Dipper Pines

Mason "Dipper" Pines (born on August 31, 1999) is one of the two main protagonists (alongside Mabel Pines) of Disney’s franchise. 
He is the younger fraternal twin brother of Mabel Pines and the great-nephew of Stanley and Stanford Pines who was sent to spend the summer with the former in Gravity Falls, Oregon. After discovering one of his uncle’s third journal, he spent the summer investigating the mysteries of the town with the help of his family. He is Li'l Gideon’s former archenemy and one of Bill Cipher’s arch-nemeses (alongside Stanford and The Oracle).
He was voiced by , who also voices Ryder Nattura in Frozen II and Barrel in Amphibia, and by A. Smith Harrison in his deeper voice from the episode "Bottomless Pit!".
==Appearance ==
Dipper wears a trademark blue and white hat with a blue brim and blue pine tree on the front. He has somewhat messy brown hair and relatively pale skin. His eyes are brown. He formerly wore a navy green hat with a star on it. He has a birthmark on his forehead shaped like the Big Dipper, hence his nickname "Dipper", which he hides under his bangs.
He wears a navy blue vest, red/orange shirt, gray shorts, white socks, black sneakers, and a sometimes visible wristwatch. He is sometimes seen with a green backpack. He is a millimeter shorter than Mabel. He occasionally wears a black wristwatch.
==Personality==
Dipper is an introvert while Mabel is an extrovert. He has poor social skills, but a passion for uncovering the unknown. While Dipper does try to look for rational explanations, he is not a-non-believer. Very little is needed to get Dipper to accept a situation is supernatural, but once he does, he always tries to sort out the logic of it. Dipper's crush on Wendy defines most of his early motivations. Eventually after Wendy and Robbie's break-up, Dipper starts to realize he might be as bad as Robbie by only thinking of Wendy as a potential love interest and starts opening up to her as a friend. By the episode "Into the Bunker", Dipper has a heart to heart with Wendy and realizes the romance will never happen, that Wendy was wise to Dipper's feelings the entire time and was intentionally letting them play-out without acknowledging them so he could work through them without her having to reject him.
Dipper gets along well with Soos, and remains amicable, but wary of his great-uncle. Dipper also has an initial hatred for Mabel's rival, Pacifica Northwest, the local spoiled rich-girl, but after she calls him in to perform an exorcism for the episode "Northwest Mansion Mystery" he soon sees the human-side of her and the sort of family life that led her to become the way she is, and the two become friends (and possibly develop romantic feelings to each other). In general, Dipper is always willing to learn, both intellectually and in terms of social growth.
Despite his positive traits, he can be somewhat condescending, selfish, spiteful, mischievous, and even a bit of a jerk at times. Such as the time he rubbed Pacifica's ancestor being a fraud in her face out of pure spite, then there was the time when he tried to have Robbie beat up by a monster so he can get out of fighting him before hearing that the monster plans to kill Robbie rather than just beat him up.
By the end of the series, Dipper had matured, having learned many lessons from all of his adventures throughout the summer in Gravity Falls.
==Abilities ==
Dipper's main skills are largely problem solving - he treats everything like a mystery waiting to be solved. Dipper has little in the way of strength, even for someone of his age. He is capable of holding his own in tussles with Mabel and Gideon in brawls but nothing beyond that. With the Journal, Dipper passively picks-up a variety of skills, such as how to cast base spells, preform exorcisms and attract/repel certain monsters. As for the spells, Dipper reads them as he would an instruction manual, he does not commit them to memory and cannot perform them without consulting the Journal; such spells include necromancy, creating wards and banishing ghosts.
Dipper usually tries to think outside-the-figurative-box, but becomes so involved in solutions to complex problems that he frequently overlooks simplistic resolutions, for this and reliance on gut instinct, he often relies on Mabel, far more in-tune with such concepts. Because Dipper and Mabel are so close, they often help the other with their short-comings, Dipper with following his feelings and Mabel with confronting logic problems.
==Enemies and Rivals==
Dipper encounters all manner of strange creatures, phenomena and forces from episode to episode. However, there are three returning ones, two of which are normal humans that have it out for Dipper personally. The first anti-villain Dipper encounters is Robbie Valentine. Robbie is Wendy's boyfriend, who absent-mindedly bullies others to define his own sense of self, but also has picked up on Dipper's crush on his girlfriend and so has targeted Dipper in particular. Robbie and Wendy would eventually split-up after Dipper discovers Robbie found a song, that subconsciously conditions girls to fall in deep love with certain guys like him once they play it for them, but Wendy is more upset that Robbie would try to manipulate her than with the nature of the actual manipulation and likewise with Dipper for trying to use the break-up to move-in on her. Robbie and Wendy are teenagers and so Robbie is more often than not beaten by his own angst/self-hatred than anything Dipper does, but he is physically and emotionally quite a capable of harming Dipper is allowed to and so the to have an extended cat-and-mouse rivalry.
Dipper's second antagonist is Gideon "Li'l Gideon" Gleeful. Gideon proves to be a real enemy for Dipper rather than simply a rival/bully. Gideon falls in love with Mabel at first sight and tries to win her over. When Mabel asks Dipper to let him down for her, Gideon interprets Dipper as an obstacle, one he is totally prepared to remove to get to Mabel. Dipper later finds Gideon also has a Journal. The two each have discovered various supernatural elements around town thanks to them, but unlike Dipper, Gideon uses his for personal gain such as convincing the town he is a psychic and charging them for his services or using spells on his parents to get his way without restriction. To combat Gideon, Dipper frequently needs to problem solve a situation. Dealing with Gideon though also gives Dipper a dark mirror of what he could be if he gives into to pettiness.
Dipper's archenemy and the most threatening villain in the show is Bill Cipher, an extra-dimensional demon and the main antagonist of the series. Dipper first met Bill when he was summoned by Gideon to look through Stan's mind while he slept to find out how to access the Mystery Shack's safe to get the deed to the property. When Dipper meets Bill, he quickly finds that Bill not only has no concerns for Earthly matters, and was helping Gideon largely out of boredom, but also that Bill has unfathomable levels of power. Bill is very firmly outside of Dipper's figurative weight-class and so dealing with Bill has to do with either games of cunning or simply running, because in a straight fight Bill automatically wins, his sadism being the only thing that keeps Dipper alive rather than being instantly crushed.
==In Other Media==
===Unaired Pilot===
In the Pilot episode, Dipper's role along with the rest of the characters in the pilot pretty much play like they would do in the 1st episode with some major changes. Where Dipper along with the rest would at first eat a bunch of freezy-pops that was originally made up of Stan's latest attraction, he finds one popsicle stick with the riddle of "what is a ghost's favorite favorite ice cream flavor?" but it has no answer on it, unaware it would be completely useful for him much later.
When Mabel introduces her new "boyfriend" Norman to everyone like in the 1st episode, Dipper (who knew she was already having trouble with her summer romances so far) becomes suspicious of him and (unlike consulting the journal he found in the 1st episode) gets the suspicion from a random horror book he found in the attic that makes him believe that Norman is actually a zombie, but because he has no proof about it, like in the series premiere, Dipper stalks Mabel & Norman to see if he's right. After some spying, Dipper tries to warn Mabel about his suspicions, but like in the premiere she shrugs it of & leaves to be with him.
Fortunately like in the 1st episode, Dipper's suspicions are proven correct when Mabel learns that Norman is (also just like in the premiere) actually a bunch of gnomes who proceed to kidnap Mabel & causing Dipper to give chase in a golf cart. After an insane chase, the twins stumble into a part of the forest where they're surrounded by hundreds of gnomes as their king intends to make Mabel their queen like in the premiere and will only let them free unless they answer a riddle he asks them: the same riddle about a ghost's favorite ice cream flavor, despite insisting on his answer, Dipper ultimately goes with his sister's answer which proves to be right & causes all the gnomes to turn into statues.
After taking care of the gnome tribe, Dipper and Mabel take a long hike back to the shack for some well-deserved rest, though before heading inside, Mabel apologizes for her earlier distrust in Dipper's worries and just like in the premiere he happily cheers her up by raising her hopes that her next boyfriend might be a vampire, causing them to happily do their "awkward sibling hug" in a similar manner in the 1st episode. Though not before they are greeted by a very ice cream-drunk Stan, who in his really drunk state, accidentally assume he might have become a zombie himself and pelt him with a bunch of rocks.
===Wander over Yonder===
Dipper not only makes a cameo appearance in the show, he appears as a fusion of a show-within-a-show alongside Mabel, Stan, & Soos with the Mystery Inc. gang from the franchise. In the episode "The Cartoon", after finding Hater's cartoon to be lame, Dominator changes the channel to which Dipper appears in a cartoon that is also combined with that the Scooby Doo characters alongside the other members of the shack, which Dominator finds actually entertaining.
===Future-Worm!===
Dipper makes a cameo appearance in the final episode as he briefly appears alongside Mabel and Stan as Danny & Future-Worm travel on the time deer across the multiverse to rescue their universe, which is something he notices.
===Dipper and Mabel and the curse of the Time Pirates treasure===
In the non-canonical choose-your-own-adventure story, Dipper and Mabel go on a time-travel adventure with Blendin who claims he's on a mission to find the treasure from a group of agents known as the Time Pirates (he claims they dress up as pirates because it looks cool) and depending on the choices of the reader, the twins either become lost in any points in time for eternity or get to discover the location to where the treasure.
After the reader goes through the proper story, Dipper, Mabel, and Blendin arrive at the location of the buried treasure, but are ambushed by the Time pirates themselves and where Blendin reveals to be using them to find them so he can prove themselves to the pirates, but when the pirates double-cross him, the twins (depending on the reader) decide to help Blendin and fight the pirates for the treasure & save Blendin. Going through a rough-battle, the trio are fortunately able drive the pirates away when they sick their giant cat against them.
Though being tempted by Blendin to take the treasure for themselves, also depending on the reader, Dipper and Mabel either choose to do so or decide to leave it behind. If the reader chooses to not to be greedy, Dipper and Mabel along with Blendin grab the treasure and return to their original time, where they leave with Blendin on good terms with him and after deciding to bury the time treasure where they started, the twins return for the Mystery Shack.
===Gravity Falls: Lost Legends===
In the canonical comic-book series, Dipper appears in 3 out of the 4 stories as told by the gnome Shmebulock, who claims he is a big fan of his & his family's adventures throughout the town.
In Face It, just after he is tasked by Ford to watch over all of his 3 journals, Dipper gets an unexpected visit by Pacifica who says she needs his help in getting rid of a wrinkle on her face, when Dipper refuses, Pacifica sneaks into his room to try & see if anything in the journals can help. Just as he returned, Pacifica had read a page that accidentally summoned a monster that steals people's faces & takes her sister's face, prompting Dipper & a reluctant Pacifica to go after him.
Following the monster across town, Dipper & Pacifica are successfully able to enter the Crawlspace, a marketplace where all the weirdness in Gravity Falls stay during the daytime, while they initially able to blend in with the weirdness, one crazy argument between them accidentally gets them captured. While being carried around after being auctioned too, a depressed Pacifica admits to being taught looks are extremely important & she is unsure who she is without them, which makes Dipper remind her that she can be more than who her parents want her to be, which makes her happily hug him just as they arrive in the base of the monster they're looking for.
When they arrive, the monster steals Dipper's face & prepares to give Pacifica what she wants, but to his surprise Pacifica chooses to save him & Mabel and they escape just in time for Ford to freeze the monster. Afterwards Pacifica chooses to go on for the rest of the day as her newfound self & even gives a heartwarming text to Dipper, unaware it was found by Mabel.
In Comix Up, after Stan takes away all the comic books Soos got, Dipper & Co. soon discover that the chest he put them is was cursed & it sucked him in for disrespecting comics, prompting everyone else to go into the chest to rescue him before he gets locked in there forever. Upon entering the comic, Dipper & Co. soon flip through numerous styles of the comics until finally meeting a character that will only tell them where he is if they capture him.
After spending sometime chasing the character all across the pages, Dipper & the others soon reunite with Stan & together, they successfully defeat the character and all return back to the normal world safe & sound, with Stan even regaining a newfound level of love for comics he originally didn't have.
In Don't Dimension it, after stopping Bill & putting an end to Weirdmageddon, Dipper comes along with Mabel, Stan, & Ford on one last mission to go onto: patch up the remaining dimensional rifts to prevent further damages. While doing so, Dipper stayed behind while his sister & great-uncles were sucked into one rift but returned home safe & sound.
===Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers===
Although he doesn't make an exact cameo in the film, Dipper does technically make a cameo in the form of a smurf-like creature that appears as one of the many captured bootlegged cartoons in the custody of Sweet Pete before being released by Chip & Dale.
==Quotes ==
==Trivia ==
*Dipper is loosely based on the series creator himself. Additionally, the adventures of Dipper and Mabel throughout the series are inspired by the childhood of Alex Hirsch and his twin sister, Ariel Hirsch.
*In "Double Dipper", Dipper is shown that he admitted that due to how lame is real name was, he always wanted to be named Tyrone, which is something he names his first clone once he is completed.
*It is revealed in the episode "Dipper vs. Manliness" that he listens to an Icelandic pop band named Babba, which is a parody of ABBA. Babba also has a song known as "Disco Girl", which is a parody of ABBA's well-known "Dancing Queen".
*Dipper's original hat in Tourist Trapped was tan and taupe with a star in the center. Scmebulock is revealed to have this hat in "Lost Legends."
*The nickname "Dipper" originated from the constellation with the same name, which he has a birthmark of on his head, hence he earned the name and ultimately everyone, including himself, consider it his name ever since, as his real name is considered "boring". Bill Cipher even called Dipper's real name "stupid". In Journal 3, it is revealed that his real name is Mason Pines.
*Dipper and Mabel were born on August 31, 1999, making their zodiac sign Virgo.
*An early concept for season 2 would have had an older Dipper from the future travelling back in time and meeting with present Dipper in order to prevent future Mabel's death. This storyline went unused, possibly due to it being deemed too dark for a children's show.
*It is revealed in the episode "Society of the Blind Eye" that uses big words that he doesn't know what they mean, and explains he only does because since he's usually the smart guy, he doesn't who he is if he's not.
*In an early draft for "Weirdmageddon 2: Escape from Reality", Alex revealed that if Dipper looked behind the door Mabel was gonna show him, he would go on to become Ford's apprentice after all & go on numerous adventures with him until he passes by a school where everyone including his sister would find weird, making him realize that this apprenticeship isn't cut out for him & he snaps out of the fantasy, but this was scrapped as Alex felt it was taking to long.
**This idea likely inspired & to create their own TV Series which featured the titular duo going on numerous adventures of their own.
*Alex had stated that if Dipper had decided to stay with Ford, his influence on him (due to being isolated for so long) would eventually lead him to turn out just like Old Man McGucket.
*It is revealed by Alex that just like Mabel, Dipper has a middle name which are the revealed to be first names of their parents', just like Alex & his sister, though his parents' names are never mentioned in the series.
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