Bill Cipher: ONE Fatal Mistake

It's been more than four years since Mabel and Dipper took that one-way bus trip out of Gravity Falls, ending the most memorable summer of their childhood and two of the best seasons of animation ever seen on television, since their narration to its visual effects. Falls set the benchmark for what he followed and did everything he did in just 40 episodes. The first season of Wander Over Yonder only had 40 episodes and the first season of Steven Universe had 53 and both are multi-season shows. Gravity Falls made less is more a true art form and is sadly one of the few parts of the show that hasn't been imitated, as a particular point of praise is the end of the Weirdmageddon trilogy.

Not only is it rare for a program to decide to succeed. Keep in mind and on its own terms like this, especially in an era that has a pathological fear of endings, it's even more impressive that this ending sums it all up, two generations of pine twins reconcile, each main character gets a moment to shine and, although it's a difficult parting, it feels like we have to say a proper goodbye to the world of Gravity Falls. It's an ending that leaves nothing unsaid and the glue that holds it all together is the demonic triangle that tries to destroy everyone and everything.

Bill Cipher, this fan favorite monster has become one. one of the most important parts of the Gravity Falls legacy and for good reason it has an iconic design, a fun personality and manages to believably switch between hilarious and menacing on a dime, but today I'm here to argue that this monster memebel It's more than just fodder. For a lot of matpat impostors, Bill Cipher is actually the perfect antagonist for Gravity Falls because each of his appearances and the choices that lead to them further the themes and ideas of the show, and in the end, his one

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makes him.

It brings everything to a structurally, thematically, and emotionally perfect conclusion, but hey, people have always told me that conclusions work best at the end of the video, so why don't we start from the beginning? Bill Cipher first appears in the season 1 episode Dreamscaperers, actually when he is the main antagonist of that. season, he is summoned by Gideon Gleeful to steal the code to keep Stan safe from inside his mind, aside from some of his sinister prophecies and the recurring triangular motifs in the show's intro and backgrounds, he seems like one of the many villains. second round of the series.

The show's most episodic entries, but slowly as the author's central mystery unravels and Bill seems to appear again and again in episodes like Sock Opera and The Last Mabelcorn, he goes from being a joke villain to a well-rounded one. deserved central threat of the program. The backstory is as sparse as his appearance, but you get the gist of the strange mageddon. We know Bill is a nightmare because of your worst geometry homework. He is a native of the second dimension, but a flat life wasn't enough for Bill, so he destroyed his dimension and moved into the mindscape in the

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ions of years since Bill has been trying to break into the third dimension and wreak havoc on our reality with his chaotic Tom, as Bill's idea of ​​fun is making nightmares real, turning people to stone and endangering the fabric of everything.

The reality that he can take his strange mageddon on a global level offers terrible risks for our protagonists and I should know what terrible thing is in my name, but what makes Bill a great antagonist is his close relationship with each member of the Pine family. It is often suggested in fan analysis that Stan and Ford are dark mirrors of Mabel and Dipper if the two continued to drift apart into adulthood. Dipper and Ford are both intelligent but distant and Bill uses them both to get what he wants by playing on the other's sense of self-importance.

On the other hand, Stan and Mabel are more emotional and deeply value their connection with their brother or they did before Ford's portal put a sort of multiverse wedge between him and Stan, but either way, the desire to maintain this connection and finding this place of emotional safety is a vulnerability that Bill exploits time and time again to further his plans. It's very attuned to all the weaknesses and flaws of our main characters and provides a unique challenge to each of them based on that. In other words, Bill Cipher forces character development because he uses the protagonist's greatest flaws against them.

They are forced to overcome these flaws to defeat him, but what if these weren't flaws in the plural? What if Bill's greatest advantage came down to the fact that he embodies a single flaw that affects all four of them? the main characters of Gravity Falls and what if that flaw was ego, not ego in the psychoanalytic sense, but ego in the sense of arrogance, self-interest, selfishness and pride? Not only could this accurately describe a megamaniacal villain like Bill, but it is this flaw that his presence in the narrative represents in others and, most importantly, it is this flaw that poses the greatest danger of driving a wedge. between both sets of twins and if the twins separate, the universe will follow suit.

What's really at stake in the Gravity Falls story is if Dipper Mabel Stan and Ford can conquer his ego before Bill conquers them, it's easy to chart Bill's rise to power through the timeline of the Gravity Falls. gravity falls and that's because at every stage of Bill's plans a character is succumbing to ego. Let's start on the backstory with one. Of the key moments that separated Stan and Ford, the science fair and the episode A Tale of Two Booths, we discovered that the duo was as close as Dipper and Mabel in childhood with a very similar dynamic and very similar to Dipper and Mabel's fear.

Stan and Ford were beginning to drift apart in their teens, as Ford's intellectual pursuits put him at risk of overtaking Stan and that's why when it looks like Ford is going to leave him and pursue his academic dreams in coastal technology West, Stan is devastated. This alone will separate him from his best friend, it highlights all of his own insecurities about being the family

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, which is why, in a state of frustration, Stan accidentally destroyed Ford's science fair project and cost him his placement, This selfish mistake drives a wedge between Stan and Ford as they move away from their family and dedicate themselves to more esoteric studies, eventually leading him to investigate other dimensions, where he comes face to face with Bill Ford.

He worked with Bill for some time, unknowingly advancing his plans to enter our universe. build the portal machine and this was because, by Ford's own admission, Bill appealed to his ego, flattered Ford by describing himself as a muse, only appeared before the great geniuses once in a generation, while Ford was smart enough to eventually realize Bill's true intention, it was only after bringing. the entire universe dangerously close in its clutches after Ford was sucked into the portal and Stan stole his ID remained dormant for a while until gravity drops, the most lovable criminal mastermind, Gideon Gleeful, decided to summon him using one of the Ford's diaries again for purely selfish reasons.

He's spiteful driven by pride and greed and wants to get one in the mystery shack, so naturally he contacts the patron saint of self-interest, Bill Mother, by flipping the

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. We don't see Bill again until the Sock Opera episode in season 2. Dipper weakens his mind due to lack of sleep by trying to access Ford's laptop. Bill shows up and, like he did with Ford, convinces Dipper to make a deal. At this point, Dipper is already well aware that Bill is bad news, but he forms a contract with him anyway. puts his ego above his own safety and bodily autonomy and this jeopardizes everything the characters have been working on and seeing that Bill was hell-bent on destroying Dipper's possessed body after he was done with it, almost cost him his life. life finally and this is the one everyone was waiting for and the reason why every two bit toontogger is a video that performatively hates mabel mabel's decision to give the dimensional rift to softon in dipper and mabel versus future mabel se she feels very similar anxiety about staying in her childhood the fear that her brother is outgrowing her mabel she doesn't want things to change she wants to keep her childhood and retain all the fun and connections that come with it that's like

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dressed up as blendin brandon manages to trap Mabel to give her the interdimensional rift, he offers to make a time bubble around gravity falls where time will start and stop whenever Mabel wants it, even if it means other people can't pursue lives and futures they want. for themselves, something that is not mentioned enough in the discussion just now is that this mentality could actually symbolically reflect the opinions of an audience that may demand several more seasons without taking into account the characters and their development, Regardless of whether Mabel accepts the deal and Raremageddon finally begins, gravity falls like everyone else.

Written stories of this type combine the large scale stakes with the more intimate emotional stakes, as I said before, if Bill can manage to destroy both sets of pime twins, he can manage to destroy our universe for a new one and when You're close to a brothers who break up may feel like the universe is collapsing, just ask Stan and Mabel in their hearts. Gravity Falls has always been a show about relationships between siblings, specifically twins, people who should be the most capable of understanding each other on a fundamental level, but sometimes don't. And while the characters have the illusion that time is their enemy and that the dissolution of these bonds is inevitable, they are wrong, this is even illustrated when Bill Cipher vaporizes time, baby, in seconds, completely removing the manifestation of time from the narrative.

Selfishness is the reason why these bonds break the desire to put your needs before those of others to always choose indulgence over sacrifice and in the end the older pine twins reconcile and travel the world together and dipper and mabel know that their united brothers will not be diminished no matter the differences. directions they take in life all of this is possible because they manage to defeat the ego and to defeat the ego you have to defeat bill just as every time a character gives in to the ego it marks another point and bill's rise to power every time a character manages to resist or get out of the ego provides a setback for the diabolical dorito, let's take a look at some examples in bill's first appearance, the dreamscapers again, seriously, he is facing dipper mabel and soos on the battlefield of the Stan's mind, however, Dipper is knocked out of commission upon hearing Stan call him a loser in his memories.

This is a direct hit to Dipper's ego and he refuses to help Mabel and Seuss defeat Bill. This not only puts Dipper's mind in disarray. Stan in danger but leaves Mabel and Soos at the mercy of Bill's ghostly or as some people would say nightmarish powers, however, when he realizes that he misheard what Stan was saying in the past, Dipper changes his tune. In Dreamscape, the three work together and this marks the first point at which the main characters manage to change. Turning against Bill through selflessness and collaboration, and it won't be the last in the sock opera, Bill takes over Dipper's body and wreaks havoc on him while Mabel is away.

Putting on a sock puppet show to impress strange local puppeteer Gabe Benson, Since being boy-crazy is one of Mabel's defining traits, it's clear that putting on this show and courting her latest crush is very important to her. , but if her ego had gotten the best of her, here, Dipper wouldn't have survived to save his brother. Mabel knowingly destroys the sock opera that meant so much to her and fights Bill. Bill is shocked at the thought of asking who would sacrifice everything they've worked for. only because of her dumb brother maple knows that dipper would do the same mabel knows that dipper would do the same for her so she lets her own needs take a backseat and manages to save dipper from bill once again ego rejection leads to another defeat for bill but none of this stops bill from putting into practice his master plan that culminates in a strange mageddon, however, even when gravity falls becomes a ghostly yes, I will continue to use that word microcosm of bill's plans for the future characters, making the decision to finally reject the ego helps keep things fair.

A little closer to the happy ending we all first wanted in part 1 of Weirdmagen, we get Gideon's unexpected redemption. The small andJolly Gideon not only served as the main antagonist of the show's first season, but he has also been personally antagonistic towards the Pine Family throughout. and as I mentioned earlier, it was Gideon's selfish decision that brought Bill back to gravity falls in the first place, which brings us back to strange Magedon. Gideon has been given as comfortable a position as a human could hope for in Bill's strange new world. He has gained a level of control over his own minions, can monitor Mabel's prison bubble, and appears to have a level of autonomy that no other human in the city has, unlike Preston Northwest, Gedeon is the only person who appears to have made a pretty good deal with Bill when Dipper Seuss and Wendy are on their way to Mabel Land, Gideon intervenes to stop them, but before he can capture our heroes and turn them into Bill Dipper changes his perspective and tells him that no one will love him until May it become a better one. person and at that moment Gideon decides to do the first selfless thing he has ever done, confront Bill's bullies to buy Dipper into the gang.

At some point his only request is that he wants Mabel to know what she did and, on the surface, this may seem like he is still selfishly motivated, but the reality is that this is anything but selfish. Gideon knows that he and his fellow ex-cons don't stand a chance against Bill's henchmen and the best he can hope to achieve is to buy some time before they capture him or, worse yet, scatter every fiber of his being throughout Many moons, Gideon has no way of knowing if he will exist after this, but he gives up his position of power in Bill's new world to increase Mabel's chances and the others are safe, Gideon rejects the ego and in doing so, the first chink in bill's armor is exposed, but no one is out of the woods yet in raremageddon part 2, escape from reality, mabel dipper and her friends are trapped in what even bill describes as his most diabolical moment. creation mabel's land an artificial paradise meant to satisfy all of mabel's fantasies it is a place so indulgent and perfect that she will never need to return to reality again even if it means reality taking a toll the end of this episode is a particularly moment important not only because the relationship between dipper and mabel is finally reconciled, but because bill's plans finally begin to collapse, both dipper and mabel reject the ego at the end of this episode, dipper, who had previously planned to abandon mabel to take an apprenticeship with ford, decides to return.

In his decision, he decides that he will continue growing with Mabel after the summer and save his solo adventures for adulthood, and Mabel repays this kindness with her own sacrifice despite Bill's attempts to emphasize how harsh reality is outside the world. . Bubble Mabel finds that harshness bearable if she can face it with her family and decides to leave Maybelline a place so perfectly designed to meet her needs that it is practically heaven to join up with Dipper and the rest of her family and finally defeat Bill once and for all. . for everyone and this brings us to raremageddon part 3 take back the falls with dipper and mabel's shared arc completed the final episode of Gravity Falls is an absolute masterclass and gives the fans exactly what they want while staying true to the vision of the creative team. from cameos by unique fan-favorite characters to a rock remix of the opening theme that plays while Shackatron kicks the tucus demon.

This episode is the right kind of fan service, the right kind. There is only one character who does not participate in the fun. He is bothered by the fact that this situation has forced him to work with his brother before he felt comfortable doing so and as such every move he makes, even if it is to save the city, he feels reluctant, which is why when Shacktron fights Bill and buys everyone else some time. A small fight between Stan and Ford ruins everything so Bill returns while they are still arguing, destroys the zodiac symbol and everyone's fan theories, and then traps all the characters once again.

Bill's petty ego and hands of pride, a last-minute advantage, makes for an incredibly intense climax. and ford are trapped while dipper and mabel now have to take on the role of distracting bill as he takes on his most menacing form yet and chases them into hell bent on turning them into corpses the selfless act of dipper and mabel putting themselves in danger to keep his grunkle safe makes stan and ford finally realize how bad things have gotten between them on this dark night of the soul stan berates himself for not holding ford's hand in the ritual and ford Equally embarrassed at not seeing through Bill's flattery, the duo finally realized how generous the ego has not only destroyed their relationship, but has put the other two people they care about most in mortal danger. the world.

The two, those Stans in particular, realize what they have to do and formulate a plan to destroy Bill once and for all. the cost of stan's mind the pino brothers change clothes, trick bill into stan's head once again and use the memory eraser gun to finally eliminate him with one final blow from stan to seal the deal, after all it took lessons, but before stan kills bill. tells him something you're a very wise guy but you made a

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mistake you messed with my family bill is dealing with a fully developed stan here a man who finally recognized and rejected the role ego played in hurting himself, his loved ones and Ultimately, the world that messed with Stan's family so much and threatened to kill the kids was really Bill writing his own death sentence because at the time the kids' lives were at stake, the decision was Obviously, Stan would sacrifice all his memories for the lives of the children, it was inevitable. was falling, Bill himself is a creature of pure ego, he is a megalomaniac villain who cares about nothing but his own enjoyment and had never sacrificed enjoyment for anything or anyone but himself, that is why he spends his last moments of existence pleading terrified for his life, he offers Stan everything and realizes with horror that nothing works.

His two-dimensional mind simply cannot comprehend why someone would give up their own life for the sake of another person. He made the mistake of assuming that appealing to selfishness either Curiosity and the easy life or material goods was a sure way to get what he wanted and that was Bill Cipher's only fatal mistake. Gravity Falls is a rare and beautiful thing, a show brave enough and with enough creative integrity to end up great and on its own terms if the abundance of spin-off material and the vast amount of fan content has proven that everything is that everyone We wish we'd spent a little more time in Gravity Falls, but since the show liked to tell us that summer has to end eventually and just because it's over doesn't mean the joy you get out of it has to diminish even four years later, we're still finding new ones. ways to see and enjoy this spectacle and in the years to come I have no doubt that gravity falls will endure and The Pine Twins' brief time in that city will bring joy for generations to come and if this video has given you anything What I really hope you have is that it's better to let your ego take a backseat and appreciate what you have rather than ruminate or covet what you don't want, after all, that's why the Pine family had a summer like never before. will forget and why Bill Cipher is little more than a faded memory.

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