Bill Cipher

*~ Bill Cipher's most famous quote.*

*- Bill Cipher bringing forth Weirdmageddon.*

*~ Bill trying to convince Ford to help him.*

## Evil-Doer

* Bill Cipher
* Enraged
* Final Demon Form

Bridge the gap between Earth and the Nightmare Realm to invade the former and cause "Weirdmageddon". (Briefly/Temporarily Succeeded)
Find out how to leave Gravity Falls and expand Weirdmageddon so he could take over Dimension 46.
Kill the Pines family. (Both Failed)

### Hobby:

Partying.
Making deals.
Twisting reality.
Asking 'why' until someone runs out of answers.
Bending people's fingers backwards.
Eating childhood memories.
Stalking and antagonizing the Pines family. (Mainly Stanford and Dipper)
Turning into whatever form people fear the most.
Playing with bendy straws.

### Crimes:

Mass Omnicide
Mass Murder
Mass Torture
Mass Arson
Parricide
Stalking
Crimes Against Humanity
Attempted Universal Domination
Kidnapping
Usurpation
Unlawful Imprisonment
Malefic
Abuse Of Power
Mass Destruction
Corruption
Sabotage
Terrorism
Psychological Abuse
Conspiracy
Possession
Animal Cruelty
Child Abuse
Assault
Theft
Blackmail
Incrimination
Pollution
Enslavement
Treason
Coercion
Mutilation
Petrification

### Type of Villain:

Sadomasochistic Trickster

**Bill Cipher** is the main antagonist of the Disney Channel/Disney XD animated series *Gravity Falls*. An immensely powerful dream demon from the Second Dimension who rules over the Nightmare Realm, Bill desires to bring chaos across the rest of known existence by achieving a physical form and opening a rift between the Nightmare Realm and Earth. Bill is also the arch-nemesis of the Pines family.

He was voiced by series creator Alex Hirsch, who also voiced Grunkle Stan, Old Man McGucket, Jeff and Dippy Fresh in the same show.

## Appearance:

Bill is a floating yellow triangle with a single cat-like eye in the center (though sometimes near the upper corner; also known as the Eye of Providence), a black bow tie, a top hat, and thin black limbs. He is sometimes seen holding a yellow or black cane as well. Bill's body also flashes when he speaks as he has no actual mouth. Bill's top hat is not an accessory or article of clothing; it is actually part of his body. This can be seen in the episode "Weirdmageddon Part 1" when Stanford shoots his quantum destabilizer gun at Bill and misses, hitting his hat and revealing flesh and bones within.

However, when angered, his color is inverted, with his eye turning black, outline turning white, and yellow turning glowing red, although his form can change to that which is desired at will. A tapestry hanging from the wall in "Northwest Mansion Mystery" depicts him as black or ash gray instead of yellow and with a red-eye. In "The Last Mabelcorn", he appears for a few moments as black with a yellow eye. As seen in the finale, he also sometimes changes colors when distressed.

In the three-part series finale "Weirdmageddon", Bill assumes multiple three-dimensional forms as a result of finally entering our world through the destroyed Interdimensional Rift, including a black multi-tiered and multi-armed pyramid, a three-dimensional version of his default yellow form (including a giant version), and his most horrifying and terrible form of all, that of a colossal red multi-tiered pyramid with eight different glowing limbs resembling a spider, sharp teeth and tongues erupting from his body, and a black eye with a lizard-like yellow pupil, which he assumes during the final battle as he hunts down Dipper and Mabel Pines.

As he is being erased and speaking his hidden resurrection spell, he transforms into several different forms in an attempt to escape, including his angry red form, a stone-like form with two stone pyramids which could rotate with one eye on each side that also rotate and a stone block having his arms and bow tie, a distorted form with several green eyes and limbs, flashing between yellow, pink, blue, and orange, before finally assuming his black form with red-eye as seen on the tapestry. When Stanley punches him, he briefly flashes back to his default yellow form before being wiped out completely.

While possessing a person, that person's body will take on a pale tone to their skin and their eyes will appear to be yellow with black slits, similar to his own. If necessary, both Bill's yellow main portion and the eye can portray images similarly to a television screen, all of which are seemingly what he is thinking about at the time.

## Personality:

At first, Bill Cipher seemed to be a charming and charismatic figure, willing to help people with their problems while making deals with them, but this easily changes within minutes of his debut, especially when he reveals his true nature: that of a highly intelligent and manipulative individual, who only wants to benefit himself. Because of his harmless appearance and charismatic nature, he often enjoyed playing games with people, either to make himself more trustworthy or because he likes manipulating people, regarding how easily they fall into his traps. It also gives whoever doesn't know his true nature the false impression that he isn't evil when in actuality, Bill is a completely heartless monster. He was unfailingly nice and friendly to his so-called "friends" as well as long as things go the way he wants. However, when this is not the case, he is quick to lash out to them and does not care about their well-being.

He usually spoke with a high-pitched voice with a synthesized effect, but when furious or expressive, it becomes very deep and intimidating in a way that's more in line with traditional demon depictions. When he got mad, Bill became full of rage, attacking without mercy and for the most part, stops fooling around. He is also very masochistic, as he enjoys hurting himself, as shown when he tortured Dipper's body while possessing it, even exclaiming that pain is hilarious. He also has no problem killing or hurting children like Dipper and Mabel, as shown when he purposefully harmed Dipper's body while possessing it and nearly killed one of the twins to force Stanford to surrender to him. An expert manipulator and a masterful liar, he is clearly capable of fooling others into trusting him long enough for him to betray them in a heartbeat and is falsely affable enough to influence others into becoming one of his many pawns or making deals with him (which he will almost always double-cross to his advantage). Bill also wasn't above using people's personal issues and feelings to manipulate them, such as when he manipulated Dipper into making a deal with him by simply reminding him of everything the latter had sacrificed for Mabel's sake, particularly highlighting the fact that she had done nothing for him in return.

However, while an easily angered madman, he is also highly authoritative, perspicacious, influential, pragmatic, and decisive, knowing when to pull out of a fight. Over the course of the show, it became more and more obvious that Bill is an extremely calculating, conniving and diabolical mastermind. Sometimes, even those who are aware of how depraved he is fall for his charm. Bill is also known for his complete disregard of rules and morals, as he considers laws and physics to be quite senseless and doesn't even care about the consequences of his actions even if they can endanger the fabric of existence; likewise, the idea of destroying the Earth is a mere game to him. Ultimately, he dedicated his existence to spreading complete chaos and followed his selfish philosophy of doing whatever he wants without any care for the consequences.

In his final moments, Bill was shown to be absolutely terrified of dying as seen when being exploited by his own weakness. Also, he is implied to have some guilt about destroying his homeworld and killing his own parents but is unable to admit it, as seen in Axolotl's words: "Misses home but can't return. He says he's happy; he's a liar. Blames the arson for the fire". However this could also just be an act of fake remorse to save himself, considering he tried to kill Stan in his last moments. Bill seemingly hates perverts, shown when a fan asked him if his triangular sides were equilateral or not, Bill replied: "THAT'S A SICK QUESTION YOU PERVERT." His madness might stem from the restrictions of his own homeworld, as shown when he talks with Stanford and his extremely negative relationship with his family that was confirmed to be "worse than Stan's". However, this does not serve as an excuse for his crimes, because it only shows how heinous he really is, and highlights his desire for utter chaos with no restrictions.

Overall, Bill Cipher is a cunning, malevolent, sinister, blasphemous, charismatic, egotistical, deceptive, highly manipulative, self-centered, chaotic, ruthless, omniscient, and sadomasochistic con artist who has absolutely no regard or remorse whatsoever for the crimes he's committed; as far as he's concerned, billions of people (including children, infants, and animals) can die for all he cares as long as he gets what he wants and achieves his goals in the end. His sick-minded personality is best portrayed both during and after the events of "Sock Opera", where he threatened to let go of the rope that was holding Mabel up, obviously fully aware of the fact that if he let the rope fall out of his grip, the young girl would be seriously (and possibly fatally) injured. Not to mention, he planned to kill Dipper and make it appear to be a suicide, and after he was done with Dipper, he was either going to repeat the process with Mabel or he expected her to also take her own life as well out of grief, showing how much of an atrocious and merciless individual he truly was. And during the four-part series finale "Weirdmageddon", he described his plans to Stanford if he was victorious, which showed him tracing a smiley face over North America (particularly the United States) with his finger, completely disregarding that that alone would lead to tens (possibly hundreds) of thousands of lives lost. What's more, he even ate part of the Earth itself, once again not caring about the millions of innocent lives that his actions would take, which further proves his cruelty and viciousness to everyone but himself. In the end, Bill didn't value anyone but himself, nor did he value his Henchmaniacs to the extent that they were useful to him.

## Trivia:

* Contrary to popular belief, Bill Cipher's gender cannot be identified, as he is a being above the concept of gender or race. He also claims his home dimension has 14 billion different gender identities and there is paperwork involved in determining the sexual orientation and he's not exactly been keeping track of his. That said, Cipher does have a male name and is refered to with male pronouns, thus people assume he is a male. As such, this wiki refers to Bill with "he/him" pronouns.
* David Lynch was the original choice to voice Bill, but he declined the role. Alex Hirsch (who already voiced many characters of the show) decided to voice him instead.
* His full name is likely a reference to the Beale ciphers; encrypted manuscripts which are said to lead to a great, hidden treasure and which only one of three have been decoded. This is entirely possible as codes and ciphers are hidden all throughout the series.
* He was based on the Eye of Providence, a common symbol allegedly used by the Illuminati (which is theorized to follow the New World Order concept), as creator Alex Hirsch confirmed in the Special "Behind the Pines" stating: "What if I took the triangle off the back of the dollar bill, dress him up in a top hat, and stupid little arms and legs, and named him Bill after the dollar?". This is also mentioned in one of the Journals, where someone (presumably Ford) has scribbled a note, saying "He's in my wallet!", and sketched the seal from a dollar bill. However, it is currently unknown why he was based on the Eye of Providence, although it is likely because the Eye is meant to be representative of God watching over everyone, lending over to Bill being nigh omniscient and watching the series' events unfold.
* Various things were discovered about Bill Cipher during a Reddit AMA, including the fact of him once having a family, having something to do with Gompers in the past, his favorite music being 10 hours of Rising Shepard Tone, thinking in capital letters, hating the magical symbol Cryptos, and having once known Jack the Ripper, who, according to him, used to wear clown masks and asked Bill not to tell anyone about it.
* His backstory parallels *Flatland*, a mathematical novella written by Edwin Abbott Abbott about a flat world where the shapes live, and the more sides they have, the higher the position they got in their society (thus circles are the highest, and triangles are the lowest). Bill refers to this on his AMA when saying "Edwin Abbott Abbott has a decent idea". It is implied that a similar case happened in his home dimension which would explain his thirst for power, as since he is a triangle, Bill had no power in his world. Evidence of this is when Ford visits a similar dimension called Exwhylia during his interdimensional trip when he disappeared for 30 years, which also has a similar case.
* It was never made clear what Bill truly is. While he is called a "demon" by other characters, creator Alex Hirsch has confirmed that this is just a name for lack of better description. Ford even states that no one knows really what he is. Because of his reality-warping abilities and bizarre nature, it is likely that he is inspired by the Outer Gods of Lovecraftian lore.
* Bill originally had a villain song titled "It's Gonna Get Weird", but the song was cut due to time restraints. A demo version is sung by Neil Cicierega still exists and was released on his Tumblr.
* Bill Cipher originally had a much smaller role, being a minor comic relief by invading Dipper's dreams and yelling conspiracy theories. That idea was scrapped, and Bill was made into the main antagonist.
* Bill was originally supposed to be green. That was changed, as Alex didn't want people to make jokes about him being a leaf. Ironically, people started making jokes that he is a Dorito.
* In the book *Dipper's and Mabel's Guide to Mystery and Nonstop Fun!* he states several things, such as:
	+ Making a reference to Killer BOB, the main antagonist of the *Twin Peaks*, by writing "Nostradamus was a hack! Morality is a mental cage designed by the weak! How's Annie?".
	+ Chairs have feelings and feel pain when being sit on.
	+ The lunar landing was faked to hide the fact the Moon doesn't exist. It's a two-dimensional disk hiding alien space surveillance.
	+ Western democracy is a sham propped up by an elite cabal of the super-rich.
	+ His ideas of "fun", which include:
		- Pulling teeth out of a deer's mouth.
		- Asking "why" until someone runs out of answers and starts sobbing uncontrollably.
		- Bending your fingers backwards as far as you can.
		- Eating childhood memories.
		- Making time stop forever.
		- Transforming into whatever form people fear most.
		- "Silly straws", which crack him up.
* The head that Bill poofed up that was always screaming was based on Khal Drogo from *Game of Thrones*.
* Contrary to popular belief, Bill Cipher is not his real name. Bill Cipher is a name he uses to communicate with others and also to hide his real name, which is so horrifying it could evaporate someone while leaving an expression of terror and ecstasy on their face.
* He hates synthesized music and says it hurts when he hears it.
* A popular ongoing theory is that Bill reincarnated as Rick Prime from *Rick and Morty.* This is supported by the fact that Bill makes multiple cameo appearances in that series and the fact that they can both regenerate while using other powers.

## Gallery:

He appears."Deer Teeth, for you kid!!"He's offered a deal."Stan Pines....""Oh, I Know lots of things!...LOTS OF THINGS...""Turn around now before you see something you might regret!!""I even know what your thinking right now!!"Bill cracking apart over his failed deal.Bill's Shattered.Bill is enraged at the gang."Do you have any idea what I'm like?!"Bill fights back at the gang."I think I know a guy!!""I only ask for a small......FAVOUR....in return!""Well Well Well Well Well Well Well Well Well Well!"Bill threatening Stanford Pines.Bill gains his physical form as he arrives at Gravity Falls, Orgon.Bill doing his greatest Stan impression, as he's mimicking the shows intro sequence.Bill explaining to Stanford, his makeover and plans."I liberated my dimension Ford and I'm here to liberate yours."Bill showing Ford his true power, in which he could destroy earth."Woah, Sheesh. Touchy subject.""I got a guy on the case."Bill gets ready to throw down.Bill using many of his arms."I've got some children I need to make into CORPES!!"Bill's back!"I've got hand it to ya Ford, you really seem like you-""WHAT???!!!"Bill realizes he's been tricked.Bill soon realizes he's defeated."WHATS HAPPENING TO ME???!?!"Bill's defeat."STANLEYYYY!!!!" Bill begs for mercy.Bill's Death.