Bill Cipher

Character
Name:	Bill Cipher
Occupation:	Immortal Deity
Relationships:	Stanford Pines (enemy/former friend), Mabel Pines (enemy), Stanley Pines (enemy), Dipper Pines (enemy), Soos (enemy), Wendy Corduroy (enemy), Lil’ Gideon (accomplice turned enemy), Candy Chiu (enemy), Grenda (enemy), Robbie (enemy)
Fandom:	Gravity Falls
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Bill Cipher is the primary antagonist of the Disney cartoon Gravity Falls.

Canon

Bill is a dream demon. He appears as a triangle (like a 2D pyramid) with limbs, one eye, a top hat, and a bowtie.

Fandom

Anthro/Human Art

Bill has been drawn as an anthropomorphized human who character design takes inspiration from Bill's canon appearance. He is often drawn as a tall, skinny white man wearing a top hat and yellow suit, with either an eyepatch, long bangs, or both covering one eye. This depiction has been both parodied and embraced by the Gravity Falls fandom as an archetypal example of a tumblr sexyman.

i really hate that people think bill cipher is hot, because i put a lot of effort into my appearance and get nothing in return, while he is a triangle

foxemoji, September 19th, 2015 

Notably, Alex Hirsch himself drew an "unsexyman" version of Bill Cipher's humanization during a livestream.

Shipping

Some of the fandom views these ships as very problematic, mainly because of Bill's treatment of... well, everyone, the power imbalance, and the young age of the twins. Despite this, as of 2022, Billdip is the most popular Gravity Falls ship on Archive of Our Own by a large margin.

Pairing	Name
Bill Cipher/Dipper Pines	Billdip
Bill Cipher/Mabel Pines	Mabill
Bill Cipher/Stanford Pines	Billford

Fanworks

Fanfiction

Flat Dreams ^[1] by PengyChanFandom: Gravity Falls/FlatlandDate: 20 Feb 2016–13 May 2016Length: 53,940Status: CompleteGenre: Crossover, Backstory

"This is based on the premise that Bill’s dimension was Flatland - a two-dimensional, strictly-regulated world inhabited by geometric figures, where each one’s place in society is determined by the number of their sides. The whole story is told through the memoirs of A Square, who is shown the existence of a tridimensional world - only to be imprisoned by authorities to keep him from speaking of it. Said memoirs are exactly how Bill will find out about other dimensions, too." — Author's note on the first chapter.

Fanart

• Break me off a piece of that psychotic trickster by jellynut, Bill as a bar of Toblerone

Fanvids

• ▴ ＤＩＳＣＯＲＤ ▴ by LifeisRandom14, to the My Little Pony fansong Discord

Archives and Fannish Links

• Bill Cipher tag on Archive of our Own

Resources

• His character page on the Gravity Falls wiki