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 trillion-year-old interdimensional dream demon, originally native to a 2D universe. Known for his mysterious nature and sadistic sense of humor, he has long sought to enter and dominate the physical universe.

Bill appears as a yellow triangle with one eye, referencing the Eye of Providence depicted on American one dollar bills. He has arms and legs and wears a top hat and bowtie.

Fandom

Anthro/Human Art

Fanartists often draw Bill as an anthropomorphized human whose character design takes inspiration from Bill's canon appearance. He is often depicted 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

Bill is commonly shipped with human characters from Gravity Falls. These ships are often regarded as problematic for several reasons: some of the most popularly shipped human characters are children; even adults are younger than Bill by literally trillions of years; Bill's abilities create an enormous power imbalance relative to any mortal; and Bill's behavior and treatment of others is unambiguously abusive by any normal standard. 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