed. Bill does enter the physical world, and they have powers, but it wasn't from the portal.
- Considering that in "Dipper and Mabel vs. the Future", he has possessed Blendin Blandin, who can time-travel, this is quite possible.
- I don't think "demon" and "eldritch" are mutually exclusive. And he is also a native of the Mindscape.
- First let's rule out a few people:
- Gideon. The Pines family all hate him. He wouldn't get within ten feet of the shack without someone stopping him. Even Wendy knows not to let him near the shack.
- Wendy. She's admitted that her home life leaves her stressed out, but I think she's well-adjusted enough not to make a deal with a supernatural creature.
- Soos. Maybe he could have been influenced by Bill before considering he dreamed of seeing his father again, but he's gotten over that, and now has a girlfriend. So there's very little Soos could be offered.
- Now let's discuss the people who could end up being possessed or coerced into making a deal.
- Pacifica. She has a very miserable home life, and considering she defied her parents, they are likely giving her a terrible punishment. She would be desperate enough to make a deal with Bill to get out of it. She might also be coerced into betraying Dipper
Bill Cipher: C'mon llama girl, I can help you. You just got to give me a small prize. (shows an image of the rift).Pacifica: (nervously) well, I don't know. It belongs to Dipper.Bill Cipher: C'mon! Dipper's like the happiest guy around (shows her pictures of Dipper and Mabel having fun). He doesn't now what it's like to be you. To not have a loving family. What he doesn't now won't hurt him. Or you could go back to your parents telling you what to do all time (shows her memories of her parents treating her like dirt). I promise you. Get the rift for me, and you won't have to deal with them again.Pacifica: Okay (Bill and Pacifica shake their hands).- And if her family is really connected to Bill, then it is possible she could already be indebted to him.
- Toby Determined. He could get Bill to give him Shandra Jimenez.
- Especially the ensuing one-liner: "There were so many candidates, I couldn't decide on just one... So I figured..." (cue horde of brainwashed townspeople) "...why not all of them?! NYA HA HA HA HA HA HA!)"
- Jossed. Bill only possesses one person: Blendin Blandin in "Dipper and Mabel vs the Future".
- Additonal guess: The Pines family will be all but torn apart by this point, but the tragedy brought about by the bridging of worlds and the necessity to reverse the damage will ultimately repair it. In other words, "[their] mutual hatred of [Bill] bonds [them] together."
- Confirmed by the ending of "Dipper and Mabel vs. the Future", which begins Bill's conquest of Earth.
- Certain material about the show confirms that they definitely don't like each other, and both are the only thing that matches the other's power.
- In "Dipper and Mabel vs. the Future", Bill is finally able to execute his plan to take over and/or destroy the physical world. Something tells me that the Time Baby would have to be recruited to stop him.
- Especially if you consider that from the preview for "Xpcveaoqfoxso", Stanford asks Dipper to literally follow him "to the ends of the Earth". They're probably referring to Antarctica...
- Confirmed! However, Bill quickly vaporizes the Time Baby in an anti-climatic manner. Although according to the credits cryptogram, the Baby will be reforming in 1000 years, so there could still be an eventual rematch.
- "Eventual?" You do realize the Time Baby is a time-traveler, right? As soon as he's reformed he could just jump back a thousand years.
- There's another problem with this though. Even if Time Baby can resurrect himself in 1,000 years, why hasn't he already traveled back in time now for a rematch?
- "Eventual?" You do realize the Time Baby is a time-traveler, right? As soon as he's reformed he could just jump back a thousand years.
- Additional theory: Bill Cipher possessed Blendin Blandin, because both of them despise the Time Baby, and they conspired to overthrow him somehow. Unfortunately for Blendin, he failed to realize that Bill is the greater of the two evils; and that Bill's plan was to conquer and/or destroy the world in the past, long before Time Baby ever gets the chance to do the same.
- Original poster. While not exactly jossed, dialogue from Blendin and the Time Police imply that Bill possessed Blendin without any form of agreement between the two. Bill still might have possessed him before then.
- Though it's still possible that Bill tricked Blendin into making a possession deal, like what he did with Dipper.
This will become obvious during the final showdown, where Bill is plainly a second foil for Dipper: While Gideon also serves that purpose, he's demonstrated the ability to grow as a person due to the support of his new prison-friends and his genuine feelings for Mable. Dipper, of course, realized he doesn't have to try and buy his way into the cool crowd by acting cool; he already has people who support him, and gains strength from his family and friends working as a team. Bill, in contrast, lacks the ability to understand the difference, and his demon-posse lacks the human ability to form deep bonds that aren't rooted in self-interest: When the tide turns against Bill the other demons desert him, leaving him to be defeated by Dipper and his team.
- Jossed. Not only do his "friends" go by "Henchmaniacs", they seem to fear Bill, implying that he's the cool kid, and they're the Dipper (or Dippers).
- Both love chaos (one of Nyarlathotep's other names is the Crawling Chaos)
- Both are trickster figures with cruel streaks a mile wide
- Both have existed since before the evolution of humanity
- Both are associated with Ancient Egypt. Bill claimed to be the inspiration for the pyramids in his Reddit AMA. Nyarlathotep was once worshipped in Egypt via the guise of the Black Pharaoh.
- Both want to destroy the world and end humanity for fun
- Both enjoy driving people mad
- Both have only one eye (at least, when Nyarlathotep is in the form of the Haunter of the Dark, said to possess a "three-lobed burning eye")
If Bill is Nyarlathotep... good on him for changing masks, honestly. That whole Black Pharaoh thing is, like, super-uncomfortable and racist these days.
- A reverse message while Bill is burning alive reveals that he appeared to be attempting a regeneration spell. He was also looking right at Stan as he was saying this. What if Bill is in control of Stan now? He could have faked the amnesia to make it look convincing, and now that Stan and Ford are traveling outside of Gravity Falls, he is getting exactly what he wanted. Now he's just biding his time.
It may eventually lead to a gigantic Crisis Crossover among the entire Disney umbrella company, highlights including Cipher literally giving Maleficent the boot and claiming the top spot of being the leader of all Disney Villains and possibly a final standoff between him and Mickey.....
- Brilliant idea.
But when Bill leaves his physical form after entering our world he leaves behind a petrified version of himself with his hand outstretched and as we all know You just have to shake hands for him to get access to your mind. If someone, anyone does it might just give Bill a way out to escape from inside of Stan's mind. Now it might seem like nobody would ever do that but given all the weird things people do to real statues for luck there is no question that if the statue is found someone eventually will.
- Sixty degrees come in threes
Watches from within birch trees
Saw his own dimension burn
Misses home and can't return
Says he's happy. He's a liar
Blame the arson for the fire
If he wants to shirk the blame
He'll have to invoke my name
One way to absolve his crime
Another form, another time
(Emphasis mine)
Now, most of the rest of the poem describes Bill perfectly, despite not being technically canon to the series... "Sixty degrees in threes" refers to an equilateral triangle, Bill destroyed his own dimension, and so on and so forth. So, that bit on the end there? It becomes important to remember come Bill's "death". His speech played backwards results in this:
- A-X-O-L-O-T-L
My time has come to burn!
I invoke the ancient power
That I may return!
—>(Immediately afterwards): STAAAAAAAAANLEEEEEEEEEEY!
That last part wasn't just him screaming in rage at Stan... it was a declaration of intent. He just got through reciting a chant that would supposedly bring him back to life, and now he got to pick the form he returned in. (Or at least, it could be taken as such, even if it did turn out to just be him raging at his killer.) Of course, that didn't work out quite the way he wanted it to... he didn't just take the shape of Stanley Pines, he became Stanley Pines. As in, he was reincarnated as old Sixer's twin brother. This would explain, among other things, why his imitation of Bill starts way back in the first episode of the series, why Ford put "STAN IS NOT WHAT HE SEEMS" in one of his journals, and serve to bookend his relationship with Ford in general. Now, knowing what eventually happened to Stanley, if Bill ended up becoming him, he got the same ending... but with an added twist. He ended up helping orchestrate the downfall of his past, evil self, to say nothing of his other actions in the series. Stan's arc ended with a reconciliation... Bill's ended with a redemption.
- Rather interesting and heartwarming take on MatPat's take on the "Bill will be ressurected" theory.
- Apparently jossed: in "Scaryoke" Dipper discovers messages in Journal #3 written in invisible ink. The page on giant bats is covered in invisible scrawls indicating that the giant bats in Gravity Falls are giant fruit bats, and are harmless despite their intimidating appearance.
- Further jossed in Northwest Mansion Mystery when Pacifica's dad holds out a newspaper with a photo of Dipper helping Blubs and Durland deal with a giant bat.
- Jossed. He did make an appearance in the finale but he wasn't really a Chekhov's Gunman.
- Or it would be a goth chick who will lure HIM into woods.
- Confirmed in "Scary-Oke", but it's by Dipper's own hand that they come.
- He and Gideon will team-up at some point. But will end up turning against each other due to their affections for Mabel.
- On the contrary, Jeff teams up with the twins against Gideon. Though Gideon does end up turning the gnomes against them.
- The undead are often mistaken for Teenagers.
- And why is that? Because of their bad skin and attitude, both of which he definitely has.
- He is the only teen besides Wendy who isn't transformed or imprisoned by the ghosts.
- The broken heart symbol on his shirt can be seen in the Book that appears in the credits.
- If you pay attention to the graffiti in Thompson's car, one of them reads "Zombies Rule!"
- In Fight Fighters, Robbie's band is called The Tombstones and their song is called You're Dead.
- In the Summerwean Trickster it is mentioned by Wendy that Robbie ate a single piece of candy and got sick—Maybe because it wasn't flesh?
- Actually it was because he ate the lollipop stick. Still support this theory though.
- The Love God shows that his parents run a mortuary. There aren't many professions more zombie-friendly than mortician. I would point out, though, that Robbie doesn't seem to have much in common with the living dead that we've seen on the show so far.
- Maybe he died at some point in the past and his parents brought him back in some different way than a zombie, making him still technically undead, but something else. He himself doesn't even know this because his parents kept it from him, wanting him to have a "normal" life.
- There are canon spells for raising the dead in the series. It's very possible that Robbie's parents used one of them on him. Maybe they didn't treat him well before he died and deeply regret it, which is why they act all very cheery around him. Alternatively they made a deal with the devil after digging up some remains of a necromancer to bring their son back.
- Word of God said that there is a reason for not disclosing the last name of Robbie past the letter V, so I think that it stands for Vampire. This fits his appearance better than a zombie, but so far there has been no mention of vampires(except for Mabel's boyfriend), although the bleeding heart suggests vampire as well.
- Jossed in "The Love God". His last name is Valentino, which fits perfectly with his heart motif.
- In support of the vampire argument, someone online suggested he was originally bitten by a blind vampire who missed his neck. The red spots on his chin are therefore his bite scar.
- A fan from the SDCC 2014 panel mentioned that in "The Inconveniencing", when Dipper looked into the convenience store door, all the kids were turned into skeletons except for Robbie. Mr. Hirsch acted a little suspiciously to that question.
- Stan is aware of the merpeople. You can see one on display in the Mystery Shack in some shots (like in episode 1 when Dipper is complaining about having to go out into the woods & hang up signs), and also, when Stan first appears, he scares Dipper by wearing a merperson mask!
- The thing on display is actually a famous hoax. Also, now that we've met Mermando, we can see that actual Gravity Falls merpeople look nothing like the mask Stan wore.
- Merpeople: check.
- Confirmed.
What the Multibear would've done if Dipper had failed the test, is anyone's guess. But it's unlikely that it would've allowed itself to get killed.
- Jossed, most of these were just Monsters of the Week.
- Well, the fact that all the supernatural stuff is in Gravity Falls is a plot point.
- One of the pictures in the intro had a pair of flying saucers, so its likely that aliens would appear.
- They'll also reference Invader Zim somehow.
- In an interview Alex Hirsch mentions he won't do aliens until one of the final episodes. He says something like "Once you do aliens you're done. Talking to aliens is like talking to god. You can't go much further than that" (that may or may not be exactly what he said). Obviously this means he has considered the concept of aliens, and hopefully plans to use them eventually.
- Guess the show (or at least Season 2) is almost over, because aliens were confirmed in "Dipper and Mabel vs. The Future". Though we only saw a crashed spaceship, the aliens inside were all dead (except for the robotic security drones they created), so there can't be an invasion.
- Although the same episode ends with Bill Cipher (unrelated to the spaceship aliens) successfully opening a portal to his home dimension. This probably means that there will be an invasion by extra-dimensional dream demons.
- Guess the show (or at least Season 2) is almost over, because aliens were confirmed in "Dipper and Mabel vs. The Future". Though we only saw a crashed spaceship, the aliens inside were all dead (except for the robotic security drones they created), so there can't be an invasion.
- Considering the fact that Manotaurs allegedly have three Y chromosomes, that seems unlikely. Unless they're an entirely separate species, and, I'll admit, a tribe of misandristic, Alpha Bitch half-woman-half-cow creatures would be pretty darn hilarious.
- I think at least one of the Manotaurs stated that he had three Y chromosomes; he could mean that he's XYYY. He could have something similar to XYY syndrome. Or he just could've been lying to exaggerate his manliness.
- Why do I get the feeling that there may be an episode where Mabel meets some Womanotaurs? It would be like when Dipper met the Manotaurs.
- That'd be pretty redundant lesson-wise, assuming it'd be to teach a gender-swapped version of the lesson Dipper learned in "Dipper vs. Manliness". Unless it would be to teach some other lesson, like maybe something along the lines of the episode "Equal Fights" from The Powerpuff Girls... which does seem like the kind of situation Mabel might get wrapped up in, knowing her and her history with guys.
- I think at least one of the Manotaurs stated that he had three Y chromosomes; he could mean that he's XYYY. He could have something similar to XYY syndrome. Or he just could've been lying to exaggerate his manliness.
- Oh no, Manotaurs don't discriminate. The females of the species are called Manotaurs and go around shirtless and smelly just like everyone else.
- Well, that would be a very strange twist!
- So it's like Discworld dwarves where they can't actually tell which ones are female either?
- Jossed, it's not seen again.
- Seriously, why are there theories for everything on this show? This is just a one-time joke.
- Because lots of older geeks are really obsessed with this children's cartoon.
- Directly afterwards, the document says "It's okay though, since glaciers never melt." Impending Green Aesop regarding global warming, perhaps?
- Or alternately...
- And remember the message in the book. "I'm being watched!"
- Stan did say Lincoln was his favorite...
- It doesn't seem to have much to do with the other ghosts that inhabit the convenience store.
- It would explain the ice bag included with the symbols in the opening.
- I was unaware that "two" was the new definition for "everyone".
- I (the original poster) don't actually believe this myself, but it seemed worth it to put it here.
- Firstly: the latest trailer for the episode, which is only five seconds long, features a set of gnomes holding one of Lazy Susan's pies, while at the lake, presumably having chased after her.
- Secondly: look at the faces of the Blind Eye society members as seen here◊. Notice how their facial structures don't match any of the characters previously introduced in Gravity Falls. One or two new characters being a member of a secret society is one thing, but surely you'd think that there would be a couple of people whose faces at least looked like members of the town.
- Thirdly: Note the hoods◊. They have drawstrings on them, much like a hoodie. Much like the hoodie a certain set of gnomes in disguise wore when trying to court a certain twin. Granted, this could simply be a joke, but if this is the end result, it will be the greatest example of trolling in TV history.
- Jossed! The Society is all human. They're mostly regulars (Toby Determined, Bud Gleeful, the guy who married the woodpecker...), and one new guy we hadn't met until now, and whose memory has been erased.
- .GIFfany speaks perfecbtly fluent English, and there appear to be no other typos. Plus, "anthyding" and "hadplen" are not real Englesh words, which makes it unlikely that they could just be unintended transration mistakes. Therefore, those words must be some sort of code (I know, right? A secret code, in Gravity Falls? Perish the thought!), perhaps similar to the one in A Series of Unfortunate Events, where the errors spell out a message.
- By that logic, we then have to ask what could be spelled with anthyding and hadplen?
- "anthyding" might be an anagram for "Day N Night". "hadplen" is harder to crack.
- Or alternatively, a inversion of said parody where Mabel becomes a mermaid. The episode will be titled "The Little Mermabel".
- Accoding to a Reddit thing from Hirch, his home is undergoing pollution and he seems to be falling ill...
- In Society of the Blindeye he did not physically return, but he did send a message to Mabel telling her that he was getting married.
- Okay: Franz doesn't have six fingers.
- Jossed: the author's name is Ford Pines.
- Still the OP, posting a sub theory: because the aliens were shapeshifters, they were capable of reproducing with the humans, with the offspring being more likely to develop higher intelligence, albeit with a higher chance of physical deformities. Say, for instance, polydactyly...
- Don't know if they were shapeshifter, but aliens were confirmed.
- Jossed evidently. The author holds up the weakness as an example of one of the good edits to the journal.
- His landslide victory was no accident. Trembley foresaw the landslide, and carefully arranged things so that he would be standing in the only safe place. The only reason why he did not sacrifice his own life was because he had foreseen himself as the President.
- The "Depantsipation Proclamation" was the result of a vision of a more tolerant future, one in which skirts and shorts were condoned and one did not need to employ fifteen slaves to keep cool in the summer. Trembley had meant to invent such fashions years ahead of their time, but the ignorance of his time period's tailors forced Trembley to outlaw pants, since necessity is the mother of invention.
- Having foreseen the division of gluten and gluten-free foods, Trembley declared war on pancakes. As the war progressed, he had plans to frame various gluten-rich foods for being allies to the pancake enemy. The result would have been a brilliant marketing campaign that eliminated gluten from the American diet, allowing future generations to live under the belief that they did not have the diseases that those backwards foreigners claimed were so abundant.
- Trembley foresaw the future corruption of the Supreme Court's powers, and attempted to forestall this by injecting a wide-eyed, idealistic and innocent perspective into the Supreme Court. Hence the babies. When the idea proved to be detrimental to the efficient running of the Court, Trembley refused to revoke his decision. He had foreseen that those six babies would soon be tasked with a decision that would change America forever. And as we saw in The Stinger of 'Irrational Treasure', that decision was the decision to remove Trembley from office.
- The quote that "The only thing we have to fear is gigantic, man-eating spiders!" was a Badass Boast taken out of context. Trembley had foreseen every possible threat that America might run up against, and had developed counter-attacks for every single one of them. The only threat he did not have a foolproof plan for was giant spiders, a reassuring thought since such things clearly had no military tactics, or even a concept of teamwork.
- His unusual resignation was a carefully orchestrated tactic so that, if his authority as President were needed in the future, it would still be available to him. And to prevent any official resignation being forced upon him, Trembley had a horse waiting underneath the window he jumped out of. This was the same horse which carried him to Gravity Falls.
- The treasure hunt that led the twins to his body wasn't designed to be solvable by a very silly person; it was designed specifically for Mabel. The clues were tailored around her actions, right down to Trembley using peanut brittle to live forever.
- He used peanut brittle because he foresaw that it would work.
- The President's Key was made by Trembley himself. He had learned how to control his visions, and used his powers to see the mechanisms of every key-based lock that would ever be made. He then made the key in such a way that it would trigger all of these mechanisms. We only see so much detail; there are actually flaws and dents on a near-microscopic level, designed to catch on just the right mechanism in just the right way. Some keyholes are only openable once the President's Key is worn down by age and use, just as it was meant to be.
- He rode horses backwards because he had no need to direct where he would end up. He already knew.
- .GIFfany is a ghost who's possessing the game. Most of the powers she manifests are standard for haunting-type shenanigans. In life she was a somewhat over-possessive, but not fully Yandere girl who was in a relationship with a game designer. She died for whatever reason, and because she couldn't let go of her boyfriend, she began to haunt the game he was working on, functionally possessing the main character in order to interact with him. Unfortunately the guy didn't realize this and thought he had inadvertently created a rogue AI. Due to a combination of death and not being able to fully communicate with him, .GIFfany becomes progressively more unhinged and Yandere towards him. Eventually, he gets so freaked out by what he thinks is an AI that he decides to just delete it, but she takes this as a horrible betrayal and snaps completely, effectively melding her identity with the character in the game.
- Alternatively, .GIFfany's designer purposefully created the game/AI in her image and used magic to put her soul in it, so he wouldn't have to deal with letting her go. But eventually he did start to move on, she starts going crazy and the rest is history.
- Or .GIFfany is a Tulpa created by the programmer that formed when the programmer put all of his energy into creating her and wishing she was real. Her existence was tied to the game disc because her creator thought of her that way, so she could do things outside the programming limitations of an AI but still thought of herself as one which is why she self-destructed when her disc was destroyed.
- Normally tulpas die with their creator, but maybe she just put him in a coma instead of killing him or isn't aware he survived?
- We didn't see him in his prime but his overall body and facial structure is similar to the Courdaroys.
- Adding a whole level of stuff to that episode, especially Pacifica's and Dipper's interactions.
- A trip in the past that will show the life of Stan and his twin brother, the twins' exploration of the mysteries of Gravity Falls, and what caused the Author's disappearance. Maybe a view of the younger, more rational McGucket.
- This specific plot was jossed as of "A Tale of Two Stans." Pretty much all of this was covered through flashbacks without any time travel involved, except for the twins exploring Gravity Falls. Because that doesn't happen in the first place.
- A trip in the future that will show a dark future that Bill would create if he achieved his goals, an adult Dipper and Mabel and a small band of rebels, and/or showing Dipper and Pacifica in a relationship.
- Dipper and Mabel, accompanied by Blendin, will be sent on a quest into the past by the Time Baby which may end up covertly aiding the Pines Twins, all according to the master plan of Time Baby.
- A trip in the past that will show the life of Stan and his twin brother, the twins' exploration of the mysteries of Gravity Falls, and what caused the Author's disappearance. Maybe a view of the younger, more rational McGucket.
- On a related note...
- This muddies the timeline a bit, as Time Baby was frozen in Antarctic ice long before the time of the show, and his molecules won't be fully reconfigured from Bill's attack until 3012...possibly meaning that two Time Babies suddenly appear at once?
- Confirmed with Darlene the spider-woman in "Roadside Attraction", although Stanford isn't involved with that monster or this episode at all.
- Why would Bill bring back that thing, of all the minor one-time villains?
- Jossed by "Weirdmageddon Part 1." Bill does have a Legion, but it's entirely composed of new monsters. However, since Rumble, the Gnomes, the Manotaurs, and the Pterodactyl all made cameoes, there's little saying that she won't at least make a small cameo as a by-product of Bill's apocalypse in a later part (going by the end-cards there's at least two parts to this and there could be up to four).
- Don't be quick to say "jossed". While there have been some cameos, none of them were Giffany, at least yet.
- Love God has the same hairstyle as Dipper, Mabel, young Stanley and young Stanford and nobody else has the same style meaning that it's signiture to the Pines
- He and Mabel share the same optimism and love of matchmaking. Dippers scene in Roadside Attraction where he compliments Grenda, Candy and Mabel is similar Love Gods scene in The Love God when he is speaking to the crowd.
- Mabel isn't effected by Love God's potion when he demonstrated on how to use the potion. I know that Love God can be immune to the potion but the potions effects should of made Mabel be attracted to the first person she saw.
- If the potion worked on Mabel then the situation would be very weird, since she'd then be attracted to Love God and the writers would very likely never go that far for obvious reasons. It's possible that: a) The Love Potion doesn't work if one of the targets are underaged. Or b) The Love God can disable the effects of the Love Potion without potions, but only under some conditions. Alternatively the Love Potion doesn't work on kids, since we've never seen it being used on one as far as I'm aware.
- Trembley appointed six babies to the Supreme Court, but he appointed them all to the same seat. All of them combined are a single Supreme Court justice, but because they are a group of six babies made a single Supreme Court justice, they only maintain their judicial powers if they remain the same "person". The bizarre aura of Gravity Falls eventually combines them into Time Baby: the master of a fourth-dimensional judicial system that is permanently a baby that is also the size of six babies.