Gravity Falls
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|---|---|
| Name: | Gravity Falls |
| Abbreviation(s): | GF |
| Creator: | Alex Hirsch |
| Date(s): | June 15, 2012 – February 15, 2016 |
| Medium: | television, cartoon |
| Country of Origin: | USA |
| External Links: | Official Site Wikipedia Gravity Falls Wiki |
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Gravity Falls is an animated adventure/comedy/mystery/fantasy series on the Disney Channel.
Canon
The series revolves around 12-year-old twins Dipper and Mabel Pines, who are sent to spend the summer with their Great Uncle ("Grunkle") Stan, who runs a tourist trap called the "Mystery Shack" in the remote town of Gravity Falls, Oregon. After Dipper finds a mysterious journal in the woods, the two begin investigating the paranormal secrets surrounding the town.
Characters
Main
- Dipper Pines
- Mabel Pines
- Stanley Pines ("Grunkle" Stan)
Supporting
- Soos Ramirez
- Wendy Corduroy
- Stanford Pines
- Waddles
- Gideon Gleeful ("Lil' Gideon")
- Fiddleford McGucket ("Old Man" McGucket)
- Robert Stacy Valentino ("Robbie")
- Pacifica Northwest
- Candy Chiu
- Grenda Grendinator
Antagonist
Fandom
Since its creation, Gravity Falls has had an extremely devoted fandom. Because the show is full of secret messages, codes and clues, the fandom originally grew based on decoding and theorizing the future of the show. Since the show's ending, the fandom primarily focuses on fanart, fanfiction etc.
Tropes and Fanon
- Anthropomorphized Bill Cipher[1]
- Trolling Creator [2]
- Many fans like to extrapolate on the fridge horror the show hints at
- Possession by Bill Cipher
Fan Theories
- The Twin Theory/The Author: eventually confirmed true
- (Falling into Theory: The Stan Twins (September 2013)
- Stan taking the “death” of Wax Stan way too seriously (December 2014)
- STAN’S BROTHER IS THE AUTHOR OF THE JOURNALS, AND HERE IS WHY (October 2014)
- foreshadowed death (March 2015)
- Grunkle Stan isn’t really Stanford Pines, or a Grunkle (March 2015, archived)
- Bill Cypher's wheel of symbols (Gravity Falls Theory, The wheel of Intrigue on [themysteryofgravityfalls.com themysteryofgravityfalls])
- Stan's Fez (GRUNKLE STAN'S FEZ (GRAVITY FALLS): The Royal Order of the Holy Mackerel)
- Various character foils (Certificate of Mystery, Dipper and his reflection)
Crossovers & AUs
- Mystery Kids: Crossover with Norman from ParaNorman, Coraline from Coraline, and sometimes characters from other series such as Psychonauts, Invader Zim, and Danny Phantom
- Reverse Falls: AU where Pacifica Northwest and Lil’ Gideon are good guys, and Mabel and Dipper are evil twins who enslaved Bill Cipher who is a good dream demon
- Monster Falls: AU where all the citizens of Gravity Falls are monsters
- Relativity Falls: AU where Grunkle Stan & Stanford and Dipper & Mabel's ages are switched; the Stan twins are staying with Grauntie Mabel for the summer. Other older characters become younger (and vice versa) in this AU as well
- Reunion Falls: AU where Dipper and Mabel were separated at birth, and meet for the first time during their summer at Gravity Falls
- Transcendence AU: A shared universe where Dipper becomes Alcor, a dream demon. Mabel is his human counterpart, Mizar, and is constantly reincarnated into new forms. "The Transcendence" refers to the in-universe event where magic became commonplace.
Shipping
Popular ships include:
- Bill Cipher/Dipper Pines - Billdip
- Pacifica Northwest/Mabel Pines - Mabifica
- Pacifica Northwest/Dipper Pines - Dipcifica
- Ford Pines/Stan Pines - Stancest
- Dipper Pines/Mabel Pines - Pinecest
- Fiddleford McGucket/Ford Pines - Fiddauthor
- Bill Cipher/Ford Pines - Billford
Popular crossover ships include:
- Dipper Pines/Wirt (Over the Garden Wall) - Pinescone
- Dipper Pines/Norman Babcock (ParaNorman) - Parapines
- Stan Pines/Rick Sanchez (Rick and Morty) - Stanchez
- Stan Pines/Eda Clawthorne (The Owl House)
Fanfic
The fan fiction output is hugely Billdip centric, often with Mabificia written as a side pairing. There is a decent body of gen, followed by Stancest and Fiddauthor.
- Dipper Goes To Taco Bell by MASTAofTehcitrusFruits, one of the most famous shockfics ever written
- An Outsider's Look at the Pines Twins by iguessso12 - "The Pines twins have been steeped in mayhem, mysteries, and magic every summer since they were 12 years old. Coming back home to Piedmont, going to high school, acting normal? All those things make them stick out like a sore thumb. When you ask outsiders about the Pines twins, you get a mix of strange stories and casual observations."
Fanart
- markmak on deviantart
- Long, angsty comics are pretty popular
- The Mystery Shack by Terminusx
- i yearbooked; i yearbooked hard by limey404
- Gravity Falls - Bill Cipher fanart by Beffana
Fangames
- Swooning Over Stans - Dating sim about dating either Stanley or Stanford Pines
Zines
- Summer Memories (Oct 2016)
General Communities
Decoding Communities
Resources
- The Mystery of Gravity Falls
- List of Decoded Cryptograms
- Gravity Falls Decoder
- Gravity Falls page on TV Tropes
- Gravity Falls Wiki
References
- ^ human-bill-cipher on tumblr (Accessed 4 March 2015)
- ^ the leak was a fake
