19:05 Fun fact about that. When writing the finale Alex Hirsch and his team had a whiteboard titled "How to Kill God:" filled with ideas but they forget to wipe it clean so likely confused and or terrified some Disney employee who spotted it.
Another fun fact: when creating the show, the Cipher Wheel/Zodiac (the thing that flashes at the end of the title sequence) was actually made purely to _be_ something they could secretively flash in the title sequence. So the crew just took ten random recognizable icons/items from the first eight or so episodes, and stuck them around the wheel (which is why the llama on the wheel is mirrored when compared to Mabel's llama sweater; we first see it as she's holding it up to the mirror). They didn't actually think about what the wheel could MEAN until the fans started speculating, which is why the wheel's involvement in the finale plays out like it does.
17:01 fun fact! that's kind of exactly how he came into being. alex said that the idea for bill came from the question "who is someone that would drive dipper absolutely crazy? someone who has all the answers but refuses to give them."
The scene where Bill talks to Dipper is actually a dream, since Bill can't manifest outside of dreams in that way; Dipper just didn't notice that he was asleep
To be clear: Bill (until the series finale) never had a body. His form only existed on another plane and could only appear to people through dreams and visions. When he posseed Dipper it was the first time he had a human body since 30 years ago.
@@LiMe251Spirit Halloween sold a ripoff Bill Cipher costume that was labelled as "Pyramid Steve" in order to avoid copyright. Alex Hirsch noticed and shared it on his Twitter, and fanart immediately ensued.
2:45 apparently the top hat can be removable but it has organs etc inside it so it's probably connected to him somehow, but he didn't have it as a kid. And the bowtie is just a bowtie lol 6:22 Yeah he sometimes just likes pretending gravity affects him, he's just silly like that
@TamWam_ yeah I know, so it's really confusing if it's even actually organic or not, since his father possibly gave it to him considering he had the same one.
@@cl0wn_wormz Unfortunately, not all of the fandom. There are a shocking amount of Gravity Falls fans who are in the trenches arguing that there was nothing going on between Bill and Ford. That his 💅 tendencies are just because he's a Disney villain. Disney villains have a long history of having queer coded mannerisms, even when they're straight and people have made this argument for Bill. It's honestly a little funny but mostly sad. They are basically arguing that because the book didn't explicitly say "Oh, Bill and Ford were a thing" that it doesn't count. Every time you bring up a more blatant example it's "just a joke". When you bring up two parts of the book that directly tie romance into their dynamic your "reading too much into it" and it's genuinely exhausting.
@nexaaaaaaa They are genuinely burying their heads in the sand. It's wild being told I'm overanalyzing what are obviously intentional parallels. The whole thing REEKS of people who don't want to admit that their favorite piece of media is really gay. If you haven't watched it already, I recommend Hana Hyperfixates video on queer readings of Gravity Falls.
12:52 btw, before the deal, bill only said in return he wanted one of Mabel’s puppets (the episode’s A plot was her impressing a dude with a sock puppet show) only to choose Dipper as the puppet, so I dont think it’s fair to blame him here
13:50 yes exactly. Bill is an interdimensional being, so while hes in our dimension he can appear to us solid and normal but has no actual physical body. Like a ghost or something. He needs a physical vessel to posess in this dimension in order to enact his plans for weirdmageddon! Also he did a reddit AMA years ago thats absolutely wild to read. Highly reccomend
A while after the show ended there was a book released called The Book Of Bill and it adds a lot of new lore to Bill Cypher, it's a really good read. For example did you know that after the show ended, Bill was put in therapy in a place called The Theraprism, a sort of pocket dimension to reform villains? AND the villain from Amphibia is there too Also Bill needs to make a deal because that's the only way he can be free. If you notice, everytime Bill alters reality it's always inside a dream or a vision, he can't mess with the real world unless he has a real body. And that's where the deals come in
Bill is trapped in another dimension and talks to people through dreams and after gaining a physical body in weirdmageddon we see a scene where his hat gets shot and we see bones and flesh instantly regenerate meaning his hat is part of his body as for his bow tie I don’t know
8:05 The spider woman purposely looks like a bimbo, meaning dumb and pretty. The dumb blonde stereotype. Or just general observations of them being dumb. Also, cross-eyed like McGucket
The recent Book of Bill explains a lot of Bills backstory that isn’t explained in the show. I won’t spoil it here in case you want to read it after you finish watching but it answers a lot of your questions mat :)
If you're going to watch the final episodes with us, may I recommend the final 4! Dipper and Mabel vs the Future, and Weirmageddon parts 1-3. Those are all the finale episodes and should be watched together!
4:48 William Cipher is regarded as a seperate deity, from a 'next door' dimension, but isn't canon as far as I know. He's blue, emotional, and is usually associated with the Reverse Falls Universe, aka the roleswap universe.
@@justlazykid I don't think they are, they are just saying it that way to be polite. It's not like if Mathew told them to watch it now regardless they would be like "ok sir" lmao. Personally, I think that, between all the rudeness that there is in the internet, this comment feels cute! :P
During the Bill Cipher AMA, someone asked if his name was William and the answer was no. So the conclusion the fanbase came to was his name has to be Billiam. 😂
So bill cipher is a (None of these are spoilers for weirdmageddon btw) 2d dimensional Triangle Who was born being able to see the 3rd dimension He may or may not have burnt the 2nd dimension to the ground He escaped to the centre of the Multiverse but that realm is decaying So now he wants our Universe. In Gravity Falls Where Earth Becomes Sky Fear The Beast With Just One Eye (And i would also want to be a horseman of Bills apocalypse. Having some reality warping cosmic horror in life would be cool)
I don't mean to spoil anything but Alex Hirch came out with a book about Bill this summer called "The Book Of Bill" and it turns out his full name is William Lucipher.
18:12 Fun fact: Bill is just over 1 Trillion years old. While it’s a decent chunk of time in comparison to his overall lifespan so far, a billion years doesn’t carry the same weight to him as it would to us. 😅
@@moon_light4065 Though you are correct at him referring to possessing a human… He was alive at some point though? He was born in the second dimension aka Euclydia.
I loved bill cipher as a character so much in early middle school that my parents allowed me to name our dog after him 😭 he lived a very spoiled life as our baby cipher
My grandma walked in while this was playing on my TV and took one look at Mathew and said "He's creepy." Like- WHAT?- Mathew looks like he would give the best and warmest hugs in the world!
Bill cipher isn't his real name. In order to make his dealings with mortals easier, he took on the name "Bill Cipher" as his real name would "evaporate one with an expression of horror and ecstasy on their face."
As for WHAT Bill Cipher is, he's an extradimensional demon, with the standard collection of powers... His name, however, is meant to conjure to mind a more specific kind of evil outsider: Bill Cipher (along with other examples I am too boneheaded to remember right now) isn't too far away from a name like Lu-cifer. So be pure of heart and believe in the powers of love and friendship, he's gonna be a bit of a challenge.
Some As to your Qs (Warning: Spoilers for Gravity Falls and The Book of Bill): I think he choses to wear the hat - where else would he put the last atoms of his universe? Bill is not his real name, but neither is William, apparently hearing his real name would make most beings in the universe *checks notes* "evaporate the one who hears it with an expression of horror and ecstasy." Bill cannot enter our world unless someone lets him in by building a portal - which is why he tries to make a deal with anyone and anything he can. It takes a minute for Bill to get used to a human body, that's why he stumbled a bit there He says "It's been so long since I've inhabited a body" because he is technically an ethereal being trapped in the Mindscape and lives in the Nightmare Realm, and the 'it's been a while' likely refers to 30 years ago when he possessed Ford Bill is and has always been a triangle. Ford was trapped between dimensions for 30 years and before then spent months trying not to sleep because Bill kept possessing him in his sleep, so even though the couch is uncomfortable it probably feels like the softest thing in existence to him. Not a question you asked, but you can indeed be a follower of Bill, just sell your soul to him, carve his likeness into anything possible, and work to let him into our world. I'm already doing one of these! Ford was indeed trapped in the nightmare realm with Bill for those 30 years. This is why Ford didn't want Stan to reopen the portal. (also because he was just moments from killing the triangle) That's because he is *all knowing* According to Bill, he is one trillion and 12 years old Bill is, and has always been, a triangle. Bill has weaknesses. One of Bill's weaknesses is a prophecy that Mabel is a part of, so he wants to keep Mabel trapped. He doesn't kill Mabel because he needs Gideon to watch over the town and he bribed Gideon with the key to Mabel's bubble. Not an A to a Q, but Bill stating in the show that "for one trillion years I've been trapped in my own decaying dimension" means that if the prior statement is true, he destroyed Euclidia when he was 12 years old. Yes, that is the mayor now, there was a whole episode about that
Bill does have a backstory, but you won't be able to find it in the show itself. You'll have to go to extra materials for that. Basically bill is from the second dimension, but was born with a special ability to be able to perceive more than that. He was the only one that could do it though so he was considered insane by everyone else. That drove him to kill everyone in his dimension. Destroying it in the process and in order to live after it collapses he decided to invade another one (aka our third dimension).
2:39 it's part of him. Yeah, he wears it, but we see him regenerating muscle tissue and flesh to reform his hat, so it's either a living organism he wears or it's just a part of his body he can regenerate at will
I'm sad you missed out on listening to the deleted Bill Cipher song. It was storyboarded and the music was written by neil cicierega, the mind behind Harry Potter Puppet Pals and Ultimate Showdown of Ulltimate Destiny. Someone uploaded a version of the song being sung to the storyboards. It was scrapped for disrupting the pace of the episode and would have taken focus from the remix of the opening.
Bill’s full name being William kinda makes sense. I mean Bill is a nickname for William, and on one of the pages in journal 3 it mentions that Bill’s favourite constellation is ‘William’ which was basically just a silhouette of him. 🤨🧐
Speaking of unhinged, deranged and absolutely amazing animated antagonists, you need to get acquainted to the main villain of Murder drones. I know you did a reaction to the pilot episode, but if you do not intend to react to the full series there is ample opportunity to react to scenes out of context!
Yes Mat, Bill is in fact 💅 Very much so considering the newest book LMAO Edit: Will Cipher does exist! He's the version of Bill in the alternative universe called Reverse Falls He's blue and has like the opposite personality of Bill (hence, yk, Reverse Falls) Edit 2: Also iirc William Lucipher is one of the names Bill is known by (it's in the new book I think) Edit 3 (last one probably lmao): Bill's backstory is in the new book, The Book of Bill! Defo recommend you read lmao Also he's like a few trillion years old iirc so 👍
1:52 oh you have no idea Ford- I i mean for unrelated reasons If you really like Gravity Falls once you finish it I highly recommend the book of Bill (mine will arrive soon)
Mathew : "what does being dum look like ?" Also Mathew : **ZOOM INTO HIS OWN FACE** Me : "Damn, that's some high level of self-aware roasting joke, there..."
14:01 as far as I know he wiped out everyone from the 2nd dimension (because he’s literally 2d) and now he wants to inhabit the 3rd dimension todo it again… but he’s currently trapped in the nightmare realm
So just letting you know 😊 Bill and Stanford weren’t with each other for the entirety of the 30 years he was missing. Stanford was actually traveling across the multiverse to create a weapon strong enough to defeat Bill but when he returned to face Bill the portal that caused him to disappear in the first place reactivated and he was sent back to earth.
Not so fun fact in the episode where Bill possessed Dipper, Bill wrote a letter saying that he would jump off the water tower in Dipper's body and everyone would think he went mad and asked if Mabel wanted to join.
13:40 At this point in the series, Bill only exists in the mindscape, so he is just in people’s minds, he doesn’t physically exist in the real world at this point. Yet.
9:00 Fun fact, everything, that made by his image - his eye. He can see through every Illuminati picture and through every *TRIANGLE* anyone ever draw or scratch or......lwhatever else does to make an image of a triangle.
Am I the only one to notice that Bill leans back when he is tipping his hat to Dipper at 10:28. Like shouldn’t he be leaning forward because he’s imitating bowing one’s head when they say “hats off to you”
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@@LemonOutOfHell i have seen you somewhere...
Bill is a trillion and 12 years old
“You can run, but I’ll still be in your nightmares!” -Fiddleford McGuckett
Ngl that's kinda bars
He definitely will be in Matthew's nightmares!
- Freddie Krueger
19:05 Fun fact about that. When writing the finale Alex Hirsch and his team had a whiteboard titled "How to Kill God:" filled with ideas but they forget to wipe it clean so likely confused and or terrified some Disney employee who spotted it.
god that's so funny
Another fun fact: when creating the show, the Cipher Wheel/Zodiac (the thing that flashes at the end of the title sequence) was actually made purely to _be_ something they could secretively flash in the title sequence. So the crew just took ten random recognizable icons/items from the first eight or so episodes, and stuck them around the wheel (which is why the llama on the wheel is mirrored when compared to Mabel's llama sweater; we first see it as she's holding it up to the mirror).
They didn't actually think about what the wheel could MEAN until the fans started speculating, which is why the wheel's involvement in the finale plays out like it does.
Whiteboard: "How to Kill God"
Random employee: "I wish to unsee what I have seen."
That’s hilarious 😂
Employee: *walks in* “..😨”
"He's a little 💅" is probably the best way to describe Bill considering the recent book.
not just a little... a LOT...
I gotta read the book
@Grunkle_Stanley No, you need to win the Funkle Bunkle
@@anothermiddleschoolburnout8816indeed
not "a little", but GAY AF
17:01 fun fact! that's kind of exactly how he came into being. alex said that the idea for bill came from the question "who is someone that would drive dipper absolutely crazy? someone who has all the answers but refuses to give them."
No that's so valid, imagine dealing with Cipher's shit while just trying to discover why the undead are able to rock up to your family's disco
I still can't believe Disney allowed that "shuffling all the functions of the holes on your face" scene, that shit is HORRIFYING.
They also allowed *"I've got some children I need to make into corpses!"*
Disney allowed the book of bill
And yet didn’t allow two gay police officers 😭
@midoriya-shonen they also allowed that scene where Bill chased down the twins in his castle.
The scene where Bill talks to Dipper is actually a dream, since Bill can't manifest outside of dreams in that way; Dipper just didn't notice that he was asleep
To be clear: Bill (until the series finale) never had a body. His form only existed on another plane and could only appear to people through dreams and visions. When he posseed Dipper it was the first time he had a human body since 30 years ago.
4:50 this is hilarious considering that there is a AU of Gravity falls where everything is the opposite and Bill’s name is Will in it
Don't forget Pyramid Steve! Truly the Us version of Bill
Huh?@@hgdellinger
@@LiMe251Spirit Halloween sold a ripoff Bill Cipher costume that was labelled as "Pyramid Steve" in order to avoid copyright. Alex Hirsch noticed and shared it on his Twitter, and fanart immediately ensued.
@joshuatutanes4191 K, that's pretty funny, not at all related to what the og comment is referencing, but funny.
@@LiMe251 ugh
2:45 apparently the top hat can be removable but it has organs etc inside it so it's probably connected to him somehow, but he didn't have it as a kid. And the bowtie is just a bowtie lol
6:22 Yeah he sometimes just likes pretending gravity affects him, he's just silly like that
To be fair, the only time we see Bill's hat with organs is after he gains his physical form, so it might just be a hat in his mindscape form.
the hat also had the last atoms of euclydia in it, he showed ford back when they worked together
@TamWam_ yeah I know, so it's really confusing if it's even actually organic or not, since his father possibly gave it to him considering he had the same one.
@@Keiko.IsDestined Probably wore it for so long that when he became 3-dimensional the hat was part of the process
1:49 You're not insane for that at all, the whole gravity falls fandom would and will agree with you
Billford canon 100% confirmed 💥💥💥
Especially with the book of Bill being out
@@cl0wn_wormz Unfortunately, not all of the fandom. There are a shocking amount of Gravity Falls fans who are in the trenches arguing that there was nothing going on between Bill and Ford. That his 💅 tendencies are just because he's a Disney villain. Disney villains have a long history of having queer coded mannerisms, even when they're straight and people have made this argument for Bill. It's honestly a little funny but mostly sad.
They are basically arguing that because the book didn't explicitly say "Oh, Bill and Ford were a thing" that it doesn't count. Every time you bring up a more blatant example it's "just a joke". When you bring up two parts of the book that directly tie romance into their dynamic your "reading too much into it" and it's genuinely exhausting.
@@anothermiddleschoolburnout8816 oh I genuinely wonder what they come up with to like,, still be in denial about this lmao
@nexaaaaaaa They are genuinely burying their heads in the sand. It's wild being told I'm overanalyzing what are obviously intentional parallels. The whole thing REEKS of people who don't want to admit that their favorite piece of media is really gay. If you haven't watched it already, I recommend Hana Hyperfixates video on queer readings of Gravity Falls.
12:52 btw, before the deal, bill only said in return he wanted one of Mabel’s puppets (the episode’s A plot was her impressing a dude with a sock puppet show) only to choose Dipper as the puppet, so I dont think it’s fair to blame him here
No no, Dipper was still making a deal with the devil, he should have known better
Blud was not sleeping for days
No he said something like, “Look at all the puppets here and I only need one.” He never said what kind of puppet he wanted.
Further context, Dipper hadn’t slept in days and his judgement was significantly impaired
Most protagonists are occasionally dumb for Plot™
Of all the things I predicted about this video, Matthew being a Bill fanboy was not on my bingo card
Bill Cipher is honestly so iconic! I loved Weirdmagedon so much lol
SAMEEEEEE
SAME
If I am being honest, most of the characters(if not all) are so Iconic
SAME
13:50 yes exactly. Bill is an interdimensional being, so while hes in our dimension he can appear to us solid and normal but has no actual physical body. Like a ghost or something. He needs a physical vessel to posess in this dimension in order to enact his plans for weirdmageddon! Also he did a reddit AMA years ago thats absolutely wild to read. Highly reccomend
A Bill will be proud of that. Rearranging the functions of every hole in Preston's face was wild and awesome
2:19 In case you were wondering, the backwards message here is "Backwards message", repeated over and over.
So before the season finale, Bills power is only over the mind and dreams. However, once hes fully brought into the word, he has ULTIMATE POWER.
A while after the show ended there was a book released called The Book Of Bill and it adds a lot of new lore to Bill Cypher, it's a really good read. For example did you know that after the show ended, Bill was put in therapy in a place called The Theraprism, a sort of pocket dimension to reform villains? AND the villain from Amphibia is there too
Also Bill needs to make a deal because that's the only way he can be free. If you notice, everytime Bill alters reality it's always inside a dream or a vision, he can't mess with the real world unless he has a real body. And that's where the deals come in
The current Book of Bill (and adjacent website) discourse and cipher solving is so fun to keep up with
8:40 I watched this show episode- by-episode as it came out and I also totally missed that the hand on the Journal had six fingers.
fun fact for Matt- the voice of bill cipher is also the voice of king and hooty from the owl house- Alex Hirsch
The voice of bill is Alex Hirsh
@@erikafelix7230 lol yeah they said that
And the creator of the whole series
"bill is short for william. hank is short for henry" and hank green's first name? william
Well Henry is his middle name
"hes a little 💅" buddy if u read the book of bill you'll realize hes not js a little,,, HES THE WHOLE FRUITCAKE😭
Isn’t that a homophobic insult?
@ is it??? i never knew sorry😭
15:15 welcome to the cult of ciphertology :D we will be watching you
I was not prepared to see Matthew react to Bill Cipher moments, oh god- here we go
Bill is trapped in another dimension and talks to people through dreams and after gaining a physical body in weirdmageddon we see a scene where his hat gets shot and we see bones and flesh instantly regenerate meaning his hat is part of his body as for his bow tie I don’t know
Bill Cipher is the source of so much screen time because of how much I LOVE this show
Bill Cipher is essentially an elder god
8:05 The spider woman purposely looks like a bimbo, meaning dumb and pretty. The dumb blonde stereotype. Or just general observations of them being dumb. Also, cross-eyed like McGucket
Bill feels like what we've turned Matthew into post out-of-context videos
The Tophat and bowtie are part of his body, and they have bones, the Tophat and bowtie have bones
Next step is reacting to Bill fanmade/official songs. AXOLOTL is a masterpiece Matthew needs to see and hear.
I love how Matthew just jokingly said ”Oh wow, he’s like a dream demon”
1:51
That man is *still* mourning his gay lover that got away, no one will argue with you
As a huge Bill cipher fan, I’m actually so excited you’re making a video on him omg!! Gravity falls is so good x3
The recent Book of Bill explains a lot of Bills backstory that isn’t explained in the show. I won’t spoil it here in case you want to read it after you finish watching but it answers a lot of your questions mat :)
The sole proof that miracles happen is that Alex was able to convince Disney to approve this show, specially everything Bill does
yes he literally is a dream demon you’re correct!! god i love bill
THANK YOU FOR THIS TRIBUTE.
I've been waiting for this for so long. I have needed this for so long.
5:10- You realize you're talking about the same character who thought biscotti was a car brand, right?
If you're going to watch the final episodes with us, may I recommend the final 4! Dipper and Mabel vs the Future, and Weirmageddon parts 1-3. Those are all the finale episodes and should be watched together!
4:48 William Cipher is regarded as a seperate deity, from a 'next door' dimension, but isn't canon as far as I know. He's blue, emotional, and is usually associated with the Reverse Falls Universe, aka the roleswap universe.
My internet hates me today, so I'll watch this later alright?
Why are you asking for permission 😭
@@justlazykid I don't think they are, they are just saying it that way to be polite. It's not like if Mathew told them to watch it now regardless they would be like "ok sir" lmao. Personally, I think that, between all the rudeness that there is in the internet, this comment feels cute! :P
NO. YOU WILL WATCH IT NOW. /irony
Alright bro, see ya soon! 👋
hehe yeah! heres your reminder in case ur internet is bettr!! :D
1:52 he's a little....you know 💅✨
Damn right he is! Had a quite interesting relationship with Ford and wanted him back
Bill is such a theatrical villain, i think thats why hes so iconic.
During the Bill Cipher AMA, someone asked if his name was William and the answer was no. So the conclusion the fanbase came to was his name has to be Billiam. 😂
So bill cipher is a
(None of these are spoilers for weirdmageddon btw)
2d dimensional
Triangle Who was born being able to see the 3rd dimension
He may or may not have burnt the 2nd dimension to the ground
He escaped to the centre of the Multiverse but that realm is decaying
So now he wants our Universe.
In Gravity Falls Where Earth Becomes Sky Fear The Beast With Just One Eye
(And i would also want to be a horseman of Bills apocalypse. Having some reality warping cosmic horror in life would be cool)
That’s why I joined the Cult of Ciphertology 😀
I don't mean to spoil anything but Alex Hirch came out with a book about Bill this summer called "The Book Of Bill" and it turns out his full name is William Lucipher.
WHAT?
14:58 Mathew McKenna, aspiring henchmaniac.
18:12 Fun fact: Bill is just over 1 Trillion years old.
While it’s a decent chunk of time in comparison to his overall lifespan so far, a billion years doesn’t carry the same weight to him as it would to us. 😅
Bill's character is even more interesting once you read the Book of Bill (it's insane)
"YOU'RE INSANE"!
"Of course I am what's your point"?!
It's part of him, you can see in one if the finale parts that his hat had flesh, that's the best way I can explain it without spoilers
I am so delighted to let you know that his top hat canonically has bones and muscle!
Also, Matthew Cyphersona arc when???
13:55 he is a demon, he's talking about having a mortal body
He was never alive, he was born a demon. He's referring to a time when he possess someone else
@@moon_light4065 Though you are correct at him referring to possessing a human… He was alive at some point though? He was born in the second dimension aka Euclydia.
I loved bill cipher as a character so much in early middle school that my parents allowed me to name our dog after him 😭 he lived a very spoiled life as our baby cipher
My grandma walked in while this was playing on my TV and took one look at Mathew and said "He's creepy." Like- WHAT?- Mathew looks like he would give the best and warmest hugs in the world!
“What!? This is how I always speak!” -Mathew 2024 8:46
1 minute in and you're already implying Bill is fruity. I see how this video is going to play out
Bill said it's been so long since he's *inhabited* a body, not "had a body". He's just talking about possession.
Bill cipher isn't his real name. In order to make his dealings with mortals easier, he took on the name "Bill Cipher" as his real name would "evaporate one with an expression of horror and ecstasy on their face."
As for WHAT Bill Cipher is, he's an extradimensional demon, with the standard collection of powers... His name, however, is meant to conjure to mind a more specific kind of evil outsider: Bill Cipher (along with other examples I am too boneheaded to remember right now) isn't too far away from a name like Lu-cifer. So be pure of heart and believe in the powers of love and friendship, he's gonna be a bit of a challenge.
Some As to your Qs (Warning: Spoilers for Gravity Falls and The Book of Bill):
I think he choses to wear the hat - where else would he put the last atoms of his universe?
Bill is not his real name, but neither is William, apparently hearing his real name would make most beings in the universe *checks notes* "evaporate the one who hears it with an expression of horror and ecstasy."
Bill cannot enter our world unless someone lets him in by building a portal - which is why he tries to make a deal with anyone and anything he can.
It takes a minute for Bill to get used to a human body, that's why he stumbled a bit there
He says "It's been so long since I've inhabited a body" because he is technically an ethereal being trapped in the Mindscape and lives in the Nightmare Realm, and the 'it's been a while' likely refers to 30 years ago when he possessed Ford
Bill is and has always been a triangle.
Ford was trapped between dimensions for 30 years and before then spent months trying not to sleep because Bill kept possessing him in his sleep, so even though the couch is uncomfortable it probably feels like the softest thing in existence to him.
Not a question you asked, but you can indeed be a follower of Bill, just sell your soul to him, carve his likeness into anything possible, and work to let him into our world. I'm already doing one of these!
Ford was indeed trapped in the nightmare realm with Bill for those 30 years. This is why Ford didn't want Stan to reopen the portal. (also because he was just moments from killing the triangle)
That's because he is *all knowing*
According to Bill, he is one trillion and 12 years old
Bill is, and has always been, a triangle.
Bill has weaknesses.
One of Bill's weaknesses is a prophecy that Mabel is a part of, so he wants to keep Mabel trapped. He doesn't kill Mabel because he needs Gideon to watch over the town and he bribed Gideon with the key to Mabel's bubble.
Not an A to a Q, but Bill stating in the show that "for one trillion years I've been trapped in my own decaying dimension" means that if the prior statement is true, he destroyed Euclidia when he was 12 years old.
Yes, that is the mayor now, there was a whole episode about that
Yes! Bill is referred to as William once in journal 3
Bill does have a backstory, but you won't be able to find it in the show itself. You'll have to go to extra materials for that. Basically bill is from the second dimension, but was born with a special ability to be able to perceive more than that. He was the only one that could do it though so he was considered insane by everyone else. That drove him to kill everyone in his dimension. Destroying it in the process and in order to live after it collapses he decided to invade another one (aka our third dimension).
You NEED to watch the “it’s gonna get weird” music video, it’s an unused gravity falls song and it’s fantastic
Assuming Bill might be gay is so funny now that the Book Of Bill is out.
2:39 it's part of him. Yeah, he wears it, but we see him regenerating muscle tissue and flesh to reform his hat, so it's either a living organism he wears or it's just a part of his body he can regenerate at will
I'm sad you missed out on listening to the deleted Bill Cipher song. It was storyboarded and the music was written by neil cicierega, the mind behind Harry Potter Puppet Pals and Ultimate Showdown of Ulltimate Destiny. Someone uploaded a version of the song being sung to the storyboards. It was scrapped for disrupting the pace of the episode and would have taken focus from the remix of the opening.
Bill’s full name being William kinda makes sense. I mean Bill is a nickname for William, and on one of the pages in journal 3 it mentions that Bill’s favourite constellation is ‘William’ which was basically just a silhouette of him. 🤨🧐
Speaking of unhinged, deranged and absolutely amazing animated antagonists, you need to get acquainted to the main villain of Murder drones. I know you did a reaction to the pilot episode, but if you do not intend to react to the full series there is ample opportunity to react to scenes out of context!
1:55 Yeah, he's a gay triangle, you got it right LOLL
I'm today years old when I realised hank is short for Henry WHY IS IT NOT HEN ?
You should google Baby Bill Cipher.
You won't be disappointed.
Yes Mat, Bill is in fact 💅
Very much so considering the newest book LMAO
Edit: Will Cipher does exist! He's the version of Bill in the alternative universe called Reverse Falls
He's blue and has like the opposite personality of Bill (hence, yk, Reverse Falls)
Edit 2: Also iirc William Lucipher is one of the names Bill is known by (it's in the new book I think)
Edit 3 (last one probably lmao): Bill's backstory is in the new book, The Book of Bill! Defo recommend you read lmao
Also he's like a few trillion years old iirc so 👍
4:34 well according to a 1901 newspaper his name is William Mischief Luchipher
1:52 oh you have no idea
Ford- I i mean for unrelated reasons If you really like Gravity Falls once you finish it I highly recommend the book of Bill (mine will arrive soon)
"Chip is just unhinged" - the best way to describe Bill
Wow 6 minutes in and already 36 reactions. But let's go BILL CIPHER REACTION!
Mathew : "what does being dum look like ?"
Also Mathew : **ZOOM INTO HIS OWN FACE**
Me : "Damn, that's some high level of self-aware roasting joke, there..."
The fact this show didn’t get the pg rating is still surprising.
And when life gives you lemons dont make lemonade from portal 14:55
14:01 as far as I know he wiped out everyone from the 2nd dimension (because he’s literally 2d) and now he wants to inhabit the 3rd dimension todo it again… but he’s currently trapped in the nightmare realm
Show this man hunter the parenting
So just letting you know 😊 Bill and Stanford weren’t with each other for the entirety of the 30 years he was missing. Stanford was actually traveling across the multiverse to create a weapon strong enough to defeat Bill but when he returned to face Bill the portal that caused him to disappear in the first place reactivated and he was sent back to earth.
You have seen my little pony. Now, here's the question: Who's the most chaotic king? Discord or Bill? 'Catoon death battle Bill vs Discord'
oooh your hair looks amazing!
billford was made cannon mathew lmafo
Not so fun fact in the episode where Bill possessed Dipper, Bill wrote a letter saying that he would jump off the water tower in Dipper's body and everyone would think he went mad and asked if Mabel wanted to join.
I’d love to watch the whole show
13:40 At this point in the series, Bill only exists in the mindscape, so he is just in people’s minds, he doesn’t physically exist in the real world at this point. Yet.
9:00 Fun fact, everything, that made by his image - his eye. He can see through every Illuminati picture and through every *TRIANGLE* anyone ever draw or scratch or......lwhatever else does to make an image of a triangle.
Good video... I love Bill as a villain 😊😊😊
Matthew needs to react to The Stupenduim. It's a nerd core music channel that he's seen in the past.
Hell yea, thanks for the video!
Am I the only one to notice that Bill leans back when he is tipping his hat to Dipper at 10:28. Like shouldn’t he be leaning forward because he’s imitating bowing one’s head when they say “hats off to you”
your hair looks great btw
4:35 i think it was confirmed for his full name to be William Lucipher or maybe that's a fan thing, i saw it somewhere
12:12 He needs access to third dimension, to physical world. He can only appear in dreams or mindscape, which.......seems to be sorta same thing.